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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Small Repairable Phone in 2025?

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eruhinim.com 1y ago

Ubuntu Licenses – Past and Present

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mercurylang.org 3y ago

Functional logic programming for the real world

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startupgraveyard.io 3y ago

Startup Graveyard

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How are young people going to afford buying/switching to EVs?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Does the Unix terminal have good UX?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Anyone in the Demoscene?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Is anyone still using LightTable?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How to buy a house as a 20 year old in the USA?

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eruhinim.com 4y ago

My Own IBM Computer

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: A good and thoughtful place to discuss cryptocurrencies?

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tavmjong.free.fr 4y ago

Morphing Batman Logos with SVG

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: The best, preferably open source, JavaScript spreadsheet out there?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Is anyone trying to make their blog go big?

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eruhinim.com 4y ago

Busybox: A small package with a large code base

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Anyone doing cool stuff with radars?

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eruhinim.com 4y ago

The Many Uses of Schedulers

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Any ready-made logging devices?

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www.ronpatrickstuff.com 4y ago

Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle

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sha.org 4y ago

Glass Bottle Identification Starter Guide

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mom-mom.com 4y ago

Various Easy to Cook Recipes

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froxot.de 4y ago

Classic Games from Nintendo DSi/3DS/2DS

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www.theglassmuseum.com 4y ago

Collecting Glass Fishing Floats

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web.lemoyne.edu 4y ago

Selected Classic Chemistry Papers

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Interactive CSV Diffing Tool?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Has anyone bought an abandoned business?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Is anyone working on an open hardware 3G/4G dongle?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Any good CV services in 2021?

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It made a lot of really good choices in the late 90s when a lot of dot-com companies started and a lot of people around the world started getting interested in making their own websites. It eventually snowballed to the LAMP stack which became the most user friendly way of doing stuff on the web on low budget. The inertia from this is massive so it's staying for a bunch more years.

had a great product

We got acquired

Can I just ask about the reason for this? Was it owners wanting off the ride?

A lot of people treat economics as though damage didn't happen unless someone acknowledges it.

This is what I call the TV effect. People are trained from an early age, by consuming media, to only construct what is "real" by what is announced. And it's not just economics, but all sorts of aspects of life.

But everyone knows that's not what killed them.

Another addition I'd like to add here is more often then not wrong people get booted while the "dead weight" tends to stick around and becomes even deader due to a motivation fall from the layoff. So maybe it doesn't kill, but for sure exacerbates an already bad situation.

you think a government can? Browser engines are really hard to build.

As opposed to CERN being easy to build!? I'd say is totally doable, but it doesn't promise filling anyone's pockets at the moment so traction is hard. Who knows, maybe in the future..

Tired of seeing 5-6 engineer levels where most people fuck around while 10% of the org carries everyone else.

As long as nepotism(both direct and indirect) exists this will always be the case.

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Nearly all applications of Generative AI APIs by their very design and value proposition externalize cost to society

But they promise to maximize value for the individual. Which works in what is called an individualistic society.

How this plays out is a good question.

Look into what happened to Japanese wood printers around the time of the industrial revolution over there. It was a many layer apprenticeship system where everyone had a separate job - the bottom layer, mostly children, would make prints for candy wrappers and such until you get to the top - the masters which dealt with the most valuable and skilled work.

The lowest layers got cut, replaced by machines, and the entire structure eventually toppled. Including the work that couldn't be done by a machine - it was simply not requested anymore or there wasn't enough people coming from below to fill the ranks.

It's somewhat doubtful whether software engineers will feel the same both, because of the actual impact AI and that the job itself IS automation by nature. There could be political factors, however, that could skew things otherwise.

OP's post focuses on understanding, which is informative, but maybe not so helpful. Here's my drill.

Small steps. First cut smartphone access. Delete all, but essential apps(e.g. work-related) in your phone. You can still visit whatever you want on another device you don't carry around with you e.g. a laptop. Do that for a month or until you feel ok about it.

Start to do SOMETHING ELSE that is somewhat productive, a sport, fishing, etc. Make sure over time to up prioritize that activity and down prioritize social media. Rinse and repeat :-)

I was just about to post something very similar. I think it's definitely the "Review Queue" system at play here and it has proven quite ruthless to new users posting questions/answers with SO partially mitigating this with marking said users with "hey, that's a new user, please be nice" when you do reviews.

I think that's a very good point. Maybe not that we don't have multiple societies, we definitely do[1], but that no one is willing to take the wheel of the so called "globalized" part of the world.

[1] See e.g. China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, large swaths of people without internet. The list goes on and on.

What works best is small steps, I believe. First deal with your smartphone access. Delete all, but essential apps(e.g. your work) in your phone, you can still visit whatever you want on another device you don't carry around with you everywhere, e.g. a laptop. Do that for a month or until you feel ok about it. Start to do SOMETHING ELSE that is somewhat productive, e.g. a sport and is not browsing the internet. Make sure over time to up prioritize that activity and down prioritize browsing. Rinse and repeat :-)