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Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by yodsanklai »

gfxgirl wrote: post #415
Bukhmanizer wrote: post #285

Social etiquette for online spaces. Especially during a pandemic year, I'm surprised that this hasn't been more of a topic of discussion. Mostly, if people do talk about social etiquette, it's within the context of not explicitly pissing people off, or looking good to your boss. I've never seen anyone talk about actually having good social interactions online. I've had a few friends change jobs during the pandemic, a…

I'm sure this is worse because of WFH but I experienced this at FAANG before WFH. The teams are giant, there's a huge list of things to work on, pick one, do it mostly on your own. Loneliest job I ever had. Yea there were co-workers and we'd get lunch and talk but we weren't collaborating, only co-existing.

Doesn't seem that bad to me :)

I noticed some people like to work on their own, while others like to work as small teams, or do peer programming sessions or whatnot.

Maybe you could try to find similarly minded people within your team.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by peruvian »

seibelj wrote: post #336
TrackerFF wrote: post #319

It IS being worked on, but things move quite slow - and there doesn't seem to have been much progress for decades, but: Cure for hair-loss. Some might say it's just vanity, but if someone could come up with a cure, and sell it affordably, that would be a multi-billion, maybe even trillion dollar industry. Going from quite balding (NW4-NW7 in balding terminology) to a full head of hair makes most guys look a solid 10-…

Just shave it off / short. The person it affects most is yourself, and confidence does not come from hair.

This is one of the most copied and pasted pieces of advice on the internet. Just shave it, grow a beard, and become muscular! Not everyone looks good without hair, some people have faces that look young instead of manly, can't grow a full beard, etc. Plenty of reasons men still hate losing hair.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by tedjdziuba »

libertine wrote: post #13

Elderly care... in fact this pandemic showed precisely the opposite: our elders were neglected, converted into a statistic that dies more then young people. A complete lack of humanity in a lot of developed countries. This is the example we gave to the upcoming generations, we're fucked when it's our turn lol. I've been reflecting a lot on this, and thinking of ways to solve this, but it's not easy - it's bigger than…

The nuclear family is the reference implementation for this.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by mensetmanusman »

aidenn0 wrote: post #387
baron816 wrote: post #243

In-person social organizations. Social isolation is probably the biggest cause of unhappiness in advanced countries. Having a strong social network has lots of advantages including providing better romantic and career opportunities, as well as improving physical and psychological health. Humans have a long history of dishing out lots of money to be parts of strong communities too--country clubs and fraternities have…

> Church goers regularly give up 10% of their (gross) income to be part of that Having seen the finances for several churches, I can say pretty confidently that most church-goers do not tithe 10%.

True,

http://gruberpeplab.com/teaching/psych131_fall2013/documents...

There are fascinating implications for those that are closer to 10% than the average tithe.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by jl2718 »

_Microft wrote: post #165
renjimen wrote: post #125

Overpopulation. It's the main source of humanity's current woes and will only get worse with time. We seem to be content with addressing the symptoms rather than the problem. The idea of population control is taboo but will help everyone in the long run.

Check https://OurWorldInData.org to see that a lot of our woes do not get worse with time. A lot of things are actually getting better quite fast. That does not mean that everything is good yet but at least it is better than it was in the past. The past sucked. A lot. Also: peak population growth rate was 50 years ago and it has been decreasing since then: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth-past-futu.…

Net population growth has not certainly peaked. The earth’s resources are limited in absolute terms, not in terms of exponential growth. A linear increase looks like a declining exponential rate, but still grows unbounded. Any trend of growth exceeding a constant multiple of the inverse total is unbounded.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by tedjdziuba »

baron816 wrote: post #243

In-person social organizations. Social isolation is probably the biggest cause of unhappiness in advanced countries. Having a strong social network has lots of advantages including providing better romantic and career opportunities, as well as improving physical and psychological health. Humans have a long history of dishing out lots of money to be parts of strong communities too--country clubs and fraternities have…

> Church goers regularly give up 10% of their (gross) income to be part of that group.

We sorted out the tithe issue a while ago. Heads rolled. You can show up to any Christian church on a Sunday morning and be welcomed with open arms, no matter how rich or poor you are.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by kreeben »

acd wrote: post #401

That all parents must attend parenting classes. We have drivings licenses to drive a car. Yet there’s no such skill requirements for parents on how to raise children. Cost of dealing with miss raised children is very high.

But sometimes "miss raising" a kid is the right thing to do. This is especially true in a society that has gone awry. Shouldn't I as a parent and who knows my kids and their needs better than anyone be free to raise them as I see fit?

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by baron816 »

pharke wrote: post #455
gfxgirl wrote: post #407

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would argue the issue is there are only so many people talented at this particular skill, "making a meet up that works" and so it doesn't scale. There are all kinds of issues. Setting an agenda. Getting people to follow the agenda. Fostering conversation. Finding venues. Getting the right mix of people. I've been to so many meetups where these kind of issues were not handled well. If you just want random people you…

Victorian etiquette was on to this. You need social market makers who are skilled at knowing a lot of people, introducing them to each other, starting conversations based on common interests and butting out when no longer needed. Formalizing this process would help to some extent, technology could help with remembering names, interests, and whether people have been introduced. Somebody could build this, gamify it and…

I’ve been thinking for a while that this is needed too. This is a big role that priests play in communities.

If I were to start something up, it would start with a clubhouse and probably two employees—one is an event organizer who plans parties and other special gatherings, and the second would be a host/hostess that is responsible for welcoming new members and ensuring they’re comfortable as they try to fit in. Maybe something like an “onboarding partner” would work too when you’re trying to scale.

Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

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Post by academia_hack »

Klonoar wrote: post #379

Premium-feeling laptops that aren't Apple machines. Yes yes, I get the economical barriers. I'm past caring. It is so incredibly frustrating to look outside the Apple ecosystem and feel like the entire PC industry is content to sell the bare minimum of quality (outside of Gamer hardware, which looks obscene - but I get that it's subjective). It's a horrible business idea on the numbers and nobody would do this, but i…

I've really liked Gigabyte's gaming laptops (aero) for this reason. They've got premium build quality and excellent specs but don't look like a Mardi Gras float. They're also very light and have long battery life for the specs. Only downside is the price and mail-only support really.

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Post by flubert »

jbay808 wrote: post #395
aphroz wrote: post #287

Smartphone Keyboard I cannot type a single sentence without making a typo and I have been using a smartphone for 12 years. I miss Blackberry's keyboard. At the moment I even cannot use my natural keyboard layout with a fast and responsive keyboard. I type 3 times slower on my phone than on a computer keyboard.

Last time I visited Tokyo I bought a sleek little folding Bluetooth keyboard that fits in my pocket but unfolds to nearly full size and types very comfortably. By just unfolding it, it pairs with my Android phone and the on-screen keyboard disappears. Folding it up triggers the phone keyboard to reappear. I take it with me whenever I expect to write anything about as long as this comment. Being generally a luddite wh…

Care to compare / contrast your keyboard to the folding keyboards on Amazon?

https://www.amazon.com/Keyboard-Bluetooth-Geyes-Wireless-Sma...

https://www.amazon.com/Geyes-Ultra-thin-Kickstand-Universal-...

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