RoadieRoller

I've been reading (and contributed less) Hacker News for more than two decades (using two accounts).

Back in 2005 when I started, there were very nice discussions, technical depth in comments, and it was my daily habit to read this before I start my office work. In fact, many people have started billion dollar companies from HN comments[0].

Now, all that is gone. Posts are too fast to follow. Too many identical posts, and too fast paced for anyone.

I still work in Software, but the feel of singularity is very high. Whatever is in discussion in HN is shallow, the topics are all around AI and I feel the pace is too much for me to relax and read (or read, relax, and think about it).

Can we get back to the state of human centric discussions rather than fast-paced AI advancement posts which has less human in it?

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28336815

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I am a non-native English speaker currently residing in the US. As part of my job, I need to set up meetings day in and day out with Developers, QAs, Business Analysts, PM (Product and Project Managers). One thing I struggle at times is - What would be a near perfect title to put on the meeting invite to get their attention?.

Though I always put an agenda, the decisions to be made in the meeting as part of the meeting invite, I think a good title is what most invitees see when they look at their calendar. My idea of title is that, once they see the title , they should know the importance of the meeting, and also skip any unimportant ones to attend mine.

Any suggestions/thoughts based on what you use in your companies?

I come from a country where most people build homes on their own. One norm that we always practice is that bathrooms are either equal in number, or more than the number of bedrooms in the house. This is because we are always an extended family, and extended family visits us. Most bedrooms have an attached bathroom + 1 (common bathroom for guests/maids/)

In America, I found that it is exact opposite. Bathrooms are less in number compared to bedrooms. My son and daughter are fighting for bathroom time as we live in a 4 Bed 2 bath house. Adding to our agony was when my parents who recently visited us. Now, one bathroom for 4 people.

I understand the cost implications. But compared to my house in my motherland, American house is 3 times bigger. Why can't the builders reduce size and build more bathrooms.