jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I've never seen these constant blog posts on management & burn out for other high paying professions.

Allow me to demonstrate. Here are some threads currently on the first page of the medical residency subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Residency/

> [stickied] The Official Burnout or 'Call for Help' Support Thread

> How do you deal with demanding family members?

> [Rant] Tired of the bullshit

> When you’re an intern and the attending doesn’t even bother to learn your name.

> Residents of Reddit: did you regret your specialty choice, and if so, what specialty and why?

> Chiefs, why so much intern hate?

> Propaganda in our hospital. “Let everyone know you’re unavailable because you’re passionate”

> Here’s reason why I don’t like going to work

> Depression in Medical Internship

> HCA, the for-profit residency experience.
> Every place is the same

this is false.

look into smaller businesses who only need 1-5 coders. you will get paid well, do interesting stuff and have a lot of say in your stack and tools. usually these companies do not produce software as their deliverable but need good internal software.

e.g. i work for < 50M/yr e-commerce company that manufactures in the DIY/home remodeling industry. i report directly to the CEO, code our full stack and admin our VPS linode server. we have internal voip systems that get integrated, physical production hardware (scales, scanners, etc), inventory tracking, fulfillment, amazon integration and a whole lot more. i get to touch it all.
If you want the pages to share a header, footer, and menu, it can be a pain because if you ever want to change something in a shared component, you'd have to do it for every single page.
I hope you enjoy washing clothes by hand.
In Hawaii (at least in the past, I think currently too), when you buy a house, you often don't buy the land, you lease it from someone on a typically 100 year basis. I believe this form of ownership, leasehold, exists elsewhere too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leasehold_estate
This is cool. I think simple solutions will arise as well- companies can build platforms on top of the service and sell support packages- similar to what EY, heroku, and all the other EC2/S3 platforms already do or like red hat has been doing for years. There's a lot of cool potential for this...
Professor Hazel L. Sive has it right:

"Part of excellence, she says, “is that you are either the top investigator in your field, or one of the very tiny handful of top investigators in your field, in the world."

A professor has to be #1 or #2 in his field, sometimes, maybe #3.

"“Competent teaching is required for promotion,” she says. Although “extreme excellence [in research] can compensate somewhat for less excellent teaching skills,” since acquiring teaching skills is “always in progress,” good teaching alone is not enough for promotion."

All MIT classes are taught by professors (I've heard of one exception to this, a case of a truly exceptional EECS grad student who everyone felt was the best person in the department to teach a particular class) therefore this is a necessary but not sufficient criteria. It is just about impossible to avoid having anything to do with undergraduates, I know of only one professor in the EECS department who managed that trick (let us say he was very politically powerful, although in my direct experiences with him he was a better than OK guy; we gave him booze, he gave us money :-).

These two above "no compromise" things are part of what makes MIT MIT.

Minor notes: the 50% failure/success rate is about average for the US from what I've read recently. Eric Hudson's research at the gross/highest level is I'm pretty sure a very popular area, it was back in the early '80s.
In my area at least, it costs me money to recycle CRTs as well as a lot of other electronics. I'm just not going to pay $25 to throw something away. If this was free, or even if the cost was built into the front end purchase price, I would absolutely recycle old monitors and parts.
My printer requires me to have a continuing relationship with the manufacturer to get replacement cartridges, is it just licensed? IMO your WOW analogy is specious, the freely provided service is a separate entity to the software product I buy in the shop - I still have the software to use (as much as that is or isn't possible) regardless of whether the company continue to supply their free online services.

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Aside:

>for all intensive purposes

"intents and purposes"

I don't normally complain, but as you're into word definitions in your post it seemed apt.
I must admit I was wrong -- the account still hasn't been deleted. Interestingly it has -112 karma, though, which is far less than the sum of the karma scores on all its comments. Bug?
I can get it in 2 picks on the 48 without doing too much tinking most of the time. Once I got unluckly with 3 that I couldn't tell apart without juxtaposing them though :(
The comments here have entirely changed my mind (cheers for that). I totally agree with you now. I've also cringed at journalists using too much vernacular (so I was obviously being a hypocrite in my first comment; shame on me).

And you are absolutely correct - in professional reporting, clear language should always be used, not colloquialisms. It makes for much clearer and unbiased reporting.
In preparation for a career as a startup founder, I’m looking at grad schools right now for several reasons:

1)	Sharpen my skills
2)	Meet like-minded people
3)	Learn cool things

Obviously, number 1 is Stanford, the home of Google. And number 2 is MIT. Does anybody have good recommendations for numbers 3, 4, and 5?
>Change your credit/debit cards yearly (say to your bank you 'lost' it).

Huge shoutout to/for privacy.com. Been using for over a year now and it's been a fantastic service.
Chinese engineers crack iPhone used by Florida Man
Maybe Taiga? https://www.taiga.io/
Fixed now.

http://vifero.no is up and running.

I forgot to set an access right.

Will have to improve ARCore also, so such an error is not so dramatic.
Well.... I'm not dead (yet).

I have monthly check ups. They take my pulse, blood pressure, and weight. I've noticed improvements when I changed my diet (the nurse said "wow" when she checked my pressure).

I had an EKG 10 years ago, when I switched to this Dr.

I have an (almost) annual physical.

I'm not really sure which of those is enough to give you comfort - more than anything, I wanted to give a counter story to the "scary stories"
"I doubt there's a perfect balance, but either extreme come with too many problems."

In principle, "pay me a small fee if you're not on my list, if I put you on my list now it's free" would work well (optionally refund someone who contacts you out of the blue that you approve of), but there's a lot of both engineering and social details between where we are now and such a system.

It doesn't take much cost friction to deter mass spamming. I don't think much problem would be left behind from the handful of overconfident spammers who think that they can bust the odds and it's worth 25 cents a message or something.
I don't play video games as much as I did in my youth, but I must note that the real world is a struggle to learn anything.

Games have very tightly designed feedback loop that makes thing fun, while the real world has none of that.

I have been trying and failing to cultivate an electrical engineering hobbies various time. Thankfully, I can 'save' my progress in Anki, in so far that I engaged in study. Perhaps this is wrong the approach. I want to be an electronic hobbyist, not possess the knowledge of an electrical engineer, although that is essential.
Sales / service taxes disproportionately hit the poor. We don’t need poverty to be more expensive than it is.
A policeman enforcing property rights generates a lot more value for the guy who owns the property.
What a great opportunity for the Aftermarket market.
Let’s check some scenarios:
1) Police puts a mic inside your house, you step on it, and destroy it. Is it ok or not?

2) Police puts a mic on a guy who comes to your house, you find it, and destroy it. Is it ok or not?

3) Police puts a nano-mic (nano-gps) on you, you find it, and destroy it. Is it ok or not?

My answer to all of the above is that anything put on your property without you knowledge is up for grabs and destruction without further notice. Hour, car, or body is irrelevant.
Also they had staff in China. So saying something like that could put that staff at risk.
To an idiot, apparently, it is.
>Bed is 6.5' long

Such a disappointment personally, I hope they add a chassis option with an 8' bed and two seats, or maybe make the back seats removable? also they need a lumber rack. seriously, pickup trucks have lumber racks. I think they are missing out on a significant market segment of trades people by not offering it with an 8' bed(or a rack), and a foreseeable second-order effect is that it will give the Cybertruck the repute of being a poser vehicle. I like everything about it, except that it has a huge cab and a small bed.
I'd settle for experimenting with "same".

If a regular citizen can't plant a bug, neither can police. If police can conduct a stakeout, so can regular citizens. They just have to follow the same process. That might include going in front of a judge and getting a warrant.

If a regular citizen could break up a bar fight, the police should be able to take the same actions. If police can set up a sting operation, so should citizens be allowed.

Obviously, we don't want everybody running around conducting sting operations or traffic stops. So we set some bar for regular citizens that makes it less likely. But police should have to face the exact same bar. The difference is that we pay for their time, training, equipment, etc. If a certain level of training is required before anybody can make a traffic stop, that training should be open for anybody. We just pay the admission and the salary for police to take the training. Regular citizens foot their own bill.

Edit: poor proofreading
No, I don’t normally think about header order, but if I’m unlucky enough to be getting some weird behavior based on header order, I think I’d be able to debug it before landing my change.

I’d be pissed if the issue were introduced by a formatting pass.
How fast you can accelerate that mass it is the real question.
Online auto parts stores tend to do this well. Specify the make, model, year, and engine of your car and you only see parts that apply to you. It works so well that it's easier to browse the categories than to use search in well-curated stores.

For example, https://idparts.com is a highly-curated store that sells parts for diesel-engine cars, mostly Volkswagens. If I need a car part I look here first.
I'm generally in favour of people releasing more frameworks and showing off work like this. We're not being forced to use it and at the very least it allows us to see and understand other peoples thinking and approaches to new concepts like Flux.

With Marty.js posted the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8923053) and, having spent a while looking at that, i'm interested to know if the motivations for creating the two are broadly the same? Are they taking similar approaches or are there fundamental (or subtle) differences? This is something i'm struggling to understand so would appreciate other input.
They almost certainly don't own the helicopters, that would be an extremely large cost for them (up front) including maintenance, staffing, storage and so on. Virtually no businesses actually own their own birds. Their USP is that instead of going to the owners and chartering the chopper yourself, they'll match you up with other commuters and you pay your 5th or 6th of the cost.
Douglas Hofstadter put some interesting thoughts on the parametric knob-twiddling approach to fonts and other domains of creative expression here:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/ftp/techreports/TR136.pdf

(Also covered in his Oct. '82 article in Scientific American, Variations on a Theme as the Crux of Creativity)
This is why I really like having Varnish in front of anything Internet-facing: for something like returning a 400 for an un-approved Host header, you're going to be effectively bottlenecked by the network interface.
Anyone else wonder why black was chosen for the two characters in the conversation along with one of their dialogue and only one was orange.
Well if he's going to use these to go on mars it's got to be functional without anything frivolous.
> They could probably implement the Win32 API as an API for a distro

They did, that's how SQL Server runs on Linux
In US, other non-protected speech includes threats and obscenity. If you're calling out bureaucrats in public be careful not to use any obscenity or you might find yourself charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor criminal charge. No harm is required.
There are jobs that are objectively make-work positions, especially in the public sector, and the penumbra of "beltway bandits" where there is no individually expressed demand that directly or indirectly caused a requisition for an additional worker to, for example, touch your balls with a blue glove.
Nothing beats reading the specs.
Exactly how often do you go out of your way to aggravate police, customs and immigration officials in other countries?
I don’t think you can do that well without some global state and code to handle it (aka ‘a runtime’).

It’s not like separate parts of a program can each optimize for the number of threads and their memory for their goals. Optimization/tuning has to happen globally because the resources used (threads, memory) are shared between those parts.

I think most solutions have some global state that magically decides how many threads to run in parallel (more for I/O bound code), how many to assign to each part (which don’t even have to be perfectly separate. Part P might parallellisme a loop where each iteration calls into part Q, which also runs a parallel loop. If each of these decides to run one thread per CPU for N threads in total, the result still c/would be that N² threads run in parallel, likely with suboptimal results)
Well, you are still kind of lucky. If you come from so-called "developing countries" or middle east don't even think about going to Europe or USA. The attitudes are almost the same besides US having better devices and more officers.
What a load of shit. "Security guys" should be fucking competent or they shouldn't be "security guys" at all. And who cares about some "keep the sheep fearful and in line" propoganda shit the US government puts out about supposed threats to embassies or whatever? The "opt-out" he elected is explicitly defined as a valid procedure by the TSA, so citing that as "suspicious" is bullshit. And "behavioural red flag?" Are you shitting me? What do you think somebody is supposed to do when they are detained against their will, subject to multiple interrogations, denied food and water, and otherwise accosted by a gang of jack-booted thugs?

The only part of this story that makes it anything less than a total clusterfuck on the part of the TSA is that their so-called "explosive detector" alerted on something. Fine, it should take about 3 minutes after that to manually pat down / search the individual and find (or not) any explosives they are carrying. If you don't find any (and seemingly they didn't) that's what we call a "false positive". They happen, but that does not justify all the follow-on bullshit.

Seriously, FUCK the TSA. Those assholes are the terrorists as far as I'm concerned.
I was in Whittier in 1991, two years after the oil spill. I'll say that even then there was other housing and not everyone lived in the one building. You can easily see housing dotted around the area and the building sits back a bit from the water. The pictures in this article shows a remodeled building but when I was there it was in some disrepair. And as fishermen from around the prince william sound used to say, "There's no place shittier than Whittier.'

I was told the main reason Whittier exists is because it's the only port deep enough to dock warships. I was fishing out of Cordova which you can only get to by plane or boat but if you wanted to go to anchorage, you could take a small car ferry to Whittier.
I would love to find better metrics than changesets and lines of codes — I agree that both are awful ways of measuring actual software-development work. I have yet to find something better, though; suggestions welcome.
I think that one facet is implied by Dang's post above ... if we're not careful to have a respectful debate, then we'll end up having a shouting match instead.

I used to appreciate grid-lock in DC under the idea that the less they got done, the less they'd do to me. Now I recognize that the best outcomes are a) when the lawmakers reach across the aisle and forge what both sides would consider a compromise and more importantly b) when the lawmakers we elect actually enact laws and run the country in a way that benefits the people they represent.

I suspect that our best way forward as a nation is to resume carefully growing the middle class. This will by nature mean that the financial elites (some of whom are clearly moral despots) will lose a small portion of their wealth. But it's amazingly analogous to the reforms at the beginning of the last century that started to protect labor from the robber barons.

I think the second step is to (yes, at a cost) restore at least some manufacturing capability to the US. This provides jobs to many who are NOT going to be talking tech on HN and also protects us (and the world) against there being potentially a single-source supplier of any given resource.
While I don’t think I’ll be able to use Pika, it’s always good to see novel dev tools being released.

I’m keen to see how Pika Code improves the end to end dev experience by presumably being tightly integrated with deployment. Remind me of Dark in a way.
Which have you had success with-- EDMR or neurofeedback training? If you are in the bay area can you recommend anyone?
Thanks, very interesting.
Could you develop steps 2 and 4?
> Tonkin Gulf incidents

Why did you include such a well documented false flag in your list of potentially fake news? [Edit: the document discussed in the following quote is from the NSA itself, so the government has admitted (39 years later) that this was a hoax.] From the NYT:

> The most provocative document is a 2001 article in which an agency historian argued that the agency's intelligence officers "deliberately skewed" the evidence passed on to policy makers and the public to falsely suggest that North Vietnamese ships had attacked American destroyers on Aug. 4, 1964.

> Based on the assertion that such an attack had occurred, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered airstrikes on North Vietnam and Congress passed a broad resolution authorizing military action.

> The historian, Robert J. Hanyok, wrote the article in an internal publication and it was classified top secret despite the fact that it dealt with events in 1964. Word of Mr. Hanyok's findings leaked to historians outside the agency, who requested the article under the Freedom of Information Act in 2003.

https://web.archive.org/web/20081211090233/http://www.nytime...
A lot of them that do mix units between products of the same class (one measured as volume per unit, and another as mass per unit), making it difficult to do a direct comparison.
Yeah, because that's what they needed to get a job. You didn't.
"Useful PoW" is a dead end. Good PoW functions require properties that rule out real world useful problems.
City streets look nicer under higher temperature light. This can be easily experienced by walking from a sodium lamp street to a 4000K LED one to a 6000K one, since even today very few cities are completely converted to LEDs.

There are reasons to use low temperature lamps, but aesthetics is not one of them.
Start a transformative web-commerce company, then transform it into the premier cloud-hosting company. Sell some shares. Pay a lot of good people to help you.

Seriously. Bezos is the only major player to be playing only with his own money. I think everyone else (SpaceX, ULA, Virgin, etc.) all have substantial external investment.

Space is expensive to get to. In general, you're going to need to pool a lot of capital and human effort.

If starting small is a goal, finding great Cubesat applications seems like a good place to start (but you'll need enough money to get to orbit). It looks like there is a lot of competition, though.
Are you saying part of your job is to solve learned helplessness in the software engineering workplace? Are you effective?
These people don’t care
You can simply boot to the internet-based recovery image and reinstall or access your data from there, so there is no concern about trashing your installation.

Furthermore I don't see any reason to think that OP's issues are to do with the hardware or that we will have to wait for the next hardware model to have these issues resolved. It seems like a simple OS-level software bug to me.
To everybody who is interested in the possible purpose of Stonehenge and other megalithic structures I can recommend this book: Seed of Knowledge, Stone of Plenty (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/780619.Seed_of_Knowledge...).

It has nothing to do with ancient aliens and the like and is rather scientific about the electromagnetic properties of such structures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide#International_law quotes:

Article II of the Convention defines genocide as:

... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy,
in whole or in part,
a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated
to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Either you have free press and open platforms, or you don't.
WinToUSB is $50 but they allow you to do Windows Home and MBR partitions for free. Rufus and Disk Utility for Linux/mac OS
Nice approximation of nature. You can see both growth and statistical mechanics in the same demonstration.
How long before hard hitting independent journalists like Greenwald and others who publish regardless of who it exposes and inconveniences start seeing their voices silenced and only approved voices get to tiptoe and publish banalities along with special daggers for non conformers?

Twitter needs to be renamed Pravda unironically.
“The numbers indicate that women more often drive smaller, lighter cars and that they’re more likely than men to be driving the struck vehicle in side-impact and front-into-rear crashes,” says Jermakian. “Once you account for that, the difference in the odds of most injuries narrows dramatically.”

That would actually be enough for the content.
Well the often cited (and easy to believe) weed and video games wouldn't be causing any harm. In fact you could argue that being a "fan" would help support creators, even if just in spirit.