skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't want to misrepresent the parent, but my take was:

Don't cite my work in a narrow, out of contex way, that entirely misrepresents the body of thought I put together which ia almost entirely at odds with your message.

sure, the people should be allowed to say whatever they want, but if you incorrectly attribute qoutes or ideology to someone, in my mind, you lose credibility. so sure you have a right to mistepresent others ideas but unless you have wholly original thought, if you do that, you call into question the validity of your process, all your sources, and ultimately all of your nessage that relies on non primary research/information
Earth's spin axis shifted by melting ice sheets and changes of water on land
It is implicit, the point is this makes it explicit.
Ignoring the amount of work I described in selling ads directly, this still doesnt solve anything.

In a few days at most, the filters will be updated to catch these images as well.
I am not sure where I suggested that a company is forced to use the system or not. I can't see any company testing their current employees as there is no advantage for them doing so. The would only be interested in the certifications of new candidates.

So your objection seems to be that a company offering these tests might make a lot of money by having lots of people take these tests? It is not like companies aren't doing these skills tests already - the nice thing about this approach is that it makes the whole testing process more transparent. As a candidate you know if you passed or not, which is more than can be said for the average whiteboard test.

Of course the tests would be specific to the skills you want to be tested on. If you want to be tested on front end material the test would be about that, not operating system kernels. The candidate controls what skills they want to be tested on.
Pretty simple.. Improved productivity from this new era of employment at will should lead to wealth which provides guaranteed basic incomes.
What a weird comment. You know that worrying about rats invading your home during the night is a rather uncommon concern in developed countries?
At five years there, I have yet to have that conversation. 1:1s are either what I'm working on or more promises about "this will make a really strong promotion case." Namely motivation for working on whatever shit work needs doing next.
I'm not sure if this is accurate, but the brown M&M thing started after Van Halen performed at a college gymnasium and their stage setup inflicted tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage to a facility that, if the organizers had read the rider, was never fit to host such a show.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/david-lee-roth-van-halen-brow...

This applies to RMS -- when he's on the road, he's often at the mercy of the event organizer for transportation and lodging arrangements (either directly or indirectly by them providing information). If they mess up, he's in real trouble.
Web Project Owners: Leave It to the Experts
Though I do understand most of the criticism this piece is getting in this thread, can we at least agree that all that bullshit about being a star and "graduating" is total bullshit? What a total slap in the face. Culture aside, crying at your desk aside, spare me the extra layer of fake, pointless language to disguise what is happening. I expect professionalism and respect from an employer, and that involves being straightforward, respectful, and to the point.
I have a related quibble: a lot of companies are called 'tech companies' when, in fact, they're consumers of technology, not producers of them.

If your primary innovation is business model, and all the interesting tech you end up working on is purely a result of your scale, well, you're not a tech company. You're a company.

Those companies are probably great (or at least, so far as great == profitable/growing), but calling them 'tech' loses sight of what's interesting about tech to me. I'd argue that true 'tech' companies create technology as their primary or near-primary focus.

So... Uber? Not a tech company, I think. AirBnB? Not tech. Apple? Tech. Google? Tech.

(And yes, I'm aware these companies I call 'non-tech' are probably solving hard, tech-related problems; their developers contribute MLOC to open source projects, and they even release internal tools as open source. But to me, what you sell defines what you are as a company.)
I still to this day feel like I never got the full system slow downs that our current OSs get on my Amiga. It may have had no memory protection and thus crashes took down the whole system, but it sure was a joy to use. It's a great story of how a fantastic system was doomed by the company that owned it.
So many devs tell me "I'm not ready for a mid level role yet" or equivalent, even when thay _clearly_ are...

There's a difference between being ready for a midlevel role, in the sense of being able to take on the responsibilities and requirements, and wanting to take on the midlevel role. For example, if a developer sees that the "seniors" on his team 1) don't get to program as much, because they're in meetings all the time 2) have a lot more stress, because of having to take responsibility for design decisions 3) don't get compensated very much more and 4) sacrifice their ability to switch jobs easily by becoming more specialized in the methods and practices of the company they're currently working for, I think it's entirely rational for the developer to not desire that promotion.

But, of course, it's not politic to say, "Oh, I don't want that promotion, because it's a lot of work and I don't see any upside to it," so people make euphemisms. Saying, "I'm not sure I'm ready for that," is a good way of demurring while not causing offense, and simultaneously leaving the door open so that they can be considered for a promotion in the future.

The next time someone says that they're not "ready" for a mid-level role, I would like you to ask yourself, "Are they not ready, or are they not willing?"
How do you make a small fortune in motorsport racing? Start with a large one.
I'm disappointed that the "shoot me an e-mail" links to a signup page for his newsletter. He wrote "let's chat about it", but his e-mail address cannot be easily found. Bummer -- I would've liked to speak with him.
Leaving aside the factually inaccuracy in the example...

If you want to stick with 'N', you can. And you can fix it to suit your needs. If you want to convert your database, there are no barriers in your way -- and you can distribute your results. Or maybe you want N+1 to work with the old format -- either way, nothing's stopping you.

If you're not categorically against proprietary software, the converter may be a really good purchase; better than any of the above options. But you're not 'trapped' into buying it -- no more so than, say, GIMP 'traps' you into using photoshop by lacking non-destructive editing features.

The fact that the situation would be kind of lame is because for almost everyone, in practice, It's vastly more useful for your software to be actively maintained than it is for it to be 'open' -- and the developers abandon 'n' when they move on.
There are some Non-Free modules, which apparently are for use with the proprietary Enterprise Edition. From their legal page:

"Odoo 8 is released under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License (also known as AGPLv3)."

"Odoo 9 Community Edition is licensed under the LGPL version 3 (also known as LGPLv3)."

"Odoo 9 Enterprise Edition is licensed under the Odoo Enterprise Edition License v1.0, defined as follows: (...) can only be used ... with a valid Odoo Enterprise subscription ... You may develop Odoo modules based on the Software and distribute them under the license of your choice, provided that it is compatible with the terms of the Odoo Enterprise Edition License (For example: LGPL, MIT, or proprietary licenses similar to this one)."
The jump to Lyons entered employment under false pretenses / with this book in mind doesn't seem justified by anything I've read.

It seems more like he found himself in a somewhat ludicrous situation and wrote a book about it.
Two extra employees in a big firm is nothing. As I said before, we could easily have found a use for two more. Not that there was more than 1% chance of it happening.
This seems like a creepy overreach into personal matters that's bound to continue, and likely end badly.
I hate sprawl, too, but I'm missing how this relates to the article. Why would less sprawl somehow solve the problems cited?
Phone number connects you to random Swede somewhere in Sweden
Amazing article, and science. We are poor long-term planners true, but I tend to be a rational optimist here. I believe in man's effect on the climate, no denier here, although I do not like the way terms in language become simplistic polarizers in politics on both sides to the point with those trying to work on issues have to deal with the politics.
The fact is with ice ages and mountain forming, the change to the rotational center of gravity was always there, and careful measurement was not taken up until 1989 per the cited article. It's amazing to see we can shift dirt, water and melt ice and affect it this way, although, I am not entirely convinced it is just those factors. I am eager to see their follow up on land water in this exciting area of research.
If you want long term thinking, you should be thinking 'off earth'. Many are aware the sun swallows the earth when it goes through the natural stages of a star's life in about 4 billion years. Regardless of whether we go 100% clean energy tomorrow (yet even electric cars need power generation plants to charge their batteries: gas, nuclear, coal or otherwise), what a lot of people are unaware of is that the sun is expected to keep growing in brightness and have catastrophic effects on the earth's atmosphere in 1 billion years (we lost 3 billion years there ;) ), boiling off the oceans and climate change will be measured in the hundreds of degrees until the oceans boil off and life on earth ceases to exist. I had a button in the early 80s from OMNI magazine that read: "The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth, the Rest of Us Will Go To The Stars!". Presaging and teasing the I.D. vs. Evolutionary theory.
I am not saying give up on earth, simply adjust your 'long-term' thinking to real long-term. We need space exploration and colonization to survive ultimately as a species. Frankenstein was one of my favorite reads as a child, and the novel gets cited as a moral of 'man should not play with Mother Nature, or God' parable, but the same people who tow that line, are leading up programs to save one of each species, circumventing evolution, in hopes of preventing 'man-made' extinctions. I wonder if they might save a species that ironically turns out to be a carrier of disease that wipes man off the planet: good intentions, poor foresight. In the same way, if we can shift the earth's rotational axis, or North pole, we can study how to VERY slowly and over much time compensate with moving water and mass, a gargantuan task I am sure. And in the meantime, and in light of SpaceX's success yesterday, I am hoping to go to the stars, but they better hurry, since I probably only have 20 to 25 years left, and I might be meek by then ;)
While I get what you're objecting to, the world would have been a lesser place without HST's writing (in my opinion anyway).

There's a broad grey line between "factual objective news reporting" and "storytelling" and the word journalism isn't specifically defined enough for it to be strictly towards the news reporting edges of that grey area. As Wikipedia puts it (with all the lack-of-credibility of quoting Wikipedia as a source, I'll admit): "Journalism, however, is not always confined to the news media or to news itself, as journalistic communication may find its way into broader forms of expression, including literature and cinema."

To me, journalism as commissioned by The Rolling Stone is _supposed_ to be "embellished storytelling". The front page of the NY Times? Sure, that's supposed to be "news" not story telling. But a long-ish form article in the "Sunday Review" section of the Times? At least my expectations lean closer to a Rolling Stone story than a hard hitting fact checked piece of investigative journalism...
The real estate market is peaking
Well, you have a whole year to get a consecutive 20 days. I think the goal is to build a habit.
This was in 1974 or so. Things were different then.
> One important bit of learning for engineer-types to do
> is to recognize that most people aren't like them. The
> more I treat other humans as emotionally driven markov
> chains (rather than intelligent thinkers) the better my
> life outcomes are.

Consider that a lot of "irrational decisions" made by others are only irrational from your perspective.

The people making those decisions may simply value vastly different things than you do. A lot of people would say us engineer types are completely irrational for wanting to spend large portions of our lives staring at computer screens.
Consider the following situation: esbranson, in a post on HN, consoled the parent poster. "That's nonsense", he exclaimed, reinforcing the idea that Dan Lyons should not be misrepresenting other people's ideas.

I have misrepresented your post in the same way Dan Lyons misrepresented the parent poster. I took a quote out of context and used it to espouse exactly the opposite intent of your message.

I have to admit that I thought long and hard about even clicking on the article because I do not want to give Dan Lyons more credibility. His history for writing sensational stories which damage other people is rather legendary. Despite his famous apology, I have not seen him improve in any way what so ever. I honestly wish people would stop publishing his work. This is unfortunately unlikely given his talent for inciting outrage and convincing people to click on his articles (which I have once again done :-P ).
I'm proud to say that one of the authors of this (and the one who apparently was the instigator) was my Operating Systems partner back in college. :D
it seemed to me like Lyons is implying the manager is callow
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Selling surplus stock.
I love how Ember keeps borrowing the best ideas from the other frameworks and evolves in a pretty responsible way.
I spent nearly a decade moving up within another hugely successful tech company and every manager I ever had took time with me once or twice a year to discuss my goals and to outline steps I could take to reach them. Perhaps this is a cultural trait of successful companies (those dominant within their field) that helps them reach such heights.
> they're being required to overfund it

Yeah. I don't have any experience with this stuff beyond planning my own retirement, but I recall playing with the numbers a bit a year or two ago when this was more often in the news. It looked to me like the amount of money they were required to put aside would (if the USPS managed to stay solvent over the decades and continue funding the pension fund) eventually make the USPS pension fund a world financial power.

I admire the idea of forcing a large organization, public or private, to keep its defined benefit plans fully funded. I don't really think that's what congress was shooting for.
This is hacker news, a community of entrepreneurs and innovators, no?

I'm thinking this post is a thorough, and probably pretty spot on, analysis of the situation. A great problem statement. Ironically, it is a bit dystopian and defeatist, can we not turn that around?

So with a slight rewording at the end, I turn it into an Ask Hacker News:

What could a daring entrepreneur start doing to change the world into a place where society, and work, is better aligned with basic human needs?
I think by 'non-college' education they're referring to trade schools and apprenticeships and the like.
Let me get this straight, the University of Kentucky is suing a Moonshiner for the usage of the word Kentucky in clothing? Is it truly possible for a judge to rule in favor of the University?
I hate insurance companies. For one, they refused to pay for pre-approved claims when my wife had cancer and was being treated at Stanford (We were double-insured. Apparently, when you have two insurances, it is common for carriers to decline payments in the hope that the other insurance will pay it.) So my wife couldn't get out of bed and we literally had a stack of unpaid bills over a foot high and totaling over a half-million dollars.

Another reason to hate them is what I learned from consulting for insurance companies. I've been told first-hand stories by claims-adjusters about how the fax machine is intentionally put on the other side of their building and the CEO's assistant goes by and throws out all the papers. (The have the sense not to question why that is done.) And they discover that anyone paying too many legitimate claims gets fired. And their doctor's "reviews" only exist to look for people who might die and have the family resources to sue, and to decline legitimate claims so that enough people give up on their insurance claims. They cry when telling these stories.

Addendum: My wife lived - but the experience was more horrible than I have words to describe. And I'm fortunate that I could afford to hire a consultant to work with the insurance company billing. It took 2 years, but we got most of it paid. I eventually wrote a check for a few thousand dollars to try to undo the damage to my credit report. To this day, I'm not sure why I had to pay that money and why it took two years when I had "great" insurance through two companies.
What a strange comment. Rats can climb stuff.
There was another, longer excerpt featured on HN recently does anyone have the link? I think it was also on the NYT. Or maybe it was a profile about HubSpot written by another person. Not sure anymore.
But why then are there skipped (empty) lines on the console (that seem to correspond to the parallel executions)? Strange behaviour.
That's hardly true. Rats exist in basically every country.

But they don't typically attack humans, only if there is a massive overpopulation and not enough food.

Also, rats climb quite well - putting the box higher up is no guarantee.
Yes background checks are required at licensed gun stores. But as many as 40% of gun sales are private.
Mark seemed to have the conversation under control with all questions being fired off.

From the ~500 datapoints i have regarding my sleep from sleepcycle I would also say that sleep plays a large factor in how I can perform in my school tasks.
Now at around 7 hours of sleep, Ill land to a "~70% sleep quality". At that point, I am able to perform the task in class, with little feelings of distractions, drowsiness. etc.
Canada too at least the French parts but anywhere here you can buy spray cans of émail in English is enamel.
https://www.howtoforge.com/filtering-https-traffic-with-squi...
very interesting.
are there any stats of how many people out of lets say 1000 have this kind of inner clock cycle?
Some of this is related to the way the internal tool reports your seniority. It tells you that that X% of all current employees were hired more recently than you. So during this particular time frame, when Google was really booming in total head count, that number doesn't really reflect the average time-to-find-other-opportunity very well. Its reporting on the wrong side of the tenure timeline to give you that information. Even worse, depending on how you use the tool, it can include contractors as well.

There is a separate tool that tells you the seniority of the people that are leaving. And while there is definitely a statistical bump right after the 1 year vesting cliff, even a cursory glance shows that the average and median final tenure is quite a bit longer than 1 year.
The relative satisfaction of junior bankers matters
because Wall Street firms are slashing thousands of
more-senior jobs in a push to cut costs.

Stay with the company long enough and we'll yank the brass ring out of your hand, too!
> I don't think Dan Lyons misrepresents your ideas, but rather I think more fundamentally he doesn't share your vocabulary, worldview nor expectations.

Then why did Lyons cite grandparent's book as though it supports his worldview? Why did he sandwich quotes from the book with paraphrasing that doesn't represent the book at all?

> That is the heart of "The Alliance" - an acceptance the world has changed, and making it work for you.

Are you preaching to grandparent about what his book is about? That strikes me as strange.
Not quite sure what you mean? If you turn off JavaScript in the example app you do get something like that—the links reload the browser page, and the comment form submits the comment, then renders the new state of comments (just by processing the comment on the form submit and then re-directing you back to the page.)
Best human player.

Isn't Deep Blue the best player? Or some computer since?
Which is why I qualified it ('depending on where you live ...'). The article is about how the practice is spreading around the world.
Sure - there's definitely some of that.

There may also be some distrusting "Why is my manager encouraging me to leave? I'd better dig myself in and make sure I don't fuck anything up" thoughts (although I'd like to think I'm not thought of as "that guy").

But I also see cases that are closer to a reverse Dunning Kruger effect, people who just don't realise (or admit to themselves) how good they are compared to their peers. (Sometimes at an astonishing penalty to their earnings...)
I appreciate the thoughtful comment. And I wouldn't dispute that we believe that lifetime employment by a single company is unlikely to be offered or accepted in today's world.

But Dan Lyons is misrepresenting us when he implies that we believe that employees should be loyal to companies even though companies show no loyalty to employees. We're not pro-corporation or pro-employee; our point is that work is a voluntary relationship where both parties should benefit.
Last few cars I've owned seem to be designed to prevent the owner from even looking under the hood. They don't seem to design them for easy user access anymore. But then again, I came across a computer from ASUS the other day that said you void the warranty if you open up your case. WTF???
Some of these places have technical tracks where you can get promoted, have more money and a better title, but not change your place hierarchically within the team.
@pmalynin, you forgot the safety variable.

p | q | p ∧ q → ¬q
--+---+-----------
T | T | F You can't be safe and own a gun.
T | F | T You can be safe and not own a gun.
F | T | T You can be unsafe and own a gun.
F | F | T You can be unsafe and not own a gun.

@rwjwjuwjudf, logical implication is correct - logical equivalence leads to this trainwreck:

p | q | p ∧ q ↔ ¬q
--+---+-----------
T | T | F You can't be safe and own a gun.
T | F | F You can't be safe and not own a gun.
F | T | T You can be unsafe and own a gun.
F | F | F You can't be unsafe and not own a gun.
vonklaus, this is precisely how I feel. It's fine if Dan Lyons disagrees with me, but he shouldn't tell people that I'm saying something that I'm not.
Depends on the factory. Here's a picture from Boeing's: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Boeing_F...

Especially relevant due to "No FOD" sign (meaning there's sometimes shit lying around that the a bipedal robot could walk over).
That's a very fair point. There are many times when burnout is perhaps not a philosophical problem, and there can be pragmatic, constructive steps to take in the short term.

The larger-scale structural problems (particularly the vexing in-principle problem of modern employment) have been the major proponents for my own self-study of burnout, and so I have a major availability bias when thinking about burnout leading me to connect it to those types of issues.