skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstood what I meant with that. I was trying to make the point that whenever people say the US is great, they mention that they would rather work 60 hours a week than maybe 40 and being forced to take every other Friday off or whatever. I am not saying all jobs are like this, but people who say that everything else than the US sucks use this argument.

And why do you think that getting insurance through the employer is better than government? Maybe it is only great for people who know they won't get laid off. In Europe if you get laid off you are still insured. If you are working and wish to have better insurance, you can always go with a private insurance company. I am just not fond of the idea that basic social services are tied to your employment status, since getting laid off could put you in a negative cycle.
The leakiest incentive is that the FDA gets in a huge amount of trouble if it lets through a drug that has unforseen negative side effects, but faces essentially zero consequences for holding up the approval of a worthwhile drug indefinitely, and requiring billions of dollars to be spent on its development.
Absolutely this is a thought experiment where "an economy" might be The Machine.

I also thought of explaining this concept using a magic wand, but wanted something more grounded.

But calling it a machine I think helps us avoid some of our political hang ups about organizing the productive machinery of society. Even if The Machine ends up being more like our normal economy.

I still hope some day we can literally have a large machine that does a bunch of this. I do think it would be truly useful.
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I know a lot of english spoken only people in french startup.
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It really depends on your skill level. Becoming an entry-level programmer, basic front-end dev, etc has become easier and easier in recent years, however the further you move up the ladder / the more advanced your skills get, the talent pool is small. Making the jump from journeyman programmer (what most bootcamps focus on) to software engineer with a solid grasp on CS fundamentals and running at scale is non-trivial.
Full disclosure, I work for a company called CriticalBlue that helps customers with these types of issues. We have a recent blog article about setting up a proxy for API keys in this way that might be useful at https://www.approov.io/blog/protect-your-api-keys-with-appro... . We have a way of then locking down that proxy so only approved apps can use it - without simply circling back to the original problem of hiding secrets in apps.
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argument to install Signal is pretty easy - I just ask Android users if they use Facebook Messenger to manage SMS. if answer is negative I propose why not use different nice SMS client called Signal which can also do encrypted online instant messaging

though many people are just too lazy to replace even ugly default Messaging app, so wet just use it with my wife and parents since I boycott Messenger/Whatsapp, just in case for video calls I have Skype Mingo (it's sad that out of billion people in India it's difficult to find one person which would upload always newest build to apkmirror)
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"If a lithium-ion battery cell charges too quickly or a tiny manufacturing error slips through the net it can result in a short circuit - which can lead to fire."

How about solving the obvious problems?
>I have only three years of experience as a software engineer. I made over $200,000 in 2016.

What do you do?
Renting a rack is not the same as running a data center. The technical sophistication is available. It can be hired on the employment market or contracted as an ad-hoc service. Many colos offer a hands fee to have their staff do things like install disks on your behalf, and there is always the traditional managed server.

Chasing the cloud has cost companies a massive amount of money. I'm familiar with companies that would've saved nearly a million bucks a year by staying on bare metal/in-rack hypervisor. They weren't forced into the cloud by a shortage of people who could perform hardware maintenance, they went because it was the hip thing to do.
> oil company build a pipeline

This happens.

> rail company build a high speed train track

This doesn't.

There are actually companies that want to build oil pipelines. How many privately funded companies are there that want to (and have the means to) build a high-speed rail line?
> France can't even retain its own engineers.

I confirm!

Leaving the country = Best decision in my life :D
Free university is a big deal if you move your family.
I've found the exact opposite, in my experience. I have a lot of experience in several broader areas in software development, and I've had far more success in bigger companies than I have in startups.

I've found that that startups (especially the ones that are far along enough that they can actually afford to pay you) are not willing to put up with the (perceived) time it takes to get a generalist software developer up to speed with their particular software stack, because of the speed at which they need to move. If they need someone to develop in AngularJS, they damn well need someone who knows AngularJS deeply and can hit the ground running, because they can't afford to spend time and manpower training you.

This is compounded by the fact that many startups overestimate the time and effort it takes for a good self-driven learner to get up to speed with a particular technological system.

In contrast, bigger tech companies tend to look for people with good smarts and algorithmic chops, because they can afford to take several weeks to train you in whatever they happen to use. They can absorb that time because you're not needed as urgently, so they don't hire as narrowly.
The writing was on the wall before that, though. WhatsApp was eating everyone's lunch and Facebook / Google wanted to move faster and own the messaging space.
I am a software engineer at a top tech company.
Yeah, definitely. Somewhat unintuitively what often helps me is stepping away from the computer. Taking a long break to think without typing, pondering in the shower, or sleeping on it for example.
In the contract economy, imagine that all of us, with our small contracting companies and associated specialities, are day labourers standing at the dockside waiting to be hired.

The dock manager (Google) opens a gate to the strong looking fellows allowing them into the dock company's holding area. If they are not in this area (front page of appropriate SERPs) then they aren't considered by the task master who later comes to the holding area, scans the candidates that the dock manager has selected, and takes his pick to get the days work done - from which point it is finally up to the individual and their abilities to prove their ongoing worth.

Imagine if you needed to be an SEO, adwords and general internet marketing guru just to get the dock manager to look at you so you could get paid....

EDIT: Clarity
The phrase "potentially permanent position" is misleading. Is it intentional? I don't know.

The primary audience for a report on outcomes for Ph.D.'s in Physics one year after graduation, getting their Ph.D. degree, is students (and parents of students) evaluating whether to pursue a Ph.D.. Obviously, they should investigate longer term outcomes, but young people often don't, focusing the next step in their life/career.

Potentially permanent position sounds like a general version of "tenure track research job" as another commenter correctly noted below.

Students with little or no work experience often do not have an accurate impression of salaries, working conditions, and other aspects of the work world (or academia), specifically in the private sector computer industry where most Ph.D's in Physics currently end up.

News coverage of computer companies like Google emphasizes many far out research-like projects such as the Google self-driving car, the AlphaGo deep learning project, and so forth. These sounds like academic research, so why wouldn't these companies have comparable positions to tenure track research jobs? Indeed, in very rare cases, they may have such positions.

However, the vast majority of industry jobs are at will full time jobs without a specified end date. Especially in the computer industry, they are quite insecure and often short-lived, very different from what potentially permanent position implies. They are not analogous to tenure track jobs.
You need to explain this, it's not clear from your current website. Instead of "book blah blah blah" your message should be something like "plan activities with other people".
its really great that our world's top scientists are working on ad monetization
Strange how the article doesn't mention that (not Hinton), Hopfield, Sejnowski, Kohonen , Amari etc. etc. were all phycisists.

Also, physicists working for software is not only a silicon-valley phenomenon .
Why not just use adblockers? It's free.
"For example, building a new power station using the latest green technology causes more protests and opposition than keeping a decrepit, polluting power station running for an extra five years."

I saw this happen once in my constituency. The protest was ridiculously meek and likely astroturfed but it had the backing of the local Tory MP.

Thus the department of energy and climate change refused permission to build a wind farm.
That's not grounds for writing someone off, but it's not always a positive thing either. I would fail miserably at running a marathon, but I don't think that gives me any insight into running marathons. Going someplace where everyone fails and (surprise!) failing might also just as easily be a sign of poor judgement as the failing itself, depending on the circumstances. Tons of rich kids who can afford to fail come here and attempt it just because for them, failure has minimal consequences, and they figure they'll either win the startup lottery or give up in a few years, and worst-case they will have spent a few post-college years having fun working with their buddies and delaying getting a "real" job (in their view). Other people might get much more out of their failed startup experience, but there's just a really wide range of who does it for what reasons, and what they get out of the experience.
It's very rare for me to read a technical book cover to cover. I recently read IPv6 FUNDAMENTALS by Graziani (Cisco), but that was more an act of desperation. The best CS-related book I've ever read was probably MEASURING AND MANAGING PERFORMANCE IN ORGANIZATIONS by Robert Austin. It completely changed the way I see the world, both professional and personally. Austin uses agency theory, an application of game theory, to show how incentives in an information economy drive dysfunction into organizations because not all metrics of behavior can be adequately or economically measured. This is extremely applicable to, for example, incentive programs in high tech organizations. At the time he wrote it, Austin was working on his Ph.D. in (I dimly recall) operations research at Carnegie Mellon while working as an executive in IT for Ford Motor Company Europe. Now he's on the tenured faculty at Harvard Business School.
[...] only medical doctors would be able to review/rate. Which IMO is a reasonable and interesting idea worth exploring.

This is still an incredibly bad idea, for the entire reason we have medical science. One physician, no matter how principled and rigorous, won't have enough data. This "data" comes by way of raw number of patients, information collected about each of those patients (general and relevant to a specific drug study), how that data was collected (i.e. good experimental methodology).

Worse, even if good data were magically available, random physicians won't have the background in experimental science and statistical methods to analyze that data meaningfully. Even trained research scientists often have problems with this stuff. Add to that the already extant risks of conflict of interest from physicians receiving kickbacks from big pharma... sheesh.

So yeah, Yelp Anecdata FTW! Welcome to the tyranny of the snake-oil salesmen!

Do we really want pharmaceutical medicine, which already has major systemic problems, to degenerate to the level of "audiophile" arguments on web forums?
It is mostly because of the social welfare that is funded massively over salaries extortion. Take a random 60k€ salary for a senior software engineer in Paris, the employer is paying at least the same amount of taxes on top of that, making the cost for the company up to 120k€. It is not that far away from some foreign salaries for the same position, except in other countries highly skilled workers are not that massively extorted from their wage.

Of course on the other hand you don't care too much about health insurance (you still have to get a supplement private insurance), education for your children (true that it's nearly free), vacations (5 weeks is the least, you usually get 9/10 weeks). But I think it just doesn't add up for highly skilled workers. That's why they flee to London, Germany, North America… :-)
This is my understanding as well. However even this requires you to have various google-parts installed on your phone. These can be fairly obtrusive with permissions and such.
>I made over $200,000 in 2016. This is more than the Prime Minister and President make in France.

This kind of braggadocio statement is why the hate for tech workers is growing. It shows a serious lack of perspective and an incredible amount of arrogance and condescension.

It's also very untypical, even for a skilled tech worker in America.
Sounds like a job for a good machine learning algorithm.
I recently tried riot.im and I'm realy blown away by the good UI they have and how easy it is to get started to develop your own stuff.

It is a shame that nothing by the likes exists in the XMPP-sphere.

EDIT: As a side note: Daniel Gultsch from the conversations-fame is doing a great job by providing/developing a realy awesome XMPP client for android and pushing the standard forward.
Elevated track doesn't buy you anything over level track, at least in terms of landowner hostility. What makes you think that an easement for pillars is going to come any cheaper than an easement for continuous level track?
IMO, users in an organization engaging in debate and discussion about the best system based on the merits of the system to use is productive.
That article doesn't say what you apparently think. Just like blibble, I have to ask if you read the first line.

"Home Office says in letter that it cannot give unilateral assurances until status of Britons in other EU countries is protected"

(emphasis mine)
If s/he works for a public company, this is totally in line with total compensation at that experience level after you factor in stock. There are many places where you can get this level of comp. Of course, your stock package has to be worth something -- this person is almost certainly not getting over $200K in base salary alone, and if they are I would echo your question -- "what do you do?" -- and add another -- "who do you do it for?"
Snowden revealed the opposite: https://cdn.grahamcluley.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nsa-... NSA actively tries to eavesdrop on Google.
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...At which point we would get a series of think-pieces about whether the AI was implicitly misogynist.
When Netflix decides to make an offer to a candidate, how do they proceed?
I’d like to know who gives the offer? Is it the hiring manager? Recruiter? HRBP? And how it’s done? Onsite? On the phone?
The double standard around nipples always baffled me, for this exact reason.

Where I live (New York), women have the right to be topless anywhere that men do. So that makes all beaches effectively "topless beaches" - the same goes for parks, or even just walking down the street.

Edit: Autocorrect!
So I recently got the Bose QC30 and while they will help with average traffic noise, the active noise canceling doesn't work super well for higher pitched or more abrupt sounds like the cuckoo clock.

I've been playing brown noise or something similar through them on top of the active noise cancellation. I use my own command-line program [1] or Noisli in Chrome for this.

Yes, it feels kind of wasteful to buy premium headphones for the express purpose of not listening to music, but this is the best solution I've come up for working in an open office.

I'd be interested to hear how others handle this problem, as I've always been very sensitive to noise and can program way more effectively when background noise is minimal and consistent, like a fan.

[1]: https://github.com/tedmiston/zero-noise
Awesome ! I also see a lot of living creatures in flames (try to take pictures with a DSLR during 1/2000 second ;) ), including phoenixes, seehorses and riders.
He probably included the extra stuff, like equity, bonuses etc. and not just the salary.
Signal requires users' phone numbers.

True for Signal. XMPP is using JIDs which are functionally comparable to email addresses, and similarly anonymous (or not).

Is there a way to run your own Signal server?

The Signal client is open source, the server mostly so. You could create your own semi-Signal community, but it would not be able to talk to official-Signal users.

XMPP is designed for federation by default, and you can run your own server, akin to email. Though some server operators decide to disable or cripple the federation feature (Facebook, Gmail).

Would I need to trust Signal more than I would need to trust Jabber?

This is a complicated matter. You need to trust the server operators to handle metadata in both scenarios, but you can run your own server with XMPP. You need to trust the client developer, which is Signal in one case, or the developer of your choice (or yourself) in the other. You need to trust the device manufacturer/Google in both cases.
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I like to intercept iOS apps' traffic with Burp Suite[1] or Fiddler[2]. The trick is to have two adapters running on the same OS, one for the public Internet, and the other acting as an ad-hoc hotspot. It's simply a case of letting Burp suite sniff the traffic on the ad-hoc network and seeing what 'goodies' you find, like API keys.

[1]: https://portswigger.net/BURP/

[2]: http://www.telerik.com/fiddler
I met someone born with no arms due to exposure to thalidomide [2] as a fetus several years ago. Governments in Europe had approved its use as a morning-sickness pill without adequately reviewing its side effects, and thousands of children paid the price. The FDA, at the time, did not approve thalidomide for use.

Eliminating the FDA is a far cry from evaluating its performance, the latter (I think) many people agree is necessary. The former will only result in public experimentation and, consequently, suffering.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
A little late to the party here, but I'll throw another tutorial that I absolutely loved, buildyourownlisp.com which guides you to building 'lispy' in C.
(0) Design languages so that implementation errors are harder to make and easier to detect. For example, avoid context-sensitive grammars like the plague.

(1) Design implementations (parsers, code generators, etc.) with the logical argument for their correctness in mind. That is, don't attempt to verify an existing possibly incorrect program - write it to be correct right from the beginning! This is greatly aided by designs that meet criterion (0).
Exactly. When I was growing up in teh Ireland in the 1970s I knew of several people around my (small) town that had the most horrific physical deformities as a result of their mothers' thalidomide use. Perhaps it was a little more visible in Ireland because abortion is illegal there and so pregnancies that would have been terminated in other countries were carried to term there, regardless of the known risks or consequences. But any time someone tells me we don't need something like the FDA my mind goes straight to a picture of a guy with his hands growing out of his shoulders that freaked me out when I was a kid.

Anyone, and I don't care how distinguished they are, who talks about drug approval policy without examining cases like thalidomide or DES is a liar. There is no way anyone with the legal/economic insight to have a rational conversation on alternative regulatory structures is not aware of those cases.
Dammit, I need a crib sheet that puts the tying steps all on one page -- it's a real pain stopping in between steps to scroll down, then trying to get my fingers back into the correct position.
Perhaps you're referring to the term "leapfrogging", the topic of which Kevin Kelly offers a differing viewpoint from the mainstream acceptance despite explaining this in 2006[1].

[1] http://kk.org/thetechnium/the-myth-of-lea/
By the way, Google and Facebook jobs numbers in France are just anecdotal…
How on earth did you get that impression?

The point is that letting people make bad decisions is not "just" bad for them -- it's bad for society as a whole.
as someone who lived better half of decade in China I don't find it that amazing

1. growth of HSR meant less and less slower trains = higher prices of tickets, less available to poorer people

2. prices of these train tickets are actually higher than LCC airways in Europe which will transport me much faster anywhere than HSR

3. buying ticket during peak periods is very difficult

4. train station procedures take probably more time than airport procedures (even within China, much longer compared to Schengen)

5. many of not most of the HSR stations are outside of the cities, so there is no benefit between reaching HSR station and airport
Looking at what's going on in Shenzhen[1] in regards to hardware hacking, I'm not worried.

[1] https://youtu.be/SGJ5cZnoodY
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Square_Kilometre_Ar...
If you believe Stephen King, you can't make a competent writer out of a bad one.
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In the contract economy every one of the dock workers has an agent whose job it is to make sure they have the support they need to provide ongoing worth.

Right now most agents won't take someone who can't immediately bill invoices in the high thousands of dollars. In a contract economy the agent services market would have a low end. Tools will emerge to help agents take on large volumes of low dollar value clients.

Double digit percentages of the entire unrepresented labor market are up for grabs. The current setup is unstable.

Unions are different in that they represent a class not an individual and they don't take a percentage of earnings.
I'm pretty sure it would be impossible to take a "genderless" photo of my nipples because of all the chest hair in the way.
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You seem to be a very angry person.

We see stories about that because we are a country of 330 million people and there will be some subset of any [group of people] who do bad things in such a large population. The vast majority of doctors are highly ethical.

As for opiates, I'm afraid I don't quite fit into your strawman; I think doctors should be banned from prescribing them on an outpatient basis to anyone but patients with a terminal prognosis. Chronic pain is awful, but opiate addiction is still worse. Since the action (and addictive mechanism) of opiates causes the pain to worsen over time, it's not an appropriate treatment.

The main reason for overprescription of opiates is not some evil doctor conspiracy, it's because doctors, like everyone, have a very hard time telling people "no." And there's no group of people more skilled at emotional manipulation than junkies.