skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the rate is anywhere from $190-$300 an hour

Well there's your problem. Valley pricing. You can get Sr Devs much cheaper than that. Then you can afford to train up some juniors.

I don't think that's the real problem though. Companies want you to take the risk/expense of learning a technology that might be obsolete next year. They'll pay you back in salary if you lucked up and mastered the right stack. If you didn't, then you keep eating ramen until you strike gold.

The other problem is most Sr.s don't want a Jr. coming in and making negative contributions. Sr.s are frequently the ones doing the interviews. They see most Jr.s as "What's a computer?" level talent that will start fires in production systems.
I wonder if the algorithms can determine a fair wage for the said talent. Like many have observed here, the salary is for an expectation of innovation and differentiation. However, an a-priori guarantee, or even a relatively high likelihood of such an outcome is hard to guarantees unless the said person is Geoffrey Hinton. So what exactly are the salaries for?
> So, how did she learn to read? I have no idea. It wasn't phonics. But I suspect she would have managed it no matter what instruction she received.

I think John Taylor Gatto pointed out that some children learn to read when they're 2, some when they're 8, and by the time they're 12 you can't tell the difference.

I met a man who was traumatized when his first grade teacher tried to force him to read, before he was ready. The lesson was put in front of him, and 1st-grade-him thought he was stupid for not being able to perform.
Not sure, but based on the image in the stackoverflow link, it states that it has FILE_ADD_FILE, which translates in the GUI to “Create files / write data,” which I would assume means that overwrites are possible. Don’t trust my word on that though as I am no expert. Will try that a bit later and see what happens.
Rust support for quicktype – no more JSON boilerplate
YES - the broken booleans!
Also, RIP talk. Hangouts is a joke and is what killed me using it
I used it to coordinate coffee making. Yo the coffee group when you are making coffee, and anyone could yo back to request a cup. Worked great.
I'm not so sure.

The biology is very complicated and there are all kinds of feedback mechanisms at play, this is true. What is hard to see for me is what is cause and what is effect, and what that means for treatment.

Let's say you have a patient who is moderately depressed, overweight, w/insulin resistance (metabolic syndrome)... I imagine a very common presentation.

All of these things cause each other. The patient might have started overeating because they lost their wife a few years ago, and never really adjusted - but what can you do for them now?

They might have also gotten depressed because of hormonal imbalances that caused them to be less active and gain weight, but now there's a huge pile of problems to untangle, including NEW hormonal imbalances.

It's true that throwing a Prozac and Ambien Rx at them doesn't solve very much. You can't medicate away overeating and bariatric surgery isn't really that much better.

It would also be GREAT if we could get everybody to exercise, since it treats damn near everything including depression and insomnia pretty well. But doctors have been telling their patients to exercise along with the mass media and everybody in the world for a long time, and it just doesn't work. Might as well tell someone who is depressed to cheer up.

It really is a privileged position to be able to take a sabbatical, focus on your health, have a team of doctors and therapists work with you to handle the issues, mental and physical, that have arisen.

It's no wonder there's been a search for a magic bullet prescription; that's the kind of thing there could be broad access to.
How Necking Shaped the Giraffe (2016)
At some point you have to stand up to despots in the name of human rights.
What people make is ultimately what demand & supply dictate. On the other hand, for one-off cases where the market is super small, people make what they can negotiate. Of course, even in that one-off cases there is data about the pay of superstar within previous movies/shows/engineering orgs to use as an anchor.

But what about your analysis which is based on unit economics. How does that tie in? (because it is of course relevant) By the fact that if you hire lots of super stars by market price, but your unit economic does not allow the operation to be profitable, you will eventually have to shut the operation down. Good bye super stars and whole operation!
I had freelanced using Odesk before it became Upwork, And I do hold some balance in the account even now. I am inactive(not bidding anymore) on it since 2014.

Six months ago from nowhere I got a sudden email about my account suspension. I appealed and try to prove my identity with Government Issued ID card, Academic details even My name in the list of the post-graduates(with no result).
They keep on denying to re-activate my account and suggest me to withdraw my money, that I have not yet.

I can still browse Upwork, It is becoming more toxic with agressive bidding and way lower quality jobs now a days.
I’ve often wondered about a twisted form of asynchronous “pair” programming: One person codes quickly, creating mediocre code that achieves the goals, the other person cleans the code up and modularizes it.

I’m drawn to this because they are two different mindsets that achieve somewhat conflicting goals, and the tasks can be separated with minimal communication overhead.

Thoughts?
> Revision history only goes back to 2007

Perhaps a former programmer deleted the revision history when they were about to move into a management role at your organization. I once stumbled upon a manager's name in the history of a 1970's Cobol program which had a goto statement every 5 lines, and it usually took half a day to make a simple change. All of the other similar-looking programs had had their history purged. When I showed the history notation to the manager, the look on his face wasn't nostalgia but fear.
N26 is the only one that has semi useful applications and web interface.

My main problem with them is that they're first and foremost a startup, not a bank. Some issues I've had with them include double transactions, failed scheduled transactions, horrible 9-5 support, unable to unlock card because their web page was down for 24h. On top of that their security practices are horrible[0]

>I mailed them one 4-page form, dropped by the post office for the PostIdent and that was it.

And then you got 4-5 letters over the next couple of weeks. Not to mention that postident itself is a plague.

>I walked in, everything was done in 15 minutes.

And you walked out with a bunch of paperwork, and additional letters sent via post.

I've tried to open or had accounts with the following banks: N26, commerzbank, comdirect, dkb, fidor, ing diba

Dealing with any of them is like traveling back 20 years in time. Comparing it to countries that have it worse is always easy, but that does not mean that banks in Germany are not atrocious.

[0] - https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7969-shut_up_and_take_my_money
I used the app four times since I moved to Sweden 2 years ago. I haven't touched cash, actually I am not sure how the current notes/coins (they changed them) look like. If you shop in stores/restaurants then you use cards mostly. Swish in my experience is for splitting bills (less common), at after work parties when someone buys beers and you pay them back, for very small vendors who do not want to bother with banks for getting CC terminals.
The Art of the Lazy Product Manager
I entered a URL and pressed enter, wondering why nothing happened. Only then did I scroll down to find the 'Analyze' button. I wasn't looking for specific attributes, and the strong color contrast of that section made it look like nothing else of interest would come below.
I'm pretty sure Upwork doesn't seem it that way, as their actions clearly show.
The problem I see with Github is the fact that it encourages contributors to commit repeated fixes to a pull request, rather than amending/rebasing the patch set. The other problem that Github has is that it doesn't provide a way to get interdiffs between patchset revisions. That is, if I open a pull request, get some comments, address those comments and rebase my changes in, then there's no way for the reviewer(s) to see what I actually changed.
> I think what you'd basically find in a survey

This is a flimsy setup for your conclusions, which you seem confident about. Do you have data from an actual survey?
> That's why it is so infuriating when people respond to any criticism with "well just stop doing business with them!"

God, I hate that phrase. There's a grain of truth to it, in certain contexts, but at this point its just an unthinking regurgitation used to protect the utterer from uncomfortable realities.
Contra Ovadya on post-truth
Giving children control doesn't mean anything goes. There's a huge difference between telling your children what to do and telling them what not to do. The problem is the former i.e. when parents schedule every minute of the day, telling their kids what to do. Laying down the law i.e. forbidding them from doing certain things can set healthy boundaries without telling kids what to do within those boundaries.

So yeah, no social media, no wasting away in front of a screen. They might disobey, but at least it is clear in their minds what the house rules are. Rationalizing permissiveness at home because ostensibly it lets you monitor them is precisely the wrong idea. It legitimizes the activity in their minds through your parental authority and is just another example of parental hovering.

The more widely we recognize the proper duties of parents, the more successful it will be since communities can reinforce the effectiveness of parenting. If all of my kid's parents ban the use of social media, it will be difficult for my child to make use of it at a friend's house.

P.S. Nice nick.
To be fair to Thatcher, I don't think her goal in fighting was to reap electoral success based on "warfare and jingoism" but I agree that it certainly was the result.
I worked like that with a colleague of a decade in a startup environment - we produced tens of thousands of lines of embedded code in a year. It can work with a close understanding between the two people.
Send Feedback Form Through Mail Using PHP
What is your opinion on just using a pure mailing list workflow (like what's done for git itself)?
Those soldiers he killed were only there to kill Germans. Of course they were going to fight back. What difference does it make what weapon they use?
Using the camera for taking measurements is a great idea. Deciding where to split the trendlines is a separate problem though. A different way to take the measurements wouldn’t change that. Would love to chat about ways of improving both. Shoot me an email!
I feel like you've got those reversed. In small startup the bug fix would be deployed to production before it's committed to source control.

In a large enterprise the process isn't too hard, it's just complicated.

I was neither justifying or admonishing MS for this issue, I was just responding to a gross trivialization of the process that I found offensive.
What is "a collective" in this context?
No, not at all. A master's does help significantly, but it's possible to get these jobs with any background.
This is really useful - have been looking for flexible way to demo WIP versions of apps to clients. Thanks for sharing
As a potential total tangent:

I wonder how much MORE this problem has become / is becoming as we replace sys admins / systems people with developers who play with infrastructure APIs like as with AWS, producing complex infrastructure under deadlines and with self-assurance. I say this because for years sys admins were the bad guys, even slowing down progress because security concerns, stability and best practices were to be considered before speed of delivery and features.

And I say all this because I'm a hybrid sysadmin/developer ("DevOps") consultant with a stronger leaning on the systems side historically; I can tell you that almost no one techs me out on the systems side of things anymore. By systems I mean core Linux and the typical ecosystem around it (including redundancy, performance and infra monitoring), infrastucture architecture and yes, security. There is wisdom and experience that's required here, and no 'bootcamps' can exist to replace that.

With a push to the cloud, is it possible that security has gone out the window? I'm 75% I know the answer, but I admit this would make a great research article.

Edit: although in this Equifax case perhaps that is a bad example. Unpatched systems?
My daughter, who's primary video consumption is on Youtube, has started to get to the age that she's concerned about fashion, decoration, etc. I realized that she's getting a lot of this from Youtube, not via direct advertisements, but via "influencers" who have been "encouraged" to place a product, either via money or free products. In some ways this is far more insidious. At least with ads you can learn to tune them out, it's a whole new skill to identify where you are seeing paid product placement.
How is Functional Thinking? I'm starting to write a toy SAT solver in scala and I could probably benefit from some good,non-trivial design examples
We might need it but it's of course impossible given how easy it is even for a child to get started in professional IT.
Why the negativity? If google doesn't innovate in open web technologies, then closed systems will win, in this case Slack. Sure, bummer that they used the much-maligned "AMP" name and double-bummer that they didn't build a coalition among email client-writers first, incl Outlook.

My assumption us that AMP4email will get replaced by a truly-open standard (aka multi-vendor support), following the same path as Google's early R&D efforts in browser local storage and improved networking.

Google: what I'd really like to see is a way to authenticate between email sender-receiver (perhaps a one-time, OAuth-like dance with a website?). In addition to nuking certain forms of phishing attacks, users could [reasonably safely] conduct e-commerce inside the email client (much faster, more consistent etc)... kinda like wechat, etc.
Congress Flirts with Disaster on Bank Leverage Ratios
Resilient and secure compared to regular snail mail, you must mean.

You're dangerously wrong about the security of email...
Go license: golang
There's quite a lot of conflicting reports about the effectiveness of influencers. It really does depend on the campaign/product - I think a lot of companies are going to get burned by throwing cash down that well as they do with the advent of any new channel.
I would add that management will gladly save an hour now, even if it costs 10 hours down the road.

I'm getting really tired of the message from management of "Here's what we should do, here's why we should do it, and here's why we won't."

In other words, they will periodically acknowledge that there are systemic and cultural problems that seriously need to be addressed, but consistently fail to address them.
I have not completely figured out what to do, but I'll say that if you leave because the organization is not interested in producing quality code and you don't want to work for such an organization, and they were unwilling to give you time (ie money) to produce quality and maintainable code -- the problems they have maintaining the code after you leave, having made efforts to educate/convince them of this fact and failing, _are not your fault_ and _not your problem_.

The tacit knowledge you take with you, when they were not willing to give you enough time to share/document this knowledge, or produce code that was more transparent, despite your efforts to tell them the consequences -- are _not_ your problem. Don't get Stockholm syndrome.

I realized at one job that I kept busting my ass to cover up for management failures (that I wouldn't get credit for saving them from)... they would NEVER LEARN. I was enabling terrible management and a toxic environment. They didn't even _realize_ I was saving them from themselves (and if I'm wrong and they were right and I wasn't, all the more fine it was for me to leave).
I see this often in a slightly different context - people who write libraries well and people who write application code well. One tends to be generalized, focused on end-user ease of use, while the other is first and foremost attempting to achieve business goals with the available tools.
Presumably the "fresh Phds" getting 300k right out of school have extremely relevant experience and are quite capable of actually putting their learning to use (I don't have data to prove this).

People who just know TF and couldn't implement it and know what it does and doesn't do well aren't the kind of people attracting 7 figures.

There's a huge amount of advanced statistics, math, and "intuition" that takes years working with data to build. Abstractions like TF (etc.etc.) make applying existing solutions to existing problems more tractable, but the real gold-rush is happening around the new/relatively-unsolved problems.
> the 1960s (as mentioned in the article), the point in time at which civilization made personal freedoms a top priority

Lots of things happened in the 60s. One of them was the first generation being raised by parents who may have spent a significant portion of their childhood living under the Cold War threat of an imminent nuclear holocaust, who then went on to raise their own children.
This is exactly what came to my mind when I saw the headline. I'm sure this will happen, and a new arms race will ensue. Users are better off with uBlock Origin and such, instead of relying on advertising companies to handle ads better.
What could possibly go wrong here:

"Because their judgments about risk had been so wrong, regulators after the financial crisis have made greater use of capital standards that don’t rely on government risk assumptions. For big banks, the most important of these is the “supplemental leverage ratio,” which requires big banks to fund themselves with at least 5% common equity, effectively limiting their reliance on debt to 95%.Section 402 would weaken this modest constraint on leverage by excluding central-bank deposits from this debt-to-equity ratio."
I certainly like the idea of blocking these types of ads at first blush. I don't know much about the source of the "disruptive" label so that could be a bone of contention. I would assume there will be some UI element saying that Chrome blocked a "disruptive ad" similar to when it blocks popups but they didn't describe that in the post. Overall, I am optimistic.
I’ve been subscribed to this issue since forever: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/22

Doesn’t sound like using OpenCL on iOS will be realistic any time soon. Am I wrong about that?
You don't. You sell solutions.

In most enterprises, 90% of problems can be solved by somebody who can get phone calls answered, a $20/hour intern and Excel.
Well theres that Church guy that shouldn't be named here. They're not always "fair" or responsible.
This study is a linear or at most a power model.

Glacier melting is likely to be extremely nonlinear because of physical reasons. Once a "cork in the wine bottle" gatekeeper glacier in a narrow sound in Antarctica or Greenland melts, we can have meters of sea level rise from that glacier alone. And there are multiple such glaciers.
Developing cross-government API data and technical standards
This has been my experience as a client as well. Fell prey to a couple of "say we're doing the work but we ain't" devs that thankfully UpWork refunded so I'm glad to hear they're cracking down on scam accounts. Sad to hear that legit accounts are getting caught up in the process though.
JusticeCoins – Cryptocurrency from Bitconnect victims
Britain was hardly a super power in 1982. It took every refueling plane Britain had to send one bomber to the Falklands. Refueling planes had to fuel refueling planes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck
> So now it’s playing out in the courts.

It's because it's in Germany, in the USA they would be laughed at.
Hardly you can call that proficiency. All they have to do here is to clone and push. Sorry but I tend to test git knowledge more in depth, maybe this level is enough for other projects
Skydio had some pretty cool demos back in 2015 as well:

https://youtu.be/kM3BPixFVq0

Now they have a product. You can't buy the Phantom X.
It's amazing how many startups don't re-evaluate their infrastructure requirements every couple of years and get stuck with numbers in their heads reflective of hardware prices five years ago.

No need for clever optimizations - Moore's Law will bail you out a lot of times.
Agreed, sometimes the reward is just too high to simply "pass on an opportunity".

We had an undergrad utilize our then, nascent CUDA nodes. But, simple monitoring of the nodes raised a red flag.

When we looked into his running jobs, we found an expediently crafted work-flow, where there was no attempt at obfuscation. That is, the user's input files all contained references to various mining sites at that time...

Needless to say, privileges were revoked and never restored!
GDPR provides something close to this, at least for high value decisions. Decisions taken by profiling and automated decision making must be reviewable, at least if they "[produce] legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her".

That said, I've worked for a b2c website. The internet is jam packed with scammers. I'd bet it's an order of magnitude worse on sites like upwork where real money changes hands. At least in our case, if we'd had these types of regulations, we would have terminated service to a list of countries that produced little revenue and high hassle.
So... does this mean an A11 Bionic competitor? This are great news!