skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lively and interesting piece IMO.

>"In schools, Our Island Story starts with Roman Britain, [...]" //

I'd have thought that was because Britain wasn't a thing until the Roman conquest. AFAICT prior to Roman occupation there wasn't a Britain, there were different tribes, but they weren't united in to a nation, they weren't even a loose affiliation.

When it notes that some Iceni tried to revolt, that tells you exactly why British history is started there. Otherwise it would be "some Britons tried to revolt".

What's he doing in the imagined prose when he gives French words in parentheticals, I don't get it. And shouldn't it be "knows [savait]" rather than connaisait?
Agreed, one-sided loyalty is a foolish activity. I never understood that either.

To all the people mentioning ethics - a company can and will fire people without any reason. I know a couple of people personally who can't sleep not knowing why they were fired. In 30 mins, they were walked out. That's incredibly unethical but for some reason, not giving advanced notice to your employer is considered unethical? Hypocrisy!
it's an oversimplified example, but indeed in this example it supposes that the nurses would be better off doing this themselves.

As for marketing, this is the definition of bullshit job as I understood it: They generate leads, and it is needed only because every other company and competitors are doing marketing, as such it is defined as an "arm race", same thing for lobyists. If you removed all the marketers and lobbyist worldwide, the result would be exactly the same. as they are only needed to cancel each other but have no real effect on the end product or service
> The partisan obsession with coal is cultural, not practical. West Virginia coal miners are a convenient proxy for the image of hardworking Americans being oppressed by unnecessary and burdensome regulation (as if regulation was the source of the woes of the coal industry).

Bang on.

The knock-on effects of this are surprisingly nasty, though. Whole swaths of country identify as mining country. Taking that away from them with economics is an assault on their culture, and the people concerned react like any culture that senses its core is under attack.

You can treat them as something obsolete, a dying beast we can circle like vultures. Or you can find a way to get them off of coal that doesn't involve invalidating how they think of themselves.
What is the root of all the Microsoft distrust? I’m older, and left Windows for Linux back in 1997 and haven’t really paid attention since. I wonder if this mistrust is valid? Are they any worse than Apple?
Where does he say that?
Actually, they do get paid by the word.
Yeah. For example, I just put up and am putting up a few more repos of old code I had lying around. With those I have over 15 repos on GitHub. Unfortunately, but also not uncommon at all, the most stars any repo has is 5 with most having none. So, no repos that are material to GitHub.
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Or...ya know...we don't want those people to kill us or our loved ones. Maybe the suicide bombers are the ones with an underdeveloped philosophy.
ZTE objectively got punished with a lot less than what was meant. They got away with a lot, while the US chickened out. And EU companies will lose a lot more than a billion (caused by the US breaking an international treaty).
It's in the issue body, first bullet point. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/4167#issue-33011407...

> Most of go-gitea organization repositories new release&tag was created with name 0 and added install.exe binary (13KB in size) to that release that was malicious (from our analysis contained crypto currency miner)
I for one have no idea why this concept gets so much air time given how little substantial foundations it's based on. I can find justifications that make all the so-called "bullshit" jobs perfectly valuable within a couple minutes of thought. I wish the inventor of the concept had invested as much.
That's a perfect example of someone who might get bitten in the ass by the over-selling thing, too.
If you make the car flip a coin (perhaps a weighted coin, on the strength of the belief in its sensor data), you avoid providing a solution to the trolley problem.

Alternatively, you can have the people vote on a self-driving car referendum, which specifies a DMV-enforced policy for the trolley problem.

As a society we vote on such matters all the time. Nothing new here.
Great color on Vercingetorix in Dan Carlin's podcast:
https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-60-the-ce...
I'm a frontender. My speciality is client-side JavaScript. I'm not horrible at it.

I freaking love my job and would do it for funsies of there weren't companies prepared to pay me to do it, but my job has been completed bullshit for as long as the role has existed. When the revolution comes I'll be the first against the wall against the wall alongside the digital marketing managers and the agile coaches.
Sorry, I should have been more clear, I was talking about the day that everyone rolls their clocks an hour forwards or backwards. On that day, you lose or gain an hour of sleep and this has measureable and extreme effects on the rate of heart attacks.
You are correct. Built an autonomous car in 2007 that wouldn't hit that wall.
How many nodes do you need in your neural net in order to account for the variation of human behavior, the influence of happenstance, etc? When your model fails to converge, do you tell your government customer that you can't actually produce a score and give back the $200 million or whatever you got for the contract to create such a score?
Ask the question, US or THEM. Those who want to defend the things they love from THEM, will always choose US over THEM. Simple. One can argue that "it doesn't have to be that way" but sadly there are millions of years of biology to prove that incorrect.
>Still, I think Graeber too often confuses “tough jobs in negative- or zero-sum games” with “bullshit jobs.” I view those as two quite distinct categories. Overall he presents the five types of bullshit jobs as flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters, but he spends too much time trying to lower the status of these jobs and not enough time investigating what happens when those jobs go away.¹

¹ https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/05/bu...
Come on. You have to know some people care about their karma. Reddit being one of the biggest sites in the world makes that fraction of people quite a large number.
> I spent six months working at a Fortune 500 company building a system to give mid-level knowledge workers better access to their data. I've never felt as demotivated as I did when I realized that at the end of they day they were just producing PDFs that were immediately archived away without ever being read by another human.

I've done that exact project for like 6 giant pharma companies.
Much of the world just don't care, especially young people. It's as simple as that really.
3. Be built and tested for safety.

4. Be accountable to people.

6. Uphold high standards of scientific excellence.
I once had a job where we had six months to train employees in the "India development center" how to do our current work and then we were supposed to find new jobs. Due to timezones every question took a minimum of a day to answer.

I would show up late, answer yesterday's questions, dash off an email with some new description (6 months was far too much time to explain the job to them) and then spend the rest of the day reading in my office, taking long lunches, and running out for an "errand" which would involve going home to play league of legends for a couple hours.

It was amusing for a time, but I enjoy being productive more.
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Well, the standard is still developing. I have high hopes for when more numeric computing people jump on the bandwagon.
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Ask HN: What are internal dev documentation best practices for a remote company?
My company has 3 developers, but we are about to have only 2. There are large sections that only the leaving developer has worked on. Are there any principles of developer documentation we should begin to follow in order to save time and money when an employee has to pick up where someone else left off? Our application isn't big enough that we are in trouble, I just think this is a good wakeup call.
This song popped straight into my head too!

Before the humourless downvote-brigade gets you, here is the song for those unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5G1FmU-ldg
I hear you, and in terms of the merits of this particular study I'm sure your skepticism is well-grounded; I share it. But, it's also worth considering the perspective of the "Big Oil" executives. Thought experiment: imagine you're such an exec, and you recognize that the future of your company (in fact, your whole industry), depends on evolving beyond oil, to become an _energy_ company, embracing (and innovating in, and profiting from) renewable sources. What do you do? How do you start?
I am NOT repeat NOT an apologist for the selfish idiot criminals (insert unprintables here) who effectively destroy the planet for personal gain. And yes the fossil fuel industry as a whole has a horrible and well-deserved reputation. But some of these entities are going to adapt and change, and for better or worse they're going to play a role in how our species relates to the planet. So I think it's really important to remain skeptical, but without ruling out, out of hand, the possibility that ties to the energy industry are not an automatic disqualifier for real science and progress.
I guess he means that you don't need speed for distributed applications, which is a bit misquided because nobody said you did, and that's not what Rust claims to do well.
Even without the code differences just the connecting those services between panels is hard.

Your service life is also going to take a hit due to having a lot more of the most unreliable aspects in construction - a joint.
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I respectfully disagree with your point of view.

There are certain things that are very ... softwar-y, and only engineers who know how to handle software well can come up with.

Google's Percolator, the plethora of Apache data crunshing stacks, whole paradigm shifts like Object Storage, virtualization, and so on. Some of these are the equivalent of Burj Khalifa. Not anyone, or any team for that matter, can build them correctly.

Which is why I think the term Software Engineer and the concept of software engineering is very justifiable.

Yes, I think it is a form of engineering, in the sense that it a tangible discipline that produces artifacts that are useful to humans and that require very specific scientific knowledge and a minimum of academic background.

Just my two cents on the matter.
They wouldn't care if you are gay. But if you are closeted and gay, that becomes something you can be blackmailed over and you will fail to get a security clearance. I don't know what they do when someone who can't get a clearance is elected... but the only reason they ask about lifestyle factors in background investigations is to determine if you're able to be blackmailed. If you're open, then obviously you can't be blackmailed with the fact you're gay or polyamorous or in an open marriage or whatever. It's the secrecy that's the problem. (This is all off-topic though, since I don't actually care about adultery and I don't think the system I'd build could legitimately catch anyone for adultery. It would do nothing but show that peoples reputations can be so easily smeared with basically no evidence using these sorts of systems. That's the point.)
Well, one might think there would be fewer serious disputes, and those that do arise there might be more incentive to actually work things out.
The primary cost of nuclear plants are due to the hyper-over regulation of the industry. If the same risk-mitigation requirements were in place for coal power stations costs would be comparable.

As it stands coal stations produce more nuclear waste than nuclear power plants https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
> and would consent to sharing anything with them if it's a prerequisite to participate in the platform.

It has to be freely given consent, so it cannot be a prerequisite.
Yeah, a lot of these jobs he talks about are what I call "zero-sum jobs" - it sucks that they have to exist, but if any individual firm stopped having them, that firm would be behind.

Money managers are a good example of this. At the end of the day stock picking truly is a zero-sum game, and all money managers can produce in total is the negative effect of their fees on their clients money, yet people pay them because they take the chance that their money manager will produce a better than average return.

Similarly, the vast majority of marketing jobs are zero-sum jobs. True, a teeny minority do inform the public about a new product or service they wouldn't otherwise know about, but the vast majority are just trying to convince the public to use your widget over competitor's (actually very similar) widget. But any individual firm needs marketers, otherwise the competitors would take all of their business.
What you say is not wrong but people have very good debuggin tools for kernels. You can surely make a small debuggin monitoring layer in the unikernel and instrumentation. If it is not already done, Im sure it will be soon.
exactly my thoughts, does the world even gain much from reading these? I'd argue corporate lawyers, which he called bullshit jobs are way more useful
I work for a remote team and we have a huge advantage in that what we build is a video communication app, much like video texting. So while we do spend some time in Slack, we also can easily communicate with video, which conveys nuance and allows us to feel more connected, plus see things like bugs very easily. It's not really designed for business use, but it's definitely handy for any remote team.
Looking at the material here, I think you may be under estimating what is meant by "zero" here. To fully follow these notes you would need to have significant research-level knowledge of general machine learning techniques, with a good deal of specific experience working with neural networks (both in theory and application).

I think someone with a general graduate-level background in most fields of ML or computer science could acquire a working knowledge of the SOTA in a particular associated sub-topic after reading through a half dozen or so research papers and code. That doesn't seem unreasonable or surprising.
When was the bust on Bullshit-Articles, regardless of the topic?
don't you think you help people navigating websites by making them more user-friendly ? I would believe that what you do doesn't really fulfill the definition of bullshit job as it helps people down the line.
Well, we could plant more trees, not deforest the Amazon.. Maybe grow some algae or something too.
Green Bits is hiring for infrastructure engineers and team lead full stack engineers in our Portland and San Jose offices. Also we're looking for 3 technical product managers to run our compliance, internal tools, and payments team.

We recently raised a $17MM Series A, and we provide back office and inventory support to over 1,000 retail cannabis stores in 12 states. We've grown from 25 people when I started in November to 77 people now, and it's not looking like we're slowing down any time soon.

If you have questions about us, feel free to dm me or respond inline. Here's a link to our jobs page: https://boards.greenhouse.io/greenbits
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It makes all the energy we used basically a loan.
i think you should be able to make private comments on that document. Otherwise victor.yodaiken@gmail.com
If all lobbyists or corporate lawyers on the planet disappeared en masse, not even their clients would miss them.

Obligatory Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy "B Ark" reference:

The B Ark is technically named "Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B". The Golgafrincham civilization hatched a plan to eliminate its society of its most useless workers, namely its service sector and its paper shufflers. The Golgafrinchans created a legend that their world was about to be destroyed and they needed to build three arks. In Ark A they would put all the high achievers, the scientists, thinkers, artists, and important leaders. In Ark C they would put all the blue-collar workers, the people that build and make things. In Ark B they would put everyone else: hairdressers, TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants.
The B Ark was constructed, loaded up, and launched first. However, it was automatically set for a collision course with Earth's sun, to finally rid Golgafrincham of these twits. And naturally, no A or C ark was ever made.
The "tagless-final" DSL style used here is cool in its own right. The author has a page about it here: http://okmij.org/ftp/tagless-final/index.html
Usually for a one-off, it can be cheaper to duct-tape than to do a real fix, but the problem is that those issues keep happening. So it doesn't take long for the duct-tape fixes to cost more in total.
Just don't forget to create `--bare` repositories on the server.
Predictions from the first AR OS
His rationale and deal structure sound very similar to Indie.vc's investment in my company (Tapster Robotics).

With Indie.vc, I have the option to distribute profits back to the investor as a viable, realistic option between "Be the next Google" and "Spend all the money and die".

I hope more start-ups pursue deal structures with these kinds of options. Building a business to millions or tens of millions in revenue should not be considered a failure. (But it would be perceived a failure in traditional VC deals.)
>A food allowance for everyone would be good for instance and possible.

This would likely just be absorbed into inflation. It's hard to simply give people free money without prices increasing to make the time/work tradeoff for the good simply remain constant.

> you could accept a house,

If you've ever been a landlord, you'd realize people would likely destroy the properties. Many homeless are not homeless because they don't have a dwelling; they're homeless because that have fundamental other issues that make them owning and maintaining any property impossible.

>If we started providing basics I'd believe they'd have to be controlled more like a utility

Any country in history that tried to centrally plan such a large chunk of their economy failed. It's a sure way to get massive shortages and corruption and cronyism.
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No, generating leads is needed because without leads businesses make no money.
I second this. I don't have a publicly advertised way to donate to my project, but I've had multiple $100 donations with the average of around $20.

Note, the total number of donations I've received is ~20.
Amazon is killing the TV remote
Isn’t the hydrogen included in the $94 Per ton? And it’s still viable.
The same problems are pretty much everywhere in the US. This brings to mind a proposed project in Boston that faced a lot of friction, in part because prefab construction was proposed:

https://www.universalhub.com/2016/lagrange-street-residents-...

>The Zoning Board of Appeals this week rejected a proposed condo building on the site of a former asthma-inhaler factory in West Roxbury, citing neighborhood concerns about density, parking and the developer's proposal to assemble prefab modular units on the site, rather than hiring local workers for more traditional construction.

>...

>But board member Mark Erlich, who is also executive secretary and treasurer of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters, used the proposed modular construction to open an attack on the project. City officials have frequently expressed skepticism of such prefab units being bolted together, he said. But he added:

>It also removes a lot of [work] hours that could be done by people who live and work in the city vs. people in Maine, who wear sneakers.
Is explicitly circumventing a browser’s privacy setting evil?

How about shaking down a competitor? [2]

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/08/30/google-safari-class-action/

[2] https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/05/19/skyhook-got-...
As a marketer, I don’t think you have any idea what marketing is. If you don’t reach people to tell them what you have to offer, no one will ever find you. Marketing is just communication.
I drive through the city and see 3 different restaurants all advertising that they have the "world's best burger(s)." Did they measure that? No, because why bother? Just put it on the sign, even if it is not true. Sell an ideal and worry about satisfying it after all the money comes in (if at all.)

Most jobs are bullshit because our culture doesn't seem to value honesty and truth. So you can post outright lies on a big sign right off the road, and everybody acts like that's just a necessary part of life.

Maybe we can't ask for honesty because people just most fundamentally can't accept the idea that it's worth giving people what they need to survive without receiving anything in exchange. So we construct a huge artifice of bullshit so that we can sleep easy -- ignorant of all the needless and useless things that people do to survive -- we all feel the stress of it, so we dupe each other into thinking is both necessary and producing value.
This is a pretty common sentiment in Europe, at least. Less so in the Americas. It looks like the author of the post is Ukrainian.

Hell, the Germans even get mad if someone claims a 'Dr.' title and they haven't completed some post-Ph.D. secondary dissertation thing from a German University.
> At the end of the day stock picking truly is a zero-sum game

If stocks give dividends, then stock picking isn't a zero-sum game.
Testing is absolutely necessary. We're talking about millions of cars here, which are potentially millions of deadly weapons. You don't want companies pushing quick fixes, which turn out to contain fatal bugs.
Modern coal mining has transitioned to mostly automated mountain top removal instead of the digging mines into the ground we might be more familiar with from film/tv, that's part of the reason the number of jobs has been shrinking combined with of course the switch to natural gas and renewables for power generation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/11/04/heres...
Same goes for black and white: never use either #FFFFFF or #000000 in large visual areas.
I just measured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Bowen with a generous setback as about 2.5 square miles (so ~1600 acres). That's only accounting for the generator, not the mine or the train track easement, etc.

Here's a 120 megawatt project advertised as needing 1000 acres:

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2017/04/120-mw-first-s...

So coal plants really are a lot more compact than solar, and they do their nameplate capacity nearly 24/7.

Which hey, bring on the solar, but expect it to use a lot of land, especially when/if energy intensive industries switch to using it.
What red tape? If it's basic accounting issues, that's true of any business. If it's c-corp specific paperwork, that takes an hour of my time once a year to submit the annual report to Delaware.
Blue on green isn't anything except headache-friendly.
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