skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
really cool approach by slack. create an environment to look nice to open source community, and make it a commercial, and then close itself to open source. great job slack!
"Norway mostly only allows in skilled labor immigration, thus they have tight immigration policies."

That's just not true. I'm not skilled. I don't have a degree. I did happen to meet a Norwegian some years back and marry him. In addition, folks from the EU can come over and work. There is a strong immigrant workforce doing non-skilled work. Bartenders, janitors, factory work, and so on.

The US system has its downsides. The Norwegian system is pretty straighforward with what is expected of folks - or at least that has been my experience. The US has a lottery for some things, and the wait time for green cards is ridiculous. While some of the politicians in power aren't so immigrant happy (They recently increased the qualifacations for permanent residency and a bit on citizensip), at least the king promotes messages of inclusiveness. Trump, on the other hand, doesn't.
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> the US security establishment doesn't really want to maintain that military presence.

The Pentagon confirmed this year that they intend to modernize the nuclear weapons stationed in Germany starting in 2021. This does not sound like they don't want to maintain a military presence.
Not to mention malfunctioning meters, especially around tourist spots when you don't speak the language.

With Uber, I at least know what I'm going to be charged
If you are really looking for colours and palettes with a theme you are much better off with the groupthink at sites like https://www.colourlovers.com/
There are no bullshit jobs. I like David Graeber very much, but he is wrong on this.

If you believe that we operate in a market economy, then by definition bullshit jobs would be removed. Government or public institutions may be less subject to the market, but even they are subject to it.

Procedures and rules are critical. Most tech people make the fundamental mistake of thinking that because their companies are small and profitable (or that they are solo entrepreneurs), then all companies can be like that. You need to look at the "real world".

Modern civilization requires very, very large organizations that are very complex. Keeping these organizations running is not all sunshine and lollipops. There are a lot of boring, but necessary jobs. See large airlines, mining companies, electrical utilities,... etc. THe modern world is big, complicated and has lots of tedious tasks that ensure your airplane (for which you got a cheap ticket) is built safely, takes off, landes, has fuel, and whose passenger tickets are priced at an insanely cheap level.

As a straightforward example, just look at the complexity of producing and distributing fossil fuels. Read Vaclav Smil.

Are there boring jobs that may one day be automated, yes. But the thing with automation is that it will not eliminate jobs, because we will just buy more stuff - this is exactly what has happened since the Industrial revolution.
+1. Reading your answer made me think you were talking about me. Except I had a TI99/4A, and "Daaaad" was my real google. My circles were probably slower and more pixelated
I have been donating to Doctors Without Borders for many years. Also local humane society and food bank. I pay monthly for NYTimes, Medium, Netflix, HBO and additional cloud storage.
Our current society is definitely not rational, which I inferred as the point. Our economic system is a good 80% complete nonsense, where we're essentially playing a very complicated and meaningless game with ourselves, except one with meaningful consequences for real people.
That depends on how you define 'admin staff'. Do you classify Janitors, Chefs, Shuttle Drivers etc as 'admin staff'?

If so then based on how large the campus is, it could still make sense. But I doubt if those sort of jobs are covered in that term.
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Countering the Achievement Society
> Again, thank you so much for taking the time to review my code. I really enjoyed your feedback.

Whatever you do, hold on to that. Never be mad about feedback just try your best to understand it, and if it's wrong explain yourself without getting frustrated, this is worth more than a dozen senior developers who explode at feedback (I would argue they're junior developers :) and you will have a wonderful career. Also look for good mentors, and don't be afraid to ask questions about direct feedback, if you didn't understand something he said just ask (this becomes an immediate learning opportunity and you will be better off for it), even if he doesn't get to answer, someone else might. This is a field where learning is endless, you will always learn something new as a software developer, new platforms are made all the time to be programmed on / with.

Having soft skills[0] will be the biggest asset you can have as a software developer, whether you do it for money or just for fun, if you have to collaborate in the open you will need to communicate with others. Nothing breaks a team like terrible communication and someone who rejects feedback out of pride.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_skills
Procedures are to tell machines what to do. As long as you treat people as machines, you'll be revising the Book of Procedures.

Policies are to tell humans what the priorities are so they can use their brains to solve new problems. As long as you have new problems, write policy to guide people.

In both cases, you need good feedback in order to improve. People frequently distrust the feedback mechanisms in the Book of Procedures, because they have experience that says that those books have cycle times exceeding any reasonable amount of patience.
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Clients want contractors so that they don’t need the commitment of an employee. This is a benefit to the Client that the contractor can charge a premium for. Therefore, if the contractor can find enough clients and is able to handle their overhead efficiently, they can make a lot more money than an employee. The downside is that the contractor needs to be willing/interested/effective at marketing and managing overhead.

To me the question is a lot like “what type of company should I work for”. It depends on your skills, interests and values.
Well, I think Dr. Alexander is doing a great job. I mean, he is protecting the mental health of his patients by using the authority he has been given and I think that is what his job is about.

Nevertheless, he might do even better if he would recommend to his patients someone who is better qualified to help them with treating the origin of their physical problems (while still providing them with the letter they require).
Interesting.

Been meaning to get into this kind of thing for ages.

This website seems a bit quieter than some of the other platforms out there, which I always like. I'll have to give it a poke sometime. Thanks.
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Reality is not some immutable force. We all take a role in shaping it.

In my current role I work on a very large build chain for a very large software product. I have pushed and chipped away at that build chain over the last three years, and at current measure a clean build now takes an hour and a half, where it used to take eight hours.

Why do I care so much about things being lean and small? There are a plethora of tangible benefits, but... maybe eight years ago or so I stumbled across Niklaus Wirth's (author of this article) works, and they struck a chord with me. But I had questions. So... I emailed him.

I'm nobody special. I wasn't expecting a reply. But he wrote me back a wonderful reply to my questions, and that, too, has stuck with me over the years.

So, I'd like you to keep in mind that that 'plea from a purist removed from reality' had a strong impact in at least the reality for one large software product.
Great! Do you play the guitar too?
Something you know, something you have. Time to share some authentication bsecrets with family.
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It's a socioeconomic class thing. Humans organize themselves into heirarchies, so if the class you're in (or one above) starts doing something that can illustrate their status, and not doing it can separate you, then you are also compelled to do it to keep up.

But once the class below catches up, the class above will change what it is that separates them (by definition since humans are inherently wanting to outdo each other). Once material goods become cheap, the thing that separates people with status from people without is time. Upper class people have time to go on lengthy international vacation, something lower class people can't do even with money.

In my circles, it's not cool to just go to the big sights that mass Chinese and Indian tourists go to. So now a riskier trip with more expenses and planning is required to show status, such as going out on your own backpacking in South America or Safari in Africa or hopping around some islands no one's heard of for scuba diving or hiking in Nepal. The older people opt for luxury in their vacations, showing that not only can they afford to go traveling, but they can go with their whole extended family and rent huge houses in national parks.

But it doesn't have to be explicit thinking of "I'm going to show this other person up", it's just the way humanity works in my opinion. You have a certain network, and you either maintain yourself in it or you fall out of it if you don't continue to do the things that network is doing.
Exactly my problem. Worse, my interests often have nothing in common. I like development. But I also like SEO side projects. I love making music, but I also love writing

This year I finally told myself that I'll focus on only one thing for 6 months and see the results. I actively push away all thoughts of working on B while I'm working on A
The question is do you call work from lab techs, programmers etc 'administrative stuff'?

Also I doubt if it is a case where researchers just perform the main rituals and others do all the remaining work.

If that is true, then your researchers are effectively managers here. The real workers are lab techs, programmers etc.

If we have to do this, lets put the saddle on the right horse.
This is the same as table-valued functions in MS SQL Server, right?
Controlling my thoughts, I have really despecible thoughts going in my mind, I tried meditation, trying to think about something else, etc., but it's really hard to stop them.
It's legal if you can use the site just normally after you've pressed the Reject All button and no data is collected in that case. Otherwise, it doesn't comply with GDPR. (Disclaimer: IANAL)
I agree with your view. The "E-myth" book was advocating detailed procedures though, not policies - hence my frustration.
Trump has diverted visa-processing staff on a witch hunt to find green card holders and naturalized citizens who can be stripped thereof for errors or omissions on their applications. Processing times have more than doubled even for routine operations like green card renewals or naturalizations, and you can bet special cases like non-visa-waiver visa applications are prioritized way lower since it's mostly brown people who use them.

Now, if only you were Norwegian instead of Swedish
AI is not a binary event. Technological progress gradually removes the need for labor. Consider simple unsexy things such as automatic cashiers at supermarkets, McDonald's, etc. How many jobs have they made redundant? And do you know that "computer" used to be a profession? Do you know that the majority of blue collar work in 2018 will be made redundant by self-driving vehicles? And so on.

You say I am overestimating technological progress. Ok, then explain to me why work hours are increasing. They should at the very least be staying the same right?
Would that not be in the global Angular module install? why repeat per app folder?
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If your company can't be bothered to apply some common sense to handling user data

Which of the specific points the GP mentioned do you think is about how they handle user data? As far as I can see, every one of them is administrative in nature.

They're not saying they're going to be tracking everyone in shady ways. They're not saying they're going to be storing unencrypted details and unhashed passwords. They're not saying they're going to be forwarding your every secret to a Sith lord.

They are saying they don't have time to respond to a legal DoS if someone sends them a letter obviously written in bad faith, and they are saying they don't have the resources for their startup to police every major service they depend on. I imagine almost any startup would be in the same position.

As it happens, this person also seems to have some common misunderstandings about their obligations and may be over-estimating the actual risks. That also happens when you write this kind of law, and as we see here, the chilling effect is real.
That's pretty dang neato. Thanks for the link.
I'm a German engineer in the US. The thing with these stories is that they won't happen to you. If you're employed by a tech company you have great health insurance.

Of course, it still sucks that it can happen to someone at all and you might not want to live in such a society. That's a separate issue.

Speaking of SV, I think the cost of living and the social problems there have made it increasingly unattractive. Seattle is nice.
Very nice Burkean argument.

There's a fascinating related example of what you describe: cassava [1]. Proper preparation of this staple food involves multiple steps over multiple days. Few of the steps serve an obvious purpose, yet omitting any of them has deadly long-term consequences. What appear to be "superstitions" or "rituals" to the individual performing them are anything but.

[1] http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2018/08/tradition-is-smar...
It probably will with enough training, I'd be surprised if it didn't. Those phone ID systems are pretty liberal with what they accept.
For some parts of ICE vehicles, you are limited to original replacement parts already, e.g. the motor control units. It is something to watch out for, but considering, how many old cars have been converted to electric, using Tesla parts from crashed vehicles, the future for servicing might look actually good.
I was not aware of this - thanks for the reply.
> If you believe that we operate in a market economy, then by definition bullshit jobs would be removed.

Citation needed. What is "market economy" and how does it remove bullshit jobs?
Yes, with a fixed n you can essentially do what some fields call DOE [1]. If your sampling process is open-ended things are different.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_experiments
>>if this task was eliminated, would systems be more efficient?

The thing is those people who designed the systems designed it to make their jobs relevant in it.

Which is why most companies fail to turn around. You can't use the management to fire the management. They are always going to come up some cause for the problem, which excludes them.
Travel off-season, and if you want to be away from other tourists (I don't buy this traveller/tourist distinction) invest just a little bit of time to find somewhere that's not a hotspot.

As for overtourism - it's a nice problem to have.
It is much better than global wars.
Using the article's definition of "programmer cred," might the the issue be that the recognition of programmer skill does not extend beyond a very small social radius, regardless of actual business impact?
I wouldn't claim that there isn't significant development to be done, but Dyson has engineers who have experiences with long-term battery handling for example. With lots of experience, designing electric motors. Even if they are at a different scale, compare that to the traditional car company, which has zero experience with batteries and electric motors.
Voltaire?
What is blockchain worth to your economy?
Frank Chapman was ahead of his time in his belief that museum displays
should present animals in the context of their habitats, and insisted that
dioramas should depict actual places, not idealized composites.

I was thinking along similar lines about how biographies are presented as I read the story. Because of the use of photographs such as that of Beck dressing a bird in his workshop. That picture shows the cramped, dirty, smelly conditions that he worked in. How many images prior to the 20th century do we have that show people dressed-down like that? Depictions of scientists of the past are clean and composed. We don't see Newton sweating over a forge. Or Darwin knee-deep in island mud. But that had to have happened, right?

Photography added a layer of realism that didn't exist before. Perhaps that influenced the museum to create a more true-to-life exhibit.
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Seems like Google is buying every mobileOS with any sort of traction, so ...
Well, for example, one of the mentioned points is about sending PII to a 3rd party where the startup didn't read the 3rd party's privacy policy. So how would the startup be able to accurately present me with information on how my data will be used if they don't even know?
I think having an accurate and updated privacy policy is common sense handling of data, wouldn't you agree?
Ciao, I have played with this characteristic of LEDs since young, those are some of the results:

- This is a reflectometer: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/tree/master/devices/sensors/L...

- This is a bidirectional wireless data-link: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/tree/master/src/strategies/An...
Which is why I think the OP is spreading a load of FUD.
I'm curios: where do you come down on gentrification? Because in a way the comment you're responding to is describing exactly that: a group with more economic power (in this case tourists) displaces an existing community.

These are complex issues, and I don't pretend to know the answer, but I don't know if it's fair to generalize the professed desire to preserve one's community into the category of xenophobia and racism.
Most of the maps are from the Ordnance Survey - which really does do superb maps.

Mind you I hadn't realised that the original purpose of the OS was to provide military maps of Scotland following the '45 rebellion - maybe that explains why the Highlands are mapped so carefully ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey
I think document stores are prone to an early threshold of thinking you’ve gotten a lot done without having to “waste” defining models/types and some people never shake that feeling even after being hip deep in all of the code they’re now writing to migrate, validate, or analyze that data.
Beginnings, Middles, and Ends
Being sure that it's really my son talking to me over the phone is primarily a communication problem, no? The social and political implications are quite large, but they can be addressed by solving the communication problem. This can involve crypto.

Or am I missing something?

(I say nothing for or against the particular scheme proposed by gp, just against parent's implied generalized dismissal of crypto to solve this problem)
Law enforcement might not be the only use for this (although it's the one that springs most readily to mind). E.g. in London there's the congestion charge, which would probably be much more effective in reducing congestion + emissions (or at least loading more costs onto those causing the issue) by charging per mile instead of a flat per day fee.

A system like this would make that possible without requiring a tracker to be fitted to every car, although a growing number of people have these anyway for a reduced insurance premium.
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Thats pre civilization. Does it count?
I agree that in the short term adversarial neural networks may be a good line of defense against machine fabricated audio and video, but in the long term it’s a loosing battle. Eventually the neural networks producing the audio and video will become pixel perfect and at that point no neural network would be able to detect the manipulation. I think we need to seek out a different, more future proof solution to the problem.
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You forgot die in pain because your food was contaminated or your water has bacteria. Can we stop with the happy savages myth for a second?
Humans are nosy. This works out to our advantage in Certificate Transparency, not a few problems have been uncovered by people who were just browsing either their own output from CT or https://crt.sh/ and they said, as so often, not Eureka but "Huh, that's weird".

Knowing james.johnson.example was issued a certificate does kinda give away what the Johnsons are calling their new boy baby before they announce it, but the argument that DNS names in the Internet are supposed to be "private" feels intuitively implausible, so we just said "Certificates in the Web PKI are public documents", and it's true because we said so and we meant it. Like those Inalienable Rights.

But in Key Transparency your nosiness gets you nowhere, the privacy concerns were too great, and so a Key Transparency system doesn't tell us anything humans are nosy about. Who has keys? What keys? What can we say about those keys? Out of understandable deference to privacy we learn nothing of interest about these topics.

Still it isn't _that_ inactive, it has changes from July or so in the git repo. Maybe something will yet come of it.
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What does that mean? Nobody dislikes those things because they'd prefer them to be more like toy languages.
It's already implemented in the StarVR headset (which has 210° FOV) using Tobii eye tracking tech. They had a working demo at Siggraph a couple weeks ago.
MVP:

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I had a quick look since this would be a great time for me to jump into this;
I'm starting to write my phd thesis.

Here's my problem, which from the quick look I had doesn't seem to be solved with OL2.
I want to write my thesis in LaTex but the people that I need to collaborate with and ask for comments on my thesis
cannot/shouldn't have to/ deal with leaving comments on the code part of LaTex (unfortunately "code" scares a lot of people). It would be much better for them to leave comments on the pdf side. Is that possible?
To clarify for others: You are talking about Symas. Univention is a Linux distributor that builds their products based on Debian and is in no way related to Symas. See e.g. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/UniventionCorpora...
History proves otherwise. In many cultures, including ancient Greece, China and the roman empire, scholars described that artificially creating employment to prevent social unrest was not uncommon.
I was super slow for me. Wonder what is going on in the background?
> treated like garbage in Germany, but as rockstars in the US. YMMV

I think the discussion is about society in general (healthcare, education, safety, work hours, leave from work, etc. ), not about how a person is treated in their individual workplace.
I would choose tri-ing or sli-ping for obvious reasons.
This is vim.