skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm struck by the way you threw out two totally different types of complaints.

Some people will always complain about too much micro-management and macro-management - that's fairly normal. Some people will always not like the guys on the other team, etc. Bugs will happen. Good managers can alleviate these problems and hiring experienced professionals (with the associated price tag) and making a concentrated effort will usually do the trick.

On the other hand, complaints about not having a minimum level of respect in the workplace (complaints about sexual harassment and racism) are a huge problem. If you have multiple people leaving because of sexual harassment or racism, you need to find out who the hell is acting inappropriately and fire them. Make sure your HR is up to snuff; remind employees of the appropriate ways to report these problems; and act appropriately when you receive reports.

Employees will deal with not liking everybody. Money and calm managers will do the trick. Employees leave immediately when they feel they aren't getting the basic level of respect required by law in the workplace (and sometimes file expensive lawsuits).
“Jarlstrom’s interest stemmed from a red-light-running ticket his wife received in 2013. He spent three years analyzing the method for calculating the duration of a yellow light and found that the formula failed to account for drivers who must slow down to make a legal turn.”

Quacks like a duck.
Even if you're not the victim of a crime, but just a witness, it's your civic duty to report it. I think Waymo is being a bad citizen here.
Other than housing the cost of living in the Bay Area isn't drastically different than other large metro areas in the US. If you're coming from London, I expect you'll find everything to be cheaper.

Also the climate will be a lot nicer.
I think a lot of people misunderstand. Before I had a nice tech job, I literally could not afford to do my dental work or take care of my car. So later on, when I started, it costed a lot more. And I spent it, because it's important.

Same can be said about many expenses. When you don't have the money, you make it work even if you can't. When you do, you gotta balance it out again. Saving your money isn't as important as saving your life. Saving your automobile might be cheaper than having to buy another later. Etc, etc.

So, just because this problem exists among a wide range of paychecks doesn't mean shit really, because paychecks scale with rent and people are suffering to make the rent as it is. I would argue for most people, the trouble isn't their attitude. It's that wages ultimately grow far, far slower than living expenses and inflation, and cuts have been made to essential expenses at the cost of degraded quality of life.

A lot of people harp on others for buying frivolously but frankly an iPhone every year would be a drop in the bucket compared to my medical expenses, maintenance and gas for my car, etc. My monthly rent is more than three iPhone XS Maxes and it's literally within a couple hundred of the cheapest thing I could find in a 20 mile radius. Don't get me wrong, it's great and I'm not complaining, but it still puts things into perspective.

Maybe I'm crazy, but I think everything that needs to be said is already covered by graphing minimum wage vs inflation. That's a lot of folks real realities today.
Child care, education, and medical are labor intensive. It's not like making widgets in a factory that can double in per worker productivity every two years. Industries that don't mechanize like a string quartet playing Mozart still command higher wages over time because they need to afford their bills too.

Real estate is limited by the supply of desirable land. Location, location, location.

I'm fairly sure that student loans do not scale with locale. That payment is the same no matter where you move to after graduation but it's easier to earn it in a high cost of living (unless housing costs are so high that your free cash flow is less).
Also just not having a plan. I can usually tell how I'm doing by looking at my financial goals and comparing them to what my numbers are.

Goals force you to think beyond paying for your cable subscription!
Does free speech mean anyone can call themselves an alien? a gnome? a horse?

If you can call yourself a horse, then it makes sense that you can also call yourself a doctor.
Beyond issues of unexpected ancestry, I’ve also found anecdotal examples of negative feedback resulting from customers unhappy with the results they receive from companies like Teloyears.

Teloyears measures the length of telemeres that may be an indication of genetic aging(as opposed to chronological aging).

Before I had the test done I checked on Teloyears feedback and reviews and most negative reviews consistently included people upset that their Teloyears estimate of genetic aging coming in higher than their chronological age.

I’m guessing people just want to be told what they want to hear.
I actually think the rise of "free" news is a big problem; like there has always been the crazy free daily that you could get if you went down to your local city, but it was local and of limited distribution, 'cause printing costs money.

The marginal cost of printing has gone to nearly zero, while the cost of writing good content has, if anything, gone up.

Now, I, too, want a more reasonable way to pay to read news. I mean, it's damn inconvenient to just buy that one story. But I have subscribed to a few papers on my kindle and try to get more of my news from those than from "free" sources on the internet.
I was kind of surprised when I canceled my Netflix account. I had a laundry list of complaints I was going to put in the "why are you canceling" box but they never gave me one. Making it easy and painless to cancel is one of the few things they're still doing right.
I know in the US you can call yourself a real estate agent, but not a Realtor unless you're part of the National Association of Realtors. This seems just to me: an organization shouldn't be allowed to steal a word from the English language like "engineer." But if you want to create your own brand and maintain its quality, you're more than welcome to invent a novel term and do that. But simply claiming by fiat that you have the legal right to sue someone for not following rules you've decided the rest of the world should follow despite having no moral or legal justification to do so? That's incredibly scummy.
Netflix has been very good about being easy to cancel. Few companies are as good as them but I can’t trust that Netflix will always be as good as they currently are.
And yet they did lose their ways, so they were justified in being angry.

Not all changes are for the greater good, even if we can’t imagine life otherwise now. Just as your local union rep... which doesn’t exist anymore.
And very buggy and slow.
This happened at our company too and really engineers do respond to this.

When this happened to one guy on friday, next week on Monday everyone took ownership of their work and started organising better and collaboration shot up.

And to the OP of this thread. No one here will tell you anything that works because that would be politically incorrect and receive backslash from the receivers od this treatment.

On this forum, majority are engineers who don't know anything about management. So any pro management shit will be downvoted to oblivion by labour class engineers.

You are at a wrong place asking for advice op!

This forum only helps with job hoping/getting company to pay you more/ negotiating less work hours.
Because of the uncertainty behind something new, you should have strong evidence that driverless cars are substantially safer than cars with drivers.

Additionally, if driverless cars are being tested on public roads, you need laws and practices that are robust enough to prevent the kind of accident that killed someone. They had only one operator in the car, who was responsible for monitoring the car and logging information about its performance. They had specifically disabled safety systems which would have caused it to brake sooner.

Even if its expected that driverless cars will reduce fatalities due to drunk or distracted driving, you need to have sufficient evidence of the improvement, safety systems in place for test systems, and public discussion of the tradeoffs and what situations driverless cars might perform worse in than human drivers, because lots of people have behavioral expectations based on human drivers; things like making eye contact with a driver before crossing the street.

So yes, it is good to be working on and testing driverless cars, but you need to have a serious sense of humility and safety about it, and not push it, because even if you are incredibly safe you can expect some backlash, but if you miss the mark at all and oversell the safety, you'll get a lot more backlash, with justification, much sooner, which could set the whole program back significantly.
Why not, Doctor Dre has been doing it for years.
Read the article:
"Unlike an 'M.D.' or 'certified public accountant,' there is no fixed meaning to the title 'engineer,' but many different types of engineers, the judge found."
Thanks for this link, very interesting talk from the graphblas author:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnez6tloNSQ

I've never seen any advantage to graphdbs over relational models until I saw this talk. Raising graph analysis to the level of linear algebra is brilliant.
Stop focusing on MOOCs and youtube videos and study textbooks. Do exercises. Treat it like academic studying, and you'll end up with a decent education. It's important, because it's often easier to make a thing work okay than to understand why it works, so you'll get false confidence working through a tutorial. But then you want to apply that to something else and it doesn't work quite right, you won't know why it doesn't work and how to fix it.

Get some textbook suggestions and make a minimum of reading 5-10 pages per day. In about a month or two, you're done with a 300 page book. Repeat that for a few years and you're an expert. Once you have the foundations, read papers too, but don't skip straight trying to using AlphaZero to solve a curve fitting problem.
+1 fast.ai
My experience is that it is easy once you find the right screen. A Google search always leads me to the right screen. Apple could be better at making the location more transparent but they couldn’t make the act of canceling, once you get to the right location, easier.
PG has recursive common table expressions, which allow you to traverse a tree or graph represented as an adjacency list in a single query. (No doubt there are other important things that graph DBs do.)
Professional Engineer has a fixed meaning though, and it's possible legislation would be updated to specifically reference PE language in statute.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe

> To become licensed, engineers must complete a four-year college degree, work under a Professional Engineer for at least four years, pass two intensive competency exams and earn a license from their state's licensure board. Then, to retain their licenses, PEs must continually maintain and improve their skills throughout their careers.

> A century ago, anyone could work as an engineer without proof of competency. In order to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, the first engineering licensure law was enacted in 1907 in Wyoming. Now every state regulates the practice of engineering to ensure public safety by granting only Professional Engineers (PEs) the authority to sign and seal engineering plans and offer their services to the public.

To use the PE seal, engineers must complete several steps to ensure their competency.

* Earn a four-year degree in engineering from an accredited engineering program
* Pass the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam
* Complete four years of progressive engineering experience under a PE
* Pass the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exam
From the article:

Beckerman, in the 25-page written ruling, declared that
Järlström may study and, communicate publicly or privately
about his theories relating to traffic lights, as long as
his remarks occur outside the context of any employment or
contractual relationship with a governmental or other
group that regulates traffic light-timing.

I'm guessing this means that it's not calling yourself a doctor, but practicing medicine without a license that'll get you in a whole heap of trouble.
He has a degree from Sweden as a B.Sc. - also you can call yourself Doctor Klipt as long as you don't do it in a professional context. E.g. if this is your super villian persona or something.
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Engineers seem to be promoting the idea that cars can use communication to replace the signals drivers get from their enivironment. https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel... mentions bombing through intersections at full speed for instance. Make that the norm and eventually cycling or walking will be outlawed (or too deadly to try).

I get your point and have even gone and stood on paint to protect bike lanes. But I lack any faith in lawmakers to care about any mode other than driving.
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Patreon's model relies on monthly fees, which is something that philosophically I am against with software like Autumn, because it's not a continual service but a product that took a finite time to complete, so it should have a finite price. I also took counsel of someone who makes over $10k / month in monthly donations for open source work, who strongly recommends against it for personal products but encourages it for products that can benefit organizations.
Not a person. Literally incapable of practicing medicine. Or anything beyond the quenching of thirst.

Now if there were a graduate degree for that, I'd audit a class or two.
Sure but the fact you have to google it every time is not exactly what I’d expect from Apple. I’m sure they will improve this. They must get a ton of support calls over this.
Did you actually read the article? I don’t think the author really expects you to memorize anything. The last part about bathroom breaks emphasized the already non-serious style.

Instead, the article teaches the reader about what a Mersenne prime is, what special property it has to make it actually possible to remember this very very long number (perhaps surprisingly, if you did not know about Mersenne primes already), and did give me a few neat, new ideas on how to memorize numbers in general.

It’s just a fun read. No need for the soap box, really.
>Unlike an “M.D.” or “certified public accountant,” there is no fixed meaning to the title “engineer,” but many different types of engineers, the judge found.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/31/scarlet...
You are on point.

I just want to point out though, I don't think college is about entering adulthood, it just so happens to be one of the first things adults tend to do with their new found freedom.

Some chose to enter the work force, others join the army, some might decide to go back home and live in their parents basement. But at the end of the day they are still adults and have to behave like one -- this goes for the for both predators and victims of said harassment.

College is for adults, and it is high time we start treating people who go to college like adults and expect of them to act like so.
> some people (like Jonathan Haidt) would say this is because we over-coddle young people

I'm sorry, I don't know that person. But we try our best to deal with who we have in front of us. I don't know what else we can do, in good conscience.

I am not saying that all additional admins are accounted for by this kind of thing. I don't know enough about it.
(Actually the cost is a mystery to me but I've never been an admin of any kind.) I'm only saying that some of the increase I see on the ground is in response to trying to meet real needs.
Noa’s new Alexa skill has human narrators read news from NYT, FT, and others
Easy to cancel, but they won't stop begging me to come back.
I'm with you on this. There needs to be a term for achieving something that serves absolutely no purpose in any situation imaginable.

And when I mean "no purpose", I really mean it. This prime can't even be used for encryption because it's so absurdly large, and now that it's a well-known prime, it's a cinch to check for it.
This would be more compelling if all the y axes started at zero.
Does Dr. Dre have a medical PhD?
About time!

Jeff, PE, MD, CPA, JD, CFA
Regarding ESM (ECMAScript modules), I did implement require() and module.exports to the best of my ability, so it should be pretty easy to modularize your scripts. But it doesn't have a Node.js runtime so I didn't focus too much on node_modules support, although in theory many packages should work fine.

Regarding online documentation, good idea, thanks! I'll try to add that this week. Although, the app is so much more than its API, which is what makes it so unique, and I think if people just look at the API itself, they don't quite get to feel the experience of using Autumn to create their own automation workflows, which is what I'm most proud of about Autumn.
I'm totally in agreement with you on that point.
That and the more common "healer".
No, that’s one specific organizations trademark and private program. They happen to be a governing body for a narrow practice of engineering. For instance, audio engineer is a prominent title, but no governing certification body.

You can’t call yourself a Realtor without belonging to a specific organization, but you can call yourself a real estate agent.

Professional Engineer is a specific discipline handed a government monopoly on certification for structural engineers. Nothing more
While not as applicable in situations where the engineering team isn't under much pressure to deliver, there's a pretty common negative feedback loop that can occur with engineer staffing. While under pressure, teams with an adequate or bountiful number of skilled members will generally perform pretty darned well and not have a problem. If anything causes the balance to start tipping too much in the ratio with unskilled team members then the skilled members will feel more internal career growth based pressure to find work elsewhere. As they start to slowly phase out to other locations the ratio gets even worse, the quality of the product gets worse, and the moral gets worse. All of this causes more incentive for the skilled engineers that are still left to leave as well.

Unfortunately as this happens a higher number of deliverables will be missed and more bugs will arise alerting management that they somehow have become a less productive shop. This is where you can readily identify bad engineering management. Instead of tackling the root of the problem many places double down by increasing pressure to deliver and by relaxing standards as to who they hire. Once this happens you've unfortunately started the process of being a sinking ship. This can be righted in time depending on how large the company's coffers or how tight of a hold they have on the market but growth generally will have peaked by this point.

What management should have done (or needs to do ASAP) was to start trimming poor performing engineers. Yes firing people is hard, yes it sucks getting rid of workers when you're already behind schedule. But any good engineers you manage to trick into joining this dysfunctional team will likely leave within the first few months anyways. Relaxing pressure to deliver WHILE fixing the poor performers issue can also help slow down the rate you're losing good performers at least for a short period.

I've seen this at many many places. Currently still in one of these situations because they keep throwing more money at me to stay but even with that I've started looking again because the situation is not helping my career growth as much as I wish.

edit: IpV8's checklist is also really important to look for and lack of that could cause the start of tipping the balance as mentioned above.
Union Pay has a reciprocal agreement with Discover.
What does forecasting have to do with storm severity? My comment was addressing the conflation of storm severity with climate change. Severity of named tropical storms does not correlate well with temperature data.
What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus?
Agreed, with all of that. It doesn’t answer my question, though, right? If the IE11 problem is temporary, and the IE11 perf gets improved next week in response to this article, then Trivago might have to do a 180, no? Even if we wait a while, IE11 usage will dwindle. Couldn’t the mere passage of time easily turn the story of JPEG-XR into a 1% or more net positive for Trivago, especially if the format is already a win on Edge? Every new technology fails to stack up to decades old standards by some metrics, yet we improve on and build new things anyway because we can see the future potential. This article isn’t acknowledging future potential. My question is what justification is there for declaring the format permanently unusable?
Is the science bad or are some labs just sloppy/malicious?
> still far away from standardization.

Sciter uses this feature almost 10 years.

All these 10 years we have libraries of reusable components and so no need for React.

Same is about flexbox and grid: https://terrainformatica.com/2018/12/11/10-years-of-flexboxi...
The professional engineering association is ruthless in enforcing it.

What do they call people who drive trains in Ontario?
I think one flaw in your analysis is that Flutter is not analogous to "Java in the enterprise": it's already very pleasant to use compared with modern web frameworks.
> One way to make it work is to fire everyone and start from scratch.

That will not make it work _at all_
Absolutely not how real world works. As an online harassment victim, you may never know even know that it is happening online. But all your classmates would know.

The sites might have lies about you or they might even have your real data. Someone might post your real photos; discussing your body, your fashion sense, or whatever that makes you loser.

You are a broke college kid. Good luck finding a lawyer who would help you find anonymous posters and then sue them.

In mean time, your social life is being destroyed. Online harassment seeps into the real world. Your classmates make fun of you in your earshot. You can complain about it once or twice but school get tired of it and stop taking you seriously.

You will get depressed and sducidal unless you have a strong support system. Even then you will have poor grades, you might quit school. Your life is being ruined because people believe in black n white definition of freedom of speech.

Perhaps we should recognize that there are shades of grey. We cannot harass someone in physical world without getting kicked out of establishment or getting arrested.

Maybe we should go after platforms that let online harassment happen on their platform. After all they are profiting off your data, why shouldn't they be held responsible to police their platform better.

That is like saying schools should not punish bullies, let the victim sue the bullies.
Except, of course, for the lives of people killed by the status quo technology. Fuck them, right?
the 1950s in the US were a unique blip in all of modern history.

at no other time before or since did a working class population have it so good.
Now that’s too true. Everyone seems to do that now! I bought a 3lb bag of Jelly Belly jelly beans to make some holiday vodka for a party, and they will not stop whining at me about points and buying more jelly beans. Thank Christ that I have an email I use just for online orders.