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I believe that was https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206926)

The emotionless part:

"Instead, you want to communicate with the bank in a manner which suggests that you’re an organized professional who is capable of escalating the matter if the bank does not handle it themselves. You do not yell – not that you’re ever verbally speaking with anyone, but you wouldn’t yell in a letter, either. You do not bluster. (“I will tell on you to my attorney” is, generally, bluster, and that’s bluster that is common to people who do not actually have attorneys.) You instead present as if you’re collecting a paper trail."
Ask HN: Should I take a new job with less pay and responsibility?
I am currently working as a contractor for the Government. I am paid around UK market average for my skill set at 520 per day (124k per year based on 242 working day - I am single and do not take a lot of holidays, most of the money goes towards saving for early retirement)

I am leading a small team of developers on a project with tight delivery deadlines, however we work in a sustainable way and follow good agile practices within the team. Outside of the team, like most Government projects, is a big waterfall mess, but the team is able to absorb change well due to a process I have fought hard to set up. This is my first lead role, I am in my early 30s and have been working in software development for ~5 years.

I am in the process of interviewing for another job at a start-up medical R&D company. This is a permanent role and they are offering 60k per year (a great salary for North England). I would go back to being an individual contributor.

If I stay in my current role I can develop my skills as a leader but my technical growth will stagnate as I am familiar with the stack and have little time to write code. If I move to the startup I will be learning new big data tech and a new domain - biochem.

In Summary:

I am finding it hard to decide whether sacrificing the pay and a high responsibility leadership role for the opportunity for further technical growth doing potentially more meaningful work is worth it.
Yes, that has been happening for the last 150 years at least.
Well, that is unless the credit card bubble pops. Think there is a few trillion tied up in that.

No one is mentioning the insane debt levels we are currently holding in this country at every level in this thread.
Target small to medium companies? I've also had a similar job to yourself and found it greatly rewarding during my time there. You can also look for places with an emphasis on hardware engineering/IoT/manufacturing, but who are looking to expand out to do inhouse software development. The place I was at involved mainly Windows development (C#/WPF) as well as some embedded C on microcontrollers.
Probably around half.
lol. I'm pretty sure that on the scale of status displays... hn carma rates pretty low.

No, developers display status more directly, by pointing at a thing and saying "I did that" - or on a lower level, simply displaying intelligence and domain specific problem solving ability.
Apple has a bigger share of the blame. They purposely ignore any codec that is outside of their favorites, even if the hardware they ship does support it (i.e. Intel) or doesn't need any hardware support (Vorbis, Flac). On the other hand, they are quick to support any codec, that is problematic to implement elsewhere.
I guess anyone can call themselves a doctor then, and we'll just have to call proper doctors "professional doctors" or "licensed professional doctors".
> An API Gateway is pretty Quick to set up, but the industry is moving away from it as a concept.

Can you elaborate on this?
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Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You (2017)
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different apple IDs (my wife's and mine). but... wth? there's absolutely nothing I can do about it, and apple hasn't noticed this issue with my id-level accounts (if it's just me, can I be literally the only one on the planet with this issue?)

I just did an install last night of a 100meg app which took 'only' 1 minute - maybe things are improving in to 2019?
> McDonalds pays more or less the same whether you are in the big city or in a small town.

...partially adjusted for local cost of living, of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balassa-Samuelson_effect Which means that, yes, staying in the city is generally a bad deal for a low-productivity worker in the non-tradable sector. But not as much of a bad deal as it would be if those wage variations did not exist. And they might be able to make up for it and even come out ahead by being super frugal and saving most of their income (this is the archetypical "unskilled immigrant to a rich area" story).
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And Mozilla is wondering why they keep losing usage share...
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This. One of my friends got a call from his bank trying to get him to sign up for a car loan because he had 30k € in his bank account and should "splurge" a little.
If he were holding himself out as a "professional engineer," I'd absolutely agree with you. However, there are entire fields of engineering that have largely ignored the PE. Good luck finding a PE, for example, to work under if you're an electrical engineer to even be eligible to sit for the PE exam. I don't think such engineers are any less engineers because they lack a PE.
Pattern matching seems like a useful technique. The languages I use most often don't have it, so I haven't used it much personally. I can see how it would be nice to have for your vehicle example and things like that. FizzBuzz is just so trivial that I don't think the benefits really shine through as benefits and seem more like just alternate syntax.
I find it bad in the sense, other people can be modified to be superior at birth while it's already too late for me.
Heh, yeah.

It's not like he have made calculation of bridge steel welds or something without proper legal papers. He complained over the yellow light timing ...
Choose your own adventure books, notably the RL Stein "Give Yourself Goosebumps" variety were the books that swept my imagination away and really lit the spark for reading as a young kid.

There's an art to driving curiosity that I think CYOA books really plays well with. It's accessible by anyone to anyone without the need for technical skills, given all you really need is a basic understanding of free text editors and maybe some mind mapping software to keep structure. We've seen countless CYOA book-style games out within recent years, including "the uncle who works for nintendo"[1], "Buried"[2], and I don't know who could forget "Stories Untold"[3] which to me shows that the art is expandable from the text form up to a more immersive experience. It lends itself to be improved upon, from base story to games, movies, and more.

I would be absolutely thrilled to see a CYOA revival, and if somebody did a kickstarter or indiegogo where they gathered some notable authors to do something a la "Bandersnatch", I'd happily toss some money at it. It's a facet of my childhood I feel wasn't properly respected and I'm glad to see it getting some recognition at last.

[1]: https://ztul.itch.io/the-uncle-who-works-for-nintendo

[2]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/434370

[3]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/558420
I found CBT for sleep helped my insomnia. A good book on this is called Goodnight Mind. I also read Matthew Walkers book while I was going through insomnia as well, and I can say this book is likely to make your insomnia worse. Half of it is just telling you all the ways in which you're killing yourself by not sleeping. Not a great thing to read when you can't sleep.
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For anyone not from Scandinavian countries or not used to the low sunlight and mostly cold weather, the downsides from the long-term side-effects of living in Sweden such as depression, low vitamin-D state significantly outweighs any short-term happiness.
>Moving from a poor area, where cost of living is generally lower (although not always), to a rich area, where cost of living is generally higher, does not mean that you, yourself, will become rich. For the average person, that only results in skyrocketing costs, leading to a reduction in quality of life.

Maybe? but there are claims that for those of us without education, how much we make depends largely on how many educated people we are near.

The location-based pay differential is much larger for people who don't have a college degree than for those who do.

That's a big part of why I am so stuck on the bay area; I don't have a degree, and I do really well here. All the offers I get from other parts of the country are terrible.
Well, until the rent seeking class figured out how to asset inflate the education and property market. If you look at exploding debt levels in property, education, housing, and personal credit something is extremely broken and shoving everyone in the big city is not the long term answer unless we are looking at some massive social upheaval in the near term.
Java 11 is pretty sweet, and the JEPs roadmap is enticing.

Meanwhile Dart has adopted all the features I dislike in Java, like @Override instead of proper keyword, virtual methods by default, no value types and so forth.
> Top tier Chinese internet companies now offer higher salary compared to their Swedish counterparts

This surprises me since the Glassdoor salaries for a software engineer for Tencent in Shanghai is about 200k yuan which is about $30k. AFAIK in Stockholm you could easily net at least twice that.
If the law starts now, in 5-10 years the vast majority of old cars will be junked. Sure, there will still be a few old cars, but they will be an insignificant minority. It's not unlike how other rule introductions worked. Nobody banned old cars without seatbelts, they just required that all new cars have them.
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For the future "paid" is the word you should use, rather than "payed".

I do enjoy reading about Sweden though, especially the child-facilities and social-care. Things are similar here in Finland, but there are differences. Both are worlds apart from what I grew up with in the UK though.
As some of the comments show, it is hard to have a meaningful discussion on taxes without comparing what you get for them (or what you have to pay extra for in other countries). I guess software developers in most countries belong to the topmost income stratas and will manage a good life in any taxation system. For people who don't make as much it is much more complicated I guess.
It's not "move to a rich area". It's "move to an area with good opportunities for production (roughly 'good jobs', although self-employment is also a possibility of course)". That's a very different problem. An area with high cost of living, almost by definition, has a lower margin of production and thus lower real incomes for such, adjusting for productivity.
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procrastination defense mechanism

I agree with this. I also did this for years. Then a couple of years ago I buckled down, built an MVP (mininamal viable product) in the most brain dead way possible, and put it out there. And... nothing, my idea received zero interest.

So the really cruel thing here is, all the dithering and indecisiveness really do amount to nothing, none of the decisions you mentioned matter; language, framework, db, etc. If something you build does gain users, then worry about it!
And what is better? Healthcare costs a fortune as seen in the US and the system is failing, when you are a humanitarian and think equality to all humans is important.

Same with housing. Rich fools conquering large towns and driving everyone else out. Does that benefit society?

Of course when you support a system that everyone is his own best friend, you'll be happier when all the money you earn goes to you.
Do they let the people operating trains call themselves engineers?
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The funny thing about the medical community trying to monopolize the use of the term "doctor" is that physicians are rarely actually doctors themselves. While MD programs require a bachelor degree and certain prerequisite course work, the MD is the first degree someone can earn in medicine. Traditionally, the first earned medical degrees were bachelor degrees (MBBS) and that's a more honest way of doing things. Same thing with the JD (law). It's a renamed LLB undergraduate degree rather than a real doctorate.

So congrats on actually being a doctor.
Nonsense as Sweden has more per capita billionaires than US and more unicorn startups per capita than most US cities
https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/aaydvy/review_requ...
The GP said "the next time someone finds a bug", ie the assumption is that a bug has been found. They didn't talk about whether bugs would be found or not.
Couple of quick points
a. If you are primarily dealing with categorical data - strings as opposed to numbers, graphs are pretty good for storage, retrieval and visualization. Categorical - genes, diseases etc. and require a lot of graph algorithms eigenvalue, shortest path etc. Biggest difference in querying is - in SQL you say "what" you want, in SPARQL / Gremlin you say "how" you want it i.e. what relationships to take
b. Graph as a representation format shines, but as a storage mechanism, have not found it to be optimal. Many go for graph as a layer on top of RDBMS
c. RDF is better in terms of standardization instead of prop. Graph Database. This is because you can arbitrarily decide what should be a vertex vs. what should be a property. In things like Neo4J it gets fixed once you decide. Virtuoso comes pretty close since it implements RDF on a RDBMS (my limited understanding)
d. It is good for representing knowledge / metadata (atleast RDF) but again I would stay away from representing data.
e. Your choice of graph algorithms typically ends up being what comes prepackaged (say gremlin etc.), or you take it intermediary and use algorithms there (Networkx / igraph (igraph is awesome)) or writing your own (this is not trivial typically)
f. Many pointed about the schema, I actually think this is the advantage of RDF. My typical workflow is to start with RDF, do my basic stuff on RDF until I have a good understanding of what are the queries and therefore optimal schema and then migrate to RDBMS as needed. Trying to do large scale on RDF on a laptop infra is not optimal

I would try to use some combination of RDBMS with runtime graph like igraph. YMMV.
Try the Navy Seal technique to sleep quickly. Has helped me.
Digital nomads will go to places like Thailand where CoL is cheap and internet is fast, I wonder if a small town could emulate that experience. Doesn’t have to be quite as cheap, but won’t give you food poisoning and could be safer too.
Are you being hyperbolic or do you actually think that the current (or at any point in the next few hundred years) genetic modification technology is capable of doing anything close to transforming humans to "fly-hybrid creature"?
> cities are seen as stepping stones

Absolutely. Humans have a very long history of trying to emulate the rich, and not only with respect to choice of residence, in hopes that doing what they the rich do is the missing link in why they are not rich. We have even seen in the past times where people were leaving the city because that is what the rich had done (favouring large rural estates at the time), leaving the conclusion to be that living in the city is why one is not rich. Which, admittedly, is a fairly rational decision given the incomplete information we have about what makes one rich, no doubt, but a faulty decision due to that lack of information.

But choice or residence, choice of fashion, or the many other things that people have tried to emulate over the years is not why they are not rich. The missing link is not nearly that simple. If it was, we would all be rich.
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And that is the crux of this topic, and why some people find the notion of making blanket rules based off words that are so subjective.
You make it sound like a simple ad hominem attack on the guy. Was it?
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Call them what they are: physicians. A four year entry level degree in a subject is a bachelor degree, not a doctorate.
I think a big part of the reason (western) digital nomads go to Southeast Asia is for the tropical weather and exoticism. It would be hard for small town America to replicate those experiences.
I think both compilers give good error messages (C++14 and C++17). Sometimes one is clearer, sometimes the other, so what I usually do if I can't immediately figure out what the compiler is complaining about is to try the other one and see if that clears things up or at least narrows it down a bit. Works surprisingly often :)
Does that make it moral for someone to disclose the bug? "This parking lot leaves cars unlocked, but since they seem busy and aren't paying me not to, it's okay if I tell thieves about it".
Probably no better than today?

I certainly am, just perhaps better at communicating that it is a futile pointless guesstimate theatre. At detail and macro project level.
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Most people, even those close to the arctic circle have sufficient vitamin D levels in Sweden [1].

Regarding depression, it would be great If you could state a source for the claim that long term residency in Sweden creates depression.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4432023/
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Improvement to YOUR life always comes from YOU. If someone else does something it is to improve THEIR life. They will certainly tell you that it will be good for you, but in the end your advantage would only be a nice-to-have side effect. If you feel the money is passing you by without you getting a share then YOU need to find out how to change. For instance by learning how to do "tech stuff".

And then, when there are a bunch of people who really want to improve actual problems arise. E.g. universities being too expensive for them. Even free online courses require some level of basic skill to start use them. How to get the funds for the equipment. And of course the technicl infrastructure to provide electricity, infrastructure and basic living needs one can't provide for when one spends 10 hours crunching technical problems.

These are problems I hoped to find answers for in the article, or at least suggestions. People being too proud to accept the new status quo and hoping for more icing on their apparently already tasty enough cake before they start moving their asses, that is nothing. Even if they get it they won't start moving. Cake makes fat and lazy.

I personally feel a lot of the mid-level towns in Western countries (not just in the US of A) actually have a good starting point. Roads and trains are already government supported and therefore good enough quality or better. Super markets and a few restaurants are there already as well. Internet is there, although it's maybe not the highest speed. Schools and libraries have some computers and wifi access if they want to. Office rent and land prices are cheap. Also with the internet location itself is less and less important, which is why so many administrative and create jobs can be outsourced. They could be outsourced to your town as well, if you could find a way to compete. No need to be close to natural resources, in a trade hub like a coastal town, etc. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, with road and internet access is totally fine to start competing.

The only thing that is really missing badly is people moving their asses. They have a tv and enough money to buy beer. The car repair every once in a while is quite painful, but otherwise they don't feel motivated to do anything with their life. Some won't even travel to a nearby coastal town for a weekend on the beach or something.

In the meantime I'm friends with a Chinese cook who works for $100/month a 14h/7day cooking job and then after that at home spends time learning how to code to make more money and work fewer hours. I mean, if our rural folks could get up to do half of that, then they would be able to work a $50k remote work web/app developer position in no time, and boom they are part of the "tech elite".
Thanks for expressing these problems clearly and succinctly.

Does the Fisherman approach involve validators randomly checking other validators for phony transactions?

Will validators be incentivized to do this?

Is that why they are called fisherman? Because honest validators are "fishing" around for opportunities to catch invalid transactions and increase their stakes?

How long is the challenge period currently being discussed?

The other attack vector that the fisherman opens, "grieving" attacks, whereby malicious nodes launch a series of false reports, knowingly sacrificing their stakes presumably to overwhelm the system and push through a double-spend or phony token mint or something.

Am I interpreting how this attack works correctly?

Has any thought been given to making the challenge period as long as it needs to be to process all challenges, and incentivizing goodwill from those affected by the slowdowns with a fractional return of the slashed stakes... Maybe like a reverse gas cost? Is that insane?
> 2.6 deaths per million child-years at risk

Thinking aloud: that's about 1/7 of Canada's murder rate, and if I guess that under-5 children are 7% of population, such things would make up 1% of all murders, which does not sound crazy to me.

If step-dads are 100x more dangerous, and 10% of kids have one (just a guess) then step-kid murders would be 10% of all murders. That sounds high but perhaps not crazy? 321.6 / million is about 20x the whole country's murder rate.
If nobody wants dumb neighbours, shouldn't public education be really superb?
everything about the mortgage market creating the single family detached housing market is terrible. putting aside the environmental side of it (which is HUGE) the simple truth is the math only reaaaly works on an inter-generational scale. just because some upper-quintile of families have made it work doesn't make it not indentured servitude.
My comment was more about how the core of downtown feels more like a corporate campus rather than a downtown city, it's a strange feeling. However, I think it's reasonable to question the expectations of which areas will rebound in this era.
> and internet is fast

There's the rub. Starlink can't come out fast enough!
I agree with you but hey JPEG also had its own patent issues (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Patent_issues).
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If you control both the backend and the front end, just use a session cookie.
This source says 2x as much: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/26746...
The half who are working and paying the taxes, amirite?