skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Agree
2) Partially agree - I haven't gone to the length of writing anything down but I have been modelling it in my head for weeks. As you say later in your post a lot of it is intangible hence the difficulty in deciding.

House/Apartment - I currently stay in Yorkshire so housing is cheap. As a contractor my Ltd Co can pay my rent as a valid business expense. Switching to permanent employment would mean that I have to pay this out of my personal income, so in that sense the costs would go up and not insignificantly so.

The job security is a strange one - I contract for a large consultancy with work for a large Government department. The work won't dry up anytime soon and when it does, my specific skill set would allow me to find more work (either abroad or in London). People I work alongside are being offered year long renewals - practically unheard of as far as I am aware.

The "startup" is a Government funded organisation so although a permanent position, there is always the chance the funding will dry up.

The hours should in theory be a similar 37-40 hours per week. Whilst sometimes in my current position I will work a 12 hour day to help with deployments or live issues, it is rare. The client is very flexible with regards to office hours. I imagine the new role would be similar, however there is a risk that it ends up being worse with longer and less flexible hours. The job posting specifically lists working from home as a perk so I suspect it's fairly progressive.

Friends is a big one - Yes I have made friends with people on the current job and I will miss them sorely, however I also have friends in Manchester which is within commuting distance of the next job. I would be looking to cultivate old friendships at the expense of newer ones. The Christmas journey home would be an hour less on the motorway so not a huge factor although would mean frequent visits are easier.

The million pound question is the retirement part. Whilst I don't think I will be ready to completely stop working in ~10 years, having the option to sounds very appealing. I would like to be free to spend time with my (imaginary) family and have the creative energy to work on other projects without worrying about financial viability.

Ultimately the tradeoff probably comes down to on the one hand having a job I can be proud of (I am working on a cure for X) that will also be incredibly stimulating intellectually, versus the surety of the job I have for now, with the contractor income that allows me to become financially independent a lot sooner.
I continue to admire the Rust PR. This "everybody blog what Rust should do in 2019" generates a lot of publicity from my point of view.

Other language communities, take note.
"Even though I live in an area that is ethnically similar to Detroit, and also has high taxes vis-a-vis household income, I am fortunate that I still can expect an ambulance to show up at my house, unlike Detroit."

There is nothing more sinister implied.
It's true. You can reduce risk by using an ethical company. I recommend Prgmr.com over DO. Not just cuz they kindly host Lobste.rs for free. Ive watched one's comments for years plus how they discuss downtime or vulnerabilities kn their blog. They consistently seem like straight-forward, honest business. Low likelihood of nefarious stuff.
I can see your point for unit testing but I am struggling to see how it will work for Integration testing. For example I would like to initialize a connection pool (or other heavy object) only once for the entire test, I .. havent figured out how to handle that except for creating a new one in each test. Any pointer on how you are handling those? Thanks
What I'm talking about is that a real clock's hand doesn't instantaneously move from one position to another. It's an object with mass. It accelerates toward the new position, then overshoots it and then oscillates back and forth with a decaying vibration. You can see this well in larger wall clocks.

So that's just an alternative for doing something at the sub-second resolution, compared to just a smoothly rotating hand.
It's about concentrating the effort on the average, and cutting the long tail.

Imagine: "Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin all target the same audience segment; we should only choose one, and discontinue the other two."
I am actually a Software Engineering Undergraduate Student in Canada. We are real engineers! We get licenced the same way through graduating from an accredited program, getting the 4 years of experience and writing an ethics exam.

In Canada engineer is like lawyer. You can specialize in a certain part of law (e.g. patent, corporate, criminal). just like you specialize in certain fields (e.g. aerospace, mechanical, geomagnetic, biomed). What matters in both cases is being given a license.
Bit annoying that this article hat-tips Taleb, when Gerd Gigerenzer has been doing this better and for longer.

This book is a good introduction, includes a lot of anecdote from different health care professionals across a range of different testing (including cancer and HIV), and mentions the research across different health care professionals.

https://www.amazon.com/Reckoning-Risk-Learning-Live-Uncertai...

Here's an extract: https://imgur.com/zO4zkl4
Oh yes, I missed that.
People that were born in 1935 are in their 80s now and probably started listening to music in the early 50s. Any extension of the principle further back than the 50s doesn't apply to living humans and doesn't matter.
Durability is almost never a part of online ratings. Who goes back and rates an item after a year?
Charles Mann's excellent book "1491" covers this in-depth, including some background on how this "untouched nature" myth came to be (Holmberg's Mistake). He chides scholars on both sides of the political aisle for taking a sense of agency away from the indigenous peoples, and lays out (seemingly) well-sourced evidence for how impactful the fires, especially, were on the local environments.
>Your strong ties to the Bay Area suggest that you are probably involved in tech. Which is no doubt centred around the Bay Area, and pays less outside of the Bay Area no matter who you are. But what if all you knew was farming? Do you think you'd see a huge pay bump by moving your farm to the Bay Area (or any other major metropolis)?

If I inherited a bunch of debt-free land and equipment from my dad rather than a bunch of tech skills and contacts? sure, things would be very different. But I didn't, and agriculture is less than 2% of the labor force, and most of those people are hired workers, not the owner-operators, which is usually what we mean by "farmer" rather than "farm hand"

For that matter, the farmers of my famiy's ancestral lands? Both inherited family lands and are highly educated. Yeah, there's still physical work involved, but figuring out how to operate these million dollar machines they use? at least as compex as operating the computers I use; and figuring how to fertalize and otherwise maintain the soil quality? I'd argue is probably a lot more complex, and higher risk.
is coconut used in production? seems like a really bad idea?
i think it’s perfectly fine to invest public money on things that improve everyone’s lives. for me and and many others fiber provides a much higher quality of living even if it doesn’t bring extra growth economically.
Please don't post these. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Does it help with Error enum coming for third party crates? I can see how it will help with my own code though
Thank you, it looks amazing and it's on sale in Steam
There's only that much pent up demand to live in the US because our immigration policies have bottled up decades of immigrants. the borders would have to gradually transition to fully open, sure, but after that transition the borders could be fully open.

i find the idea that 150 million people would "ruin" the us to be laughable. when has immigration ever made the us worse? why do you think immigrants are worse citizens than people born here? if anything, people who want to move here are motivated people who truly believe in the promise of america -- the exact kind of people we do want.
As others said you can bill yourself as a consultant and work as an outsider to a company. Doesn't sound like that's what you're looking for though. You're looking for a full-time job in a company acting more or less as a one-man show in your area?

While you loved the variety, etc., can you say you were actually doing good work? Beyond things getting done, did you leave behind working documentation, reproducible data and tests? I've lost track of the projects I've come in to where the previous person was a one-man show and almost always, it was a mess. I can even say I've left some of those messes - in some cases because I was inexperienced, and in other cases, there were corners intentionally cut to fit budgets.

Inherited a project where a small company had a guy working for a year, and we basically had to scrap the code and start over, as nothing worked. Literally we had a server running that everyone was afraid to stop because no one could get it running again, even with the scant docs that were left behind (a combination of a bunch of undocumented go/clojure, with few comments in a smattering of git commits). Months in, we've hit some of the same problems the previous person hit, but had he actually documented the problems and decisions, we may have saved a lot of time (but... it also seems he went down a lot of weird corners, and the decision to scrap/rebuild wasn't really wrong after all).
> actually do create economic value

This is just another opinion though; an opinion based on generalizing value on as broad a dataset as individuals across an economy. The author may be right in some cases, but so might be many employees. What's still missing from this conversation are methodologies for identifying and articulating individual value from leadership, down to the individual whose job it is.

One possible solution (from my own career perspective) is solving a rampant issue with "management" being a step in a career path rather than a career in its own right, promoting functional employees based on tenure rather than their ability to manage (and manage _people_, not projects and tasks). In practice, this results in micro-managing at the expense of vision, creative freedom, and general flow, replacing it with anxiety across the board and employees slipping into a "peace and pay" mindset (or worse yet, hopping jobs every couple years as is the trend, only to experience similar conditions).

At the end of the day, no one wants bullshit jobs. So whether that's remedied via better management, or molding it into a better job, some kind of action needs to address this considering how much Graeber’s original article resonated with, well, far too many people.
In the interests of helping people read her work, her home page is: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eandersn/

A lot of her stuff is online - I just read one paper ("Ethical Assumptions in Economic Theory: Some Lessons from the History of Credit and Bankruptcy" - 2004) and was happy to find it easy to read and jargon-free. A couple of quotes:

"Most critics of the normative framework of economic theory fault it for failing to recognize the vices of capitalism – for example, its inability to evaluate the inequality that capitalism generates. My thesis turns this critique on its head: the assumptions of economic theory fail to represent some of the virtues of capitalism. They fail to grasp some ways in which capitalism advanced freedom and equality."

"The normative framework of the classical economists Smith and Condorcet, is superior to that of neoclassical economics and libertarians. The classical economists had superior conceptions of freedom and equality, which are better able to grasp the specific virtues of capitalism. ... Contemporary economic theory cannot represent these virtues because it is too abstract."

The New Yorker article is was interesting, but journalistic summaries of peoples' ideas should help you decide whether you want to check out the original works. New Yorker articles aren't a substitute for the real thing. For instance, it's easy to think you're disagreeing with Elizabeth Anderson when you may actually be disagreeing with the guy who wrote the New Yorker article. So go read some of her work, and then disagree if you must.
>There are a lot of dubious claims about education though. I would take the whole thing with a grain of salt. Some even claim that gaining an education will result in earning more money, all while incomes have remained stagnant for decades upon decades and educational attainment has ballooned. How does one earn more money while also earning the same amount of money...?

all incomes? are you seriously going to clam that incomes for tech workers and others of this (mostly highly-educated) caste haven't risen dramatically in the last three decades?
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I agree Dylan is an extreme example and The Band are very good musicians. That said there’s a Dylan like quality that a lot of the music at the time had. Joplin and even Hendrix are pretty rough sounding from a purely musical perspective.

Counter examples would be bands with heavy use of harmony such as Crosby, Steel, Nash and Young or the Mommas and the Papas.
HN was started by nerds - people who cared more about truth and accuracy than they did about popularity or saying the right thing.

HN has remained what it has due to the community, and due to the moderation. Personal attacks get moderated out; repeat offenders get blocked. That lets those who want to have a fact-based discussion continue to have that discussion.

HN is less than perfect. The people here are less than perfect. The moderators are less than perfect. But, for certain types of people, HN is still better than anywhere else.
probably a typo: "sleight of hand" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleight_of_hand)

as for your point, i don't think it was an either-or situation. i think both jobs and cook considered both control and privacy (among considerations like litigation, as you mention). jobs seemed more overtly a control freak though (not that that's always a bad thing).
It’s going to vary by manager/position/industry/etc. A social media marketer is going to have their social accounts looked at by hiring managers. For programmers, LinkedIn might be yet another datum to break an offer, and another place to look.
> then milk it forever

Also known as: continuing to provide value.
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Have you also evaluated Scala/Rust interop?

That would be an ideal combination for me: do performance critical
stuff in Rust, use Scala everywhere else.
But there is no way out of "pervasive interference". For instance quite obviously the normal state of a network company as was Standard Oil, AT&T and nowadays Google and Facebook is a monopoly. How do you "vote with your feet" then?

The fundamental error is the erroneous belief that markets will magically find equilibrium states, and optimal ones with that. Both premises are false: market tend to equilibrium only in undesirable situations such as oligopoly, monopoly or monopsony; else they're simply chaotic and fail to converge to anything stable and go anarchically from boom to bust.
Given how badly my effort to make Mac shareware went back in 2010, inspired in part by their catalog (and Marathon and a few others), I’m not surprised. I wasn’t expecting a grand success, but I only made around £2000 total, including the later iOS App Store stuff.

That reminds me, I need to delete those meta tags from my website…
Is there anything to suggest that this violated people's privacy? If not, I see no reason why privacy advocates should have a problem with it.
The Top Fake News Stories of 2018 – Dan Bongino
https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/597457-pathfinding-in-a... discusses some of the stuff StarCraft 2 uses, http://www.gameaipro.com/ has some stuff including for the other SC2, Supreme Commander 2 ( http://www.gameaipro.com/GameAIPro/GameAIPro_Chapter23_Crowd... ) that solves similar issues.
What are your thoughts on the Bandersnatch episode of Black Mirror?
Picking apart the jobs as bullshit metric directly might not be the only or best path. There is a known and confounding spectrum currently exhibited in most developed economies where some of the most valued labor such as teaching the young and caring for the sick and elderly turn out to be among the lowest paid while some of the highest paid labor is so detailed an specialized that it ends up in being sufficiently advanced to be indistinguishable from magic.

Is squeezing most sales per advertising campaign or saving a few pennies per unit delivered of a mass market product really worth what the economy is willing to pay for that? Does it really make sense to make that kind of optimization scale to the point that absolutely necessary work fails to have meaningful value?

It is really hard to measure bullshit jobs specifically, but it might be more easy and meaningful to try to characterize this strange gradient where abstracted work that is distant from people has value far beyond the simple and necessary basics of human social function. Worry less about the bullshit label and try coming up with a measure more like dollars lost per human life improved.
From another answer: “the most advanced multicellular organism I've seen anyone propose prior to the last snowball is still only a sort of sponge”
I'd say the opposite of that, as an Australian who moved to Norway.
Because people generally do not care for talented artists? They want easily digestible pop, which is entirely different thing.
I'm trans. Please dont use us as a cover for your arguments, thanks.

People who come to the US almost universally accept American values after a generation. And considering large proportions of the US believe LGBT people don't deserve to get married or adopt children, and several trans women were savagely beaten last month in my city by some white-bread born in america nazis, that many people born in this country think doctors should be able to deny care to LGBT people based on their religious beliefs -- meanwhile everyone I know who's immigrated from a different country has been nothing but wonderful to me -- I would argue that believing immigrants will somehow reverse progress on civil rights is ridiculous and not justified by the facts.
Building a webpage, or programming if any kind.
Mining a bitcoin block always takes 10 minutes and each block can only handle around 5000 transactions because that's what bitcoin was designed to do. It doesn't matter if you're powering all miners on earth with a dyson sphere or a single hamster wheel, it will still take 10 minutes.
This article, while well written, doesn't bring anything to the table, other than poking the obvious holes in someone else's mediocre work.

The reason people feel like what they're involved in is bullshit, is because it is. There is no grand conspiracy.

It's bullshit so much of the time is because people are more interested in succeeding personally, than in not screwing things up for tens, hundreds, millions, billions, of others.

Is your job bullshit? Then quit and get a potentially lower paying job that is less bullshit. Have you done that? No? End of debate. If you actually can't afford to get paid any less, you are not busy moaning about your job being bullshit. People in survival mode are hustling, not moaning.

This is not news and there is no cure that doesn't involve re-structuring, which always involves many at the very least getting their life ruined. Re-structuring doesn't guarantee that things get better, only that they change. Until by some miracle, intelligent people with integrity end up at the top, have enough power to cut heads, get away with it and understand that it's necessary, nothing is going to really change. It'll merely re-structure.

Capitalism today, communism tomorrow, we're still dumb, selfish apes that are largely uninterested in the welfare of others unless it directly affects us. Most people I know didn't start to care about anyone other than themselves until they had children. Now they care about themselves and their children - so we have private schools instead of improving the school system. Selfish to the bone, this will not change.
Where do you live to have a 300 m2 architectural designed lake house? Not around Stockholm?
Many places have an exemption for manufactured goods that are subject to testing. So for instance, a device doesn't have to be designed by a licensed engineer if it meets and is verified by testing to meet CSA standards.

But if you want to use something that's not CSA, then it does need to be reviewed and signed off by an engineer.

A home's electrical design doesn't have to be signed off by an engineer, but it has to meet code and be inspected.

If it doesn't meet code and you want an exemption (for instance because you are doing something that wasn't anticipated by the code), then you need an engineer to sign off confirming that what you're doing is safe and truly requires an exemption.
> the borders would have to gradually transition to fully open, sure, but after that transition the borders could be fully open.

Why is a transition period needed? If you believe that, then fundamentally we agree, we just differ on the rate at which immigrants should be let in. Why not just let literally anyone who wants to live here move here right now?

I don't necessarily think they will ruin the US, but I certainly don't know it with the degree of certainty required for such an irreversible decision.
Supposedly CPanel has LE support nowadays, so most companies should get it when they upgrade.
If you continue to post unsubstantive and/or inflammatory comments to Hacker News, we will ban you again.
Are you implying that there's more to the financial-aid-cap scheme than we know?
If no country will take you, what is the difference from not being able to leave, in impact to the person wishing to emigrate?
> This is not a “build it and they will come” situation. Many places built it. Nobody came.

Yes, sadly, paved roads are not a magical fairy dust.

No, wait... electrification isn't a fairy dust. My mistake.

No, wait... phones aren't magic.

No, wait...

/s
itemgetter and attrgetter are compiled C functions called by cpython https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/_opera...
Certainly the ices. No need to go so far out for that though. Bennu likely has a fair bit of water as hydrates and there is a fair bit of water ice in Saturn's rings.
Cloudflare should really make an address like dns.cloudflare.com, too.
1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com is cute as an "inside joke" of sorts, but to most people who don't know about IPs and such it would be easier to use the former.
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Right, though for those uses something like the swift {$0[0]} or haskell (!!0) just seems a lot more of convenient.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Also, snark is deprecated. Would you mind reviewing the guidelines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Underpaid relative to other professions. Lawyers, accountants, doctors, MBAs, etc etc. Even civil servants once the final salary pensions are factored in. Low pay, low prestige (if that matters to you), low job security, relative to others at a similar level of education, responsibility, etc.
Hey well done, thanks for posting! Did you solve the first stage with the CSS puzzles?

I'd be really interested to know if you figured out the correct CSS, or if you found the solutions in the JS source, or if you disabled the debug protection and used the React Dev Tools. Haha I made a lot of mistakes here. But hacking/reverse engineering is all part of the challenge :)
You only need to map the surface. Just use milimeter wave scanners (the kind used by the TSA).
Why are they right-hand drive?
So you can put mail a mailbox without getting out from behind the wheel.