skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of thing blows my mind. If I were making that much money I'd work for 5 years and retire.

I sometimes wonder if that's why I don't make that much? Has anyone here done this and retired?
During the 2008-2010 crash, there were reports of many women leaving their wall street husbands when they lost their jobs. I still remember reading about one woman - one of her excuses were that she was no longer able to buy organic fruits (avocados or something) - apparently she only eats organic, and organic everything.

That might be a small example, but it shows the way the wealthy lead their lives. Luxury cars, high end electronics, multiple homes ... they all add up.
This article introduces a geometric structure known as an "amplituhedron" as a way to understand reality.

"Some researchers are attempting to wean physics off of space-time in order to pave the way toward this deeper theory. Currently, to predict how particles morph and scatter when they collide in space-time, physicists use a complicated diagrammatic scheme invented by Richard Feynman. The so-called Feynman diagrams indicate the probabilities, or “scattering amplitudes,” of different particle-collision outcomes. In 2013, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Jaroslav Trnka discovered a reformulation of scattering amplitudes that makes reference to neither space nor time. They found that the amplitudes of certain particle collisions are encoded in the volume of a jewel-like geometric object, which they dubbed the amplituhedron. Ever since, they and dozens of other researchers have been exploring this new geometric formulation of particle-scattering amplitudes, hoping that it will lead away from our everyday, space-time-bound conception to some grander explanatory structure."

The wikipedia page for amplituhedron provides some kind of simulated visualization but doesn't clarify in layman's terms how reality fits into this particular structure. It seems like an interesting concept, I wish I understood it better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron
If everyone shared your (lack of) optimism, then we'd still be stuck with:

* Wonky unwieldy hypertext systems instead of the WWW

* The Nomad instead of the iPod

* The Blackberry instead of the iPhone

* GNU Hurd instead of Linux

* Geocities instead of Facebook (-- OK maybe that one's a wash :-)

The point is, sometimes it's worth trying again until you can make it work.
... pay no attention to the post-enlightenment free-market liberal materialist bias behind the curtain
The difference is that they can be sued here in the EU now.
Even a poverty level wage (for family of 4) is $25k/year. So $500k over a 20 year retirement sounds like a lot, but it’s not.
So there are a few things to unpack here.

Some questioned how the guy couldn't live on 500-600k. There is some foundation for this. People do tend to spend up to their means. It can be easy to fall into the trap of thinking you "need" that $5m house, $150k/year in private schools, save up $1m/child to pay for 4+ years at an Ivy League school and so on when hardly any of that is true and trying to make it true is really what's making you miserable.

Fact is, if you'd be much happier in your job this will reflect on your family life and your children's lives much more than being able to go to Yale with no debt ever will.

The second thing is though, depending your career, you have to realize that you won't be earning $1m+ a year for 30-40 years. This isn't even necessarily about early retirement either. Think of pro athletes. Your earning window may be very small. You may also have to factor in luck. If you're a corporate lawyer, for example, you may not make it to partner or your firm may go under and that was really your one shot.

So having worked for now two big tech companies, I see these kinds of complaints about not being happy or not being paid enough or the like primarily from people who live in the Bay Area who have decided they need a 5 bedroom house in Palo Alto and all the aforementioned education expenses.

The fact of the matter is that the Bay Area is (IMHO) a pretty terrible place to live. The way I like to put it is people choice to live in the Bay Area to work for company X. Everywhere else pretty much they're working for company X because they live in city Y. The Bay Area probably has a high number of temporary residents. I've met more than a few people in tech who intend to "move home" in N years (where N is typically <7). To be fair, NYC probably has a fairly high number of temporary residents too (although my guess is less than the Bay Area).

Lastly, this article was written about MBAs. Honestly, if corporate politics isn't your thing it seems like they've picked the wrong career track. Or they've done it for the money and don't really enjoy it and that's a pretty stupid reason to do anything. I know some of my worst decisions have been made "because money".
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Would love to see better separation on the page between "Bad" and "Good" examples. While a good read, it's difficult to quickly distinguish between the two.

For example: https://github.com/airbnb/javascript
A lot of comments about Theranos not being different from other start-ups and Holmes being like other CEOs. I disagree. Theranos was an out-and-out fraud from its beginnings. They knew their product did not work and was unlikely to ever work yet they kept on pushing it to investors as well as firms (Walgreens, Safeway). What is so disturbing is that their defective product, when used by naïve people without medical supervision, could report both false hits as well as missed. The former causing unneeded concern and anguish, the latter, resulting is not receiving needed treatments for something that would have been detected with real blood tests.

A CEO lying about some unneeded product or service, while bad, does not come close to lying about a product that can impact one's health and well-being. She and Sonny both deserve substantial fines and jail time.
I wish "compact" version of Librem 5 Smartphone existed: 4.5" screen, slower CPU, half or even quarter of storage. 200$ or lower price would attract more users and developers.
It's fleeting. What makes you happy today might feel miserable tomorrow. You need to recognize this and be willing to change.

It's hard. Life is hard.
Yeah... I literally don't buy it.
High Cost of Living city has nothing to do with needing $500k/yr in earnings (post tax). What kind of mortgage and car do you have that?
Simple answer... that's a $10M house or a $2M car or half of each of those.

Besides the fact that if you're earning $1.2M salary, you're taking home other bonus/stock that are comparable. Getting locked into this sort of lifestyle is a choice not driven by need. A drug dealer in "low cost" Detroit or Sinaloa might make the same claims...
The term “right wing” comes from revolutionary era France, where in the general assembly the aristocracy sat on the right, and everyone else sat on the left. In the modern world the “aristocracy” would be the capitalist class, so yes, anything that benefits the capitalist class is right wing, in that sense.
> My question for HN is do you feel that the content you are working on makes a difference in your career satisfaction?

For me personally, this is the primary thing that affects my career satisfaction. If I don't find the work I'm doing to be meaningful, I will be miserable. There is no amount of money or other perks that can change that.
I exist in a capitalist economy. I make a number on a spreadsheet a bit larger and then I go home and live a meaningful life using, in part, the money I've earned doing so. I'd be hard-pressed to do that under any other economic system that's ever been tried.
> Rather, they had learned from their own setbacks. And often they wound up richer, more powerful and more content than everyone else.

This seems like wish fulfillment to me. Either things change a lot more than I think over 15 years but the so-called "gunners" that I know in their 30's are exceptionally more happy, well adjusted and wealthy than the non-gunners.
Let me guess: he lives in San Francisco?

Ok, looks like it was actually New York, but under the same principle: golden handcuffs.
Perhaps they are earning $1.2M/yr because they never found anything they enjoyed to do with their time outside of work?
> and because advertising constantly shows us higher levels of consumption to aspire to, even people who are, in an absolute sense, raking in obscene amounts of money are surrounded by a peer group that are roughly at their level.

Animals evolved using competition as a mechanism to select the best mates. Advertising is not the cause, it's the nature of all animals to project power. There might be some people here and there who are satisfied or whatnot, but even without advertising, people would be competing.
Speaking personally, the things that give me the greatest satisfaction are those where I feel I've done a good job from a perspective of craft. Even if the code itself doesn't do very much or will never really be seen, I get the greatest contentment from feeling I designed and put it together well. If I worked on a video game that didn't get traction but that I loved, was beautifully built and designed, I think I'd be happier than say, an online poker game.

I'd be lying if I didn't care at all, obviously I'd rather the app be used. There's a special feeling of showing something to someone completely outside tech, saying "I built this" and having them "get" it. Hence why I think consumer apps are also more satisfying than a high frequency trading algo.

EDIT: minor grammar/missing words
Surveillance I understand (its a fairly ubiquitous form of government control at this point, including use of DNA - Israel feeds that information into its domestic assassination program), but this op-ed repeatedly claims repression.

In China (based on its Marxist roots) cults and religion are deemed to be damaging to a person and to mass popular culture ("Religion is the opium of the people" - Marx). China considers religion to be within the freedom of an individual to observe, but not to impose on another person: in China you can not be indoctrinated into a religion until you are 18 years of age.

Combine this with the wave of Islamic reevaluation on the Asian supercontinent - ISIS is and has been a huge problem in China, with mailbombing campaigns and other acts of widespread terrorism.

Repression is an opinion expressed in the op-ed that hasn't considered factors that are alien to the Western author's perspective.
So just imagine their kids...
>> He had received an offer at a start-up, and he would have loved to take it, but it paid half as much, and he felt locked into a lifestyle that made this pay cut impossible. “My wife laughed when I told her about it,” he said.

Sounds like it's the wife that he needs to cut. Or he needs to do a better job of communicating his happiness to her. This is the type of marriage that ends up in divorce.

I just finished re-reading Drive by Daniel Pink. My book notes here:
https://parveenkaler.com/posts/drive-daniel-pink

Using Daniel Pink's model, the characters in this story seem to be lacking 1) Mastery 2) Autonomy 3) Purpose in their work.
Good question.

In my personal opinion it does. Without getting into specifics, I've been working recently on a project in which I will be proud of having had a large part to play. It will [potentially] indirectly reach hundreds of thousands to million(s) of people, depending. It is also in a field I have long believed in. I won't be working with it, or the field forever, but I am glad to have done so.

There have been roles I've turned down that, while they may have provided value of some kind to somebody somewhere— I would personally find it rather empty. I've done those projects before. They're ephemeral (not that everything isn't, but I'm not being so extensive in scope...). Those things can depend on the nature of the work, or the people you meet in the process. Sometimes it can work out well, other times it can feel like oblivion for a time.
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Came from Java world, I find the Go comment and godoc are really limited. We can't link between functions, types. We don't have a standard way to declare input, output, don't have any distinction between a normal word and a Go identifier Refactoring using tool (e.g: Goland) usually lead to unexpected text replacements.

Take following functions, for example:

// Auth check if user credential is existed in bla, bla...
// ... (many more explanation)
Auth(user User, authProvider AuthProvider) bool

// AuthDefault check user against the default **AuthProvider**
AuthDefault(user User) bool {
return Auth(user, new(DefaultAuthProvider))
}

If only the AuthProvider in the second function's godoc be a link to the first one, we don't have to repeat the explanation for the second one. Dev will be able to discover the explanation easily via their IDE. This alone will be very helpful for the maintainability of any big projects.
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This is a very nice tool, well done !

My wishlist of nicethingstohave would be:

- A choice of camelCase output for attributes (JSX-friendly)
- multiple selection and download
My experience is, that I go to the printer control panel and the printer is already there.

Fedora & Ubuntu; mostly HP printers.
Money can't buy happiness. It can only rent it.
Have you actually dug ditches for a few weeks? It's a popular rhetorical device but I wonder how many engineers have actually done stints of hard labor.
Most people don't have passions in life, they do have a passion for possession and social status though. Our culture also looks down on the people that don't have all these status symbols, and people naturally do not want to be looked down upon, so they keep racing to keep up just so their peers respect them. Our culture breeds depression. There are farmers in third world countries that live a more meaningful and joyful life than most do here. Koyaanisqatsi.
Host your own Nextcloud on a NAS, and have the most popular files synced? Be sure to make proper backups. On the short term, it will be expensive, but the investment will pay off.

I'm also using Stack by TransIP. 1000 GB for 0 EUR/month, with e.g. offers of 1250 GB for 2,50 EUR/month. TransIP is by made by the same people as bunq (its Ali Niknam's first successful company)
Ask HN: I Am Confused Between Job, MS, MBA and Own Startup. What Should I Do?
I received my undergraduate degree in computer science last year. Now I am totally confused. I don't know what should I do in my life? How should I build my career?
Less than $15m could buy a 5 bedroom mansion of a single-family home in San Francisco, and in New York, a ridiculously stunning 5 bedroom apartment.

Where did you get 1-2k sq/ft 2 bed 1 bath shithole from?
Simply put, it's a UI issue that affects every aspect of the business. Podcasts have an artificially diminished shelf-life. If you don't release an episode every two weeks, your show gets buried in the library. It means the format is synonymous with churned, radio broadcast-like content.

This has also affected the monetization model. Most ads use promo codes for services, but those promos expire and change, rendering that content valueless. Given these limitations, it's a miracle any producers are funding serialized content that actually has a conclusion.
Closed form O(1) solution? Using Binet's formula, if that's what you mean, is not O(1), for a number of reasons. Firstly, exponentiation is not constant-time. Secondly, how are you going to do it to the necessary precision? Are you really going to use some sort of floating-point number for this? Of course, you could use an exact representation, using a pair of integers (or rational numbers, depending on what basis you use)... but that will be essentially the same as the usual matrix solution.

Remember, the n'th Fibonacci number has a number of bits linear in n, and you need at least the time to write all those bits out. That can't be done in O(1), no matter how you do the computation!
And that's not even taking into account taxes...
> Are people who make more money less happy/equally happy/more happy than people who make less?

Are they happier snorting five grams of coke a week vs 1 gram? vs a guy rationing a six pack over a week?
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No. I've also always held similar thoughts. I will say, though, that in my late 30s today, I fully expect to be at this for another 30 years, if not longer.
A slightly different take on your “eye engagement” point is that podcasts allow us to utilize time that would otherwise be spent listening to music, talking to others, thinking, or just zoning out. Combined with Apples air pods (a horribly great piece of technology), I find myself using lots of time for podcasts that I wouldn’t otherwise (like when I’m doing the dishes). I find all of this enjoyable overall but I do worry that the decreased time that I spend in thought or present with others could be a net negative in the end.
That's fair and I do not disagree. But put another way - there is a large set of emotions out there of which happy is just a single member. But for some reason it is put on this pedestal as the holy grail. Maybe it's not? But I am getting pretty OT from the article so I apologize.
From the previous discussion, it seems like Idera's mode of operation is stopping active development on the product, and maintaining it more or less as-is as long as there are people using it. Then it's not necessary to reduce tech debt.
So the value add is to artificially add a cost to one form of energy production to make it cost more than another form? That does not sound like a "value add", but rather a simple "cost add," with government agents making the demands and meting out financial (and eventually, physical) punishment for non-compliance.

And we really want to add complexity and inconvenience to 2/3rds of households just so they can get their money back?
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Why Linux Sucks
I saw right around $200k in then current dollars around 1990ish, and you weren't sacrificing above that, on average, it's just that increasing income above that point had no further correlation with happiness/satisfaction measures.
The three things that I still miss from pgAdmin 3 while using DBeaver are:

1. The server status window (when it used to work).

2. The visual explain query view.

3. The statistics tab. Though, DBeaver now has a simplified one for tables.
NPR has a great podcast on Theranos called The Dropout. There seems to be a growing trend that it's ok to fake it till you make it...consider Theranos, The Fyre Festival, Trump.
What are their plans for application development? Will developers be expected to write their apps in C/GObject?
I never said anything about communism, and neither did the GP for that matter, you can blame Jon for bringing that term to the table.

>My sense of meaning in life comes from navigating through this environment (our laws, rules, societies, etc.), and trying to make the most of it (and earn a healthy living) to provide for my family, and make sure that I and everyone I care about have enjoyable lives together.

> If we were in a communist society (and not one that's post-scarcity which seems far, far off), I wouldn't be able to do this

Why not? It's just a different environment, different set of rules, and different challenges. Some people navigated communism well and found meaning, many others did not.

The GP seemed to be using the label of capitalism to apply to sociopathic profit-seeking-for-its-own-sake, as opposed to the loosely defined economic and political model of capitalism. In that sense, what they're saying makes a lot of sense.
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I think it's useful to divorce the concept Religion from the concept of God in your mind. IMO, the religions of the future will be God-less. If you look at the jobs that religions typically do, a lot of the ground is being covered by science (telling a story about how we came to exist and what our purpose is) and the rest is being covered by political ideologies (how we should live our lives and how we should relate to other people).

Someone is going to figure out how to marry those two together someday...
I assume you're being sarcastic... a $15M shithole apartment! X^D
Interesting, what projects for example and how can you be so sure people would be interested ?

I tend to think that one kinda needs to exchange (i.e. not just give everything away) with others in order for the "improvements" one is looking for gets validated / get real time feedback.
Listening to podcasts or audiobooks while I go to sleep is my biggest life hack. I've been doing it for about six years and now sleep in around 5-10 minutes, whereas it used to take up to an hour before that.

It does mean it takes me months to get through a longer book, but that's no big deal, and means I actually going to bed.
I'm 100% in agreement, and am trying to pursue that on a payscale that's fractions of what's described. I think the problem is the balancing act between "live now" and "save for living later." I think I have a healthy balance, particularly in not denying myself decent food and lifestyle despite the costs. That said, I'm moderate in almost every other way (and I don't have a car, or buy expensive clothing, etc.)

At one extreme I know people who save every penny, even though they make a fortune. One person I know spends maybe 10-20 dollars a week on food by never drinking, receiving farm deliveries of vegetables, etc. and etc. At the other extreme, as per this article, you have Real Housewives-types scoffing at making less than a million, perhaps living extravagant lifestyles.

Maybe this should be called "lifestyle inflation." Through social pressure, greed, trendiness, or perhaps stupidity, people piss all their money away and need more.

There's a balance there, but yes, at the end of the day the goal is to have free time, right?
pgAdmin4 has the same diagramming system. Unfortunately it wasn't up to par for quite a while and is only slowly getting better.
Because a 10% tithe is definitely something the shrinking middle class and the hopeless lower class can afford.

But putting that aside this sentiment of "look how bad things seem for people, religion can help" reeks of predatory behavior. If none turn towards whatever god you preach in times of plenty then what is left? To strike in a moment of weakness? To shift blame from whatever problems could be solved to instead attribute success and failure to the nebulous concept of faith? It's disgusting.

>That person's duty is to his family, and children (if he has any). His duty to society is to raise children with values that are compatible with the society

A society that is growing increasingly secular.
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this was more to emphasize that accidents do happen and that at 100MPH the magnitude of the crash has increased (its more catastrophic)
Just wanted to say...as both a language nerd and opinionated snob, I'm really excited by what I see with V thus far. I'll be following your progress for sure and wish you the best.
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Eh, I don't see it as a limitation of RSS, it's still up to the aggregator to display the episodes however they want after they've fetched the raw data.
I think this is probably the biggest reason why people found startups: not money, but to actually work a fulfilling job they find real meaning in. Even if it fails, it's a lot more fun and interesting than being a cog in a machine trying to react to the fickle whims of 3-12 layers of managers.
the people on HN might go for it. The hundred-odd million who spend time on r/pics, r/aww, r/publicfreakout etc...hard pass. No one's paying money to upvote cute pets and public streetfights.