skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the downvotes (that's what gray means right?) are people's way of saying that the personal narrative that defines your life is so boring that your job is the only place you can achieve feelings like that. I feel bad for you so won't downvote. But I'd suggest finding something for that narrative that doesn't coincidentally mean handing your life over to the guy you work for.

He certainly won't complain that your sense of worth is defined by the firm. It's a lopsided semi-co-dependent relationship and kinda weird. I know people like yourself and respect the ethic but there's surely a way to direct that to your own life instead of defining the satisfaction by how well you make another guy money.

Also, the exceptionalism is needless, generalized and is talking down to foreigners as if they don't have similar work ethics. You're not making us look good as Americans by claiming that you'll bend over backwards for bossman and break your back doing so in order to spend an extra dollar at the company store.
Why did they win the war?
Wrongly confess: you'll be released today, albeit with a criminal conviction and a fine.

Maintain innocence: spend the next 3-18 months in jail, then have a trial without effective counsel, probably lose, be sentenced to time served and a fine. You'll have lost your job, your kids will be in foster care, and your family will have been evicted.

It's not complicated. (For more serious crimes, the police still generally promise "you'll be released today", they just don't deliver on that promise. "Just tell us what happened and we can put all this behind us, we just have a few questions." So even though the accused is facing serious punishment for wrongly confessing, the decision still appears similar to the above.)
an important point in that video is that if you say anything, and someone else (for exampe a police officer) says something else, then it becomes your word against the police officer's in court
Because of the Russians?
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Just so you know usa is ranked 10 in GDP. I don't think being the richest means much, but USA is not the richest
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PP...
What Does Big Tech Know About You
https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns
Switzerland is home to many successful businesses and products.
In very large part thanks to geography
In the automotive world (and no doubt others), an awful lot of less-than-brand-new vehicles are kept running using salvaged parts, for the mechanical bits and the body and so on. And even in the computer world, in the old days it was nothing for someones's old, expensive-when-bought-new computer system to be retired and then become someone else's "new", far-less-expensive-when-bought-used computer system. Or for the old stuff to be raided for parts, and so on. So it's not at all a new concept, and places like eBay just help facilitate this process these days.
So in short, to answer my own question: a developer can have enthusiasm for metal if metal covers all of their target platform (Apple).
Amanda Knox roars against wrongful imprisonment in her tearful return to Italy
So what? How does the average American profit from their existence on their daily lives?
I never understood that argument - Bay Area, the (arguably) richest place on this planet is smaller then Switzerland and it's transit system is catastrophic in comparison to SBB still.

I get that you can't cover Alabama with Swiss railways, but why the heck is traveling from Zurich a Swiss mountain top in the middle of nowhere still faster and more convenient than getting from SF to Mountain View?
Nick Couldry: The Emerging Social Order of Data Colonialism [video]
I've experienced a lot of these things since leaving the bay area and moving to Australia. The thing that surprised me most was similar to point #3 - in Australia the less fortunate are taken care of. One big mental drain I had in America was when my friends were sick but could do nothing about it. I had a roommate in Seattle who had severe dental problems and chronic tooth pain, but could do nothing about it because he simply couldn't afford it. I had another friend who had an oblique fracture in their arm, but set it themselves and never went to the doctor. All because healthcare was not only expensive, but randomly expensive. You never knew if you'd be leaving the hospital with a $100 medical bill or a $10,000 medical bill. I had great healthcare for all of my working career, but my friends often didn't, and it ate at me mentally. In Australia that's never been a point of stress. If you have a cold, you go to the doctor, and you always knew it'd be less than $200ish. There were no orders of magnitude more expensive surprises.

The rest of the points resonated highly with me as well, as aside from the maternity leave I've experienced them all. I have to move back to the Bay soon and I'm not looking forward to it. Every time I visit there's more homeless who've been pushed to the streets because the system in place simply doesn't work - Nordic countries, Switzerland, and Australia are simply better in so many aspects. There's a reason why the USA has fallen to #13 in HDI[1] and continues to fall.

The people of the USA have too much pride to change - we've been on top for so long that we often think we can't learn from other countries, and that we have everything figured out. The intro speech Jeff Daniels did in Newsroom [2] resonates here. It's time we looked at what policies actually work for the best of the populous.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyzDRc34l2g
> But when compared with some of his earlier “core” stories, such as the eerie “City of Brass,” the 1712 “Aladdin” comes across as lackluster and unexciting. Disney’s two screen versions, the 1992 animated feature and this spring’s live-action film, are actually much more satisfying.

It's also worth noting that regardless of the provenance of Galland's Aladdin, Disney's movie is basically a rip-off of the 1940 film The Thief of Baghdad, which combined the Thousand and One Nights elements with the plot of the earlier silent movie it was a remake off.

> Although it was a remake of a 1924 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks, this film has been highly influential on later movies based on The Book of One Thousand and One Nights setting. For example, the Disney film Aladdin borrows freely from it, particularly the characters of the evil Vizier and the Sultan, both drawn with a marked similarity to the characters in The Thief of Bagdad. The villian Jafar is named after Jaffar. The thieving monkey Abu in the Disney cartoon is based on the boy played by Sabu.[12]

(from wikipedia)

Galland's Aladdin was set in China, so actually the entire middle-eastern setting comes from The Thief of Baghdad.
Pretty disingenuous to say GDP when you mean GDP PPP.

The US does have the highest GDP (by a large margin).
I recently moved from working for a US company to working for a CH one. There’s some disadvantages, like people not giving their all at work slowing things down. Compared to the previous role, it’s glacial. But no on call, 6 weeks vacation, and 8% pension contribution from the company that I don’t even have to match is a good trade-off. Work is always going to be frustrating, but I’m at a point in my life that I’d rather be frustrated at being forced to work a maximum of 37.5 hours per week (tracked with timesheets) than frustrated at unrealistic deadlines and the cult of appearing to get things done.
Here's one for "powerful": http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yVGNoT30TM4/U4MWoLUx2MI/AAAAAAAAIN...
You'd be surprised at the lack of statistical knowledge most doctors have.
Damn, I was brain-dead when I wrote that. Make it:

source to X via A
X to Y via B
Y to Z via C
> Many people (including myself), don't want a laid back work culture. I want to kill myself for the firm, and work as hard as humanly possible. I think I just derive the most happiness from working (though I do like drinking as well). I know a lot of other people like this. Maybe you can call us brainwashed or whatever, but this is how myself and most of my co-workers are.

You have confused your carefully selected sample (assorted by profession, employee preferences, and employer preferences) for the general population.

That is a mistake.
> Have you been there? I really don’t think Russia has it figured out better than the US.

Yes, I live here. Russian transportation absolutely blows anything in the US away, and I've traveled extensively in both countries. Transportation is embarrassing and frustrating for me when I come back to the US. The US is absolutely car-dependent.

Russia has everything from Rail transport (trans-Siberian, etc), city subways (Moscow subway just built a bunch of new lines including a second ring), trams, electric buses, bus systems, marshrutka mini buses, very cheap taxis (uber & yandex).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Mo...

> Russia’s infrastructure is certainly not close to the level of Europe/Japan or China.

Fair enough, but their low tech solutions are cost effective and solve the problem.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2018/07/20/moscow-public-tran...
Highest GDP + most powerful military doesn't cut it for you?
Happy Father’s Day!
Yes because the number of stake holders that need to be satisfied and the number of edge cases would increase massively.

Look at public transit systems throughout the west whenever they get expanded it's a long painful process because of all the new stakeholders being added and the new edge cases that get brought to light.

Edit: Down-voted because inconvenient opinion or down-voted because wrong?
America supported Hitler until 1941.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworl...

Wall Street also supported hitler until 1941. Hitler wanted to invade America mostly so that he would have to repay wall street.
You do you, but be sure that once you do kill yourself, your company will have you replaced within a week. That kind of loyalty only goes one way.
I bet it’s not.

Nobody is accusing Google of copying the annotations, just the lyrics.

Genius didn’t write them, and they didn’t even transcribe them as you point out.

I’m no Google fan in the context of ripping off competitors but Genius has a pretty shady history as well and it’s pretty hard to have sympathy for either of them.
The airport malls (2013)
Nestle, Novartis and Roche can easily compare to the companies you mentioned. Especially since they deal with healthcare and food supply which might be even more important than PR heavy billionare projects of throwing cars in the orbit.

I'm also pretty sure that average american has a lot to gain from existence of Apple when they can't pay off their college loans and medical bills. Or go on a proper vacation.
There’s a difference between “we’ve observed in clinical settings that [random herb X] treats the problem, although we have no understanding of how it does so—there’s a bunch of chemicals in [random herb X] that could be the cause, and nobody’s sat down and pinpointed the pharmacodynamics yet” and “this has never been observed in clinical settings to differentiate from placebo.”
This should not be downvoted. Privacy considerations are very important for a robot with cameras. I worked for a while at a company that makes delivery robots that operate in hotels. Camera placement was a huge consideration. Not too low for the the obvious reasons. But also angled such that they don't record faces.
Digital Forensics and Incident Response Cheatsheet
It's a vital part of it.

It's much healthier to walk bike or ride transit to work and daily activities. Additionally, being closer to everything means less stress and more free time (better work/life balance).
It's "own" to them unless the grid is state owned.

Secondly, three letter agencies don't work for the citizens (in which case they might focus on defense) but for military industrial complex, so taxpayer money is spent attacking foreign countries.
All the countries in those lists with higher per capita GDPs are a) oil exporting sheikdoms, b) tiny little financial havens, or c) tiny city states.

None are continent spanning superpowers.
Bunch on Twitter, this is an example:

https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/1136061641441681408
> Transportation is the biggest difference between the us and a lot of the rest of the world. Switzerland is the size of a small New England state. Mass transit is a tough thing to scale.

I don't buy this argument. "We are much bigger than $OTHER_COUNTRY therefore we can't have comparable public transport".

I concur that for the whole country this might be a viable argument but it doesn't explain why the public transport in metropolitan areas are also often not good at all.
I and my closet colleagues have the same attitude and can’t exactly say where it comes from. I feel incredibly lucky that my work is capable of fascinating me, and I want to become as good at it as I’m capable of being.

A big part of that is the subject matter, and getting to work with (build software tools for) artists and sound designers. It probably helps that the work is a well rounded social-creative-technical experience much of the time. Once I stopped seeing myself as a repository of generic, commoditized skills for sale, and found an actual purpose, the sort of ‘employee mentality’ I used to have vanished and my relationship to work became simpler and more gratifying...and I work a lot harder. And yes, I also get paid a lot more, although that came later and I don’t regard that as a requirement - would much sooner give up the money than the passion. I’ve seen a similar transition happen in others.

To some of the downvoters: we all admire artists and musicians who have totally devoted themselves to their craft, and we don’t condescendingly pity their “unhealthy work life balance”. My hero growing up was Feynman, who was doing physics every waking hour (or so I’ve read). It’s not like his estate is going to reap the economic benefits of his work; so was Feynman a pitiful sucker, abused by his university employers? Why does someone else’s ambition anger you so much?
There was a movie made about this guy back in the 90s.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109650/
as a highly ambitious person who wants to win no matter the cost

This seems at odds with "I want to kill myself for the firm, and work as hard as humanly possible". That is losing, not winning.
> There’s some disadvantages, like people not giving their all at work slowing things down. Compared to the previous role, it’s glacial.

Maybe they've figured out that getting work done as fast as possible isn't the end goal of all human existence.
No, Spot II is still Spot II, but Spot I should be Spot.
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You might want to look for a book called "The Eudaemonic Pie." It's about a bunch of chaos theorists who analyze roulette and figure out how to gain a statistical edge.
I'm pretty sure the comment you're responding to is just a switcharoo-format joke. Unless the last sentence is missing an "un" before "pleasant".
ESR has done, and apparently continues to do, many useful things for open source. But his various personality disorders have reset that karma back to zero, or possibly put him in negative territory.

It started early... https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/04/msg00623.html

And here is a generally well-sourced summary: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
After moving from a small city in France to London, I definitely miss Sundays with all store being closed. It's a good break.

Why Switzerland would need a SpaceX, Apple and Google? For the last 2 I would be happier if they wouldn't exists, having more of those would be quite bad :D
seems unlikely given the very low sun spot activity in our current minimum
> I do feel social systems / economies work best when there's a mutual exchange of value

That’s too broad of a claim to possibly be true. Many things are required for smoothly running economies, and sometimes a ledger is the problem and sometimes it’s the solution.
30 years ago I walked into a facility (in order to help them with some computer issues) and at the time their main production equipment was over 100 years old, but still going strong. (It had a "Made in 1875" nameplate on it.) They kept it in good working order, and were in no hurry to replace it, either, except that the EPA was forcing their hand because the old equipment couldn't meet modern environmental standards.

Incidentally, the mindset that you reference above is also the same mindset which causes places to not kept sufficient spare parts on hand so that fixes can be made quickly. It seems that they would rather experience extended downtime than pay to have spare parts on hand which could minimize that downtime.
> and you have a self-defence baseball bat in the boot of your car

Well this isn't a great example because that is an offence and the Police would be right to do you for it! You're advocating lying to cover up offences for your own selfish benefit!
I visualize my anxiety as a snake. Similar to a desert or rattlesnake with stripes and sand on it. Starts at the base of my spine and curves around and its head is at my brain. Sometimes it crushes my spine, sometimes it bites my brain.
And the thoughts that it brings to me are much much worse than what's in this story.

This red fox cartoon and its warnings seems almost a blessing compared to what I go through :(
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>Not factoring in the cost of living over there is pretty disingenuous.

A Vox article not showing the whole picture... you don’t say! ;)
Yeah I assumed that was the omission but that makes a lot more sense lol
I personally find Switzerland boring and expensive. And I'm not sure your work culture is going to be that different if you work at Google or another tech company.

If I go back to Europe I would go to Portugal or Italy or Spain. These countries are laid back, cheap, have good weather and good food. What else do you want?

London and some cities in France like Bordeaux or Montpellier are insanely fun too.
America had the largest economy in the world after our civil war in 1860s.

WW2 left us as one of two superpowers, but we have been highly productive for a while, and a lot of that is due to our 'protestant work ethic' that keeps us wealthy but also overworked.
Iterators and Iterables
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US and Canadian citizens can get Permit C (unconditional residency permit) after 5 years on Permit B (employment-bound permit). Citizenship is 5 more years after that. For EU citizens I think it's even simpler. For all other countries it's 10+10 years.
You should have mentioned that you're talking about the UK in your original statement. The fact that you did not may be used against you in the furtherance of this discussion.

In the US we have the fifth amended, and it seems that [1] as long as it explicitly invokes the protection one would be safe from similar repercussions.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-how-invoke-your...
What's the deal with people putting 120% efforts at work. It's clear that this is not necessary (for example - Switzerland is just fine). Put a steady 60-80% and bump it up to 100% when things get rough. I truly don't get it, sometimes it feels like people simply want to spend lives at work rather than do something else.
I couldn't read the article in-depth, it's too depressing. What makes it depressing is that it ultimately resolves to income inequality, which in America is only really a problem because of racism. So everywhere you look there's a travesty of justice with no escape other than total upending of society, i.e. telling everyone to not be racist.

False confessions wouldn't be a problem if there were a true presumption of innocence. Our justice system doesn't presume innocence in areas where caseloads are high, it takes shortcuts. When people take shortcuts, the costs of that externalization fall the hardest on those with the fewest resources to defend themselves. You're way less inclined to think charitably about someone who looks like all the other people you lock up every single day.

With these as the table stakes, that this kind of article is even needed, that if you lock an emotionally-vulnerable person in a room and yell at them for hours, eventually they're going to crack, is just more depressing.

If you want a concrete vision of Hell, real Hell, you can't get a more compelling one than that of how America treats its underclass.
Car sales in total have increased though. Due to the population of the world and adoption of automobiles in the rest of the world as well.

I don't find any compelling arguments to disprove what a lot of seeming educated and intelligent researchers and social critics are saying regarding the coming disruption of the labor market.
This is fine if you own your own business; or if you’re taking a chance to strike gold through an IPO; or if a fat bonus is waiting for a killer performance; or the chance for highly paid advancement is real.

Then yeah, that makes sense. Except that this isn’t for everyone and these opportunities are not even common to begin with.

So for regular jobs demanding that the average worker put in 60+ hours a week, with no share of the profits, while senior members of the firm take in millions or more, with intrusive weekends and lack of friends&family time?

The correct response is an honest Glassdoor review and a go-fuck-yourself to management.
It's worth seeing just how much the eye jiggles. Some of the work on eye-tracking software/hardware[0] which interface with a computer screen to simulate mouse movements is cool.

[0] http://www.pygaze.org
Agreed, so is "apk" from Alpine Linux.
Think of it like an echo. If your friend shouts at someone in the real world when others are around, you wouldn't be able to hear it from a mile away, but eventually you will hear about the fact they did so, either through gossip or some other means. Facebook cuts that extraneous fluff out and just tells you what they said. It is far from a violation of privacy, as you would be able to find that information easily if you went out looking for it in the first place.

Especially in the world of health, there is a clear distinction about what is private, public, and confidential/secret. This case very clearly public.
> Work is always going to be frustrating

I had a direct report with this problem. We talked about it and I helped him to realize that his previous situation was unhealthy.

He was used to crunch, he was used to feel a hero for delivering at the cost of his own health and without time for his girlfriend.

After the long talk he recognized that he was missing the adrenaline, he was so used to the stress that he was missing it. With time it got better.

Feeling needed, the adrenaline rush, that feeling of accomplishment can be addictive. But, like tobacco, it does not mean that it is good for you.
How to cope with email overload
I believe I have seen a body-mounted E-stop button on the Spot Mini, but I may not be recalling correctly. In any case, there are OTS wireless-remote E-Stops that are easy to buy and integrate into a robot like this, and fail-safe. It isn't a new problem. (I helped integrate a remote E-Stop into a 1000lb mobile robot -- at that size, remote E-stop is important.)
Record types are not a solution to the problem lens solves. Lens is a good library and a good concept. If we spent some time on it in programming class, most people would get it. When moving to non-Haskell languages, the lack of proper lenses is something I notice almost immediately.