skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care about any degree of my employees as the projects they did in the past (commercial or private) are much more important

When you want to target big and unsexy companies, just to have a nice resume, a degree is the right way to go. If you plan to be an entrepreneur, founding a business or freelance, it's mostly useless and I don't believe it will change in the next 5-10y as it was that way the last 20y.

Todays trends are to work less with better money and better work life balance, not the opposite. If you encounter the difference, run as fast as you can :).
Oh, this is wonderful! I'm learning Chinese right now - conversationally capable, but I have no grasp on jargon (especially electronics). This is a great guide.

There are some issues with the pinyin transliterations - they seem to be machine-generated rather than human-generated: there's some errors, like mixups between chang/zhang for 长, and weirdness like "yao yao ling" for 110 where we'd usually use "yi bai yi shi". But technically these wouldn't matter much in a point-and-translate context because neither party would be paying attention to the pinyin.

Anyway, aside from that nit - I suspect I will be using part of it as a study guide for my Mandarin learning. Thanks, Bunnie!
So run a local server and turn federation off. Like you can run a private e-mail server. Why not use and contribute to the common protocol that does allow federation? I see no point for a FOSS project in proliferating non federated IM protocols, and wasting resources on that, while federated ones still didn't even reach wide adoption.
These anecdata are from the 19th century, they don’t have much in the way of relevance to the way mining looks today, especially in a first-world country.

A few stats: https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/statistics-and-research...

in Australia’s enormous mining industry in 2018, there were nine fatalities. The fatality rate was 3.7 per 100,000. This puts it ahead of most industries but substantially behind “Agriculture, forestry and fishing” at 11.2 or “Transport, warehousing and transport “ at 5.9.

For further perspective, the death rate in Australian mining injuries is several times less than the murder rate in Chicago (23.8) or even San Francisco (6.3).

So although mining is still an intrinsically dangerous occupation which puts your soft fleshy body in close proximity with all sorts of heavy, moving, unstable or explosive objects, safety training, equipment and procedures have improved a lot over the centuries.
And the sad part is that this is what they had promised. This hate and divide is what the BJP has preached and yet the people voted for them even for a second term. In some ways people are getting what they voted for.
I didn't say "least discussed", I'm talking about the countless stories that garner a lot of upvotes and disappear; and that's not all dupes or "outrage" articles, that included things overlapping with tech as well. I mean, stuff actual education camp documents being leaked.. hello? What kind of curiosity is that supposed to be? Nobody interested in helping translate, or anything? How very hacker.

At any rate, every story has a button to hide it, and there is no reason to just assume that, say, discussion of, say, medical botching in ICE camps, or the CCP demanding live streams delayed by 3 minutes, or whatever, will spill over into other topics. Actually, allowing it a venue might help it not spilling over, as it did here.

Or you know, like you banned me for posting a link and quote from a WP article and from a revisionist claim at a conference in China, on an article that fawned over "awesomely advanced" maps from China that were kinda a copy of European maps. I was at most being slightly snarky, by way of sharing something I did also consider genuinely interesting, and had never heard of on HN. But at least you had "warned" me in reply to a comment of mine earlier... 2 days after I had made it (which I noticed yesterday)

I don't mind being banned as such, but I do mind your throwaway, copy-paste reasoning for it. Ban me for being boring and confrontative, verbose and repetitive, fair enough. But "nationalistic and ideological battle"? Nope, that remains with you. If you're too busy to back it up, don't claim it. It's not like you're required to justify a ban, or do in all cases.

> this is a site for curiosity, and curiosity doesn't go with repetition.

Every day a person discovers a topic for the first time, and asks questions or makes statements others want to share their expertise on. People having been complaining about that since there were forums. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to change HN, but you can also not change what I consider fundamental to intellectual integrity and human curiosity.

> If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?

-- Hillel the Elder

If I have reason to think that my participation without speaking out about something forces me to betray that, then I simply don't.
> None that you merely googled for. I'm looking for content that actually supports your specific claim.

Ok. How do you want me to look for the data?

> 1) a survey on firearms-related deaths that doesn't even look at in-home use or defensive vs offensive use.

It's not just a survey.

> 2) A review of 26-year-old death certificates. Did you read this part? "Blacks, persons less than 35 years of age or older than age 100 years, and persons who died from external causes of homicide, suicide, and unintentional injury were oversampled in this survey."

Oversampling doesn't invalidate studies. Are you annoyed they acknowledged it? A less rigorous study wouldn't.

> 3) Uses same cooked data as #2, study done by an anti-gun interest group (VPC).

What neutral groups do you think are studying this stuff? The CDC? Well, they can start now.

> 4) Again uses the same cooked data from 26 years ago.
>
> 5) A thirty-year-old phone survey that doesn't even examine in-home gun use. Seriously?

Could you help me understand what you'd consider "evidence", considering you won't accept articles from peer-reviewed journals. Why does suicide or homicide have to happen "in-home" for it to be valid?

I'll provide more references if you can explain exactly what evidence would satisfy you. Otherwise it seems like a waste of time on my part.
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Yes, it is a good article. I'm glad that I finally got to read it.
Can't upvote this enough. People on HN keep talking about importance of statistics and differential equations, yet can't take account of inflation when talking about salaries from the previous millennium.
I’m shocked they didn’t rig it so doing what you did turns the check engine light on or something ridiculous.
Just a few months ago I had to take a series of tests with LifeLabs (blood, urine, physical, etc) to update my immigration papers. Did you know you cannot choose where to take these tests? You are more or less forced to use LifeLabs because the doctors designated by the IRCC (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) only partner with LifeLabs to do these tests, it’s an ugly monopoly that is impossible to fight as an immigrant. I knew, from the moment I walked in the laboratory, all the information I was handing and the data they were going to find was going to be leaked sooner than later.

I have tried more than once to make secretaries, assistants and nurses to understand how bad most of their systems are and how easy it is to expose the information of all their patients to malicious actors, but arguing with them is pointless because they barely understand what I am talking about or do not have the power to change anything. And the worst thing is, I have to visit LifeLabs again next month for another physical checkup and to take some X-rays and these news will not change anything.

Side note…

I used to work as a malware researcher for a security information company in the US. One day I remembered the story of Sisyphus:

> In Greek mythology Sisyphus was the king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He was punished for his self-aggrandizing craftiness and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll down when it nears the top, repeating this action for eternity — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

I ended up quitting my job no long after reading this story because it made me realize I was fighting an endless fight.
You can when that was the campaign promise of the election and you won the super majority to do so. Regardless of personal opinion, they did this the democratic way. We will see what the Supreme Court rules.
One reason also is that the workers in healthcare in the Netherlands are not paid much. As an IT person (clinical programmer, bioinformatician, application specialist,...) there is no way to get above scale 60 in this table
https://cao-ziekenhuizen.nl/media/45/download
Most get ~3k some with insane amount of experience get ~4k brutto a month
Your podcast is very good! I recommended the series to a friend who manages an open source project. Looking forward to your other interviews.

In the podcast episode, the guest does mention people are moving away from CLAs. He goes on to say projects are adopting a “Developer Certificate of Origin” model. I found an article that helped me start to understand differences in these models: “CLA vs. DCO: What's the difference?”, https://opensource.com/article/18/3/cla-vs-dco-whats-differe....
Yao yao ling is just what everyone says - it's a phone number. You don't read it as "one hundred and ten"
You can turn them all off in Android by just going to settings and disabling that specific app's notifications.

Perhaps some people desire (or even need) the unasked-for notification to start the meditation session they forgot about last week.

Let's not throw out optionality.
Good god, another way surveillance capitalism is tracking all of us. You have to tell your credit cards not to sell info about your transactions, you have to tell every frequent customer company not to sell your info, I have annual privacy opt outs. This is a lot of bullshit. I want automatic opt out for everything. It won't happy while our congress is still able to be purchased by campaign donations.
I'd like to know why business guys are writing React (or even JS). I can imagine why they might write Python and use Jupyter Notebooks, but React seems a little further out there, maybe they are prototyping some in-house applications or writing their own little apps for some small use case?
"Professional Services" and "Professionals" are exempt which includes engineers/software development. See here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21811997), engineers are AB5 exempt by law.

Also, most freelancing software engineers and developers have their own LLC before they even begin. Asking a software engineer to make an LLC is easy, a bunch of food workers may not have the funds. I know almost zero developers that are contractors or freelancers that don't have their own LLC (usually single owner).

I am a software engineer/developer and game developer that contracts and this doesn't affect me at all.

I am very happy for food, cleaning, healthcare workers that will get more protections now.

California is the last state doing anything for labor and workers. No need to pile it on labor/workers more when you have only one state out there fighting for lower/middle class to get better employment.
Sling also has Viacom.
Note, however: While this web site has "journal" in its title, it is not a scientific publication. Namah describes itself as "The Journal of Integral Health" -- it is published by a branch of a yogic spiritual community.

This doesn't necessarily mean that the anecdotes described there are false, but I'd be inclined to take them with a grain of salt.
too late to edit, I meant to say "we should not do gun research ..."
I think that people who think money is a wrong reason to do something end up spending more time and effort getting money because they don't bother to come up with a system for making it efficiently. Which is a bit ironic. If you really don't want to care about money, make it efficiently so you can spend less time on it.

If I were to do it all again, I'd do something that produces more passive income. You can make a lot of money working for FAANG, but you are going to be working hard and for long hours. It's not an easy job, and it's fairly pointless to have money if you work away all your best years. Programming is a service industry, and real money comes from owning things, not from doing things, because things you own make you money even when you're not doing anything. Sure, you can go off and create an app that creates some passive income but it's a crapshoot whether you'll actually be profitable.

They aren't making more land, and everybody needs somewhere to live. Real estate requires little education, the legwork is mostly looking at places with people. It's not a glamorous job but it gives you the time to do what you want with your life.
Because Hindus and other minorities are not being persecuted for their religion in non-Islamic neighboring countries.

Every few days there is a report in Pak media where yet another Hindu teenager girl is abducted and converted to Islam.

It is India's right and duty to provide refuge to these people.

Surely you can't argue that Muslims are being prosecuted in such a manner in Islamic countries.
I'd support this not be tied to jobs. but in the us, reality is that currently many things like health insurance are unfortunately tied to jobs.
Indian minorities are not being targeted.

Non-Muslim minorities from neighboring Islamic countries are being given refuge to save them from religious prosecution.
But the owners of websites want to show these google ads to you. Who is in control of content: the viewers or creators/hosters?
Capitalism inevitably leads to consolidation of power and greed.
The time I'm thinking of was well after Calvin and Hobbes ended. I'm pretty sure that the two comics have little or no time when they both coexisted.
Why would criminalizing paying ransoms cause attackers to target hospitals? I would think hospitals would have a fairly strict compliance effort, whereas Joe Schmoe probably never even heard that it's illegal to pay a ransom.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. PBS has always been free to watch over the air. The article talks about how great it is to have PBS available for streaming on Youtube TV. But it doesn't mention YouTube TV is a subscription only service starting at $50/month. This is similar to a cable provider offering 100+ PBS channels to its $50/month subscription. Call me cheap, but I don't want to pay $50/month to be able to stream PBS.
I found this image that seems to sum it up

https://i.redd.it/52yh38os3b541.jpg
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This is exactly what I'm talking about - that we consider a message about organising/unionising to be so controversial at all. To me that is some dystopian level weird.
> Muslims are not similarly persecuted in Islamic nations.

That's a gross generalization. See for example, the Ahmadis in Pakistan. Or more generally, the whole Sunni vs Shia split. India is supposed to be a secular country.

Anyways, most of the recent rukkus is in Assam and northeastern India. Most of the people fleeing Bangladesh aren't doing so because of religious persecution; that country doesn't have nearly as stringent islamic laws like Pakistan does. The official platform of the ruling party in Bangladesh, which has 300+ out of 350 seats currently in parliament, promotes secularism as one of four main tenants. There has been communal violence there, just like in India, but it is no Pakistan.

Hindus and Muslims alike leave Bangladesh for various reasons, but in the last four decades, it's mostly because of economic and ecological issues.

Meanwhile, in Assam, there has been more than a century of Assamese vs Bengali (both hindus and muslims, both from India and Bangladesh like) vs other tribal/ethnic groups. This has resulted in several partitions of Bengal (which also caused economic decline, which also caused more refugees), and several carve outs of Assam into a bunch of other states due to many insurgencies.
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> This government is going nuts trying to create a hindu muslim divide.

Um, No. The CAA bill does not decide citizenship based on your religion. There are many factors but religion is not one of them. Most of the illegal migrants are from the neighboring countries. The fact that these are Muslim majority countries is not something the Indian government can or should do anything about.

And regarding the other fact that the bill allows fast citizenship to Hindus and Sikhs coming into India, why shouldn't it? The people of these religions are persecuted outside in some countries (Read about what Pakistan did in 1971 in Bangladesh and also read the data for the religious markup of the Pakistani populace form 1947 to 2019) and India, being their historical homeland should welcome them.

Israel also has laws for accepting persecuted Jews to the safety of their homeland. There are no protests for that, then why should India face protests for it?

> Food inflation, unemployement, and all markers of quality of life are down

Food inflation (specifically the onion prices that I assume that you are referring to) is due to the two months of unusual extra monsoon this season that destroyed the crop. I think we can safely assume that the government cannot control rain and cannot magically grow food out of thin air.
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Because India was partioned in 1947 on religious basis.

Pak and Bangladesh, which are Islamic countries, can take care of Islamic refugees.
I am not kidding. Only a subset of college educated people have that cynicism

> If we sat around and waited for the perfect environment that addressed everybody's concerns, we'll be waiting forever.

Forever sounds better than the alternative. You seem so eager to sacrifice so much on the altar of hope based on wishful thinking that this data will not be abused. The #1 rule in technology should be "if it can be abused,it will be abused" there are no exceptions to this.

Like another commenter suggested,perhaps your current place in society has you free from such fears but rest assured that in times of war,turmoil or civil conflict or when spy agencies and the military want to gain an operational advantage using this tech/data It will be used against you. Your sick and disabled family members would have been subject to eugenics. It's not difficult to imagine any social group finding themselves in a position of weakness against a hostile power,group or individual. Look at all the horrible experiments the CIA performed, euegenics by usgov/army, the horrible things they did in Iraq and cia detention facilities,etc... the typical situation imho will be a cooperation between evil government and these companies where the companies abuse the data/tech with impunity in exchange for sharing access with their gov protectors.

Just take a peek at all the inhumanity and amorality of the pharmaceutical industry's greedy price hikes/rigging. Do you still think these are trustworthy people who won't take every opportunity to profit and say "sorry" when they get caught? (Or just bribe politicians and ignore the whole thing).

I mean how naive and deluded are you? I still don't get you and op's state of mind here. Horrible abuses will happen at large scales, guaranteed (not even speculating)!
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Isn't an issue with Facebook that personal and professional accounts are often linked?
I had to do a fingerprint scan and photo for the visa application, then another fingerprint and face scan when passing through the airport security.

Is there a problem with the fingerprinting requirement? I imagine the face scan can be used in much more dystopian ways, as your face is probably* being tracked by the ubiquitous security cameras in every public place you go.

* If not now, then soon.
Supply and demand. Pay 2x or 3x or... and you will get people you need.
Agreed 70% is fantastic. But it's surprising that having information no other trader has doesn't guarantee that you'll make money every time.
Ask HN: Returning to a programming career after years of management and a family
I’m a software engineer by training who about 15 years ago moved first to project management and then to engineering management, and would now like to return to a technical career as a programmer, because that’s where my passion lies (another way to put it is that I’m sick of management and would like to code which I love). However I haven’t coded much at work during the time I’ve been a manager, and while I’ve tried to keep at it with personal projects, I can’t claim a strong recent experience. On top of that, I have a family and a young son to whom I devote most of my free time (which at the moment isn’t much because I work long days) and my wife is unemployed.

I know that I should start some project of my own, build something, take part in a OSS project and so forth, but the financial pressure and time demands of having a family prevent me from doing so. I basically have free time in chunks of 15 minutes at a time before I’m interrupted, which is barely enough to decide what I’m going to work on next. Also, I’m in my mid forties and are worried that even if I manage to switch, I’ll be the weird grampa in the office.

I’d like to hear from people with a similar background who went through a transition like the one I’m contemplating, what worked and what didn’t for them. Or general advice people might have. Thanks in advance!
Some countries may aldo choose to prosecute you according to their law, which may be even harsher.

I’m aware of one case in specific. 2 brothers killed a person in Sweden, one got caught and got 12 years the other one fled to Libanon which rejected the request to extradite him but chose to prosecute themselves. The sentence was death.
Curing people is still profitable. If you are competing with an incumbent who only treats symptoms you can claim their business by curing patients.

Unless somehow it were possible to gain a monopoly on curing people, which is plausible but fundamentally not the responsibility of the researchers.
I imagine the Search/Ads SRE team would tell the GCP team that they can have their infrastructure when they pry it out of their cold dead hands.
> Well the "slippery slope" argument is also a logical fallacy.

Only if the slope isn't actually slippery.
Is this info being collected for police cars? That could be useful in litigation.
Yeah, false sense of security. It takes a day for a well built system to collapse (and your position in it as well).
It's as genuine as the Russian propaganda being spread in the US. The only difference is that it's Pakistan spreading the propaganda here.