skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What part of economics isn't about power?

Economics is about power in the sense that chemistry is about particle physics. I mean, yeah, sure, that kind of analysis is technically admissible, but it's not useful because there are important emergent phenomena in the higher-level system (economics, chemistry) that become impossibly cumbersome modeled directly in the language of the lower-level system (individual incentives, particle physics).

It's not particularly productive to apply the language of political science to things like Ricardo's examination of land rents. My point is that as companies become very large, the high-level phenomenon start to break down and we need to begin using the lower-level machinery to make sense of the problem in the extreme space. For example, the interior of neutron star is best understood by referencing physical effects directly. Likewise, when an economy has consolidated to the point that we basically have one giant company per economic sector, it starts being more useful to look at the situation through the lens of history and politics than through the lens of pure economics.
Based on my experience, it doesn't seem that many companies outside of the FAANG companies have those kind of tracks. At a small company that builds a single product, what would a "fellow" actually do that is different than a senior engineer?
Where do they go?

A-Management.

B-Consulting.

C-Stagnation.

D-Endure a string of jobs where they are mobbed because they are seen as a threat until they retire from the industry.
Ah yes, the old "No one thinks for themselves except people like me" argument.

> openly being an accidental moderate requires the most courage of all

If he thinks that having middle-of-the-road opinions requires the most courage of them all, he has had an extraordinarily easily life in which he is used to be hailed as brilliant. It seems as though due to his comfortable position in life he has never faced any significant opposition to anything he's said, anything he's done, or anything he is.

I might be wrong, and I respect the opinions of "accidental moderates" who are acting in good faith, but I cannot imagine how you'd come to the conclusion that holding moderate viewpoints requires any real courage at all.

> Nearly all the most impressive people I know are accidental moderates

"I am only impressed with people exactly like me."

Someone needs to write a similar pithy thinkpiece about how people who experience a lot of success should stick to what they know and not assume it gives them valid insight into other parts of life.
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> Elon is the only person to ever start four 1bn+ companies (paypal, tesla, SpaceX, Solarcity).

He didn't start Tesla. He was retroactively allowed to be called founder after being in their Series A.

He didn't start Paypal. It merged with Musk's company.

He didn't start Solarcity - Tesla acquired it 10 years after it was founded.
Median payment seems like a misleading statistic because there are many repayment plans: the default is 10 years for student loans; but income-based repayment could extend that. Affordable monthly payments across the board is good for all graduates, but it doesn't necessarily imply it's $222/month for 10 years for all debtors.
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I would kinda like to see this approach (Kaboom) combined with Simon Tatham's version. Basically, add the guarantee that you can solve each one without guessing. Or, add instant death when you open a square that wasn't guaranteed safe to Simon Tatham's version. I think I would like that significantly better: I like the guarantee that each one can be solved, but I want to be punished when I incorrectly open a square that wasn't safe.
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It's somewhat backwards in medicine. Many top grads stay in academics where the prestige is high but the pay is low. With the exception of elective plastics and dermatology, the highest earning physicians tend to be from middle of the road schools and work in rural areas after graduation (commonly from surgical sub-specialties).
How well does the page render on a legacy version of IE running on a Mac?
Most of my work weeks clock in around 50-60 hours regularly. It's pretty simple how this happens. It's meetings all day and then once meetings are over it's email, documents, admin paperwork, training etc...

Here's an example of just last Thursday which was busy but was at least not double booked and had some times I could stop and go to the bathroom, I also wasn't traveling this day which was good:

8-12 - US Senate Staff Delegation and budget review

12-1 - Software Requisition Review

1-2 - Infrastructure planning meeting

2-3 - Conference call with colleague in HI

3-4 - Meeting with an LP

4-5 - Talking with my Deputy and Admin

5-7 - Meeting with Army Futures

7 - Dinner

8-10 - Emails, Award review for employees, look over presentations due in Jan/Feb

Now, almost none of that work is creative because I'm not in a creative job anymore really. I am an executive with a 200 person data engineering and data science team building the future way the DoD builds and runs software.

That's how you get to these hours.

I'd also suggest that "Building and nurturing relationships" isn't "Bullshit work."
> What exactly would the quantitative "score" be to measure between the qualitative systems of Capitalism and Socialism?

Well, isn't this exactly what people try to do when comparing these systems? Number of deaths, number of people in poverty, number of products on the shelves in stores?

> Between Buddhism and Christianity?

You can count the number of atrocities perpetrated by each. The number of scandals involving their priests. The total number of adherents.

> what exactly is the numerical "dose" between qualitatively different systems?

That is the whole point of my post. Defining how to turn a qualitative measure into a quantitate measure is the real and only trick. I chose some arbitrary ones in response to your examples. You may choose different ones. Maybe you choose to measure capitalism and socialism based on some psychological happiness score defined as responses to some survey. Maybe you measure it by GDP. Choosing your measure is the real power.
I don't think I have ever seen a parking area with reverse-angle parking. Any angled parking usually has signs to make it clear that cars must park forward facing only.

Having said that, it would be nice to see this adapted to parallel parking since that is a much more common parking scenario.
You should be expecting it if the car is indicating, which is something you should do when you're about to park.
I've heard from many people that if you're legitimately on the drug the experience is totally different than if you're taking it without a brain chemistry that needs it i.e. as a study drug. I wonder if that means that people who have ADHD could possibly have different or fewer side-effects than people without, if the two groups respond so differently. Are there any large scale studies about the long term health implications of using Adderall or Vivance without having ADHD?
This anti-pattern is alive and well throughout the industry. I'm automatically suspicious of any department that dubs itself as "architecture" because the motivations are usually broken in that success looks like forcing outside engineering teams to adopt a pattern conceived in abstraction.

My experience says that ICs are best embedded in the team to deliver working code with patterns that are conceived from exposure to the real problem being solved.
Supply doesn't meet demand. Just look at the units built vs. population growth, as the article mentions.

We're experiencing the same thing in Canada. While the numbers show a steady increase in housing starts in Toronto and construction superficially looks healthy, the number of units barely matches population growth, and that's with the recent uptick in construction, after a long period of insufficiency. Unsurprisingly, rental and housing costs are insane here.

And when it comes to detached housing, supply is finite. A continually growing population and the suburban dream for all are not really compatible in the long run.
It has always been a "people's choice" sort of thing, a least for a certain slice of "people".

Large media outfits tend to hate RSS because it puts curation in the hands of users, and that curation function is what a lot of people will pay a lot of money to influence.

Smaller media outfits like it, because they can find readers without paying money to influence the large gatekeepers.

As blogging has "matured", the big shops are feeling more confident that they can lock folks back in to their curation.
Such hashing does not seem straight-forward to me. If you make it very exact, it's easy to get around. Use another email address, use a prepaid phone card, insert a middle initial, spell the street address slightly different and the hash will not match.

The more fuzzy you make it ("normalizing" the data before calcukating the hash), the more likely it will cause a false positive for legitimate users.

It's probably only a matter of time until we read articles on HN where such an algorithm got it wrong.
I went to a 4-year college, but earned almost all of my money from self-taught programming and design skills.

It's hard to justify the ROI on college.

At $25k/year for a low-tier college, you'll spend $100k (if you don't need loans). If you take that $100k and put it in the market (avg. 7% annual returns) with 0 contributions for 45 years, you could spend every penny you make and retire at 63 with $2.1M.

At more expensive colleges ($50k/yr+) the math seems less and less in your favor.
It's quite important/basic feature required in most PWA use cases. Such feature will result in number of apps shiped outside App Store. This is probably why they delay it.
It's not mortality you should worry about, but life altering injury.

My stepdad, my next door neighbor, and 3 of my friends all have some kind of long term chronic injury caused by military service.

In fact I only know 1 guy well who's ex military who doesn't have at least a moderately severe problem related to his service.

Military service is either a noble sacrifice, or it's a good job. It can't be both simultaneously.
Why Event-Based Systems?
I don't answer either. And I get voicemails with robocalls about Cigna health plans A LOT. Not sure why.

I also get warranty spam calls that leave voice mails too.
Fighter pilots are given modafinil for alertness. Granted its probably a different type of work.
The population of the United States is dominated by the coasts. The GDP of the United States is dominated by the coasts. The tax base of the United States is dominated by the coasts.
Be careful that you are at a company or, even better, in an industry that isn't rife with ageism and where there is a clear and well defined path for more senior ICs to continue to develop an age appropriate resume (increasingly strategic contributions while remaining current with latest industry tools and practices) that will serve them well if/when they are looking for work at 55.

In software this is very often not the case. A 55 year old still fluent in hot tech and a lot of strategic work as an architect, interventionist, mentor to younger devs, etc and who can demonstrate all that in their resume will probably do ok. A 55 year old who is "just" a coder will often have a rough time (vs 28 year olds getting actively recruited 5x/week).

In other industries, like EE where I also worked for several years, this is much much less true. Very senior ICs are highly valued and it is common for teams to be a blend of engineers from fresh grads upto near-retirees.
I never answer AND never check voicemails.

If people want to get a hold of me they can text or email.
More effective since I barely did any regular flossing before. I have(or had) sensitive gums and I would constantly bleed and I never developed a proper technique and habit with regular floss. with this, it feels like everything between the teeth gets flushed. The string floss still gets used when I am out (no more bleeding) but even once I get home I use the Waterpik, and I can still see some bits I missed. This sounds like an ad but I have been super satisfied with a Mornwell wireless oral irrigator. ideal usecase for a wireless charging station, since I always worried about it being wet near wirea with the older ones I had. I am still waiting for something bad to happen to me since this has helped me too much.
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I have been an IC for 17 years now (MS/Amzn/Snap) - let's hope I haven't peaked yet :)

But over time I have seen my role change in many ways though: I started as the stereotypical IC, slinging code and did that for a long time. Almost at every level though, sooner or later I ended up with almost full ownership of whatever I was working on. That meant I kept growing in levels and I am where I am right now (Uber tech lead for all data analytics infrastructure at snap).

My current role essentially takes up 10-15% time for company level arch/design reviews, 10% time on interviews, 40% time on preset meetings (scrums/team design reviews/planning/post mortems), 20% time on operations and about 15% time for coding. So pretty much all coding I do is in that tiny sliver or outside office.

I am pretty much a part of all meetings my manager peers are a part of - except for their people commitments. The main differentiation I see between the IC role and managerial is that I don't have people reporting to me. I also don't have to be in ALL the status reporting meetings / managing up etc.

There are definitely times I want to put my head down and get some problems solved, but it usually comes at a cost. So I find some or other engineer to task it on and watch it done most of the times. Rest of the times I don't sleep :)

It is breadth heavy because snap is still a small company in terms of # of engineers. My equivalent role in AWS was a lot more on the building side (50-75% went into building stuff and rest for ops/interviews etc.) because it was a depth position. I did choose this after 13 years of depth roles, it has been quite interesting so far! The biggest advantage I bring is that I can pretty much fix anything in the system and make changes in any component, assuming the dev is not available. I also keep the full stack in my head, so serve as the initial litmus test for new proposals.

I see a bit of misconceptions about pay (I do get paid in the same band as my level to next level give or take bonuses/stocks etc), ownership (My ass is very much on the line for our data quality), responsibility (my managers share the responsibility in a different way - they will get a team member on things that need done and refocus. I will jump in myself if that doesn't work) etc.

I like the freedom. I do like the fact that I can be socially aloof (I am usually friendly, but my friends are outside work) and still get things done. I prefer not to worry about others personal lives (from what I see, this becomes inevitable for managers). I definitely like not having to deliver reviews (I am still a part of the process).

Feel free to ask me any questions.
Apple News is yet another walled garden, it's not too surprising they'd remove the ability to customize your content experience beyond what they specifically approve, is it?

Personally I still miss Google Reader and consider the demise of that service as one of the biggest losses to the open web.
Probably because there's a substantial minority of hardware engineers here for whom IC designer is a very specific job title.

I have worked at and worth several companies which purport to have this parallel track. In practice there seems to be much less need for senior engineering and much more need for senior management. There may exist a parallel track but there aren't many positions on that track.
To be fair, I oversimplified the problem. Every film's rights are owned by someone, and the problem wouldn't be solved entirely by Netflix merely throwing money at it. But the fact remains that there are a lot of great films from this period that as far as I can tell (and for some I've looked pretty hard) are not available for streaming on any platform - YouTube, Mubi, Netflix, Prime, iTunes, etc etc. [0]

The problem is worse if A) you're not in the US and B) you are interested in stuff that wasn't a box office top 100 hit.

It's an empirical question as to whether, as you say "the remaining few indie or abandoned flicks are not really worth it." Netflix has certainly decided that this is the case, but it's not obvious to me that they're right.

[0] https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/10/missing-movies-not-avail...
In a "fresh out of school / fresh out of first job founder-wanting-to-build-a-startup" context, you often start with no connections, no capital, no world-class skills, no team, no game-changing idea. The only variable you can control is the amount of effort (time) you put into the venture trying to find something that works before you can no longer afford ramen. The hours are justified in that scenario, because you have no other resource to leverage outside of time.

Years later, when you're already comfortable, have a rich network of experts and trusted past associates, have easy access to capital, have decades of experience of building businesses, and a deep understanding of an industry of two? Yeah, you don't need the long hours, you're fine.
If you're wondering how this is different from Vimium and friends, there are 2 main things:

1. Shortkeys makes it very easy to create/customize your own in the GUI, no matter how tech-savvy you are, and it doesn't ship with any default shortcuts.

2. Shortkeys tries to fix the "it doesn't work when you have the URL bar or a new tab page focused!" problem by supporting native browser extension shortcuts as much as possible. More info on that here: https://github.com/mikecrittenden/shortkeys/wiki/FAQs-and-Tr...
Medical residents routinely do close to 80 hours, and I would argue on average a small single digit number of those hours are unproductive. My SO is an OB resident and worked over 90 hours last week, and probably 75 of that was either in surgery, reading, studying, or giving a presentation of one form or another. About half of her weeks are above the 80 hour limit.

It's definitely possible. Just because we don't want to do it (I don't either!) or that it has negative long-term consequences doesn't mean it's not possible.
I recently discovered that on iOS, you can press on the scrollbar to get direct control of the scroll knob. That allows you to quickly jump to any part of the document without having to thumb scroll through it page by page.
Yes. I would categorize genocide by relatives as something that most people would not want to face -- it's "probably another topic"
It's a mistake to omit that too.
Not to get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, but Google Font requests don't include any tracking cookies.
> for those in the USA only

Key distinction
The point is that it tells us nothing. Once again, just because you provided more details to the story does absolutely nothing to verify those details. We have only your word.

You're more paying lip service to the idea that you take "huge issue" with police unions and departments sheltering bad actors. You say the words. But you're also here defending them with the whole "they're not all bad" shtick.

And pulling the whole "replace X with Y, well aren't you a racist" card.

There's far more instances of them protecting each other than there are of them protecting us from "the bad actors".

If it were "deeply frightening" to you to think about abusive people being given license to commit violence with impunity, then I don't see how you so readily leap to the defense of law enforcement officers.
The decline of RSS has ruined the internet for me. I’m not being hyperbolic either.

RSS effectively died and has been replaced with Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram feeds. Even if RSS still technical exists for some content, it’s not the same.

What was great about RSS is it was pure. If content creators and publishers wanted to put ads in the feed they could and you knew you were directly supporting them. We didn’t have this stupid “likes” garbage that people were competing for.

I find myself just consuming a lot less content on the internet. I’d rather just not participate than have to wade through the bullshit that’s become “social media.”
What a cynical viewpoint. Airbnb’s response is troubling whether you find this particular case egregious or not. You may not think of accommodation as a public or necessary service. But consumers still deserve protection from unjust practices. To view the situation as a simple transaction governed by opaque and ever-shifting Terms of Service Agreements sounds pretty dystopian to me.
The extent of my knowledge is shadowing an an anesthesiologist back in my pre-med days, so take whatever I say with a grain of salt.

It is real hands-on-work. There simply aren't enough doctors who are willing to work in a small town, even though they would get paid a lot more. From what I understand, anesthesiology (and surgery) is mostly autopilot work, so there isn't that much creativity, but it still requires thinking. Usually people respond to drugs the way you expect them to, but you need to be able to handle situations where things go catastrophically wrong.
You can also get hours like that by working multiple low-level service or industrial jobs, or working a lot of overtime at a job that pays overtime. I have known people to do both, and the only thing that really limits it is the cost to your personal life and basic maintenance (relationships, health, home repair, that kind of stuff.) Men with a stay at home wife who is good at managing the home and keeping up relationships can really push it for long periods of time and come out fine in the end, but it's becoming increasingly rare for families to be able to get by with only one person working.
I'm in the same boat - frantically searching for answers on this matter. In fact I'm in the process of uprooting my family in CO, to move to CA. I have always worked W2, but am starting a business doing independent contracting as a software developer and was hoping to create and grow this business in CA. I'm in also in the process of setting up an S Corp in CA, but from what I've read this doesn't change the fact that I will need to be considered an IC under AB5. I'm trying to figure out if this new law throws a wrench in all of my plans or makes it harder for me to find work. I'll reply to this post if I talk to a lawyer in the next week or two.

I'm also curious if this just applies to companies based in CA that are hiring software devs as IC's or if it also affects software developers that are working as IC's with companies outside of CA.