skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because your post is quite far down, I'm not sure it'll get many views/replies. Just wanted to say that I read it all and it's both informative, interesting, and (regrettably) demoralizing.

In my first year of college I wanted to be a doctor and landed an absurd position - in hindsight - over my freshman summer where I was in the operating room with my surgeon nearly everyday (he led the residents). I tagged along through all the rounds, operations, and (of course) the tedious paperwork and billings.

By the end of the summer I was entirely jaded and switched programs. I still often think about whether or not I should have stuck it out.

However, what I ultimately saw (as you mentioned) were residents at this top, well-funded hospital who deeply loved medicine when they began medical school fall into a deeply jaded, pessimistic state. They made no money (while living in a high CoL city), were consistently overworked, and riddled with anxiety about where they would actually get a job post-residency.

Becoming a doctor - a surgeon in particular - struck me as a dozen year journey of constant make-or-break tests, quasi-lotteries with regards to residencies/fellowships, and then complete ambiguity as to where you would actually work when it was all done and you hit your mid-thirties. It also seemed increasingly devoid of any kind of professional autonomy and, most surprising to me, was how ungrateful and mean-spirited many patients were. Their lives would be saved, but they would yell at the surgeons over cosmetic concerns about the scars.

I often wonder whether my experience was not representative or simply too much to absorb as an 18-year-old at the time. However, the only folks I've talked to who seem to be truly satisfied and content with their careers are family doctors operating (largely) on their own terms and making 200-300k a year.

EDIT: I should say, I wish you the best moving forward and hope you find a level of contentment and happiness in a bruising - to put it mildly - system.
You're ignoring the fact that communication is critical in the modern world and Apple has too big of a piece of the pie there and is clearly too powerful in dictating what is happening as well as abusing that power. Also video games aren't critical to functioning in the information age, while communication clearly is.
I can't think of a job that I have had that was perfectly described in the job posting. Something is always different.

As far as bad jobs, there is always some opportunity. If there is free time, work on something else or take online classes if the company would own anything you work on. If you are stuck doing busy work, automate.

It is also fair to jump ship. Not every opportunity is worth it. I would say, before you go, try to learn what happened to make this environment so bad. It will be useful later.

Good luck.
Actually, the Secret Service was originally an undercover anti-counterfeiting group. I do believe its existence was kept secret for a time.
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Fair point. There's Somebody's Law (I forget whose) that adding lanes to roads increases travel time, because traffic increases more than enough to compensate for the new lanes. This may have a similar effect - decreasing the per-kill collateral damage (or at least media attention) may result in even more killing.
Playing devil's advocate, if you are able to close a deal that is bringing more than 2.5 million a year, then you are definitely worth that amount.
India's internet curbs are part of growing global trend
TBF, Typescript's VScode's integration is about the best thing the language has got going for it.

It's very likely what's driving adoption right now.
Microsoft with New Edge seems to be trying to hit the same or a very similar "think that it gives additional privacy" spot as Safari. By being Chromium-based and Chrome-like it maybe is the "new" cross-platform Safari now that Apple retrenched and decided to stop bothering with making Safari cross-platform.
How big do you think a "productive browser team" needs to be?

How big do you think the Chromium team is?
It really depends on the size of the airplane. Just a couple weeks ago I was one of the first 10 people to board the plane and was in "Premium Economy" on a 777-300ER for a full flight from Eastern Europe to the Midwestern US. I'd guess I was on the plane for nearly an hour before we pushed back from the gate. But this is for a plane with 300 people that boarded through a single door.
Kaiser is a shit place to work....until you compare them to the alternatives.

I know a number of doctors who love working for Kaiser after having worked in private practice or at other hospital chains.
I would rather invest in something that tries to prevent the decline. Renewable energy for example.
Empire building tends to be irresistible to those in positions eligible.
But at the same time, what if you want to filter records? Doing it on the Firebase side saves both time and money.
> Evolutionary speaking; when free food is on the table there will be takers at any temperature.

However there speed of the change this time could be unprecedented for long enough that there's no time for new pollinators to evolve fast enough for us, humans interested in extremely short term results, compared to the time frames on which evolution works.
It is not a question of how long after business does economy board. It is a question of how much after economy starts will business board if order was reversed.

I have done some business travel and some premium economy travel, and I have seen airlines take 40-60 minutes from "formal" boarding time to takeoff. When they require 60 minutes, it usually is a big plane and the difference between business and economy could be 20 minutes easily (assuming the seating was reversed).

I have wondered many a times if boarding last would not be better? But there is a joy to leaving the lounge and directly walking into the plane if you time it right. Otherwise you end up waiting for others to board first. Also, I could afford to be late and still get in, not so if my boarding group was the last.

These are minor luxuries, but each has some value. In the bigger scheme of things, and given that it is hard to afford business travel all the time on personal dime, I would say it does not matter much :)
I hope you are joking.

If someone said I'll do full-stack dev for 150k instead 400k at google, how would you take that question?
CEOs handle optics and politics first. Of course Musk is going to promise top class service to a best-selling author with a massive following. You always take care of the big swinging d's first. You relegate the rest to your minions to handle.
Are there interviews why they based it on Chromium, not Gecko? From business point of a view taking a direct competitor's effort is somewhat blurry.
>although personally I've always wondered why this is desirable

Most people finding waiting to board unpleasant and want it over ASAP. For me personally, it is often less comfortable in the terminal for a number of reasons. The climate and noise is worse, I must keep an eye on luggage, and I have a mild anxiety about inexplicably losing my documentation or becoming too engrossed in whatever activity I am doing while I wait.

Alternatively, I could be sitting, stretching, taking off my shoes, ordering a drink, and focusing my full attention work/entertainment/sleep for that 20 minutes.
I mean, memetic evolution is faster than genetic evolution because generations take longer and are most constrained. So the genetic trend is always lagging. I expect the trade off between these things to be cyclical and that we're in the part of the cycle where the tide is turning in favor of the baby-makers.
I don't presume to know how shady the people in other industries are.

I've met very few of them in advertising. Alas, they tend to be in the executive suite. (I suspect that's equally true in most industries, but that's pure speculation.) The vast majority of the actual people in this industry are good people who try their best to do good work. They're looking to make an honest buck and feel good about what they do.

That said, Bernays is not someone I'd consider a role model.
I think "clearly affirmative" is only possible when it's "clear" - the consumer cannot clearly affirm to an unclearly-worded question.

You can also cover it under "easy to select by mistake [the unintended answer]".

I think the root of the problem in most cases is that companies don't want to help consumers, they actively want to mislead them and then claim plausible deniability.

I don't understand which sense you mean by "pretending this isn't a delicate issue..." here. I can't even tell if you are pro-GDPR or anti-GDPR from that, and which of those positions you consider to be helping consumers more. Ironic, Y/N? :-)
More importantly, how do those cattle become cattle in the first place without BMC? How do you turn them into another breed of cattle without BMC?

Not that it can't be done... but that's a system dependent on the hardware doing the right thing, as opposed to a system that can tell the hardware what to do every step of the way.
That 11M would, however, cover a lot of the leadership and directors, who are among the highest paid employees of the company.
> CEOs work 204 times as hard as regular employees

That's an interesting (and ridiculous) way to spin the numbers.

One doesn't have to work x times harder to bring x times more value to a company.
Interesting, Steam has granted every refund I've requested (I'm in the US).
I tend to be of the opinion that roll-aboard "carry" ons are a big part of the problem with overhead space. Yes, some people can't really carry loads. But most would be better off with soft-side travel backpacks and other soft carry-ons that tend to be more space efficient and flexible. (Especially given that there's less need for luggage that can keep suits wrinkle free than in times past.)
So is Shopify the biggest fish still on the Ruby stack?
Nice article detailing how they did an upgrade to openId connect to allow SSO on multiple shops within a client company.
And those places still exist. The various networks reachable with an IRC client are in that category. Hacker News is in that category. But they are never going to grow as big as Facebook or Reddit specifically because they do ask their participants to put effort in. And they are no longer the only game in town.

I don't think it's necessarily true that places like that went away in the large. Certainly some have shriveled up. And discoverability for them is about as challenging as it always has been---major search engines aren't going to index them at the top of most queries because major search engines are targeting what the average user is searching for and most popular results. But many simply didn't grow larger while the rest of the internet exploded with some billion new people.
Seriously, that bugs the hell out of me too.

Why do I need to give Adobe admin rights to install Photoshop? Why do I need to give Microsoft the same to install Word? And now for a web browser?

If I'm installing something low-level like a window manager or a keyboard shortcut tool, I get it. But for a normal mainstream flagship consumer application, what on earth do they need admin privileges for?!

I hate the fact I have to hand over the keys to my computer just to run basic industry standard software and I have no choice because it's industry standard and I have requirements to use it.
The division of the cerebral cortex into cortical areas is somewhat subjective.
Nice, you should come to Miami! https://superconf.com/
> "Green Day" [...] 100% corporate

Sounds like modern search engines know the score. I'm kind of kidding.. only kind of. If you search for non-corporate content you get more non-corporate results, although admittedly less than in the past.
I don't think automation or shift of testing responsibilities to developers is harming QA role in any way, it's just the first candidate for layoffs, because it does not have immediate impact on business. Independent SQA is still relevant, even it it becomes a developer specialization.
For me, it's the fact that I can create a custom build of Iosevka with preferred weights that look good in the different font rendering systems: Native macOS, Electron (VS Code), Java (IntelliJ).

All need different weights to end up looking about the same on the same system.

And then being able to turn on/off ligatures, tweak some glyphs.

It's hard to give that up.
Happiness is a transaction, you don't get it for free. I'm convinced after searching for over 13 years to people to make me happy, the only thing that really makes me happy is helping others.

It's ironic, isn't it? To feel happy you have to do something for another. We only feel happy giving to another, any selfish want in and of itself will never lead to happiness.
I did read that too long ago; will reread: thanks!
Rational thinking is computationally intractable.
That is exactly what a residency is...
It’s sort of like comparing two algorithms and using the one that has the simplest best case time complexity without considering the average case or that your particular real-world use might actually be a worst case.
A combination of Beat Saber and Pistol Whip in VR does the trick for me.
This is odd to me. The Apple Pay sheet does clearly show all the information being collected (credit card info, billing + shipping info) before you confirm. They didn't "assume" the shipping address was the same without telling you — it pre-filled the information and showed it to you before you checked out. Then you had to either enter your passcode or scan your face/fingerprint, which is a pretty big sign that something big is happening (incidentally, I have no idea how this could have happened inside Nassim's pocket).

No UI is 100% free of being misinterpreted by users of course. But I'm not sure the Apple Pay UI is to blame for either your mistake or Nassim's.
It depends on the scenario. If all you’re trying is stop it from working, the article says it’s IR based so jamming the sensor (the camera) with a lot of IR radiation can work quite nicely.

Individually you could do this with bright IR emitting LEDs. On the scale of the battlefield, a cool trick that is already being done today on yachts of the rich and private is using a laser to shine a lot of light directly on the CMOS (sensor element) of the capturing device when the shutter opens.

These methods work but they don’t hide what they’re doing (jamming). It would be instantly obvious as to what you were doing which would be OK on the battlefield if you’re not trying to hide your position, not so much in China.
Your price is lower, but maybe your cost is higher.
I'm a noob web dev working in a small shop that sells a niche SaaS product.

We had a customer push us to support Edge.

The dev team (3 dudes) just looked at eachother and laid down the "No, Firefox or Chrome...".

It's just so much pressure to dance around the "this one does this, that one doesn't" and generally we rarely run into any Firefox and Chrome issues. Edge, just not worth it for a small team.

I'm glad we probabbly can direct them to the new Edge now (after some testing).
>The burden of ensuring software quality can be shifted to devs and PMs

Heck, the burden can be shifted to users! But then you might not have so many users in the future. :(
It's a balance. Leadership does have a role here (and in some organizations like the military it is more strictly top down). But in most companies leadership can at most set goals, incentive behavior, and approve budgets and projects and it's ultimately up to the employees to implement and adapt strategy
I'm a Rust fanboy, let's state that at the beginning. It does, however, have a slow production adoption even though there is a fairly quick developer adoption (much to my chagrin). I think it would do better to become it's own entity in light of this news, and the fact that it doesn't really get managed by Mozilla anymore anyway.
Serious question:
Is it possible to turn ligatures on, but deactivate them for only some of the combinations?

Specifically, I want to see =, ==, and === 'as written', meaning 1, 2, or 3 separate characters. Pretty much the rest of them (like <=, or even !=) seem like they're either nice immediately or else I could get used to them.

I'd love to know if this is possible at all, possible for some editors / fonts / OS's, etc, or just a non-starter of an idea.
next.js is such a joy to work with, congrats on the new version! It's constantly improved, the team is very responsive on github, looking forward to getStaticProps and getServerProps to make offline website generation even better.
> personally I've always wondered why this is desirable

Maybe peace of mind? One you're on the plane you know you're good to go. When you're in the terminal you have to keep diverting your attention to announcements, changes, distractions, etc.
Only if you ignore the value that is generated in-between layers. Aside from software development tools and technologies, everyone below is generating actual value to the market (even if it utilizes technology to do so).

Pyramid schemes are primarily focused on value flowing upwards, whereas in your example the value is flowing downwards and outwards.
But then your bookmarks only live in Firefox which isn't always convenient. NextCloud Bookmarks, Floccus for browser sync and an API to add them everywhere else is really nice.

I get that Pocket exists but the whole thing just leaves a bad taste in my mouth -- paying $5/mo to remove ads in a bookmarking service that should just be a built-in feature of sync is gross.
I'd always heard about this, but the one time I left my backpack in a Yamanote Line train, it was returned with around $2000 worth of cash (in multiple different countries' currencies) missing from my wallet. My wallet was really deep inside a bag inside a bag, too, so someone clearly went digging into my backpack.
What's interesting is none of these people are in the US. I feel that the regulatory burden, pay scales, and the political climate are shifting a lot of the scrappy innovation to outside of the US.

ed: awesome ideas, I hope to see tons more designs delivered.
An organization that determines its beliefs by voting can have inconsistent beliefs even if each voter has consistent beliefs and votes honestly.

For example, imagine that "(A AND B) logically implies C", and every voter agrees with that statement. Imagine that 1/3 of the voters believe (A, not-B, not-C), 1/3 believes (not-A, B, not-C), and 1/3 believes (A, B, C). If you hold a vote, 2/3s of voters believe A, 2/3s believe B, and 1/3 believes C; so the organization as a whole will hold the contradictory set of beliefs (A, B, not-C).
You have misconceptions about the time scale at which evolution occurs at. There is coevolution between plants and their pollinators. People study this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5537349/

Neonicotinoids should be banned (among other compounds), but climate change will cause plant coextinctions.
The analogy doesn't even work. If you buy a house, you own it outright. If you don't like the house, you can sell it.

Can you can sell a piece of software that doesn't belong to you and can't be unbundled from the car?
> Wouldn't doing a good job earn a good review?

Nope, because incentives are not aligned to that extent. The whole point of a company is that it's not a pure market where incentives are everything by definition; it's a rather more complex organization and these often rely on "soft" constraints as better sources of drive, guidance, cooperation/coordination etc. If you're relying on "hard" incentives (like firing the 'worst' 5% no matter what) you'll invariably distort behaviors in ways that are hard to even predict, and are almost never what you really want.
With all monopoly/monopsony discussions, it all comes down to the degree to which the monopolist leverages their position. It's not illegal to have a monopoly, only to abuse it.

Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony each compete rather vigorously to attract studios to produce games for their platforms. Nintendo classically has ups-and-downs in this arena, given their unconventional hardware choices. The Switch is attracting a lot more devs than the Wii U ever did, for instance. This breaks the theory of monopsony, as there is clearly competition between platforms to acquire games.

Contrast that with the App Stores on phones where everything feels incredibly static. Apple and Google are clearly coasting on the fact that there's only 2 phone OSes and you have to use one of them. Besides first-party apple stuff, there are hardly any exclusives. And you never hear about app devs changing platforms.

So I would conclude that no, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony don't need to be regulated because they aren't engaging in anti-consumer behavior. They should be subject to the same standards, of course, but they aren't currently in violation of them like Apple.
This sounds like it might be faster, and I might like it for solo business trips, but getting on/off with my family is not optional for me.

Assuming most multi-passenger groups feel similarly, and assuming solo business passengers represent only ~40% of the population, the impact of such a system (which would require substantially more passenger discipline/planning) would be pretty limited.
> I suspect the local historical preservation society has limits on the exterior of old buildings but can't do anything about the interior work.

As they should. This building is better off renovated to the owners' tastes than rotting, which is what would surely happen if a preservation society tried to dictate interior changes.
I agree it should be an opt in policy. This is why I'm against tollways because they don't immediately just charge me and toss the data after say 90 days. They keep where you've been essentially forever or until DOT forgets to back it up and the drive crashes.
flying their asses off and stock piling their treasure.

Don’t forget data centres https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/10/asia/china-data-center-ca... and that doesn’t even include the end user devices

Every dev who uses some crappy framework instead of writing efficient compiled bare metal code is complicit
So if I understand correctly from the spec, the point is to be able to have slices that include the content and the necessary metadata that confirms this is a part of the original content. This is something that is already done with merkle tree hashes: specified in bittorrent V2 (http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0052.html) (although I don't know if any client implements it) and already working in dat (https://datprotocol.github.io/how-dat-works): when receiving a piece, you also receive

- its hash
- the hash of the brother so you can derive the hash of the parent
- the hash of the uncle so you can derive the grand parent
- etc... Up until the last brother before the root, so you can verify the root hash

In bao it seems to be the opposite: the included hashes are the ones from the direct ancestors ? So how can bao trust the whole chain ? Or maybe there's something in BLAKE3 that explains how "Chaining Values" fix it ?
Quantum Provers to Infinity and Beyond
> It's simply not possible to have 100,000+ employees and less than 6 levels, unless you have managers with tons of employees

Math does not check out. 5 levels for 100k employees results in 10 reports per manager (assuming a top level with 10 people rather than 1, which is approximately correct given CEO/CTO/CIO/etc/etc/etc). Maybe 10 qualifies as 'tons' for you? Going down to 4 levels gives 18 reports per manager, which feels a little closer to 'tons'.
I've typically had 20-25 extra minutes before they finally close the door. It's enough to get a head start on a podcast or watch a short TV episode.