skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw the title of this, and as a dunkey subscriber, I was hoping this was the first time that I'd seen dunkey on HN.

What a wild cross-over day!
Due to the pandemic there is a lot of remote work available these days. You can probably find a freelance gig or a full-time position with a North America-based company that pays better than most London-based positions. And I don't mean Google, but one of the thousands of smaller companies. Often their interviews have almost no technical aspect, it's just chatting. At least that would be a partial solution.
This was normal for me for good many years. Given that few companies promote internally (or that there are fewer promotions available to staff) means that if you want a change you will probably have to move on anyhow

I would say that your first concern is to find something that you actually want to do. When you leave to get away from a job you will probably end up in the same space and the cycle will start again

The money you get paid to work in London is in part because how expensive London is, so moving home with a pay cut may actually see you better off

Be careful of how this will affect your relationship. You don't want to get to the point where the line "I put up with is this shit for your career" leaves your mouth

Sports data (odds and pricing) is another area that ML could get you a job
New ceo, so some press releases, but the company remains the same. I am under no illusion that this will change, and definitely not in such a short notice.

They’ve neglected almost every market they were in. They’re altavista.

Uncle roger says bye bye !
And human beings make approximate solutions for the average input all the time. That's what gut feelings, instincts, heuristics, and motivated reasoning are, along with all the other shortcuts we take to function in daily life.

The article is asking why it's so hard to be rational though, i.e. follow a logically-valid set of inferences forward to an unambiguous conclusion. Assuming one of your premises is that correct rationality implies reasoning statistically about a network of interrelated beliefs, the uncomputability of a Bayesian net is relevant to that.
Thinking Fast and Slow left me with a feeling of despair about the human inability to reason effectively about statistics.

I like to tell people that charts work better for asking questions than answering them. Once people know you look for answers there, the data changes. More so than they do for question asking (people will try to smooth the data to avoid awkward questions).
It's not about being slowed down. It's about being treated like a criminal. I won't shop at stores that are like this simply because I see no reason to put up with being treated like that. And, if the store really has such a serious crime problem that these measures are necessary, I don't want to be there anyway.
> At the beginning of the pandemic, when politics were saying mask dont work.

Are straw-man statements rational?

"Then there is the infamous mask issue. Epidemiologists have taken a lot of heat on this question in particular. Until well into March 2020, I was skeptical about the benefit of everyone wearing face masks. That skepticism was based on previous scientific research as well as hypotheses about how covid was transmitted that turned out to be wrong. Mask-wearing has been a common practice in Asia for decades, to protect against air pollution and to prevent transmitting infection to others when sick. Mask-wearing for protection against catching an infection became widespread in Asia following the 2003 SARS outbreak, but scientific evidence on the effectiveness of this strategy was limited.

"Before the coronavirus pandemic, most research on face masks for respiratory diseases came from two types of studies: clinical settings with very sick patients, and community settings during normal flu seasons. In clinical settings, it was clear that well-fitting, high-quality face masks, such as the N95 variety, were important protective equipment for doctors and nurses against viruses that can be transmitted via droplets or smaller aerosol particles. But these studies also suggested careful training was required to ensure that masks didn’t get contaminated when surface transmission was possible, as is the case with SARS. Community-level evidence about mask-wearing was much less compelling. Most studies showed little to no benefit to mask-wearing in the case of the flu, for instance. Studies that have suggested a benefit of mask-wearing were generally those in which people with symptoms wore masks — so that was the advice I embraced for the coronavirus, too.

"I also, like many other epidemiologists, overestimated how readily the novel coronavirus would spread on surfaces — and this affected our view of masks. Early data showed that, like SARS, the coronavirus could persist on surfaces for hours to days, and so I was initially concerned that face masks, especially ill-fitting, homemade or carelessly worn coverings could become contaminated with transmissible virus. In fact, I worried that this might mean wearing face masks could be worse than not wearing them. This was wrong. Surface transmission, it emerged, is not that big a problem for covid, but transmission through air via aerosols is a big source of transmission. And so it turns out that face masks do work in this case.

"I changed my mind on masks in March 2020, as testing capacity increased and it became clear how common asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic infection were (since aerosols were the likely vector). I wish that I and others had caught on sooner — and better testing early on might have caused an earlier revision of views — but there was no bad faith involved."

"I’m an epidemiologist. Here’s what I got wrong about covid."(https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/20/epidemiolo...)
I would love for there to be a legal requirement/warning posted on shop entrances saying "This facility uses CCTV/Facial Tracking/Phone Tracking/etc"
Given that most of the emissions come from a minority of wealthy people, what stops a super wealthy person from continuing to emit collosal volumes of co2?

Let's say a billionaire had enough money to build a vanity project rocket so they could go to the stratosphere just for kicks. I know, I know... Who the fuck would do such a thing. But if...

What if a huge corporation wants to buy up millions of acres of rainforest to flatten it and grow cash crops or worse, farm cattle? Would the carbon tax put them off? Or would it be like those paltry fines that they pay after they "woops" and spill a million gallons of oil?

I don't think there should be carbon tax. I think there should be a carbon budget per person, and a similar arrangement for corporations. It doesn't matter how much money you have, if you take 3 helicopter rides you better pay for a clement winter.
Completely agree.

Dunkey uses the tried and true method of SaaS selling in this video too. Start with the pain, then move to the solution that you definitely didn't start your pitch with.
I am with you :-)
https://xkcd.com/1132/
There's legitamate uses though, of which I was made painfully aware when google crippled the api and kde connect clipboard sync became way less impressive
Ah, forgot "community". No matter how loosely related a group of people is, someone will call it a community, e.g. "the HN community"
This just screams depression to me. You have dedicated so much of your life to CS and now dream about meditation and learning about things for fun.

It may be worthwhile also to think about why started your Phd in the first place. What did you find so fun back then. Just trace to the past and find your initial reason and try to chart a path from here to what problems you want to work on.
It's both sides, right? Right....
I think the bigger pull is because of the bigger audience. Without the modding scene, I don't think that would necessarily make open source games multiple times more popular, even if they had some percentage of the artists making them content, because popularity seems to be highly influenced by current trends, and slowly advancing open source games don't seem to fit in with the trend model vary well.

No matter what the next Elder Scrolls or Fallout game is like, as long as it supports modding (of course it sill), there will be a bunch of people playing it (even if it's widely panned), and there will be a bunch of mods and talent making art for them, because that's how you get tens or hundreds of thousands (maybe even millions if everything aligns) of people using what you make.
Why not generate React code from Figma? (a.k.a. why did PageDraw YC18 fail?)
I've been a little obsessed recently with why PageDraw failed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16467387). Pagedraw promised to generate react code from sketch or figma designs.

It would make my life much easier if they had succeeded. In that world, when my cofounder and I finish polishing our designs in figma, we click a button and (most of) the React UI code is written for us. All we would have to do is wire up the generated components to data sources, and voila. Take the rest of the day off.

If it had worked well, it could automate a good amount of the boring UI work I need to do on a consistent basis. Why am I still manually writing styled components when the information is all there in figma already?

What do you think, HN?

Curious if anyone knows of great solutions for this problem or thinks that something like this should (or shouldn't / couldn't) exist.

What do folks think of Anima? https://www.animaapp.com/blog/design-to-code/how-to-export-figma-to-react/

Or Overlay? https://www.overlay-tech.com/

Figma's own blog post on this: https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-figma-to-react/

A reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/FigmaDesign/comments/ht9krs/best_way_to_convert_designs_from_figma_to_react/

Is anyone else working on this?
Out of sheer curiosity (and this has nothing to do with the conversation at large), how does one become a "professional resume writer"? Is that a recruiter who helps write resumes, or are you solely focused on resume writing? Is it a side gig, or do you do enough resume writing to make it a full time job?

I apologize if these are well known answers but I stick with a fairly technical crowd and, well word of mouth usually gets us passed around to be brutally honest. I hate to admit it, but a half way legible resume and it's usually just references after a point =/
What I actually found most surprising in this article was that a plurality don't seem to mind:

> When it came to whether or not respondents supported the use of facial recognition by retailers, 42 percent said they didn't mind it while 38 percent said they were against its use in stores.

(I assume the remaining 20% were "unsure" or similar? The article doesn't say.)

Not sure what to make of this...
Unreal... straight up lies and fraud if you ask me.
My pub quiz trivia knowledge thinks UBS have crossed keys, although a search shows the current logo is black, not golden.
10nm--?
Nvidia would also use TSMC 7nm since it is much better that Samsung 8mn. So potentially they are also waiting for the TSMC availability.
If you're truly not being malicious then open source your app and get it added to the alpine repos so people can run it in ish.
Made in Egypt: the country's strategy to be an electronics powerhouse
365? Really?
Ask for a sabbatical to see if you can figure out what exactly makes you hate your job. Read up on the history of finance and the great depression.

Helping orient your mindset on the big picture of how you are helping people can be illuminating and good for mental health.
Big difference between biology and biotechnology though.

Biology is one of those fields that many people are drawn to yet the post-college career is not quite what they seemed. Recently interviewed a candidate for a low level tech job that has 2 BS in Biology and Aquatic Science from UW...after years of finding nothing but barely above minimum wage work she decided to look for a different field of study. A lot of wasted time and money for her.
I see a couple comments to the effect that you should find something that you like to do, and that's good -- liking things is generally easier than not liking them.

But to me that doesn't go far enough, and ignores a deeper question: what do you believe in? Like, in life? What are your values, your principles? This may be a bit dark, but if you died tomorrow and could witness your own funeral, how do you wish the people who know and love you to describe how you lived your life?

The things we do can be connected very deeply to the things we believe (to crudely paraphrase Bob Dylan: the things we "serve"). In my view, human beings have a higher probability of flourishing and overall contentment when they are connected. Conversely, when they're not -- when what we do doesn't serve what we believe, or when it goes against what we believe -- our species risks a lot of trouble.

So, my two cents: if you know your own values, come back to them concretely (write'em down, for instance). If you don't know them, or haven't ever articulated them very clearly, do so. But once you've got them nice and clear, find work (a career or not, just small-w work) that serves them. It's not a cure-all, by any means. Just consider them a little talisman and use them like that.

On the one hand, you may never end up a millionaire. But on the other, you'll never again spend much time in places like the one you're currently in.

Edit / addendum: this'll be cliche, and I'm sure you've heard it, but I say it anyway: take the time to develop a relationship with a good psychotherapist. Not even necessarily for your "symptoms", whatever those might be, but for the broader existential stuff.
GAO Decision on why SpaceX was picked over Blue Origin [pdf]
What annoys me the most is how sad tech allocation is. Courtrooms are moving papers like it's 1869 but walmart needs to invoke alien tech to see my emotions when browsing deals.
I agree. Facial recognition is far more intrusive, and far more convenient.

The problem I have with face recognition is what to do about it? Some stores are polite enough to make it obvious, so I know not to shop there, but I can't trust that the other stores aren't also doing it and keeping it quiet.

This has me stumped.
"Default" might be one of the most overlooked technical terminology to the point that people don't even realize its technical sense (no-choice choice) is not "default" in English.
I wonder if there's a Winco or local equivalent for you? They don't accept credit cards, only debit cards, checks, and cash. No loyalty programs. And you have to bag your own groceries. I switched from using a debit card to cash just because I like the idea that I'm not being tracked at all.

WinCo Foods, Inc. is a privately held, majority employee-owned[5][6][7] American supermarket chain based in Boise, Idaho, with retail stores in Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas,[8] Utah, and Washington. It was founded in 1967 as a no-frills warehouse-style store with low prices.
If it's a clear violation maybe sue them for breaching your network?
No, the US is actually much worse.
Google doesn't have only people working on ads. You could be working on new DB, OS, infra etc. I myself resigned from job for Google (not at Google) because in my location they have only crappy projects but I think in London there might be something interesting. I think Facebook might start hiring remotely (and then I might consider joining).

I personally decided to work for startup with equity as for me it is most interesting work. I also switched to investing and enjoy this extra skillset and income and maybe you might too.

Also you said your partner is making 10x, so why do you even work? My wife makes 10x less and she works mostly for fun because it's marginal change to our way of living. Don't sell yourself if you don't have to. Why are you so obsessed on salary you probably don't need instead of living best of life? You are already old (sorry)
You’re losing karma for this but you’re right. It’s a massive industry and there are specialties out there writing code in languages that would look unreadable to your average web developer yet the code is well written and perfectly readable to those in the same specialty.

Sometimes I wonder if the only people who browse this site are JavaScript monkeys and Rust fanboys. There’s a whole spectrum of languages out there that looks nothing like C.
> no matter how trivial a thing is, it will be a showstopper for someone

I used to work for a big web site that produced standardized requirements documents ahead of every project. Part of the standard was the "flexibility matrix": the PM or "stakeholder" who was producing the requirements document was supposed to identify whether scope or timeline was most flexible. Of course, for about five years running after the standard document template came out, every project was "least flexible" on timeline and "most flexible" on scope.

We finally started calling them on their impossible timelines and tried flexing the scope by pushing some of the vague requirements off to later releases. The result? They added another column to the "flexibility matrix" called "resources", as in they were willing to hire more people to meet all the requirements in the mandated timeline.

That was also not true.
You’re just delaying the inevitable penguin gait recognition.
"Thinking Fast and Slow" left me with the same feeling but not because of "Thinking Fast and Slow"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27261501
If it's that much of an issue they should just remove the flag and the messages will be sent as |A||F|.
> The first is a slippery slope.

Actually I mean something closer to shifting baseline [1] in a broader sense. We've just come to accept a vast loss of privacy as surveillance and data gathering has become so cheap, so pervasive, and insidiously hidden, that at this point it is impossible to stop it. The inertia is all rolling downhill at this point. The slippery slope has slipped and slid already, well past what we would have considered acceptable a generation ago. It was unthinkable when I was a kid in the 1980s or a teenager in the 1990s that they would do so much tracking, in meatspace and cyberspace.

And you're right that there is no way to stop it, except through laws. The US government is completely asleep at the wheel. Worse, they've been paid off to be asleep at the wheel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline
Aside: As a general rule of thumb, conspiracy theories are not rational.
Different ages, different divisions, different criterion.

1500 years ago those who could hoard land and power and influence after the fall of the Western Roman Empire went into decline formed the kernel the feudal aristocracy. But those who were able to capitalize on the merchant and industrial revolutions starting 500 years ago, and the rise of global capitalism, became the kernel of the bourgeoisie in the modern era.

We'll see what happens next.
If they have to harass people to stay in business, perhaps they shouldn't stay in business.
Related: https://youtu.be/VhWGQCzAtl8

This 6 min video explains from game dev perspective why (AAA) games have been pegged at $60 on release, even though they should be priced higher to be sustainable ($85-$90 in 2018).

So game developers tried various ideas to make up for this gap: DLC, perpetual experiences (map packs & expansions), loot boxes, microtransactions...
"I would love to be able to retire and get into meditation / travelling the world / learning about things for fun."

This makes you human. Unfortunately the best life for human beings was probably the farm and those days aren't coming back anytime soon.

You're in a tough spot, especially if your relationship is solid and not going anywhere. London is a large enough area you may be able to find something that suits you? I would stay in the area, and just find another line of work. Everyone is due the opportunity to change their situation.

I would recommend considering changes like that, but hold strong overall, don't toss both of your lives into massive change. You can work there, and then semi-retire early out to where you're from. Talk to your partner about that as a potential option. He may agree more than you think. Talk it out with him and go from there. That's about all you can do. I wouldn't just throw everything you've worked for into the trash immediately.

I'm actually in a very similar situation, but Chicago. I'm from a more rural area as well, and I've been grinding out my existence for a while longer than you.. I am financially prepared to move back to the countryside. Just hard to even find places at market-rate today. My wife and I are both willing to live with less money at this point.

You may have more in agreement, or come to an agreement for the longterm view once you two have a full discussion.
https://archive.is/5ve6M
All very good examples of the increased difficulty of life for the group of people you are talking about, @wolfretcrap.

I wonder if this overall difficulty shapes a person's attitude to be more risk-tolerant?

Like, "I haven't died yet from XYZ, and I might die from ABC tomorrow, so therefore I am comfortable participating in risky behavior PQR today!"

?
Twitter does it too

https://twitter.com/donohoe/status/1412563187426369537
Are you sure? 500K GBP would be 700K USD.

See https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&r...
Can you provide any good resources about the flawed dynamic between the ANA and the Afghan government? I'm curious to read deeper on this.
Also: (sorry to respond twice) but the flag will show up the same way per device regardless of who the message comes from anyway.
There's a lot of ideas to too wild for one thesis to draw up, but I think there's a lot of good talking points.

* Triple-A games are often-times yearly releases of a series priced at $60 (Battlefield, Call of Duty, FIFA), but are hardly ever new games with new technologies. Most times they last about a year before they're effectively EOL'd.

* Indie games are much lower in comparison and receive more love from their developers

* Nintendo are renowned for their titles and IPs, but their games are far from innovative at times, and their prices are not competitive in the slightest.

* Pricing of modern video games makes players turn to free-to-play games which receive more updates on a regular basis.

* The only way to play classic games reliably is emulation. Getting modern versions of old games from devs/pubs is very unreliable currently (Silent Hill collection, Super Mario 3D Allstars, etc)
> A factory's productivity, which has legible inputs and outputs is really different to something which doesn't.

I've worked in the semiconductor industry, and the situation is just as bad over there, if not worse.

To the common capitalist's credit, this absolutely has to do with lack of competition (not necessarily due to regulation, but because the cost of the ticket to get in—capital to build and operate a fab—is so high). Under something more Taylor-esque, 2x productivity is on the low end of what I'd expect a contender to be able to operate at, relative to the clip that the small pool of incumbents move at. The main sources of inefficiency based on what I observed 2014–2020 are either people problems or process problems that call for technical solution that doesn't look anything like materials science, chemistry, physics, etc. (Elite overproduction ⨯ poorly trained/selected workforce + terrible, absolutely godawful software supporting the whole operation; bullshit jobs abound.)
I absolutely understand differing preferences.

The difference is that someone blasting music is IMPOSING their preference on everyone else.
“to grow that ounce of almonds, the process demands 97 gallons of water”
I always feel so strange when the topic of tabs comes up. There is an assumption that everyone has hundreds of tabs open all the time. Is that really true? I honestly can't imagine needing more than email, chat, github, and maybe some documentation or something while you are working. What do you people need all these open tabs for??