skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I gotta say "GUBBMINT SURVEYLANCE" really made me laugh. I am a bit sad to see it downvoted, but here is not Reddit, so I understand.

That said, reading so many good, thoughtful posts here... and then one more from you(!)... it made me think: Why isn't there a global "goverment/non-profit facebook"? Think: Strictly open source software. Hosted in "the cloud". Gov'ts can do: (1) on-prem, (2) public cloud (AWS/Azure/G), but they control the env, or (3) pay for a hosted solution (Oracle/SAP/Hitachi/whatev). #1 & #2 have infra run using gov't workers, but #3 is run by private company. A bit like hosted/cloud Wordpress vendors.

The idea: Only gov't officials have accounts to post/update public info. There are no regular user accounts -- so no one can get banned. Then, if people want to have posting / chat rooms about a gov't facebook page, they can "reverse link" to a Discord, or something like it.

Funny example: If you live in an area with a terrible dept of motor vehicles, the DMV gov't facebook page would publish the usual info about hours, locations, rules, etc. But then people would run Discords to argue/post about which DMV location has the worst customer service! Assume the Discord server is strictly independent of gov't facebook... so Discord admins can ban whomever they like (if people say offensive stuff). But no matter what silly things people say on a private Discord, they can never be "banned" from the gov't facebook -- it is public, just like Wikipedia, but no regular users accounts.

And I can already think who already has the sales contacts and engineers to get it done: Microsoft. I can already hear the tomatoes being thrown at me... but it is true: They could do it, and it might be a huge money maker. Or SalesForce, because a lot of gov't website now need eforms to do online gov't stuff. Makes sense, I think. Two other orgs who could do it: Mozilla and/or Wikipedia. They don't have the sales contacts, but they are well-trusted by gov'ts around the globe.
Companies are going places where the taxes are low (Texas) or where their VC funding is (California). People, y'know, might not want to live in these places, or they might be in 2-professional families that can't up and leave at the drop of a hat. Will they just adapt their pitch to "we hire the rockstars we can convince to live here"? Or, just consider anybody who's not interested in living there "obvious non-rockstars"?

Time for Europe to get serious about funding startups, I guess.
The first guy chops bikes for drugs, the second guy is mentally ill, the third guy is delusional millenial who likes nice weather
What you did doesn't matter, and they gave you the right amount of recognition. There are 1000's of imported indentured servants that will happily do your job the moment you leave. Of course, we don't call them indentured servants any more, we use terms like 'academic visa' or such.

I'm sure they also didn't think the electricity company for keeping the lights on, or Microsoft for creating Windows to write their speeches, or the guy that emptied the waste baskets in the office so the PHD guy didn't have to.

Don't carry water for someone else. Enrich yourself. That's all anyone else is doing, all the 'research' is for personal enrichment and prestige. Don't prop up the broken academic industry with less than market wages, let them fail.
London's bus network to see biggest cuts in TfL history
He's called 20 of the last 2 recessions.
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I recommend everyone who reads this comment to pick up a copy of The Great Demographic Reversal by Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan, a book on the cost-rising effects of aging populations among advanced economies.
I have some similar feelings about working for a game company (that was fairly successful and on the “better half” of the distribution of game companies).

Loved the creative control and influence I could have (even as a mid-20s tech lead on a title), loved my colleagues, loved the work, and even enjoyed the satisfaction from shipping a golden master after a multi-week crunch period.

Ultimately, a hedge fund was willing to pay me a multiple of what I was making in games and I decided I’d rather have a house than work on games.
I did briefly look into it, but my situation isn't credit card debt. I am not carrying balances that I can't pay down.

These are loans that have an end date, and that end date is less than 5 years. It is a tight 5 years don't get me wrong, but there is an end to this that I don't think bankruptcy is the answer for me.

It is 60k in medical debt, $1500 a month is a lot but to pay off that much in less than 5 years... And then admittedly I am in a very very good situation (suddenly I have $1500 extra money in my budget)
> If your definition for thought diverges here, please try to specify how exactly: what is thought, then?

This is a burden-shifting reply of "so prove me wrong!" to anyone who feels that your assertion lacks sufficient justification for it to be taken as an axiom.
My remote org had an onsite this past week. I forgot how much I hate 'socializing' and how useless water cooler talk is.

They tried their best to make it enjoyable but I am so much happier in my home office with no background noise, no need to get dressed up, and being able to define my own schedule (I eat lunch at 3-4pm and bay tech orgs serve lunch at noon with all the smells disturbing me).
Getting downvoted here. Putting your money where your mouth is doesn't seem to be appreciated here on HN.

Anyway, anybody selling a product will tell you that building the product is the easy part. But of course, if you never ran a company, it's easy to think that the engineering is the hardest part.
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They are all older then a decade (some more then 100 years), he's not wrong that europe has massive problems making "big new company's", however the conclusion that it has something todo with the ~absence of exploitation is probably wrong ;)
Something else to consider: what % of server workloads actually run on kubernetes?

I have no data to back this up, but my hypothesis is that if you zoom out, and look across the entire industry, the % is vanishingly small. It may seem like every company is running or adopting kubernetes within our bubbles but our perspective is biased.

(Note: I'm not espousing an opinion on kubernetes itself, just about it's total adoption across the entire industry and how that effects the number of devops/sysadmin/SRE roles.
Ah, the secret to "success" in all things: already having piles of money.
Langton's Ant in JavaScript
Until you use it and then realise that the picture you took with it is unusable.
>- Web framework is not quite on-par with Django/Rails. Particularly with auth/OIDC.

Completely wrong. Not only does Auth work particularly well out of the box, but microsoft documentation is top tier with both c# and asp net core.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authen...

asp net core is the single best framework for backend web at this time, but yes, won't be as fast to ship as django/rails. If you like to maintain code, I'd consider it a worthy tradeoff.
In America, you're right - this entire strategy falls on its face because there is no guaranteed public healthcare. America cannot solve the drug problem until it solves its healthcare problem
> The most evil thing Google is doing now is pushing brands to buy ads on their own name

It's not like this is a new thing. The court cases about it are almost 20 years old: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Louis_Vuitton
I’ve been looking for folks like on Hacker News but for conversation in VRChat in VR. It’s been pretty fun to hang out there but the caliber of conversation isn’t great.
"1.) Dealers have learned to take advantage of the personal use amount protection by keeping small amounts on their person and a stash nearby."

This is not a problem for me, as I believe drugs should be legal, and neither users nor dealer should be penalized.

On points 2 and 3, regarding drug gang violence:

This is a problem with the half-way measure of decriminalization as opposed to full legalization. When drugs are fully legal and manufacturing/selling them is legal then there'll be no shootings over drug turf any more than Phizer and Merk shoot each other over the sale of Viagra.

"4.) It’s too early to judge, but so far it’s looking like the rate at which addicts who are offered resources to help them actually accept that help is very low."

What "help" are you talking about?

Grown adults whose lives are absolutely miserable often turn to drugs because it's the one source of pleasure, even ecstasy that they have in their life -- the drugs are so intensely fantastic that they eclipse nearly everything else they've ever experienced, to a degree non-drug users can't even imagine.... and then someone offers to take that away so they can go back to their miserable lives with no hope of escape? Why wouldn't they refuse?
...except that 400k in 1980 translates to 608k in 2017, if you factor in overall labor force size. That means even though there were 600k jobs "created", it's still a net loss.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CLF16OV
I have eyes and can read basic instructions.

I'm also a developer who can work perfectly nice with terminals.

I prefer GUI-based search as I feel it visually appealing.
Ooh, if this also used ffmpeg-wasm [1], you could then run the command itself in the browser!

[1] https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
Keep in mind this is an email to his executive staff, not a company wide email.
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This is a great point. I was thinking this week: If my water was turned off, my home would be practically unlivable. Maybe you can survive for a couple of days, after that -- move out! Heh... can you imagine getting "Banned" by the water company? Just go live in the woods, off-grid!
Yea “elite” isn’t a difference in degree it’s a difference in kind. It’s not just more money, it’s a step function Wealth and Power.
>2.) Several gangs from larger West Coast cities have moved here to expand their territory. We’ve had a big uptick in shootings in the past few years, and a lot of them have been due to this. There was an inciting incident in which a prominent member was killed at a memorial service, which resulted in a back and forth retaliation war that killed a lot of people.

If you'd have legalized dealing you wouldn't have the violence. Drug trafficking and dealing is only violent because they can't use state violence (via the courts) to settle their business disputes.
consider an engineer hired at Tesla in 2019.

They probably have a 4 year RSU schedule determined based on the TSLA share price in 2019, so $50.

If their equity compensation target was $30k per year, then they would get stock grants in 2021 and 2022 worth $400-600k.

That works out to a lot of millionaires.
> Atlantic nations are engaging in the conflict in order to constrain and deter China, the rising hegemon.

No, Atlantic nations are engaging in the conflict (despite the fact that doing so makes it harder to contain China—which is why China is also engaging in the conflict, in a lower-key way) because Russia—which may be “Mexico“ in terms of economy but with nuclear weapons, a giant stockpile of conventional weapons, a better relationship between the government and organized crime, and a more aggressive attitude—immediately borders on and directly threatens members of the Atlantic alliance.
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It's getting a lot better on all those fronts, but there is still work to be done. When I started we where much more seen as support and assistants that could occasionally be called on help out the Real Engineers on the Real Projects. When I left my last company, there was an actual Data Science department with its own projects, management structure and place in the org chart. I was a Senior Specialist Engineer in Data Science when I left with exactly the same 'rank' and pay grade as any other Senior Specialist Engineer.

The biggest problem was that the higher ups in the organisation still had a very fuzzy idea on how/when/why to actually deploy ML/data science etc. in projects, but at least they where aware of this shortcoming and working to address it.

You are going to have to 'sell' yourself and your skills and spend time convincing people that you bring real bottom line value to projects, and there is still scepticism among the old guard that data science can bring anything of value that you will have to overcome.

On the plus side I found lots of opportunities to get involved in all kinds of varying projects from crowd simulation to using ML to create predictive geotechnical models. Since no one really knows the best way to use these new tools within civil engineering I found a lot of room for doing essentially R&D.

I also found that civil engineers seem to have a much more sane view on work-life balance compared to software engineers and so the work hours and levels of work where much more reasonable than I've seen in many software companies. The flip side to this is that the pay is on the whole lower compared to software companies.
After a long, intentional break break from the Microsoft ecosystem (more on this below), I recently kicked off a side project and was faced with the tech stack decision. After agonizing over Python vs Elixir, I landed on C#, unexpectedly. Reasons: static + strong typing is better for long-term maintenance IMO, extensive core library, solid database management, LINQ, excellent IDE, cross-platform support.

The stack is ASP.NET Core with .NET 6 on the backend, React on the frontend, Postgres as the database. Not in production yet, but planning to make a lot of use of AWS, particularly Lambda. I'm loving it, feeling very productive and trying to take advantage of many of the new language and framework features.

The biggest downside I've run into is that so much of the documentation and online material is geared towards older versions and older patterns. It makes sense given .NET's long history, but it's definitely been a journey trying to figure out modern best practices without ending up in an overarchitected mess (repository pattern everywhere!). The other thing I would say about C# is that I would never again interview with it, unless it was for a .NET position specifically. All the typing benefits work against it in a timed interview environment. Long time ago I picked Python up for interviews specifically and it was a much better tool for the "job".

Now for some context. I developed in .NET exclusively for ten years, from 1.1 to 3.5. The development environment was great, but over time the Microsoft ecosystem began to feel stifling. Everything had to be done the Microsoft way, if you step off the rails, you'd be in a world of pain. It was a mega monoculture spanning the entire stack, with high tolerance for throwing away previous standards (so much churn with Webforms/MVC, LinqToSQL/various Entity Framework versions, all the WPF/WCF stuff, and I'm sure much more since then). In the mean time the open-source world was moving fast, developing new patterns and technologies, with Microsoft attempting to follow, slowly. I left the ecosystem in 2014 vowing never to return. Yet... the .NET Core cross-platform push intrigued me and the ability to write C# purely for backend APIs that can be deployed outside of Windows felt like a win-win. Time will tell, but so far so good.
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Maybe with something like React-Three-Fiber where the frame rates can be 11ms
Remember that career is a marathon and not a sprint. You can sprint in the beginning but you won't be able to finish the marathon at the same pace.
Start taking it easy at workplace, if possible. Think about doing the right thing, learning and doing quality work instead of doing more. Consider changing job and go to a place where work life balance is given a priority and where you could do work that you like.
Start some physical nature based activity like hiking where you could stay away from devices. Being a tech worker we unknowingly end up spending most of our day in front of devices (phone, computer, TV) which tires our mind. Being away from devices and being in nature is a great therapy.
At least FB locked out the account after actual, provable abuse unlike Google that just locks people out randomly without actual cause (as heard about daily on the internet).
Agreed, and look at how fragile we are when gas prices go up. If we just built medium-density, mixed use development with appealing architecture and sensible transit options (walk, bike, ride street cars or light rail) with the option of still owning a car (ideally around 1 per family) we'd be in such a better place.
It was a minor patch, as noted, but it was not a typo fix in a readme as you suggest. See https://lore.kernel.org/all/198c0ae2-efdf-7f47-11c7-27e9a87b... for additional details.
Adding GPT3 translation:

In North Korea, where strict regional lockdowns have been imposed following confirmation of infections with the new coronavirus, the lockdowns in Pyongyang and other areas are gradually being eased, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation in North Korea. The aim is to avoid a shortage of labor for agricultural work, which is a "matter of life and death," in the face of food shortages and to finish necessary civil engineering work before the rainy season and typhoon season.

Once again, I find that Deepl has the most precise translation. GPT3 is good with very natural text but it does not follow the original text as closely.

Here "という" at the end of the last sentence was properly translated as it is said by Deepl, but was omitted by GPT3.

Both GPT3 and Deepl translation are vastly superior to all the others though...
We're at the point where six people in BC are dying a day due to toxic drugs and the body count is far, far exceeding that of the other public health emergency, the covid-19 pandemic.

It's hard to applaud the government for finally turning away from Regan era drug policy thinking and enacting this change because it's taken years and the amount of dead due to inaction so great.

It has been obvious for years that there was a toxic drug crisis on the street, that the drugs were poisoned and that people were overdosing and dying because it was impossible to know what was in the drugs and how much to use without overdosing.

The real solution to this problem will be to replace the toxic street drugs with a safe supply of prescribed drugs so that people know what they're using.

This decriminalization move is a small step toward that future outcome, while in the mean time making it safer for drug users to using in a safe injection site context without fear that they're doing something illegal and having their drugs confiscated by police.
Volkswagen's race with Tesla will be tight, Diess says
Places like Oregon and SF only do a half measure - they stop the policing but don't step up the public health, mainly because there is no sensible way to do so, since health care in America is privatized
This is excellent. Is there something like this for ImageMagick as well?
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This sort of thing has probably happened many times in Earth's history. Homogeneity works great until it doesn't.
Not only proposals: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220315IP...
VW was caught faking Diesel safety starting somewhere around 2006-2008 (it would be interesting to see the roll out.) So rise in small particulates causing any and all respiratory problems does not have to correlate to smoking.
It looks like you're only hiring for UX researchers? No product design roles?