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Depends on the subject matter.

Teaching obligations are assumed, had students break things multiple times.

That sounds like an ideal world where devices don’t garner attention to make more profit.

Yes. Them seeing “worse” is semantics if the outcomes are the same.

> it's easy stuff compared to anything in the real world.

This is the real world, with real videos of rape, torture, violence, etc. that are moderated. It’s demeaning to say it doesn’t have an implication on the health of humans that perform the job.

> BTW "negatively affected" is such a cowardly way of putting it. What does that mean?

This HN so let’s speak with some context. Butchers can have serious psychological distress like somatization, anxiety, depression, anger-hostility, burnout, and psychotism [1] [2]. Doctors can also experience the same issues [5]. I believe we should constructive replies that use information from the original article and current research that show content moderators face similar outcomes that do negatively affect them [3] [4] just like butchers, plumbers, janitors, cops and healthcare workers. This should be addressed for any job this happens in.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28506017/

[2]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269813255_Psycholog...

[3]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445092

[4]: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/content-moderators-pay-a-p...

[5]: https://news.usc.edu/179383/stress-doctors-emergency-room-er...

Apple is a company is among others in having a history of attempting to create a market.

Those two points do not seem equal weight in risk, but they are both concerning.

Booby traps are illegal.

It’s very interesting that you think most people with a PhD working in AI / ML / Data Science academically can’t get a job at OpenAI.

You can easily see a lot of people who work at OpenAI on LinkedIn. University AI labs are always left out because non-commercial products just aren’t as noticeable.

I highly doubt that many of these academics would struggle being amount candidates at DeepMind, OpenAI and FAIR.

Prestige is very subjective, which makes it also very broad thankfully.

I’m curious as well, what specific lines would cause an issue or abstracts too much.

Your whataboutism doesn’t make the pressure she experiences less true.

Who says they are all retiring?

According to Bitwarden it’s all Login information (including usernames, passwords, URIs, TOTPs, etc.). [1]

[1]: https://bitwarden.com/help/vault-data/

Apply this line of thought to most societal and social norms and it gets rather ugly.

I have 3 officers in my family, 1 of them being a parent. I’d have to disagree, but not strongly. So would they, they are a lot of fair criticism of how police are trained these days and a fair level dislike. My family members needed a degree, require extensive training comparably, and had more programs with the community.

Even talking about the police as a collective from the perspective of the US is odd. So many departments are different, they are not fully one entity.

The most important thing is that it is just that, a job.

We already struggle finding people good at everything else lol

Your creating safety barriers for another problem though which are car speeds that aren’t regulated enough, and human and vehicle errors.

> cars are like 98% of the traffic or more

They didn’t always. That infrastructure was built and subsidized so they were used.

> Purely from a safety standpoint, outright prohibiting bicycle traffic on motorized roads would be a massive improvement at the expense of inconveniencing a small minority of people

Purely from safety standpoint, making less motorized roads would be a massive improvement and people would conform to new modes of travel just like when cars and interstates were introduced.

> therefore preventing those who want to build wealth from being able to buy a house and start doing so . . . . . . many people who start companies will often find funding to start, maintain, and/or grow their company by taking loans against their homes.

Let’s stop pushing the idea that buying a house always builds or increases wealth. There are many good personal reasons to buy a house and many alternatives to getting debt for ventures.

Your advice is only for those with a high risk tolerance.

> I spot-checked some of the companies you listed. Problem is that they're a mix of not remote, have complex applications requiring logins which I assume are big time sinks into black holes, the software jobs aren't in the U.S., they use enterprise technology which is fine but just not my skillset, all that sort of thing.

Personally I don’t think this viewpoint does your point justice. There are jobs, good paying ones. Just the ones you want are less prevalent. Also, I don’t think you would like contract work in this case.

I’m a consultant that works for a firm and the pay is very good. Working no more than 40 hours most weeks. I have a goal of building out my network this way.

Examples of big consulting firms are KPMG, Bain, Accenture, and Cognizant. Alternatively get a start going to recruiting firms like, Michael Page Interim or Hays for contract jobs.

100% agree. For those saying online shopping is bad, revenues say otherwise.

Lol I find this to be exact opposite, FAANG has had very long wait times, Google probably with the longest streak of that.

I find non-FAANG to be much quicker.

As cliche as it sounds, beggars can’t be choosers. I’ve done customer support and on-call and it can be manageable.

Opinion:

Too much of a blanket statement in my opinion. The way I see it as a consultant that has talked to multiple devs and management over the last year at multiple companies is that remote jobs are competitive at the moment, in person jobs less so, and contracting jobs are always hiring.

We are at the end of the year and operational expenditure is low and getting renewed, while capital expenditure is high and increasing which is good for contractors and consultants.

Factual Anecdote:

Personally if I were you I would go up the top 100 market cap companies [1]. I’m at a company that hired 75 dev in my department alone in the last year. I know personally places like Costco, Home Depot, Caterpillar, Abbott, and Comcast have been steadily having new employees and job postings.

Just don’t stick the jobs that Indeed and LinkedIn throw at you.

[1]: https://companiesmarketcap.com

Texas does have the same problems. I’m confused. Houston just has lower inequality and Texas cities aren’t as dense.

Because San Fran could do much better long term strategies to curb crime, like making San Fran more accessible and reducing inequality.

You have less crime when people aren’t dramatically poor compared to others in the area and have access to care.

Python: from module1 import function1

I was wondering the same thing, there is very little reason to outside of the standard library in Python. Then you have the 3rd party the ones that have been solidified as basically standard as well.

You shouldn’t be downloading a package from Joe Schmoe.

Not everyone has your job function.

Not all job roles are the same and communication can be required for many. Building good rapport can help reduce tensions as well and being in person can help that.

That’s one massively vague take on the whole industry of consulting, including on-prem software, open-source solutions.

My billable hours do fine while making operations more efficient and cost less.

Induction stoves are awesome, normal electric stoves suck. You know what sucks? Gas stoves. [0]

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2aZUav-54