skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such an important topic. During my years in law school, I oversaw a volunteer mentoring program that brought 5th grade kids from a local Title 1 school into the law building and paired them with law student mentors who helped with homework for 1 hour a week. The year ended with the law students assisting the kids in a mock trial presentation. One of the aims of the program was to help these kids feel comfortable in a setting of Higher Education, and to give them the opportunity to associate with/ask questions of graduate students. Many of the kids had never been on a college campus, or came from homes where no other family member had attended college. The law professor who founded the program, Brett Scharffs, has written more extensively regarding the program, and his findings are much more than simply anecdotal regarding how programs such as these can give kids a leg up, or at least give them a vision of what "can be". I agree whole-heartedly with Paul Tough's statement that higher education and social mobility have become very intertwined.
... But Prop 13 guarentees every landlord in the state that they won’t have to pay their share, and they get it even on >1980 construction, unlike rent control.

It seems fair to me that if you’re going to protect landlords (and companies !) you need to protect tenants as well.
Sort of. I have good and bad days. While my job is in the field I want to be in (predictive modeling/SWE), the team culture is so meh. No one talks to one another.

I'm 25 and I am about a year into the first serious relationship of my life. She is everything I could ever ask for, but I just have constant anxiety that I'm never good enough (I make a really good salary, run a nonprofit outside of work, and have a huge variety of interesting things about me), despite her constant reassurances to the contrary (she doesn't know I have these feelings of inadequacy. I kind of feel like Alexander Skarsgard's character (sans the violence, for sure) in Big Little Lies - he tells his wife, "I'm fearful because you could have your pick of the litter, leave me at the drop of a hat and be with someone equally wonderful just like that." I also have been plagued recently by a few bouts of "losing wood" when having sex - nothing more disappointing to me than getting her almost "there" and then my little member disappears... But even just this last weekend we had great sex three days in a row... then for some reason things just don't go as planned other nights.
How the nation’s growing racial diversity is changing our schools
> - The only big cost is just the downpayment (5-20% of the price)

Also closing costs can be large. I'd long thought the big up-front cost was the down payment plus maybe $3k of inspections and closing costs, so I was surprised when I bought my place and had nearly $30k in closing costs, transfer taxes, etc up front.
Six months? Kill me. If I can't join a new team and be a productive/contributing member within the first 2 months then I'm going to be looking for the door. I 100% agree you don't want to go in guns blazing and most importantly PHRASING. Don't go in and tell people they are doing something wrong, make suggestions and ask questions like:

"Hey I saw you are using X here, is there a reason you are using X instead of Y?"

The response will be one of the following:

1. Oh, I didn't know about Y or I didn't know Y could do that

2. Yes we looked into Y but picked X because of A, B, C

3. X is just better, Y is stupid <- This is the mark of an insecure dev and you need to think long and hard about if you want to stay at the company

Also be able to READ THE ROOM, if you respond the #2 with "Ahh but Y can do A, B, C as well..." and you aren't getting any traction then cut your losses.
If they were in Cal 1 and had taken AP Calc, they probably didn't do particularly well on the AP test or they would have tested out.
The Semaphore is only used during initialization, never in the critical path, see profiling results in the main repo
"i'm going to answer 3 every time because if i say 4 or 5 i am worried and anxious that you're going to fire me."

Welcome to impostor syndrome!
The system can not grind talented people unless they agree to be grinded. At least in democratic countries.
We have a concept of networking referrals and personal referrals. Networking doesn’t require strong prior knowledge.
Am I OK? More or less, yeah. I definitely experience a lot of stress, but a lot of it is self-imposed, based on goals I chose and choices I consciously made. There are definitely things that weigh on my psyche sometimes, and I have (infrequent) moments of despair where I wonder if any of this is worth doing.

But by and large, yeah, I'm good. I have a plan, I'm working towards it, and I'm having fun along the way. The occasional despairing moments are when I allow myself to focus on the delta between where I am and where I want to go, or if I get caught up thinking about certain things in the past.
That is because it was and still is promoted as 'anything goes' in the UK. Google 'Stag Do Barcelona'.
>If everyone has a degree, it offers no advantage.

No advantage? Everyone would have a much broader education including a specialty. Even if they don't directly use that specialty it in their future career, it's still useful.

>The lower performers just end up with more debt.

Hmm if only there was a way to solve something like that....
I was never stressed before becoming a parent. My job pressure is the same but the combined stress is what hurts.

Flexible work hours, remote work and a strictly never-over-40-hours work week has been absolutely essential to be able to cope and still be a good parent (hockey practice weekdays at 4 twice a week for example).
Threats to macOS Users
Once a group of students from nearby UCI were touring our co-working space as part of some kind of conference. One student asked me a question I'd never been asked before: what are the occupational hazards of the programming profession?

I had a ready answer for him: depression, social isolation, and physical atrophy due to long hours spent sitting still.

He said I was the first person with a real answer to that question. Everyone else just brushed it aside since our profession does not involve working with heavy machinery or toxic chemicals or anything else you'd normally associate with risk.
Slowing down or changing direction (in space) is equally as much work as accelerating the craft in the first place.
Damn, The Book of Mormon was one of the funniest musicals I've seen. I hope you're able to find a way out of this.
Why not skip college and just have a standardized test to get a degree?
I'd ask what third world country you live in, but it really sounds like America right now.
get. the. fuck. out.

That sounds godawful.
I'm having a hard time balancing work and my health. According to my manager, I'm performing far beyond their expectations for the role but I can't seem to stay healthy enough to stay within my sick hours.
Or maybe it just led to a battalion getting slaughtered at sea rather than in the port. Direct attacks on harbors had a pretty sorry record in WW II.
That is straight up abuse and you should absolutely look for another job.
You're moving the goalposts. Regardless of the intent of the piece, it clearly cites its sources.
Annoyingly on Chrome the flag to enable auto-hiding scrollbars on Windows is being deprecated and in Chrome Canary is already at the point you have to enable the flag to enable soon to be removed flags to even select it anymore.

This seems to be moving in the opposite direction from how the platforms it runs on are evolving :/.
No.

My work stress level is basically maxed out and has been for a long time. I'm not coping with it.

I can't sleep well, and at night my thoughts are filled with ideas of suicide. The thought of putting a gun to my head is calming, like I'd finally be able to relax. I imagine a lot of elaborate and violent ways to go, and these thoughts seem to be the only things that relax me enough to fall asleep.

There's no point to anything I'm doing, to any of the money I'm making, my future looks just like my past, I'm going to work until I die anyway, and I hate working, so why even keep going? I have literally nothing to look forward to. I think the only thing keeping me alive is the fear of actually going through with it.
Dude, sounds like you're spreading yourself too thin. Trying to launch multiple (two?) companies at the same time, plus renovating, plus running a charity, plus working with clients... When do you sleep?

My unsolicited advice is to say no more often - if an opportunity comes along but you're already overworked, you might need to pass on it.
In which the author, who dropped out of college, describes how Calculus is designed to be a "gatekeeper to college success for students", says that this is "good for student confidence", but also that he personally "wouldn't re-enroll and finish his BA".

I graduated with a degree in history. I am now a front end developer.

STEM classed and SATs are a hazing experiment. They are a distraction from getting a job and delivering value and enjoying life
I think it depends on what community you are looking for. For example, if you are a fishing person, then just google: fisher forum then you’d find some helpful community. But remember, sometimes people on the internet like to make joke about almost everything, don’t take it personally & I’m sure you’ll have some fun on this vast internet world :)
Its not related to the point of your comment, but Rocket League's loot boxes are going away https://www.polygon.com/2019/8/6/20757348/rocket-league-crat...
We need to move to a 4 day work week, with 1 day of adult education. This way people get a chance to keep building their skills. Employers don't care about the worker; use them for 60hrs a week, fire them when no longer needed, pay minimum wage.
Stop Thinking of R&D as a Cost Center
> I don't know what I'm gonna do in next interviews.

Personal disclosure is a desirable managerial trait.

So, you got booted. They said 'performance'. You say the place was dysfunctional.

Question: What did you learn from this experience?

- What do you think you would do differently?

- Will any former colleagues/supervisors serve as a professional reference; vouch for the quality of your work?
To be fair, it also highlights a benefit of Python 2.2 over 2.1. (I.e., improvements made in the language eighteen years ago.)
These people are trying to create an American cultural revolution, like China's, in the 1960s.

My son went to the toughest high school in California. He didn't become a national merit commended student because "oh Californians are just simply smarter than Iowans so we have moved the goalposts for California kids". He scored 34 on the ACT = 1500 on the SAT because of hard work and sacrifice but he wasn't allowed into ANY "selective" schools because "oh your ZIP code indicates you are privileged and you must have crammed for the SAT. And hey did you hear the news? The SAT means nothing! ". He only did 4 hours of homework per night but was in a school district which educated kids from arguably the #1 University in the USA so the competition was stiff. He was embarrassed and shamed by his friends for having a B+ GPA.

He was forced to go to a state school 3000 miles away which accepts 70% of applicants - at huge tuition cost - because it was a backwards state school not implementing "The new cultural revolution!". He applied to 12 schools - none "most selective", none "extremely selective", 1 "highly selective", and 9 "moderately selective" and was admitted to 2 of the lowest schools on the "moderately selective" list. The next rank lower is "admits everyone".

Meanwhile I know parents who pulled their kids out of the toughest high school because class rank is THE ONLY THING that universities care about. They sent their kid to a low income school and their achievement test scores plummeted. Their strategy was to "win by slackibg," in the new cultural revolution! This is so they could get into Harvard and so that Harvard could feel good about itself and assuage its white guilt.

My son's dad is self made, losing his own dad at age 13. The dad took many financial risks and moved twice to be in better school districts, to challenge the son. His mom came from dirt in China (daughter of a hotel maid). Their hard work has been classified as "privileged background" by virtue of their zip code. The parents inherited $50k total and were both self made and lived like paupers until age 35 to advance their educations, then took high risk unstable jobs to catch up in life...
> the system has morphed it into a way to grind talented people into the ground with impossible deadlines and insane demands

My experience with computers has been the same. That and music. I make it a major point to watch for flags of that kind of environment with any company I speak to.

I'm a realist and not every day can be the most fun ever—sometimes there's a bit of a grind—but it shouldn't be the default status. I would lose too much if they stopped being fun. I've had it happen once before and it took several years to find that fun feeling again. Life's too short for that.
yes, them and Email on Acid were the best sources on what's supported where.
I really wish I hadn't taken AP Calculus in high school. I sort of got it, but it wasn't intense enough to really grab me and my study habits were non-existent. I took multi-variable calculus as a freshman and was mostly in over my head despite my B+/A- (thanks curve!), and that was it for me and math. Definitely contributes to my impostor syndrome when doing anything more computer sciencey than a CRUD app.
Still a threat in some parts of Europe... Including urban centers like Moscow.
>Generally when people ask for a handout from society, society wants to make sure that handout is being used for the things they said it would be used for.

Welfare isn't people asking for a handout from society, it's a government program paid for with tax dollars.

Society can complain about having to pay taxes into welfare programs (and often does) but it no more has the right to complain about what recipients do with the money than employers do about their employees.

Also, this becomes a problem in the case of UBI when everyone is getting the handout.

>If you want a blank check that's fine, but you have to be willing to let people starve as a consequence to their actions, with 0 exceptions (from the government) to make it work.

People already starve as a consequence to their actions, sometimes because the restrictions imposed on welfare programs by society make it infeasible for people in need to actually participate in those programs, other times because of bad decisions.

So yeah, I would prefer a blank check, no strings attached, and no moralizing from the crowd that thinks poverty is sin and moral weakness, and that the poor need to be taught a hard lesson before being granted the privilege of a meal.
I feel like the comments are becoming more "reddit" than the submissions themselves. Seems like way more ideological up-voting/down-voting than there used to be ~2yr ago. It seems like on every issue there's a side (varies by issue) you can't criticize unless you water down your comment with weasel words.
secrets don't belong in env vars, because many languages and/or frameworks will happily dump all your env vars to users in the event of misconfiguration or some errors.
Weirdest intro I've seen all week

> It is a coincidence that the news broke the day after Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, provoked widespread outrage by proroguing parliament.

It's not a coincidence; it's just something completely unrelated.
That's a 2017 paper. This one looks more like it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06308
Lots of places are not even bicycle safe and walkable. So I don't even see how Electric scooter will work in those locations. I notice it's adopted in places where people can walk and bike.
If it were an interstellar kinetic weapon it would not be decelerating, as the goal would be to smash us with as much kinetic energy as possible. :)
We have already physically adapted to different environments. People in Africa can stand higher temperatures. People in Scandinavia can withstand lower temperatures. This is what "races" are, humans adapted to their environments.
Thanks. I have a final interview next week at a somewhat boring company, but the pay would be nearly double and I think I'd be much much healthier, so I'll take that if I can get it.
this feels so familiar!

anyway none of those things are gonna matter in 20 years, but you probably know that. Do you have friends in tech to vent to?
>> "... and am unmotived to dive back into the fray..."
What is done is gone now.

Think about it this way: You were stressed because of that situation/job which is no more with you. So why continue thinking about it and not be motivated again for a new job which definitely will be better or at the least different than the previous one?

Get back in the job market and start preparing with a positive attitude towards your new job(which you will get soon). And this time you know how you can identify the situation before it gets too late.

So sleep more today/tonight if you want :-) but get back to the job hunting with full throttle starting tomorrow. Good luck!
I'm one of the authors of the original paper the article is based on. Here's a link to the actual research: https://www.john-joseph-horton.com/papers/schumpeter.pdf
>Everyone would have a much broader education including a specialty

No, there is a large set of people who go to college to get the paper they need, and do not end up with any more broad of an education at all, or no more broad, possibly less, than work experience would have given them.
> Its funny how the anti-UBI people always couch their arguments against UBI as in the best interest of irresponsible poor single mothers

That's done because those same cases will be used by legislators to justify reinstating these programs after UBI kills them. When they need to drum up public support they always tug at the heartstrings.

> what do you do now when a mother of 4 doesn't qualify for SNAP or housing assistance

First, I highly doubt a mother of 4 wouldn't qualify for any of those things (net income would be $3,188/mo with 5 members).

Second, you seem to think removing SNAP, housing credits, and others and replacing it with $1k/mo would work. I'd argue most of those benefits are worth way more in many cases.

In Yang's proposal he would give people the option to choose, which I don't think be adopted very well except for those of us who are already doing just fine and would take the extra money to save/invest.

> I for one would much rather see all the tax breaks offered to the rich be rolled back, including estate taxes and capital gains.

The top 10% already pays 70.6% of US taxes and the top 1% pays 39% alone. In comparison the bottom 50% pay around 2.8%. What is the magical number that is enough? And when does it become not worth it anymore for those people to reinvest?

IMO, the government should never be taking more then 50% of someone's income.
What city are you imagining where ten million apartments would be built with no demand for them? I'm assuming the city with ten million apartments and half a million residents is economically depressed, since that many apartments were clearly built for a much larger number of people.

Here's a better question: under a realistic model of building, where building slows down when landlords and property owners feel they have maximized the profit they will get out of it, by what date do you think housing prices will be low enough that current residents who rely on rent control to stay in SF will be able to live there again? 2025? 2035? 2050? What is your recommendation for those people in the meantime?
Photo-Chromeleon: Re-Programmable Multi-Color Textures Using Photochromic Dyes [pdf]
"It all seems like a giant plan to prevent people from starting their adult lives.

If you need to just get some generic "good job", then the answer is to learn what you need in the first twelve years of school. I think that's enough time."

Some guy on the internet said 12 years is enough to get a good job so I guess its true? A number other than 12, the product of history and chance, must be a sinister plan to uh extend childhood indefinitely by some cabal for some mysterious reason.

(Full disclosure, I went to school till I was 28. It fucking ruled and I think everyone should do it if they want to).
He is just trying to convince you that you're not worth the raise, and that you wouldn't get a better job somewhere else. He is wrong. Apply everywhere. If you don't have kids or a mortgage, just quit.

I was in a similar situation once. I got lucky because someone in our department, who was much stronger than I was, found a new job as a manager at a different company. Then a year later asked me to come work for him. That does not mean you have to wait to be lucky. Update your resume, don't try to wait until you have some new skill, just update it to wherever you are now, and start applying. Remember to ask for at least 80k.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of issues you have with ARM?

Edit: Do you refer to this? https://blog.cloudkernels.net/posts/rpi4-64bit-virt/

Still at least some DMA issues: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues
But hey, it brings in lots of tax revenue, so it won't stop anytime soon.

The current government seems willing to crack down on other areas of gambling, Ladbrokes have announced they are closing 700 shops because of tighter regulations around slot machines.
This is only true in theory, not in practice. For example see the "education" that many student athletes obtain. As demand for college increases, and subsidies from the government continue, the incentive for colleges to offer a good education decreases. Going to college does not ensure broad knowledge or a quality education.
I will write the same comment I wrote on the reddit thread.

I think calling it a 'movement' is part of the problem. We as a society allow this discourse which gives it a legitimacy that it simply should not have.

The most immediate consequence of this is that suddenly journalists are forced to entertain vacine ignorance as a 'valid' or defensable viewpoint to pretend that we have both sides of the 'argument'.

It's 2019, there is no argument to be had, stop trying to be respectful, entertaining this is a public health threat.
I know, I read it. But it doesn't work like it says it does. I have Firefox with Windows 10, and the final result ('only styles obtrusive scrollbars') is way too unobtrusive for my tastes.

It sorts of look like the Windows 10 scrollbars, but is 1/5th or one quarter the size of a regular scrollbar, and is hidden among the background of the page. Not what I prefer, and what I set up in my OS settings.
The national merit scholar thing is stupid on many axes. For one, its just a formula on your SAT score, we already have an SAT score, why is there some official entity awarding prizes based on a simple function of that score? Colleges can use whatever function they want. The whole thing should go away.
Ignoring the herd immunity benefit for the moment, most anti-vaxxers are making the decision for their innocent kids and not themselves.