skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're young and this too shall pass.
It's normal to feel anxious about things we are also excited for. It's a way your brain is planning for your life and trying to optimize it and, as a programmer, you probably have a brain that's pretty good at that.

If the thoughts are getting in the way of your life, for example causing you to stay curled up on the floor for more than five minutes, it's okay to redirect them. You're not going to "miss out" on your life's best decision by only allowing yourself five minutes to obsess on the future per 6-hour timebox. So, when they occur, accept the thoughts for a while, if something emerges that you think is a good plan write it down, and then after the five minutes are up get up and call a friend, do a physical activity, or put on a song you like.

If the same thoughts recur too often you can allow yourself to ditch them; tell yourself "I always think [that I can't afford a house] and it never leads to a good place!" and then make a conscious effort to think about how much you'd like to renovate a house or people in your life who have mortgages and still go on international vacations.

Above all, everyone I know who's over 25 has been there, and we're still alive. You'll be us someday.
No...not our "best" ally! I don't believe it!
She Built a $130M Business That Is Taking on the $500B Insurance Industry
Onus should be on journalists. Bring back the fairness doctrine and have people smarter than me take down the sinclair group.
Well I gotta say, I've worked in Waterfall and now Agile and I couldn't even explain how much better it is. I feel like I can actually do my job now instead of worrying every day about process. You won't know how much better you're going to have it until you switch.

Waterfall is a shackle around your hands and feet keeping you from getting actual work done.

That being said, if you have an Agile consultant who is not able to convince you (because he doesn't sound like a nice person to work with) that sucks, and I hope you can find someone else.
I could only conceive this behaviour as rational (although still uncivilised) if he wants to fire you and cannot.

In my country this sort of thing is illegal (work harassment).
I don't agree with your conclusions, but that didn't stop me from upvoting your comment. You touch on all sorts of important issues management should consider while deciding whether to adopt an oddball programming language or technology as the basis of its business. I write this as a CTO that chose Clojure as the basis for our now-acquired and fully-metabolized-by-the-buyer startup.

You better make sure the person who is advocating for the oddball technology…

* Is going to stick around; even cofounders sometimes bail or get caught.

* Understands the opportunity costs i.e. what is being given up by not using boring tech.

* Has used the tech on the ground and not just in a comp sci lab or to implement a to-do app.

* Will be able to grow i.e. recruit additional members to the team as the needs of the business grow.

* Really is a 10X programmer -- assuming they exist.

* Can sell the decision (in a way that doesn't consume undue positive karma) to VCs, customers, acquirers, etc.

In my situation, Clojure worked for us because I'd already spent years writing Clojure (and Scheme and Lisp) code and I understood the problem domain (I was the head of product at the time) and I had made a personal commitment to the CEO to stick around for at least two years and I managed to not get arrested or do anything awkwardly disgraceful. We also got lucky in that Clojure had a bit of a moment as a smart person's programming language in the mid two thousand teens.

If I weren't hands-on, I probably wouldn't have advocated for Clojure and instead would have opted for something mainstream for backend infrastructure at the time e.g. Java, Node.js, Python.
This is all just leading to college becoming four more years of high school. Everyone needs to go. Everyone needs a degree to "get a job".

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.

If you want to heavily specialize, research, or otherwise go deeper; then go to university.

Our policies should encourage following these practices. To start off, we need to fight grade inflation in high school so that it's a real signal for employers. Moving the problem of certification to college will just move the grade inflation problem there, not solve it. Then employers will want to see more credentials from a masters program or something.

Don't you see? If everyone has a degree, it offers no advantage. The lower performers just end up with more debt.
It's called herd immunity, and they're undermining it.
FWIW, the "specifications can be tested" is nothing magical. It binds statements of the Cucumber spec to snippets of code using regular expressions. (The effect is about the same as titles given to blocks of code in Ruby's RSpec).

The "it's not code" part of Cucumber is that the test document is something that a non-programmer won't freak out at manipulating. (But a developer would still have to make sure the code snippets bind to the statements, so...).

Still, I like it. I really like the suggested tactics discussed in Specification By Example https://gojko.net/books/specification-by-example/
Even better, do this with a card that has a higher likelihood of being chosen by the spectator—the ace of spades, for instance—and you'll see the trick work far more frequently than simple probability would suggest.
Citation. Needed.
I think it invokes benign imagery, not the promise of "war of the worlds" panic. It's not like it's "Top 10 reasons this interstellar visitor is coming to earth - number 6 will surprise you!"
> Not necessarily - taxes on property owners don't follow inflation. They may go up greatly compared with inflation.

Except in Cal where they go up much lower than inflation...
Mental health is such a complicated problem because of how directly it's tied into the way a person experiences and processes information. In order to get treatment for someone there needs to be some basic recognition that something may be wrong which might sound fairly straight forwards, but it's a classic consciousness problem of having a ruler somehow accurately measure itself. It's hard to be objective here, more-so, without being armed with the right vocabulary and ideas related to mental health you might not even know what questions are worth asking. That means that short of more extreme problems I'd expect a lot of cases of mental illness go over-looked simply because people aren't aware they even need help.

Talking about it is a good first step. If there is something wrong you can bounce ideas off people and start building a better understanding. This is very useful because I think a lot of people expect doctors to be mind readers regarding this, when in reality you have to talk about a huge amount of background info, your thoughts, feelings, problems, and so on, for them to be able to help you... and that can be uncomfortable for private people.

Hopefully in the future there are biological tests for mental illness and you could get a blood test or even the equivalent of a grocery store style pregnancy test. That would be revolutionary.
If you really trust Cloudflare and Google, I was wondering would you please give me your phone # so that I may send you a link to click on about a fabulous new opportunity with my Nigerian friend?

Really kid. https://encrypted-dns.org .. setup dns correctly, teach your friends and colleagues to do it. Don't keep giving the keys to the kingdom to dirty advertisers. Google is the bad guy, and Cloudflare is on their way to that realm. All you have to do is watch Prince brag about his $10k/night hotels and count the money he makes off of hosting white supremacists to see that.

I know y'all really think that anything worth using should be owned by a couple of companies and monetized, but this isn't one of those cases, or at least shouldn't be.
I wouldn't go so far as to condemn him simply for trying to get his message out with Twitter trickery. Twitter itself is a giant freak show with "soft bans" etc. and would have already gone the way of My_ if it hadn't been for a certain politician using it to bypass the talking heads on TV.
> "The most selective institutions, she found, spend a lot more on each undergraduate than other colleges do, and they give a significant boost in lifetime earnings, on average, to the students they enroll."

OR rich kids tend to go to rich colleges (Harvard, Yale, Stanford) and were predisposed to high incomes anyway -- one study showed that rich kids WITHOUT college degrees earn more than poor kids WITH them [1].

> "It has more or less always been true that the SAT, on balance, benefits college applicants who already enjoy lots of financial and social advantages."

Here's the problem with this analysis: what's the alternative? 50 years of education research no one's come up with a more meritocratic method than GPA + test scores. What, you going to rely on personal essays? And you think that's a fair, objective standard??

If not that, then what? Mandatory racial quotas like Carranza is trying to implement in NYC high schools?

> "Their high school grades had turned out to be much better predictors of their academic ability and college potential than their SAT scores."

What was the sample size he interviewed? A cohort of ~3.3 mil students graduate high school every year and ~66% apply to college, so it's a total population of around 2.2 million students going to college every year. Did he get a representative sample size? I doubt it.

Research has consistently shown the data with the highest correlation coefficient of first-year GPA (FGPA) in college are standardized test scores + GPA [2]. This should be common sense, there's obviously wildly different standards in high schools across America, GPA by itself is a noisy signal.

> "If they lived in Michigan or Virginia or North Carolina, they would be unlikely to be admitted to their state’s flagship university. But in Texas, their hard work in high school earns them admission to the finest university in the state."

Yes, but how many qualified out-of-state students were excluded from admission because of this system? If the goal was to admit a cohort of the most academically qualified student body then this system is, by definition, unfair and not meritocratic.

Let me say I am very much pro-diversity. But a lot of what Paul Tough is selling here is wishful thinking -- essentially throwing out standardized testing in favor of high school curricula, which the research shows is uneven and not a meritocratic standard.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/02...

[2] https://facultysenate.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/...
Inb4 some hackernews claims to have gotten the tism from vaccines, and been cured by the Cutler Protocol.
So get out of it, were you forced into tech by someone? then it's a legal issue, nothing to do with the field.
You are working in a TOXIC environment and obviously it's taking its toll. You have to get out, or at least transfer to another team. You wrote that you went to HR and they didn't help with your boss, but perhaps they CAN help moving you to another team. And you wrote that you're applying for other jobs - it can take time, just don't give up!

> It's hard for me to believe that another job won't be the same thing
It won't be the same thing, because your current boss won't be there! Sounds like he's abusing you, and most likely your next boss won't behave the same.
It's funny how the prototype search engine page linked by the document (google.stanford.edu) now presents Stanford's GSuite instance, i.e. the suite of collaborative tools Google have since produced with the income from the search business presented in the document.
>And over the last couple of decades, there’s been a rapid but uneven growth of students taking AP Calculus in high school. Low-income students are much less likely to attend schools that offer AP Calculus—and then they often end up in freshman calculus at college sitting next to lots of well-off students who have already taken the equivalent of freshman calculus in high school.

Complete anecdote here, but I did not take AP Calculus in high school. Many of my Calculus I classmates had taken AP Calculus in high school. However, taking AP Calculus in high school did not seem to provide them any advantages, in fact it seemed to disadvantage them. The issue was that they had learned the various formulas for derivatives, etc but had not gotten a deep appreciation for limits. At the college level, understanding and appreciating the concept of limits was much more important than memorizing formulas ( IIRC they actually provided the formulas for you during the test). Many of the students who had taken AP were frustrated when the problems were not amenable to a blind application of formulas, and required deeper understanding of limits.
Perhaps what you need is a bouncer?
"Don't talk about classified stuff around the President because his phone is probably compromised" is easy to understand, but a difficult instruction to follow.
There was some previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14289750 (5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8587541 (11)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3637425 (5)
Do you think contractor costs and material costs are going down?
> Landlords act in the best interest of landlords.

That is the point. Landlords will gather information or their side of evidence to push for their arguments, as well as ones that called for rent control.

All players are just playing our own shares in the game here. Is rent control necessarily good or bad in this particular case? Only future number can verify that. But because the landlord-just-be-landlord arguments, it is probably not good for the renters to take the other side of stories for granted.

Let the bullet fly for a moment.
At $bigcorp we had a senior vice president continuing his phone calls in the mens room (toilet) at the pissoirs. I can imagine he saw himself doing a power move (I certainly didn't) showing how important or busy he is. He did wash his hands at least.
Moneywise, if you expect to make roughly $100k and can buy a townhouse for roughly $300k in your area, that's a pretty good financial position to be in.
The FBI is investigating Mithril Capital for financial misconduct
Pick another area to live. For example, where I'm at there are plenty of tech jobs (many in the financial, insurance, or older industry sectors, not many web companies though) which can pay 80k to 130k once you've established yourself after a few years. And a lot of houses that need a bit of refurbishment available really cheap (60 - 100k), or houses that are move-in ready but a bit older for 150 - 200k.
So.. why don't you leave?
I wouldn't dismiss the effect of simply asking the question. Often the boss can't do anything about it. But it's helpful for many employees to be at least heard.
Remember when loot boxes promising valuable rookie cards of baseball players captured America's youth and squandered the nation's fortune back in the 20th century?

Or the countless families devastated by beanie baby addiction?

Me neither. Collectibles aren't the problem.

And it isn't gambling if you can't cash out. Why do you think there's so many casino games in the app stores even though digital gambling is illegal? Cuz they aren't gambling - they're hobbies. Thirty years ago you bought a $20 handheld slot device from the department store. Now you download an app.
Yeah, there is https://www.irccloud.com/ as well, and probably many other alternatives.
Yeah. It would be nice if journalism degrees in general would offer classes to help students understand how to give the public a standard and expected way to understand where research really is, because at current they only seem to be able to describe that research on something is happening, and even then not always very well.

Or maybe a greater degree of ethics? But classes like this might not have any affect unless there are teeth in laws that prosecute knowingly publishing falsehoods.
The Uncol Problem – Computerphile [video]
I don't get why plain text would be more accessible than a well-formed HTML email. A screen reader could say "this is a title", "this is a list item".

In plain text, what do you get? "dash bla bla"? Though I hope screen reader are more intelligent than that, but it seems like a more complex problem than just using information given by a well-formed HTML text.
There are a lot of PHP/JS jobs in Toronto. Mostly working with WordPress. It's not in my sphere so I can't point you in any specific directions but if you're anywhere near there it's worth a look. Some do office/remote and some do fully remote AFAIK.
The response of "noted".

You do a little scribble in your book or tablet or whatever and look up and say "noted" and then just stare with a pregnant pause, indicating you are waiting for the next meaningless "concern" to be articulated.
I think a lot of this depends on how you set up the context in your build. I've seen a lot of people just set the context to a specific directory with no ignores. The docker daemon by default tars up the entire context directory, which can be multiple GB. However, as you point out, even if you fix that problem, for some reason many of the stages take a very long time, even if they are just copying a small text file.
It’s not an implication, it’s explicitly stated in the article.
I just have a template saved in my notebook repository that i can export as needed into an email draft.

It's convenient because it makes me shake my gear down, too.
Crotalaria cunninghamii – Plant with leaves looking like birds on the tree
I've installed Wireguard on my VPS.
All is nice so far.
I don't know how secure it is, i-e if people can do a whois on the IP and see my identity (it seems protected by my hoster, though).
Once I stopped being hard on myself, motivation came easier. It is still hard with a 9-5 though. Watch the negative self-talk. Negative reinforcement makes me less motivated and more guilty.
Be kind to yourself and celebrate the little victories.

I also hate my job. Bad culture and unfulfilling. We will both find something better in due time, I can feel it.
I have been attending lot of interviews but not able to go through even the first rounds. I have nearly 7years experience in the industry. I mostly work on backends. I worked on iOS Android php node Java golang projects. My recent project included writing APIs backed by hyperledger using node. I also have a hacker news spin called 8hrs.xyz

Most of the interviews feel like a test. Not one of them gives me feedback even though I specifically asked for it. Lot of interviewers just ask questions from geeksforgeeks. I know data structures and algorithms are as important as other things. I know I lack grip on Ds and algos. Not that I don't like working for current company but its been 3yrs here. I'm not married yet. My mother always worries about that. No girlfriend, it's just Indian thing. I am going bald. My eyesight is decreasing and I blame computers for that. My last three meetings with girl's family side went sideways. It gives me anxiety to look at people talk about what happens if ones skill set goes obsolete. I used find it hard to stay feeling ignored by everyone and about the whole living. I did green and alcohol. After a long period of high I stopped all that and started going to gym, relearning mathematics with the help of YouTube and online resources. I took up photography. My nieces love me. I learned to ignore the bullshitters and started trying to live a good life.
Ask the parent of a premature baby, or a child on chemotherapy or immuno-compromised in some other fashion. The rage of a mother bear is comparable.
Beats me!
The problem is that vaccines are not 100% effective even on people that receive them so that group of people could still get the disease and now there is a percentage of people not getting the vaccines at all and creating a greater opportunity for exposure.
Why You Need to Sit At the Front Row in the Class Room
Is there anyone you can lean on financially or with a place to stay so that you can get yourself out of this extremely toxic situation? I can't imagine that another job would be anywhere near this level of stress. In the meantime I would suggest attending meetups and talking up how you are looking for new opportunities. I have found that applying online is far less effective in finding employment than just showing up and networking.
I believe that, on average, housing prices increase when housing is limited and decrease when it is not. I don't believe this relationship is nearly as linear as people imagine, especially since not all "demand" for housing comes from people wanting to live in it (thanks to rampant speculation in the market). I also don't believe that even a tremendous increase in available housing will cause the price to decrease enough that rent is actually affordable for the people who currently depend on rent control, and I am not willing to treat those people as "collateral damage" in the quest to lower housing prices in SF.
The article covers these points in great detail and spends significant time avoiding exactly what you describe with it's final workaround.
Maybe more appropriate topic of discussion should be how climate change affects the people of France and what can be done about it, instead of chastising them for not having Dallas housing codes.
stared buying blank mono color shirts (amazon essentials has cheap ones that are fine quality) just so I don't need to really think about it on my way to work in the morning
TensorFlow has a Java API now, so a thin Clojure wrapper shouldn't be much trouble.
wow, that is amazing. It reminds me of the "Wizard of Oz" reference commonly used in startups where AI is first tested by real people doing those tasks repeatedly to learn and improve.
Explaining Docker Image IDs
I don't think it's about more work. I was in a similar situation where we didn't have any checked luggage and simply wanted to let the company know not to wait for us for the second leg of the flight. They made a scene and said that if we don't show up, we'll be breaking some agreement with them and there might be consequences.

My understanding is that they are hell-bent on discouraging people from buying cheaper multi-hop flight tickets for one hop only.
I think the fact that we need to portray vaccines as essentially infallable in order to combat the insanity of the anti-vax movement is indeed very dangerous and worrisome. There's so much nonsense to combat that having an actual conversation is impossible.

After all, vaccines aren't risk-free, but they don't cause autism.
The airdrop site says "You'll get 1,835
Lumens (XLM) if no one else registers. " but on the first drop I got 356 XLM (20.92USD).
Do you think they are going up faster than rents in SF have?
Except that every few years you still get stories like this in the press: https://www.newsweek.com/israel-wont-stop-spying-us-249757

and then usually after a few days of embarrassed silence they go away.