skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Few direct managers have the ability to give you a raise that a new employer would

I'm usually very up-front with my reports on this. I make it very clear that I cannot compete with other companies on an immediate short-term compensation bump, so if they prioritize "money now" over everything else, then they should go out and interview.

However in the four years that I was a manager at my previous company, nobody on my team ever took me up on the advice to switch companies to get more money faster.
I was fourth picked for g&t. First and second pick ended up being quite successful, as did the third picked. One has a high up, prestigious position at Amazon and the other retired from Microsoft wealthy.

Me, I smoke weed and that’s about the only thing I’ve really done consistently since high school.. more consistently than music, and programming, even.

Frankly, I wish I had been better separated from the other kids. I would have been far happier in middle school just hanging around other nice, smart people. (With a few exceptions, the smart kids tended to be kind). The mixture with the “gen pop” led to bullying, repeated physical abuse and harassment by other kids from ages 10-12. This was decades ago when physical abuse amongst minors was often ignored, even by police.

By freshman year of high school, I was worn down and switched back to some non-honors classes mid-term. This unfortunately led to dysfunctional friendships with the “cool” kids (same bully crowd), introduction to drugs and a low achievement life. There was some form of Florence nightingale syndrome involved here, due to unresolved physical abuse leading to friendships with the abusers in high school.

Separating gifted children for accelerated learning is great. Ignoring social development by blindly sticking all kids together in unstructured environments where bullying and physical abuse is allowed to persist will override any hope for some kids. I know, I was there. Still here.
I have to say that this result is wildly different from my experience and that of my children. It's boring to sit in class redoing a simple math problem just because someone wants to detrack math.

A friend of mine who is a teacher says that he has MORE discipline problems from the smart kids who aren't challenged enough.

The real secret should be to embrace independent, computer-mediated systems like Khan Academy. Everyone can move at their own pace. That's the best choice going forward. We have the technology. We have the ability to liberate our children to learn at their individual pace. I don't know why we cling to the old sage-on-a-stage model.
It depends, most university courses in Italy don't have a strict access exam for example, or they only do in some some universities.

I don't think there is a European standardisation on hard entrance exams and limited numbers.
Cali is not the only place with a housing problem?
I haven't.

I was once fired because of my idiot boss. I didn't quit. Maybe I should have, but getting fired meant I could fight it just enough to get some severance pay out of it.

He fired me the day I returned from a month long illness. Before that, he was sometimes annoyed he saw me leaning back while watching my scripts write my code for me.

None of the jobs I quit were because of my boss. One was because I really needed to do something more interesting than maintaining a bunch of legacy sites. One where I volunteered to get fired was because I wanted to start my own company.
Who decides who's allowed to publish op-eds in the Times and what topics those op-eds will be about?
This is a good point. I’ve never left due to a direct manager but definitely have left due to leadership above them
would china just copy and run away or it is harder? They do have their own ev cars and buses.
Had a look at a chromebook for dev recently. I wanted to be enthusiastic....but 1366 x 768 and eMMC storage. I just can't.

(Got a 2nd hand 2016 zenbook instead - wohoo 3200 x 1800 res)
Here's a documented example of Entergy paying people to pack a public hearing on building a power plant (not nuclear).

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nola.com/news/article_33443...

Astroturfing is incredibly common, it's part of many public relations firms standard services. In person actors are obviously more expensive than their online equivalent but it's all just viewed as a tool for a campaign.
Counterpoint: I've taken the high road when I had the chance to compromise my principles and (maybe!) make a lot of money. And I ended up with a decent amount of money as a result. People with values look for and value other people with values, so it did open doors.

Now I'm not rolling in cash as a result, but I'm quite comfortable. And I ended up much better than some of the cut throat people involved in that enterprise who lost the game of thrones and ended up with nothing.
I think in a few decades people will be looking back at the obsession over achievement and academics as something weird. People learn and achieve in different paces, and, assuming a lifetime of continuous opportunity for learning (as we have today), the metrics of specific ages are obsolete things.
Maybe, but then those "boring and generic" people will move out of "interesting" architecture and allow other people the opportunity to improve the place.
Interesting that `-Ofast` & `-O3` were chosen to bench and not `-Osize`. In some real-world cases, `-Osize` can beat `-O3` because it will impact caches less with the smaller code size. This has interesting affects also when the workload is is highly parallel/threaded and less sequential. It also reduces side-effects of trying to create fast, possibly unrolled loop code.
Very true. And what works in Europe will not work for the US because
1. No kids should be left behind, so let's dumb down the test.
2. Kids should have stress-free life and academia is for boring people, so let's dumb dow the curriculum.
3. Math is racism. STEM for sure is racism. As Seattle educator put it, why don't we teach kids aboriginal math, and tests are surely racism. So, let's get rid of entrance exam and possibly reduce course work on model civilization.

With all the progress in civil rights, charging hefty intuition is the only way to go
they chose that law professor at random to write an article of his choosing?
I think a big part of Google's solution has to do with the number of recipients of a message with a particular hash.

Whereas social media doesn't really have a to: list. By design it's broadcast. That puts a major limitation on using as similar solution.
Those people actually become larger by virtue of occupying their minds with money. Numbers signify connections (groups) so it's just natural.

It's a lack of exchange caused by lack of specificity of requests and a lack of discernment on the part of the hubs.
Language problem: A-level isn't an A average. The post you are replying to was written in British-compatible English and you read it in an American-compatible dialect. Think of it as a "full high school" education, as opposed to the early-leaving program for immediate employment or trade school (which in England would be a GCSE, or O-level in former times). Here in Ontario, Canada, we used to have a Grade 13 for university educattion qualification; in Quebec, one attends CEGEP between an abbreviated high school and university.
Both Voyager 1 and 2 use RTG's (Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators)[1] for power. Every year the RTG puts out less and less power, so instruments are gradually powered down to preserve the functionality of the critical ones for as long as possible.

According to JPL[2] at least one scientific instrument will continue functioning until about 2025, and the crafts will remain in range of the Deep Space Network until 2036.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...

[2] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/
The New York Times is Not Just Publishing Clickbait, it's Hiding it Behind Paywalls
True. The number of "anonymous sources say..." stories in the New York Times has gotten to the point of absurdity. Might as well be getting the news from 4chan.
> AI systems mis-analyzing some data and locking people out from education, work, credit and health opportunities.

College admissions? Resume screens? Mortgage applications?

We already have that at scale. There wouldn't be so much money in gaming those things if the AI wasn't doing such a poor job. You likely just happen to be someone that isn't on the wrong side of it.
That's explicitly against the terms of the program: https://help.github.com/en/github/supporting-the-open-source...

> "Donation for donation" schemes or other attempts to game the GitHub Sponsors Matching Fund are a violation of this policy and the GitHub Sponsors Additional Terms, and any funds matched during this period will be revoked.
> For some reason, my alarm clock requires that I install an app on my phone.

It is weird that a person working in IT pretends not to know why the clock reqiures an app. Of course to vacuum personal information, geolocation and hardware identifiers of all devices nearby.
It seems you've got it backwards.

Abrahamic religions, for example, created an "I-It" relationship by declaring nature to be subordinate to mankind in Genesis.

The theory of evolution and the science of ecology defines the relationship as communal and interrelated, or "I-Thou".
the corrolary "this is some random people's ad, not facebook's opinion" would then completely invalidate their argument
It's similar. Pupils are evaluated on their last 2 years of high school. The bacalaureat (equivalent of the A level) doesn't factor in because it comes too late (July-August, after it's already decided where you will be going).

This can be very selective or not at all depending on where you're going, there are totally different tracks so it really can't be discussed in general (Law, Medicine, Engineering, Business, Art, trades, etc...). All are basically free, except business schools that are always private and super expensive.

I think that's the main difference between the US, US always have gigantic college of 30000 students that cover everything, whereas France is rather fragmented.
I see your point and it can be true, in particular when the state is officially controlled by a single party, and/or in societies with systematic corruption.

And while your examples are also true, I would argue that it's actually normal for rail and post to be in the red. This is because their primary purpose is not to generate revenue for the state, but to provide a service to taxpayers. For example, unprofitable train routes have to be kept because they link remote areas to cities.

In fact, when private industry handles these type of public services, users tend to have poorer service and higher costs, because there is a natural monopoly.

For train service, take a look at the UK, where different companies "compete": service is worse than France at a higher cost.

La Poste has been a publicly traded company for about 10 years if memory serves. Service has been getting worse ever since.
Interesting - I went to a tracked high school. The advanced track kids were expected to take a bunch of AP exams at the ends of their tracks. I was in advanced but didn't always like it - there were really some gunners in these courses blowing Calc BC out of the water. That said, there is NO WAY every kid in high school is BC calc ready - so clearly at some point people are getting to choose what classes to take?
I used to own an old Ford Ranger, and in Winter I would have it loaded with bags of sand in the bed to improve traction on ice. I could have just as easily been hauling batteries everywhere.
Will it? Those who make it through will continue the narrative because lettings others know will reduce the value of their degree.
That Andy Rachleff quote about product/market fit comes to mind "when you have it, you can screw up almost everything and still succeed"

An example: Larry and Sergey deciding to do away with managers back in the early 00's would have decimated a startup that didn't have a burgeoning monopoly. Was barely a bump in the road for Google.
The real gift is giving a man a fishing pole. Knowing how to fish without the tools to do so is worse than just getting a single fish.
Yah if fake news can spread propaganda for dirty ukrain money why FB can't?
Taking Austin for a moment, the real estate market has doubled since 2012, and zillow calls the market 'hot'. While obviously not Bay Area prices, real estate growth is high.

Austin has minimal mass transit - some train, some bus. For Texas in general, it's better than average. However, this popped up: https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/austin-named-one-of-the-mos...

I'm pretty skeptical of 'in the world' claim, but I have heard that the north-south arterial axis of the city build out makes getting around challenging at times.

My overall point is, 'fast growing tech hubs' have growth related problems. Only in an extreme anti-tax state like TX, you may never have any infrastructure build up, except for maybe more interstates.

Ultimately, municipal elections draw only the most engaged voters, and outside of those times, officials have broad authority to control how things are built. Getting re-elected is always a concern, so we end up with a general slow-to-change civic pattern that appears to be repeating all across the US. Even in much-lauded NYC, people complain about (a) underinvestment in subways (b) many manhattan buildings are illegal under current planning code. Building code is a primary challenge to reducing change, and I hardly see anyone, except CA state authorities, attacking overly restrictive planning code.
To work UBI needs to be a survivable income, and also granted even if you make more than it already. That way it can be used as a safety net for the helplessly poor, a very valuable additional source of income for the working poor, and a buffer to let people actually try to implement their ideas instead of do 'make work' like an overpaid toll booth operator. The people who want to do something more valuable than work a toll booth should be prioritized over the people who wish to impeded the entire progress of humanity so they can be overpaid to do make work (dont' know if those people exist as abundantly as you seem to assume)
You can claim that people tossing around corruption don't understand it... but you in the first place don't understand the scenario OP is even describing (as they're unable to provide details, you couldn't possibly be making an accurate judgment). So it is far fetched for you to confidently claim OP is misusing corruption etc. here.
Controlling the narrative is a lot of political power to have. And I guess alot of people don't want to see traditional media lose that power.
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I looked at the 2nd hand Tesla car and i always wonder whether it is not the production but the longer life (less corrosive part and/especially if battery is replaceable ) plus full maintenance history (you pump, you hit, your suspension). The industry is totally changed. You may not have the volume even the no of cars are more.
I agree this likely would have been better for the rest of the students if they too had individualized targeted classes to experience.

That'd be a great time for those with strong prospects in sports to receive individualized education with outside coaches/players from those fields.

It'd also be a great time for students at risk academically to secretly have tutoring and targeted coverage of core subjects they might be struggling with.

However I'm much more hopeful for actually personalized education; like turning school in to more of an MMO-RPG class system where assignments are like the quests in a game and participation on larger projects has real world commons / civic infrastructure improvements. Real mentor-ship and problems in the real world would give practical application to education that I feel would make retention much stronger.
I got in to University of Chicago, but the finances were rough. They expected my parents to pay around 30% of their (combined) income in tuition after scholarships and loans. Presumably this would have dropped when my brother entered college a year after me, but given that I got into other schools that cost less than half as much it wasn't really a question.

My parents didn't really know what to tell me because on one hand they felt like they were being punished for not making profligate decisions like going into debt for a fancy car or buying a bigger house, but on they other hand they didn't really want to outright tell me not to go somewhere like U of Chicago.

Made me feel like college admissions spiels saying not to worry about finances were a lip-service scam designed to make college look accessible while mostly benefiting the rich and very poor and screwing those in-between.

Went to a state university instead, but never really fit in there. Too much alcohol, greek life, and sports.

In any case, I don't mean to imply that my parents didn't have a decent income, just that the way things worked made them feel like they were being punished for trying to be financially responsible, and being asked to pay the equivalent of a 2nd mortgage for your kid's college only for them to be in debt on top of it anyway, and not knowing how things would work once they had a 2nd kid in college wasn't a strong sell. Even though they didn't say not to go there, I would have felt super super guilty about saying yes.

Fun fact: the scholarship U of Chicago offered would have covered the cost of attendance at each other college I got into and then some, but still didn't cover even half of the cost of attendance there.
It can completely break applications. Particularly those that require a particular level of floating point precision (in which case a fixed precision library is actually a better choice and those that use abundant aliasing (which plenty of modern static analyzers can help with). But for the most part I've been using -Ofast for years in a wide variety of applications with no issues.
> The fact that we've been in a situation where most skilled workers can easily job hop for that last 5 or so years is an aberration, not the norm

Are you talking about workers in general, or software development in particular?

In software development, I don't remember a time in the last three decades where a skilled dev couldn't find other employment with relatively little trouble. Of course, in some periods it was easier than in others.
The day after is a generally-accepted threshold for free discussion of TV shows.
Here's a great illustration of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 outside of the heliosphere:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-voyager-2-probe-en...
At least the authors of paid ads and their intent can be reasonably sleuthed out by those interested in learning their origin and truthiness. The mass of ad agencies that put their content out through fake accounts with every attempt at hiding their content's true source(s) are more worrisome for me.

Maybe, if Facebook doesn't require an ad's content to be truthful, just placing a disclaimer such as "CONTENT IN THIS AD NOT GUARANTEED TO BE TRUE" will be enough to dissuade its consumers to believe everything they read.
Currently I have my phone set to ring 3 alarms on weekdays, and 1 late one at weekends, would be better if it just read my calendar though.

Only having one kinda inaccurate alarm on an analog clock would be annoying, also having to change the time twice a year, and correct for errors.
Essential Swedish tech jargon all programmers in Sweden should know
If these are single family homes at average prices and average lot sizes in SJ, then it works out to about 35 acres of land
How are Dell's keyboards?

I'm not optimistic.
As of now, there are no franchised stores in the area. A local store would sell for a non-inflated price and have a better product (Krispy Kreme donuts are generally terrible, but if you get them fresh off the line, they're kind of okay).
The "general wellbeing" part got me thinking. The underlying questions that surfaced were "What does and doesn't society "owe" us? What do we expect from it?"

What is today's social contract?

I really have no idea.
Lovely conspiracy theory.
This is not ... yet ... necessary.

Just don't ever connect it via WiFi, Ethernet, or Bluetooth to any kind of source of Internet connectivity.

Once they get to the point where they require online connectivity to do anything at all (like power on), then it's time to dump them for something simpler -- and more expensive.
That is how op-eds work yes. Newspapers have been around for awhile.
No, but there are lot of places in the US where working class/middle class households (median income of around $70K) can both find jobs and housing they can afford.

Your average Software Engineer in Atlanta for instance is definitely not struggling to find a nice (3000 square foot) brand new house in the burbs in a great school system with a mortgage that doesn’t leave them house poor.
are you talking about diploma pathways: "advanced"/"standard" diplomas and things of that nature? because that's the norm in several states.
Nokia, RIMM & Motorola had the same "advantage" in their day. It ends up actually being a disadvantage because they couldn't let go of their legacy know-how.

Going from 0 to 1k is very difficult. Going from 1k to 30k, much easier.
Because IQ is only loosely correlated with actual achievement? College admissions generally care about achievement (grades, awards, activities, extra-curriculars, etc.), diversity, and likelihood to be a successful student who later donates money back to the school. IQ is not a great predictor of these outcomes since there are a lot of high-IQ individuals who don't really apply themselves.
The liberal arts college my wife teaches at recently introduced a more "transparent" tuition pricing scheme. Advertised price $18,600 down from $38,600!
https://news.central.edu/2019/09/central-announces-new-tuiti...
Sure, but it takes two to tango. Humans are great in selective memories, post-facto rationalizing their own failings.

Once you've been a manager you'll understand the other side of this.
You're always free to make additional equity payments. Modern mortgages don't have prepayment penalties.
Traditional banking serves pretty much everyone on earth, without running into performance issues, so if Bitcoin is going to replace those banks then yes, it must do the same. And it was Bitcoin fanboys who declared that Bitcoin is here to replace fiat money, so you set that goalpost yourself.
No. It says the borrower is a slave to the lender and to be aware. But it is not against the Church.
I went from a typical 9-5 job to working part time, about 16 hours, to focus on my studies. Doing this increased my overall happiness by a massive factor. Being able to spend the majority of my day on something I was actually interested in and passionate about pulled me out of a "life is meaningless, why bother" mentality that my former job had buried me in.

The pay cut was drastic, but I was lucky (in a way) that I had come from having nothing the majority of my life so going back to almost nothing was an easy transition because it was essentially my 'default mode'. And even when I was making a considerable amount of money, lifestyle creep never became an issue. I lived well within my means. This is important because this combination allowed me to actually quit my job and live off of savings for years while I went back and completed my undergraduate. I've had friends in similar situations who have had to go back to a job they hated because they couldn't adjust. But for me, it was worth cutting every single cent and I will never work a 9-5 ever again.
Oops, sorry. My bad - correcting. Thanks.
I've never quit because of a manager. Maybe I'm just lucky. I've been able to work reasonably well with all of my managers, even the ones who saw things very differently from how I do. I've only ever quit a company because I had a better offer and they wouldn't match it.
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they should just be called 'greedy lying traitors, inc'.