skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True.

I'm honest much earlier in relationships about much more significant things, so it's highly unlikely that I'll end up married to someone who couldn't handle honest in this situation.
I don't know if that requires being a people manager, specifically. You can also scale your work by being able to work alongside other people to help them maximize their impact - you don't necessarily need to work above them, choose their work, direct their performance reviews, etc.

If you do it right, this also scales well. If you can help a hundred people do their work 10% more productively, that is also more effective than helping four people do their work 50% more productively. Most tech companies that have separate engineering-IC and engineering-management ladders try to keep roughly similar expectations at each level about scope/breadth of impact, it's just that for engineering management, it's "how many people do you transitively manage," and for the IC ladder, it's not as obvious.

I think this article does address that by pointing out that the design management career track generally expects you to manage both increasing numbers of people and increasing amounts of work, and those don't need to be the same thing:

> Overlapping responsibilities between IC and managers is the most prominent issue I’ve observed, but it’s an easy one to resolve by looking at where the line is drawn between people and product on the team.

(This sort of reminds me of a similar problem in academia: there are three separate skillsets, doing research, leading researchers/scaling a research lab, and instructing students, that tend to be conflated into one ladder. They don't need to be.)
But..you can get a six figure salary with an in-state public school too.
Turns out the most important part of the entire text is the acknowledgements section.
The real killer is the extreme use of antibiotics in livestock en masse for disease prevention. Increasing the antibiotic pressure on bacteria in livestock and therefore accelerating the potential of a drug resistant bacteria.

We need to be concerned of another major zoonotic disease.
I hate Material Design with a passion.
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Why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo
The world we live in is capable of providing a living wage to artists (and writers, and sculptors, etc.). It’s not common, and its not always the most comfortable living, but it exists.

Pixar, Riot Games, Marvel, and XKCD would not exist without full time artists (even those with above-average-but-not-world-class talent).
I just want to point out that you are taking experiences with people wearing a uniform and projecting them onto others solely due to them also wearing the same uniform.

If a cop who had just resuscitated a shooting victim were to walk by you, you would hate him for the things other cops have done to you.

This is a tribal, bias driven dehumanization of the other. Exactly the problem that many police departments suffer from internally. I find it ironic that you have it as well.
it was easier to explain over the phone too. EXP: Click Start > Control Panel > Sound > Playback Tab > Right Click the Speakers > Set as default audio device. Grandma can hear her youtube videos again while i'm still at the beach.
And the guy himself is a think thank fellow... which estate do the think tanks fall under ?
No, it's still a net gain. What you are talking about is a priority problem.

That problem is applying the right UX to more people more of the time. That costs more than just doing one size fits all, and we should be paying those costs more, in my view.
Right, I was surprised by the idea one could be listening to two different things at once, not mixing different audio/video streams.
I recall you have two children -- do you teach them as such?

I ask for a particular reason: I think you're easily one of the smartest guys in this forum, and your children are likely to be similarly smart.

So, there are two games out there for us to play -- 1) as you say, the HVAC technicians and roofers who actually make a pretty comfortable salary and 2) the uber smarts, the googlers and the founders. Even a liberal arts degree from a big name A-tier school is worth it for them, for the connections they'll make and the prestige they'll be set with for all of their life. So 2 is actually a pretty good bet. And it's why I encourage my nieces (who seem very smart) to do the whole college acceptance dance (learn to play piano, do some sports, and everything else to secure a ticket to Harvard) and the rest is easy. Don't you do the same with your kids?
I think excessive nose blowing can invite infections because a dry nose lacks the mucus which acts as a protective barrier. Nose blowing in moderation is fine, though, in my experience.

Nose picking can also lead to infection, because you're essentially inoculating yourself with whatever pathogens happen to be on your finger.

Aside from avoiding these, the things that have made the most dramatic difference for me is taking Vitamin D and getting flu shots.

Now I virtually never get sick, whereas in the past I'd pretty regularly get multiple colds and occasionally the flu pretty much every year.
Diagnosing an infection is inexact in most outpatient settings. The healthcare provider takes into account a number of factors based on the history and physical exam. A rapid antigen test as is available for streptococcal pharyngitis makes it straightforward. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for many infectious conditions which end up being treated empirically. For example, most upper respiratory infections’ etiology is viral in both adults and children. It’s very reasonable to prescribe medication for symptomatic relief and reassure the patient that should discomfort continue or worsen, antibiotics may be considered. Even though this should be the standard of care, many physicians and extenders still overprescribe antibiotics mostly to move the visit along or satisfy the patient. A good explanation with evidence takes longer than just acquiescing to the demand.
>>> Also when implants are placed you're removing bone in order to place them.

Read up on dental technology. Implants are not the cutting edge of anything. The modern trend it towards 3d printing the entire tooth, roots and all. Within a few years there will be no need to anchor to bone. Furthermore, steel is pretty strong. It doesn't shatter. A solid steel (or other metal) tooth, with composite/ceramic root structure, would last more than a lifetime.
> One friend recently told me that her son has his heart set on a pricey out-of-state engineering program, despite the fact that a fantastic engineering program exists at the public university in our town. “It’s a reach school, but if he gets in he’ll probably go there—and I guess deal with a lot of student loan debt afterward,” she said with a laugh.

I don't understand this from the article. I went to a pricey out-of-state engineering school, took out significant loans, got a good engineering job, and paid them off in less than 5 years. Taking out loans to obtain a fancy degree in a low paying profession isn't the same as taking out loans to obtain fancy degrees in a high paying profession, but the article gives them similar treatment.
Some screenshots would be nice
There are quite a few encrypted collaboration suites now, you will need either a better UI or a really good enterprise sales team.
While I understand your scepticism, in the age of the internet and digital content, technology - whether we like it or not - is fundamental to library services.
They don't market nearly as effectively

Heh, yes. A long time ago there was this guide aimed at foreign students coming to study in the US. They had a warning: if the school pitches itself at foreigners it does not have sufficient domestic students. The prospective customer should ponder long and hard about the motive of the place.

(The motive may not always be nefarious. Back then, the Classics departments of Oxford and Cambridge did pitch themselves at German school leavers because in England Latin instruction was plainly worthless. In Germany it was actually at an adequate level.)
Well, you might be shocked to hear this is true of London as well. Very few areas have land you can buy without a land lease, called freeholds.

Large landowner (ex aristocrat) or government, what difference does it make? The land is forever not yours.
They keep on doing what they love.

At some point, I simply cut and pasted the paragraphs of my performance self-reviews and actions for growth from one year to the next and told my manager: “WYSIWYG, you know what you can expect from me, you know I’ll learn anything that’s needed for the job, and more. What more needs to be said?”

And that was the end of self reviews and we all lived happily ever after.
This is a weird ponzi-scheme like comment.

If you are a creative director, you have people working under you.

How do you all get to be creative directors?
There are SO MANY laws preventing this sort of thing. I take the training occasionally; just the refresher takes half a day. The full training to be a Contracting Officer’s Representative (a “COR”) takes a full week.

Suffice it to say: having Walker’s experience and contacts will secure him a nice position, and rightly so. But if that position regards a government action in which he had any role he would likely end up in prison, and the contractor would be heavily fined and maybe barred from competing for government business.
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I need to sit down and work it out on paper, but as a long standing reverse parking fan - I can't park forwards, as it's too difficult - I don't think the diagram shown here is quite right. When going backwards at low speeds, the fact there are two rear wheels is very important! When reversing when turning fully left, the left rear wheel stays pretty much where it is; when reversing when turning fully right, the right rear wheel behaves that way.

OK - well, this is of course not quite true, because the car is moving, and so it's not quite rotating around a fixed point. But it's close enough that you can pretty much start your reverse parking manoeuvre by putting one wheel in the right place, so its contact point is lined up with wherever it ultimately needs to be - but it doesn't really matter which angle, provided it's within 45° or so. Then turn full lock in that direction (left for left wheel, right for right wheel), on the spot, and slowly reverse until the other wheel is lined up too.

Now you're done. Straighten the front wheels and go in backwards.

It's handy to bear in mind the swept volume, as there will be some overhang, but when going in backwards with this technique you don't typically have to worry about it too much.

(Making the wheels turn on the spot is not the best thing, but you can fix this once you're confident with the basic manouevre.)
So wasteful compared to what?
Except they're using that rating to influence what you're recommended, even if you don't watch (which they're also tracking). They document more of this than I expected.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/9898
What's the thing or event that you'd like to go to and meet 'connect-able' people at, if it existed?
I trust my sliderule. (This probably sounds like a snarky joke, so let me qualify it by saying I'm pretty serious.)

I'm an "Apocalyptic": I literally believe that these are the "End Times" and that our global civilization is about to tank (in ~10-50 years.) So I'm not so much worried about spooks in my chips as I am about being able to compute effectively at all, at all.

In that context, I think pretty seriously about what computer hardware will be available in a post-apocalyptic scenario. In that case chips will likely be worthless due to unavailability of datasheets.

The things that will work are sliderules and nomographs[0], henges and other geophysical "calendars", clockwork, fluidics, and relays. You might be able to make discreet transistors.

See the Clock of the Long Now mechanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now#Design (Although a large pitch-drop[1] "water" clock[2] would be more reliable and much simpler.)

- - - -

Note that, if civilization doesn't collapse, the Trust Problem will become much worse as IoT advances, and, in the limit, nanotech... and you can't trust anything. Within the limits of physics, reality will become permeated with "ghosts", we will haunt the world with our own daemons. The Daemon-Haunted World. ("'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark' is a 1995 book by astrophysicist Carl Sagan, in which the author aims to explain the scientific method to laypeople, and to encourage people to learn critical and skeptical thinking." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World )

- - - -

Maybe we will develop massive interlocking computer networks that respect (your idea of) your human rights, but that's certainly not a solid projection from current trends, eh?

[0] Image search for nomograph: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nomograph&t=ffcm&atb=v60-1&iax=ima...

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_clock
> That generally is not why US born doctors go to medical school outside of the US.

Everyone I know who did it did so for two reasons, and this is one of them. Getting into medical school means tonnes of debt - similar to art school, perhaps. And if you don't do well enough at your residency, or at your medical school prior to that, you are completely screwed in a way those who went to art school are.

Going to the Caribbean (or any other country) for medical school has its risks, though. You are treated differently when applying for residency programs, and need a much much higher score on the USMLE than someone trained in the US to match. But if you don't, you're not stuck with crippling debt.

Oh, and the other reason? Quicker to graduate. Most countries allow you to enter medical school right after high school.
> Numerous studies have shown that religious people tend to be healthier, live longer, and have higher levels of subjective well-being.

It's at least a bit of the tragedy of the commons. Religious people feel and live better but make others feel worse and have more stressful lives.

Of course this is a very subjective opinion, but I have witnessed enough examples where this is true.
It's the same with veterinarians as well.
Microsoft pays employees based on level. My manager does make more than I do, but that’s because they’re a higher level, not because they’re a manager.
That actually makes sense
Given that the NHS lists most of the meds discussed so far as approved treatments [https://www.nsh.uk/conditions/hepatitis-c/treatment] and Hep C is been a target for increased treatment by the NHS for the past two years I am wondering what you base your claim that it is easier for US citizens to get access to the drugs than it is in the UK?
Is there a good term for SRE-as-the-Google-inspired-philosophy to distinguish it from SRE-as-the-job-title? I'm trying to find a word that conveys e.g. "We ought to be measuring SLOs and defining error budgets" and not e.g. "We need to make sure the people we wake up at night are sysadmins who can code well and not just coders".

(In fairness, I think Google brought this on themselves by reusing SRE as both the job title and the philosophy.)
compare that to the heads of other government agencies and the so-called revolving door

https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/top.php?display=I
Sometimes. The fancy consulting firms place a huge premium on those elite private schools and pay huge salaries. University prestige matters for jobs and salary, even if it doesn't matter for how much you learn.
Today, students should write "to please" future employers and social credit rating algorithms.
University in Germany is just as cheap for foreigners as it is for Germans. It's only a few hundred Euros per semester, and comes with benefits like cheap public transportation and subsidized meals.
Electron and Material Design need to die with fire.
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The experienced managers know that the difference, but others could either be easily fooled or gaming the statistics to help boost their internal politics standing.

The bigger problem is when these engagement bumps are valid but destroy long term value in the cohort. The auto binge optimization makes viewers more cautious about opening the Netflix app altogether.

This happens with things like fast food restaurants. Subway expanded rapidly, and then tried holding up their sales with discounts. How long can someone eat at Subway weekly or daily before they never want to go there again? The bar is so high, you are way betting off starting a new franchise brand than trying things like removing yoga mat chemicals from your bread or hiring a new mascot who isn’t a child rapist.
XKCD is created by a guy who is ... not exactly an "artist". Well, he's an artist because he draws, but he is foremost an engineer, and he went to school for a STEM education. He had a tech job at NASA in his past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Munroe
As always with such articles, this is also misleading. They do not explain that according to the "No-communication theorem" [1] it is not possible to use quantum teleportation for faster than light information transfer.

This is becoming very common in popular science articles to be represented some misleading propositions by avoiding to report a little, but important part of the whole picture. In this way many people (sometimes including myself) stayed with invalid picture for what is actually achieved or possible to achieve.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-teleportation_theorem
There was a recent podcast episode on a related event :

"Episode 925: A Mob Boss, A Garbage Boat and Why We Recycle : Planet Money : NPR"

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739893511/episode-925-a-mob-b...
I typically don't eat breakfast. I eat a relatively low-carb diet throughout the day w/ more carbohydrates around my workout (in the evening)
Why is Netflix such a big deal? It's on the front page constantly. Their catalog is not massive and there are lots of other roughly equivalent services too.

I think it's something that William Gibson notes that in the US in everyday language, phenomena are somehow always tied to brands.
Not all doctors. Not all lawyers. Only the cream of the crop in those respective fields, and only after 20+ years in the field.

Of course, that assumes a normal mortgage, with no “payments go to interest only” or other malarkey.
Yes, but I tried hard not to bring in the word "Bayesian" because that implies a level of technical ability that is needed, as well as I didn't want to somehow bring in the entire philosophy of Bayesianism, though essentially it underpins my point.

I think thinking in percentages is a good first-order approximation/heuristic to most problems. There's so much uncertainty in our data anyway so even just conceptually breaking down the issue to percentages of contribution would already substantially help us think more clearly with the goal being to identify the top contributing factors to address.
I think the battle over the definition of DevOps has been lost. It has assumed a new meaning based on its usage.
Some eye openers there for me. They saved 40k for their kid and on average parents save 18k for their kids?! We saved exactly $0.00 for my oldest. My middle kid is a freshman. $0.00. And my youngest is 9, also $0.00.

The number one thing you must save for is your own retirement. I just this last year started funding that adequately due to life circumstances. We are just recently able to help out with education costs and do plan to open 529 plans this year.

The (very massive) downside to not having saved for the kid's education is that for us to help now, we are spending like nearly $30k a year to cover our oldest's classes. She is working part time and saving, and we are asking her to pay us back 50%. The other option is loans. We would have to cosign for them anyway, so no reason to use her poor credit. But having recently paid off all our debts sans a small mortgage, I'm not excited to take out any more debts.

I had told all my kids since they were young that they were going to pay for their own college. It is hard to follow through with that when the loans they could get are terrible and I still have to cosign for them. Glad I finally have the income to help.
Writing code (aka programming) is only a part of being a software engineer. CI/CD, tests, deployment concerns, etc. are what make a software engineer a software engineer.
Cloud engineer. Network engineer. Software engineer.... I’ve never heard of medstudents calling themselves doctors, why do cs students/grads get a pass?

Up next chefs will be food engineers, tailors will be clothing engineers, and because I changed the oil in my Toyota once, I’m now a Toyota engineer; specializing in fluids.

Words mean literally nothing anymore (ha). Titles in tech are hilarious at almost every level, especially from the outside looking in.
My girlfriend and I have had this discussion a lot, because she went to a top tier art school. I think you might be underrating three factors in your reasoning:

One is the value of very direct feedback and guidance from seasoned, respected professionals. The class sizes in top art programs are very small, and most classes have a frequent, intense “critique” portion where the professor and students tear apart each others’ work. It’s like 3 years of intense code review from other talented programmers, led by a staff engineer. It’s hard to put a sticker price on this, because you largely get out what you put in, but it’s immense and I’d argue unique to a top tier art school.

The second is that you’re living in a high pressure environment of professors and peers who always seem to be pushing you to be better in some dimension. It’s not conducive for everyone, but if you have a strong competitive drive, it can make you very productive.

Finally, the fundamentals in design and art are insanely important. My girlfriend took 4 semesters of typography, because the ROI there is legitimately defensible. Most people skip this stuff when they’re self teaching, and it shows to people who know better.

You’re right that portfolios are of paramount importance, but good companies will make you defend your portfolio pieces, and ask you what you’d do differently with different constraints or resources. An art school training will humble you to the idea that there is another way, and arm you with ideas for alternative solutions. It’s subtle, but it comes out in interviews and on the job. I’d argue it’s similar to software engineering in that way.
Because really you're supposed to click the link in the article and listen to the interview.
> But the myth that these institutions are somehow kidnapping high school students and forcing them to take on massive loans is a myth that needs to be crushed.

Well, yes. Same with the push for credit card advertising being banned on campuses. Same with the ban on tobacco advertising. And so on.
Netflix's UI is terrible for discovery, unlike the DVD days where I loved browsing it even if I wasn't going to watch.

I do doubt that it's UI really makes anyone watch anything or binge.
I meant functionally, ie what a single part (bjt, jfet, mosfet etc) can do. of course there are better materials and ways to produce more advanced parts.