skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the fact that art history majors earn a lot less than stem majors on average seems to confirm this

Precisely. There's a market for STEM majors already - so why subsidize it with taxpayer money? Shouldn't that be used for education that doesn't have monetary value?
The opportunity that lies in every crisis
We have all heard that the Chinese use the same world to describe the concepts of crisis and opportunity. What they mean to say is that in every crisis lies an opportunity, depending on how it is looked at. The word crisis comes from the Greek "to separate, to sift" which means to pass judgement, to keep only what is worth while. There is an opportunity in every crisis and the deeper the crisis, the better the opportunity can be. But some people are not capable of seeing it.

This crisis of gigantic proportions seen by some as the "perfect storm" should help us at least to see better, to see more clearly; to decentralize our look from our individual or national problems; to have a global look; to realize that our local crises (for example the dangerously growing unemployment) cannot be fully understood if we do not place them in an international perspective.

Without being demagogic, because this crisis affects us all and it is not good neither for us nor for the poor, the crisis is giving us an intensive enlightening course. It is letting us see with astonishment how the selfishness and greediness of the rich are producing this great financial crack. We can also see how quickly the global markets react in panic of loosing profits, but also the extraordinary generous measures of the world's governments.

This crisis is astonishing us when we see how efficient the "global fear" is to global bankruptcy in order to mobilize an enormous amount of resources and political efforts; there are so many millions mobilized, that we cannot but compare them to the thin quantities allocated to the urgent policies, wherever they may be, to fight against the poverty that threatens millions in the planet.

Let us be positive and remember this on course of the coronavirus pandemic, whose true motivation should not be spending and waste, but the living remembrance of He who said among other provocative things, "One cannot serve God and money".
So fire those teachers. There’s a difference between teaching a particular opinion and teaching proven falsehoods. University professors are basically free to teach whatever syllabus they like, why is that approach not translatable to the public school classroom?
How does putting graphite in the frame "induce spin" if the ball is contacting the strings?

Also - those sites are hilarious:
> Graphene has been placed at strategic parts of the head and throat to optimize energy transfer into the shot. This is combined with Spiralfibers at the bottom of the hoop that stretch and untwist at impact to create more flex and enhanced feel.

They might as well say that each racket is aged for 72 days under a pyramid to concentrate the chi.

> By having more weight toward the part of the frame a player makes contact, the racquet can deliver more power. And by counterbalancing that with weight in the handle, it’s still maneuverable and easy to swing.

So it has more weight in the head. And more weight in the non-head. So, basically, it is heavy?
Wow. Pretty sure I learned to read through phonics (also in California). I think the tricks of quickly skimming words and just inferring words from context are things that I do when I'm not deeply engaged in a text and just want to pick up the gist. I would never recommending learning to read that way. Maybe it's not as fun to teach?

I got towards the end of the article though and just kinda speechless at this reaction from the guy who came up with this theory. The damage that this kind of arrogance has done is hard to measure...

He brought up the example of a child who comes to the word "horse" and says "pony" instead. His argument is that a child will still understand the meaning of the story because horse and pony are the same concept.

I pressed him on this. First of all, a pony isn't the same thing as a horse. Second, don't you want to make sure that when a child is learning to read, he understands that /p/ /o/ /n/ /y/ says "pony"? And different letters say "horse"?

He dismissed my question.

And

Goodman rejected the idea that you can make a distinction between skilled readers and unskilled readers; he doesn't like the value judgment that implies. He said dyslexia does not exist...
Average Aussie here. "Presenteeism" is totally a thing here too.
I would argue that linking pay to product, rather than linking pay to timesheet would get people to work more. Directly link motivation!

But linking pay-to-product can be a hard problem!

Long story short (I have refactored this comment a few times), employees are "significant investors" in the business and should be paid as such.

Stock options are a perfect example of this.

Note the "significant" bit though. Most places with "stock options" do it as a token option. A bargaining chip of employment, to negotiate and minimise costs for the company. In Australia, mostly not an option at all.

Which leads to your:
"You want people to work harder? Pay them more for it. Or at least fairly"

Or as I think: If I don't have skin in the game then why should I care?
M-DISC is surprisingly cheap. Amazon is selling an M-DISC-capable USB drive for $22 and 4.7GB M-DISC DVD-R for $1.68 each.
I'm 45 and got my first tech job at 38. Before that, I had been homeless for 2 years, from which I have PTSD. My first tech job was for $70k and no stock in SoCal. From there, I went to a startup making $105k with some worthless stock options to another startup making $140k with some more worthless stock options, to my current gig at a public company making about $210k with RSUs that are real money.

I got fired from the first 3 jobs because my PTSD got the better of me. Whenever I feel the slightest bit insecure at work, my anxiety instantly goes through the roof. I've been seeing a therapist for the past 6 or 7 years who's helped me immensely, but this whole forced WFH and inability to do anything outside of home is causing my anxiety to skyrocket. I recently had to take almost a month off to deal with it.

In spite of all that, I think I'm in the best place I've ever been with the PTSD and anxiety. Until I got my third tech job, I hadn't been able to put a meaningful amount of money away. At that third job was when I finally started feeling somewhat financially secure, because I'd put together a 6 month emergency fund.

After I got fired from that job, a 5 month job search ensued. By cutting expenses and applying for unemployment benefits, I had managed to only burn through 2/3 of that money, but, boy, was I just constantly triggered for about the last 3.5 months of the search.

My triggers are mostly based on financial security. When I feel like work isn't going well, I still see myself getting fired and ending up homeless, even though in the past year, I've managed to put away over a years' worth of expenses in savings and investment accounts that I can tap if I need to. Add on the stress of COVID and a general feeling of unproductivity at home, and, well, let's just say I'm feeling the strain, even after that entire month off work.

If we weren't going through both a plague and Great Depression II at the same time, and I could go into an office to work with my team, I'd probably be doing fine, just like I was before everything hit. Besides taking time off, I've been making sure to see my therapist regularly, seen a psychiatrist, and started taking CBD, magnesium, and GABA supplements, in addition to the vitamin D I take regularly.

All that, plus the support of my girlfriend, who's also lucky enough to still have her job working from home is pretty much what's keeping me together right now.

Other than COVID and WFH, there's also the fact that I'm a 45 year old software engineer. Let's just say I'm not looking forward to my next couple of job searches.
How good is the critical thinking that's taught in the hard sciences? My assumption would be that it's quite limited there, too - present only to the extent that it absolutely has to be for good science to be carried out.

It seems that critical thinking is generally seen (by whatever system is in charge) as an ugly thing, which, in some cases, must unfortunately be allowed to rear its head, so that progress can be made. Critical thinking is really quite a natural thing for humans to do, but it is for the above reason that it is largely stamped out of us by the school system.
Improving Testability with Fakes and Factories
But the type of organization that is a corporation didn't exist when the constitution was written. Much like nuclear arms (and chemical, and biological) didn't exist when the constitution was written so we don't consider them covered by the second amendment.
This made me so happy. Thank you for doing it!
>"The salon was designed with a luxurious feel and built on the virtue of health and purity.

Customers would be treated to the “Harper Method” — an elaborate 2-hour process involving head and shoulder massages, facials, and procedures with names like “saddle maneuver,” “strapping action,” and “checking motion” that were purported to stimulate blood flow and promote hair growth."

[...]

>"At a time when customer service was still something of a foreign concept, Harper reinvested profits in enriching her clients’ experience, inventing the first reclining shampoo chair and a special sink with a unique cut-out for the neck."

[...]

>"Harper knew that she had to maintain strict control over her brand and the quality of her service. She also knew she had to find operators she could trust.

She set out to hire women who came from a similar background as her: lower-class servants and housemaids who had the ambition and discipline to run a business but lacked the capital.

These “Harperites” were put through intense training to ensure uniformity and created a school where they were taught the Harper methods.

To own her own franchise, a Harperite would pay a fee (paid back as a loan over time), and agree to only stock Harper products — brushes, tonics, chairs, sinks. Harper chose each location and controlled signage and advertisements."
Lol, kids, do not try this at home!
Neither is inherently inefficient. It’s just that both types of organisations can afford inefficiencies, while a small private company usually can’t afford it.

That doesn’t mean that small companies always are more efficiently run in all aspects. I expect my local McDonalds be much more efficient than the small sushi place around the corner, which can afford being inefficient due to low rent and probably close to minimum salary for the owner.
You don’t speak for the people working on it, so your claim of sunk cost fallacy is null.
Tim Cook's written statement is now available:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7009148/Tim-Cook-...
Sure it's relevant, but again like Eduardo said, most devs don't have Linux ARM64 dev machines, they don't use it on a daily basis, they don't have experience with it.
I was under the impression that this kind of interpretation of employment contracts was more or less illegal (or, at the very least, unenforceable) in many states (I'm assuming you're US, programming in Fortune 500, so maybe not applicable?). Sort of fits into the same kind vein as certain non-compete clauses, where companies put them in, but they'd be tossed out pretty quickly in court should things actually reach that point.

If it's not on employer-owned equipment during core working hours, then I believe it's pretty difficult for an employer to enforce that kind of thing. I don't know how important to you working at that charity was or participating in open-source now is to you, but if you're willing to take a harder line of telling rather than asking, you might find that when push comes to shove, there might not be much they can do without drastically escalating the situation (not always an organization's favorite thing to do, even if they can technically win, which they might not be able to).

Obvious disclaimer about being a non-expert on this sort of thing, but really just wanted to point out that the first answer in this situation may not actually be the final one.
Takes a Little Time
It's not always simple. Regexes have inherent complexity because the equivalent FSM is, in general case, nondeterministic. This implies it cannot always be easily simulated.

So you either drag this complexity into your code or dump it on the regex library. It's a trade-off.
The median age in Afghanistan is ninteen.[1]

When the Soviet-Afghan War started in 1979, the population of Afghanistan was 13.41 million. Current population is 38.93 million.[2] Afghans who were 14 or older when that war started make up less than 7% of the population.[1]

While I don't doubt that many Afghans would like a more stable country, I'm skeptical that a large portion of them have any real idea of what their country was once like. (Nor do I know how accurate and the Westernized portrayals I've seen really were.)

1
https://www.indexmundi.com/afghanistan/demographics_profile....

2
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/afghanistan-popu...
Joint stock corporations predate the US constitution.
I wonder if this is related to why it's easy to learn touch typing while saying the keys out loud.
Don't you believe that it's also possible that there are sometimes methods that do outperform all others in the long term for everyone (such as phonics) but can initially be harder than other ways (such as three-cueing)? So all _you_ see as a teacher in the little time you get with a pupil who doesn't learn as well is that the phonics isn't "working for them" and that three-cueing is "just how this person learns," but really you're just teaching them an inferior shortcut which leads to worse outcomes.
Best way to avoid this BS is to be introduced by an established insider to help bypass this.
> We used to value self-reliance and risk taking, but a growing chunk of America now wants a more risk-averse government-reliant (in the form of guaranteed pensions, etc) European style society.

I’d be happy if that’s all they wanted. Some people want to “dismantl[e] White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Capitalism, Imperialism and the role the state plays in supporting them.” And instead of saying “hey, one of those things is not like the other” I now drive past a street in DC every day named after an organization that has this quote on their DC chapter’s front page. (Technically, it’s an honorary name, but DC streets have proper street signs for those.) Meanwhile, the Smithsonian is publishing materials condemning “objective, rational linear thinking” and “progress” and “competition.”

I get that these are fringe academic ideas that fringe people have injected into an otherwise really important conversation. But I’m pretty alarmed about the degree to which mainstream sources are implicitly sanctioning these kinds of assertions. Silicon Valley as we know it can’t exist within this intellectual framework.
FAAG all use white board - there must be a reason.

I just do not understand - if you are a competent programmer, what are you afraid of white board Interview?

Show your ability or stop whining!
Not the guy that asked the question, but thank you for this - very informative :)
Sweden Unveils ‘Promising’ Covid-19 Data as New Cases Plunge
Conflict Catcher! By Jeff Robbin, who later wrote SoundJam MP, which was then bought by Apple and turned into iTunes, and he stayed at Apple for many years (may still be there even(
This isn't the culmination of a lifetime of math study. You just don't have a basis to understand it, but you could easily understand it with a few years of study in your free time. Chinese may be as inscrutable to you as math is but you understand that you just need to learn it for it to start making sense....

Note I'm talking about the math in the paper, not the paper itself.
There are often key assumptions the financial statements are based upon. Without clarity, you would never know.
I use ffmpeg to do some automatic trimming and to force encode the video as top-field encoded. My capture hardware lies and says it’s deinterlaced, when the video is not. I’ve tried deinterlacing with it but found best compromise quality / effort / speed wise using Apple’s Compressor and it’s deinterlacing algorithm. I don’t know why I’m unable to override the capture in AVFoundation; maybe someone smarter than me can tell me how to do this (I suspect it’s not possible).

I use QuickTime to go through the material and do the splits / manual trimming. This happens often as one tape was used for multiple events and sometimes TV content as well.
This is actually one of the essays included in The Salmon of Doubt, a posthumously published collection of some of Adams' best writing. The audiobook version of this chapter being read by Simon Jones is a treat.

https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Salmon-of-Doubt-Audiobook/B00...
It takes 10 years of post-undergrad professional or academic work to become "conversant" in physics? Isn't that the undergrad GR and supporting math courses, themselves, generally? Or are you referring to a level of keeping up with the latest modern theory?
While it doesn't surprise me when an insane person says the sorts of thing one would expect an insane person to say, it boggles my mind that these people have significant numbers of followers.

With each passing year it's feeling more and more like reality is turning into an episode of Twilight Zone...
Don't forget their convoluted documentation for those APIs, or how their libraries are poorly maintained, and has even worse documentation somehow.
While the article doesn't mention it directly or indirectly, isn't this exactly what the social media giants would ideally want? Regulation might raise the `Barriers to entry` for any potential new social media site, if there was any chance of a new one coming up and taking a pie out of FB / Twitter, etc.
What the...? I never heard of mallsoft before. I watched some of thoss videos (well, listened). I cant believe that's a thing. I'm laughing. Am i supposed to laugh or is this considered art?
the economic differences between classes just comes down to neighborhoods, property wealth and accumulated family wealth... not necessarily income.

In the long run salaries (incomes) tend to subsistence levels, capital dwarves labor and it all comes down to "accumulated family wealth". That's the normal. Postwar raised the relative value of labor for a while but that cycle is coming to an end.
You were always there :)
I'm not claiming that renewables have to completely replace fossil fuels (see my reference to carbon capture), or that they even need to be cheaper (fossil fuels could become artificially expensive by, eg, carbon taxes). I'm questioning the assertion that nuclear is essential, which is what was claimed by the comment I replied to.

Nuclear might be nice to have, might be better for various reasons, might be lots of things. But is it absolutely required "to solve the looming energy crisis of the 21st century while still maintaining the same standard of living for everyone"? That's my question.
If a degree has industrial use, why doesn't industry pay for it? Why are taxpayers pulling out their checkbook?
They're all deeply interconnected. Read a book. All of those systems involve hierarchies that are more or less flexible. Capitalism has been highly productive as an economic system, but it still is deeply undemocratic and could safely be called tyrannical as it has few if any democratic features below the level of the wealthy shareholders.

EDIT: In the case of many of our tech giant friends, the trend in the mid-2000s to late 2010s was to create different tiers of stock so that the founders would have near absolute authority over the company. This is like a private monarchy and is even more authoritarian than the previous generation of companies.

EDIT2: The funny thing is, because we distrusted the financial system so thoroughly in the early 2000s, cutting out the influence of institutional finance was seen as liberating while in actuality we were merely constructing an even more hierarchical and conservative system.
I cannot upvote this enough. And, will add: do the same for components, becase the same repackaging happens there. By the time you find out, it is thousands of already manufactured PCBs later...
I feel like customer centric is just another way of saying money centric. Big difference between customer-centric and people-centric
>The fact that nobody had enough fucks to give to archive these groups

Well, you assume. Maybe it was just decentralized enough you haven't heard about it.
That lost legion probably is. The ones Publius Quinctilius Varus lost (along with his head) are quite well documented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest
Yeah. All Cloud deprecations have a minimum of a year notice, usually as an email, ahead of multiple follow up emails as the year draws close. It's in the terms.

Additionally, you can also get this information in the public release notes https://cloud.google.com/release-notes twice-monthly GCP newsletter, and for G Suite administrators in their news area. "Sigh."
I'm not sure it makes any difference if the perception of value is irrational or not. It remains, for a student to want to spend $30,000 on school, they have to have a belief that it is worth $30,000 to them. If tuition was instead $300,000, a lot more people would balk at the idea.

The outstanding question remains on whether or not the perception of value has declined with these announcements. If so, what perceived value has been lost in that transition? Presumably the education is still being provided.
Link to the hearing and statements:

https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?Event...
This so many times.

I prefer take home projects as opposed to whiteboarding, because my personal situation better allows for it - no wife or children, preference for building things, no NDA at my current job, and so forth. For me specifically I would prefer take home projects followed by a debriefing where I explain my design decisions over solving whiteboard problems. But that's just me. Why can't there be multiple accepted ways of interviewing instead of forcing everyone through a whiteboard gate, if whiteboarding isn't the best way for you to prove your competency?

At least we have lists of companies with different hiring processes as in TFA, so there is a small amount of choice. But we're still dependent on the goodwill of companies to make their hiring processes more tolerable.
I lived in Winnipeg for twenty-five years and often wished we were at a point where heated roads and sidewalks could be a thing.

For the unaware, you can get heated driveway systems, but they're somewhat expensive upfront compared to paying a neighborhood kid with a shovel.
If you are looking for pratical projects, nanomsg and its successor, nng, might be worth checking out:

https://nanomsg.org/

https://nng.nanomsg.org/

If you are looking at understanding the concepts, I recommend two books:

1) UNIX Networking Programming by W. Richard Stevens et al. is a classic that covers network programming in C. Be sure to get the latest version (third edition, I think) for the best POSIX coverage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_Network_Programming

http://www.unpbook.com/

2) The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk is a great, more modern, more generalized book for POSIX programming with C. It does not focus on network programming as much as UNIX Network Programming, but is still highly recommended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Linux_Programming_Interfac...

https://man7.org/tlpi/

I am not sure if there is a good POSIX-based network programming book for the Windows platform. Most of my experience is with UNIX-based operating systems, so I am not as familiar. If the APIs are POSIX-compatible, it should not matter too much, just the tools you use will be different.