skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure you've only explained why an upper-middle class upbringing makes you much more suited to success than a lower class one. If you have that upbringing, then you're right, nothing is stopping you from doing all of this.

But if you don't, well, what are you supposed to do? Your relationship to work is what it is because you can't afford to lose your job, and you were raised in an environment where others feel that way. Your ability to come home and learn things, rather than "sit down and watch tv or do something that's not going to progress you" is severely impacted if your mental health is already suffering. Your ability to even imagine what you can accomplish is affected by having no examples that you've witnessed in real life.

You can, of course, chalk all of this up to personal responsibility. But the alternative view, backed by science, is that being raised poor impacts all of these things and more, and that's a matter of how the human brain works. In the aggregate, it's not a matter of personal responsibility.
This was a huge problem in league. Players would peak, get tired of losing, create brand-new accounts so they got to play against newbies and feel great at the game for weeks. If you were in one of those games where somebody much better was playing, it could sometimes make 9 other players irrelevant.
People use fashion as a means of expression and art. They might only want to wear an expensive piece my Prada a handful of times before they have gotten all of their enjoyment out of it. Or they may not be able to afford all the types of clothes they want to try and so they sell their nice pieces so they can wear others. It's not about having nice, presentable clothing. It's about experimenting, having fun and expressing yourself. I feel like most of the stuff that goes up on depop is sold by teenagers for whom the 5 euro they get or whatever is a significant amount but lots of adults use trailed because they tried out the Haider Ackerman jacket and it was fine but it costs hundreds and now they want to try something else.
Funny that Jeff Dean would write and share this in a google doc. After 20 years of being a driving force for the web, there was no other easier, more appropriate tool avaialable to a senior google employee to share his opinion online.
well, imagine a manager in your company publishing a paper stating that your company products are probably violating state or federal laws. All that without raising the issue up the proper management chain, without working through the correct procedure with compliance and legal depts, and without going to law enforcement if the law violation is still continues after all that.
White background if there's a window near-by. Dark background if in a dimly lit space.

I don't know if I use tabs or spaces anymore. I hit tab, but my IDE just sort of makes it up from there. Works well enough.
Ditto in my past experience at Microsoft Research. Never an actual review of paper's merits, just IP and maintaining trade secrets if applicable.
Just pointing out two different things: chair mostly space (true) vs chair existing as an object "out there" in the
clearly definable way we normally understand (false).

"Illusion" in its usage here referred to the latter.
On earth of course. But in the fantasy world of GoT, how can we know? The books describe many natural things that are different. For instance, seasons last years instead of months.
Some things aren't useful for gardening though. I'm not going to garden in a tuxedo that has become a bit scruffy but someone else could make use of, for example.
I guess I don't fully understand this, but RSA works so there MUST be "secret" primes (as in, then can be randomly generated like a symmetric key can).
(I originally posted this as a reply to a different comment but detached it because I don't want to pick on anyone personally, or appear to.)

I think what underlies the outrage in this and similar threads is simple: people expect everything anybody says about "billionaires" to be bad. If someone breaks the rule, it doesn't matter what they say; the response will be just this outrage. And if they're a billionaire themselves (or classified by the audience thereas), woe betide. This is not complex conversation—it's ritual behavior.

I'm not arguing against wealth redistribution, siding with billionaires, lacking empathy for what people are living through, or anything of the sort—quite the contrary. I'm just observing that the conversation manifesting in threads like this has a distinctive quality: it is basically our version of feces-hurling in primates, and I'm curious about how weird that is and how weird it is that its weirdness goes unnoticed.
> It might be a cultural thing or lack a wealth thing but I've never fully understood the concept of second hand clothes. I mean, who gives away used clothes that are still in good conditions?

> When they're no longer nice I wear them around the house.

> When they get holes or stains in them I wear them to do yard work.

Well that's if you have a yard and have space to store old clothes. I think most people (at least young people) live in small apartments and can't afford that.
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Only problem is, if you sweat heavily in them, the funk can gradually become unbearable despite all the vinegar and soap in the world.
Which makes a lot of sense. You don't want to keep an unstable employee around.
What's more environmentally friendly: clear cutting land and irrigating it to growing cotton, spooling it and making it into textile, dying it, screen printing it cheaply with underpaid labor, and shipping it across the ocean, or buying that $5 shirt in your size that already exists in that goodwill in your neighborhood?
You forgot TCL and Perl. Both have been dead for many more years...

At least C (and C++) will never fully die.
> That is: the passing down of musical aptitude through multiple generations requires each generation to put in approximately the same labor as the previous.

Let’s think on that a bit. Consider, if a parent is a musical prodigy, it’s akin to having a fantastic coach at an early age. They can teach you hard-earned insights, help you make the right choices, introduce you to the right people. This makes achievement considerably easier. It’s not as different from financial transfer as we think.

> In a century or two (barring intervention to return wealth to the proletariat) I'd expect the American upper class to get into that groove of wealth consolidation, like how things evolved in Europe

As long we live in a free-market society, I think this will be hard to do. Main reason: it is extremely difficult to invest well in the long-term. You can see this by how prized top investors are. Unless one invests well, in a free market society their wealth gets eaten up.

Europe avoids this through a highly regulated society — social mobility in and out of the upper class is extremely difficult there.

It’s certainly possible that the u.s will lose their position as the bastion of free markets — but whoever picks it up will become as powerful, and most people will start to immigrate there.
Legislation Protecting Consumers from Unregulated Stablecoins
This rhetoric is almost universally applied to the lower class as well, at least in the US.
I used to dislike PHP because I was young, naive, and ignorant.

When Laravel came out, it had introduced me to Symfony and at that time I have decided to give it a second chance.

I haven't regretted it ever since.

Are there ugly parts in it? Yep, like every single programming language out there.

But here's the good thing: I have applied SOLID principle thanks tto Symfony and Laravel, which is (at least to me): hide the ugly parts behind a friendlier code base and deal with your newly designed interface.

Not only it makes your code clearer, it makes it extremely easy to follow your logic, plus it motivates you to write more projects just for fun.

About WordPress...yeah, it has its countless quirks, but trust me; it's getting there.

Eventually, it will become a nicer platform for the end-user, especially now that adopts more JavaScript in both back and front end.

All the legacy code is getting upgraded slowly but steady with modern PHP standards, even Composer is being used at some code bases now, plus with modern tools we automate lots of procedures that used to be considered chore.

Now about writing code that can deal with high traffic...you can do that with modern PHP, yes, but you have an extra option nowadays: Swoole!

If Baidu and other Chinese companies are using PHP exclusively, they deal with MILLIONS of people on a daily basis, and contribute back in the language itself (core / swoole extension), what else do you want?!

Is it dead?

Not even close, especially now with the release of PHP 8.0 that gets closer to enterprise standards!
90% of problems we have as human beings are emotional regulations. Maybe 5% is strategic decision making.

There's 'ugh' field, procrastination, fear, mental health problems, and so forth that impedes folks.

Growing, however, is all about academics, with a side dish PE. Nobody taught anybody how to deal with procrastination, how to deal with emotional problems, and so on. Or how to ask for help. Or how to deal with paying bills and taking responsibility.

Once we are in the real world, you either learn the rules of society or you don't. You sink and swim on your own 'merit', and that's not including the general lack of support society has for you.

Really, how do society expects people to function with no instruction manual? Or worse, that we are all making up shit as we went along with our lives?
Matchmaking is always blamed for a basic issue with online multiplayer games: forming a team with complete strangers to complete an objective with little to no communication about strategy, or buy-in from everyone on the team.

I would argue that matchmaking could be perfect, and these complaints would not stop at all. The very idea of random online matchmaking is dumb. Fun, because it fills a need, but very dumb.

Ask any hardcore MMO player how they got to where they are, and if they are honest, it's because they started by teaming up with their already talented friends who actually worked as a team to grind up the ladder.
Oh, I remember doing this - the Garment District? Looks like they are still around.
Food is just a means to sustain my metabolic processes and create pleasant sensations. It isn't an end-in-itself.

If those goals were satisfied through other means, whether by using bio-engineering to modify my physiology or through some other process, would bread no longer have intrinsic value?
Taking a quick peak at the code, maybe more smaller functions with fewer params to make it more testable?

Sorry that could be way off, just have limited time right now.
> The bailey is GRRM causes harm by creating the Dothraki, a demeaning stereotype.

And asserting that it is historically accurate, or at least more historically accurate than typical fictional portrayals. That is one of the key issues Devereaux has here.
Or conservative mods, or greedy self-serving mods trying to profit from their position, or mods that stop moderating entirely until it gets filled with spam, or asshole mods who want to power trip over their crumb of authority.

There are many pathological flavors of bad mods, and reddit's mod system is poor at handling all of them.
> a few thousand a month

Is this literal? How does it break down? I guess you have to travel to a lot of tournaments, fix/replace a lot of expensive equipment, and pay for private coaching?
I didn’t support the claim, as it seems very apparent to me. Do you think it’s not the case?
"Science" is a very broad field.

In some sense, protein folding is a chemistry problem, in that it is entirely about determining the structure of (a very specific type of) molecules.

In another sense, protein folding is a computational problem that is a necessary input to answering higher level questions in the field of biology.

Put another way, this allows researchers in biology to not need to care about the science of protein folding.
I think you mean actual wrestling. But I experienced growing up with informal wrestling (like at home on the bed during sleep overs). I was oldest by a decade so nearly a only child from this perspective. But my friends with older brothers would dominate. Even later, when there was a playground fight the kids with older brothers were most victorious. Around puberty I self selected out of all the physical stuff; sports and physical conflict. And I’m pretty athletic. I just went towards sports that were more solo oriented.

My decade younger brothers, tough as nails. We still horseplay wrestled and all that. I’ve always attributed to Growing up with a teenage version of me during their younger years before I left home.
I think the difference is "content creators", although they are high level players, are more putting on a show. Kind of like the Harlem Globetrotters instead of an NBA game.
Sure, but now you've come full-circle: what is that high-level language going to look like, if not a traditional markup language? And if Hope is intended to be object code rather than source code, what's the point of making it a text format at all?
That would be idiotic. We are well off because we can make cheap things (including food). To make things arbitrarily more expensive would make everybody worse off.

Likewise clinging to inefficient means of production. The poor countries in Africa are poor because they can not produce as efficiently as other countries. Not because other countries give them cheap stuff.

I mean we would be making things more expensive via taxes, and give the tax money to Africa so that they can buy things more cheaply. Why not just sell them cheaply to Africa to begin with? Cut out the middle (tax) man.
Historically is exactly what I was referring to. I do not have anything to support this for the modern era nor am I certain this still holds now.
tiktok is sort of similar. Although much inferior, in my opinion.
But this review process had never been used for introducing comments of this sort to a paper ever before. Plus, there was no suggestion of change, just retraction.
Not mentioned in your story is birth month of your two daughters, and how that aligned with the sports season. Its been shown that there are a greater percentage of summer birthdays in professional baseball, as an example. Older kids in the age group (particularly at young ages) have a developmental advantage going in compared to younger kids, which can result in more reps, more opportunities to improve, and more playing time. This all compounds over the youth years.

https://slate.com/culture/2008/04/why-do-so-many-pro-basebal...
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/why-many-olym...
Great question! Here's a scenario, though I don't know if it's the case here:

Image that one set of NDA'd data was included in the paper, that painted Google in a bad light, but a different set of NDA'd data was excluded in paper, that painted Google in a good light.

I have no idea if that's what's going on here. But if some of the people who objected to publishing the paper thought this was happening, it may explain their objections to publishing the work.
This is like those plastic tile games that served as stocking stuffers once upon a time.
Then Reddit goes and deletes all those subs en mass.
How is this considered "good" in this scenario? Income is taxed anyway. So how to rerouting money away from "taxed income" to "taxed gifts" help anything?
Then, you can be more confident in your conclusions. You may still be off, but heck, you would have subjected yourself to much more critical thinking than average, and can be much more confident in your opinions.
I even use a browser extension to make sure that 100% of the time old.reddit.com is being shown, even when linked from another site or when I have deleted my cookies.
This is the problem with hiring SJWs. They will claim being victimized, racism, etc. the moment they don't have their way. I'm sure many people would have loved to be in her position and have her salary and benefits. Some people can't have enough it seems. "Wokeness" is a disease, the goal is to keep getting more and more power behind the guise of "equality".

Hopefully more employers will reject hiring "woke" people after seeing the trouble they're causing.
I guess it's not quite obvious to me what is wrong with this. as long as people are giving stuff away, why not take it and focus on producing things you can't get for free? it's hard to imagine how the supply of second-hand shoes/tshirts/whatever could crash overnight. if people in rich countries stopped replacing perfectly serviceable goods, they would probably do it slowly enough for the former beneficiaries to start domestic production.

purely monetary aid seems like a substantially greater risk. politics could turn off that faucet in an instant.
Well thanks for your comments. Feels assuring knowing I'm not alone (although clearly in the minority) waving my hands at how crude and ineffective the common advice to "do leetcode" really is. That training site idea sounds exciting, much better than what exists today.

The key perspective shift from me was from
- "I need to solve 200 leetcode problems before I can approach interviews with confidence"
to
- "Here are 50 techniques. Most solutions use a combination of these"

I started my journey splitting things into buckets (Arrays, Strings, Binary tree, BST, Stacks, Linked List, Matrix, Graphs, DP). I went through EPI and Leetcode populating those buckets. I started solving the easies for a month. Built a repo of questions and links so huge, it would take me years (really, years) to get through it sequentially. That was depressing and with no sense of immediate reward, gave up.

A few weeks later, I decided to reduce scope and focus only on Arrays, Strings, BST and Graphs. Turns out that isn't a great approach either as there are a lot of overlaps between Array and String problems and by the time I got to the string problem that used a technique similar to what I had used in a problem in Arrays, i'd forgotten most of it anyway. Repeated this a few time and it gave me the impression that I couldn't remember shit, I wasn't cut out for this and gave up, again.

My latest attempt is to focus on data structures (properties, strengths and tradeoffs) and techniques. This has been liberating so far but is a lot of work which drove me to look for resources adopting such a perspective and I found none. I believe its probably a lot of work (like you mention) but I wouldn't know unless I get through more problems. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, that’s what I understood. It’s a completely inappropriate request really. And a scientist should understand that.
> JavaScript scripts are designed to run on both clients and servers,

Funny how long it took node.js to appear and make this bit of press release a common reality.
We need to remember they allocate resources horribly in other places though. Genocide is going there, forced abortion and sterilisation of entire populations.
That the gain from resource's utility is larger than losses, increasing the total amount of wealth in the world.
Even in the case of gold, majority of demand is utility demand.

https://www.goldbroker.com/media/image/cms/media/images/glob...
I think this depends on what you mean by "exploitative". It's such a loaded word used for rhetorical purposes that it's not necessarily clear where one draws the line between any given pair of arguments.
Maybe they did? We know, from Jeff's doc, feedback was given and then demands were made.
I think the person who submitted feedback in privileged and confidential way made a great choice. I expect more people taking this route in the future actually, people are scared in the current political athmosphere. Look at what Jeff Dean is getting, even though he didn’t do anything bad.

A manager in ethics shouldn’t ask Google to break the law by not providing confidientality that was requested.
Did you know you can use old.reddit.com in desktop mode? You can also use the Apollo App instead.
truly infantile.
To be fair, if the interviewer is doing it properly, either they'll give you the data structure as part of question, or they'll let you pick whichever B-tree design is convenient.
> Software development being so opinion based is really irksome

> One of my favorite tools in the JS world is Prettier,

I have no idea how these two statements can exist in the same comment. They're basically polar opposites to me. Prettier is one of the most obnoxiously, over-bearingly, self-indulgent opinionated pieces of code I've ever tried to work with. And they even say it themselves, with pride: opinionated.
Talking about the professor or the commenter?
There were causes. The email to the women group and the demands. The paper wasn't so great either, based on the analysis of the abstract.
This is basically the labour theory of value and ignores the value of capital and organisation.

Some guy delivering stuff in a garage is not going to be nowhere near as productive as an Amazon worker.

The crucial bit that people miss is that it is capital, goodwill and organisation allows employees to generate so much money in the first place.

Basically the sum is greater than its parts.

If you want to know where profit comes from(assuming a well functioning market) in a modern economics point of view, look into Subjective theory of value and marginal economics.
well; also whether google has to pay severance.
And if you have kids, it's like grand per kid for daycare right?

The US tech sector is _perfect_ for a single male engineer, who doesn't have any health issues. You can work 16 hour days, sleep on the office sofa and earn six-seven figures before you're 30.

But as someone who's definitely not 30 any more, with a family and health issues there is no way I'm even considering moving to the US.

I could easily triple or quadruple my take-home pay, but I'd be taking all the safeties off my, and my family's, life. Not a fan.
Even from the narrow view that in-house academic work is part of the PR budget (which I disagree with), Google has made a huge mistake here. This is a giant PR black eye for them. If the game is to pretend to have in-house ethical checks (say to avoid actual regulation), then they need to at least generate the appearance of independence. The correct sinister move here would either been to keep her on staff and give her the runaround or manage her out the door in a way that she wasn't particularly angry and where she signs a non-disparagement agreement.

But as others point out, it's entirely in Google's long-term interests to have internal critics who prod Google and the rest of the industry toward long-term behavior. So I think it makes good sense for them to have independent academics that occasionally make people uncomfortable.
Give a 100xer a boss who berates him for not writing enough comments and s/he is no longer a 100xer. If anything I've seen more people get in trouble just for being jerks, you can do very well as a bad developer you just can't be a mean person
I’m an idiot. I should’ve picked that out...
Quantum mechanics pretty much overturned our understanding of the world; it produced a qualitatively different world view to that of classical theories (including GR), more than just a deepening in that sense.
Seems like this "dead" language has, as of today 2020-12-05, been used by the 79.1% of websites.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua...
Why can’t I reference a nationality without being called a racist? Who made you the thought police?