skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are the CAUSAL relationships between parental earnings, educational attainment, and child earnings?

Social network, safety net, family experience with college, etc.... There are plenty of reasons why class mobility is imperfect. [Edit: I, for example, had access to summer jobs in highschool through my parents' professional network that were not as easily available to other people.]

> There's an entire literature base on exactly this question. "lifetime earnings parental earnings education" returns 130K results on Google Scholar.

Yes, but you chose a specific article to post to refute a specific claim. The article doesn't address that claim, so it is entirely reasonable to ask for a citation that does actually back up your argument. Your response here amounts to: "just go read the all the literature until you see I'm right" and is not constructive, even without the name calling.

Edit: You seem to have substantially edited your comment. Thanks for removing the name calling but generally ghost edits like this are frowned upon here.
Isn't that the joke in The Disaster Artist when Tommy buys the gear instead of renting it? The implication being that one does not simply buy movie-making gear. (And the secondary implication being, "where the fuck does Tommy get all this money?") Not that I know the first thing about making a movie.
I see. Makes sense. I was thinking more about "general social status", rather than job-specific stuff, because that's how I interpreted OP.

> We also continue to interview in ways that are more accommodating for college graduates and attendees, regardless of whether it's needed or not.

Wouldn't Leetcode-style interviewing be more egalitarian? Assuming self-taught people know their stuff, I guess? The alternative in other engineering disciplines is to just check the degree and do some soft interviews, right?

Or do you mean something else?
>If you think HPMOR satiates as you say "an impoverished information diet" then it is by your own definition, very good because it must have a lot of useful information right?

... no, I meant that you can't possibly have read much actual quality literature if hpmor is the best you've read. it's like a kid saying chicken tendies are the best food ever.

that exchange you posted is just cringeworthy. dumbledore is lazily written as a complete fool in every scene just so that the self-insert protagonist can easily trounce him (and sometimes with flawed logic, which he is never called out on). this happens with every opponent, aside from quirrel, who is also a creepy weird author self-insert. and then it mangles a lot of the actual science it purports to teach.
Silicon valley seems to be doing just fine with this system in place. If there is a better process, let's formalize and test it. Here's a hint - large companies have spent millions/billions of dollars over the years doing just that, and this is what the results show.
My only experience with databases of that size is for data analysis so yeah, constraints are relaxed. But even at that point ideas like normalization are critical to extracting performance out of large datasets.

Normalization is a performance optimization. Denormalization is a development shortcut. Neither is right or wrong but I would be surprised if a 50TB OLTP database wasn’t already highly normalized.

If it isn’t then my next guess is that it could be made smaller or more performant if it was.

We used to be proud of server uptime, back when we gave them names. Today if you have a server up for 900 days you’re going to be accused of malpractice.

Similar for data. We used to be proud of being able to keep “big” data online, but I’m no longer impressed. You’re just spending money. Did you actually solve the business case as efficiently as possible given available resources? Do you need 50TB in the first place?
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> taxes (because it is not uncommon for trades, even for those personally pulling in 6+ figures, to be paid a good chunk of their compensation in cash that's not necessarily recorded anywhere).

some good points, but I wanted to call this out specifically. when we're discussing at a high level what career paths should be encouraged, possibly via policy, I don't think we should price in the ability to evade taxes.
Is someone who has been with the company for 10 years worth 20% more than someone who has worked there for 9? Presumably the rate that your value increases slows down once you have a good understanding of what you're doing and the organization.
I can provide hard data on this if the original commenter doesn't want to. I went to a bootcamp called Hack Reactor.

My salary immediately doubled and has since quadrupled in the 5 years since I attended. It isn't be a great option for everyone, and not every attendee has had a great outcome. But it can work for those with an affinity for analytical work and willingness to work 70-hour weeks for 12 straight weeks.

Hack Reactor has made their outcome statistics public. https://www.hackreactor.com/outcomes
It's open source. You sound like 1) you're knowledgable about what makes "good UX" and 2) you care enough to post about it.

Instead of complaining, why not contribute to making it better?
The term "Dark Matter" refers to an unknown kind of matter that interacts gravitationally but not electromagnetically. My comment is referring to cool baryonic matter, ie the same kind of matter than you and I are made of.

In other words, MOND explains galaxy dynamics by modifying gravity and postulating the existence of small amounts of conventional matter that are below the detection threshold of our telescopes.

Dark matter theories explain galaxy dynamics by postulating the existence of huge amounts of an exotic matter (alongside some conventional dust) that we can't see and haven't been able to detect in any experiments.
Was the aim of the lecturer to teach law or to incite a random lynching? Or to make the co-students distrust each other for no more reason than they would want to distrust any other random person?

Go to a sufficiently large rock concert and the lead singer would be able to say “statistically at least one of you are a murderer!” Which might be “statistically correct” but all that would accomplish is for everyone to question his or her sanity.
If they aren't copyright infringing, then the profit is theirs. I don't think that any assets were directly stolen, and these games just look and play like PUBG.
> The only saving grace is that the industry is growing so fast, there’s so much diversity, that there are also lots of games that don’t do this.

This brings up a very good point. There are alternate options now. We won't after the industry inevitably consolidates.
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Anyone who's never read this, please do.

It's both a good short story, and a chilling reminder - especially to anyone who's dealt with textbook companies recently.

RMS was right. Not about everything, but about a lot.
You are probably right, a few million is too much of an understatement. Maybe for just heat related deaths, but counting fires, floods, famines, and political instability tens or hundreds of millions seem right.

I have seen cost estimates that it would take 5-10% of the world's GDP each year to reach sustainability. Seems a like a bargain to me.
To me it's hidden at the end of the list, but sometimes it's unreachable unless I resize my browser and many times I don't have that section at all on my Android TV. Not very useful how it's implemented.

Also, let us tell YT we're not interested in a category. I've watched a blacksmith video once, I had the Metallurgy category recommended to me for 6 months.

Google, the world famous AI company, presents the proof that recommendation engines are incredibly dumb and annoying except in very tightly controlled environments. There is nothing intelligent about it.
https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-... is a bit superficial but gives a decent summary
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I didn't mean to do so. But I would say that the large majority of software engineers work on stuff that doesn't operate at that scale.

[Edit: Or perhaps I should say that far more companies interview as if they operated at that scale than actually operate there.]
This is just "console.log("You Won!");" with extra steps... /s
Which biostatisticians, and can we see this work they did? Of course not, this is just some nonsense comment by a politician with no scientific training.
> Standardized IQ tests are notoriously difficult to get right and may be legally questionable (Griggs v. Duke Power Co.).

Griggs applies to any hiring criteria or practice that has a negative impact on a protected class compared to people outside the class (given the set of protected classes, this is essentially any hiring criteria or practice) without sufficient evidence of probative value on job performance. It is neither limited to things very much like IQ tests, nor are IQ tests any harder to justify than any other element of a hiring process.
That's a very interesting article that I encourage interested observers to read. I always like hearing from McFaul.

It includes a rebuttal by John J. Mearsheimer at the end:

It is not surprising that Michael McFaul and Stephen Sestanovich disagree with my account of what caused the Ukraine crisis. Both the policies they helped frame and execute while in the U.S. government and their responses to my article exemplify the liberal foreign policy consensus that helped cause the crisis in the first place...
That's fine, I'm not going to take that away from you since I've heard great things about Wayland with the proper hardware for it. As for GNOME, I don't think it's terrible, but it does definitely feel like a regression to me when compared with GNOME 3.3x or GNOME Classic. It's perfectly fine to like it (computer UIs are still opinionated after all), but I feel like their leadership is heading in an undesirable direction for a huge chunk of GNOME loyalists. GNOME 3.38 felt like home to me for a long time, but 40 never clicked. Plus, their "my way or the highway" mentality doesn't work well when combined with their lack of contributors and overall supremacist, absolutist viewpoint on the desktop as a whole.

I do still like certain aspects of GNOME, but I worry for their future under the current leadership.
Maybe they should have named it "TwinkieDB".
The Russians have a bunch of planes as well, not to mention sophisticated land based air defenses already in Eastern Ukraine.

Poland recently ran a bunch of military exercises simulating a Russian invasion through Belarus, and in the words of one Polish general the results were "worse than 1939"
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/11/09/pola-n09.html

If NATO declares war on Russia, that also immediately expands the front line from Norway, down into the Baltics, all of which would have to be defended from Russian retaliation. Doing that and fighting a full scale invasion of Ukraine would be the largest European Conflict since WWII.
Is your team hiring? Sounds like fun.
$ ssh jobs.hackclub.com
Unable to negotiate with 96.126.108.99 port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa
Yeah, that is one of those claims that sound nice in theory but kinda come crashing down when rubber meets the road.

Companies do in fact engage in a process of getting someone in and doing an actual job, they're called internships. The problem is that these arrangements typically involve someone dedicating some non-trivial amount of their time to "babysitting" (not necessarily in the literal sense, but in the sense that a newbie doesn't have historical context or familiarity with processes and workflows, even if they are by all other measures bright individuals w/ actual experience under their belts). Either you spend inordinate amounts of time setting up and maintaining a contrived bubble where a candidate can operate cleanly for a very short period of time, or you're looking at very long evaluation times (requiring a week or more of time from a candidate, who generally already is gainfully employed).

It's also worth pointing out that this process is incredibly expensive. One hour of time from a full time employee doesn't really cost anything more than the few minutes lost to context switching (ie. not really that much worse than the person going out to buy a coffee). Literally setting up a paid one week period for a senior level candidate would cost, optimistically, a few hundred dollars for evaluating a single candidate. It's completely unworkable in a large company that conducts dozens of interviews or more per week.
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I have trouble understanding why people post articles like this. IE, what's the ulterior motive? Is your goal to reduce trust in vaccines? A good faith attempt to show that there are a very small but detectable number of adverse outcomes from vaccines?

Whatever it is: a paper like this doesn't demonstrate anything like that. It's a case observation with n=1 and it actually shows nothing of the sort. It's as close to nonscientific as a doctor can get and still publish in the literature.
You can't discriminate based on membership of protected classes, and the doctrine of "disparate impact" means you can't have an imbalanced impact against a protected class (even if unintentional!), unless there's a reasonable business case.

Excluding blondes has a disparate impact against race.

Excluding people with a brother named Mike can be argued to have a disparate impact based on ethnicity or national origin. Excluding people with a brother named Mike but with no restrictions on the names of their sisters might be discriminating based on sex. The condition is also more likely to exclude people with larger number of siblings, which could be argued to have a disparate impact based on religion.
It's mostly because the working fluid is at very high pressure (much denser than the air coming through an aero engine). The turbine side works with hot gas at 100+ bar, and the pump side is dealing with liquid. Therefore small parts can exert a lot of force (large pressure differences) and do a lot of work (high speeds).

The most similar technology is a boiler feed pump (used to feed the boilers in a steam turbine system, e.g. in a ship or power station) - these work in a similar way, high pressure steam is bled off from the system to drive a small turbine, which drives a high pressure pump to feed the boiler, which feeds the 'main' steam turbine. Similar pressure (>100 bar), but the turbine on the rocket engine needs to handle much higher temperatures (hot gas rather than steam).
> I’ve never heard of an ex ICPC competitor go on to build a great piece of software, yet I’m certain every ex-ICPC competitor would outperform the best software creators on interview-style questions.

Are there any great pieces of software written by ex-ICP champions?
Nice one, bookmarked! :)
This is a particularly pernicious misunderstanding because it leads people to believe that they have to take out loans to go to college or they will earn less money. Saying "People who do X make more money" can have consequences if that statement isn't necessarily true.

What you want is a study that shows that people from lower income quintiles that go to college have a higher lifetime earning than people from the same quintile that didn't go to college. Maybe that exists? if it did, I'd imagine the pro college people would be waving it around everywhere.

Using Google Scholar to find relevant research is a great habit. but you really have to read it to make sure it says what you think it says
they're still toys, you can't do anything useful with them.
I don’t think that’s true at all. Indie studios abound, empowered by common frameworks like Unity and Unreal that put cutting-edge tech in the hands of individuals. For free, in many cases. I don’t see that trend ever reversing direction.
The second link I gave is explicitly about fair royalties, though.
> my wife and daughters

yeah exactly
Why not ask the candidate to solve a problem of the type that they are likely to encounter while actually working at your company: the kind of task that you would ask them to perform on day one.

Inverting a binary tree is not the kind of task that is a software engineer is likely to have to perform at most companies. I think companies can come up with better questions that still involve algorithms and data structures but better correspond to problems that they professional software engineer might actually need to solve.

For example, to repeat a comment I made elsewhere in this thread, ask them to serialize a binary tree to a byte stream, and deserialize the same tree from a byte stream. There are plenty of edge cases in this problem; you learn whether they understand a data structure (binary tree) and how to implement it, as well as how to write algorithms that operate on it (potentially a recursive descent on the tree; potentially a visitor, depending on how the candidate designed the tree).

This also isn’t a problem I’d directly expect to solve during regular work, but it’s useful and close enough: serializing/deserializing objects (data structures) is something I’ve had to do in reality plenty of times. (Even if you’re using an RPC library or IDL, you often have to “serialize“ in the sense of translating into the business object into one generated by the IDL or RPC client)
There's definitely reason to watch his channel, and that particular two part series was one I consumed in whole. Loved it. HUGE takeaways from it.
> suing VCR manufacturers

Might I direct you to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....
And also, 1 in 13 billion might even be right, but when something happens billions of times a day (i.e. a virus replicating), a statistical unlikelihood becomes a certainty. This is such bad analysis of statistics.
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That is not at all the point.

It helps to know that you are not the only one who has suffered injustice.
Mr. Cusack, PoolTogether’s founder, also has defended the protocol against the lawsuit.

“It’s filed by someone who works in politics and the stated motivation is that cryptocurrencies are bad for the environment,” he wrote in November on a PoolTogether message board.

He added: “It’s clearly written by someone who doesn’t understand how protocols operate or even what PoolTogether is.”
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I think we need to be much more willing to consider software that's released with source available, but under a license that doesn't comply with the DFSG. (And yes, such software should be called something other than "open source".) Those guidelines aren't sacred, and neither is Stallman's definition of free software.

Ever since I read _Hackers_ by Steven Levy a few years ago, I've been much less sympathetic toward Stallman, and the MIT AI Lab hackers in general. If you've read _Hackers_, recall that Stallman also strenuously opposed passwords. Well, it's absolutely clear now that restricting access to computers with passwords (or something equivalent) is absolutely necessary to defend against bad actors. So we should be open to the possibility that, while widespread sharing of source code is good, some kind of restriction on the usage of that code is necessary to protect the developers from freeloaders. I'm sure we haven't arrived at the best way to do this yet, but we won't get there if we immediately reject all attempts because they don't meet a definition of freedom that's perhaps too absolute for the real world.
Ah yes I can now see why providing healthcare and canceling student debt didn't fit into the budget. :pew-pew:
It was already there 10 years earlier in OpenLook.
The reason why any state tries to present its history in a positive light is a different question. Good things are exaggerated, bad things are smoothed over. The states doing the opposite just doesn't live long.

Being positive about USSR and Russian empire and pushing the idea of restoring it are pretty different things. There are no ideas such as rebuilding USSR (or Russian empire) pushed by local media.

> even positive coverage of the imperialism of the Russian empire (the Great Game)

What is wrong with empires by then? This was the way thing worked in 19th century. Are we supposed to condemn that? If yes, was, for instance, feudalism any better?
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I never use the word victim for me anyway. I pretty much overachieved in most ways so I could get the fuck out of my zip code and never seen those people again
I have no issues with mice as long as they are not in my house. But I don't mind killing them, I dump the corpse outside and it's always gone in less than a day, so some other critter is getting a meal.
I'm assuming Iced has no A11 support (these projects never do). Probably no RTL support. Possibly no reusable "system" widgets like open/save dialogs.
I don't know if this is who you were talking about, but this guy was a big FIRE proponent/blogger who posted last year about his divorce after not updating his blog for several years: https://livingafi.com. It took a few years of early retirement and his coming down with a medical condition, though: "During this time of physical rehabilitation, while I was struggling with the physical issues, my partner finally figured out what would make her happier. It was a relationship with another man."
People who name and shame tend to want to hurt their target. That motivation tends to also lead to spinning the story, even a tiny bit, to sound worse and therefore hurt them worse.

It could be the interviewer was trying to ask something beneficial like "explain to us why your additional years of experience make you more valuable than someone who lacks that additional experience?", but wasn't worded well, and with a little spin or removal of context, gets turned into the opposite of what they meant.

Similarly the marriage one comes up a lot. People instantly assume that the implication is they might quit and become a housewife. But in context it could also be the interviewer trying to sell their company's and city's benefits for their specific lifestyle (whatever it is), to try and further attract the candidate.
Obligatory Shop Class as SoulCraft drop - https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-so...
> people expect noon to be "the time when the sun is at its highest point in the sky"

A) No they don't, which makes sense because

B) No it isn't

And "millennia later" is really overstating how soon this would happen. If you did this, every few millennia if people are very angry about it they would merely need to change their time zone definition one step. Now, how many millennia does it take to change time zone definitions where you live? Oh that's right they weren't even invented a thousand years ago.

So, firstly, people do not actually expect the sun to be "at the highest point in the sky" at 1200 local time, it hasn't been in their lived experience so why would they? They'd be surprised if it happened at 0800 or 1600, but precisely 1200 doesn't matter to them. Which is good because it isn't, it hardly could be.

Nobody was proposing to eliminate leap years (although perhaps renaming them "leap days" and marking them as a holiday might be better) which are a whole different problem.
add `-oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa`, although yeah they should fix this

(ps. hi zach)
There are differences on that order of magnitude between tier 2 and tier 1 employers at the same seniority, and between different seniority levels. So yes these bumps exist, but it’s not like they stack repeatedly if you switch 4 times.
20 years of therapy never helped me unfortunately
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Wait, isn't this very page you linked them "disclosing it transparently to the user"? Or are you talking about the content of it not being transparent enough for you?