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(For context: I started writing this as a reply to gyardley's comment[1], but I thought it might be more appropriate as a direct response to the OP instead.)

I just wanted to add that you don't necessarily have to make a big dent in the universe to feel fulfilled. I think that making a meaningful positive impact on a small number of people you care about (or even one person) can be just as rewarding—if not more so—than making a difference in the lives of thousands. I certainly admire and encourage your ambition to achieve big things, but "smallish dents" are great too.

To address another point, I think it's great that you know what you want to do with your life. I definitely don't believe that 22 is "too late", however. I'm 28, and it feels like I've made that decision dozens of times in the last 15 years or so. Whether you're still in college or decades past it, "what you want to do with your life" is not a static thing that you just discover one day. It's something that you can spend your life constantly rediscovering, and I hope that you do so. Right now, for you it's computer science, but who knows where your passions and proclivities might lead you in a few years. It might be somewhere else in tech, or it might not, and in both cases, that's okay. In fact, it might be somewhere you never imagined yourself going, and—at the risk of overusing this word—that's great too.

Finally, if you do decide to "quit" HN or just take a break from it (both good options), read some of these[2] before you go (especially the ones down below the rather tangential discussion about travel costs).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10523845

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9393213
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"A lot of compartmentalizing into giant subsystems (let's put all the commerce here , all the houses there! In giant buildings!)."

I'm not familiar with architecture nor city planning, but did these guys ever stop and look at how city centers work (in Europe at least.) Living spaces, parks and commerce places are all mixed, an arrangement that's the result organic growth and restructuration over time, converging towards a (at least local) optimum for people living there.
Probably doesn't count as "high level" but you can embed the LLVM compiler backend to your project and compile and optimize code at runtime.

See the LLVM "Kaleidoscope" tutorials from the LLVM docs. They implement a simple toy compiler with a JIT-based REPL. Basically you use the LLVM framework to build a program and then run it through the compiler pipeline and get a callable function pointer to your newly compiled function(s), optimized for the CPU architecture you're running on.
> We are not even close to the toddler who can recognize dad and mom

I'm pretty sure we have technology at this particular level, even if it's not readily available to the public. Distinguishing sexes, on the other hand, is a vastly more difficult task than recognising a handful of trained stimuli. Some humans have trouble reliably distinguishing sexes, especially when it involves people from ethnicities one has little or no experience with. Many toddlers, in fact, would have trouble telling sexes apart from mere photographs -- except where obvious clues like beards and stereotypical clothing are present.

Edit: Then again, it really depends on the level of accuracy and compatibility you are looking for. Training a system to look out for stereotypical features (hair style, lipstick, earrings, beards, clothing colours, height, body contours) is definitely possible with current technology.
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> How does one recreate a strong labor movement when the industries that were unionized are structurally hollowed out by no-pay robotic "labor" (which isn't labor in the Marxist sense either)? I'd love to hear a non hand wavy answer (seriously!).

Seems like a labour movement is a means, not an end. So I wouldn't be too sad, if you need other means.

Perhaps the left should pick up Georgism (again)? See http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/04/land-val... for an introduction.
TL/DR: technology will have no impact on employment, never trust a libertarian rat, let's just keep the programs we have.

References (trying to enumerate his arguments against UBI):

- “the supposed looming robot apocalypse...It’s just not going to happen”

- "Taking even modest initial steps toward a guaranteed income is likely to further starve critically needed targeted cash transfers and diverse in-kind benefits"

- "libertarian right ... has basically the motivation that this will undermine existing social welfare institutions"

- "the money goes into one pocket and out the other—a taxpayer transfer to landlords." (???)

- "The UBI is not only a subsidy to employers; it is a union-buster." (???)

- "With the introduction of a UBI, employers would have a powerful weapon to force wages down" (???)

I was hoping he'd propose an alternative to UBI, but he didn't. I did enjoy his extensive history of UBI.
For those who couldn't sell their labour before (women), it's beneficial.
In this case, the increased labour participation should create some supply of its own.
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I gather you're already compiling it to JavaScript, though? Otherwise your audience would be very limited.

The decision to use Dart for this project seems to me like an attempt to find a lifeline for it. That's fair enough, but it could ultimately be a highly limiting factor and the reason it doesn't go anywhere. That would be a shame as cross-platform frameworks need to keep evolving to be more useable and performant.
Some devices like a electric kettle are incredibly simple in how the works and you can't beat the real world physics, less Watt means more waiting time. You can only improve the design of vacuum cleaner and washing machines so much, a half as powerful device (Watt) won't make up the loss by a far superior design. Don't get me wrong I am for energy efficient devices, but I have an engineering degree and know a lot of the little tricks, and the average Joe falls for every marketing trick. These recent laws that were introduced by lobby-orgs aren't that great.
How do your concerns work out in the case of Alaska? Every American can move there, and they have something similar to basic income.
Good point and totally fair. My initial idea was to write in in Go and compile cross-platform binaries but the time limitation made me go for the simple way. I'll probably re-write it in Go in the future.

Thanks for the feedback!
This is pretty sad, but a lot of students tend to be only interested in whatever is applicable to the job market of present day.

However, even students do need assembly language when they take their computer architecture, operating systems and compilers classes. And some students will probably end up to do compilers or operating system work professionally at some point in their careers.

Assembly language is still a very valuable skill although a few people will ever write any code by hand. But reading assembly code as well as writing programs that emit assembly code will always stay relevant.
Architects are not wizards. Few things have intrinsical value. What one generation values is not necessarily what the next one will. To complicate the situation, individual values might not even be aligned with collective values/interests within that generation. For some time american suburbs were not even questionable as the best lifestyle that you could get, nowadays people are not sure anymore. Values change continually.

Large developments involve a lot of resources so they must be politically defendable. The architect has to distill reality and ideals to propose (bet) on something.
Fabians (and other social democrats) disagree. So far, the Fabians seem to be on a roll---social democracy hasn't collapsed yet, and brought much stronger legal position for workers. (Health-and-safety laws, 40h work week, etc.)
+100. And an extra +1 for teaching me a new word (bloviate). =)

I wrote a bit more in response in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10523788
Globally we are still in the process of eliminating the most common occupation of all: subsistence farmer.
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You can see from this argument who the real losers in a system of universal basic income would be: not the poor; not the rich; not the productive middle classes; but the bureaucrats, both public (welfare workers) and private (labour organisers).
Fine. And I will keep ignoring websites with my content blockers.
I only got the default mysql working, but not sqlite. A flatfile backend would be more interesting than SQL dbs only.

And it looked pretty unstable to me.
He is using `script` instead of `sh` in the makefile.
And then `guile examples/blog.scm` throws various errors: "Seems the conn-pool wasn't well initialized!"

Looks like I need to play a lot more with the configuration. But I like the backtrace.
As I said, it is impossible to have 1:1 teacher-student ratio in common education. You seem to assume teaching is just some easy job that anyone can do with little expertise on the subject. In addition to previous examples, we already have personal teachers and students to some extents: parents and their children. Well, we still have bad parents, and we have bad children. Your proposal only works if everyone has high intelligence and education and dedicates their time to teaching. For free! So how much of your time are you currently spending on teaching for free? 8 hours a day? 12 hours? 16?

There are people who mostly attend lectures and read little and do extremely well. There are also people who mostly read and attend few lectures and also do well. The more methods are available, the better the education.

My point in the context of children with learning disabilities was that they must be tended to by adults. I assume you are agreeing with that.
thx for perspective, helped.
That's because the default port of the Admin Console instance "doubles up" as management port. At the very minimum, you would front that port with a webserver that will only forward internet requests to the appropriate contexts pointing to applications; but to be honest, if you're exposing the Admin Console instance at all, you have bigger problems from a design and security perspective.
Teen hackers have broken into law enforcement and employee records
I think we should. There's only so much San Francisco to go around, so it should go to the people who are getting a lot of benefit from being there or who really really want to be there and are willing to sacrifice other things for it, not to those who had the random luck to be born there.
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That's clever but wrong here: labor is what's being monetized. The people that they're asking probably require payment for their own labor and pay others w.r.t. other goods. Then, they OSS developers owe them free products and support of highest quality.

Quite a double standard. Requiring pay for fixes only incentivizes pay for labor, which is rare for OSS.
Obama turned 180˚ on whistleblowers and he promised "Change". We didn't thought that he will abandon Habeas Corpus at all and turn local conflicts into a undeclared global war on everybody. This was not expected.
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Children with severe learning disabilities and behavioral problems have to be babysat. So you commonly hire some wildly unqualified adult to follow them around and do 1-on-1 support until they age out of public school.
Dauphin, Manitoba. It's mentioned about a third of the way into the article...if you read it that is :P
But there is more to it than that.

Le Corbusier has to propose something that makes people say "classic corbusier" or something like that. No name architects have to propose something weird if they ever wish to be remembered by anybody. Bad rock star architect probably makes lot more money than good no name architect.

Politicians actually making the decision are playing with someone else money. In most cases nobody remembers them in any way. Only if the building comes famous for looks or budget, the politicians get anything out of it. So again incentives for eccentricity.

If you would let regular people to vote on architecture, you would likely see incremental changes. And the system would be lot more like you described.
This is good timing, was trying to wrap my head around this yesterday.
> congratulates them on becoming a part of the "large community CryptoWall.

There's no need for that, you've already encrypted all of their files and threatened them with exposure, that's just being nasty for no reason.

Edit: After rereading my comment, it's just occurred to me how impossibly naive it sounds. These are not nice people, expecting politeness is a bit much!
By my estimation about 6,000,000,000 people would be very happy to trade places with you. Compared to them you are doing just fine.
Still haven't seen it? Great movie for the weekend “Ex Machina”
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Yea, and I see this as one of the main reasons, the quality of work is declining instead of improving (due to technical advances). In my country, when you build a building today, you hire a builder company. This company does no building themselves. They buy the parts of the building from subcontractors and some times the subcontractors buy the service needed from sub-subcontractors. And the company that finally does the job, some times, they even do it not with their own workers, but hire some cheap temporary staff to do the work.

So finally, who is to blame, when the window is not even? The builder? No! He did nothing. The windowing subcontractor?? Technical yes, but practical he just used hired workers. Some times ago, it was possible to say: Here we have a good company, with good reputation, the workers are proud to work for it ... Today, it is just a blaming game -- and when one of the subcontractors is sued because of bad work, they file bankruptcy, because there is also no financial basis -- the companies are just empty shells.

What also adds up to this is, that on every level of this game, only the price of the service is evaluated today -- not the quality. I also saw cases, where the builder company was a big one with great reputation, but the execution was awful! The reason: Bad contractors.

Another reason in my country is, that the requirements for workers in the building sector have been deliberately drastically lowered by the government, to make way for even cheaper work.

Today, (at least in my country) one that wants a house for his family to be build, has no means to decide, if the company will succeed and make a good house or will build a horror house. In most cases, there will be several topics where the execution was bad or really bad and you can call yourself lucky, when the additional costs after the house was finalized are moderate.

There are some really bad cases, where families thought the house would be ready in time and canceled their rent-flat just to be on the streets afterwards, because their house was not ready even months after the deadline. Some where never finished.
"I exchange the drilling rights in exchange for 1% of the extracted revenue, making me rich enough to, say, move to Beverley Hills, was I really doing something fantastically productive?"

To be fair, Jed did discover the oil himself, so he could be said to have contributed productively to the economy. We'd have to subtract the contribution the missed rabbit would have made though.
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Because JITs are able to generate code that optimistically assumes variables have certain types (with appropriate deoptimization checks), which is much less expensive than performing full dynamic lookups on every single operation.
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He is always a thought-provoking and insightful author; thanks for the link.

I am often puzzled by an apparent (to me, anyway) contradiction: (1) individual stock-traders are (mostly always) dice-throwers, versus (2) the market figures out the correct price of the stock. Isn't the market made up of individual traders? Doesn't (2) require that, across the entire market, the year-to-year success rate not be zero?
Wow, your comment history is really full of classic troll stuff. "HN is throughly infected with the communist delusion, commonly observed with atheist intelectuals." Check yourself, dude.
I think they have been. My understanding is they have been inferring the thought processes that must have laid behind the formulas written in his notebook, to find the more general theory. So they had to put quite a bit of work into this themselves.
My children have done the same, and it's never failed to amaze me both how empathetic and how helpful toddlers and young children (aged up to pre-k) naturally are.

There's also a HUGE gap in educability between the majority of kids who attended preschool (of any kind) and kids who stayed home until kindergarten. I'm not sure if this says more about kindergarten or preschool, but there's no question that the socialization and group learning environment of preschool helps kids adjust to primary school.
I wrote up a small module to do this in C on x86 platforms. I called it a predicate replacer, but it can replace any integer constant. https://github.com/mgraczyk/fast_check_once
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Check out Hans Rosling. Number of children in the world has stopped growing.

Do you advocate for eugenics so that smarter genes get further? For that you might first want an equal beginning for every semen-sack and ovary. Currently nobody has good idea who has the "smart genes" and who has just good upbringing.

I think that if we actually get to the situation of relative equality and there is some coherent "smart genes" at play, then human specie would naturally split into homo engineers and homo welfares.

Anyhow, genuine UBI would be what you should want too.
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I think the consensus was that the Mig-15 had the slight edge on the F-86, but US pilots were better trained than North Korean pilots. As it turns out Soviet pilots occasionally flew in Korea and gave US pilots a run for their money.

Mig-15,17, and 19s were giving F-4's a run for their money in Vietnam until Phantom pilots quit trying to turn with the smaller Migs and just used their giant J79 engines w/ afterburner to fight vertically. I believe the Phantoms always had the advantage but it was obscene to lose a 2 crew multirole state of the art fighter like an f-4 for every one or two outdated Mig-15s that were shot down.

The Mig-21 was a point defense interceptor intended to zoom up to altitude quickly and intercept US bombers. It was a reasonable fighter because it's wing. Delta wings don't have a sharp stall angle like other types of wings, they just start piling on drag as the angle of attack increases. The closest US fighter is terms of design is probably the f-104, but the Mig-21 was really in the same class performance wise as the f-4.

The Mig-29, SU-27 and on are solid first class fighters and probably have the edge on the F-16 and F-15.
There's labour specialization benefit just from allowing parents to engage in more specialised labour, isn't there?
It's never reasonable to laugh at someone you're interviewing. Too many so-called engineers treat an interviewee just as a captive audience to brag about their own skills.
When our first child was born, the math was pretty obvious and my wife kept working. When our second child was born and our preschool/daycare costs went from $1250/mo to $2650/mo, it was not nearly so clear. Ultimately, she kept working because we determined the opportunity cost of taking years off (and missing those 401K contributions) would far outweigh the outlay for childcare, but we did think long and hard at that point. Childcare was consuming >50% of her take home.
There's a website dedicated to the Kenbak-1:

http://www.kenbak-1.net/

The history section is written by John Blankenbaker himself:

http://www.kenbak-1.net/index_files/page0001.htm
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Do you consider taxing a rich person the same as devouring them? If not, what do you think is the point of your hypothetical?
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The US does this, too, but it has a pretty low phase-out threshold and most folks with HHI > $100k don't see any benefit. In middle America, $100k is still quite good money, but not on the coasts.
Paul Graham writes about this in his excellent book 'Hackers & Painters' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_%26_Painters).

There often is a big difference between doing what you love, and doing what must be done in society, like calculating mortgages for some stupid bank with corporate policies and everyone wearing the same boring blue-ish shirt. I do it to, have an excellent paycheck, which gives me freedom to do things I like in my own time.

Most creative persons need a day job. It is very rare that customers are willing to pay for precisely the thing you like to create. Even Van Gogh goodn't make a living from his paintings...
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MIPS is alive and well. There is a huge world of software outside of websites, you know.
Democracies have been remarkably stable so far compared to other forms of government we've tried.
I think the lead was handed backwards and forwards between both sides in terms purely of aircraft.

Where the US nearly always had the advantage was in logistics, build quality, electronics and to some extent early but definitely later AWACS.

That and US strategy left much more of the authority on the pilot in the cockpit where soviet doctrine was directed ground control intercepts, this made a difference.

Also US pilots got more airtime then pretty much any other airforce (except possibly the Isreali's iirc) so training was a factor as well.

Against all that the soviets had lots of everything.
>1480 light years away

One point consistently glossed over is the fact that if you believe nothing can exceed the speed of light then even if we find intelligent life we will never communicate in any meaningful sense of the word. It would be more like mutual observation. Are there any sci-fi works that acknowledge this depressing reality and somehow manage to make a workable story?
"the bosses are fantastic"... you guys have openings for a good c# dev? :)
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I have no doubt that this is your experience (for which there might be many causes - my email is in profile unlike yours ;), but there are also extremely successful examples like the ones I and others have posted. They stand out not because they succeeded, but because they're the few who tried -- and succeeded spectacularly quickly, almost accidentally.

Working in the enterprise/financial world, I can tell you that boatloads of cash get wasted on the most absurd items, so there must be ways to funnel some of this to the right places. Even VC-backed "lean" startups would/should rate publicity "in the right places" more than a lot of other things, let alone direct benefits from actual productivity gains. For example, I often don't know whom awesome_oss_developer works for; if I did, I would be inclined to rate their products and services way higher, and would probably want to work for them more. Every single OSS release from major projects should carry a sponsor highlighted in README and release notes. Advertising somehow pays for billion-dollar companies in the real world, but the same companies don't rate it enough to sustain their own infrastructure?

I'm not doubting that reality is dire, what I'm doubting is the effort placed on changing it. There are many elements of the engineering culture dominant in OSS that are just not right from a commercial perspective and could/should be fixed with brutal honesty.
journald is a separate module in the systemd tree, so this is very likely possible. You have both the code implementing the daemon and the one using it available to study, so the interface.