skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has a long-term severe labor shortage that has already begun. There isn't anything that can stop that, including robotics / automation and artificial intelligence. There's nothing that can happen in the next 20 years, except for a protracted recession-like economy (or big crash), that can significantly ease up that labor shortage.

It's a matter of facts. The population growth rate is too low. The rate of retirement is too high (boomers exiting). Immigration is at modest levels versus the total population base. Almost any consistent GDP growth with those factors in play, will generate an extreme labor demand squeeze. It's particularly bad for blue collar jobs; the boomer generation is loaded with blue collar skills / trade persons, and they're exiting in droves.

Major economies with low population growth like Germany are able to maintain perpetually low unemployment with very modest growth. The US routinely grows 3x to 4x faster than Germany, including presently. It's obvious what the consequences of sustained 1.5%-2% (much less higher) GDP growth must have on the US when it comes to labor shortages from this point forward, when all the labor factors are taken into account.
In the 1980s it was well understood in universities. However senior management in real companies were catching up. Some companies understood at and were executing well (mostly Japanese companies who started early). other companies had figured out how important it was, but were still trying to figure out how to apply it. Other companies were just waking up to the fact that their competition doing something else was beating them, without knowing why.
Don't forget about the cloud oligopolies...

"Amazon EC2 and S3 now include prioritized traffic to the network edge through Amazon's deals with over a hundred local and regional ISPs. Just add traffic priority to any elastic IP or S3 bucket and for only $0.04/gb outgoing your traffic will take the fast lane to your customers!"

How will Digital Ocean, Vultr, ARP Networks, Linode, etc. compete with that?

What we're seeing here is the closing of the digital frontier.

That being said my personal preference is not for net neutrality but for changes to state and local regulation to allow for a lot more ISP competition. But due to the patchwork nature of state and local regs that's a brutal slog in the trenches. So we need net neutrality in lieu of more ISP competition. Either that or we need to somehow overrule state and local regs at the Federal level to allow municipal and small startup broadband. That's tough given the fact that the Fed doesn't necessarily have any authority there. They'd have to argue it's interstate commerce.
What about iOS devices?
Come on he sounds like an aspie kid hahaha!
I think it's funny they say it's a new theory that mars didnt have water.
I worked at a startup doing exactly this last year[1], [2], [3]. Unfortunately, the parent company shut us down after we ran out of runway but it was starting to gain traction. One issue we had was ultimately a lot of people wanted someone to come out anyway and to make sure we had the right quality (and so gain customer/brand trust) we had to do this in-house - i.e. hire actual plumbers and handymen to be on call as well as building logistics software to support all of this entirely outside of the video call aspect.

It was more than a bit depressing the parent company pulled the plug because it really did feel like it was about take off. Maybe we could've instead integrated into a set of preferred suppliers cross country as a lead gen service. Though if you read the TrustPilot reviews it was the fact we were the whole package that customers loved.

We started by first charging for calls but in order to grow switched that to free calls with the assumption that people would then book a home visit if needs be. Nobody wanted to pay £10 on a call and find out they needed a plumber to come out. It felt like something that with Uber-style levels of investment (i.e. tons) could be pretty profitable if you owned the sector. To expand on our offerings we would do things like allow people to simply book a handyman for an hour to do whatever - put up a curtain rail, fix that loose light fitting and so on.

People were using the video aspect as a precursor to someone actually coming to do the work so the video bit was never the end of the transaction. As soon as you start needing a team of people to field customer calls, do support and manage your countrywide team of tradesmen it gets expensive.

[1] https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/dad.co?page=2

[2] http://www.eu-startups.com/2016/05/london-based-dad-secures-...

[3] https://s3.amazonaws.com/poly-screenshots.angel.co/enhanced_...
So if there was a test that could tell if you've eaten chocolate in the last 30 days, then you required applicants to not eat chocolate ever, passing that would be an indicator of a good employee?

Seems really arbitrary and pointless when you take out all the drug war baggage out of it.
I'm way out of my depth here, but as far as I remember, this disappearing coincided with the introduction of Play services. Notably, determining location through WiFi endpoints nearby. I assumed spoofing location worked when getting location was simple, just GPS. But getting it through wifi and play services must have complicated everything a lot and made it harder to spoof from outside.

But this is all pure conjecture.
It's not publicly owned but the market is way less dysfunctional than in the US - aside from the few fiber & cable ISPs, a single phone line allows you to choose from a reasonably broad selection of ISPs.
I'll give you that the removal of some customisability is deliberate, but not that it's not interested in listening to the developers. It just has a different opinion than some of them on what should be allowed.

That said, there's also a lot of customisability that simply hasn't been implemented yet. I'd name e.g. hiding of the tab bar where Mozilla is clearly seeking a compromise between the potential downsides of removal of UI elements by add-ons and how useful it could be. It just takes time to make it happen, but luckily, Firefox 52 is still an Extended Support Release for quite a while.
"That's an even more specific case, because again, most software developers aren't working at Google/FB/Airbnb/Uber/Snap."

That's why you said:

"when it's usually 10-20+ year tenured engineering managers at a few specific companies"

right?
Do you think that the U.S. government has enough money to influence Intel and Microsoft? It is the other way around: both companies spend tens of millions on lobbyists.

William Binney said something. Does it mean that it applies to all companies? Did he mention which companies? Is he a credible source for things that occurred after he left NSA? Is he even a credible source outside his expertise?

Do you think that European countries don't take action? What would you call the anti-trust suit against Google, GDPR, anti-tax haven lawsuit against Apple, and other actions?

Having a narrow set of news sources can lead a reasonable person (you) to your conclusion. I urge you to look at a variety of sources. Some good ones: Der Spiegel, Al Jazeera, NPR, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The South China Morning Post.
> How is that relevant?

You have two job applicants. The only thing you know about them is their resume (nicely embellished) and how they performed at their interview (nicely rehearsed). One applicant passes a drug test, one does not.

Can you really say that drug test outcomes don't change the risk assessment of each candidate?

We can have a conversation about whether employers ought to have access to that information, the same way we can say that employers ought not to have access to a candidate's medical history or prior salary figure, because society is better served when employers don't have access to these prejudicial sources of data. But that is a different question than whether the information is useful at all in hiring decisions, which of course it is.
> What is the actual reason they shouldn't?

In many areas of the United States, there is only one ISP available. Part of this is due to the high cost of entry, but the ISPs also have a past filled with rather shady activity. Verizon was given federal money to expand their network, did a fraction of the work, and then used their influence to pocket the rest. Comcast will throw lawsuits at new ISPs in order to bankrupt them.

Because of this the ISPs already use their monopoly position to take as much money as possible via data caps and bandwidth. I believe Comcast is on record as saying data caps aren't needed, but no one can stop them. The reality is ISPs are some of the most greedy, unethical companies around that exploit their monopoly position for their bottom line. Either regulation needs to be in place or the government needs to incentivize and protect new ISPs.
This is wonderful news, and has been in the making for a long time.

James Jones has done amazing work and it is finally pay out time. He also gave a talk[1] about this work at XDC 2017.

[1] https://youtu.be/g5T5wSCXkH4?t=1h34m47s
As a petty exercise in malicious revenge, I would call Comcast support on my morning commute, every day, for about a month. It started out because I had a legitimate issue with speed and I decided to just call until my speeds were what I was paying for (not that I ever expected to get them). It turns out my region was always routed to the same office somewhere in India. So I guess I became kind of a known entity there (I'm always polite on the phone) and towards the end they would just route me to this same guy who was a newbie and I guess they wanted to help him get his call count up / get practice on the phone?

Long story short there's one person I like at Comcast, his name is Dev, hope you're doing well Dev, you made my commutes fun.
World's richest are waging war on the poor
I believe the trick is the following: if wages increase from 45 to $60/hr, a lot of the planned constructions no longer make sense financially, and are abandoned.
Sacramento transit(Sacrt) under hacker attack
It looks like there was a sungrazer comet an order of magnitude faster than that at 600 km/s (2.16e6/3600), so this was not the fastest solar system object ever.

https://futurism.com/the-sun-just-killed-the-fastest-moving-...
Nice, thanks for stopping me from running an unknown Linux binary from a 3 year old Russian forum thread :-) Undocumented feature in your webapp; append &w=1 to get a wider image. I wish there was a "make the image square" option in gzthermal.
Claiming sophistry doesn't make it so, you have to try a little harder than that.

The original assertion was "If you care about privacy, don't use Android". A more nuanced and useful assertion would be this: If you don't trust a specific private company with your information, don't volunteer it to them. If you don't trust Apple/Google/Microsoft with all of your data, don't buy a device with a radio they have root access on and store all your data on it and carry it with you everywhere you go. This isn't Android-specific.
I'm not sure how I got to my mid 30's and had never heard of stepwells until I played Civ 6, but these things are amazing. I'd love to see one in person some day.
The original discussion about ships was, but this comment thread was about packing (retail packaged) products into a shipping carton.
Which also reminds me of the problem of programs assuming that HWNDs are even, including the first version of Project using the low bit to do windowless controls in the days just before Windows 3.0 was released. PowerPoint decided to require protected-mode Windows 3.0 from the beginning instead, as you can see in the book. In retrospect, Windows 3.0 should have been delayed anyway because of DOS 5.0.
Thanks for the detailed reply.

It seems like a lot of the disagreement hinges on the fact that ISPs have a monopoly and many people cannot easily "vote with their wallet" if the ISP does something they don't like. I wonder if focusing on making it easier for competitive ISPs to start up would do more towards bridging the gap between the two sides.

I think a lot of the anti-NN crowd is based on a more philosophical argument, that if the ISP built the infrastructure then they own it and they should be able to charge $1 million per day for access if they want (they would obviously not do that because nobody would pay it)

I wonder what is the biggest impediment to setting up a legitimately competitive ISP? Presumably the (ostensibly wasteful) cost of duplicating the last-mile infrastructure?

As an aside, do you have more info on the legal challenges to google fiber?
You would have to ask a lawyer that specializes in corporate ass-covering. I'm more interested in practical solutions that result in actual safety improvements.

I am not even aware of any jury trial that has decided on the impact of random drug screenings. As far as I am aware, most claims relating to workplace injuries are settled long before the jury pool is even tapped, and many of the remainder are settled before the jury gets a chance to reach a decision. So I think the question you should be asking is if it is likely that any actuary would be willing to analyze the experimental data from such a program, to adjust their company's insurance premiums for anyone using similar software.

If a correlation can be shown, the premiums would be discounted. Actuaries are better with the math than juries are, after all.

A labor union or government regulator could possibly demand such a system in lieu of random drug tests, but your average company does not have enough commitment to worker safety--for its own sake, rather than for its impact on their worker compensation insurance premiums--to experiment in this fashion. They would need a reason that increases revenue or cuts costs.
I think liquid democracy is probably the end-all-be-all of voting systems. It provides maximum participation for those who want it while at the same time allowing maximum delegation to those who don't want to participate. It also allows instant changes to the legislative group on a per-person granularity. You literally can't do better than liquid democracy.

I'd love to see a town or city experiment with this, cause good luck explaining this to an entire state without solid working examples. Are there currently any jurisdictions that use a system like this?
EU Horizon Prize: seamless IoT/cloud authentication for all
The one who was working at 00:30? Go to sleep dude!
Because dozens of junior engineers have encountered this error before. However, instead of posting on SE about it they added a branch to the test case if it was running after midnight, and at least one of them added an assert to verify the output was "gimme gimme gimme".
I live by the Port of Miami and that's not what I'm observing. It's a different ship I see on my daily commute. The ship I see at 9AM isn't the same at 6PM. So I stand by my statement that they move them fast. It might not be the case everywhere, at the busiest ports (in my experience Miami and Savannah) they want you done and out.
Yep, I was accused of this multiple times because I didn't want to work more than 40hrs a week and basically be on-call 24/7/365
> I'd make it much easier to expel students. Some bad kid brings a gun to school in elementary school? They're out for the rest of their life - freeing up resources to spend on better kids. Some bad kid molests another? Gone for life. Some bad kid punches a teacher? Gone for life.

This would do the exact opposite of what you claim. It would produce criminals faster than now. This would also tend to transfer the burden from education to social services, and somewhat to incarceration. Both of those are more expensive than education. You're proposing to increase taxes to pay for people's bad behavior, rather than do anything substantive to fix it at all. No thanks, and good luck.

> Teachers shouldn't have to waste time talking to idiot parents about dumb topics.

What are you referring to? How big of a problem is this? Do you have children in the public education system?

> I'd fund it by cutting the administration and special education departments to the bone.

Again, what percent of the system is special education? How much effect will this have? And what do you propose to do with people who need extra help? Leave them to rot? You again are proposing to transfer the special education burden onto even higher cost social services. And with less education, people with special needs will have less power to contribute back to the economy.
Reading the bug it appears it may affect more filesystems than merely bcache. Nasty.
> What is the actual reason they shouldn't?

Imagine there's no Netflix yet. People are using the web, and ISPs are selling tiny-bandwidth plans. Along comes a streaming movie service and people love it.

All of a sudden, ISP customers are saying "I want more bandwidth and I'll pay more for it."

Can the ISP say, with a straight face, that Netflix is costing them money?
$400k is what senior executives of major multinational companies get paid. It's also what top surgeons get paid.

I highly doubt that blue collar workers get anywhere near that much. If they did, everyone would try to work in that industry because the barrier to entry is comparatively very low.
We're more likely to become an advanced civilization [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
Phew! That's so true. Before Google Fiber came to my apartment complex, I only had Time Warner if I wanted broadband internet. The option aside from that was 56k or satellite. So many options.

In Chicago, I had Comcast and AT&T DSL. Neither was very fast, and Comcast was really expensive (something like $90+ if I wanted decent speeds). Again, very fortunate of me. I chose to go with AT&T because I was a poor college student. Trying to watch Youtube on that was a complete nightmare. I was also very unlucky if one of my online courses required watching an instructional video or a lecture.

So many options! Expensive and slow internet vs. cheap and really crappy internet. Both with data caps, awful customer service, constant connection issues, expensive+aging equipment--gee wiz we're so lucky.
I'm glad you did the math to demonstrate this - now that we have this information, what was the purpose of your original comparative statement between democrats in the States and Social Democrats in Canada?
The colored bands they mentioned correspond to the study here: http://depts.washington.edu/uwcrows/

Seattle residents are encouraged, when they see a banded crow, to report its location and activity to that page.
Bans on this site? Full of people who roll their own VPNs and so on? I’m sure that’s highly productive.
Taker fees are 0.1-0.2% on Bitfinex. Wash trading would be too expensive.

Where is the evidence the exchange itself is doing it?
> If the user inserts three characters very rapidly, but each draw has to wait 1/60th of a second for a V-sync, that will be visible.

A new character won't tricker a draw call though. Rather the three characters will queue up, added to an internal buffer and when the next draw is due, they will all three be drawn.
Shortage at what price? There’s always a shortage of bread for people willing to pay 1 cent per loaf, and never a shortage for people willing to pay $10.

One could argue that, while you think you’re experiencing a shortage, reality is that you’re simply not willing to pay enough.
Assuming he got over a month's notice, right?

So a young person decides to sort themselves out, stops smoking and goes job hunting. They're ready to go! And then? What, wait around for a month with nothing to do? Eventually get bored, hang around with their mates and boom, cycle repeats.
Not entirely arbitrary - some of these colors(single-frequencies) match fairly well what one of our types of cone cells can easily detect, and some don't. Some frequencies are well-detected by two of the types of cones not just one, providing us with better ability to discriminate amongst those frequencies.
i've been using sway[0] as my wm for some time now (it's a sort of port of i3 to wayland) and it's incredible that you can actually tell that it is much faster than wms running on X.

[0] http://swaywm.org/
On one hand you blame capitalism when corporations are just following government mandates.

On the other hand you’d rather a different economic system, I presume, where the government has even more say, such as socialism.

Please try to reconcile your conflicting opinions because they don’t make sense.
>are things you would normally do when you start scaling anyways.

It is (sometimes but rarely fundamentally different refactoring) but when a crappy schema has been built on for years, it is exponentially more difficult to refactor, especially a live system with multiple clients and uses. The best (and cheapest) medicine for that is to not inject crappy design in the first place. Sometimes you have to, but it should really taste bad.

>The code doesn't have to be perfect aligned to some doctrine.

If the doctrine is not putting crappy / hacky code in the code base if you can at all help it, I think that's a fairly standard doctrine.

>If you feel the need to fight back over a single private member variable delay some important release

I'm not sure if the article said the discussion would delay a release or that the release was important. All those absolutely do come into play though. If they were in play, you'd think the dev lead would have enough respect for his team to point that out.
Interesting Post Grad Career Jumpstarter, Thoughts?
The way you've written this is implying that Pai said that line but it was actually a sarcastic Former Chairman Wheeler and the quote has since been edited out. The Chicago Tribune still has it though.
Jobs for jobs sake is not exactly where I want my country to be heading.
Picture this: The "Google Search" package with Comcast is $8/month. Or, you can get "Comcast Search" for free! Comcast search is shitty and conveniently doesn't "find" results that conflict with Comcast's business or political interests.

But hey! The free market and invisible hand will sort everything out! /s
I thought the shape was a bit weird also. Most objects that we see are more like a rock but this is like a rod.
You are replying to a comment about a distributed repository of software based on some sort of blockchain, while you are linking to a P2P messaging protocol. Not that isn't relevant to discussions about Skype, but it is irrelevant to SW repositories of the parent comment.
Zillow's Zestimate Is Flawed and They Know It
How to Explain Your Tech Job to Your Family
I've worked for 2 well known software companies and what you are describing is a Senior Engineer in both (5-10 years experience).

The place I am now starts fresh grads as Engineer I, then Engineer II, Senior Engineer, Principal Engineer, Architect and then Staff Engineer. Each promotion takes about 4-5 years so you aren't reaching Staff until about 20 years. A Staff Engineer is basically fully autonomous and is an IC that reports directly to the executives. They work on what they want and with who they want.

I understand this is different at Google and I guess Staff is the equivalent to a Google Fellow.
Fun fact: The serial numbers are required to be random! They're unique, but random (since they are huge numbers there's no problem achieving both).

This is done because it reduces the danger from collision attacks of the sort which worked on MD5 and are likely to be possible for SHA-1. The random serial number makes it impossible to guess what the signature on the certificate you're getting will be before it's issued to you, so you can't use a collision attack (other types of attack could work, but those have never turned out to be practical on a modern crypto hash even when it's "broken" like MD5).

They chose to make the serial numbers random because that's near the start of the certificate document and collision attacks are only defeated by randomness that happens as early as possible in the document.