skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That 4% number is complete crap, and you know it.

Could you explain it please?

Even U6 is below 8 percent.

https://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate

the part time part is big of course ( https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2015/05/the-many-flavors-of-... ) but that's how it was for decades since BLS started tracking it.

With regards to ethical wages, SpaceX should pay well, so people don't depend on them (they can save enough to be able to sustain themselves for at least a few months while they look for a new job). If SpaceX doesn't need that many workers they should give them prior notice (2 months or more at least, I don't know how they handled this).
That’s exactly why it’s a raw deal and one should (imo) attempt to stay on the more innovative side of that fence. I like maintenance and I’m very good at it but it’s a mug’s game.

People who make features get recognition and rewards. Maintainers get to fix their sloppy mistakes and receive the pages when their shit breaks in the middle of the night. Not fair but that’s how it is. How people are treated reveals how they are valued.
Yeah, I keep hearing about it.

But I don't really hold my breath: the old guide was cool because it was filled with inside knowledge from someone active in the scene, which back then meant hanging out with djs a lot. Now that the field is super fragmented and accessed more through the web, you either become a ‘music journalist’ with theoretical knowledge instead of practical (which is alright but different), or you need to be in dozens of emerging scenes, only some of which leave a trace.

In short, Ishkur old now.
SpaceX switched from carbon fiber construction for their next rocket to stainless steel. My guess is at least a big part of this workforce reduction relates to people involved in cf which are no longer needed. Additionally they had a lot of people working on crew dragon which as it now nears it's launch might not be needed any more( e.g. pica heatshield, electronics, software developers etc). Same goes for the now mature f9( block 5 was supposed to be the last iteration but there might have been some small improvements. Furthermore with the speed up on the Starship timeline the potential need for an elongated 2nd stage is reduced). So it makes sense for these divisions to move people to the new projects and at least some of them end up getting fired, either due to expertise or performance or whatever.
I'm pretty sure saints aren't from paganism.
Can I be pedantic? If I'm wrong someone will correct me and I'll learn something.

Json is not exactly a subset because it supports representation of numbers of any precision. JavaScript will convert to an IEEE 754. But it's up to a json deserializer to decide how many decimals to use. I think.
Read Richard Power's novel the Over Story [https://www.amazon.com/Overstory-Novel-Richard-Powers/dp/039...] to read much and much more about the fascinating life cycle of redwood giants.
I think it's worth pointing out why the author's of SICP themselves acknowledge why it was phased out.

Praphrasing, it essentially boils down to the kind of applications developpers of today are writing. People are now mostly slinging libraries they have a superficial understanding of together in a black-box style. So for most proprammers there's a lot of prodding and tinkering and this isn't a skill that SICP teaches.

disclaimer: I don't think I've imagined reading this however didn't bother looking for the reference.
He manually overrided some large subs: https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ae88pk/int...
You’re free to use Racket with any editor. DrRacket is just one IDE that you can use that is geared towards learners.
> I wasn't good enough to really derive newtonian method on my own.

There is an old SMBC comic highlighting this general issue in STEM where for some mysterious reason, mathematical theories that took at least a few scientific generations to figure out, with lots of bitter fighting among the giants of science about which conclusion we should accept as correct, are now being taught as if they are trivial to reproduce and come up with for bachelor students.

As a physics drop-out, I felt really relieved when I read that, in a "oh so it's not just me"-sense
You absolutely owe them their wage for the time they worked. You don't owe them their job and wage for an indefinite amount of time going forward.
They're not harmful delusions.

By far the biggest harm caused to people with downs is that caused by other people.

People with downs can lead rich and rewarding lives, and facists should stop pushing a genocidal agenda against people with disabilities.
Article says 8 weeks of pay minimum, so that’s two months. USA has 6 months of unemployment benefits at half pay, which the employer pays for. Not sure if the severance pay comes with an agreement to not use that...
This makes unrealistic every science fiction movie ever.

Cables and tubes everywhere, have you gone through a tunnel of bags yet?
No, when you are not under attack and log off, ship disappears from world and reappears when you log in.
Not easy to catch though.
There's an exhibit at The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis about Winter Holidays in Russia that highlights both the state and the church's celebrations from about 1900-1970. Though celebrations started coming back in 1935, they displayed contemporary newspapers showing how the state truly embraced it to help with the hardships during WWII. It was a great exhibition, I went a few years ago but it seems to be running again if anyone is interested.
Wage growth in the US has stalled out for many years, but just recently since the unemployment rate has gotten so low (and this is with the participation rate rising) we are seeing wage growth in excess of inflation.

Wages will not rise if the labor supply exceeds demand. You need more jobs and/or fewer people in the labor force before wages will rise.

The American approach is to provide business friendly regulations and tax policy which incentivize companies to invest and take risks. The “social contract” is not vested with the company, but rather a free flow of employees between companies based on who will hire whom, who will pay the most competitive salary and benefits, and which companies are the most attractive.

The state/Federal government then provides programs that basically provide umbrella protection for all workers like unemployment insurance, short term disability, marketplace health plans, etc.

It’s not efficient for individual companies to be providing welfare to employees they don’t want or need. It’s a drain in the entire economy because the employee is doing less valuable work than they could do elsewhere, and the company has less money to hire workers they actually need.
Maybe cooperatives? The book "Developer Hegemony" talk about that.
So you had two years of prior experience with languages like C++ before starting on SICP. That makes for a very different experience than a first introduction to programming.
> You can also leave for any arbitrary reason, anything else is slavery, simply put.

Being a slave entails more than just having to fulfill your voluntarily agreed-to, contractual obligations. Using the term "slavery" for this trivializes actual slavery – i.e., ownership over a human being.
Isn't HTDP very DrRacket oriented though?
I grew up bothered by this on many levels. Not only some of us feel negatively for the struggle. I believe that ~learning the results teaches less than learning how to solve it. I does accelerate learning and allow people not to reinvent all 4 wheels... but reading old papers (there's a video on Newton's very own notebook, it is so damn different from anything I've ever read about physics) tickles another part of your mind.
Hm. Not entirely sure what to think.

I find SICP to be a mind-blowing book - a truly enlightening experience. But not, perhaps, entirely suited for beginners. I first started reading it four years ago, just over two years after I had started to teach myself programming in high school. Although I already found it interesting and its functional programming approach did have a lasting impact on my programming style, I recall finding it somewhat too challenging on the whole and didn't get very far. Half a year ago I started it again and have been blown away by the elegance and fundamental importance of the concepts it presents (although I'm still not done yet). For one thing, I understand the foundation of OOP a lot better now than I ever did from reading Java books...

So if the author is saying that SICP is a bad programming textbook because it doesn't include a "How to build a webapp in 12 easy steps", well, he rather missed the point. But if he is arguing that it perhaps isn't the most suitable textbook for a first year CS student fresh out of high school - that is a fair criticism.
Can you post a link to the bits of article 13 (from the EU source) that you think make your idea unworkable?
Thanks! That's probably it then. I guess this doesn't support my hypothesis after all.
I would avoid equating raising a child with a corporation. It's a false equivalence. Positive reinforcement works way way better.
Minecraft I would say, but for creations, not stories. Eve Online so far seems really unique in being the only sandbox-game which also hosts a massive number of players in a single instance. Without the impressive numbers those stories would be more casual and less interessting, probably not even happening.
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Exactly my point. This is just marketing.
Why not ship devices with a patch now, that activates any (every?) time the system clock reaches 2036?
I was sort of expecting to be able to click through to the subreddit...
If you fire a permanent hire for doing that, presumably you then also need firing for making a permanent hire that needed firing...
A view into early years of Postgres
Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
I keep categorizing ideas that I really want to execute into groups like work, personal life, projects etc, and then try to allocate time to them. But even when I try to focus and narrow the list of things I want to do, life still gets in between. So how do you go about it?

In the end I spend more time reorganizing my ideas than working on them >.<
" is that a browser thing"

Unfortunately and thanks to many misusing auto-playing ads - it is. Sounds can only start playing if the tab is the active one.
It is common to just attach a letter to the gate.
Just FYI, it is unclear from your comment, which of these organisations you associate with.

Is "we" Solid or Ethereum?
All of this is very academic.

Regular people and businesses are always going to make the decision in front of them.

'Decentralization' unto it's own, is not something anyone directly cares about. People care about privacy, somewhat, but there are other paths to privacy, or at least, consumers may very well believe there are.

Decentralization will only happen with a real impetus: a product or service that facilitates it, that people want, either for issues related to decentralization, or, more likely for some other reason that just happens to facilitate decentralization for some other, related reason.
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> The entire aesthetic

Do you have any other examples matching such an aesthetic?
I quite like it too.
In this case, I don't think it's necessarily a big issue and it certainly isn't the abandonment of a platform. There is now an enormous range of third-party products with built-in Chromecast support. It's entirely plausible that Google looked at the current market for Chromecast devices and concluded that the Chromecast Audio was no longer necessary. It was already a somewhat niche device, but it has only become more niche as third-party support has grown.

https://www.google.com/chromecast/built-in/audio/
> If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP?

I can recommend "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" (CTM or CTMCP).

Book's page: https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html

Quote from www.c2.com:

"Like SiCp, CTMCP is first and foremost a book on programming, not on Oz or Scheme or anything else. And if SiCp is the reigning king of such books, CTM is a worthy challenger to that particular throne."
Location: Sao Paulo / Brazil

Remote: No

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Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, TypeScript, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc;

Résumé/CV: https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZp9Ox7ZR8i0sAdaUt5t...

Email: paulo dot manrique at protonmail dot com
> Any art form that was created by the Soviet artists will be considered propaganda since it was state sanctioned

How does this follow? Are US Army ads propaganda? How about NASA posters? Agricultural statistics leaflets?

What do you call media that uses manipulative language to stir popular feeling through appeals to emotion that was privately funded?

Nowhere in the dictionary does it say it's propaganda iff it's state-sanctioned: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda
I was in the same situation from the last 7-8 year, I read so many self-help books, watched countless motivational videos and other activities to stop procrastination. And the most important thing which I learned is 'Focus in one thing at a time'
I will recommend you to read this https://www.briantracy.com/blog/time-management/the-truth-ab...

Hope it will help you...
If your CS degree aims to churn out programmers ready for industry, then a overview of the currently favoured libraries is indeed what you need to teach. If on the other hand, you want to produce actual computer scientists who know how to think for themselves, the SICP is what you're looking for. (And I would hope that an institution like MIT would choose the latter focus for its program.)
It was great with Serif-Google, and the implicit approach of "let's make cool stuff and worry if it makes money never" (since making money is not exactly a problem). Now with Sans-serif-Google cool stuff that doesn't make money must be culled to make way for stuff that does, or at least furthers strategic goals.

Unfortunately that's just the way the game is played at that level, and the CEOs at the top are all playing by the same rules.

I miss Serif-Google.
I was under the impression that it was more to get admins to automate the issuance and have it auto renew than manually issue and forget and let the cert expire.

If I have control of a dns or register control panel I can use any of the other free ssl certs out there for an attack.

Comodo Will give you a valid cert for 90 days as a trial, others will give you 30 days. AWS cert manager (ok iirc I can only use those within AWS but the point still stands. And if I’m being naughty it’s not gonna be hard to acquire a few stolen CC to bill my AWS usage too) will give you a year. All for free. WooSign / StarCom used to issue free 1 year certs (I think wooSign might still do but they are issued by another CA).
Both SICP and HTDP are very good books. SICP has little more 'attitude' in it, but I think its neutral feature. If you want to learn programming as something between algorithms and programming languages, I suggest these four 'Lisp' books:

1. SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)

2. HTDP (How to Design Programs) https://htdp.org

3. LiSP (Lisp in Small Pieces),

4. PAIP (Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming) https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp

SICP and HTDP are different but serve the same purpose. LiSP is about interpretation, semantics, and compilation. PAIP by Peter Norvig can seen as elementary programming book that uses classical AI as a subject. You learn both.

I don't know what to think about this, I haven't read it: SICM (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics)
HDR support in Wayland/Weston
>(I'm guessing reddit's "social button" is considered a tracker.)

It wouldn't surprise me. Even though /r/ has concepts like "Silver" and "Gold" to generate revenue, I think it's main driver is still advertising; so, for it to behave like Facebook, Google, etc. wouldn't be that much of a stretch of the imagination. (Or maybe I'm just far too paranoid?)
The Echo's 3.5mm jack is analog. Chromecast Audio's optical output is digital. The optical output is infinitely more preferable for connecting to my home theater receiver.
And impossible for private actors to create anything propaganda.
Thanks for the link, it is so true, well done!
Your parent's point though is that with the free offerings, you're not the customer. Google's advertisers are.

With the paid offerings you are the customer and comparing Google's CS to Toyota's or anybody else's is entirely fair.
> there's a video on Newton's very own notebook, it is so damn different from anything I've ever read about physics

Sounds interesting. Would like to watch it. Got a link?
Similarly, a lot of James Clerk Maxwell's writing can be found on Archive.org, and it's amazing:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=maxwell%2C+james+clerk&...
Key points:

- Xenophon began as a member of Cyrus' army who carried out an ill-fated assault on Artaxerxes II, king of Persia

- He survived, returned to Athens (took two years) and started writing on a wide variety of subjects, including the nature of leadership, and accounts of Socrates that are of a more personal nature than Plato's

- "Plato had a serious philosophical agenda of his own... Xenophon’s interests are at once more worldly and more realistic"
lol yeah if you're talking about "diversity" in terms of who VC funds I can guarantee it will be a combo of white+indian+east asian men for the next couple decades in terms of who gets the phat funding

There are a lot of women-only funds but in terms of total capital + efficacy so far they are essentially nominal
> No reason to leave people wondering for any period of time.

Play that out a bit. Is the notification a scheduled slack message or email for those terminated? Or do you want each employee being let go to be notified in a face-to-face conversation with their manager and where the details of financial arrangements, healthcare continuity, and other aspects are prepared and with a chance for the employee to ask questions, and for HR and leadership to assess if they appear in a condition to commute home and offer other transport or acute support arrangements if needed?

I think the latter is more appropriate, but a series of those things takes time to execute [longer if managers or layers of managers are being eliminated], and the time between when the first such meeting ends and the last such meeting begins, people are left wondering.
An unbelievably strange Armenian restaurant
I have always been wondering why Venn diagrams are used for illustrating joins...
From reddit:

> This article is overly hyperbolic. Some obscure subdomains of government websites are serving expired x509 certificates. They're not down and this definitely doesn't compromise the encryption that protects any login credentials. Anyway, it is embarassing to see certificate renewal is not automated - it's something any good sysadmin would have set up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/aeps41/governme...
My bet what will trigger the next recession proper was on Brexit, but 45 is beating the Brits to it. Not shabby for a temper tantrum.

This week I read up on Reagan's firing of 11000 flight controllers because the union that formerly supported him demanded better working conditions. It took a decade for air traffic control to regain the old levels.
I think the ISS networks over a geosynchronous satellite now (ISS -> satelite -> Houston)
Ah yes, that does sound like a very valid reason to turn that off. At least the open-in-separate-window trick works around it.
You is firefox/chrome/etc. Yes you can. The ownership of .com is not as exclusive/protected as .xxx or xxx.com. Thus the firefox/chrome/etc can map it to anyone they feel. Considering so many high value .com subnames, .com can be transferred to neutral party or even dnsroot. USG do not own ".com" string. No one does. Just like ".".
>It was my understanding that the degree to which those can be enforced in California is limited.

California limits non-compete agreements and anti-moonlighting clauses however, as far as I know, does not limit NDAs.
Maybe one lesson is just that hardware companies often radically underestimate how much effort will need putting into the complementary software.

Compare the start of the touchscreen phone era: it looks to me like companies like Nokia lost to Apple primarily because they didn't have good enough software to go with the hardware.

You can point fingers at how Nokia had three different platforms fighting with each other, but maybe that's just a symptom and the real cause was that the software side needed several times the resources it was given.
I'll second the recommendation. Richard Powers is an incredibly talented author. It's somewhat off topic but many years ago he also authored a great book on AI (Galatea 2.2) that wasn't alarmist but focused more on the human element.

https://www.amazon.com/Galatea-2-2-Richard-Powers/dp/0312423...
Wow, the patronization just drips off this comment.
I've dealt with expired ssl certs on api servers run by school districts and no, they don't automate this stuff, neither do i for my own servers, shamefully.
> Only by getting feedback from real students can you truly figure out whether a textbook is good.

The problem is (also in my experience) that students often cannot grasp the depth of the textbook/topic when they here the lecture. I openly admit that I only could appreciate the depth of the topics taught in some math lectures 5-10 years later (but already at the time that I heard them, I loved hard lectures - in oppposite to many classmaters).

So if you want to get feedback, ask the students not before 5 to 10 years after they heard the lecture - otherwise the answers will in my opinion be meaningless.
Ya' know this assumes one would use reddit as a reference for learning which one should never, EVER do, don't ya?
I think the other commenters suggesting a better role is the best idea. Believe it or not ... there is a lot of industrial R&D ... people don't publish papers on all of it. Key outputs are Proof of concepts and patents. If you find a role like that, you will likely have the best chance to succeed.

That said, lets talk about the project idea .. here is what I suggest. Do a solid project (or three) and give a talk on it at a meet up or tech conference.

Data science/ML is stupid hot right now as an area. But the business people don't give a crap about algorithms. They want outcomes or whatnot. So, when you do a project, don't go fully deep into an algorithm or eval. Focus on a business problem (could be some trivial data analysis on open data) and write a blog post on it/do a talk. Use visualizations. use tools used in industry for this (e.g. Tableau or whatever).

Best of luck to you.
I checked VXjunkies and found the level of weirdness I haven't expected. Will need a few hours to browse through this while nobody is around / can be startled by sudden, random laughter...
> [...]I must say they are amicable, nice, and [...]

Perpetuating a positive stereotype is ultimately no less harmful than a negative one.

People with downs are just people, sure, most are nice, but most people in general are nice, they can also exhibit the full spectrum of other human behaviors within the confines of their condition.

A friend of mine growing up had Downs, he could be nice, but he could also be angry or petty, just like the rest of us.
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If you have to ask to see the parts being replaced at a branded dealer, BMW in this case, then you need to find a new dealer. In my experience the big dealers and especially luxury ones do no do this. The ones without a brand in the name and have something like “Luxury Motor” are the ones that do this.
... syncretism.

Heroes with a thousand faces
Yep, I’ve also completely avoided Google Cloud for this very reason.

Google really is not seeing the bigger picture here at all.