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> Me, amidst all the frustration I am very happy for the software they are giving me almost for free (I've donated a little bit).

Complete agreement. I'm glad for the work going into Signal, both in development and in research.

> By the way, Josh, props to you for your patience and professionalism in the debian-devel thread about librsvg the other day.

(OT)

The other year? That conversation took place late last year. Thank you, though.
I once coded a bubble sort in an application where I expected the worst case to be n=4. Later that assumption was invalidated, but I had long ago moved on to something else. I hope the person who inherited my code doesn't still hate me.
Depends what area you work in but as you are on this site I assume it's something nerdy :)
I would like to be better at graphic design, nothing to complex, just the ability to design better icons, favicons, button graphics, blog post banners etc.
Unfortunately I think that kind of cognitive dissonance is quite common. People feel the need to make sure "everyone is safe", but then believe their ability to judge how to best do that supersedes the law. Those laws are for "other people", not us.
>And are the "grimy" parts "trapped in the past" or next door to the "future"?

They don't actually intermingle much with the future as cyberpunk might have made us think though. Usually the nightmare cyberpunk scenario was that you find yourself in debt peonage to some corporate overlord. But that's a dramatic overestimation of our value to corporate overlords.
I'm thankful for our increasingly rich culture of making documentaries of living treasures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Big_Bird:_The_Caroll_Spin...
This is not true, consider taking the limit 3^n/2^n as n goes to infinity, the limit is infinity, hence 3^n is not O(2^n)
@dang can you please step in here before it is to late.
> In other words, the extra money may not be making it into the general economy much and it may instead just be supporting higher home prices.

This was the topic of conversation this weekend between my wife and I and 4 other couples that we are friends with, each of us with young children. We live in SoCal. We have young kids. We basically can afford to live here, despite having high-paying, dual-income households. That's it, we can afford living. We can't afford to go to Disney very often. We can't afford to go to the San Diego Zoo very often. We're keeping pace with house and car payments (this was a big one for my wife and I, we no longer have car payments and are doing everything we can to make our situation work with the automobiles that we have), with childcare, and trying to put away money for our kids at the expense of the local economy.

I somehow don't feel any more financially secure or independent; I don't feel like I have more discretionary income than when I first moved to California and was making $10/hour. My own conclusion is that it's a feature of our economy, it's by design.
It's very ugly, but at least it doesn't seem to limit you to 15 characters like on Linux (prctl/pthread_set_name_np).

That limit makes it pretty hard to provide meaningful identifiers in a non-trivial application.
I'll always consider other solutions, but ...

A native application has advantages over a web site, a web app, or a "native" app built using Electron, etc:

* in resource usage,

* in UX consistency,

* in integration with the rest of the system, eg. for scripting (Apple Script), accessibility, etc

* in working with locally-cached emails while offline or with degraded connectivity,

* in having no ongoing cost,

* in being vendor independent,

* in supporting the use of standard protocols (SMTP / IMAP), rather than a proprietary web backend API

and there's probably more I could come up with if I thought about it some more.

A web application (not an Electron app) has one primary advantage: it can easily access significantly more computational and storage resources than my laptop can. That could be an advantage for searching. There's probably other advantages I could think of with more time here too.

So, while I'd be happy to consider a web-based solution, I think it's fair to say that I think the deck is stacked against such a product, for my purposes.
The issue with education is that it's not just about the jobs. There are lots of other positive externalities that aren't as easy to account for. Things like financial literacy, political literacy, economic mobility, and a whole slew of intellectual tools that can help them later in life regardless of job.

Personally, I'm totally ok with making college just as mandatory as high school as long as it doesn't place an undue burden on individuals.

Some food for thought: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/11/educat...

Also, we know that education rates skew heavily with SES. It's much more an issue of availability and quality of education than it is some kids being dumb or something...
This makes me wonder about Y Combinator. What this scooter company so new and innovative that it warranted investment? Isn't it one of dozens?

Or is it that there's must too much VC money without enough places to put it...?

More pessimistically, it's plausible that a lot of VC money gets spent on expenses that directly or indirectly benefit those VCs, so it's less about the viability of the startup and more about the money flow.
Daycares do not pay well.
To be clear I don't mean to criticize the skills that a CS degree provides, nor anyone with one.

I wish I had the time to go back to school and get one. I would do it if I could afford to do so in a heartbeat. I wasn't a very good student in my early years, but during a career change took a class and found I loved it, but that time has passed for me for now (kids and career obligations for now). And honestly after I changed careers to a more coding centric career I certainly see the value.

I do think the differences you describe VERY MUCH depend on the tasks / job, and are not universal by any means.
Maybe my extension will convince some youtubers to offer non sponsored videos on patreon. That would be the dream result of this extension.

Even nebula (CGP Grey and Kurzgesagt's steaming platform) sadly doesn't enforce this.
I've tended to use SHALL and MAY for the same reasons, but it is important they are defined anyway, somewhere everyone agrees.

Agree "not" is tougher, and best avoided when you can.
Let me preface this by saying I work in finance and rules are weird.

This comes up frequently when looking for fuzzy "duplicates".

For example, sometimes you get data from 2 sources, one will send it through with 0.01 precision. Another will send it through with 0.001 precision. You can't hash or compare that.

Things get more tricky when different finance institutes used different terms for the same entity.

That doesn't mean you can't avoid n^2 duplicate searches. It just means you have to be smart about how you group things.
Clojure/north 2020 CFP is open (Toronto)
Show HN: YC SUS 19: Dappkit, Firebase for Web3 Is Live. Test the Shit Out of US
This is complicated by PERM process for green cards. While many companies might not give damn about college degrees it is safe for them to advertise the job as if it requires college degrees. Just open the San Jose Mercury news and see all those job postings. There will be ads like "Want an individual with Masters Degree or Bachelors degree with 2 years of experience with courses in AI, Database and Web Programming".

There might be artificial factors requiring the factories to hire people with white collar education.
Not just an economic advantage either, but for the mental health of the mother, it's very rare to meet a woman who only desires to stay at home for the duration of a child's life.
We are genuinely not trying to spam anyone, just in the mood of sharing knowledge through small daily blog posts in 12 different areas throughout December :) You can see the 12 advent calendars at https://bekk.christmas and a blog post introducing the concept here https://blogg.bekk.no/introducing-bekk-christmas-ad01660ccad...
Add tig to the large list of alternatives that can do this as well
So nearly 5 years later, is any of this any better? Also, why haven't Linux vendors standardized on a single package manager that is the default for ALL Linux distros? This seems like the equivalent hell that npm gives to NodeJS.
No, your comment was glib. You suggest controlling for variables which are going to create overcontrolling and the sociologist's fallacy, and you know perfectly well that family background is not independent of IQ and attenuates the relationship and your suggestion creates only an uninterpretable mishmash of a marginal effect which includes some causal effects but quite arbitrarily excludes others which run through controlled variables. I did not choose my example of education/IQ/income casually, but picked one which is very common in the literature which people commit because they think they are being rigorous when in fact they're only fucking up their own results and making them less meaningful. One's intelligence is not independent of one's family or genetic background! This matters to testing and things which can change! (Because it gives you residual confounding, if nothing else.) By the way, the proper way to do what you may or may not want to do (because your comments are so glib it's unclear to me what DAG you have in mind or what causal effect you want) is sibling controls, not family background controls, and you will be unhappy as to the results when they have been done.
Apple to Speak at CES Conference for First Time in Decades
Everyone's licking the toad, hoping it will turn into a unicorn.
Please, make it stop. For anyone trying to pick the "right" tool for the k8s platform there are so. many. tools.
There are three that we've noticed so far:

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/as-the-end-nears-for-yahoo-grou...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/verizon-kills-email-accounts-o...

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084557/verizon-bl...

But yes, you are right. We need to keep pushing it into the public sphere. Twitter, Reddit, I hate to mention FB here, but ...
>An Associates degrees is college, and is normed at two years

It's not what people mean when they ask if you went to college though.

>Many engineering programs, for instance, are intensely focussed on the central focus from day one.

If they are accredited, they still have a substantial liberal arts component.
Interesting utility. I can see a few really exciting use cases for this.

If I had one wish it'd be native support for syncing generated snapshots to S3 or Google Storage for easy transfers between authenticated systems and users. Maybe I'll take a look at building out a PR for that over the weekend if that's okay
1) Learn to code

2) Read at least 50 books

3) Study new languages, for me it will be brushing up on Italian and starting studying French
It's good to hear startups care, although my experience from company to company is support is largely seen / treated as an expense. Lots of talk about support, but the quality of leadership and resources tell another story in my experience.

That is partly why I changed careers.
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I like its RPCishness, but it also seems to require a lot of repetitive coding.
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> That would seem not to be true.

How would you explain the stagnant wages of the last 4+ decades compared to the massive economic growth? I don't think there's much evidence that the relationship between labor supply and economic growth is anywhere near one-to-one (e.g. one more person working means their wage is added to the volume of labor demand).
I have only briefly used Magic, but after reading your article, I am committed. Thanks!
If you are on an Android device you can export an encrypted backup and scan a QR code / type in the password to the encrypted archive to transfer messages / group memberships with only a safety number change in most cases.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

No dice for iOS unfortunately.
Indeed. If the asset produces a revenue stream itself, e.g. coupons or dividends, things get complicated fast.
I live in Massachusetts.. mentioned in the article as averaging $16k.

I have a child who stopped going to private day care a year and a half ago. For us it was more like $20-24k/yr for child care. There were centers near one of my workplaces that were more like $35-40k/yr/child. Anything near the trendy high tech office spaces in Boston/Cambridge is going to be in that > $30k/yr/child range.

I think there are nice profits being made because:

- The teachers/caretakers make 50% at best of what public school teachers make

- They just in time schedule the living daylights out of everything

- You can easily figure out the gross income of the "school" because the tuition figures are public and you can see the # of rooms in the school and calculate from regulation how many kids are there. They were always 95% full in my experience

- The expensive/fancy ones tend to be owned by big chains & franchises, those are not operations that exist without someone getting rich.

One of the biggest day care chains in the country is owned by Bain Capital.. they've made a lot of money on it. They don't get into stuff that isn't profitable.

My experience was even at the upper end of the market the product is pretty darn bad compared to public school systems in our area. The public school staff is amazing and incredibly professional compared to the private day care staff. Not even close. And the ratios for elementary school are better than pre-school/pre-K at expensive day cares in our area. And even if you took all our local & state taxes and gave 100% to the school it does not match what day care costs. And obviously the state & town do not give 100% of the money to the school system.
tig is also fantastic for doing this.

- u for hunks

- 1 for individual lines

https://github.com/jonas/tig
Yeah canned printf is really stack heavy if I remember. A solution is to have one thread that handles printf. Biggest issue I've run into with printf at least in C is calling it tends to be expensive.
You're talking about career changes as opposed to initial schooling but I'll bite, what assumptions do you think need to change?
The median household income in the US is $59K. Paying $875/month isn't easy by any stretch of the imagination.

What value.
Having lived in Montana for 2 years myself, I don't consider Forsyth a town worth noting. Billings is the closest town that has a decent population, and it's 110 miles away by car.

Brick or wood (fixed my original comment for ya), my point was it's a simple building in a tiny "town". It's not worth the money as a business purchase, but would be a pleasure buy.

Not sure why my comment needed to be pedantically torn apart.
A tax credit of $10/day/child for stay at home parents might make sense?
A lot of "bigcorp" has a computer science degree as a 'requirement' for their technical support roles.
What would you recommend for legally mandated country-of-origin filters?
Old guy trying to put things together ahead:
I think that this mentality may have started as a result of the Griggs vs Duke Power Co case from 1970. Griggs was a black man who was turned down a promotion because he failed a company aptitude test, which was later determined to be racially biased against him . . . something to that effect. Companies were hesitant to continue using such tests, so they started requiring college degrees instead. Higher demand for higher education led to higher costs.
Please use a language like C, D, C++, or Python. They are much more lightweight. It takes hundreds of lines of javascript to be executed to do a single "console.log."
Oh, wow. I stumbled over the thread just the other day and mechanically just read the month and day... Since it was November I somehow assumed it was recent without reacting. Thanks for the correction! Well, belated props to you then. =o)
I'm kind of surprised nyt published the piece, I do think it has some value, it just seems so focused on the value you can get using adtech and how much it costs and not much on the actual supposed subject
Fun ancient fact from AD administration c. Win2k3:

AD can optionally replicate by sending email (SMTP) between sites.
Please let people write their hobby projects in whatever language and stack they want.
Not sure I agree.

The kids I knew weren’t “acting like adults” in college - they were off.

Didn’t know how to hold a conversation, they were uncomfortable, and had a hard time with social cues and basic listening/including people in conversation.

If I had to speculate I’d guess they had a harder time modeling other people’s mental states along with just generally knowing less what to do - which I think comes from having less peer social exposure to learn from. This creates a feedback loop of social anxiety which can be limiting.

Part of the reason it may be hard to distinguish homeschooled people in the workplace is because they’re largely not there.

It’s hard enough to develop comfortable social skills even with siblings and a lot of exposure. I’d be worried that removing your kids from an environment where they’d get a lot of exposure makes this even harder for them in the long run.
Goldman Jumps into WeWork Cleanup with Debt-Financing Plan
Another discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21741133
Why is subsidized daycare necessary in these cases though? In America if daycare costs X and you earn Y much greater than X, then obviously you'll make more money going to work and sending your kid to daycare than being a stay at home parent.

The people who choose to stay at home often either have multiple kids (higher X) or earn little enough (lower Y) that it's not an economic advantage for them to work. But those people would be a net loss (to the government) in the Quebec system too.
Remember kids: Bitfields are not thread-safe!
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We Use Kafka
You don't really "sell" products on kickstarter,

The link doesn't mention Kickstarter at all - I assumed Unicorn was selling through their own website?
... requiring college degrees, of course, being a nice way to wash your hands of any controversy while still effectively enjoying the same biased applicant filtering
I'd presume anyone bringing a network switch with them to class would also have some Cat5e kicking around. Otherwise, what good is the switch doing them?
Well, I hope Westworld’s creators have learned meanwhile how to make it clear what and when it happens.
C doesn’t have ubiquitous calls to panic, so even if it did you generally don’t get it unless you do something which more obviously interacts with the formatting parts of the standard library.
What do you imagine would be the incentive for users to use BTC, rather than later-generation alternatives?
Could some of this be due to increased amount of automation meaning the factory floor jobs are actually more technical because you're fixing/troubleshooting robots, rather than doing manual labour?
EU approves 3.2B euro state aid for battery research
That's a hot take you've got there, and probably going to get downvoted to oblivion, but I'm curious about some of these points:

> community networking functions, allowing for local problem solving and support that is somewhat extinct now

What are you referring to in particular? Community booster orgs? The PTA?

> Did we gain women's freedom at the cost of strong and good families?

Were families really that better off? I think back to the 50's and all I see is things like alcoholism, racism, parochialism, and insularity. I also see a world in the aftermath of WW2, where all other global-scale economies were devastated, save for the US, and could afford to pay husbands fantastic wages while mom stayed home and ran the house; those salaries aren't a reality now.
No, what I'm saying is that without the cryptographic protections, a messaging provider can't claim not to be logging, because their serverside logic requires the log.

Prior to doing this cryptographic work, Signal simply went without having these features at all.
Why did he have two jets?
that's rather specious. For example, if an individual can't fireman carry an average male, they certainly should not be a fireman.
People regularly manage thousands of servers using Puppet or Ansible and version control. The structured text configuration files all UNIX-like software utilize makes this trivial.

The strengths of AD are more related to client software, where many of them uses the policy mechanisms therein for management. Maintaining servers isn't what it does best.

This is a large part of the reason why "the cloud" is pretty much Linux native.
Russian flag and national anthem banned from 2020 Olympics
If the shortage is not of cables in general, but of cables that are long enough to reach the current connection point, then a switch would help.
Here's my take: the company needed to raise $X to deliver their $700 scooters. They had raised $Y where $Y < $X.

Since the only way for Unicorn to raise money is by preselling scooters They had to sell more scooters. Word of mouth wasn't doing it so they tried advertising for customer acquisition. Nothing unusual here.

So when they say the as we expensive what they realty mean is customer acquisition was really expensive. To put it another way conversions were really low.

So they likely completely understood these costs. They may have been unrealistic. They may have been sold a bill of goods (as agencies are notorious for unrealistically optimistic CPA costs). They may have simply not budgeted enough or expected more organic sales.

So they may want to blame this on expensive ads butt what they realty mean is they screwed up and underestimated customer acquisition costs.
Maybe they have plenty of short cables, but not enough long cables to get to each person from the main network switch.

Adding a switch closer to you means multiple people can share the one long cable.
> I think you're confused between FaaS and Serverless.

I think you are confused about those.

> Serverless is an Amazon service,

No, it's not.

1. The “Serverless Application Model” is an AWS functionality (a transform for CloudFormation templates for serverless [see #3] compute.)

2. “Serverless Framework” is an open-source product that is independent of Amazon (though it originally targeted only AWS) which supports multiple cloud provider.

3. “serverless” is a broad concept for cloud computing without managing server instances, encompassing, among other things, FaaS—AWS popularized the term, but it's used generally across the industry.

> Firebase is not serverless

Someone tell Google: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-developme...
Yeah the fact that almost no specifics are given nor the site he claims he made for the project makes me feel on the "complete fabrication" side of the fence
That’s fine. But Signal should then advertise itself as unsuitable for general-purpose communication, primarily relevant when someone is specifically worried about adversaries reading the communication.

I can see how this makes sense for journalists, dissidents, diplomats, criminals, corporate executives, etc., but if data is under threat of disappearance, regular people should be warned away and told to use something else for day-to-day communication.
I'm working on a temporal document store in my spare time. If done right and you have an index structure which let's say indexes each revision of a table (in my case binary XML or JSON as of now) as in Git for instance you simply append a new RevisionRootPage. This page is indexed of course and points to the former revision-data. Should be super fast, so you don't have to replay changes made in the meantime. Even if I'd write to a distributed log for instance and would read from it the changes since revision n. I think that way you can also version the whole database easily.

https://sirix.io / https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix