skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it's also a pool, meaning it rotates, you get some, lose some, get some, lose some, etc. Maybe a dev will take 2-3 jobs to learn the trade (PHP here, Js there, some fundamental web stuff to top it off, and here's your "professional-grade developer". Great.) But you get to hire equivalent devs at each step, then it's just about $/skill.

Now, if all companies made it part of their "offer" to train people "enough" (say, 1d/w), then you'd expect all the workforce to become more qualified, better in time and in age.

You could actually pay/recover the "investment" of training the equivalent of university/grad/postgrad/etc for all employees simply by the fact that everyone else would do it too (and it would certainly lower wages a bit for the early years of these newcomers, since they'd skip the idling 20's decade of many youths currently).

I don't know, it's clearly not something you could do overnight or even over a generation, it's likely to be deeper and more 'revolutionary' than that in people's minds; but mathematically, economically, it tends to make sense (we've done that for years with "guilds" and "companions" in the medieval ages and actually since forever in some trades).

I think the current mainstream / massive education (take hundreds, thousands, and grad them each year) is just the result / need of industrialization (requiring an educated workforce), a novelty of the late 19th and 20th century.

I think the cursor is moving and the explosion of alternative means and times/ages of learning is a strong indicator of that.
This will depending on your tax jurisdiction, but it's almost certainly a consequence of taxes:

If the company buys its own shares, there are usually no taxes on the purchase.

If the company issues dividends, it has to pay taxes on dividends distributed. The shareholders may also have to pay a small amount of taxes on dividends they receive.
Typical of HN on finance topics. You're downvoted for presenting facts and providing sources. And your source was audited by a 3rd party and accepted by the government who has their own auditors.

On page 62, it says "Cash taxes paid, net of refunds, were $412 million, $957 million, and $1.2 billion for 2016, 2017, and 2018."
Undervolting glitches are a fundamental property of synchronous logic and can't be fixed. Asynchronous logic, OTOH...
Its probably a bubble coming what happens when the stock market goes down? Ie tradewar causes price inflation of goods on imported goods from China. Central bank then increases interest rate to fight higher inflation. Price of new money goes up, stock market goes down.
I thought at first by "kick off" they had banned a competitor.
You are technically correct, but the GP is alluding to the intent of the companies/executives.

In one case the intent is good (proper allocation of cash); in the other it is not-good (engineering financial bonuses for themselves).
I think many people think about it. I've seen earthquakes then see another soon after but in another part of the world. It makes you think there must be some influence.
Redundant coordinate systems: advantages and examples
New Platform 'Lyceum“ Hopes to Curate Growing World of Educational Podcasts
I would pass, if possible.

I like LinkedIn because it a very low bs social network, and I would really appreciate for it to stay that way.
I would love to see more streets like this.
Depending on the codepage ... extended ASCII is just as much a misnomer here as ASCII in the original post.
> And that's already a somewhat advanced and not really required luxury; my parents mentioned how they still had an outhouse instead of a toilet indoors

This is still the norm in some (many) places. In my home country about 27% of the population only has an outhouse. Mainly in the rural areas.
> they would identify problems that exist that existing currency

Modern blockchain cryptocurrencies aren't just about money use-cases. The currency is just the electricity in the wiring that drives more interesting applications, ie. things you can build with smart contracts.
I can't read this article.

Error 410
This account is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium Rules.
Where I work (mechanical engineering business, not just software) there's a training course that people are encouraged to take up in their own time. However, the company does support staff taking the course with teaching time from senior engineers - and they make a big deal of having completed it with a certificate, bonus and pay rise. That's in addition to the apprenticeship scheme which represents a more sensible approach to industry funded education.
We get it citylab, you hate cars, and think everyone lives in the downtown of a metropolis. Meanwhile, the rest of us have places to be, and 99% of my country has no public transport. While I agree that city centers need more walking room, the categorical exclusion of longer distant transport options will just create more parking lots at the border of such areas. The more modern planning ignores the forest (countries) for the trees (big cities), the technological and class divide will only widen.
My father died from metastasized prostate cancer.

While statistically your statement may be true (in that a large number of people die of something else before the prostate cancer kills them) it's still a lethal cancer that kills more men each year than breast cancer kills women.
Why would a retirement fund want a buyback? They would prefer a healthier company in ten years rather than a lump sum they need to pay someone to reinvest.
The average U.S. car carries an average of 1.56 people and weighs an average, for new cars, of almost two tons.
I doubt they're disabling DVFS completely.
Biggest list of fully remote, 100% distributed companies
Yeah above a certain population density you're mostly free from your neighbors gossiping at church about your project boat yard ornament or marijuana cultivating hobby or loud parties because you don't know your neighbors and probably don't go to the same church but the trade-off is that if you do step out of line they sick the local bylaw czar on you instead. This is what I mean by more resources to track down minor deviance from social norms.

Some things are more tolerated in the city but the trade-off is that the things that are not tolerated are addressed by the government (which means fines that will make you destitute if you don't step in line and men with guns who will put you in a cage if you don't pay).

By contrast you can usually tell the small town busybodies to pound sand and unless you're actually negatively affecting a lot of people with whatever it is you do then it's probably a non-issue. Those people are always crying wolf about things and nobody takes them seriously because everybody knows that most of their complaints are unfounded or not serious enough to be worth dedicating the community's limited resources (at a small enough town level the distinction between private action and government action does get a bit blurry) to doing anything about it.
.NET and Kubernetes
Hmm... I'm unable to access and read this article. Medium displays a 410 error and an ominous message: "This account is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium Rules." Given the subject matter, I'm starting to get a little suspicious about why this article was taken down.
> I subscribe to those weekly emails for the programming languages we use at work

--

Are these an internal thing for your organization? is it Just joining a mailing list for X language? Or is there some aggregation service you could share?
If the deliverable is a team report, then failures are super useful and still count. "I tried implementing X as a test after reading about method Y, but found that for our domain there are serious drawbacks."
Just Sharing My Gulpfile
Yeah, while most dubs suck, I do have a huge soft spot for the German dubs of Monty Python movies, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in particular (it's called "Knights of the Coconut" in German, btw)

A lot of that might just be nostalgia speaking, though.
Okay how about codepage 437 then
That's interesting.
I'd be more inclined to use Rust/C++ for the android devices since they are slow and more inclined to use Kotlin on the server because they are powerful :D
Slerp
How do you feel about others labelling your life-sustaining products as a « dirty blood » product because you were paid for your time?
I understand how some humanities or social science are important to solve these issues.

But why the arts are always thrown into the mix? Is it just a figure of speech? Does the 'arts' means something specific? Maybe some great novel or movie is going to fix the issues?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_arts
Announcing Flutter 1.12: What a Year
It’s irredeemable on its name alone at this point.
>When the Northridge earthquake knocked out power in Los Angeles in 1994, numerous calls came into emergency centers and even the Griffith Observatory from people who had poured into the streets in the predawn hours. They had looked into the dark sky to see what some anxiously described as a “giant silvery cloud” over the shaken city.

>Not to worry, they were assured. It was merely the Milky Way, the vast galaxy that humans once knew so well — until the glare from electric light effectively erased most traces of it from urban and near-urban skies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/business/31essay.html
Perhaps this is true where you live.

Where I am, it's a simple matter of setting up some high-power relays and building a mesh network in the permitted radio band. People do it all the time.

Also, I think you meant courier. Mail is quite tightly regulated at the federal level, at least in the United States.
You mostly associate GPL with capitalism?

The GNU created the GPL and licensed most of their software under it. I can't think of an organization less interested in capitalism. Rather the opposite because the viral nature of the license.

Linus picked the GPL to be less commercial/restrictive than the Minix source code.
Suits make a corporate comeback!

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Venturing a Perspective on the Drug Pricing Debate
The interesting thing will be whether any proposed applications would survive the critique. Perhaps the whole plan is to have the students learn that there are almost no sensible applications! (Is the CS department participating to generate alternative implementations for comparison?)
None of those do the same kind of static analysis Rust is doing.
Also F# doesn't compile fast either, in part because it is written in F# with functional idioms that are sometimes pokey.
Late reply, but nope, iirc automotive was one of the industries which were/are exempt from the whole lead-free stuff because the ECU are safety critical.
> Secure Scuttlebutt (not a fan, but it's much better than AP)

If you have any specific feedback about which improvements are most important to you, I'd love to hear it. It's hard to see things with fresh eyes after you've been working on them for a bit.
Eliminating the Need for Redis Sentinel with KeyDB Active Replication
Windows update was subverted previously, but it was a man in the middle attack: https://www.wired.com/2013/03/flame-windows-update-copycat/

ASUS did actually deliver a malicious update: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pan9wn/hackers-hijacked-a...
Mutual beneficial outcomes, without exchange of significant amounts of money are totally possible.

As an example, AMS-IX is completely non-profit, see:
https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/about-ams-ix

[Edit: realised I didn't actually answer your question: it is much cheaper, at scale]
If this is what “graduated” [1] means, I don’t even want to know what it means for people who didn’t.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia...
I care because the reason I comment is to contribute to the conversation, and if someone thinks I'm doing the opposite I'd like to know why. Usually when I ask this I get a constructive answer instead of getting the question itself downvoted, as happened here. And the habit of asking why one downvotes is something I picked up here, and only really use here, for that reason.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried making a product that wasn't a SaaS?
I'm working on a mobile app targeted towards consumers who are into productivity apps. However, I feel like pricing it as a SaaS would be un-appealing vs an one time payment of $10. Has anyone tried making non-SaaS products? Did it sell well?
>Someone with understanding of both FE and BE is worth as much as one of each...

Someone with understanding of both FE and BE is valuable in certain situations. Companies love the idea of a "full stack engineer" because they believe they are getting two for the price of one. But in practice, and accounting for exceptions, that's not necessarily the case. A full-time FE with equal experience will be better at the front than a FE/BE and a full-time BE with equal experience will be better at the back than a FE/BE. This is the reality of having deep experience in a specific domain. As an attempt at an example, if you went to college and got an English minor and a CompSci minor you'd be capable in both areas but you would likely not be as knowledgeable as an English major nor a CompSci major within the respective domain.

This divide becomes much more visible when you see a FE/BE architect a solution versus a full time FE or BE. When fixing bugs and implementing straight-forward features a FE/BE has a handy skill set. But when you move past that point, deep experience within an area starts to show it's value.
Maybe, maybe not.

The only reason why this special cloth even made the headlines and why it's a hot topic for discussion is because it is considered an outlier from a care perspective.
Actual title: News Media Fall Prey to Satirical Hoax

It's not convincing that this journalism is any different from the too common plain vanilla bad journalism -- like click-bait links.
In a decade plus of my career, four of my most significant jobs, including my current role have come from being sourced/recruited on LinkedIn.

I hate being on any social networks, and I feel like LinkedIn has declined in quality over the years, but I stay with LinkedIn.

The primary reason is that you never know when you are going to be thrust into the job market, and its the key place to find future opportunities, identify gatekeepers and leverage your professional rolodex when an opportunity to earn an income is on the line.
Chrome now alerts you when someone steals your password
Yeah... I mean people on HN can fall into a false sense of security as well and think "well it wont happen to me". Thankfully my employer doesn't use any MDM and I got my work MBP directly from Apple.

It's not like I'm doing anything bad with my laptop but I've got friends who DO have MDM (JAMF) on their MBP's and it has caused numerous problems for them. I'm glad I don't have a little voice in the back of my head saying "did that weird thing happen" or "did my command fail" BECAUSE of the MDM? It just adds an extra layer of doubt/uncertainty that I'd prefer to avoid.
But Matrix is mostly built around chat rooms, not feeds like Twitter. I would assume any new system would take some parts of Matrix and some parts of ActivityPub but not the entire thing.
And you can do it remotely. But the certainly made it easier because this is (presumably) behind the brownout detectors and other circuitry usually attached to the supply lines to combat this sort of stuff.
"When a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him: Whose?"
Don Marquis

Very few people make wealth through individual effort (musicians, football players, Buffet?, etc). Most everyone makes by:

- The sweat of others (factory workers, etc)

- Skimming money from a business

It boggles my mind that investments in which you get money while you sleep/sit on your ass get taxed less than income for actually working.
Perhaps ActivityPub is struggling because it tries to be too much. If it does well at being Twitter, why must it also be Signal messenger? I don't use DM's much at Twitter, if that feature wasn't a part of AP/Mastodon, I wouldn't cry!

That comes across in delete requests. There's no way to guarantee that a server would honor that request. I don't think a blockchain style solution is needed -- just don't try to offer things that are impossible to offer. (There's this idea that AP/decentralized will be Nazi-free... what a ludicrous promise! Although, perhaps that's more an expectation of the users than the protocol authors...)
If they were doing this the right way, they would not even consider using cryptocurrency and advise everyone they interact with against it, because it is egregiously wasteful and completely unsustainable.
I went 40 years without getting a flu shot because I was terrified of needles. And I mean I would look away if someone was getting a shot on tv. Absolutely terrified of needles.

A little over a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I have had all my teeth removed, had a feeding tube (PEG) installed, chemo, liver biopsy, and more random horrible shit. I went from terrified of needles to getting more of them than I can count.

You adjust.
Yes, that is exactly what has happened.
Well yes, they'd have to do the Google Plus Circles sort of thing where your different friends are placed into different groups, so you can keep your Professional and Personal facebook separate-but-linked.

And yeah, Twitter is the water-cooler/street-corner, it conflates the professional and the personal in its culture.
I think they're following up with these patients yearly. It's the same post-operative care procedure they do with prostatetectomy patients, except they're probably being more thorough here because they have something to prove.
The Hero’s Journey – and How to Create Your Own Today
Sand is also renewable - it ie created by erosion continously. Although the volume is likely insufficient.
If a holy grail of cheap enough energy grinding solid rock through some means could theoretically produce the desired grained sand at an affordable price.
Well maybe talk to the backend lead at the same time. His own team lead <> the company and the company might not even realize it. From the pov of his own team lead, it might be a purely damaging move (has to find alternative, has to explain to upper management, etc.).

TBH I wouldn't expect any manager (especially it's just a lead, not even a mgr) to sacrifice for my own benefit. I thank them and provide material reward if they do, but I'm 100% with them (and study on my own, then leave the company) if they don't. It has to be mutually beneficial, or at least looks like. So my feeling is that both OP and his team leader are not good at communication.
Better long term odds than having 1,500 people do it for 321,000,000 (MAU)
Maybe they don't make quotas but if they comment on how many coffee breaks or bathroom trips you make, they obviously care about it.
Actually, I can't tell which you're actively using at this point. Your recent comments use one while your profile uses another.
I want to build the "NationBuilder" of the Fediverse. A PaaS / SaaS giving nonprofits, indie media, and grassroots pols access to host their own social media platform on their own web domain.
Am I missing something? 0x.co looks basically like a simple bit.ly clone but that accepts non-urls too.

You need to be online to perform a lookup, and can only look it up on 0x.co. If the website goes down, if the database gets lost, if you don't also include a "go look this up on 0x.co" note, etc. etc. the codes have no utility. These are problems that QR codes solve.
The entire discussion is about paying people for their blood and the main argument backing up the exploitation was the size of the exports.

All I am showing is that a country can export lots of blood even when they don't allow paid "donations" (like Ireland) - thus demonstrating that the magnitude of the blood exports has nothing to do with the paid or unpaid nature of donations.

Thus the whole article is little more than fear-mongering and fake news.

That being said, I would not be surprised to learn that there are people that get exploited. I would not be surprised to learn that there may substantial problems and we should work on solving those. But exaggerating and fake news does not help anybody.
VividCortex Acquired by SolarWinds
What happens when the culture shifts and "bug" is used to mean "software defect" and "story" is used to mean "action item"?
could you elaborate? or provide a link?
If a large software company had to pay 0.1% of its profit (revenue?) to each foss dependency they wouldn't have any left.

And contributing back is not as easy as lobbing code over the wall, you have to spend a lot of time and energy coming to agreements on what makes sense to share and how to organize it. It would probably be a full time job for Mr Benjamin to vet external contributions even if everyone could agree that all were desirable.
As you say, Riot Direct is depending on the internet. Sure, adding routes can make slight improvements, but outside of high frequency traders or data centers users are semi randomly geographically separated. This puts a hard upper bound on any improvement of reasonable cost that quickly approaches just adding more routes on the internet.

Having said that, I admit it’s not pure snake oil and provides minor benefits to their customers.
> People don't like Telegram because it's a centralized thing and maybe not trustworthy.

Just like Signal.

> I'm not sure if I'd trust the Telegram founders, and their commitment to open source seems questionable to me

Meanwhile Moxie Marlinspike's opposition to free software is evident. You use the client he dictates or fuck off. There's closed source software that respects freedom more than Signal.
y, you can become employable if you learn HTML/CSS, then javascript and a framework like Rails/Laravel you can get a real job developing web applications. It will take time and some work though to build up the skills. Once you have the basics down offer to setup websites for family and friends, maybe a local small business that needs a website. Build a web application for yourself, maybe one to track a collection of yours, one to send messages in real time between you and a friend or maybe compile fantasy football stats and make projections. Pick something you are interested in and that isn't a step by step tutorial. If you have a knack for programming you'll just keep advancing getting more skilled.
EightFold.ai [0] is the most uneasy LinkedIn replacement I've come across, by far. They seem to be utilising similar tricks of trade used in targeted advertising, except now the developers are the adverts themselves and the keywords are bought by the recruiters.

The claimed AI based engine from the co-founders previously behind adtech at bloomreach and newsfeed at facebook make it all the more spooky.

[0] https://eightfold.ai/technology/
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Yes, and ... ? What's exactly your point?
For technology companies, buybacks signal to me that they have dying (or dead) engineering. It is rather financial engineering at work.

One of the kpi at play here is EPS [1], typically used to evaluate CEO performances.
To me, this was about numerator increasing over a rather static base.
What instead happens, is that denominator is reduced (with buybacks) to jack up EPS value. It amazes me, that most of run-of-mill (non analyst) folks simply buy into EPS↑ story.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/eps.asp
Sure as a shareholder I also like stock buybacks. For instance, when Berkshire Hatheway does it, it's almost certainly a good thing.

I don't think that's what we're seeing in the vast majority of cases though. I think what we're seeing is managers personally enriching themselves by taking on corporate debt and doing so in a very tax-advantaged way. Keep in mind they're not buying the stock they own in the first place, they're being given it via stock options at crazy discounts.