skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Also europe.. ireland)

I would confirm this take. I would also say that "upper class" in modern european terms, refers to something different then in other times... or possibly in the US. We have a more cultural take on class. It's not just about income.

First, our cutoff for "elites" is a lot lower. This is sometimes reflected in proposed laws. For example, when France implemented a wealth tax, they set the cuttoff around €1m. Other laws and proposed laws around europe tend to have a similar take. In US equivalents, thresholds are proposed aropund $50m-$1bn.

Here in Ireland, the top thresholds of income tax are near (even below) median full time income... €44k. Also, our public housing system houses around 20% of the population. The quality of housing is better than the lower end of private rentals... which tend to house employees of Google FB, etc.

Meanwhile, there's a lot more emphasis on cultural divide here. In the UK, the "anywhere vs somewhere's" is a popular take on modern class division. Anywhere's being internationally oriented, college educated people. Somewhere's being locally oriented. It corresponds to a more evergreen take: professional class vs working class.

In both cases, the income gaps are smaller than the cultural gaps. A college graduate working in Google account management for €35k can earn half what a plumber earns, but the class divide is still what it is. This is actually a significant dynamic in Ireland now. We have a lot of middle-income white collar jobs at international tech companies, with questionable long term security. We have a lot of higher paying blue collar jobs, mostly construction adjacent.

Often, the economic differences between classes just comes down to neighborhoods, property wealth and accumulated family wealth... not necessarily income. Often, but not always. The lowest 25% income families tend to be distinctly, and proudly working class. The genuinely wealthy tend to be upper class.

Class is complicated in europe. It can be quasi-ethnic, with accents, body language and cultural subtleties playing a big role. It doesn't correspond neatly to income.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a bill with mortgage holidays, etc pass the House. The Senate is far too conservative to even let this go to a vote, though; McConnell just put a relief bill to a vote that dramatically reduces unemployment assistance ($600/wk -> $200/wk), and I doubt we'll see anything better.
How can it be that engineers are poorly paid in the UK? From some googling it seems like the average is £62,500. That tells me the upper tier is probably around £80-100k, which is not too bad. Lower than Silicon Valley salaries, but surely living costs in the UK are also significantly lower if you live a bit outside of London?
Isn't that exactly the point of Steam though? Single, highly transferable library.

I certainly know that I'd be loading up if they made everything available in perpetuity.

And thinking of how many people want to get get into a series but simply can't because there's no real way for them to. Nintendo isn't really even doing VC this generation. So they're turning to emulation, if they're technical enough.
For use in firewall rules
Yep, besides the stupid name, the BLIK system is surprisingly nifty and practical.
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> Google pulls in more functionality into core services. Hn crowd: monopoly! Google pulls out rarely used features. Hn crowd: am I supposed use different app now?!?

As you surely know the HN crowd isn't a monolithic thing, it is made of a lot of people covering the entire spectrum of existing opinions. Different groups are complaining for different reasons, so that's really to be expected...
Background yes, argument no.
The core idea of the article can be found in a paragraph somewhere in the middle of the piece

> What all of these explanations have in common is the idea that the answer comes from examining workers' decisions and incentives. There’s something missing: the question of whether the American system, by its nature, resists the possibility of too much leisure, even if that’s what people actually want, and even if they have the means to achieve it. In other words, the long hours may be neither the product of what we really want nor the oppression of workers by the ruling class, the old Marxist theory. They may be the byproduct of systems and institutions that have taken on lives of their own and serve no one’s interests. That can happen if some industries have simply become giant make-work projects that trap everyone within them.

Now. I strongly believe that software / IT industry is one of those make-work projects.
I would rather not say because it'll spur an entire subthread arguing over whether the root cause was unions, state corruption, foreign intervention, or any other host of plausible (or not) theories.

I will concede that other people may explain that country's economic failures differently than I do. However, my view is not a fringe one, and since I have left, decreasing worker power has been correlated with a period of relative growth for the middle class.
I worked as a software developer part-time throughout school but never enjoyed software development. Although I did enjoy other parts of CS such as cryptography. After school finished, I was attending local meetups to find out different opportunities in IT industry. At a local security meetup, I met a security consultant (pentester)and ended up chatting with him. As his work was interesting, I applied to a few security consulting companies. Since then, I have been working as a pentester for 3 years now and I am pretty happy with it. Maybe you could think about a similar change.
The ability to choose the ship you set sail on and to know when it starts sinking.
Google has a lot of opt out controls to prevent personalized advertising. Other services are doing a lot worse. Google Pay is instant when using a debit/credit card and has great support. Setup is a breeze so even if it is canceled one day, which there is no indication of it happening soon, you really aren't losing anything.
Hmm...

Might net team productivity per cost be greater with another white marble rather than a red marble due to culture fit even if the individual red marble is better?
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That is pretty much how the 1970s are portrayed in the UK media - any vaguely left wing policy is usually derided with accusations that whoever is proposing it want to return to the 1970s.

Of course, like all good propaganda there is an element of truth to it but I believe the political situation of the time was a lot more nuanced that current portrayals would have you believe - Dominic Sandbrook's books are rather good.

e.g. Right wing accounts of the UK industrial failure usually omit the effect of absolutely awful senior management in the lot of industries. Of course, left wing account similarly fail to mention the appalling behaviour by some unionised workers.
the laws of simplicity - john maeda

on liberty - john stuart mill

meditation for dummies - stephan bodian

on the duty of civil disobedience - henry david thoreau

the bible - (no, I'm kidding :)
I am fairly competent, am CTO of my nth start-up, have had fairly well paid finance IT work in finance in London with multinational banks, etc, etc, and I have still drawn a complete blank sometimes, and other times have bowled the interviewers (and myself) over!

It happens. It's the equivalent of writer's block and the fear of the blank page. Please just don't read too much into individual events.
> Innovation happens on the factory floor.

I don't particularly miss the day of colonialism, however I just don't see innovation happening on the floor at a chip fab.
So what if it is cancelled one day? You lose like a few minutes of your time and then complain that no one else offers something as good?
What do you mean by "download all your data"? ProtonMail Bridge allows you to connect to your account via any email client, from which you can download your complete mailbox: https://protonmail.com/bridge/

Edit: there is also the Import-Export tool https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/export-import-.... And an export action from the web interface (though that's only for individual emails, so not practical for mass download).
How is Python definitely not "safe, productive and easy to use". It has faults, but these three are not them.
The whole ‘we should work less’ meme strikes me as more about the meaninglessness of modern work, moreso than our desire to have more leisure time. In other words: people want more meaningful work, not merely to have less meaningless work. Maybe this is an American-centric idea, wherein your work is strongly tied to your purpose and identity, but I don’t see how you can simply brush away an activity that takes up 1/3 of your time.

The example in the article (Amazon packing plants) is perhaps the most pointless Kafkasque job one can imagine: packing boxes of mostly unnecessary consumeristic products.

Speaking only personally, but I want to be working so much that I have little leisure time, but only because the work I’m doing is fulfilling and fundamentally important. I have no desire to have more leisure time to consume content (which is what most people do: look up the hours spent watching TV/video per person, or social media usage), as I don’t think consumption activities are ultimately fulfilling.
well git checkout basically is confusing because it does two things at once.

git restore and git switch basically tries to seperate the functionality.

i.e. from:
"git-checkout - Switch branches or restore working tree files"

to

- "git-switch - Switch branches"

- "git-restore - Restore working tree files"

tbf I found it really stupid from the beginning that it tries two things at once.
Well, maybe it's not so easy to wire, but if you want to make an accessible bomb-making tutorial, you have to use materials that are easily obtainable...
How do people depend on sending money with Gmail when you can send it in the browser or app? What is the problem?
I'm sorry about your brother but my family's experience was different and our dermatologist was of the opinion that the risks were exaggerated.
I suffered with acne from age 12 to my early 20s. As someone who was pretty awkward anyway, having an acne related nickname in school was pretty much the icing on the cake in terms my negative self image. I never went to parties or discos at all in school, anything at which girls might be present.
My kids inherited my skin and roaccutane was transformational for them. Even after the acne dried up I thought they'd be left with scarring but it all went away eventually.
I was 100% behind their decisions to take the stuff risks and all. I think that for a boy you can get past acne and its damage eventually, I did, but for a girl the scarring it leaves is devastating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayce_Pollard#Apparel
> especially when part of the problem is systemic papercuts

I'm sorry for slavery in US, but slavery in US is hardly the only example of slavery in history.

master/slave describes more than just a hundred years of slavery in United States

It also describes thousands of years of religious beliefs, for example.

> the very point of questioning it is whether or not this "tradition" is worth the pain of systemic papercuts

Not to sound harsh, but 5 billion people are ok with it.

It's a linguistic problem for a small minority of the population that speaks English as a native language and super charge words meaning.

Take for example the word servomotor.

A servomotor is

> French servo-moteur, from Latin servus slave, servant + French -o- + moteur motor, from Latin motor one that moves

In Italian it is "servo motore", servo is the exact translation of slave.

Why is servomotor ok, why is "I'm a slave to Jesus" or "God is my master" ok, but master branch is not?

I'm simply curious of why some people can't let things go...
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The irony is, that this is exactly what Facebook and Google (and whole bunch of other companies) do with their users as part of their business model. Somehow that's ok.
Interesting, is the data there to show COVID infections of stillbirth? Can that account for at least some of them to offset?
That’s correct. I had a scooter in Asia that took oil in the fuel port just a couple years ago.
Take that paper with a grain of salt.

If you look at their stillbirth rate in the whole of 2017 (rather than an arbitrarily short period immediately before covid), you find their stillbirth rate was 4.21 per 1,000.

They went from 4.21 in 2017, to 2.38 in a few months in 2019, then 9.31 in 2020?

The UK hasn't really been improving in stillbirth rates, so it would be very impressive if they'd halved theirs.

Source, the UK's national perinatal death surveillance report (pdf, page 88): https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/assets/downloads/mbrrace-uk/report...

Would 4.21 -> 9.32 still have been significant on that small a sample size?
Landlords are levereged to the tits. They are a few mortgage payments away from foreclosure. These are acts of desperation.
When my F-91W breaks I will upgrade to a F-105W.
Depending on what ranking you use the USA is 7th, 8th or 9th in GDP per capita. All the countries that are richer are somewhere in size between a US state and city, several of them are petro stateside city states and two, Ireland and Luxembourg, have grossly inflated GDP by virtue of having so many multinational subsidiaries there, who pay very little in tax and contribute little to GNP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28no...

This understates how rich the US is. By household final consumption the only place richer is Hong Kong and the US has substantially smaller households. It’s an almost $10K drop to third place Switzerland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_household...

What draws people to the US isn’t a small difference in money, it’s a lot of money. $100,000 a year would be great money for an individual contributor here, $200,000 for a new grad is where Google starts in the SFBA. There is a cost of living difference but it just doesn’t come anywhere close to wiping out the huge difference in compensation.
I don't think this is true. In my experience a lot of work time is just wasted time. Often nothing is accomplished. A lot of extra hours for meetings are not productive at all. A lot of extra hours looking into that bug ("so we can fix it today") is not productive at all..

I think you have the impression that working longer means being more productive. I don't believe that. I am often more productive if I have a shorter work day.

Also your argument doesn't make too much sense to me because OP already says that he is paid less. So it's not like he gets the same for less work. He gets less for less work.
There is a YouTube channel called Bryan Ropar's Plastic Chair World[0]. Bryan is an expert when it comes to these monobloc chairs, and can name every model by sight and tell you where it was produced.

I think we often underestimate how much depth there is to subjects we are only casually familiar with, and I'm sure a CIA analyst could glean a great deal of information from a still of a plastic chair.

[0]: https://youtu.be/yCotpBAqJho
At least Microsoft is not Oracle, who are famouse for their horrible license audits where a whole consulting industry [1] sprung up to survive them, but yes I agree.

[1] e.g. "Founded in 2011, Palisade is the leading independent provider of Oracle contract advisory services."
Yeah that was a decision made 20 years ago. I think developers can make similar salaries as people in finance (outside of a few hedge funds), particularly if you do contracting. Plus after the financial crisis, finance is a smaller club. But for other areas of engineering, I don’t think I would take a different decision now.
> Are we going to allow Trump to co-opt the anti-war position that’s traditionally been a tent pole for the progressive left?

Heck, if Trump managed to do that, it would seem to be reason enough to vote for him if you care about being anti-war - the progressive left be damned. After all, war and anti-war is surely one of the most consequential areas that presidents can directly influence; far more so than most government policy!
My daughter was put on the pill first so she could take it.
We thought it was just a respiratory virus
But we're not comparing country averages, we're comparing the highly paid spots only. The same multinational company e.g. Google will pay you much less in Switzerland than they would in California.
Hi. I went through the same problem. After passing a hard online test on Codility I had a live coding interview with a much simpler problem I just froze and could not solve on time.
I found this article here on HN and it helped me understand what happened.
https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
When you send money using Google Pay you still select an email address or phone number to send it to, and they get an email if that is what you select letting you know and you get one saying you sent money.
On their spin out of global foundries they had some obligations to keep buying from them, and they used it to do the IO die in their chiplet design.
> Doesn't seem fair to blues and reds.

This is the classic "equality of outcome" vs "equality of opportunity" debate. Persons who have been disadvantaged by circumstances of their birth (color, nationality, poverty, etc.) have had their opportunities curbed as a result. How do you bring them back at par with their privileged peers?

One simple way is to remove inequalities in opportunity. However this is very hard in practice and does not help those who are already in a bad position.

The other solution is to ensure equality of outcome (make sure your employees are exactly 50% men and 50% women, for example) by setting hiring quotas. As is clear, this will be highly unfair to the advantaged class.

I don't know what is a just solution for this.
There's no need to have a good-faith debate with someone who has decided that my privacy is worth less than their salary. Those people should be punished. They can have good-faith debates with each other during their mandatory community service or what have you. That way they only waste each others' time.
I visited the Toyota factory in 1983 and the engine factory was almost completely automated but without computers - there were conventional mechanical and optical sensors and the like guiding the engine blocks as they trundled from machine to machine on belts. There's definitely something in the craftsman culture.
I think the point of the person you responded to is it's not really reasonable to tell the poor and homeless to pull themselves up by their bootstraps to work some low wage job during a pandemic. The problem is until the world manages to find a safe way through this problem, we should have a social safety net for those who can't work--and the thing standing in the way of getting there is a few people who have enough wealth to wholesale purchase a medium sized country if they wanted to.

Yes, there are some jobs that we do need done and are safe to do, but the labor bubble probably isn't big enough to accommodate all of those currently suffering.
Well it's an ad absurdum in my opinion because the moral judgement applied to capital punishment it's radically different from the one used to judge overcompensation in other scenarios. Taking away benefits cannot be compared with taking away a life.

Otherwise you could argue that prison is not the right answer to certain crimes because there could be death penalty for a atrocious enough crime.
The pleasures of urban populations have become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches, listening to the radio, and so on. This results from the fact that their active energies are fully taken up with work; if they had more leisure, they would again enjoy pleasures in which they took an active part.

-- Bertrand Russell, 1932
http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
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<win-dev-rant-mode>

Mostly because Microsoft currently doesn't not know what they want, check the feedback regarding the missing roadmap for CoreRT/.NET Native.

With Reunion, MAUI, Blazor (WebAssembly and mobile), WPF team transfer, they seem to have got back into another reboot the eco-system phase.

</win-dev-rant-mode>

Now given that, with Unity's .NET flavour can be compiled via IL2CPP => WebAssembly, or with Mono AOT as in Uno.
> A CEO who is really a CFO is probably not what Intel needs right now.

Worked really well for Microsoft. /s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaksija_%28computer%29

"See also

ZX80 - Sinclair ZX80 which predates the Galaksija by 4 years and has a remarkably similar system design including using the Z80A to drive the video output."
Yet if the only use for footnotes is to house whatever the author just couldn't bear to part with, even when that information doesn't contribute to the overal thrust of the argument, then endnotes are precisely the right solution: through their location they indicate to the reader that really they shouldn't bother to read them unless they absolutely want to. Footnotes are in-your-face and communicate the idea that actually they're a part of the body copy in disguise.
I'm smart, hardworking, and educated. In 2009 I still ended up homeless. I couldn't find a job. It happens, and it can happen fast.
Suicides were down in Japan due to less stress without the pressures of work. Something like that could also affect heart attack rates, though no idea if it would be significant. Record numbers of people have quit smoking as well, though I don't know if that would affect heart attack risk that fast.
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I was once on a seminar where Voja Antonić was presenting, it was in 2011, the guy is still working on computers. He gave awesome lecture on that semninar.
> fundamentally important.

Don't you think that because of the way we have set up our economies (service economy, high productivity low compensation, high inequality) there aren't enough fundamentally important works that need doing or people with enough resources that they can make their own important work? If more than half of all individual people in America are trapped making $<31,000 a year working full time at a fundamentally unimportant job I simply don't see a way out.

Half the country simply doesn't have the resources in time or money or opportunity to find that fulfilling work or make fulfilling work for themselves.

System seems opposed to human happiness and fulfillment.
Musk says modern Tesla's are designed to last a million miles because he wants them all to become taxi's. Full self driving taxi's that return more then they cost to the owner after Tesla takes it's take from the taxi earnings.

I don't know whether to believe this, but he has the motive, opportunity, and is definitely present at the crime scene.
Perhaps it would be expressed better as Look at what mathematics achieved after it left Roman numerals behind.
I feel the same about bounds checking in programming languages, apparently not everyone does.
People have a lot of leisure time today, so much so that Americans, on average, watch about 4 hours of television/video per day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_consumption

I really don’t think working a 40-hour a week job is the hold up here.
Now that you point it out, that seems to be the case. The fuzziness around the edges (the east and north especially) threw me off, though that could probably be put down to compression in the image that was used as the source for the crop.