skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like the only realsitc pivots are going to be adjacent business type positions, and even then there's a chance of a payout depending on company / position, etc. Like you said though I would hate these more than I do the software jobs.
You might find that what was a hobby is not as much fun as a job.

I mentioned this to an actual "rock star" developer London session musician with a doctorate in music who moved to development after teaching themselves after an accident.
I think you misread my comment. Note that I said the Greek branch, not directly from Greek. Phoenician had several branches, but the main ones were Aramaic and Greek. Those, of course, led to several current writing systems each. The leading theory is that Elder Futhark developed from an Old Italic script, or even an early form of Latin.

To directly rebut, rather than appealing to authority: The oldest attestation of Elder Futhark currently at 160 CE. So your proposal has Phoenecian developing directly into Eldar Futhark 300 years after Phonecian was no longer attested. And even then, Phonecian use had been reduced to Carthage while having developed into other systems elsewhere. Note that Gothic origins were ruled out for a mere 100 year difference, so this seems like quite the gap to cover.
In my experience gaming or playing with emerging tech is still fun--give it a shot!
I would say I've never met anyone who can "invent Quicksort" without too much trouble. However I've met many people who've memorized it for interviews.
"Orthodox C++" without templates, language features, or the standard library is also known as "C".

I'd go one step further. Skip the compiler and just write in assembly. Your builds will be lightning fast especially if you use one single source file with no macros and static linking. You'll never ship, but you'll never ship really fast.
> If people stooped buying iphones (just example, not picking on Apple) Apple would stop building them.

I think advertisement is a big problem here. The way that advertisement has been weaponized in the last 100 years is astounding. The means and methods advertisement employs to wake and create desires in people is scary and I don't think many outside the field of advertisement really do understand how targeted the manipulations have become.

Yes, people buy IPhones, and Nikes and all that other fancy stuff. But weaponized employment of memes (in Dawkins' sense) is the reason for it. We're trained and educated to be good little consumers, starting from the earliest childhood.
I run a website that helps people. I still deal with software, but on my own terms. If I put the same content on a cookie cutter WordPress site, no one would care. Now, programming feels a lot like woodworking: a deliberately inefficient way to do something, just because it's fun.
Goal of teams is interesting. It's not a group chat or conferencing tool. As mentioned towards end of the article, Teams is "operating system for work". The idea seems to be that people would spend most of their time inside the Teams. Instead of opening links to other apps, you bring the content from the apps to Teams via Fluid [1].

Teams has already now interesting ideas and I think it's good try to explore the features a bit. Many organizations would likely get productivity boost if people got proper training with new way of collaborating, instead of sticking to old way of mailing documents and presentations back and forth.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy1Tyr93Sw4
> Women are as a strong as men

Are you trolling? Why do you think there are separate sports competitions?
We need young and experienced programmers, not the old ones.

Old programmers tend to say "That's how we do things here.", experienced and mind-opened ones can lead you to finally replace the classic old php 5.4 require mess that is your framework.

Sadly, there are plenty of old programmers outta here, and young ones are just trying to save their jobs because of this market.
I know that it's really appealing to compare countries, but it seems to me that it's simply really difficult to do that in a constructive way, without accounting for all the differences between them. I would imagine (though I couldn't easily find statistics on this) that the UK has far more people flying in and out of, thus making it more susceptible. Conversely, S Korea has a far higher (average, and perhaps clusters are the real issue) population density. The economic and political setup will naturally have a big impact (e.g. federal vs. non, market economy vs. planned etc.) on a country's ability to react. And finally, the statistics are calculated differently, and so we're not comparing two of the same measures.

None of this is to say that I believe the UK has performed well.
>Not to mention that sitting in front of a computer all day is not the best use of one's body.

You can say that about all desk jobs(even bus drivers) since they all sit on a chair the whole day but at least in some cases we get paid better and have more free time to take care of ourselves. And unlike the bus driver, I can leave work or take a coffee/toilet break whenever I want.

And labor jobs that don't require sitting are usually even worse for your body long term(landscaping, plumbing, gardening) and sometimes pay worse as well. If I'm coding, I can constantly shift my body position if it gets uncomfortable while a plumber/gardner is just stuck in that straineous position until the job is done.

Maybe athlete or personal fitness instructor is the only job I can think of where you earn money while staying in shape.
I also feel that back then demand massively outstripped supply which created its own kind of stress as I felt I was working a lot more with much less experienced devs who just got into it because it good paying work, but they didn't really enjoy it.

Nowadays there seems to be a lot more software engineering skill around generally, and a big yay! to github and Stack overflow, and the thousands of developers who freely provide code/frameworks and knowledge to give all developers a leg-up.

It's good to no longer be in the thrall of the large software vendors (sun/apple/MS) to provide frameworks, tools & documentation.
I think their point is that people should use some alternatives, instead.

What those alternatives are, who will be making and maintaining them for the entire world, and what their way of financing their business is, nobody knows, though.

As I say this as someone who doesn't like Facebook. Basically, it's either Facebook or something Facebook-alike. Unfortunately, There Is No (Good) Alternative. It has to be something commercial and most commercial stuff at this scale will always pervert our way of life and many other things around it.

Necessary evils and all that.
Haven't used it (or any IOT), but they are doing something right:

(quote) Because your smart home gateway is designed to operate locally inside your home without the need for a centralised cloud service, it will continue to work just as before. You’ll still be able to monitor, control and automate your home via the gateway’s web interface inside your home network.
Im in Sydney. During the peak in Q1-Q2 ~60% of infections were travelers arriving from overseas. We're currently at 3-10 infections per day, with about 50-75% of those continuing to be overseas travelers.

As you noted both quarantine and testing is imperfect. I have no desire to open the doors and have a repeat of Iceland or Victoria writ large. Yes, I'm disappointed at not seeing overseas friends and family for (at least) the next year or two. But that seems like a relatively small price to pay for the relative quiet, healthy, functioning society here.
Less training models, more model trains
If the controls become greasy isn’t that just an issue of placement?
I don't think changing the SSH port is bad, at least it avoid some spam in the logs from all the automated login attempts. But for SSH there is a single, obvious security measure you should always take if at all possible, and that is to disallow passwords and use public key authentication exclusively. Weak passwords are the biggest danger for SSH, and this solved this specific problem entirely.
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This goes hand in hand with "On the Use of a Life"[0].

Please, do what you truly want. Many if not the majority of individuals on this forum have the opportunity to do so.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24537865
There is no way to use the STL and other template code and still have reasonably sized projects do full builds in seconds. That's just an empirical fact. The only way to get C-like compile times is to essentially write C, with minor additions.

If you genuinely regard the standard library as a productivity blessing I'm sure this looks like an unreasonable tradeoff. I would be very surprised to see someone advocate writing "Orthodox C++" solely for the compile times. Most of us who write code like this do so because we don't find value in the STL and regard templates as an extremely poor tool for their ostensible purpose. The compile times are just a bonus, albeit a very pleasant one.

In truth, the divide isn't between people who prioritize compile times over any other consideration and people who don't. It's between people who see most of the language features of C++ as valuable and people who see them as mostly unhelpful. Personally, I like operator overloading for math and SIMD types, function overloading for less verbosity, namespaces and a bit of constexpr for convenience. The rest I'm quite happy to do without, so there isn't much of a tradeoff to make.
Twitter apologises for 'racist' image-cropping algorithm
As I've been saying to everyone (including my Italian partner whose stated much the same opinion as you have) - I don't think anyone can point to any state and declare with any assurance "They got it right!" and I don't think we'll be able to until this time next year at least.

To herd or not to herd? To hide or not to hide? What risk is acceptable, and in what domains - social? Emotional? Economic? No one knows, but everyone still has opinions (myself included!).
I semi-seriously believe that addiction to connectivity and low ping times is the "great filter." When push comes to shove very few people would be willing to move to Mars because the internet there will be terrible.
> You've said you're against advocating mask usage

I haven't said that either.
I have a job writing software, and in my spare time I write software as a hobby. The job is much less enjoyable than the hobby, because in the hobby I'm doing, by definition, only things I like.

I think any hobby is less enjoyable when you have it as a job, since you sometimes need to do things you don't like doing or aren't interested in.
In terms of fixing the immediate problem you have, I wonder if maybe the frequency being used by the switch would be in the 2.4Ghz range and your WiFi using the same channel.

I don't know if that's possible with remote switches, but with zigbee there's overlap possible. (https://www.metageek.com/training/resources/zigbee-wifi-coex...)

Or maybe the batteries in the remote are running low?

And if you would like to also control that light using an app on your phone or voice commands if you use "Ok google": the Broadlink RM Pro could maybe allow you to control the light using an app.
Huh? I never claimed they shouldn't be responsible for their actions. Where did you get that from?
I remember fondly tasks like writing my own collections and logging pipelines. It wasn't as efficient as connecting libraries but it was more satisfying when you built your own way from the ground up.
> I think this explanation, as well as that from the video, is layman psychology at best

Well, kurzgesagt back their statements with references to academic research:

https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesloneliness/startseite

They also vet their videos with experts and are transparent in their methodology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtUAAXe_0VI&vl=ar

> Yes, there are factors or mechanisms that drive your desire for belonging, but it is a pretty unconvincing observation. It doesn't have to be tribalism to prefer being around people you trust.

Why would you assume that I didn't consider other explanations?

> FOMO is more connected to the fear of the unknown and fear of loss in my opinion.

In what way wouldn't "the fear of the unkown" or "the fear of loss" be less connected with the fear of likely missing crucial parts of the conversations your social network is having?

e.g. you might miss out hearing about a party, where someone makes an personal announcement (e.g. getting married, moving to another country,...). So, now your friends have a shared experience of having heard the news first hand that you aren't part of.

> A "tribe" would shield you of course, but it is mostly a sign of other needs not being met. Advertisers use it to their advantage for decades. Some appeal to their audiences to be the source of other peoples FOMOs. "think different" instead of "stay connected".

What "other needs" are these?

> There are less suicides than in the 90s.

How is the number of suicides 30 years ago relevant to a dynamic observed over the course of the past 15 years?

> That there is a suicide epidemic is a media scare.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db362.htm
[2] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide.shtml
[3] https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/

The exaggerating wording you're using here hints towards minimizing the issue, rather then a willingness on your part to acknowledge that social media usage and mental health are a public health concern.

> The main factor reducing the numbers seem to be economic perspectives, not some facebook group where taste was made illegal.

... but also seems to correlate with social media usage. They aren't mutually exclusive.

Look, we both know that establishing definitive observations on something as sensitive as suicide is hard. It's widely understood that suicide is underreported, and in many cases it's quite hard to establish exactly what compelled individuals to commit suicide.

The documentary equally stated that there's a correlation between increased social media usage after 2007 and an increase in suicide rate. But that's as far as it goes. In and of itself, I think that's compelling enough to warrant paying attention to.

Finally, this is touching upon a serious mental health issue, there was absolutely no need to make your comment sound as dismissive as it did.
Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?
The countries 3,000 total last I checked. Also you must be an AU citizen or PR to enter & must have health ministry approval. Similarly to leave citizens require ministry approval (which IIRC has been granted about 2,500 times so far).
When is a big project ever "finished" ?

If you're not delivering useful, production level stuff in under 5 years, even if it's not a 'complete' big project, then something's probably very wrong, IMHO.
> We made lots of progress in treating the new disease (covid) while the baseline of pneumonia/influenza death is stable or even decreasing. What's troubling you here ?

Nothing is troubling me. I am curious to understand why flu deaths > COVID deaths. I think this is interesting enough for a curious mind to want to further explore.

I agree that we got better at treating COVID today than 6 months ago, but has it improved THIS MUCH that it explains flu deaths to be more than COVID deaths for 3 months now? If that was true, then why would COVID ever become more deadly than flu again? Seems like a very unlikely reason which you've provided and I find it slightly unsatisfactory as it doesn't make quite sense.

> "A death can be registered with both COVID-19 and Influenza and Pneumonia mentioned on the death certificate. Because pneumonia may be a consequence of COVID-19, deaths where both were mentioned have been counted only in the COVID-19 category."

This just further highlights the strangeness about the higher number of influenza deaths than COVID deaths, because it proves the point that if someone was tested positive for both, they will be counted as a COVID death, so possibly hiding an even higher flu death rate at the moment.
Causal Inference: The Mixtape [pdf]
Some people have 10 years of experience. Other people have 1 year of experience 10 times.
I used to work in a kitchen for a while. My back hurt most of the time and I always had burns or cuts somewhere, but I was definitely way more happy. Mentally for sure. Also the feeling of building something, I feel like peeling a potato is more enjoyable than shipping modern frontend.
There was a special program at my school that gave you more shop classes. They did everything to discourage me from joining it, because it's where they shoved the struggling kids. I really enjoyed it, and really can't see why it was just for struggling kids.

This was the last year before the school reform. They ended that program. In fact they ended shop class altogether.
In this case I see business context as a cost structure of my current employer. I clash almost everyday against big bookkeeper army of the big Corp. Their view is very primitive: engineer costs money, they don’t differentiate by experience, age, capabilities. Even mythical 10x engineer (there is one in the whole floor!) is just another row in excel. Technical people often overlook the fact, that organizations are run by bookkeepers and so called business people. They have no background to judge technical development. If they can sell code written by freshmen, why should they hires bunch of experienced and expensive experts?
If it pays well for as a job, what else can you ask for? Unless you are independently wealthy, how can one be so picky as to complain about the nuances of software development at the tooling/dependency management level? Sheesh

Look at the broader job market. Compare the pros n' cons of any career against software development. Compare the barrier to entry, demand, and other market conditions. Software dev comes out pretty well.
Where I am the number of ISPs that support PCP is the same as the number of ISPs that support IPv6 - zero.

My point wasn't that IPv6 is currently the answer, my point was that it's impossible to host anything or be reachable by anyone for A LOT of people in the world.
Apple’s HomeKit Is another ecosystem that doesn’t spy on you. It’s the main reason I picked it even though there are fewer, more expensive devices to choose from.
Sure, but that's true of pretty much all the open-source options in the field. (To be clear, I don't want to say it's bad, just not sure about the place and why)
I suspect “not wanting to be in their shoes this year” is exactly why the level of competence is so low. The competent looked at the situation the UK was in even before Corona started competing with Brexit for public attention, and decided to let someone else to take the blame.
Pre-2000 it was also plumbing, the difference was that you were mostly plumbing someone else's homegrown cruft. Occasionally you got the chance of building some framework by yourself, probably to the dismay of the developer who had to maintain it after you left.
I like today's plumbing better.
There is an article about performance comparison and Webots is way ahead of the competition:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.04627.pdf

There is a Wikipedia article comparing different robotics simulators:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics_simulator

You may find a podcast with Olivier (CEO of Cyberbotics) interesting as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy75VfUg9II
It can still be fun if you don't follow fads and have no feedback ticketing system/forum/e-mail.
UX researcher? That doesn’t pay as well
They did do one healthy clarification to that effect:

>And what they contained weren't glowing lines of code: Instead, Neil could see login screens.
I'm pleased to report that WebThings isn't dead, it is alive and kicking with a new commercial sponsor.

The Thing Description specification at the core of WebThings is now a W3C Recommendation (https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-thing-description/) and there is a new W3C Web Thing Protocol community group working on standardising the concrete HTTP & WebSockets based protocol WebThings uses to monitor and control devices.

The WebThings platform includes over a hundred GitHub repositories worth of code (https://github.com/WebThingsIO/) but I'm sorry to hear you feel it lacks a convincing story. That's something I hope to improve in WebThings' new life beyond Mozilla's R&D department.
I don't know, and I wouldn't know how to do that either. In the end I found out that if I monitored the dhcp6c.log file on my router and tried different PD sizes I could see whether it was working or not.
In 1970s USSR there wasn't much outgoing international mail, so the monitoring wasn't really that expensive.
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> That's the point, isn't it? To understand that individual freedoms, and individualism, are not absolute and can be reduced temporarily when necessary.

Yes and no.

An individual right/freedom is immutable. It's not something "granted" to us by government, and not something they should be able to take away.

I understand the need for emergency measures, but in my opinion the government should've gotten consent before continuing this for months on end. There is a balance to be had here.

It's not a sacrifice if it's not a choice.

We now know the government doesn't have an exit strategy, so we could be stuck in this state for many more months to come. This is espet alarming when you consider people are missing NHS appointments (e.g. cancer diagnosis) or the serious economic issues. Serious fallout is coming.
Brenda Fletcher will be happy when they do [1]

[1] https://helloblue.com
I've met those guys.

The 50-something who had been in the same role 37 years, who was laid off and when hired into a new company, just couldn't adapt. The 40-something who's fine to do maintenance and the odd enhancement, but you wouldn't trust to do a major refactor or a large chunk of green-field.

Some people just aren't as able, find themselves a comfort zone and stick to it.

So even experience doesn't necessarily mean experience :)

(This isn't to say such people aren't useful, that's a different measure.)
> Today it's just digital plumbing and dealing with all sorts of issues that are not creative. The sheer complexity is frankly absurd as well.

Is this not a contradiction to you?
Are the crabs you purchased from Ikea crab legs or more like crayfish (aka crawfish, craydids, crawdaddies, crawdads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, mudbugs, or yabbies.)?
I think a lot of the pre-2000 programming was a bit more enjoyable because most of us were not programming for the web and actually using platforms that were designed for application development. The web is a very poor fit for what most people want designed.
The answer is that in 2020, when the median page weighs 2 MB and makes 70 requests over a dozen TCP connections, everything is a potential numbers station.

I had been joking about www.duckdascism.gov in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24458630 but
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24526075 has people who've used that channel. (for the record, ~64kbps is more than most people had over dialup in the early days of the web)
If you're talking about https://github.com/alexjc/neural-enhance it's NOT "pulling out" existing details from photos. It's making up details.
The resources arent being spent to keep people from doing drugs.
I disagree. I really enjoy woodworking, but it's definitely not to save money. Same for working on motorcycles. The former is rendered useless by economies of scale, the latter by the cost of my garage and tools.