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Hey, great idea! I have always wanted to start playing, but I don't know anyone interested in DnD. Having some GMs willing to introduce new players to the game is fantastic!

There are some comments here suggesting that the service might not make much sense since it should be easy to find someone willing to be a GM in a group of friends. I just wanted to say that that is not always the case :)
Self-care should result in more margin
Are you going to get food to those people? I personally don't have the money to deliver it to all of them.
The author is obviously in the top ~1% or something of programmers: the article is thoughtful and shows a lot of technical depth and knowledge about things most programmers won't even have heard of and he clearly has a fair amount of practical experience. So telling him he's just somehow imagining all this complexity and cognitive load, because he doesn't have to use all this complexity feels a tad tone deaf, in a very HN way.
This. If we get tools that enables simple creation of video/interactive assets then Wikipedia will get those more. As a life long graphics geek and programmer, currently the content creation ecosystem is not really on "bicycle" level - more like unicycle while juggling chainsaws - although it's getting better. I mean I've done graphics stuff all my life, and would be quite lost how to "do a quick animation" in something closer to 15 minutes than 15 hours or 15 days.
I don't think that holds. Here's a data set of female/male work force ratio for a bunch of nations. The US at 85% isn't notably different from the rest of the industrialized world. It's a little bit lower than the UK but a little bit higher than Germany, etc...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FM.NE.ZS

That doesn't falsify your specific claim, which is about a very small fraction of the population (six figure salaries put families into the top 3% or so), but it's reasonable evidence.

Broadly: you're taking a cultural point about upper middle class "America" and extending it to the whole society. Most people don't (can't) live like that.
If they are "funded" by their parents - why would they need to earn any of that back? Is that really how it works in the US? It's a matter of course in other countries that parents fund the education of their children.
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Also not a lawyer, but it is either literally what that boss said or very close to what he said — he may have used a different expletive, but he didn’t seem to be a fan, and I have every reason to think he was sincere.
> I also remember the CD-ROM era (and before that). It was also the time when software just worked.

Except when it didn't. Keeping with the Encyclopedia theme, it was usual back then to buy an yearly book to update your paper encyclopedia; once we stopped buying these (the last one we have is from 2009), the vendor convinced us to buy a "Grande Barsa DVD" (version 6.0). It doesn't work at all unless you first download and install a small patch, which was easy to find back then but now seems to have disappeared from the web.
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While your statement is strictly true, Citizens United is one of the two (very close together) decisions that enabled the creation of SuperPACs.
This is phrased in a very deceptive way. There are lots of issues with the 'Unemployment' metric. It is indeed a deceptive metric. However, it is deliberately misleading to append 'True' to 'Unemployment Rate' with a custom definition intended to make an argument. You are stacking confusion on confusion instead of clarifying. If you want to create a different metric around a 'living wage,' then it should be defined in a way that makes that more clear.

There are also serious regional differences in what such a wage might be. $2000/month is enough to live comfortably with a personal car in low cost of living regions. In NYC it means you are probably stacked into a decaying apartment with many other people with no car.
I'd be curious to hear how they have been useful to you: just in teaching you about the topic for curiosity's sake, or in achieving some practical outcome?
Am measure measures what is measures. Generally, measures like unemployment are useful in determining trends. Note how most of the unemployment measures are correlated.

OTOH, it may be wrong (eg) over very long periods. If underlying behavioural changes happen (eg employment seeking behaviour, drifting of underemployment/unemployment ratios) it may miss long term trends.

The problems start (almost immediately) when when the measure becomes the definition. Measures are tightly defined, objective and legible. That's attractive. So, we start to define (eg) unemployment as "that which IQ tests measure." This is totally off track, if the measures weaknesses are (they usually are) justified by arguing the measure is just for trend detection. Definition and trend detection are different purposes.

In any case, the only way to get a less superficial understanding to define the measure in terms of what it actually measures, not what it's trying to measure. "people trying to find work" is an actually useful thing to pay attention to. It just isn't "unemployment" in the widest sense of the term.

Personally, I hate the "index/metric" solution. This is chasing the rabbit down a hole. We can't have a measure that perfectly maps to unemployment (or financial wellbeing, or whatever). Efforts to do so end up measuring something even more abstract and difficult to understand.

The alternative is to just use these measures as incomplete. We can look at "job seeker" rates, nonemployment rates, etc. No measure will tell us what's really happening. That's up to us human intellect to determine.
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What was explained that I haven't encountered before? My original post in this thread clearly states that I have come across the phenomena before, and that I have explored it with multiple people.

You assume someone doesn't understand something, because they hold an opinion different than yours. And you judge moral character for making a joke online.
And elsewhere in this thread, you are attempting to police my behavior and tell me when it is okay for me to speak.[0] Despite this, you clearly feel yourself to have the moral high ground over me.

Regardless of what you might think or believe, I evaluate my prior replies in light of every response, even yours. Will you evaluate your officious tone and domineering attitude?

[0] Specifically, not now, after you have determined I do not understand. How am I to learn if a demonstration of ignorance (or at least that indicates such to you) is a prompt to stop talking?
My impression was completely the opposite. I was very excited about Rust at first, especially the ownership system, but after a while I saw that it was a cleaned-up C++ with most of C++'s problems (one of the most complex programming languages in software history; very slow feedback loop). Zig, on the other hand, seems revolutionary and a complete rethinking, from the ground-up, of what low-level programming should be. True, Rust is probably 100x more popular, but is still well below 1% market adoption, so we're comparing two rounding errors in terms of adoption.
ASML is already banned by the Netherlands government to deal with China.
I'm not sure I agree it was lagging behind. They were definitely not first to market with 3D-NAND but my gut feeling is that was because of the engineering focus on Optane. AFAIK they and Kioxia (toshba) were leading the charge on PLC memory.

All of that is ignoring the fact that there is absolutely a benefit for Intel to have vertical integration in this area. They make countless products that rely on flash storage - from NICs to switches. The second they have to rely on an outside party they have to pay markup for that company's margin and they're at that company's mercy from an R&D perspective.

This whole thing feels penny wise, pound foolish to me.
This is also a question of tradition and choices. Speaking for eastern Germany, it was very common for women to work and this is also a choice of living, maybe encouraged by independency/emancipation
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I'm more of a casual gamer these days, but a friend of mine was (and still is) a pretty hardcore gamer. I encountered discord somewhere in it's early days before anyone really knew about it, and recommended it to him at a time when he was complaining that one of his gaming groups was falling apart. He then introduced discord to that group which revived it completely, and afaik, they're still pretty active. He's also paying for the nitro stuff and a pretty happy user.

I think the core reason for their success is a deep understanding of the problems their core audience - gamers - was facing. Gaming is organised in communities, and it was built around that. It solved multiple issues for them, mostly - it made interacting fun and easy. It supports emoji, is meme and web-friendly, organising to play games together is made easier, you can see who's playing what, built-in voice-chat, moderation, ... Barrier of entry was also very low, you could just use the web-client, no need to install. But it also works on mobile, which makes it work for console gamers too.

Until discord came along, you could do all these things by combining different tools, but never as good, and having to deal with multiple tools made the barrier of entry way too high. When I was younger, a gamer had to be someone somewhat technically skilled. IRC, ip addresses, dedicated servers, ... made it all a lot harder to get into. Gaming however is very mainstream these days, and it keeps surprising me how small the the average gamer's technical knowledge is. And that's no a bad thing imho, gaming in the end is something to be enjoyed, no need for gatekeeping.
Interesting, though I thought that having a huge satellite dish on the roof of a blank van may rise some suspicions of it being a TV van.

It is not clear from the article if the issue are common to all television vans or apply only to that particular network's ones.
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Splitting up is only one remedy. Often it leads to a consent decree, which is effectively a negotiated but forced settlement (e.g. fines, restructuring, etc.) and contract that binds future behavior.
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> a lot of people are at school / university and likely "funded" by their parents

That's true only for kids of upper middle class families, and thus a vanishing component for a whole-workforce number like this. Kids of families whose parents bring home something close to the median household income ($70k or so) are not being "funded" at school in any meaningful way, certainly not at a number comparable to employment.
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So why should we not include children of all ages and retied people as well then? They are also unemployed.

The reason you don't include full time students is the same for children and retired people. They are on their way to becoming productive citizens or have done their part for society.
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There is nothing in the schematics about multiple power supplies or battery backups, etc. If you are hooking up all 4 rpis to the same power source , might as well replace it with one x86 processor.
here come another decades worth of training and courses that no one listens to yay
or AI or ML :)
I don't think the communists want an investment fund...
As ARM is regressing in the Cloud market, as you can see with Graviton, we want to invest in the future. I don't think it will be particularly bad for 7 Pi 4s to match with a E5-2670 v2 in anyway. You can also listen to [this guy](https://youtu.be/HUamq0ey8_M?t=797) for a briefing.

From my perspective its 4*7 = 28 weak ARM cores vs 8 strong x86 cores. You can see that ARM actually had more cores, giving it an advantage plus to parallelized workload compared to x86.

Hell, maybe we can mix them in a bunch so that x86 runs powerful applications like GitLab, Prometheus and Postgres while ARM runs massively parallel workload that GPUs can't handle: Function as a Service (in AWS terms, Lambda; in CNCF's term, OpenFaaS), Linkerd handler (service mesh needs some kind of scheduling though), microservice replicas.

In the end CPU are all going to have a designated purposes, despite it should have had been "general purpose".
Ask HN: For those who quit their job with out anything lined up–how's it going?
Any regrets? When did you do it? Things you would have done different knowing what you know now?

I remember that even a few months ago I would see a few threads on people quitting their job without anything lined up even in the midst of this pandemic (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22944314)

Would also be interested in hearing from those who quite their job during times of high uncertainty, e.g. 2008 financial crisis, COVID-19 pandemic, etc.
> It's a matter of course in other countries that parents fund the education of their children.

In some countries. In others (such as Australia), students take out an interest-free loan from the government, and are expected to pay it back, with or without the help of their parents.
I don't just mean practically. I mean legally.

Cryptocurrency advocates often ignore this. They think they are solving bureaucracy with math. They think that whatever they can do technically with smart contracts and money transfers is legal. They think they found a loophole in AML and KYC laws. They have not.

It's the old ignorance of "I'm a good engineer, so the legal issues must be a minor detail I can just solve with code".

They seem to think that the legal roadblocks were put in place by accident of history. But no, they are actually codifying almost entirely society's intention. Perfectly? No. But infinitely better than what cryptocurrencies are trying to do.
Oof, all of that and not a shred of evidence to back any of it up. Propaganda is a powerful force. Do some research on your own.
Are most students funded by their parents? I certainly wasn't, and neither was my wife.
A post apocalyptic world where mining farms and the internet still function?
I have the ~80GB "full english" snapshot I grabbed some time ago and use with Kiwix. It's not quite "full", it doesn't have quite all images and video, etc. But the size is still reasonable for a desktop/laptop PC.

I also have a 10GB snapshot on my phone, but it's a bit lacking. I don't have enough storage on my phone to fit the bigger one. But a battery powered offline Wikipedia is high on my list of necessary things in case things go south.

I haven't found a great way to keep these synced up, glad to hear if someone has a good solution for up-to-date offline wikipedia.
These letters come across as the company being a jerk, but in most jurisdictions one has to aggressively defend your trademark or you can lose it by others showing its in common use without objection. If it’s a legit purpose and not some scam site then often they can just work out some sort of “license” to use the name so all can live happily ever after. Taken out of context these letters can paint a different picture (not saying that is or is not what is happening here but more generally what often happens).
"Rust is a competitor to C++, not C" is a meme, and there's some truth there, but I don't think it's all that accurate. I know lots of folks who prefer C to C++, but still like Rust.

I do think that these sorts of language comparisons are useful, but they don't always generalize. Partially this is because what a language means to each person can vary. As long as they're understood in a very coarse grained way, I think they can still make sense, but it's tricky!
They were about to do this back in May I think [0]. A few months back, State AGs were all within days of doing the same too, that still hasn't happened either.

Call me when a thing happens.

[0]. https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/15/21260494/google-antitrust...
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German moms less likely to return to work then Americans. Moms in Switzerland also have difficulties to return to work, although I cant find statistics now. Where I live, programmers earn almost double average salary, so I am pretty sure that it would be possible for their wifes to stay at home if they wished financially.

Childcare price is issue too and sometimes pushes opposite way. Poor families in America sometimes have to stay at home, because childcare is expensive.

Staying at home is not just function of how much you earn, probably not even primary. There are also practical aspects of "is it expected of me", "is it possible to manage school, activities and work" and "do I want to stay at home".
Your definition differs from the one used in the article "A person who is looking for a full-time job that pays a living wage — but who can't find one — is unemployed"

I expect there's value in the statistic of everyone who lacks a full time job (unemployment in the sense you mention), but a student who has reasonable prospects of employment in X years, post graduation, is significantly different than someone failing to find an adequate job right now.
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The other important number that is manipulated is inflation (CPI). When you add the manipulation of inflation and joblessness together along with encouraging financial asset bubbles you can pretend to have a great economy when there is actually a recession or even depression. [1]

The government has every incentive to manipulate the CPI: it even reduces their social security payouts.

[1] https://www.georgegammon.com/will-there-be-a-great-depressio...
Exactly. I homeschooled through a trad-religious program for one year in 4th or 5th grade and it was unregulated at best. I recall we had to report only our final letter graded to the state, which of course were recorded and granted by the parents, not by the "accredited" school system.
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It was never impossible, just not lucrative. Now that "developers developers developers" are the product again via cloud services they realize their target platform is all platforms so that they capture the largest base of people who will want to use their cloud platform.
There's also a certain prejudice against people who do practical things, which I have certainly been aware of while working in IT.
Theoretically yes, but there seem to be only 2 PCIe (and probably x1 slots). And the interconnect will be quite slower (I suspect) btw. the modules. All those GPIO pins are gonna be wasted and if I am going to commercially deploy containers for customers, I'd rather get a solid industrial Ryzen/Intel fanless solution and call it a day
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For profit hospitals are disgusting.

There’s a reason they never show up in top quality of care lists.

The fact that most for profits ravage safety net hospitals is even more disgusting.
“If you measure the unemployed as anybody over 16 years old who isn't earning a living wage, the rate rises even further, to 54.6%. For Black Americans, it's 59.2%.“

A large portion of high school students, stay-at-home spouses, college students, under-the-table workers, and the retired will likely fit into this category.

I was excited about this article but it just isn’t compelling.
As coined by Google engineers: software engineering is programming integrated over time. Languages that are paragons of cutting edge PL research unfortunately tend to forget that. Go’s simplicity tends to be brought up as a negative trait (dumb language, dumb users, etc) mostly by those who weren’t yet woken up by a page that required them to quickly read, debug and fix things. Or even jump into another team’s codebase to do the same thing. Last thing on your mind then is the type safety and elegance of a language.
> Having said all that, there are a couple of companies that use them in the correct way.

this. chatbots are significantly less than what they're hyped up to be.
Attorney General William P. Barr, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, has played an unusually active role in the investigation. He pushed Justice Department lawyers to bring the case by the end of September, prompting pushback from attorneys who wanted more time and complained of political influence. He has spoken publicly about the inquiry for months and set tight deadlines for the prosecutors leading the effort.

I’m not opposed to some anti trust action across the entire industry but making this a partisan election issue is just going to discredit the whole thing and obscure the real issues.
This one was obviously coming. The question is what the specific issues outlined in the lawsuit will be, and what possible remedies are.

Prominently allowing search engine choice in Chrome, Android, etc. may be one part of it. Splitting search off from the rest of Google might be another. Regulating search overall might be one but that carries a lot of risks.
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> I think enabling a language to be garbage collected in general, while making a borrow checker opt in for special, time critical functions is the best of both worlds.

Put everything you don't want to manage into Rcs, RefCells, Boxes and the like, and you'll more or less feel like you're using a (verbose) GCed language (with a loss of performance and safety as a natural consequence).

> I enjoy Rust and have been writing it for quite some time. However, I feel like server side languages still have a long way to go. Client-side languages in comparison have been only growing better

The fact you call them "server-side language" is a strong bias. Not everything is a client/server app.
Fun project.

It may be wise to advise people that their traffic can easily be hijacked though.

Seasoned folk will recognize the issue. I wouldn't want a fresh person getting hit unexpectedly with that surprise.
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Generically, depends on what you want to know.

No measure tells you everything, and measures that try obfuscate everything. Is it useful to know what portion of the population is working, what percentage of 16-22 yos are working?

An increase in employment rate among women might mean more good jobs are available. It might mean that times are tough and women (or men) with small children need to work more. It might mean people can't afford to retire, or that 60+ people are having trouble finding a job, etc.

IMO the problem is an obsession with creating a measure that maps perfectly to an imprecise term. "Unemployment," in the abstract, is not a perfectly defined thing. The measure should not define the thing. Measures should be used to understand the thing.
Exactly. There's a bit difference between the number of people who want to work but can't find a job, and the number of people who are doing something productive that just happens to be unpaid, because it's going to school or something else. These numbers mean different things and have different uses.
Staying at home is also religion related. Evangelical and conservative groups (of both genders) want to have women at home regardless of how rich they are.
Exactly. Probably better using some established C http library in Zig? Using C libraries is very easy in Zig, as far as I understand. What‘s the problem in using Libcurl?
The data doesn't really bear that out although some countries, e.g. in Scandinavia, are relatively higher. There's not a huge difference between Europe and the US in general: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FE.NE.ZS

You'd also really have to look at the breakdown by income level. Worldwide, female participation in the workforce is actually higher at higher income levels.