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> Yeah, keep that view and you'll succeed. Beware of: children, relationships that expect things from you, anyone that isn't within your reality distortion field.

Why the sarcasm? Did I offend you?

If I don't stand up for my own values, am I not a fraud when I try to teach a kid what's good and what not? Would you rather live in a world where everyone gave up because the hurdles were too hard to overcome or live in a world where people stand up for their ideals and work for them?

I mean, we as "tech guys" have the luxury of being able to have work available wherever we go, and we can live off it very much above average when it comes to income. You can still live a good life with a family and working part-time...and you don't necessarily have to drive a Tesla to be happy.

I do realize that somewhere along the line we all make compromises, for whatever reasons. But when I'm in my death bed I wanna tell my children about what I fought for, and being able to tell them about my social ideals beyond capitalism or an "influencer life" and about what I imagined, what I thought the world could be.

(also, I am slightly older than you :P)
It may not be useful to look at exceptions, rather let’s look at the median. Most startups fail, most people that work at startups get burned out. If people choose to engage in these startups, I hope they do so with open eyes.
Swimming near whales isn’t unsafe at all. They’re not particularly aggressive, a lone human is too small to worry about, and we operate on completely different sections of the food chain.

This was more akin to getting stepped on by a giraffe that didn’t see you there. Total accident.
The habit of assessing the importance of operations according only as how frequently they appear in static object files, or even as how frequently they are executed, yields a badly distorted picture.

An instruction executed relatively rarely in the course of running a program may achieve critical importance by reducing the latency of the most important result, or by each replacing what would otherwise be dozens of other instructions. Among candidates for such a distinction, popcount takes honors second only to multiplication.

Count-leading-zeroes and other variations rely on the same circuitry and can be emulated by preceding popcount with one or two conventional ALU operations, so are conveniences; popcount is the fully general, indispensible primitive.
I don't buy it.

I mean I trust you got the numbers on whatever metrics you thought you've measured, but I don't buy that this is a well designed human experiment and your conclusions sufficiently exclude alternative explanations.

First systemic bias in your study is that instrumentation of only IC productivity; if IC productivity could exist in isolation, we wouldn't need managerial functions to begin with.

Alternative explanation; distributed work shifts some heavy lifting from the self-organization of ICs to managers actually doing successful multi-party coordination. Most managers suck, therefore they couldn't handle the true test of their function. But having exclusive access to $product-leads@ circle, they could shift blame.

To add more; if productivity was that significantly low for some folks for 6-9 months, and your managers couldn't steer it, that points to a general leadership problem than an IC problem.

Second problem is not having a logical continuity between your IC metrics and business metrics. Did 40% increase in PR rejection rate of half of your developers slowed down any of your business metrics by 20%? E.g release delays, post-release bug counts, decreased reliability etc. If not, then you weren't really measuring what you thought you were measuring.

Alternative explanation; the seat warming, busy work pressure is higher when at the office in the physical presence of peers, which blows up the metrics without meaningful output; WFH makes it much more easy to cut through bullshit work, bullshit meetings etc. Until you can prove that the business output suffered proportionally, metrics like "WFH devs were spending 15-30% more time in non-development tasks" is meaningless. I am not even talking about how hard of a problem it is to really measure "time on dev-task". Sometimes taking a walk in the park to think through a problem is a dev task.

To get a proper picture, you'd need to be able to reject the alternative hypotheses with a greater strength. I think you also need to seriously look into the manager metrics; e.g. how do devs rate them as being able to communicate external priorities and requirements successfully, how many of them think they are working on redundant or meaningless work, that their code complexity is slowing them down etc. Not only these organizational bugs are much more expensive than small-but-easy-to-measure stuff like PR rejection rates, it is also more likely to be in your blindspot because you only interact with managers.
Try to make it vomit I guess. You’d suffocate long before you get passed through.
Yet people also rant about publish-or-perish resulting in minimum publishable unit churning.

Maybe the answer is some researchers just wrote a paper, non-typeset spacing is pretty wasteful, and Word does a bad job at tables, rather than some deep rooted societal crisis in "high-status cathedral positions".
I’ve liked the interpretation that high luck isn’t necessarily good. It just means highly improbable events happen to you more likely...
Speaking of frictionless employment labor movement… In the USA I once called in sick on a Monday & was retroactively fired the previous Friday.
Yes. And there were comments [1] in this thread [2] where some parents shared similar concern. There were at least two other threads on the subject in the past two years. ( Which I should have bookmarked but as usual bookmarks in general is quite useless and I cant find it )

This view isn't even mainstream yet. We are already seeing lots of parents worrying much more about their son than their daughters. It will likely take another 10 years until everything is seriously fucked up before it hit mainstream media and widespread concern, another 10 years for some ( or not ) discussions, then another 10 years before something is done. Basically a whole generation of Male.

And I will probably get downvoted for mentioning it, but I do think Jordan Peterson has a point about young male lacking motivation in modern Society.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26047795

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26047444
Some papers were sent back to Britain for safekeeping, per the article. Speculatively, perhaps someone who was there could also tell us what was burnt in more detail.
> insurance won't let you do anything risky, and won't pay if you do.

This is the part that is outright fraud. A legitimate insurance policy is literally a cheque; if something happens, you deposit it in the bank and get you money, and it's the insurance company's responsibility to prove that your claim is not covered by the policy written on the cheque. The insurance company does not make a decision about whether to pay.
What's this emphasis on biological? Are adoptive fathers sub-standard?
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But that’s where the analogy breaks, because with airplanes it’s indeed a backward way of describing it, but with bitcoin it’s what actually happens. Airplanes are means of travel, they can be more or less energy efficient. Bitcoin is a mean of achieving security via energy expenditure and energy efficiency doesn’t apply here. If you made a Bitcoin miner that is two times more efficient - it wouldn’t lead to reduction in energy use, it would lead to increase in difficulty requirement in bitcoin because the attacker can use that energy efficient miner too.

You may not like how much energy is spent on maintaining security, but it’s not bitcoin that necessitates it, it’s the market.

Bitcoin opened a Pandora’s box by showing the world how it can be done and now if people say they want an attacker to take 1gigawatt to overtake the network then that’s what will be spent to protect against such attack. With or without bitcoin.
> Then again, electrical work can be life threatening, so the potential damage is rather high.

As a DIYer, I was shocked to find what the previously hired professional electrician left for me: a secondary panel for the whole structure that controls exactly one outlet. The sub panel was apparently not fed from the main panel, but rather from a panel in a different building, so simply switching the main breaker of the breaker panel to off did not turn off that one specific outlet, you know the one I was trying to replace. Why that one outlet (GCFI in the bathroom) required it’s own sub panel was not clear at all but my left hand was numb for a few hours. Thankfully it didn’t go further than that (maybe a few copies of me in the multiverse died but not this one).
Your idea would make more sense if congress had tried everything but the kitchen sink already. But afaik congress has been doing very little to regulate "big tech". Now let's say it's a year later and the 5 draft bills are passed, but congress decides to create another bill to regulate tech, what will the new article say then? Kitchen sink was not enough, another kitchen required? No, I think the expression is just misused in this article.

By the way the original expression was popular during WWII when describing the effort to fight the enemy[1].

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/96582/what-is-th...
I had a long conversation with my brother, who never wanted to retire ever, and his reason was basically "what would I even do with all the time I have". My inability to answer that haunts me every day. I still don't know.
I didn't even realize that they were still diving for them. Here in Maine, they trap them. I don't know of anyone that still dives for them and don't think they do it much, if at all, here.

(I don't live near the coast, but I do have a 'lobster guy' that hooks me up.)
You can get books that teach all the basics, for example there is one called Wiring A House that is pretty good. Then you can usually contact your local building department for the city where you live to get specific questions answered. Unless you live in a place like Chicago where all wiring needs to be in conduit and then that’s a whole different story.
Apple is looks good because of its anti competitive monopolistic tendencies. Not because of their software, which honestly is crap.
A college that my daughter was accepted at claimed to meet 100% of need, as I think a lot of private colleges do. It meant that after we filled out the FAFSA and an additional form that some private colleges use, they figured out how much we could "afford" to pay, and it was about 100% of full freight. We're a middle class family, let's say supported by 1.5 professional jobs, since one of us works part time. We didn't have a quarter million dollars jangling around in our pockets, and were greatly relieved when our daughter chose the nearby public university instead.

Also, it's often expected that "need" will be partially met by working a campus job, and taking out loans.

It's great if the college wants to curate a student body including some low income students, but I think there's a pretty big swath of the middle class that's neither poor enough nor rich enough for one of those colleges.

I'm not devastated. The state university is damn good, and hobnobbing with the influential is only useful if you happen to be skilled at hobnobbing.
How many different companies have you worked for? Were you only a manager at that one company?

It sounds like you should quit your job but not necessarily software dev as a whole.

Also, I enjoy programming but not Leetcoding / fancy algorithms. Software dev is a broad field, maybe you can find a different engineering job without abandoning your previous experience.
He is working on a new book, focused on cooking with woks. So more reading to be done some time soonish.
Amazon is fighting against laws to verify third-party sellers' details
I would add into the mix that it's also about access and resources which give maybe a bigger leg up.

Engineers, college educators, etc make more money, their kids presumably go to good schools, they presumably have more hands on time available to help their kids succeed and more connections, legacy admissions etc.

I see this in my sport. One of the olympians for climbing for US comes from climbing 'royalty.'

being literally born into the sport from day 1 makes a huge difference. plus having access to a groundbreaking gym and youth training program your mom literally created ;0

Not to take away achievement. strength is strength, intelligence is intelligence. it's all very impressive and doesn't come without work.

but I think opportunity and access to resources are important factors to consider.
> You are assuming that the energy is being spent for some tangible benefit

I don’t assume, I know what it’s being used for - security against chain overrides/rollbacks.
That is the universities marketing & legal defense. But in reality "getting creative" is encouraged to find funding for speciality programs that run at a loss, like sailing. The Universities will take money to "specially consider" an applicant, 500K is just not enough for Stanford or Harvard these days that price tag is in the tens of millions.
I love ML based languages, but it's definitely hard to get excited about new features when even just installing ocaml on windows starts with reading a chart of what tradeoffs you're going to have to make.

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/blob/trunk/README.win32.adoc
> It has had no effect on her

I doubt that.

It sounds to me like none of your family does a very good job of understanding her. The behavior you describe sounds much less like someone who is uninterested in driving and more like someone who has significant anxiety around that activity that they are surpressing.
The first sentence of the abstract is already incorrect—acne is not a disease unique to humans at all.

I don’t have a full list of species that get acne, but I know that cats can get it (Sphinx cats are particularly prone to it!

If the very first sentence is wrong, I question the rest of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_acne
Of course there are dull people out there but do you think that most people without college degrees are dull?

While you were in college all the non-dull non-college people were out there having different life experiences than you-- learning things you don't know about.

In many ways education makes us more homogeneous. To an extent this can help make each other seem more interesting because it gives us common language and intellectual frameworks to have discussions, it dispenses with some boring preliminaries. But beyond that point, I think sharing common education makes people actually less interesting, not more.
Or with more humor: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
Especially a problem because for almost all men a career and supporting family (maybe the hardest thing to figure out in life) is non optional, whereas half the female friends I have from college have abandoned careers to saddle up to a breadwinner ... I mean I kind of want that option but men don't really have it. Does anyone ever really discuss this social reality that makes it different for men v women in real world?
It's reductive to say that developed countries aren't having kids because of condom availability, while ignoring all the underlying social factors that don't go away even if condoms weren't available.

In developing countries, more likely than not. But there's also the factors that make people choose to use condoms when they become available. Condom availability has no effect without the whole marketing/education/social pressure around why people should use condoms.
Man… almost seems like they fix it if they wanted to.
The openminded-ness towards how a woman deals with a pregnancy vs the fact that the same anti-abortion thought process is still being applied to only the man is very frustrating.

If she wants to abort, that is certainly her choice. If a woman wants to keep a child, that is wonderful, but the man should not be forced into child support. Moreso because the choice about the child's existence should only be in the woman's hands since she gives birth to the child.

The irony of people who support abortion saying that if a man didn't want to pay child support he shouldn't have had sex is just staggering.
Thank you for this! Missing KDE is a dealbreaker for primary system, but I can start using nonguix for older systems now.

Edit: I'm not sure if I'm reading this right, but the job says 0 builds (eg. https://mirror.brielmaier.net/eval/97958?status=succeeded&pa...). I'm not familiar with how guix works, but where can I see list of actual built derivations for a particular job?
My wife read this to me 20 minutes ago. I kept waiting for the punchline. I was impressed with how straight faced she denied there was one.

All the time my Dad humor brain is screaming "think fast think fast, what pun can you do with Jonah?"

Coming up short AND finding there was no punchline was actually kind of a let down.
Big companies are notoriously poor at generating value. Most of their revenues come from a handful of products, and in general most of their resources are spent in ensuring that competitive threats are eliminated. They’re not a good proxy for economic performance; in fact their presence indicates the opposite.

The American economy has succeeded because smaller firms were capable of growing rapidly and challenging and then replacing previous generations of titans. The inability of present or future firms to do this presents an existential threat to the competitiveness of the US economy.
> I have a small percentage of ownership, and I receive K-1 for my tax. I don't have a contract, because our startup was purchased and spun out, and when it spun out from the parent company, I was given percentage of the company.

What's the legal structure (eg. LLC, partnership, S-corp, etc.)?
I don't work at any of those companies :)
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Discussion from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16094925

Side note, I'm happy to call Bruce a friend in the real world where he's an equally talented juggler and runner.
Agreed. For some reason many youtubers completely miss the vegetarian segment of the population because there's so many varieties of meats to focus on.

But a few popular ones that I follow are:

Vegan black metal chef
Peaceful cuisine
Hot for food

While I'm pretty sure that they might have meat based foods in their video lists, but they do have a really healthy collection of vegetarian foods as well.
They are just waiting for that UBI to kick in. Free ride till the end!
I would say they're different, because it's possible to remove a lot of the triggers associated with video games, gambling, alcohol, and drugs (by not having them easily accessible, for example) but it's not possible to do that with food.
Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool
It's really sad to see so many findings, especially the ones that are exactly the same as issues that tinder had _years_ ago. Did they do no research? Did they just not care?

Example, the exact same triangulation issue that allows tracking users happened 6 years ago:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/8604/tinder-app-user-l...
Seems to me that you are in a toxic environment. So it's unclear whether it is your workplace that you dislike or the role of being programmer. Doing "leetcoding" most certainly isn't what software development is about.

Have you looked into changing jobs for a better company?
First I'm hearing of this. Have any links explaining more?
They combined them. Throwing the kitchen sink means you're literally using everything you have, since you're even going to throw the sink too. Combine this with the "throwing the book at them" idiom, and you arrive at "throwing the kitchen sink".
Well as prospective adoptive father... In some ways... Yes. That was part of our adoption training. To learn that many adoptees want to know their biological mom and dad and suffer greatly if they're not able. An adoptive father can provide all the emotional support in the world and the day to day fathering, but he can't provide the biology, whereas a biological one can provide both the day to day fathering and the bio connection.

It's not a popular sentiment... But it was required as part of our certification in california. When separated from mom and dad, they call it the primal wound, but our society accepts separating children from one parent without any of the guilting they require adoptive parents to go through.

From a purely empirical standpoint, in aggregate, biological father's are the least likely to hurt or kill their children. Both adoptive father's and step father's are more likely to. Says nothing about individuals, but as a society it would behoove the powers that be to ensure most kids are raised by bio parents. And by far most states adopt this approach, even to the point of absurdity.
What should strong, stupid men do?

Male participation in the economy peaked in the 1950s. It began to decline as the USA automated agriculture.

Millions of years of evolution gave us some men who are very strong, but very stupid. There used to be an abundance of jobs for such men. Agriculture, in particular, provided endless jobs for such people.

Some of these jobs paid surprisingly well.

When I was very young, I spent 6 summer/winter cycles working at Mack's Apples:

https://macksapples.com/

They paid piece rate. You got $1.25 per bucket of apple's that you picked. You could make $14 an hour, then; adjusting for inflation that's about $24 an hour now.

I'm not especially strong, nor especially stupid, but I was able to make decent money, back before I got started in tech. It was the best paying job available to me, back then. Those jobs no longer exist. (That apple orchard focused on "Pick Your Own Apples" where the gross margins are better, plus they planted a few short trees that could be easily harvested by untrained high school students. The orchard cut down most of the big trees, because those trees required skill to harvest.)

But again, what should we do with very strong, very stupid men? There used to be an abundance of jobs for them, some of which paid well. Nowadays there are no jobs for them.

I can't see how or when this trend reverses. The era of good paying jobs for stupid people has ended, and I don't know how it could ever come back.

See the chart here:

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2007/jan/wk2/art03.htm

You can plainly see that men have been leaving the labor force since the 1950s. Recent events are less influential than the overall trend, which was more dramatic during 1950-1990.

The loss of agriculture was huge, and then later the deindustrialization.

Seriously, it is going to take some real imagination to create a positive vision for stupid people in the future.

Please note, I'm using the word "stupid" here partly to overstate the point. Hopefully everyone is aware that there are many different types of knowing, not all of which resembles the book knowledge taught in schools. But the point is that the economy now favors book knowledge taught in schools. Those other forms of knowing are important, and were shaped by millions of years of evolution, and were once crucial to our survival, but right now we have an economy that does not pay for those other kinds of knowing.

(I have a friend who did poorly in high school and never went to college. He is a fanatic birder and environmentalist. He claims he knows over 2,000 bird call songs. I believe him; I've been in the woods with him and he knows a lot. But he can't get a job identifying bird songs.)
Buzzfeed News have been writing serious, in-depth news articles for years now. Here's a great one from 2016 about how Facebook is the internet in Myanmar: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sheerafrenkel/fake-news...

Unfortunately their brand is tainted by the reddit-meme listicle crap of their sister site. I'm surprised they haven't changed their name yet.
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