skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, US degrees aren't as expensive as I thought, it comes out pretty comparable to the UK. And then US tech salaries are 3x higher so it's still a good investment overall.
which is a loss, as according to openbsd developers developing for both caught a lot of bugs otherwise not found easily..
'China has secret jail in Dubai, holds Uyghurs'
The biggest shift lately is probably on the ops side. The role sysadmin or DBA hardly exists anymore as full-time jobs. With the goals of containerization and avoiding snowflaking giving lots of positive spill-over effects for the developer side as well.

Today i can snapshot the volume of my containers, completely format my computer, download and reinstall Ubuntu from scratch. Download and install any IDE and all tools i need, clone a project from github, npm install thousands of dependencies, spin up a docker-compose network with a distributed nosql database and a a few services, commit and push a MR giving relevant test results back from github CI and someone reviewing the code - All in one day. 10-15 years ago (without even considering the difference in download-time) every step here would be at least a day each, involving complicated configurations and often causing non revertible modifications to the host system.

Containerization and sandboxing can also be seen as being big enablers for the mobile app stores and untrusted browser applications being able to deploy to clients instantly.

I'd also say UI frameworks are a big deal. Both Windows, Android, iOS and the Web have much more powerful tools than say Win32 or whatever old baseline one wants to compare with. Especially declarative web front end frameworks like React and Vue. Some might call these fad-frameworks, but i for sure can write better web-apps with less than half the number of lines, and with much less spaghetti, compared to what we used to do in 2005 (just close one eye for the webpack complexity), if that's not a paradigm shift i don't know what is. Unfortunately this hasn't always resulted in much better applications for end users when looking at the average app, probably due to lower barrier of entry and race to the bottom.

Programming languages, IDEs and tooling overall are miles better than before, even if it's hard to pin any specific milestone to where the shift happened, all small gains add up to a big deal on all fronts. C++ is still C++ and Java is still Java but even there a lot of the verbose boilerplate is reduced giving much better ergonomics. Then you've got things like Kotlin, Typescript and other hybrid-dynamic/static + hybrid-OO/functional languages getting improved and more widespread, Async everywhere, Rust bringing something on the table to finally replace C/C++, package managers used by everyone really enabling code-reuse. You now also got almost all popular languages converging and being equally capable doing everything, not one language per use-case.

Then there are tons of other cools things like GPGPU, machine learning, big data, EBPF, crypto and security. It's just too much to grasp.
If we have dealt with all but the highest levels in the hierarchy of needs (according to Maslow) we turn to the top, self-actualisation. No wonder people in the west start questioning their jobs and careers.
Try with original source [0]. Big-endian, because some Lilliputians eat eggs starting from big end, little-endian, because some start from little end. Works for me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Etymology
The NYTimes barely mentions the data. Here's the original article that talks about the ROI:

https://www.thirdway.org/report/which-college-programs-give-...

I think the most alarming thing is the "For Profit" section of the charts. 40% (of students) don't recoup their cost ever vs 13% in Private and 8% in public.

"For Profit" schools prey on the venerable to take out huge loans for a degree from "City University" or ITT Tech (defunct) with the promise that you could make a lot of money "just like our 1 person we put in all our commercials."

I'm glad a number were shut down, but there are still too many that operate.
This is much more awesome than I feel I deserve. Definitely recommend watching at least that first video.

Tip: when he is flipping the toggle switches on the front panel and hits the Enter switch, don't look at that switch, watch the lights at the top of the panel.

And the 026 card punch! The sound and sight of that brought back the most vivid memory of punching my programs all night in the basement of the Caltech computer center.

I love the THANKS signs everywhere. Every IBM shop would have signs like that:

https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/think_cul...

I can't wait until they unpack the RAMAC with its amazing 5 million characters of storage. That's more than sixty-two thousand punch cards!

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/...
I wanted to post the exact same thing.

One of the most interesting parts of that episode was how the described their relationship with the hardware manufacturers. The deep level of co-working on a very hard task and jointly developing the tech needed was really inspiring.
It has to do with spirochetes visible under microscope in human brain tissue.

Do you accept that rather obvious finding, or "cOnSpIrAcY" is your main counter-argument?
Minor clarification, the latter example will only await until both have resolved *or* one rejects. To await the resolution of all promises, you should use the truly gamechanging `Promise.allSettled` , though you will have to transpile it if it's not supported by your target environments.
I don't know, I wouldn't expect heads to be a popular target of thievery.
This first snapshot, of the top 15 producers, finds that oil super-majors Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron are the worst performers, followed by ConocoPhillips, Marathon Oil and ExxonMobil.
https://www.reuters.com/article/emissions-methane-idUSMTZSPD...
"So many?"

I don't know anyone who's moved there.

Why don't we ask Israel why they're "settling" land that isn't theirs?
Depends on the domain. C# is undoubtedly a lot more powerful and C# runs faster, but your average C# program requires writing a hell of a lot more boilerplate code than your average VB6 program.

Visual Basic had its warts. C# is a better language from an academic perspective. But VB filled a niche that nothing else has come close to: it made desktop application software writing ridiculously quick and easy. While still being maintainable, readable, and fun.

Electron is probably the closest thing we have to that in the desktop world these days but somehow that performs even worse than VB6 did. Python or Go is probably the most analogous, if you think about command line programs.
i heard (from a recruiter) many companies put on hiring freeze during covid... now that it looks like we are coming out of it, backlogged hiring is now being worked on...
For a more general solution, firejail.
Also, there’s less demand to buy labor for $20/hr than to buy it for $10/hr. So, all else being equal, fewer companies will demand workers if they’re more expensive, which will also reduce the deficit.

That’s the theory at least.
Never mind already back in the 80s and 90s the British population of the Falklands preferred to remain a part of the UK. Nevermind Argentina invaded the Falklands and was ultimately repulsed. No idea where the idea that the Falklands belong to Argentina comes from. The only meaningful population of the islands ever was and is British. Which makes the comparison to HK and Taiwan somewhat pointless, nevermind that Taiwan is a suvereign nation and that the UK handed HK back to China.
I read somewhere modern people spend the same amount of time doing chores as someone before electricity. It wouldn't surprise me if it were that far off the truth. We own so much more and are told we need things when in reality maybe we don't?
AUR has a package for "zoom-firejail" which ships zoom binaries with a ready-made configuration and .desktop for launching it in firejail.

Goes to show how little people trust Zoom.
Nice hysterical, non-informative headline.
"but nowadays there are almost certainly better ways to solve this without letting these pre/post setup commands run as root."

How?

The only clean solution I see (now or anytime in the past), would be to rewrite that "Actual Business Stuff" using the whole.

But that is expensive, maybe very expensive (I think this was clients code and going around and telling them to change maybe complex code of theirs ... is not something you want or can afford to do) So they just patched the hole up as much as they could do.

So I do consider it a patch(especially if the hardcoded commands as strings are verified commands and do not change or induce something else). Just maybe none that provides full security. But when you look at the state of things in IT in general ... I would say, there is indeed improvement, if at least gaping holes like this one gets fixed.
If 60% of for profit students recoup their cost (and then go on to earn more because of their investment), then isn't it still a valuable investment to have available overall?
> childcare

The article claimed this was negligible.

> How can anyone say there's a worker deficit when we're so far below pre-pandemic employment?

There are be talent and location mismatches that make both of these true.
lzmautils / xz utils is probably your best bet. They have some documentation for sure but it's a complicated format so the source is invaluable.
On side note, if you ever wonder what a licence means or do there is this website that help clarify this : https://tldrlegal.com/
Everyone has an opinion on that matter, but if you’re making software engineer money then this might be a viable option: mrmoneymustache.com

Maybe you’ve already heard of tha blog, maybe not. In a nutshell: rethink your life and your expenses so you’re able to save 50+% of your income. Put it into low cost ETFs (which particular one depends on what’s available where you live), and after a while (13 years at 50%, much less at more saving), you’ll have the option to not work anymore and still cover all your life expenses etc.

Not selling anything, not looking to start a debate, just mentioning it because parent might be interested or curious.
> What you do in uni is demonstrate that you're interested in certain things and you have enough work ethic to learn the exam answers. That's all.

I think you’re right, but the next question would be: how is the hefty price tag for American universities justified, if your statement is true?
> I mean, in principle the user might be running multiple X servers with different WMs, but that's probably rare enough

I actually do that all the time.
My main "work environment" is TTY0 with i3wm, but when I make nice videos/screencasts, or use Zoom for presentations I often switch to a clean and neat KDE Plasma session on TTY1.
With all the valid arguments about pay here, subject seems a bit stretched: I'd expect more than 3% lower employment, given the traveling restrictions alone. Not taking into account business closures, shift to online work, overall health impact of the pandemic etc.
Hm, that's very sad to hear... What would you do about it?
> But I don't want my OS to ask me "do you want to allow htop to access the list of your processes" — à la Windows Vista — every time I want to run htop to see my user processes.

Why would it be every time? Say yes once to htop, no to Zoom. Sort of like Android/iOS permissions.

Or just require root. No way I'd give it to Zoom, htop maybe.
Why would you call it a nothing town? Seems like a really nice place. I envy you for all the nature and the sea.
I mean it is their fault, for a naïve implementation and trusting Windows.
I haven't watched this video in a while so apologies if it's not specifically elaborated on, but I believe it's covered here: https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04

From memory yes, it's partially about water usage, but dishwashers are in general just pretty good overall about efficiently using energy to maximize "food grime removed" per unit of resources fed in. Even if you're careful with water usage while hand washing, I think a decent dishwasher will beat you.

Another advantage is the dishwasher heats its own water, whereas with hand washing either you need to use a house-wide water heater or preheat water in a kettle or something, which will have its own energy wastes. This of course depends also on how your house's water is heated.

One page I found googling elaborates on these ideas, concluding that you could potentially be more efficient hand washing, but only with a lot of effort: https://www.treehugger.com/built-in-dishwashers-vs-hand-wash...
No a child doesn't make the decision. Most people in college are 18, i.e. adults.

We have to stop babying adults. Honestly a lot of smart 16 year olds could make the decision of how to spend their loan money wisely.

If you are not adult enough to figure out how to invest a loan wisely, you are not adult enough to receive a loan in the first place.
Argentina never had meaning full settlement there, and there was never really a native population neither. The Falklands are a bad example to show the bad things caused by colonialism, if you need examples of British colonial atrocities pick anything from Africa to India and you'll find plenty up to the 20th century.
Why not? It seems perfectly intelligible to me which flag means what language.
Works fine for me on Qubes OS.
I know it's just an example but there is less drag the higher you go, unless you are thinking of some kind of ground-effect.

I am physically repulsed by the word "founder" when used to signify some sort of holy class of ascended beings.

Memes evolve too and have been dominant since about the invention of agriculture.
I don't believe you can do that in Windows; your process is bound to the SID it started with.
I'm Romanian and I am left confused after this article. It's so fragmented and chaotic I tried loading it in my second browser without extensions to see if maybe there's paragraphs that are not being displayed or something of the sort.

Secondly the content is completely pop culture. For example
there's really nothing really exceptional about Vlad the Impaler in his time and place. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler - it's almost cliche for the time period: held hostage as a prince to insure his father's loyalty, backed up or opposed as a claimant to the throne as foreign interests changed, political purges after gaining power. I'm not saying he was boring or anything like that, he was quite brave and determined, but only shocking if judged by modern standards.
> This was almost identical to what Roosevelt had done earlier

Really? This is an insane claim. Sending people to be murdered in concentration camps is the same as relocating people to relatively well provisioned camps where they were treated relatively fairly (even though it still wrong)?
Hong Kong and Macau are relics of the colonial era and exerting "iron-fisted" control there is no different from exerting it over, say, Shanghai
I’m from in the US and am naïve, but what is bizarre about that system?
Give us an example.
There never was a native population on the Falklands.
It's the same malware behaviour as 'Yes / Remind me later'
Brilliant, thanks for this.
It's a guild fee is what I'm saying. If the guild is making a lot of money it's worth it to pay to join. See MBAs. I can attest as a graduate of a world famous business school (ok it's the the uni and not the biz school) you won't learn how to run a business. But you do get that "ambitious hard worker who is somewhat social" label.
How to Test Serverless Applications?
Who knows, fusion could be key to accessing the next order-of-magnitude level for society. Perhaps it'll be key to large scale carbon sequestration to stabilize future climate change effects.

If we had cheap Fusion tomorrow we could replace much of fossil fuels with synth fuels with neutral CO2 cycle. We get to reuse existing infrastructure but without massive co2.
Thanks! now that makes sense - indeed, "endian" refer not to what's on the end, but from which end we start writing the number.
BBB was a mess. It's security and privacy may be great on paper (open source, self hosted). But that's the lawyer's side.

In practice: BBB had server-side mute, so your muted microphone would still send audio to the server. Servers could be compromised through uploaded documents (processed by LibreOffice).

The biggest problems might have been fixed by now. But self hosting half baked software isn't an alternative to most.
After Pegasus, I'm not sure it's a secure solution.
Starttls Considered Harmful
You have to play the social game.

Saying "It's none of your business and you can't force me to answer" send a very different message than "It's going alright. Did you watch the game last night? Pretty cool, huh?"
NetBSD Explained: The Unix System That Can Run on Anything
Zim is what i use for notetaking, its essentially tree-like notes
allowing expanding ideas and focusing on stuff without
any paper limits, you can also attach images/files to notes.
By this logic China ought to have invaded Taiwan ages ago because it's all peachy once you win
That analogy might work for the Falklands, but with Taiwan it would be more like "a poor family that abused the daughter".

Anyway, I dislike analogies for political discourse because they over simplify the issues at hand.
"Managing Gigabytes" by Witten et al is _the_ book that got me into the field of compression back in the day. Granted, it’s a bit dated now as there’s been a lot of progress in the field, but I’d still heartily recommend it to newcomers.
Your analogy is insipid. If kidnapping is not right, the people who sold their children to kidnappers should never again get custody of their children, especially if the children are begging not to go back. How ridiculous to claim something belongs in the colonial age while defending the nations that continue the practice today, namely China. China defenders are the lowest of the low, the political equivalent of the pedophile defenders.
These are completely normal and typical immigration visa rules the world over. As always though - there are "better" visa's available but they have different sets of requirements and/or costs involved.
Huh, I'd assumed that ink traps would somehow be absent from fonts intended for screen use. Thinking about it now, though, it does make sense that (at least on typical computers) it's the same font file used on-screen as sent to the printer, and at small sizes on-screen they're probably hidden by hinting anyway. A cursory search also reveals that varying paper and ink conditions made for an age-old problem of achieving consistent weight.

And indeed, the distinctive spur of the 'R' all but disappears at low optical size. Something else I never noticed: the spur of the 'a' changes from vertical to horizontal at high weights in many grotesques.
Artifacts of the era, sure, but I think that's a very incomplete take.

IMO they're closer to the people of St. Pierre and Miquelon than they are to Shanghai. [1] The people of Hong Kong were British Citizens until 1997, and the citizens of Macau, Portuguese citizens until 1999 (it's a little more complicated there, it's ~1981-1999, depending). Just as the Miquelonians are French citizens - not British, not Canadian and not American.

A tiny island, in North America, that retains its allegiance to France and uses the Euro. Even flights to Paris are limited, to say the least.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon
I've heard this claim too: apparently Facebook tested a lot of routers, and they consistently routed v6 ~500us faster than v4. v6 has no checksum, so routers don't need to recalculate it when they decrement the TTL header, and it does make sense that removing a step would help. Unfortunately my source for this is "I heard it from someone that works at Facebook".

In practice this is only a small part of final performance, so you need to do end-to-end measurements to get a proper idea of what people will experience. Both Facebook[1] and Apple[2] have done that, showing 10% faster page loads and 40% faster connection establishment respectively on v6. Even if that was solely down to routing policies, it's still a measurable difference.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2015/09/14/networking-traffic/ipv...

[2] https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/apple-connections-esta...
People have to pay for basic needs. But there is a wild difference from living in shared accommodation, consuming the non-branded products, biking, vacationing as a backpacker in hostels etc. to living in a private apartment, eating out, having a car, vacationing in hotels / resorts etc.

As a person who spend most of my life studying on just a little income my expenses are only slowly increasing. Much slower than my earnings.

My guess is if one got a permanent job early on it might be hard to imaging how to live frugally.
Zoom certainly invested millions in marketing before and during the pandemic. Airports were plastered with zoom advertisement. I truly believe marketing and a simple ordering process account for a huge part of zoom's success, not features or UX.
Well you can't say Blue Origin isn't acting like a traditional defense contractor here.
What's different is the will of the people. If Shanghai, or San Francisco, or anywhere, developed a cultural consensus that it wanted to leave its parent country, it would be evil to prevent them.
I think you got a little lost in that analogy...
Dan G would make the perfect Nazi. Makes excuses for censorship, defends censorship by claiming it is his job, acts like something he goes out of his way to do is something he finds necessary but distasteful. Disgusting.
The difference is that the UK government does not round up citizens who criticize it and send them to re-education/torture camps. So, people are a little less upset about being under UK rule.
Huh, maybe that is it, at least here on HN. I'm perhaps a bit younger than a lot of the people on here (24), and maybe I dont earn as much, so the answer may well just be time, which is disappointingly not the bombshell I was hoping for, but does make a lot more sense.

Cheers!
There are inherent factors, though.

1. Any time you mix motors and electronics, motors produce brownouts and spikes which can cause directly connected electronics to malfunction. DC-DC converter mitigates that. LEDs are particularly prone to overload with just minute increase in voltage and dim/flicker with decrease.

Not inherent to DC but same thing happens with poorly designed appliances that emit RF which then interferes with everything connected to the circuit.

2. Voltages. You can't standardize electronics power supply to 12V because semiconductors are most efficient at lower voltage, which depends on particular technology.
Let's include some players from the EU:

Tuxedo (https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note...) - brand new, released a month ago

KDE Slimbook (https://kde.slimbook.es) - with an AMD processor

For home computing I myself am running a 9343 XPS 13 from 2015, not the Dev edition, just because it was not available at the time I was ordering...

I have been using Thinkpads (L4xx, T4xx, X1 Carbon, P1) for work, and despite what everyone says, I'm not too happy with them. The trackpad is low quality, the keyboards have been getting worse and worse - I much prefer my trusty XPS. The latest P1 also weighs a ton and the battery life is a joke. Also, suspend/resume is still sometimes a hit-and-miss (unbelievable in 2021?). But YMMV.
Take a look: https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/628045/fneur-12-6...

These are spirochetes in the brain/spine of a dead patient who had proven lyme diagnosis in the past, and donated the brain for research.

Full study: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.6280...

The onus now on the "cOnSpIraCy" camp to provide scientific evidence to the contrary.