skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, very few people I know get 4 weeks vacation at all, including myself, and of those even fewer could take it all at once without pre-negotiating that with their boss, it would be considered unusual.

But we know different people! I don't know a lot of people with six figure engineering jobs.

Apparently here's what the US Bureau of Labor Statistics last said about it:

> One reason for this is that American companies offer fewer vacation days. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 76 percent of private industry workers (who make up 84.7 percent of all workers) receive paid vacation days. After one year of employment, these workers were granted 10 days of paid vacation, on average.

> This number grows modestly as years of tenure with an employer increase. In 2017, the average worker with five years of experience at a company was given 15 days of paid vacation and the average worker with 20 years of experience was given 20 paid vacation days.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/05/heres-how-many-paid-vacation...
Great news, it means it's working! Lower growth in Facebook is like lower growth in cancer, heart disease, opioid addiction, etc.
> It's not necessarily a web technology

And honestly, I've been toying around with an Actix web server written in Rust, and the experience is not bad. As someone new to Rust, the main pain points have been along the lines of figuring out how to type a parameter to accept both a database pool and a database transaction (which turns out to be quite hard to figure out). Other than that kind of friction, the experience has been nice.
Yes, that should be implicit to the earnings numbers they are using for the ROI calculation.
Elevated CO2 depletes plant minerals at the base of human nutrition
"Essentially the government has built a surveillance state by outsourcing it to private enterprise."

There's a rather innocuous sounding name for this - "public private partnership" [1]. If you've ever experienced this scenario first hand, you'd truly be surprised how much government is run in partnership with private enterprise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partner...
This is why I do most of my coding in vim...simple and easy. When it comes to debugging I can switch to VS, but when actually coding it is more focused on vim.
Similar position here, although we recently launched a new product that so far is only advertised through Facebook. Based on that we believe Facebook can only attribute 40-50% of conversion events.

Facebook is going to have to do something drastic to improve this situation, I suspect they are going to push advertisers to fold their store/checkout into Facebook so a customer never leaves the app. It will be the only way to track all conversion events.
I saw nothing like that in the article.

Got me wondering what the ROI for dating was.
Eh, you can get that distraction-free experience with modern technology if you want it. When I want to focus on writing, I have a Vim setup that gives me a screen with a cursor. I run that full screen, turn off notifications and whatnot, and get to it. And when I'm done I can go back to using my modern technology to do everything else I want with the content, whether it's formatting/typesetting, sharing, etc.

There's really no reason to sacrifice all those additional capabilities at the alter of focus or productivity. Just find ways to use modern technology more effectively.
Sometimes I wish these articles would include "in the US" in the title. "Is College in the US Worth It? A Return on Investment Analysis"
>But the only way we are going to afford a UBI-like program is to remove all the bureaucracy currently wasted to administer these programs.

This is why I believe that UBI will never actually be implemented. That bureaucracy consists of a lot of unionized jobs, and those workers vote.
The cinematography is amazing. I didn't know gray, brown and bland had so many shades
Result aligns with my expecations today, but not my expectations in High School, which well...is why we have so many people in my age cohort (millennial) who think they got a raw deal.
> The truth is, not that much was different between 2000 and 2010 or 1990 and 2000.

That's really not the truth at all.
Scrum is a horrible way to interact with somebody that doesn't know what they want. The process is entirely focused on breaking things on predictable sizes and focusing the interaction with the users into a single person and a few meetings. Also, in a tight schedule you do really not want to use a fixed timebox.

Honestly, I'm not sure Scrum is good for anything. (And well, we did not technically rename "Agile" into "Scrum", we just have a lot of lying propaganda saying that Scrum implements Agile and have the entire population of managers dismissing any other process. So Agile doesn't exist anymore, we successfully killed the idea.)
I completely agree, but the inability to edit doesn't explain the advantage (if any) of the wordstar/ms-dos editor crowd.
Why is HN publishing racist rants like this one?
Since it’s lifetime earnings: yes.

Unless there is a non-financial investment which can’t be converted to a financial one or one which people are not redeeming for some reason.

Unless you mean that there are non-financial benefits to life. Like if you know your doctor and he checks you for free.

That is not included. No.
Keeping a thought in the back of one’s mind is not paranoia.
I don't think it's a no-brainer. You spend a lot of time in college, and it would be interesting to see how much information/learnings you could ingest on your own time, compared to what they would give you in college.

Many people (but probably not everyone) would be better off not going to college at all, and start learning/working on their own, especially if they have specific interests instead of not knowing what they want to do.
As it says in the article.
As context: aviators have at least five references that (in reasonably-populated and infrastructure-supported areas) they can usually use:

* GNSS

* compass

* VOR (ground radio beacons emitting a patterned signal to point to where the beacon is)

* Visual landmarks

* Asking air traffic control where radar spots them to be

The meat of this planned change, IIUC, is that maps that have to change to account for shifts in magnetic north over time will now be static, and instead additional offsets to correct the true north / magnetic north error will need to be factored in when an aviator uses one of their five common navigational aids. This seems like a reasonable place to put the costs.
Your equivalence of "newer" and "better" lacks substance.
Benefits of Internet Marketing for Business
WebAssembly is coming for games next.

Near native performance, players can join with just a link, and no 30% cut that developers have to deal with.
Really interesting how the browser is becoming the universal OS. It sort of gives more power/control to Google and reduces it from Apple and Microsoft. Would love to be in the executive meetings where they discuss the implications of this.
First of all, why do you need serverless P2P on a collaborative document editor? I can't really think of any substantial benefits of doing so.

And If you're actually worrying about centralization, then why can't one user run the server as well as the client (which, reading some posts about CRDT performance, should be faster than the overhead of maintaining CRDTs anyway?)
Only Chromium/Blink browsers are supported, so no Firefox or Safari. This is bad for the web.
I often find that to be true, too.

However, there are cases where there isn't enough space to articulate an idea. In those instances, I've tended to not Tweet at all.

Twitter is just a poor tool for communication of nontrivial ideas.
This [0] is related to the topic at hand.

0. https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1452725377332297734
MobaXterm free Xserver and tabbed SSH client for Windows
I was considering making a browser plugin to have a one-click button to comment "this issue is not going away by itself, please read it before you decide it's stale" or similar. Now that ddevault wrote this it might be a good resource to put in there.

Making a completely automated bot certainly falls short of GitHub's acceptable use policy.
The US government should require schools to divulge this information and make sure that students/parents applying for government-backed student loans are keenly aware of and agree to the financial risks implied by the statistics.
There’s a genuine moral dilemma here isn’t there?

Imagine for a moment that we are debating what a company should do with a chalkboard in a public square. People keep writing things on it organizing racially motivated killings, etc. The company has implemented a technology which allows people to write things on it without anyone being able to see who posted what or when.

If the company does nothing it will surely lead to the government rightly removing access to the board, but perhaps some similar thing would go on in people's own private spaces anyway.

Seems like a lose lose problem to try to solve.
I don’t see how this analysis identifies the causal factor. Do some college programs select students already on a trajectory to succeed? I would love to see an analysis comparing ACT/SAT scores and lifetime earnings for those that did and did not attend college. Still, I find the insights of this article important to the college debate
That's an interesting sidebar... I generally agree with the sentiment, but GPT(-1) came out in 2018. I don't think SoCs weren't nearly as powerful as they are today and GPGPUs were still somewhat nascent, I believe. In 2011 people were still buying PlayStation 3s
The problem with the David Lynch version was it was so edited and short that key scenes were missing, making it confusing as heck to understand what was happening and why if you hadn't read the book. But he kept the internal monologues.

The problem with this newer version is it cuts the internal monologues, so much of the context, history, and character building is gone. But it keeps pretty much every scene. Unfortunately, that also results in a really long movie so you only get the first half of the story, but all the action is in the second half. This is all setup and no resolution.

And I'm not sure how well it would work without having read the book, because I feel you do miss a lot when you don't have the worldbuilding, which is accomplished almost entirely by internal monologues in the book.

It's quite beautiful, though. I expect part II will be a lot better, as Paul's journey with the Fremen is by far the most interesting part of the story, and they barely meet at the end of part I.
Yes but they didn't yet release dual-core RISC-V based or did I miss it?

I use it's dual-core capabilities extensively as I heavily utilize WiFi and still have to maintain low-latency processing of IO input.

Didn't look much into RISC-V ESP but does it have some interrupts without multiplexor?
For DOS specifically, there is a market. So much of one that I can buy PCs with FreeDOS preinstalled. DOS, specifically, is used in many embedded applications that do not require multitasking (digital display boards, point of sale systems, etc.). That's not exactly addressing the question, but one of the things that makes a successful business is finding a niche and exploiting it and though there may not be a mass market consumer market, there are definitely companies making money with "old tech".
There's a period of several years between where the first film left the story, and the final conclusion. They may be quite happy for Tim and Zendy to put on a couple of years between making instalments.
The Theranos trial lost a juror to the mathematical allure of Sudoku
> People flock to Signal for a reason

Why would you go to a walled garden if you want more freedom/control? You should just go to Matrix and host it yourself (and keep all the metadata to yourself, too!).
In college you are not 'given' information/learnings, you actually have to do the work and selection to 'get' that yourself. At least, that is how it works here (EU). If you don't pro-actively do this, you simply won't succeed (and from a ROI perspective that would be a bad one).

The big difference between 'in' college and 'outside' or 'on your own' is context; the facilities, culture and exchange of ideas available to you in a college setting are very different from anything else. Especially when to take the sandbox element in to account.
https://archive.md/v7zVs
Facebook is a monolith with 3 billion users. Instead they could be a technology vendor helping communities of manageable sizes run their own private/public social networks with their own moderation and data privacy needs, along with other companies, federated across geographic, corporate, and community lines using standardized protocols, like the standardized international telephone system or email.
> Do voters feel they have an actual choice here?

What is the voter scenario that you're visualizing here? Do you see voters considering the instances where their pols have traded law for cash, gritting teeth and voting anyway?

I'm fairly sure that first part never happens - because voters know ~0 instances where their pols have traded law for cash - because cash-for-power rarely catches news orgs' interest.

That last bit is to counter where you infer the lack of concern by news orgs isn't related to the lack of concern by voters.
Your cavilier tone here about casually introducing a MiTM threat that many people won't understand to the e2e encrypted messaging ecosystem is pretty disgusting. As others have noted, the issue is that I can't opt out of other people using this which breaks the security guarantees of the chat system.
Finding startup ideas that predict the future
Does the study compare people with specific degrees, with the same demographic of people not getting degrees? For instance, a person who is capable of finishing an engineering degree and is inclined to do so, is already a "selected" person while still in high school, putting the term in quotes to avoid trying to define it precisely.
It depends on the nature of the event and the area you live in. Preppers who plan on "bugging out" are usually concerned with local unrest following the loss of services. They would also (hopefully) already have a destination in mind rather simply going "innawoods". Provided you have a safe community, having a reasonable stockpile of basic supplies and neighbors you can trust, remaining in place is usually a better option. A firearm or two would also be advisable in either case.
The reality of what situation? That there are no issues?
I wonder if this was what spurred it! A few years ago a free fan operated RuneScape server running an old version became more popular than the actual game. Jagex asked them to shut down, but they also launched their own version in kind: OldSchool RuneScape.
Ask HN: How to find a job in sustainability as a software engineer?
Hi HN, a friend of mine is frustrated by their company's move towards NFT adoption. They are considering looking for jobs at companies whose mission might serve to counteract NFT technology's negative environmental effects. They're having a hard time finding interesting companies in the sustainability space, but surely there must be something out there?

Are there any job boards or similar resources for software engineers who want to work in green tech? Please share them so that I can pass them along. Thank you in advance!
Element's regular matrix services are bring-your-own-domain, and I use them for our family's hosting. Unfortunately it seems they've decided that bring-your-own-domain is a feature for companies, and also given it "contact sales" pricing.

The plan I'm on pre-dates "Element Home" and sits at the same price-point.

Unfortunately a side-effect of the split is that I can't use the new bridging product without moving back to a shared domain, and the billing model for bridges on custom domains really doesn't work for consumers, at $0.50 per month per person who talks to you.

The newer products are good upgrades for someone on the regular matrix.org server, but not so good for people who already upgraded :P.
> raises the question of why a blockchain is necessary

For marketing, of course. Blockchains are magic, the rubes won't flock otherwise.
some people are still obsessed with a cartoon villain, trump was an a representation of an underlining issue. i think most people who believe trump caused all the woes are fairly young and do not remember occupy wall street, trump showed up got voted in because of an underlining issue that has not gone away, i think once people realize that, which they will. they might actually be angry. unless of course they are not working class people or have never been raised by working class parents. they then may be insulated from normal everyday struggles like trying to provide for a family with a blue collar job, one that use to pay the bills. not everyone had the opportunity to get a college degree. but they are still important to our economy. ignore that as a politician or repeatedly lie to those people and chaos seems to ensue.
> As a user of OSS, the project owner owes me nothing at all

That is not how human relations work. If you give away free lemonade on you driveway it has to be drinkable. The "not fit for any particular purpose" is legaleaze BS and everyone knows it.

Of course there has to be rim and reason. And any project can be marked as "abandoned" or whatever, etc. But a FOSS project do owe the users honesty, or being called out for it.
Is this something to be worried about? I also see more and more things in the field of geography , especially data visualisation, to start living in browsers and most people default to Chrome.
Jay-Z's Marcy Venture Partners just closed its second fund with $325M
I had dozens of Bitcoins in 2010 when you could mine them like they were nothing. I lost them all and didn't care, because.. worthless. RIGHT?

I weep daily for my zombie coins.
What is wrong with microformats2? I've been using hRecipe on my personal website for awhile.
Linux distros suck the least when something goes wrong. Both Windows and MacOS fail in inscrutable ways and have required me to do complete reinstalls in the past, whereas on Linux there's usually some sort of forum discussion or Arch wiki page that will get you back on the right track.

It's a big reason I like Linux.
The lock-in has existed for years, regardless of where the app is running.
What do you not like?
It's worth remembering again why we don't do this. Even if you fully trust whoever is running the MITM server, being that it's MITMing all of your comms, and it's on a server so it's actually a lot of people's comms, it's a massively tempting target for all sorts of bad actors. Plenty of governments and criminal gangs would just love to compromise that for all sorts of reasons. Odds are one of them will eventually.

For all you know, someone else on the server is a high-value target for somebody, and if they compromise the server to get their comms, they may not be very picky about what happens to the private communications of everyone else on that server.
I like how it shows 100% of drop outs have a negative ROI.

I guess dropping out before getting my computer science degree means I didn't get any benefit, or make any money writing software.

(Guessing the assumption here is maybe that I'd still have gotten the same career with no college education at all, but I don't think that's accurate in my case.)
All the bridges (and the matrix server itself of course) are self-hostable.
If you know a problem is hard and the consequences for doing it wrong are potentially serious, it would be irrational to not consider selecting a well-managed third party solution. Being a hacker doesn't mean being all-knowing and the best hacks are done with the knowledge of human limits (both of the hacker and of the maker of the system being hacked).
The exact same thing could be said for the American Republic. There are millions of people living below the poverty line, a stratified society in both financial and political terms, and widespread racism and sexism.

Also, common to Rome is the notion that they are a special people who deserve dominion over the rest of the world. It might be shrouded in more egalatarian language (cue the exporting "freedom" talk) but barely so.
Heaven forbid someone should study something for any reason other than money. I'm pretty sure humanities majors realize they're not maximizing their expected salary.
True. This is a really a story of the "Fuck you, I got mine" generation.

Power and phone was run for free pretty much everywhere. Now they want 80K for a line and a pole.

This is the same story for internet access.
BLS says half of employees get 10 days off, meaning half get less...
If you're up for it there's a lot of fiddly work you can do to make your windows serial device exposed with a RFC2217 network server and then mapped as a serial device inside your container. Can see the basic idea here: https://gist.github.com/DraTeots/e0c669608466470baa6c You'd want to use hub4com to go serial device -> network server on windows and then socat or ser2net inside the container to go network server -> serial device. I agree though it is entirely too complicated and much more of a pain than it should be in practice.
> making anything that CAN be used for surveillance is normalizing surveillance

It is. Anything that can be abused will be abused, especially by governments. Companies rolling out clearly problematic technology adds legitimacy to them, it makes them normal.

> They have been taught nothing but capitalism, they know nothing but chase money.

Nobody is "taught" capitalism, it is imposed on them. We want to live comfortable, happy lives. We want to have influence in this world. It's not like some trillionaire is gonna come to me and just give me all that.
@work we do most of our new development in rust and did so since 2019, its quite a lot more than stellar than most other things we work(ed) with, and we had some interpreted dynamic and some compiled C stuff, its an improvement from either direction..

While at work I'm doing more software development I originally studied comp. eng. and dabbled around quite a bit with embedded systems, mainly in C, ASM and tinyOS with its nesC dialect+framework. Rust is a god send in lots of areas there too, you can establish zero-cost (well some compile cost, but zero runtime ones) contracts and static guarantees with the type systems, like disallowing that code that would produce a register pull up/down configuration with a short-circuit from happening, or shared access to resources can also be done in such ways. Check the respective chapter of the rust embedded book for more info:

https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/static-guarantees/index....
The centralized root of trust is what really turns me away from Apple these days. Why should I put my faith in the world's largest corporation? Are all my eggs safer in this basket? Is this one 'too big to fail' now?
Thank you for the helpful contribution. Truly extraordinary.
While the software support is there to run bridges to many other communications services, the actual bridges are direct agreements worked out between the various comporations and non-profits. You would have to be important enough to start such a dialog and relationship if you wanted to run the bridging features locally. So, don't expect to bridge to Libera IRC just because there's a software option.

You can always run bots, but that's not a real bridge like what is being described here.