skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Record number of workers switch to jobs with better working conditions, pay, and benefits.”

I don't see why that has to be necessarily the case from that data.

2021 also saw the introduction of vaccine mandates for many jobs, we saw sectors like healthcare, accommodations&food services, and logistics struggle to fill their labor demand due to the pandemic;

> Quits increased in several industries with the largest increases in accommodation and food services (+159,000); health care and social assistance (+52,000); and transportation, warehousing, and utilities (+33,000).

+159,000 people quit accommodations and food services, yet;

> Job openings decreased in several industries with the largest decreases in accommodation and food services (-261,000)

The sector lost more jobs than people quit, which points into the direction of people not willingly quitting for a better job, but people not finding jobs in the sector, at least with the terms they want, due to lost jobs in the sector.
Parallel construction is also used to launder electronic surveillance sources, so wiretap is just as likely. Although running machine vision on every picture in google maps does sound like something the sigint people would do.
Or maybe part of the password, and give the other part to the intended recipient now. So that your lawyer/executor/banker can't get into everything if they get breached/criminal/warrant.
Electron does not weigh 300+ MB for starter, and one means basically statically linking your app so that it ships with its own dependencies and works more consistently, while the other means shipping a language because the one you have to use is not implemented properly by the platform, pretty different things when you look at them. I'll give you though that in both cases you are shipping a big engine with your app, so it kinda sounds like the same thing.
Note that this is showing household incomes, not individual incomes. Household used to mean 1 working family member, now it's closer to 2 due in large part by more women joining the workforce. If you had a traditional family with one working spouse, they would definitely be falling behind.

If you look at the source below for men's wages (for example), the real wage has fallen by 3% for the median male since 1979 (and by 10% real decline for the bottom 10%). That's not even accounting for the fact that housing should make up a higher % of the consumption basket for the lowest-paid workers (as compared to CPI).

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R45090.pdf
So basically it was not worth their time. Why is this framed as a success and not a failure?
> I think it's a bit old fashioned honestly.

My backup is "the cloud". It's a remote store of my stuff.

I've got about 6tb of local storage attached to my two machines. I couldn't afford Google Drive or similar for that.
Although never formally diagnosed I'm pretty sure I have/had long covid. I had mild covid in the summer, and it never fully went away, but what was left was inability to recall facts, brutal short term memory, and waking up with pounding pounding head aches that would not go away no matter how much Tylenol I took. Honestly it was awful, working was so difficult. It started to clear up about 2 months ago, around the same time I switch from Tylenol to Advil, and also started rubbing high CBD cream on my head daily. Headaches are now at about once a week, and last a lot less time, memory is getting better. I also decided to spend long period of time listening to familiar music from high school and college. My memory is pretty auditory, I thought maybe it would somehow help with recall. There was a time there that I genuinely worried about getting back to normal in terms of being able to work hard. I'm not exactly sure what this paper is about, but I'd love to get back to normal. :\
Yes...with a lot of asterixes.

Ask anyone who worked in retail for a long time. When they replaced the point of sale and catalog search systems in the early 2000's, everyone's productivity plummeted.

They replaced old, DOS/Norton-style keyboard-only systems with a legion of shortcuts and archaic codes with Web-based touch-screen or mouse-based UIs with modern UX etc.

The new technology was obviously more modern and allowed faster training, and it's hard to imagine any world where that upgrade doesn't happen. But the old system was faster, and allowed experienced users to do more.

Now, if you're talking about a Blockbuster Video, maybe it's the right choice.

But if you're talking about extremely specialized semiconductor manufacturing, maybe you stick with the highly optimized system that works. Some things changed a lot since 1987. Others haven't.
>If I am right, I'm curious to know why this is happening now.

Sometimes, you need a shock to the system to precipitate change. In the US, I was seeing labor supply was getting tight throughout the 2010s, and labor prices were rising for years, but the pandemic shutdown and benefits provided a great catalyst to spur the change that needed to happen to force a change in the price negotiations of labor sellers and labor buyers.

I can only hope this change continues and we see more labor price transparency, and more movement in labor markets eventually resulting in reduction of income/wealth gaps.
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> It's not like we are running low on examples of 1000+ years buildings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_century_in_architecture). These castles, cathedrals, farms, were built to last, so it's appropriate to use them as examples.

This is an easy place to run in to a survivorship bias problem - pick a random 1000 year old farmhouse. How many farmhouses built exactly the same way didn't last for various reasons? Is the fact that one is still standing due to luck, or was it destined to last 1000 years the day it was built?
> Or (which is afaik the default in Germany) run the fab with three 8 hour shifts per day.

That seems reasonable, as long as workers have a stable schedule rather than the 'flex time' insanity that plagues many US workplaces.

That said, I imagine there are productivity tradeoffs between fresher workers (esp. at end of shift) vs. more handoffs between shifts and higher headcount of both workers and managers (so more communication overhead). How does that work out in practice?
“Decompose” being the tail end of the deterioration process, with the usable period being far shorter.
In my opinion it's not about dealing with junior developers or even having the ability to understand it. I've been programming for 25 years and to me it's about cognitive load. I despise tricks like this because they put a much higher strain on the programmer. Software is hard enough, let's not make it harder.

If I can look at a piece of code and it's quickly obvious whether it is correct or not is my favorite type of code...
The need isn't common, but there are some real uses. The top answer of this SO thread (I didn't read the rest, so there may be more goodies) has some good discussion of use cases including comparison to non-metaclass approaches to the same problems.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/392160/what-are-some-con...
But again, these complicated problems tend to be handled by well educated and experienced specialists. The reasons behind why it's not possible to do for the 747, but is with a search engine deal with complexity. There's far too many pieces for one person to handle, no matter how skilled.

For a single person to be able to do everything (not familiar with your examples, so I can't speak to the truth of it, but accepting your premise), the implementation must be sufficiently simple. You CANNOT provide an adequate solution to a slew of technical problems by yourself. There are many topics in SW Eng that CANNOT be done by a single person. Impossible. You can build a plane by hand by yourself. People do all the time. I had a boss that did. Sure he's buying parts and not eg designing the body himself, but no one ever really did.

At one point there were no planes, but over time we learned to do it better and better. At every step engineers were learning the ropes from industry veterans, then adding their own innovations. Not that different from a guy putting together a plane from parts. You could point to more complicated areas where harder technical concepts are applied, but that really just works the same. You learn x software, and y methods (again from the veterans NOT from Uni), then you add your innovations.

You think Boeing is designing all their parts, on one team? No it's mostly people cobbling together parts from suppliers and other teams, digging under the hood for some things, tweaking similar designs, managing, "business stuff", ect. That's the vast majority of engineering, even outside of software. A high percentage of people won't touch the stuff they learned in school, or just a tiny piece of it. They're getting most of their information from the professional greybeards from within their industry.

I do agree that things are a bit different in software engineering, but not by as much as you seem to think. We could probably get a lot of traditional engineering prospects off the ground with an intensive camp. This makes a lot more sense in software for a variety of reasons (IMO mainly because there's SO MUCH of this kind of work to do), but I don't agree that it's impossible in other engineering domains.

It seems like you'd have to make a comparison that is not apples to apples, eg. comparing a master/phd educated, highly-specialized ME to an entry level software engineer. A better comparison is comparing a run-of-the-mill developer to a basic ME working in a plant. Things aren't so different there. You can also compare a specialized SW Eng, eg. working on algorithms themselves to the kind of aerospace engineers your picturing. Things don't look so different then, I think.
I had all my toiletry containers, specifically chosen because they were 100ml, confiscated because they "looked big" to the agent. The agent literally said they "looked like 110ml versions". I had like 4 total.
I don't do anything because it's trendy and I don't use Stack Overflow, but I have used Rust in a project. Its popularity with me is 100% merit-based. In fact, the project failed only because of management not understanding its value and me being unable to communicate to them why Rust is superior.

The language ultimately chosen for the project ended up being 100% a political contest, and that language was not Rust.
Unfortunately I think any anti inflammatory is not recommended when you get a vaccine. You want the immune system to be fully armed. That is my recollection from googling when I got my vaccines.

Just hang in there you’ll feel better soon.
Observational studies, which are much more frequent than randomized trials and just as effective, if not more.
If you're not going for a speedrun and just proceeding at a casual rate it works pretty well to start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3zvVGJrTP8 in the background. Back when this came out I used to challenge my son to get it docked safely before the music stopped. He was almost 4 at the time so it was a pretty good challenge to finish it in under 4 minutes.
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More than PR and goodwill, I'd say the actual bill is Uber's responsibility as well. The driver and transportation company should be on top of weather and highway safety and be responsible for making the right judgement calls. As a rider who just landed at the airport in an unknown city I shouldn't have to tell Uber whether they should be offering rides under the current conditions or not. They quoted me a ride for $X, and that is what I expect to pay.
Yeah, you're right. Governments could do both. It's just that I've never seen a major nation actually punish the banking corporations. Iceland's move was impressive though.

I don't appreciate your gross stereotype but I do understand it. It may suprise you to learn theres a minority of people that actually use bitcoin as a currency. I've used bitcoin for fun since 2011 and as a currency since 2013. I didn't get rich because I'm not an investor. I don't play around with exchanges and other finance stuff. I just pay for my dot com domains, VPS rent, and buy new computer hardware with it on the blockchain. It's fairly currency-like from my end of the elephant. I completely agree what's going on with financial style scams offchain is nasty and pretty much every "cryptocurrency" created since 2015 has been a pre-mine scam of some abstraction or another.
I don’t think the parent response is correct, though, if by profit (colloquially) we go by earnings that could be distributed to shareholders.

Sure, gross profit would not include either of those expenses. But operating profit would subtract research and development (e.g. the salaries and bonuses of the engineers working on the next process node) and depreciation on new factory (i.e. the cost of the new factory spread out over its useful lifetime - though it doesn’t include a factory under construction). Then you subtract interest and taxes to get to net profit. And TSMC has net profit margins of 39% in 2020!
The global chain will "win" but transactions made in the local chain can be retried in the global chain after the networks rejoin so long as there are no conflicts. Absent deliberate or accidental double-spending, the biggest source of conflicts would be the mining rewards from the local chain since these rewards never existed in the global chain and cannot be carried over. There is a 100-block waiting period before mining rewards can be spent specifically to avoid this issue for shorter-term forks, but it could still be a problem in the event of sustained network fragmentation.

On the bright side, it's not necessary to have full Internet connectivity to keep the local chain in sync with the global chain. A single local node with access to the global blockchain (via a VPN or dedicated satellite receiver[0] or multiple upstream Internet connections near the border) can ensure that the local chain is constantly synchronized with the global one, and even forward local transactions for inclusion in the global blockchain.

[0] https://blockstream.com/satellite/
This is a good summary.

I run both authoritative (nsd) and resolving (unbound) nameservers. They require literally zero maintenance. Before nsd, I ran djbdns, which also required zero maintenance. I've run BIND, back in the dark ages. Rumor has it that BIND doesn't suck any more, but I've seen no reason to confirm.

If you are able keep sshd up and running on your hosted or colo'ed server, you have the skills required to run a nameserver reliably. It's that easy. I recommend nsd and/or unbound.

If the article does not persuade you that you want to do so, then don't bother. But if you do want to, don't be dissuaded by assuming it will be difficult.
> Regarding the different collation algorithms: The unicode variants should be slower than the general variant due to the more complex algorithms, but this was years ago when computers were much weaker than now. With modern hardware, the speed gain should be hardly notable.

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> Furthermore, we should prefer accuracy over speed. There is no need to use an old and quirky collation like utf8mb4_general_ci with modern hardware.

This is kind of oversimplified and depends a lot on your use case. Performance can absolutely matter even with modern hardware. There is no one-size-fits-all collation that is best in all scenarios, if there was, we really wouldn't need the option to choose.

If you have a thousand rows in your table, sure, use whatever. If you have a billion rows in your table, things are different and you may not be able to afford leaving performance on the table.
Update:

I went down the rabbit hole: Tried calling insurance, and the concierge 3rd party servicer was helpful. (Big factor: plan is "Platinum+" plan).

After 1 hour on the phone, the concierge provided the best priced "negotiated" facility rates nearby. So now we know what is available. One price was 75% below the price quoted by the original facility after scheduling. However, now we need search the doctors with surgery privileges in the price-competitive facilities.

I can't believe I am going to say this but I think at this point I'm ready to proceed with Cashpay. Can I email you for guidance ? (i don't want to disclose procedure here).
Wish we could re-discover how to produce Roman Concrete, which has already proven its long-lasting efficacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete.
Having two things when combined hybrids exist and work well is anathema to simplified travel.

If your travel pattern is home to car to airport to hotel and back, a wheeled bag is a great idea. Again, there's a reason why they are so popular.
Do you have any substantive critique to offer of the various lemmas established throughout the piece, which refers to itself as “an argument and petition for plurality under Ockham’s Razor?”

Or do you rely solely on appeals to authority when filtering signal from noise? I’ve noticed throughout this pandemic that many arguments supported on such a weak basis have later been disproven or severely undercut by further evidence.

Some examples: the virus likely leaked from a lab (at some time); masks reduce transmission; the virus is airborne; there is no sterilizing vaccine; vaccinated people can catch and transmit Covid; vaccines have waning efficacy; “fully vaccinated” will eventually turn to “recently vaccinated;” the mRNA vaccines can lead to myocarditis to such a degree that their risk may not outweigh their benefit for some age groups; a variant will eventually emerge with a high degree of immune escape…

There are many examples of conspiracy theories becoming mainstream narrative months later. So while many of them remain conspiracy theories, and the information environment continues to be overwhelmingly noisy, it seems imprudent to discount a source based on appeal to an authority that has been so consistently wrong, sometimes even willfully so (like when CDC lied that “masks don’t work” in order to save them for healthcare workers).
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> My understanding is also that Bush, Powell, Rice and Rumsfeld are treated equally to Blair by some people.

That's unfortunate. The fact of the matter is that it was Cheney and Rumsfeld who personally architected the lie. Bush, Blair, et al, deserve plenty of blame for abrogating the duties of their leadership, but the history lesson here is that you don't ever let people like Cheney and Rumsfeld through the front door. Not because they're malicious (I admittedly always found Rumsfeld's politics beguiling), but because they're instigators and prime movers that won't hesitate to abuse power for their desired ends. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Notably, the Bush campaign and administration had plenty of warning (including from conservatives) about who they were inviting into their inner circle. That, of course, makes Bush doubly culpable for a failure in leadership. But Bush's failures are of a different kind, and if we equivocate with those of Cheney, Rumsfeld, and their undersecretaries, we'll have learned nothing.
Funnily enough I have a credit card sized (well, roughly triple thickness) thing in my wallet, never occurred to me before now, hasn't been flagged in X-ray yet. (I suppose now I'll remove it if I remember though.)
This doesn't have much to do with cyclists but with planning: taking the vast majority of available street area and designating it to cars while letting cyclists and pedestrians share what little remains naturally causes conflict between the two. If you want this to get better demand better, fully separated cycling infrastructure and vote accordingly. (still look out for those bikes until then though, take care!)
Because he got to learn and to experience something he wanted. Why not?
I recently learned about this. We're thinking of using them with our project really soon. Are there any gotchas to be aware of with it?
You've discovered transducers (which I think have a rather horrible and confusing for newcomers higher-order function presentation in the language that popularized them, i.e. Clojure, when they could just be lists)! All transducers are is a function `x -> List(x)` and then you can use other functions such as `flatMap` to apply them (as your example illustrates nicely this is why map, filter, and its combination can all be described as single transducers).

You do have to make sure that your implementation of list is extremely efficient on zero and one element lists (ideally it generates no garbage at all in those cases) otherwise as other commentators have pointed out you'll have a lot of GC pressure.

And even though the transducer itself is `x -> List(x)` note that the `List` is only produced as an intermediate step and doesn't need to exist in the final product. You could apply a `x -> List(x)` to a generator for example and just "absorb" the list back into the resulting generator.
We also don't make all our decisions in life based upon research.

If I eat something and it upsets my stomach, I'm not going to commission a study on it. I'm just gonna avoid eating it.
IPv4 vs IPv6 doesn't change anything in this regard.
the project page doesn't anything about supported languages ?
I lost a tiny SAK -- the keychain size -- a while back, and it turned out it was stuck in a weird crease in the bottom of my computer bag.

I found it, most of a year later, when TSA finally noticed it. I had flown with it "lost" in the bag literally dozens of times.
Wow. Just wow.

Really terrible to hear this. You aren't fucking around with this, but it's still not enough. $400 a month on filters is insane.

Thanks for that article. Very eye-opening.

I hope you get out of there soon, but I can't imagine the guilt you feel for the citizens left behind. Horrible.
That link appears to be great data (based on reading the summary). Bookmarked to read in more detail later, but saying "thanks!" now.

It appears that the 10th percentile male income has decreased by 7.7% [rather than 10%] in the 40 year period from 1979-2019, if I'm reading the page 4 content correctly.
There simply wouldn't be the normal volume of traffic on the roads if that interstate was closed. People would call off work and not drive to schools. The local roads will do fine with the remainder of people who absolutely cannot get off work during a blizzard, probably emergency workers. Plenty of major interstates that see huge volumes of traffic endure closures and the local community just responds accordingly.
Because Microsoft is not a company that can be trusted; while they limit themselves to their OS it is fine, it is not our business. But once they start to tamper with the hardware the competing OS-es are running on, they can't be trusted. History shows they will use all available measures to take advantage to harm the competition.
Because the term “exit” has a different meaning to those that haven’t actually run / managed a startup. Same reason you see kudos to startups for their exit or acquisition, when the reality is they were going under and or where an acquihire. Not that it’s bad, but it’s not the crazy exit they project it to be.
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