skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People not working being paid for existing at a time when the real economy went into cardiac arrest by every measure of actual productivity.

Are people still on this canard?

As a reminder, if people were paid by their measure of actual productivity, minimum wage would be $24/hr (see: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/what-the-minimum-wag...)

Another reminder, these are the relief payments made to Americans over one year:

March 27, 2020: The payments for the first checks were $1,200
December 2020: The payments for the second checks were $600.
March 2021: The payments for the third checks was $1,400.

Total payments over a year: $3,200

A total of $850 billion was disbursed. The total payments work out to $266.66/month. I don't understand how disconnected people have to be to be angry over $266.66/month.

Compare that disbursement with PPP loans. I don't see the same gnashing of teeth over the forgiven loans (remember a lot of them were not used for their intended purpose):

https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/covid-19-relief-o...

Data as of January 23, 2022
Total PPP volume (2020-2021) $790 billion
Applications for forgiveness $688 billion

And "paying people to exist" amount is completely dwarfed by corporate bailouts and tax breaks:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/corona...

More than half of the $4 trillion approved by Congress this spring was targeted to businesses ...

Much of the money was issued to companies regardless of whether they were impacted by the pandemic or used it to pay employees.

The bill included $651 billion in business tax breaks that often went to companies unaffected by the pandemic and others that laid off thousands of workers. The Cheesecake Factory, for example, furloughed 41,000 people, and said it will claim a tax break worth $50 million.

...

Billions more went to the Federal Reserve to help stabilize markets, and those efforts enabled many companies — including Wells Fargo, AT&T and Carnival, the cruise company — to borrow at lower rates while also laying off thousands of workers.

...

More than 210 hotel owners received PPP funds, for example, and have yet to rehire most of their staffs, according to Unite Here, the union whose members staff the properties. Among them: Omni Hotels & Resorts, a chain controlled by Texas billionaire Robert Rowling. A group of Omni properties received between $30 million and $71 million from the PPP while also furloughing workers and cutting off their health insurance coverage.

All data in:
https://www.covidmoneytracker.org/

So please, lets stop it with this right wing nonsense that people were paid to not work while ignoring the rest.
Past related threads—but I seem to remember that there were others as well. Anybody?

Discovering an Equation for Altruism Cost George Price Everything (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14572742 - June 2017 (6 comments)

George Price: The man who died trying to prove selflessness doesn’t exist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12489819 - Sept 2016 (2 comments)

George Price, Who Tried to Prove Selflessness Doesn’t Exist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9529947 - May 2015 (31 comments)
Depending on that delay, it could be a significant security problem. A known (n-day) vulnerability is still very useful when software has a lag in updating there components.
That's a very simplistic (and ideological) view.

World's leading country in inflation, Venezuela, has terrible wages.

Inflation makes people overworked, by forcing them so sell under fair price. Wages are sticky, prices are not.

That salaries are picking up doesn't mean real salaries have improved. They have not.
MDs have years of schooling through accredited institutions behind them, easily verifiable. There is nothing similar for software engineers - there is no standard curriculum, the average curriculum has little to do with what you do day-to-day.
These two companies destroy thousands of businesses with each update of their policies or operating systems and we have just come to accept, in some cases even endorse, this tragic state of affairs.
FWIW it seems like option 1 should actually be

const activeProducts =
Product.all().filterActive()
const activeHouseProducts = Category.match(activeProducts, "house")
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/court-finds-...
> diversity is often lacking in situations with bad people

Do you mean, like, ethnic crime gangs? Those come in white flavors too.

You, and GP, are just making stuff up that confirms your prejudices. You have no evidence of what you're saying whatsoever! All you're doing is stringing sentences together. What if I find one team of ten whites who are great to work with (say you're, I dunno Tongan?) and a team with every Benneton stripe who suck?

The kind of thinking you two are promoting here just throws that information right out the window, in favor of, what? Bad heuristics?

What should we call that? Stereotyping, right?

This is people's livelihood you're messing with here.
The Racket Guide: Vim
The test is right because it tests for the fact that lower case letters have a smaller representation as an ASCII character position. There is probably a ton of scripting and other software out there that assumes that this is how things are sorted. You also want a stable sort meaning sorting the same sequence twice you want it to be sorted the exact same way again. So you need this sort of definition of how things are supposed to be sorted.

So while I agree that without historical context and compatibility for human consumption your way of sorting is probably fine, you could wreak major havoc when trying your sort as a drop in replacement. If you only have a few users change management for something like this is relatively easy. The user base of coreutils? Think twice if you want to try that change management.
Wikipedia link for those curious:

Rangaku (Kyūjitai: 蘭學/Shinjitai: 蘭学, literally "Dutch learning", and by extension "Western learning") is a body of knowledge developed by Japan through its contacts with the Dutch enclave of Dejima, which allowed Japan to keep abreast of Western technology and medicine in the period when the country was closed to foreigners from 1641 to 1853 because of the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of national isolation (sakoku).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangaku

Also for any Ghost in the Shell fans, I'm fairly certain that the refugee island Dejima is a reference to the Dutch trading post in Nagasaki.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejima
People forget that (1) women are not a minority, and (2) that tech is one of the kost diverse industries (full of Asians, Indians, immigrants, …)
Pssst… don’t work for “tech” companies in big German cities - work for old-school manufacturing firms in second-tier metro areas like Nürnberg and Braunschweig. Salaries are close to Munich/Berlin, housing is much closer to sane (but still rather fizzy at the moment, buy with caution!), and they’re grasping for any data scientist or DevOps engineer they can get ahold of (among others). German competence is a plus, but the only mandatory thing is that you show a willingness to learn some.

Advantage of old-school manufacturing IT/dev jobs in Germany: the ones paying less than about 90k EUR are covered by the IG-Metall union rules - 35/40 hour workweek (depending on your contract) that your employer is terrified of letting you exceed, plus 30 days vacation.
Unemployment would have fallen regardless, because the April 2020 spike was 100% triggered by politicians ruling activity restrictions

As soon as the restrictions were lifted, companies started hiring again

It was never ever ever a demand problem, only of supply.

Unfortunately, people are too ideological and blind to diagnose issues correctly.
I follow this advice with one small modification. Namely, mine goes:

- Make it once.
- Make it right.
- Make it fast.

"Make it right" as the first step can trick an unseasoned developer into never finishing a prototype. I don't mind the first iteration of something being sloppy and then pursuing correctness with an existing solution to the problem in hand.

I'm curious if you've got a sense of the interplay between prototyping and correctness similar to your sense of the interplay between performance tuning and correctness? Any thoughts?
Not a parent then lol

Also, freedom of association doesn't refer to who a child can befriend or date. It refers to their ability to participate in causes that affect them, such as volunteering with NGOs.

What you're proposing is extreme by even Norway's standards.
If you're not confident driving on a slick surface; take the opportunity during a storm like this to go find an empty parking lot and get some experience.

Minor traction loss is rarely a big deal and often can be a lot of fun; but we don't teach people what to do in that situation so many just freeze up in panic. Go play "skid pad" with you car in a safer, controlled situation and at lower speeds, get some idea what happens and how you can regain control when it does.

"Slow down" is good advice too; impact energy scales with the square of velocity.
Can you quantify the impact on climate change that PoW is going to have if we don't act against it immediately?
Somehow I think Symbian and Ovi Store had them before both of those, but so is life.
>I think it’s naive to say that a couple stimulus checks and some unemployment is responsible for high consumer spending.

It is naive - because people go off the outrage posts and ignore reality. Stimulus checks were disbursed between March 2020 and March 2021 - it's been almost a year since the last stimulus and people are still harping on it.
I use this keyboard because it does not have emoji. I have never used emojis in my life. I cannot figure out half the emojis that I get on Signal because I can't zoom in to see what it is. I do wish this keyboard had better spell correction though.
> The sort of person who has nothing better to spend an extra $600 on than a Peloton is the sort of person who wasn't eligible for the stimulus in the first place.

That's not true at all. The cutoff for a married couple to get stimulus checks was 150k combined per year, which is a lot of money in the majority of the country. I was making 135k, 40k more than the median income for my state, and my wife and I got thousands of dollars in stimulus money. We ended up each buying $1200 Herman-Miller office chairs since we were stuck at home on our computers all day.
Prometheus supported a JSON representation in the beginning. It was deprecated and removed before 1.0. The current exposition format was created because it cut CPU and memory for scraping metrics in half.

JSON, especially free-form JSON, is not a good format for efficient metrics monitoring.
If you needed to do low level systems programming in Rust would you be able to use this as an OS abstraction layer by importing these sorts of things: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/main/src/uu/chmod/s...

Is this one of the intentions of this team? It sounds like it could make "scripting" in rust very nice if all of the CLI functions you're used to exist as language libraries.
And yet, in much cheaper Poland and even further much cheaper Ukraine software engineers easily make the same or higher amount. There is a popular topic on Ukrainian language developers forum dou.ua where they laugh about European IT salaries, exposing the obvious truth that living standards of developers there are several times lower than in Ukraine, and in the Valley, they are at best the same.

That said, it's quite likely that Putin will have the last laugh.
Google heard you, Google don't care.
The data backs this up too.
Which Google product are you competing with?
> The majority are text-only portfolios.

Yeah... 512 KB is a lot of bytes for text-only website. For text-only sites the threshold should be much lower. Like ten times lower. 50 KB club anyone?
I hope the piece wasn't a total turn-off for you. "Uptight" is a subjective judgment and a comparative judgment but I think the author is hitting on something real - though different people might perceive or phrase it in different ways.

Do you think Alexandria might feel uptight compared to Anacostia and Benning Road? The author is partly expressing a comparative judgment - that's kind of the point, going for a walk in a much poorer black neighborhood vs strolling past the perimeter of Old Town Alexandria.

One expression of what I might call "uptightness" that you might hear from DC area residents is an overt fear of even driving through certain DC neighborhoods (or maybe even Southeast as a whole!), as if they were active war zones and not just a place where the signs of low social maintenance and low-income lives of black people are unmistakably visible. It makes sense, the crime stats are worse; most people have no reason to visit these neighborhoods and see what they're like; everyone has heard stories about how bad DC was decades ago and these neighborhoods hold the bad reputation.

In my opinion, people being "uptight" in this way is a mix of "common sense" (maybe it doesn't reflect reality, but if people act like it does they really pay no price) and "hysteria" (other people told me I ought to be extremely afraid, so I will be). [scare quotes added to emphasize that these are my subjective judgments and, imo, inescapably subjective.]
lichess.org is the only domain I recognized on this list
Maybe. But it could equally just go up again next month. Nobody can predict the future of the stock market reliably.
>I think it's naive to say that 6 TRILLION dollars of stimulus and a sharp rise in inflation that followed it is unrelated

$850 billion was distributed to Americans via stimulus checks (over a year, amounting to aboutn $266/month).

The remainder (5 TRILLION) was distributed to corporations and the Feds plunge protection team.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/corona...

...
Billions more went to the Federal Reserve to help stabilize markets, ...
Munich is very expensive for German standards. 60k gross is not a lot of money there.

Zurich or SF are still on a different level of course.
64k or 128k would be more interesting, I also think that 512k is very generous.
The sad thing is the fact Google has (almost?) no customer support.

Don't buy or pay for their services. Perhaps one day if they improved, but most likely, as with all they do, it will be terminated/canceled soon after away.
DevOps originally means a method. It is not a position or a job. But that doesn't stop companies to say, there are looking for an "DevOps engineer" or similar. The definition is vague at best.

Some seem to think a "DevOps" is a developer who knows how to administrate servers (or vice versa), as a modern term for a general IT person who can do anything, from programming, to firewall administration and repairing the printer.

Another definition is more specific, DevOps means in this case: working with CI/CD tools, programming "infrastructure as code" (Terraform, Ansible, etc) and doing all things "agile". This job is mostly cloud focussed.
Ok, because it's weekend!
I can imagine a whole series of quite amusing articles of that form, but it would probably not be a good idea to take it too far. When it got to "Could a Particle Physicist Understand Birds?" and ended up with the physicist building and using a Large Heron Collider people would probably get rather upset.
I appreciate your moderation and I've attempted something reparative: a much more substantive and engaging response.
tldr; Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I
do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given
week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

Office Space (1999)
Your assertion assumes that demand would not have contracted in April 2020 absent government intervention, which seems suspect. Unless you believe no one would have adopted any pandemic precautions absent activity restrictions, thereby averting any demand drop in, say, the entertainment and hospitality sectors.
It does, as many times as there are binaries.
One of the most interesting aspects to this, I find, is how they set aside their own age-old teachings and beliefs when someone else's proved more accurate. Their willingness and the effort it must have cost to test if it was is already very impressive.
The USA is not short of labor it is short of trained labor especially in the trades and hospitality industries. Illegal immigration in the last decade decimated participation in those industries and many people turned to drugs and made themselves unemployable. College level training is excellent but hands on training especially at the community college level needs to be revamped. The USA issues over one million green cards per year far more than any where else.
Meritocracy is an ideal that is almost by definition unachievable. Like freedom, equality, etc. It’s a very worthy ideal.
Now that is something I fully agree with.
It might not apply for the whole project, but it certainly does apply for each individual per-command functionality (cp, mv, or even the general cross-command features like the filesystem interface).
Google should be forced and compelled to accept everything in F-Droid into the Play store.

Google ought to have to appeal for removals from this avenue, and that process should be intentionally difficult.

F-Droid developers should be able to opt out, of course, but this constraint placed upon Google would bring many developers and apps back that have (unfairly) faced the night of the long knives.
It does vary, but I wouldn't describe Managing Director as a team lead. In the UK it was often equivalent to CEO. It could be the head of a business unit.
For new flags, this is easily solved by generating and compiling (via generic monomorphization, macros or build-time code generation) two versions of all the relevant code (including of course any loops calling the relevant code) and switching the one that is executed depending on the value of the flag.
Yeah, I see the pun. But leaving the GPL license is a very bad idea in my opinion. If we have to rest son shoulder of giant, I'd prefer them being made of concrete, not dust. Coreutils are really a common and should be protected against appropriation.

Depending on how much a rewrite it is, GNU's intellectual property may be enforced at some point. But that's a tricky question for a lawyer. If it were me, I'd have asked GNU first.
As someone that has to interview people quite often I would be completely fine with this, the interviewee should definitely feel free to use it to their advantage. I look at it two ways
1) They knew the answer the first time and thus they still know it now, no need to discount their knowledge
2) They didn’t know the answer the first time and they took the time for their own benefit to figure it out after the interview. This demonstrates some level of accountability that employers appreciate.
A bit disingenuous to complain that the most expensive city is expensive. Just move somewhere else.

Also, that equation changes completely if you have a family and kids and don't need to shell out (or save for) annual 5-6 digit day care or private school / college funds.
It absolutely does. Each utility is a program all by itself and the compatibility tests apply to each and every one of them. How fast they are is not relevant until they are 100% drop in replacements.
It is not the first effort to do so, hopefully this one has more wind to come through.
The thing about F-Droid is that you can add alternative repositories that allow you to host the APKs yourself without also writing an update mechanism. Hell, you can even get around the open source requirements F-Droid puts in place that way.

Every app store will try to get rid of applications that make the store's life harder, that's why the ability to add repositories is such an important (and underrated) feature.
Surely you don't mean the code in the OP takes you 15 minutes to compile in release mode; it's a 100-line file with no dependencies, and no macros or generics to hide codegen behind, and can't take more than an instant to compile. To get to a 15-minute-long release build you'd either need a very large amount of code or you may be attempting extensive type-level programming that rustc was not designed to support. You may also want to try swapping out your linker; ditching the system linker for gold or lld can have dramatic results if you're bottlenecked on the link stage.
> I should have seen what happened to Jeremy Corybn in the UK and treated it as a canary in the coal mine.

Brexit was a canary for Trump but that was also ignored

Certain groups have used the UK to refine their methods (cambridge analytica etc) to use on the big prize.
Way off target (sorry) but I wonder when consumer Chromebook-like devices running Fushia will be generally available.

It is partly because of some dissatisfaction with Apple that I have been looking kindly at Chromebooks. For the price of a magic keyboard cover for an iPad Pro, I bought a Lenovo Chromebook last year (including a keyboard cover with trackpad and pen stylus) that does fine for enjoying all types of media, and if I don’t run anything else then the Linux container system is adequate for some light weight development.

If Fushia ends up being good, I look forward to something like a Chromebook that uses it.
And a large drop in the real value of outstanding debts, which is great for the mortgage-holding, non-credit-extending middle class
Sorta, I would say it's an evolution of varz.

IIRC (it's been almost a decade since I used varz), having multiple label values would be a map of maps in varz. It got quite ugly if you wanted to have a number of dimensions.
We also have a certificate transparency system to detect misissuance, and some precedent for economically ruining CAs who break the public's trust.

I'm not sure what would happen, though, if someone claimed that a CA had issued a certificate for their domain without permission. Assuming they could detect this and get the certificate revoked quickly, any attack could at least be stopped (after the damage had potentially already been done).

You're right, though, that there's little incentive for a government to not use "legal" methods to subvert a CA within its jurisdiction, and accuse the complaining site owner of false-flag attacking their own domain for media attention, or some other excuse.

If anything, I'm surprised that a government hasn't tried to poison-the-well of this system by creating a few boy-who-cried-wolf scenarios already.
My impression is that the site you mention is really about making money by selling college term papers. For example at https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/essay-global-warming-... you see

"So, if you encounter a homework assignment alike and want to know more about your personal impact on climate change, the way it works or the things you can do about it, you can use some personalized help from a professional essay writing service, and get it all sorted out for you."
I like this trend of cancel-"cancel culture" activists attempting to compel speech and showing their hand that this was never really about "free speech."
> ought to be about America's education system

I think you're missing an important part of the puzzle: there are no people for the jobs, skilled or not.

Look at the list with the most critical shortage: construction, transportation and hospitality. These are not areas where complex education is required.

Without immigration every developed economy in the world will find it very hard to sustain growth, like in Japan, Eastern Europe and South Korea.

We're entering a totally new age in human history: the age of population decline. But very few people have noticed this.