skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going through something similar.
Help find them things to do. Especially right now where working from home is the norm, I can often not see anyone for days at a time. https://www.myhtspace.org/
I guess the trades are very tightly coupled with the construction industry, which is very volatile, so there's always going to be labour over/undersupply problems.

I personally wouldn't encourage people to think of the trades as a stable income, especially in Germany. A new technology (say, PVC pipes) can be extremely disruptive, and these technologies come out all the time, rendering entire skills and categories of skilled workers invalid as they enter the workplace. In Germany, techniques and materials are very archaic (flax for pipe-seals, etc) so I suspect there's even more risk of disruption there than elsewhere.

The basic problem is that capitalism tends to replace skilled trades with unskilled ones - the classic example is the weavers put out of work by looms. As such, getting a stable income from a skill is always a risky proposition, even if it's the only game in town.
> Mathematics is possibly the only thing in the entire world that can _not_ be described as a religion.

Math works, whether you believe in it or not.
I'm also curious about that. I'm just starting out in industry and am confused if most people are expected to do that. Do future recruiters go through your old linkedin posts for stuff like this? Or is it just a general update for their personal circle - basically the corporate version of instagram stories.
Seems plausible. Similarly, a computer scientist may be bad at writing computer programs. (And this may also surprise someone outside the field.)
Zuckerberg Tells Staff to Focus on Video Products as Meta’s Stock Plunges
He's the hero we don't deserve. Nobody wants to hire him because every manager is sort of afraid they themselves are sort of ass holes and will get called out. I think a good number of people who think this are right on themselves being ass holes.
What's the equivalent of Tibet and Xinjiang in the context of Thailand - basically state sponsored concentration camps and genocide?
Maybe because I wasn't aware of other ones?

Still it confirms the point that Go isn't up to the competition, which was my point, not that .NET is the super dupper best thing in the world.
In Germany shortly after the Nazi problem we had another dictatorship that was against freedom of expression and severely restricted opinions. They were sure they were the good guys this time...

It was very reactionary to nationalism. Adorno and consorts writings are often reactionary too, but they were real victims of fascism. They tried very hard to find an explanation for the reasons of the prosecution and sometimes got carried away. In this context most works are well worth a read.

It might even be beneficial to know the works to not conflate their position with those of people that call for more content and opinion control. These people are not innocent, they happily condemn others and have a totalitarian world view. It is just much more difficult to oppose them because they can point to Nazi and declare themselves as opposition.
I'm OK saying things I have no way to prove. If you're not okay to do that yourself I get it but I think you're doing that here too.

Anyway, I understand how you could have taken what I said to mean I think they're wasted but that's not what I mean.
Just wanna point out that you're making points about "the younger generation, 22-27," but the article is lamenting a decline in the workforce participation of millennials. That's 27-41 year olds.
AOT vs JIT compilation is not really that important of a difference to steady state performance. It does impose other performance costs though.

For example, C# and, even more so, Java, are poorly suited to AWS Lambda-style or CLI style commands, since you pay the cost of JIT at every program start-up.

On the other hand, if you have a long-running service, Java and .NET will usually blow Go out of the water performance wise, since Go is ultimately a memory managed language with a very basic GC, a pretty heavy runtime, and a compiler that puts a lot more emphasis on compilation speed than advanced optimizations.

Go's lack of generic data structures, and particularly its lack of covariant (readonly) lists, can lead to a lot of unnecessary copying if not specifically writing for performance (if you have a function that takes a []InterfaceA, but you have a []TypeThatImplementsInterfaceA, you have to copy your entire slice to call that function, since slices are - correctly - not covariant, and there is no readonly-slice alternative that could be covariant).
Spot on observation.

Classical guitar teacher here. I'd never have been able to buy the house I'm writing this from on my salary if not for also prostituting myself in the it sector :-)
"Guys, we would actually have been richer instead of poorer if six years worth of inflation hadn't happened! Let's celebrate!"

If I can buy n units of goods and services for the money before the investment and n-1 units of goods and services after the investment, I've lost. I don't see how the particular numbers you print on currency enter the equation. How is nominal profit at all interesting?
To add mor context: there were two main PS3 models with PS2 support, the first one with most of the PS2 hardware (which you might be referring to), and the second one with just the gpu + software emulation for the CPU. The later PS3s scraped it all and had no PS2 emulation. With PAL/NTSC variants, that amounts to quite a spectrum of backward compatibility.
Then either the people given the deadline are being "managed out of the business" or they should be managing their own way out

And yes, I've been a manager in a company where the phrase "managed out of the business" was used. I no longer work there.
As an Indian, I am starting to notice a pattern of terrible Indian managers from all the stories I hear from my friends.

I really hope that these stories make up a biased sample.
An Apple II emulator is an interesting approach. Would something like LinApple [1] work or are there other options out there that could work better?

[1]: https://github.com/linappleii/linapple
In the UK I would say that the Iraq war, the credit crisis, and Brexit hollowed out politics and we were left with populists – Corbyn on the left, Johnson in the right – and a great loss of trust in the political process. There’s a shakeup happening right now (Corbyn gone and Johnson likely to follow) but it’s way too early to tell how long it will take for faith to be restored.

Maybe it’s just my politics, but it seems to me that whatever your politics, the lack of a functioning middle leaves us all worse off. I know a number of Americans that feel the same, though whether there are enough of them to make a difference I don’t know.
i was asked by my parents, “do you want to dig ditches or collect garbage? no? go to college.”

so i did, majored in whatever, had a career in tech doing whatever, and ever since the pandemic i’ve found a lot of fulfillment helping drive trucks filled with construction debris to the transfer station.

go figure.
>> Some of them settle for that shitty commute which you call a dealbreaker

Appreciate the support. Also, I did my time as a junior code-monkey in an office with a miserable commute and a tiny half cubicle, and I learned a ton from it. Taking that job didn't stop me from becoming independent later; I just watched what my bosses were doing very carefully when they interacted with clients and realized I could do it at least as well as they did, and that propelled me to doing my own things. It was actually a necessary experience.

My little brother disdained hard work most of his life. He dragged through college for six years to get an undergrad degree (I dropped out after year one). He just got a real estate license. That was the hardest he's worked ever; and I think he's grown because of it. He still has no real work, but he's got two kids now to support. His life has grown a lot harder than mine now; but mine was a lot harder than his for the first 30 years or so. No bad blood or anything. But I do see how funny it is when people call something "privilege" when really, they're privileged to think they don't have to do the hard part themselves.

Doing the hard part is actually the good part of life. The saddest thing about the anti-work movement is that they're missing the experiences that come with committing to something shitty and moving up. Maybe my gen puts too much emphasis on work as a marker of identity; I'm not immune to that criticism. But if you don't even try or you truly believe that the fact that the whole thing being rigged gives you cover to tune out (and yes, it was always rigged) then on what grounds can you lodge a serious complaint against the rest of us?
Deep Sleep Gives Your Brain a Deep Clean
>The people making 1/4 your pay are busting their asses harder than we can imagine.

I obviously haven't worked in every job there is but in my twenties up to early 30s I worked as:

busboy
dishwasher
painter
janitor
day laborer
construction worker

Now it's true this was not all the time, I had significant breaks for school etc. and obviously my body today could not handle what it handled then, but still my experience is that programming when it is going bad is much worse than anything I had with those jobs.

Things going bad as programmer can just be when you are dealing with a hard to solve problem and it grinds you down over days, but also you can end up in places that for some reason everything goes worse (sure I had bosses who were jerks when I was working, especially as a day laborer, but I never had jobs where the whole processes of the company seemed geared to making everything harder like you can sometimes encounter programming)

The physical work made me tired, but never affected me mentally. Mean bosses didn't matter too much, just keep the head down do the work and get out of there at the same hour every day. And sometimes programming can also be tiring, sitting down all day at the computer.

So I mean I believe that I can imagine to some reasonable degree of accuracy how hard people making 1/4 what I do are busting their asses, but it seems that what I imagine must be significantly less than what you imagine?

on edit: obviously my imagining here is limited to the U.S and Western Europe.
iPads have a lot of good stuff, I think. I've 2x 7 year old girls, which have iPads. Generally they're limited to 1h/day, but screentime is off for:

- Codea - https://codea.io - it took a while, but eventually they found out that there's a few sample games, so they thought they'd found a loophole to "no more screentime for games". Then it took a bit longer until they realized they can tweak the source code. "Look at this, no gravity" or "Look at my high score!" (after tweaking the scores to increase in increments of 1000 instead of 1), or "Look, I changed the text messages" etc.

- Swift Playgrounds - they're not super fascinated with this, but I see them occasionally open it and noodle around.

- Procreate - they have an Apple Pencil, and any YouTube video about using Procreate is exempt from Screentime limits. This has led to a lot of amazing digital illustrations.

- Pages - just this simple built-in app is already pretty fun if kids are bored, and something is exempt from screentime. Last weekend one of them asked to go to Starbucks, because she's "writing a novel". She wrote a short story over ~5 pages, and was super proud of it.

- YouTube - in general, this is my least favorite app of theirs, and I try to police this the most. But any requests for videos where you learn things are exempt from screentime limits (case by case). E.g. Lego builds, origami, drawing instructions, "how to make slime at home" videos, etc.

This is a great question, and I'm eager to see what other creativity-fostering approaches are there. But to sum up my approach - limit screentime for mindless games, and let boredom take care of the rest.
> Facebook is right now taking a huge loss due to the fact the walled garden is working.

Facebook is hitting a huge loss right now because they saturated the world, ran out of markets to expand to. Not because of Apple's minor restrictions on cross-app tracking, jeez. Their growth in US stalled long ago.

> That complex legislation is not going to happen because ad-tech has the money to stop it.

And tobacco companies had the money to prevent anti-smoking regulations, and the oil industry had the money to deny climate change, and big tech had the money to keep their app store monopolies. Well some of those are WIP but it's clear that things do improve despite the money, albeit slowly.

> People compromise their privacy because they didn’t have a choice.

Nobody's stopping you from using DuckDuckGo and Mobile Safari, not today, not if this legislation goes through. Nothing that Apple does will change that, and nobody will code websites for mobile without supporting the default browser on their target platform, unless that browser is IE-level terrible, which Mobile Safari is not, despite its many deliberate shortcomings.

If you're all about choice you should stop telling other people that they should pay for services with money rather than with ad impressions, and that they should pay Apple's 30% tax for your privilege to see one monopolist shove it to another in a superficial way.

And if you think "don't use Apple" is valid advice for these people, then it's also valid advice for you for when this legislation passes, if you really can't live on a platform that isn't completely locked down.
The women treat him like shit? What was he optimizing?
Aside from the usual cronjobs to scrub my local and backup pools, I do a few extra things:

I'm using https://habilis.net/cronic/ to make sure I don't mess up the email notification part of the cronjob. It's a simple wrapper script that sends an email in a readable format if a cronjob fails.

I use Sanoid to create snapshots on my home server, and use Syncoid to push those to a cloud VPS with a beefy network drive as an off-site backup. Both tools are available here: https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid

The free tier of https://cronitor.io/ makes sure I'm alerted if a cronjob fails, or fails to run on time. Especially that last bit is interesting: that way I'm sure cronjobs aren't silently failing for days/weeks on end.

I have 4 monitors set up in Cronitor: snapshot creation, zpool status on the local and backup machine, and send/receive with Syncoid. This is how that looks on the Cronitor dashboard: https://img.marceldegraaf.net/v6IpNAyxrZ54vgLqIJpY

Let me know if you want more info or examples, happy to share whatever I can to help :-)

EDIT: feel free to reach out via email as well, my address is in my profile.
It is not an excuse, it is an explanation.

People mostly do not know a shit about the immune system.

Can you for example name types of blood cells that are responsible for your immune reaction?

What organs are involved?

If somebody is trying to sell you a product that should strengthen your immune system, can you differentiate a fraud from a real thing?

Perhaps you can but most people have very naive understanding about the immune system.
Ah, forgot about the new way of not owning your music but renting it. I'm still a bit old fashioned and prefer to own my music so the artist can't just take it away when they feel like it.
The things the author is describing as "non-consensual personalization" are features and (in the case of Netflix) the point of the product.

If the issue is that everybody's doing it, author is an example of a market that someone could serve to disrupt the trend. But if he represents a tiny market, then probably not.
>There are literally only a handful of companies in the country who can do things like construct a light rail line, something that used to be routine a century ago.

I'm guessing there are vested corporate interests and lobbying in keeping things like this (basically, the status quo), as it means those few companies get to charge the state however much they want, while paying their workers peanuts as there's nearly no competition for the workers to jump ship to. Ah, the "benefits" of consolidation.

The funny thing is, in Europe we have bridges built by the Romans that still stand, and 30 year old bridges that need to be rebuilt because the contractor cut way too many corners to squeeze a buck here and there.
You may disallow app access to notifications if you want to check it only on your schedule. But not having access to notifications hinderes main function of messaging apps - delivering messages to you.

It is frankly shocking to me how many people fail to understand that.

"I don't like push notifications, it means nobody needs them"
Isn't this a little bit like "Why are computer scientists so bad at fixing my router / printer / virus infected windows laptop?" :)
The war on terror was bipartisan, though, and supported by political parties across the spectrum around the world. The UK's (nominally) social democratic Labour party pushed it, for example.

I think the real demarcation line is that until very recently, there was exactly one political prescription: deregulate, reduce tax, and reduce state expenditure. The only question was, how much? Every major political party essentially agreed with this basic formula, which had the attached slogan 'there is no alternative', and if you suggested an alternative, the media would castigate you for being some kind of pie-in-the-sky radical.

Trump, amongst others, kind of blew that whole idea up.
From other replies on here, it seems that you are more interested in the Software side than the hardware. Scratch was the gateway drug for my kids. It immediately let them create games they could share with friends, it immediately let them grab other resources and tweak and change those for their own game.

I also kept them on linux (ubuntu) machines until they started high School - the reasons for this were 2-fold:

1) let them get comfortable with other OS's - they saw windows machines at school and ipads, this showed them that they were all 'just computers' and feel comfortable jumping between os's

2) security - oh man if you could see the amount of dodgy looking .exe and .bat files that are in the download folders.

My kids have now moved on to Godot and pygame, but an old laptop with Scratch was the key.
People were defending it by claiming that the protestors were using swastikas to call out the Canadian government as being like Nazis.

How do you know what's going on? Are you there?
Highly recommended book on the roots of populism and the current state of politics including democratic backsliding: Jan-Werner Müller: Democracy Rules [1]

[1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2021-0...
exactly. I'm for UBI because disability benefits are pathetic - years of jumping through hoops, getting denied the first time no matter what your disability is - for $700 a month. and if you make more, or live with anyone who makes more, it gets taken away. we have to divorce our spouses to stay on that measly amount. and nobody in power really cares about us, so there's no will to change it - broke disabled people don't donate a lot of money to campaigns.

assuming UBI pays minimum-flipping-wage it'd be multiple times SSI/SSDI.
The parallels between these Olympics and the 1936 Games are rather remarkable. Yes, the world has improved in many ways during the decades between, but some things, such as preening and willful ignorance for the sake of PR spectacle sponsored by authoritarian regimes seem to remain perfectly acceptable. Underlying that, the fact that there's still no escaping the existence of well-established repressive regimes in major world powers.
For the same reason a biologist doesn't know the names of all trees by sight.
Why Python Is Better Than R for Data Science – By Leon Lok – Jan, 2022
Easy. You don't need ten different types of butter, yogurt, tea, etc. You can grab the single TJ branded item and have a reliable indicator it's reasonably healthy, tasty, and a good value with minimal margin.
That sounds like an Ubuntu problem more than a ZFS problem, no?

Very happy Ubuntu/ZFS user here, but we use only the LTS versions of Ubuntu.
The Falcon 9 may now be the safest rocket ever launched
Oracle also has a Linux distribution. So, I wouldn’t count them out as suing over a GPL/CDDL issue. I’d love to know who the harmed party would be in a lawsuit like that, but I’m sure that there would be no winners.
> Don't get your hopes up _too_ high about your kids being the maybe 1% of people who choose to program for fun.

Programming is mostly plumbing anyway, so if your kid chooses differently, that's very ok.
Guys, what do you think of a ratemyprofessors.com for bosses at companies? Optional anonymous reviews and to be fair and balanced the boss can respond to each review.

That way people can do what jiawei did but without the risk of professional self harm.
Are you not on Linkedin? This self-aggrandizing cringe is 95% of the content in the feed, I'm always amazed people can write this with a straight face.
NASA delays SLS rocket rollout, says launch date is TBD
Errr, we're off to a good start!

> "The population under 16 (not working) and population over 65 (more likely to be retired) are roughly equivalent right now, which means our workforce age should hew pretty close to our overall median age."

Yeah, except:

1. Many in the 65+ group are working. So you can't cancel that out with the under-16 crowd where basically none work (and it is—with a few exceptions—illegal for them to work, especially the younger ones).

2. Many in the 16–24 range aren't working, because they're full-time students. Especially the 16–18 crowd.

So you'd expect the median worker to be older than the median person.
this is obviously awesome, I just want to ask you if you see the idea of a 50-year-old tractor harmonizing with the idea of an ultra modern sustainable home and energy source?
I'm about your age and also I can't read on dark mode. It really burns my eyes, in a way that I can't read anything in standard mode for minutes.

grammar edit
I don't mean to suggest there are no problems with cost of living. In broad strokes here's what happened since '65, or let's go back a little further to the start of the post-WW2 world.

1. Millions of women entered the workforce (started when all the men were overseas fighting)

2. The government went off the gold standard

3. Millions of people in other countries replaced the workforce via globalization

Those are the three biggies. Expanding the number of available workers kicked off the pressure on wages. Going off the gold standard kicked off massive inflation. Globalization shrunk the number of jobs available and was the nail in the coffin.

So that's why we don't have the same economics as a nuclear family in the 60s.

Now in practice a lot of essentials in the US CPI have stayed pretty cheap. Technology enabled a lot of things to stay or become cheap. But a few big ones are a train wreck. Home ownership, health care, education, all skyrocketed.

So when I see someone on the median income say "Man I'm getting older and I don't know how you can afford to settle down and buy a house and start a family" yeah that's a very real problem which is grounded in facts.

But when someone says "life sucks for the 24 year old who has the resume to work in the Valley and pulls down almost a quarter mil," here's what that is: horse shit.
To be pedantic, if I just root a random device, but am very careful in terms of what I adjust... how does that fare?
> There is a limit to optimization, and that ends with optimized machine code.

There might be a low limit, but there’s no high limit: you can generate completely unoptimised machine code, and that’s much closer to what Go’s compiler does.

> Go being a compiled language, that is cross paltform but separate binaries, should be very close to C in terms of performance.

That’s assuming that Go’s optimisation pipeline is anywhere near what mainstream C compilers provide. Against all evidence.