skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abstractions around frictionless marketplaces don’t work well in markets with as extreme friction as the labor market.
Broadly, I think it would be a mistake to read this with the idea that you're going to get the truth out of it. This smells very much like CYA spin. Not mad at all of course, do what you gotta.
I agree with the sentiment from the perspective of a networking professional, where any deviation from one aspect of a design can completely break the logic of its performance or security.

However, it’s not good advice from a management perspective. ‘No’ is an absolute statement that implies inflexibility and does not invite discourse to justify a position. If it is applied more frequently for some people than others, it can raise issues around the perception of fairness, and even arrogance.

It certainly had its place in certain political situations, but there are more tactful ways of saying no, like ‘we will be fulfilling the organisation’s need for performance by continuing down this path’, which is a positive statement.
Not only that, but shipping Microsoft Office onto the Mac makes it so much easier to leave if you're not playing video games.
People doing low voltage cat6 wiring make bank. Friend of mine got quoted 10k to run wires in his single family house, and that was w/o any walls up.

Plumbers doing fancy installs, not plunging toilets, over $100/hr. Huge demand, not nearly enough workers.

Some of the trades pay very, very, well.

Heck live in nannies working 8 hour shifts don't have to pay for housing and they pull in 60k-80k.

I know a woman running her own cat nail cutting service who is making good money and looking to hire help.
“it’s obvious to anyone” is not a substitution for proof and that statement makes it obvious that you’re just speaking from intuition. Screens are not inherently…anything.
DietPi - Lightweight justice for your single-board computer
I mean, you just answered your own question. The far left, and I don't mean just the "American-brand" of it, is very much focused on removing the categorization of individual identity - dismantling the concepts of race, sex, background, belief, nationality, etc. By removing those categories, the aim is to resolve the discrimination inherent in systems that inevitably have some bias towards individuals based on those characteristics, and ultimately make it infeasible to establish a hierarchy of any kind. Paradoxically, in order to do so, the far left must lean heavily into categorization to "remedy" the remnants of injustice that have been levied on groups of people and level the playing field.
It's a step-by-step thing. First you pass the laws to ban X. Then it turns out that F/OSS makes working around them trivial, and so you ban F/OSS. Then it turns out that proprietary apps can also be hacked, and then you mandate DRM.

Again, "Rainbows End" describes the end result quite nicely.
Some of these points are correct. College does seem to be providing less value in the US, etc. Maybe some third-tier universities could be in trouble if there's a decline in college attendance.

But, "collapsing"? Universities are one of the most long-lived types of institutions known to humankind. Oxford was founded in 1096. I suspect they will be around quite a lot longer.
About 1 million people do that every year in the US. None of them are thrown in jail or have their degrees cancelled. Those working in finance are well aware of the concept of a default.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2018/10/01/student...
> They say the German education isn’t anything to tout and having an American education on your CV is a big +.

Having lived in Europe for 30+ years, I have never heard of this outside higher education at very famous institutions, e.g. Stanford, Harvard, MIT.

In fact, primary and secondary schools in the US are usually seen as quite insufficient.
It seems like you got cut off there?

> I generally agree with you that all science should be testable, i.e. it should give us tell us things that we did not know, but can then test. However, I don't agree that you can easily extrapolate from that to saying these fields are science and these are not.

I'm talking about this in the context of the political power of science, or more precisely what gets called "science" and why. Coming out of WWII that power derived largely from the very literal power of the mechanized scientific war machine and its ultimate expression in the atom bomb. Not to repeat myself but E=mc² has nothing to prove, what political power physicists hold derives from the universality of their domain of knowledge. Anyone anywhere can test the formula by testing its predictions.

> Psychology, economics etc. do make predictions and many have been tested.

Not to the degree that we can rely on them for large-scale policy decisions, though? I mean the guy who runs the Federal Reserve is on record saying he doesn't know what he's doing, eh?

In re: Pavlov, I don't know how to respond. Behaviorism as an example of successful scientific psychology seems... I dunno... counterproductive?

> String theory is the canonical example here.

String theory isn't science. String theorists should be embarrassed to call what they do "physics" and they should admit that they're actually mathematicians. There's no shame in that, is there?

Anhow, to get back to my main point, I don't really have a problem with people wanting to call what they do "science" until we get to the point when they want to wield political power. To caricature what I mean: I don't think it's valid to say "I'm a scientist therefore believe me." if you can't make solid dependable predictions about it (whatever it is that you're trying to get people to believe.) If you're able to say, truthfully, "I can make predictions that you can rely on, and I can also teach you how to make the same predictions using the same data and methods so you don't have to take my word for it." then not only is that proper science (in my view) but it's also unimpeachable in the realm of political power.
My understanding is that Vanced was a patching of the official Youtube App, so already on somewhat shaky ground.

If Vanced took advantage of vulnerabilities in the Youtube App, or the source code could point to them, I could see Google reacting poorly to start out with - though afaik (not a lawyer, also not your lawyer) it's legal to distribute source for a patch for a proprietary program and instructions to apply it.
I would pay extra to buy a "Signature Edition" (kind of like they had with PCs) of Windows that has none of the ads and whatever other "value-add" pieces are integrated in it. One would say - I want LTSC accessible for customers like myself, without the kneecapped ability to run latest Windows software.
It is not a non-problem for people without your privilege. Gig workers, immigrants and others with no viable options are forced to do these jobs or starve. All the while people complain about immigrants crossing the border and "taking their jobs". Graduating high school seniors aren't lining up to mow grass or pick fruit or work as a meat packer for $15/hour. They want to come out of college to a 6 figure job with no skills or training. It is going to be a long long time until we have enough automation to not need workers for things like picking apples, etc. A lot of people coming out of school with out a tech or medical disposition would be best served by picking a trade. We have a shortage already and it is only going to get worse. Running a 3 person plumbing company could easily compete with most tech jobs.
Lacking Google is indeed a feature. You may not find it valuable yourself, but that alone is the reason many people use NewPipe.
>the SAT's a way of laundering discrepancies in generational wealth, which is indeed due to racist public policy as well as racist private actions. it may be intended not that way, but that's how it functions.

I'm not aware of data on SAT scores and family net worth, but there is plenty of data on SAT scores and family income. Controlling for income doesn't come close to accounting for racial gaps; the richest black kids barely do better than the poorest white kids.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ezekiel-Dixon-Roman/pub...
Exactly. Zuckerberg wasn't even smiling when he said that, just incredulous that the US Senator who has summoned him to DC and is questioning him in front of millions of Americans doesn't know the first thing about what he is saying.
I wouldn't keep the 1950s one, but under the terms of the rebate program, you are allowed to keep a functioning combustion boiler for extreme weather conditions; you just need to install a properly interlocked thermostat control to ensure the heat pump carries all the load when it's capable to do so. (They have a small supplemental rebate for the interlock thermostat as well.)

If I went that route, I'd install a brand new small boiler (or more likely an electric resistance boiler). It wouldn't take much to take that concern entirely off the table. 30K BTU/hr (9kW) would do it, a 9kW electric boiler is cheap to buy (~$1200), and on the 3 days a year where it would be used, it would have a COP of 1.0 while the heat pump would have a COP of probably 1.5-1.6, so you're not giving up that much efficiency to make it a decision driver. Then, you also have emergency backup heat if the heat pump is temporarily down as well.
What a fantastic resource. Thank you.
Almost any other heating system would be dramatically cheaper then baseboard electric.
I don’t see anything in that video about removing the cranes after construction.

I suppose they could just leave the cranes, or remove them with a helicopter.
use C++ instead of python. there you go.
Sadly I found out that Macs are filled with telemetry as well: https://mspoweruser.com/macos-big-sur-has-its-own-telemetry-... (2020)
Sounds like a lame excuse for your EWR-BOM flight. A routing over Turkey (bypassing UK/RU airspace), instead of direct, is only +2.7% distance.

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=ewr-bom,+ewr-ist-bom

(I know, I know, you may not actually be able to route "optimally" due to other airspace clearance requirements/costs/weather/etc)
Oxford is in the UK, though.

US universities famously have different priorities, compared to their European counterparts.
Link to the actual article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/20/chernobyl-wo...

Besides being the original reporting, it won’t hijack your back button or come with bonus hate content just below the fold.
They're referring to creators, not the platform. For creators it's absolutely true that merch brings in more revenue than ads, and I assume by premium subscriptions they mean channel membership.

I also assume English isn't the author's native language because there are some small grammatical and structural quirks like this platform vs creators thing. It's very readable though!
I didn't know that Vimeo was spun out of IAC. (IAC owns Match and Tinder.)
Even though the comic is a comic, it's not about actual fertility goddesses making food, it's about prehistoric people making up ideas like that while they expressed their gratitude for the abundance of nature.

Look, I'm a REAL person. You know how I get apples in apple season? I walk to a park near my house where there are decades-old apple trees. I don't know who planted them. Nobody today does anything to care for them. They just do what trees do. And the majority of the apples fall on the ground because nobody picked them. And I walk over to the park and I pick apples and eat them.

Oh, but I had to WALK there you say. And I had to WORK to have a home in this town. And we have to have a working society in order to pay the City to keep the park from being sold to a developer who would cut down all the trees. Or that I have to do the work of EATING the apple, like chewing it and so on.

I mean, this is just endless.

It's quite simple: Either "no such thing as a free lunch" is falsifiable and I've falsified it with real evidence OR it's unfalsifiable because you'll claim that any tangential aspect of existence that can be called "work" makes the apple not free. Either way, the aphorism is no good.

"Too good to be true" is a better aphorism because it isn't used to imply that everything good always has a catch. It doesn't say "Anything great is too good to be true", it just asserts that things that seem great can be too good to be true (they have some catch). And that's useful because we should think about all the catches and context of things. But that doesn't mean we should become cynics who just deny that anything great is ever possible.
if you don’t understand how to use pointers you probably shouldn’t be writing software.
Chromebooks can already run arbitrary software, via a full Linux VM running alongside ChromeOS.
You'll have projects to update, refine, and maybe even rewrite, on your own time and your own circumstances. At least better than lacking projects and only thinking of starting them :) As well, a maintainer may come along and preserve it.
This post resonates with me a lot, as I share many of the same complaints. The UI inconsistencies are one thing (that you would hope get ironed out over time), but the level of ads creeping ever higher is alarming. The “accidental” inclusion of an ad in Windows Explorer this week may have tipped their hand - if that’s the direction they are going, I’m moving off the platform entirely.
Returning a very terse answer to a person who has taken the time to
make complex, well reasoned argument/request is rude though. And we
all know that. With speech, the trick is to anticipate someone is
building up to a "big ask", and cut it short, politely. Otherwise
you're letting the other humiliate themself for a long time when you
know your answer is going to have to be 'no'.

Brevity is occasionally good. A quick and confident response can signal
honesty. Or be efficient. At officer school they teach you "not to umm
and err", or to "soften" speech.

But most of the time, a response that isn't commensurate seems haughty.

I notice some HN commentators doing it when they just write one word:

"citatation?"

Sure, it's mocking Wikipedia, I get that, but it's still jolly uncivil.

(cue a dozen replies of "citation?" :)
I generally agree with the other Ryan’s feedback.

I’ve been very lucky/fortunate/successful, so it’s hard to call it a pay cut, but giving up FANG RSU’s 15 years ago hurt, and in general engineers make more than non-engineers.

It was definitely worth it to me because I enjoy the work I do much more. It’s still technical but I get to make business decisions (and pre-pandemic, travel to great places). I work with a lot of project managers but don’t have to do too much PM, which I find a bit dull and not a good match to my skills. I prefer creative thinking and problem solving (with some analysis mixed in) to highly structured work.

It’s easy to say when you’ve got the benefit of privilege (good schools, financial safety net), but I was able to choose to focus on the work I liked and be good at them, and the other parts fell into place.

All that said, multiple times a year since graduating I talk to engineering colleagues about getting an MBA and I almost always advise against getting one. It’s not a good financial decision. If you know what you want to do and are at a good company, figure out a way to pivot to that role eg as an engineer work on projects that are more customer facing, or closer to the product, or closer to analytics, rather than going deeper into SRE or architecture. Why spend $300-500K in lost wages and fees to learn to be a PM if you can be paid to figure out how to do it?

The exception to that is if you want to be a VC. Then it makes to get a Stanford MBA, if you can get in.
Why is modification of someone's genome unethical? If you could get gene editing right now to never contract HIV that would simply be a very effective medical treatment.
.. because the minute your monopoly power crumbles, you will be met with resentment and abandonment, including by the "investors" who were with you minutes ago.. the ecosystem has dealt with hostile insider moves, high profile technology theft, and constant attack vectors already.. more in store here
I agree with the niche use case.

Using them in production here for 4 years (Akka) with our own actors that dynamically spawn each other depending on the load (along with some messages sent with timers).

You usually have to think about how to correctly handle lost messages or full mailboxes, but once you do, it usually works reliably.

I think actors are more of a low level concurrency Lego block you can use to build higher level stuff with (just like akka streams, etc.)

If you want to use them, I strongly encourage types actors, so unlike Erlang or Elixir and more like Akka or in the Pony language: it really helps with not missing messages because the compiler can make sure you don’t forget anything.

Akka monitoring is not great without paying for the monitoring tool, though.
How does your comment help?

YT premium still doesn't give all the Vance's features. I can buy premium and still use Vanced for features that YouTube does not offer.

Or maybe I don't support YouTube adding ads to unmonetized videos?
Or is it my way to fight back, how they roll over small creators to trolls?
Thanks! I was going to ask for a summary of the disagreement.
On intersectionality: I'm not insinuating that intersectionalists are creating the categories, only that they need, and heavily leverage those categories in order to achieve the goals of intersectionality. I don't think you're disagreeing with me on this.

On obsessive generalization: You are approaching it from a purely economic perspective. I think it's disingenous to ignore the social goals of leftist theory, which are firmly rooted in removing the class concept entirely - obsessive generalization.
Really surprised no one has brought up that admissions are dropping (especially among men), and that almost all universities are built on the poverty labor of captive educators. Meanwhile administrators take all the money.

Case in point:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/university-professor-unpaid
Why not just Linux running on Apple Silicon? Isn't the entire selling point of Chrome OS that it can run well on cheap underpowered hardware?
Absolutely bait, and I'm falling for it. The author knows that you can make syscalls from assembly, directly in terms of the ABI those syscalls use, and trying to frame this as some kind of misunderstanding is absurd. You are willfully misreading the article.

Not to mention, your continued obsession with syscalls is itself missing the point:

For one thing, this is about more than syscalls. Many interfaces (e.g. userspace shared libraries, VDSO) are documented and implemented purely in terms of C and ABI the platform uses for C, not just as a convenience.

For another, many platforms actually do specify their kernel interface purely in terms of C and their C ABI, and do not have a supported way to make syscalls that does not go through such an interface- some kernels will refuse any syscalls that do not come in through their libc; others change their syscall ABI every release and ship wrapper shared libraries for userspace to use. That some platforms do support direct syscalls does not change this. (This also means that libfortran making direct syscalls will break on these platforms, as Go did.)

Your behavior here is what is toxic for our industry. It is quite clear that the article is describing a real issue (over-reliance on "C," which is, as typically used, a shorthand for "C plus the platform's C ABI," which is itself poorly specified and poorly followed) but you are twisting it into some weird axe-grinding vendetta against Rust, and completely making things up about the author in the process.
Isn’t it?

Outside its niche, where do you hear of NFT if it’s not to make fun of it?
> Maybe the level of excitement you feel for the task is a message from your "unconscious" mind saying that this task is a good one to do right now?

I have never, not ever, not once, felt excitement about doing taxes, or about reviewing a functional description, or any of the other necessary evils of my job.

Eventually you just gotta, though. If you only ever had to do things that were fun, it wouldn’t be called work.
Why does it have such a weird score range?
> Yarn should, like NPM, default to honoring all pinned dependencies. Both now have facilities to override those defaults (resolutions/overrides respectively), which is important. But there should also be a more gentle middle ground of “yes I want to assume this library meant to use semver, I understand I’m slightly relaxing the contract in the lockfile” in the form of a CLI flag… rather than manually writing potentially hundreds of lines of JSON.

Yes, this! I want this, and for all nose package managers to share a lock file format.
I don't think he's suggesting universities will go away completely. A 10% or 30% or 90% in US university attendance/revenue/headcount over a period of a few years would objectively be a collapse no matter how well Oxford or MIT continues to thrive.
I mean a monorepo is basically the modern answer to this, use technology to the solve the coordination problem, its just a different (better) answer. At Windows scale (like Google and FB etc) it would require effort but is do-able, and has been done elsewhere.

A multi tiered tree of repositories sounds very complex though, and would require its own effort, amazing it worked at all.
Trash is not a meaningful analogy, for obvious reasons. I agree there are some benefits to dislocation to the power plant, but nearly enough nor as many as just turning off the engine.
Civil engineering? Pretty sure you could get qualified in a few years via community college / state school.
I didn't use vanced before since the open source newpipe fulfilled all my needs, so this is the first I heard of vanced doing some cryptobro token stuff.

So without knowing more than just what is written in the OP: when I read in the same paragraph that "we didn't get to the point of selling" and "besides, it's just a prank bro"... yeah, clearly. Could be true, I suppose it doesn't really matter now, but I'm not convinced. I also read it as trying to save some reputation.
Read:
Google SRE Book
The Phoenix Project
The Unicorn Project
The DevOps Handbook

Also, take a Udemy course on Kubernetes.
next you're going to tell me socialism is bad because of the Nazis!

kidding aside, Chile has one of the most successful south american economies to date, and it's mainly thanks to their monetary discipline as advocated by the Chicago school.
Starship: Rust prompt for any shell
People are focusing only on air quality, but climate change is obviously a critical issue.
From an organizational perspective, this is horrible advice:

> Let me tell you clearly. “No” is a complete sentence. It requires no explanation or defense.

The "It requires no explanation or defense" part is just plain wrong. If someone asks you to do something in an organization, it's fine to say "No", but an explanation is nearly always expected. And this explanation is critical, because often time the answer is something like "I don't have time", when a positive, helpful rejoinder would be "What else would you like me to stop doing if you want me to do this other thing."

This advice really just seems to my like something the "arrogant tech support guy" from SNL would say.
> Children not being being effectively taught because teachers are quitting due to burnout and terrible wages is really bad.

The market for teachers, at least in the US, is not a 'laissez-faire market'.
Youtube in Firefox with ublock origin has no ads. Youtube premium exists as well.
I mean, you could just pay to remove the ads...
The laws also reduce climate change impact, which is critical.
This is quite convincing. We should ban independent farmers. It is too dangerous a job for independents. Industrialized commercial farming is the only acceptable recourse since we need to grow food.

As an escape valve for independents we could have them post a sufficiently large bond that will come due in the event of farm failure and bail them out.