skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We still have zero hope of affording a house, let alone retirement.

This is ridiculous. If that’s actually true, move. Lower your expenses. Figure out something else.
As stated elsewhere in the thread, northern Europe bucks this "trend" that the author sees. The nuclear family is as weak as it has ever been, christianity and its ideals are an afterthought, and people have never been happier.
i mean a symptom of having too much time because of no family. dont think there is much stigma around gaming beyond old people
Sorry, could you elaborate? I'm not sure why I got downvoted, I genuinely curious how they are going to pay the bills.
Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere (updated for 2022)
I found a website that says average cost of living in New York (for 1 person) is $3200/month. That's around 40,000 per year. If the electrician is making 80k, that would mean they could save 25k/year after taxes and living expenses. 8 years of work and they would have 200k, enough for a down payment right? And this is assuming they live in new york, one of the most expensive places in the world

[1]: https://livingcost.org/cost/united-states/ny/new-york
It's absurd to label a whole generation this way.
The last processor designed by hand was Alpha.
> if it was that effective, why wouldn't just google switch to it and stop wasting money on ideas like FLoC, and ditch 3rd party cookies?

First, I would be shocked if Google isn't using fingerprinting data in conjunction with cookies.

But also, this comment misunderstands what FLoC was. FLoC was, at least in theory, an attempt to get the benefits of targeted advertising without uniquely identifying users. That's what the "C" in FLoC refers to - users aren't targeted individually, but rather by the cohort they belong to.

FLoC unfortunately had many issues, one of which is that there were concerns that the cohorts were too granular and could still effectively denanonymize users. There's some research indicating that this was the case - FLoC cohorts revealed more info than they intended to, but also still less than individualized profiles do.

The stated goal of FLoC was actually more privacy-focused than the status quo (individualized profiles). Unfortunately, that's not what ended up happening - or at least, the general public didn't trust that it was.
Unfortunately, yes. But it still works and rocks.

uBlock Origin has kind-of-similar (but not quite) functionality where you can block by domains, but it is not as granular (it is called "Advanced" something IIRC).
The cable may be cheaper but what about land value?
“For millennials and for some members of Gen Z, they’ve witnessed two recessions, back-to-back. This is a very different labor market experience than what their parents and grandparents encountered.”

I don't for a moment deny that kids entering the workforce today are entering an environment that's challenging in many ways, but this particular claim is inaccurate. Let's take a look at the list of US recessions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...

We're not in a recession now (though that could change very soon). The most recent recessions are 2020 (COVID) and 2007-2009. Just over ten years in between. Turns out that's the longest recession-free interval in the nation's history. Back to back, my ass. I graduated from high school just before the 1981-82 recession, but I was fully in the workforce for the next four - every six to ten years. By the author's reasoning, that would mean I had it far harder than today's kids.

Recessions are not the problem. (They're a problem, but not relevant to OP.) The problem is wage inequality, and stagnation of wages for the lower echelons even during good times. Today's kids are not facing economic uncertainty because of a few events, but because of a continual downward slide in the value of low-end wages vs. low-end expenses over decades.
I routinely visit the same websites on a daily basis and don’t understand why I have to accept cookies to the same sites over and over again.

Shouldn’t they keep track of that?
Want Your Ideas to Succeed?
>Most simple labor will be automated very soon anyway.

It's not clear if there's a simple correlation between "training required" and "automation ready". For example, people have been talking about automating radiology for years, although I'm currently finishing up a study on one such system and we certainly aren't there yet. Meanwhile, the relatively "low skill" job of construction is considered very difficult to automate due to the high variability in environments and materials.

This uncertainty means that reluctance to join professions that "may" be automated in the coming years might be interpreted as a result of risk-aversion, and that risk is higher when the job training is longer.
Yeah, this has been the approach I’ve used but the purist in me really goes crazy not having it “just work”. Admittedly it’s pretty hard to have casting in cases like this come back to bite you. I suppose you could even write a lint to ensure memoized component casting is correct.
It's not the EU who makes you do that, it's the companies making the website.

They could not use cookies, they could respect DNT browser setting, they could have not abused tracking technology, and they couldmhave chosen to comply with the law in a user friendly way, instead of user-hostile way.

They didn't. That's why now there is an imperfect law.
I know , but really I mean, I could have done a better job not using Microsoft image so much but really “phishing” , isn’t that a little to much ? I mean we don’t even charge whoever asks us about licensing optimization we just provide the better license supplier for their requirements .
> I can’t understand why the market isn’t flooded with coders

let me guess: because not anybody wants to be a programmer? different people have different ambitions, not anybody needs to be a coder

and life would be pretty mundane if all people were doing is writing code
It doesn’t take a ton of effort, but dang may have advanced searches setup.
Bingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Afri...
free speech tho
To check it's not broken before they roll it out Europe-wide.
Much narrower margin, even after Macron moved significantly to the right on cultural issues over the last 5 years: https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/emma...

https://www.newsweek.com/macron-france-reject-american-woke-...

France seems like it’s between a real rock and a hard place. On one hand they don’t have the cultural infrastructure to assimilate Muslim immigrants. On the other hand, they can’t keep their economy running without immigrants. Neither Macron nor Le Pen have a solution to that fundamental problem.
Reading her auto-translated program (https://mlafrance.fr/programme), this point caught my eye:

11 Introduce the Citizens' Initiative Referendum and introduce proportional representation.

Does France currently have a first-past-the-post style system, the kind that usually devolves into only two viable parties? What is Macron's stance on this?
> So the logic is flawed. You want to promote investment in a place with nothing to invest by not investing in that place.

Why do you think they don't have anything to invest?
That's fair, though ansible has ordered steps, so it's not entirely declarative.

You are right that imperative definition is not a problem for reproduceability, but it does make things harder to reason about since you have to mentally keep track of state between steps.
> something that gradually became impossible in the developed countries as social democracy was abandoned in favour of neo liberalism

wut???

what made it impossible was creeping socialism everywhere: eternally growing warfare and welfare state manged by the Uniparty.

> Billionaires dismantled our society, not some shadowy cabal of "liberal" professors.

socialist professors are one of the groups that robs people of their future. for some reason people still like to pay to become damaged, which indicates that robbery begins at an early age - in state schools and at home.
Some simple arithmetic: five years ago Macron got 66%, this time he got 8 less with 58%, so all things being equal in five years it's a coin toss at 50.
True. Everyone (myself included) calls this a "cookie popup", but it's about tracking. "Do not track" was a better name, but otherwise a poor implementation.

I wondered why not make such tracking (or "cookie") prompts a part of webbrowser UI, standardized and sure to be compliant. With enforcement of what browser can enforce (disabling persistent storage), and leaving the rest (e.g. disabling IP-address based tracking) to the website.
I don’t think GUIX will ever die, it seems to be the GNU Foundation’s favorite. It’s the only GNU-approved distro whose website is a sub domain of gnu.org. GNU seems to be unofficially standardizing on GUIX.

https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

https://guix.gnu.org/
Since you're allowing people to donate to charities or "anti-charities," you should just allow the user to specify a % fee that goes to you. If I set up a $1,000 contract to go to some Nazi org if I fail, I'd much rather $1 go to the Nazi org and $999 to you.
Growing, but still rural city in the Midwest I visited a few weeks back has decent homes for sale in the 50-80k range. This is not an outlier.

Roughly 2/3 of Americans own homes.

If you live in an area where homes are priced like luxury investments, then yes, you'll have a hard time buying when you also cannot afford other luxuries. If you live in an area where they are not, it isn't unattainable at all, especially if you combine income with a marriage partner.
I honestly don't understand. When I bought a home I was literally making the US median income and bought an average priced house. My rent at the time was about a thousand a month. I had normal student loans and regular bills too. It wasn't easy but it didn't feel like a miracle either. Not saying someone making minimum can do this by any means, but there's a huge demand for labor in decent paying areas right now. I genuinely feel like I'm missing a big piece of this puzzle.
what is your dosage and frequency?
i was programming at that age.

let the other person parent their kid the way they want to.
Fair enough. I was thinking of Plato's recounting of Socrates complaining about the proliferation of writing reducing young people's ability to remember things.
I don't agree. I made under $80k in household income when I bought my first home in 2014. This was in (well, just outside) Seattle, which was and remains one of the more expensive markets in the country. I saved up for a down payment; it took years. It wasn't my dream home, but it allowed me to build equity and continue saving for the one that was. I am not ready to say "kids these days want everything handed to them," but I will say that if you can't commit to a decade-long, multi-step process, then it may seem impossible, when it's just rather hard.
Also considering the world situation, this might not be off-topic
There is a command you can run to allow private relay on pi hole
NYT is like the Democratic party of newspapers. They're vaguely respectable centrists in a slightly Fascist nation.

The scary part is how many of the American population think both of them are terrifying bastions of Communist Woke Terrorism, in striking contrast to objective reality.
8086 is the USA of computers.
Filesystems keep checksums of every block of data. If single bits are flipped then they can be corrected. If you encrypt at a lower level than the filesystem then you're at the mercy of that lower level's error correction, but in practice it is rare to encrypt at a lower level. Typically it's done at the filesystem level or higher, including when using self-encrypting drives.
No.

"This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means […]"

Sure, if a machine uses a plotter, but not if a human being is writing stuff down.
If my kid had this mindset I would consider myself a failure as a parent. I grew up edge of starvation poor, my wife is also from low income family. Both of us are multiples of median income now and can provide a stable home for our son in mid 30s. It took 10 years of doing stupid shit and wasting time because I didn't have support or direction in life. Realistically, if I had better role models for success, I could have reached my current level of income 5 years earlier, and be much better off in life now. If my kid expected to have everything sorted out at 20 I would think hard about how I failed to give him enough reality checks.
At 80k your post-tax takehome is $5000/mo even filing single in a high tax state. Take out $400 for health insurance, $800 for car+insurance, $1200 for rent, and you've still got $2500 for food, miscellaneous spending, Roth IRA, etc. Even if all those costs come to $2000 - unlikely, since the Roth contribution limit is $6k / year - you're still left with $500/month in savings. And that's assuming your partner doesn't bring in _any_ income, which is exceedingly unlikely.

If your typical rent is $1200, that means property values in your area are almost certainly low enough to qualify for FHA loans, which only require 3.5% down due to government subsidies. 3.5% of $450k is $16k - so it only takes about 3 years to save for that down payment.

Home prices are high _because_ FHA loans allow people to have greater purchasing power (among many other reasons like NIMBYism).
I still live there, a suburb of Portland OR. I locked in a cheap apartment years ago that's now rent controlled, which makes my situation possible. I currently pay about half what new renters pay. Without it, I'd be stuck in wage-slavery anyways and couldn't take the time to self-improve like this.

Moving is an option (my partner has restrictions: No states with anti-abortion laws, which removes many inexpensive places), if I go remote. Seems like every other dev has the same idea and that's helping drive prices up everywhere - along with other factors, of course.
I've considered it. Most office soap smells so bad. With the exception of Microsoft's soap. It's been close to ten years since I worked there, but I can still remember how good their hand soap smelled.
The GDPR in no way requires cookie banners, that is the choice of the website you visited. Cookies required for functionality of a website do not require consent, privacy invading tracking cookies on the other hand do.
Apologies if this is not allowed on HN, but there is Topspeed Modula-2 at this link. I think it's fully abandoned, but I'm still a bit uncomfortable with the ethics of sites like this.

https://vetusware.com/download/Topspeed%20Modula%202%203.10/...

Please - usual security caveats apply of course. I have not installed this myself to check out for malware. It is my intention to try and install it under FreeDOS on an old, air gapped, laptop at some point. Bring back some memories!
Not from Orion, would be pretty invasive if it was (Orion dev here).
>> First you're getting a vastly different product today than in 1946

Is that true? Something like 40% of the UK housing stock was built pre-WW2. Sure they’ll no longer have a coal bunker and they most likely have had insulation upgrades etc. but a pre-WW2 house in 1946 is still a pre-WW2 house today. The modern build will have less living space, predominately through smaller room sizes but should be cheaper to heat.

>> Also to compare affordability the metric for most people would be the median percentage case of mortgage payments vs the persons take home pay

That lops off all the people who can’t afford a mortgage so i dont think that logic works.
Your chart shows that pay has been up a lot. Why wouldn’t extra pay lead to inflation?

If you hypothetically doubled everyone’s pay you think that wouldn’t lead to significant inflation in housing prices?

In any case real household income is up:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
Strange that private companies are allowed to create money from nothing don't you think?
DES (and TDES) has 1 parity bit for every 7 bits of key. Nobody really uses it as far as I've seen (e.g. they just generate random keys with invalid parity), but it's built in to the key itself.
I bought a house with 3 kids in the bay area (San Leandro) on slightly less than $135k (wife stays at home), but I had a rent controlled apartment in SF for 9 years. I bought at a good time (August 2020) and was able to use 403b without penalty. Kids go to public schools. All three kids are in one room, but it’s a very large room, and we have a cottage which is my office for now but the teenager can go there later.

It’s possible but not easy (and harder now), and you have to be patient and careful and a bit lucky.
It’s kind of surprising how often people get a good idea for a gift and totally ignore the recipient’s cries of protest.
GCS works. For my own use it is just much simpler to use GCS
Yes, but look at how fast it runs the antivirus /s
Not a former cook, but a former barista, and this resonates with me deeply. The same underlying emotion that drove me to continually wipe down my station is the same that drives me to be fastidious about minutiae in my code bases.

I'll have to check this book out!
Nothing you just said is true, and your bias is evident.
I think THC affects some people by kicking their anxiety into high gear (I know that's the case for me). One day, we'll probably figure out the genetics underlying that effect.
According to the UN, in 2019 Germany had 15.7% foreign born and USA 15.4%.

And the AfD notwithstanding, Germany has the pragmatic Gastarbeiter precedent.

The larger precedent, for all cultures, is that idealistic views (immigrants good! Immigrants bad!) fade dramatically and rapidly when pragmatic issues emerge.
> If KMS is causing things to be slow, it might be because the video driver is not working and the software framebuffer is being used. At higher resolutions that'll be slow.

But then how could using a software framebuffer on an underpowered thing like the RPI400 cause the video to play smoothly?
You nailed it. Every 3 years google renames and rebadges their chat system. I don't even know what to call it anymore.
Great article - this is the first time I am reading about the positive effects of drones where it has actually saved lives. I have also read that Rwanda is doing very well recently since their terrible civil war in the 90s.
Since the software halts when it detects the driver is no longer supervising it, I'm curious as to how you can interpret this as "risking their lives."
Large wind turbines are spread out so will probably occupy much more land but not cast shadow.
Correctly configured RAID setups also make it possible to detect and recover errors across drives & data without downtime, this is commonly how it's done in datacenters.
The copy of this article is so good. The entire piece made me laugh so hard. Thanks for posting this!
unless we start seeing trillion-dollar building contracts, this will not change. Tech jobs pay so much because the stakes are so high when we're talking trillion dollar companies, first-mover advantage, and network effects. Architecture is the opposite of tech in this regard.
I've heard this is only effective at "heroic" doses -- most studies also use a high dose (>= 25 mg psilocybin)
Microsoft handed out builds at PDC. It's difficult to take claims that it didn't have massive performance issues seriously.
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The original Science manuscript is locked behind a paywall, but high-level context and conclusions are provided here:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl9283?cookieSe...
I play in Hard Mode, so that type of method rarely works
Are you blocking cookies by default? Quite often your consent is saved in a cookie.
There is of course also the possibility that the website operator is hoping that you get so annoyed that you consent to tracking sooner or later.
I'm kind of surprised that this took "two weeks, a stable of computers, and billions of combinations tested"? If we make the (generous) assumption that this was using a 128-bit key (more than was common in 1993—the age of DES and 56-bit keys, unless you were using public key crypto – which would be a very strange choice for a military satellite), we have:

256 (2 * 128) keys with 1 bit different

32,512 (2^2 * 128 choose 2) keys with 2 bits different

2,731,008 (2^3 * 128 choose 3) keys with 3 bits different

170,688,000 (2^4 * 128 choose 4) keys with 4 bits different

8,466,124,800 (2^5 * 128 choose 5) keys with 5 bits different

So to reach billions of combinations you need 5 bitflips, which seems quite high! But I guess space is a pretty rough environment :)
I'm pretty sure the food people used to eat was way harder on teeth than cheeseburgers and pizza.
Cults
https://xkcd.com/1172/

CPU-based could be easier.
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”
Also note that state/city minimum wage is often higher than federal minimum wage, so using only federal minimum wage stats is not a full picture. e.g. Washington's minimum wage is ~$14.50/hr, so nobody in that whole state is making federal minimum wage, but I doubt anybody is living well on "double the federal minimum wage" in most of the state.
As a Google employee, you almost never need to store anything on Drive, do you? I'm struggling to think of a "sync my files" workflow where corp Drive would have been the best solution if only there had been a Linux client.
Building Software? It’s Like Painting Walls
> pain-points why you'd not want to dabble with it for your 1-2 hosts at home

I use NixOS on my 2 hosts at home. It took about 3-months of tinkering with it and testing different things until I was comfortable to do that. But the headaches it’s solved make that investment more than worth it. Declarative config and reproducible builds are just amazing, I could never go back to a regular linux now.
“Founder” refers to accomplishments, a shorthand for someone who created something and built a business around it. The term does not refer to a set of skills or some combination of qualities. No one “is” a founder until they founded something, like no one “is” a parent until they have a child.

People who have studied learning mostly settled on focused practice as the most effective way to acquire skills — hundreds or thousands of hours of trial and error. You can read books about how to play guitar or write computer programs but to actually acquire and master those skills you need lots of deliberate practice, and some reference (like a mentor or teacher) to let you know what you get right and what you need to work on.

The skills required to start a software company will vary a lot from the skills required to open a restaurant or a school. People who have founded businesses probably share some traits such as persistence and confidence and abilitity to sell and motivate people, you can read about those people but I don’t think that gets you any closer to founding anything.

Anecdotally the successful founders I’ve known start with some skills they’ve mastered through experience, and an understanding of a business domain. They usually worked for a long time for other people to acquire skills, experience, contacts, and domain knowledge.
Saying they don't have the "cultural infrastructure" to assimilate immigrants sounds like it's letting them off the hook for a lot.
some people on Tiktok making good money with product placement, same for YouTube. Starbucks however is dead-end.
135k is closer to 1% in the US than you’d think.
There is an Australian version of this link: http://gutenberg.net.au . There are quite a few books there that are not in gutenberg.org because the Aus. version observes Australian copyright law. You won't find much R.A. Freeman, for example, in the parent but almost his entire œuvre can be found on the Aussie site.
Bitsquatting is a great name. I’m not 100% that this isn’t just typosquatting though.