skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These expectations go both ways: it used to be that most jobs were stable, long-lasting and well paid. I live in a 100 year old house in Seattle whose first occupants were an immigrant janitor and his homemaker wife. Today most of our neighbors are lawyers, architects and other professionals because those are the only jobs that pay well enough to afford a house in Seattle.

It’s really no surprise that if your only options for work don’t pay much and demand a ton, you’re not gonna be too invested in that work. If you don’t see how you can build a stable life for yourself through work…why work?

Expectations go both ways. We used to expect people to work hard at one job that a household could survive on. Such jobs basically no longer exist outside of tech or law, so it’s natural that other behaviors change too.

And to the author’s fevered insistence that nobody can talk about this…I suggest talking to people. This is a very common discussion on the left, outside of his weird caricatures.
The best analysis I have seen makes an interesting case that we are essentially still in shock from entering a post-marriage-norm society.

All the institutions that promoted marriage are ignored, so people are testing the shark-filled waters and going it alone.

Society-wide, this is self correcting over a couple centuries though, as the families which prioritize values are out-breeding those that do not (e.g. birth control is quickly segregating population growth by culture).
This is fine advice, but the topic is the "manager's handbook" not other, better, management practices, so the advice is off-topic.

Did you read the section in question?

Advice about avoiding zero sum games isn't relevant to a discussion of a specific zero sum game prescribed by the manual we're discussing.
> Homer Simpson is the face of traditional American family structures.

The life available to Homer Simpson included a skilled job that he could obtain without a college degree (and also while being an idiot). He was able to purchase a four bedroom home in the community he grew up in and provide for his wife and three children on that one income.

That was the norm, now it's practically gone. The lack of accessible economic opportunity, housing, and childcare are major barriers to having kids. If the same opportunities were available to my generation as they were to Homer Simpson's, this article wouldn't exist.

No one I know is delaying or avoiding a family because "the media" didn't show them how to start a "non-prgressive" one.
> If you want to argue against the semantics, by all means, but “industry doesn’t think it looks pretty” does not cut it

I'm not arguing against semantics, and "the industry doesn't think it looks pretty" is not my argument either.

My argument is that, if you want the industry to accept something, it needs to be acceptable to the industry. Haskell-ish syntax[1] has clearly been unacceptable to the industry for a long time.

It's been rejected, again and again. At this point, it is pretty much guaranteed that attaching Haskell syntax to your new config format/language/application/whatever is a recipe for failure.

It's not that the industry just thinks it looks ugly, it's that the industry has outright rejected how it looks.

> even “I don’t think it looks pretty” would afford more respect on my part

My opinion on Haskell syntax, and whether or not you respect my opinion, is also pretty much irrelevant if the industry has already rejected it. I could be thinking that it's the best thing since sliced Jesus, but that won't change the fact that the syntax of Haskell has been rejected by the industry.

[1] Amongst others.
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The argument should be true, or not, whatever the author's leanings. Why would you find an argument more or less convincing were the arguer to label themselves?
Thanks. I initially thought “what’s the point” but didn’t have anything better to do.
kicked to the curb *
In 100 years or less, whites will be the minority in the US.
The substance is missing, but at least the subject matter is interesting.
The tories have been negotiating in bad faith on Brexit since day 1 and never really stopped. Stuff like the Internal Market Bill etc
My two greatest gripes with nix (or rather nixpkgs) are:

- so much things are implicit

- inversion of control on steroids

Besides, I love NixOS.

EDIT to elaborate: when you try to read how various things are packaged, it's hard to know where certain things come from (`with` statement isn't helping); you wonder, how on earth can it work when it's mostly empty; names of some functions don't appear in files they're defined.
So doesn’t that kind of tell you the answer to how Adobe was full of it when they complained that they could have ported Flash to the 1st gen iPhone if it weren’t for Apple blocking them? The fact that they couldn’t get it working well on phone hardware four years newer, over twice as fast, with 4 times as much memory with larger batteries?

Cross platform frameworks like the initial poster alluded to always suck compared to native purpose built frameworks.

We see that today with Electron - a battery killing, memory inefficient, platform.
>bottom fifth of households by income had no earners in 2020

Can we not use covid era numbers?

A whole bunch of people were earning more money by not working during and taking unemployment during covid. You can't make social conclusions about economics during those distorted times.
>We're living in an utterly corrupt society. I know the middle class types on here don't like to hear it, but it's true. At the bottom of society, one can see clearly how bad it is. In the middle, you are insulated in your little suburban homes with your inflated sense of self-worth

It's a fairly accurate representation of the way things are, as I see it.

>This can't last forever.

I think this was the way it was since time immemorial. Probably worse.
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Also...

It is Sunday morning. That means a lot of people are at church (and who is might be related to the demographic observation you've made). Is the message they're hearing one of hope or despair? Or are they not even listening? I'm not going to blame everything on religion, as tempting as that is, but for a non-trivial minority that might be part of who feels included or excluded and why they react as they do.
Yea, I have followed a lot of philosophy professors and when COVID started the accounts started to behave like a botnet really aggressively retweeting anti-trump and covid mainstream media. I really don't know if that was actually a set of hacked accounts or if people really started to behave like locust. But just unfollowing people that just have opinions about 'current thing' will do a lot for the quality of your timeline.
Actually the patriarchy traditionally would not see deadbeat dads with good eyes.

There is plenty of reasons to be critical of the patriarchy, but in this aspect they were right.
Right. He's someone that went from low to high class; he's writing about high-class beliefs from the perspective of someone who has first-hand knowledge of how they play out for the lower-classes.
Recycling partially used soap is a good idea. Making sure everyone around the world has access to soap is certainly super important.

There's really no reason US recycled soap needs to be the soap that is sent to (eg) Africa, shipped over oceans. Doesn't (eg) Africa have it's own soap production facilities? But I guess American consumers would be unwilling to use recycled soap? Or just the neat connection between the soap collected in one place and delivered to those poor unfortunates overseas is what's necessary to get funding and other support? Nobody wants to fund just paying for soap in (say) Africa or just recycling soap in the US, I guess.

Causing "60%+ reduction in the number of children who die from diarrheal diseases each year" -- is a pretty stunning claim. Looking closer... I guess they're simply saying that children ding of such diseases had dropped by 60% from 1990 to 2020, not that they alone are responsible for that? Just that they've "helped" to some unknown extent? I bet most readers didn't catch that. That seems a bit dishonest actually. Still, even the 60% reduction in such deaths over 20 years alone is pretty great and I hadn't known about it! (I believe this is one of the leading causes of death in man parts of the world -- or used to be?). I suspect this particular effort had a pretty minimal contribution to those numbers.
The greenhouse gas emissions of blue hydrogen production exceed those of simply burning natural gas.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ese3.956
That's an entirely separate, perhaps even more dire, problem. And it undoubtedly compounds for those men intersecting both categories. But the passive men phenomenon is not directly caused by intergenerational poverty. That is evident by how men in all socioeconomic classes are "affected."
(Off-topic, but...)

I recall an interview on KQED with an activist who absolutely was proposing to get rid of the entire police and carceral system. When asked how they would deal with, say, a murderer, their response was a) there'd be fewer murderers and b) there would be meditation between the murderer and the victim's family. I really wish the interviewer had asked, what happens if the victim doesn't have a family? Does this mean that rich murderers can pay their way out of any crime? Presumably it would!

It was fascinating, partly because what was being described is a premodern world, in which crime is a purely personal matter and not the business of the state. It's a world of vendettas, in which the powerful operate with true impunity. I don't think the partisans of _really_ defunding the police appreciate this.

(Note, I have a lot of sympathy with the idea that the police are doing too much, especially around mental health crises, and some funding could usefully be diverted, etc etc.)
I'm currently going through the immigration process in the UK. Operations managed by UKVI are efficient and a pleasure to use, while everything managed by outsourced companies like Sopra Steria is inefficient and awful.

I don't drive, but if I were to guess I'd say that the painful parts you are going through are outsourced to some shit company designed to nickel-and-dime you.
Perhaps there is a reason that historically, a lot of cultures (and religions) encouraged stable family units, and discouraged or even tried to outlaw breakage of that pattern (ie extra marital sex, which at the time was very likely to lead to kids out of wedlock, and divorce).
The rise and fall of the neoliberal order
> we are building technology that lets Textual apps run in a web browser

so close, and yet so far away!
Immigration has a large history in the US, yes, but historically immigrants were encouraged (through social pressures) to assimilate part of their identity. Is that pressure for partial assimilation still there? Or do we encourage diversity so much now that anything goes?
> what is the remaining work I would need to have done in order to get it working under

A good chunk of the Linux community on phones didn't want to have to rely on binary drivers for non-technical reasons, and that's one of the reasons why it isn't exactly well taken care of today.

For Ubuntu Touch specifically:

https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/introduction/Intr... for Ubuntu Touch.

https://github.com/ubports/porting-notes/wiki/Generic-System...

An upgraded Halium (https://github.com/Halium) image on a can work unmodified across the whole ecosystem of Android devices.

However, the latest currently developed experimental Halium works on an Android 11 base at most, so that devices launched with Android 12 might be using drivers too new for it at this point in time.

(https://gitlab.com/ubports/community-ports/jenkins-ci/generi...)

This can be fixed with an engineering effort to do so to make it work on devices launched with Android 12. The Linux on phones community is very small and that causes problems in this case.

Together with the unified kernel image (GKIs) on Android 12 which allows to have kernel image binaries built with GNU/Linux-specific features that work across the whole fleet, a full straightforward experience can be made possible. This would fill the last chunk of custom per-device bits.

I wonder how big the audience would be for such a project though. :)
It doesn't matter how great your tanks are, hydrazine will never be suitable for commercial passenger flights. It's insanely toxic and hazardous to deal with. Forget the passengers, that stuff is dangerous for everybody on the ground too. It's not cheap either, I'm not sure why you'd think cheap sub-orbital flights are gated by hydrazine tanks.

Also, old intercontinental supersonic flights aren't done anymore, the Concorde is gone and nothing replaced it. It will likely never be an economically viable niche, particularly since the utility of video streaming has been so conclusively demonstrated, soaking up much of the demand for business travel.
So 4 people doing all the work by hand could do 500 bars a day. But now it takes 20,000 volunteers and they've made 68,000,000 bars, so only about 6 days worth of work per volunteer total?
"The article is right on the mark talking about the importance of social expectations for men."

Those only really work if the opportunities are there for the person to succeed. If you have no hope of success, then people just give up.
TL;DR: poor men will only do for women whatever is necessary to get laid, these days, almost nothing is necessary anymore so they do just that. Rich men need children who are aware of who they are and get decent upbringing, to pass down their wealth, so they care for their children a lot better. With poor men having nothing to pass on, and also realising their lives are a failure and it doesn't make their kids a good service to pass on their life habits to the kids, why would they bother?
OP isn't talking about creating expectations of money, wealth, status for their own sake. The biggest thing he says his family expected of him was to provide a stable foundation for his own children. This is something which some amount of money is necessary for, but if you focus entirely on the money you've destroyed that foundation just as thoroughly as if you failed to provide for them at all.
> I just happen to program in a space where I like the trade offs of ARC better than those of a tracing GC.

Even ARC has to be augmented with some tracing in order to deterministically collect cycles. Ideally, of course, we would want to describe things like "non-cyclic ownership graph" as part of the type system, so that the compiler itself can decide where the addition of tracing infrastructure is necessary. (Delayed deallocation, as often seen in tracing, concurrent etc. GC, might be expressed as moving the ownership of finalized objects to some sort of cleanup task. But if you code carefully, the need for this ought to be very rare.)
> The political window has shifted further and further left in recent years.

As an outside observer, I'm Canadian, this viewpoint of many Americans that their politics has shifted "left" is flabbergasting. The SC has definitely shifted hard right and Roe v. Wade is essentially overturned, or being, overturned in many states. "Don't say gay" and other anti LGBQT+ laws are being passed.

I feel you are using a very "true Scotsman" definition of Conservative in your world view in order to paint Republicans as "left".
The technical background is that Android allows marking certain GUI surfaces as "sensitive", which increases their in-memory protection somewhat (not sure to what extent) and also makes them inaccessible to various remote screen recording/capturing solutions, including adb.

Not being able to take a screenshot is more of a side effect of that, but is arguably the main reason for most apps to use them in practice.

It's also been around for many years.
I use Feeder from FDroid too. I create tags to prioritize the ones I read the most; YMMV.
Psychologists recognize that a surprisingly large percentage of people have no little to no ability to visualize abstractions or engage in mentally taxing feats of empathy.

These people are more prone to believe that it’s only possible to obtain insight about a circumstance from only those individuals in said circumstance.

When people comment about this, it generates confusion for people like you. :)
> the only data there automagically gets removed within a week

Nice! To be clear, you can't count on the same thing happening on the other end of the connection due to various alternative Signal clients. This is kind of where Snapchat is king of the hill, but obviously nothing is perfect!
Winner winner, seagull dinner!
I'm not GP and can only guess, and not even a particularly educated guess, but I will try, because I too am curious, and everyone knows the best way to get an answer on the web is to post a confident-sounding answer so someone can 'correct me' therefore giving me the actual information I'm hopeful to receive.

I remember (and therefore don't have a source for) users on the web claiming the rise of fascism was enabled partly by strongman leaders engaging all of the disaffected men en masse to serve said strongman's agenda by offering them the things they wanted (respect, status, stability).

If my tripping of Godwin's Law is on the right track, then the GP may be referring to Weimar Germany where Hitler was able to take control over a very quick timeframe, starting with disaffected men and eventually spreading the message to the general populace, taking over the country's government sans violence (though there was certainly violence and intimidation near the end of the Weimar government and probably before then that I am unaware of).

Or, much more likely, the GP meant something else entirely, and I am Wrong On The Internet!
> If you suppress opposing viewpoints, you're also suppressing any evidence that you might be wrong.

So what is your proposal? Twitter should continue spending their money on promoting something which may lead to millions of people dying? Or is it something else?

My viewpoint is that your reasoning is incredible naive, well into the area of stupidity.
Some programs spend over 50% of their time doing reference counting (http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/iacoma-papers/pact18.pdf), and that will show up I’m your throughput measurements.

I expect you can find papers giving numbers in the same ballpark for malloc/free, too. A MVP of JavaScript, for example, that boxes everything, combined with a benchmark that creates a d destroys lots of objects.
> XMPP is a protocol, not a product, so it's not surprising that it doesn't stand up as a product on its own.

It does have an intended use case, and more opinionation could have improved its chances of achieving that.

> federation in email has regressed over the last 40 years, from personal/company mail servers back to massive centralisation in the likes of Gmail, despite the protocol remaining exactly the same

Protocol not changing is a problem. Email is so outdated nowadays that you're way better off using Gmail for its added security, especially within a company so everything stays within Gmail. IIRC email has changed a bit, but the new security features haven't been uniformly adopted like with HTTPS, so it's too much of a mixed bag.
Does it though? In a typical marriage, one side goes to work and the other stays home. The one who stays home has a pretty stale resume during the years kids can't be in school and they often don't make it back to the workforce at all. This is a decision that's usually agreed to because the long term plan is to stay together and this is the agreed upon model for load distribution. Then comes divorce.

The party that has always been the primary caregiver is expected to keep that role, in general. Without a partner who works and gets paid, they are left scrambling to find a job. Since their resume has gone stale, they end up making a fraction of what they would have, had they stayed working. Don't forget, they're still probably the primary caregiver and have to handle finding daycare or babysitters so they can work and take care of of kids.

You can guess which parent generally get the more difficult role. So which side has it better?

My wife hasn't worked since she completed her Masters. If we split, she'd have a degree that qualifies her to be a teacher but not valid certifications. I make a very good salary. She'd have our kid because there's no math that would make sacrificing my job a reasonable option. I could give her half my net and I'd still live the high life but she would have to deal with all the details of scheduling our kid's life and I'd be able to opt out of it. I never plan to split but my life would be much easier than her life would be, if we did.
>has clearly been unacceptable to the industry for a long time.

What?? Galois, Facebook, IBM, Twitter, AT&T, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, NVIDIA, Microsoft and GitHub use Haskell.

https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry
Early US immigrants were pioneers wanting to carve a civilization on new continent.

Would you consider the rule of law as a cornerstone of our national heritage? So many of today's immigrants seem to have little regard, evidenced by their illegal entry.
Can you please distinguish between the ex-presidents’s words and actions?

He supported domestic production, but failed to do anything meaningful. He claimed to support the working class but then passed the TCJA which benefited the owners of capital more than labor.

He did get a few things right like Operation Warp Speed, but it’s overshadowed by the sheer incompetence of the implementation of other actions (ref. CARES act).

I’m not trying to start a flame war nor am I insinuating that you are presenting arguments in bad faith; I’m merely stating that the actions need to be contrasted with the words.

The real puzzle to me is the level of support he enjoys after a term in the office. IMO there are much better people to implement the policies that he claims to champion (eg Ron DeSantis, Tom Cotton) who also happen to be vastly more competent.
Morocco is pretty stable. There are no sectarian tensions, tribalism is basically non existent, and even the western sahara situation is stabilized with the US recently recognizing Morocco's claim to the region. Keep in mind that the moroccan state has existed in some form or another for around 1300 years. so the country is much more cohesive, and the central power more powerful than other "newer" post colonial countries.

It's very very far from being a perfect or even good country (for most of us moroccans), but it has an almost bulletproof record w.r.t foreign investment. The usually very slow "makhzen" (state bureaucracy) can suddenly become super super efficient to attract foreign capital. Tanger-MED and the huge automobile industry around it is a very good example of that.
> What men want is sex.

If it were that simple, there would be more goats and less stress.
Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-protests-frozen-bank...
https://standardebooks.org/ sources notable literature from Gutenberg and packages it up into modern ebook formats.
Maybe it would be better to say "controlling for immigration policies"? But even then the US is going to come out behind because those countries don't have the legacies of slavery still weighing them down.
As in, "In the past young men could look to the example of their fathers, who had well-paid automotive manufacturing / steel mill / electronics assembly jobs that allowed them to care for their families and even put a downpayment on a small home, but now they have no such examples and no such expectations of moving into that kind of position at adulthood."

Okay, that's an expectation issue. Why is the author ignoring the change in conditions that led to that change in expectations?
He went to Yale, yes, but he doesn't have the typical Yale graduate background of wealth and status. He had a drug addict mother and was sent to foster homes until he was adopted. He experienced the various levels of society first-hand.
Hasn't DVLA always been in Swansea?