skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no exact answer to this question, just a set of factors that contribute towards doing better than someone else.

First, do you directly make money for a company, or directly reduce costs? The closer you are to core activities that generate income, or increase efficiency, then the more protected you will be from being laid off. This applies to companies too in a way.

Companies need core services like email or ERP. Chat like Slack is now core compared to the situation in 2008. This core software is going to be the last thing that companies want to change. What they will focus on eliminating is all of the nice-to-have software that has been deployed in their organization. SaaS costs add up at the department and company levels and companies will look to eliminate low hanging fruit.

If something has low usage numbers, that'll go. When some product has a nice UX, but there is an alternative within some other product, then the nice UX won't win out (e.g. use Jira instead of Asana.)

These are examples of software, but the same patterns play out across other categories. What's worth considering, is how can these things come out of a recession? At the start of the recession, contingent staff or contractors were often let go before employees. As the economy recovered, hiring contractors was a safer bet during the uncertain window when it wasn't clear that we had turned a corner. SaaS started to become a viable option because you could get started cheaply and didn't have to stump up funds for implementation. We take SaaS for granted now, but a lot of the growth came out of the last recession when you could make arguments for it.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147758 - December 2016 (3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913597 - November 2010 (13 comments)
Wheat is unlikely to be a problem in India. Domestic production is high as are buffers. There's enough surplus that Indian wheat is being exported. If the situation changes, the government won't hesitate in banning exports.

Edible oil through is a different story.
This I have to hear. What politician is claiming that nurses are overpaid?
Note that this concept predates the concept of maximisation, and comes from an era when single apps would be implemented in multiple windows. E.g. the content area the toolbar in photoshop were separate windows. Back then it made a lot of sense. But I agree it's just annoying now.
Good question. I don't know. Just seems to be that way
Regional accreditation is the stronger accreditation.

This is an example of a federal accreditation group:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnational_Association_of_C...
A big part of education is spacing and repetition so completing a full course quickly before starting the next one doesn't sound like it's very good for learning even if it might speed up the degree.
"The program will be tuition-free for Arizona residents. Out-of-state students will pay tuition to attend."
I would pay more to go to a hospital where I know people are actually well rested. My last few hospital stays have been saturated with clearly agitated staff (doctors, nurses, reception) who were putting in minimal effort, and clearly didn't want to be there, and I can't blame them given the conditions that they're being forced to work under.

This is in the US, and I can't figure out why the Department of Labor hasn't cracked down on the medical industry yet. It's really horrific, especially because these are the people we're supposed to be relying on to keep us healthy and safe.

How hard is it to enforce 8 hour days 5 days a week? Every other industry has figured it out.
>I don't think that, no. Or I wouldn't have posted what I posted. Corporations spend an immense amount of money on PR, and a lot of it goes on "perception shifting". As an example, in the early 2000s Shell spent $100m inventing the idea of a "personal carbon footprint" so that people would focus on the environmental impact of you using 20 plastic straws a year instead of Shell burning 400m barrels of oil. It worked brilliantly.

I'm not denying "perception shifting" doesn't exist, just that claiming that "Every article that states you can save a small amount of money by doing something" is "corporate PR" is a little too broad. This article has problems for other reasons, but claiming that an energy conservation NGO is acting in bad faith by telling people to conserve energy is a stretch.

>£30 a year on this. £50 a year on something else. £20 a week on a phone. £5 a week on coffee. And suddenly the papers are full of "Poor people can't afford a house because they waste their money on things!" People do believe it.

So you're against money/resource saving techniques being promulgated because it's ammo for the "millennials are poor because they're eating avocado toast" crowd? That seems like an overly "we must win at all costs, anyone that helps the enemy is an enemy" way of looking at things.

>Yes. Money saving advice when it's a paltry amount that won't cause a shift in your circumstances is essentially useless, especially if the root cause is some corporation trying to get out of being responsible for their actions.

I agree this article is dumb because the savings is only £30, but jumping to the conclusion that it must be part of some PR campaign seems premature.

> In this case, electricity companies are making record profits and increasing prices far in excess of inflation.

source?

> The media should focus on that, not whether or not someone is using 20kWh on making LEDs stay on.

In this case "the media" isn't even involved at all. The OP is a blog post from a private citizen, and the "article" it's referencing is from an energy conversation NGO. While I think it might be worth pointing out energy companies profits, that's not really part of the NGO's mission.
Surely `rq` can't be far behind.
That is why everybody hates Java.
I've heard the same thing from mental health counselors and therapists. In wealthier areas many will just stop accepting insurance entirely and make people pay out of pocket to avoid all the insurance paperwork and requirements (some insurers require specific diagnosis to continue paying for services). If an insurer decides to not pay you? good luck. Now you need to throw hours of unpaid labor at them to get money you're owed.

Unsurprisingly, this means many normal people can't afford a therapist and they're getting harder to find.
I know Ontario all too well. The same people that depend on nurses won't do more than needlessly beat pots and pans for their "heros". They do not even support them with their votes, which put in power the nefarious Conservative party.
Who exactly are the nurses standing for? People that won't have their back.
You can. I did that for decades until I got tired of maintaining that server.

Use a reputable VPS provider (one that's not likely to tolerate their customers being spammers), once you get the server check the IP against various blacklists (get a new server / IP if that happens). Make sure you set up your SSL certs and DKIM, SPF and DMARC properly.

Across the years, I had very few instances where my outgoing mail ended up in someone's spam box.
HTTP/3 Transport for OkHttp and Retrofit
I can only speak from my experience in Canada, but Engineering programs (I don't know about SWE) here still do so. I lost ~20% of my student peers within the first semester and nearly 30% by the end of the first year.
> How doctors of all professions lost their professional agency to do-nothing administrators within a generation is quite puzzling and a bit terrifying to me

This should terrify everyone. Large segments of our society are failing us despite being stuffed to the gills with administrative staff that don't contribute much to productivity but rob professions of their independence. We're managing ourselves to death.
I just graduated from WGU 2 days ago, after almost 20 years in the industry. I didn't rush through it was quickly - I finished in just under a year. I studied finance my first time around in college and have tried to do a CS degree a few times since, but juggling a full-time job and now a family makes that tough. The flexibility the WGU program offered was honestly more important than the raw speed at which I could go through it.

Some of it was stuff I knew really well and only spent an hour or two on, some of it was filler (I now have ITIL v4 and Project+ certifications that were annoying to get and mostly useless?), and some of it was new and interesting (Discrete Math, Computer Architecture, etc..). Overall, it didn't feel like markedly different curriculum from the in-person courses I took at other schools.

Aside from a few terrible classes (the AI course is just a horrendous waste of time), most of them were decent and I felt like I learned something from them. The overall curriculum is a little odd and probably not ideal for someone who has little programming experience. For example, the very first "scripting and programming" course uses C++ to build a simple command-line application, but then you never do anything with C++ again. What is the point of that? I understand how C++ can be useful in a learning context, but I don't think a brief introduction to it really does any good. Two of the biggest courses are big JavaFX projects, which ughh.. fine, but I think there are probably more useful things to teach.

I understand that a CS degree is more about theory than getting job-related skills, but a few of the decisions made serve neither very well. So if I had one knock on the program, it is that someone who comes in with little programming experience is probably going to come out of it without having written much code that resembles what they'd be doing in a job.

Overall, it was a really good experience and it feels good to finally finish up after all these years. I am currently applying for the Georgia Tech OMSCS program, which is a common route for WGU graduates. That one is fairly rigorous and cannot be sped through, so looking at several more years for that, but at the end of it all, a BS + MS in Computer Science in around 5 years and under $20k total seems like a decent result?
I think the distinction here is more that this person was already a working professional. And seems to have had the appropriate knowledge to pass most of the classes already.

I got my Masters in a field I had already been working in for years, and the majority of the classes I took taught me nothing new since I already knew the subjects. A few taught me some things about subjects I was not familiar with and took some extra effort but overall the classes weren't that useful. But it was still important for me to get that credential on my resume.
There is no such thing as free market capitalism. This is why the parent comment said "capitalism" and not "free markets". I assume that's what you meant by putting "free market" in quotes, I'm just making an explicit clarification.
Most places have no time minimum for a Ph.D.

For world record, a few geniuses finished them in a year.

Fastest for someone I know personally: three years from one of the top universities in the US. This is realistic. Can't say they got much out of the program, though. All-in-all, it seemed like a waste of time.

I spent a __long__ time in graduate school, taking interesting courses, travelling the world, and just on learning and intellectual exploration. If you want that, get a Ph.D. Just realize your advisor is just that -- an advisor, and not your boss. You don't need to do what they tell you to do. If you want a slip of paper, consider why you want it, and if you wouldn't be better served by an MBA, MS, or something else. A Ph.D is not all that important, career-wise.

Rushing a BS makes complete sense to me. A Ph.D? Not so much.
Ah, the OS itself. I thought you meant the application dependencies.
A website that is able to function without JavaScript increases its accessibility, that doesn't mean that the user explicitly disabled JavaScript. You could be on a train in a 5G-equipped country with an unreliable connection. Have you came across a website having problems with stylesheets completely missing, due to CORS, caching, etc?

If the document is able to carry out navigation, without having to rely on downloading a non-negligeable amount of JS to hydrate the page, it improves the experience for that 90th percentile enourmously. Us web developers are often privileged with a very good internet connections. It's not necessarily anti-JS thinking, and SSR for crawlers generally as no longer been relevant for a number of years, it improves UX.

Edit: this also reminds me of [1], a 8.5 MB HTML file with 27.5k tweets was faster to paint than a single tweet in a React application. It depends on whether the UX can be improved by using more JS, for most websites I think less is more.

[1]: https://twitter.com/zachleat/status/1169998370041208832?s=20...
Klaus Schulze, German electronic music pioneer, dies aged 74
Staying away from illegal drugs is very easy unless you're already addicted.
I also think the complete implosion of family medicine has made this worse. In the past, you would keep the same family medicine doctor for decades and trust them. They in turn would know what your values and priorities are. Moreover, they would be able to guide you through difficult healthcare decisions that inevitably come up (cancer diagnosis, mental health etc.). We have lost the human connection aspect of medicine and those few physicians that are able to hang on to it are burning out due to the massive amounts of paperwork they need to accomplish. From the hospital perspective, (which many physicians now work for) good paperwork=good patient care. Paperwork is measurable. Relationships (other than in the abstract) are not.
Operating systems do not implicitly support this, but lots of mice do at the hardware level. They can be configured with software provided by the manufacturer, and usually support storing these configurations on the mouse itself so they can be used without any extra drivers or software running in the background or on operating systems not officially supported.
"The human is almost extinct in the wild. A captive breeding program has been phenomenally successful. Sometimes humans say they eat nachos like an animal, as though they aren't one." -> "A man disappears in the forest. The prisoner's system was successful. Sometimes people say they are animals."
That's quite pricey, sounds like a good candidate for automation :)
This article was interesting to me because it helped me learn about WGU. I dropped out of college just one semester prior to graduating (and had a 3.7gpa at the time). I've had nearly two decades of experience in industry, and it'd be great to be able to get a degree at this point in my life just to get the credential to match my work experience. WGU seems like a really reasonable program for someone in my situation, compared to taking time off from work to go back to school or hoping I get famous enough someday to get an honorary degree.
Show HN: No More AA Batteries – Old Apple Wireless Keyboard Hack
Wonder if this is a US phenomenon or a global phenomenon?
Employers can make remote working a success by listening to research
I’m willing to bet 50% of people in the U.S. get anxious when having to do their business in a public bathroom.

Doing your business next to a stranger in Tevas with hobbit feet and a serious gastro intestinal issue is nightmare fuel for me.
If the intent of the redesign was to make this more apparent, it also failed in that goal. Old and new both look like a fox.

Old(er) tanuki-like logo for comparison https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f...
> * I strongly believe that only physicians should be running hospitals.

Strong disagree. This same attitude pervades the military ("only pilots should run the air force") and really all it does is that lower representation of the interests of the other non-pilot 90% of your organization and put a pilot bias on every decision being made.
Brain-reading devices help paralyzed people move, talk, and touch
This is really interesting overall, but I gotta say, just saying this:

> And I'm guessing you can also imagine how publicly reciting these stories could get me into trouble in today's political correctness culture.

Is far more creepy than whatever fraught power dynamics you were probably a part of! Not a big deal, but it made me laugh.
well every cinema probably uses jpeg2000 (dcp) and the new interoperable master format is using it as well (though it also supports more mainstream codecs)

dont see hollywood moving away from it pretty soon.

problem is jpeg2k just is too heavy to compute.
This is a false assumption.

It's so much easier to grow Amazon .1% than to discover a new $100M business.
ShiftKey now has shifts listed for upwards of 80$+ per hour. This is probably the future we're looking at and way overdue.
VirusTotal debunks claims of a serious vulnerability in Google-owned antivirus
> insurance is the only industry where they agree to pay for something (in this case, "medical care"), but then after service has been rendered can decide to pay less

That's not always the case. The reason I stopped writing mobile applications long ago was because the mobile carriers were doing exactly this, and not even providing enough paperwork for you to argue with them about it.

People like to lambast the Apple App Store for being greedy, but the fact of the matter is that people netted 3x as much off Apple that they did from the carriers. They are asking too much money now but their rates were absolutely defensible at the time. It's not a coincidence that we had a gold rush that started almost exactly when the App Store became a viable target.

One might ask what would happen if we joined the rest of the 1st World in providing medical care and marginalized private health insurance. Would it be a similar watershed moment?
Quite agree - good point. In other words, 2m isn’t that much of a pile to put up against Father Time. Perhaps choose to use your fuck you money to go somewhere you like to do something you like. Work isn’t bad when it’s enjoyable or worth doing.
Your local hospital is likely a non-profit. Your health insurance company might even be a non-profit. But they don't do any better. Corporate profit motive doesn't seem to be at play here.
What is it about lisp that's so important? Is it just the functional programming side? Metaprogramming?
If it's not beneficial in any way for Disney, then why are they saying they are being retaliated against? You're attempting to paint the removal of these special corporate privileges as a positive thing for Disney. If that's the case, then the State is doing them a favor, and it's not retaliation from Disney's perspective.
Oh good. KSR’s The Ministry for the Future[0] is playing out right on time.

[0]: https://bookwyrm.social/book/29187
It's an interesting problem, because we currently align economic 'productivity' and pay rather than social value and pay, which is efficient since we don't have to redistribute resources between industries or roles, and resource redistribution is a dirty word, at least in America. My wife is a doctor and I make significantly more than her working as an SRE, when her job is significantly more difficult (particularly emotionally) and time consuming than mine. She's paid relatively well on a societal scale, but I'd still call it a labor of love. If you're not in one of the high paid specialties, you don't do it for the money.

Even in the (US) medical system, pay/insurance reimbursement is based on the number of procedures you do, not how involved the treatment is. This is why surgeons get paid so much more.
I kinda stopped worrying too much about it because the "OS" (really userspace) that lives in a container isn't in a position to be exploited like the underlying VM OS is. Nothing in the container is privileged and there are no security boundaries that exist within a container. You should care exactly as much about container image updates as you do gem/npm/pip updates and I guarantee you have months old deps pinned in a lockfile somewhere.

What people hear is "Oh my god you're still running Ubuntu 14.04?!?" but what is actually happening is all the defenses and security boundaries are being enforced by a fully patched RHEL 7 instance with SELinux, the completely unprivileged application code just happens to have an old version of libz bundled with it. So for sure the application is in a position to be compromised depending on how old the libs and the vulns that might exist but that's the developer's concern exactly like their NPM deps.
The GPL is just formalizes good-faith engagement. As I mentioned before, the default state of software should be that people have the right to modify any software they interact with. The GPL (and moreso, the AGPL) makes this a formal requirement of using my source code.
Never seen an industry that needed unions more.
My program does have this, two of the first semester classes have ~50% average (which is the passing grade), not including those who drop out and including 2nd time students.
Since we're talking about a deadly heat-wave, people will certainly ask what global warming has to do with this. Roughly speaking, global temperatures have increased by about 1 degree Celsius over the past century. So a simple answer is that global warming is responsible for about 1 degree of the 10-degree heat anomaly.

But it's also important to recall that the human sensitivity to excessive heat depends on humidity. Because the vast majority of the heat burden from global warming is stored in the oceans, and evaporation rates are determined by sea surface temperatures, global warming tends to increase wet-bulb temperatures just as much as dry-bulb temperatures [1]. Since heat waves tend to occur under dry (sunny) conditions, the wet-bulb temperature anomaly is probably smaller than the dry-bulb anomaly, and global warming may play a larger role, perhaps 20%.

It's also important to remember that the human sensitivity to heat stress has an extremely rapid onset. Under reasonable conditions (shade/hydration/ventilation), a Tw of 28 C is uncomfortable, but brief exposure (a few hours, while working) rarely causes health issues [2]. The risk of exertional heat injury doubles at 30 C, doubles again at 32 C, and doubles again at 34 C. Above Tw = 35 C, extended survival is not possible [1]. Historically, wet-bulb temperatures on Earth almost never exceeded 31 C [1].

So, are the people who die in this heat wave dying because of global warming? Probably some of them. Considering what we have learned about heat stress, it seems plausible that the "rebrand" of global warming to "climate change" was a mistake.

[1] S. C. Sherwood and M. Huber, An Adaptability Limit to Climate Change Due to Heat Stress, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107, 9552 (2010).

[2] X. P. Garzon-Villalba, A. Mbah, Y. Wu, M. Hiles, H. Moore, S. W. Schwartz, and T. E. Bernard, Exertional Heat Illness and Acute Injury Related to Ambient Wet Bulb Globe Temperature, Am. J. Ind. Med. 59, 1169 (2016).

[2 note] Wet-bulb globe temperature is an adjustment that incorporates sun exposure into heat stress calculations. However, sunlight is easily mitigated. Because humans avoid such conditions, there is not much evidence on human exposure to in-shade Tw above 32 C.
"IV drip" - that rang a bell. 25 years ago I was admitted to a hospital with severe abdominal pain. They had a surgeon who was preparing me, mentally, for a temporary colostomy. Fortunately, that IV drip fixed me up within half an hour.

Those antibiotics, man. They work.
Are their any weather services that report wet-bulb temperatures?

https://thewire.in/environment/as-indias-heat-waves-get-wors...

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw1838
> Many WGU students HATE these types of articles, because they undermine the legitimacy of WGU.

What is "these types of articles"? How does this one "undermine the legitimacy of WGU"? Even a cursory skim-through of the article would show that the author worked hard and learned all of the material that they then passed exams on at WGU. They don't make it out to be a "degree mill" in any way whatsoever.