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In 1980 - there were 90M employees in the US. Now there's 151M.

Given that the US has transitioned out of manufacturing and into businesses services - I don't think much of this is explained by technology creating new jobs.

I think it's just explained by the workforce growing - and the shift in the US's role in the global economy.
The nations that beat out the US is more damning to certain oft-repeated tropes than the US's position on the list.
If you're not aware, they did this in one of the final Shadowbringers patches. Most of the fluff that used to be part of the MSQ is now moved to optional sidequests.
I was burned out on start ups and wanted to join a larger company that had more support and a work life balance. I effectively joined a start-up within a larger company and have worked insane hours trying to help push out their V1 product with one other engineer. I pushed back on the hours and subsequently have been screamed at by HR for refusing to regularly start at 6am and work 70 hour weeks - they attempted to make me quit so they wouldn't have to pay me severance (I declined - said if they weren't satisfied with me they can fire me). Now that the V1 is out things /have/ gotten better work-wise, but almost in a completely opposite way where now we have to deal with compliance and I need approval from the technical manager just to sneeze. I know upper-management doesn't like me because I was a squeaky wheel (I even championed the other engineer on the team to threaten to quit to get a raise) and it's just a weird situation. I'm definitely not getting any kind of raise from this company and they for sure don't care about my growth (or any of their employees really). I've been trying to make it at least a year (coming close) before looking elsewhere for my resume's sake but it's been hell at times and I feel like I've been at this company for 2+ years. Even with the recent slow-down in hours, I would love to get fired, take a couple months off, and deal with some personal health issues while studying for the next gig.
The OP describes the support in HLC for TCO as limited (only for self-recursion, if I get it right, possibly more limited than that). Steele may still have been first to describe general TCO.
Good call, I also thought the description was a bit weak, and not super enticing.
Yeah. The problem here is that the network only has room for concepts, and hasn't been trained to see meaningless crap. Nor does it really have any way to respond with "This isn't a sentence I know", it just has to come up with an image that best matches whatever prompt it has been fed.
Wifi is not going to work, but ethernet should. To do anything at all with it, you'd need to install MacPorts and start building packages. You can make it a DAMP nearly effortlessly using MacPorts.
The number of places that get the meaning of DevOps wrong is too high. So much that it is often easier to use it wrong in order to express an idea.
They’ll just come up with some aggregated form of the data they claim doesn’t violate the letter of the law, sell that, and be in business for years before anyone finds out let alone tries to enforce the rules and find out of they are violating it.

This would honestly still be a huge improvement imo, as even forcing data brokers to anonymize or aggregate the data, even if it is ultimately not actually providing privacy, is still a recognition of the problem over the current system in most states.
Studio apartments of that size (sometimes even smaller) are bought by university students in Norway all the time, sometimes for as much as $200.000. They can be quite comfortable.

Not sure how they’d be priced in SF, but to my intuition that seems out of working homelesss range. In cheaper cities though, definitely.
Well, I strongly disagree.

I would be shocked if VR/metaverse does not massively grow within the next 10 years. I think the headsets alone will continue to get massively better which will convert most of humanity, just like how much better iPhones got since the first one. In fact, I would bet anything on the foregoing, as I have near total confidence in that aspect.

It’s much harder to figure out which companies will profit off of that, so it’s certainly possible Meta will miss. But they have a leader with a vision, and are pouring more money into this than any other major player. Will that be enough? Who knows. But I think it’s a mistake to count them out so early in the process, when they are the ones putting R&D into this.

In my mind, it’s like starting an auto company right when cars arrive and people are still skeptical of them, and being the company to pour the most money into developing them. That’s who you want to bet against?

Taxes and moderation are considerations, sure, and may backfire partly, but I think the users will go where the tech is. Just like people buy iPhones not withstanding the cost, moderation, App Store tax, etc, because the iPhone is what users want. If Meta makes an excellent headset and software platform, people will use it. Most people don’t care about the things HN cares about (like App Store fees).
FBI operating fleet of surveillance aircraft flying over US cities (2015)
It's curious how gentle the transition for many companies from powerhouse to irrelevance is in the common perception. To realize they're already at the point where intelligent ridicule supplants impassioned critique kinda blows my mind, and as far as I can tell you're not wrong.
It's OBVIOUS what's going on here. When you combine TWO different languages you get stuff that appears as NONSENSE. You have to stay in the same language!

There is for sure a set of consistent words that produce output that makes sense to us. He just picked the wrong set!
Gmail was an already popular concept whose differentiator was a company was willing to set money on fire to have two or three orders of magnitude more storage than their competitor. AFAIK, that's been their only differentiator - free storage space.

iPhone was a breakout product from a decidedly no-longer mega corp who practically died in the 1990s. I guess they had already made a resurgence with the iPod, but I think iPod leading to iPhone is similar enough that it's the same jump.

A mobile app from a company is a breakthrough product in your eyes?
Often enough people start typing but then decide to not respond after all (or not right away), so you end up waiting for nothing.
I remember IRC a bit differently - mostly with it being tied to dialup. When we were on irc, we were on. We might be "afk" for a bit, but generally would be back soon. If you saw someone's nick on irc, it was very likely that they were online and active. Even with ICQ and AOL, it was pretty apparent if people were online or not. If they weren't online, or you didn't need a quick response you sent them an email.

As DSL and broadband became more popular, chat moved to being more asynchronous. Chat clients started synchronizing message history with the server to make it avaialble on all your devices. It was easier to leave your presence online, even when you were unreachable.

IRC itself still retains a lot of that realtime chat, mainly because of its transient nature. Yes - the channel might be populated with people that aren't actually there, but the conversation is much more real time. Unless you have a bouncer or web client, the chat history starts when you join the channel and ends when you leave. There's no threading (ok, maybe some of the web-based clients will do that), so even if you see a conversation from a few hours ago, you can't participate in it. At best you can start a new conversation referencing the old one. Not everyone in the channel will have that history.

I consider that lack of permanence a feature. When Google Talk came out, I loved the fact that all my chat history was saved and it was available everywhere. Now that all chat clients have that, I find myself preferring the more ephemeral/transient chats.
> semi-anonymized and immediate human-to-human interaction

why are optionally anonymous forums like HN not sufficient for this? why do we need virtual avatars, content markets, gamification?

if people want these things there are always video games
I mean, given the article, it doesn't seem like Canada has availed itself of any remedy, let alone sending people to jail, which is the point in this thread.

Like, in America, we might slap the company on the wrist, fine them something like the equivalent of $1 for a normal person. And then business continues as usual.

There's not even an ineffectual fine, here.
I think she was simultaneously the best and worst thing to happen to FB. Some of the issues of the company are squarely at her feet. The revenue org is a huge clusterf** of mismanagement and improvisation that should have tamed years ago. When I was there a couple years ago I wasn't impressed at all by how it all worked and was wondering if this "beautiful journey" post was about to happen.
IME great literature has to connect at an emotional level. Dostoevsky is a great writer because he understands what it is to be human at a level that no one else can match. I wonder if a savant-level writer could write in a way that resonates in the way other great literature does.
I really want to think I'd notice, it'd be such a change. :) I think if you want out of the uncanny valley, you need bots to shout at you & yell nonsensical disagreement. ;)

Thanks so much for sharing. This is epic. Love it. Advanced social honeypot system. "Heaven banning." Amazing.
Fantastic, this helped me a lot! Thanks for taking the time to write this out.
> How did you handle it between money, work and your spare time?

That was hard, basically nearly no spare time. For some time I was also working part-time.

> Are you happy with your work work life balance?

Until now there was unfortunately no balance, all work. I am hoping that things improve from now.

> Have you tried a publisher?

No, we have got many enquiries and emails but we were not compelled by them.

> What financial expectations do you have for being able to keep on it?

The hope is to earn a similar or slightly lower amount compared to a SWE job (on average). If this game won't provide enough to pay my bills long term, then things will need to be changed.

> How do you balance family and friends?

This is also hard to balance, and pandemic made it only worse. Lots of online calling and rare visits.
First image was a couple of months ago.
Which bird was it? I can't give enough fucks to wade through 6000 words for the name of a bird.
It’s also a tax on unpaid debts owed to you?
Impossible. The information to identify you is out there- it's the hope that nobody will piece it together.
That's BlackStone, not BlackRock. They are totally different entities.
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> You could imagine there's a 1 sec/byte multiplier on the bytes value, saying in effect "for every byte of gzipped source, penalise the benchmark by one second".

Your explanation makes sense. However the main issue is we don’t know if this “penalty” is fair or correct or has some justifiable basis. In absence of any explanation it would make more sense to multiply them together as a “sane default”. Later, having done some research we can attach some weightage perhaps appealing to some physical laws or information theory. Even then I doubt that + would be the operator I would use to combine them.
I have stuff like "info@" "register@" or "support@" that I filter through in my inbox. The only problem I've had with catch-call email is getting a ton more spam from bots... for some reason they'll add randomname@ bc our name shows up with some other company name, some spam CRMs will confuse some other company's staff with our email address and send to that address
Lucky you mister Josh Strange.

If however, like myself, you have a name like Mr Fair lyPopularNameNoOneInBritainCanSpellCorrectly IncomprehensibleItalianOrSpanishOrSomethingEuropeanFamilyNameNoBritHearingItWillEverAssumeStartsWithTheLetterItActuallyDoes, it's the epitome of tedium every time you have to get someone on the phone or in person to spell your name correctly.

My wife fucking hates it that she switched from her easy, unmistakable English family name to my shit show of a Phonetic spelling exercise.

I guarantee I'd never receive a single spam message because nobody is EVER spelling my FirstnameLastname.com correctly, Mr MyNameExistsInAutocorrect Strange.

Jokes aside, seriously, my family name starts with "El" and the second you start saying it you see people write "L" and pause.
> Sadly, because I chose - instead of plus, I’m going to be hosting my own inbound email for the rest of this domains life.

What do you mean? I use migadu and they support address aliases with wildcards, so I could just alias something-* to something@example.com and add a sieve script to sort it into a corresponding folder. I assume most email hosts do not support that, but I doubt they are the only one.
> What happens in 80 years when milk is $34 a gallon?

Milk was $0.14/gallon 80 years ago[1] ($.13/gallon 81 years ago), and $3.77/gallon last year[2].

$34/gallon in 80 years would seem to represent a slowdown of inflation.

[1] https://www.lmtonline.com/lifestyles/article/Milk-went-for-1...
[2] https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/2021Retai...
> I'm no Zuckerberg fan, but I imagine being in his inner circle is probably a very good experience.

That experience is clearly taking its toll on Randi Zuckerberg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp0diaVLPrQ
This resonates with me. Waiting for people to message me. I have had so many issues trying to figure this one out. Zoom fatigue, slack fatigue, etc., etc. Maybe that's all it is just killing my energy.
housing shortage is a political will shortage (at least in USA with zoning laws)
Happens often enough that people start responding but then realize they don’t actually have anything useful to say right now (“never mind”).
Not all mobile apps, but your mobile phone is your own personal surveillance device. So when mobiles first came out they didnt have any background noise cancelling algo's so if someone's phone "accidentally" called the last person whilst it was in their pocket, you could listen into everything they were discussing and identify the other people they were talking to. The Edward Snowden leaks, showed the phone's can be remotely activated if switched off, a bit like the Intel Management Engine is for PC's, so to defeat that you need a phone you can take the battery out of. If you want to analyse it in greater detail, do a replay attack on the transmission from your phone, like you can with wifi and then pick apart the data that is being transmitted. You might have to write your own software and get a suitable SDR dongle to listen in to a smart phone, but its doable. About a decade ago, you could get apps for android which allowed your phone to override the cell traffic management, in other words you could make you phone use a particular cell mast when there was a choice, as this can also be used for triangulation purposes, it offered a level of privacy by ignoring the other masts so triangulation couldnt take place. The smart thing to do is roll your own OS for your devices, you can even use wifi to identify whether someone is carrying a gun or knife on their person because different alloys react differently to RF signals like wifi, so you could have one of the new Garmin Fenix 7 Super Sapphire's with your own OS working with a smart phone on you that is also running your own OS scanning for metals. Anybody doing a concealed carry near you gets found out. Hacking firmware like the OnePlus 8 Camera which see's through plastic also removes privacy for people, because nylon is plastic and plastics are being used more and more in clothes, like winter Fleece jackets.
https://twitter.com/MaxWinebach/status/1260564386546094081
https://twitter.com/BenGeskin/status/1260607594395250690

Science is stealing everyone's privacy and I stopped carrying a mobile years ago!
Honest answer: I have never played Prison architect. Do you see any similarities?
> Just like people buy iPhones not withstanding the cost, moderation, App Store tax, etc, because the iPhone is what users want.

Unless you jailbreak it or turn on scary developer mode all those apply on Android too. Hell, iPhones are cheaper than some Android flagships now.
The code is here from the video description:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/WsSBzh
True, although I still feel more immersed in a good text adventure than some of the best AAA games out there. I played 'Lost Pig' [1] about a year ago and the 'visuals' are still fresh in my mind.

https://pr-if.org/play/lostpig/
My anecdote is that once I was traveling on the 401 and stopped at an ONroute to grab a coffee. The line was extremely long and not moving at all, I had time to download the app, register, place an order, see it print out at the register and someone took it an made my coffee before the line even moved. I just quit the line, moved to the empty section where the mobile orders are and picked up the coffee as I was deleting the app.
I have not encountered any of the issues you said.

And what's wrong with "I use a password manager for passwords but I also need to use it to remember the associated emails."?
Huh. I've always assumed chat apps were for synchronous communication. If they are for asynchronous, then why do they exist? Email already solves asynchronous communication pretty well, and it is even decentralized.
I mean, go and look who were the most famous authors 200 years ago and you will not recognize one name. The amount of legendary writers we have lost to time and moldy paper is huge
If a lost folio of some forgotten contemporary of Shakespeare were discovered, a collection of plays which were more entertaining, moving, and inspiring than the works of Shakespeare, plays which more convincingly depicted the range and depth of the human experience, which were more surprising and delightful and sobering, which were by some objective measure "better" plays than Shakespeare's, then I still think that Shakespeare's plays would probably be "greater" and more worthy of study and consumption

A big, big part of what makes Shakespeare's plays and sonnets "great" is that they've been the foremost works of English literature for hundreds of years. They're known to everyone who attended school in an English speaking country, they've shaped and influenced our language, culture, and every work of literature which followed.

Being familiar with the works of Shakespeare is necessary context for a thousand phrases and references that you'll encounter every day. And the "value" which a reader or watcher can extract from the works of Shakespeare can be enhanced by the hundreds of years of critics and audience who have already written about and engaged with his works.
I was scanning for airplanes in my area using an rtl-sdr ... and a couple times I could see planes with my eyes and they were not broadcasting a signal like they were supposed to.... FBI?

Also, once I wasn't scanning but there was about 5 or 6 jets flying parallel at equal distance at high altitude covering the whole sky ... wonder what that could have been... they were all leaving a trail.
A satellite killer would need the ability to rendezvous with a target. You're not getting that level of capability for the same price as a box with a radio.
I don't patronize ANY of these chain places. Like I might get a donut and a coffee at the airport from tim hortons because that's literally all there is open at 2am but i've just never been impressed by literally any big franchise and kinda feel more cheated I spent 10$ on some meal or whatever that really doesn't cost that much. It blows me away that people compare them cause they're literally all atrocious. I had a girlfriend come to Canada at one point and she was so un-impressed by the fact that people act like timmy's is some national treasure.

A friend of mine in Costa Rica knows Starbucks has a pretty funny trick to say they have coffee from there (Higher altitude begets better coffee). They actually just ship it in these big bags with the 'hecho en mexico' eagle on them and then re-bag it in Costa Rica. It's incredibly non-sustainable.
Rec Room and VRChat are like earlier social MMOs, but with the inherent appeal leaving them attractive enough to cut out the pretense of gameplay (e.g. OSRS, MUDs, were not that dissimilar in being mostly about chatting with a distraction present)

It also raises the question of what Facebook's metaverse could do that VRChat and Rec Room haven't. VRChat is the more successful of the two and has achieved the level of success of "video game more popular than you might realise", which for the small dev team is enough for a profitable business.

How do you make it profitable at meta scale? NFTs, loot boxes and cosmetic microtransactions seem to be the prospects raised by people promoting such ideas. But then how is VRChat + microtransactions - your local modder's blatant copyright infringement more appealing than VRChat?
None of that requires a maintained historical database except for the totalled.

Your car gets stolen, you report the VIN and the plate to the police, they get a warrant. No Database required.

Your parent was talking about a load of historical data that's available via your VIN number.

> History of fines tied to person or vehicle. Dealerships and insurance have records tied to the VIN. Who financed loans for how much...

If that's all true, that's absurd. All that is required for what you're talking about is, at best, a database of current owners.
The flip side is that individuals don't owe anyone anything. You want to build your "professional supply chain" out of code by individual contributors who just want to share with the world? That's fine, but don't go thinking you can make demands of them just because you wanted to build a business on their good will.
All the parts and pieces to make the iPhone were available in the 2000s.

I’m not so sure about VR. It’s a huge power hog. Either the battery life would be limited or you’d need to carry around a backpack to keep it running or it would stay at your desk with more wires in your head than a William Gibson protagonist.

I could see some limited use cases for VR, like training and education. But as a replacement of the world in the way smartphones have been? I just don’t get how that will be physically/technologically possible.

But if there’s evidence to the contrary believe me I would love to change my mind.
Interesting then that the community has massively adopted React and PyTorch as defacto defaults for web dev and deep learning. How is it that these untalented lifer's left behind are doing these wildly crazy good technical things?