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Your commennt exudes a particularly unpleasent pretentious tone.

The average software engineer does not need to remember compiler design, digital logic, esoteric datastructures etc to do their job well. If people are forgetting "fundementals" (of which I would not classify specialised subjects such as compiler design), then it's because they don't need it for the job they're doing.

Although I do agree that Computer Science theory is definitely important and knowing it is better than not. Sometimes a project your working on would benefit from knowledge of datastructures, cache locality, etc, and that makes the years of academia worth it.
That was an EU census, not a German census. Top-down multilateral peer pressure. Germany hasn't decided on its own to do a census since 1987.
It's a fairly rare set of skills. People in these positive usually are bad in most of them and it becomes harder to ramp up the team later (mentoring, quality).
As others posted, your logic is very very off on this one.

"the fact individuals are anti-income tax should tell you all you need to know.."

"the fact criminals are anti-law enforcement should tell you all you need to know.."

Why would a business support unions? Often UNION members dont support other union employees.

Go to a major unionized auto factory sometime and look at the parking lot and try to find "imports".

These same "pro union" individuals also shop at walmart knowing it is not unionized because they like the lower prices.
Yeah these have been around for almost a decade as cheap VR knockoffs for the unsuspecting, albeit I haven't seen the direct USB c output option before. Not until you take it home and turn it on do you realize the resolution of 1080p strapped to your eyes is a pixelated mess and the lack of even basic 3DOF makes these things uncomfortable for most people.
They are very fortunate. They are one asshole away from jail time.
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I work with people in prison, or as they are commonly referred to within some circles, justice involved individuals.

The issue here is not skilling these people in trades, it’s really about working on mental health and the underlying reasons why they are in prison. Until those challenges are addressed, these people mostly will not succeed. Many have not experienced much of a « normal » family life or friendships that promote personal growth, or mentorship.

On top of that, when many are released they have nothing. So, imagine trying to stay employed for a week when you have nowhere to live (especially hard to rent a place also when you have a record[1].

Anyway, we might know how to reduce recidivism, but society sure doesn’t seem interested in taking the steps to invest what’s needed.

[1] I recently spoke in front of the Colorado Senate concerning Assembly Bill 99 which will auto-erase the records of non-violent offenders in the state with some outcomes being that they can more easily find employment and rent places to live.
China had a mature domestic conversation about it and decided that the proper course was to refrain from taking a side.

The Pope also made a thoughtful contribution, acknowledging that the matter is far more complicated than western media suggests, while decrying the bloodshed and calling for diplomacy.
>>The people to whom the prices are “unacceptably high” are the people at the top of the pyramid who would subsequently need to pay appropriate wages. I would hazard a guess that if you took the current wages of workers which have essentially stagnated and regressed for fifty years and raised them to where they would have been had they been increasing at their pre 1970s rate, and then compared that purchasing power to where prices are at now, all of a sudden the prices of things would not seem so out of whack.

There are several things are wrong with this:

Wages have grown at their fastest rate in history, globally, over the last 30 years:

https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/World/2016/0207...

It is only in the advanced economies where wage growth has slowed. And the slowdown is much less severe than commonly believed. I personally spent years promulgating this graph all over the internet:

https://imgur.com/BlEiA9d

I wish someone had pointed out to me in what ways this graph is misleading. This article does a good job of doing that:

http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2014/12/22-source...

To summarize:

1. Wages are just one component of employment compensation. When the nonwage components - which have grown faster than wages - are factored in, you see the line track productivity growth much more closely.

2. Another factor creating the illusion of a growing gap between productivity and worker compensation is the use of different inflation indexes to measure productivity and worker compensation. The indexes largely mirrored each other before 1973, but diverged significantly since then, leading to inflation-adjusted worker compensation growth appearing artificially depressed compared to inflation-adjusted productivity growth.

3. Worker compensation growth has in fact slowed somewhat, and almost all of this slowdown can be explained by the commensurate slowdown in productivity growth in the US.

>>investors are still getting ridiculous returns

Investors are not getting ridiculous returns. If you look at labor's share of national income, it has largely remained the same if you exclude just one asset category: housing, where rent has increased faster than not just inflation, but income as well. See Figure 3:

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2015a_r...

And the solution to outsized gains due to housing scarcity is not to ban profiteering. It's to solve the housing scarcity problem. One study estimates that if just three cities - San Francisco, San Jose and New York - had limited the growth of their housing sector regulations to that of the median rate of all US cities, US GDP would have grown by 36 percent more between 1964 and 2009:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20170388
> suggesting it can solve all our problems

I would get away from the social media statements and more into research papers on this complex topic; even investor literature picked well will speak openly about pros and cons, with quantitative evidence to support it.
Didn't even know Joe Biden did it, but Hillary Clinton did it too and it's what spawned the "#learn2code" hashtag on Twitter. It just got nastier from there.
Try reading my comment again more slowly. You based your response on an accidental misreading of what I said (you swapped "at all" to "to all").
Ubuntu is so annoying nowadays I really don't understand who's it for anymore.

If you want a stable and non-bloated Ubtuntu or Debian based distro for your web server/cloud instance, there are many better choices out there than Ubuntu including vanilla Debian.

If you want a batteries-included Ubtuntu-based Windows/MacOS alternative for your PC/laptop with video codecs, proprietary firmware, drivers, and software at your finger tips, then PopOS, ElementaryOS and Mint are much better and saner alternatives for the Average Joe.

Feels like the only thing keeping Ubuntu popular is inertia, brand recognition, lock-in effect and the strong influence of Cannonical, but I just can't recommend it to anyone anymore. It seems like Cannonical is so out of touch, it lost the plot a long time ago with what made Ubuntu the linux distro for over a decade.
Hydrogen isn't that dangerous. Creating hydrogen gas through electrolysis is a common chemistry class activity, or at least was back when I was a teenager.

Perhaps the salesperson was paid on commission, and helium would result in a much more profitable sale for them.
I got the same all the time in US immigration (flying to texas) they ask me thousands of personal questions about my family, my universities, if I am gay or bisexual??? I think people need to take a good look at US immigration too,
You need laws to protect workers from unions or unions will abuse workers. In Europe you are pretty well protected against unions, in USA you aren't. I think this is by design in USA, businesses doesn't want unions to be popular and unions doesn't want to be regulated.
This is my exp too. Shops are usually majority Jetbrains but then there's those people who just refuse to switch and they like Sublime and vscode.
I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 on one of my workstations, and the system was missing a critical package that, when missing, prevented the default snap Firefox (or any other sandboxed browser) from using system application handlers. Couldn't even upload files to any website because that requires communication with the system file browser.

A less technical user would never figure this out and Ubuntu would be unusable for them in a work environment (inability to interact with email attachments being a non-starter).
Or Mint!
No one passed us by. Everyone was very polite while we tried to communicate.
We didn't speak English, and the ones that we met that spoke German or French were also foreigners. Just all of the people that we met that night were foreigners (I can remember Spaniard, Italian and Brazilian). It was 30 years ago. Zurich for me was even then insanely cosmopolite city.

It was mostly amusing. Not bad in any way.
Yeah, poliglots are difficult to find as well, maybe not as in actual difficulty to be but more of a preference for a subset of techs.
The HOA comparison doesn't make much sense here. Unions give people a democratic way to exercise power against an existing powerful organization (corporations), in what would otherwise be an authoritarian workplace. HOAs are a way to exercise power as a group against individuals in the group. It's true that democratic institutions can be frustrating, but this (obvious) fact is not the clever gotcha you seem to think of is.
I'm not sure of the details, but when you update a running Firefox all your currently-open tabs continue to work, but when you try to open a new one you'll get an error message telling you that you need to restart Firefox to keep using it.
Why not just use plain Debian, then?
I live in Europe, and honestly, medical bills are not a concern. My sister had terminal cancer and through the entire horrible process, the medical bills were zero. That's not because she had health insurance either. It just didn't cost anything, apart from a few doctor visits (which we pay for). Once she was assigned a specialist at the hospital, everything from that point was free, including multiple hospital stays, an ambulance trip, drugs, multiple life-saving procedures (collapsed lung, blood clots, all the stuff that happens near the end with terminal cancer). It's completely unfair that anyone would be bankrupted over illness, and that's the reason I would never move to the US.
"Does it support / work with / used with" concepts:

* a) VR "excel" version

https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/minecraft-in-microsoft-excel/

* b) Turing machines / autonoma are assembly?

https://www.felienne.com/archives/2974

https://verdagon.dev/blog/yak-shave-language-engine-game

* c) Way to make the files generated in bit more readable!

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/2d-an-exploration-of-drawing-as-programming-language-featuring-ideas-from-lambda-calculus/overview

or perhaps convert to a 3d version of 'block/cell programming"-> https://www.julian-h.de/sketch/cuboino-extending-physical-games-an-example/

* d) Convert lambda functions to "normal, named functions"??

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ultimatae-excel-worksheet-function/

* e) colors to text?

https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article-abstract/48/4/375/45993/Light-Pattern-Writing-Code-with-Photographs?redirectedFrom=fulltext#.VsXePvkrKUk

http://lightpattern.info/

* f) objectart to text?

objectart : https://esolangs.org/wiki/ObjectArt

piet "normal" text? (https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html

* g) Naming pixels?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I

* h) Naming blocks?

https://www.julian-h.de/sketch/cuboino-extending-physical-games-an-example/

*i) midi code linter ??

https://www.techspot.com/news/83912-microsoft-excel-spreadsheet-allows-you-create-play-own.html
Aurora CEO weighs spinouts, layoffs and acquisitions against sale to big tech
TL;DR: If your fraud-prevention measures are too stringent, you will alienate your honest customers. Relax just enough so that the losses to fraud are less than what business you would lose if you were any more strict.
More generally--the cost to eliminate bad outcomes goes up exponentially as you deal with the easy bad outcomes. Credit card fraud is simply one example.

Or consider a simple non-financial example: I left half a dozen pears on the tree this year--getting those last few pears would have required hauling a 50 pound ladder around the house and then struggle with setting it up. (Due to it's size it's a lot harder to handle than it's weight indicates.)
Political correctness is going too far in modern western society.
I can close my eyes and enjoy the music of Hamilton. But when I open my eyes and see Tamar Greene is casting George Washington, first words pop into my mind is political correctness. I have to convince myself it's just a music show and have 0 cent relating to politics, but who knows.
I'm surprised the grooming monkeys didn't retaliate by refusing to groom the shirkers.
He means Linux Mint [0], a fork of Ubuntu with a fork of Gnome and snaps disabled by default. Is there even an Ubuntu Mint? You are probably confusing it with another name.

[0]: https://linuxmint.com/
This is pretty typical for new launch vehicles. As long as NASA doesn't drop the 1st stage on a retirement home in Florida, the US space program doesn't have much to be ashamed of in comparison to other countries.
I don't say this lightly: Severance is the best tv show I've seen in 10 or 15 (?) years.

It's a fresh story, acted super well, laid out with suspense and mystery, eliciting emotions from laughter to existential dread and depression...

... it's the height of what a TV show can be in 2022.
Pop!_OS for the same reason. Also, I'm tired of how everyone seems to constantly re-invent the desktop.
I think a lot more people are thinking this than saying it because it's taboo to say, "You know, skin chroma quotas are not okay", especially the people who disclaim with things like, "I hate the show not because it's woke, but because of..."

We're starting to see more people display courage and stand up to wokeness. It gives me hope.
Your manager is trying to tell you how to do your job. The union gives you a way to push back.
Lucky for the Saudis (and other unfriendly nations) the current regime in the US has handed them all the pricing power as the US Gov't does everything possible to hinder domestic exploration/production.
Yeah is part of why certain interview styles are so tough. Hard to remember classes you took years and years ago.
This seems to depend on the sector.

Eg Hollywood vs some other union.

What sector do you work in?
Coming from Germany they are fine.
It's pretty stable, too. In a few years I've been using it, there were just two major issues. One could be fixed by removing an addon, and the other was fixed within a day.
I feel like 1080p is not enough to fit enough information in such a tiny screen. Even smartphones are sometimes too small for certain tasks, just a tiny section of my smartphone would be even less suitable for working, watching or gaming.
That's my point. OP reduced the effectivenes of psychedelics down to just being able to feel good for a short while.

Well do some cocaine and you'd feel great for about an hour but nobody cured their depression that way.
Ah right I thought you meant it did some kind of hot-patching - sounds like it still needs a hard restart like normal.
I live in israel, I am jewish practicing and a lot of my friends (outside of work, we are running togethere) are muslim, and most people don't care about politics, just saying it's not that black and white....
It reads like a conspiracy theorist’s cork board. Each citation or fact may be valid but the connections are about as substantial as so much red yarn.
Honestly such a job would not worth it.

The company seems utterly without process or clear understanding of what/who they are trying to hire - basically incompetent. Why work for an incompetent company?

I'd rather start my own company and take the risks and rewards of that instead.
Yet I hear the situation is better in Germany. Also the US during the industrial revolution appears to have benefited greatly from unions. Any large organization is prone to corruption and bureaucracy for its own sake. I don't think we should throw out useful tools entirely because some have problems.
Hear, hear! Tired of seeing these tirelessly dumb takes about expected value theory's supposed flaws or its psychological dimension.

Poker players make bets based on bank roll size and very good understanding of expected value. They either use Kelly criterion[1] or develop competing heuristics for value at risk[2].

Plenty of areas where psychology adds an interesting human dimension to decision making, but this and other risk-neutrality scenarios are not part of this category!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion#Criticism
[2] http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs286r/courses/fall12/papers/Tho...
WIP OpenGL implementation for Nintendo 64 in libdragon
But SpaceX, at least, is successful, and NASA is behaving like it’s 1982.

Let’s ask a different question. SpaceX, Blue Origin, etc areis not currently going to the moon. Would SpaceX be having this much trouble if it went to the moon? What would a SpaceX moon launch look like?
These do suggest being entirely untracked from the specs.

Otherwise the 1080p internal OLED, if tracked, would result in a usable effective virtual screen resolution of more like 320x240, unusable for much of anything. Since the field of view would need to be significantly wider than the virtual screen to avoid clipping, and then there's effective resolution loss from resampling during virtual screen placement on top of that.
So then, computer science puts you passed average.
"security vs. convenience is a tradeoff" is an extremely glib and meaningless aphorism that is instinctively innate to almost every living organism.

The statement obliterates the nuance of which tradeoffs need to be made and the cost and impact of those tradeoffs from an economic and social perspective that are foundational to being able to reason about risk.
Unions are crushing the European economy with the constant work stoppages. Why would you think European unions have won the political debate?
unsurprising (but disappointing) that hn readers are well compensated and lukewarm about unions
That's a different model with 6DOF head tracking for AR/VR. The op model has no tracking and is more of a "dumb display"
it's a brilliant move to cordon off the Carbon provider in chief, much easier than running after CO2 molecules in the air... Handling the consequences has to be done anyways, and the sooner the better. The nuke-plant turnaround will be something to behold.
Then I have a task for you.

Try to handle the truth that the west cannot geostrategically survive Russia becoming China's backyard. Look directly at that truth and let me know if and when you've handled it.
Your last point there is the stinger: they rebuilt everything themselves after going cheaper to start. So: they had the money, and they had cause to spend it, but they chose not pay you for your service, and as a result they likely paid more in the long run. It is a (admittedly pretty tough!) sales task, but it is the task: you had to convince them that $10k was worth it for you.

Once they have 3+ programmers working full time, they'll be spending _at least_ $15k every single week on their site/app -- likely way more. Save them even a single near-future month of crap-rewriting, "switching frameworks", infrastructure headaches, "one-click signup", getting their shaky foundations sorted out, etc., and it's a very clear win.

I've seen founder and first contractor tech debt that was really hurting the business take _a year_ to clear out, because once the business is running at all, you can't just swap out the engine. Heck, I've seen it take 5 years! Making the right choice today can really change their whole outcome, from struggling or closing to thriving -- and a bad contractor is not the right choice. (etc...)

You have to show them: your rate is
just a demonstration of your value. If they pick you, they're gonna be laughing all the way to the bank.
Additionally, the glasses come with multiple nose pads that’ll be helpful for extended use and a prescription frame if you need it.

Would it be feasible to build slim adjustable optics that could allow anyone to set their prescription dynamically and directly within the glasses or would that make the glasses too bulky or hideous looking?
The distro doesn’t matter. There’s always some advancement that’s considered so important that breaking existing apps is viewed as tolerable collateral damage by the devs.
This, definitely. But also - at the social policy level, there are two additional issues:

- Outsiders: It's good to keep members of your society fraud-savvy enough that they can safely travel & do business outside your society...without being easy marks for fraudsters.

- Stability over time: If your society somehow gets fraud down to ~0, that'll lead to big cut-backs in anti-fraud efforts, "end of history" dreamers proclaiming that fraud has died, etc. Which is obviously a set-up for a sudden huge resurgence in fraud.
The lack of private messaging on HN is interesting, but you could always just reply to their latest comment.... that's what I do with dang, but he doesn't like it.
It does not look like prestige though.
Anecdotal, but I know way more people truly bilingual people in the US who learned Spanish at home and then English later than people who learned English at home and then Spanish later. The latter is extremely rare and takes years of study. The former frequently happens almost by accident (not to discount the difficulty of it).
You obviously live in a much nicer place. Sounds like the GP lives in a rougher neighborhood in a larger city, which if you’ve never experienced, can definitely leave you wanting to avoid having to shop in public.
When I was more actively considering doing so, the short list was Portugal or Costa Rica. Scandinavia is appealing but hard to move to.
Pop was such a breath of fresh air when I tried it. They are doing amazing things there, in so many ways.
I usually just cut her off and cuss at her. I'm hoping Amazon is tracking how frequently people verbally assault Alexa to optimize the UX, but that's probably wishful thinking.
The mob threatens, kills or maims people for failure to pay. They have no other enforcement mechanism. This negatively affects entire communities, or even major cities, regardless of whether or not you see it.
One theory: Thomas Malthus was 300 years early. None of the solutions to the problem are touchable so instead nobody does anything except protect themselves and let the horror show carry out naturally. The survivors will live prosperously for a time and the same thing will probably happen again and again and again. To be clear we will never really run out of energy but we will again and again run out of compassion.
I mean mental health is never just one thing; in your case, weed was a gateway drug to therapy (I'm simplifying to try and keep things light). PTSD and C-PTSD are underdiagnosed or ignored a lot, I think, but there are treaments available. One is EMDR [0] that, anecdotally, was very effective in treating my GF's cptsd.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_a...