skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
your source, some guy on twitter from the "american enterprise institute" marketing his book "the american dream is not dead", is cherrypicking from the low to high points of the business cycle:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

from a dataset which actually tracks data outside that range:

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2022-11/58353-HouseholdInco...

a more robust dataset, which you would get by simply searching "US real median household income" and opening the first result citing census data, indicates that, charitably, real median household income has risen about 25% since 1980:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=bOeD

wikipedia's article, which has thoroughly succumbed to link rot, in addition to citing the above data, also provides historical census data neatly summarized on page 5 of this census report pegging an increase at about 15-20% since 1964:

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...

this took me 3 minutes
Do you have any concept of how much more productive people are in developed countries than undeveloped? Unskilled labour in the US gets paid a lot more than ten times what it does in Haiti. Investing in the third world is what you do because you can’t get labour in places you already know too do business in, where you’d want to live.
Unity is where Unity was in 2010 in that sense...

Yes large money making titles have shipped with Unity, but Unity never quite broke into Unreal's level of AAA ubiquity.

That's not to say some of those games didn't make AAA money despite that, but it's a very different development pipeline.
isn't part of the point of SHA2 that it's more ARX-y?

I don't know that the NSA has ever published the internal discussions which resulted in SHA2, but I always thought the primary design purpose of SHA2 was to produce larger hashes (and thus avoid the 2^80 birthday attack on SHA1).

Except: I don't know that "the SHA1 attacks could generalize" is all that valid a concern?

It's not, now. It was in 2005/2006. Remember there wasn't just one SHA1 attack; there was a whole series of them. (And I'm guessing the NSA was particularly concerned given that some of the attacks were discovered by Chinese researchers.)
This. Since when is current location of a well known person doxxing? AFAICT, Elon made that up to suit himself.
No this is all management's problem in any decent sized company. Individual developers don't have full autonomy over what they work on. If management doesn't want to spend dev time on helping operations, then tough luck.

I suggest asking about these things in the hiring process.
What’s wrong with dark pools? The name is meant to conjure up some evil mental image, but it’s just two or more parties that want to offload / onload some stock without impacting the market.

It’s no different than telling your neighbor you’re willing to sell your house for $X without publicly listing it.
Why regex is not in rust stdlib? It's one of the fundamental libraries out there.
It's not his website? What has layout of his website to do with other companies?
They signed up for it, I didn't.
> VSCode is one of the greatest pieces of engineering of our time.

I don’t know… things like vertically landing rockets, the Large Hadron Collider, inflating space stations, CRISPR, mRNA vaccines come to mind among many other things that surely surpass VS Code when it comes to engineering marvels.
As an editor day to day yes you are correct. Sublime is the goat as far as performance. VSCode has become my primary editor because I work remotely via SSH but nothing can touch the lightness and latency of subl. I still run it in tandem with vscode for stuff that doesn’t require a remote conn. It’s an order of magnitude quicker than VSCode.
Can someone please explain motivation of people downvoting copypaste of article, so people can read it here, if they wish? Nobody stops anyone from clicking the link.
Probably the carve out is because Musk doxxed that short seller guy, 'Montana Skeptic,' and tried to get his employer to fire him.

But he already made a location carve-out too: he himself posted pictures of the alleged stalker guy and a license tag. That would get someone banned under the location rule. Even if it was a day later, the incident itself happened a day later than any elonjet post I believe, so that's within his real-time timeframe.
Classically, what you're looking for in a stable career is to be part of a generational cohort that is well-positioned to transition from something emerging, risky, and low-value, into a more established senior role. And then stay there forever, holding the expertise captive until retirement, at which point the economy now has to figure out what to do without your indispensable knowledge.

This is actually a process that has been a big part of recent news: the Boomer generation, being oversized and long-lived, sucked up a lot of the jobs. By the time their Millenial children arrived, a lot of career paths had no emerging prospects because the parents were still there, still in the same roles, and the world had become fantastically more competitive through globalization. But now they've finally begun to age out altogether, and that transition plays into the dynamic of high unrest, financial turmoil and anxiety around tech that we're experiencing.

The thing is, tech is something societies decide to invent pragmatically, based on what available science allows. We invent "automobile tech" because policy and available resources supported its widespread use in the richest parts of the world. In the ones destroyed by WWII, auto tech still existed but was complemented with reinvestment in rail tech.

So with ML AI, the tech is something we're currently looking for models of application for. The science is cool, and there are certain things it's great at, but contra the "learn AI" replies, that doesn't mean the "AI industry" is something you'll gain the most leverage from by approaching it at its most fundamental level, getting a degree in, and then simply signing up for a research job. That is one of the most competitive routes you could take, as the "easy part" of the field is already behind us, and now everything is going to be about little nuances of improving the tech and integrating it better.

What we currently see in terms of AI users is relatively unsophisticated application: people who log on to one of the apps, send a few basic prompts, and then stop there, satisfied with the result. But I believe the way to think about this is rather to become sufficiently AI-literate to use it to storm the gates of some other field, as a combination threat; a layered synthesis of traditional know-how and new methods. This is why some artists are unconcerned, while others are panicked; one group sees a way to enhance what they're doing with another layer of tech, another sees a threat to their routine illustration and asset creation gigs.

But in "storming the gates" you have to expect to arrive at a surprisingly empty field, where nobody knows what you are doing or whether it's valuable. It might take several years to build up visibility, just trying things and publishing results, before you find a path to monetize on it.

If the basic idea you're building from is coherent - it doesn't contain contradictory elements, and you can use it as a philosophical framework to assess the value of your output - you will stay motivated and eventually succeed. Study enough philosophy to get what it means to be coherent and build such a framework; it'll pay off.
Oh you’ve been programming only for a few decades?

I want to make a "kids today" joke/comment, but it's more of just the pace of trends/fads not the people per se. I’m actually a cosmic entity that views time as an artificial construct. When you’ve been around for centuries like I have, you’ll understand that trends/fads are mere points in the time space-continuum. Don’t get bent out of shape when you see one.
Of course a lot goes on but pre-LSP and post-LSP are day and night. There is now a huge amount of serious language tooling that _isn't_ locked up into one or several editors.

Now some might point out that LSP-based stuff is, like, bloat. Sure, OK. But there's a lot of motivation to do work that can pay off across the board. So much language stuff was based off of random regexes! It's hard to overstate how much better of an editor situation we are in than 10 years ago.

This isn't even getting into VS Code offering a way for you to put... one? two? files into a git repo and have that mean that opening the editor will spawn a container, _install itself in the container_, and run there while still having a native GUI for the actual usage of the tool. So much incidental complexity, gone!

One might point out that containers are a "big ball of mud" solution, but I vastly prefer that to big setup scripts that only half work. Here's to hoping we can shrink the ball of mud.
This is covered in great detail in today's Money Stuff, and you can usually skip a great deal of HN, um, truth-searching just by reading Levine first.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-15/the-se...
It’s worth noting that the tracker doesn’t post destinations until, of course, the plane actually lands. You cannot use the data provided to determine where to meet him.
Also: what's "monetary" about them?
This is the central theme of the book "The Millionaire Next Door".
Meh it's a second rate copycat in a shifty runtime.

There is nothing they've done with it that is notable or new, typical micro$oft nonsense.
I don't think there is a difference. I also think this is part of the reason why so many companies now don't have an Ops department. My own is an example of this, we've outsourced the Operations part to another company because our Developers are doing most of the Ops that isn't related to networking anyway. I'm not saying this is good by the way. It's just that developers tend to get caught in the "company" part of "company vs IT" because developers want to make stuff work first, and work correctly second where as IT has always been the other way around.

I don't necessarily disagree with everything the author writes by the way. There are a lot of good points in there about building things to be operational, but at the same time, what good is an operations department if it can't actually operate it's systems? I know the answer to this often becomes buying third-party software or "standard" systems, but as more and more businesses are realizing, that's often worse than simply using a lot of interconnected excel sheets (which doesn't really scale).

It'll be interesting to see what happens once the newer waves of project managers and it-business partners learn from the successes of companies that build in-house software instead of going to "standard" systems where they'd need the inhouse developers anyway to make the un-Godly amount of API's and data-transfers work. At least here in Denmark, companies like Lego and Vestas are doing some really groundbreaking money making at a much lower cost, by not going to "standard" systems for everything. Not that you should never use standard systems, there are somethings that are shared across businesses after all, but there are typically also a lot of things that just won't fit into some internationally shared box well enough for it to work out as a net bonus.
Ok my bad. It's a L1 or physical layer issue.
People have covered the current wave. Also, earlier this month, Chad Loder was suspended for reasons which haven’t been explained yet.
I have no expectations around whether Twitter gets better or worse. The incentives have not changed, and the incentives point in the direction of the likes of the New York Times or Fox News.

But it isn't obvious that this decision is bad. What is quite clear he has changed his mind on pure free speech - which, realistically, was widely predicted. This isn't a political exercise though, he's just booting a few journalists in a hasty, poorly planned but ultimately not unreasonable policy. There is no ideology that requires a geo-fix on Elon's jet.

Although I'll postfix that all with "yet". People were claiming Alex Jones was the end of it relatively recently, and that story ended with the US president being booted off for partisan reasons.
He has been shadowbanning all sorts of people. Ukrainian war reporters, financial reporters, all sorts of stuff. This is just an upgrade to actual suspending accounts from what he has been doing the last 10 days.
I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean as “monetary” would include everything from lunch money to interest rates.
No, this argument drops flat faster than Twitter ad revenue dropped.

First they aren’t “seething”, they’re not even that surprised, they’re just pointing out that the loopy billionaire was insincere the entire time.

It’s simply news when a famous person does the exact opposite of what they’ve been loudly pretending to champion for years. Man bites dog.
The author of TurboVNC conducted a study (2014) on using H.264: https://turbovnc.org/About/H264
yeah, not gonna happen. mastodon is not normie-friendly enough for that to happen.
Luddites, weavers who broke looms in protest when tech replaced many jobs 1811
Do you mean like ChromeOS?

Electron isn't popular just because it's cross-platform, but I think that is a big reason. The only other realistic option is Qt and that's looking increasingly dated.
I've always wanted a more in-depth study of aphantasia beyond "we can't visualize", like whether aphantasiacs can make imagination-based value judgments even without consciously perceiving the visual. Things like "would a purple apple look appetizing? How about zebra-striped?" or "would this furniture look good in our kitchen?"
This is completely backwards. As someone that has been an SRE and DevOps engineer.

Almost all of the questions can be simply answered with: "This is a NFR that was created by SRE".

The important thing is to collaborate with each team and be there when architectural and design decisions are being made in the first place!

All of these questions are post-hoc, coming after the thing has been built. You would never need to ask these questions, if you help drive initial design.

Embed yourself with your teams. Ask to be part of design discussions. Remember: 50% eng 50% ops. You have no excuse!
Completely fair banning them over policy violation. But Elon promised 'absolute' free speech when he took over? No one would be complaining about these bans if not for the hypocrisy. I have never seen this two face stand.

Elon is now understanding the risk and fallacy of absolute free speech when some rando stalked his family. But glossed over when others shouted at the same.
vi and emacs don’t follow desktop conventions because they predate desktop conventions (and vim of course follows vi)
> Do you expect someone who doesn’t get a measles vaccine to sign a waiver refusing treatment if they get I’ll?

Perhaps? The advantage that we have with measles is that the vaccine can reach "herd immunity" and the measles vaccine is extremely effective. If enough people started dropping the measles vaccine because "Muh Choices!" that we fell below that and it started clogging the hospitals, yeah, maybe. The enclaves that refuse the measles vaccine find out about every 5-10 years why that's a bad idea.
They reported about the banning and that the ElonJet account has moved to Mastodon.
Even mastodon twatter account got banned with last tweet being about @elonjet having mastodon account

https://web.archive.org/web/20221215173935/https://twitter.c...
Why is that a "wrong perspective"?

Separately, Twitter's reputation, from an Advertiser's perspective, is tainted as long as the target audience believe it's a bad influence, in my very-slightly informed estimation.

Twitter would need to rebrand, or be decomposed & then recomposed into a federation of services, in order for the stink to be lost on that audience segment, again in my estimation.
Great point. I think the OP would be amazed if you showed them how a car works...
No doubt. But they could black out names and addresses and talk about "Agent XXXX" and "Agent YYYY". I assume they are already doing that for much of the documents.

It's more like, what secrets could there be assuming the official Oswald theory is correct? Oswald did it alone. I can't imagine that fact was discovered by some secret agents who now must be protected. Unless it is not really true. And if it is not really true then American people deserve to know about it.

If there's no information that someone else was involved besides Oswald, then there's no reason to hide that fact -- because no information was found that would prove otherwise. There's no reason to hide missing evidence, because you cannot hide something that doesn't exist.
VS Code built on top of Atom’s team great work, which was open source (something that Microsoft was still grasping at the time). Not saying VS Code isn’t great, but they definitely learned from past projects mistakes and wins. Atom was one of the pioneers.
TailScale powered Sidecar anyone?
I agree you have to keep the number of VSCode windows quite low (5 is ok, 10 will make it struggle) but in fairness how many times have you had 10 instances of Visual Studio or IntelliJ running? I've never got close to that.
Matt Levine wrote in some detail about this today.

https://archive.vn/TJogY
>Furthermore, it just seems that Elon is doing what he accused Twitter of doing for so long;

Well, what Twitter was doing
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A penny saved is a penny saved is a penny saved is a penny saved is a penny saved is a...

Sooner or later you have to do something with the damned penny!
@joinmastodon got banned for that too
It is only the timeline I have a major problem with. If they had given us 6 months notice it would allows us to either negotiate a larger budget with the C-suite or migrate to a cheaper solution. With one month notice we are being held hostage. That doesn't take away from the fact that DBT is a great product.
Based on last sentence, software engineering is probably implied.

edit: Seems it was not.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/history-of-scie...

Portrait of Jacquard (woven by his process)

> In the upper left is a window with a hole the size of a musket ball in one of the panes.
i mean windows is notorious for having a physical monitor attached. those dummy plugs help but not everyone has one...
Most "disruptors"...fail to disrupt, largely because they misunderstood what the market wanted and "disrupted" the wrong thing.

Being "indie" isn't enough for Godot. Unity and Unreal are the market leaders because they provide a single-solution multi-platform engine. Godot does not, and a significant amount of work is required in order to make a Godot game run on multiple platforms. Until Godot can do multi-platform natively, it will be relegated to the sidelines.
Not easily: no cross-instance global search in Mastodon/Fediverse.
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Automatically reads and analyses privacy policies
Sure but there's an enormous fundamental difference between doing something with the primary intent to cause harm, and doing something that happens to cause unintended harm as a side effect. They're completely different and mixing them up is typical conspiracy nonsense.
That’s right — all doxxing is always bad. There is no good or evil, except doxxing. I think it was Benjamin Washington Paine who famously said, “Sir, I may not agree with how you keep convincing your followers to call bomb threats into my hospitals + libraries & blow up my town’s electricity substations, simply because they don’t like someone else’s speech, but I will defend to the death your right to do so without anyone ever exposing your identity.”
Not seething. Just pointing out that we were right all along. The “free speech absolutists” never cared at all about free speech. They just want freedom from criticism. No one has argued he isn’t allowed to do these things. He’s free to trash Twitter as much as he wants. Just as we are free to laugh at the idiocy and the Musk defenders twist themselves in circles trying to justify his behavior.
Not everyone prefers browsers, especially these days when they are consolidating into one engine. Especially with text editors where you will be dealing with local files, a browser based editor won't work well.
I agree with some of the quality criticism and all of the stress full-stack dev causes. But: in the early days, front-end applications lacked many concepts of software architecture. It was defined by a pronounced "whatever works" mentality with no separation of concerns and scripts, layout and presentation mixed wildly together. Then came frameworks like backbone and GWT which introduced rigid architecture design concepts into the web-dev discipline, which wouldn't have been possible without heavy inspiration (and experience) from back-end design.
Beyond that, you see a lot of mocking of GDPR rules from American industry and we still have a lot of websites that block on the basis that they want to divulge your personal details to any and everyone.
It almost look like the clown ran into the ops room and yelled. "Ban everyone mentioning @elonjet, EVERYONE" and someone just ran SQL query with LIKE %@elonjet% AND user != musky_boy ...
Meta, but do any space nerds here now questions Musk's claim to be dedicated to making life multiplanetary? Now that it's clear how 'flexible' his principles are, I'm not so sure he has any intention of sticking with it. Or worse maybe it was all a hustle to get SpaceX employees to work 80 hour weeks.
Here's the document they quote, but don't link: "Future development of the San Francisco Bay area, 1960-2020". The Internet Archive has a copy.[1] So does Google, but you have to have a Google account to read it. I have a boxed paper copy, with the maps.

Bloomberg focuses on the growth/anti growth mantra. But that's looking at it wrong. This was written by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Their vision for the SF Bay Area was heavy industry, like Pittsburgh. Steel mills in Marin. Aluminum smelter at Tiburon. Great deep-water access for ore boats.

This wasn't unreasonable at the time. The Bay Area had been a major production center during WWII, just 15 years before, with four large shipyards and much heavy fabrication capability. There's still an oil refinery in Richmond. The Corps took that idea as far as it would go.

Five freeways up the Peninsula were to be built. US 101 and I-280 were built, and coastal CA-1 and mountaintop CA-35 were to be upgraded to freeways. Plus another freeway out on stilts in the bay.
Another bay bridge near Candlestick was proposed. Possibly an SF-Alcatraz-Angel Island-Tiburon bridge so that there would be a full freeway connection north through SF.

The plan called for filling in the bay below the Dumbarton Bridge and above the Richmond Bridge to get more land.

Their plan was to make the SF Bay Area like Cleveland, Chicago, Pittsburgh, or Detroit.

[1] https://archive.org/details/futuredevelopmen00unit
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I’m sure they have an understanding of how a car works, and also, that they actually meant “software engineering”.
I appreciate that you’re angry and I agree that for the most part there’s entirely too much privatization going on (railways? really?). As far as healthcare is concerned, however, in the Netherlands (it might very well be different elsewhere), it is mostly not being privatized and the government is spending ever increasing amounts of money on it which take up an ever increasing cut of the budget and the reason for this is more people are growing older and sicker and are therefore requiring more complex care.

We’re currently at €7000 per person per year spent on health care, with average salaries being €36.000 annually. This is unsustainable.
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