skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PRC national debt is ~75% of GDP vs US ~120%, total aggregate debt PRC ~270% vs US ~760%. Basically +40-50% in the last 10 years to fund the largest infra expansion in human history. Why is infra and manufacturing over invested? Except some western analysis state it is so. PRC per capita infra is still not advanced economy levels - PRC still has infra shortage. Meanwhile manufacturing is why PRC is moving up various value chains. Past 4 years, PRC export increased by 1T predominantly in global south, and holding onto most of gains - by all metrics of current export slump across export dependent economies (which PRC is not @20% export GDP), PRC export is doing near top in terms of capturing/retaining market share. This is not 1 step forward 2 steps back in market downturn, this is sustainable 3 step forward, 1 steps back.

>think that skilled = STEM.

No I'm just highlighting out of 250m bodies entering workforce, at current rate about 50-100m will be STEM. 50-100m will be other high skill either skilled vocational or skilled services. The point is PRC transitioning from 25% skilled to 60-80% is basically piling up multiple current PRC worth of competitive talent into the mix.

> easier to move from Bulgaria to Germany than it is to move from Sannxi to Beijing

PRC tertiary enrollment is more or less correlated to urban migration and urban workforce. The youth unemployment stat for example was about urban youth unemployment where 2/3 youth cohorts are - mostly for education. Skilled talent are naturally concentrated in productive centres in tier 1/2 cities (and increasingly growing interior 3/4 industrializing clusters) just by virtue of where tertiary networks are located.

Yes unskilled / semiskilled have limited migration optionsin PRC via Hukao, but it's not causing a labour shortage problem since that cohort is 200m+ trapped in informal economy. Most of them are basically so underskilled and undereducated that they can't even be trained for assembly line jobs (hence blue collar / manufacturing shortage). They're not the reserve you're looking for.

The actual reserve are basically overeducated kids still too proud to take factory/vocational job because it's beneath them. They're already where the jobs are, but won't make the jump until sufficient stress. It's akin to US (well also EU), which has skilled/semiskilled blue collar shortage because people don't want to do those jobs even if they're well compensated. Difference is US/EU also has broad labour shortage, they simply don't have the bodies. Especially in high skill / STEM. Hard to get that literature major to engineer or other shortage jobs US needs filling. Opposite is true for PRC who has broad skilled labour surplus who can be retrained to work lower skilled jobs if desperate. That compsci graduate can assemble widgets if his life depends on it. Problem is of course is credentialled kids want to paper push. Will take few years for active cultural change to drive people into blue collar.
I think they do kind of answer that under the "Why not use (possibly restricted) Python syntax?".

I understand their reasoning to be that it would require other tools to know how to parse python. Which is much more difficult than parsing toml
It's a question of presentation. Back then (and to be clear, I'm talking about 00s here) the correct way was to point out that something might not even be doable in cross-browser way at all, and listing the proprietary features that'd let you do it in specific browsers while clearly labeling them as proprietary. Quality websites would do that, while w3schools and the likes would just give you the snippet for (usually) IE. Worse yet, in many cases they would keep suggesting the old proprietary approach even after a new standardized way of implementing something showed up.
I bought it, I'm playing it, it looks nice, but this game is a snooze fest. It's so slow and the camera is "different". I've rolled the dice and lost so many times at this point that it reminds me of gambling/Lost Ark.
> You need to tailor your CV to the job you're applying to and leave almost everything else out.

I recently read an article about modern job application evaluation. The author said that if it takes more than 10 seconds to get a sense of who you are, your CV will get tossed.

That means one-page CV's with ten bullet points and large type (or something like that).

Maybe we are in the jobs-as-elevator-pitches era? Say enough to make them interested and fill-in details when they call you.

To answer your other questions. Mid-level programming would probably not be a good fit for me. A job has to be enough of an intellectual challenge to make it interesting. Without that people are just miserable. So, yeah, senior engineer or above is likely the right fit.

That said, not wanting to sit idle, I started a new self-funded tech business. It's a physical product. I did all of the engineering: electrical, mechanical, ARM firmware, desktop application, manufacturing, testing, etc. Sold the product, booked and delivered a first sale ($175K).

While that's good, I just can't take the kinds of risks I took back twenty years ago. I need to raise capital to make this go beyond this point. I am looking for additional sales as a way to keep incremental growth going. The VC landscape today seems difficult. Also, it feels like most investors are far more interested in pure software startups and, of course, a bunch of young founders rather than a single 60-year-old. So, again, I'm on my own.

I am not saying any of this to whine. You have to take the good, the bad and the ugly. That's life. And I am perfectly fine with it. Just need to figure out what's next.

Someone asked why I don't retire. I have seen way too many people rapidly deteriorate physically and mentally from the idleness retirement can bring. Not interested. If my original post conveys anything it should be that I don't really sit around doing nothing for very long. I don't do "idle" very well. Then there's the reality of a business failure in 2010 (the economic implosion from 2008 took us out) that really hurt. Which means I have to work. Other than my home and reasonable savings, we have no retirement accounts or pensions. It's interesting how people assume that everyone reaches 60 with 401k's and a path to idle retirement. Lots of people don't. I think I can say this is --sadly-- far more common among entrepreneurs.
You don't need a conspiracy, just converging interests.
What are you talking about? You're going to kill yourself if you don't take breaks throughout the day. If this is a new concept to you, you're cruising for a bruising.

Edit to add: Whether I'm at an office or at home, I go on at least one 20 to 30 minute walk and ideally two or three each day. I've been doing that for over a decade. I have no qualms saying that in public. Any employer or manager who sees this as a negative habit because I'm doing it while I'm "on the clock" is not one I have any interest in working for, and I'm very happy if they'll filter themselves out of my set of prospective employers.

If you do computer work, it's important to move your legs and extend your gaze into the distance, often. What you're advocating here and are "startled" that it's "controversial" is just strictly unhealthy. Don't kill yourself for a job. There are many many employers who won't require it of you, because they know that happy healthy employees are more creative and more productive than unhealthy burned out zombies.
Odd article for the front page of hn. But one thing about it resonates with me. People in corporate offices, turn off their humanity, and seem more like polite machines. Not to contradict the idea of night animals, more to say, there's a middle grounding that feels missing.
Do share them please!
It's the general public that equates "peer reviewed" with "definitely correct, does not need to be questioned".
Dying early is a bigger violation of personal freedom depending on how you frame freedom philosophically.

Ignoring delayed gratification or the future could make seatbelts seem like a violation of personal freedom. But living another 40 years because of a seatbelt could enable more opportunities for personal freedom.
Netflix's Altas, a telemetry services, uses a stack language for querying metrics. The language has a relatively steep learning curve, but once one groks it, it is surprisingly easy to use to compose complex OLAP queries.
Do you consider laws against drunk driving a violation of personal freedom and if not, why not?
No, capitalism is not about routing around inefficiencies. Me not eating meat might make it cheaper, but people don’t buy based on price alone. Similarly, if the EU won’t buy Russian oil, it does incentivizes more reliance on green energy on the long run and that will be a net decrease in oil consumption for the world. Especially that the EU is a big financial power, and in combination with carbon taxes it could indirectly greenify other countries decisions.

(E.g. india did buy up russia’s oil cheaper, but if there would have been a carbon tax in the eu with serious tariffs on products made in a not eco-friendly way, their usage might not have increased as much)
Relocating an entire city with a metro population over 2 million is low-hanging? What would you consider some of the harder tasks, then?
Eh, BattleBit Remastered? 3 guys indy devs, doing a rollback to the good times?
Statues aren't history, statues are symbols of aspiration. Liberty and Justice are the most common two ideas we build statues of, but I used to spend a few hours per month at one of London's terminus railway stations, from which coincidentally trains leave for Paris. It has a large metal statue of two humans embracing. "The Lovers" is about why we'd build all this anyway - to bring people together.

And there's a big difference between history and aspiration. Poland's holocaust museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau is about history. Find out about what exactly did happen here, the circumstances in which it happened, and the consequences. Its existence isn't - and hasn't been claimed in some "modern, progressive fetish" to be - unacceptable just because nobody should ever do that again, it's kind of the whole point of the site.

On the other hand a statue of a Confederate General erected in your town square in 1964, the year MLK Jr won the Nobel Peace Prize, isn't there because of "history" it's there to remind black people that your town is actively proud of enslaving their ancestors and given a chance would do it all again.
To me the bigger issue in this story is that the cops didn't use any common sense.

I've read over and over again that intelligence is a disqualifying characteristic for being a LEO. They want people to follow orders and be a good partner (e.g., never go against what your partner says).

My experience in CA since the 80's is that LEOs are very corrupt and really only care about their own. There are exceptions. I live in an unusual city, LEO-wise, but it is totally not the norm.
And then we came to the collective realization that—while great in theory—letting people unintentionally suicide themselves through carelessness and neglect imposes costs borne by the rest of society.
To confirm what the other commentator stated, it was 20-29 degrees Celsius, or 68-85 Fahrenheit. As such, yes, it is definitely feels deceptive, and this was apparently an issue from the beginning if the rental person was to be believed.

I fail to see how a flat drives between Montreal and Ottawa at 100-110 km/h (60-70 mph) could drain the battery so thoroughly; that is not a trip that should have taken me from 90% to sub 10% one-way, as it is merely 180km (Sub 10%, as I recharged it at Casselman when it hit ~25%ish; by the time I had arrived in Ottawa, it was down to 70% or so).

I was so concerned that it was my driving speed that I purposely put the car on cruise control on the way back, just to be sure it wasn't me speeding. Nope, it was the same regardless of whether or not the speed was kept in that range.

I want a minivan, with 7 seats, perferably for less than $50k. If it goes 150km, on a charge, that's fine. This is not that car, and with the issues I had, I don't see why people dropped CAD$150k on it.
I don't necessarily think the government is right, but I can't help but feel like it might be a very good thing that people affected by this will have to leave the Facebook garden and seek out news elsewhere.

I'm really quite fine with this experiment happening.
180 in 20 years.
Check it out.
It’d be interesting to read more about the psychology of “when people decide to stop eating meat”. Conversely, I’ve talked with individuals who were raised culturally vegetarian who started eating meat as an adult.

Interesting topics all around.
Good. Cut them off and avoid supporting these terrible attempts by old and entrenched actors that have failed business models.
Yeah, like red lights, speed limits, licensing, and most of the rules that govern driving on the road. Unless you're a sovereign citizen it's a privilege and not a right.
The high and low points are IMO dramatic at the scale of the US. I suspect EV’s are going to continue to reverse this tend in the short term but efficiency is still very meaningful even if it’s never going to solve the problem.
Should say (1997) - this was a reprint in 2022
Okay. I'm an American citizen living in the States. Our policing systems are incredibly messed up and militarized.
There are to separate issues here, which became conflated:

1. regulations requiring manufacturers to put seatbelts in cars

2. laws requiring motorists to wear said seatbelts

The former is not a violation of personal freedom, the latter is.

But then for some insane reason corporations got the rights of individuals, and here we are inadvertently defending manufacturers vs. #1 when all we care about is #2.
Unlike sex work, my “good” jobs didn’t threaten to overthrow traditional power structures. Many sex workers, including myself, have long hypothesized that the reason so many people in power work to keep the commercial sex trade marginalized is because they’re threatened by it—by the idea that it’s the only field where women outearn men, that it’s an industry where women get to call the shots, and that women profit off something that men have been told they’re entitled to for free: sex and attention in equal parts.

Terminal delusion. Beyond parody.
Usually coming up with a idea is the easy part. For example, in my PhD project, i started with an idea from my advisor that he had in the early 2000.

Implementing the code for the simulation and analysis of the data? four months, at most. Running the simulation? almost three years until I had data with good enough resolution for publishing.
Thankfully this law came after the invention of the motorcycle
Cyberpunk 2077 with their new path tracing probably beats everything.

Also their facial animation and dialogue direction is far ahead of any other game I've seen - those conversations feel much more visceral than anything.
Thanks. As with any big corporation it really depends on the location, business unit and local management.
The Ultimas were (mostly) wonderful, especially Ultima 7, but I don't think there's anything particularly valuable about the "IP".

It was really about Garriott exploring innovative ways in how to translate the tabletop RPG experience into a computer game. You don't need an Avatar or Britannia to pursue ideas like Ultima 4's virtue system or Ultima 7's interactivity.
Billionaires?
Why would someone use OpenSPARC rather than riscv? Seems like the Linux distros have some a-tier support for riscv64, or will soon. Debian supports SPARC right? Anyone else?

That's not even getting into upstream testing. I imagine there is more development attention to riscv tooling e.g. GCC, llvm, glibc, musl, util-linux, et cetera.
Seriously? Regardless of your view on seat belt laws (or drunk driving laws for this matter) the difference is blindingly obvious: A drunk driver is _highly_ likely to kill someone else (I think I may have heard in the past that they are more likely to kill someone else than die themselves, although I'm not super confident on it). If you aren't wearing a seat belt, you're just going to kill yourself.
This is brilliant. Exactly what I needed. The other answers are excellent too and I’m SUPER grateful but this resource is precisely what I was looking for.

Thanks so much.
You seem to have misread the question. How does Google, an automated service, "make accurate predictions of outcome by way of knowledge, observation, and logical deliberation"?
I would probably point at a virtual machine for a convenient place to run untrusted code. It's not perfect -- there are VM escapes -- but it's more convenient than a dedicated, air-gapped machine.
you have a network from being a founder right? use your investor relationships to get a startup leadership job at a company with a fresh fundraise, you can also subscribe to the newsletters that aggregate financings this day/week like The Term Sheet. Or use your unicorn/enterprise customer relationships to come in directly under a SVP as say a consultant and network inside the org. that is how i would do it given your statements.
Wow this is infuriating. There are so many people in this supply chain that I feel bear moral responsibility for this. From the engineers who have built the ML model for use in this way, to the engineers who designed and built the application to be used in this way, to the people who procured and implemented it, to the public servants who use it on a daily basis when it clearly makes atrocious, avoidable mistakes. To put a woman on bail from a machine learning algorithm output alone is frankly disgusting and reeks of laziness and a lack of care or concern from public servants. I am appalled.
I don't know where you're getting that from. I didn't mention asking who should get the right of way.

Have you not just rephrased my "right" and "wrong" as "how things should play out". I'm not sure why someone would do that.
I don't think there's a misunderstanding, I stand by what I said.

Inferred return types don't make refactoring easier. In my experience they make it much more difficult, because you have to look at function implementation to understand what it does. Particularly for error handling, you always want to see what errors a function may return even in library code.

And all that said, there's no distinction to me between internals and externally facing code when it comes to quality and standards. If you have a function, even if it is called once, it should always have its return type annotated. It is more correct than leaving it to be inferred by the compiler, because you are explicitly annotating the intended behavior of the abstraction. This makes it easier to write correct code and for verifying it by a reviewer.
It baffles me that motorcycles are legal in jurisdictions that require seat belts in cars.
They are in a slightly worse place due to even worse governance, but yes, there is an enormous amount of untapped potential primed to explode. India also has a more serious global warming headwind to fight.
Just focus on what your boss sees and slash everything else to get time back.

So I neither do a good job nor practice any kid of creativity at work, but work is 15ish hours a week of actual tasks, so it doesn’t matter.
Because that's how you end up with projects that take 3 years to plan instead of 3 months. A live Q&A where all of the experts who can answer questions and everyone interested in the subject who may have questions are in the same room (live or virtual) is a lot more productive compared to what you are suggesting.

If something they said in the main presentation was missing important details that you need to do you work, why do you need to wait days/weeks for them to gather all the questions, find all the answers, and publish a video, when they could just answer it live in a few seconds?!
I live in Québec, Canada.

I clearly remember Sonia Lebel, a minister of the provincial government, explaining WFH worked and that the public workers were more productive in that environment.

Here is an article where she is quoted saying WFH employees were at their productivity peek: https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/08/26/teletravail-des-e...
Yeah, (neo)vim can do that for non-lsp with a filetype like html.css or similar whichbloads both syntax rules possibly with customizations to determine when it switches into which of the two modes. But again, I don’t know how that works with lsp.
Then COVID happened and we un-came to that realization, especially when one person’s decision affected others in a very direct and deadly way.
Then Microsoft has never seen a movie tie in of a game, or played a game of a movie.
Imagine if software engineers became liable for these sorts of errors. Just like how professional engineers are when they put their stamp on a project.
Why have a system where it is possible to be 'irresponsible'?
Why not just make it sane for everyone to begin with?

Could it be that someone is being taken advantage of? Say, perhaps, people that were mislead?
What about people that make healthy choices and live long enough to bear cancer a few times, shake off a few other diseases, have hips replaced, collect endless Medicare and SS payments, etc?

The person who blows their heart out at 53 probably costs a whole lot less VS what they put into society.
> got the surveillance video from the BP gas station

It’s obviously not the worst part of this story, but how on earth is anyone supposed to get actual, reliable facial identification from security cameras? Those things have hilariously low resolution on a _good_ day.
[From a NZ perspective]
Except you don't live in a bubble. Fire fighters, ambulance staff, doctors, nurses etc have to pick you up in pieces and (hopefully) put you back together. The PTSD alone from horrific accidents must be hell on first responders. Can't imagine if we went back to the dark ages and had no seat belts with the cars/speeds we do today.

So yeah on a closed area with no consequence (i.e. no one to rescue you) sure go for your life. But on a public road where people have no option but to rescue you if you fly through the windshield....

The taxpayers have to pay for your care. So it seems like a fair trade-off, if you're going use public roads, wear a seat belt.
The primary effect of seatbelt laws is fundraising through pointless fines.

And some informed folks have even argued that in modern vehicles airbags are so effective seatbelts could be worsening accident outcomes. (Elon Musk made this point in one of his podcast appearances re: Teslas)
Does Wikimedia count? They're a non-profit but on-prem
The bar to contribute to a software project of any size is many times higher than the bar to contribute to Wikipedia.

If you were speaking monetarily, Wikipedia has a gargantuan user count and good will to match, where Mozilla has spent the last few years squandering both of those.
You need a minimum of 4x5 workspace and a full size mattress is about 5.5 x 6 a twin closer to 3x6.

Even an apartment bedroom 10x12 can accommodate both in an L. Gig internet is also a lot cheaper than commuting or we work. If you are a professional there is little excuse not to have a desk and fast Internet at home.

Doing tech support I was always shocked to see some folks including techies angry that their elcheapo Internet plan with 10 year old rented equipment downstairs wasn't working well for their hyper important job.

Invest in yourself a bit.
Can you explain why the trade she describes is regulated the way it is that doesn’t involve traditions and superstitions around power and sex?
For rice cooking, the following works well for me. Add to a pot 1 cup of rice, 2 cups of water, 1 pinch of salt. Turn on the stove and let it cook with lid on until the water is gone (i.e. soaked into the rice).

If I understand correctly, the only difference with a rice cooker is that it shuts off at the "water is gone" point, right?
This reads like poetry. Awesome writing, thanks for sharing it here
Vodo: A primitive DNS server written in Rust for fun