skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is extremely deceptive as there are many people in such situation. I know many countries are doing this.

For example, I haven't had a job for almost 6 months but I've put 'self-employed' on LinkedIn and have been working on my startup during this time (and already have a fully working product which is easier to use, more scalable and more effective than the competition) but I don't think I'm going to be able to find users in the current environment due to existing media/tech monopoly and insurmountable trust barriers as well as a discriminatory ESG/DEI environment which makes it impossible for me (a straight white male) to raise funding to pay for advertising.

I know other people in similar situations. Apparently in Australia, half of the working age population is on welfare and at the same time there are shortages of many essential services like daycare which prevent people who have children from working as one parent has to stay home. Apparently the government is making it hard for daycare businesses to expand which is driving the shortage.

Also, tax brackets in Australia are based on individual income, not household income and therefore, taxes are very high if only one partner is working (which is often the case due to the shortage of daycare centers as mentioned above).

Property prices are also very high and rent is very high. The government is also ramping up immigration to prop up property prices + rents and foreigners end up taking many of the jobs which increases competition, drives down wages and makes paying rent even harder.

It's like everything is broken and the brokenness compounds. Even the incentives are broken so it's not even fixable with the current political system.

The media and funding environment just doesn't allow new tech ventures to launch and find their first users unless the founders are in some special in-group.

I don't even want to get into the details of what happened to me up until that point in my career. It's been an epic tale about the struggle for survival... Not in some remote forest in the Amazon or lost on some remote island like Robinson Crusoe, but merely survival in a profoundly dysfunctional socio-economic system.
Maybe they should get into tech or some other skill that provides value to the marketplace.
It's not about self-awareness, is the thing. If you notice you're doing something after you've already started doing it, then you already did it compulsively, without thinking. The goal is to start doing it on purpose so that the compulsion doesn't even have to happen at all. By doing this, you teach your brain that you don't need the compulsion anymore.
Repo: https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind
Probably tax changes to amortization.
Why is it meaningful given that the 33% includes people who have no desire to work?
Microsoft was the overwhelming majority of all installations. So effectively, once Microsoft added it, it was a utility. I'm well aware of that history.
> Around age 35 I started occasionally making errors in typed text, and not noticing until re-reading it. Leaving out words. I started substituting homophones! I never, ever did that at all, before! Aging sucks.

I had perfect grammar and spelling until ~30. Then it went downhill.

It coincided with dating more illiterate women. So I always attributed this development to letting go of an attention to detail that went unnoticed: What's the point of writing or speaking correctly when nobody around you can tell the difference?

It might be age rather than environment, although I doubt it. I also don't really mind.

My code hasn't become less type-safe.
I'm seeking employment right now. How do I make sure the government knows that?

Is there a number I can call to make sure I'm included in the statistics?
> Am I weird?

If you’re American, idk about “weird” but definitely in the very small minority. Bartend is used as naturally as any other verb by almost all native speakers, as far as I can tell.

I’m not sure about other countries.
Not the person you were replying to, but I'll take one for the team and admit that I don't. If you had a link you could share explaining such, I would genuinely appreciate it.
Author completely missed the boat, imho. Brave post by BigTex, only one who nailed it.

Karma is a biotch. No rearranging of the FFox deck chairs will ever save that lost bunch from themselves.
What you're saying goes hard in the exact opposite direction of ego depletion. Which, while despite being a bit controversial, is still a thing research has shown to exists under some circumstances.

Essentially ego depletion says you only have a finite capacity to act against your impulse.
I’m personally skeptical of unemployment stats as a useful singular metric to judge the economy on since around 2010 when independent contracting exploded in accessibility (if you’re an Uber driver you do not count as unemployed).

It’s no surprise unemployment has been low since then. Coincidence? You can decide.

I’m more curious what the ratio is between the median monthly “necessary” expenditure is, adjusted for locale to median salary. My hypothesis is that it’s drastically going up - that is, the median person working the median job requires an increasing high percentage of their salary to afford the “median lifestyle”. And in some cases this could be over 100%, meaning the median lifestyle is sustainable only through debt or other compromises like roommates, below median quality of life etc.

People have tried to get around this with brutal commutes, but we are seeing the limits of that as living far away no longer yields much savings but still results in a long commute.
Good point.

I don't think I ever showed you, but when I was playing around with adjoint representations, I came up with an adjoint between plaintext files and PDF, such that (non-ultimate) lines in the PDF would display fully justified, but a simple filter (that did not model the PDF format itself) sufficed to recover the original plaintext file.

That didn't seem very useful, but as you point out, maybe making things prettier is worthwhile (and enabling reversibility so one could always retrieve the lighter representation given only the prettier one would satisfy my technological anabaptism); if it were useful to do so maybe I should try with .gmi (although the vertical layout issues here would keep pagination from being as straightforward...)?
I loved the response. This is a founder to founder public response! Not a customer support deal, but a personal one… I’d appreciate more people talked their hearts out like this, openly.
That’s the goal the way I see it. Companies are working people to the bone because they and other companies aren’t hiring. It’s definitely coordinated.
> Qt and GTK have native Wayland backends, but other toolkits, such as Tk, FLTK, or wxWidgets, do not. This means that applications that use these toolkits, such as GIMP, Audacity, or Inkscape, may not run well on Wayland, or may

Didn't Gimp use GTK?
Kybalion,
Reality transurfing,
The illusion of money,
The minimalist entrepreneur,
Power vs Force,
Psycho cybernetics,
No self no problem
If someone retires, are they unemployed? Baby boomers started retiring in 2008 and continue to.
I'm too old to know everything.

I think a significant factor is tech skews young. Once your gem turns black, it's time for carousel. (Amusingly, if you understand that reference, you're probably already older than many tech companies are comfortable with).
Pretty sure it was never intended for external consumption
> However. I feel constantly discriminated against and treated like I am stupider than I am. And when people listen to me talk, they get incredibly threatened. It has taken me years to understand that being around me and listening to me talk, reason and analyze is THREATENING to people. I have had situations where, even after a few meetings where I felt I was just “talking about how things are” the other person left HATING me.

Have those people actually told you this, or is it a conclusion you came to on your own? I ask because your comment pattern-matches quite strongly for me to "mildly autistic person who doesn't realize they're constantly making failed status plays". Here are a few lines that stood out

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> I can write dozens of pages of highly analytical and technical text without making mistakes in real time. I can speed read complex texts and memorize them with a high degree of precision. From the “language” perspective I feel highly gifted and unusual.

"I'm highly gifted and unusual" is much stronger than "I'm a good technical writer."

> It’s like being Usain Bolt except your sprinting lane has an obstacle course in it while everyone else gets to run in a normal lane.

As before, but even worse. Usain Bolt is the fastest sprinter in the world. He's quite literally one in eight billion. You are not.

> I have taught myself advanced skills and switched careers multiple times without the required degrees. Worked at the top companies in the world with PhDs and others.

Having worked with PhDs is not impressive in itself. There are thousands of college sophomores who can say the same.

There are workplaces that carry some serious cachet (though bringing them up unprompted will burn most of it), but vague references to "top companies" won't cut it, and makes me think it's less "fellow at Microsoft Research" and more "software engineer at Microsoft". Which is a fine thing to be - but also a perfectly normal thing to be.

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If your coworkers are getting the same vibe I am, then they're treating you like you're stupider than you really are because you come off as someone who wants to be seen as smarter than they really are. They're annoyed, not threatened.
I'm not advertently claiming you cannot. But working with teams and systems where they wear the badge of "I'm a DevOp who can SysAdmin" and try to prove themselves in such as a manner throws myself a sigh.

If your unable to compile your own kernel, you don't pass in my books, it's a rite of passage.
It was always so disappointing, spending hours coding up a tightly wound assembly language version of some inner loop that uses half the instructions generated by the C++ compiler, only to find that your slaved-over version is actually 5% slower. But OTOH... the thrill when it actually was faster!

This was back in the Pentium 4 era, where there were deep pipelines and oddities like some simple ALU instructions (ADD, SUB, etc.) taking 0.5 cycles(!), while others (ADC, SHR) took 4 cycles IIRC.
It works so well cause US has had low interest rates for decades. You have to plot unemployment against credit growth and interest rates.

Hiring people with easy cheap money is not complicated. You don't need to spend your profits on people. Push profits into real estate/stocks/bonds etc. Inflate prices of all them then use them as collateral to take on more cheap debt and keep your plebs employed running on mindless hamster wheels.
Didn't it look like Brazilian government was almost 100% gonna have it called off because of the "hit" to national reputation? (losing one of their largest and most internationally famous powerhouses)
> makes me question if we are even a functioning democracy

The US has not been a functioning democracy for a very long time, if it ever even was.

Don’t despair! Plenty of people have fulfilling and happy lives in non-democracies. But it’s important to be realistic about the chances of anything about the political system fundamentally changing.
FRED (using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics) claims that 83% of men, and 78% of women, aged 25 - 54 are working. In the prime working years, there isn't much of a problem, if any.

(The data series are Activity Rate: Aged 25 - 54 years: Males for United States, and Activity Rate: Aged 25 - 54 years: Females for United States.)

Adults younger than 25 are often still in school, although there is a growing share of stay-at-homes. Older than 54, well, they may have enough, or they may have health problems.

Just saying "40% of people aren't working" presents a less-than-nuanced picture. Some of them are kids and the very old.
In Australia, you're considered employed if you get at least one hour of work per week. And there's a fairly strict cap on how much you can earn before unemployment benefits are cut off, meaning the under-employed must carefully navigate the gap between full unemployment and adequate earnings that pay all their bills.

Is that how it works in the US?
You can scale down for less busy hours by just turning it off.
That isn't going to happen, they are too many out there and they have too much money invested. It would take FAA action (or European I suppose)
If the Department of Labor report the article is referring to is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly Employment Situation Summary, then unemployed doesn’t include gig workers (and it probably should).
I've got a similar problem but for a different cause. I'm guessing that my intelligence is normal, but my theory of mind instincts are probably better than average. I get a very good idea what people want on an individual by individual basis.

However, my ability to tap into the social zeitgeist is pretty close to zero.

The end result is that I get along fantastically with most people because I can anticipate what they want. But I get along terribly with people who want me to fit in with the social rules that they are playing by. What they want is for me to act normal. And I don't know what that is.

It manifests very similar to what you're describing. After a relatively short period of time certain people get very tuned off by me and they become easily frustrated by my actions.

My theory is that they're diligently playing by the social rules and then I come in, break all of the rules right in front of them, and then I get a mostly positive reception because it's what most of the room wanted anyway (just done in kind of a funny way).

I don't really have a solution.

[At least for me things get really interesting whenever I interact with sales people. As far as I can tell like 90% of that profession runs on everyone following the appropriate social scripts. I barely understand them so thus far I've not encountered a sales tactic that actually works on me. Occasionally they get really desperate as their best plays get met with awkward silence or declining their bad deal.
The flip side is that they don't understand me either so asking for what I want doesn't seem to work. I just have to hope I'm able to find something that makes do. ]
Is there any research to suggest that's a real thing? It certainly does not sound like something that should be possible when you put it this way.
https://www.worldtimebuddy.com has a similar design and is configurable. And I prefer it (the slider aligned) to OP's design (sliders all over the place)..
It would be nice to see something about gifted people that didn't conflate that with, or allude to, or even mention, ADHD, autism, or other 'neural deficiency'. Some people are just super bright, not just analytically but emotionally/empathically too - get over it.
Depends if you believed the rumors or not...
What are the different unemployment rates, and how do they work?

Are you referring to [this][1]? If so, which notion(s) of unemployment do you think are meant in the article?

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/cps/definitions.htm
Here's a good link: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

My understanding is that u3 is what is typically reported, but that u6 is a more full picture (it includes people who are working age but discouraged and withdrawn from the workforce).
This is just your usual stupid headline. The article is more useful and concerns itself with now compared to just months ago. Now is a long stretch of low unemployement official numbers - just like then - and that's the extent of the article's claim on that. Continuing strong (by some measures - is fair) US job market versus inflation and increasing interest rates is the interesting part. And that is not all that useful without talking about labor participation which is increasing again after the gross Covid drop. That is, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that nominal unemployement is still low as labor participation has still not recovered from the Covid drop. Not much to see there.

Comparing to the Vietnam War times would be fraught with unknowns because of so many differences between that period, now, and in between. For example, labor force participation by gender thoroughly changed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Labor_Force_Participat... And for another, gig work appeared.

So did education and, it feels to me, minimum wage policy.

Also I hear lots of stories of techies in long unemployed gaps. While in theory there is still plenty of talk of companies having a hard time finding people.
If, when surveyed by the BLS, they say that they are working (part time, whatever) or have looked for work in the last six weeks, they are counted as "in the labor force". (New jargon: "economically active".) Unemployment figures are subject to more massage.
Checkov’s gun didn’t discharge because of its thermal sensor.
California things.
You will understand it once you realize that the modern progressive movement has abandoned the liberal principles that we grew up with. They have now adopted a Maoist political philosophy.
Well why would I complain? At least I'm not part of the 4%*!
Because ff3 era websites didn't nearly have as many JavaScript, ads and surveillance shit than today's.
> First of all, the world being rational is a property humans ascribe to it.

Why believe in mainstream science, instead of believing in “creation science”, astrology, crystal woo, whatever? Because there is much stronger evidence for the former than the latter? But what are our standards for judging the strength of evidence? And why should we let those standards have control of our beliefs? Rationality is what gives us those standards, and tells us we are obliged to follow them. Is rationality objective or subjective? Well, if it is subjective, then proponents of those “alternative sciences” can just pick an alternative rationality which supports their own views instead of the mainstream ones, and if rationality is subjective, it ultimately makes the decision between mainstream and “alternative” science subjective too. But, if it is objective, how is it objectively grounded? If we ground its objectivity in empirical science - that is circular, we are grounding it in something which itself depends on it. So, I argue, the objectivity of mainstream empirical science requires the existence of objective rationality external to it. But, for that rationality to truly be objective, it must be an innate feature of reality, not something simply arbitrarily ascribed to it by the human mind. Hence, Gödel‘s premise, that rationality is (in some sense) an objective feature of reality, not just some subjective creation of the human mind, must be true.
>Done Property

Why would it ever be?

Either incompetency or Malevolence will make itself manifest.
Now I remember - back then these texture mappers were called roto zoomers, Alex Champandard did excellent series here ->

https://www.flipcode.com/archives/The_Art_of_Demomaking-Issu... - look for zip file with the source code.

I've also found Go version (and there were 2 java ones)

https://github.com/search?q=BlockTextureScreen

So it's not as neat as swizzling (quickly looking at it) - but essentially same goal - keep pixels that have to be drawn together at close (e.g. blocks). Mipmapping helps too, as then you don't "skip" too many pixels - and you both gain better quality and less cache misses.
It is gen X's time to shine!
Let me guess: a larger proportion of pple are working gigs?
Being a fat guy, I disregard that during flight other than takeoff, landing, and turbulence. I drive to work on most days, and the chance that I die that way is FAR, FAR higher than the few flights I take each year. I'll live with the odds. Yes, I wear my seat belt in my car, it's actually comfortable
>>> average net worth increase for different brackets

>>> the normal people are faring compared to other/previous years.

The economic disparity is gross, you can't argue excess.

Comparing to the past is isn't going to play out the way you think. What time period do you want to compare to? Is that a period where "better off" was for a narrow segment of the population, where "better off" was robbing tomorrow?

The problem is that life looks a lot like the classic game design dilemma of "power creep".

I'm not sure that this is 100% accurate, but its close enough to convey the point: https://compasscaliforniablog.com/have-american-homes-change...

If it was 1950, no cell phone (1 house phone bill), no internet, no cable, no streaming, no Spotify, no computer... You might have a tv (one, singular), radio, those are one time costs. Power, water, phone, food, house/transport (and likely 1 car for many family's). My neighborhood grocery story is a gym... so we traded a close by place to shop for more travel for food, and a place you pay to go exercise.

People ate canned and frozen veg, not fresh trucked in from everywhere items. And before you make the argument for health, go look at the nutrient content of a flash frozen green bean vs one that sat in a box for a week to get to your plate, the frozen wins.

Guess what, all of what we have, unsustainable. 8 billion people can't live like middle class Americans! As more of the globe wants in on the action things are only going to get HARDER for people, unless we make some drastic lifestyle changes.
Reading!
> If choice is so easy, anyone can pick up a textbook about mathematics, barring deficiency in cognitive capacity, become knowledgeable about mathematics. That doesn't happen not because people are stupid, but because the task is genuinely hard.

You're conflating choice with a much more complex situation that raises questions of how people learn, how skills relate to nature versus nurture, and personal interest and motivations. I'm not arguing that avoiding junk food or choosing to exercise are easy, only that they are choices.

Its really interesting to me that you take the view of choice as defeatist while I see the exact opposite, that the view of a lack of choice is defeatist. We both clearly have considered this in the past and feel strongly about our view, great reminder that people can seriously and genuinely consider the same situation and land on exactly opposite positions.
- Canceling subscriptions as a service. I'd pay $20 per cancelation if you can save my time.

- Applying for jobs and getting a phone interview as a service. The total number of applications and total rounds of interviews is too much. It's worth paying someone to do all this. Perhaps as a saas with an AI chatbot.
This doesn't belong in a browser.
Neat. It kind of reminds me of how the "neutral zone" in Yars' Revenge is made up from the game's own machine code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HSjJU562e8
Unless they are teachers at private schools, yes.
And they’re going to have to fork over all that boomer money if they want us to take care of them. ;)

Actually, perhaps not joking. Wouldn’t people with money retiring cause there to be a growing wealth source in search of a sink? Do retiring people hoard savings as much? Why would they?
PhotoDNA is officially non-invertible, because it’s used for CSAM, and if you can invert it, then anyone having the hashes also has CSAM.
Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX
Ask HN: What clipboard manager do you use?
Personally I consider clipboard managers to be a must-have.

I often need to go back to something I copied 30 minutes ago etc.

Plus they're like a mini browser history, holding your links.

Which one do you use? Or why aren't you using one?

I use https://github.com/madprops/clipton
switch jobs less often.
Just use one big machine for model training and inference (2023) [video]
Ironically, this doesn't strike me as a particularly super emotionally/empathetically bright comment.
Lmao, I'm not here to make friends. I see a guy sniffing his own farts and am telling him off. If he's as great as he thinks he wouldn't have the problems he complains about.