skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True but the trades are incredibly small

Trade,Estimated Employment
Construction Laborers,1,019,090
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers,777,420
Electricians,712,580
Carpenters,700,290
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators,450,370

Bls2023

Where as there’s nearly 4 million acredited teachers and 3 million registered nurses
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/16/ukraine-must-i...

"A controversial Amnesty International report asserted that Ukrainian military tactics put civilians in danger. Video footage has since been published suggesting that Ukrainian troops may have executed surrendering Russian officers in the town of Makiivka. Back in 2019, the International Criminal Court (ICC) determined that Ukrainian forces committed possible war crimes against Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine.

To be clear: none of these allegations draws moral or legal equivalency between the acts of Ukrainian and Russian forces. Any alleged crimes committed by Ukrainian officers pale in comparison to the aggression and barbarity Russian forces have demonstrated in Ukraine. But all atrocities must be accounted for, not just those of one’s enemies."
hi, I waited for this thread to die down and reach the second page before I posted this because I love this topic and didn't want it derailed with a sensitive issue. I didn't realize this was restricted to school age kids and wanted to sign up as I needed some motivation to start on a game. But I reached the pronoun combobox and was legitimately confused!

I used to have a passion for UX and read books like "Don't make me think" and here I was stumbling with this silly field and didn't complete the form. Instead I was googling about pronouns to see if I should select "he/him", "he/him/his", or "He/Him". I didn't even notice there was an "any" and "other" value until I started writing this comment!

Hope you don't mind the question. This is a serious Q as I'm responsible for the UX of a public facing application and might at some point be required to add this field to our pages. I find it odd and kind of against UX best practices to make the field required. And presenting so many similar options "made me think" which used to be considered a bad practice because it's an obstacle to users completing a form. I now realize the target audience is school age kids. Do they automatically know what to select? I'm a xennial that somehow went into some time freeze spending every second of the day raising two kids with little time for social media. So please excuse my ignorance.
W3C generally requires Working Group participants to provide IPR licensing commitments for the spec in question [0]. As far as I understand, higher level of specification maturity implies stronger level of obligations, though the specifics of what specifically changes when were never clear to me.

[0] https://www.w3.org/policies/patent-policy/#sec-Requirements
MTA Celebrates 60th Anniversary of the Opening of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
The Jenkins Comic
EndeavourOS is like a better Manjaro
Any word on when it'll be supported on Linux without a flag?
Asking for lines is like asking for your CPU to support macros. The GPU is low-level, lines are high level. You build the high level on top of the low-level with libraries etc...
> They all had nicer cars and more beer money than me until I graduated.

It's not exactly surprising that someone working full time has a higher standard of living than a college student. The question is what happens after graduation.
Use Firefox and uBlock Origin. It always worked best on Firefox anyway:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Yep. And fool you are, you click on the "agree" button even when the success and reputation of your business relies on it.
Does anyone have an original, in English or in Hebrew of what he said? Not a news source retelling or worse - translation
What do you mean incredibly small? Don’t you numbers show trade jobs are on par with nurses and teachers?
Santa 2024 – The Perplexity Permutation Puzzle
Microsoft doesn't want Google to control the codebase Edge is based on and doesn't want anyone to counter the MSFT + OpenAI partnership, and the DOJ is trying to hand them their wishes.
Hopefully the judge rejects this overreach and rules on lawsuit scope.
Could be but seems like it would be expensive. IIRC the content scanners send 1 image per second.
If the method is not dynamically dispatched, it is exactly equivalent to a function with receiver passed as the first argument. The receiver-dot notation is just a convenient form of implicit namespacing, then, nothing more. And, in Go, methods are only dynamically dispatched on the receiver in the context of interfaces. So, everything else is just syntactic sugar. And what the doc is saying is that supporting this syntactic sugar makes the spec much more complicated, so they deemed it not worthwhile, given that a global function works just as well in this context.
The value of a college degree is in the toilet
Pay for women is on the rise and exceeds men in many metropolitan areas already. I don't really buy the worthless college degree topic argument.
Timestamp queries will give you essentially time spans you can use for profiling, but anything more than that and you really want to use a dedicated tool from your vendor like NSight, RGP, IGA, XCode, or PIX.

> Right now I feel like the only way to write efficient WebGPU code is to deeply understand specific GPU architectures. I hope some day there's a dev tools tab that shows me I'm spending too much time sampling a texture or there's a lot of contention on my atomic add.

It's kind of the nature of the beast. Something that's cheap on one GPU might be more expensive on another, or might be fine because you can hide the latency even if it's slow, or the CPU overhead negates any GPU wins, etc. The APIs that give you the data for what you're asking are also vendor-specific.
Expanding the organizational design space: the emergence of AI robot bosses
It's included in the models all right.
Well, if they're generally effective (oh yeah, that's a pun), so be it. Not surprising that we mostly hear about the egregious failures.
All code is causal.
Curious to see how they perform in math
So should we recruit more men to college or more women to trades?
No, it shows that all trades jobs put together make up about as many jobs as nurses OR teachers. This is some basic media literacy that needs to be used when media outlets like the Wall Street Journal publish articles suggesting that all unemployed Americans should just become electricians. (or whatever other trades job they trot out) These jobs can be lucrative for men without a college diploma but are a small fraction of jobs in the USA.
The forgettable “Virtuosity” had Russell Crowe doing something like that, but it was awful.
Supermicro does sell OCP racks.

https://www.supermicro.com/solutions/Solution-Brief-Supermic...

I recall them offering older versions of the specs but can't easily find a reference, so I might be wrong about how accessible they were.
As far as I know, Unity doesn't support bindless either. However thousands of Unity games are released on Steam every year. So it's safe to say performance isn't the main (or major) reason why Rust gamedev isn't getting much traction.
The IWPR link from above (with data from the US BLS) suggests that the 320K women in construction trades represent 4% of the total field, implying that there are about 8 million total construction trade jobs in the US. I'm not sure how many construction workers hold 4 year degrees, but it seems plausible this would explain a large portion of the gap.
Love the word "Autopoietic", nobody really knows about it and any text that uses it for sure will capture my interest.

I've first thought of this within the concept of self-assembling autonomous agents in 2016. Good times dreaming about a future where AI permeates every facet our lives.
Lots of things that have a real effect in the world are a convenient fiction. The fact that most people on the planet believe that the small paper rectangles printed by the US government have some value, is a consensual belief simultaneously held but no less a fiction.

The rules based order of the world was once something people believed in, and therefore expected others to conform to. Until they didn’t (for lots of reasons all of which cumulatively perturbed the system such that it’s flipped from a stable state and into a meta-stable state).
I would argue this is mistaking cause for effect. Girls are outperforming boys in high school, and therefore entering college at higher rates and graduating college at higher rates.

It’s not that boys are making a decision in high school not to go to college and therefore letting their grades slip. Once your grades slip, pathways to college narrow dramatically.

To illustrate my point, we can compare earnings of men with no college to women with a bachelor’s degree. Men make $45k, women make $65k. To believe that men are choosing trades you have to believe that men would voluntarily choose to make 30% less.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/05/23/labor-m...
You had to pick the most controversial example that also is poorly defensible? Guns don’t exactly have many uses besides shooting, compared to your monitor example.

Similarly, I’d assume most people who use Jellyfin/Plex/etc acquire their content through questionably legal sources. There simply aren’t many legal avenues left to acquire DRM free media. Especially not where you’re rebroadcasting from a webpage. The “arr” suffix on this software is especially flagging - there is a popular suite of software associated with piracy and they all use the “arr” suffix.

Reading source code is nice and all, but come on, that’s not the main purpose of most open source code.

> Broadcastarr is a service that allows you to broadcast media content retrieved from web pages.

That’s the purpose.
Lighten up and live a little. You have to be open to essentially harmless pranks like this or what kind of sterilized life are you living.
Maybe also worth noting that in computer science, a major which I think most would agree is worth the investment, men still greatly outnumber women.
The narrative that women don't succeed in computer science and cybersecurity because of discrimination never aligned with my experience whatsoever.

Sure, when I was in high school and college, there were significantly less women. And sure, women experience discrimination in many forms, many in ways that men don't understand or have to deal with. I get it, I'm speaking from a "position of privilege" as a man.

But I had numerous female teachers and college professors in my programming and math classes. The female students in my classes were smart, capable, and dedicated. Never once did I see them denied anything or treated differently. Female friends told me about negative experiences facing sexism, and they always came from people outside the school, or at the very least outside the CS program.

And yet literally everyone I talked to at this overwhelmingly left-leaning school assured me that being a female CS student was a form of torture. They could never explain why. Forget about the female-only scholarships, the conferences, the special clubs and interest groups. These middle-class college students living in one of the world's richest cities are suffering in this field, and we should be doing anything and everything to help them, we will not be satisfied until we have an exact 50%-50% split.

I'm not saying it's all rainbows and sunshine. Obviously sexism is still a systemic problem in many parts of American life. I have sisters, they have told some awful shit. I'm simply posing the questions - at what point does a minority group stop being disadvantaged? When do they stop being considered a minority? Who gets to decide when and how that happens? Why are there so many scholarships, interest groups, and initiatives designed to help women in STEM who are struggling, but the very real problem of men and boys struggling in other fields is largely ignored? How large does the gap between male and female education have to get before it reaches public consciousness?

It seems like we (the US) should be doing more across the board to help students and provide them opportunities, regardless of gender, race, sexuality, etc. Constant culture war spats and identity politics aren't helping anyone. The vague impression from my social group is that Europeans have it figured out and we just don't, but I really don't know if that's true.
Jaegermeister is licorice flavored so I can’t take a sip of it without gagging. Does Malort taste anything like licorice?
Which makes it entirely irrelevant as a descriptive term.
We are talking about the spelling centuries ago, when the romanisation were less standardised
The number 1 use of WebGL is Google Maps by several orders of magnitude over any other use. At some point they'll likely switch to WebGPU making it the number 1 use of Google Maps. Google went over what this enables when they shipped it. Lots of features including being able to highlight relevant roads that change depending on what you searched for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrLyZ24UcRE

Apple maps and others also use it
It's amusing how nearly all comments so far are a bit defensive.

Not so long ago women were not allowed in academia; shouldn't the first reaction be "yay!"?
> He says the lab leak theory is being used to create distrust in scientific institutions more broadly.

Can you really trust or distrust so called "scientific institutions"? There is no clear answer to this. There are many people who are doing really good work in these institutions and at the same time we know there are so many fraudulent research and research that have a clear conflict of interest.

There are really dangerous viruses out there in nature and on the other hand the so called "gain of function" research is creating their own set of dangerous viruses. How safe are these research labs? Can these be 100% safe?
There are already open source projects making use of WebGPU, e.g. wgpu.
So, an aplication started as root it does a lot, if started as a normal user, does less. Sure, any first year CS student can write something like that. Or you can.. well.. install an ssh server or a vnc server or whatever.

How it gets onto the system in the first place is the interesting (and dangerous) part, that sadly gets skimmed over here.
Superposition code is a well known concept in information theory - I think there is certainly more to the story then described in the current works, but it does feel like they are going in the right direction
I was under the impression that persistent, but SILENT access was China's goal. Dropping files in home and /tmp/ seems like the total opposite of that and any competent sysadmin would detect these anomalies manually real quick with a simple "ls -a", even possibly by accident.
> What are the three major projects that were cancelled?

Here are some:

- LogLog Games [1]. Not happy with Bevy. Not too unhappy about performance, although it's mentioned.

- Moonlight Coffee [2]. Not a major project, but he got as far as loading glTF and displaying the results, then quit. That's a common place to give up.

- Hexops. [3] Found Rust "too hard", switched to Zig.

Tiny Glade is very well done. But, of course, it's a tiny glade. This avoids the scaling problems.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033

[2] https://www.gamedev.net/blogs/entry/2294178-abandoning-the-r...

[3] https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/increasing-my-contribution-to...
Actually, most reports are that the US is the one that pressured Lebanon not to join the ICC, to prevent the ICC from having jursidiction over warcrimes the IDF comits in Lebanon/
I've done a bunch of college tours this year with my daughter. Its kinda shocking to see so many homeless men on the streets, then the universities majority women. I'm kinda hoping she'll go to a school that is 50/50. Georgetown was at 62% female, I think Tulane is 64%.
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It's interesting to me you don't like any WebGL websites. I remember first trying Minecraft Java in the browser and it was awesome.

Runescape! I grew up playing Runescape! How could anyone not want games like Runescape to exist?!?
Yes I think this encapsulates my critique and observation from inside the belly of the beast. To these guys $100/year or even $1000/year per head to give AI to 1000 excel jockey analysts is great. It's cheaper, by an order of magnitude, than upsizing their IT org to the size of their leading competitors. I mean we are talking single digit SWEs for the numbers above.

Of course they probably aren't thinking through how AI will allow their leading competitors to maintain or expand their lead if it is any good anyway.

Interestingly I was in a meeting with our firms IT org recently where they were describing some of the "upgrades" they are making across systems, some of which were going to degrade service. Upon enough prodding they conceded the reasoning was not value, or even cost, but cost attribution. That is, it was too hard to figure out how to meter usage & charge back to business lines, so they are essentially going to discontinue those services and make business lines self manage. Crazy.
Not a surprise. Men don’t go where they’re not wanted.
the new thing should be called "cupcakes" or "candies" or "snacks" or "munchies"
> I am glad that your circumstances are such that you can just stop working on a project when the tooling it uses turns out to be inadequate, wait five years, and then come back when it improves.

Is it that terrible to just handle an error as an error, without having to know exactly what the error was? If you see some of the codebases which rely on the error, they are trying to be too clever and doing things like returning a 400 instead of 500 if that's the specific error message returned. Is that really necessary?

Unless the codebase can take corrective actions (and it could still attempt to do it regardless if that's the case), there's really no point trying to be cute. An error is returned, and that's that.
Server side session state for more than authentication is way worse than "code smell."

It requires a ping to a shared data source on every request. And, the same one for all of them. No sharding, No split domains... That gets expensive fast!
This miss the "HttpOnly" part, which prevents javascript (think script injection vulnerability) from touching this part of the storage
Frankly I think most collage degree programs are used as a continuation of high school for those who are afraid or just not looking to grow up and go out into the market.
Chrome is removing some features that Origin depends on now. There's Ublock lite or moving to Firefox to keep using Origin.
It's not even really about domains. It's about displaying the "author"/"source" of the content in the link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537725

> https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1011692979877105664

turns to

> (twitter.com/foone)
If you move the tv+ app down from the top row, you should never see it.
> Instead, they decided to make an existential bet and risk of creating enemies.

What are you talking about?
State universities outside tier 1 cities don't care about grades except that they are passing (D or higher).
BLS figures show tradeworkers make about the median salary in the US - it isn't above average. In the Occupational Outlook handbook, The mean annual wage for all occupations is $65,470. The trades:

Plumber - median $61,550 per year
HVAC tech - median $57,300 per year
Electrician - median $61,590 per year
Framer(Carpenter) - median $56,350 per year
Bricklayer(Mason) - median $53,010 per year

Job demand also seems to be about average compared to overall jobs.

I agree that investing heavily in many degrees is probably ill-advised.
At what point in history has the message "People like yourself are falling behind in a very serious way" ever been met with "Yay!" ?

Also, many Americans are taught that statistical gaps between different demographics are usually a result of some terrible injustice. (It's certainly been true in the past.) Whether or not this is true always or even in this case, I can't really say, but I do understand why the mostly American audience of HN would have a negative reaction...
does anyone else think that trump is going to nix this thing as soon as he takes office?
This would make sense if college degree requirements weren't rampant for tons of jobs that shouldn't require them.

It's a hard requirement a lot of the time in tech as well. Doesn't matter anymore whether you have 10+ years experience at a large company in <very fancy subfield that requires at least grad school level expertise in something very academic> like compilers or something. You'll be viewed as a neanderthal that probably can't or didn't pass Calculus.

In the past, that was less of an issue. A culture of self study (on prerequisite academic topics) was more prevalent. Now the base assumption is that you stumbled into your position and have been flying under the radar as a dimwit changing the color of buttons.

Theories as to why this is now the case:

- Increased competition and rise of CS enrollment and improved perception of CS degrees.

- Bootcamp grads giving recruiters and hiring managers a bad impression about everyone self taught.

- Overhiring in certain subfields and at certain large tech companies causing a reduction in the signaling value of experience.

- Age discrimination

So in other words, with the exception of physical trades, credential inflation is definitely a real thing and it definitely has an impact on how easily you can move positions and/or negotiate compensation.

And if you couldn't tell, yes I'm salty on account of having had to waste time and money going back to finish a degree that I was overqualified for just in order to not immediately get lumped in with bootcamp grads. The entire ordeal was academically worthless. Don't make my mistake kids...stay in school even if it feels like you aren't learning anything so that you don't have to go back and do it while also juggling adult responsibilities. I think this is a mistake that men are probably more likely to make than women as well, which could help explain some of the gender discrepancy in graduation rates. Call it overconfidence fueled by testosterone or something.
I agree it was very wordy
>Not so long ago women were not allowed in academia; shouldn't the first reaction be "yay!"?

If your ideology is "any differences in outcomes must be caused by systemic discrimination, and we should engage in reverse discrimination to fight it", then this is bad news, because according to that ideology, you should be doing a 180 and discriminating against women. That conclusion upsets some people.
If I open a second window or tab I expect when I go to 'myemail.com' that it knows who I am and shows me my account even though the url in the 2nd tab doesn't have any extra info in the URL