jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are some trends since the seventies: higher productivity per employee and for marginal groups more and more difficulties to get a job. The pandemic economic crisis accelerates these trends.

Let's have a look at company A and company B. Company A employs many people and is not able to offer remote work. Company B doesn't employ many people and can offer remote work. If these companies compete it is clear that company B will grow during the crisis, and company A won't.

In other words, we have structure change bombed upon us.

CEOs and owners say, let's see, a pandemic and suddenly labor disappears. How can we mitigate such problems in the future?

My hunch is that after the crisis is contained economy returns, however it will be even more difficult for people to have a job than before. If the state doesn't help the people, economy will stay depressed because people are laid off and just don't have the money to buy things.

Edit: many little improvements.
This article has been censored by Medium. Can't say I'm surprised as it goes against the official hysteria promoting big pharma narrative. This is what I now get:

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It is archived here: http://archive.md/yuaUq
Depends on what info I need. For most colleagues I'll just need some quick non-emotional information to do my job. Calling them up just takes up time.

Same goes for clients calling about an issue and trying to stay on the line while I fix it. It's just inconvenient in that context.

Hearing someone is great when I need to discuss some opinions. Or when you really need live interaction.
We of working age need to be thinking of ourselves a the rebuilders.

Let’s get through this, support each other, and be doing everything we can to be ready to spring back into economic action when COVID gets under control.

I think it’s entirely up to the people’s response. The spirit of the country (and govt policies) will determine more about what happens after then pure economics can tell us.

I personally don’t think there’s a good economic analogy so everyone is just guessing.
I'm glad it was helpful to you.
I mean, sure, but we're operating under the premise that we don't want to give out our data to a cloud provider and instead want to store data ourselves. Half of the post is dedicated to explaining that, so pretending that you can't infer that from context seems a bit unfair.
Automobiles and airlines have always had slim margins and are slow to grow. It shouldn’t take a Warren Buffett to see the differences between this old technology advancement and more recent ones (from an investment perspective).
Maybe it's because I only have one eye and the resulting slightly reduced width of field, but wide lines drive me crazy. I need to see the whole line without scanning. This was one of python's original appeals to me...

https://pep8.org/#maximum-line-length
True crypto believers look at the court case to see what parts of the system need to be made more resilient, if any.

Here its poor OPSEC, no improvement is necessary.
It goes both ways. Pure bodybuilders scoff at anything that doesn’t help sculpt, but I think there’s equal derision in the functional and strength training crowd to folks that only focus on pure bodybuilding. Personally I say do what makes you happy and not worry what the obsessive purists think. I always find the rigid thinking in fitness crowds to be very off putting.
Yeah, this is the really frustrating thing about conversations about the GDPR: whatever you think about how companies should act, legislation doesn’t really matter unless there’s some way the government can take retributive action against those who ignore it. When someone asks about what this mechanism is, you inevitably get a whole host of people assuming you dislike the legislation.
I do tap to pay, though. Contactless as in no electrical contacts and no human-to-human contacts.
https://archive.fo/l1kcg
I thought this article really jumped the shark when he started referring to everybody as "slaves"

The one aspect of what he said I do agree with is that most of what is taught in school is not useful, remembered or applied in daily life. It's where the "mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" meme comes from. You spend large swathes of your childhood being expected to memorize useless information and regurgitate it back and if you aren't effective at that or motivated to do that, it's a big problem that has consequences from getting punished by your parents to affecting your ability to get into college and train for a career.

And that does suck. Imagine how different our society would be if instead of precalculus or trigonometry, there were courses on personal finance and critical thinking skills. Or practical application of the types of logic you learn in math courses (programming.)
I've been using Racket on the rpi3 (BC not chez as it's not in the repos yet) and the resource issue is exacerbated (as well as the start up times). I asked about reducing the start up time and resources load recently on the subreddit, but other than doing things like this below I've found nothing.

#lang racket/base

(require racket/draw pict racket/gui/base racket/class)

;; avoiding pulling in to many extra deps so have to redefine some useful functions
(define (first lst)
(car lst))

(define (second lst)
(cadr lst))

(define (third lst)
(caddr lst))

(define (false? val)
(not val))

If anyone cares the code is here https://gitlab.com/diegocrespo/imgmac/-/tree/master. For context this is a paint program that currently creates a 1024x748 window with a canvas, 31 buttons, and a file menu. It uses 280M of memory on my desktop running Manjaro, which isn't the greatest. In my testing, typed racket also increases the memory uses.

Thankfully after creating a basic frame and canvas, the jumps haven't been as big, but I could easily see the program going to 400M by the time it's done. I will download Racket 8.0 today and see how it performs

I think once Gerbil scheme becomes more mature I'll do more work in that. It's faster, smaller, and borrows a lot of things from Racket that I like.

*EDIT*
I installed racket 8.0 (super easy and removed the old installation as well!) and compiled my program. Compiling it and running it results in it going from 280M down to 220M, That's a 27% improvement. Creating an exe brings the memory usage back to 243M but that's still down. I'm less familiar with creating exes so there might be some settings I can tweak.
Would that explain why my bachelor students were so unbelievable inept at emotionally dealing with and resolving conflicts when I taught at university there?
For WaPo, it's not so much a slogan as a mission statement.
"Teachers make <25/hour with poor benefits (Florida, USA)."

Teacher pay varies greatly from area to area. Where I live in VA pay starts at $36/hour and goes up to $67 per hour. They also receive what would be considered by most to be excellent benefits. Over recent years my locality has been substancially increasing teacher pay each year especially on the upper end of the scale because the high end is actually behind nearby counties which we compete against for experienced teachers.
Agreed. My kids go to a Waldorf school, and it's all about synthesis. They don't get teaching material, they make it themselves.

This also reinforces a can-do attitude.

I compare it to my university education, where we spend most of the time (2/3) each semester doing a project in a small group. The engineering faculty of the university I attended was recently rated in the top 4 with Stanford and MIT and a Chinese one (above Oxford). I guarantee you it's not because of the quality of the staff - it's the method.
It's hard for me to separate out the effect of air travel or a long drive from just sleeping in a different place. I suspect it's a little of both given that I would say that having trouble sleeping is more pronounced after a plane flight than a 3-5 hour drive. But being in a different place/different bed can have an effect in both cases.
The most fair common comparison I’ve seen is per-capital traffic deaths against China. India still comes out bad. This brings up one of my most vivid/terrifying travel memories, crossing a busy intersection in Chennai. Traffic lights were not observed, so the way to cross was like something out of fairy tale advice: step out, walk slowly, don’t run, don’t stop and don’t turn back. The bike/cars/buses/trucks will all drive around you. There is not consensus on whether or not to make eye contact with the drivers, however. I was not familiar with this at the time, and followed closely behind some other folks crossing the street. For the record, most of the world is not like this, even the developing world. The only other places I’ve heard of having to do this are Manila and HCMC. To get an idea of what it’s like, do a video search for “India intersection” - there is a “viral” video from 10-ish years ago that captures the chaos pretty well.
Doubt I even seen a flash card until 2002 or so. Floppy disks were still being used in my school up into the middle of the decade.

CD burners only seriously ramped up in ubiquity in 2000 or so too; they very quickly became common place
You can "downvote" my response, but here's a challenge:

You have no idea about how your own ecology works.

You barely understand how 'society' / 'interlinked communications' work between individuals (and your social / psychological sciences are laughable).

The first thing an (unbounded) AI does is link directly into the largest power source it can find (usually a Star) and then start re-organizing QM / magnetospheres to support itself.

Hint: that causes you to die.
Science is about probabilities, not facts.
So that’s why Kirk always had to bother poor Scotty
"...they don't provide the same functionality as the JRE..."

What functionality are you referring to, exactly?
I'm guessing ice is such a rare problem the turbines in Texas aren't equipped to handle it. Not that turbines can't de-ice themselves, right? Surely if they can operate in the North Sea, they can operate in West and South Texas, yeah?
Carbon dominates the higher end of bike frames so much that most people don't care about scandium-based frames. Is there scandium in my aluminum cranks, brakes, or stem?
We hired two out of GA in Los Angeles. The reason we chose them was because they were smart and moldable. I don't know if I'd do it again, as it took them a long time to get them up and running, and the lack of a CS background was evident, but they have grown into their roles and assimilated well into the team. We essentially got both of them for the price of one senior dev. I probably wouldn't do it again, as we spent too much time teaching them some programming basics, but I don't regret hiring them.
It allows different teams to write in different languages, have different deployment cadences and different testing mechanisms.

The overhead of network calls and its attendant problems can be a worthwhile price to pay if you need to loosely couple your teams.

This is why my yardstick of "should it be a micro service?" is "could it work as an entirely separate business?"

I was a massive skeptic of micro services until I saw that it actually solved some people problems pretty well despite incurring a technical cost.

I'm pretty convinced it's an anti pattern in small startups though.
Hmm, that's an angle to consider too. You can ask them via email, they have been friendly whenever I needed something clarified.

As per https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/my-devops-books-are-f... there were about 40k free downloads in about 2 weeks. I don't think Leanpub minds, but yeah, you can ask them first.
The screens are because all new cars in the US are required to have backup cameras now. The lack of physical controls to go with them is entirely on the car companies, though.
When I looked, they weren't actually cheaper. I never found something cheaper on Airbnb.

Also, I had no car. Hotels always had some eateries and the like in walking distance. If an Airbnb is basically in the middle of fuck nowhere with no amenities nearby, it does you no good if you have no car and very limited funds.

I stayed a lot in two hotels in Fresno. One had a Chipotle, McDonald's, two restaurants and a 7-11 right on top of it and the bus stop was also practically right on top of it. There was more shopping about a 15 or 20 minute walk away.

The other had a Taco Bell practically up against it and more stuff a few minutes walk away even though it was in the worst part of town with the fewest amenities. This also meant it cost less than the other one.
Hotel rooms commonly have a fridge and a microwave. It's not the lifestyle for everybody, but why does it have to be? Different people can have different priorities. Some people choose a small apartment specifically because they're never home, which means they're never home to eat. Some people don't have time to cook. Some people work in a restaurant and eat there. Other people can live across the street.
I have, and I am heavily inspired by it.

Figured I'd take a stab at it myself. I have a big love for Starcraft II, and I am trying to incorporate as many elements from it into Age II.
I didn't mean it is a racist town. The population of the town is 18,742 and from years of living in Alberta, I don't think I'd find people with similar taste or interest in activities or topics I'm interested in.
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> And why is it OK to analyse server logs, but not OK to use javascript, to do this?

The data in your server logs is data that people sent to you on purpose (by visiting a page on your site, or filling out a form on your site). If you collect data about people by sending them code to execute and send data back to you, they're not meaning to send you that data; you're doing it behind their back.

I'm glad you try to use data you collect responsibly, but if people aren't meaning to send you data, you're not entitled to it.
At Internet scale, Sturgeon’s law is six-sigma.
It seems be becoming very common that every article about some individual writing a blog about dropping Google for DDG makes it to the front page, with the comments sharing the same anecdotes about either why they do/don’t, with nothing else new really being shared.

Advocacy is great but nothing new is discussed really.
Let's wait and see, and hope for the best. The worst is something I'd rather not contemplate but the fact that > 50% of Britain is now probably going to vote for a policy of isolationism does not look good.
Because instead of a direct link to the creator's accout you get this copy pasta and this bs: https://imgur.com/a/uhrFVvp
It's irrelevant if you have little money. "The poor" don't give a fuck about inflation.
The problem of web bloat isn't that you waste a little more electricity on a particular site once a week. It's that all the million users waste all that energy each - which multiplied by millions of users, and by most popular sites being bloated, adds up to possibly relevant amounts of electricity (and carbon emissions).
Why doesn't paulgraham.com support HTTPS?
To my mom, it comes down to this:

She has an Android phone, with which she can buy books through the Kindle app (without messing with a website).

She has an iPad, on which she can't buy books through the Kindle app, and she does have to go through a browser to their website.

To her, the Android experience is better because of this (she reads a lot).
I am rooting for Haxe (as a language, compiler & set of tools) and Lua (for embedded system programming). They rock!! BTW, they are the next generation programming languages.
> Distributing ripped off copies of easily available

With crappy services, regional lockouts, DRM, and other horrors, this is actually rarely the case. Especially if you're not the small percentage of customers in the States.

> expensive to produce

That's not the customer's problem to care about. That's the industry's problem to solve.

> copyrighted works, largely made in the last 5 years

Why should it matter that a work was created in the last 5 years?

> that the purchase of would help feed the creators.

You'll find that very often the creators don't actually make squat. The gatekeepers who enforce terrible services, DRM, lose customer data to hackers, and assault customers with lawsuits absorb most of the cash.
https://github.com/raganwald-deprecated/homoiconic/blob/mast...
One of my clients built their API to the jsonapi standard. Then, the standard changed, and it's no longer compliant. Oops.
If you scroll down farther, the links to the downloadable versions (both HTML and plain text) appear to work.
Amazing people put forth that bogus 81 cents number and then start talking about data as if it supported their position. I was just pointing out that number was obviously fraudulent as it doesn't take occupation into account. But what happens when we look at education, occupation, hours worked, willingness to travel, etc?

"This study leads to the unambiguous conclusion that the differences in the compensation of men and women are the result of a multitude of factors and that the raw wage gap should not be used as the basis to justify corrective action. Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be almost entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers."

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20...
This is really cool engineering.

It would seem that if you could normalize, threshold and bucket continuous data than it too would be available for indexing. So while extending his to the entire range of real numbers would not be practical, in some cases a compromise could be found, which makes me want to look further into this.

Is this being released as open source code in the future?
Agreed. There are many interesting projects that do stuff that is unique to a plattform like the Pi, but the amount of "Did You Know You Can Connect Into Your Pi Without Passwords" and similar is sometimes staggering, and I'm actually not sure if it doesn't hurt the understanding people get of it.
I'm in a similar-ish situation here.

I brought a friend onto an idea when it was in the very formative "barely an idea" stages. The initial idea was of the "good enough to try, but not enough to build an empire" variety.

He rapidly took the idea to a level where I think it might be an empire, but also a level where I can't really contribute. Its basically the idea done right, but more advanced than I can handle (he's a better mathematician and a better programmer than I) and I can't help but thing "well shit, maybe I should be just letting him do it on his own" (he can, and its not clear that having a second hand would be helpful (or worth it) in this venture).

I'm still sort of scared to have the conversation, but I've got to do it soon.

Anyone have any advice?
Hmm, I the article linked here has 'em in my browser... http://i.imgur.com/oMBV6K5.png
Your stupid name implies that you are a troll.
Pls speak mandarin in front of protesters to support them, but I'm afraid they won't give you the chance to finish a sentence
Where do we put the DNS root then?

If you want oversight and international consensus it cannot be placed within a country. Only option I see is to put it under the UN but that will probably ramp up the politics.
https://xiph.org/video/
I just had a look at “my” data on this and it is almost hilariously wrong.
The US has never won any fight by their government being great. They've won a lot of fights by US capitalists grinding their opponents into powder and selling the remains for fertiliser.

If the governments go head to head, China wins easily. Their government is stuffed with PhDs, scientists and engineers. The US government has lawyers.
You heard wrong, it's just an internet myth. Difficulty of firing people or high taxes are not the main cause of low pay in Europe.

The main causes are: lack of VC funding, lack of innovative disruption and entrenchment of traditional businesses with old-fashioned boomer MBA mentality that consider tech as an expensive cost center and devs as replaceable factory floor cogs that should be offshored whenever possible, risk adverse investor mindsets, complex bureaucracy, fragmented market with various languages, laws and cultures that make scaling a product/service nearly impossible, a broken EU-grant funding system where the focus is producing documentation instead of successful products/services and an overabundance of low- to mid- level talent due to hype, free education and easy immigration.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about the pay in Europe, I'm complaining about the shitty SV practices that some entitled employers here adopt but without the compensation because "If Google does it then it must be good so we should do it too, who cares if we pay only 40k/year vs 200k+, we deserve only the best hoop-jumpers and nothing less."
Sounds like there's even a 1 € per month plan [1], with smaller limits.

There's also Tutanota with a €12/year plan, offering a little bit less but with end-to-end encrypted email and calendars.

[1] https://mailbox.org/en/services#e-mail-account
[2] https://tutanota.com/pricing/
> I explicitly specify the columns of interest in the select-list (projection), [...] for application reliability reasons. For example, will your application’s data processing code suddenly break when a new column has been added or the column order has changed in a table?

Application reliability for me is the main reason. Better performance is just a plus.
Reminds me of Archy on Shakespeare [1]:

here i am ben says bill
nothing but a lousy playwright
and with anything like luck
in the breaks i might have been
a fairly decent sonnet writer
i might have been a poet
if i had kept away from the theatre

...

well says i pete
bill s plays are highly
esteemed to this day
is that so says pete
poor mutt little he would
care what poor bill wanted
was to be a poet

[1] http://ianchadwick.com/blog/three-archy-poems-by-don-marquis...
They could have automated systems to react to prices. Or they could be simpler (like on a fixed daily schedule).