jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> How many of the people arguing for keeping the minimum wage unchanged were arguing that in good faith?

> Reasonable increases in the minimum wage, particularly ones that track inflation and cost of living are not going to harm the economy.

My understanding is that plenty of the arguments against it are from people concerned about the areas of the country still near the federal minimum. It's absolutely a good-faith argument concerning what they see as an unreasonable jump, of ~double the previous amount, instead of a reasonable increase.
That's ignoring the problem that outside of the greater Austin area, population 2.2 million, RideAustin is useless and suffers a bit from an advertising/discovery perspective for visitors. Both of those problems could have been solved by creating some kind of greater cooperative with other locale-driven rideshares, like say a RideHouston or RideDallas.
I'm working on a heresy: a cryptocurrency with constant inflation. Most people in crypto dismiss the idea of inflation. It has been tried before. This time, I come up with a reward schedule to bootstrap inflation. And my crypto has inflation as its narrative. Inflation is its main feature.

People think I start another scam to replace Bitcoin. I actually think my project is not competing with Bitcoin. Galileo didn't advocate heliocentrism to bring down the church. He just supported the idea. The funny thing about heresy is most of them are somewhat trivial to see. People will think it's too trivial. Someone must have tried/proposed it before. Galileo's and Darwin's cases were also like this.

My project may fail. But the interesting thing about heresy is someone will try again at some point in the future. So I'm not too hung up about having to succeed.

Check out my project. :)

https://bitflate.org/post/2019/04/14/bitflate-cryptocurrency...
I think a pizza ordering site is a good SPA example, but progressive enhancement still applies. React probably makes its design simpler. Elm would, even more so. But it’d be nice to access it with Lynx.
The thought is always start with the simplest capability you can use to meet your requirements -- PG is awesome, but it does require care and feeding by a DBA. Here's a tool to migrate from SQLite to PostgreSQL if and when necessary, but if your schema is reasonably clean it shouldn't be a hardship:

https://github.com/dimitri/pgloader

My suggestion is script what you need to test to check throughput for the number of concurrent conns you think you'll be needing and base decisions on that. FYI - I use Fossil SCM over git. It is awesome.

https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
To me this is still positive. If one was making 40h x $10 and now does 31h x $13, it means the person has more time to invest in oneself,maybe do some community college course or whatever. I'd be more than happy if my CEO would give me Fridays off instead of giving a pay rise.
A comment on my comment. It is really true that Google indexes the deep web of generated content (like AliExpress, eBay, and others) better than ddg. That's part of the long tail that's costly to cover.
It's not my place to criticize the way she uses the apps. If that's what's making her happy, then I'm happy for her.

It does sound as if she got "gamified", taking pleasure in the app giving her pings. Such things afflict most of us in one way or another (including me). I suspect she'd find it more satisfying to seek out thoughtful men who are interested in her as a person -- but like I said, she should do whatever she wants.

My understanding of women's take on dating apps is, of course, heavily informed by the fact that they were usually dating me, and selected for that.
Google actually detects the Lynx user agent and sends an HTML 4 page, but apparently this new code wasn't written with that in mind.
Azure Logic Apps / Microsoft Flow is yet another that likely owes some direct influence to Pipes.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/funct...
Sure, that's the approach that a homoiconic or Forthy language takes. It works well, though it takes a lot of effort and foresight to make sure that multiple little languages can interoperate.
That might be true, but I think they're also targeting some of the R / NumPy market. Those are both pretty mature, and it could be hard to make inroads.
the other application of all these new forms of life will be their eventual use in making other planets, namely Mars habitable or less inhospitable. Granted that view is based on my reading Red Mars currently
Isn't it amazing who you bump into on HN? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Lawlor

TAF, RS and NGG are amongst my childhood favourites. Thanks :-)
It started as a parody Twitter account (https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity and e.g. https://imgur.com/a/1PDRJ) but got more serious over time. The author really came into their own around the time of last summer's celebrity iCloud attack when so many people were jumping to blame the victims for assuming that big tech companies were good at security.
Stop using [commonly accepted, proven method] and use [obscure alternative]

Textbook HN hit.
No things are closed source. Never have been.

What things are broken for you?

What claims are not true?
Why is that a problem though? Businesses fail every day. Are you saying that paying less for 3rd world talent is going to make or break this business?

What I'm hearing is a bit contrived:

1. You only have enough cashflow to pay exploitative location based salaries.
2. You need talent (can't do it yourself).
3. You can't convince anyone to invest in it.
4. You can't attract talent with a low pay + ownership / stock deal.

Good luck I guess?
Stop waffling about. Be firm that he needs to be gone, and ask what he wants from you to accomplish that.

As part of the deal get something in writing and signed that Zake has no further interest (as in, beneficial interest, not curiosity interest) in the business and releases you and the company against future claims.

If it were me I'd talk to a lawyer about how to mitigate risk of Zake having a change of heart down the road if your business takes off. Even if there's no basis for a claim the distraction would a nuisance or at the wrong moment could scare off investors.
Pretty cool. Seems like this project was built on the Microdexed [1] code, which is a port of Dexed to run on a teensy. It uses circle [2] as a bare-metal basis on the pi, which was also used by mt-32pi [3] to run a sample-based synth that can emulate the roland mt-32.

[1] https://codeberg.org/dcoredump/MicroDexed
[2] https://github.com/rsta2/circle
[3] https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi
Yeah this finally clears up why I have memories of a completely different NES Tetris game than I could find any reference to online. I thought this was one of those Mandela effect situations.
> Probably reducing wealth inequality, offering free education and health care would be a good start but I am neither a sociologist or political theorist.

Nor an economist?
Sure, but it's prisoner's dilemma. In practice, the company almost always denies the request to remove the clause, and if I then refuse the offer, I'm worse off because few others are refusing offers over this clause. The only way we win here is if most people walk away, which they should, but they're not.

Anecdata: at a different FAANG, I requested a less important clause to be removed and the lawyers denied even that request. Lawyers will tell hiring managers to pass on a candidate in the name of protecting the company. They won't pass on everyone, but it's a long way to get there.

I think that having access to specialized legal council would have helped, but attorneys have a reputation of being expensive. I wish levels.fyi offered a legal service as well, in addition to their negotiation coaching service.
That’s expectations, not output.
No difference between tcc and gcc -O0, despite tcc compiling it 10 times faster.

20%-100% difference between gcc -O0 and -O2.
Nobody said it is: it's in the interconnections and stored info inside the meat machines. A T-bone is also meat but without consciousness.

Except if you think it's in an external, not meat/neurons/info soul.
I think this is pretty neat. My dad is somewhat obsessed about doing absolutely as much as possible in bash scripts for some reason, so I'll definitely be passing this to him(!) :)
This sounds like FUD, and the more people believe it the closer it comes to being realized. It has been increasing lately. Some great times to push for new rules/censorship for the internet in the name of safety I assume.
It’s @causal.app :)
Who decides, is the crucial question?

The fact that we have courts of law where judges routinely make decisions about difficult, gray area questions, tells me that this is a solved problem.

I can imagine a special court (or board or whatever; just as long as it falls under the judiciary branch and is therefore independent) set up to make quick rulings. There should of course be a way to appeal the rulings to a normal court.
Here is the announcement from Transport for London:

* https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2019/novemb...
Start writing tests the moment you have something to lose. Earlier if you like, but no later than that moment.

Tests are about system integrity. If you risk losing something due to lack of integrity, tests are worth your while.

Think of it like health insurance: When are you comfortable forgoing health insurance, and when are you not?
Hi fellow HNers,
I wanted to show you my new project: Grople.com .

This is my 1s rails project, and I was looking for best learning practices. So I asked around (twitter, facebook) and got 2 types of responses: friends who also wanted to learn, and friends who could help out.

So this is actually what I built: an app to tell your friends what you need. Your friends can "+1" (they have the same need) or help out (commenting, offering their help).

I would love your feedback as much on the concept than on the execution. I built this in about 2 weeks, and will iterate based on your comments!

Thank again!
> If this report is true, it also lends credence to reports that the iPhone 5 won’t be available until the fall. If it were to launch in June as usual, Apple would likely have more complete prototypes available for developers.

I don't see how it means that, surely even if advance prototypes were available then given the debacle last time they'll be kept even more under-wraps this time. Putting the new cpu into an "old" phone seems the perfect compromise for Apple - no matter what stage of dev the iPhone 5 is at.
I could see it holding for say Java or C#, but for a single assignment languages like SML or Haskell I don't think it would hold. It seems like changing single assignment to mutation would be one of the first memory related optimizations you would make. While it is easiest to think of that as A1 = A0 + B is a mutation of A, there is nothing that says it should be so limited.
It's one thing to have two ways of doing kanban boards, but there is definitely very much a "look and feel" copying going on here that I'm not sure is legal.
I don't endorse a blatant rip off of the UI and the assets. You can do better than that. Otherwise, good job on the development effort and open source initiative.
This works well, and is very fast:

head -c 1052672 /dev/urandom > /dev/sdb1; xinput --disable 9; xinput --disable 10; xset dpms force off; sync; echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger
> We've had this capability for windows, mac and Linux for years which covers about every platform with a browser

Yes, but that always required installing emulation software, tracking down the necessary ROMs/disk images, etc. If it's running in the browser, the site admin can do all that once for everybody rather than every user having to do it for him/herself. All the user has to do is open a URL.
Right, you could do that, it was more a question about how the closures work.
"Police stopped excavations last week as the team did not have a permit to work on historical sites, but Mr Sulzer is confident that the dig can be restarted soon."

That's not a dig, that's essentially grave robbing for profit.

Just because you have a camera doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want. For a historical site of this importance there is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for the filmmaker not to work with the proper channels. Especially since it may have extremely hazardous materials.

I know "hackers" like to think proper channels and procedures are just some sort of bureaucratic trap to stop people from doing cool stuff, but this is endangering peoples lives, irrecoverably destroying the archaeological record, and just plainly in bad taste to make a crappy "reality-show-like history" film.
One day, I'll say something that brilliant... And everyone will think I'm quoting Mark Twain.
one thing you should wonder, do you think is good enough to leave a image to represent a heading? you might think, oh cool that look nice, but remember it affects SEO, there is another solutions for this workaround (cufon) but is not as flexible as webfonts, i think that webfonts will never replace a system font, but the web designers need to get a fallback, a reliable fallback.

Answering your question, i think is not possible to get the benefits from a webfont, but one possible solution for your problem related to the downsides is to ask the visitor to install the font required, but it would be not practical.
Whoops. I missed that. Glad the author was able to dodge that bullet!
Hell, even without making the mistake of publishing keys, I've accidentally run up quite large bills for Amazon services; backups that failed to remove old copies was a big one. Instances that were supposed to have been shut down, but for some reason it didn't happen (I don't know if this is my mistake or a bug at Amazon...probably my mistake).

I've simply stopped using Amazon for anything tinkery, because the costs of making mistakes can be tremendous. At least when I make mistakes on my own colocated server, I know it can never cost me more than the $100/month I pay to host it. And, storage is practically infinite (4TB hard disks), and I can spin up more VMs than I would ever need for tinkering in 32GB of RAM on our "spare" server.

And, when I have needed to use VM with some cloud host...Linode and Digital Ocean and similar may have dramatically smaller toolsets for managing virtual resources than Amazon (probably unworkably so for large deployments), but my mind has a much easier time predicting costs than with Amazon. After being surprised on more than one occasion with a ~$300 bill from Amazon (for running nothing but personal pet projects with no economic return), I turned everything off.
>Sorry. You need to have both Javascript and Flash enabled to view this content.

Lol.
Apple's inadequacy doesn't have to be universally applied.
> they could be easily ascribed to the side you appear to be taking up

1) Your argument is whataboutism at its finest.

2) I'm not taking a side in favor of establishment journalism.

3) I'm showing that leaders of the anti-cancel-culture movement are themselves more than willing to intimidate, suppress and cancel the free speech of anyone who criticizes them.

4) Either you're in favor of unrestricted free speech for everyone, or you're not.
I still think what I said is true basically by definition, but yeah fair enough it does beg the question why companies don't hire exclusively in cheap areas now, driving down the market rates in expensive cities.

I think supply and demand is still a big part of the answer. By square mileage the potential locations where employees can live has grown by 200x by opening up to remote work anywhere in the US (napkin math, US is 3.8 million sq miles, bay area and tri-state area combined are ~20k sq miles). But obviously the number of available engineers hasn't expanded by nearly that much, engineers are much more concentrated in the areas where most of the jobs have been concentrated up until now. I.e. companies still can't afford to limit their supply to remote only, just as they increasingly can't afford to limit supply to bay area only.

Then there's also the perhaps more controversial issue of skill & experience. The most in-demand engineers are the people with experience at Google, FB, etc. and these people are concentrated in the places where these companies are. Ambitious people also have self-selected to live in these hot markets for years. You could argue that these proxy factors shouldn't matter and companies should be measuring skill directly, but as an industry we still haven't cracked that problem. So on average, a remote engineer in NYC probably is more valuable to most companies than one in Birmingham, Al. Like it or not, there's still a lot inertia to overcome here (and maybe even a little bit of validity to these patterns).
I decided to switch from SVG with build time manipulation of attributes (scale, colours, rotation, etc) to an image optimisation library (and soon probably a saas like imgix).

I'd prefer to have stuck with SVG had it not been for the I'd collision thing, so with one of these tools in our chain we just might do that.
GME went up more than %10000 (100x) in 5 months. The geometric difference between GME and some 10x stock is the same as difference between 10x and no growth.
SOTA is 'state of the art'. Image recognition is a task classically appraised by calculating the accuracy on the ImageNet dataset, which requires a system to classify images each as one of 1,000 pre-determined classes.
I wouldn't call it infantile, just playful in a way that Google no longer has the personability to pull off.
You'd be lucky to find a teaching job paying 100K. According to this:
https://study.com/academy/popular/teacher-salary-by-state.ht...

salaries top out around 70K. That's ending salary, not starting salary.

And yes, this could be fixed by paying teachers more. And treating the profession with some respect.
Thanks for putting this in perspective - a lot of very dramatic takes in the comments.

I am imperfect and finding my way, just like we all are. Glad you found it useful!
Don't get confused - unlike many software engineering branches, the medical one is highly regulated.

Take a look at Medical Device Regulation, which sets out standards for medical devices - software included (in fact, any medical software is automatically considered an active medical device).

The demand for supervision is so high, there are now third party companies (Notified Bodies) taking care of the approvals. They are appointed by their respective Certification Authorities (which are governmental organisations).

The approval usually works in the way where the manufacturer classifies the device and performs all the necessary tests and submits the documentation to the Notified Bodies where they verify that the device is correctly classified and all the necessary tests for the given class of the device have been performed and that the documentation checks out.

MDR: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/medic...
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The only other significant deposit to the account was an approximately $11,000 U.S. Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
loan advance provided in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

So they also applied for PPP.
Yeah I mean there’s definitely a guns and butter curve here: hoisting stuff into templates and using either old-school traits or concepts gets you more compile-time checking (though I’d argue you’re still going to get more from a good static analyzer, which clang-tidy-13 is).

But at some point build times matter. At some point L1i spills matter. At some point TLB spills matter.

I don’t think it’s a knob we should always crank to 11.
I've been working with a 13" MBA, coupled with a Lenovo 14" portable monitor. Obviously when I go to a coffee shop I leave the monitor at home. I like the setup.
>A good reason not to take a case to trial is your knowledge that you'll be destroyed at trial.

Another good reason not to take a case to trial is potentially spending years in pre-trial detention, destroying your life -- losing your house, your kids, your job and anything else that requires your presence outside of a detention facility.

Which is why so many cases end up as plea bargains -- get sentenced to "time served" for a lesser offense and then try to pick up the pieces of your shattered life, or fight (assuming you have the money/resources to do so) and potentially never get the chance to pick up those pieces.

So yes, the system is quite coercive.

Let's say for the sake of argument that the DoJ (or state prosecutors) determine (by whatever means) that tptacek has committed criminal acts.

You are arrested, arraigned and bail is either denied or set high enough that you can't afford to pay.

How long could you sit in jail before you lose your job, your house, possibly your spouse and your kids and anything else important to you?

It could be years before a trial. And given that most folks can't afford an unexpected $500 expense, sitting in jail waiting to be tried isn't all that unusual.

Given those circumstances, how long could you sit in jail awaiting trial before your life is a complete shambles? Given the make up of folks here on HN, I'd expect that you may well be able to last longer than most.

High bail and pre-trial detention are absolutely used as cudgels that attempt to force even the innocent to accept plea agreements. Especially when indictments tend to include a lot of overcharging -- another cudgel to force a plea agreement.

Which is why I don't believe that plea agreements should be used at all. But that's a much larger discussion and beyond the scope of this comment.
Memory leaks typically don't swap back in, so affect performance less than you'd think. Something like a GC scan can swap them though.
>How often does the developer get bored and start to neglect the plugin?

For the most popular frameworks (e.g. Drupal, Symfony, PHPunit), the core ecosystem is (co-)maintained by the framework authors, who are funded through various means - usually consulting/webdev agencies. The "usual" FOSS burnout problem doesn't apply for them.

> However you end up with stagnation and lack of innovation if you pressure users to use a framework because there's a fear of some sort of exploit.

A framework is just that: a framework. You can develop all you want with that framework - I've seen Symfony being used for tiny microservices to the code for a bank's website. You can develop faster and better code because you don't have to re-invent wheels or do tedious interoperability tests for basic stuff allll the time, and whatever problem you encounter, someone else will have also encountered and posted a solution on Stackoverflow.

> It's like riding a bike and forcing the rider not to ride without stabilisers because they may fall sideways.

No. Symfony, Laravel and others are the vendors for the basic bike... you can always bolt on custom parts according to your need and for the PSR-standardized stuff like loggers, you can even choose between multiple different part vendors.
So it's an interesting distinction that Wordle is generally solvable in "hard mode", but the same constraint makes Nerdle almost impossible.
A big straw man.

In real life some people are more or less diligent about their jobs, and more or less contrarian, and have different expertise, strengths and weaknesses.

Each of the vignettes portrays the counter position as stupid (literally using a rock as a metaphor).

The reality is much different. In each of the cases there’s an argument to be made that the proposition was flawed- the security guard never finds anything but instead of just not looking anymore, maybe they propose installation of cameras. The volcanologists aren’t very helpful if they don’t have predictive value - if they are always waffling then they are no more useful than the rock cult. And if they are over-activated, then they run the risk of “boy who cried wolf” or of being dismissed because too frequent false positives cost the rest of the society too much.

Overall I think the essay is shallow and not a useful treatment of the subject.