skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the author's points. There have been, almost certainly, Einsteins who have lived and died in poverty without ever having tasted a book. I feel like a basic income for everyone is supportable and would give people falling to an unknowable fate the lift they need to go beyond surviving.
Less work seems to need to be done with tech advances today, but the only thing a job replacing robot seems to do is take the incomes of two u people and give it to the person who owns the robot. The slippery slope is that we will eventually do this for most jobs, if we survive long enough as a species, and I agree we need change to evolve as our society does.
Much of the post-fire development used unreinforced masonry and was built on poor-quality fill.

Also, the issue of some buildings being built to (allegedly) inadequate standards is a red herring. If that were the case, the city would be more than happy to have them condemned, and all manner of more useful structures (for affordable housing or otherwise, put in their place).
Sure, the validators that were checking his work could easily be canned. Mr VBA-Wizard, however, might be put to work doing other "magic" in the organization.
Ghost in the fame machine
Isn't it functioning fine now though?
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Nice find! I will take a look at that, thank you
1) Looking at other industries doesn't invalidate the multi-site critique.

2) The problem here is they narrowly looked at only a small band; they don't even consider jobs which make more than $19/hr. Consider a hypothetical world where when the minimum wage goes from $12/hr to $13/hr, the people who were already making $13 get raised to $14, those making $14 get a bump to $15 and so on with zero effect on the number of people employed, essentially everyone gets a $1 raise. (Note: I am not saying this is our world.) What would the UW study show? It would show a decrease in labor equal to amount of people previously making between $18.01 and $19.00. All these people have been raised above the $19 boundary and so no longer are counted. So even in a situation with no change in the amount of jobs and only positive wage effects, the UW study will show negative employment effects.

This is actually where the difference between Berkeley's positive effect and UW's zero effect comes in, from the pdf I linked previously:

This pattern of average higher pay and more employment appears also in food services: a decline of about 150 jobs paying under $19 from 2014 to 2016 and a simultaneous increase of about 4,500 jobs in all pay levels at single-site food service establishments.

This actually brings me to one of the biggest problems, also from the pdf above:

The UW report nonetheless finds an unprecedented impact of wage increases on jobs, ten times higher than the average in 942 published minimum wage and non-minimum wage estimates, and triple that of minimum wage critic David Neumark.7 There is no reason why Seattle's low-paid employers should be so much more sensitive to wage increases than employers elsewhere.

Incredible results demand incredible proof and the UW study does not do a good job at all of providing that proof.

EDIT: 3) Whether it's number of jobs or hours of work, both are affected by the $19/hr cap so the difference is inconsequential.
your if example would need to be something like this to work:

(if (< i x)
(progn
(puts "low")
(puts "high")))
If they are trying to filter something, they are doing a pretty awful job. Everything released so far in Vault 7 appears to simply be a dump of intelligence collection tradecraft/methods.
> The real question is not if demand for labor will decrease (it will), the question is how much less low-wage labor will be purchased with a certain increase in the minimum wage, and whether policymakers consider this tradeoff good.

That is actually the false dichotomy that leads people to consider minimum wage as a good idea. Just because something might be better than nothing doesn't mean it's better than known alternatives.

Model minimum wage as a tax on employers for the difference between the minimum wage and what they would have paid without it, which is used to fund wage subsidies in the same amount to those employees.

Looked at in that way, minimum wage is obviously ridiculous. There is no reason to ever use that tax structure for anything. Even if you wanted to have the same subsidies for the same employees, it makes more sense to spread out the tax burden across everyone so that you don't have a de facto >=100% tax to hire someone who would have made half the minimum wage or less.

The only issue then is that without the disincentive to hire created by the minimum wage "tax", anyone could offer to do easy work for $.01/hour just to get the subsidy, so you might as well make the subsidy a fixed unconditional amount regardless of wages or hours.

At which point you have a UBI.
Poor people in the developed world do NOT live like kings of old. They have bosses. They struggle to find mates. They live in small, impermanent homes with no land of their own. They tend to be in debt, and don't even understand how permanent that debt will be for them. They're socially at the bottom.

This is nothing like a king, who could have a large family, and was well fed, had permanent shelter, didn't pay rent, etc etc. How ridiculous.
You'd have to install the TestPilot extension first, and then the Containers addon.
https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments
Last time I was in Hoboken, "Thank You" and "Fuck You" were used interchangeably.
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> No one is going to give tens of thousands of dollars every year to some guy who owned a couple of houses and said he knew how to manage more,

Well, not no one. There are hard money lenders who will loan money to "some guy" to do more or less that.
I agree with you. But I do think casual drinking affects socializing a lot more than people think. I think most people here now just want to head home at 5 on a Friday. I wonder what would happen if we did something at 2 or 3 instead of end of normal business hours, though.

The younger people had more spare time to hang out later, so that probably affects things, too.

Edit: the concept of cross-departmental conversations that someone mentions later in this thread is completely gone now, too.
While investment firms ponder ICOs, this team is barreling ahead with a $100 mil
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Ha,I am actually one of those people who were being studied. I was a minimum wage worker in Seattle through both of these wage hikes. There are a lot of assumptions being made here that don't reflect reality. The biggest though is that every single person is a rational economic played that is looking to maximize their income. The reality is that a huge number of people living on minimum wage here are depressed, and many don't want to maximize their income. They want to do as little work as they can to pay the bills month to month. They are prioritizing time NOT working over whatever pay they get. A susprising number of these people are actually great job candidates with great degrees and intelligence who are in a period of their lives where they are seeking out things other than immediate career goals or money.
Just a guess, but is it because increase inefficiencies has nothing to do with the actual workers skills?

For example, Someone owns a fence building company, and their crew can lay 1000' of fence a day by shoveling the fence post holes. The owner spends $100,000 and invests in a couple of big power augers, which lets his crew now lay 5000' of fence a day(also, the crew is less tired at the end of the day).

The crew is now 5x as productive as they were in the past, but it is because of the capital investment of the owner, not through any intrinsic increase in productivity from the crew itself.

Who gets to capture the increase in revenue?
Well than he should get payed more for being so productive and just bill the two hours for the same amount.

Initiating this however would include involuntary, unpaid consultancy about what part of the company can be automated.
"My first big lucky break happened in 2009 when Georgetown University hired me as a philosophy professor on their campus in Qatar

'Apparently going to high school, studying and passing the SAT, applying and being accepted into university, studying, passing, and graduating university is just luck.'"

let's finish the paragraph, shall we:

"My first big lucky break happened in 2009 when Georgetown University hired me as a philosophy professor on their campus in Qatar. Georgetown-Qatar, which is funded entirely by the Qatar government, has to pay an enormous premium to get faculty to agree to live and work in Qatar. I get paid three times as much as my wife. I teach half as many classes. She’s a full professor. I’m only an associate."

hey, quite a lot of people go to high school, pass their sats, get into a university and earn a degree, but almost none of them are offered a professorship in qatar, where they earn three times as much for half the work. quite a fortuitous circumstance, and one which wasn't in control of the author. so, luck.
I remember a study done a while back that found there are kind of "islands" of wait time that are acceptable, and "valleys" that are annoying.

I can't recall the numbers, but it was something like under xxxms was consitered "instant" and therefore wasn't an annoyance, from xxxms to 1 second is consitered annoying because it's too slow to be "instant" but not slow enough to let you context switch. Then from like 3-5 seconds was another "island" as it's enough time to context switch then return.

The end of the study found that by delaying some actions that were in the "valley" to be slightly longer and making them consistent it was reducing frustration while using the application.
People pay for perceived value. Emphasis on perceived.
You are totally ignoring the crux of his argument, which is centered on ownership; how we decide who owns what, how we tax owned things versus earned-through-work things, and how we tax the things people do with what they own.

Yes, a piece of property earns rent because it has 'value' to someone else; however, who gets to earn that value? At some point, this piece of land was 'unowned', and then someone came along and said 'I own this'. Do we let them keep that forever? Do they have to pay society a fee for being able to claim it as their own? Can they give it to their kids for perpetuity? Can they do anything they want with it? What about the air above it, or the ground below?

These are all very important questions, and there isn't some 'true' moral answer to them that is the right way to govern property rights. There are easier moral arguments to make about ownership of property I produce, but not about land or natural resources.
> Capital gains is taxed lower than income? Wrong -- sometimes it is, sometimes the other way around

Capital gains is always taxed equal (for short-term gains) or less (for long-term gains) than "generic" income, except for a few edge cases (e.g., in the very-low income range where additional labor income has a negative net effective tax rate due to EITC and child tax credit and long-term gains have merely zero taxes.)
I've switched to Firefox as well. For me, Chrome is slower but still has a killer feature that makes me fire it up once in a while.

The killer feature? Ability to fill in credit card information when I am paying for something. Makes checking out a breeze.

Hoping that Firefox adds the feature soon.
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No. $1 is not enough.
No one doubts that performing under pressure is important.

It's the idea that this kind of pressure can in any meaningful way be simulated (and the candidate's response adequately gauged) using the shticks and routines that people try to do in the current standard interview process that people take issue with.
Revolt? I think the only leverage any slave population has ever had is numbers over their oppressors.
So just to make sure I got this right, you need a way to get a single piece of any size out of a container full of random pieces, and onto the first moving belt, at a rate higher than 1 piece per second?

I'm not familiar with the project but this seems like an interesting challenge.
Furthermore, because there is significant financial gain in the deception, the actions taken would almost certainly meet the legal requirement for fraud in a modern jurisdiction.
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Well, feel free to drop by with a suitcase of Lego and I'll be happy to run the machine for you.
(one of the authors here): parser generators are generally good for one thing: parsing programming languages. For more complex formats, where you have to carry state around, or binary formats, they're extremely cumbersome to use. I often meet people that tell me they want the parser generator to end all parsers. But for most real world formats, you'll have to hack around the generator's limitations.
Theoretically, parser combinators are less expressive, but they're just functions: you can write whatever you want inside a subparser, and integrate it with the rest. That approach works well, since we wrote a lot of complex parsers with nom.
> 100 thirsty people in a desert are much more pissed off if you add 1 person with excess water

The analogy isn't entirely correct. If the thirsty people got all the water they could drink and a guy joined that owned a lake... They shouldn't really complain.

It's literally better for everyone, even if the wealth distribution is worse.
This sums it up nicely.

Also, if it's easy and you've done it a million times, charge an inflated fixed price. If it's new territory, charge by the hour.

Edit: before I forget, if you let them know how it's done then you need to charge for the several times they won't come back again afterwards.
I'm unfamiliar with Chrome user profiles, but a quick look makes it appear that they are similar to Firefox's profiles: bundles of independent, isolated browser settings.

I used Firefox profiles all the time, and am quite fond of them. Maybe they are not as easy to use on Windows or Macs? I'm pure Linux on the desktop.
Slaves have frequently been among the most high-status, most powerful people in their society.

The slave who manages an important man's affairs is himself an important man.

Concubines frequently wield power through their well-placed lovers. At the historical extreme, Wu Zetian was a concubine who worked her way up to being formally crowned emperor.

The Mamluk Turks were slaves. This didn't stop them from taking control of the government and even enacting a requirement that the Sultan be a Mamluk (children of Mamluks, not being slaves, were not eligible).

Chinese eunuchs were also slaves, and also took control of the government on multiple occasions.
I think the argument is that people expect mobile and client-side web apps to continue working offline, and eventually sync and merge changes across clients. So you need a good solution for resolving inconsistent updates made by two offline clients. The same solution could be used for resolving inconsistent updates made on two database servers.
The poster there is referring to current state of things being automated. He is the expert of that particular system. If there are changes upstream, his automation will fail and if he isn't there, then what?

When upper management changes and someone would like to change the system or business process it supports they will need him.
BTC could start using SegWit and some other stuff shortly to speed up transactions and lower costs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOKaqBfhcIE
I'm surprised nobody has suggested he takes a second remote job. He's looking to send his kids to college after all.

I don't see the problem with doing your job super efficiently. Adding bugs is just "a duck", not a real productivity loss.

I don't see how you can claim the company wants hours rather than work done.
Facebook's secret rules also mean it's okay to be anti-gay, but not anti-Islam, no?

http://reuters.com/article/idUSKBN16Z2GB
Ask HN: What are the best SQL redundancy tool/services?
I have been researching the various SQL based DB options for a client's SAAS product that is now ready for redundancy and replication.

We're looking for a cloud service, want to avoid managing the servers in house.

We've been looking at Amazon Aurora, RDS Multi-AZ as well as Cockroach DB. I don't see very many alternatives... Any suggestions and reviews?
Do you have a website / blog or any other hobby project?

You can learn basics by automating its deployment.

Let's say you will go with public cloud: Amazon or Google.

Create a small basic infrastructure with some automation tool such as terraform.

For example a VPC with private subnets and two small instances in different availability zones. Another instance for NAT and a load balancer.

Then use Ansible / Puppet / Chef to automate deployment of your application, make sure you can deploy without any outage to the service (set up some health check to verify your app is always up).

Perhaps deploy the app in a container. Automate security settings to lock down ports. Automate SSL certificate renewal with let's encrypt.

You can even take it a step further and automate deployment of a PaaS like Kubernetes or CloudFoundry and deploy your blog / website there.

Next task would be setting up CI pipeline and continuous deployments. Integrate it with PaaS.

Where do you store all secrets and credentials? Look at solutions such as Vault from hachicorp or Ansible Vault.

There's a lot to learn by just automating everything about a simple hobby project or blog.

Of course after you're done with this scale down all this crazy infrastructure so you don't pay $200 for a blog.
> and op will be free to pursue other activities.

Nope. I think op has evaluated this angle and here's what he says in his post.

> Although I get the feeling there’s a specific audience at Stackoverflow, mainly the type of people who I imagine can not appreciate living in a place where jobs aren’t aplenty. Most likely they can walk out of their silicon valley office and shout “I want a job” and get 3 offers to start the next day. Unfortunately, there are places in the country that just aren’t like that.

and

> If I could get another job, of course I would. But the fact is, it would not be that easy. And as mentioned, I work remotely..
If you kill freedom, freedom wins.
For me this is the main point. Personally I don't see a copyright issue here at all, and if there was I would expect a DMCA takedown request. Instead this appears to be a contract dispute with Zillow who claims that the person violated the terms of service.

What confuses the issue is that they additionally offered advice that the use violates copyright law, but they specifically do no claim standing in the matter -- "... Your actions infringe the rights of each copyright holder ..." They don't claim to be one. Additionally (IIUC, and I am not a lawyer) fair use is still infringing. It is not a defence, it is used for calculating damages. So, I think their advice is factually correct, if misleading.

Similarly they claim that "... Your activities may violate the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse act", which is mostly irrelevant. It's the state that decides this, and if they want to complain, they have to go to the police.

To sum up, my reading is that Zillow feels this violates the terms of service that the person agreed to. They sent a C&D as is required for that kind of contract dispute. They added a whole bunch of scary, but meaningless crap to make is sound threatening. Not fantastic, but arguing about the meaningless crap does not address the actual issue -- did the person violate contract terms that they had agreed to? If so, no amount of discussion about fair use is going to be relevant.
I really should make a picture of the storage, it's essentially a garage full of Lego. The garage is nearby, not at the same location where the machine is (that's at my house), I don't have room enough here to store that much stuff.
Bingo. Besides, people are scared by humans capable of doing tasks much faster than previously thought. When in doubt, sandbag!

See also: the scene in the film "Big" when grown-up Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks) gets the lecture from a Co-Worker (Jon Lovitz) to slow down his data entry as to not get everybody fired by going at a leisurely pace.
Source? SF's official stats have most of their homeless coming from outside of the city/county altogether with their sole SF "residence" being shelters and/or outdoors.
> Apparently going to high school, studying and passing the SAT, applying and being accepted into university, studying, passing, and graduating university is just luck.

I genuinely thought you were sarcastic. Being born in circumstances that allow you to do that is luck, even in the developed world.
You know what I meant to say: the real world does not adhere to economic thought as strictly as many would claim it does. The main reasons are usually due to some additional complexity that economic models fail to account for. Humans like being able to describe things in terms of cogent, concise rules, and in doing so can oversimplify and lead themselves to faulty conclusions.
Proactive developers vs Reactive developers (audio)
Thanks for the reminder. I remember checking that out when it first launched and then I drifted away from using it for reasons that I no longer recall. I'll check it out again.
> I learned something that day, though I'm not sure what.

You learned that, despite the fact that you negotiated to be paid by output rather than time, the pay that the company was comfortable with was actually based on their impression of the time it would take to build each page. If they had known you could automate it, they likely would have expected you to agree to a lower per-page fee.

I don't think you did anything wrong, but I don't blame them for being annoyed. Essentially you were a shrewd negotiator, and "won" that interaction, and _that_ was annoying.

But yeah, as a sibling said: don't tell people how the sausage is made. If it's clear up front they're paying for the sausage, and not for the time it takes you to make it, I'd say you're ethically in the clear.
Yes, I was mistaken. Thank you for the clarification.

In a way, that makes the original complaint even more ridiculous because it is literally a business transaction between two private entities and a private intermediary.
Yes, definitely on the forex thing. But with cryptocurrency-level liquidity there is no reason for any normal consumer to hold funds in any particular crypto currency (or any at all), since they can exchange them cheaply and quickly on demand. That is, unless they're speculating it will increase. But this increase presumes scarcity. And so the question is: whence scarcity?
I dunno about "plenty." Probably around 0.1% or something.
In new filing, Uber says it was unaware of any theft of Waymo data prior to laws
Reverse sear is effectively doing something similar to using sous vide. It works very well.

The only time I go to steak places is for business dinners as they often seem one of the defaults for high-endish places to take customers. But I basically never go on my own. They're generally pretty boring and steak is something I can make easily at home. When I go to fancier restaurants I usually have something that would be way too fussy for me to make at home or that I simply couldn't do a good job of.