skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think context matters in this case. It is interesting to note that the “context” in which minimum wage laws are argued for in different countries might be different, but the outcome is just the same.

Whether it is out of ignorance or malice, the result is the same. A distortion of the markets and inevitable back firing.

In the US the arguments for a minimum wage appear to be put forth under the auspices of “helping” the disadvantaged. Once the help gets established, the unemployment rates for minorities sky rockets.

Calling a turd a flower doesn’t make it less of a turd.

Below is a link to the great economist Thomas Sowell. It is always interesting to have a non economist and in this particular case a white lady try to tell him what the facts are regarding black employment as it relates to minimum wages.

https://youtu.be/r4SIEl1j8e4
However, governments these days provide a safety net to guard against poverty (because, based on Gilded Age history, the alternative is worse). Employees who are paid substandard wages often simultaneously qualify for the government safety net as well.

Probably in part for this reason and others, it was Franklin Roosevelts's opinion that businesses that cannot survive unless they paid substandard wages, should not be allowed to exist. (https://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/f-d-r-makes-...).
Nothing. You have no bargaining power since you already work there and depend on your job for your livelihood. If you want more than your 0-2.5% raise then just go find another job.
> only do it if it made economic sense

What if writing wikipedia articles was treated like publishing on prestigious journals? (somehow)
Honestly, in a blind taste test for most fruits and veggies I generally prefer the flavor of the organic one, and that's enough for me. Maybe it's because of pesticides, maybe it's because of harvesting schedule, maybe it's because of other practices at the organic vs non-organic farm, but the fact is the organic fruits/veggies usually have a noticeably better flavor (not always, especially outside of the dirty dozen). This applies even more so to milk.
Many marriages fail in the time it takes to complete a phd. If academia can’t find a way to fund people with actual interest then somethings wrong.
"Panopticon?"

Sesame Credit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
>These Chinese surveillance state stories are all really tame compared to the abuses of the American program

You are wrong.

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turn...
USA and EU guidelines allow a certain percentage of grain products sold to contain eggs or larva. This will naturally happen regardless of whether the product is organic or non-organic.

Also, I have never seen visible worms in organic couscous and I buy it within the EU a few times a year. What brand was this that you bought?
Cheaper flights would open up new markets which would increase demand. They didn't build a few passenger jets and call it a day, and the same would be true of cheap access to space.
There's no reason you can't use DNS over HTTPS and pi-hole, just use dnscrypt-proxy, and point your pi-hole at that: https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy
A lot of organic foods are different strains than typically sold at grocery stores, and they do tend to taste better simply by virtue of being a strain likely chosen more for its taste than transportability.

Of course though it all depends on where you shop. If you're just comparing two identical apples organic vs non-organic, then you'd almost certainly not taste the difference.
If I understand correctly, a bunch of Python's libraries (NumPy, specifically) came from Fortran. The Fortran libraries are very well debugged and tested, and they cover an insane number of special cases. (You want a linear equation solver for sparse complex Hermitian matrices that is both efficient and numerically stable? Sure, we got that.)

I don't know whether Haskell could wrap such libraries in the same way. I mean, I assume that technically it's possible, but you'd like to keep Haskell's type safety. Encoding that a matrix has to be Hermitian in a type is possible, I suppose, but it might be messy...
Being poor now just leads to being more poor later
Are there any research papers pertaining to this program? Thanks :)
It's like the thing about the mouse complaining that the cheese was moved.

Airplanes (or "aeroplanes" on that side of the pond) have always been reusable, so Airbus was able to establish itself and build a stable business building them.

Rockets have always been non-reusable (until SpaceX), so ArianeGroup built a stable business around that assumption. Now they're being out-competed by a foreign company that has proven that assumption wrong, and they don't know what to do except demand more subsidies and a monopoly so they don't have to compete.
Into the Borg – SSRF inside Google production network
Also known as the Matthew Effect.

The comments are worth reading.
As far as I understand, the synthetic pesticides may actually be safer since they're designed with human consumption in mind and are able to be synthesized in such a way to limit negative effects on the body. Also, they can be designed to eliminate pests that are harmful to crops while doing little damage to other fauna in a way that organic pesticides can't.

I don't have any sources to cite, just my memory from past reading. If I'm off-base, please let me know!
Men being stronger (physically, financially, etc) is a sexually desirable thing for most straight women. This is the result of tens of millions of years of mammalian evolution and hundreds of thousands of years of Ape and then Human evolution.

It is emphatically not the result of social norms or our societal structure. It is innately biological and will really never change.

Powerful men will always attract women, and relationships in which the man is weak will usually leave the woman disatisfied to some extent.
>this is the most efficient power configuration.

Trains have 4+ driven axles mounted on bogies that swivel under the chassis. All wheels must be driven (steel on steel doesn't give you much traction) Diesel electric is used in trains because any mechanic transmission that can do that job would be a Rube Goldberg contraption.

A mechanical gearbox is more efficient way of transmitting power because if you've sized things right cruising RPM will be direct drive (no loss from gear friction).
Removing it will probably break the game (it's a DLL loaded by the game executable, and I'm guessing most game devs don't bother to correctly handle its absence).
Landmark lawsuit claims Monsanto hid dangers of cancer caused by its weedkillers
I came across the concept of "before present" when reading about the Meghalayan age [1] being adopted by the International Commission on Stratigraphy [2] earlier this month.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghalayan

[2]: http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-news-and-meetings/...
Many times they do taste better. The spoilage rate is higher so only the healthiest foods survive, and also farmers who are expecting a higher price point recognize that they need to also taste good (I.e. there is a market for bad tasting $1/pound conventional vs good tasting $2/pound conventional, not so much of a market for bad tasting $4/pound organic vs $5/pound good tasting organic)
Yes, we are looking forward to that. But ATM WASM isn’t really not yet a gateway to the web. A lot of whether it makes sense for a language to target WASM or not will depend on how this question is ultimately answered (though I personally would be happy with just canvas access, most people want DOM).
That's both superb and encouraging. Thank you.
> So if I make a product like this indispensable to my workflow or company, I could be faced with a change being forced upon me when they go to scale.

Sure, that risk still exists. But with indie products there are essentially three groups of stakeholders (founders, employees, customers) instead of of four (+investors), so that risk is greatly reduced.
Yup, that's part of where the idea comes from, I would favor more research in this area though.
How to Notice and Avoid Dark Patterns Online
As I just learned a few minutes ago, you can run your own DNS over HTTPS server. Then you do not need to trust either Google or your ISP.
Pods are just another form of queue...with their own sync points. Except now you've made the system brittle by making it dependent on a specific configuration of processes. Great when everything works...but far, far worse if any part of it breaks down.
Any sources I can read about this?
Side question -- do/could type foundries find pirate companies by looking at IP addresses using paid fonts without a license? Hardest part would be linking paid licenses to IP addresses, making individual unpaid usage harder to nail down. But if a company with dozens or hundreds of users at a single IP address all had a particular font installed, that IP was linkable to the company, and company didn't have a license, wouldn't that be pretty damning evidence?

Typeface piracy is otherwise pretty difficult to detect isn't it? Is it part of normal enterprise asset tracking / inventory systems?
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Ask HN: Experiences selling on AWS Marketplace
We're considering selling through the AWS Marketplace but can't find much in the way of blog posts from companies who've done it. If you've sold through the AWS Marketplace, can you share your experience -- good or bad?
Why do people believe the moon landing hoax or other conspiracy theories?
its really not rocket science.

before asking for a raise, always apply to other jobs and have something to leverage off of by looking around and applying to other companies. name your price higher than what you are getting now.

if they accept your offer, you can now go back to your company and name a price in a take it or leave it situation.

if they accept, great. if not, atleast you now have other alternatives to fall back on.
A good reason not to do DNSSEC validation is that it adds significant unreliability to your network (DNSSEC deployment failures happen all the time, with what appears to be higher frequency than TLS certificate failures, and DNSSEC failures are more dramatic and disabling than TLS failures) while adding only marginally to security, and then only in the best case --- there are cases where it reduces security.

The security of my SSH servers is not influenced at all by the integrity of my DNS queries. If I had a fleet of servers and a large organization of people to secure, such that I was concerned about the security of user introductions to SSH servers, I would address that concern directly with certificates, not indirectly with DNSSEC.

What's more, there are other good things that fall out of adopting SSH CAs (simplified provisioning being the most noticeable, short-lived credentials being the most important). Whereas there is basically no upside at all to adopting DNSSEC, and a lot of downside.

DNSSEC is bad, which is why nobody uses it.
The $$ they can get from anywhere else in industry given how hot research level ML experience is (and how scarce this talent is). I imagine the appeal of FAIR is much more about the academic freedom. But sure the $$ doesnt hurt.
Why would the simplest theory be the most likely to be true?
I've only used it a little in side projects (xgboost + mlr); I think it works better than caret, though (not as brittle). Most of my day-to-day is text data (which mlr isn't really well suited for).

What originally drew me to it was a blog post [1] about using their model-based optimization framework for tuning hyperparameters. It's a lot more sophisticated than anything I've seen for Python, including hyperopt / hyperband.

[1]: http://mlr-org.github.io/How-to-win-a-drone-in-20-lines-of-R...
“That depends.”

Some MVPs presume that some instruction and filtering of users takes place outside of the app. In my company, we make “early access” versions of features that presume there is a product manager talking to an early access customer and walking them through its use.

Other times a feature is being launched to a wider audience, and we cannot presume they know anything about it. In that case, if it doesn’t interest them and inform them enough to use it, it is not really viable.

So... I neither agree nor disagree with you about MVPs not caring about landing pages. I think we need more context. Perhaps for the purpose of “Show HN,” it is a fine MVP. But perhaps it is not a good MVP for the purpose of my tweeting “Check this cool app out.”
Nice ! Didn't know about that.

For a reference, this is what I get when I set my dns as 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com on Android P:

https://cloudflare-dns.com/help/#eyJpc0NmIjoiWWVzIiwiaXNEb3Q...
People get rich from government contracts. That's what drives a lot of this stuff not just jobs for voters.
And he funded his studies, initially, as a hobby alongside a job. We’ve not progressed very far if ground breaking research almost requires a person to find a novel study path.
I agree with your numbers after doing some more reading, i was definitely off the mark going in.

I would point to the high turnover rate as an indication that people do realize that maybe they aren't making what they thought they would when they started. I think people catch on, but that doesn't stop others from signing up without realizing it. However I'm not convinced the drivers are being exploited to the degree I originally claimed.

You make good points and have given me much to consider
Are Civ5 AI mods allowed when the game comes from Steam? Doesn't Steam do some sort of integrity checking for the game files?
It's certainly a dark pattern. The area is purpose made to look like a modal has take over the page and left you with two options. That area even adjusts to the window size furthering the effect.
I assume there is a distinction between software engineering and research applicants in terms of their interviews at the Big 4s? I know two people with PhDs that were given algorithmic questions and had to go through the same process as regular software developers (this was at the same Big 4 company). The only exception is one had expertise in ML and during one of his interviews they brought in a ML expert and interviewed them on their dissertation, in addition to their 4-5 algorithmic interviews. Both of these people were interviewing for software developer positions despite having expertise in research. Wasn't sure if the research interviews would be different. Good on your lab mate.
They are hashing the data.
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US will have a choice: to deny SSTs when the rest of the world flies them, or do not do so.

Totally okay with that. The rest of the world can pay for vastly increased maintenance costs in neighborhoods around SST airports for the benefit of the rich few who can actually afford to fly on those planes.
Cool list but I would like to see them being implemented using FP approach when possible.
> ULA, as well as Airbus, has a problem

Yep, exactly the same problem as IBM, Blackberry, and many other companies who were at the top and then either stopped innovating or got to big and slow.

Having the bigger companies fail in a respect is a good thing. Have those engineers go back into the free market. Have them create companies and make competition. Push technologies forward and pricing down.

Look at Rocket Lab and their Electron rocket. Pretty amazing if you ask me and didn't really cost that much.

Let the free market sort things out. It always does. Unless of course you start involving the government with their jobs program and you get an SLS rocket that costs $2b each and isn't reusable.

What we need are many more companies providing launch services. Lets get the cost down to $1k to send someone up. Lets get more companies building infrastructure in space, so we have 10, 20 or 50 space stations in LEO.

There's so much up for grabs, but it won't be available if we start protectionist policies.
Regulation (except for environmental ones) tend to violate the non-aggression principle and are thus not preferable (it's basically the government using it's monopoly on legitimate use of force to determine on what terms people interact in the market). A non-coercive solution would be to incentivize/negotiate better terms of service, as suitable.
Can you point me to a light weight 100kw or 200kw genset that is under 1500 lbs? Bottom line even if a 200kw genset plus motors and controllers was the same weight as a 200kw engine hooked to a transmission, it would have lower efficiency due to conversion losses unless we get practical superconductors.

Trains do not use diesel electric drives trains for efficiency or weight, the need precise traction control to prevent the steel wheels from slipping on the tracks to get moving, the electric drive train gives them that. The actual efficiency is lower than a mechanical transmission once up to speed due to double conversion losses. Modern mechanical transmissions are actually very efficient with very low losses.

The Chevy volt also bypasses the electric system at highways speeds due to the inefficiency of converting mechanical energy to electrical and back to mechanical as most (all?) production hybrids. The Gen 2 Volt actually more aggressively move to mechanical drive at lower speed as it was found to be more efficient. The Volt is also heavier then the Cruze even though they share the same platform.

This is an excellent breakdown of the Volt operating modes, in CS2 and CS3 mode the engine is driving the wheels mechnically: https://gm-volt.com/2015/02/20/gen-2-volt-transmission-opera...

Gasoline hybrids like the volt also typically rely on the Atkinson cycle to get better highway efficiency at the expense of torque which is made up for by the electric drivetrain. Diesels are even more efficient and have plenty of torque but also heavier due to a more robust design, this is why they are much less popular in hybrid configurations except in specialized applications like city buses with extreme urban start stop usage.
I don’t think Indie Maker and IndieWeb are related.
Honest question: how did you not get what the app was about almost immediately?
The real indicator of how outsized the value is compared to the perception of such is the revenue inflow.

There's no reason for the suppliers of raw materials here not to raise their prices (from zero). If anyone wants to provide it for less, so be it, but given that Google wants insight into everyone marketable, there's no reason for people not to raise their own prices for the data they supply.
What annoys me is that organic is the "premium" selection for fruits & veggies at the grocery store.

If organic wasn't a thing, groceries would find a way to price discriminate, and the most likely way would be to sell tastier varietals raised with practices known to increase taste (like waiting till it's ripe before picking).

So deliberately tastier rather than accidentally tastier.
> or anti-religious propaganda

i think this is misleading if not a bit ethnocentric (or rather religiocentric?). the islamic, jewish and hindi calendars all have different numbered years, and presumably most others.

to turn this around, the fixation on AD and rejection of other proposals could be described as christian supremacist 'propaganda'. it 'suffices' because it accommodates to your comfort and privilege.
Insofar as being poor is evidence of

- no full time job

- children out of wedlock

- not graduating high school

Okay sure.

But if you don't do those three things, you have a 2% chance of being poor.

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/three-simple-rules-poor-t...

The modern narrative of "poor stay poor" parrotted these days lacks quite a bit of nuance.
Yes, it’s heavily used in this area.
With no trademark, Sriracha name is showing up everywhere
At this moment, I would love to have something remotely comparable and intuitive to ggplot2 in Python. I know there is a fork, but it's not as powerful. Matplotlib is about as unintuitive as a plotting library could be.
Just straight up tell them you want more money and if they say no then leave.
Very good point. As far as I know, Latrotoxin [1], is a fully organic product. It's also much more deadly that most "chemicals" you could name. Hell, Polonium is on the periodic table of elements.

The incredibly successful media campaign waged by the Organic industry should be held up as an example for the rest of the marketing industry. DeBeers should take notes.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrotoxin
Which one though?

I have looked at LISPs, but it's difficult to pick one to invest time in. Because I am so restricted on time I have to stick to languages which are used in the industry (so my fun has real-life ROI), which I think boils down to CL which is often touted as old-fashion and its market seems to shrink slowly, and Clojure which means the JVM and mainly Java libraries and high mem requirements.

For pure fun and practicality, Racket does seem up on the "list", but not used at all in the industry. A lot of languages (Python, Rust) are adopting the good parts of lisp (except for the minimal syntax, sadly), and I'm getting better mileage from spending time learning and becoming better at those than starting from scratch in a language that I won't be able to use during work hours.
Essentially, you're now not only trusting 1 entity but 6 - if any of those 6 will log / leak data, you're offering them 1/6th of your traffic. The probability of that happening is significantly larger than using only a single provider (if you want to calculate it, there's the Binomial Distribution).

That being said, if any of those providers would then leak your traffic patterns, all the attacker would get is your VPN IP address and not your home IP address. So essentially, you're making it even harder to correlate DNS queries to you.
Every team has a couple people who want to do better, but they can’t get budget for the work from management. When a threat comes the cost benefit analysis shifts, and now those people find a sympathetic ear.
>Rule #1 of Kanban is that it is a "pull" system. By design e-mail is push. It would also be difficult to limit work-in-progress here, which is another cornerstone feature of a Kanban system.

I was actually just thinking about this the other day. To rephrase it slightly, an email inbox is essentially an opt-out model. Any person anywhere can put something in your inbox, and after reviewing/getting sufficiently annoyed you can opt-out from receiving their emails (marking them as spam, forwarding to trash, etc.)

Personally I've been interested in seeing how an opt-in inbox model would perform. Every email goes to spam and/or a review bucket, and then once a week (or whenever you feel like it) the user can skim the bucket for emails from people/lists they actually want to see, and approve them. Follow up emails from those address can then go straight to the inbox with out need for review.

This might not work for every use case, but I suspect I'd like this for my personal email use. No matter how many times I unsubscribe from an email list or service, a new one takes its place without me signing up for it. I think I would find significant less frustration being able to opt-in vs opt-out.
ULA has 100% mission success. The Atlas family has 100% mission sucess since 1957. The ULA markup is justified for a high value mission. BO and spaceX have big shoes to fill when it comea to building industry and insurer trust. The Amos 8 failure was an expensive lesson for spacex.
Just want to add that https://pi-hole.net/ or something similar is a nice way to block at least DNS based traffic from this malware.