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Nothing with so dense a web of causes and effects can be obvious. Might fewer low skilled workers driving the wages higher for those remaining also drive up the costs of the goods and services they produce? Would their new higher wages offset those higher prices or might they be worse off than before?

I don't know. No one else does either.
Agreed. Had to shutter the docs I had on ReadMe.io when they upped the pricing. Moved to GitBook, then they too upped the pricing. Now I just keep my private docs locally and in a private S3 bucket. Harder for less tech-savy people to edit them, but it's basically free.

I get that these companies need to make money, but $35-40/month is a tough sell for personal projects and the like. I happily pay for GitHub at $7 or $12/month and I wish one of these many companies would offer that pricing tier for docs.
with respect, iridium is not low power. even the small "IoT" modem https://www.iridium.com/products/iridium-core-9523/ requires 2.5 watts peak. even once a day, you're lucky to get a months worth of reports from anything less than 10whr battery.

Especially if you are in an urban/sky contrained environment.
This is a woo-filled garbage blog scare piece with no real information. It should not be on HN.
Italy has the same stop/go issue. Roundabouts are the main cause, with jammed zip merges coming in second. Both allow only a short burst of cars to pass when at full capacity, which backpropagates into the queue as multiple stop and go.
>>This seems like government working well. An overzealous governmental employee denies a valid document, for whatever confused or malicious reason. Denied person contacts their congress representative. The congress rep gets the issue fixed.<<

Not really. Seems a bit overkill to have to contact your congress representative to fix a problem like this that never should've been an issue. In fact, it seems that the government is starting to become a bit overzealous.

Without knowing the statistics of how often stuff like this happens over the years it is hard to tell. Although I did read an article stating that the government was ramping up this sort of thing [1]. To me it looks like a very dangerous trend. Start with just a few cases like this and then ramp it up little by little. Somebody seems to be boiling the frog slowly.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-deny...
My biggest gripe with most automatic transmissions is a feature commonly referred to as creep. Let off the brake pedal and the car moves forward. Depending on the car it’s more pronounced. Rarely do you have an automatic that will actually remain at a constant speed or slightly slow down when you lift off the gas.

This is a huge issue and I’ll contend it’s a major contributor to traffic in urban environments. In a manual vehicle or a DSG/DCT vehicle (read: something that has a clutch or clutches and avoids a torque converter like common automatics) you can let off the gas pedal and your vehicle isn’t going to continue to accelerate. Combine that with the ability and knowledge that downshifting is going to force the engine to behave like a brake and you have much more precise control over your speed.

I rarely use my brakes. I own a 6-speed Mustang and my wife has a 6-speed STI. I drive very fluid, estimating (or doing my best to) the perfect avg speed during traffic so I can roll along and smooth out disruptions in my lane. Meanwhile the vast majority of other drivers are constantly battling their vehicles natural tendency to move by tapping on the brake pedal like a moth banging on an outdoor light.

Brake lights cause other people to brake. Even if there is no logical reason to do so, people will respond and then a chain reaction of unnecessary braking is happening all the way down the highway. It’s not the only cause of traffic but it’s a significant variable in an algebraic shitstorm of other issues.

I’m also pretty convinced that having extensive experience with a manual vehicle makes you a better driver. For instance a lot of folks have no clue what the 1/2/3 or +/- buttons do on their auto transmissions. They aren’t aware of engine braking down a steep grade. They’re able to cruise along (thanks to creep) in traffic with their foot never coming off the brake pedal and their attention primarily on a phone. It kills me to see this.

Anecdotally the best drivers I know drive or have driven manual cars. The worst drivers I know don’t share this experience.

It’s tragic they are going away. The irony here is that worldwide America is one of the few places where it’s still appreciated. A lot of high end European auto makers have ditched manual entirely abroad yet still offer it as an option here (on certain models).

I realize automatics are becoming more efficient and have definitely surpassed manuals as far as shifting speed but I still love my stick shift. I wish more people could appreciate it. Unfortunately they’re so rare now and carry such an elitist stigma that a lot of people will never even have the opportunity to row the gears and truly drive a fun car.
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I think the intention was to embrace formal methods, which "proves" the absence of bugs (to the limited extents though). For a heavily-used critical piece of code like SQLite the lack or weak use of formal methods might actually be a reasonable criticism.

EDIT: Not meant to say that the original comment was reasonable.
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We can actually hold for immigration to some degree. For example, while not exactly doubling, the entry of women into the workforce after WWII had a similar effect of massively increasing the the supply of labour.

You would think that two income earners in a household would increase the economy enough that wages would need to rise due to a subsequent shortage of labor... but it did not.

Wages, in real terms, have largely lost purchasing power to the point where it takes two incomes to have the same (or less) purchasing power than one income did prior to WWII.

Part of it is the productivity gains made post WWII (i.e. we can do more with less labor) but a lot of it is the supply side of labor and competitive pressures pushing the price equilibrium (wages) down.

I'm not making an argument against the entry of women into the workforce. I'm an advocate for 'freedom' so I'm all for women doing what they want as long as they are following the law. My point here is the supply side of labor does not have a large enough increase to the demand side of labor to make up for the decrease in the price of wages.
These guys also do other "internet measurement". You can find more here https://netray.io/
When people wake up, Amazon's gonna crash.
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I broke out of poverty. Why can't they do it too? It was a simple thing for me, a combination of studying hard, focusing on my future and the death of my father.

You see, my parents were both fishermen. It's a grueling, painful job that can destroy your body as you age leaving you with back problems and forcing you to retire early. It also paid poorly and had a lot of risks. Which unfortunately for us, resulted in the loss of his life. His boat had capsized after a routine trip. Turns out there were some issues with the way the boat was built, stuff that should've been caught by the owner. My father and three others died that day.

It was because of his death that my mother filed a wrongful death suit with a lawyer that was luckily working pro-bono, winning a small sum of money that she put in an account to be released on my 18th birthday, money that ended up being the only reason why I was able to go to college and become a software engineer.

So why do I bring this up? It's not for sympathy, but rather to illustrate that my parents were some of the hardest workers I've ever known. They were rewarded for their efforts with little savings, broken bodies and a life of poverty. For a lot of people it doesn't mean a single goddamn thing how hard you work or how hard you try. I bring up personal stories like this because I've talked with coworkers and friends who think that grit and hard work is all you need to make it. That jobs will elevate people out of poverty by virtue of existing.
I think that this is a sleight-of-hand trick that comes up a lot in immigration discussion: he was talking about the small subset of the population that is most directly affected by the change, you switched the focus of the impact to the entire economic system. If you only look at the bottom 10% of society where the job competition is occurring, your 1.5% becomes 15% - annually! It's staggering.

Immigration applies downward pressure on lower/middle-lower labor classes and harms the power of unions.

I don't blame the immigrants who want to go where the jobs pay more - it's the smart thing for them to do - the blame here lies 100% on the corporations who exploit this (Tyson foods, etc.) and the politicians they ~~bribe~~contribute funds to.
A similar product maybe? https://youtu.be/kJXRyWQgOY4
Solid state batteries from ProLogium. I contacted them earlier to for pricing.
I used to love my stick shift, now I love my electric car. It has the same lack of creep and built-in engine braking.
So why do penniless immigrants keep coming here? Do they know something poor people in America don't, or are they simply misinformed?
A popular topic on HN is how Europe does XYZ better than the US. Particularly in traffic, actually. But here, the Americans truly got it right.

Most people just want a car to get them from A to B. Manual has little to go for it among non-car-geeks, other than "people think it's normal" (in Europe). Automatic is sold as an expensive option here but that makes no sense to me - how can a chip be more expensive to produce than a physical gear box? I assume it isn't and the auto companies just charge what they think people are willing to pay.

I'm glad that EVs are taking hold because then, finally, automatic will become the default. It breaks a ridiculous habit that benefits nobody.
>>> All the free content and services on the web has to be paid for somehow, and that is the way.

>> This is false. We had a perfectly healthy ecosystem before ads invaded the web. In most ways it was better because it was built by people who cared, rather than by companies who wanted to extract money and power from their visitors.

> But is it sustainable that way?

Yes. It'd be different, but sustainable. Sites like Wikipedia are proof of that.

It baffling that people claim that the web requires ads and trackers to survive when a counterexample is one of the top three links on nearly all of their searches.
> All the free content and services on the web has to be paid for somehow, and that is the way.

This is blatantly false... Significant quantities of digital work product are produced for free with little concern for payment.

Perhaps you meant "most" or "the majority of" or even "significant quantities"?
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https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb works for me by turning Elasticsearch into an index type (PG10 only)
What kind of vehicle is it, specifically?
Hi everyone I just launched my MVP, would appreciate if you could try it out and give some feedback, would be really helpful. A great app for your kids. EDBoard is an AI keyboard which can guide your children to type more positively. Children spend 7-9 hours a day on a smartphone or tablets. This is a great app to help them learn while they chat with friends or family.
The entire farming industry is distorted. It's much more subsidized and controlled than most industries. For instance we literally pay some farmers not to grow food. And at times when harvests are high the government will prevent farmers from marketing some portion of their harvest which, in extreme cases, can mean that food simply ends up getting destroyed. It's all about extreme manipulation of supply to try to control prices.

I'm not really supporting or opposing the system, which is a topic for another place, but just mentioning that farming is not like people think it is. So trying to determine what 'market wages' would be like is not really possible when much of the entire industry is operated outside the bounds of the market.
Recently I was wondering what if all our phones and computers all connected to our own personal "platform" that we have full control over.

Route everything on the phone through a personal platform. Gain control of location, IP, maps caching, etc.

Centralize at a personal level.
And most of it is greedy corporations and lack of worker protections. There's always enough money to increase CEO salaries.

I can concede that unskilled immigration is putting downward pressure on the salaries of low/no skill workers, but the US social inequality is the elephant in the room.
The China tax bothers me as well. For some electronics parts I cannot find a Swedish online shop selling the product in question. Maybe I find one shop selling it, at an unreasonable price.
Instead, I resorted to shipping stuff to my parents in Germany and either fetching it on my next visit or having them send it to me. Yes, shipping cost from Germany to Sweden plus the Aliexpress-price is still cheaper than anything else.

I somehow resent China-shopping getting popular or even mainstream amongst average Joe and Jane (using Wish and the likes). I can see how that prompted this initiative.
That is an argument which only works, however, when you're writing a component.

Almost exactly dual argument can be made to defend end-users.

And it is what we actually observe in the real world. Components that concern developers, such as libraries, often have liberal licenses, while finished programs often have copyleft licenses.
Vivaldi Browser has a zoom bar in the main interface which is pretty nifty: http://prntscr.com/ktea6k

They do use the same chromium engine as Chrome if that is an issue for you.
> Why deny others the same opportunities?

Almost exclusively these people will zip around a line and force their way in at the end. Even kindergartners are taught budging in line is not good.

Why is this the problem on the people actually being considerate and are in the correct lane at the appropriate time?
I think they try to. But it might be that it is actually much cheaper to write small daily articles that junior people can write than to write extensive high quality stuff. That puts you under constant pressure.
I've gotten my passport renewed abroad before. I think the local embassy where you are would be pretty helpful in that situation.
apatters, a discussion on the internet doesn't need solutions. If we loved everyone like we love ourselves, we would not let people go hungry, or suffer. I believe few people have achieved this level of transcendence, and it starts with knowing yourself. If somehow I could write a comment over the internet that can make you do some self-reflection I would. But I don't know what that comment is.
This is what I usually try and do when stuck in a queue, especially on the motorway. First or second depending on the speed of the traffic, clutch up, foot off accelerator. Pointless racing to the stopped car in front of you only to have to stop and start again.
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... a big part of the deleveraging process is people discovering that much of what they thought was their wealth isn’t really there.

This is going to be explosively true when the cohort coming up to 401k realization walk into the room of declining net worth and stagflation.

If hillbilly elegy was the result of hollowing out working class male jobs, What will eventuate from the nouveau riche with pensions learning their own spending and savings patterns is part of a cycle in time, but nobody has a time-machine to avoid it?
FWIW when in traffic I always try to maintain enough distance ahead of me that I do not have to ever stop completely, and that I can also hopefully not use the brake.

I swear I've watched traffic clear up around me. Of course it's anecdotal, but it tends to keep things moving, even if slowly, rather than bringing everything to a halt.
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To me, "Estimate how many windows are in New York" is a much more pleasant question to answer than "Are you a good listener?" or "Tell me about a time when you failed"...
Can you quote the part of the article that blames the language? I read the article but I must have missed that part. Thanks.
> Automatic is sold as an expensive option here but that makes no sense to me - how can a chip be more expensive to produce than a physical gear box?

I'm not sure what you mean by "chip" here -- all cars have gear boxes (in some form -- you need to have a way of converting the engine's rotation into wheel rotation without stalling or overworking the engine) the question is how they work and what controls the gear ratio. A manual gearbox is actually very simple conceptually and mechanically, resulting in cheaper hardware (and the repair costs are quite cheap too).

Common automatics use a fluid coupling as their gearbox with a torque converter, which is a more complicated piece of machinery (with more significant repair costs in the medium-term -- a clutch replacement is $1000 while an automatic transmission rebuild is $5000). So it makes some sense that they are more expensive -- though it's not always the case that automatics are more expensive to buy (it's only really the case of cheaper cars that they're always more expensive).

The only kind of automatic I can think of that is a "chip" would be a double-clutch transmission (which might appear like an automatic to a user), but as the name suggests under the hood it is two manual transmissions with a computer trying to predict the future to know what gear is needed next). Those are even more expensive because they are ridiculously complicated, and probably require some sort of license from the manufacturer to sell.
It's kind of like needing to have your post to Hacker News be sufficiently upvoted to get you Google account reinstated, no?
We have social mobility, not a social lottery. Moving all the way from the bottom to the top might take a couple generations, which will obviously involve needing to win at a fierce competition.

That looks an awful lot like a meritocracy.
> you can use git by itself and send the diffs to each other over email

Why not send it via ssh? It's much easier. And if the data is not too big you don't send diffs but complete file states. Git usually calculates the diffs on the fly by comparing two file states.
This would be great for animal husbandry. So much guesswork and tracking of schedules would be unnecessary if a veterinarian weren't required e.g. to determine follicle size. I will buy three or four, when they're $100.
Not just law enforcement, the entire US government does. For example, you will see a question about your race on the 2020 census if you are in America: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/img/person1_hispani...
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Ok, that is just awesome. There are a ton of uses for low cost ultrasound from trauma care to package inspection.
Cool! Is there a similar doc for pg10? I'm still using 9.5. Thanks!
Maybe this will finally stop the horribly misguided "noone programs in assembler any more" comments here on "Hacker News" (especially during yet anothet RISC V marketing campaign).
You need documents to travel on some routes within Schengen. At least from Greece and Italy.
As a positive example, GHC has tests that are run for PRs that check performance (in terms of memory allocation): https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/RunningTests/...
How many people have the means to travel, the desire to travel, but can't manage to get a passport or appropriate document? My question is basically is it really a restriction of travel, or just a small hurdle to travel where there are already much larger hurdles?
I feel like web sites are actively becoming hostile to drive users into running proprietary mobile apps instead of spending time on the open web.
funny enough, my 2002 protege had a sporty clutch that def too some getting used to.

that said, I'd take it oven an automatic anyday.
> One thing is for sure, housing prices would skyrocket!

Sure, in the hypothetical of instantaneously doubling the population without any time for the market to adjust for increased demand. But if the population doubles over the course of 30 years? That's only about 11 million people a year, the market would expect and adjust to the influx of people easily. Governments would also ideally be devising initiatives and changing policy to promote affordable housing. The high cost of housing in the US is its own issue anyway.
This argument makes no sense. Huawei is banned in America.
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If your employer is part of the e-verify program you need identification. Proof that you're allowed to work and photo ID. So either a birth certificate and a drivers license or a passport(current or expired) which satisfies for both requirements. You can also use a Social Security card in lieu of a birth certificate. I think e-verify is required for a company to hire people on Visas.
Didn't y'all just give the political party with neo-Nazi roots 63 seats in the Riksdag a few days ago? The labeling might be because at least some of the people talking a lot about immigrants are racists.
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So, I am a jr web developer and I want to create a video sharing app like musically. The number of actual content creators will be limited and they will only be able to upload a limited number of videos a day. What should I know before starting this project? Should I use Youtube for hosting the videos? Or should I use a CDN? Which one? This is a passion project, related to one of my hobbies and I want to keep cost as low as possible.
I'm sorry to hear about your parents. However I don't know what your point is. On one hand you say your hard work and focus on future got you out of poverty. Then you say your parents are an example of where hard work and grit are NOT all you need.

Honestly it sounds like you were born with a certain amount of intelligence, got some money to go to college, and you made the most of it. But where would you be if you had neither, I wonder?
Few more questions:

* How do you backup Fastmail?

* How'd you find your colo provider?

* If it's in a different country, how does the latency affect you?
It's a demo. Coded in assembler. On a horribly slow (4 MHz) Russian PDP-11 clone with no DMA capabilities. 72 cycles to move a word from one memory location to another.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?post=836903

As such, it's a very impressive feat of coding prowess.

Compare and contrast with web "programming".
I've never asked anyone fizzbuzz, but I have seen people badly flub very easy algorithm questions that are basically at the same level.

In every case it was because they over-complicated things. They came up with elaborate logic that they didn't need and then got lost and didn't quite get to a working implementation. Picture, say, starting to implement fizzbuzz using two tries and an associative array.

I would guess that a lot of the people I've seen bomb these kind of interview questions are actually good, capable programmers, but they just got overwhelmed by interview nerves and got lost.
The scale of immigration has definitely been whole lot higher in 1960s, not to mention 1920s of course when it was free and open for everyone who could pass a basic medical check.
How does one improve brain health?