skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's how employment pools work.

Sure, there's an element of "this job is only worth $7.5/hour, so if we have to pay someone $15/hour we won't do it", but I'd suggest that those jobs are actually not that common.

I'd instead suggest that most jobs need doing, and they will just cost more. Ditches still need digging, burgers still need flipping, and it will just cost a bit more now.
I think it is better-er than Java and the JVM and they have stewarded their language much better than Java, and now Java borrows heavily from C#. I think they will win in the long run if they haven't "won" already.
I suspect that's just the server being suddenly overloaded. For me they load, but take a few minutes to due so. As always, try back later.
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Note that was a hypothetical: a 70 sqm apartment in Beijing ATM is around $500k, but if the prices keep rising. That is still more expensive than most places in the states, but not more than SF (if you could find such a thing). Beijing isn’t even the most expensive market in China.
It looks like they're at around 600K now worldwide. Most of these are not SWE jobs, of course. I don't know if that figure is only full-time employees though; if not, then the total number goes up substantially.
Inrupt[0] and Solid [1] links - exciting stuff.

[0] https://www.inrupt.com/
[1] https://solid.inrupt.com/about
Working for a VC-backed startup is definitely not a guaranteed get-rich-quick scheme, but working for a low wage at a no/slow-growth "startup" is a guaranteed stay-poor scheme.
Skilled labour costs more than unskilled labour.

They're paid more because they cared to acquire skills that a warehouse worker didn't. It could be the coziest simplest job in the world, but if it has a higher skill requirement, it will come with a higher salary.
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This was my exact thought. It's great they increased the wages to $15, but it might also be because now they are in a state to hire fewer humans in logistics and carry out majority of the work through machines.

May be with less humans for $15/hour and machines, their average per unit hour cost is still $7.25.
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This is a great way to do it.

Much rather have companies adopt progressive policy then lobby for competitors to have to adopt it vs. lobbying to resist progressive policy.

Plus, they get the PR bonus, they will siphon off the best workers until it’s mandated everywhere, and when it is, they will have benefited and then be on equal playing field.

What are the downsides? (Unless you don’t want $15/hr min wage).
What happens during the next tech downturn, when there are no companies near your burb hiring? That’s what I asked myself before moving out to Bay Area. I’ve been through two major tech dry-ups, both living outside of tech hubs, and having zero employment options in a 200 mile radius sucks. During 2008 I had two months left until I would be living out of my car. I’ll take my chances here in Silicon Valley where there are major established firms on every street corner.
When people talk about the opportunity cost of buying, they very rarely take into account leverage. A typical house buyer might have somewhere between 2 and 9x leverage on their deposit (ie a 66-90% loan to value). Once you take that into account the returns, even if you don't take into account capital appreciation (essentially the saved cost of renting minus maintenance costs) rise significantly, becoming competitive with the long term returns on an index fund. Nobody's going to lend you significant money to invest in an index fund at anywhere close to mortgage rates.

As an example, a flat which costs £400k might have a rental value of £1.4k/month, or 4.6% annually. However, if you bought that flat with a 75% LTV at an interest rate of 2% you'd have invested £100k and have an effective return of £16800/year less £6k/year of interest. That means an annual return of 10.8%. The long term S&P 500 average return is around 12.11%[1]

It doesn't take much price inflation to tip you into better returns than the index fund. House prices since 1952 have risen by an average of 7.9%[2].

[1]: https://ycharts.com/indicators/sandp_500_total_return_annual
[2 - XLS]: https://www.nationwide.co.uk/-/media/MainSite/documents/abou...
Agreed. I worried after I got my Tesla 2 years ago that it would just be a toy, only usable for short range trips. But 2 weeks after we got it we went on a 2,300 mile each way road trip, and it worked great. I was sold on the super charger turning the car into a truly useful thing instead of just a toy. And the new ~3.5x faster chargers are going to make it a gas-like experience.
You poor soul. You actually think paying workers more creates inflation

You obviously haven’t heard of bankers, the federal reserve, and quantitative easing.
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Porsche was in bad shape not that long ago and they were pretty much selling cars to fund racing. Today that is certainly not the case and they are making the most profit per car.[1]

I would like to see what Tesla’s profit per car is in a few years once the Model 3 production lines have settled.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/the-porsc...
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It has an impact on public opinion. It's just that public opinion doesn't have an effect on the policy that is being implemented.
I "downgraded" from a physical server to a VPS with them when Cloud launched and have saved a ton of money and the performance isn't miles off. Great success so far. Network is solid within Europe though have noticed the occasional bit of weird routing to the US.
I know it’s a silly feature but I would love clap detection.
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I think to be fair I can't even claim the joke.

Yes, in the first place there's no defined semantics and thus no meaning.

It's also not particlarly appropriate to claim that the language is 'unambiguous'. The intention of the language is to create a notation that allows for the unambiguous expression of relations that would be ambiguous in English, that is, to present a logical or mathematical specification rather than a natural language one. So the ambiguity or lack thereof is entirely in the mind of the reader.

I do have a semantics in mind for it; I have thought about things like operator precedence and currying and stuff. And that matters because you want to be sure that the person reading the specification and the person writing it had the same thing in mind as far as the order of the marks on the page goes.

So there will hopefully be a much more concrete realization of those semantics in a way that still leaves wide open the question of expression evaluation. In other words, it should be an objective fact that `a b c` is evaluated as `a (b c)` - and indeed it is, because the program has parsing rules for function application - but the specifics of what it means to apply `b` to `c` will never be enforced or evaluated on the machine level.

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In fact, the parent comment's example is a good one because `fib n - 1 + fib n - 2` would be parsed as `fib (n - (1 + (fib (n - 2))))` which is not the intended reading. Right now, that's fine, because it doesn't actually evaluate them. It just pretty prints them back out in the right order and trusts that if you didn't put parentheses there, then the intended meaning should be clear enough to the human reader.

So what, ultimately, will be the relationship between the parsing rules in the program and the semantic openness of the language? Similarly, if I've decided that the language should have implicit currying, such that `f a` where `f` is a function of two arguments, should resolve to a partially applied function of one argument - does that have any meaning aside from a sort of 'suggested reading'? One potential direction for things to evolve is that the language will consist of a set of rules which are enforced by the interpreter and will result in a syntax error if not followed, and a set of rules which are explained in the documentation as a suggested convention but enforced nowhere. In that case the question of something like function precedence is still an odd grey area where the parser does have rules associated with it, but the symbols can flow in and out of the parser without being affected by those rules.
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Assets load after about 15 secs, but oh man this is really well done! :)
The supercharger network is one of the main reasons I bought a Tesla, rather than a competing car like a Leaf or a Bolt. Without the Supercharger network, road-trips become charge-seeking adventures. I recall reading a story about somebody who drove their Bolt across a few states, and how they had to stop for hours at Chevy dealers, and scrounge charging wherever they can. With my Tesla, I stop for 30-45min every few hours while I get a snack and use the restroom.

Until there is a widespread, standard high speed charging network available, Tesla is basically the only choice for an EV that can do road trips.
Houses have intrinsic value, which comes from future rental cashflows. Let's ignore the premium that some people would pay over that just because they want to be owners of a house.

Then, it seems to me that house prices can be approximated as a function of rents, interest rates (determining required return on owning a house), and anticipated growth in house prices (which again can be decomposed into growth in rents, reduction in interest rates and 'irrational' growth). Using London as an example. Rental yields appear to be around 3.5% in London at the moment, which suggests to me that a good deal of anticipated growth is priced in. But where can that growth come from? Rents are a function of incomes and are unlikely to outpace inflation. Interest rates seem to be more likely to go up than down. So it seems that house prices are unlikely to rise, and once that is realized by the market, prices may even come down as participants stop anticipating growth just because "London house prices always go up".

So a bubble means that house prices are disconnected from fundamentals, that some irrational assumptions are built into the price. I am not entirely sure that there is a bubble - it seems to assume that you need to assume that there is also a sovereign debt bubble, i.e. the "risk-free rate" or the treasury yields are irrationally low. I am not sure if that is the case or not, but that is the subject for a different discussion.
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As someone who has (or better - had) no idea what is quantum computing about, I can say that this looks like an easy way to get informed and test whether you actually understand the concepts.
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This is great! I look forward to trying it out with my configs.

I'm currently using Mutterer: https://github.com/mwnx/mutterer
Hmm, I wonder how much Amazon expect their sales to increase by if a $15 minimum wage in implemented. Could it be a case that they expect the increase in customer spending to offset the costs?
> Real estate bubbles rarely burst unless there is accompanying unemployment. The reason is psychological, people hate realizing a loss.

Real estate bubbles generally burst when buy side gets squeezed. It doesn't matter if people sell homes and realize losses. The bursting of bubbles isn't a supply or sell side issue. It's a demand or buy side issue.

But there are many ways the demand side can be squeezed. The most prominent is increasing interest rates. Then there is unemployment as you noted during economic downturns. There are also legal methods - draconian anti-buyer laws. Imagine if a law was passed that banned sale of homes to foreigners and even gave foreigners 3 months to divest all property in X market. Not only would that burst the bubble, it would crash the housing market.

Bubbles form when the demand side is artificially increased while limiting supply side. For example, if you granted citizenship to foreigners if they buy a house. That would spike the demand for homes but the supply of homes wouldn't increase as quickly.

There are a myriad of reasons why bubbles form and why bubbles burst. Ultimately it's the manipulation of supply and demand sides which causes one or the other.
Amazing! Here's an issue we can use to discuss: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/41925
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I've also read that book, it was excellent!
Thanks, we just fixed the "Run" issue. Hope it works now.

We wanted to start with very simple concepts for the demo to validate if there is interest in this direction and it makes sense to work further.
A couple things to be happy about:

1. Private Browsing, separate sessions in web previews, etc. are all somewhat less privacy protecting than you'd hope (IP tracking[A], browser fingerprinting, etc.) the GDPR mandates that companies ask you about tracking before they do it. Those notices are a sign that they're trying to do that.

2. I do work in the tech, marketing and security arenas and the GDPR was like kicking a beehive. Everyone at least looked around and asked themselves: "Do we really need to keep this data?" and in many/most cases the answer was: "No". So they got rid of it.

The GDPR is a lot like a vaccine, the power is in the prevention. Which won't make splashy headlines, nobody is going to write: "A million records weren't leaked today b/c they were deleted off the server 6 months ago as they weren't needed."

A - every time GDPR comes up on HN, someone complains about IPs (either that it doesn't matter and/or that their Apache log file is full of them, so why bother). GDPR regs focus on what data a company is collecting, how are they using that data and did they get consent for that. In the case of IPs, you can consider implicit consent b/c they're browsing your site. But you did _not_ consent to have your IP tracked as part of a 3rd party marketplace for retargeting ads.
The argument is 1) there is no common definition of what is acceptable, globally it depends on our current living standard hence ultimately the society's level of development 2) on an individual level some would not make the same choices as you so it is ridiculous for you to make judgments on behalf of others 3) if we had implemented those kind of laws earlier, either everybody was forbidden of improving its conditions and freely shop for employers, there would have been enormous inflation (see Venezuela), or the laws wouldn't have been followed at all (most probable).

we should be OK with it continuing to be terrible

The fact is that most poor people right now are better off than two centuries ago ; so your adjective "terrible" is relative. In 200 years from now, maybe not having its own personal spaceship will be deemed "terrible" by some ;)
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sigh..

the cookie banner has nothing to do with GDPR..
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I see no issue with opt-in as default (which GDPR requires). Then people can make informed decisions and choose to be tracked, while less technical and privacy-mined people don't get tracked.
It's also hard to interview for another job when you're working and if you're not, the bias kicks in when you tell them you're currently out of work.

Salaried people sometimes forget that this is a luxury that's afforded only to them.
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is the site down?
edit: nevermind, my corporate firewall blocked it because it thinks it's a "proxy" website.
> But Bo Burnham’s quote really isn’t about that, he’s talking about getting lucky and having your career take off.

I think it was about both. Later in the clip he says to Conan O'Brien "We're tall white guys, we overcame nothing to get here."
This is not a very effective way to convince bystanders that have not yet already come to a conclusion.

I'm left wondering what you mean, but also afraid to engage because you're pretty hostile to what seems to be some great data around what you're saying. But to address that data, you now say that clearly what we thought you were saying was not what you meant, and that we should be disallowed from bringing up data?

But at the risk that I'm continuing to misunderstand what you're saying, could you point out an example of a building that should be for rent but that is vacant instead, as an example so that we can understand you?

What mechanism do you suggest that can find such buildings and compel them to become rented?

Are you suggesting something like building on vacant land or underutilized land (the YIMBY position), or just existing buildings?
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Yes they do control and inflate the money supply. So what ? both are happening at the same time
soon after that, it became his daily bonus...
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This is the key point. There are people who aren't trying to support a family as a sole wage earner.[1] If you raise the minimum wage, those jobs go away.

[1]https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm
Not really:

https://www.weetas.com/article/rent-income-ratio-17-major-ci...
They can't possibly verify that the Pokemon came from a network of breeders instead of one of them hacking it in right? Is it just that if you have a suspiciously perfect lineup you need at least a plausible sourcing explanation?
I'm afraid, I still don't understand. We are talking about a rented dedicated server here (not about some managed one), right?

> but once they have found the first

How did they find the HDD? As I said: They don't monitor your server. Did you request replacement of the HDD? If you request replacement of one disk, they swap one disk.

> Even if they are helping as a courtesy, they should test all the disks and do this right, before the customer continue.

How should that work? They remove all the HDDs from the server, put them into a different computer to run a test? That would be a privacy nightmare and add unnecessary downtime. I keep track of my HDD status (smartmontools, mdadm Events, ZFS Event Daemon). I know exactly what HDDs I want replaced. They just perform the actual, physical, replacement for me. And that is absolutely fine.
I'm very interested to see what Ford is coming out with in the 2020 time frame, with their fleet of "electrified" vehicles. I have a strong feeling that gas/electric hybrids which get decent electric-only range will be where the market is at (however they need to be targeting more than the 20-mile electric range they currently have). And I also like what I've read in some Ford interviews, where they aren't pushing electrification as an eco move, instead they plan on promoting it as a performance boost (i.e., the hybrid 2020 Mustang).
IMO .NET being closed source until recently was also a big factor in it's lack of world dominance. Why choose a proprietary language when there are several comparable opwn ones to choose from.
My old college machine! Brings back memories of all the hacks it took to get anything useful written in 64K.

I knew it was history when I was in Los Alamos at a surplus store in the 90's, and they had one out in the rain in the parking log. Not even worth dragging under cover.
Nice! I think there's an error in the bottom-left of the footer, which says "Day of the Day", instead of "Day of the Dead"?
Fun fact: Porsche almost bought VW*. From memory (don't hold me to this) I believe the recession of 2008 nuked these plans, and instead VW bought out Porsche!

https://www.automobilemag.com/news/porsche-and-volkswagen-wh...
Companies don't really deserve praise, practically ever because their motives are ultimately guided by profits. They only act in the interest of revenue. Sometimes those interests align with the employees, but let's not pretend this isn't self preservation on amazon's behalf.
Minor point - I think that your lessons under Fundamentals 1 (I) are in the wrong order. It starts with the second lesson (2. Qubits).
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i've always wondered about that. is it they feel uncomfortable because the person is wearing something normally associated with gangbanger/dodgy person.

would it happen if the person was dressed like whatever the stereotypical white person business casual attire is for the area?

i just can't see somebody being uncomfortable __just__ on color of skin. there surely has to be something else which triggers it.

person acting sketchy (maybe because they feel out of place rather than being up to dodgy activity?
VW is the largest car manufacturer in the world