skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but $15 is not too high for Seattle.

That is key in my view. We should do away with a federally mandated uniform minimum wage all together and instead mandate that states pay a minimum wage that makes sense for their state. Get all the smart economists in a room and figure out what formula makes sense whether its based on the state level GDP (or even county), cost of living in that area, economic opportunity, etc.

While $15 isn't too high for Seattle restaurant workers, it is much too high for a rural North Carolina town with population 15,000 where there are a few restaurants in town and the average plate cost is 9 bucks and the center of the town is the Walmart shopping center.
To let go of the reins and understand you are not[a developer anymore.
How would you implement that?
We had the same experience, much easier to use since it has a built in sprite and map editor and easier functions. Don't forget to read the manual (accompanying txt file) because it is extremely instructive and you'll miss out on a lot of basic functionality if you don't! It explains not only the API, but how to use the various editors, and even the very helpful differences in PICO-8's own Lua compared to PUC-Rio's Lua.

As a word of caution from one parent to another, I know it's common lately to encourage children to software careers, and even push them toward it, but I've found it's far better to encourage them to cultivate whatever interests and skills they have a natural inclination for. My daughter told me she doesn't want to learn PICO-8 or Scratch, so immediately I backed off and let her cultivate the crafts and crocheting interests and she seems far happier than many young people I've met.
Ha - Looks like I need to use an editor on my own landing page. Thank you!
> I reject this idea that we need to go Full Monty: from one end of the spectrum (no privacy, complete state control over money and banks) to the other end, financial anarchy.

It's not going towards "anarchy" unless you're defining it to mean "there is no one from a government agency involved."

A market is a regulatory mechanism: prices via arbitrage transmit information about supply and demand directing actors to devote their efforts to alleviate scarcity. And cryptocurrencies by design have mechanisms that help enforce contracts which is directly regulatory.
I would like to know if the higher minimum wage resulted in higher prices for the end consumer. Has anyone in Seattle noticed this?

I don't see how they couldn't. It seems to me raising minimum wage is just pouring gasoline on the inflation fire.
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> can’t cross water on their own,

Ahh, did not realize you where trolling about a world without bridges. I mean wtf dude, the inefficiency from running a 24/7 subway reduces the city's ability to afford more bridges.
Functionally, this may be different but I am struggling to see how conceptually this makes any difference in the development process.
Unreal engine blueprint system is quite successful. People do pretty complex stuff with it.
Wait, huh? How does DRY increase coupling?

I mean, I guess the duplicate code/class is now coupled to the two places that use it, but I have a hard time seeing how that is worse than two duplicate instances of the code.
It's not as straightforward. The stay-at-home-parent leaves the workforce which is good for the first pre-school years cost-wise, but getting back into the workforce after those "lost" years (bad term, as they're not lost -- there's true value in them to society, it's just not paid work) is inheritently difficult.

Overall lifetime income is impacted by this decision.

This is the substantive metric for the gender wage gap as that gap is measured in the overall lifetime income, not the per-wage of equivalent positions as it's inaccurately reported.

Women generally leave the workforce to care for children, lose their prestige/position and when re-entering have to start at the beginning or lower position/wage and try to catch-up.

Better childcare options would improve this immeasurably, or less stigma around both parents sharing the childcare time equitably would as well. In some countries this is the case, and it is having a measurable impact on childbirth rates.
How does the rest of the world manage to have enormous families (by our standards) without childcare service and on a much smaller income?
I think the research as a whole is pretty clear - if you raise the minimum wage a small amount compared to the market rate, it has small positive effect on worker pay, and a small negative effect on business costs (ie costs go up a little bit)

If you have a large increase above market wages, you have a large positive effect on worker pay (for those who continue to be employed) and a large negative effect on costs (costs go up a lot), leading to reductions in employment through businesses closing / increased automation.

A simple thought experiment suggests it is certainly possible to set the minimum wage too high - if that weren’t the case, why not set the minimum wage to $1000 per hour?
A new concurrency system for Nim (2013)
Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct (2013)
Good old XMPP. If it wasn't so intimidating to setup from a layman's perspective, I'd probably run my own relay(?) at home and use it for direct communication with close family/friends.
Katherine Johnson is a badass. I need to watch Hidden Figures!
Thanks for the suggestions, these books have just been added to my shopping cart. I'm afraid to not have enough experience (5 years) and so I'm trying my best to overcome any lack of experience with study.
Even CDPR (the darling of the gaming world) isn't above this. GOG (which is part of CDPR) has done this in the past. Give money, and get a random game.
The full title is "Offender Employment – Guidance for businesses on the benefits and processes of offering employment and training opportunities to offenders in prison and on release." which is way too long for HN's title box.
Pretty neat. Happy to see a youtube-to-gif online tool without invasive ads :)
They[0] always look at restaurants. Go look at child care workers and see what happens to them. A restaurant can work with fewer employees, but child care facilities have to maintain a certain number per child. Would be interesting to see research into that aspect of raising wages.

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Take care of your people.

Know the difference between being a boss and a leader - becoming a manager doesn't mean you know better.

Negativity is like a virus. If you're a cynical engineer, figure out how to not project that cynicism.

Focus on outcomes. Whatever the day to day drama is, move towards your goals.
Advise to myself on random topics
Where did you find that the date of the hack was in 2017. As far as I can tell it was until October 2018: "The leaked data, which was illegally collected until October 2018 and released December 2018, but just found now, is still publicly available."

https://mobile.twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/108109176879...
I find the linked tweets from another Youtuber [1] and a random person [2] quite informative about the mentality that is apparently present in the Youtuber sphere. Reminder: this is about channels with a significant acknowledged underage audience.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/10802743994109542...

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/protecdaniel/status/1080384613988...
Are there alternative economic models which correctly predicted this? How high do they think that we can make the minimum wage without affecting employment?
Ah, I didn't see how the blinding factor was being used (the code is actually easier to understand than the paper). This has approximately the same linkability as monero, inferior to zcash (complex) or chaumian tokens (hyper-efficient, but centralized per-currency, although currencies can be permissionless).
No, they rely less on government benefits, and also have higher employment rates.
The math indicates that the singularity was infinitely dense and infinitely hot... if you're already allowing that something infinitely dense could be real, then infinitely fast expansion doesn't seem less crazy. Going from an infinite temperature to a finite temperature is an infinite amount of cooling, which also seems impossible; likewise, an infinite density to a finite one.

You'd need infinite expansion to do that- if it was merely finite, you'd still end up with an infinite density. Expanding an infinitely dense point to a bowling ball still gets you an infinite density; you need to expand it out "infinitely far" (whatever that means) to spread stuff out enough to get a merely finite density.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_singularity

It seems more likely that the singularity at t=0 in general relativity isn't physical- what does an infinite density even mean?
Inflation that has missed targets negatively for a decade. NGDP targeting would say ease!
If you watch H3H3's original videos, it's clear that the edit that PewDiePie watched was misleading to make it seem like Ethan was claiming BetterHelp personally helped him. It took a clip out-of-context from an advertisement-free video. To Ethan's credit, it was clear in his videos that it was paid advertisement and he didn't personally use the service, and he did stop advertising for them.
Glad to see the community around XMPP is still active.

/me prepares the cake.
I agree with jki275, you should be able to find gigs that pay better which leverage your existing experience AND will give you time to up your engineering skills
I was frustrated with Udacity for the same reason, plus, their ostensible expertise is way overstated [1]. The entire reason I'm paying for a course is to be able to bounce arbitrary questions off experts. They provide people who are still in the fake-it-till-you-make-it stage that's so popular.

[1] Earlier comment where I asked a basic question that went beyond the understanding of the literal face of the course. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18596450#18601298
I guess if you see Blizzard, EA, etc. making money hand-over-fist then there's a strong temptation to replicate that?
I have not read the new paper, but the NYT article that Bloomberg links to summarizes it rather differently.

> A research team including economists from the University of Washington has put out a paper showing that Seattle’s recent minimum-wage increases brought benefits to many workers employed at the time, while leaving few employed workers worse off. (NYT)

> The workers who worked the most ahead of the minimum-wage increase appeared to do the best....The workers who worked less in the months before the minimum-wage increase saw almost no improvement in overall pay — $4 a month on average over the same period, although the result was not statistically significant. While their hourly wage increased, their hours fell substantially....It’s the final group of workers — the potential new entrants who were not employed at the time of the first minimum-wage increase — that Mr. Vigdor and his colleagues believe fared the worst. They note that, at the time of the first increase, the growth rate in new workers in Seattle making less than $15 an hour flattened out and was lagging behind the growth rate in new workers making less than $15 outside Seattle’s county. This suggests that the minimum wage had priced some workers out of the labor market, according to the authors. (NYT)

In addition, the Bloomberg article claims that the original research contradicts "the vast majority research on minimum wages" which holds that "modest, gradual wage increases have not been shown to reduce employment or hours worked in any significant way", which is irrelevant, because Seattle raised its minimum wage by 37% in one year--neither modest nor gradual.

In short, this is not a summary to be trusted.
If you can send a payment instruction, you could send a 0-value transaction textual message. Ability to do true anonymous electronic cash implies the ability to do everything else.
Clearly, there is some minimum wage that would hurt the economy, cause inflation and cost jobs. Is it $15/hr? How about $100/hr? So we shouldn’t be arguing about a principle (“minimum wages don’t hurt the economy”), but rather an amount (“$15/hr doesn’t hurt Seattle’s economy”).

Articles like this irritate me because they’re about proving “the other side” wrong rather than engaging in reasonable debate.
The biggest challenge I find is code. If I'm trying to deliver, I can't give myself the thinking time to identify challenges and produce solutions. I can't orchestrate people if I'm under duress to deliver. So really try to separate code and management and move your focus from one to the other. Seek mentorship and guidance in managing this balance from inside the organization - it's the killer of anyone who would hope to be a decent lead.
Apple has some Clojure positions. I recently just got one actually.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=Clojure&sort=rele...
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Only if you don't count housing, healthcare and education.
Off the top of my head, does ‘%’ capture all the lines?

(It does that, or stands-in for the actual filename, or something else :/ )
I'm curious to know what you find intimidating, and I'm sure there are plenty of people ready to help.
>Maybe we should consider admitting that not all babies have equal potential

Are you actually being serious here?
Submitted it here so that someone can review/add something much better.
I'm not sure what most teams do now-a-days but I went to GDC in Koln and saw the Croteam talk. Over 10 or so years by programmers just adding a little here and there as it occurred to them they had build a pretty cool testing system.

First they had made it so if someone was playing the game and saw a bug they could press the "file a bug" key, type in a description and the game would save out enough info to bring someone back to that point in the game, same camera, and possibly other state. From the bug database they could click a link that would launch the game back into that state, let someone verify the fix and mark it as fixes.

The also had a waypoint system for bots to play through the puzzles (this was the Talos Principle they were talking about). If the bots ever got stuck, as in didn't make to the next waypoint within some time limit they bots would file a bug using the system above.

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022784/Fast-Iteration-Tools-i...

As another interesting idea apparently the creator of Thumber built a URL system so people press a button which would generate a URL into the clipboard, they could then paste that URL into Slack (or email/chat/etc) that would launch the game in a particular state to pass that other users on the team.
It's a great book, probably the best (or most delightful) biography I've read of anyone, in any field. It not only gives a picture of the subject as a person (as any biography should I guess), but actually engages with the person's work and gives a flavour of it — what's the point of a biography of an artist or poet that does not show their art or poetry? The "love" in the title of this book is very apt: not only did Erdős love numbers, but this a biography written with love, and the reader will love it too.
I'm interested in the technical optimisation side if you're open to a couple of questions...

- I can see that some kind of clustering is occurring whilst assigning orders to couriers. Does this use a standard clustering algorithm (e.g. k-means) or something from scratch? If the latter, would you be able to go into it in a little more detail?

- Are you optimising the ordering of items after courier assignment (e.g. insertion/2-opt heuristics), or leaving that to the courier?

- It looks like you're using google maps' api to calculate travel times/distances. Does this limit the number of times a client can run the program, depending on their license?

- Did any interesting technical assumptions get made based on the type of service being provided? For example, I can see that an estimate of the service duration is made based on the size of the delivery, but I'm wondering if the actual algorithm is affected by the nature of gas delivery.
Interesting how you made up your whole point without any single piece of data.
Do immigrants rely more on government assistance to raise their children? You don't know, and yet, you had your whole argument ready.
1. Make sure you understand what role you are striving for. People rarely agree what is difference between "Manager" and "Leader", but ensure you understand your own definition and what your preferences are.
(for myself: a Team Lead is also a subject area expert, and may spend time both guiding their team to success, coaching, mentoring, and interfacing with other teams and upper management; as well as performing design/architecture, assignment, troubleshooting and maybe even some hands-on work themselves. They are the person other team members turn to guidance.
Scariest sentence I heard in my university years was "A good manager needs not be a subject area expert", but I now understand it better: they understand the company, business, strategic imperatives, processes and frameworks, deadlines and pressures, stakeholders and environment; and ideally should work to remove obstacles from team members, ensure the team is working at high efficiency and in the right direction, and interface at high level with client and senior leadership.

Team leads have more fun, but that statement is relative :)

If going into management-proper:
2. Make sure you are prepared to give up the hands-on. Absolutely the hardest part for most technical people I've ever met.

3. Make sure you're prepared not to be the SME anymore. You simply won't have the time to be up-to-date on either every detail that's going on with the system or systems you're managing, or industry standards and movements.

4. Learn about people as voraciously as you would have about technical items. Communication is a hard skill to learn and cannot be acquired alone. Aggressively seek mentors and feedback. Run post-mortems: What happened in that meeting and why? Did we reach our goals? Why or why not?

5. Absolutely most importantly: take care of your people. Enable and support and coach them to success. This can be the least externally but most internally satisfying and gratifying part of the job. Depending on your workplace, you may or may not be recognized for developing your team, but this should be your #1 priority, and if you gain personal satisfaction from seeing your team members soar and take flight, you should do OK :)
City-states have historically lead to far more numerous wars.

I won't argue the fact that Cyrus was enormously influential to the course of fertile crescent civilizations. That said, really he was just one of the first Fertile Crescent leaders to see not only the weaknesses of the city-state, but the means by which to exploit those weaknesses. (It's just that what he did to exploit those weaknesses was so radically orthogonal to the way things were done at the time that even today we're still calling the guy Cyrus the Great.)

Once the Nation-State idea was out of the bag, city-states just couldn't compete. Even the Greek city states fell to Macedon because by the end of the Theban hegemony, they were all so weak that even Macedon, effectively a baby nation-state at the time, was able to take them out. City-states wouldn't be able to compete today either. You'd always have to have some great power around to back them. Even Federations of city-states have faired poorly historically.

It's like continuing to rely on bronze swords once people got the hang of making iron ones. It no longer mattered all of the reasons that bronze was better for you, because iron was better when it counted. The cat was out of the bag, you could try to put it back in the bag, but everyone's already seen it.
How much money do you have to bet?
pushing drugs on others is and bullying is not was hacker news is about.

Your comment shows lack of details and closed mindedness. For one thing "No user of this product has ever harmed anyone else as a result of using it."

Thats like saying all drunk car crashes were a result of just bad driving.
The 'Busy' Trap
In the Loop – January 2019
Two main things
1) You should think & ask about what the goals you really want for you.
2) You have to fight for resources

1- Do you want a team that works really hard and produces a lot? Or has good quality of life? Technically strongest or business focused? Grow new junior people or stick with those who know what you're doing? Usually people just take one day at a time and at the end of year disappointed where they end up. Will you get paid more if you choose which one of those choices? Or maybe you care more about love of your team, or professional accomplishments than money. Think about that.

2- When there is more and more work I tend to come in on weekends and work longer hours. Other teams just say they can't do it without more resources. I wish I was like the other teams.
It's very difficult to keep your digital record clean your entire life. Anyone who manages it is either very able and motivated or Amish.
Source? Preferably broken down by the visa type they used to come in (or lack thereof). The article is explicitly suggesting easing restrictions on immigration of low-wage laborers to help with housework, not doctors and engineers.
My favorite is actually the NIH reproach at https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15607&cid=2048695 - somebody always tries to reinvent the wheel!
You must internalize the fact that you can get things done just by talking to people. These days I rarely commit code but influence the direction of code with 1:1s and coaching. My biggest suggestion would be to shift your focus to the broader picture. Think of process improvement as your primary job. You now have the power to remove toil from the lives of your direct reports' day to day so seek out ways to do so and you will have increased the productivity of your team by a large multiple even with a small improvement.
>Youtube seems like the wild west.

YT to me is more like Kowloon Walled City - massive and amazing as a monolithic entity, and you can find amazing gems - but when you look closely, its a lawless cess-pool with a confusing and almost evil method of getting around - and things that shouldn't be anywhere near each-other are practically roommates, rather than neighbors. And you should
not trust any strangers you come across, no matter what they promise you. Also, its a terrible place for children to be unattended - and is largely ungoverned by those who should be governing it...
You buried your single good point behind a deluge of irrelevant facts and unreasonable exaggerations.
Initially the system took 8 hours of reading and 2 days of refactoring to grasp.

Now it takes 2 hours.

I’ll take that.
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I think I'm on the same side as you, but you don't help your case by making wild claims like:

> No user of this product has ever harmed anyone else as a result of using it
Have you considered the background of a person talking about such a course? They might have read more than you about the topic, so they reasonably feel that the course brings nothing new.

The problem is that it doesn't bring anything new to them, but they forget that other people don't have the same knowledge as they do. This is called the course of knowledge, where you forget what it was like before you knew something.

What I can say about "Learning how to learn" specifically is that it covers how to encode information for better retention, what strategies to use to increase long-term recall (there are 3 and they're unintuitive), how to use chunking, how to build habits.

Sure, you could cover these topics in 5 minutes, but you wouldn't do them justice. Especially for someone who's encountering them for the first time.
And the question is whether minimum wage ever does anything good on net.