skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this not an opportunity to disrupt subsistence wage service?

Consider there are 800K workers not being paid, and approximately one million affected contractors. Since salaries and contracts are mostly public, a chain ledger could issue prudent coin credits upon demand. Participating workers could microtransact for basic food and shelter. I realize this sounds like Wilbur Ross' "get a loan" idea, but this has complete transparency, zero friction and the obvious gravitas of blockchain pedigree.

Given the captive worker pool, the "proof of work" problem in traditional crypto coins can be solved---not by wasting power on hashing, but organically given the ability to document compulsory "essential services" (currently for no pay) by government workers. I.e., the government documents the "proof of work", first indirectly through FOIA and later through crafted transparency legislation to facilitate this scheme. This way, we could actualize the liquidity demand of unpaid workers.

Yes, this sounds novel, perhaps even dystopian. But tech has always innovated new ways to "harvest people"---first labor itself (eg "task rabbit" plays), then any prospect of raises, benefits, or wage mobility (uber), non-dischargeable educational debt (fake universities and state mandated licensing), and now the very payment of subsistence wages itself.

Technology can always "speed the harvest".

I might try to register eatca.ke (someone will take my money regardless), and zhuzh up a pitch deck.
This tool is highly useful: https://backgroundchecks.org/justdeleteme/

It ranks hundreds of websites from "easy" to "impossible".
Might want to check the names on this IETF draft... https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-mls-protocol-02.html
Absolutely - not only is it my personal preference, but when everybody's using OLED screens it'll also save quite a bit of energy!
Unlikely. Society shifted and gambling is stigma free.

My son is old enough that arcades are interesting to him now. I was pretty shocked to see how they have declined into shitty skinner boxes and games of chance to win tickets. That was always a factor, but is much more prominent today.

The casual acceptance of sports betting is another example of that shift. There’s probably some free marketeer who will opine that teaching children about gambling is a good thing!
> Girls raised by working moms are more likely to have careers, earn more money, and hold supervisory positions.

Note that "reduced headwinds" isn't one of these. Countries with high rates of mothers in the workforce don't necessarily have more flexible gender roles. Sweden, Denmark, and Norway have the highest rates of working mothers, but have some of the strongest workplace segregation.

It's also a largely circular justification: more working mothers are better because their daughters are more likely to become working mothers. Again, this only functions as a justification for those that subscribe to the belief that working mothers are categorically better than non-working mothers.

My original point, from which we have diverged significantly by now, is that this article and many in this thread seem to believe that working mothers are categorically better than full time mothers. This seems to have led us to respond positively to measures that increase the former, even when those measures are coercive (in this case, cutting benefits and putting more financial burden on mothers).
It was a hint, but yeah support the author. I initially torrented a copy, liked it, and bought it off of Amazon. And it's a great book to thumb through.
It would be reasonable to spot-check driver's license (which they necessarily have for driving said vehicle). Should be easy enough to verify against the handicap permit.
Here is my own version:

$ echo -n 'The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven, c and nine.' | sha256sum
182a7c930b0e5227ff8d24b5f4500ff2fa3ee1a57bd35e52d98c6e24c2749ae0

(Edit: a better version).
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Fascinating. This retention tactic is usually pitched as a successful last-ditch attempt to retain subscription customers, but it comes at a hidden cost to the brand - and losing repeat buyers like yourself.

Comcast, Blue Apron, credit cards, etc. do it but I didn't think publishers were getting to this point.
I just don't like having to look things up, or remember them, or tell someone else about them, or make sure the things I told them or that they told me are still true six months later, or check manually that I haven't typo'd a variable name, and so on and so on, when a machine can do those things for me.

The absolute worst case with TS is that I'm as bad off as I would be in JS (use "any", or "as", or provide a dummy anything-goes d.ts for a lib, or whatever). I haven't found that I actually need to do those things very often, even being fairly lazy and having a very low tolerance for time lost to managing my tools.
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This isn't really a solution, though. It's just moving the problem somewhere else. The problem then becomes things such as linking existing Third Party Identifiers like email, phone numbers etc. to the users key (which most regular users want to be able to do). The idea of a user per key in general also becomes problematic with multi-device usage or a device compromise. You will not be able to revoke access to any device without throwing away your whole identity.
I too watched a couple of "Fool Us" videos and now YouTube believes I am training full-time to be a professional magician.
You can have a GPL-licensed SaaS that charges you for stuff
How much would be his salary at MS? Not looking for an exact number :-)
How much higher could they have possibly been in Ontario? A pack of Du Maurier runs you almost $20 CAD these days...
if it takes more than 30min to cancel a service/account i just call my bank, explain the situation and reject all future transactions from that merchant.
Hmm, its been a while since I last used it...

But I'd say it simply has a different scope: The Closure Compiler takes a subset of Javascript and creates highly optimized code. It optimizes the execution, not the development workflow.

Typescript forces you to think differently about the implementation itself. While the CC also imposes constraints on types and checks them during compilation, in the end I really just wrote Javascript (and sometimes pretty messy one).

In the end, I don't think either technology can be a substitute for code quality. But for me, with Typescript its certainly easier to produce a better coding style.
So they can just return money to all the wronged people now? Or did they already? How about people outside of US?

I mean there would have to be some criteria for deciding who to return money to, but I'm sure they can come up with something less arbitrary than the original decision making that's hinted at in the article.
Yup. Only times I used taxi or ridesharing in Japan was when I flew in with elderly relatives, and taking Uber to the hotel made far more sense than trying to herd 6 people and their luggage through several train changes, and when we were stuck on Mt. Fuji because the kid decided to try hiking to the top, forgot to turn on his phone, and we missed the last bus back (pro-tip 1: calling a taxi to the half-way station on Mt. Fuji and going to the nearest train station is bloody expensive; pro-tip 2: even in a middle of summer, once the sun sets it's bloody cold up there).

Other than that, getting anywhere using transit worked great; but the Shinkansen is a very small piece of the puzzle.
Yes, but it's generally specialists in other countries making a lot. See [1]. US-based GPs make a lot more because they go through almost the same amount of time and effort as specialists.

[1] https://journal.practicelink.com/vital-stats/physician-compe...
> We've had library maintainers reject our typings we provide back to the community. We've had library maintainers say they have no desire to provide any support to typescript users because "its a fad" and "ts is just js, you don't need types, live with it" (not joking, not exaggerating).

Why did you submit the types directly to them rather than to DefinitelyTyped? It's great when libraries maintain their own typings, but TypeScript handles the case where they don't really well.

>Express is a good example; you might have middleware which parses a bearer token and attaches it to the request. When the request hits the next middleware or request handler, its just a normal request. There's no way to assert at compile time that "this middleware came before, the request is now a new type with this extra field". Express, Apollo, the list goes on.

Yeah, this can be a pain. In situations like this, I've defined types like `type RequestWithAuthField = Request & {auth: AuthField};` and then in handlers that I knew came after the auth middleware, I'd immediately cast the request parameter to that type. It is an escape hatch and I'd prefer to not have to do that though.

>Further, the community around creating Typescript-native libraries is exceedingly small and, as far as I can tell, dying.

Besides that they're sure to avoid TypeScript-unfriendly APIs (unlike Express), I don't think there's much difference between a library with good type definitions and a TypeScript-native library. (Maybe the library could have bugs that it being authored in TypeScript would have avoided.)

I don't fully disagree with your points. There's a lot awkward about TS on the backend, but at the same time there's not much quite like it.
This is just a link to a snarky tweet ... surely there has to be a better resource on the benefits of dark mode that we could post on HN for discussion?
If you want to invest in or speculate in (i.e. time your installation on your house) it looks like the model to follow is the historical DRAM market: a largely undifferentiated commodity market that depend mainly on cap ex and scale, thus subject to boom and bust as technologies changed (or failed to).

the fact that they are both silicon technologies I think is tangental
> Affordable point-to-point transit enables lower income folks to have nice houses and work jobs in the city, all while still having enough time left over for cooking & hanging out with family.

And you do that on the backs of those who live in denser communities.
The course is amazing. I was frustrated in late 2018 when they promoted their code to "v1" but kept iterating with breaking changes on a literal daily basis. I have stopped using their library because of this+insufficient time. However, their work is so amazing that I will pick it up again when I have more time. Yes, it's so good that I will deal with daily breaking changes to use it.
What high speed train got to do with housing? It is a replacement for airplane. Except from few people nobody in Japan use them to commute to work, it is for inter city travel and it costs like a flight ticket.

Japan solved this problem with very lax zoning rules, high density and regular trains and metro, same as NY only far better implemented, that's all. You don't need to go all the way to Japan to figure it out.
The attrition rate is google-public, but not public-public.
The flicker on a vt52 in inverted mode would drive you bonkers.
Note: this is a video; should have [Video] in title.
This is the same reason I pay bills via my bank bill pay rather than giving EFT access to the folks who send me bills. One point of control, and the bank is invented to help me with payment issues rather than throw up roadblocks.
Since October 2016 this practice is explicitly outlawed (for most cases) https://www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Artikel/DE/2015/12182015_Verb...

Although the way you describe it probably wasn't legal for a long time.
I live in Texas. My family lives 300 miles away, in Texas, and my last grandparent lives a further 200 miles in the same direction (also in Texas).

The two lane highways I take are the only way I would be able to see my family. Passenger trains and airplanes don't go to those places. A bus could get me there, after taking a grand tour of some of the other metro areas in the state.

For those of us out here, traveling the two lane blacktop in a gas powered vehicle is the only way we can live or survive.
30 minutes? You're quite patient. If it took longer than 5 minutes on the phone I'd probably call my bank.
djb's old daemontools suite had an interesting solution to the "how to log failure when you can't write to a log" problem: a persistent child process with some space reserved in its argv, where it can stash some error messages which you can see with "ps" even when disks have failed.

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/readproctitle.html
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The thing that would make the most sense would be to allow the First Nations tribe in question to vote on which country it should belong to, and, regardless of the outcome of the vote, to grant all residents of it dual citizenship (Due to existing ties that members of the tribe have to persons living outside of the reserve.)

Everything else either:

1. Compromises the border. (If you don't care about the border, then this point is, of course, negotiable.)

2. Draws an arbitrary geopolitical line, that benefits[1] two super-powers[2], at the expense of the rights and freedoms of a nation, that has been there long before the existence of Canada and the United States, and will likely remain long after.

[1] Actually, it's not even clear if there are any benefits to the current state of affairs.

[2] Think Germany, being split in half by the East/West border - or the Berlin wall. It sure as hell wasn't built for the benefit of the Germans.
I sadly agree with this. I think SF is broken beyond repair.

I identify as a liberal democrat, it makes me sad that a city that has been under the control of my preferred political ideology for decades is so completely dysfunctional.

It makes me wonder if there just aren't enough people who share my values but actually have skill in governance.
Outlook on Mojave looks real bad until you disable Dark Mode just for Outlook.

I think Office suite for macOS needs some UI improvements to look better in Dark Mode. At least for text boxes when composing email.
Most? In Vietnam (where my parents live) with $5 a month you can do everything (Internet, call and text, or even watching Youtube for short period of time).
Just be aware that the trigger for double dissolution can be exploited to bolster the government if they feel public sentiment is in their favour for the duration of the shutdown and election.
Or you could save your money and just wash your hands in the basin as was originally intended.
Northern California housing costs have been rising much faster than inflation for well over 30 years. Yes it corrected some in 2001 and 2008, but then continued to march upward, always regaining previous highs within 2-3 years, and then surpassing them.

Look at the charts here https://www.bayareamarketreports.com/trend/bay-area-real-est...
The unsheltered people of my life don't have stable salaries or jobs, dont even imagine what paid leave is. The ones with 6 figure salaries are the ones on paid leave. Still anecdotal, but im pretty sure you will find that most paid leave is taking by people that dont need it. The ones that need it the most dont have stable jobs or benefits.
But do people regularly go between SF and CA? Are those people not well served by the cheap and frequent flights?

It seems like the train should aim to replace a route served (poorly) by daily vehicular traffic.
Other than PayPal monetizing your payment history, sure it’s great. Apple makes it even easier.

This is tangential, but on the topic of PayPal and privacy, this article is interesting about PayPal and HIPAA: https://simple.icouch.me/blog/is-paypal-hipaa-compliant-revi...

Short answer: if privacy matters, PayPal is a non-starter. I don’t want news publishers to have my information either. I know publishers like to howl and whine about “owning the customer relationship,” but unless they allow Apple for subscriptions, I won’t subscribe. I don’t need to be constantly reminder if their “special offers.”
This happened to me too with NYT. 20 minutes on the phone with some poor woman whose compensation I'm sure depended in part on convincing me not to cancel.

I was really surprised because they generally have a good reputation as an organization. I'll never let them get their hands on my payment details again.
If motorcycles were safer, I would agree with you. A fender bender or flat tire in a car is one thing. The same thing in a motorcycle is almost certainly either fatal, traumatic, or life-altering levels debilitating.

They don't call motorcyclists donors for nothing.
Do you see any way that Democrats could have come to the table and negotiated to end this? Do you think they should have compromised to end shutdown? Compromised as in, funding the wall but putting money for increased bandwidh for asylum seekers. Permanent status for DACA recipients. What would you accept personally?

Obviously the Senate changed between December and Jan.

Just as obviously things have changed since Obama proposed a wall.

It has become a political mouthpiece. Democrats would put funding out there if it wasn't a wall just to make Trump lose and he won't let that happen. It is about each side wanting to win, and we lose.

His justification for the wall is bullshit, but there are a lot of Republican pundits out there who have solid reasoning behind the wall with some (albiet questionable) data to support it There is an estimate that immigration costs the US 116b per year, with another more conservative estimate at ~60b. Both agreeing that there is a cost to illegal imigrants on the system. The highest cost being on educating the youth, which then as naturalized citizens become tax payers. Speculation on the data from the lower estimate is that this is also a wash. This is what I was able to dig up but I'm sure there is even more nuance to these arguments. I'd suggest you go dig too and don't take my word for it.

What I want to see - A bill proposing a wall, but also an increased and reformed immigration policy that allows low wage workers a path to the USA without needing to be asylum seekers. I'd like to see us make it easier for people from the southern border to come in and find a place and pay taxes. That gives us teh ability to vet migrants in a systemic way (and secure), but also fight the negative birth rate in the US.

Edit, I also want you to know while we can disagree I think conversation is good. I by no means support Trump, I think he's a black stain on the Republican party. It's disgusting. But I try to look at each thing he does outside of the rhetoric he spews, which is honestly very hard. .
the only way a specialist makes more than 200k is:
1)owns a significant interest in a surgicenter
2)is a dermatologist
3)is an administrator
4)works to death (>100 hrs a week and dont forget the on call)

Reimbursement is set by the fed (medicare rates) and ins cos base their rates off of that.
Ask HN: When did you lose control of your inbox?
Was it a certain year, a certain age, a certain job, a change in life situation?
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Pangrammers, more than meets the eye.
> reliable as RFC 1149

Don't tell me... As reliable as Twitter? It's got birds :-D
I'm not sure if it'll apply in your case, but I contacted support and they actually showed me that the backups were still available up to 30 days ~after~ the backup was supposedly deleted from the servers. I managed to recover my files with one day to spare (29 days after Backblaze supposedly deleted them). So it actually gave me 59 days since I last plugged the drive in. If you're within that window it might work for you.

This is what they said to me:

When you are viewing the contents of your backup, keep the "From" field at "Beginning of time" and change the "To" to a time when the data you need was still available. Please note that this can only be done up to the last 30 days since the last update on the backup.

Here is an article that describes the process https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002936953-Ho...
Not to mention trashing your credit in the process.
What are some of Katalon's shortcomings you've experienced? Asking because it's one of the top options right now.
But this is ignoring the fact that the only reason that population structure exists is because of auto dependence. Train lines worked before, they would work again, if people lived more reasonably close to each other so last mile wasn't such an issue.
> I identify as a liberal democrat, it makes me sad that a city that has been under the control of my preferred political ideology for decades is so completely dysfunctional.

Some people say that the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing in the same way, while expecting different results.
Totally agree. I suggest that we exchange each car for one homeless person or one truck for one homeless person with hiv. Inclusive all the All way.
The price of the PV modules only makes up like 1/3 the cost of a utility scale solar installation and like 1/5 the cost of residential installations. A 10-15% increase in module cost will not slow solar adoption that much. The solar train will keep chugging along.

We'll eventually get to a point where we generate 5% of the world's power with solar and people will still underestimate its impact and will still claim its too expensive to scale...
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When my father was diagnosed with a terminal illness one of the first things the doctor did was to submit revocation paperwork to the DMV. Unfortunately he lived in a very automobile-addicted area and being unable to drive proved very isolating for him.

The solution, of course, wasn't to figure out how to get him behind the wheel. The solution is weaning communities off of their car dependence.
What release will be stable if version 3.1 has serious clustering issues?
The old, bad days version 1.0 was considered stable :)
The economic impact started when the shutdown began and furloughed employees stopped their discretionary spending because they had no idea how long they would have to stretch out that last pay check and life savings.

By the time the effects of the economic downturn are visible (such as airports cancelling flights because they have insufficient traffic control), you can expect that the damage done will take years to unwind.

Just because you get back pay in a month or two doesn't mean you return to the previous level of discretionary spending immediately. You are now a consumer with lack of confidence in the economy. You don't know when the next Presidential tantrum is going to shut down the government.

This will affect all the services that government employees used on a daily basis: cafes, restaurants, laundromats, house cleaning, gardeners, etc.

Consumer confidence may not return till long after this president is ejected, assuming the USA actually has any more presidential elections and the Tumpists don't just take over the country.
Being poor is a very real issue somebody can face. Attributing the cause of this state of affairs as being the intentional result of a coordinated group of people, without real evidence that this is the case, is a conspiracy theory.

I seems to me that 'The Patriarchy' / 'The Privileged' on the left are conceptually quite similar to 'The Deep State' or 'The Jews' on the right. And those are most often described as conspiracy theories, and rightly so.
I wonder if her mother, who let her publish this article, really grasps how invasive it is. It strikes me as an example of "praeteritio," the rhetorical device of mentioning that which can't be mentioned. It's very well written, but is it in earnest? Because I feel she's shared too great an intimacy. But I suppose the writer's gaze is always somewhat rapacious.
Lol there is a precedent for the regulations in place that you are after to be handled locally. Lets just take all the things and federalize it until I get my way.
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