skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "early-access" price which decreases over time is an approximation of a Dutch auction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction

Dutch auctions are incentive-compatible - they allocate the resource to the person that gains the highest utility for having it. Maybe Google got some of the people working on ads auctions to design this pricing structure.
In a pressurized water reactor the water is the moderator (bounces and slows the neutrons) and dissolved boron is the poison used to control the reaction.
https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/Main.pdf
Most retail and fast food businesses are running on razor thin margins, especially when the economy starts to weaken. There are a few exceptions.

There was a lawsuit in the last few years between Burger King and its franchisees because Burger King required them to sell the double cheeseburger for $1. The franchisees could not afford the extra slice of cheese on the burger or they would lose money on it. This was the reason McDonald's created the McDouble which was two patties and one slice of cheese.

McDouble Story: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6803935
How exactly is Facebook spying on me on every damn website without ever even telling me about it, let alone asking me, and with giving me nothing in return, a fair trade?

How exactly is Facebook pressuring people into using their services by establishing a quasi-monopoly on the social graph a fair trade?
It's better than running your own smtp servers. But the article proposes using your own gmail account, to which the server has an app password. So a server compromise leads to your own email being compromised. It should be a separate gmail account.
The are many well paying jobs available that are not getting filled. Go learn to weld, operate heavy equipment, plumb, etc... The real question is why anyone older than a teenager works for minimum wage (at least more than temporarily).

https://mrwf.jobboard.io
Just imagine if it's just some tech guy, maybe unemployed or something, tired of being broke, who just needs to pay rent or something? That's what's concerning, people don't even need to have a cause, they can just be desperate. The government will be tracking the people who have a cause. You can go to the government to get help against those people because those people have something to lose. What about the people with nothing to lose? More and more people are out of work or underemployed, but I'm pretty sure the number of people who need to pay their bills remains constant.

All of a sudden all this data starts to make well off people look more like meal tickets. Imagine how easy it would be to get money out of that rich looking lawyer guy who's having an affair? Or maybe the well off looking doctor lady who voiced some views about blacks that her hospital, and the local naacp, might find interesting?

This economy, combined with massive data retention and security breaches, will make for some real perverse incentives in the future. We could conceivably get to the point where all you'd need to be is some guy with internet access who needs to pay rent by the end of the month.
We've had multiple minimum wage increases throughout history. Many states are going through increases now of up to $5 over 4 years. So rather than hypotheticals there is ample evidence that you could use to prove your theories. Can you do that?
Uhh today the area is undergoing massive development.
You have to love the undertone of violence to gun rights though:

> Most are very quiet unless pressed.

"hint hint we'll shoot ya dead!" Uh, that's why we're anti-gun, thanks for clarifying.
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With the risk of sounding patronizing, the wikipedia page provides answers to all your questions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
New laws are what are needed, not tech.
HTML ain't the problem; you can build websites without tracking. If you somehow managed to pull enough users to Gopher, they'd just write Gopher Chrome and start adding new features that conveniently allow tracking into it, and gradually kill off the original protocol (see EEE). The problem is economic, and the solution must be too.
I think the pricing is up to the registry and not the registrar. There is only one registry per TLD.
The article discusses reviving gopher, but doesn't mention how to access it (sure, I could invest a bit of time and effort googling how to do that, but that seems beside point for an article evangelising its revival).
It renders without a horizontal scroll bar on my iPad 6g in either orientation
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It is misleading to compare the minimum wage to the 40th percentile rent. Who do they thinking is renting places below the 40th percentile? The 40th percentile income is $30k.

When I was poor, I wasn't renting at the 40th percentile. And I split the rent with others as is common when you are poor. Trying to survive on minimum wage sucks but this study is exaggerating the reality to make their point.
You are allowing anecdotal evidence to replace statistical analysis. There are lots of people who stay in a job when they could theoretically move up. But overall the labor market is subject to the law of supply and demand.

If what you say is true, and they aren't strongly correlated with supply and demand and the health of the economy, then why do we even report labor statistics?
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Blazor is and has been an incredibly interesting idea coming out at an incredibly interesting time with regards to Microsoft. I hope the tech matures well and that people end up doing some interesting things with it.
Or every Starbucks across the globe, all at once.
What if you were having that conversation so loudly that people inside and outside the Starbucks could hear you and when you mentioned a brand's name, they were immediately notified and your conversation was permanently associated with their brand? I mean you literally see this phenomenon in public where people converse too loudly in public and strangers then do end up overhearing and feeling, rightly or not, that they can jump in because a conversation that loud is simply too inviting.
"No, one shouldn’t" suggests that you don't use public key when encrypting data. "Verifying a signature […] is […] “decrypting with the public key” is the part I meant when writing that the original statement is "cryptographically inaccurate" - it's algorithmically feasible. But also mind that this specific kind of encryption has a specific name - "signing". You can't state that: "no, one shouldn't use public key for encrypting data".
> they don’t take into account the fact that people often live with either a significant other or a roommate and that multi-bedroom apartments cost less per resident on average

If the wage:rent ratio is so that you need 2.5x full-time jobs for one-bedroom apartment, then it naturally follows that even two persons doing full-time jobs will not afford even a one-bedroom apartment, never mind a two-bedroom one.
They never would have backed out if Cuomo changed his first name to Amazon as he suggested.
There's a housing shortage in many/most metro areas, so rents go up as demand exceeds supply.

So far, the demand for minimum wage type labor has not been severe enough to raise those wages.

My guess is that minimum wage jobs are high turnover, and employers at that level are just used to constantly being in hiring mode. The job of a manager, and a writer of procedure manuals, has probably taken on more of "how to quickly onboard someone into acceptable productivity, and make their hiring worthwhile until they inevitably quit."

It may even be cheaper to churn, rather than pay longevity raises and benefits.
Why do people making $150,000 a year, working safe jobs behind a desk, need a union? If this was about unionizing their warehouse staff I could understand sinking the deal. But white collar people making six figures don’t need the legal and organizing framework a union provides (for example see the employee actions at Google over the last year).
This is pretty much a pharmaceutical company's dream: it hits a segment with more disposable income and apparently will require sustained usage.

On the other hand, miracle drugs for dementia and senile decline are announced every ten minutes and I've just started tuning them out. Everything falls flat on human trials. We're stuck with what we have.
Removing the center is possible, but how exactly would you "recombine" it with the original to keep the center? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the math works out like that.

Say we have mixed three sources, let's call them L (panned hard left), C (center) and R (hard right). Then the left channel has +L+C, and the right channel has +R+C.

Now we phase invert one of them, say the right channel, and combine them. The new mono file is +L+C-R-C. +C-C cancels out and we're left with +L-R.

Since +R and -R essentially sounds the same, it sounds like if we had originally done a mono mix of L and R (+L+R).

But we can't combine this with a straight mono conversion (+L+C+R+C) in any way that will remove both L and R. All we can do is reproduce +L+C or +R+C.
Interesting. It's almost like religious faith-healing anecdotes.
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If you believe in supply and demand, minimum wage increases increase spending power in a group of people that tend to spend all of their money. This increases aggregate demand, leading to more jobs.

I'm not saying you can increase minimum wage as high as you like with no downsides, but it's more complicated than you're making it out to be.
Rabbit starvation isn't the same thing as "too much waste for your kidneys and liver to handle." It's just starvation.

There is protein toxemia where the kidneys can't deal with the wastes; it's as far as I know always a symptom of kidney damage.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_toxicity
The main problem with regulation is zoning and NIMBY-driven development. Building codes drive up costs but zoning makes building impossible.

I agree that interest rates have a huge impact on overpriced houses, but it's not such a direct correlation to rent prices. In SF there basically is no construction but there is huge demand for rent. In other areas there is demand for expensive construction for "investment", but nobody actually rents there. In China this has led to entire ghost cities full of empty highrises. Investors are speculating that rising prices will take care of the missing rent income - and they will, at least until the next bust comes.

The situation where rent competition exists alongside building investment can only exist when both of these factors are eliminated. Interests rates need to rates. Zoning and NIMBY must go.
Every step you take on the web, every site you visit, every page you view, is used to create and enhance a profile about you. Everything you do is carefully tracked and monitored.

Bold of the author to openly admit this.
I don't mind if they read the post. The annoying part is that they send spam.
Google is such a big company, I find it bizarre they are trying to make money in this way.

It would be interesting to know what they make at the end of the pre-sale.
How to Solve It by Polya.
So what you're saying is, if we exterminate the jews humanely...

Yeah, I know, I just Godwin'd this. It's hard to avoid the temptation of showing how bad an argument is by putting it in the context of Nazism.
Is steampowered.com sketchy? Even incredibly large companies often can't get the domains they want because they were bought twenty years ago by some Joe Schmo.
And for the masochists:
https://iase.disa.mil/stigs/Pages/a-z.aspx
Why not just serve static text over HTTP? At least then you'd have the ability to inline images. This--the use of Javascript and other technology for tracking purposes--isn't a problem for Gopher to solve. It's a problem for web content creators.
Fully agree. You missed the most inaccurate one:

> Now you need to append the contents of the public key ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the target server. You'll want to do this in a secure way since the public key gives access to your server.
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> I think it's helpful sometimes to think of the minimum wage not as a prescribed payment, but as a ban on employment below some level. We've decided that it's better to be unemployed than to be paid less than X.

Which is kind of the point. You help people by giving them options, not by taking them away.

Comparisons to workplace safety rules are inapt because the worthwhile ones are anti-stupidity rules. It doesn't help anybody to have unsafe working conditions, which means every instance of it is a mistake. When someone gets hurt they're harmed and the company is liable, which is worse for all parties than preventing the harm to begin with. When designed properly, the law is only prohibiting something that nobody has any legitimate reason to ever do.

Whereas there are legitimate reasons to pay someone $10/hour -- you derive $11/hour worth of value from it and their second best alternative was to make $9/hour (or, when that's prohibited too, to be unemployed).
On my so far unused premium .app it is the same as the initial price but who knows what happens if I put something successful on it.
Or companies that value the $100-10k for the early registration fee so little that it's a drop in the bucket compared to individuals.

I'd like to have a very short domain personally but it's hard to anticipate what the demand will be like here.
They probably don't want to cause ill will by being partial to a particular CA, even if they're supporting it.
I've seen this happen to everyone I've known that's tried it.
Nowadays it's pretty simple:

1. Encode the propositions of your formal system in ascii (or whatever encoding you like)

2. Observe that the resulting bit patterns can be interpreted as numbers, and so the rules of inference of your formal system can be expressed as mathematical operations on those numbers

3. Profit

Goedel had to invent all of that from scratch. On top of that, he had to describe how to actually carry out step 2 without the benefit of a programming language. All he had to work with was raw math. So his encoding was very different from ascii, or anything you are familiar with, because it was "optimized to run on raw math" rather than a digital computer.
Nice. I admit, I haven't read the whole thing.
Man you just hit the nail on the head.

In a similar vein, I love documentaries and I learned much as a child that way. I find that they are way too basic now and often repeat things I've seen/known for years. This is needed for other kids of course, but as an adult the only stuff is really basic or so advanced that it is actual work to make it through (tough after a rough week at work).

One of my favorite examples of finding the middle ground is in dealing with SETI. I love the subject and have seen numerous documentaries on it over the years that cover what they're doing from 50,000 feet. Paul Davies is the lead at SETI and I read his book "The Eerie Silence" and it was really awesome. It perfectly found the middle ground between a documentary which has to be ok for children and a textbook on the subject. Paul Davies is kind of to SETI what Alan Kay is to computing in some ways as someone with deep experience in the field and lots of philosophical thoughts on the subject. His writing is really clear though (I love Kay, but don't have a strong enough computing, historical computing, math, or biology background to keep up with a lot of his writing). Two others that stand out to me are the classic "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking that blew my mind as a kid and the equally good, but lesser known "Black Holes and Time Warps" by Kip Thorne which made an excellent follow up book that gives a good high level appreciation which would likely be helpful for anyone planning to study those subjects in college at a rigorous mathematical level. Kip's book is also funny. There is a picture of Stephen Hawking delivering him a years subscription to a magazine (I think it might have been lewd in nature) for losing a bet to Kip over whether Cygnus A would have a black hole I think. As a highschool student I wrote to him with some career questions and he was kind enough to respond! Max Tegmark has a book "Our Mathematical Universe" which covers two parts: one on why we might be part of a simulation, and the first part which is like a condensed cosmology lesson from A to Z. He had a big part in several big discoveries and hearing the play by play is gripping. He was apparently a pretty gifted coder, so he got tasked with a lot of the data analysis and therefore he and his first wife were among the first to see the actual results of these big experiments. Code by Petzold is also an amazing tour de force if you want to understand computers.
I feel disappointed about the pricing. Shows a complete lack of understanding of developers. Right pricing steps are 0,1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,...
Are you saying the registry can arbitrarily change the .app domain renewal price without control, or that they can charge a different renewal price for different .app domains?

I've experienced weird price fluctuations with .io domain renewals in the past, but haven't owned one in a few years.
> Again, this is not a problem that can be solved by hiding, and living your life having to tiptoe around core parts of your identity so that idiots won't be rude? That is a miserable way to live.

And yet, it has been and is being used successfully by people. Sure is it miserable, but it is a lot less miserable than being killed or out of a job without the money to move and without a social support network.

As long as you are not the one who is funding every oppressed person's move to a better place, your argument is simply authoritarian bullshit, where you are trying to dictate how other people solve their problems for purely ideological reasons and without consideration of the costs that has to them.
Google has a long history with the Dutch auction, they used it in their IPO, back in '04.
Oh, thanks, I must've had something else in mind. So it's a ~$220m deal for ICANN.
Thank you, I appreciate the link. It's been a while since I've looked at that page, so I probably forgot about some of what is there.
Modern revolvers don't have the "striking the hammer can discharge the round" because they now use a hammer bar. You can load all the chambers without fear of this happening. You may be surpised to learn that all modern revolvers require pulling the trigger and thumbing the hammer down, as do the very popular 1911 pistol and it's many clones. It should be noted that modern revolvers don't have a safety. A large majority of striker fired pistols don't have a traditional safety either.
Add in another horrible example of privatization in Canada, Ontario's Hydro One power company.

With every attempt of privatization of public services, I point out that:

* Public services are sometimes just that - they won't be profitable

* Privatization not only incentivizes skimping on services and deferring infra investment to save costs, but you now have the insult of a profit margin built into prices on often vital services. The "private sector efficiency" privatizations are sold on almost never end up aligning with the public interest

* Undoing privatization almost always costs more than was made privatizing.

Some other bad example:

Chicago selling decades of parking meter collection for pennies on the dollar

German Railways going private and the continual gutting of rural services that came along with it

Enron's market manipulation of California electric grid, causing blackouts and skyrocketing prices while they profited
Gopher is a really fun (and constrained) protocol. I’ve experimented a bit with interactive gopher servers in the past.

A cool thing is that you can build a server in an afternoon starting with nothing more than your favorite programming language, some TCP server docs, and the wikipedia page.

I’d love to see people build some gopher sites to do stupid and crazy things. Interactive fiction over gopher? Sure! SQL to gopher gateway with ascii viz? Awesome!

Everyone should have a gopher hole... probably firewalled off of any production networks.
If your feed is public, then it’s less like a party than standing at speaker’s corner in Hyde Park with a megaphone. And yeah, some of the folks in the crowd are corporate shills yelling ads back at you.
In real life, the is only maybe 20-30 people in Starbucks at most. Online is not the public square.
I see it as a loss to NYC, too.

High paying jobs (by the bucket-load) bring a ton of benefits to the community.
There are so many layers this article has missed. That "waste" is also viewed by some as a resource, a repository of potential material for weapons. So it cannot be put somewhere out of reach. There has also been progress in deep-drill disposal options. It could be placed a few miles down from where it is now, in bedrock that will one day melt back into the earth. Drill a really deep hole (many miles) cement it over and forget about it. But that means we wouldnt be able to get at it later.
Before buying a copy of Prime Obsession, please learn more about the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Derbyshire

I bought and read his book some time ago, and now I regret supporting him with my purchase.
How extreme would Amazon's position have to be before you would stop saying 'the truth is in the middle'?

Would it be Amazon demanding an office worker travel the day after her miscarriage?

> The Times has uncovered several cases where workers who were sick, grieving, or otherwise encumbered by the realities of life were pushed out of the company. A woman who had a miscarriage was told to travel on a business trip the day after both her twins were stillborn. Another woman recovering from breast cancer was given poor performance rankings and was warned that she was in danger of losing her job.

Would it be Amazon keeping ambulances at their warehouses rather than paying for air conditioning? Or working people hard enough that they had to pee in bottles and most people have to quit after 6 months because of the strain on their bodies?
These are funny.

It is a fine line between being charming and creepy. The person who made the tweets in the article isn't even trying.
> The effect of not ever getting into the workforce at all is devastating to those few that don't make the cut.

This devistation is a societal choice made by having a non-existent social safety net in the US. In other countries it's less devastating due to government programs and universal healthcare that protect people while still incentivising them to search for work.

You are using the lack of protections and support for the poorest in our society as an argument against paying them more.
No, it won't. It will enable India to cut out U.S. service providers as much as they want. That hurts us more than economically, it reduces our governments ability to gather intelligence there as well.

This level of state control if the internet is a very bad thing for the U.S. even if you don't take any humanitarian considerations into account.
The alternative to automation is to just eliminate jobs and shut down shop. For instance, if it's unprofitable to pay someone to bag customer's items, you're not going to invest into building some advanced bagging machine. You're going to have the customer do it themselves. Now the guy that used to be able to earn at least some income bagging items is out of a job.
One of my favorite technical books teaches Digital Signal Processing (and on the way, a lot of engineering pearls of wisdom), and it's available for free as a PDF from the author's website:

http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
You got downvoted for snark but it is quite important to draw attention to the fact that mouse results seldom map straight onto humans. This is particularly true for aging drugs since mice are shorter lived anyway and their aging is faster and different.