skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this blog entry (https://minimumwage.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/30/new-minimum-wage-...), the lower minimum wage is for youths is to prevent youth unemployment. This was based on some data the government has (not specified in the blog) that indicates that that younger workers were being passed over in favor of older workers. That implies that youth workers are less valuable (or perceived as less valuable) and thus not worth paying a greater wage.

As an American, I find this pretty strange as most minimum wage jobs are low skill. Since the skill threshold is low, there's not much to be gained by experience, so an older worker isn't much more valuable. I'd expect this lower minimum wage to tilt the market in favor of hiring youths since you get roughly the same work for less. I'm curious to see what the governement's data actually is that justifies the lower youth minimum wage.
Excuse my ignorance, but was not it already easy to do these operations? Seems like yet another centralized package repository with a supposedly visually appealing interface, where this interface is done just a little bit differently.

Edit: apparently it is not a package repository, my bad.

Could someone please explain to me what exactly it is and its use cases? Is this supposed to replace some of the features of npm?
How to be successful? You need to be associated with early stage successful projects. Sometimes it is luck, some people have also talent to discover those early successes.
Restricting it to safe use is what the preexisting law does.
what do you expect to learn specificly?
Is it sad that the most popular book is about working with a legacy codebase?
Whenever I see that word, I am reminded of a book I have titled Modern Welding --- published in the late 60s, so I guess it has always been a pretty meaningless adjective; but it does seem the JS (and web development) community in general likes to use that word a lot.
Review of /Newton the Alchemist/
Why are we assuming that language = creative, and mathematics = not creative?
Well articulated. I’m sold. I retract my prior argument. “Guy” is not gender neutral. My apologies for encultured shallow thinking.
I don’t think confidentiality is that important for bodycam footage. In the sense that most will be released anyway.

Integrity is critical as you would never want deletion or editing by unauthorized. But this is pretty easy to protect independent of Amazon.

This seems like a non-issue unless, for some reason unknown to me, they have extra reasons for not wanting the NSA to see bodycam footage. Although I suspect that any German data center is the same, if not more vulnerable.
Trove of Letters Reveal Charles Dickens Tried to Lock His Wife Away in an Asylum
Downloaded it. Rather large app bundle. The experience I remember is wanting to archive a page, so:

- Copying its link

- Switching over to the app

- Hunting for a way to add a page to the archive

- A browser like window opening, pasting the link into the address bar, clicking an accept button

- It rendering out the page, asking whether it looks okay - it did, so accepting

- Opening the resulting PDF and it being completely fucked up.

I gave up. I like the idea of Wallabag much more, but can't get the FF extension to work.

Edit: Polar does offer a Chrome extension, but research about a FF version (the API is THE SAME) is hindered by me not being able to find any reference to the Chrome extension anywhere outside of the app. Idk, to me it just seemed fishy. I don't hate burtonator, I've just been frustrated. Why would I save my web pages as PDF anyway? That's an even more obscure, hard to process format. I tend to like the WARC format.

Does Wallabag support a full-text search?
you do know that the citizens of said country pay tax for that infrastructure right? failing governments should stop using big companies as scapegoats. the bits and bytes used by FB and other big companies aren't degrading the fibre optics like a highway...

what I find funny is that if politicians wanted to close these tax loopholes, they could, I think they'd rather keep them open for them and their friends to use. The optics are better if they point the finger at something foreign and say 'oooh they are the bad ones', even though technically they are not breaking any laws.

I say this not as a fan of Facebook or Google. But you need to be realistic about government's always wanting more money.
Good point. I don’t see myself desecrating a historical monument (climbing the Pyramid of Keops) just to tick off a bucket list point, but I admit it does look ‘cool’ to a 15 year old.
The trade-off for delegating some of the national sovereignty to the EU is that as independent nations we cannot trade and deal with other powerful entities such as the US and China nearly as effectively. For example, a country like the Netherlands risks having trade deals dictated to them rather than negotiated as equals.

With the Brexit looming over the United Kingdom, already the effects of leaving the influence of the EU bloc behind are becoming clear, with the US attempting to dictate the terms of their post-EU trade deal.

Regulation such as this is necessary to harmonize the various national laws on this subject so manufacturers can target the single market of the EU without having to certify their gear in each member state. This is mentioned in the documents about this law as well (I've closed my browser tabs after submitting my feedback, but it's there). I'm not too well versed in this matter, but the net-benefit seems to be economic.

The EU and it democratic institutions can be vastly improved, but we are better of with them than without them — especially now.
Yep, that's it, and that's the documentary I've seen on it as well.

Here is why I find it relevant.

The article starts with:

> What could the internet have been? [...]

That's what the article is basically about.

Now, let me quote about the documentary:

> The film’s website describes how, “With Quiet: We Live in Public, Harris proved how, in the affiliate future of standard life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and peer recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour home security camera systems online which led him to experience nervous breakdown symptoms. Josh Harris displayed the demonstration effect of the price we will all pay for living in public.” [1]

The art project we discuss proves that the way it has become (privacy-wise) was inevitable because people are willing to make that trade off. "The cloud", Facebook, and recently Facebook paying kids 20 USD to install a "VPN" (Onava) on their phone logging everything are just one of the many examples of that.

It needn't have gone that way, if we learned earlier from that documentary and applied legislation. We can still learn and adapt, if we vote for electorate who don't listen to the big money (basically, the "cloud providers").

[1] http://weliveinpublic.blog.indiepixfilms.com/
How to Evaluate Project Managers
You have to run npm ci instead of npm install to get npm to respect the lock file. I don’t consider that remotely obvious. And this feature was just added to npm last year, 8 years after npm was invented!
Confusing the tool for the effect.

Advertisements and propaganda actually work that's why so much is spent on them. You can often exactly measure the effect. But blaming radio, TV, magazines, billboards, comic books or the social web is incorrect: it's not the medium it's the message that has an effect.

And the message needs to be a certain form. Generic pulp novels and shooter games clearly do not cause violence where other forms of messaging do. Witch burning, lynchings and demagogues clearly come from some style of message that can drive masses of people simultaneously.
Agreed.

This was like studying the effect of food quality on mental function by having participants solve addition problems while eating one of: a Skittle, a carrot, or a Tylenol.
Virgin Galactic might make that happen sooner than later.
I'm not spreading that it is harmless, but I have a hard time believing that it ruins more lives than alcohol, which is what my comment is centered on. I am happy to be proven wrong if you have some stats that show differently. Again, I'm not saying it does no harm, only that it does less harm than alcohol, and that alcohol use is more widely accepted and even promoted.
If all you want is to bank 1M and get out, get a job at Oracle or somewhere high paying for a decade. They have jobs across the country that pay 200k.
Starship is supposed to carry a couple hundred passengers. That would be a few hundred ships all launching at once; while I share the enthusiasm I’m not sure that’s realistic due to the [lack of] economic incentives involved.
Python threads don't either due to the GIL, yet they hit the same concurrency bugs.

It's the granularity of the concurrency.
> Notice how state was introduced? It made the code easier to read.

That quote shows that the author kinda misses the point here.

type FibPair = (Int, Int)

fibSeed :: FibPair
fibSeed = (0, 1)

fibNext :: FibPair -> FibPair
fibNext (p, v) = (v, v + p)

fibList :: [FibPair]
fibList = iterate fibNext fibSeed

The above code does exactly the same as his Fibonacci example, and it's written in pure Haskell. I'd argue the above is way more readable.

I get the following output:

0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34

With the following main function:

main :: IO ()
main = putStrLn . unwords . map (show . fst) . take 10 $ fibList

Which just takes the first element of each generated tuple, maps it to the string representation, and then adds a space between each number.
Already been discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19288633
Nice, too bad I'll be too poor for the foreseeable future to do anything like that. (50k EUR/yr)
Yes, as the OP states they don't want to make a business out of it, a subscription model kind of ties you to ongoing maintenance. At least a straight sale can be fire and forget.
Subaru Recalls Cars to Fix Glitch Possibly Caused by Fabric Softener
How about the Sketch model: a license buys you perpetual use plus one year of updates. If you want further updates you can pay again to refresh the license.
I think you are underappreciating this in a big way.

Prior to this, the USA did not have the capability to transport astronauts to orbit without working with Russia, and if Russia were to just decide no longer to cooperate for arbitrary diplomatic reasons, we'd be screwed. As you know, the shuttle program was halted some time ago and the vehicle was a total cow the whole time it was in service.

So whereas this has been done before on a technical level, this represents a substantial increase in the USA's actual present space capability, and a major step in reversing the decline of the USA's competence in space.
Session Types for Rust
It isn't almost the same capsule. That was discussed during the post-launch press conference. It's almost a complete redesign and they actually regretted not using more of Dragon 1.
> Today's launch is just a small modification of those ones

No it wasn't. I think you misunderstand what today's mission was about and what it opens for the future. Today's launch was a major departure from Normal SpaceX Activities. Launching a human-rated capsule to space is no "small modification".

> Soyuz is mundanely sending astronauts all the time to ISS.

They have exactly zero (0) vision or plans or constructed spaceships intended to start a Mars Colony. This makes SpaceX activities different from Russia activities in a pretty clear way. When SpaceX achieves a milestone it's a direct stepping stone to colonizing Mars. When Russia sends cosmonauts to the space station, they are sending cosmonauts to the space station and have no future plans. The two things are very different.
No, one time. They have a new service that lets you file for free online if you're doing regular, tax filing. It finds deductions for you and everything. All through web with no software to download. I decided to try it.

https://www.hrblock.com/online-tax-filing/free-online-tax-fi...

Their gimmick is to use popups to try to get you to buy two things:

1. Convenience of importing your W-2 data vs manually typing it all in. It kept popping that up trying to get me to buy that. Then, after saying I'll manually enter everything, it tells me there's some way to automatically get a W-2 from registered employers where it has all the information already. It did that. So, I didn't pay a convenience charge but got same thing looks like. Sneaky.

2. Keeping all the stuff on file with unlimited access. They only keep the tax documents for a limited time with the free option. Site reminds you that you will have to pay some high fee to the IRS to get them outside that window. I just printed a copy (shrugs).

Overall, the free filing was extremely easy to use with the get help links being really helpful. Got more back than I did with a tax professional last year. Partly due to not paying a tax professional. :)
They have certainly absorbed and consolidated a significant portion of the ad market, however they aren't the ad industry.

The "ad industry" exists no matter who is running the ads and has persistent aims and goals that are independent of whatever the vogue ad platform of the day is. Newspapers were the beginning of "influence at scale" for advertisers, then TV completely obliterated that, when internet based attention eclipsed TV, the internet became the "new" platform.

The platform will change again, and the advertising industry will absorb whatever is next and turn it into a cesspool.
Lots of options: containerization, downloading prebuilt binaries, downloading and building from source, or downloading, building, then packaging the artifacts and leaving somewhere centralized for deploy.
Can you back up those assertions with some sources? This seems overly simplistic.
I have found this anecdotally to be true when doing the actual design work of a project. However, once I know what I want to do, music does typically put me into a groove. If you normally listen to music while coding, you may not realize how distracting it can be during periods of deep thought.
I think my time ended shortly before Angelo’s began, but my experience with Central Tech (worked mostly with Steve L. and Guarav) was that they were very talented generalists. They were the team you dropped in to work on C++ game code, Lua UI code, Erlang server code, or Python scripts. They were a resource to work on anything you needed and you could give them a task knowing it would be done well.

The director of development at BeachHead studios originally applied for Central Tech.
I started out with polarized, but then I moved onto just putting all my pdfs in a folder and highlighting them in adobe reader.
No problem. I'm sure each category can be endlessly fleshed out. It just looked weird that there was a lot of EE not covered.
Also: From a market perspective, this gives agencies such as the ESA a choice about who to work with in order to launch manned flights. That's huge. It's a transition from no competition to competition, and a transition from technological stasis to forward activity. (Soyuz was first launched in the 1960s and we are still using it? It's kind of crazy.)
This has more of an explanation: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/02/subaru_suvs_overwhe...
Programming has different angles. There’s the social aspect of being consciencous and seeing what your junior teammates are thinking in order to help them out. There’s the high level logic of how your app connects together, how it may scale in the future and how you’re going to maintain it. I believe that is more creative or perhaps a combination of creativity and experience.

Then there is the notion of doing hardcore coding. Maybe that’s more logic or a combination of logic and pattern recognition.
> That would be a few hundred ships all launching at once

Yes, that's the plan as described by Elon! Maybe not "all at once" but over the course of some days/weeks, yes.

> I’m not sure that’s realistic due to the [lack of] economic incentives involved

Every Mars thread someone pops in to say this, but it simply isn't true. There are major economic incentives to go to Mars, and selling tickets is #1 of hundreds. There are basically infinite ways of making money by going to Mars and I'm really upset that the HN crowd is so dedicated to the line that there's no money on Mars. There's trillions of dollars on Mars.

With tickets priced at $200,000 or so as Elon has described, each Starship should have launch-day revenues of $40,000,000 if each ones carries 200 people. Wowza that's solid, no? And it's just tickets so far we're talking about, no science research or other goods or services or plans or anything at all, just consumer tickets.

There's plenty of money to be made.

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Edit: I guess I've been banned? I'm no longer allowed to post on HN this morning. Here's my response to the post below.

I think we are on different pages here. I'm not talking about tourism, I'm talking about people who will build libraries, write books, dig for oil or whatever, innovate new solar panels, build houses, create industries, make movies, build new spaceships to the stars, go to the poles and think about philosophy, create new electronics, work on particle physics, etc.

Not tourism!!

> (a) people who can afford 200k and (b) people willing to risk a possible one-way trip.

Yes? There ought to be tens of millions of such people in 20-50 years. Why wouldn't there be? Elon gave us half a century notice to save our money. We're doing it. If they build it, we'll be ready to come.

> curious to hear examples

Okay. The Mars Colony seems like the first stepping stone into future solar system exploration. There will be significant opportunities there to build new products and drive new frontiers. I'll come back and write some specific examples soon, but I see it as far more economically interesting than Europe coming to North America in the long run: the possibilities are seriously endless, given the resources available, the lack of commercial claim to them, and the incredible rarity and quantity of those resources can change our ideas about what can be reasonably built by humans/robots in our lifetimes.
Human space flight capabailities have been restored to the United States.

This is a private company.

Elon is the CEO but this victory is about the SpaceX team, not him.
WARNING: A long read.

Contains quite a detailed account of remotely debugging embedded systems, and forensic security analysis.
I regret a thing, because it impacted someone else. Evaluating it as solely as my personal growth opportunity strikes me as royally selfish. Whatever I learned from that does not undo said impact.
It doesn't look like a package repository. It's just a UI for the npm repository and some type of build tool.
The alternative is vendoring the dependencies. That includes the JDK or Node runtime. With “modern” deployments you’ll see this with container based packaging that includes the runtimes either explicitly or via system packaged (in the container). The classic approach is copy the runtimes into your final application tarball.

Either way the runtime is baked into the app and gets deployed and tested with it as a core component. Runtime upgrades then become vanilla deployments.
Some of us also need to stop drinking the Elon Musk Haterade.
I do use a regular sentence, and one that I can easily remember - I meant it's difficult to correctly type so many characters correctly when they're masked. My workstation also has a FDE system on it that will lock me out if I get it wrong 3 times in a day, so it's a bit stressful :)
It’s Time to Ban Hidden Fees
It has excellent reviews minus the camera (and lack of water resistance). I may give it a shot, thanks.
Licence it
I wonder how people who stopped suff.. writing java before java 8 feel about lambda expressions and streams.
When I say “I deserve to exist”, that’s unfortunately a strongly political statement. And when people can afford to say “I avoid politics”, that is in itself political.
Agreed, "Personal knowledge" needs to also include personal knowledge like self-generated notes, journals, and such
It's hard to make people happier over the long term.

Even happiness due to marriage returns to it's base level, in time.

So media ?

But ask yourself:

Are you more knowledgeable because of free non-fiction books ?

Have you been exposed to more culture, and dare i say, better culture because of free TV ?

And aren't those things valuable, even if they don't make you happy ?
Depends on how much latency matters. A lot of big data is batch processing, for which if the data is 3 hours old that's more than good enough.
The example of the highway system was more for its time. Europe did, and has, just as the US built a lot of infrastructure over the years. But it is still lackluster in many places.

Though the real lack of conversion isn't in one specific thing, it is that Europe (and probably much of the world for that matter) can't offer people good opportunities. I hope I am too gloomy. It is just a hard argument to make that in terms of life prospects it wasn't better to be young ten years ago than it is today in many places.

If people believe that someone else won't come and eat their lunch over that I think they are wrong. As I alluded to in another comment, Europe probably lost at least half of the tech industry it could have had if it wasn't for capital going into things like rents.

I people were expecting things to get better they wouldn't essentially hold back growth. We would see new rapid affordable development because not doing that would be losing out. But I don't see countries being concerned about that. They are perfectly happy taking decades building things and going over budget. They let mortgages double or triple, so everyone who came before win at the expense of those coming after. They sell companies with valuable technology are to foreign interests.

So I don't really understand how someone e.g. would end up working less when they have twice the mortgage than their parents and the companies they work for are owned foreign investors who wouldn't mind moving activities abroad at any point.

And to that point almost all major successful companies are vertically integrating today, because with information being accessible there isn't much reason not to control your own activities. Yet, most European countries are doing the opposite. Outsourcing their main activities to complex constellations.
> in the bottom of my first-aid kit is a small bag with Ofloxacin, Imodium, and oral-rehydration salts - just in case

Imodium I get, but I've honestly never heard of carring antibiotics around while travelling, and I've travelled a good portion of the world. Antibiotics are controlled in many (most?) countries too, so here in the UK I couldn't do this even if I wanted to (I don't)
Hey! Does booking.com hire new grads/junior developers?