skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's not much difference (from the perspective of the US economy) between outsourcing to China to make a widget for $.20, and automating it in the US to make it for $.20/item. Each of them are a black box where you put in $.20 of resources and get an item, with no US labor.

I think legislation like minimum wage is only a small part of the story too. Lots of people get paid more than minimum wage and we couldn't just put min. wage at $100/hr.

I think the fundamentals we are looking for are productivity and macroeconomic policy. Traditionally, the Gov. and central bank stimulate the economy until it reaches full employment, then slow it down when inflation is high.

Productivity will determine how much people produce/consume (in total) when everyone is working. Of course there's issues of how those goods are distributed (which is probably not quite as bad as the wealth gap, the rich put a lot of money in stocks etc instead of consuming it).

There's also structural problems where the job locations/skills don't match with the workers. While I don't see why in the long-run we can't just produce more of what people want (health care, going out to eat, housing, vacations, etc), if millions of people are displaced rapidly by online shopping, self-driving cars etc I think it will be hard for people to adjust quickly.

Also maybe most worrying is some of the macroeconomic stuff that has been relied on to keep the economy closer to full employment is in uncharted territory. The central bank has less ability to stimulate the economy to get us out of a recession than maybe it's ever had, and the alternative of fiscal policy (gov. spending) is controversial so I'm not sure how much it can be relied on in the US either.
Was your pay hike motivating enough that you did not put enough thought (I am sure you did) for missing out on daily hands-on-experience? I am just curios about the +% delta.
Key Greenland glacier growing again after shrinking for years, Nasa study shows
I decided after 3 months that being a development manager was not for me. It was too much of a career change for me personally.

Luckily the team was still lacking actual developers so it worked out with the same organization.

Either way though, I started to do a lot of development on my own, like you are now. This is maybe a good indicator.
I setup shellinabox for https://ui.baxx.dev just because some of my friends dont have access to ssh from work and I wanted to show it to them
Define "normal consumption". Some bodybuilders and strength athletes eat large quantities of tuna as a low-fat source of protein; a non-trivial proportion of dieters rely on fish as their main source of protein. These may be unusually high levels of consumption, but they aren't edge cases and aren't prima facie stupid if you're unaware of the risk of mercury toxicity.

A lot of smart, health-conscious people end up with dangerously high levels of mercury precisely because they believe that seafood is a healthy option and aren't aware of the risk of mercury exposure.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12676623/
I thought the consensus was more like: multi-user security is a solved problem except for side channels which are everywhere, there's nothing you can do about them, and they're impractical to exploit. That last part turned out to be wrong.
I am sorry I didn't include the every caveat to the massive body of Toxicology/Carcinogenicity in my anecdotal witticism designed to be a snide dismissal of an idiot response to a stupid article.
I would like to see journalists be more transparent about what in their statement is fact vs. opinion, since lately I've seen pretty clear examples of the opinion as fact on both sides of the aisle. But this sort of a solution sounds terrible - what would prevent the overseas bot farms from downvoting articles that hurt their agenda and upvoting divisive articles?, and why do you, as a company, want to adopt responsibility for trying to police this knowing full well that it'll be on your heads if your efforts fail (or work too well and prevent outspoken parties from being able to boost their favorable news).

This just seems like the absolute worst place to position yourself in the modern world.

PS: Also, aside from all the politics... think about the swarms of bots ad companies would hire to upvote their sponsored content...
I found the page layout extremely well-suited to grokking the content better. The right "sidebar" (in quotes because it's not a dedicated column, just emulated using CSS positioning) containing notes for the text & code along with figures worked great. I may have to look into recreating this kind of layout for my blog or other documentation.
that's a prisioner dilemma, actually.

Use credit card today, and you save some negligible money today, while prices go up since the fee is now a sure requirement for all vendors.

Avoid credit card like the plague, and operators will have a harder time justifying 3-12% fee from vendors, lowering prices for everyone in the long run.
For clarity... I wasn't a founder of Cloudflare, but I was an early employee.

I try to answer questions about Cloudflare, or comments about the company, here when I have the time. I do the same on Twitter (and to a certain extent on Reddit). I have code that monitors HN for mentions of "Cloudflare" and emails me within a couple of minutes.
The only difference between the North American carriers and the overseas ones is that they sprung for the option that tells them that the MCAS is about to point the nose at the ground hard by displaying a warning in relatively small writing on a screen somewhere near the middle.

Apart from that, which may not have made much difference there is no overall difference in terms of safety or training that would have prevented the Ethiopian crash.

Ethiopian is a state-of-the-art operation with a modern fleet. Lion Air is a bit more questionable, but their 737 crash appears to have nothing specific to that airline or being based in Indonesia.

You may have other evidence of hazards, so might I. But the 737 MAX saga isn’t it.
my xps 13 has no problem going to sleep. It just wakes up slow and drunk sometimes. My "workaround" is to put it into 'performance mode' which kills the battery.

Would those same logs help me debug my issue too?
Note however that floating bars, such as the one used on this article, mess it up: https://0x0.st/zK9t.png

Zapping that element with ublock origin fixes it, but needless to say the UX needs work.
Even without cash back, the interest earnings could be something, a 1000$ deferred payment made through credit card may give 4$ to 5$ interest payment(assuming an interest savings interest rate of 5%, some countries have much higher interest rates), while that cash is sitting in the savings account, waiting for the credit card billing cycle to complete.
Thanks for the heads up. I signed up for the 7 day free trial. There are some good shows. I guess I'll keep it for a few months so i can binge watch those shows.

Very little sci-fi shows though.
Correction: Junko's death was on January 4, 1989. It is her funeral that was on April 2, 1989.
>What does that matter?

It's actionable information. If you're worried about ingesting pesticides, you might believe that eating fewer vegetables and more meat would be a safer option. The simple fact of bioaccumulation means that this would be the wrong approach.
Why does it matter that someone pays with dollars and at a certain point that is translatted into pesos. By the way, not all industries work this way, a fair number of them use us dollars (more than just oil).

The fact that you pay in pesos eventually means if pesos lose value internationally you could pay them less (but dollar cost is the same). But that's not guaranteed.
Marcus is solid. Moved money over there myself. There isn't much to it, no bells and whistles but it's straight interest at a reasonable rate (compared to the others) which many people are looking for. They have CD options as well. Also note this one is FDIC insured and is a true savings account unlike others which often are SIPC insured money market funds. Bonus the site is really nice because it's not a jumbled mess like most bank sites. It's super simple and shows me all I need to know $ and %.

I personally haven't dealt with their support team so I can't speak on how reliable that is compared to the other big banks.

Agreed with jonknee. Don't dismiss it because of the Goldman Sachs name (if anything, I feel more comfortable having a name like this handling financial matters).
You don't have to be wealthy to have a good credit score and/or a rewards card. It's pretty easy for anyone to get a decent rewards card nowadays. In fact I'd say the system is more perverse in that it rewards good credit to those who are slaves to credit, not those who are fiscally responsible.
ReactWeek Faces Backlash over a Series of Misogynistic Tweets
This is exactly where I am at. You summarized it perfectly. I'm happy to hear there are other people who are in my position, that devote time to code as well.

I'm trying to find a way to make that remaining 80% more gratifying. And I'm nervous about committing to it permanently until it is. Similarly, I am hesitant to give up on the opportunity, or go back to IC / team lead status (with the career limitations that implies (how real a threat is ageism?)) if it might still be possible to make management more gratifying, given what an opportunity it represents.
Literally on the first page of google results for "mercury toxicity from normal consumption of commercial seafood": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721310/ Cites dozens of studies of cases of adverse effects from mercury from seafood.
I think they mean they need to use loud music on headphones to work
You're giving me too much credit, I meant the guys in the air traffic control tower - I just thought they wore the same giant ear muffs that the guys down on the tarmac wear.
I have bought Magic Touchpad for its "Force Touch" quietness, but other than that, I find it to be more of a gimmick. It is slightly better than the hinge-pad of my Yoga 2 Pro, but it's not a life-changing experience. What is a deal-changer for me is the volume of its click sound, especially when configuring its force feedback engine on GNU/Linux to get even lower than what macOS allows ;)
I don't believe in using algorithms to rate people online, but if I were forced to do so, I would judge them by the number of comments they deleted and/or edited. Oddly enough, this post was a bit of a drive-by for me. It's not a good habit to get into.

Edit.

I used to have a mandatory three-edit rule. I am changing that to five -- at least for essays.

The world needs more editing, my friend. Everybody's got an opinion, nobody seems to be able to organize their thoughts.
My problem with open sourcing my code is I always feel like someone else must have done it already and done it better.

On the subject of irrelevant comments: I see HN more as a place to discuss topics relating to the OP link rather than discussing the OP link itself. A lot of the value of HN for me comes from learning how other people see a subject or what related ideas/libraries there are. For me as a commenter, the threads I like are exactly the ones that a submitter might not like: threads filled with many semi-related comments.

I do think we absolutely have a problem with overly negative and discouraging comments on HN (and the programming community in general) though. The worst kinds of comments are comments like the “yet another js framework...” on someone’s show HN. You’re discouraging someone’s work on their specific library by bringing up some larger problem you see in the industry. So I absolutely agree that those sorts of semi-related comments belong in a separate post on that specific issue.
Most of that will be done on device. Data that needs to be synced up across devices will do so on users iCloud account (to which supposedly Apple has no access to).
> Discover IT Miles earns 3% cash back on everything the first year, churnable (you can get a new one every year), no cap, no annual fee.

I had to look this up - seemed way to good to be true - based on this site [1], it's "Discover: 1.5 Miles per $1 spent on all purchases."

All your other references check out - the Alliant seems very interesting. Fidelity requires a Fidelity bank account - too much effort.

However, I am guessing Apple made a lot of hay with the "no late fees" - and really identified their target market (ie, not necessarily you & me).

[1] https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/compare/?srcCode=GAX5&...
If that was his argument, it didn't gracefully survive being taped and uploaded to Twitter. He seemed to be against the idea of contracts, working for pay, and hierarchy itself.
Let's see what happens if I actually do it...
I'm not pointing this out to be pedantic, but because I think it's interesting: it was actually not by law that merchants were not allowed to offer different prices for cash vs. credit card purchase, it was by contract.

That is to say, in the merchant agreement required to accept credit cards, merchants promised to the credit card companies that they would not charge users of credit cards more than cash payers.

As another poster points out, this anti-competitive bullshit was made illegal by law circa 2012.

These kinds of coercive/collusive agreements among a cartel of providers of a particular type of service worry me deeply, especially when a previously-luxury service (e.g., credit cards) becomes semi-necessary infrastructure for operating in the modern world. For more on this type of problem, I encourage you to read about the unbanked [0] and the challenges they face.

Despite how much better they make my life, I also look at the success of Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, and other platforms with worry, precisely because they are in many cases creating semi-necessary infrastructure in the private domain. Individuals can already be banned from Uber [1] and Lyft (and Google [1], etc.) without any legal recourse, which also means by mistake because you are treated as guilty until you can prove your innocence, and innocence is usually impossible to prove.

Here's one (hypothetical and admittedly unlikely) future I worry about: autonomous cars rule the world, 99% owned by four companies (Uber, Lyft, Waymo, ???) that provide Uber-style transportation services. There's no public transport anymore (all outsourced to those four, it's much cheaper than dealing with public transit unions!) and so to get around more than walking distance requires being in the good graces of at least one of those four companies.

Poor John takes a ride in an Uber, gets sick from something he ate in earlier that day, and makes a mess in the car. Uber bans him for this infraction, and shares his name on a ban list (e.g., credit reports) so now John is banned from transportation, and has no recourse (e.g., Google's Gmail bans) -- for the simple mistake of eating undercooked scallops, John is now royally fucked because our infrastructure is outsourced and our society has no say.

I don't expect this future to come about. I expect heavy regulation of these semi-necessary infrastructure companies, and I expect it will come soon. GDPR is one example of this pushback, perhaps not the best example. But I welcome more.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbanked

[1]: https://www.elliott.org/problem-solved/i-am-banned-by-uber-c...

[2]: http://www.jonasblog.com/my-gmail-account-got-deleted (among many)
I have not heard of these, I'm trying 30mg vyvanse and am finding increased focus for ~6-8 hours after onset
Hardware might have fixed size n, but a general approach certainly doesn't!

I must have failed badly at making my point clearly, because I've got that same criticism more than once.

Take as an example this paper [1], which explicitly states the delay of an n-bit Baugh-Wooley multiplier as O(log n).

I appreciate that this might not be what people are discussing here - if so, excuse me mixing things up. I answered to a question that asked about a connection between the Turing machine algorithm and practical circuit design, and I tried as best I could to give a practical circuit design perspective.

[1] https://www.irjet.net/archives/V3/i2/IRJET-V3I259.pdf
It's $60 with a cashback cap of $300/yr (i.e. only the first $30,000 spend is counted), or $125 for unlimited cash back.

Still not great, but it's only $6000 spend to break even on the lower-tier card. Buying groceries each week will be close to covering it.

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Edit: Oops, it's more complicated as it's not always 1% cash back:

<$5000: 0% cash back.
<$10,000: 0.5% cash back.
$10,000+: 1% cash back.

It's not a marginal rate like taxes, so break even point is at exactly $10,000 when your payout jumps from $50 to $100.

https://www.anz.co.nz/personal/credit-cards/cashback-visa/
This looks great! I'm going to try it in my current project.
There's a reason people take exams in quiet rooms rather than in the cafeteria. There's a reason libraries are quiet and don't have live bands. If you can do the work that you do with the noise of an open office around you, the work that you do doesn't require much concentration and is probably mostly inconsequential.
Okay, this Environmental Working Group found traces of pesticides on produce. That's not terribly unexpected, given how most produce is, well, produced. What this article annoyingly neglects to mention, is the _numbers_ attached to those traces of pesticides. Where there large amounts of trace chemicals, such that the levels exceed the EPA's recommended safe exposure levels? Were they so high that dangerous levels of bio-accumulation were likely? Absent numbers, it's difficult to tell if the people mentioned in the article are justified in feeling very worried, if it's a bunch of hand-wringing about nothing of significance, or somewhere between.
I honestly don't understand what this post is trying to say. Most of it just describes the usual internet bike-shedding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality#Examples), and then says that you could have avoided it by just... telling a story or naming something, but doesn't elaborate at all on what it means by that, how to do it, or why it would help.
In most companies unfortunately the only way to move higher in pay is the management route. I know there are exceptions but in general you quickly hit a pay ceiling as IC.
Some actors may also be willing to spend out-sized effort propping up a losing opinion to sway popular perception too.

Perhaps you're a Koch brother and decide to inject billions of dollars into such a question due to the financial payoff you could reap if it comes true. I think such a market suffers from the efficiency created by a price point difference when the result of the prediction can effect your income - if a particular policy discussion will cost you 5 billion dollars then you can, internally, play with that cost and the likelihood of being able to tip a market. If you can guarantee a positive outcome by investing 4.5 billion then there is a rational motivation to do so.
Thanks for the writeup, Dan. This is how I feel about most code reviews. It's difficult to comprehend all the code and focus on the _actual_ problem being solved rather than naming conventions and syntax. And yes, I realize the irony by posting a tangentially-related comment on HN.
Very specifically, spending a lot of time rescheduling meetings suggests to me that your org may need to do a bit of soul searching about how they handle meetings.

My specific advice is:

1. Cull meetings that are there to inform a wide group of people about general goings on. Especially regular meetings of this type. Especially especially if they're more regular than monthly. There are very few topics that need to be presented to a room of 10 people in a weekly or biweekly basis.

2. Your business should have a heartbeat of some kind, and meetings should be scheduled on the basis of this heartbeat, not in a variety of recurrence schedules. So, if you do two week sprints, for example, meetings should be ideally biweekly (as in once every two weeks, not twice a week) or quadweekly, with some tolerance for weekly. If a meeting is currently scheduled monthly, it should be replaced with quadweekly. You can somewhat tolerate quarterly meetings interfering with this schedule, but nothing more common.

3. You should be designating time bands for different kinds of meetings. A zone of time when standups happen. A zone of time when 1:1s happen. A few times that are resolutely free of meetings that want individual contributors to visit them.

If you can implement these, I would not expect to have to spend a lot of time ad-hoc detangling schedules every few months.

If your org resists these kinds of changes, then, well, it can be frustrating being someone charged with implementing dumb policies, for real.
My only real disappointment is that they didn't announce pricing for anything besides Apple News+. I was hoping to see some type of bundled pricing that included more iCloud storage.

Hopefully, with the games subscription, they will see the need for an updated iPod Touch for kids and maybe even one with an iPhone 7/8 size screen. Even if it is only slightly cheaper than the $329 iPad.

An iPod Touch plus a Disney+ subscription, plus a games subscription would be the perfect thing for kids ("cue the outrage about using "electronic babysitters")
Chill out and tune into WWDC to get your fix
Because every time a viable competitor arises (e.g. Braintree), Paypal buys them.
>Is it possible to grow enough food in your backyard to live off of (plus chickens as a yard waste disposal) if you also work full time?

No. I'd advise against trying unless you know what you're doing - the land around your home might be perfectly safe to live on, but it may well be dangerous to grow food in. Large areas of the San Francisco Bay area have horrendously toxic soil as a legacy of the semiconductor industry; the average gardener isn't equipped to test their soil for contaminants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/lens/the-superfund-sites-...
> Your website says that the transition to management is difficult and nuanced, but things like the above are what I need help with.

I've found manager-tools.com to be a useful resource for new and aspiring managers; but it's no replacement for a therapist or a demotion.
Okay I read that. It basically says if you took away the computer industry growth the us grew at an anemic rate, like 0.2%. Or most of the growth was in one particular sector. I don't think they were arguing that the growth is somehow overinflated, just that it was focused on one sector. Does it matter that it was flat everywhere except in the computer field? I think there must be something more you are getting at.
Stillbourne, you seem to have a lot of trust in science funded by chemical companies. Remember how tobacco companies lied about the health impact of cigarettes?
It's Ctrl+Shift+K for me on Windows (and I haven't changed any of the default shortcuts).
"Discover: 1.5 Miles per $1 spent on all purchases." - Yes, but you missed something, they do a cashback match the first year, making it 3% for the first year.

https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/resources/earn-more-re...

>With Cashback Match, Discover automatically matches all the cash back new cardmembers have earned at the end of their first year on their credit card.1 Discover will apply the match after the first 12 consecutive billing cycles, within the following one or two billing cycles.

At the end of the first year you can apply for a new one and get cashback match again for another year. You can hold two Discover cards at once, so the third year you'd have to close the first card, before applying for a third and at the fourth year close the second, and so-forth (people talk about actually doing this, not worth the hassle for me, and I got the USAA Limitless 2.5% card)

As for a Fidelity account - a Cash Management account has no fees and no minimums and is a useful account to have (offers ATM reimbursements)
> Or is the answer simply, own all the layers of the stack yourself?

Like Apple?
The healthcare system can’t get a grip on its giant patient-matching mess