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Jeffrey Sachs[1] put forward $10,000 USD per person as a sustainable sized economy. For most in the world this would be a massive improvement. It was a few years ago now, thanks to our inaction it’s probably lower now.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs
> I do however think it would be reasonable to deny people the opportunity to enter into a working arrangement where they’re paid $1/hour.

Why? Can you elaborate?
This even works on mobile - wow.

GAMs are great tools. However in my understanding they can be quite unstable when working with (subsets of) medium sized data. In other words: it's easy to formulate quite complex models that seem to work, but fail at prediction. So as with any complex modelling mastery is the key.
I feel quite a bit of the same as nsomaru; I've gone from being a naive Google fan to cautiously optimistic about Microsoft.

Unlike a bunch of others I never think I despised the majority of people working at neither Microsoft or Google.

But for the Chrome team; aren't they now actively undermining and weakening a major part of the Internet infrastructure by nerfing one of the most used clients to make sure it stops acting on behalf of its users?
I upload photos to S3 as a backup, only I have ever seen them (I think).

Is it ok for Amazon to sell or use them? How about using them to blackmail me ? Would that be ok?
The lack of competition on commercial infrastructure is a problem which occurs -AFAIK- worldwide. It occurs on wireless such as 4G, it occurs on DSL, and it occurs on cable. It is a real problem which indeed warrants a discussion, but not in a whataboutism-esque distraction. 2 wrongs don't make 1 right. It doesn't matter which one's are more anti-competitive. They both are (IMO); at the very least they're risky and therefore deserve careful analysis.
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

Blaine Pascal
Mini or micro? I don't remember phones with mini-USB ports.
The whole idea of "unemployment insurance" for an Uber driver is not compatible with their business model. This isn't a factory where workers come in at 9 and leave at 5 and you either have a job or you don't. Uber drivers set their own hours. What would unemployment insurance for an Uber or Lyft driver look like? If you get less than X rides per hour you get unemployment insurance?

Regardless, let me make this simpler because we seem to be getting lost on tangents. Each Uber driver bring in $X revenue per hour. For each Uber driver there are $Y hourly expenses (almost certainly dominated by the drivers' wages). So for every hour of work each Uber driver generates $X - $Y dollars for Uber. But that's not the whole situation. Uber also has overhead costs for each driver. Currently this is minimal, probably just the cost of operating the web service. Let's say $X is 20, $Y is 15, and each driver has a $50 a week overhead cost. So Uber drivers have to drive for 10 hours a week to make even.

Benefits almost always take the form of overhead costs. So now lets say these overhead costs go up from $50 a week to $150 a week. Now each driver needs to drive for at least 30 hours a week to break even. Uber now has a strong incentive to get rid of the drivers working less than that amount because they're costing the company more in expenses than they're bringing in.

Money doesn't appear out of nowhere. If Uber drivers are getting more benefits, then that costs money and that money needs to come from somewhere. It's either going to be lower pay, less flexible hours, or something we're not thinking of. There's no having your cake and eating it too.
Moving countries is extremely difficult and sometimes impossible. The US is one of the easiest countries to immigrate to and we only have 14.4% of our population having changes countries (coming in at least) [0]. This LinkedIn article citing BLS stats says the average person will have 12-15 jobs in their lifetime [1].

So I don’t think it’s very comparable to say “you can just change countries.” The vast majority of people are stuck with their country, and the vast majority of people change jobs.

It must feel bad to work at Google. Making odd comparisons might be a symptom of explaining how positive things that are cool are still funded by ads that are at least annoying, but seem to be turning out to be anticompetitive and fraudulent even.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat...
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-many-jobs-average-person-...
True!

We’ve added event triggers to Hasura to kind of support this pattern via Hasura itself. So you can create “action” tables that basically have a log of request data (a mutation inserts an action). Hasura will then call an event handler which can run with the action data, user session information, related data in case there are any relationships etc. This handler can then go update the tables that can be queried from.

Ofcourse, if the eventing system is in-order / exactly once quite a few use-cases become feasible ;)
I'd say the issue is that DO is shutting down servers for any reason at all (legal issues aside). If DO sells a product with a particular capacity, why should they intervene at all if a user is using all of the capacity they're paying for?
So unless a person is popular enough to get enough people talking about it on twitter or hacker news, someone whose account is flagged by your bad script is going to lose his business.

That doesn't sound good to me.
I'm a naturally bad writer but somehow I managed to become confident in writing documentation, cover letters etc. For cover letters asking friends/family for feedback had helped me a lot, also for this specific topic there are a bizillion great books about the topic - amazon is your friend. Or google: how to write performance review

That said, I think depending on the kind of writing you want to do, there is probably a book/article about it.

Also what is a nice strategy that always works for me: start with brainstorming or random bullet points. Put things in order, like a 1 or 2 level hierarchy. Mark important things, throw out things you are not comfortable with. Add some details.

Then get an example text. In the case of cover letters there's always a standard structure: intro, main part, end. And then replace it with your words. Also in the case of reviews, maybe you can ask your colleagues to see how they structure their writing and even review yours before you hand it in.
> To explain further. Let's say insurance company A has a group plan and B insures people individually. A is then forced to charge half their clients more than B as the average rate is identical. Thus it's in those people's interests to move to company B and pay less. Now those left on A's plan have even more average risk (as all the low risk people have gone to B) and the rate needs to go up. Rinse and repeat until A has no clients or is bankrupt.

The problem is the same thing happens with employers. Employer A provides high quality health insurance, so everyone with a preexisting condition takes a job at employer A while employer B out-competes them by providing less/no insurance and picking up all the healthy employees who choose them because they can pay better wages. Then it's employer A rather than insurance company A that goes out of business and the remaining employers are the ones that don't provide health insurance.

You can try to get out of that by requiring all employers to provide health insurance, but it really has nothing to do with the employers. It would be superior to require all individuals to buy health insurance instead, but people seem to hate that.

The other option is to require insurance not to deny coverage or set rates based on the existence of a condition if the individual had insurance coverage at the time when the condition became known. Then as long as you were carrying insurance you're covered, which most people will then want to do for exactly that reason, which would thereby prevent the death spiral. But if you don't want to buy insurance, well, then you don't have insurance. See what happens if you wait to buy fire insurance until after your house is already on fire.
There's a movie 'War Dogs' which is based on a true story where a couple of jews sell $300 million worth of arms to the US army.
> I'd expect that, as more transistors have been packed blah blah blah, that such a $10/mo account would have gotten better, not worse, since then.

This is what Linode do - they keep you on the same payment level, but raise what you get for it.
Thanks, that is a neat idea! What also works are these plastic cocktail sticks that are used for little appetizers on partys.
This is probably correct however there are also millions of deaths on the way if we continue with business as usual.
just knowing that you care & realising that they have the agency to choose what it is they want out of life is already a plus.
Some early Windows Mobile-powered HTC devices did.
yes, and unless you're living in a country that has plastered every centimeter with cameras (which is of course objectionable on the same grounds), observations in the public square are ephemeral, nobody's logging your behaviour. It really is a horrible and intentionally misleading analogy.
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To be fair, double-clicking was always the default for making a selection in a window... /s
No, it was one of a number of factors. Usage pattern was definitely a factor. It’s still pretty awful.
Google wants you to think reCaptcha is the ONLY tool. That way they can get more user data.
Why not both? (Apart from politics, obvs.)

As an occasional content creator it's impossible not to be aware that the ISPs can limit access to the bandwidth I need, while any of the platforms I might use - PayPal, Ebay, Google/YouTube, Amazon, Apple, even Etsy - can kill an income stream at any time and keep all my earnings just because they want to, with no convincing good-faith resolution procedures and no (affordable) recourse.
There's a lot of discussion I see about PageRank for CS purposes, so I'd like to give a slightly different perspective most people haven't heard about.

A colleague of mine at CalTech recently used the PageRank Algorithm to model the evolution of in-vivo neural networks [0, page 8]. The concept is pretty good for modeling extensions of simple Hebbian learning and explaining some of the ensemble dynamics (at least in the hippocampus). If you're interested in further reading, there's more work on attractor states in biological learning and associative memory (some of which is cited in the paper).

Brief overview: there's debate on whether brain network dynamics are stable or unstable. In networks related to learning and over the timespan of weeks, this experiment observed that ensemble-level dynamic change during learning but some neurons are remarkably stable in how/when they fire. You can rank stability with methods like PageRank, suggesting that connectivity implies importance (and perhaps stability).

[0] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/03/07/559...
The original mini-b port was rated for 1000 insertion MTBF (I swear one friend's cellphones were closer to 500, as they were going through 3 a year.)

It was revised to fail at 5000 MTBF, much more acceptable for something that may be plugged in multiple times a day.

Micro USB was rated I believe at 10k MTBF, and moved the faily bits to the cable.

The USB-IF obsoleted the Mini-A and Mini-AB plugs at that point (which are really only used for USB-OTG, which is rare). They still let the 5k MTBF mini sockets get certified on new devices, however.
Not all products have the same price elasticity.

There will be cases where the cost is borne 99% by one party or the other. Some products will go one way, and some will go the other way. Products also change in price for unrelated reasons.

Somebody with an ax to grind will pick the most extreme examples to favor one side. The reporter has not reported all examples.

Even with those examples though: 12% and 9% are a lot less than 25%. Clearly, the US buyers are not paying the full cost of the tariffs. That was my point. The portion will change constantly, and will be different for different products. The portion I gave was a all-products average from soon after the tariffs were imposed.

For consumers, the tariffs are frequently reduced further by the fact that the consumer price is not only composed of the wholesale price. The consumer buys from a provider with unchanged costs for advertising, labor, finance, and so on. For example, when I get a new air conditioner installed for $10,000, much of the price is local labor. It is only the importer that could possibly be exposed to the full percentage.
> We need a third classification for gig workers that affords them some protections while preserving the economic viability of ridesharing companies. Disregarding any problems we might have with specific companies, I think ridesharing companies are a benefit to consumers.

How about the ridesharing companies should provide - by law - for food and shelter (paid for with a pay cut from the gigs) until the employee/contractor can get his own food and roof ? That would offer some protections to people while keeping the economy going on ? It would also allow really poor people to get on the job wagon with some kind of peace of mind regarding the end of the month.

The companies could make a year-contract euro style so they would be certain the original investment isn't wasted and the employee/contractor has a job for a year until he becomes a regular contractor.
I’m surprised we haven’t gone back to trolley buses, no need for a large battery then.
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As others have said and you point out, people are just moving from Facebook to other social media platforms, and then there is LinkedIn which is as bad as any other.
My original Motorola Razr had a mini USB port.
I have no prior experience working at DO tech support.
Lol, only a judge has such rights (to decide if data is illegal or not), not some DO algorithms.
A fair amount of phones the charging port as a modular component or on a replaceable charging board. Makes fixing this issue cheap/easy
> not unlike a computer simulating another computer

It's more like this: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/User:BaronW#The_Almig... .
Not just horrendously inefficient, but also highly at odds with what the brain is designed to do.
In this case, it was not losing data, but losing access to data. The data was eventually restored. Lose customers' data could also mean losing the backup:

"We're sorry, the tape that we didn't needed to keep has been lost/zero-dayed/secondary service provider has gone bankrupt/Billy's house that we left it at got robbed." These must be disclosed to a customer immediately.

Minimising attack/liability surface is not only a technical problem, but a business one too.
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Interesting. I googled it and found that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanst%C3%A8re
The history of metallurgy is also very interesting and much more varied than bronze to iron age :)
Google does that too. I don't think there's any company dealing with ads which doesn't do that kind of an agreement.
Would be a difficult patent to enforce against a competitor since it would be difficult to tell if a backend is actually implementing this but I suppose it's in their interest to still file for it.
I'm curious... how does a non-working project rise to the top?
It just makes me feel old, like the internet is last generation's stuff now.
I'm just reporting what the German statistical office reports (https://m.investing.com/economic-calendar/german-unemploymen...).

Besides, harmonized or not, doesn't explain the economic weakness in Germany over the past decade compared to the US.
Declare war on landlords instead. Support a commercial land value tax instead of a property tax.
I was a kid when this happened and I’m still surprised I’ve never heard this amazing story! Thanks for sharing here :)
I've also quit FB recently - and most other social networks I've left before or at least abandoned. It's really funny, I thought I would miss it more but I don't. Just an extra tab that I can scroll through like HN or a news aggregator. There are so many buttons but most I didn't click, also I stopped posting virtually anything 1-2 years ago. The thing is also: the things that I'm deeply interested in get hardly any likes anyways.

Apart from that, when meeting people and continuing to meet them, I usually use the good old phone to communicate with them. The people I interact the most with on Facebook are at the same time mostly those I meet the least in the real world.

Shaving off an additional layer of complexity...
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No, slaves weren't free to go. The whole point of slaves is that they don't need to be paid so saying that they could pay off their masters is moot. There was also no requirement that theirs masters set them free even if a slave could somehow reimburse them for their initial purchase cost. They were their master's personal property, and their master could decide not to sell them if he so wished.

Slaves also had next to no protection. Slaves could be killed in gladiatorial fights, and were often used to work in the most unhealthy and unsafe jobs. Masters could rape their slaves at will, or prostitute their slaves. The only "protection" they had was the fact that it was in their masters' self-interest to keep them alive so that they could continue working.

I seriously cannot fathom as to how you can think that the gig economy is comparable to owning other human beings as property.
They took leaves of absence, with the company's blessing. And Google is incorporated in California, which has strict laws that employees are allowed to develop what they like when they're not on the clock using company resources.

It's interesting people here are calling this a "conspiracy theory" when I guarantee you there are hundreds if not thousands of posters here who remember the TGIF and groups discussions where this came up.
A year of Data backup lost. Do you realize how that alone may cause the clients to dump a company and do you realize that startups may never recover from fiasco like these? I understand that it was false positive triggered by internal systems. But how do you explain the delay in restoring the services and reflagging again within hours after the services were restored?
My point is, unless he also had info on Trump/Republicans, he couldn’t have impacted their campaign. So impact of just one candidate/party was inevitable. Then, optimise for max impact.
It's the application to search that was patented. There were plenty prior publications on eigenvalue centrality.
Take the wider view.

Let's posit as a hypothetical that 1% of the workforce is deplorably bad at the notion of being employed (let's define that as: It'll take them 100s+ of trying things until they find a job where the employer is better off employing them vs. not employing them). Let's say a further 1% is rated as 'quite bad' (defined as: More than half the jobs they would on paper qualify for, they'd do such a bad job the employer is better off not employing them).

Why employ these people? In western europe the common song and dance routine is a calvinistic 'because work is good for you, otherwise they'd be lazy gits'... at which point apparently the argument becomes: The employers of the notion must carry the burden of dealing with these folks, for the good of society.

In the US and a lot of right wing euro parties the sentiment is more: Well, they are lazy! I don't wanna pay taxes to enable these morons. Except that is an economic falsehood; they drag society down no matter what you do. I guess unless you're willing to take the moral position of just casually killing them in a way that is really cheap and easy (and thus, probably quite imprecise – few to no people are morally okay with this I assume), you just have to grin and bear it. Yeah, they drag a bit. It's fine; the economy can easily accomodate them.

The point is: A system that does let such people be employed here and there for a while is not inherently better than one that does not, and, 0% unemployment is a crazy goal.
I think they usually use twin studies to try to compensate for heritability but I couldn't find any mention of it in the article.
"The study suggests that it makes sense for parents and anyone involved in raising a child to try and shield or protect the child from exposure to adversity."

I'm sorry, this is just silly. Prior to the industrial revolution, low SES and high TES were normal; life was hardship and adversity. Think about that: humans have been around for about 200,000 years - that's a lot of generations of f'ed up kids. How did we ever survive?
This is probably going to get buried in the replies, but I had a similar experience with DigitalOcean about a year ago with my account getting permanently locked with very little explanation and no way of getting it back. It's still locked to this day. I was just a student using my Github student package credit, but I was pretty appalled by the service from DO and vowed never to buy from them.

Unfortunately, my ticket no longer appears under closed tickets. I was still able to dig up my original ticket message and all the responses their support made to me through my email though. Here they are:

https://imgur.com/a/NJMRnyY

Between the replies I asked about what I could do to verify my account. As you can see, they didn't even give me a single chance to do so. They told me to hang on twice then just permanently closed it up. I'm not sure how I even got flagged. All I did was turn on a droplet and delete it. I checked the audit logs, and there was nothing suspicious there either. It was just me logging in and out.

I thought about making a deal about it on Twitter, but I didn't bother because I don't have any followers and it wasn't a huge loss to me either. Maybe it's the only way?
The latest kindle is actually waterproof.
Maybe it's just lack of good designers/artists, not a code quality issue.
"It's just an HN convention to have the year in the title when the article isn't the current year. Not only does it not imply badness, it's associated with goodness, since most things from previous years have lost their interest." - dang

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dang%20year%20title&sort=byPop...
He is now a VP of the Russian principal space corporation (Energia) and in charge of the manned flight programs and cosmonaut/astronaut training. Much respected person in the space industry.
Of course it does. But in the context of computing equipment, the computer game series was the first thing that came to my mind. Nuclear fallout is in a different domain.
Do you want employers to provide housing because you think employers can spend money on housing and food better than employees? Believable.

But I am wary of the efficiency of company towns. In my perspective, things like housing, food, and medicine are "power vacuum" issues, where not taking up these issues is the same as leaving power (and responsibility) on the table for someone else to grab. I also think once power is taken away it's hard to get back.

I view the issues you're talking about as social and government issues, and I'm wary about ceding more and more responsibility to businesses simply because we think government sucks.
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I don't follow. How does this help with pollution and congestion?
https://www.mercuryos.com/ for the main website.
Lightning has the same issue. And while there's more space, the springy pins are also part of the socket rather than the plug so it's a bit iffy.