skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you asking why it falls on individual people to sort out their own lives and arrange their accommodations to their own liking?

Maybe because we prefer to grant individuals some degree of personal autonomy instead of making them dependent wards of whatever place they happen to work?

A business has the job of running itself in a profitable manner. Not babysitting what should be functional adults.
Look at singapore for an alternative that isn’t associated with anti-socialized scare tactics. Soviets had a lot of issues but lack of housing wasn’t one of them. Same for cuba, although the sanctions have crippled the economy to make quality housing difficult. I can’t speak for venezuela housing as i have not researched it, and it seems weird to clump a country with a mostly private economy in with self-proclaimed communist countries.
>I have yet to see any UBI proposal that would wholly replace someone's income

Agreed, but partially replacing someone's income would result in a net reduction of hours worked (if UBI is equivalent to half my full-time salary, then why not just work half the hours?) This would still result in a net loss in human productivity and therefore still spur investment into automation.
I think it's hilarious that everyone is responding to

>²Woe unto the person who doesn't come to support with request IDs. My impression the whole time is "these guys can't see their own response latency?"

... so I'm going to do the same. :)

It's also possible that while that latency is weird for your particular usage, it's totally expected for someone else's. That can make it very hard to find your problematic requests amidst the noise of everyone else's average day at the bitbucket.
Even without a static IP, a free dynamic DNS service is good enough to prototype on a local machine as long as you aren’t using enough bandwidth to tip off your ISP. At that point, however, you’ve probably got enough market validation to move to another host.
I'm only just learning about the UK's age-dependent minimum wage [1] Is there any explanation for why such a system is used? Certainly there's plenty of financially-independent under-25s who are paid less merely because of their age, which doesn't really seem appropriate. Do other countries in Europe follow similar minimum wage schemes?

EDIT: I found a paper [2] from the Netherlands (who also use an age-dependent minimum wage) suggesting that such a system can increase job termination rates close to employees birthdays.

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

[2]: http://ftp.iza.org/dp9528.pdf
True, but in this case the scooter rider would have died whatever vehicle hit him--truck, SUV, sedan, or motorcycle.
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Appropriation or appreciation? If it's appropriation I'm intrigued!

Like what if someone shows up to an event you planned, and starts thanking people for coming. They're basically implying/claiming ownership of the event. Appropriation through appreciation.

In other words what if you thought a project was yours, and then someone appropriates it by thanking your team, implying it was for that person all along?
I’m not sure a switch statement against a string is a great solution either although to some extent you are restrained by JavaScripts limitations.
to be honest, I'm not sure. They issued me one when I asked for it, but I had to ask, it wasn't normal. And often when I use it, I get a Whatsapp call from a nervous bank staff member checking that it was me that used it. Kind of cute really.
Understood what? Their point is a bad faith argument and a misunderstanding of who makes low wages.
But there's another thing people are forgetting about: entry level positions.

Consider a case like grocery store baggers. A position which has been devastated because it's become too expensive to justify, even though it's something everyone would still like to have.

Stuff like that are great first jobs for teenagers and functions as a low-risk way for them to get introduced to the work force. Learn about money, working with customers, getting to work on time, etc. Useful skills down the line and gives them some spending money in the meantime.
Meh. There are probably very few C++ codebases that have received more security attention than those of browsers like Firefox. Bug bounties, fuzzing, tons of hardening work.

It's really just not accurate to say "they weren't writing good C++" or "it's a legacy codebase". Those could both be true things, but it's totally glossing over the hundreds of millions of dollars invested in fixing that codebase.
Ethereum Classic is now a separate currency. It's trading at only $8.46 USD right now.
The standards there are things like 'could one reasonably confuse your product or service with one provided by some other business, based on the names you're using' not 'do you have someone named Mercedes working in ops'.
You are correct, our content security policy is not perfect, and we are gradually improving it. Security is a journey and there is no such thing as perfect security. We are striving to incrementally improve everything we are doing as our team is scaling.
With this I agree. Though are we really ceding control over monetary policy to FB?
> otherwise UBI subsidizes inefficiency and reduces automation.

If someone has a UBI that pays enough for them to live, why would someone do work they don't enjoy for a few bucks an hour? I'd suggest that UBI would encourage efficiency and automation, precisely because it raises the pay threshold necessary to make someone willing to take a job at all. (Effectively, it raises the coefficient of static friction.)
The sum of all the money earned by all workers without a minimum wage is higher than with one. With a minimum wage you have one fry cook in your neighborhood making $100/hr and everyone else unemployed, without one you have 100 people making $2/hr each. More total money is given out in the second case, although I guess you can decide you'd prefer having the rich few if that's what you want (economics doesn't judge which outcome is better, it just tells you which outcome you will get).

Edit: numbers made up to illustrate the claim, not to provide evidence. This claim is a widely accepted principle that you can find in any introductory econ textbook.
The cost of technology falls faster than wages rise.
I'm just saying it isn't fair to say that I would have gotten nothing from YC - I'm sure it's an invaluable experience and it was genuinely and amazing opportunity to even have the chance to interview with them.

And I do a agree it's a good thing - the YC program I interviewed with began June 3. From the day of the interview to June 3, we 6Xed our revenue. Trust me, I'm wasn't the least bit discouraged by a rejection.
There were times when users visiting google were directed to baidu in mainland china via DNS.

If that's not tipping the scale, I don't know what is.

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/04/golden-shield-proj...
1. I doubt we have the technology to automate deer hunting yet; however, it would be very useful to have drones hunt the deer and have humans pickup the spoils. I did say it would be great if we could buy hunted deer as long as it’s tested for the nasty pathogens wildlife tends to have.

2.Having humans hunt the deer is preferable because they obey laws, don’t scare people, wont eat the farmer’s animals and, again, we also get to keep the meat.
Not to worry folks this is fake news we can ignore.
It would be great if we could both implement a UBI and eliminate the minimum wage.
Would you be happy if minimum wage was CPI-indexed to track the cost for one adult's bare-bones existence? Obviously this also requires defining what that minimum is, as social norms are also subject to inflation - when a US minimum wage was introduced boarding houses were common. Now they're unheard of.
Try moving cities without a home or a job, looking to survive on the street.
I believe replacing minimum wage with a UBI would effectively cause a net rise in peoples earnings - no one will take a job for 3 dollars an hour even if they have UBI.
A type system that encodes FSTs makes it impossible to express invalid state transitions, hence the safety.

Anyway, I'm only clarifying that the parent poster was explicitly talking about safety outside of memory safety.
Many economics experts also recognize slavery as being ideal (after all that’s the only reason the southern states went to war with America)
More likely none of trauma they suffer is being pursued and reported by media.
Like in many countries, the French have succumbed to having cereals and milk for breakfast.

But in my view nothing beats butter tartines or croissants dunked in coffee.

It has also become uncommon to drink wine at every meal, and people also drink less when they do have wine. It used to be that the consumption was close to one bottle per day...

But it should also be noted that the amount of alcohol in wine has increased during the period. It's 12+% now while it was about 10% in 1950 (not sure how much difference that makes, but still).
The difficult part with AWS is local development. Waiting on AWS deploys is not a fast process and it kills momentum.

LocalStack tries, but IMO it's not great.
This seems to be the place

Cognizant Technology Solutions Woodlands2
7725 Woodland Center Blvd, Tampa, FL 33614

There's another big story here, it may get more horrific, from browsing their phone directory most of their "employees" appear to be people of south Asian nationality. Given the circumstances and their predatory behavior, I imagine they are also taking advantage of H1Bs.
Every market has a working class. You can’t just pretend supply and demand will provide labor with perfect elasticity. Part of why development is so difficult is the labor pool in the bay area is massively outstripped by demand for labor driving up costs and slowing down development.
> Sad that the guy has to start off his presentation by showing how many Democrats he's voted for in his lifetime (and that still wasn't enough to tame the mob).

Of course he doesn't have to do that. What he votes for is completely irrelevant. It is a cheap rhetorical trick to imply that the opposition is driven by ideology rather than search for truth.
The Brown Mountain Lights
>including some over the top criticism of the graphics which otherwise wouldn't be an issue

I think you're wrong about that.

https://i.redd.it/rk5t6snmp8531.jpg

The tree (and background) is from the new Pokemon game, yet it looks perfectly at home in a game released nearly 21 years ago. Game Freak has been pumping out cut rate Pokemon games for years and they deserve every last bit of the hate.
Someone should write a Facebook Executive Official Statement generator

We understand

We apologize

We listen

But in the end we won't do anything about any of it and you're stuck with us anyway
When I was in high school and part-time shelving books at the local town library, no I didn't. Not for that work. Pocket money for a teenager was about the right amount of pay.

Not everyone is a single mother trying to make ends meet for her two children. We should not make economic policy as if they are.

"So why don't we take care of them?" Single mothers trying to make ends meet have access to a wide array of social programs already. We are already not abandoning them to the tender mercies of minimum wage and nothing else.
OP is asking for free tier stuff and you respond with servers that start at $69/month?
Ask HN: I did a minor in CS, is it worth going back for a BS?
I have applied to dozens of jobs with no interest, I have no experience other than making a few websites, is going back what I need to do?
SUVs generally are more dangerous to the other parties in a collision.

But in this case the scooter rider suffered fatal head injuries because he wasn't wearing a helmet. He would have still suffered fatal head injuries no matter what vehicle hit him since it wasn't the size of the vehicle that mattered here; what mattered was that he fell off his scooter and hit his head.
$499 drone tank meant to teach kids how to code
People who want no minimum wage are usually people who think the goal is to increase the GDP as much as possible or to lower unemployment as much as possible.

No minimum wage would definitely increase GDP, I don’t think there’s a lot of debate on that, but there really isn’t solid evidence or theory to know what effect it would have on unemployment. (1)

The other goal, the one most focused on by people who support increasing the minimum wage, is ensuring that minimum wage earners are making enough that they have a decent quality of life and don’t also need government benefits.

(1): It depends on the slopes of the demand and supply curves for labor and measuring those is really hard. People who want to raise the minimum wage usually claim that the demand curve for labor is relatively flat. People who want to get rid of the minimum wage usually claim that the demand curve is steeper.
Something you might not have considered is to forego the time and expense of the degree altogether. Particularly in IT most employers don't care if you have a degree or not - the ones that do can always use your existing degree to check the box. If you can pass the interview questions for development or systems engineering then more than likely you'll get hired. You might have to do temp to hire if you don't have a buddy to vouch for you, but you'll get in the door. There are a number of times I've been the most senior person ever hired without a degree, one Fortune 100 even changed their rules specifically so that they could hire me without a degree. The key phrase to remember is "equivalent experience" and you can usually imply that will be accepted. You will run across the occasional HR robot or insecure manager that thinks otherwise, but they are a slim minority. All of that money you spend on college is more or less a waste unless you are planning to be a doctor, lawyer, or something else heavily regulated where state or federal laws don't even allow you to take certification tests without a degree. (For example, in my state you can't take the bar exam without a J.D. degree and a number of hours as an unpaid intern)

Remember also, particularly in IT, that educating yourself is going to be an ongoing task for you. It doesn't have to be formal but you have to keep up. Read Hacker News and High Scalability, when you see things discussed that you don't understand then take it upon yourself to go understand. I probably spend sixteen hours a week on my own research.
Sounds nice on a bumper sticker but not really a point of view that stands up to scrutiny.
> I'm not saying he was wrong, but it's certainly an over simplification.

Precisely.

In the knife world, many (dare I say most) of the best tool steels used for knife making are made by Crucible Industries, a US company.

For example, the dominant steel used to make knives for bladesports[1][2] is CPM M4.

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[1] http://www.bladesports.org/WP/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkemT5ciBnw
Your post assumes readers have a significant amount of knowledge about Cornell. Most of us have no idea what the "Peoplesoft/Duffield Hall disaster" was, what CIT stands for, or who Lehman is.
This isn’t the issue though, the actual comparison is car park versus living space, and which can be built cheaper.
> Is there some real reason why Ethereum coin market cap is so much lower? Is it just the hype and Bitcoin being first?

Sure, plenty.

First "coolness" and technological advantage are not correlated with price. You can make it correlated by selling to idiots, it works.

Secondly, Ethereum is the computational network and database. Ether is the toll to use that database. Market cap takes the last price someone paid to top up their Ether inventory, and multiplies it by all Ethers in existence. Okay [maybe] you know this, next:

Third, you simply don't need that much Ether to write to the database. Ether is not a scarce resource. You can run extremely complex operations for extremely cheap. IDEX - one of the most sophisticated and popular decentralized stock-like exchange - was launched by the most sophisticated Ethereum developers and it only cost 0.026916422 Ether to deploy that and force all Ethereum nodes to process for all eternity. [1] (for pedants, yes other people transacting to that contract use additional Ether as gas). They could launch 5 whole startups with 1 Ether. Basically, if the most sophisticated power users who also feel like being entrepreneurs don't even need to own 1 single Ether to use the world computer, you don't ether. So when you can explain who the other 106 million Ethers are for, you can understand how much someone will pay for this easy to acquire and cheap resource of which more will always be issued.

Only speculators and third party finance apps hoard Ether and even they don't need to, as there are better assets issued on the Ethereum network for speculation and finance apps.

The final point is that Ether is only expensive and scarce when the transactions which use miniscule amounts of Ether skyrocket. But they can't skyrocket that much because the network can't handle that many transactions! D'oh! So it is almost all speculation fuel supporting the price.

[1] - IDEX 1 deployment transaction - https://etherscan.io/tx/0x24b99bebf8a908be3d09bb8101446350cc...
UBI is fine so long as you tax companies to recover the money.
Because modules and the linker work together, reducing the needless fat when creating an application specific runtime.
I'd argue for something around $20k-30k/year. Don't index it to the median income; index it to the cost of living in around 80% of cities (ignoring outliers like Silicon Valley and Manhattan). High enough that you can absolutely live on it, including housing.
If the wage was the same for an 18yo with no experience vs. a 25yo who doesn't need much handholding, nobody would hire the 18yo. In most cases, older workers will also have greater financial responsibilities than a teen, so a higher wage makes sense.
I think it'll vary from one type of steel to another where the quality sources are. Here in the UK there absolutely are highly specialised grades of steel that we buy in from the US, and I suspect we could buy many more grades from the US if we wanted to. (Typically we can get most stuff from a European mill cheaper and quicker, but that's just a cost and logistic advantage, not a quality issue.)
Ask HN: Everything related to IT makes me sick. Is there a way out?
I am currently sick of doing anything even remotely related to IT. Atm just the thought of spending the rest of my life in this career makes me almost wanting to commit suicide. There is not anything else I can do. I was thinking about becoming a baker but i am super afraid of the fierce competition and jumping into something that I might not even be good at.

Is there a wait out ? I am in my late 20s.
Deploying to lambda is literally uploading a zip.
That second part was a separate paragraph because it was a separate response to a different part of the comment I was responding to. It wasn't directly related to my comments on the responsibility of the scooter rider.
Got an invite from a fake account claiming to be a professor at my alma mater. The name only exists on LinkedIn and has currently a handful of connections. I reported the account, but it remains up as of today. I do not have a public account.

Made me paranoid enough to stop accepting invites (~1000+ pending) and drop all usage of LinkedIn. Very discomforting to know you are a target. LinkedIn will have to visibly move on this for me to change my outlook and regain trust.
Having some uncomfortably close experience with IBM Cloud very recently, I would have a hard time recommending it for just about anything.

I'd go to Azure over IBM Cloud, and I have perturbed many electrons about how frustrating Azure has been.
> Our economy is exploding, and our current problems are far more social, so maybe we should be listening to the sociologists and put the economy on the back burner for right now?

You seem to have misunderstanding about economics and sociology. It seems you think (I am guessing) economists only care about economy growth, and sociologists know how to make social improvement. This thought appears also embedded in other comments.

It is wrong in many levels:
1) economists care about social improvement in general, not just in economics indies. However, many times economics indies are the best measure of general social improvement.

2) sociology is not supposed to be a discipline about making social improvement, before it's taking over by far left scholars.

3) sociologists usually do not know how to make social improvement in general. sociologists seem to understand the problem facing specific group of people, and they seem to know specific methods to make specific improvement, but they usually do not know how to make social improvement in general, because their social change program also never include cost analysis, and also never address side effects, unintended consequences, etc. They may know how to improve the life of a few people, but all their analyses do not care what cost to the rest of the world.

4) our economy is "exploding" in America
Okay, I'll propose it.

We should have UBI that is at least sufficient to wholly replace the income of low-paid workers. I think $20,000 a year is a nice round number to start a discussion at.
I think you misunderstand the position of experts who believe a minimum wage is not “optimal”.

It’s never been easier to discover and apply for new jobs. That is to say, the transaction costs of changing jobs has never been lower.

In a competitive market with low transaction costs of changing jobs, an employee will achieve their highest wage on the open market based on their skill set.

Based on this theory a minimum wage sets a minimum skill level or value proposition a worker must present in order to be entitled to employment. Anyone who performs below that level is denied a job by the Federal minimum value proposition law.

The higher the minimum value proposition of a worker, the higher functioning / more productive individual workers must be, and the fewer people need to be employed.

So the theory is that a minimum value regulation directly hurts the people who are capable of providing the least value. Is it the best thing for society for the least productive workers to be legally unemployable?

Of course this glosses over all the inefficiencies and particularly the power imbalances that exist most dramatically at the jobs with the least skilled workers.

Companies are profitable because they can pay their employees dramatically less than the value that they produce for the company. Usually that value is a result of the infrastructure and intellectual property of the company multiplying the productivity of the worker to create the added value. But sometimes it’s simply on the backs of the workers being underpaid for the value they are personally creating.

Personally I think the minimum wage is low enough at this point where the overhead for just having the employee dominates the total cost of payroll. If there’s a cost saving to be had, it’s in lowering that overhead, not lowering payroll. This typically is achieved through reducing employment regulations in general, of which minimum wage/value is just one of hundreds or perhaps thousands.
Heroku has a nice cron addon you should investigate. It costs nothing (except it spins up a dyno to run your cron task so you will pay the prorated dyno rate). Very simple.
There are multiple points where averaging is employed.

FMR is a close to median value. From the linked definition:
"The FMR is the 40th percentile of gross rents for typical, non-substandard rental units occupied by recent movers in a local housing market"

Additionally, FMR is itself statewide average, covering both high and low cost of living areas. Low cost of living counties have units available for far below FMR values.

Low end housing in low cost of living areas can be found for under $377/mo - their estimate of affordable minimum wage rent.