skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Potential job-loss outcomes range from between about zero and 3.7 million workers."

Here's the publication: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55410
Here's the report: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-07/CBO-55410-MinimumWa...

From the report: "In an average week in 2025, the $15 option would boost the wages of
17 million workers who would otherwise earn less than $15 per hour. Another 10 million workers otherwise earning slightly more than $15
per hour might see their wages rise as well. But 1.3 million other workers would become jobless, according to CBO’s median estimate. There is a two- thirds chance that the change in employment would be between about zero and a decrease of 3.7 million workers. The number of people with annual income below the poverty threshold in 2025 would fall by 1.3 million."

By 2025, automation should be way ahead than we have here. I wonder how that would help or not help these numbers. Maybe the overdue recession will increase the jobless number. Or the economy will keep trucking on and the number would be close to zero. So many questions, so little answers.
Very predictable article from the WSJ.

They hammer these 2 points relentlessly year after year: Tax cuts for the rich are good for the economy. A minimum wage for the poor is bad for the economy.

Of course they are only interested in what's good for all, and not what is good for their wealthy readership.

Please.
I don't understand why the federal minimum wage isn't pegged to regional costs of living. I'm sure a $15 minimum makes sense in San Francisco, but should we force small, rural towns to also pay $15?
Why you have to keep logging in to read news on your phone
> because the transformer used is small enough that the maximum current is not life threatening.

No, this is definitely not the case. 8mA is 1W at 120V, and although 8mA will not actually kill you, it will be a very nasty experience you will not want to repeat. 80mA, I wouldn't want to sell you life insurance. 160mA can definitely kill you.

Efficient transformers are also not effective current-limiting devices; their coils do have some resistance, and their magnetics have some leakage inductance which limits the current, but these only produce a small voltage loss at their rated output. Say you have a transformer designed for a 50-watt razor (400mA at 120V, several times more than you can survive). If its coils are dissipating 10 watts, it's going to get pretty hot there inside the wall while you're shaving, so this means that its coil resistance is already impractically high for this application. (Think about how hot a 10-watt compact fluorescent or LED bulb gets, even though it's exposed to airflow.) Yet that's only 62.5Ω, which means that if you short out its output, you're going to get 1900 mA through the short, almost five times its rated output and 19 times as much current as is needed to kill you. Using a more realistic coil resistance gives even larger peak currents.

(Also, using 20% of the total circuit power means that the razor sees 20% lower voltage, which may cause it to fail to work.)

The bottom line is, you can't depend on the transformer burning itself up or otherwise limiting current to protect you. The correct answer is given in my other response above.

Special transformers like neon-sign transformers and arc-welding transformers do have sufficiently high leakage inductance to not burn up if you short out their output, but such transformers are not used for general power application. Generally their maximum currents are still far too high to provide much protection for squishy human bodies.
No, iOS prevents the application from directly accessing files without the user’s permission. The user can choose to allow access granularly to a file via the file picker within the app.

There are also separate permissions to allow apps to read and write from the media library.
> We also discovered that third-party libraries provided by two Chinese companies—Baidu and Salmonads— independently make use of the SD card as a covert channel, so that when an app can read the phone’s IMEI, it stores it for other apps that cannot.

From the paper, it looks like it stores those in `/sdcard/.googlex9/.xamdecoq0962` and `/sdcard/backups/.SystemConfig/.cuid2`. I wonder what would happen if I simlinked those files to `/dev/null`...
One might also argue that a minimum wage that is too low burdens tax payers because it means the employees must seek out public assistance. In which case one wonders if a business is worth sustaining if it cannot adequately cover its labor costs without the government propping it up via subsidies.
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I think the author is overlooking the environmental aspect of mining asteroids for minerals. Currently huge levels of environmental damage are caused by mining for gold, platinum and other metals. To the extent that these mining activities can be moved "off earth" our planet's environment would benefit enormously. In this regard, a giant asteroid of gold would make us richer.
I'm kind of shocked at how many recommendations are merely, "have tact and don't be a dick to your coworkers." How many code reviews are shitslinging mudfests where you guys work??

Now admittedly I mostly work on projects where I'm the sole developer so structured code reviews aren't part of my daily routine, but during the period where I managed interns we'd do code reviews before every merge which mostly involved sitting down and going through the functions. I'd point out deficiencies and work to teach the student developers new tools/libraries/resources they weren't aware of. At no point did we exchange shit like "This change sucks", "Can’t you see that this is obviously wrong?", or "This is stupid code written by a stupid person."... all examples from an article which is also toting the "Avoid hyperbole" mantra. Even a single one of those snide remarks would be grounds for discipline or potentially termination if it were consistent.

My tip? Separate your ego from your code. If you can't discuss criticism objectively and professionally you shouldn't be involved in a professional career. Hostile workplaces are shit to be part of and I will never stand for that among my peers.
I don't like this philosophy because it assumes that with more computing power, we can unlock even greater feats in space travel.

Computing only gets you so far. The AGC was able to be so slow and still get the job done because what it needed to do was not "hard": it calculated orbital equations and monitored sensors. It didn't use AI, it didn't need to hash anything, it didn't work with databases or networks, it didn't render graphics in 3D 4K - all of these, we expect from modern phones.

If we want to advance space travel, the problem is not with computing. The problem is with chemistry (mostly), physics (to a lesser degree), and politics (let's be real, this is 99% of the battle).
With Opera mail you can create many Bayesian filters to categorize your inbox. The obvious category is spam, but you can also have it automatically categorize into business clients projects offers family etc, each type of newsletter can have its own category.
Wouldn't this logic make Java by far the greatest language ever invented?
DRM is of course critical, but what is the status of Mesa drivers so we can have actual OpenGL and I guess also Vulkan these days?
Do you honestly believe you'll be able to learn a whole new language and framework faster than using a language you already know and framework that's been heavily optimized for doing exactly what you want?

If you want to follow a hype wave just say so. Build it in Elixir.
>Why to NOT run a small social network site [...] If you choose to run a site like this, it means that people will now depend on you for something that's important to them. People on Friend Camp are very forgiving when we have down time, and sometimes that down time can last hours if I'm asleep or at a movie or otherwise busy.

Kudos to the author for responsibly mentioning the caveats and setting realistic expectations. Before asking friends & family to depend on a personal Mastodon server, consider carefully if you really want to take on that burden of responsibility to become a sysadmin and defacto tech support.
The solution is to throw out your WAF.
This never used to be true. People used to call each other all the time. I'd call my friends when I was 12 and just talk on the phone.
What exactly is the blame of Android? That it allows the app to read photos when user allows it to read photo files?

On iOS, you have to separately allow image access and access to location data stored as part of the image.
Learning how to mine asteroids could increase the likelihood that we would have the technology to push dangerous asteroids out of earths path.
I'm not sure that boredom is the right word for what is being described here. Leisure is what we used to call it, and the sense of boredom seems (to me) to emerge as one possible reaction to unencumbered leisure time. When I am on a hike, my mind can be free, but I am not bored.

Certainly agree with the idea that phones create a strong environment for bored distraction. I've been slowly deleting apps where I find myself pointlessly refreshing/checking, but I haven't made it to the next level of completely disengaging and simply sitting and mentally exploring other forms of leisure.
You are ignoring the bandwidth differential of RF v Fiber-based transmission systems. We don't care if some random unknown crypto session happens on the internet - there is near infinite bandwidth - and someone is paying a bill (on both ends).

With amateur RF it is different - it is a shared, finite resource (in a given area/radius).

Not allowing enciphered communications is a fairly easy way to be able to audit what is taking up the spectrum. If it all goes enciphered, you have no idea what is occurring, for what purposes.
Carpentry/electrical/plumbing/factory product and process is very standardized, but IT is still quickly evolving and requires adaptation and innovation, making it harder to predict how well someone will handle a new problem based on previous work.

Welders or house framers take designs from engineers and (mostly) work to spec. I have to be the architect, engineer, and builder, usually only based on the approved visible UI, or rough description of a problem.
I like this symbolic way of putting it. I struggle with communicating that in a way that is non-threatening to people who are sensitive or defensive of their supporting beliefs E,F, etc for why A.
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I'm trying to wrap my head around the use case here. I love to support well crafted native software so don't take this as a negative question. I often use a tool such as Arq or Veeam to create snapshots in time of a folder or set of folders that then get uploaded to a remote storage location or repository, to recover files or documents from that time. I also use cloud storage providers to keep a copy of data that I am working on in sync between devices.

I can't seem to tell but this product seems to be missing any additional features to really fill a role that I lack. It doesn't appear to make incremental copies of the data set to allow me to roll back in time, it does track deleted items but interim changes are not kept or tracked, so it's really just a capture of the state of the folder at last run time.

It's compared to robocopy but the tool assumes an empty initial destination directory, there's no facility for copying data into a directory with content in it already, so it's can't be used as a general file transfer tool.

It seems the best use case is for say transferring a directory of tarball dumps to a remote location over SMB?
Does Linux perf work on Zen 2?
No, I have not.

From what I've seen NTFS is a really well-made file system. There is indeed a fixed per-file overhead that becomes an issue when working through lots of small files, but NTFS handles multi-threaded access very efficiently, so that's a very easy workaround.
So don't let them.

Doesn't work so well on apps that by their very nature and a variety of contrived reason have to call home.
It seems like at least some of these apps might be using these vulnerabilities without even being aware of it, as the offending code is in third party libraries. Game devs grabbing mac addresses via Unity's API, for example, may not know that that information is supposed to be restricted on Android.
I love how "show me a bitcoin" means "this thing is totally a waste" to you. That is why you're considered defensive.
I'e been programming since the early eighties, and when I was zoned into it, my mom would have to call me 3 times for dinner.

I would tell her I'd be there in two minutes, and to me what felt like two minutes, was really ten in real life.

In those days, this kind of computer time dilation experience was pretty unique, and very few people had access to it.

Now I find it funny to see that all of society seems to be turning into phone zombies.

Although this absorption state is occasionally useful, I've come to dislike it. I feel it takes me away from real life down a rabbit hole.

I much prefer full contact living, and the occasional boredom that comes with it.
You can control things over ham radio, authentication is allowed and I've built AX.25 systems that used libsodium for the auth side of things.

Not an old ham and very much like hacking on digital things, I don't think the lack of encryption is hampering anything.
So the bicyclists claim “when the bridge collapses and the semis can’t carry mail and freight, we’ll do that important job. We provide a necessary utility.”

So the bridge fails one day in a storm and the bicycle owners are all handed 200-lb loads and told “go.”

Are they compelled to go? What if they all refuse? Where is the utility now?
I think it's because technology is incredibly powerful and code + hardware can act as not only organizational structure but as a sort of pseudo employee. When you code you are often designing and implementing business rules, thus acting in a managerial or executive capacity. Software also scales incredibly well. One person may be responsible for building a system that generates immense value (extreme example: Linux and Git both initially created by one person).

The level of responsibility and authority you have as the person responsible for a $10M system can be leveraged to move to different leadership career tracks. I think this bleeds out into the industry at large so VCs recognize that smart engineers make good financial bets.
Definitely true, but you can show me a hat in TF2 (on your screen). Show me a Bitcoin!
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For what it's worth, I decided to pick up Elixir based on this post.
> The metal would have various industrial applications and make nice jewelry and dental fillings, but it wouldn’t spark a new industrial revolution, or dramatically bring down the cost of goods and services, or in general make human life much better or more comfortable.

There would be many new industrial aplications for gold alloys. I think abundance of gold could spark mini industrial revolution.
Future Gravitational Wave Detectors Could Find Exoplanets, Too
I agree. It is about time we move more towards less autodestructive international power communication.
Florida man pretending to be police pulls over real police
Surely lowering the price of precious material will make everyone better off, they'll just stay the same relative to each other?
Looks pretty neat but 1st thing I thought of was a heat map. Show me the hot spots and an animation over time (as you have/gather historical data).
The page you link to [1] shows Go at 9th for Plaintext (87.9% of the leader), 21st for JSON (96.8% of the leader). Which is still not ideal, but is a long way from abysmal.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=b...
Sandboxes are never safe.

But man some of these bypasses are getting into evil genius level of shady cleverness.
I remember Folding@Home on the PS3. The visualizations were pretty cool looking. I didn't know there was a leaderboard.
I don't feel comparing healthcare to tolls is that useful. Systems to accomodate people based on economic need have a tendency to introduce more costs and overhead which will reduce the efficiency that the system was attempting to solve in the first place! This cannot be said for tolls.
Wasn't aware of that, thanks for the clarification.
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I’ve always been curious why Google didn’t spin out Skia. Maybe because it lacks the UI primitives you really need to make it useful?
Mining is arguably the best aspect since it incentivizes using cheap renewable energy, which is why you'll find many large industrial mining farms using hydroelectric dam-produced electricity.
Or, "why you shouldn't rely on IDS, IPS, and WAF".
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For someone that brought "context" into the discussion, you seem to be forgetting the context of this entire sub-thread.
Is RequestMap Open Source?
From what I've heard (UK), earth at the top is marginally safer as if anything falls on a partially unplugged plug (coin, hairpin, something metal), it will land on the earth rather than directly on the powered pins. Of course, this is also resolved in the UK by insulating the lower portions of the powered pins, so whenever it is powered only insulated area will be visible outside of the socket, so it's something of a moot point.
Maybe. Putting things into space creates a lot of air pollution.
>Athlon64/X2 also totally destroyed Intel but Core architecture arrived

That is not 100% accurate. First being Athlon 64 didn't destroy Intel. It was good, but businesses were still buying Intel for stability reason. AMD's chipset at the time, were no where as good as Intel, especially in the I/O speed. The WinTel Alliance meant all the software, from library to compiler were optimise for Intel.

Now the market is multiple times bigger, we have many Open Sources alternatives, like LLVM and GCC, the Web Stack are mainly open sources meant optimisation is a lot easier. I/O and Chipset are no longer a problem due to maturing IP selection from Multiple vendors. No longer will AMD has to do it all by themselves. The magic of Licensing IP and Pure Play Foundry. And Nadella Microsoft is an entirely different Microsoft than 20 years ago.

Finally it wasn't necessary the Core architecture that killed AMD, AMD went downhill with Bulldozer design and lots of execution problem. Basically they have their own moment of Pentium 4, except when Intel had the resources for a backup plan ( Core ) and able to sustain losses while they figure it out, AMD had nothing. It took them nearly 15 years to get out of it.
My mistake, I meant Alibaba's apps
To be honest I'm not focused on the price - I too have held bitcoin for a long time. This was just my observation having been on HN for a very long time - it just seems the negativity around BC really spiked up in early 2018. As much as we like to think about the tech behind crypto, many users simply look at it as an investment and were pretty depressed when they didn't cash at the 20K high and were hoping for it to go even higher.
Huh? I thought the reason for putting ground facing up was to prevent metal things from falling in from above and shorting the live and neutral together. What does that have to do with the material of the faceplate?
He should make it an art installation.
Low profile plugs intended to have the cord exit downward at 45-degrees don't work as well with upside down receptacles.
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For what, the honeypots? I have no idea of such an article exists. I was one of their members and ran several honeypots and made use of several of my domains. It was started on freenode's IRC network, or at least that is how I learned about it and joined in. There are probably IRC logs on archive servers out there somewhere.
Welcome to the wonderful globalised utopia of 2019 in which shared culture has been deliberately destroyed and genuine, wholesome, worthwhile, spiritually nourishing experiences and a sense of community are replaced with empty consumerism and anomie.
Exactly. Seed, trunk, branches. They last thing you want is to build something big that, when it does the wrong thing, leaves you with too much code that you're not sure about.
Babies use their hands to feel shapes. Maybe brain works hard to make the connection between the inputs provided through touch and vision.

Understanding shapes/outlines is useful for manipulating objects and avoiding obstacles.

Maybe the object recognition develops a bit later and builds on top of how brains already understand the world.
There is a Java version of Tcl called Jacl. I have no idea if it would work for your purposes.

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Java+and+Tcl
> Surely lowering the price of precious material will make everyone better off, they'll just stay the same relative to each other?

They won't stay the same relative to each other if anyone's current wealth is more related to the scarcity of the precious material in question than anyone else, which is guaranteed to be the case for any precious material.
It also depends on path of travel: hand to foot, probably not too bad. Across your chest / heart: probably worse.
Amazon Kuiper program will Launch over 3k satellites for Internet
Raising children is the quintessential grinding stone in life. You're right, there's nothing quite like it, and each child is a near-constant reminder that you need to be flexible in order to teach and to learn.
Switzerland has shared lines, but the freight traffic is required to be able to go at the same speed as the passenger trains. They have shorter trains with more engines than you'd see in the US as a result.
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>but we have to be willing to tolerate the occasional horror story that seems like it could be fixed by more education.

That's a complete non-starter in this day and age though. "Just one life" and all that crap. It's simply not possible to float the idea that taking on more risk (by employing less trained nurses) in order to bring some benefit to society (more nurse-hours available) may have an overall net benefit to society without be labeled a baby murderer.
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I flagged this because there's nothing interesting here, it's just a promotion piece for the CEO of Poshmark (not even Poshmark itself!)
It won't help. The information follows you. Maybe the sensation is a little less, though, which may help. Good luck.
> does the capacitance internal to the generator matter, and what level might this typically be?

It might, but it can only make the situation safer. For example, if the "neutral" wire's only connection to the chassis is through its capacitive coupling to that chassis, then the impedance from that capacitance is in series with whatever the chassis-puddle capacitance is. Typically such capacitances are going to be much smaller, because the chassis and hypothetical puddle have much larger surface areas than anything else in the generator. Some can be larger, but their impedance isn't going to go below zero. (A sufficiently large tuned inductance could go below zero, but it would have to be very carefully tuned to lower the impedance rather than increase it.)

> Also, how did you estimate the 1KΩ resistance to ground? Mostly as an aside, I presume you are familiar with the possibly apocryphal story of electrocution with a 9V battery?

Mostly by sucking on ohmmeter leads in the past, although it's also common in textbooks. Yes, I've heard the story; if I had heard it earlier, I might have been more reluctant to suck on ohmmeter leads, although modern digital VOMs use smaller currents that are probably not dangerous.
Snarky comment, but otherwise unhelpful...
I wouldn't mind if the work of mining was going toward fulfilling ledgers that are doing meaningful things, like ensuring accountability, rather than trying to find vapor money.