skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any idea what people at BAT earn?

Should be the same. Just because of their size there should be more space to grow for a senior, but in general they can afford to pay less then the market rate because they think that the talent will keep coming to them because of their big name.

In China, the salary distribution is very very homogenious, unlike in the West. Any kind of seniority, experience, or performance component will rarely contribute to more that 30% of your salary.

That is why China looses out to the West when it comes to retaining super senior level specialists. They either start their own business, or move to the West
(This might be a different take on the topic, but just a thought)
I have just dipped my toes in the corporate world and to be honest, i have not heard the term 'Excel' in the workspace or otherwise. Actually I did but that was also when its major pain point was discussed: Online capability. A customer needed an on-the-go Daily Sales Report app. (what I learnt and is obvious as well is that the dependency on the office/Excel expert to send the report is not ideal)

My point is, the shift to "the cloud" has already begun right? Freshers today will be up the hierarchy tomorrow and are they really going to use Excel?
> This seems painfully naive to the point of farce. Do they really believe the value of playing music is derived solely from the effort to produce it and not from how many people consume it and under what circumstances it is consumed?

The Baumol Effect is about relative, not absolute prices. Musicians may have become more productive over time but producers of goods have become much, much more productive. So services increase in relative price over time while goods decline.

It’s analogous to the Balassa-Samuelson Effect. Services are cheaper in poor countries than in rich ones because the entire economy is less productive. As it becomes more productive the leading sectors bid up the average wage to get higher quality workers ,or just more of the same quality, and the low productivity sectors either disappear or raise their wages to keep their labour, passing on the costs to consumers.

That it’s a change in relative rather than absolute prices is the entire point of the Baumol Effect.

If you need a refresher with applications to the American Economy Alex Tabarrok wrote a short book on it recently, Why Are The Prices So Damn High?

https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/helland-tabarrok_why-a...

If you look at nothing else check out the first graph, on page ten. Services have gotten more expensive and goods cheaper, housing excepted, for over 50 years.
I'm sure you make more than $100k a year. Why don't you use it all to tip your waiters?
Perhaps it is Linus Torvalds who is the real villain, making freely available a crucial piece of software that China is using to power its surveillance infrastructure. I say we put him to death for his treasonous actions against the free world.
For OAuth, this is part of the standard OpenID Connect[0], which extends OAuth 2.0. I'm not sure how IndieAith handles this.

[0]: https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#UserIn...
It takes a long time to develop and plan a rollout of those kinds of automated kiosks for large companies. They've clearly been planning such a rollout for many years. The fact it's coincided with a lot of discussion of minimum wage increases is either a complete coincidence or an example of correlation not implying causation -- mass layoffs usually result in discussions about labour laws.

I would argue that the job losses to automation would've happened anyway without any discussion of wage increases -- kiosks are cheaper than even below-living-wage workers.
A. I posted on HN and Reddit and people came to the website

B. People that came to the website wanted the product.

Granted, it was side-projects, but if I dedicated more time to it I think my strategy to acquire my first customers would remain the same. Find the audience that your product is direct at and show it to them. That's what worked for me
Spotifree – Free OS X App for Muting Spotify Ads
I read somewhere that they are going to merge Thunderbolt in the USB 4 spec, so they won't be so different soon :)
> At #5, you have code that is as fast as it gets. It is nowhere near as fast as native code (any benchmarks you think of are synthetic and designed to show JavaScript as fast—it doesn't take a lot to shake out the issues).

This. And to make matters worse, a lot of benchmarks start with something like, "To be fair to <the slower language>, let's cripple <the faster language> by implementing the programs using the paradigm favored by <the slower language>." If you want the real results, have an expert in each language implement the spec without looking at the other program.

Someone mentioned Photoshop being slow compared to Slack/VSCode. That is Apples to Oranges comparison if I ever saw one.

> And the disadvantage is that they are are huge, resource intensive and pathetically slow.

And don't work natively on any platform. You essentially program for the lowest common denominator and do not take advantage of any of the features provided by the platform -- especially accessibility. For example: Zoom In on any half-way decent editor increases the text size. Zoom In on VSCode (macOS) blows up the entire UI -- leaving little space for actual text. This is just one example -- I can line up many more.
Not very, since it lacks a warhead. And it's a late-70s era missile, so not even valuable for reverse engineering.
I'm coming to wonder whether it could be a typo in the Italian Police's report, that other media may have corrected. Pretty much all media have written that they fought ALONG the separatists. See French Le Monde and German Deutsche Welle right now, who agree that'd be PRO separatist.
Having the ability to whitelist particular URLs (or at least domains) is really really cool. This would prevent (or make much harder) many of previous npm packages hacks.

Maybe you guys should work together with deno team on exchanging these ideas? Anyway, great work!
Is the North of Mexico that much poorer though?

I mean Mexico is quite wealthy compared to the rest of Latin America and the North of Mexico includes many of the wealthier areas.

It's not the same building a warehouse in Nuevo Leon as in Chiapas.
Do you really want to compare Photoshop with VSCode?
This is research that people do not want to hear, but is quite interesting.

If you develop a habit pattern, and then want to change your life and follow a new habit pattern, you're going to be less successful at achieving that 2nd habit pattern.

If you want to live a healthy life, giving smoking a go is not a good start to that, and will make achieving healthy living much harder.

So, it's not really a surprise that engaging in non-monogamous behavior would set someone up for failure in marriage.
There was a time in San Francisco when everything was blamed on "Chinese steel" until we suddenly found out that Dyson Steel is from Ohio. Then there was deafening silence. Tribalism is a powerful drug.
The linked article said it didn't have a warhead. Are you saying it didn't have any propellant either? In that case an expensive tube?
ITT: everyone decides how Amazon should spend their rightfully earned money. Makes me kind of sick.
Kind of, but the interesting part is finding out how to make the transistor in the first place. These things usually take a few years to be found despite the popularity of such games.
This is a good thing. And there's probably still some way to go with this. A step-by-step approach makes sense to me. Sure it's a nuisance for developers (although I'm certainly not complaining about the extra work) but it's better for users to see regular progress regarding their privacy. Surveillance capitalism has gone a bit crazy over the last decade and lawmakers are steadily reeling it back in. I fully support the ICO's recommendations
Metaphysical determinism still works in relativity. It also still works in quantum mechanics if you accept the many-worlds interpretation.

That's quite orthogonal to the question of practical predictability. What chaos theory shows is that, regardless of which model of microscopic physics we are talking about, there are important aspects of the future that cannot be predicted to high precision from within the universe.
That risk seems like a liability to me. It's also the Achilles' heel of all the new non-fossil-fuel-based energy production methods at scale - they all end up being dependent on that same advanced industrial base and transportation network, which is complex, fragile, and incidentally still runs on fossil fuels.
I once met Peter Thiel at an event and kindly asked him if he ever had a 'Robert Oppenheimer moment' with his investment in Palantir. Not surprisingly he diverted and did not provide an answer at all. His non-answer was most telling to me and made me think about his ethics.
At least a certain level of reasoning or even PR spin about the positive effects would have been better than this.
I left deeply unimpressed about our first and only encounter.
It depends on the cost of living though.

I earn around that in Western Europe but it's still a pretty good job for Spain and I have no doubt I live in better conditions than the Americans working for $15 an hour, which is really what matters.
There’s huge costs to using a non-standard choice like Blender over 3dsMax or Maya. They both have loads of proprietary tools (and are constantly adding one more every couple of cycles or so). 3D DCCs are not equivalent to each other. Financing Blender is indeed a good move for Epic if they believe (and there’s good reason to) it might make Game production toolsets more available.
What surprises me with respect to dyslexia is how poor accessibility options are in modern operating systems.

If I understood the research correctly, dyslexia researchers get material improvements in reading speed when they increase the amount of space between words and lines. The gist of the explanation given was that dyslexics basically struggle to separate out the word they're trying to focus on from the surrounding wall of text.

Put another way, while this is fine for normal readers:

quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog

Changing it to this makes it easier to read by dyslexic readers:

quick brown fox jumps

over the lazy dog

Perhaps OS designers aren't unaware of it (hint hint if you work on an OS); or perhaps the research isn't as conclusive as I recollect. If the former, it seems like a no brainer to throw in an accessibility option to enable this OS-wide.
996.icu did not only happen in China, it is happening everywhere on this planet.
Probably did but it’s still known in the industry for being very very non-standard.
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Well, go ahead and try it out. Have you and a friend leave slightly differently from your homes in San Francisco to go see another friend in San Jose. You leave ~ 10 mins from each other and you'll arrive ~ 10 mins from each other. You'll encounter similar traffic.

Go ahead and test the way your world works. The short term doesn't matter. It gets beaten by the weight of other stuff.
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I said soul-consuming, I meant soul-crushing (there were a lot of distractions around at the time and I was having trouble remembering the idiom).

Point being, crappy work is hard to staff, and some work is just always going to be crappy. Nobody wants to maintain a hideous collection of accumulated bad decisions workarounds that exist for historical reasons but which have no value other than allowing lazy customers to avoid upgrading their 1970s client code. At IBM we maintained it anyway and hated it. At Google that sort of thing can't keep a team together.
Windows is the land of the reverse engineering. Linux, despite its powerful tools still lacks far behind in this area (reverse engineering and cracking apps).
That's kind of what I thought.

But then the asking price seems high, it doesn't seem to have a warhead so this is just the missile.
> It is possible to operate without relying on any big tech firm.

Some writer from Gizmodo tried that last February. Let's just say that you are technically correct that you don't need any of the big tech firms.

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-l...
We need a “foam” of areogel in a host substance to be viable. The odea being that we can host the aerogel in a substrate material which can withstand/accept the design limitations of the applicatioon environ and support the reasons why we want aerogel there...

The surface area of aerogel foam is huge and its ability to absorb heavy toxic metals from water is also huge.

I wonder if aerogel desalinization filters could be a thing.
Western countries outsource CO2 emissions to China
Vigenère vs. Vigenère – Damian Conway
You can do that without HKT, using FromIterator (which is also used by the widely used iterator method "collect").

Here is an implementation: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit...

Fill is also possible, using the same trait and iterators.
The 530 is a SARH missile. It requires a radar system (found in the French Mirage aircraft for example) to lock and paint it's target the entire time for the missile to track and eventually detonate. It would be pretty difficult to do and the acqusition/targeting radar would need to be cooled and energized for the duration of the flight. Launching A2A missiles from the ground is pretty rare but it is possible as evidenced recently by Yemen ground launching a Russian R27T infrared missile successfully at a Saudi F15.
King – Man + Woman = King?
In the UK the tenant needs to be 2 months behind in rent before the landlord can start the eviction process.
Ryanair is a pure-737 shop. If they get hit badly by this, they will retaliate.
I obtained back you could just order this stuff, 100g of titanium powder. Toss a teaspoon on a camp fire and it makes pretty silver sparks.
I don't understand why people don't learn the rules of the game called "business" at least a little bit. If you have the right to cancel something within 14 days there are rules to how to do this. Don't expect cooperation from the other side of the table. Just follow the rules.

I'm quite sure the rules say something like this, but I'm not a lawyer and have not looked it up again:

1. Find out the business address of that company, preferably one in your country if there are multiple options.

2. Write a letter in Word where you say you want to revert the orders <list of date, object, price>.

3. Print, sign, then photograph that letter with your phone (which adds a date to the photo).

4. Go to your town's post office and tell them you want to send this letter in a way that the receiver needs to sign for that and you want to get back that signature.

5. Wait for the signature.

6. If nothing happens besides the signature, write them an email adding all the details and the photos of the signature and the letter.

7. If still nothing happens on your bank account, and the sum is over 500€ or similar go with all the documents to a court and request they help you get the money back. Not sure if other countries but in my country for 45€ they will send a specially colored letter to the company claiming the payment and threatening a lawsuit.

8. Check the times here, but when they are up and nothing happened go with all these things to a lawyer and he will probably sue for you. In most countries losing such a lawsuit is path that might end up bringing the CEO into jail (not directly, but it certainly is on the table as possibility at this point), so the chances are super high that at this point they will send the money or declare bankruptcy. In case of bankruptcy your lawyer knows how to continue.

There's no need for reminders, warnings, etc. All that might end up you being behind your deadlines. Print a paper letter, sign it, and send it in a way that can prove reception.

A professional company with good intent will also not feel threatened by you doing the right thing according to law. So don't be afraid to be perceived as unfriendly. The only people who will claim unfriendliness here either have no idea what they are doing or are using your shame against you in the hopes that you do mistakes.
Probably not very useable at all. But it points out how independant actors are able to access weapons that are otherwise not sold to anybody who isn't the state.

Which leads to the question, if an incompetent party that was careless enough get busted has access to an old and useless missile, then what do the competent independent groups have access to?
>think most people don't need to write safe code all the time.

I don't see how this position could possibly be defensible. Logically you really need a explicit defensible reason to prefer unsafe code that is only slightly easier to write and much more likely to require much more difficult debugging.
The word "predictable" implies "deterministic", but they are not identical. The universe can be governed by strong deterministic laws, while being too complex to simulate and thus predict.

This poses some difficult questions for science, given that most science up to now has been about predicting something, trying it and checking whether theory and practice matches.
I hope to get here. I've been using DDG since the start of the year, and I'm thinking of switching back to Google. The results for me are off the mark to such a degree that I use the `!g` more times than not. Even if DDG has the result on the first page, it's never at the top like Google often is.
> Typically pretty wet weather for the (spring) race

Paris–Roubaix is certainly memorable when it's wet and muddy, but the last time it happened was in 2002! Early spring is the driest part of the year in north-eastern France, and so the usual conditions for the race are dry and dusty. See the Inner Ring: https://inrng.com/2016/04/rain-for-roubaix/
I feel like pop culture uses the butterfly effect as shorthand for "don't change anything in the past because you have no idea how big a change it would cause in seemingly unrelated things"

This is the plot of Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder".
Doesn't mean anything really, especially as far-right extremists are not the brightest bulbs.

Slovak neonazis were fighting in Donbass on the side of Russians/separatistit, because that side invested heavily in propaganda (abroad, not only domestic) and presented itself as a front against anything modern and especially the EU (which is the incarnation of evil to them), so reactionary forces are naturally drawn to them.
Unfortunately, people like him and consultants who will be interested in doing business with Google will be the ones that politicians listen to.

I'd personally do this to solve the problem:

1. Separate Google from Alphabet and separate Google Search from everything else they do.

2. Nationalise the Google brand and search engine along with Bing. Everyone else can stay as-is for now.

3. Allow applications for companies to become a search result endpoints. Ownership would need to be completely transparent. Prevent incumbents from being involved - Amazon, FB, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung etc.

4. All Google and Bing result listings would then be evenly distributed across the search result endpoint providers.

5. The propositions for each of these companies can now be customised knowing that they will get a maximum number of likely searches per year.

6. Prevent any mergers or foreign ownership of these new companies.

Sure the search would develop at a slower pace but its power would devolve into utility again rather than as a way to control what people see.
Development needs resources. I don't see why there is so much hate towards well crafted DLC content. The base game is great as it is, and nobody forces you to buy the DLC.
The Kingdom of Bantar Gebang
Try searching the internet instead of those storefronts, you'll get more than enough listicles.
Ask HN: Best way to augment memory by streaming/saving audio?
Hey Folks,

I have a hobby project where I want to augment my memory by constantly recording audio (24/7, ok maybe 18 hours a day).

Ignoring the fleshware issues (consent for recording calls / meetings etc), what would be the best way to record all audio and save it?

What file formats should I use (it's 2019, would you still use mp3)?

What would the minimum bitrate I record at (for speech recognition / indexing)?

Am I nuts to try to stream the audio to a server and save it there (instead of doing a sync process at night)? I think streaming is within the realms of possibility (MP3 at 128Kbps is roughly 1GB per day).

Thanks for your 2c in advance!
More likely, Donbass "independence" from Ukraine.
If you are really in Europe, you should know better than to generalize across 44 countries.
This presumes a variant of time travel that allows changes to make a difference. A many world interpretation would just mean branches (and you'd only see your changes if you manage to find a way to navigate to them); a fully deterministic model would imply you can't change anything and your time travel always had happened exactly the way it would happen, and whatever you think you achieved was consistent with history (wasn't really Hitlers grandfather after all for example); a strongly convergent model would see the effects mostly have relatively minor effects, and when they tip over and have bigger effects, those bigger effects still end up cancelling out over time.

We both don't know how time travel would work if it is possible, and don't know well enough what the odds are of any small change affecting large long time change.

E.g maybe if Hitler didn't come along, someone else would have.

And in fact, exploring those effects is often a major part of back in time plots.

Moorcocks 'Behold the man' for example have someone travel back in time to meet Jesus only to realise that the real Jesus was a mentally disabled man and that since he is the only one that knows the image of present day Jesus, the time traveler himself must always have been the person history knows as Jesus, presenting a deterministic idea of time, where paradoxes would be impossible, because time is in that world in effect just one more spatial dimension our perception moves across.

There are many such models that would allow for some time travel plots to be plausible all the time we have no idea how it actually works.

Of course all of them will probably look quite ridiculous and quaint if we ever figure out the real thing.
You're right it does depend on cost of living, but I live in a city/country (Hong Kong) with one of the highest costs of living in the world[1].

[1] https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/country/ranking
I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't like audio books. I also feel it's faster to just read a real book, and I retain a lot more information when I read.
"that metal"

Mental?