skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Anyone interested in the truth will tell you that raising the minimum wage will destroy at least some jobs.

This is the "big lie" used to justify keeping it low. The reality is that minimum wage hikes hit profit margins first and hardest, inflation next and jobs get hit last (maybe if it gets hiked $10 / hour).

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.421...

>"Studying profitability is important because the empirical evidence suggests that minimum wages do raise the earnings of low wage workers, but do not seem to have large negative employment consequences."

>"Across both datasets our results show that that
profitability was significantly reduced by the introduction of the minimum wage. "

Minimum waged labor is very, very, very inelastic. For better or worse the people who clean your toilets and serve you coffee in the mornings are extremely necessary and very hard to substitute. Much more so than most middle class jobs, even.

Business lobbies know this to be the truth, but they know that they will get nothing but by asking the general public to have sympathy for their falling profit margins.

So, they try to scare the shit out of you by claiming that they will be forced to fire you instead (e.g. this expensive billboard for the national restaurant association demonstrating their concern):

https://pando.com/2014/07/17/new-san-francisco-billboard-war...
Screen readers should be able to deal with HTML-only mails for the most part, otherwise you should send the sender of that mail a reminder about those laws.
When I worked in the restaurant biz in the 80's, our franchise owner hated bumps in the minimum wage. If minimum wage went up 10%, (like to $3.35/hour) he'd instruct his managers to cut the amount of hours by 10%. The restaurants would just have to deal with fewer employees. We were all smart enough to see that this would have adverse affects on QSC (Quality, Service, Cleanliness), but he didn't care. He just wanted his costs relatively fixed. It also didn't help our argument that sales were continually rising, so he was shielded from the effects of his labor cuts.

The only thing that made him voluntarily raise his wages was when In N Out opened a location 20 minutes away. The immediate drop in sales at his flagship restaurant forced him to compete for labor (In N Out was starting employees at 2x minimum wage IIRC).
> one of the more curious animal rights positions.

It makes sense from the point of view of "stop messing with it for fuck's sake".

Probably doesn't make the situation better one way or the other of course, deer population explosions are largely caused by humans having removed most of the top predators, and being significant stressors for the rest (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/humans-p...). The systems could probably recover if left alone, but that would require isolation (and mayhaps reintroductions) so predators can recover and retake their role, which is unlikely to happen outside of essentially exclusion zones like Pripyat / Chernobyl. Unless they're really unpopular / hard to access, most natural parks might have too much human presence for apex land predators to really be comfortable.
Managing AWS EC2 Programmatically with Node.js
Most people aren't going to change the default configuration of their email client or use caution when dealing with phishing emails.

But if the email is plain text, then that's not an issue.
So essentially: Mac app written with Cocoa/ObjC/Swift and the Windows app written with C# and WPF. A great example of native software.

I'd prefer something like Fork over something like GitKraken IMHO. I cannot imagine the performance of some electron alternatives if I were to open a repository with 200k commits, but this can be resolved with shallow cloning.

Even if it has lots of Swift frameworks embedded, as soon as they switch to Swift 5 and Mojave and higher, Swift will become built in with no dylibs.
I'd say domain name squatting.

For example

https://login.banksofamerica.com
Thanks, shrutigarg07!
Who was the target audience for the long-form article? It has some technical details, but they appear to be used more for decorative effect. E.g. the string daa0 c7cb f4f0 fbcf d6d1 from the hexdump is eventually revealed to correspond to C:\Windows, but isn't actually explained. I was able to come up with the following Python for the obfuscation: [hex((i + 153) ^ ord(c)) for i, c in enumerate(r'C:\Windows')] but most of your readers probably just see a jumble of letters and numbers they're told has some significance, but which appears incomprehensible to them.

Did you do testing with focus groups to determine whether the longer article helped people "understand how these intrusions are actually working" or whether it just made readers aware that they don't understand?
> But IRL ?

I think this is the key distinction.
I worked with a former coworker that's vegan. Didn't convert anyone, preach, or guilt trip. When I mention that I do like cheese, but can't have it due to lactose intolerance, he told me to try some of the vegan cheese he's got.

Not quite cheese, but tasty. I'd spend money on that.

However, there are also your militant, preachy, virtue signalling bunch that go and protest a rib fest that's more of a small fair for the local suburb. And at least in my life, I've seen more of these protesters than people like my former coworker who chooses to keep a vegan diet.

Just like how I've met far more evangelical bunch trying to convert me to whichever religion they're backing, and has to twist any conversation into some topic about god. But I've only met three highly regarded individuals who are practicing the good of their religion better than any of those evangelical folks, and you wouldn't know they're practicing. They're not there to convert you, or to guilt you, or to signal virtue.

I had the silly thought of attempt to engage in a discussion online, and mention the protest. Most people who actually go to rib fest isn't going there because they have a blood thirsty desire to kill a lot of pigs. They see it as a convenient topic to get a bunch of friends and family to spend time together. To give this person credit, he/she was also engaging in a discussion. However, that particular point of view is that having a rib fest is to meant as an attack on them, as if rib fest created particularly as an affront to vegans.

I knew then, at least with that person, there's only agreeing to disagree.

I don't find veganism weird. I don't find my former coworker to be a good topic for laughing. I don't find the concept of veganism, or vegans to be a caricature.

I do find the evngelical, virtue signalling, guilt tripping people to be a caricature, whether they're under a religious banner or a dietary banner.
Unit yes. But when you include all the overhead, labor, compliance costs, your overall margins thin out fast. That's why the restaurant business is difficult to get into.
Yet another LICENSE that will end up being declared not Open Source compatible by the OSI.

So much for "open source".
>> Prototyping ideas is great in Rust

Agree. I tried to prototype in Python, but even with great IDE support it's hard to manage constant refactoring when you're moving fast.
In a perfect world, subsidies and welfare wouldn't exist because cost of living isn't artifically inflated by supply-favored laws. The reason college, houses, and health care are expensive are because of the laws preventing competition and increase of supply.

We don't live in a perfect world however, and I absolutely do not have the answer for what is the correct balance of subsidy and hard work.
There was a keynote about Differential Privacy and Census example at the recent PODS/SIGMOD by Cynthia Dwork.

I recommend watching it if you're interested at
https://homepages.cwi.nl/~boncz/sigmod-pods2019.html
(top-left vid)

(as a side-note Frank McSherry received SIGMOD Test Of Time Award for his Differential Privacy paper at the same conference).
I wrote to NIST/NVD tis morning about the CVSS score (12+ hours ago now) they haven't got back to me.
There are companies in Germany who pay really well, especially if you take into account cost of living. Look around a bit before leaving the country.
Wipro Says Americans Are Better Than Indians in Coding, 65% New Hires from USA
every now and then i see somebody claiming to know more and hinting at deeper things going on with mobile modems, basebands, gsm.

then they can‘t say anything because of nda. or the gsm standard manual costs hundreds of dollars.

my tin foil hat is glowing, i‘m telling you. we already know that gsm encryption is a joke. i don‘t want to imagine what‘s going on inside all those closed-source baseband firmwares. it creeps me out.
$135,000/hour, which means you get 1-2 more Tomahawks in a mission. The B-2 still comes out very much on top there.
It's just people reacting to market conditions. If your society provides incentives for abortion, abortion is going to happen.

I can't judge people living in other parts of the world. But I know that massive populations ruled by a single government don't work. There's no reason 1/6 of the world should be under the control of a single government. They need to decentralize and maybe create a federation of independent states.
All of the reasons given against HTML emails hold at least equally well against PDF: it's a vector for phishing and tracking, ripe with client vulnerabilities, less accessible and not displayable on a terminal. For me as a reader having to read both an E-Mail and the attached PDF is also annoying, and many people will simply skip reading the PDF.
No idea why your comment was marked as dead as you raise a very valid point. vouched.
This can be done with a hobby.

There is no reason to crucify ourselves in a stupid job if we could make the same amount of money with more freedom and less effort elsewhere.
Most restaurants aren't competing with other restaurants really, they're competing with you staying home and eating a frozen pizza.
With npm, pip and random github repositories used for plugins in various applications I tend to disagree. It's not like it is uncommon with third-party additions to package managers such as apt either.
While things like this sound scary, deanonymization turns out to be not exceedingly impactful in practice. Most entities have no desire to deanonymize you, to them, the most useful format is to treat you as a GUID with a bag of attributes attached to it.

Of the entities that remain, they fall into two buckets: Ones powerful enough that they already have personally identifiable data without the need to deanonymize anonymous data sets and ones small enough that they don't have the capabilities to deanonymize.

If you're a government, you don't need to rely on anonymized data sets, you have the sets with the labels already. If you're a stalker or internet troll or whatever, it's far easier to just pay one of the PI websites $29 to get far more data on a person than any deanonymized dataset will give you.
The exact same reason you keep updating PyCharm and your new MacOS Catalina or whatever its called.

The exact same reason people like you get an orgasm on a new version of VSCode, or new version of TypeScript.

The reason is simple. We all love the latest and greatest updates of our favorite products.
Facebook Settlement Requires Mark Zuckerberg to Certify Privacy Protections
>During the April-June quarter this year, Wipro hired 6500 freshers globally.

>Out of this, 65% or 4225 freshers were Americans.

>This leaves only 35% of the freshers as non-Americans, which can include Indians as well. This makes employment opportunities for Indians less, and for Americans more.
There's a really excellent podcast on McAfee available
https://www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/part-one-john-mca...
>The inflation model that is all about costs is old and not correct.
I mean, okay if you believe this, but you should know that it isn't popular. The way we measure inflation is the CPI and common consumer products. Lambos and yachts can be stagnant while inflation is still occurring.
Mare presents its new beachwear collection
Cross-language LTO in Firefox for all platforms
The question I think is missing from the article is:

"How much do you earn, mr business owner?"

Hey, if your employees earning a minimal wage aren't entitled to some privacy, neither are you.
The headline seems bogus but the article says that "naturally occurring coronary heart attacks due to atherosclerosis are virtually non-existent in other mammals." Atherosclerosis is the cause of only "one-third of deaths worldwide due to cardiovascular disease" so other causes could still apply to other mammals. For example, "chimp heart attacks were due to an as-yet unexplained scarring of the heart muscle."

Of course we can give rabbits atherosclerosis by giving them high cholesterol from a diet they don't eat in the wild. But in humans, "in roughly 15 percent of first-time cardiovascular disease events (CVD) due to atherosclerosis, none of these [risk] factors apply," where risk factors include "blood cholesterol, physical inactivity, age, hypertension, obesity and smoking."

So the study explores a possible reason for that.
Revenue is not the same as profit. It is possible to sell a lot of something and not make much profit.
Bypassing Headless Chrome Tests, the Game Goes On
The US used to have pay toilets - 1970s or so. There were taken out because they were not popular for several reasons. Men's urinals were free, which meant women were discriminated against. People did crawl under the door to avoid the cost. People didn't always have the correct cash with them. Turns out the cost of buying and servicing the pay box used up most of the money collected. People didn't like them and wrote letters to their congressman about it. People changed their habits to find free toilets. People "wet their pants" elsewhere causing a larger cleanup problem. All in all they didn't last long.
I will wear my vendor hat here for a moment,

AC not about the attacker, but the configuration of the component being assessed.
Good Read. A bit lengthy though.
The OSI might become irrelevant if all the open source projects end up using licenses that it says are not open source...
If one is a fan of football, and video games, buying FIFA every year isn't that baffling. I actually do it every year - till 2009 it was new PES every year, and since 2010 it was FIFA every year (as fifa got greatly improved on that year and PES is still exactly where it was 10 years ago)
It is the best football game on the market, and every year there are some new features, to which I look forward to. It's always cool to see what changed, what is better than it was, what was fixed, what was broken.

I am lucky enough to not care about spending $60 per year on a single video game. So yeah, I will happily do it and play with my friends for a year. But is it honestly worth it? I can list feature breaking bugs that have been in the game for 3+ years, never touched. I can list features which got broken by new features, never fixed, for years. Considering how much money the product makes, for me it just shows what matters for EA.

And EA's focus seem to be solely Ultimate team, on making sure that they will resell the same shitty game with minimal improvement and people will spend buttloads of money on packs, which they have to do from scratch every year (Personally I do not touch microtransactions, too easy to pay few bucks here and there and this is never worth it in the long run).
(IMO the fact that they release new version every year shows how predatory their business model is)

So yeah, you can find some enjoyment out of it, but I would say that in case of FIFA it is despite EAs best efforts.

And re MK11, I do not beleive it is released every year. I think the first 4 games were came out in quick(ish) succession, than it was quiet for few years, than several others...? So it's a different case from 'I'm a footbal fan and this way I can play with my current team'
Effects are not about calling hierarchy.

Effects are about doing a computation dependent on wider context: IO, thread scheduling, non-deterministic computations, mutable references.

Now, in your example `A calling B calling C and having a well defined hierarchy and encapsulating complexity` you already have effects: threads are being scheduled by OS/runtime, IO is performed, memory cells are written.

The only difference your avg. imperative language with A calling B have is that Effects are implicitly baked into the language, while algebraic effects let you define your own effects as well.

So instead of `async val` you could simply do `(perform Async val)`, which would return val in the context of fiber scheduler (aka will do the necessary scheduling for continuing the computation). With effects you could extend your language with new effectful semantics without descending into metaprogramming hell/fixing the language.

In fact, you could think of Effects as of Monads, but composable.
Calling this a logic ‘bomb’ seems kind of silly and designed to make it sound worse than it is. Looks like he put a time lock on it or something to guarantee that they’d have to call him every once in a while. It’s absurd that they let him leave a password on the files after he left the company.
It read like anything written by a narcissist. The first quarter is interesting but rather obvious. The last three-quarter is so full of it. These people have a very “specific” relationship with society...
Fathers' Unique Role in Parenting
Yes, you are definitely correct there. A project can't handle this well all the time. It's too huge a task and too decentralized a system.
I'd pay an extra 1.50 for a sandwich
Arch Linux Hardening Script
And it's also important to remember that if the min wage rises, it often affects all pay structures at a business. If the entry level position gets a big pay jump, then other employees will expect a corresponding bump in their hourly rate. Otherwise you'll end up with new hires making more than employees with experience.
GMT vs. UTC
I've expanded on this example and added some further thoughts in a blog post: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-24-algebraic-effects-yo....
Tell him to eat more fiber.
Having worked with people on social welfare. 80% to 90% can do some form of work, but don’t. Personally, I think most people find it appalling.

An easy solution is to cut the benefits.

My personal thought is that we should lower minimum wage, but combine people who work under an income level benefits. With only full social welfare being allocated to people who can’t work.

Essentially, a minimum wage, but it’s a differential made up for after all options are exhausted.
Maybe. There’s also prolly a ton of teenagers who are very excited about being able to make a game with tools and stores available to them.
Algebraic Effects – You Can Touch This
Where are these characters stripped out? I can see that these create security issues with urls that get rendered with changed field order to look benign.
Yes, if no action is taken against climate change and our annual CO2 emissions rise because the living standard in India and China rises then collapse of civilization is very likely. Depending on our determination it is also possible for no human to survive climate change. 9°C warming might be far off but it certainly isn't impossible, thanks to feedback loops and ignorance.

The reality will probably look a bit more rosy if we get our act together and do manage to reduce CO2 emissions, at least I hope this will happen.
For myself and the people I work with, most definitely. Bold and italics in particular to highlight/accent certain parts of the text.
A few years ago, I found out that Connectifier[1] is one way this happens. That company seems to mine data in some sort of questionable manner and then distributes it to recruiters. It's now owned by Microsoft.

I discovered it because they had my phone number and also had it confused with an ex-co-worker. After receiving several calls for that person, a recruiter finally told me what tool they were using. Connectifier did seem remove my (and their) information when I asked.

[1] - https://www.connectifier.com
Yeah the vision of "local business guy says" doesn't seem all that useful.

A local business group supported some transit options in my area. I thought that was nice until I realized that they only supported politicians who wanted to cut state spending across the board. So of course no transit project...

After ten years of lobbying they finally got their transit projects.... from the opposite party. You would think they learned something but they haven't changed.

I'm really skeptical about "what local business guy thinks" type information and if they even really know what is in their best interest all the time.
How Much Is It? Breaking Down CRM Development Costs
I’m pretty sure hard wrapping at 80(?) chars is part of one of the RFCs.
Lol I haven't heard "abend" in years, thanks for the flashback!
Preferred seems like a weird claim. I would have worded it differently:

>Plain text is sufficient for the vast majority of all non-advertising emails.

None of the emails I receive on a daily basis needed to be HTML. The main reason for it, is allowing people to use their company logo in the footer.
Is this the response you are referring to Sam Altman being on record https://openai.com/blog/openai-supporters/ ?
I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Is it that you’ve never heard of the concept of quoting a passage of an email? Or are you saying “sure people do that, but it doesn’t matter if it’s easy”?
Not GP, but I use VSCode or Vim with the Rust Language Server and have had a good experience, certainly better than either the Jedi or Microsoft Python language server.
Facebook to Pay Record $5B to Settle FTC Privacy Claims
The guy paid $400k to American Airlines in 1987 money. American Airlines was begging people to buy these things. If I buy something from you, I expect to be able to use it. If I pay you a lot of money, I expect a lot of service.
That seems correct.

From an article on the subject:

>Recital 26 of the GDPR defines anonymized data as “data rendered anonymous in such a way that the data subject is not or no longer identifiable.” Although circular, this definition emphasizes that anonymized data must be stripped of any identifiable information, making it impossible to derive insights on a discreet individual, even by the party that is responsible for the anonymization.
This is my experience, hopefully now that 1.x is home and dry we will gradually see the pain of old libraries suddenly failing ebb away, and documentation becoming more co-herant and accurate. Also thanks for calling out the error messages - this has been something I've struggled with and needs some careful attention from the Julia community.

On the otherhand our expectations are huge - I remember early Java and the level of support that you get with Julia now really took a very long time to appear for Java, and that was backed by SUN.

If I were an Intel exec I'd be putting money into this though; I can see it gradually crushing the life out of nVidia and AMD, although I think that there will be a few smiles at ARM towers when they look at this too! I wonder what people could do with 2000 ARM cores in a rack?
I’m interested in learning more about this “Ops Plus” term but it doesn’t seem very google friendly... Is this a term of art in some circles?
Python Anti-Patterns
Not everyone cares about climate change, but reproach won’t change their minds
More incoherent gibbering from kotaku. There are plenty of good games. Obviously the AAA titles are quite garbage these days, but who cares?
Who is to say that future versions of this won't be paired with some arbitrary browser/email-based RCE. This is the persistent threat, a payload if you will, not an exploit itself.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings (Kipling)
Well, when the game is designed around microtransactions free to play means more free to pay, as playing without paying is not enjoyable at all. Look at EAs mobile offerings.
Google Photos passes the 1B users mark