skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't have to use anecdotes, we have data. Linked from the article is this summary, which links to the full report: http://www.centernyc.org/new-york-citys-15-minimum-wage

Quote: "During this period, New York City has seen a strong economic expansion of the restaurant industry, outpacing national growth in employment, annual wages, and the number of both limited- and full-service restaurant establishments."

Perhaps the disagreement you see is because this study focuses on the workers, instead of the business owners. Food service worker wages and employment rates are up relative to overall growth. This article is dispelling the notion that increasing worker wages will lead to worse outcomes for those workers, which is a common objection to increasing the minimum wage.
I'm missing something here. Nothing says that the profit didn't get cut by a large amount. Who cares if you make $100K in revenue if you have $120K in costs? Maybe you'd prefer to have $80K in revenue and $75K in costs so you actually have a profit.
For Hungarian, people stuck with an English layout usually just leave off the diacritical marks (áéíóöőúüű -> aeiooouuu). While this theoretically leaves some of the meaning ambiguous, and pedants can craft examples that may be ambiguous even with context, it works well enough in practice.

Switching to English is way overblown a reaction. Two Hungarians chatting in English (unless there are non-Hungarian speakers involved) seems extremely weird to me. It may be partially that English is really foreign for us, while it's pretty close linguistically to Swedish, both being Germanic.
Patients Pay the Price for Unintended Consequences of Government Health Care
Those who grabbed the power over the world collapse socialism everywhere you see - China, Russia, merging of Korea, relationship with Cuba... because capitalism has proven to provide them better slaves. Watch for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=583B33gySIM&list=PLrsYCDA5sk....
We can't think of capitalism as 'market' economy anymore - with few (no more than four) corporations dictating there conditions and prices, there's no more 'market' relationship.
But socialism is no better.
"Don’t believe that your life can be better or worse depending on this or that arrangement. For our life to be good, there’s only one remedy: for people themselves to be better, and stop supporting the oppressing governing powers.
Regardless of the type of government, the calamities it causes:
- ever-increasing budgets & taxes;
- animosity towards neighbors, military preps & armies;
- enslaving of subject races;
- undermining morality."
(Leo Tolstoy, On the Importance of the Upcoming Moral Revolution http://www.earthlyfireflies.org/works-by-leo-tolstoy/)
Google Will No Longer Index Flash-Based Websites
That is the tragedy of the next couple decades that needs to be solved. What do you do with the increasing share of people that do not have the capabilities to be productive in the economy?
This was in the Philippines. I wasn't surprised they ran into issues and I knew right away what the issue was.

I understand you can't just get any memory. The memory I purchased was reasonably within the required specs and a solid brand. The memory wasn't on the "tested list" but on a relatively new chip that's a small list and in the Philippines, I had a limited choice. This is also a wide problem as I found loads of people who had the same issues. I was able to fix it though, and I have my original RAM installed. If there's a secret sauce to picking RAM other than being on this tested list, it's not widely known. Just finding a thread where someone could explain the problem and the fix was difficult.

I guess this is no different from any newly released thing. Better to wait until the quirks get worked out.
Try sending them an email. Be polite, and ask them if they'd be willing to take a look at your change. Make sure to explain why you made it and how it'd improve the project.
Building code editor plugins – A comparison
Please still tip the staff making $15/hr. It's still the custom at most locations.
Ask HN: Recommendations on Analytics Platform?
Hi all,

Does anyone have any recommendations for analytics platforms on-prem/private cloud? We're a large enterprise company with all of our data in Hadoop - Impala is what we've been using for the past year and performance is really dreadful.
And sometimes it means none of those things, and you just spend other people's (investors) money.
Yes. Most people won't buy linux software. This is why saas has become so popular with companies.
I wonder what the internet would look like if people still had the since of awe, wonder, and appreciation of what exactly is going on when we connect to the internet. I can remember being a small child, 6 or 7, and connecting to the internet in the 80's and joining a chat room full of adults who were professionals, talking about the problems of doctors, engineers and financiers. It was absolutely amazing and I couldn't get enough. And then I blew through my 30 minute allowance the first month and my parents cancelled "the internet" after a $500+ phone bill.
they're arguing that articifial neural nets are useful models of brain function and anatomy.
a lot of people in the field of neuroscience strongly disagree, hence their attempt to outline the utility of ANNs.
Can you give an example of better results? I've been using DDG exclusively for many years and have never failed to find the thing I'm searching for on the first page of results. What am I missing?
Your view on the limited budgets and dislike for propriatary data fit with my priors, especiually in Europe.

What I was surprised about is that some large universities (in the States, at least) have dedicated data acquisition departments, which suggests they acquire data often enough to need a department for it.

Thanks for the rest of the advice.
Looking for a Timeline Framework / Tool
Do you know a great timeline framework/tool?
We need to build a timeline in our webapp and we are looking for a quick way to create a beautiful timeline. Any recommendations?
They are being used -- for the purpose of allowing the internet to scale.

But yes, we do need to be careful not to assign blocks that are too large. We're doing a good job of this (see any /8s being assigned?). We're also doing allocations only from 2000::/3, and there are five more completely untouched /3s available, so if we do somehow run out of space in 2000::/3 then we can start over with tighter allocation polices... five times over.
Just finished it a week or two ago after learning about it from the podcast "50 things that made the modern economy". I agree it's a little dry, but it is easy to listen to while doing other things.

Good stuff, I recommend it as well.
The author writes "The Uyghurs are not ethnically Chinese".

While that's true, it's only because nobody is "ethnically Chinese".

“Chinese” is a nationality, not an ethnicity. Within China, there are 56+/- ethnic groups of which the Han group is the largest.
Yes. There are many cheap food options in NYC and if they need to charge a bit more to pay a fair wage then so be it. Providing even cheaper prepared food off the backs of staff not getting paid a living wage is not ok.
Sure and that's fine for you and me, but it also is more cost on those who are likely making $15/hr and get a lot of their meals out and about - which means their cost just rose with their paycheck.

Remember, making food at home in a nice kitchen is a luxury.
It is using New York's official data on the restaurant sector, and other quantifiable studies to make its point. Dismissing it because of "where the author lives" and anecdotes, comes across like you've decided the conclusion and are trying to fit facts to support that preconceived conclusion.

Why not look at the actual data and try to address that? It would be a much stronger argument.
What most people see as manual memory management in C, malloc and free, doesn't even give you that much control.

Stuff on the stack also gets handled pretty automatically.

You can however implement completely manual memory management with C. I think the Linux kernel does a lot of that. (Though mostly do it via libraries they've written, of course. Manual doesn't mean you have to do everything with copy-and-paste.)
If you have to pay something ridiculous like 13k a month, I am sure you go out of business too.
Version numbers are meaningless and horrible and so is xcode
That's not really fair either. X Windows might be older, but neither Mac OS nor Windows had anything like this in their older versions.

Some things evolved, some things didn't. O hi X Windows!
Beware - the power of music isn't innocent: http://www.earthlyfireflies.org/government-use-of-music-to-i....
And here we had an interesting discussion on LinkedIn of its influences: http://www.earthlyfireflies.org/linkedin-dialogue-on-music/.
well, first thing on my list if I can't boot; good 'ol USB live boot to read dmesg and syslog.

Which a live boot, you can install packages such as microcode updates.
On the consumer side of things, their eyeball-holding core is "the platform". This includes search, news, youtube, docs, Play, etc. Search is just a component of that.

It's not very different from FB: acquire eyeballs to look at ads, acquire usage data to target ads, with whatever accomplishes that goal. Search is a way for the user to, more or less, "pull" content from the platform - and everything else is a way for the platform to push content at the user. Nowhere in there is "being a good search engine" a core priority.
Technology biased against black patients runs rampant in hospitals
No, because all of the people who were marginal customers will just forgo your product or service. You can pass on all of an increase in costs for goods with price inelastic demand. If demand is elastic you either have to eat the margin or go out of business.
By which time the next release comes out.

You can't win with Apple now.
San Francisco is hurting from this aspect and food delivery partnerships. Didn’t read the article but they all blame the minimum raise hike, high rent, and the amount that food delivery services eat out of their bottom line.

Many have stated they regretted working with food delivery businesses and would have preferred just serving customers in house.
Plus I find that having an impersonal tool tell people that they did something "wrong" makes them a lot more likely to fix it and still be amenable to your future suggestions.
"Works" can mean very different things on Windows. On one extreme you can have proper integration that covers Windows' idiosyncrasies such as automatically finding and setting up the Visual Studio environment instead of making the user jump through hoops like starting the dev command prompt. And on the other extreme you can have something hacky like "requires Cygwin" which I personally wouldn't even call "works".
Taxis are expensive because they require a human to drive them. Hence the reason the SDC could change that dynamic. A shared car that does not require an expensive human to drive it.

Another model are shared cars, like dockless scooters and bikes. They are reasonably popular in the Netherlands for example. But they still require quite a bit of planning to ensure the car is available, and they are not always "in front of your door". Also you need to rent it for the entire time that you're away.

Irrespective, SDC will take some time. Like NLP, they work will within a constrained problem domain, but don't really generalise.
How to Sell in E-Commerce. Old-School Tips and Tricks
Thanks. Just submit a github issue when you encounter any trouble. I'll fix it ASAP.
FlipSide A customizable, programmable, pixel based analog display
That's good you got exposure to Python (and, I assume, numpy/scipy/pandas etc.), and you're already familiar with R. Are you majoring in data science, and just looking for something extra?

If you're interested in machine learning, Andrew Ng Coursera course is almost a right of passage at this point - it's very accessible:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

Kutner is the bible on regression models (tho, not a super fun read):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0073014664

This was one of my favorites as an undergrad:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805833889
Timeseries – Detecting a Sequence of Values
I'd just like to note that the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds has a probably-unique surviving suit of elephant armour, which is displayed on a stuffed elephant in pride of place:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/43/bb/15/43bb154f887b493c76c3...

Not on display due to conservation issues (but noted on the display text) are the tusk swords, because once you've got an angry Indian elephant wearing armor pointed at the enemy why wouldn't you strap a pair of giant swords to its tusks?

If you're ever in Leeds — in the UK — I'd highly recommend a day trip to the Royal Armouries, especially if you have any kind of interest in the history of armour, guns, and murder cutlery.

(Posted to add a reality-based perspective to the 100% fictional imagery of war elephants in the OP.)
The search results are ddg pages suggesting search terms based on the input?

Why can't I just search normally and the list is a list of the actual results of my query.

Now you navigate to the ddg search results page and have to then browse as usual. Almost useless. You'd think this would be made to skip that step.
Yes. The thing opponents of a living wage don't realize is that the gov't has to make up the gap. The gov't indirectly subsidizes businesses who pay under a living wage, which actually incentivizes them to do so. Enforcing a living wage actually means fewer subsidies and a more efficient and level market.
Twilight of the Stock Pickers: Hedge Fund Kings Face a Reckoning
It doesn't work that way either. Consumers are not suddenly going to have more to spend due to hike of minimum wage.

If the inflation keeps low, total amount of money in the economy is relative constant, thus the cake is not getting much bigger, increasing minimum wage is going to reduce the number of jobs in the sector that is paying previous the minimum wage.
same, most longer search terms just don't return anything for me (but they do on regular DuckDuckGo).
Learning japanese and full-time Linux user.

Getting Japanese writing to work was a pain in the ass and still doesn't work everywhere.
Bosses face manslaughter charges for suicides under new workplace laws
Choose your hardware better next time.
I think the point is to get native behavior, you need to use the native functionality. When you try to emulate it, you'll always be missing something.

We see this in every corner of Firefox: the text editing, the toolbar, the context menus, the form controls, etc. Yet Firefox seems to be all about writing everything from scratch. There are many bugs filed for using native functionality, like [1], that have been open for decades with no activity. 20 years ago, it wasn't done because "it's a time thing", and since then it's racked up other bugs as dependencies because stuff's just broken.

This isn't a situation where you can tweak a couple little problems and call it done. This is a fundamental change in the Firefox architecture. Asking for more bug reports is not going to help.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572
> In July 2015, the magazine published an article by Maria Butina advocating improved relations between the Russian Federation and a future US Republican Presidential administration.[1] In 2018, Butina was arrested by the FBI and charged with conspiring to act as an unregistered Russian agent.[2][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Interest

I totally forgot about this scandal/conspiracy against the US until looking up the source. The leadership is also almost entirely famous neocons you've seen on trial.

Besides that, there are plenty of problems with the isolated statistics presented in the article, as they are worded to be deceptive.
Yeah, NYC is rich as hell. There's simply enough cash to go around, so this can work. In my small town, this would kill so many small businesses.
This is likely all you need:
https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/
https://auctions.ipv4.global/prior-sales

https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/#pricing
If you really want a good AMD laptop, I would wait until Q1/2020 when the Zen2 4000 mobile chips come out.
I don't know a ton about the economics but my living experience lines up with this article. At least half of my closest friends are in the service industry. I spent most of my 20s and 30s in NYC before the wage increase. Those friends generally couldn't afford much of anything, outside of rent and a steady supply of cigarettes. It's the reason bartenders tend to "give the bar away" in NYC. Because their friends can't afford much else.

Then I moved to Seattle and noticed something entirely different. Same sort of friends - mostly service industry. And this was before the increase to $15/hr, when it was $12/hr. What was starkly different was that our new friends could actually afford to do things. Nice dinners, bars around town where we didn't know the bartenders, movies, trips to Portland and Vancouver. Same jobs, but with money to spend.

And then there's the side that was close to home. My wife was, for the first 2/3 of our relationship, a bartender. In NYC she had her good weeks, pulling in over $2k and her bad weeks, making somewhere around $100 for the week. Hard to say what was "normal" and impossible to predict. It was impossible to plan around her income so I basically just asked her to give me half and it would essentially even out. Then we moved to Seattle, again at $12/hr minimum (she was making $17-$20 I think) and our whole situation was different. We were already doing fine because I make a good living but now I could finally count on her contribution. We were able to save, plan trips, etc in ways we couldn't before because now we had a baseline amount that she would always make. The tips we're just a cherry on top.

And then we moved to Chicago with a shitty mimimum wage for servers and my wife left the industry entirely. She had gotten used to some stability in her income and now with a low minimum wage for servers, there is none. Even at a nice theater gig, she was making less than any job she had in Seattle and again relying upon the whims of her customers rather than the stability of the industry.
Straight to the (Source) Code: Getting Up to Speed on New Libraries
>Prosecutors dismissed the idea that many legitimate businesses used Liberty Reserve. After the takedown, they noted, users were encouraged to contact the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan if they wanted their money back. According to prosecutors, only 35 people did so.

Was that because only 35 users were legitimate, or because the users - even if completely legitimate - were reluctant to risk potentially destroying their lives by admitting their identities to federal investigators?
Even in the inner city there are times when a car beats everything else. Or more likely a truck. The store you get groceries from gets deliveries every day, and they probably should have a special waiver to drive on that car free street to get the truck to their back door (I've seen areas in Germany where the old part of town was effectively car free except delivery trucks)

Most people will not need to drive very often, so they would not buy a car at all. However everybody has situations where driving of some sort is the best option.
But then you’re just increasing inflation, and the people you pay $15/hour end up having the same purchasing power as before.
The history of live chat software
and on top of all of that, transistor density no longer works are a rough approximation of performance either. clock rate may get worse, with a more dense node, heat issues may not let them actually put more transistors in the same area despite the smaller pieces, etc etc etc.

as usual, the only way to actually judge a cpu's tech is how many frames of doom it can render per second ;)

if any pedant responds to this about how modern doom is mostly a function of GPU I will kill a kitten.
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What kind of a joke of a strawman is this? No one is implying that revenue will infinitely positively increase alongside minimum wage.
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A love letter to Elm in disguise with rationale. I like it!
> Obviously no contributor in an open source project _has to_ do anything. But at some level if you’re working on the project because you care about the project instead of burning the commons in a land grab for satisfying personal projects, then taking priority from reported issues and even thanking people for pointing out urgent bugs whose fixes should supercede the fun features of some planned release has to become the expected default.

This is a very important point that I have generally found it hard to express, because it seems so go counter to generally accepted view of "open source means I owe you nothing". Which is mostly true, but in certain exceptional cases it's important to understand that popular but problematic projects suck the air out of viable competing undertakings, and it's somewhat inconsiderate to "squat" on something you wrote for fun at some point, promote it until it is widely used, and then refuse to work on it anymore until people pay you because they can't use anything else.
Sensationalist title and article but even from the article's description the ruling seems much more reasonable that claimed.

If I understand correctly:

Garage was sued in part for violating a consumer protection law that protects against unfair and deceptive practices like "charging for repairs that are in fact not performed".

The court ruled that the garage has not violated that law because they had in fact performed the tyre rotation. The issue was rather that the rotation was performed incorrectly. Presumably if the rotation had not been performed the customer would not have lost a wheel in the first place...

Sounds reasonable to me.

If the issue is one of recovering legal costs then that should be addressed specifically in law.
Empathic Dissonance and the Suffering of Others
> and looks like Linux users that use Latin characters don’t use any input methods

Right, I prefer slim systems and I typically uninstall everything input method related that my distro has chosen to preinstall. I cannot read or memorize a single CJK character, so why would I need that.

Aditionally programming and computers for me means English, although that is not my mother tongue. I would never install anything in my mother tongue.

Basically I use my mother tongue (and a couple of other European languages I speak) only in Email, chat or maybe some web form. I can feel your pain though, because 10+ years ago we had the same problem with the couple of non-ASCII characters you need in most European languages.

In order to have the situation in Linux improve there just need to be enough CJK contributors to fix existing bugs. And reviewers / unit test cases to make sure we Westeners don't break it again with our next commit.
These points are mentioned in the featured article as well.
Any thoughts at why production in the western world is becoming again competitive in sectors where production is automated to agree to make labor a negligible factor?

Also, I thought intended servitude was abolished quite a while ago.
> It is also unclear to me why we expect an unskilled worker at McDonald's putting fries into a basket to make a "living wage". These jobs are largely for students, retirees and other temporary workers.

This is utter nonsense and insulting. Go talk to people who actually work those jobs. These people are adults, just like you are, and they deserve to be treated with dignity. If you don't pay them a living wage, then the government will have to make up the gap. Is that your goal?
Sometimes Dougal, you can be status signalling simply by explaining how you’re more insightful and above all that normal person stuff, and look down upon it.
The minimum wage by definition was designed to allow a man to provide a family of four with a “modest living”.