skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the biggest problem these days even here in Canada.

A few years ago at my old job I finally got a big raise from $14 to $24/hour. Then almost immediately reduced to part-time from full-time but the same duties. I toughed it out hoping for a reversal but one day I was abruptly laid off without notice. Then three people were hired to do my job.

It seems business have no realistic view of employees. You're merely an "FT" or "PT" in manager parlance.

Working minimum wage is more difficult than it was years ago due to it being stuck at a specific rate for decades. But hours worked is just as important and the trend to cut everyone to part-time was an even bigger disaster.

Even the Fight for Fifteen group has been fighting for $15 for many years. They should be adjusting the rate for inflation, by now it should probably be $17.
The problem with minimum wages is that displaced workers who can't perform minimum wage work still need the little money they could get from a less than minimum wage job. The government would have to offer a job guarantee that is below minimum wage to cover these people on a case by case basis.
I just finished up a class that covered this material. Is there a good next step or book for someone interested in data science.
Every time federation comes up, I always ask where the bridges are that allow "following" people on the non-federated sites (e.g. Twitter), and the answer is always vague and non-specific, suggesting that such bridges exist without any information about using them.

I'd love to see a switching guide for, say, Twitter, that specifically says "here's how to transparently follow people on Twitter, and here's how to have your posts show up on your old Twitter account". Or similarly, if you're switching from Instagram, how do you follow folks from Instagram and automatically post to Instagram?
Infastructure is hard enough to get spending on when it is needed long term and immediate unfortunately - let alone for experimental applications.

That sort of spending would rely upon rational risk assessment instead of irrational fear so utterly unrealistic politically unfortunately.
Isn't there a linearized gravity that you can quantize? Like in these lecture notes: http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/lectures/erice02.pd...?
Someone didn't do his homework today. Maybe you should go back to school if you skipped history lessons:

> Minimum wage legislation emerged at the end of the nineteenth century from the desire to end sweated labor which had developed in the wake of industrialization.[19] Sweatshops employed large numbers of women and young workers, paying them what were considered nonliving wages that did not allow workers to afford the necessaries of life.[20]

Source: Wikipedia

And to respond to your question: We've been studying the impact of minimum wage laws for decades. Its clear that it imroves everyone's life substantially (even people who earn lot more). Why are we still discussing this? These comments are just hopeful thinking of regressive activists.
It's very similar to a tip. It's incentive based pay for doing your job well. It does come from the customer, but it goes through a middleman (your employer) first.
I had a really good paid experience with SmugMug, which is now Flickr's parent company.
Here Walmart added a bunch of higher capacity self checkouts because they can hardly hire anyone for the wages they pay.
I remember being annoyed by that years ago the few times I used Windows. I am used to triple-click+drag to achieve this when I need it. When I actually don't want to select words, it gets in the way. One can probably use the keyboard for precise things like that though.

I can see triple-clicking+drag being tricky and that most people probably want to select entire words most of the time anyway, so I don't know what the best solution is. I'd argue that selections need handles like on mobile operating systems so it can be edited afterwards.
I am well aware of Zeal, and it's cool for docs that people read from cover to cover. My primary objective was to not to create a new format, but rather provide means for authoring and displaying structured technical content, pretty much like DITA or DocBook, but way more simple and targeted at software (e.g. providing a context-sensitive help feature).
When this technology can exist in space, earth will have orbiting shipyards building space craft.
I guess some studies don’t actually focus on what matters )hours worked/take home pay) but would rather build s narrative even if the on the ground effects of the narrative are counter what they say they are and actually adversely affect those they presumably want to help.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/in-depth/why-is-this-airplane...
Defensive programming leads to hell. The next one looking at the code won't be able to tell the actual business logic from defensive checks, or what may happen from what should never happen. I've been badly burned by this, especially while trying to reconstruct flows from badly documented code.
I agree that fuel tax should increase. However, that appears to be political suicide.
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How's the 3d printing landscape for metal overall? I hear there have been made great strides in 3d printers that rely on sintering. Very affordable relatively speaking.

Any other methods that have gained traction?
True but at least you'd understand what's going on :D
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/sep/06/usa.iraq

the same article linked in the wiki article that mentions motorcycle use.
"Small relative difference" - Most programs, probably including Bazel, have <1MB worth of code. Some programs have additional media files, but not all of them. And even in 2019, small programs do make a difference in convenience. Sometimes when you download things, sometimes when you copy files around, sometimes when you search the files on your computer...
A factor of 20, or 130, makes a huge difference if you consider all programs installed on your computer.
Sure, but $1/hour is not a living wage, so in terms of benefit for workers, it's not obviously better than $100/hour. (And if you have obligations like taking care of your family, you might actively prefer to live off welfare/unemployment/voluntary private charity from the goodness of John Galt's heart/whatever than work a $1/hour job for most of your day.)

The curve that's actually interesting is the expected value to an individual worker of the minimum wage, i.e., the wage multiplied by "how likely am I to be employed fully" (approximately 100% at $1/hour, quite a bit less at $100/hour). Obviously, that curve starts at zero, goes up linearly for a bit, then heads back towards zero in the limit. The question is where "a bit" is and what the argmax is.
If a business owner decides to pay his workers considerably higher than what the market offers, without any payoff for himself (like being able to hire the best of the workers or enjoying the high loyalty and willingess to go above and beyond), he's not running a business, he's running a charity. That's a humane and moral decision to be charitable - but it's immoral to force other people to be charitable wit their own resources. And when company is publicly traded, you can't even make an argument that "owners" of the company are "better off" than the workers and therefore, "need to share": a lot of these "capitalists" are working class, with their savings and pension funds, through a series of financial institutions, invested in publicly traded companies (or even VC-backed SF startups).
To add insult to injury, compilation time is bigger in JavaScript compared to C, with all the things that Webpack (or one of the alternatives to it) has to do.
I always found that worry quite weird, these are processors that already have things like System Management Mode that takes control away from the kernel and runs some unknown code at an arbitrary point in the execution. Worrying about a subverted RNG and trusting the rest of the CPU will just create a load of busywork that does nothing to keep you more secure.
I love it that they have a "this is how you can help link". I've read about so many issues that I would to get involved with, but there's I no mention anywhere oh you can actually do something about the problem!
That is another useful way of testing. The problem with it is eventually you write some low level code and realize that sometime in the future someone is likely to use your new code in a way that will expose a bug - but right now something higher level prevents that bug, and you have no idea how to prevent it with assertions inline and the outside black box tests can't cover this case yet.

For large complex systems all levels of testing are needed to get the best quality.
So, to clarify, in that comment by me, “guided” (and, in fact, my whole comment) definitely implies “directional”. But let’s not get hung up on this one word. The comment was about encoding learned experience in the DNA of gametes (i.e. Lamarckism), and the fact that this requires a (nonexistent) mechanism.
Is this really true? It seems very unlike Apple to let another company profit from their funding. Surely TCSM already had the tech and they are just licensing it to both AMD and Apple?
Instagram also shut down their public api last year and are deprecating the graph api in a week. (5 Nov) https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-api/

The new api has no access to consumer (non-Business or non-Creator) instagram accounts.
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Is the author really in Buffalo? That’s the other side of the state.

From my personal experience in nyc, and from talking to neighbors who own restaurants, small and family owned businesses are absolutely hurting. They’ve reduced staff, and owners are making up lost hours themselves. Delivery has been mostly outsourced. The price of everything on the menu has gone up. A number of lower-cost restaurants have closed completely. Whatever reported numbers the author based this upon do not tell a complete story.
You may also accept the change to your bottom line or close.
> Duck feels more like the old Google, the one I used for 20 years

That is the whole point, old Google was easy to replicate and therefore didn't cement their market position, if they still had that then why not just switch to Bing or DDG? New Google requires thousands of top level experts to tune and test things until it gives sensible results to stupid queries and is therefore impossible to compete with.
I kinda prefer to put cash in someone's hand. That way companies with stellar labor practices like Uber cannot mess with their other payment.
Parts of the system hardware might also do scancode to text transcoding. When PS/2 to USB keyboard convertor cables were common, I've seen quite a few having trouble with keys not being correct for non-ASCII characters, especially when using Alt GR
I remember a lot of time using archie (xarchie) and ftp before the web became ubiquitous.
I would not.

I would worry that the pool of other people paying for it would be so small that unless the application also worked on Windows or OSX, the development team would not be able to sustain itself. Thus, I wouldn't be willing to pay the more substantial cost: spending my time learning to use it and integrate it into my workflows.

(This is a big part of the reason I moved to OSX when I left uni.)
>they are less likely to be started or to choose to make that expansion.

You just showed us a counter example. The structure of the market changes toward automation or away from it but the businesses are still being started as usual.
A history = means a history, not a low probability history, not a high probability history, just a history. You seem to be creating requirements for a "a history" to "needs to happen with a certain frequency." Even 1 time would be a history, altho cyclists kill more people than that.

It's not something "only I am saying." Cyclists have a history of endangering pedestrians...it's a low probability event but by any rational definition of "history" it's a track record aka history.

Not sure why people are so eager to defend cyclists they're willing to overlook the fact that they can and do endanger pedestrians and now -- in your case -- pretend they have no "history" of doing so because it's not happening often enough for your satisfaction.

And it looks like this parent comment was deleted and this thread is now detached -- I'm assuming the moderators also had a problem with that original statement.
In Russia DDG uses Yandex
Stable thermals are fine. Very low temperatures would be an issue. I wonder if LN2 affects the quality of the RNG values.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson–Nyquist_noise
How come you get to choose how much to pay for the service, but not for the product?
> like many great early works, they are cliches

This, a thousand times. It's just so easy for people to fall into the trap of thinking the current list of things to do or avoid has always been obvious. The path is always obvious after a million people have trodden it. But at one time it wasn't. At one time people had to figure out things we now take for granted - like network APIs or concurrent programming models or, most relevantly, memory management.

At the time manual management of object lifetimes was the only feasible option for a systems programming language, and it was feasible in part because control flows were simpler. Yes, even in things like OS kernels. They were kept simple by design in part to keep lifetime management tractable. Many of the things that make that approach non-viable today - e.g. massive concurrency, callbacks, exceptions - weren't part of the idiom then. They were irrelevant to C's design.

C was good for its time. Go ahead, take a look at PL/I and BLISS. See whether you'd rather program in those. It might or might not be relevant today, but C was better designed in its context than anything most of its modern critics have ever designed (or will design) themselves.
This depend entirely on the scope of the software, take the project Rubedo CMS [0] for example, which died after funding was cut.

It was simply too large for anyone to pick up where they left off.

[0] https://github.com/WebTales/rubedo/issues/1477
Pascal-strings were not uncommon in C at one point, rather than null-terminated strings. They lost, but in a sense, they didn't, since all the string-manipulation functions we use nowadays take a length parameter anyways.
Hm, I think I know some of the cases you're thinking of. (Specifically, GNU and Stack Overflow come to mind?)

But don't you think these were (at least in part) only the visible outbreaks of conflicts that had already been simmering for a long time? If that is so, introducing an explicit governance/CoC may have been a long overdue step that ended up breaking some crockery, but only because it wasn't enacted early enough...
Because other jobs have better mechanisms for this, because they rely on very repeated transactions. Eating in a restoraunt or drinking in a bar is often a one-off transaction, so there's no way for a mechanism of reputation to kick in.
Exactly. I’ve been to plenty of places where I’m charged an upfront price in a restaurant and the waiter/waitress is beyond polite to me.

Edit: To be clear, in my experience I don’t find the service of an average U.S. waiter/waitress better than that of an average waiter/waitress in a country without a tipping culture.
The search service generates more revenue than the rest of ads together. (if I recall correctly from their previous statement, it is at least very close)
I believe the parent poster is referring to the stereotype that BMW drivers have an aggressive and selfish driving style, and that they never use their indicators/blinkers.
> When there's a bug in the CPU microcode, you're at the mercy of your motherboard vendor to release a new system BIOS that will update it for you

That's just... not true. Is the article wrong, or was the rdrand issue actually bios-specific rather than in CPU microcode?

Edit: Whoever downvoted this - ucode update is supported by both Intel and AMD for quite a while. You certainly can just download it: https://github.com/platomav/CPUMicrocodes/tree/master/AMD
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If you were doing everything right it would work, unless you sent email from an IP known to send spam in the past. That doesn't necessarily mean you did, but it does mean your IP did at some point. Given the saturation of the ipv4 space this isn't exceptionally unlikely. In any case, your post is contrarian and doesn't offer any substance aside from the fact that you are angry. That's kind of saddening because that was already pointed out as exactly the problem.
It included high entropy strings including keys from 30+ API and service providers, one of which was AWS. We did not target AWS specifically. None of the other services complained. In fact, a customer service widget company even took our help and thanked us. AWS tricked us in taking our findings and then changed their tone.
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> As a business owner if I am required to pay my workers at minimum 15$ an hour I will need to off set the impact to my bottom line.

Honest question, if you're still profitable (and I read this as implying you are), why do you need to offset it, or offset it aggressively? Sure, if it becomes extremely tight to not-profitable, that isn't good and would need rectified, but again, your comment doesn't come off like that.
What software / lang are you currently using to analyze data?
What is stopping American cities from changing their infrastructure investment from automobiles to micromobility? Is there one, big, standout reason that could be addressed? It's a change that takes decades and it's fighting against incumbents with deep pockets but it could be done.
Nonsense. Of course increased operational costs for businesses most sensitive to labor costs has an adverse effect on small business. That such increases occur at the same time price competition shrinks margin - such as price competition from the volume sellers you mention - simply exacerbates the problem.
>I'm always bemused by the arguments against minimum wages, they almost always boil down to "My business can't survive unless my employees are living in poverty." which, in reality for a lot of businesses, is "I won't be as profitable if I have to pay a living wage".

There are some jobs that don't create $15/hour in value. Why is that hard to imagine? Minimum wage dictates that those jobs and the products they provide will not exist. Whether you think that's a net benefit to society is another question.
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As someone who put themselves through college on pizza delivery...

> but the employer would still have to cough that 15 bucks if they didn't make enough in tips.

This gets you fired. You'll get your requested increased compensation in your next check, and the following week you're reduced to about 5 hours of work total. The following week after that you're let go for poor performance because if you're the only employee asking for tip compensation you're basically admitting you don't get tipped as well as other employees.

Not that I agree earning low tips is synonymous with poor performance, but try convincing a stereotypical crappy manager that.

It's also one of those situations where the people getting screwed over don't really have the means to defend themselves. If $400 in missing wages is a big deal (as it should be), one isn't really able to hire a lawyer to take care of the case for them.

Also people lie. I worked at Burger King as a teen and the manager would lie to everyone, saying if he found out they were applying for other jobs they would be fired. Super illegal, and he has no way of even knowing outside of reference calls. But pretty much every older employee believed him and didn't want to risk homelessness because they tried switching jobs. I remember telling him something along the lines of "Fuck off, I'm 16 and live with my parents"(he thought I was older), but it didn't hit me until years later that he was basically keeping the other employees his prisoners.
Office workers could have permanently hunched backs in 20 years
>When there's a bug in the CPU microcode, you're at the mercy of your motherboard vendor to release a new system BIOS that will update it for you—you can't just go to some download link at AMD and apply a fix yourself.

I think this is the real kicker, and might represent one of the next major fronts in the security struggle. It's a little different from the debates happening right now about support periods, that at least has clear economic implications. It's one thing to argue about whether a product should still be supported at all. But it's quite another when something is being supported, and does in fact have a patch available, yet many owners still can not apply it anyway. That seems like an avoidable failure, and something worth considering legislation around. The industry could and should have more standardized methods and requirements to make sure that any patches that are created do make it out to product owners quickly and universally, there just hasn't been consistent motivation.
Or just pick he or she. Not a big deal.
dude I'm not setting a DNS to access my NAS or my raspberry pi
Still gonna join the disagreeing group. When I worked delivery upwards of 80% of my revenue was tips. That alone makes it very different. It's not a bonus to your income, it's get tips or die.
While some ATMs have limits like that, there are many that let you select a custom amount - I regularly withdraw amounts like 45€ or 95€ to make sure I get some smaller bills.
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I feel like this is good for Google in the long term. I remember when their new CFO took charge a couple years back, she cut a lot of "excess" to make it more profitable, but some of the Google flavor is allowing employees to mess around on pet projects. Gmail is easily the best example of that.
I was under the impression that it was widely known that X470 motherboards would only support the newer Ryzen CPUs with a BIOS update. This is very often the case for motherboard chipsets that are forward-compatible with newer CPUs. As far as memory goes, you do have to pay attention to what memory the CPU supports, it's not like any DDR4 modules will _just work_ with any motherboard/CPU combo. I just built a ryzen desktop, and everything was pretty much turn-key, as I selected the parts which with my limited amount of knowledge had the highest probability of working together nicely.
$55 a day for a toyota corolla is absolutely insane. So expensive. I fly all over and I'm a hertz gold member, I get my rentals for easily $10-30 a day. Plus my name is always on the board when I arrive at Hertz, just get in, drive away and sign a simple contract. I love Hertz
Just because a policy emerged to fight specific conditions, doesn't mean that a) it was actually a good policy to do that and b) that those conditions still apply. So I'm not sure what that reference to sweatshops in the 1800s has to do with anything.

>Its clear that it improves everyone's life substantially (even people who earn lot more)

Ok. You know how to use search-and-replace. But I am serious. Since you're fond of Wikipedia, feel free to actually read the article on minimum wage[1], you'll see that it mirrors what I argued: in most cases, the minimum wage has detrimental effects (especially for low-income and young workers, employment rates in general, and small businesses), occasionally it has no perceptible detrimental effects.

No evidence that shows it actually IMPROVES anything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Empirical_studies
As I look at http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/federal-minimum-wage-his... I see the minimum wage was actually $1.60 at the time, but I was paid $1.50. Might have had to do with the fact that I was 15.
Ok, revenue is up because they are charging more for products to cover min wage. But is profit up?