skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minimum wage is ~$7.25/hr. All one need do is work 25 minutes mundane labor a day to afford 3 square meals per day (see Twitter's @ABuckAPlate). (Corollary: min wage law prohibits anyone earning anything if they can't produce at least $7.25 value per hour.)

Collecting garbage, cleaning floors, etc has value - that's why we pay people to do it. Is it really worth more than ~$7.25/hr? would you pay someone $20/hr to do it?

A thing is worth what another will give for it. People are willing to trade $7.25 for an hour of mundane labor.

And yes, there is real negotiation power. Businesses are having to pay more, or find alternatives, for services because not enough people are willing to do those jobs. That's negotiation, in context of large numbers of people being willing to do a job.

BTW: if you're working where Google is, or in LA or the like in general, you MUST provide above-min-wage value because the carrying capacity of those areas has been reached - there are people making >$37/hr wanting to live in the same place, and $MinWage/hr can't compete with $37/hr productivity. I threw my stuff in a truck and permanently moved 1000 miles on short notice - so can others who likewise seek economically viable conditions.

I've lived off the land. Most of humanity did. If you don't want to plant seeds and build cabins (always a viable option), get busy doing something others will pay enough for.
So 100 human sized objects get detected by the algo, and then 1, wearing this t-shirt, that fits most of the parameters doesn't. Very, very easy to adjust the algorithm to account for a t-shirt. This is cute, at best.

It's also then super easy to say that the individual wearing the shirt is likely to try to usurp monitoring. In practice this type of thing will likely make you a more prevalent target for monitoring along the lines of "what do you have to hide?".

Not that I agree at all with large-scale monitoring or think anyone should prove that they don't have something to hide. Only that it paints the target on your back.
I put down 5% a few years and was able to avoid PMI by taking a higher rate (about 5%) -- forget what doing this actually called. You can take the increased interest as a deduction, but not PMI.
"SQL Injection (Go's database integration is still the wild west)"

Is something like this prone to SQL injection ? I am very new to Go and still learning how to interact with databases (I am not a big fan of ORMs).

stmt = "UPDATE users SET last_login = $1 WHERE id = $2"

_, err = services.DB.ExecContext(ctx, stmt, time.Now(), id)
This is a straight up mathematical measurement and would account for ~.2C warming per decade and is regarded as an uninteresting question in climate science. The actual questions being asked are what feedbacks are there that would drastically increase/decrease this number.
Ah! The score I looked at must have just been the US box office scores.
I like the facts-based graphs, with multiple data-collecting sources. However, I think somewhere among these graphs should be some kind of 'speculative' graph that shows potential remedial efforts impacts on one or more graphs. Even something as simple as a "when we are gone" graph that predicts what would occur if all industrial, agricultural processes stopped... just so people can see what is the realistic asymptote of moderating conditions we can expect, under an extreme condition. Or, perhaps, put in a more optimistic tone, a 'magical-antimatter-grid-power-source-without-co2' scenario.
Reading paper is just as eye-straining as a screen. The eye straining part is due to the light of the screen (maybe a bit from blue light) but to the constant focus distance and lower blinking rate
I followed this https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/typescript

Nothing worked.
I agree with you. However, tell me how you are not making the the appeal to authority argument, and/or confirmation bias.
> Nuclear energy has received less than 50% of the subsidies that renewables have. Renewables only recently ceased to "need" this, and they've been under development for decades. Nuclear power hasn't had investment in significant research since about 1970.

The numbers for subsidies of nuclear power come with some many caveats that they are useless. It does not cover the cost of insuring nuclear power, so you can actually pay to clean up disasters. It does not cover the massive amount of money that went into it for military purposes that civilian nuclear power benefitted from.

I don't think it actually covers the decommissioning costs either, because these seems to typically be much larger than first anticipated.

The subsidies of renewables meanwhile give a false picture because the cost varies considerably depending on where you are in the world. Germany pushed solar into what it is today, but it is not a country well suited for solar power.

And unlike nuclear, these subsidies have lead to massive price drops. Subsidies of nuclear power has not led to any drop in price of nuclear power. In fact the costs keep rising.

> Newer designs would be even cheaper.
Eh... thus far newer designs have been massively more expensive to build and much slower.

> Newer reactor designs will be safer, cheaper, and less expensive to build.

Ah yeah.... how old are you anyway? I have been hearing this claim for something like 20 years now. I remember the promise of pebble bed reactors for probably 20 years or longer. They were invented back in the 50s I believe. Yet we are still not seeing them being built. At least not here in the west.

I am tired of empty promises from the nuclear industry. Wind and solar has succeed where nuclear has failed. They have been given there chance AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and failed to deliver.

> They will release less radiation into the environment than current coal plants do.

Ah yeah... until there is an accident. After Chernobyl we were promised nothing like this would ever happened again because that reactor was so bad, and bla bla bla. Oops then Fukushima happened. Always the same story "Nobody could have foreseen this!"

Ah yeah... that is kind of the point. That is why nuclear power is a terrible idea. There will always be something you did not think about.
Can they really go much lower? Interest rates won't ever dip below inflation will they? If they do, wouldn't this be detrimental to the future of our economy?

My guess is that after the election's over, interest rates will start creeping up and eventually cause an overall reduction in housing values as it becomes harder for middle class incomes to afford homes at the current values.

I don't think a crash like 2008 is coming. I just think a relatively minor adjustment is right around the corner.
Your addition would have been very cheap if the process wasn't tightly regulated by local, state, and federal government. The materials themselves are probably 20% of the cost for the whole project, the rest of the overhead goes (rightly or wrongly) to fees and inflated wages.
So basically wait until you are infertile.
I don't think this is a hot take, but if the market wants to build fancy apartments, let them build fancy apartments.

The reason there aren't less fancy, affordable apartments is people weren't allowed to build new apartments 20 years ago, which would have aged into affordable housing this decade.
Seriously, it's always some woman author at NYT that has to go find some woman to write a story about. When did liberal start meaning feminist?
Methane is produced by anaerobic decomposition; composting is defined by the regular aeration (and sometimes watering) of the compost pile, which allows aerobic bacteria to break down the pile more cleanly. You do still get some GHGs, but much less.

See:

https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/climate-change/composting-avoid-...

https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/compost/compost.htm
Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Project Cortex AI Builds Enterprise Knowledge Networks
In the style TFA you should wrap pickle.load() with a function that will unpickle the specific type you are expecting. So you should write a unpickleArrayOfInts() or whatever.

The actual type would be a rather large union type, which would be unwieldy to use (but in an untyped system like python you still would need to deal with all of those corner cases to have a program that is correct in the face of arbitrary input).

Really the biggest annoyance of type systems is that they make you deal with corner cases that you don't think are practically possible. If you are right, then they are wasting your time. If you are wrong, then they are saving you from having bugs.
I enjoy manually putting the old in Reddit url. It’s rare for me to need Reddit for actual productive needs and when I do, it’s usually going to a shorter thread of comments where I’m fine using the bad new interface in a pinch.
Yes, the batteries are rechargeable. Apparently good for at least 2,000 or 5,000 cycles.
But we're pretty brainy apes, we change the world we live in for the better.
If you really want to orchestrate some sort of spam attack with bots. You can just purchase a hundred numbers on twilio or bandwidth and just automate the who OTP process with Puppeteer. If it’s important enough.

You’re right about it being a lot more annoying though.
why do you expect meat prices to collapse in the next 10 years?
It is more like damage control

People who strongly disagree with rf/china government CAN not normally live in that countries

So normal Russian/Chinese do not have rf/china citizenship
Aerobic vs anaerobic decomposition produces different byproducts.
The linked article is trash.
Another thing to keep in mind, North Jersey has atrocious property taxes, and they keep going up.
Previous discussion:

"OnionShare makes it easy for anyone to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21253668
Sendy Is Insecure: How Not to Implement ReCAPTCHA
This is the only rational choice offered by the current system, unless the odds of winning lottery ever change
Quebec is a French speaking (in majority) Canadian province. It has bill 101 which makes French mandatory for a lot of stuff and, notably, makes it hard to get educated in english (until university where it’s pretty much as you wish).

Those are the facts. Now for my admittedly biased French Canadian opinion: it makes a lot of anglophone Quebec resident very sour because they’re very unwilling to learn the language of the majority of people living all around them. Of course this is a gross generalization but this gives you an idea of the issue. It is very complex and discussing it in HN comments is almost hopeless.
I’ve been thinking that for 10 years now. Whoops.
Not necessarily. I lived off-campus in two different universities, and while I had a car, I definitely didn't need it, and only used it for fun on weekends. My apartments were always close enough to walk or bike to school. This isn't uncommon at universities, especially in college towns.

Cars certainly can be expensive to own. If they're newer, there's a significant car payment associated. College students are young, so insurance costs are very high (esp. if they're male). And if the car is older, it may be cheap, but it's a big gamble: what happens when it suddenly needs expensive repairs? Even a relatively crappy car is a major expense (as a portion of their entire cost-of-living) for a college student, at least it was when I was a student.
Figure out what it would cost to really move into that house. Full mortgage payment with taxes and insurance, plus increased utilities, plus maintenance things like lawn care, HoA dues, etc..

Figure out that total and continue living where you live, but save the difference between living in a house and living at the location you want.

All of a sudden a year passes and you have $15k in the bank and you've been walking to work in 10 minutes. As time passes you may find that you have enough saved to make a purchase a bit more luxurious (closer, bigger, whatever you like) than you could before. Or you may find that you like seeing that $15k/year that you now recognize as coming from not moving.

I mostly do this with cars. When I pay one off, I keep that car payment going into our "car savings" account. I'm allowed to pay maintenance from it, but that's it. It's amazing how attractive a used/paid off car is when you see the savings against the alternative.
They're superficially easy to understand, but end up moving the complications of concurrency, transactions, and statistical query planning up into the application. Those are much harder problems to solve correctly than just learning SQL and understanding the output of EXPLAIN.
Every existing dam can be used for pumped hydro.
As I also mentioned, I agree with your points on the psychological effects of the nuclear disasters. But do not forget about dam failures that kill a lot of people instantly, gas explosions, oil spills, and most importantly smog caused by coal plants that affect people for the rest of their lives.

You may not suddenly get sick from coal power plant smog but your life quality degrades over time and you develop certain diseases. Even though smog is a visible danger, nobody cares about inhaling it with a great cost to their lives.

There is only one nuclear accident (INES > 3) that has happened in the past 30 years and that is the Fukushima. On the other hand there has been 142 oil spill accidents in the last 30 years[1]. Several sources calculate that on average, cleanup of an oil spill costs around 5 billion dollars[2]. So, in short, oil spills has cost us 710 billion dollars to clean-up in the last 30 years, not including any health or repair etc. material costs. I would also be curious to find out a similar cost calculation for coal related cleanups.

New nuclear plants should not be built blindly. Japan perhaps should not use nuclear technology due to being in a highly active seismic region. But this should not stop other countries from investing in nuclear energy. For example, France is generating 71.7% of their electricity from nuclear sources and they are 'almost' accident-free.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills
[2] https://twnsacredtrust.ca/concerns/economic-cost-oil-spill/
Sorry thought CBS and WB were related, since CW is CBS+Warner...
I've suddenly found myself very much in favor of the reinstitution of blue laws... and sort of observing Sabbath. Shut down all the machinery once a week.
Nice effort, but seems to miss things. RapidJSON for C++ is a very popular library. And Go has both the standard library JSON parser and a couple of other popular implementations. I would gladly add implementations for Go, but it is unclear how do do that.
the arctic is melting so not safe to store it there
Golang with Postgres. Love the simplicity and power of Go along with a binary executable.
In this case, the problem really is caused by some bad regulations. But that doesn't mean that all regulations are bad, or even that these regulations are all bad - they probably work fine for big companies like the ones Maxwell raided.

Perhaps other people were arguing that in this thread; they're wrong. But it's also wrong to say that this problem is nothing to do with regulations!
I’ve only seen xkcd referenced positively in comments randomly.
HE's tunnel broker doesn't work through CGNAT, it requires a public ipv4 address to terminate the tunnel.
In a landfill, only anaerobic bacteria can survive. These are unable to break down organic material as cleanly as the aerobic bacteria in a managed compost pile. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21483584 for links to sources.
This is true if you consider a snapshot in time from the perspective of an individual, but the trajectory technology has enabled us to put the planet on is speeding us toward crisis. We have already caused a major extinction event and continue to do so with no meaningful sign of stopping. Keeping our societies running involves extraction of finite resources. We are living on borrowed time.
If we burn through all our fossil fuels and get hit with a big solar flare or some other major event happens, we may not have the energy reserves to recover. It's easy to celebrate now because the worst consequences of our collective actions are barely starting to come back to us. Just because that timescale is long compared to a human lifespan doesn't mean everything is great.
"Climate change denialism" is a very broad stroke.

This term is always includes not only actual deniers of climate change (rising average surface temperatures), but a lot of other adjacent things, like "why", and "with what effect", and "effective solutions."

To the casual observer it it looks a "science cult." You either believe and abide by it and all its tenants or you're branded a denier, an unbeliever, a heretic.

Not a healthy way to look at science, especially when inevitabley some one thing is later shown to be incorrect and your faith comes crashing down.
"We're willing to help the homeless, but only if we're allowed to control them to satisfy our own mistaken notions of what helps people (and more subliminally, our egos)."
What actually is happening in the real world is people are either not having children, or, leaving them with grandma for child care, or, choosing a much older and richer husband
* The market situation was vastly different. Renewables were being developed in a mature market.

* What you mean, but conveniently left out, is that nuclear reactors that are written off are competitive. Until they get too old to fix, then they're closed. That's what's happening at the moment in the Western world whether we like it or not.

When you talk about newer reactor designs, you are not talking about commercial reactors, but research reactors, for which the true cost/potential is unknown.

Nuclear isn't a good match for PV and wind, as those are cheaper when they're on. So you have a huge capital investment but only a low realized capacity factor.
tl/dr...Director of Compliance at GitLab resigns because they can't force company to comply.
> There is no scrutiny to stop this idiocy, and the average consumer has no idea why this is bad, and no idea that those blue screens were because of a headset.

Yeah. Microsoft doesn't exercise any control and the result is hardware manufacturers force bogus software down the throats of Windows users. The Linux community can count on Linus Torvalds and the kernel hackers to provide that scrutiny and people trust Linux a lot more as a result.

I always cite capcom.sys as an example of why random companies shouldn't be allowed to write drivers:

https://twitter.com/TheWack0lian/status/779397840762245124/
Yes, your plan, the solution as you called it.

If the solution is that those people should try to remove those loopholes from the definition of income and there is nothing beyond that to explain how those people should do that then it is a vacuous solution.

p.s, There’s a difference in reducing loopholes and having absolutely zero loopholes (something that may be impossible)

Obviosuly.
I think most people agree with climate change, they just don't think it will affect us in the current century.

In the Netherlands we cut the construction of new buildings in half, the livestock is about to get cut in half, the speedlimit is cut by 25%, gas prices for heating homes is going up significantly, flights are cut, a new airport is at the risk of never opening. Those are actions that impact people significantly. We are about to lose hundreds of thousands of jobs and a lot of people are going on welfare, will have to trade their paid-for home for small social rental housing and will not have money left for anything besides food and maybe going to a cinema twice a year.

The actions mentioned above are necessary but I don't blame people for resisting those changes. If you are not seeing any chance in the climate but the government is pushing for you to lose your job over it, I can understand that you will get angry.

27.000 people in construction are about to lose their job[1]. Many of them are contractors who are not eligible for welfare, and many of them are too poor for unemployment insurance, so they will probably end up homeless.

[1] https://nos.nl/artikel/2306987-stikstofcrisis-raakt-veel-mee...
Yeah, audio quality has made huge improvements, especially when you're lucky enough to have a wideband connection (which is still limited almost exclusively to calls within a single provider, in my experience). But cell phones did cause us to accept dropped calls, garbled audio, and other issues that we would have never tolerated in a traditional POTS system.
That's why not-for-profit Chernobyl never happened?
And the military, they do have their experience of hiding their failures. One mega-corporation. Totally not-for-profit.
Fukishima only killed 1 person directly but the evacuation interrupted the medical care of a large number of sick and/or elderly people and ended up killing over a thousand people. But if there hadn't been an evacuation you'd be looking at more like 100 to 200 deaths related to radiation, though many by cancer long down the road. Of course really we ought to be looking at all this in terms of QALYs in which case the evacuation decision probably looks a lot better. And air pollution probably looks worse.
Ignoring for a second the ethics of hiring bans around particular countries, I find it interesting that this is in a way a problem that uniquely belongs to a distributed organization

In a traditional organization, none of your employees will reside in country X unless you actively open an office in that country. The organization may choose to develop satisfactory IT controls and administration tools before doing so, or simply not do so at all.

For a distributed organization like Gitlab, there is a presumption that employees live where they want unless told otherwise. Hence, the pains that Gitlab is going through now.
Just because "computing has always centered on data", doesn't mean that every aspect of that was done well (not implying any recent changes brought by "Data Science" here).

For a lot of systems, a lot of engineers/programmers often care very little about the "data", and they very often don't need to. E.g. on a high abstraction level your webserver doesn't care if it's sending HTML, JSON or whatever, and here we are just speaking about formats and not even higher semantics of the data.

I think there can be a lot of value in data-focused roles in companies, because there are many (hard) questions around data that are often badly answered as afterthoughts:

- What are the exact semantics of this data?

- How do make sure the data is clean?

- How do we evolve the data over time?
If Twitter has banned as many right wing accounts as left leaning ones, why is it that the majority of disgruntled responses to Twitter India's clarification thread are blaming Twitter India's right wing bias ?

https://twitter.com/TwitterIndia/status/1192384055884447744

...or is there a claim somewhere in here that the unhappy right wing accounts just leave twitter for Mastodon without complaining and hence all that anyone, including the BBC, seems to highlight is the left leaning accounts making a noise ? Where are the unhappy right wingers in that thread ?
Ok, that could be the reason but I'd had appreciated if they were honest to tell us, the people that (used to) use Skype for work "thank you, we don't want you anymore, go find some other tool."
Thanks. I'm Canada-based so it seems the issue is related to geo-restrictions.

Hopefully between the two links, everyone who wants to check this doc out is covered.
The service has to just not allow VoIP numbers like Twilio. A handful are already like that. Like Craigslist as last example I came across.