skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not McDonald's, but a burger. Real food from a real restaurant. I'm not being facetious or (especially) anti-corporate here: McDonald's vertically integrates and owns their supply chain, meaning that they don't actually have to pay market prices for their food. In fact, it's worse than that; their actions in the food market are so massive that they distort prices for everybody else [0].

To pick a local burger chain: Burgerville opened in 1961 in Vancouver, WA. Their cheapest burger was 19¢, and the "Colossal" burger was 39¢ [1]. Today their cheapest is the "Original", at $1.75, and the "Colossal" is still on the menu but is now $3.99 [2]. And if I look at your sources, but look at Wendy's or Burger King, then suddenly the same price increases manifest. So McDonald's really is an outlier, as might be expected from the second-largest employer in the world [3].

The reason why "only 2.3% of hourly workers earned [federal] minimum wage in 2017" is because of my editorial addition; most workers in the USA are covered by better state-level minimum wage laws. If we spend a few minutes totalling up the number of folks who live in areas where they are effectively covered by federal minimum wage [4][5]...

I get that about 40.0874% of the country is either covered by federal minimum wage, or by state minimum wage which is coincidentally the same. These folks rely upon the federal minimum wage to climb, when it hasn't been climbing. Applying Bayes' rule, and using the newer number of 2.1% from [6], I get about 2.8mil people who live in situations, either as employees or as dependents, where federal minimum wage is the only thing keeping them going. (I was going to say "out of poverty", but of course that's not true.) Improvements to either the state or federal minimum wages would improve their lives.

Worse, I get that about 7.4201% of the country is only covered by federal minimum wage. I would expect that these folks are disproportionately earning federal minimum wage, because if one doesn't live in these areas, then one cannot earn such low wages. Applying Bayes again, that's only about 517k people. These folks are genuinely marginalized; see American Samoa for a good microcosm of the difficulties involved in getting folks paid decent wages [7].

The conclusion I draw isn't that people are doing so well that the federal minimum wage is increasingly useless; instead, I think that the federal minimum wage has been neglected for so long that people are either changing local laws, or moving to places where the laws have been changed for the better.

[0] https://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcri...

[1] https://www.historylink.org/File/8792

[2] https://thefoodxp.com/burgerville-menu-prices/ or just go into Burgerville and see for yourself

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Sta...

[6] https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2018/home.htm

[7] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/american...
Side Project: Job Search Board – Ideas Needed
Hello folks, hope you are well. I am looking to build a simple job search board with minimum functionality search as CRUD and search. However, in order to spruce it up - I would like your guy's opinion on what more I can add to the job board that would be considered a great feature + would allow me to learn/implement something new along the way.

I am trying to do this in ASP.NET btw.
Well that depends what you define the host problem to be

End users can certainly run Clojure programs natively without having the JVM installed on their machine
Firefox DevTools survey asking for feedback about new features
How much do you "truly trust" human drivers?
Another funny thing is, "we" usually attack both millionaires and billionaires. Now, millionaires are forgiven. It seems many of "we" become millionaires.
> > Creating more renewable energy is pointless unless it reduces/replaces the use of fossil fuels.

> It does.

Not really. Maybe in the future but now, it mostly replaced nuclear.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Electric...

EDIT: My data is a bit outdated, they did significantly reduce they reliance on hard coal. Lignite use (the worst kind of fossil fuel...) stayed about the same and they use more gas. But still, renewable mostly replaced nuclear.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dx7ZW_OVAAAfAQu.jpg
probably under table, waitressing tips etc
That's same logic how worst regimes of 20th century were born.
I remember in Red Plenty it describes how the USSR decided to just copy IBM machines rather than build their own at some point.

It's a shame as MSU was working on some really interesting stuff including the weird Setun ternary computer.
The government needs to make it undesirable to become a billionaire. There should be an upper limit as to how much money you can have.

Most of the world's problems are caused by millionaires trying to become billionaires - Beyond a certain point, it's all zero-sum games that destroy society.
Well, it is (wholesale) and it isn't (to the end user) - that's part of the point of the article, and the title is being dramatic to get the reader interested.
Sweden to test e-krona central bank digital currency on Corda blockchain
Doubly so when a large fraction of the people receiving free healthcare, free education, and free food are, in fact, children.
I was going to comment on this article, but realized it is futile to go into detail and critizise it at this place.

Simply put I would stay far away from articles and people thinking the way Venkatesh Rao exhibits here. Highly toxic and inhumane management bullshit.
You may not like the ALEC list but in some form most of the major US corporations that have existed for sometime have benefited from slavery.

It’s a fact that a number of American and European institutions benefited both directly and indirectly from former and present day slavery. Some have even admitted as much.

If you don’t want to read, here’s another short list: AIG, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Brooks Brothers, Aetna, Lehman Brothers, Domino Sugar, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Princeton University, Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Georgetown,

- https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=154386...
- https://time.com/5013728/slavery-universities-america/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49476247
There was a great piece on this yesterday by Molly Young. In my opinion, it was significantly better. It contained this excellent point:

> As the leaked Slacks make clear, Korey, as well as her employees, were working under the new conditions of surveillance-state capitalism (or, from the company’s perspective, a culture of “inclusion and transparency”). One reason for the uptick in garbage language is exactly this sense of nonstop supervision. Employers can read emails and track keystrokes and monitor locations and clock the amount of time their employees spend noodling on Twitter. In an environment of constant auditing, it’s safer to use words that signify nothing and can be stretched to mean anything, just in case you’re caught and required to defend yourself.

https://www.thecut.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.htm...
How can I get more views on my YouTube videos?
Maybe it'd be more productive to criticise people based on those points. Rather pick a somewhat correlating group.

How about we pick a skin color correlating with petty crimes and then draw conclusions on that? Not so cool, huh...
High rate of extrapair paternity in a human population
Honestly it’s 90% perception and 10% marketing costs.

The market is super saturated CPCs, affiliate commissions and the rest of the advertising eats into the real margin.

The rest of it I always saw that people associated more expensive with better when in reality there isn’t that much difference in quality. ie they will all suffer from sagging at some point. Brands play into this too.
Sounds like OP is adopting the adversarial approach and trying push the concept of change around.
Was going to highlight the same thing. even in OO if you are not using tooling like autocomplete, you have to mentally map all of those attributes. Fortunately autocomplete is fairly ubiquitous and it exists for Clojure as well. Visual Studio Code has pretty good support for Clojure via some contributed plugins.
Or more likely it means that millionaires have more social and political influence than before.
That's a totally different logic how best regimes of 20th century were born.
It's already happening - ie fully contained apps such as mailcow. Under the hood it's completely dockerized.
Theories of Everything
I will open by saying that the US party two party system is the root of a fair amount of issues in US. Normally, I would argue for some sort of rebalancing to ensure that the system works, but the power centers are too firmly entrenched and any real change would require major political capital. After all, levers are known. Who knows what kind of levers new system would introduce. In that sense, the party system is too far gone.

And it is a feature Trump successfully exploited. It is interesting to note that Sanders and Bloomberg are also exploiting that system; just in different fashions. And I am perfectly OK with both of their approaches though I favor Sander's as it seems more honest.

All that said, with your point about being better off under Democratic reign of terror versus Republican reign of terror, I just gave you an entire list of grievances of the forgotten class ( as the current president sometimes dubs them ). Those grievances did not get addressed by either party over the last 40 years. Worse, Clinton signature is on NAFTA papers.

I would agree with you on Trump vs Sanders as they, amusingly, shared a lot of the populist message. I have my pet theories, but they would just derail this thread altogether.

I would like to note that it is hard for me to argue that Trump policies ( with exception of Soybeans and the bailout there ) has not done anything for them. For better or for worse, Trump is very keen on listening to his core supporters. He seems to genuinely care about his ratings, which does lead to all sorts of theatrics ( as you note ).

That said, note that regardless of how it was achieved and how we are going to pay for it in the future, unemployment now is low and entry level wages are up. Just that fact alone should give you pause, because that likely means that some do feel relief under Trump.

You have to admit that from that perspective a voter may be inclined to vote for Trump again in 2020.
Just like a Commodore 64.
Jc: JSONify the output of Linux CLI tools for easier parsing in scripts
> Where is this meme that RDBMSs do not scale coming from?

It's a holdover from the heyday of noSQL. Was more true then, but RDBMSs have caught up. (At least some of them.) There's even Dqlite for SQLight!
One of the major problems with the concentration of wealth in such few hands is that the societies/countries where these folks live don't get to make collective decisions about how the money is spent.

Most have made their money using the many advantages of their countries. Roads, infrastructure, eductaion, stability, government, etc.

That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But when we allow such concentration of wealth we have given away the decision power to this handfull of people about how all that wealth gets used. The very top wealthy may in some cases believe their motivations and decisions are altruistic. That they may be. But that doesn't give them the authority to think "I know better than every one else in my country/world how this wealth should be spent."

So while the fault for how we get in these situations of terrible wealth inequality may be shared by the peoples and governments that allow it, the wealthy themselves cannot escape their share either.

And in terms of who has more individual power to help restore balance by influencing the system, it sure isn't the single parent working a minimum wage job. Or a family barely getting by after an economic downturn destroys their jobs. Or the student struggling to pay their loans because they chose to get a degree in social work or eductaion instead of compsci or finance quant.

So it would be nice to see a lot more effort by more these lucky billionaires to actually correct wealth inequality and the systemtic issues that leads to this type of inequality.
I’m certainly no grammarian or even much of a writer, but the Bible seems a particularly odd piece of writing to use as a guide.

It’s been translated to the nth degree, is ancient & frequently obtuse on purpose...
You're right, but these are two different scenarios: 1) you really want to communicate something to someone so that they understand it well, 2) your PHB has already decided what is best for you and you choose your defence strategy; in that case using buzzwords might be helpful.
There are plenty of foam suppliers in the US and probably every country, most of them will sell you rolls of whatever you want and plenty will let you come do it in the factory.
Free market supporters you say? Current government is forcing state owned companies to buy bankrupt companies and subsidize them, just because they are 'Polish' (examples: PESA, Autosan).
The government also tries to nationalize some private banks, price of electricity is no longer 'free' and is now regulated. When subsidies are illegal, the government offers back payments for final users. Coal mines and power stations are expanded, and we already know that they won't be economically viable. Renewable energy sources have been successfully blocked by absurd requirements (for example distance of newly constructed wind turbines from other buildings makes 99% of Poland not suitable for such investments).
"Growth also requires not being too attached to a fixed idea of what your career has to look like. Some of us enter School with a strong sense of who we want to be, and what sort of path we have ahead of ourselves"

Actually that was me when I started to College. I want to be a broker and I started at reading a lot of books about Stock Market. Tried my chance on stock market as well. Then I realised that is not for me, time passed by and I realised, I want to create something that is more meaningful for me. After that I met with entrepreneurship.

I am living in Turkey and Entrepreneurship is not your best option in here. Actually it is not even a thing very appreciated by society or business world. I also realised I like to do design . So, I had few failures since then but right now we're creating a platform called Jooseph (https://www.jooseph.com) which is basically playlists for learning.

I am also designing the UI of the platform which makes me really happy.

I think being bold and searching relentlessly is main factor. There are some exceptions as always.
Would you say Rhombus is to Racket as ReasonML (https://reasonml.github.io/) is to OCaml?
You have to be careful with that ... I would sometimes do the same thing to managers who don't have a clue what our business actually does. They're nodding along to something that's totally meaningless and when I wrap up the nonsense you can tell that they want to kick off their shoes and sing Kumbaya. If you're going to do this, you have to be sure that none of your coworkers will burst into laughter and that none of them will tell the clueless manager you were making fun of them.
Add "non-trivial" to the list . . .
All self improvement books (and by self improvement i mean books that claim to tell you some secret of value, i.e. i'm including business advice or drivel like the black swan) have at most 2-3 good ideas, mostly common sense, that they repeat in different forms until the book is thick enough to get sold as a book.

That's the market. You wouldn't pay for a short essay that tells you the same ideas in 2000 words but never repeats itself would you?

And that's before considering whether those 2-3 ideas are even worth the trouble.
I’ve seen the word used in that context at two different UK companies.
Self driving will need to account for any possible edge case on the road to be perfect. To be better than humans? I don't think so. When a human driver kills someone due to lawbreaking from a third party throwing an edge case that they couldn't handle, we say the driver was "not at fault". We even abuse it for "edge cases" that the driver could obviously handle if not for normal human distraction. Why hold the robot to such a higher standard?
I agree, and I have my own stories to tell (like my foodstamps admin telling me to spend my tax return as quickly as possible or I'd lose foodstamps; which is doubly perverse).

A for tax brackets, why do they exist. I think our mathematics is advanced enough that things like tax brackets could be replaced by continuous functions. So its either by design or by lack of imagination that these discontinuities exist.

I've a friend from Finland who is vehemently opposed to any sort of means testing for any social program or aid. I see his point. Means testing creates all of the problems mentioned above ... and encourages those not eligible for them to view them as some burden that other people get but they pay for--fostering resentment.
That is correct, but a heat pump requires a big unit placed outside the home that makes noise. Given our lack of space, closely grouped homes and apartment buildings, that is a challenge. Also a heat pump is not able to heat the water to 70 degrees, which is why you need to isolate your home even more for it to work.

Electric resistance heat is inefficient but it's a plug-and-play replacement solution for gas heaters. You can directly replace it without any changes to the home other than needing an extra circuit breaker and wire pulled.
"But that's not going to be database agnostic!"

Haha ... I'll admit I used to say that but rarely did an internal system (what I work on most) ever actually have that requirement. Systems that are sold to customers to run on their premises are another story but don't worry about using PostgreSQL-only (e.g.) features to speed up both your processing and development times. I have however seen the horrors of 600 line stored-procedures with calls to other stored-procedures nested 15 deep. If you get to the point that you can't easily understand the business logic, you've gone too far.
It is amazing, I made https://boolean.method.ac with it.
I fells for the same trap and I would caution any readers considering learning Clojure, that do not already know Emacs, to not fall for the same trap. It sets you up for a harder road and increases the chance of failing to achieve your goal. Just use Cursive or Visual Studio Code with the Calva extension and leave Emacs for a later date if that is a goal.
I think it's obviously absurd to expect people to agree on "fairness" and tying it to doing something about global warming seems like a malicious way to prevent doing anything. You're saying that all ethical problems have to be solved before saving the current imperfect world.

If you like capitalism and fear "socialism" (which I assume anyone needling people about "fairness" this way does) then that is what allocates resources given constraints of the real world. Accepting that one of the constraints is a limitation on burning fossil fuels for the entire globe does not require changes to society beyond normal responses to price signals. Nor decisions by some authority, other than the overall cap.

Figuring out who gives up what from a central command is both impossible and unnecessary, so it shouldn't be part of the discussion. What "socialists" even advocate Soviet style central planning anymore?
I Went from Indie Lurker to Indie Hacker
The real dilemma is our eroding trust in politicians. Why is this happening?
I think that billionaires' wealth is justified, with the exception of criminal billionaires. Assuming that they pay all taxes that they are legally required to pay, why do you think that they do not have a right to their own personal property? They earned their property through voluntary agreements with other individuals.

A Warren-style wealth tax comes up surprisingly short in terms of funds collected for the government relative to the risks it faces ($2.75 trillion over 10 years, https://www.factcheck.org/2019/06/facts-on-warrens-wealth-ta...) The risks it drives include capital flight, worsened corporate governance, and decreased economic dynamism. These are all long term risks that are difficult to quantify. Most countries that have ever instituted a wealth tax have later repealed it. In every economic sense, taxing income is a better idea than taxing wealth.

Much of our understanding of wealth distribution is biased toward our home country. There's a pretty good chance that if you are an HN reader you are in the top 1% of income or wealth in the world (http://www.globalrichlist.com/). When I consider how little of the government's efforts try to solve global humanitarian problems compared to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, I tend to think that the Gates' charitable contributions do more to address income inequality than a wealth tax on Gates would have.

In many ways the charitable contributions by billionaires solve problems that the government is poorly equipped to solve due to collective action problems. Forcing any large-scale charitable effort to be redirected through the government risks stultification, political misappropriation of funds, endless bickering about policy goals, projects cancelled due to changes at each election cycle. Having a two-pronged approach of private and public charity is more robust.
Three is my preferred mouse configuration - left, right, middle(scroll). Not long ago I had to use a two-button mouse for a while, and the lack of scrollwheel was very annoying.
SpaceX sets date for first polar launch from Florida in more than half a century
I've interpreted this as to hold back on publishing your thoughts until you actually are confident in what your thoughts are.

I have a habit of forming my ideas in emails before I know the conclusion. It's important to edit that work and remove the dead ends and keep it concise. It's important to keep it useful.

I guess what he's saying is if you still don't know the conclusion of your writing, maybe you shouldn't publish it.

This of course is writing for the benefit of the reader. There is plenty of writing which is beneficial to the writer.
Thank you for sharing this article, it was a good read.
Red Plenty is a fantastic and unusual book, I highly recommend it to everybody with even a cursory interest in mathematics, economics, logistics, information technology, politics, or history.
There are good energy efficient solutions to heating that use electricity. Here in Sweden the most common solution for new houses is the downhole heat exchanger [1]. If you want a cheaper initial investment an air heat pump can be used.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downhole_heat_exchanger
No one complains when the government creates regulation to artificially help boost rich people's wealth but if I make a comment about artificially limiting billionaire's wealth, people who are not even billionaires care about that? Even though it doesn't affect them personally??

Then they go around preaching the doctrine of capitalistic self-interest.

The law of capitalistic self-interest according to Milton Friedman basically says: Take the money from wherever you can get it, however you can get it. Billionaires have a lot of money, so why don't we all collaborate and take it? Why the double standard?

Why is everyone collaborating against the lower and middle classes? If you're reading this, you're the middle class! Unless these billionaires are paying you to down-vote, the law of capitalistic self-interest says screw them.
You're not supposed to trust politicians.

Nothing good has ever come from trusting a politician further than the length of rope you need to dispose of them.