skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is uninformed speculation, but it seems like remote work becoming more common could be better for lower-income people everywhere, by creating an "evening out" of job opportunities, away from places where housing supply is too low.

People crowd into the cities for the high-paying jobs, and they create demand for the lower-paying service industries and such. So people also crowd to the cities for the lower-paying jobs, but housing is scarce and therefore expensive. They still come though, even though so much of their money goes to rent, because the city has actual (if low-paying) jobs, and opportunity for other, better jobs.

So if the higher paying jobs "spread out" to suburbs and smaller cities, there will be more of that demand created by higher-paid individuals, creating lower and mid-paying jobs in those areas too, instead of what they have now which is like, cashier at the Starbucks or Chipotle. So if more people can have opportunity outside the major cities - high, mid, or low-paying - then housing demand wicouldll drop in the cities and make it more realistic for people who still prefer to live there.

Housing demand will rise in suburbs, but there tends to be a lot less zoning regulation and lot more sprawl there than in cities, so hopefully the effect is dampened. My experiences with suburbs/exurbs is that the housing supply is often too high if anything due to zealous developers trying to cash in on empty farmland.

This is all kind of long-term wishful thinking, but it seems possible.
>UBI with a progressive tax is just welfare without the bureaucratic overhead.

Who says UBI replaces a single welfare program? Any support that UBI gets from the left is under the assumption that it is an ADD-ON to the existing welfare state. The people employed in the administration of the welfare programs will also fight tooth-and-nail from losing their jobs.

So UBI is just another cost on top the mountain of costs.
I think the worst thing I've seen popping up on Nextdoor is quarantine zealots reporting people to the police for leaving the house for "non-essential" reasons. The most recent example I saw was a hairdresser using Nextdoor to schedule 1 on 1 house calls since they can't pay their bills due to the quarantine, and a busybody reported them because "millions of people will die if we don't stay inside". I don't know what ended up happening to the hairdresser though.
I understand why mods of smaller subreddits do it. They are passionate people looking for a community. The volunteer efforts they put into it help them and the community.

I do not understand why mods work for free on the huge subreddits. Abuse, spam and more would make the position horrible.

Reddit needs to start paying folks to do this job.
> Besides, why would you?

Turns out less is indeed less.
Why Upgrade PostgreSQL?
Most cops are not federal employees its very devolved in the USA with no common standards for training background checks and so on.
Have they considered teaching their skills online for money? If they worked in a call center, they probably know how to deal with some really hard things. I'd love to learn how they have patience when dealing with angry customers.

At http://joinstream.io, we're building a super easy way to host a monetized livestream using Zoom. We generate a marketing page for you, handle billing, attendee management, and notifications. All you have to do is focus on selling your unique skills.
exactly, what the heck
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him.” Is as true today as it ever was.
It's hard to understate how much of a difference rust-analyzer makes. Rust is a complex language, and the compiler is very pedantic. This makes it very hard for beginners--even with lots of systems experience--to scan lengthy compiler error messages, to locate the relative line that it is complaining about (necessary for context), and to try to make sense of the error (Rust error messages are very good, but good messaging can only get you so far with respect to difficult concepts like lifetimes). This feedback loop is on the order of minutes, and it only starts when the user invokes `cargo build` or similar. Rust-analyzer dramatically shortens this feedback loop by _immediately_ highlighting errors: fewer changes since the last known good state, and it visually points you to the errant expression.

For me, this (coupled with non-lexical lifetimes and error handling improvements) made the difference between "I can't justify using Rust because I can't be sufficiently productive" and "the productivity hit is sufficiently small that it makes good sense to use Rust for some of the applications I write, especially factoring in its rate of improvement".
Simple explanation for how Apple/Google's exposure notification protects privacy
Show HN: QuickPublisher a Simple Blogging Platform
When I first started on Reddit like 10 years ago, it leaned pretty libertarian (pro Ron Paul, pro free speech, etc.). I noticed over time that it leaned farther and farther left, and I wondered what had happened to all the previous users. Then there came a conspiracy theory that a handful of users had gamed the moderation system to take control of the tone of the site overall - especially the one that's the topic of TFA. There seems to be more and more evidence that the conspiracy theorists were right all along.
“people have more money == prices rise'.”

I believe in markets with scarce goods and no alternatives this is the case. In healthcare you have no alternatives. And as long as housing supply is short, you have no alternatives there either. So people end up paying whatever is being asked for.

In other markets more money won’t raise prices because the purchase is optional and there are competing alternatives.
Yeah I mean I've been buying all of my Windows 10 keys of ebay for years, they always work fine.

Also keep in mind that in EU re-selling software is completely legal and that's where most of these keys come from(dismantled PCs, post-lease laptops etc). I bought a 100-user licence for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for like $1000 because the company that used to own it went into liquidation and the assets were being sold off.
Because the word telemetry has been bastardized by the online justice warrior community.

People post on HN all the time at how software sucks and never improves....but how can a developer learn how their software is being used without being swayed by the vocal minority?
As a mod - how much time do you commit to this? Are you just sitting there reading comments all day? I'm fascinated by this whole mods thing especially since it's volunteer (!!) work - which strikes me as insane.
> I follow a handful of subs. And I can't name a single mod of any of them.

I unfollowed all of the default subs, they're just not interesting to me. I use reddit for a few technical subs, a few local subs, and a few off-the-beaten-path funny subs. None of them even made the list of top-however-many that showed how they all had a few mods in common.

All these critical articles seem to assume that people consume the default reddit front page, and seem to have little relevance to the platform as a platform.
That's fair. True, it may be a modified linux kernel, but it is still linux. To say otherwise would be disingenuous and misleading, imo.

WSL1, on the other hand, was just a proxy masquerading as a linux kernel, so I would understand confusion between WSL1 and WSL2 on which is real linux and which isn't.
well, if you’re seeing undecryptable messages at this point then it’s a bug. please submit bug reports from both sender and receiver so we can jump on it; we are triaging and chasing down each & all to avoid precisely this.
How do you deal with taxes in a distributed team like yours? I was looking into doing something similar to what you are doing but it seems like the complexities involved with taxation are enormous as you would need to pay corporate tax in every country you live in since the "place of effective management" of the company is shifting every time. Feels like this is a ticking time bomb and that you're opening yourself up for a major liability in the future if you are not careful.

Might be different for SaaS companies though where servers are distributed, haven't looked into that.
I'm from Kathmandu and I can verify that getting to see Mount Everest from the city is a very very rare occasion. However, one can always see Everest on most days with clear skies from nearby hill stations, around 20km drive from the city center.
Time’s Passage Is Probably an Illusion
Zanized
Opt into full telemetry. Install WSL2. Opt out. Delete diagnostic data.

They make you send full diagnostic data because WSL2 is only in the Windows Preview program.
Enlisting monoclonal antibodies in the fight against Covid-19
Awful idea of a company we don't need as a society. If you want to connect with your neighbours go talk to them, go and plan something for the street/neighbourhood, participate in local festivities, buy in local stores. Human contact is what we need, no virtual substitutes. If there's an issue, solve it in person, speaking... Not to talk about tracking and privacy concerns.
Google is now pushing for better UX by ranking websites though Web Vitals
Organ transplants down as stay-at-home rules reduce fatal traffic collisions
Ajit Pai is irrelevant to technical arguments. He has a plausibly deniable ulterior motive. "Ajit Pai is proposing limits on SpaceX's ability to apply for funding from a $16 billion rural-broadband program."

I struggle to see how the American federal government is incentivizing innovation in any capacity. American innovation today stems [p.i.] entirely from the universities, startups and liberal society.
If anything Reddit (the company) should be working to limit the influence of a single "power" user like this particular moderator, not make it easier for him to control the site.
People love the idea of decentralized control, but that is not how people willing to make the effort are allocated. We see this on Reddit, on Facebook, and we see this in open source.

On Reddit (I am not a mod but friends are) mods burn out quickly. Many people have never seen the horrible behavior that goes on in the background.

Same thing on Facebook. I moderate a small 800 person group, one which is private and has mostly pre-screened people. We burned through so many mods over the years and the worst things we encounter are insult wars as nobody is going to post porn or graphic violence with their real life account.

In open source, the heavy lifting on a lot of projects is done by just 1-2 people. Sure the project might have 30 contributors, but it is those 1 or 2 who dedicate their evening when a major bug is found to fixing it.

In all these cases, the work is mostly done by whoever is willing to do it. Over time, people who find the work stressful quit and those who don't end up taking on an enormous amount.
There used to be a browser extension that would search common misspellings of things on eBay to find undervalued items. “Kat Spade” instead of “Kate Spade”, for example. I built quite a collection of shoes and handbags with this method in college.

But I’m sure eBay’s search has gotten better at delivering misspelled listing in results over the past decade so perhaps it’s not as useful as I remember it being.
I started a little economics experiment on Fiverr a few months ago (to try to figure out how much the market is willing to pay for a native English speaker with technical knowledge) and I've had a surprising amount of success at the $0.05/word pricepoint. When you charge a little more, the worst of the worst buyers are scared away by the price.
They do, but you are legally allowed to sell them on. Yes, the licence forbids that, but it's not enforceable and is meaningless. Courts have decided many times that software licences are like any other asset and yes, you can sell them on.

There's a full summary of the legal situation(in Polish, but I'm sure google translate will manage), with legal documents supporting it(it's actually been going on in early forms since 2000, but it's the ruling from 2012 that has cemented your right as a consumer to sell on software, regardless of whether the manufacturer allows it or not)

https://www.forscope.pl/blog/gwarancja-legalnego-oprogramowa...
paying for the councelling of the moderators.
My nextdoor story:

A couple of years ago we got a post in our nextdoor group: "watch out - car burglary!".

Paraphrasing here - "be aware - someone is breaking in to cars parked outside and taking stuff. they got our gun last night!"

Another neighbor chimed in a day later with "yeah, got mine too!". There's only maybe 60 houses in the whole area, and... people are leaving guns in cars - one was unlocked.

This was, to my view, nowhere near "responsible gun ownership" - regardless of your 2A views, it just seems like that behavior should be illegal. But... it's not (at least in our state).

Over the last couple years, I've used it as a talking point when talking 'gun rights' stuff to people, and - surprisingly to me - I only get around 50% of "pro gun" people who agree with me that it's irresponsible behavior.
This whole bastardization of the word 'Telemetry' by the online community is completely abhorrent.

It is impossible to get proper usage feedback from your programs without being swayed by the vocal minority community.

We always find posts online on how crappy software is, but how can software improve if the majority of people actually using the software don't give feedback at all?

https://xkcd.com/1172/
Howell Torpedo 1896 [video]
Is this in any way different from colorforth? https://colorforth.github.io/
Or... maybe they just post good content?

You yourself said the extension marks the cumulative amount of upvotes you've given a user. So, unless you yourself are engaged in this conspiracy to inflate GallowBoob's upvotes, then all this is evidence of is that GallowBoob seems uniquely skilled at finding and posting viral content.
I just needed a simple place where I can store all of my translation strings and upload/download them over a simple API, as well as be able to send a link to whoever wants to help with translations.

It generates a simple JSON with all the translations — the article on how to set up Localizer contains example scripts (taken from my projects) on how this JSON can be parsed and converted into multiple formats :)
A good (best?) way to learn F# might be to learn some Haskell and C# first.

Haskell makes sure you properly understand functional programming fundamentals. (And the syntax is very similar to F#.)

You'd want to learn enough C# anyway since .NET comprises largely C# code.
Where do you live? This was also my experience moving to Spring, TX (a suburb of Houston), which I'm now leaving because of this type of attitude, among other things.

It's not just NextDoor, many areas are on average racist and insular. One time I was strolling my baby, and there was a group of well-dressed, but wrongly colored, people (men, women, and children!) walking down the street. A woman pulled over in her shiny car to ask me if I knew these people, and I walked on and ignored her question. When I looked back, she had pulled over and was on her cellphone.
> Suppose I post something on Twitter or Youtube that someone does not like how would they dox me?

Basically it's all about linking internet presences to, eventually, real-world information. Lots of people use the same username across different sites. Suppose I get mad about a video you post on Youtube, so I google "hi41" and find your Twitter. I don't find anything personally identifiable on there, but then I reverse image-search a vacation picture you posted and I find your instagram, which is under your real name. Now I've got your real name, which is a powerful thing to drop on someone who thinks they're anonymous.
Yes, it was on the latest. I even tried enabling 'desktop' mode for memory, which helped but barely.

One of my main goals was to have a single binary hosted on heroku free dyno (512mb ram), and this was using ~1gb vs go which idled at ~50mb.
Well, text is an abstraction for ideas. But text is a flexible abstraction, which is easy to store change, diff, read.

Visual programming with nodes/blocks is another abstraction for ideas. But blocks and nodes are much, much less flexible. So these abstractions have to be much more precise... Which leads to problems.

A good analogy is Lego vs clay.

With Lego; you can make anything with the right bricks. The problem is each brick is precisely crafted and you're limited to the blocks you have.

With Clay; you have the freedom to mold anything to whateber precision you need... But it might take you longer
Thoughts I ran into while attending my College Zoom Internals
I don’t understand the problem with law enforcement. Can someone explain the risks/problems? Because I’ve only ever used NextDoor to get referrals for plumbers, handymen, electricians, gardeners, etc.
It’s worth reading the privacy policy: https://legal.nextdoor.com/us-privacy-policy-2020/
Not seeing any PII disclosure.
Why does it matter if a few volunteer mods manage a ton of subs?

The concern basically goes like this...

1) Mod/Subreddit does something a user doesn't like (literally anything, doesn't matter how reasonable or trivial or toxic the complaint is, that isn't important, what matters is that someone isn't happy).

2) They want to find evidence that the Mod/Subreddit in question is "bad" or "corrupt" in someway to support that grievence from 1.

3) Users points to mod list as evidence that a "corrupt" group of mods is actually in control of everything.

4) Now that the "corruption" has been found, the Mod/Subreddit involved in 1 has been "proven wrong" and now can be safely ridiculed and labeled as such.
CSS Menus
Yes exactly. The computer 'recyclers' take the parts out of EoL computers if viable and take the key off. Considering the demand for Windows keys is pretty low, and tens if not hundreds of millions of laptops/desktops go EoL each year, it's basically a virtually worthless commodity now the EU lets you transfer licenses from a PC.
since MS switched on the personal data vaccuum with Windows 10: I dumped all but one of my physical Windows machines

the remaining one is used for Win32 app dev/debugging, however it's on a separate VLAN, with a separate external IP address

I think it's really quite sad that you have to adopt military style separate PCs&networks if you don't want your data harvested
Hacker News suffers from the same problem. We have folks like dang (God bless him) manually dealing with assholes. Seems like we could solve these problems with technology, but here we are two decades into the 21st century and we still have humans cleaning the pools.

I'd be interested to know if actual forum moderators think that we could solve the bad actor problem with algorithms...
As another person who mostly wants to be left the fuck alone as well:

One of the internet's greatest gifts is the ability to communicate with so many people you would otherwise have never spoken to.

One of its greatest curses is that all of the stupid people, who used to only ever be able to talk to the other X stupid people in their small area, can now talk to a world wide network of stupid people. Pushing each other to ever increasing levels of stupidity that inevitably spills out onto everyone else's lives.

And unfortunately it seems there is no putting the genie back into the bottle.
No Wayland, but Xorg? How is that simple?
The Crazy Hot Matrix (for men and women)
Yeah, I can't think of any one single action that would make Reddit a better site overall than him leaving it.
That's fair, I was more speaking to the question of moderators affected by PTSD. I don't necessarily disagree with what you've said here, but it doesn't quite answer my question, or are you suggesting Reddit Admins limiting mods ability to be mods is a solution to this particular problem?

I guess I'm having some trouble unpacking your suggestion, can you help me gain some clarity on what you're saying?
Why did you install a preview build of Windows then? Wait for release.
For the sake of argument, can you provide evidence supporting your 2 claims as I have understood them?

1. Tesla workers are treated as slaves.

2. Elon Musk endorses mass starvation of the recently jobless.
Good ole fashion yard work. Despite the unemployment rate, many people are still working and spring is here. Grass is growing, mulch needs spread, etc.
It might be a good time for day trading, but it's probably not the kind of stable, safe income that an unemployed person needs.
Any recommendations for someone with a background in logic controls and light IT (industrial background)? What is actually worth investing your time in?
Anything is a oneliner when you erase all the `\n`s
I think an article is treated neutrally when the person I agree with screams a lot and throws furniture at the dissenters until they curl into a submissive fetal position on the floor and admit they have lived hollow fruitless lives.

I assume Sanger will update whatever lies you’ve referenced to spend equal time on my perspective.
The farmers with 2000 acres are not the ones I'm most worried about
Names just need to be valid UTF-8, which it is
I'm still not convinced. And it wouldn't be hard to prove either: there must be data for how much empty roads affects reckless driving during non-pandemic times. So if today's empty roads are causing reckless driving at a similar rate, then I would conclude that the pandemic isn't relevant. It would have been nice for the BBC to compare the two cases in their article.
The way I see it is someone who has enjoyed a "privileged" position without transparency or accountability for a long time is surprised that people find issues with concentration of moderation powers (especially across subreddits).

Makes me wonder what is it that people find so appealing in having moderation of subreddits as an almost full time job.
What kind of competitions?
Oh it entirely does. But I think you're confusing the source for "good".

As the GP said, supply and demand, you're competing with a lot more developers when you work remote. I think we'd all agree there, right?

So now the company hiring has a large pool they need to sort through. How do you choose? Well they _could_ just choose the "best", but they get to define best, or good, right? Some companies may literally want to choose the best client they can, but many will want to balance all variables. They want a skilled candidate, who fits their culture, for a price that leaves them with a good feeling.

A candidate willing to accept less pay is a value in itself. If the candidate meets or exceeds the minimum skill that the company is desiring, the cheap price tag is often great.

Now I know this is a complex topic, but as a remote worker and someone who has hired many remote workers for a company with real, limited non-VC income, salary matters. Even in just the candidates I've interviewed, if they were all the same price tag I would have different coworkers today. Which isn't to say that my coworkers are bad or that we hired poorly, we hired based on variables at the time, and we made the right decision.

Price has nothing to do with candidate skill, but is still often top tier variable in choosing a candidate. It is not a scam. It is reality.
It’s not completely unrelated. It’s just not exactly the same. But I’m not sure what to tell you,
since you seem to have no real understanding of basic human nature. You should talk to people about how they feel about other people’s kids. It will be illuminating for you.