skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think a minimum wage is ethically justified in a minimum standard of living society unless that value in progress through automation is justified.

The arguments for minimum wage are always to insure it provides a livable wage, but economists generally rightly dislike it for limiting labor opportunities to ones above that wage threshold.

In the absence of a minimum standard of living you rightly should cling to minimum wage laws like the lifeboats they are for the working poor. Once participation is voluntary forfeiting minimum wages seems like a very promising bargaining chip against capital to get a negative income tax / UBI actually put into law.

I think I'd rather see UBI / NIT and have progress towards the singularity slowed for lack of a high minimum wage to pressure automation than the status quo of extreme unhappiness and poverty (and the corresponding social unrest, drug abuse, crime, mental illness, physical ailment, etc). Of course if we can have our cake and eat it too that would be great... I'm just saying to leave the minimum wage on the bargaining table, insuring survival seems like the more important goal.
Intel did that on low-end desktop CPUs for once, but soon discontinued it after criticism.

* Intel Upgrade Service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Upgrade_Service
>Genome-wide analyses reveal drivers of penguin diversification

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/12/2006659117
Sure, feel free. I certainly don't need to be credited for the idea that semiconductors have limits.
The whole point of an endowment is that it is supposed to be an ongoing investment and the percentage withdrawn every year is minimal. Over a long enough time line does "locking in losses" mean anything when averaged out with all the gains? You can look at the best and worst rolling averages for various investments here[1]. The worst 20 year span for the S&P 500 is better than the worst 20 year window for bonds.

https://www.thebalance.com/rolling-index-returns-4061795
It’s a grift. Tuition goes up. The fraction of expenditure related to pedagogy goes down. And the university pays no taxes on its investment income.

There is an entrenched bureaucracy whose role is nothing more than self-perpetuation.

I don’t want the government micromanaging universities, but to retain tax-free status and subsidized student financial aid I don’t think it’s unreasonable that a certain percentage of budget go towards, you know, teaching students.
Thank you for this context. I vaguely knew of the term's connection with the names of utilities, but this is some fascinating Canadian history.
Wow. So much geekery comparing ICE to electric, without a single mention of global warming.

Big oil has done an amazing job making the subject unmentionable.
> I don't like the BBC because of its political slant

The best thing about the BBC is that people on both the right and the left think it has a political slant against them
Not really. It scales with income, motivates working, is more fair, and avoids a blanket handout which would just raise the prices of everything in response.
Microsoft's office products are mostly GUI centered. But I rarely can easily find ways to accomplish things there and instead get lost in their GUI, which sometimes looks like a twisty maze of little passages all different. So "GUI" isn't a panacea for ease of use IMO.

In emacs I can use "apropos" (i.e. "c-h a") or "c-h v" for example to search for ways to accomplish what I'd like to do.
Uber and Lyft are shutting down at midnight in California
I don't think F-Droid costs money
In an ML context, the global optima may often correspond to better performance and (hopefully) a more general solution.

In a motion planning or controls context, a local minima can often mean a configuration or path that is infeasible due to collision or wildly inefficient.
I'm curious why this host would have this running on it? Do GCP VMs co-locate with cloud SQL instances? I'd think it'd be separate infrastructure but maybe Google is just really good at binpacking (likely).
Agreed. All these vulnerable hypothetical “grandmas” can stay home and take extra precautions themselves if they feel threatened.
Using Golden Paths to solve fragmentation in our software ecosystem
It depends on what else is on the same VPC network. Ip address spaces are virtual here.

In practice, this network may only contain instances of limited use cases.
unreal. lol.
I developed a pretty cool piece of freeware to control a consumer hardware device and I ran into this "very scary Windows dialog" problem. I specifically don't want to charge for this application as then it's a business and it's just a hobby for me.

Thankfully one of my users is also a developer and now he signs all my releases.

What does this have to do with users being savvy or not? Unsurprisingly nothing at all.
About 1/3 of children in the US were unplanned, and I imagine another (but not coincident) 1/3 are unwanted.
http://esummarizer.com/main/summarize

Summary
Despite this, most of the social media networks we study generate much more social capital than actual financial capital, especially in their early stages; almost all such companies have internalized one of the popular truisms of Silicon Valley, that in the early days, companies should postpone revenue generation in favor of rapid network scaling.

What ties many of these explanations together is social capital theory, and how we analyze social networks should include a study of a social network's accumulation of social capital assets and the nature and structure of its status games.

However, in general, if you come to a social network later, unless you bring incredible exogenous social capital (Taylor Swift can join any social network on the planet and collect a massive following immediately), the competition for attention is going to be more intense than it was in the beginning.

It's not that the existence of old money or old social capital dooms a social network to inevitable stagnation, but a social network should continue to prioritize distribution for the best content, whatever the definition of quality, regardless of the vintage of user producing it.

A social network like Path attempted to limit your social graph size to the Dunbar number, capping your social capital accumulation potential and capping the distribution of your posts.

If this generational divide on social media between the old and the young was simply a one-time anomaly given the recent birth of social networks, and if future generations will be virtual status-seeking experts for womb to tomb, then capturing users in their formative social media years becomes even more critical for social networks.

There, many social networks allow you to directly turn your social capital into financial capital, without leaving the network.

It's a fun analogy, though I prefer the cryptocurrency metaphor because most users are citizens of multiple social networks in the tech world, managing their social capital assets across all of those networks as a sort of diversified portfolio of status.

It's strange to think that social networks like Twitter and Facebook once allowed users to just wholesale export their graphs to other networks since it allowed competing networks to jumpstart their social capital assets in a massive way, but that only goes to show how even some of the largest social networks at the time underestimated the massive value of their social capital assets.

As long as we have multiple social networks that don't quite work the same way, there will continue to be these social media arbitragers copying work from one network and to a different network to accumulate social capital on closing the distribution gap.
The only way you can claim that their argument is that is if you believe that the minimum wage simply means "paying poor people more", and nothing more, which is an absurd simplification, and ignores a lot of nuance (ex. employers don't have to pay the minimum wage, they can simply fire the employee [0]).

If it's really the case that minimum wage means paying poor people more, surely we could just set the minimum wage at $30/hr and pay poor people even more.

I'm not even opposed to the minimum wage myself. I just don't think it's good to simplify a complex situation, and then use that to strawman someone's legitimate point (that it is not a given that minimum wages will reduces poverty rate).

[0] - Another example is that minimum wages vary across jurisdictions, and employers are able to arbitrage that fairly effectively for many jobs.
Getting paid less is a fine outcome assuming the NIT fulfills its purpose of guaranteeing a minimum standard of living.

It means the worker has voluntarily participated in selling their labor, even if its for a lower price than they would have made before, and they would always have the option to stop doing it and do something - anything - else.

If the NIT is insufficient to provide the necessities of life than its institution failed in its primary objective, albeit I would still argue any NIT is better than none because it raises the poverty floor some amount above zero.
seems like a problem in search of a solution. why shouldn't you be able to shop for the best online learning experience in this situation
Cloud sql instances actually running on GCE VMs, as suggested by the post, which makes sense as well.
If you use Wayland (which... has its issues, but maybe they're better now?) on an XPS 13 Developer Edition... or even my junk Chromebook with MrChromebox's firmware installed so I can install Linux, you can get all sorts of gestures that are more than just "two gestures." Heck, even Windows supports gestures just fine. So...
> yes it is a note-taking app, but it runs on Kubernetes

Going straight for the HN jugular I see.
If you’re a university endowment you’re forever a 22 year old. You never need the money, your timeline is infinite, and you can easily borrow the 4-5% a year you distribute to your operating expenses if you have nothing liquid or there’s been a recent large market drop.
I mean, you're right, but I feel like the approach we're taking is that we have to cater to the least tech-savvy person that might every use the computer, even if that damages the experience for millions of folks that are tech-savvy. I really disagree with this this one-size-fits-all approach. It seems like a local optimum, at best.

Of course, more tech-savvy users can always use a system that doesn't impose this on them, but I really wish Apple would provide different experiences to different users. If they hadn't diluted the "Pro" moniker, I'd advocate for "Pro" editions of MacOS that remove all this stuff. As it is, every amateur user thinks they should get a Macbook Pro, and my user experience on any distro of Linux is miles ahead of any other platform available. That's fine for me (I'll probably never leave Linux unless something drastic changes), but what about folks that love Apple and are tech-savvy? Why should they have to jump through increasingly arcane hoops to do very reasonable things (like run unsigned code) on a machine they bought? It seems like a massive missed opportunity.
Also bluetooth: https://hackaday.io/project/161578-wireless-ble-kinesis-adva...
Ask HN: From an existential standpoint, what to work on?
So, I could look at myself and say, "here's what I'm good at, here's what I like to do", or I could look at the world and say, "here are problems, here is where the world should go", or some sort of halvesies.

What do you guys and gals do? Somewhere in between? Effectuate the most change? Have the most fun?

What about crossover? Does having fun sometimes affect the world? Is changing the world fun in the end?

Do I just get better at dealing with the feeling of never knowing? Aka, accept suffering, as a buddhist, and assume I'll never know the "true" purpose, and just become immune to the feeling of "not knowing"?
I live in Aus also, and there are people here who work full-time and still need to avail themselves of local charities, for food boxes and such, but the relative size of that demographic seems to be smaller here compared to the US.
I'm not sure many/any serious scientists take it seriously. It's interesting, but it's far from peer reviewed journal type material.
Why do so many in tech buy into a walled garden and then bitch about it later?

I could say whinge but it doesn't quite convey what I'm seeing here.
Also agreed. To whatever extent it's helpful, this is my take on it:

Elasticsearch:
* Data streams -- an abstraction that eases management of a set of indices containing time series data.
* Wildcard data type -- makes searching for partial strings much more efficient
* EQL -- a new query language that's popular in the SIEM (security info and event mgmt) world
* Miscellaneous new aggregations
* Tableau connector for Elasticsearch

Other parts of the stack:
* free version of Workplace Search (index all your stuff from multiple sources such as Gmail, Google Drive, MS Sharepoint, Salesforce, etc.)
* free version of endpoint security from Elastic's acquisition of Endgame
* Ingest Manager/Elastic Agent -- centrally manage and configure Beats-based endpoint agents that push metrics, monitoring, etc. to Elasticsearch
* new rendering engine in Kibana
Try fusuma (gem install fusuma, may need user adding to input group to run, or run it with sudo).

Gestures on trackpad for recent (libinput) Linux. It runs xdotool to stuff the keyboard buffer with keystrokes when it sees certain gestures. E.g. three finger swipe left and right do Alt-Left and Alt-Right, which have the effect of Back and Forward in the browser and some other browsing apps (e.g. IntelliJ). Four-finger swipe left and right switches desktop on my machine. It's one more finger than Mac but probably required not to conflict with two finger scroll.
I really appreciate this voice of reason and would further like to add a few points. As a tax paying citizen in my country i think that taxes are needed for the upheaval of the country as a whole in an "aggregate fashion". So my question is that even if a country implements wealth tax how is that money going to benefit or trickle down to the lower strata of the society? Do we just add more social benefits which i am against as if you just take money from people and redistribute you are essentially becoming a socialist economy.

Another question that arises here is if the discussion is happening because the tax collected is not sufficient currently? If that is the case then a proper solution would be to and i hate to say this increase the tax rates for everyone. The number of billionaires the people want to tax are essentially pretty low and in a country based economy where there are pretty large numbers haggling away their 1 percent wont really make a difference to a big country.

The issue with wealth tax is that it focusses on a particular well off section of society and that particular section of society is actually just being targeted because they are wealthy. The thing people take for granted is the number of jobs and employment they generate and the services they provide. They actually are so well off that i worry if someone would be able to stop them if they just decide to leave?

Its rather mundane to say that the wealth is not trickling down. These people are generating wealth. Why do you think US is the biggest world economy? Hint: its because of these billionaires we love to hate.

just my 2 cents.
Even for a short lived feature branch that lasts maybe a day or so there may be a bug you find during testing that you quickly fix, or a change you make in existing code to help support the new feature or something you know is coming down the pipeline, and that information is now lost.
Damn this was annoying to read. And no, creating data models, or even managing data without programming does not make you a "programmer." The author goes on and on about community and culture or whatever but fails to address the clickbaity title (which got me to click)
The consumption distribution is a lot more flat than income or wealth (~5x difference in consumption for bottom quintile vs top quintile compared to ~20x in income). You can see consumption broken down by income here[1]. One thing I’d point out is that the bottom quintile in the US has a higher consumption than the Australian average, although the Wikipedia numbers don’t quite measure the same thing so it’s not perfectly comparable. Also note this uses 2018 dollars rather than 2011 dollars.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cex/2018/combined/decile.pdf
The way my friend in an epidemiology program put it to me (two years ago) was "Everyone dies. The question then is when?"

Hard to argue with it. But it does lead to some places mainstream american morality would consider unpleasant.
No they are not. 'Death to America' is not the same as 'Death to individual Americans'. Perhaps you should consider that your reaction of believing that it is a personal attack on you and your loved ones is the result of anti-Iranian propaganda as much as Iranian animus (and propagandization of Iranians).

I don't think you really believe that Iranians are lying awake at night trying to figure out how to destroy you, plandis. They're not even reading Hacker News and thinking 'Death to America and plandis in particular'. If you think about it, you probably recognize that their gripe is with the American presence that surrounds their country - look at the huge number of US bases in the region, in addition to the history we're discussing here. It's not like the Iranians have a ring of bases in Canada and the US, is it now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_America
> Doesn't take a genius to see that their end goal is to make mac os as restrictive as ios.

I don’t see that. I see them trying to protect average users from malware, something they have done a pretty decent job of.

It’s the job of a gui shell (finder/explorer) to discern user intent and do the thing it thinks the user wants. This is that happening. Users don’t want to run malware.

I’ve not seen anything that suggests that Apple wants to remove the ability of people to run arbitrary programs. Indeed, it is essential for developers to run novel binaries.
I'm starting to wonder if there will be a growing market for car shops to do what I've done to my Supra:

Pull out the entire wire harness and replace it with an aftermarket Power Distribution Module system, ECU, and CAN-BUS controller. Remove all this monitoring and connectivity crap, but keep the best parts of a modern Japanese car: the bulletproof mechanical components. It's expensive and time-consuming, but also saves some weight.
Most people would hypothetically eagerly trade a miniscule amount of freedom for a massive amount of security, because it'd be a good deal.

You're welcome to be an ideologue and paint the world in black and white of course, but more people will try to assess the tradeoffs and have some appreciation for nuance.

Obligatory disclaimer: I'm a staunch supporter of open source software and don't own any Apple devices because of it, but I do appreciate and understand why a company or an individual would want to have a device with a more locked down ecosystem.
It's a clear indicator that the wage is below survival levels.
About 5% of the energy is lost in transmitting power via electricity from generator plants to consumers [0].

Losses in a compressed air energy distribution pipeline would primarily come from friction between the moving air and the walls of the pipeline. Fortunately, we can increase the pipe size to reduce losses from friction. This is because friction increases linearly with pipe diameter, while flow increases quadratically [1].

Electrical power transmission requires large amounts of land. The towers and lines are hazards to aircraft. They are fragile infrastructure sitting out in the open. They start wildfires. Compressed air using buried pipelines has none of these problems.

Air streams out of a broken pipe. It emerges from the pipe at high pressure (100 ATM?) and then expands until reaching local pressure (1 ATM). Its flow rate is limited by friction with the pipe wall and cannot be instantaneous. An entire section of pipe will take several seconds or minutes to empty. By comparison, a TNT explosion produces a small amount of 1-billion-ATM gas which expands instantly in one big burst. A broken pipeline is more like a rocket engine than a TNT explosion.

How to detect and find leaks? Listen for the sound? Fortunately, compressed air leaks pose no danger of explosion or asphyxiation.

Refrigerators can run on compressed air directly and very efficiently.

A TV would need a small electricity generator powered by compressed air. The generator could be noisy, so it would probably be in another room or outside the home. The generator could cool your home in summer. To be efficient in winter, it could use some buried pipes to draw heat from the ground.

Coal-powered and natural-gas power plants are essentially electricity generators powered by compressed air (actually steam). They are adiabatic engines and have the same efficiency problems as a small generator in your home.

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[0] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=105&t=3

[1] https://www.fluidmechanics.co.uk/hydraulic-calculations/pipe...
Battery on my recent Dell is over 10 hours with Firefox usage.

Leaps and bounds ahead of where things were at 4 years ago.

Libinput, while less fully featured than synaptics, seems to have a better physics model for the trackpad pointer translation. It still doesn't have fractional scrolling though, every scroll is still a discrete increment.
This is all very clever, but it has certain really, really fundamental problems.

1. The main program will remain C++ (or anyway Google's hobbled subset). New code you choose to get done in Rust will be lower-level code, implementing specific new features, or re-implementing low-level stuff too toxic to fix. So, the main task is not Rust calling into C++ code, but C++ calling Rust. That doesn't mean the Rust code won't ever need to call out to utility code, but: You are coding in Rust for an actual, you know, reason, right? Maybe that utility stuff should be RIIR, first? Otherwise what was the point, again?

2. It is all very well to talk about Rust calling C-like functions and virtual functions, but that only takes us up to 1985. We all know (I hope) that the overwhelming majority of useful power in C++ code is in features wholly inaccessible to Rust, even in principle. How will Rust do overload resolution? Inlines? (Also 1985.) Template instantiation? Exception handling? (That takes us to 1992.) Template function overloading and partial specialization? (1998). I could go on, right up to 2020.

There are other fundamental problems, but this seems like enough for now. No sense piling on. At least point 1 makes point 2 less a problem.
Scaling backyard tiny homes thru an open source strategy
The argument isn't about whether masks do or do not work (they do). The argument is about whether or not it makes sense to shut down the entire economy when only the very sick, very old, or very obese are really at serious risk.

The obvious solution is: If you are at risk, or worried about COVID, don't leave your house. To everyone else: wear a mask, stay away from people, follow the precautions...but go do what you like (mostly).

What we're doing now is the worst of both worlds: not enough to actually eliminate the virus (not gonna happen in the US...it's just not. Welcome to America) and just enough to mess up the economy and put a lot of businesses out of business (and also just generally make life annoying).

So it seems to me pretty clear: let people do what they want as long as they wear a mask, and just pass a bloody law that says you can't fire someone cause they don't want to come into work because they are overweight. Seems a lot cheaper to just support those people staying home with a welfare payout/BI than shutting down the country for no reason.
Dear DNC: I’d vote for a tent pole before I’d vote for Joe Biden
I miss the wild west of download random .exes and discovering news software. Time to sandbox a win95 box?