skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you getting all this stuff from? It's like you're only reading communist blogs where they engage in creating fictitious straw-men of every aspect of a market-based economy. This is not how the world works.

>The labor market is not a free market: companies have more power in negotiation

That's not what a free market means. And I don't know how you can say companies have more power in negotiation. They post their rates, and people apply or they don't. There are millions of alternative jobs. If I sell my car, I post the price and if I don't like the offer, I don't take it. Are you claiming that this is not an aspect of the free market?

A friend of mine is a shift supervisor at a food supplier. He uses a staffing agency to augment their full-time workforce during busy seasons. The company he works for pays above minimum wage (and so does the staffing agency even after commission). If he calls in 10 people, maybe 6 will come in and 2 will leave mid-shift (and those 10 are those that accepted the job). If he calls people in on Saturday, those ratios are even worse. He offers full-time positions to agency workers he likes and gets denied often because those workers may actually prefer the flexibility of agency work (e.g. they can choose to work this week, but not next week).

There are wages that people will just not work for. Even if minimum wage laws were lifted, people aren't going to go work at MacDonald's for $1/hr. Talk to any small business owner and hear what they have to say about that. And you also see this will undocumented labour (i.e. where minimum wage regulations are ignored). Those laborers may be getting less than minimum wage (but even that isn't a sure thing, when factoring in the type of job - skilled or unskilled - and lack of taxes), but they certainly aren't getting paid pennies either.

>Workers can't usually live too much without finding a job.

Sure they can. What are you talking about? Tens of millions of people, for all kinds of reasons, either choose not to work, or choose to work part-time.
Count me in, there's no way I would touch these things. And that's despite Toyota being one of my fav car brands :/
> If you wrote his degree titles out in full, it would take half a page of A4 before he could even start writing a letter.

No, his full degree titles do not take up 300 words.

If you want to converse online without sounding completely crazy, focus on reducing the ridiculous hyperbole and stick to short, comprehensive and digestible statements that flow together and form a cohesive argument/statement.
Here's a proposal for how it could be gradually implemented in the UK by simplifying the tax code:

https://atlaspragmatica.com/arguments-for-a-ubi-conclusion/

It seems to roughly involve the top 22% of earners having a tax bill that is up to 10% bigger than currently, while everyone in the bottom 78% of earners is unaffected or a net beneficiary.
In much of the world, the forced arbitration clauses are illegal and unenforceable anyway for consumer contracts (though often not when the purchase is for business rather than consumer purposes). And there is a bill in Congress that would apply a similar approach to the US if the Democrats manage to take control of the federal government and don't lose their desire to enact the law once they gain the ability to do so.

I admit I'm not sure what the situation would be if I buy a new personal Toyota in my current residence (Quebec, Canada - forced consumer arbitration is illegal) and then later import it into the US as part of a move there. But I'm hoping I'd avoid the trap.

At least the current version of the congressional bill is retroactive in its restoration of access to the courts. I hope that stays true in any final version.
> I meant the phony ones who think this is a reasonable plan.

I'm not sure what you mean by "reasonable", but I've yet to come across a single educator or administrator who thinks remote school is a good thing. They all think it's just the least bad among a set of bad options. Where are you finding educators who think it's actually net-positive and not just an unfortunate reality?
Experian admits to giving a “fraudster” a database with records of 24mln people
TTP is capitalism at its finest. Let's make the normal process so terrible so that we can charge extra for people to be treated normally.

And then you have services like Clear which is basically legalizing corruption. Instead of slipping the agent $20 to go to the front of line, it's legitimized so that you can do it without any stigma.
This is incorrect; There were multiple steps of acceptance of the touchscreens including order accuracy, expediency, and customer interaction.

If McDonalds could pay less, not train employees, have them touch buttons accurately, and customers enjoyed interacting with those people; then, and only then is what you have said close to truthful.

What you have proposed is that the internet wouldn't send electronic bits if we just paid mail carriers more.
You're correct, and at the frequencies at which permittivity is reasonable, FHSS is much less effective. And Hedy Lamarr was far from the first person to come up with FHSS for communications.
So, how do I install a firewall on my vehicle?
The only promise the government will keep is what's in the Constitution. I find it unreasonable that a government should keep promises from times when I wasn't even alive.
Palantir to relocate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Colorado
On the one hand, dealing with things rather than ignoring them is a positive.

On the other hand, I know very few adults who do their best thinking or are at their most gracious at 3am. Sometimes going to bed is the right choice.
Silicon Valley – Ten Years Later: The Extended Pied Piper Documentary
I heard that Airbnb's business is actually stronger in US and Europe now than pre-pandemic, as tourism shifts towards local and people shy away from hotels.

On the other hand, they're still in money saving mode, reducing ad spending and laying people off.

Anyone know what is going on?
> lack of penalties for those that hire illegals provides an unfair advantage to those employers who, brazenly, break the law

I've thought for a long time that the easiest way to curb illegal immigration would be to re-allocate resources targeting illegal immigrants to much more aggresively fine/jail/punish employers who employ illegal immigrants instead. As long as there is a supply of (illegal) jobs willing to pay more than in the country they are emigrating from, the immigrants will come. If there is nobody willing to hire them, they will not come.

This will not happen though because it is in nobody's best interests. Not for business in the US, because they will make less money (or possibly even be unprofitable and have to shut down), and not for consumers, because their prices will increase.
The fact that the job needs to be done does not mean that the job needs to be done by the type of person currently doing it. One common response to price floors is to change the qualifications/requirements (as in my wine example). The employer will hire 'over-qualified' candidates to perform a job which does not require their skills or abilities.

Wine is still being 'hired' with a price floor, but it is a different wine, and the price floor doesn't do the low-quality wine producer any good. This example is actually derived from a time when England imposed a flat tax on French wines.
> The way we think changed a lot in the last 40 years.

I doubt it. We reward some behaviors differently in 2020 vs 1980, and have different inputs from an information perspective. But people are wired the same way. The "racist uncle" stereotype of 2020 was "Archie Bunker" in 1980.
The problem though is that personal savings grows over time -- a nation full of young people with high incomes will eventually become a nation full of weathly old people, but if you were to compare the two nations, the yard stick matters.

edit: if you want to cook up some evidence, look at a scatter plot of some indicator of age (national average age?) vs national average wealth. I suspect, given the countries at the top of the list, you'll end up with a pretty good r.
just what we need, one guy hogging the 30lb dumbbells all pandemic
To be fair Steve, i didnt use this as to invalidate the assumptions on Rust. Just that we need to be more carefull to just take things for granted.

Im not even taken this research for granted, and are waiting for further work to really prove the points, or even going against them.

Im just using as a cautionary tale for people going too fast on some assumptions, and not taking care to study sample by sample.

I have no doubt that Rust have a great future ahead of it. But it will take more time and lines of code to turn all of those wishes people have into reality.
My kid's Kindergarten is still half day. As far as I know half-day kindergarten is still the standard in my state (Utah.)
Those are great ways to get hurt mostly. If you're doing one legged squats you're going to tire out stabilizers before your glutes get a good workout. One handed pushups similar issue.

Great if that's what you want but not a replacement for proper weighted squats.
Given the choice, would you prefer an automation system with some environmental assumptions, high speed and perfect repeatability, or less environmental assumptions, slightly higher cost, slower speed and poorer reliability?
It's an oversimplification for sure, but there was definitely no way Germany was going to win without oil and explains why (the one sane reason) they invaded the Soviet Union.

https://www.joelhayward.org/Too-Little-Too-Late.2.pdf
Cops in Miami, NYC arrest protesters from facial recognition matches
But that is theory. It might be true, it might not, but it’s irrelevant. Many “protections” and well-intentioned policies fail to accomplish the expected outcome, and we routinely forget to judge them based on their results rather than their intentions.
Zoom does not belong in any classroom, regardless of virtual or physical. It is proprietary software, which has a back track record on privacy and security. It is not free software respecting children's and teachers' rights and freedom.

I find the this reliance on proprietary shitty software annoying and absurd. Often teachers barely know manage to cobble together virtual classrooms. They lack information about alternatives and support for setting things up properly.
I’m going to flip this one around and ask: why are businesses entitled to low-cost labor? In other markets, markets of objects, if you don’t have the funds to purchase something you don’t get to have the thing, and if you attempt to coerce the thing into your ownership, we call that robbery, and prosecute it accordingly. So why doesn’t that apply to human labor? Labor is a product, it exists in a market, and there is a baseline amount of money a person needs to survive - the ‘price’ of a human doing work (compare this to covering the cost of materials, production, etc for some nonhuman item). If companies cannot meet that price, why are either laborers or governments expected to shoulder it so that businesses can get their hands on the human product regardless? Why is human labor constantly sold at a loss?
Ask HN: Should I fully test a take home interview challenge?
Also, how many hours do you think it would be fair to ask candidates to spend on these challenges?
The Curse of the Zombie Spiders
he wasn't talking about deadlifts, he was talking about the Trick
Wrong. Try again.

There are 450~ million Arabs and you chose to focus on the 4.5 million Palestinians who voted in elections in 2006. These elections bought Hamas to power in in Gaza and PLO in the West Bank. Gaza is autonomous in terms of governance and has chosen to not hold elections since the last one in 2006. Neither has the PLO. They both plead unable to hold elections because they want to hang on to power though the international community wants them to.

Edit: Getting down voted for stating facts.
"Time estimates are in person hours based on averages from 140 college students. Projects longer than 6 hours could be done by pairs or small teams, or by an individual over multiple weeks. Some projects also must be run for significant unattended time to produce results."
What exactly do you mean? It's just a description of Hitler's declaration of war on the US. It did not result in total war being waged on US soil, and it was mostly a strategic blunder on Hitler's part.
She doesn't get veto power but he also doesn't get to just quit without plans in place, and "we have enough money and I don't like it" isn't a great justification.
At Hot Chips 32 this week, Intel mentioned that Tiger Lake Xeon with Sunny Cove core would only downclock if AVX-512 usage hit TDP limits.
Reloction isn't free either and there are "implcit secondary standards" for the work beyond just the nominal task such as infastructure, literacy, and scale. Even if anyone can put widgets in boxes they may only need very unskilled labor for the task other aspects like "able to read the numbers to know how many to box up" are included. The labor may be technically cheaper across five towns of 200 but a larger factory in a big city could be more efficent because you can muster larger workforces quicker.

A national standard would have merits but more in the sense of scale - it means less friction from adapting to 1 different standard instead of N different standards. It is simpler but has the downside of being low for expensive locales and high for cheap locales and the trade offs that apply to both.
Guam’s minimum wage is on the low side, about $1 higher than the federal minimum.
Without a minimum wage, the "market rates" for what is currently minimum wage labor will create a race to the bottom, not just in wages, but in standards of living.

There will always be someone more desperate for any amount of money, and eliminating the minimum wage won't create significantly more jobs, as businesses only hire enough people to satisfy demand for their products. Wal-mart won't suddenly hire more cashiers just because they can now pay $2/hour to someone living in a cardboard box.

When it comes to negotiating wages, people in current minimum wage jobs have zero leverage. Minimum wage is a necessity to keep people out of cardboard boxes or packed into tiny apartments like sardines. It is necessary to keep a decent baseline standard of living.
>> N95s are still quite difficult to find here in the US.

No they are not. This misconception is absurd. I bought 200ct of KN95 in early April from AliExpress and got them in 10 days. They are still plentiful.
The parent was comparing the value a worker brings to the company against the worker's compensation. To illustrate how the worth of a transaction can be different from the cost: If I offer to give you a $50 bill in exchange for a $5 bill, is that bill not worth $50 just because I lost on the deal?
Lives are at stake here, so the "Stay the fuck home" crowd, as you put it, has a right to express feelings that may be stronger than "educational and pleading."
This reminds me of the 'Tetris effect' in which people who play Tetris for prolonged periods of time will begin to experience Tetris-like hallucinations when they stop. I've experienced it myself and have trouble explaining it, but it's as though everything you see becomes Tetris-like in some way. You look at your dinner and see ways to rearrange the peas so they 'fit' with the mashed potatoes, or something like that. There's more to it than that though, there's a real sensation of things being moving blocks that must be fitted together. It's bizarre.

But unlike Quake, Tetris isn't providing you with a 3D experience. That makes me wonder how much overlap there is between the two experiences.
Interesting that this is flagged. There are almost no strong claims made in the article. Are people not open to a discussion about herd immunity?
There's the old saying, It's Probably Overpriced. Not just tech stocks, not just Airbnb.
That's a good idea- that too will take some time- writing a paper is not a small task but I will put it on the to do list.
Would you want to be accused of being a spy?

On second thought I wonder if it was a geiger counter that can secretly phone home and report data when connected to the Internet when the user adds music. Get into the Apple supply chain and make sure they end up in Apple stores near your "targets".

That's exactly why it would need to be undetectable.
Pull-ups/muscleuos/dips won't work your glutes.

100m max effort hill repeats aren't really anabolic the same way squats are.

Jump squats aren't the same as pulling weight.

Your futon doesn't weigh as much as what I'm squatting and I'm much more likely to injure myself hauling it's awkward shape up stairs

There are hundreds of ways to get a workout but people go to the gym for good reasons
There's a math equation to get from R0 to herd immunity target: (R0-1)/R0 .

If NYC is that high - I missed that - then maybe parts of NYC are actually close to the target.
>> In the beginning the US and CDC were not recommending using masks. I believe the main reason for this was, not that they didn't believe it was effective, but that they were worried about a shortage for health care professionals.

This happened anyway. Telling noble lies to the population just increases populism and makes people distrust the government even more. Which is paying off wonderfully right about now.
I think you're taking the example too far. Money can't guarantee happiness, but it's much easier to be happy when you don't have to constantly worry about how you're going to pay your next bill or if you'll lose your home if you get sick.
organizational bloat.
according to the diagram, past a few nodes, it appears that the ETS set still uses AVL trees.
The ultrabooks that are priced to compete with MacBooks have even worse webcams than Apple uses, because they have even thinner lids and bezels. It's not a question of cost, it's the result of physical laws and design priorities.

It is interesting that companies are willing to put massive, tumorous lumps and display cutouts on smartphones in the name of picture quality but not even a little bump on laptop lids.
It's all stabilizers likely. I doubt you're using stressing your glutes or main muscles before your stabilizers give out.
And actually there is a comment feature on the blog- so anyone can comment including my colleagues.
This gets to the heart of the problem of minimum wage. Walmart is often cast as a villain because many of their workers receive government benefits. Nobody stops to ask the very real question of: what if the average Walmart worker doesn’t add $X in value per hour. What if the value of the “Walmart Greeter” is less than that of minimum wage? Is it better for Walmart to fire this person because they’re not worth minimum wage (presumably it’s the highest paying job they could find, suggesting they’re not worth “minimum wage”) or is it better to have lower minimum wage with state benefit offsets? At least in the latter scenario Walmart helps shoulder the burden.

Tl;dr - Often corporations are accused of abusing state benefits by not paying workers more as opposed to shouldering some of the burden that states would otherwise be left with due to unemployed masses of unskilled labor.
https://wcfia.harvard.edu/files/wcfia/files/alesina_artifici...

> Artificial states are those in which political borders do not coincide with a division of nationalities desired by the people on the ground. We propose and compute for all countries in the world two new measures how artificial states are. One is based on measuring how borders split ethnic groups into two separate adjacent countries. The other one measures how straight land borders are, under the assumption the straight land borders are more likely to be artificial. We then show that these two measures seem to be highly correlated with several measures of political and economic success.

> Eighty per cent of African borders follow latitudinal and longitudinal lines and many scholars believe that such artificial (unnatural) borders which create ethnically fragmented countries or, conversely, separate into bordering countries the same people, are at the roots of Africa's economic tragedy.

> Under the Skyles-Picot agreement between British and French during WWI, Northern Palestine would go to the French, Southern Palestine to the British, and Central Palestine including Jerusalem would be an allied Condominium shared by the two. After the war, the French agreed to give up any claims to Palestine in return fo rcontrol over Syria. The British abandoned their protegee (Faisal) in Syria and offered him Iraq, cobbling together three different Ottoman provinces containing Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis. This set the stage for instability and the military coups that lead to Saddam Hussein. In Lebanon, the French added Tripoli, Beirut and Sidon to the traditional Moronite area around Mount Lebanon, giving their Maronite Christian allies control to what were originally Muslim areas.

> Latin America is a lesser known (and much earlier) example of artificial borders drawn by a colonial power, in this case Spain.

> The partition of India and Pakistan is [a] famous example of artificial borders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India

> The partition displaced between 10–12 million people along religious lines, creating overwhelming refugee crises in the newly constituted dominions. There was large-scale violence, with estimates of loss of life accompanying or preceding the partition disputed and varying between several hundred thousand and two million.[1][c] The violent nature of the partition created an atmosphere of hostility and suspicion between India and Pakistan that plagues their relationship to the present.
Ehhh? What are you talking about? It's not illegal to do things that don't make money. That's called a cost center. I don't make money for my company, I reduce the risk of losing money, and provide tools for people who do make money.
My daughter started Kindergarten and we're doing remote learning. She' almost 5 years old and can work a computer for the things she needs. But she can't work a zoom meeting. So I am a teacher's asst. from 8am until 2:30 pm. It's exhausting and sometimes I take a 2 hour nap afterward. It's hard on her because until a few weeks ago she would wake up, come into my office with me and watch shows on a laptop, maybe play some Minecraft. Now I wake her up instead, and prep her for school, which is in the same office she used to have fun in. She has been adjusting slowly, but it has not been without breakdowns on all our parts.
There are a lot of nuanced ways a trustless distributed system can be more efficient.
The article is pretty light on details but consider the content addressing mechanism. The data can be securely served by any device and independently verified by any recipient. The minimum latency of reads is theoretically much lower than the sever/client infrastructure commonly used today. It’s like edge computing with any device that can connect to one another.
Obviously a lot goes into ensuring the data existing on a low latency connection to the distributed-client but the there are a number of somewhat nuanced theoretical efficiencies that can be achieved by making content addressing the core of a distributed system (caching, [as mentioned] fault-tolerance, parallel computing, etc).
Working out in a mask gives you insane lung capacity. It's like high altitude training. At first I seriously struggled, now I'm biking 30+ miles in my mask and I expect to PR like crazy the day I get my covid vaccine, whenever that may be.

We had a high school swim coach that really bought into this. He would make the kids train on cardio equipment in the gym for a couple hours, only you would be wearing a snorkel with a piece of tape over the hole, with only a pin prick through the tape to breathe through. We've owned our division in state swim meets for about 2 decades now. Work your lungs.