skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Worse yet is that labor data shows that more and more adults are working in minimum wage jobs, so the talking point of "it's just summer jobs for teenagers" and "it's entry level work to move on from" is very out of touch with reality these days. There are millions of people trying to survive on these wage levels and without benefits and it is not working.

Then is it really true that productivity has increased? Millionaires and billionaires are not eating the food of millions of people or occupying hundreds of thousands of apartments and vehicles.
We would need to model regret which is a questionable request to agree to “solve”.
If the United States government wanted to speed up or slow down this trend or even halt it altogether it could do so tomorrow no matter what the minimum wage did. Currently it views offshoring as a geopolitical threat and is opting to slowly repatriate supply chains. No matter what happens to the minimum wage that opinion is unlikely to change.

I don't think it makes sense to treat an explicit political choice as a fait accompli.
Sure, but at the same time, we should ask what more we could expect?

Remember the division between pure and applied research is also new. And most things that have a "definitive" old date of discover need an proof (if math) or application to solidify their claim.

Evolution isn't really practical knowledge --- artificial selection predates recorded history so what is left to do before genetics or the ability to observation fast-reproducing microorganisms? I'd say evolution was doomed to be at best re-hypothesized again and again until the 19th century, with nothing to make it stick as part of the culture.

I guess one could dig up fossils, but that sort of traveling and exploring for fun didn't become popular until 19th century provided the vast empires, elite leisure time, and disdain for the empire's current inhabitants that made digging up bones appealing.

There's something very 19th western about traveling around and thinking about natural, not just human, history. Witness how new plate tectonics and geology is too. Perhaps industrial-scale mining was an important vector for getting digging to be part of the culture.

Ibn Battuta, Islamic traveler extrordinaire, checks some of those boxes but not all, and lived after the Islamic Golden age. He commented on pyramids but not fossils.
A company basically did what you described on Facebook, Google, Bing and Yahoo.

https://www.methodmi.com/reports/in-plain-sight
She didn't need to invent the law-breaking when there was enough evidence for the perpetrators to be found guilty even under a government run by senior Vote Leave figures:

* 16 August 2017, the Constitutional Research Council was fined by the Electoral Commission for "Failure to notify the Electoral Commission of political contributions it made (including £435,000 to the DUP), and gifts it received." Most of the money to the DUP (a Northern Irish party) was spent on advertising that was not circulated in Northern Ireland. That province happens to have the laxest rules in the UK about disclosing the actual sources of donations.

* 11 May 2018, Leave.EU was fined by the Electoral Commission for "Failure to deliver complete and accurate pre-poll transaction report and post-poll spending information".

* 17 July 2018, Vote Leave was fined by the Electoral Commission for "Failure to deliver a complete and accurate spending return; failure to provide documents on time."

* 24 October 2018, the Information Commissioner's Office found that between 2007 and 2014, Facebook had broken the UK data law then in force, the Data Protection Act 1998, and applied £500,000, the highest penalty allowed under that Act.

* 1 February 2019, Leave.EU was fined by the Information Commissioner's Office for sending over a million emails to subscribers without consent.

* 19 March 2019, Vote Leave was fined by the Information Commissioner's Office for sending 196,154 unsolicited electronic messages to people.

These are just some of the crimes that have been investigated and where the evidence hasn't been hidden by either deleting data, or perpetrators hiding behind donor secrecy or "national security" excuses. Is it really that hard to imagine that a journalist might genuinely be motivated by trying to bring this law-breaking to the attention of the public?
The big use case is production of ammonia. 6% of all natural gas currently used in the world goes into making hydrogen, largely for ammonia synthesis.
Have you thought about moving to posthog or plausible?

https://plausible.io/

https://posthog.com/
> But why aren't they paying a living wage in the first place, a wage that they were paying in the past if not for inflation?

Because the market rate for labor doesn't always work out to equal a "living wage". Markets are remarkably good at bringing down the price of goods & services, but that necessarily means that they also bring down the price of labor, which is an input. While this is good for most people, it's obviously less good for those workers that are engaged in low leverage work where net-productivity hasn't changed. As a society, we should help those workers via welfare.
It's fallacious to put God one step before everything we don't know (radium, etc), while forgetting the numerous times this was done in the past (rainbows, etc) only to be demonstrated false once science advances. That's quite different to the Prime Mover hypothesis.
Are you surfing the web without ad-blocker? For real? But I trust you are sincere. One of my friends sincerely said that he likes ads in movies so he can get up and do stuff during the movies. He felt stuck without ads (Pre-streaming of-course).
Or switch to the ones they've already manufactured for this purpose.
I want an environment that mirrors the serendipitous nature of real physical life conversation.

What you're proposing seems very similar to blocking people who you feel shouldn't be allowed to contribute.

"...forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society ..."

I'm obviously exaggerating my point, but this snippet of a definition feels appropriate.
On the subject of demonstrations-in-the-lab, there's an interesting experiment that's been tracking and sampling some E.Coli since 1988.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_ex...
The asterisk is far too heavy for anyone working in a language that makes heavy use of it.

I normally use Inconsolata at "11 point" (quotes because this is a nominal value, not actual) size; JuliaMono is larger when used at the same nominal size, but going down to 10pt results in a level of graininess that I don't find acceptible.

Great effort, but I'll stick with Inconsolate for now.
> In a society with a social safety net, under-paid workers are also a cost to government as they will not pay taxes and will be due social assistance payments/transfers to help cover their costs for food and shelter.

Social safety nets are typically paid for via progressive taxation, the burden for which falls on the rich. In the alternative, the employer covers that cost and passes it on to buyers in the form of higher prices. Higher prices affect rich and poor equally. There's arguably social value in having the government pay for that safety net: and it's lower prices for lower and middle class consumers.
>In my experience in the USA it is common for conversations at work to be about family, kids, life experiences(good and bad), current events, etc. It is something people bond over and use to help form a common company culture.

None of which are politics, so we agree.

>I do not see anyone in this thread advocating for anything that extreme.

Did you by chance not RTFA? Employees are literally planning virtual walkouts because they felt that Coinbase didn't virtue signal enough.

>I am not in the know about bay area culture but that does not match my limited view from the outside.

Your limited view is in total contrast to reality. I've lived in the Bay Area for the past 8 years, and attempting to consider outside viewpoints that may be controversial might as well make you a Nazi sympathizer. https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/14/us/berkeley-ben-shapiro-speec...

>My focus on for this comment was not politic conversation in the work place but on how removing a large mechanism of knowledge and understanding transferal in the work place would have political consequences for society.

This is a non sequitur. No one is suggesting removing knowledge transfer and communication at work. People are suggesting limiting the amount of political activism at work that's outside of the scope of what you were paid to do (the company's general mission).
> They’re not even close to being a monopoly. They’re a huge company, but there is plenty of competition out there

What's the competition for iOS app distribution? There might be competition on the customer side, but as far as I know there are none for the software/app vendors, which is why they can dictate their rules and choose the price (and it's not like customers have each a bunch of smartphones with different OSes, and you could say "Apple sucks so I'll make an Android app instead")
In general yes, but not if they've agreed to display things in a certain way in order to receive a service, then accept the delivery of that service but don't follow through on their part of the agreement.
No, that's great to hear! My concerns are assuaged.
I think the point the OP is making is that the benefit of this efficiency gain is passed on to the technology teams that implement and maintain those intelligent inventory tracking systems. They are the ones getting paid the higher salaries. They are the ones making the the store workers more efficient.

What makes you feel that Software developer salary is linked to computing power? In fact, even if we were to consider it a fair comparison, computing power, if measured by Moore's law has doubled every 2 years. Software Engineer salaries have lagged far far behind.
I'm not looking at my reflection. I'm looking at you and your reflection(or a very good clone). Depending on my orientation, I might not even be able to figure out which figure is the mirrored image.
k'' is better than k_prime_prime, sure. But there's still lots of notation that isn't just a sequence of characters. And Latex-style representations are restricted to sequences of characters. A big formula in Latex code is hard to read compared to the rendered version. LyX would be a nicer representation.
RH has the best user interface experience on mobile. Charges no commissions on options and you get automatic deposits. So it has the smallest barrier to entry. Very straightforward to use, it's very simple and clean. Buy and trade stocks and puts and calls, no problem. Yes if you try more complex option strategies then RH starts to fall apart. But for the majority of people that are just tagging along from wallstreetbets or something like that, RH is the simplest way to get you in the stock market.
All this can be solved once and for all by requiring Apple to allow alternatives stores. They got away with this anti-competitive junk for too long.
> The reality, though, is that none of the proposed energy storage solutions are easier than just building nuclear power plants.

This doesn't appear to be the case, or at least doesn't appear to be the case for much longer, when renewables are multiple times cheaper than nuclear.
That leads to the natural conclusion that only people valued by those in power will see society's benefits. That's not a society I want to live in.
I don't know why I love this comment so much.
Your reference does not refute my claim. For one thing, a page listing only the "fathers" of fields doesn't speak much to whether the majority of scientists are of the same background.

And even then, your page lists 19 people, 10 of which are clearly not Arab, with one other person of unknown origin. Only 8 of the ones in the list were Arab.

A bigger list is here:

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

But it would take me too long to categorize each. I did click a bunch, and again - the majority were not Arabs.

Edit: I see my original comment was imprecise. Saying "much of the golden age of science in the Islamic world was not performed by Arabs", does not mean there were no Arabs involved, but that a lot of it was by non-Arabs. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the majority were non-Arabs.
It is as simple as “X is available more cheaply from a third party supplier.” But in the case of services that depend on low-skill labour like room cleaning, there are no presumed economies of scale. These companies don’t get the same work done with less labour, like utility suppliers. Instead, they pay workers less, and use complex business structures and confidentiality agreements to protect the client from the consequences (unions, lawsuits and PR damage). This isn’t capitalism realising positive-sum efficiencies; it’s just taking resources from workers and giving them to business owners.
Sure - that's what I did with my PG&E outages project (https://simonwillison.net/2019/Oct/10/pge-outages/). I wrote a Python script that iterated through the git commits and used them to create a SQLite database so I could run queries.

Essentially I was using the commit log as the point of truth for the data, and building a database as an ephemeral asset derived from that data.
> It makes zero sense for them to kick me off for thwarting their user tracking and data sharing attempts. It would be a lose-lose for them to do that

Sure, but presumably that should be their decision as the service provider, not yours.
Well said. Also, the article starts with a litany of praise from a variety of research groups. Some of these are big projects with government funding and serious computing requirements. Julia is deployed all over the place now.
>Therefore, applicants who can demonstrate their extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics through sustained national or international acclaim are not required to have a permanent offer of employment in the US and are eligible to self-petition, however, they must intend to work in the US in their field of expertise.

One example being none other than the present FLOTUS. Clearly, she had enough patents, publications, and/or athletic and cultural achievements to qualify as an EB-1 recipient.

(Oh, hi. How's that swamp-draining coming along, guys?)
First-party ads are not an attack vector in any way, shape, or form.
I have this question on my mind and if someone could explain this sincerely I would be very grateful.

Time after time, YC startups seem to engage in practices which are unethical or dark or downright scammy. Be it Homejoy, uBiome, or many others. They seem to employ aggresive marketing tactics. They work under assumption that "law does not apply to us". Although this is true for ultra rich people, why regular seed funded do it? Is growth focus this much necessary to the to do outright fraud or in engage in shady tactics? They are willing to kill other people's business and livelihood for their growth. I would call this "preying tactics"

Paul is very successful person and I read about him a lot. Why companies going through YC do this? Or is this just Business-as-usual (BAU) in Americas? Kill or be killed?

Thanks for responding!
> Repeat after me, social media is not reality.

> Let's hope that people see it as a lesson and not somewhere they can bask in their confirmation bias all day, or make decisions based on fear, in those cases the populace is easy to manipulate.

I find a tinge of irony in this: HN being a form a social media in itself, and this statement also reflecting a general mistrust of social media within HN.
Cut >50% and it's now a extortion with no further analysis. And extortion is illegal in any civilised state, including USA.
This article also says that Amazon may develop William Gibson's "The Peripheral". https://www.engadget.com/2019-11-13-amazon-william-gibson-th...

I'd love to see that!
I wonder if subjects would be touch typists would it change anything.
I find their light asterisk quite delighting (it's a font option, don't know how to enable them though)
Wow, finding this tool has made my day - thank you for making it!

I did a quick skim through the code, and it appears that askgit reads the repo into a SQLite DB first, then queries that. Is that right?

Also, have you looked at Fossil for an alternative VCS for this work, or is that not a consideration here?
Unlike in the movies, suppressed weapons are still quite loud.
Wave Goodbye to Release Nights
You can just side load an other store, then install from there, which I think is acceptable UX since you really just have to install the store once.
That is a reasonable retort, but it ignores that last question I asked.

>How is that any different than a software developer receiving a higher salary because they are more efficient due to computers being more powerful?

I'll admit software developers might be a bad example for that given question since they are responsible for some downstream efficiency, but the overall point still stands. Why do high skill jobs get to capture the value of their increased efficiency but low skills jobs don't?
Oh, and I should mention, it's pretty cool to see how companies change job ads on a daily basis. Beyond just the spelling fixes, I've seen places advertise help wanted postings for like a day and remove them the next day on a regular basis. Or tack on a 'on call 24/7/365' statement. Or reuse a job posting but tack on the word 'Manager.'
> I want to applaud this, because it's clearly a good move.

It’s not that clear to me that this is a net good move. Exposure to out-network content, depending on what is exposed, could be good for preventing echo chambers and confirmation bias too. Twitter likely went the other direction and promoted out-network tweets that only increased engagement, and blaming the feature itself for this is naive at best.

Second issue everyone seems to be missing is the potential partisan-ness of these feature changes. Do the usage of any individual feature distribute equally among all demographics? If not, feature-shaping a near election could be construed as an underhanded way to hamper the discourse of certain demographics. Of course this is very easy to dismiss as conspiratorial thinking, but I think ideally any intellectually honest discourse engine would have gone the extra mile to demonstrate the neutrality of their election specific changes.
The "COVID bump" is driven primarily by stimulus checks and enhanced unemployment benefits: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/personal-income-surges-105...
How did you capture all these screenshots? Great video!
Shouldn’t Persian (Achaemenid) follow the Babylonians and precede the Macedonian empire?

In 334 B.C, he utterly beat the armies of Persia
– Steve Harris
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Why do they need 7 locations? They should downsize to one location with an army of toaster-drones.

Just make some specially-designed plates with a QR code target printed on them and the drones won't even need to land, they can just drop the food right on your plate after toasting the sandwich into a more aerodynamic shape...
> if the lie on Twitter is used to commit fraud

I'll apologize if I have the details of the case wrong, but where is this supposed fraud? The only way I could see this being fraudulent is if (1) the private investigator being PAID for his investigatory services created the account and faked the document himself to continue getting paid for additional investigation or (2) the journalist being PAID for her journalistic work created fake documents so that she could publish them and accrue the financial benefits of authoring a juicy story.

But if whysprtech is anyone else on the planet—a conspiratorial kook, a troll, or even a political operative trying to embarass people—no fraud has been committed and there is no basis for unmasking him. The people responsible for the defamation aren't random anonymous internet trolls, but publishing companies who make money purporting to report the rigorously validated truth, but are actually lazy, naive, and gullible.
> As is common when HN discusses legal matters I see a lot of people blaming the judges for not understanding tech, but the problem here isn't really the judges so much as the law itself.

Yep I second this. I think there’s a parallel “legal news” community somewhere pointing at us here going “those nerds don’t understand how law works” :)

What we should _all_ be doing more actively, imo, is nudging our representatives to update the law to create legislation that answers definitively “whether APIs are copyrightable or not”. Albeit, that is a much more difficult and slower process.

Well, you know what they say about democracy as a form of government though: “something something yeah, it kinda sucks but it’s the best we’ve got something”
Seems like an unavoidable problem unless you buy into a curated ecosystem. Like, yeah, the cost of a decentralized ecosystem is that you have to do your due diligence on which crate to use, if any. (For example, I don't even bother with a log helper crate because it just isn't necessary for simple cases.)
That's so interesting. Next time I'm job seeking I'll definitely look into doing this.
> is that they are able to get away with this through Arbitration clauses.

The root cause is the demand for that type of labor is dwarfed by supply for type of labor, and the long lasting solution would be to provide those people with better options.
On mobile I could easily imagine 7/8 are miss-clicks. Do you have clickrate for desktop vs mobile? I mean they should be about the same for on purpose clicks.
Show HN: Making a bot for Snake with a visual language
What are the political opinions you have in mind? (that could cause USSR-2 to happen?)

And what were/are the different opinions of (some) employees at Coninbase that triggered this whole thing in the first place?

> pushing the society we were escaping to into the society we were running away from

This is too abstract for me. Would it be weird if I asked for concrete examples? (of how society is getting pushed in a bad direction)
Citi's internal system for these credit cards sucks. The main application used for account management will tell the worker one thing and do another. Workarounds must be employed by the workers for many routine actions (or things like this happen).
You may be interested in what the Dutch Tax & Custom Agency is doing: they built a DSL to express tax calculations. Here you can find the case study: https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/mps/docs/MP...

Personally I work in the Language Engineering area and it seems obvious that you want tax lawyers and accountants to interpret the tax code and translate it into “code”. Is just that you also want “code” to be obvious for them and support by proper tooling, which catch all inconsistencies.

I would also love to interview the author of this and the work for mon-entreprise. While I understand French, I also have these interviews in English to reach more people
what is meant here by "tabs" like records/logs?
Quick note: you got the pronoun wrong for the founder of The Buttermilk Company when referencing her Medium post.
If they actually brought down the cost of goods & services overall, we'd see the consumer price index dropping. That's not what's happened.

Most of the structures of UBI I've seen seem like a massive redistribution scheme to the wealthy.
Please see the part of the study where your objection was actually addressed regarding dosage time from symptom onset. There is no difference. I'm not sure why you would call something "shitty science" without actually looking at the science in the paper.

https://www.nejm.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/mms/jour...
> The only advantage that US workers have, is that up until now, programmers and Engineers have been managing/teaching/leading their counterparts.

Non-US engineers don't manage/teach/lead?