skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Between 1965 and 1988, the share of women in the labor force rose from 35% to 45% and has held around 45% since then. [1]

The added labor could have pushed down the price of labor. Productivity acts as a ceiling for the price of labor, so seem those two track suggests that there was a shortage of labor.

While the trend started in the 60's, likely in response to social changes in the 60's, it could have been accelerated by households struggling with 70's stagflation, sending more people to work to overcome stagnating wages. There'd be something like the paradox of thrift, but for labor, where people work more, but aggregate income doesn't change much.

Real household income has actually gone up 28% since 1985 [2], so there might be something to viewing this through a household lens, not a wage lens.

And as others, and even the link say. there was a lot going on in the 70's, so this is hard to tease apart.

1: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/data/facts-over-time/women-i...

2: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
The supply of labor would have changed. See below where you wrote:

>because otherwise people would stop becoming musicians

It's about as cleanly supply and demand as you can get. The supply of musicians willing to work for $x decreases, since they now have the option to do other work that is more preferred than being a musician for $x. Therefore, you now have to pay more than $x to continue incentivizing a musician to be a musician.

Going back to your string quartet example, which I do not know if it's true or not, but let's suppose it is:

>The reason a string quartet costs more now isn't because there are fewer people who can play instruments, it's because other things pay better.

The reason a string quartet costs more now is because there are fewer people who can play instruments (relative to demand, since price is where the supply and demand curves intersect). Because other things pay better, fewer people (again, relative to demand) might choose to play instruments, causing less supply (relative to demand), causing prices to rise.

My point is that it's all still just simple supply and demand curves. If the demand for corn skyrockets, causing the price of corn to increase, and farmers choose to plant corn instead of wheat, then causing a decrease in the supply of wheat, then causing the price of wheat to increase, is that anything other than supply and demand?
Seems like a great solution to streamline your personal online presence. If you don’t have a Twitter you could probably do the same thing with GitHub or Instagram
Well you don't have to scrap it. And a centralised CA authority seems dangerous. I'm not saying LE is bad it one of good thing that came along. However, whenever we trust to one authority it alway gets dangerous. So yes I personally welcome another CA. However, don't think your data is or will not be used for something. Organization change, and people who runs the organization change.
Was anyone else expecting this to be about emulators, given
the whole debacle happening right now around The Big House?

Specifically, any of the several different times that Nintendo has been caught lifting open-source ones for their own products, despite their constant arguments that using them yourself, to play games that they (or various retail partners) sold to you, is somehow piracy.

(Obligatory #FreeMelee)

EDIT: on a second look, as I went digging for sources for this, I may be mixing up details between Sony (who did this exact thing with the PS1 Classic) and Nintendo (who shipped ROMs downloaded from pirate sites at least once in the last couple of years).

That being said, it doesn't change why this is so problematic in the first place. The double standards involved make it worse, but the only reason it's a problem to begin with is that instead of letting you meaningfully preserve content game and movie studios (here in the US at least), movie and game studios instead can opt to keep repeatedly dipping into our collective wallets for the same content, all because now it's wrapped in a new emulator and/or DRM scheme.

"Slippi requires illegal mods" is only an argument to begin with because, despite backups and format shifting generally being fair use, bypassing the requisite copy-protection to do these things violates the DMCA anyway, as does trafficking in anything that can even if your use is explicitly exempted (accessibility, for instance).

It's a ridiculous, visibly letter-of-the-law problem that we've had as long as the DMCA has existed (anyone remember RealDVD?), and ultimately it renders basic consumer protections as being subject to a publisher's veto.
> I realize that energy is an important input into some industrial processes, but I don't really think we're constrained by it (or by manufacturing in general) right now...

You should probably reevaluate this. Energy costs are most of the costs of production much of the time. Sometimes it is hidden in the costs of components or of the labor involved, but it’s fundamentally an energy cost.
If that was the case then why there are so many zombie companies? I would say USA will lose considerable power over the coming years because of their bad economic management.
> Would we have more advanced rockets

We wouldn't need rockets at all, or at least far less; we could power things like launch loops and railguns to get things into space (and then either settle for rockets to circularize or else use laser ablation or orbital tethers or other fancier systems to circularize).

> or robots or phones? Better CPUs?

Robots, phones, and CPUs all benefit from power being readily available. For the latter-two, power storage is a critical factor as well, but it's at least a little bit less critical when there are ample places to cheaply recharge.

> More and cheaper housing built in dense cities?

Dense housing tends to require things like elevators (unless you expect people to climb tens or hundreds of flights of stairs every day), climate control (in places naturally too hot or too cold for humans to safely live), and the very equipment and materials to construct that housing in the first place (cranes and bulldozers don't run on magic, and neither do steel mills or window factories). Not to mention the things people like to be able to do within those homes, the vast majority of which require electricity. Cheaper electricity makes these things cheaper.

> Cheaper education or medicine?

Electricity is typically required for distance education and telehealth. It's also typically required for modern education and medicine, period. Cheaper electricity makes these things cheaper.

> More job security?

Not only does energy itself tend to create jobs (especially solar, what with all the rooftops and parking lots begging to be made useful with solar panels), but so does the resulting burst in commercial and industrial opportunities when people are able to drive down or outright eliminate electricity's cost to business.

> Even more food?

Vertical farming at scale will absolutely require more electricity. So will water production; desalination is typically an energy-intensive process, but with enough energy production, it could make water shortages in places like California a thing of the past. Even traditional/flat farms have tractors and combines and other equipment that are costly to run; slash those run costs, and farming just got that much more viable for smaller farmers that can't otherwise foot the bill.

> I don't really think we're constrained by it (or by manufacturing in general) right now...

Right now the energy and manufacturing capacity we have is built on egregious exploitation of fossil fuels, particularly coal and oil. Those won't last forever; either they'll run out, or we'll end up wiping ourselves out with the resulting greenhouse gases (or probably both).
I can't find a job in Haskell or Rust. Do I start a company?
The title says it all. Albeit a little dramatic.

I'm about five years into my career. However, it's been 95% full stack javascript / web development. I no longer enjoy building REST/CRUD (or GraphQL etc etc) style web applications

I want to work in systems engineering but I have no experience. I'm really enjoying the learning curve that exists with Rust and Haskell and I'd love to work on a system that uses these languages but I'm finding it hard to break through the interview process - let alone convince a recruiter to interview me when I have 5 years javascript experience.

I have enough runway (savings) to live without a job for maybe 9-10 months...

So far I'm considering

* Reverse engineering a product that already exists and use Rust/Haskell to build it

* Port an open source tool from another language into Rust/Haskell

* Pick a Rust/Haskell open source project and start contributing (The trouble with this is finding one that is at the right maturity. It's hard to find the right issues to work on?)

In essence, how the hell do I switch my career path at this stage in the game?

EDIT: Apologies for the duplicate post...I have idea how that happened.
Do they sell the private keys to the NSA? Maybe not.
It is an effort by many companies and groups to make the web more secure.
You can get the same corruption on ssds if power draw is more then pi allows or if power goes down.

With an SSD you are increasing power consumption on USB which is limited to around 1.2A or however much power supply allows.

Note: I havent had any corruptions past year on pi3... all I changed was power supply, sd card and using aarch64
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I don't see why you couldn't do the same kind of measures. You can for example unplug the 400v battery, or the 12v battery. Or disconnect some cables, or remove some fuses.
Is the Moscow in the handle meant to be a hint?
This is false in the Nordics. Of my friends in finance 100% are working overtime on weekends as we speak.
Banks are a heavily competitive field, try governments and unions instead.

Which country and which kind of work? I might relocate when I get older so it’s good to know... ;)
It's possible you're weighting the events of 2020 far too heavily. See Lindy effect.
If someone really wants to solve this issue, they should create a Raspberry Pi Speaker. Maybe a simple pi Zero would be a good start to keep it super small.

I wonder how hard this would be. I came across this [0], but don't know anything about it, and the only thing I ever added to a Pi is the camera.

[0] - https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/pirate-audio
If transportation is so expensive then why a lot of stuff is made in China?
How cheap gasoline would afford you to rent a flat?
Thanks for the info. That doesn't sound good - one major reason for considering moving to Kubernetes was for the high availability.
Interesting. So if their 12-month plan allows for 100 seats, and they grow to 150 seats during those 12 months, then for month 13 they would:

1. Pay a pro-rated amount for exceeding the seat limit during the first 12 months.

2. Pay the 12-month contract rate for 150 seats (or maybe more if they expect to continue to grow)

Is this a common practice?
> The author obviously wants you to believe that it was the abandonment of the gold standard

How is that obvious? I see a lot of data, but not many conclusions. And even the data presented doesn't seem to me to present a particularly compelling case that it was the abandonment of the gold standard, among the many, many historically pivotal things that happened in or around 1971, that caused the systemic changes that followed.
The ability for the US to print it's own currency has had positive and negative effects. It requires a great deal of self control regardless. It's like a company with the ability to create new shares - great for raising capital, bad for existing shareholders (but hopefully just in the short term)

It seems like we've avoided the hyper hyper inflation thus far, though recent events make it seem like the government is ready to spend trillions of dollars on a whim. That in addition to one party's desire to lower taxes, and another party's desire to increase social services - make for a constantly devolving financial situation no matter who is in power.

It could be that inflation drives productivity by way of businesses innovating in order to minimize the amount of price increase caused by inflation. Without additional revenue though wages would stagnate and not match inflation.

All of this might really be necessary in the 'new world' where countries are more like companies and need to constantly innovate to stay ahead.

Given the long history of humanity, I don't believe things are generally as peaceful as they are now, and that may either represent an anomaly or a stalemate, but I don't believe it will last forever.

I guess the gist of this post is, if you're a country then a fiat currency is ideal to keep ahead of the pack with your population constantly working/producing/innovating. If you're an individual and understand this game - then holding equities, property, cypto is in your best interest, but doesn't obviate the need for a fiat currency to exist.
reasons do not matter. this is VERY good. more countries NEED to do this. facebook is cancer, just like twatter and instahoe.
If you had that nothing would ever get done.
"science is having a fit "

No, it's not. We know masks help, there might be some debate as to 'how much' but the material cost is basically zero, so we encourage them.

" It’s getting really hard to trust the motives of these groups."

No, it's not. Seriously, what do you think their motives are? "World Domination By Mask Mandate! Once we have them wearing our masks, we will control the world! Wait ..."

The major concern boils down to the degree to which people will actually follow the mandate.
C64 BASIC was explicitly interpreted.
Also a bit from three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24135845
'Think speak 101' huh. Like when people post that the government was arresting people for inciting protests without context why they were doing so? That kind of think speak?

For those who want context. There's a pandemic. People are dying. The government stopped an anti-quarantine protest before it could cause harm.
Annddd Medium paywall, so I guess I'll never know.

Anyway, I hope the WebMonetization.org standard catches on to help more writers earn money from less committed readers. I am seeing the Coil icon in Firefox light up on more sites every week.
>energy (or energy * distance aka work)

Your comment would be improved by omitting the words in parentheses: work is force times distance, and energy and work have the same dimensions (namely mass * distance * distance / time / time).

(I agree with the rest of your comment.)
Do you have your own SES IP? Have you actually checked to see if the IPs you send from are on any blacklists?

I just checked the last 5 spams I reported to SES, and every single one is blacklisted:

54.240.8.60
54.240.48.100
76.223.180.15
54.240.27.34
54.240.27.45

I gave up reporting spams to them because they don't do anything about it. I kept getting spams from the exact same SES spammer. I think that explains why SES are so shit...they don't bother actioning spam reports, which means they end up on blacklists.

I just use my own server for sending emails (the same server I host my SaaS on). If I did want to use an email server, it would be one that has a zero tolerance policy towards spam.
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Discussed a bit in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13957198
"I guess the argument is that the mandate should have change the trend."

Mask are only one component of various measures and artefacts beyond our control, like the weather.
The numbers are nuts. But true. Tractors do depreciate at $85-100/hour. Maybe more.

Makes one wonder..how would the modern tech beauteous tractor bots depreciate ...any VCs or paper number crunchers amongst us? I can’t wrap these numbers around my head.

Crop subsidies are messing up with valuations and tech progress. It is the root rot of all tech innovations pronounced DOA.
Cease and Desists like this one and the current environment of DMCA-bombing always reinforce my belief that these corporate lawyers just need an excuse for staying on retainer.
1. Customers email me.

2. I fix their issues and answer their questions as quickly as possible.

3. I email them back.

I'll develop processes when this starts to break down or take too much of my time.
> We are generating mountains of debt yet again, unfortunately.

We never really stopped.
I'd be really surprised if the SFWA hadn't thought of that before jumping in.

https://www.sfwa.org/2020/11/18/disney-must-pay/
Can you share a link to the mailchimp thing? I'd missed that.
Ask HN: Looking for a link to a post about how to write emails
Hello,
I remember reading recently a post (submitted as a Link on HN) about how to write emails with examples. No matter how hard I try to search for it, I couldn't find it.

Could you please point me to that link please?
Thank you
EG's comment on the article makes a point:

"Now does it become OK if millions of people in a game instead die in a purely fictional situation of your making? Crawford’s reputation probably hinges a lot on that one screen in “Balance of Power”, for identifying that fictional mass death is fun, so we try to do it a lot in games. Introversion’s “Defcon” chooses a more camp or retro approach to remind the player that millions are dying in a nuclear war in the type of 50s language that inspired “Dr Strangelove”, ultimately making no effective moral point I thought. In “Master of Orion” we bomb planets out of existence. There are also strategic historical games like “Hearts of Iron” where the Second World War happens at a level abstracted from individual tactical unit movements. The paradox being that to exclude crimes against humanity at strategic level is close to denial; to include invites people to use your game to recreate the world’s worst crimes, as well as causing you legal problems in a lot of Europe."

Can I recommend a book (although it is a cinderblock of a book): Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming by Pat Harrigan and Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. Parts of it discuss this very problem, with examples from This War of Mine and the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 thing.
> You are drastically increasing families' spending power and discretionary income = inflation.

At the cost of decreasing their mobility, which prevents them from competing in nationwide labor markets, pushing down local market labor cost.
The printer makes the use case obvious: you show up at the client's location. Do some terminal magic and print the invoice.

Genius :)
Start a business because you have a product idea, not because you want to do something already done but in Rust. That’s not a business model.
Have you ever worked in a company that had release deadlines? This is what happened here. And there wasn't time to 'fix' it later -- the very definition of 'Technical Debt'.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25187524.
Meh, really depends on how many mails you send every day. In general, you should have proper SPF, DKIM and DMARC entries in your DNS config, DMARC especially will make it easy to learn if anyone classifies your mails as SPAM.

Of course the transactional mailing providers want to scare you into thinking it's not possible to just deliver mail yourself. That might be true if you operate at a large scale, but for most B2B SaaS apps it's completely fine to send the mails yourself.
I had the same thought: The tractor industry seems ripe for disruption.
It's very expensive to support dementia patients. They need as much care as a baby, but have adult weight and capabilities. You might be in trouble even in a country with a great support system. You need to have someone there every single day for most of the waking hours.
FreePascal works well, too, once it is installed

To compile to linux it needs to have a linker installed. For windows it has an internal linker, so probably does not even need that
No IMG would have happily taken them to court it just wasn't financially viable and apple have effectively infinite resources. IMG were fools to rely on apple so much but this isn't a new development.

Apple have repeatedly done this same process to a number of suppliers. There was a good website that listed all of the offices apple opened near suppliers before cutting them off, but it went offline :(

IMG should have been much more careful but instead went all-in splashing the cash they got from apple and acting like it was forever. Pretty dumb.

Apple can rely on the media giving them positive coverage. At the time I was amazed at even how much benefit of the doubt even the BBC gave them (US company bankrupting a UK one you'd think they'd back the UK one eh?)

I was also amused to be 'inside' a story discussed on HN, and unsurprised at how far off many were. Tons of apple rationalisation syndrome as usual and lots of 'how dare IMG be so arrogant' etc.

The reality is Apple are extremely ruthless and have been trying to take control of everything for quite some time now.
You're correct, but I recall a Tor dev saying at one point that HTTPS for .onion wasn't completely useless, I think in that more secure settings (CSP, etc.) apply to pages loaded with HTTPS.
I think that generally speaking the ambiguity increases as time goes by.

Is a 9/11 simulator premature? How about Vietnam war strategy game? Should I think of Wernher Von Braun (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun) every time I see a liftoff from Cape Canaveral? Is playing the character of Genghis Khan morally acceptable?
Only downside is the piece of junk trackpad that registers registering itself as a mouse and not a trackpad...resulting in no palm-rejection and crappy gesture functionality.
What! LE does wildcard now!?

/me searches...

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-production-envir...
Let's imagine they do sell private keys to state actors (which I highly doubt).

Would that allow transparent sniffing of traffic encrypted with these certs?
Instead of active malice to rewrite the truth, can't this just be explained by "people forget over time as new information overwrites old"? Maybe one model for our attention spans is a FIFO queue, organized per topic.

That model can't always work, however - we also know that people's first impressions will continue to be strongly held for quite a bit of time. EG, once a news story is published, retractions lack the same impact.

What other possible explanations are there? I think it's worth considering alternatives, as it seems clear there are multiple relevant ways of looking at the problem.
And how would anyone know if he has diabetes (for example) if the person doesn't have regular visits to medical facilities? In such a case they will go to emergency only when an emergency happens, probably when it is already too late. By saying that such a person has access to health care, you're just redefining health care to "emergency health care".

If this was not enough, hospitals are catching up to the "loopholes" in the law and abandoning poor neighborhoods, to make it even harder for people to use emergency rooms.

https://www.governing.com/news/headlines/health-care-facilit...
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Alas!

In theory, the R01 is supposed to be enough to perform all of the proposed research. In practice, however, there's a lot of subsidization from other sources: one RA is on work-study, maybe another one working for course credit (only), and some of the grad students and postdocs have individual fellowships.

This really sucks: it makes it very hard to hire/keep experienced people who aren't bringing in their own money and there are fewer and fewer opportunities for those people (a lot of fellowships now cut off at <5 years post-PhD).

In the grand scheme of things, this churn can't actually be that cost-efficient and if I ran the NIH, this is one of the first things I would change: you'd get better research while taking some of the strain off the job market.