skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
32K a year is poor?

World average is 18K, that's adjusted for purchasing power parity. 32K is at least 2nd quintile, maybe top. Poland is a little less than 32K average, Japan is around 38K, OECD data from 2019. Somewhere between Japan and Poland is where the average worker starts to be poor. Interesting.

And that is at the present time, every generation going back to the invention of agriculture had it worse. Someone making 32K a year - PPP adjusted - is in what, the top few percent of all humans that have ever lived? Poor bastard. Learn to code.

In the same way that if everything is about politics, nothing is about politics, if everyone is poor, no one is poor. And if these people aren't making a living wage while making what the top few percent of humans have ever made, how did our ancestors manage to live and have children on a sub-living wage? Shouldn't they have died out?

I think in this case, "living wage" is just a propaganda term. "Poor" is too I guess. I guess maybe that propaganda term works on people, "living wage". It seems to be effective propaganda, seems to be working. I just cringe every time I read it. Adjusted for inflation, I made $7 an hour working in a factory. Decades later you're going to tell me that isn't a living wage, more than twice what I made back then wasn't a living wage? Was I lucky to survive?

That's bullshit by the technical definition of bullshit, and its propaganda.

Anyway, these arguments usually split people into two camps, people who worked warehouse or factory jobs before, and people who haven't.
When you highly scale a database, you normally find you can't rely on the database to maintain foreign key constraints.
Hey a fellow Little Egyptian. My great grampa was one of the striking miners who was drug out at gun point in the Bloody Williamson Massacre.
I'm being vague, but I think my concern is that the focus on "monopolistic behavior" is archaic. Harm to a healthily competitive environment can result from a few big players existing rather than a single dominant one. It may not even require certain "behavior" as much as a large entity with lots of capital simply existing. There are also big barriers to entry in any business that is built on network effects - even there, we need a mechanism to enable competition.
Override the caselaw to take "consumer welfare" off its special pedestal. The higher order effects are much more important,

I would also allow sufficiently-employee-owned companies to be exempt in certain respects, to keep the co-op path to socialism open :).
Sort of like Apple cutting out Intel :P
> a leading Ethical AI researcher a douche!

Ex-ethical AI researcher, we don't know what her next job will be, and she certainly lost an opportunity to lead by losing her place at Google. We are yet to see if this maneuver will cost her social capital or add to her reputation. Also, do you seriously believe being an ethics researcher automatically excludes one from misconduct?

From what we know so far, she seems to have overplayed her hand, assumed she should be treated above rules and when failed at it wanted to take names and encouraged mutiny, in a company where she is a junior manager. Not only there are actual legal complications for a manager to do that, it also sounds like narcissistic and toxic.

Her goals might be laudable, but she have executed poorly and emotionally, and lost an immediate chance to deliver ongoing impact for the ethics causes she cared about. I hope aspiring activist-ethicist-researcher-techies take note of this. Tantrums don't deliver long term impact. Narcissism clouds your judgement. Impassioned supporters mislead you. You have great power, if you wield it responsibly and pay attention not to overestimate it.
How you generating images? on client side?
I own both hp50g and some TI calcs (86/89).

I'd describe hp and ti as laggy and slick, respectively. The 50g is what I used in university, but now I seldom touch it as the 86/89 are so much more pleasant to use.
or a really small bucket.
I agree that there is a fine line here.

In general, if I hear "withering e-mail" without context, I imagine an e-mail sent between two parties (or at most, a handful) where one party is cutting down the other directly. When I hear that an employee was fired for a "withering e-mail", I immediately think of retaliation.

In this case, "e-mail" is almost inconsequential. This "e-mail" was a broadcast to hundreds of people who were not in any way involved with the subject matter. It was "withering" in the sense that it cut someone down, but the person/company it cut down wasn't even in the TO field.

Words matter. I now notice that the post title is changed to the much more neutral "AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google".
Google deletes legacy Google Apps domains if none of the accounts at that domain are logged into for a year or something.

I've received multiple warnings for some of my unused domains.
GCP Cloud Logs is unavailable – incident
My brother swears by his 140hz display, I have used it for a bit and came away feeling underwhelmed - I prefer my 4K 10bit 60hz display
Oracle used to push the idea that there is no need for an application layer, just use the database. Then they stopped being silly. I used APEX as a user, while at Oracle. It was a decent reporting tool but was only really used because the CRM had terrible latency.
When i used Mint at first, they'd just ask you to go to the page with the caphcha or whatever and go through it when you'd update your accounts with the auth scraper method. This was like maybe a decade ago? You could do a similar thing with mfa in realtime.
There was some really dark times around 2002 to 2012 where good CRTs became unavailable and almost every LCD screen was "HD" meaning 1080p. Still at the tail end of these times, I guess.
If the fintech revolution is just around the corner, then how about we just delay these acquisitions a little just to safe?

(In reality, I think the only fintech revolution that might be around the corner is new services the federal reserve rolls out)
The waking is done by the executor. You can call the executor the "dual active presence" of the future or whatever if you want. I think it would be misleading because there's only one executor and there are many futures.
Oh, I don’t think it happens in the common case, no. But it absolutely happens at the margins, particularly among folks who are more predisposed to radicalization. I know that happens.

And racism isn’t binary. You don’t have to be pushed all the way to wearing KKK garb to have some level of contempt or prejudice towards other races. So a great way to avoid this outcome and minimize exacerbating existing tensions is to not engage in more divisive hostility on the basis of their identity. Like the guy she is berating likely didn’t even consciously realize he was white until she made a point of reminding him in the worst way possible. A dumb, counterproductive strategy.

But her behavior is going to make it harder for all other black people to get hired. People who are otherwise not concerned with race or sex at all will see this and then need to convince themselves that she is not representative of most black people. Some will undoubtedly just go with the option that seems like it carries the lowest risk to them personally and professionally.

Personally I would not hire anybody who has a history of trying to weaponize twitter. And being smeared as a racist, like she is doing to Jeff Dean, can be extremely damaging and severely career limiting. He’ll probably be ok, but it’s something that many people can never move past, especially if Vice or Vox or Salon or whatever culture war libel vehicle decides that they can twist your story into a hot hit piece.
Sure, how do you want to do that bet?
I did not say it would.
The Bloom filter was invented in 1970. I wonder how well known it was in the 1980s?
I'm really looking forward to 8GB of RAM. 4GB feels pretty anemic nowadays when you know that Firefox or Chrome will happily eat up the RAM with a moderate number JavaScript-laden tabs open.
The goal of these work visas is to hire someone with specialized skills to do work when the company can't find someone with the necessary skills locally. From a quick skim through the DoJ briefing, the argument which the DoJ makes is that Facebook knows that they have more power over employees that depend on them for work visas, and games the system by creating special job listings that only the applicant seeking a visa would know about and apply for.

On an intellectual level, I guess the distinction is in how you define "highly skilled" workers. Are all software engineers considered highly skilled? Or is there a distinction between a general engineer and someone who has experience and expertise in a specific subfield such as mobile development or infrastructure?

My way of thinking about it is with the latter. I would think that the DoJ is not happy with the idea of Facebook jumping through a bunch of hoops (mentioned as making positions invisible on their career site and requiring an application via physical mail while rejecting any U.S. candidates) to guarantee a work visa for someone to do specialized work that the company supposedly couldn't find any qualified Americans for when the person they hired doesn't even know what type of work they'll be doing or what team they'll be joining until after they go through 5-10 weeks of bootcamp, and which may end up not even aligning with their specialization.

Given that new hire engineers at Facebook sign an offer letter and are officially employed while they go through bootcamp before the whole team matching process, I don't think it's possible for someone to not get matched to a team, at worst they would get assigned to a random team with headcount at some point, which would really raise the chances of that person not working in their specialty.

If this assumption is true, the DoJ would definitely not be happy that Facebook was supposedly not able to find a qualified citizen/green card holder to do this job, but the new hire on a visa may not be qualified to do it either and there were most likely citizens/green card holders applicants who actually do have experience in that area of work.

Sorry if this is a bit ramble-y, I'm fairly new to HN.
I never said it would be bitcoin.
Semi-legal industry ever could still fit their interests. Like as in Russia.
I have been targeted (for software development roles) by firms who contract for Google (and, I would assume, other FAANG companies) with hourly rates quoted below $100 per hour.
I think the main issue is storage Moore's law has really hit a wall and it is no longer the case that the data Google stores grows slower than storage per dollar like in the early days. Google's freebie business model is going to have to drastically change if the two exponents have crossed paths and they'll have to do it fast because, exponents.
Without complete vertical integration this is what makes me wonder about fracturing of software ecosystems each time a new SOC is released. If Google can't avoid it how can Microsoft and other platforms sidestep it as well besides throwing tremendous amounts of resources. No matter what the developer will have to consistently update for these changes for their software to be compatible correct? This is one of the reasons why x86 is still a great platform for backwards compatibility.
More Americans died of Covid-19 on Wednesday than were killed on 9/11
It's important to remember that the strikers started the violence:

>>When leasing the sites, the union had selected locations near the mouths of canyons that led to the coal camps in order to block any strikebreakers' traffic.

Blocking strikebreaker traffic amounts to using violence to obstruct others' freedom of movement.

Strikebreakers were often assaulted and sometimes murdered.

The fundamentally coercive nature of historical striking activity is heavily glossed over, and modern day anti-free-market ideologues go to extreme lengths to try to justify it.
If you pay for Google One they have live chat and email support. Usually I think they also have phone support but not currently due to COVID.

https://i.imgur.com/cXeu1HB.png
The video seems to end with an open question about how to trust a JavaScript client to actually be doing the E2EE that you think it is, but this is not as intractable a problem as it seems.

As long as you can pin a web app the first time you access it, you get at least TOFU security (which is roughly equivalent to downloading a binary app that hasn't been reproducibly compiled from independently audited source code).

One way to achieve this is to use the SRI bookmarklet trick[0], and in fact it lets you pin a version of a web app with a specific hash, which can be provided out-of-band by a contact who you trust to vouch for the security of that version.

The biggest drawback with this method, though, is that the Data URI appears in the browser's location bar instead of a trusted domain. Fortunately there exists an experimental standard that could solve that problem, namely Cryptographic Hyperlinks[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776456

[1] https://w3c-ccg.github.io/hashlink/
I had two grandfathered free Fastmail accounts. They got deleted for inactivity [1] when I was at a bad point in life.

Never using Fastmail after that. :)

[1] https://fastmail.blog/2012/10/18/changes-to-fastmail-service...
Well, thats a reasonable point of reference: for a user, his starting point is clicking the button, the rest is not under his control
I think Bitcoin has a promising future, but it is not like investing in stocks.

When you invest in stocks it is sort of like giving a loan to a corporation so that they can spend your money on growth, to create more profits, which allows them to become more valuable. That is why stocks are expected to continually grow in value over time.

Bitcoin might be many things, like a store of value, transaction network, etc., but it is not really a long term investment vehicle except maybe as an inflation hedge.
Are you able to rent one?
How is "inactive" defined? Maybe they're really going after people who create accounts primarily for free additional storage.
This is preventing me from reading (and possibly writing) with Cloud Logging APIs across multiple accounts and regions.

Also worth noting this incident is described as part of "Operations" but actually impacts "Cloud Logging" and is still using the old "google-stackdriver" category internally..
Fiat currency as a store of value is plainly bad, not sure how you determined there is much utility in using it for saving. A US Government 10 yr bond currently yields 0.91%, and has been falling consecutively since its peak in 1981.

It is at the whims of whoever decides the interest rate.
A cell can contain any value. Values in Excel have always been:

- numbers

- text,

- cell references

- formulae that resolve to one of the above

Allowing a value to be a function would (presumably) allow a cell to contain a function (just the function, not an invocation of a function). I can't imagine that being a simple change, or one introduced without being explicitly in the docs.
I see this site is doing the "incompatible with recent versions of Firefox" thing that steals the content away after displaying it for a split second, like imgur has also done (among others, I'm sure).

That said, I recommend reading the Superflat manifesto:
https://www.amazon.com/Superflat-English-Japanese-Takashi-Mu... ...obviously this might be mentioned in the linked page that doesn't like me.
It was Qatar that I was thinking of.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/world/climate-e...
Bullish. HN has an abysmally bad track record when it comes to investment advice, from Facebook to Bitcoin.
Paid Search vs. SEO
What amazes me is how relatively unknown company from Russia (Jetbrains) are able to make a better spell checker than SV mammoth Apple...
The server is a python script, why couldn't it run on OpenWRT?
As indicated in the other reply, think of the minus as changing the sign of i instead of x.
> Dogs are out there spreading covid right now but I can't go to the gym.

Where is this data? [1] says "Currently, there is no evidence that animals play a significant role in the spread of SARS-CoV-2 to people"

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...

> I don't understand the pet owners' sense of entitlement.

I don't know if this is directed at me? I don't have a pet. I'm just advocating for pet owners here.

And if you can't understand how shortsighted your view of "anything that inconveniences me is bad" then nothing I can write will change your mind.
I saw Supabase mentioned in another thread and signed up for the alpha. It's really cool stuff, kudos!

We are currently writing an application where we already have auth set up using AWS Cognito. I haven't been able to find any documentation about it, but is it possible for us to keep using Cognito while still integrating with Supabase and taking advantage of the very nice row level security features, or would we essentially have to roll over to use Supabase for auth as well?

Also, let me just say that it's a huge selling point for us that you're running with Postgres, thank you!
Thank you. I didn't know it showed up dead. It didn't look dead to me.
See "Made in China 2025".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025
Never trust cloud providers for archival data I think is the lesson. Keep your own storage for that.
Literally anything you do with wealth can be described as "investing".

Therefore it's implausible that investing innately creates more wealth - there is an opportunity cost.

(In this case: the opportunity cost is first giving everyone a decent standard of living, so that everyone can have wealth and invest wealth and create more wealth, as you say)
How is this an advantage?
There is a huge difference between going to the movie and watching the same movie on a 4:3 20-32 inch standard def, CRT TV that was prevalent when VHS tapes were popular and watching a movie on a 65 inch 4K, HDR flat screen TV.

Currently you can buy a good enough 4K/HDR 65 inch Roku TV for less than $500. That’s less than the first TV I bought with my own money - a 27 inch Sony CRT Trinitron.
Alcohol is so odd. By virtually every metric, it is or is among the worst: narrow active/lethal window, high absorption rate, high addiction potential, high physical harm, high societal harm, and an almost diabolical ability to nerf motor skills while simultaneously reducing risk perception and overestimating skill.

If you objectively listed ethanol's effects on paper without the name, people would clamor to ban it. Yet we all know how that went over. And the fact is societies largely coexist with it. It should be the poster child for how sensible drug legalization won't cause western civilization to crumble.
Simultaneous AP/Managed mode is available on RPI3 and RPI Zero W boards, I'm not sure about the others models.
but they're just one level, no?
I have tried like 5 Bluetooth mice, since BL4.0 the latency has improved from 'terrible' to 'tolerable'. It might be something to do with the windows bluetooth stack, as i noticed the respobce was more sluggish during high CPU use, while USB mice seem unaffected.

The same logitech mouse performs much faster through their universal wireless adapter than trhough bluetooth (it has 2 modes), they also have lightspeed adapter, but I haven't noticed much difference.
It’s with democratic control and not for profit, unless of course you vote for it to try to maximize profit.

It’s owned by a trust or something similar.
Plaid is still (for some unknown reason) the only company that is able to do real time ACH transactions that bypass credit card companies in the US. All other companies still require long verification processes or high transaction fees.
According to her, she was allowed to see the feedback confidentially, but was not given the names of the authors of the feedback.
Oh come on, I'll bet you that there were in fact numerous 500-level Topics in Economics courses on precisely speculative asset bubbles with tulip mania as a central case study.
You can sort of do this now by:

- dump your gmail to gdrive with "google takeout"

- dump your gdrive with rclone (to some cloud service or whatever)

https://forum.rclone.org/t/is-it-possible-to-directly-backup...
> I wonder how close that skirts laws around false advertising

At the time it wasn't fraudulent, though.
Link? I'm currently steering well clear of enterprise sales but this sounds like it may be useful for future.
It's not uncommon for judges to complain about laws being excessively vague, so no, it's not just my opinion.

Also IIRC miniature horses being service animals is explicitly part of the law, so I'm not sure why you're using that as an example.
Health officials: Vaccination cards will be issued to Covid vaccine recipients
Liquidity Is Coming
It's interesting how spot on Scott Manley's MS paint slideshow of what happened was too.
I agree in general, but is this really true?

> the legacy chip makers have a business model that doesn't work

It seems like this implicitly assumes that everyone switching to Apple silicon is a possibility. But it doesn't seem likely that all the android users are going to switch to iphones or that all the windows/linux users are going to switch to macs.

This is hugely embarrassing for Intel and Qualcomm in particular, and stocks will fall. But the business model outside the walled garden isn't necessarily going to change.
It’s true, but hardly limited to this subthread. While I disagree with most of HN about cryptocurrency and economics, the discussions are significantly more considerate and studied than anything I’ve come across in my daily life. Even society’s proclaimed experts seem to have an admittedly limited understanding and predictive capability. At the core, economics are an expression of collective human desire and thus it seems it will never be truly rigorous.
A good modern university program probably would have made you take "remedial" math courses first, where they don't assume that you already know general concepts like what a derivative is. Some classes (like proofs) introduce notation and get you comfortable with using definitions, but most people never take anything like that. It's normal not to really grasp a course until you take another one that relies on it.
I subscribe to the theory that Moore’s Law was in part a self-fulfilling prophecy, in that the expectation that transistor density should double every two years led to product roadmaps that aimed to hit that target.

If only we could popularize an analogous law for software performance…
Timnit Gebru, Google AI ethics leader fired
tbh I didn't look in details, I guess I mistakenly believed the HN comments...

my original comment was only targeted at the treatment of the (accused) abusers by the corporate HR, nothing with any specific person
My hypothesis is that we will first use visual recognition for a few highly relevant fields. But after that we'll expand to almost all objects.
Mostly agree, and upvoted, however I think it’s important to acknowledge (in thread about M1 Macs) that full brew support will be a large undertaking for M1.
Ah the sweet delight of procrastination. Some people clean. Others, just code.

Still, its a useful thing. MIDI input support might help with the input problem.