skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is no "volunteer[ing]" in prison.

>> "It's a great thing," Pate tells me. "It beats the alternative. Rather than sitting in your tiny little cell, you get to come out here."

>> They were just thinking about their options in prison, and in that perspective, the farm looked pretty good.

You're making the point of OP. When the only other option is "sitting in your tiny little cell", there's not much choice in it. It's less volunteering, and more escaping a psychologically untenable situation.

Given other options, I doubt many inmates would be willing to 'volunteer' or work for peanuts.
YT is not a storage company. You do not have a contract with them to store your data with an obligation to return it.
I don't think that's right. Didn't several generations of 737 before MAX have that flattened engine bottom? I think I've been seeing it for considerably longer than MAX has been around.
It's pretty easy to tell people about a fire in the building without trying to make money in the process. That's what "mongering" means. Fearmongering means trying to make money by selling fear.
What Thomas Jefferson Could Never Understand About Jesus
Did all of the major providers raise their prices after?
Tiananmen was at least met with lasting arms embargo, both from the EU and US...

I think the expectation for many (myself included) was that as living standards rose, the Chinese people would demand democratic reform (rule of law, justice for all, some say in decisions and leadership). China (or rather the ccp) has successfully avoided that so far.

Now its flexing that power and people like me, who expected natural change, are forced to re-evaluate.

mea culpa
I have a friend who worked as a professional translator and that's exactly what he did. He put the text through Google translate and fix any errors.
The gamers from my school years have all ended up being pretty good at coding, hacking, and bringing together a functional solution to difficult technical problems.

The effort and skill required to play a multiplayer game back then may have been part of this.

‘Who’s got a spare terminator?’
I will buy the phone made by slave child labour because the only reason they exist is because economy, if they make money, at least their next generation can live a better life. It is not likely that without a factory they will study and go to college like you would think. The alternative to a bad choice may be a worse choice, not a better choice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unit...

USA today and WSJ have a larger paid circulation. USA today is a national paper. There are also weeklies like Time.
There are also new interactions for that starting from iOS 13: https://www.macworld.com/article/3410596/ios-13-and-ipados-1...

I would recommend the 3 finger tap and hold one which brings up the edit menu, since I personally can’t remember all the other gestures.
What you say may be true, but it's time we all faced up to a fact in these discussions in which "the trades" always comes up: not everybody can be a plumber. That is, there is a finite demand for every sort of tradesperson, be they plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc. For example, it looks like we will probably need somewhere in the neighborhood of 82,000 plumbers in the US over the next 10 years. [0]

That's fabulous if you get to be one of those 82,000 people who gets to become a plumber. You certainly can earn a good living that way:

> [A]bout 55 occupations are identified as skilled trades, which accounted for over 19 million jobs in 2014. The average job growth rate outlook from 2014-2024 is eight percent, with an average median wage in 2016 of $46,146; the median annual wage for all workers in 2016 was $37,040. [1]

But, that's really about where the good news ends.

Let's look at what actual demand for skilled trades really is.

We can approximate which are the highest growth trades by those which pay the most. Multiple Google searches have told me that electricians are among the top paying skilled trades, due to a large shortage of qualified employees. The job outlook over the next 10 years for electricians is projected to grow by about 8%, for a total of about 62,000 additional jobs added. [2]

If we place that in context with the number given earlier for plumbers, it seems reasonable to estimate that each of the skilled trades could experience job growth of up to about 100,000 jobs over the next 10 years. Multiply that by 55 occupations, and, we see that 5.5M people get to live the secure, skilled trades life that we fetishize so much these days. (Really, it's almost like "learn a trade" has become the new "learn to code.")

Anybody see the problem yet?

The US is projected to have around 360M people in 2030, and we've found jobs for 5.5M of them in this extremely oversimplified analysis.

So, sure, the whole "learn a trade" meme works, but it only works for the ~2% of people who are going to be able to get into those occupations in the next 10 years. Skilled trades are not going to save future generations from systemic problems like the decline of real wages and declining union membership anytime soon without something else to go along with it. My nephew can't even aspire to be Homer Simpson, and that's certainly not what I, or my brother, ever wanted for him.

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[0]: https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/plumber/job-market/

[1]: https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/bridges/fall-2017/ap...

[2]: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/electric...
Talking about "connecting the dots" is a bit naive in this context, though. The NSA has been pursuing what they called a "total information awareness" program since the late 90s / early 2000s. The goal is to collect all digital data about all of the world citizens, so it can be used later in case that's deemed "necessary" for "national security." Basically like Facebook+Google, plus geolocation and mobile phone data and information from national police registers, credit card companies, and travel agencies. All of this integrated and searchable in real-time.

It's a realistically attainable goal for an agency like the NSA. However, the Snowden revelations put it into jeopardy because their prior policy was that merely storing data about Americans is constitutional if it is not queried in an unconstitutional way. It is not. But they are allowed to store anything about anyone else, and they probably still do that. I mean, advertising companies do this at a city block level in many countries already.
Thanks! I use mapy.cz for everything, but my main reason are the hiking routes. I've contibuted some routes also (and city data using streetComplete), but certainly not a ton.
> Seems like not much in between.

Why? No kids there, but why would I be bored? I have plenty of things to do, as always. Having worked from home for years now, I don't really see that big difference in regular day other than the fact that socializing and conferences have moved online.

If anything, I imagine that it would be painfully lonely if I had to live alone during the lockdown. Thankfully, I live with my girlfriend. But why would it be boring? Lockdown or not, it doesn't make much difference.
Programmers are bad at managing state
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I don't think it's any different from playing soldiers or cops and robbers. Little kids just aspire to what they see as local physical violent power. It's just fantasy of power when you have none because you are little kid.
A joke doesn’t have to be good... most aren’t!
One thing I've realized is that if you actually do succeed in creating a strong community, there's a good chance it will raise the property values and appeal of your surrounding area and therefore the property taxes and rent for those in the community living nearby and possibly the community space itself, if the space isn't owned outright by a non-profit organization. Then you risk getting bought / pushed out by outsiders that just want a "safe neighborhood" or an "artsy area" and not really a community.

It seems like these social groups -- besides needing a non-financial mission, shared rituals and beliefs, and some kind of exclusivity -- need a strategy for dealing with the social connection-dissolving "market" that exists around it.
More important than that is the result of the Grievance Studies affair.

When there is such heavily biased review of social science papers, it calls the legitimacy of all of them into question.
I dare OP to drive around outside of Lafayette, LA and roll his window down and tell me sugarcane doesn't grow in America
The authors clearly never had a bad night playing Tarkov...
Start out car camping. My progression was:

1. Avid day hiker (10-16 mile hikes every weekend, 5-8k ft gain)

2. Car camping in Ojai (near Los Angeles). Drive in, setup your tent, chill, sleep, leave next morning.

3. Backpacking around LA on the trails from step 1

4. Thru-hiked PCT

5. Mountaineering / alpine climbing

Lots of people do the PCT with little hiking experience and are fine though. It's just walking, and there are tons of people to help you.
Not all slavery is chattel slavery.
Can you imagine how much we would laugh if modern web browsers identified themselves to servers by all saying they were Mozilla browsers and referencing old technologies like Gecko?
Agreed. It has the potential to be best bar none for this. Where it isn't, it is probably only a matter of time.
I am not sure if you have looked at the paper once, but they talk about context aware translation only.
I'm a computer scientists who went back for an econ degree. The answer is two parts: salary has not increased and we get less for our money. The salary stagnation is pretty well known, but I've been looking into the other side:

We Americans currently spend $4,000 more per person per year than other countries for healthcare, and we live 4 years shorter than them. For a family of 5, like the Simpsons, that's $20,000 per year.
https://medium.com/numbers-that-matter/our-healthcare-system...

Because of industry consolidation, over the last 20 years, we Americans are paying an extra $2,000 per person per year for higher priced goods. And losing out on $800 per person per year on goods we don't buy because consolidation raised the price beyond what we'd pay. For a family of 5 like the Simpsons, that's worth $14,000 per year.
https://medium.com/numbers-that-matter/monopoly-oligopoly-co...

Another major factor is housing. More people live in cities, but housing hasn't been created at the same pace. It drives up rents and housing prices. Some economists have measured the effect of housing in just San Francisco and New York and said it is worth _nationally_ on the order of $1,200 per person per year. That's just f*ed up.

So, even as wages have stagnated, that's not the whole story. Lower class people are actually worse off.
Can you share some of your setup there to exemplify? Thanks.
I'm not referring to Giffen goods, just regular goods. A clarifying example:

I have a favourite brand of tea that I've been drinking for years. I have some disposable income, so even if the price of that tea went up 2x, I wouldn't switch to a cheaper (but less tasty) alternative. But I know people who would, and I lived through period of financial distress during which I'd make such switch. The same applies to quite a lot of other goods I buy: from ketchup and mustard to soap and toilet paper.

The same also applies to the places I shop. I'm already buying most groceries at our local ALDI equivalent, but I could optimize that further - but I don't, because I have disposable income, and I won't - even if the prices go up - until it becomes noticeable enough on my balance sheet to justify the effort.

My hypothesis is the example above, but generalized over population: if an average person has $X of disposable income, the market suddenly loses the downward pressure from demand side to the tune of $X; the pressure resumes once the average person has no disposable income.

I haven't made my mind up on this either, I'm just presenting what I currently believe to be a causal relationship. This is partially based on the experience in European countries (notably Poland and Germany), where double income is increasingly becoming a necessity as well, but we don't have some of the commonly attributed contributory factors like student debt and high healthcare costs.
Yeah, if you talk about humans as intelligent self aware beings there's been humans here on Earth for several hundreds of thousands of years. That's what I gatter after reading several books in this theme.
The investigation turned up a few non-MCAS-related things, and required that they be fixed. I don't recall specifics - something about a wire that could become damaged?
So is your password presently (via auth session cookies). The same whitelisting used for cookies today would work to allow fingerprinting of your personal certificate.
On Apple maps day one I was an iPhone user living in Tokyo and Apple maps was like “what are trains? Here’s a 20 mile driving route through Tokyo”. Google maps was gone and I’m not sure whether to its on Apple or Google but my ability to get around was impaired significantly.
Am I right that tabulator-qt and tabulator-qtpy are still under development since they don't seem to load csv files yet? But they certainly look like the type of specialised viewer that I have been looking for.
These two comments make me see SaaS more like paying rent for housing:

If we become fully dependent on a service (shelter) and then the provider (landlord) jacks up the price, we may be quickly forced to switch services (homes) or be out of business (homeless).
The author:

* gave StarCraft 1 a balance score of 7.4 / 10 while the game is probably the most balanced RTS ever and deserves nothing else than 10 out of 10

* Gave higher scores to games that are irrelevant (Company of Heroes?) and were never relevant, while people still play StarCraft 1 up to this day

... is someone who knows not much about RTS.

The scores there are completely wrong.

StarCraft 1 is a game from 1998 that is still relevant to today and overall the best RTS ever. Nothing else touched it when it comes to balance. Gameplay is debatable, but Id say no other RTS touched it too.

Also the author completely omits the thing that made StarCraft Brood War relevant: the map editor with custom games. Those were and still are revolutionary, since they allowed the players to create their own maps with own rules. Things like Turret Defense, or whole MOBA genere came out from custome StarCraft maps. Thousands such maps were made and played by players - the game gave the relatively easy to use map editor that also provided a relatively easy to use (and primitive) programming language. That added to the game's longetivity.

WarCraft 3 had it too -> the whole DOTA was probably more popular than the game itself.

StarCraft 2 didnt have real custom maps - as Blizzard didnt know what to do: they wanted to monetize them, yet didnt, so effectively they killed this mode with their wrong decisions. If SC2 had a decent ability for custom games from the start, the game would be much more relevant today. The whole paragraph about "ladder anxiety" goes away, if you can play custom games all day. As many player in SC1 did. But couldnt in SC2.
It can work, just depends. DuckDuckGo is an example of a success doing this. For things like YouTube it's much harder. Content creators go where the consumers are, and consumers don't know about or care about these types of policy things until it effects content they watch.

TIDAL tried this as a Spotify competitor and have basically failed.
That human rights situation in China is horrible. But I am worries things like that could actually be used to justify WWIII. Which would be even more horrible.
As long as the microcontroller has a sleep mode, you can use a relay (for-real or solid-state) to toggle the power for the display.
> Who in their right mind is memorising IPv4 addresses, at least beyond the IP range used on their home network?

Hell, I don't even remember them on my home network. I have a server running a dozen VMs and I'll be damned if I can remember the IPs for all those services. DNS exists for a reason.

Moreover, the only time I might be working with those raw IPs is with services using static IPs. But in that case my IPv6 addresses aren't actually that much more complicated. On the v4 side I might have:

192.168.1.122

And on the IPv6 side (where I have a /48 allocated) I might have:

2600:ABCD:XYZW::11
Perhaps one day they, or a competitor, will do a ‘Maps Premium’ that simply charges the user inserted of all the ads, targeting, etc. And maybe a ‘Maps Premium+’ that allows for customization and going back to the peak usability design of Maps.
-we should ask "what can I do that has a positive impact?"-

That's part of the point of this essay that was on HN last year: "Fortnite and the Good Life," which seems relevant here.

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-convivial-soc...
this article made me wonder: who would i order by the foot? with no hesitation, three people came to mind: 1. Isaac Asimov 2. Robert Heinlein 3. P.G.Wodehouse.

as my covid year end treat: enid blyton.
I would contrast between faster and slower RTS games here. In SC2, everything is on a knife edge and it's common to fall apart after a bad engagement.

This is not a universal truth though. I primarily play AOE 2, where map distances and good static defence mean that an attacker needs momentum to push their advantage after a mistake from the other side if they want any chance to close the game. Hence it's common to see even pro players recover from somewhat horrifying gaffes when their opponent fails to push aggressively enough.
Those are both stack-based.
It probably (?) wouldn’t increase the drag of the aircraft significantly, but you’re still spinning a cylinder in a viscous fluid and that takes energy. So over all, you increase the power you need to put into the system to create a certain amount of lift. Whether the energy expense comes as an additional propulsion requirement to overcome drag or as an additional motor to spin the cylinder does not really matter if you’re interested in the lowest power expense for a desired lift.
SPACs are interesting, but they manage to be so by injecting an additional layer of uncertainty to the investment. They may be in practical terms not so bad, but in investment terms it's very low-commitment in the stability direction of investments take under the SPAC as I understand it. If investors have no say, then the balancing role of investment attention and selection in the market is limited and still a fundamental disconnect.
or if apple and ms and google browsers all identified themselves as each other?
The statistical "evidence" indicates that a lot of people would rather play "victim", by expecting someone other than them to magically correct their course.
Can you remarket the devs who want even less hours?

- Before: Software engineer (38hrs) $100k

- After: Software engineer (3hrs) $8k
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To be fair. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/01/california-i...
Knowing how heavy those bases are makes it look less imbalanced.
Related... when I'm in the car, and not, I often use the google assistant to search... for at least a couple months, it's gotten to be almost worse than useless as the bottom 1/3 is covered by google buttons over the stuff I'm searching for, and the mini map view at the top doesn't easily expand to the screen for pan/zoom.

The assistant should be much easier to use, and while not the best, I admit I have tried to use it driving, and now I pretty much have to pull over and use it, because "OK Google give me directions to X on Y st in City" no longer does what it should.
Same in our house for several seasons.

Then watching it became a family event.

Did your parents have a pov regarding Mortal Kombat? My dad recorded the Senate debate on Video Game violence off CSPAN, and made me watch it.
Great, thanks! I was just about to write something similar, and now I think I don't need to
It's acceptable to force them out if they don't want to pay for the privilege.
I rather enjoy writing longhand, and closest in feel to it is Dasher[0]. Don't get me wrong, keyboard entry is, in my opinion, a superior option for moving across large amount of text; and Dasher is indeed an accessibility writing system, but I like it's single-handed interface and _ex tempore_ feel that I also get from writing by hand.
And the fact that the right hand side of the GUI is in fact a Borges' Library of Babel, is extremely suggestive to my mind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher_(software)
I remember being about 8-10 years old and showing my parents a pic of our house from the sky. They freaked out and thought I was "hacking". haha. I can't remember what I used but it was a little before 2000
These issues are not separate and treating them as so lacks nuance. This conversation is not about whether genocide and forced labor is bad (which I hope we can all agree that it is), it is about The ethics of Apples business practices. The company in question (Apple) is already based in a country which performs its own version of state mandated forced labor along with a myriad of other human rights abuses. How is this not relevant? Knowing this, why should we expect Apple (or other US companies) to treat business in China any differently? What makes one okay and the other not?

Ignoring this connection diverts attention away from other, systemic issues in our global market system which incentivize companies to operate in this way.
> “Inequality inevitable” sidesteps that and asks that we just give up before even trying or imagining different possibilities because we’ve failed in the past. It is hard to not see such arguments as a misguided effort to rationalize one’s self interest.

I don't agree with this. I tend to agree that inequality is inevitable, but where I think I disagree with you is on the definition of equality.

If we create an even playing field in the environment, then we've just shifted the goalposts from "How wealthy were your parents?" To "How good are your genetics?". Some people will be born smarter than others, and excel. Some people will be born with learning disabilities and relegated to the bottom of the social hierarchy.

Judging based on innate ability also means discriminating against people who innately lack that ability. If you were born dyslexic, you're going to have to work twice as hard to achieve as much. The dyslexia is as innate as IQ advantages.

I just don't see a way that hierarchies aren't inherently unequal. You're always judging who has more of a particular thing, so people with less of that thing are worse off. Right now, that's largely money. Is using the genetic lottery a more equal means of doing this? I don't really think so.

I would rather focus on reducing the difference in lifestyle between the haves and have nots. If we can't stop inequality, we can at least lessen the effects.
Oh interesting, I’ll need to look into where that discrepancy comes from!
It's an improvement over the new one. IMHO anyway :)
That's true, but it's not Google's intent. It's just another source of ad/promotional revenue. The POIs show up before I search anything. A more user focused solution would wait until I selected a destination, detect that where I'm going is a less frequented, and then display something along the lines of "Hey it looks like this location can be difficult to find, here's some near by stores to look for <insert recognizable brands>."
Why still fat free dairy or processed-to-be-fat-free anything for that matter?