skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Very few developed countries have at-will employment.

And no other country than the US has 0 paid vacation days and 0 paid public holydays!

The other day I was checking number of paid vacations per country, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b..., the US is the only country ns the world with 0 total paid leave.
Probably not very useful. The problem we have is that support staff units are in control of staff expansion. They then create more support staff out of some institutional reproductive urge.

It is a flaw in The Firm.
I wholeheartedly second this advice.
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> Who decides what the cutoff is?

ultimately, a judge.
Americans are not the only ones being critical of America.
Quite the opposite: My perception is rather that Americans have very high tendency to assume they are the greatest country in the world. And because of mostly learning about their own country and history in school it is harder to hold themselves to higher standards and compare with other nations besides the size of your army or the worth of the biggest companies (e.g. when you get cancer and lose your job, you somehow must pay for that treatment that is just how it is, better have something saved up. Whereas in many other developed nations that goes much differently)

Also regarding to GP: “working more” != “being more productive”
> The problem with UBI is that some jobs suck but need to be done

I'm somewhat skeptical of the UBI train, but this particular objection has always rubbed me the wrong way. Those jobs should cost more.

If the only thing keeping people in a job is the threat of poverty, and they're not being paid enough otherwise to incentivize them to do the work, then that's not a free market. It's not really significantly different from holding a gun to their head or coercing them into doing the work.

What's going to happen if the people stuck in dead-end jobs retrain to work at better jobs? What's going to happen if the economy improves and suddenly they have more opportunities? The problem with underpaying essential jobs is that it forces people to think of those market outcomes as undesirable. I don't like the framing that says that if elderly-care workers retrain and have a choice whether or not to work in nursing homes, that's a bad thing. That seems very, very counter to how we should think about a healthy jobs market.

I don't want a framing that tells me that the economy becoming too good or people having too many job opportunities is a problem because those people need to be financially pressured into working underpaid jobs. To me, that's a very anti-free-market way of thinking about the economy. Jobs that are difficult or undesirable should have more compensation because they have less demand. That is the entire basis of the jobs market and of supply/demand, we shouldn't be trying to undermine those principles.
As American living abroad, I assure you that the US has an almost absurdly burdensome immigration system.
It wasn't an issue with the US government.
Rainbow Warrior on shipbreaking beach in Bangladesh (2018)
It's not just RH that has disabled buying, other brokers have as well. Most notably IB and Trading 212 (which uses IB) with the IB CEO going on TV telling how that benefited them. There's clearly more going on than just some collateral bullshit that RH is spewing...
Calculated how?
It had to be cancelled because the extensive (and expensive!) sets burned :( and it wouldn't be cost effective to recreate them...
> I'm just trying to help your "obliterated ... by a wayward mouse action" problem.

That's fine and I do appreciate the information, but from the perspective of the overall discussion I think the point stands that the X approach to this is completely broken from a user perspective.

> It's worth remembering that when the standards document referenced in my previous [1] was originally written... a lot of those "major operating systems" didn't exist.

That's completely understandable, but we've had over thirty years to adapt. This argument is the same one that keeps Emacs greybeards defending M-k and M-y despite the fact that there hasn't been a Meta key on a single keyboard I've used in my 30 years of computing.

At some point you have to accept that the rest of the computing world has agreed upon a different standard than yours, and you either need to take steps to accommodate that or die.

That's not to say you can't try out new things while still abiding by existing standards (for instance, with advanced features like pastebuffer history), but that's completely different from clinging on to inferior historical approaches when everyone else has moved on.
What language was this written in? Did it stay in the same language? If it's say, FORTRAN, I wonder if there's value in learning it soon.
Yes, I am always shocked to hear how "non-racist" Germany is when I have friends who failed to climb the corporate ladder their because of their Greek last name, as they were explicitly told by their coworkers. In America, they are doing well now as an executive at a F500.
Hi, Enso team here! Luna 1.0 (long time ago) had serious uninstall problems on Windows because of auto-restarting daemon processes. It was fixed long time ago. Enso uses a completely rewritten services architecture (as well as rewritten compiler and GUI) and something like that should never ever happen again.
GitHub discussions further gamify the platform
discussions gamify github like contribution graph. there are no counts for discussions like issues/prs so authors can hide issues by moving them.

see for example: https://github.com/isoron/uhabits

anything that isnt specific a crash is moved to discussions so it can be ignore. anyone see similar in other repos?

doing this keeps issues low by hiding them so stars etc can be high. then author says they have only a few issues open for the project, and users see the same so think its probably good
Aren't all unions are about labor issues?
I couldn't agree with you more.

You might find this to be a well reasoned, scientific explanation of your thesis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1sJgjG5AF4
The hard part about WASM is passing data in and out. You can't pass JavaScript numbers, strings, arrays or objects, because WASM only understands bytes. Does TeaVM make this easier?

Update: TeaVM does make it easier:
http://teavm.org/docs/runtime/jso.html
At work, I’m just answering emails or handling incident requests or attending online meetings.

Outside work, nothing really. Mostly I fiddle with my guitar or ruminate about the next day.
Sounds like an experience of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis#Threat_hyper-v...

As one falls asleep one loses the ability to voluntary breath. This can cause sensations of suffocating and resulting in panic if experienced when still conscious.
"GameStop and AMC trading restricted by TD Ameritrade, Schwab, Robinhood others "

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/gamestop-and...

"Some users are experiencing issues with trading platforms Vanguard, TD Ameritrade, and Charles Schwab due to heavy volume"

https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/some-users-are-expe...

Not to mention that the market is made up of all platforms and several of them were downright prohibiting GME buying. Some are listed in the article. Robinhood alone has more than 13 million users.
The health insurance isn’t usually free. And a lot of employer plans have either lots of restrictions or high deductible or some other gotchas.
For context lookup the Chinese civil war, Shanghai international settlement, boxer rebellion and the WWII campaigns of the western pacific. Your analysis of the US forcing crisis is utterly simplistic.
Lots of libraries don't put the license in the header, only in a separate LICENSE file.
Title change? “Why U.S. Immigration Barriers Matter for the Global Advancement of Science”
I have come to a similar conclusion through the phrase “luck is opportunity meets preparation”.
Annoying Puzzles (and Cognitive Reflection Problems)
Had it for 7 years, never had a spill. Now I do have a proper rack for all my servers
Undocumented wages are yes, low, but calling them "slave wages" indicates you really do not understand the depths of inhumanity and cruelty associated with actual slavery.

There are no "slave wages" because slaves did not get wages. I know it's a bit of rhetoric now, but it's IMO important to remember the distinction between being underpaid, and being literal property.
The US did good economically in the past couple of centuries.

There's significantly more money in the USA than in a lot of other countries.

Even accounting for the ridiculously high taxes and the work-80hrs culture, the high salaries can be worth it for some people.
Payoffs for a short position is stock price right now minus stock price at maturity. You can make a synthetic short by longing a put and writing a call at the same strike price and the problem you see here with the short squeeze is really writing the call.
Billionaires aren’t crying when people play the lotto. Or put it all on red. Or spend it on weed.

Why is Leon Cooperman so worried about it ending badly for the general public. That means the rich will make a killing. He wasn’t bothered when things ended badly for the general public at any other time — like 2008.

Even if he was really worried about the general public, why does he think this is attacking the rich?
Of course. But if you have one strong station close to you, it will overwhelm any other signal and you'll hear it.
> fixed cap

This makes it more like a collectable (say, baseball cards) than a currency. The number is capped and some will be lost. It has value as long as people are interested in it--scarcity does not imply value.

It also has a short track record and could run into issues if miners collude, there's a DDoS attack, or someone with a lot of resources reverses transactions, hurting confidence in it.
A "dirty secret" that's posted for all to see?

https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/1LRLZK_2020_Q4_Quarterly_...

Regulatory credits were reported as $1.58 billion out of total automotive revenue of over $27 billion, or less than 6%.

Doesn't seem like excessive exposure. Does seem smart to take that money from dirty externality polluters.
The only thing that makes me sad in this is that the buildings, especially the big monuments and temples, are plain white, and not brightly painted.
Here's a piece by Scott Peterson (Red Hat legal) that analyzes this with respect to the MIT license specifically: https://opensource.com/article/18/3/patent-grant-mit-license
We definitely support rust - you could even use "RUN REPEATABLE" to reuse the state from prior builds, the same way you'd build locally.

Happy to chat more and send you some swag if you try it out and write a blog post about your experience :) colin@layerci.com

You can't 'FROM vm/osx' or 'FROM vm/windows' yet, it's relatively difficult to navigate licensing as a startup unfortunately.
1 put = 100 shares of the stock. Without knowing the put details it's hard to know the extent of their loss. But your total could be close to what they lost just on GME.
It's also a problem with windmill turbines. There's no end-cycle in progress so many of the decommissioned turbine blades are moved to the landfill. I bet there's something incredibly strong and lightweight materials can be used for but so far many are trash.

We used to burn wood and mine for coal, then drilled for oil, then fracking for gas, and now mining lithium. The environmental problems are still there but the consumer side sounds "greener" with each iteration. Personally, I find the idea of replacing all cars with electric cars to be backwards. Why when you can use this as a turning point to reduce dependence on personal vehicles and pursue alternatives?
If you pay someone by mistake, there is already well established law for getting your money back.... And you can do it anytime within some number of years.

Theres no reason to slow the original payment down when there is a process for getting mistaken payments back.
In the short term, when someone gains in the stock market, someone else loses. Because of “invisible” transaction fees that go to Wall Street, retail is losing on net. So in the bigger picture, small investors aren’t winning, despite our insistence that we are. Some of us are winning. Most of us are losing. And the net result is that Wall Street is getting richer. That’s not good.
Thats true. I would like to know if the demographics of those high performing migrants are representative of the US’s entire migrant population. If not, then it’s critically more accurate to say that some specific migrant groups are 6 times more productive than migrants elsewhere.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
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One more app store run by an American corporation is the last thing we need right now.
What I want to know is why the block buys of GME and AMC when they could’ve blocked purchase of any other high volume stock that wasn’t the vehicle used as part of a class war. Why not block Tesla, Microsoft and Apple purchases?
I came across this idea here first: Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Inadequate Equilibria -- great read!

https://equilibriabook.com/
> As a programmer, I carry around invariants (which is a fancy name for properties about things in my program) in my head all the time.

The author has probably not worked on large code bases or even in teams.

I often forget even my own code's purpose six months after having written it, let alone code written by teams of hundreds of people and millions of lines of code.

Dynamically types will kill you in such (common) situations.

> In other words, static typing is pointless.

Yes, author is definitely very young.

There are two types of programmers: programmers who know that static typing is the only sane way to write robust, scalable, maintainable code, and programmers who haven't been in this profession for long enough.
When it comes to home/end, that might be because a lot of the computers they interact with simply don't have those keys, or they are on Mac and the keys go to start/end of document, etc etc.
> Plus, some articles are claiming[1] that even stock you do own, whose purchase long ago settled, is being lent out without your direct knowledge by the broker for a profit, which is like ... what?

That is how short selling works and it is not a controversial process. It is normally transparent or invisible to the owner of the shares, eg you still get your dividends and can sell the shares at will. My understanding is that if the short seller goes bankrupt and cannot repurchase the shares, the brokerage provides the shares to the owner and takes the loss themselves.
Since I abandoned Windows for Linux, my opinion of Microsoft has improved dramatically. Windows has to be one of their worst, if not their worst product. GitHub and Azure are both quite good, and Office is at least OK. All their Android apps and Android integration are excellent. The new Xbox and related services are even quite good. Just every time I'm forced to use Windows (especially at work where I can't change any aspect of it), I'm reminded of why I hated Microsoft so much.
>Google has contracts with phone manufacturers that ban them from adding 3rd-party app stores alongside Google Play.

That's kinda like Microsoft requiring a payment for every PC sold whether their OS was installed or not. Predatory contracts from a monopolistic company... who would have thought.
What's you definition of "legal status"? It's not like this article talks about people coming to the US illegally.

Do you mean settled status? Regardless, that is easier as well (see for instance the guy posting about the Blue Card a few comments up).
Well, if you sign a binding agreement to deliver 100 doses of vaccine then I will use all the levers to make comply. What's wrong with this? I'm not forcing you to do more than you signed up for. The morality/politica issue is a different issue and I believe there are diplomatic channels to deal with it.
The US has many of the most prestigious universities in the world. Relatively few citizens want to get into academia because our brightest minds would rather pursue more lucrative careers. As a result, our elite instructions end up recruiting the brightest minds from around the globe instead.
It’s a chicken and egg problem. No one will invest the money to solve the lithium battery recycling problem at scale... until the scale exists.

But eventually... there will be so much lithium in dead car batteries that it will be too good an opportunity to look past.
Yeah, but at least you as a broker wouldn't have a hand in the price change. If they piss off their customers who wanted to sell, that's just how it is. That will give them an incentive to keep both options open instead of restricting traders to only buying or only selling when it suits them.
AppSheet Is Google’s New No-Code Platform for Custom Apps
I have a hard time to see why people would invest in miami since the city is subject to having large issues with rising sea levels in the future.
Personally, I consider teaching the lambda calculus to be a real-life situation. Teaching the lambda calculus is no less real to me than any other part of my life. But OK, self-apply is not something you're likely to see in production code, and neither are Church numerals, which is where this problem shows up for real. But MAP, REDUCE, and APPLY are, and they all have the same problem as self-apply: their static types are infinite.

This is a general problem with all static type systems. There are only two possibilities: either your type system is Turing complete or it is not. If it is not, then there are things that one might reasonably want to express that cannot be expressed, and if it is, then it is undecidable. Static typing is either constraining, or it is a Turing Tarpit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit).
> All you need is a degree and a contract with a company.

That's just possible for some markets. If you are talking about your own experience, that's because you are probably software developer.

Canada and Australia are definitely not easier, but more transparent.
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A lot harder to prove.
Targeting WASM is just like targeting a CPU, most of them also don't have hardware support for GC algorithms.

Most anti-GC FUD regarding WASM and GC kind of stems from people not getting how GCs are implemented.
Title is using the wrong word. The paper is about "US Immigration Restrictions" and it's about knowledge workers, that is normal legal immigrants with visas (e.g. H1B, etc...).

The term "migrant" is generally used to refer to unskilled workers entering the country to follow jobs in temporary or seasonal industries. Very often this therefore becomes a euphemism for "illegal immigrant". That's not what this paper is studying.
The buyers will now prefer the "contract farming" route to procurement, as the new farm laws has tilted the power in their favour. With the broker (and dismantling of the regulated marketplace) out of the picture, the corporates can now take even more advantage of the farmers. (Note that the brokers also manipulated the market on behalf of the corporates earlier, but eliminating them is now more favourable for them as they have managed to bribe the government to write the laws in their favour).
I like the way this license is much clearer about rights and obligations. From the standpoint of software developers being able to grok it, it looks like a strong improvement on the MIT and BSD families.

If you are serious about adoption, I suggest providing an official header to embed in files. Something simple like this:

// Licensed under https://blueoakcouncil.org/license/1.0.0

Also "instructions on how to use this license in your software project" would be helpful. (Paste the text of the license into a file named "LICENSE", "LICENSE.md", or similar. Add the header as a comment to every file...)
> Matrix has a really good solution for end to end encrypted group chat

It's basically the same encryption scheme as Jabber/XMPP uses with OMEMO. The two were developed around the same time. On Jabber existing rooms need to be set to "members only" and "non-anonymous" for encrypted groupchat to take place because Jabber multi-user chats enable using nicknames (only the MUC operators know your address) which prevents clients from querying each other's key.

> I had to bundle something like 30 megs of jar files for a simple hello world app.

That sounds horrible. There's pretty good XMPP libraries around nowadays, like slixmpp if python is your thing. There's also a WIP Rust xmpp library if you'd rather.

> Also some silly things like ejabberd refusing to hash passwords

That sounds creepy. However, prosody does that very well though. And it seems ejabberd supports SCRAM authentication since 2007?

> Matrix, with Element (...) If XMPP has anything like that

ConverseJS is a web-based Jabber/XMPP client that does encrypted groupchat. It's supported by other clients as well (such as Conversations on Android). Movim, the more popular Jabber web client (because it has social features) does not support OMEMO yet unfortunately.

ConverseJS may not be as user-friendly as Element though because they don't have (yet?) the $$$$$$ of VC/government money matrix has.

> still working on getting a committee together to form the standards

There is a bureaucratic tendency around the XMPP Standards Foundation, because standardization is very important to avoid lock-in. However client devs have pushed features before/meanwhile publishing specifications and bureaucracy does not seem to be a concern for (some?) devs in practice.
The space laser is certainly more outlandish, but both are fundamentally the same. They both posit (contra all the available evidence!) that sinister forces are behind something in the world that you feel has gone wrong.
Measuring productivity in money is like measuring car's performance by its fuel consumption.
I see developer tools on HN. I upvote!

Congrats on launching! I know this is a good idea because we actually invested time in building something similar internally.
Be careful to factor in property taxes you have to pay every year.
Can you show me a video of slashing tires?
Based on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgj6FYghPh8

They do a lot more than what you claim.
Did you forget e.g. blu/red force tracking and routes? Mission planning?
I read this hoping to find a neat collection of math and physics surprises. I was surprised to read a biographical interview that only drops a couple of hints about the things he finds nifty.