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Use low paid jobs as a stepping stone to better paid jobs. You even mention your wife as formerly working three jobs, so apparently she doesn't anymore.

I feel this is a neglected aspect of wage discussions. It is normal that people start with lower wage jobs and work their way upwards, but age demographics are rarely reflected in the income distribution charts.

Some work unfortunately needs to be done at ungodly hours, you can not simply kill off those jobs.

Edit: since I can't post replies because of rate limiting. Sorry, but low paid jobs absolutely are stepping stones in many cases. For example people used to start while in school with delivering newspapers ("paper boy"). Many people have side jobs while completing their education. And while you work your three jobs, you can look for better jobs. You should, actually. They are stepping stones in that they help you survive until you find a better job. What jobs are the "work three jobs" variety anyway? I would expect you to be able to replace them with one "normal" job eventually, that is a normal job that pays a normal salary (even if it is a low salary). If that is not enough to sustain your lifestyle, what exactly is going on in your life? Where do the high costs come from?

Maybe the OP could explain why his wife ended up working three jobs, and how she got out of it?

As for ungodly hours, I don't think some people only working night shifts and others only day shifts is an option in general.

Edit 2: how do you find a better job? The traditional way is asking around, checking job portals, considering to move to a place that has job offers, that kind of thing. I guess most of those people also have long commutes, so I wonder how well most job boards are adapted to mobile.
Higher minimum wage is not without problems.

If someone is not highly skilled and works low end jobs, he could be left jobless if minimum wage increases. Some businesses already have low profitability and they can't absorb an increase in minimum wage.

I know where you are getting from but I don't see a simple solution. UBI might help but from my perspective the cost of UBI is too large to pull off in any normal economy (petro states in the gulf can probably pull it off).
Yes you’re right, many of these people on Jan 6th believe that they had been denied their democratic rights. That’s why they were willing to directly attack and attempt to overturn the electoral process. In contrast no such extreme perception is present in the BLM movement, some are radicalised sure, but not entire protest mobs. It’s not a core belief of the movement that reform is impossible.

If it were true that democracy had been subverted, that the election had been stolen and that Trump had actually won then such action might even be justified. So then the question is, why are these claims being made and are they valid? That’s the fundamental issue the right needs to decide. Do you believe the electoral process accurately reflects the will of the people as the constitution intended, or do you not, and if not what is to be done about it. Also why wasn’t something done since 2016 when Trump made exactly the same claims of massive fraud. Why wasn't this tackled then?

The division between Republicans on whether the election was fair or not is the core issue. One of these sides is correct and the other therefore are reckless, irresponsible and enemies of democracy. Is it the ones negligently and corruptly handing over power to electoral cheats that have stolen an election through massive vote fraud right under their noses; or is it the ones making baseless, unsubstantiated claims with the express goal of undermining and subverting the electoral process. Or does factional unity take precedence, and whichever of these you believe, loyalty to the side is what ultimately matters.

Personally I'm a lifelong conservative, but democracy comes first and I know which side I'm on now.
Needing to work 18 hours a day to live is not normal.

The problem is not alarm clocks, the whole system is broken if you need to work 12+ hours a day just to keep a roof over your head and food on the table.
I disagree. I had an issue last week with the billing platform and contacted support. Was resolved in the same day. I was expecting that I won't get a response (they have millions of users?) but I did. And I'm not a big customer, or a partner or anything that close.
So, on top of financial debt, you can also transfer technical debt to your successors ?
Stable coins are incredible for cashing gains when you are unsure of future movements. All without having to transact back into fiat. You can then earn generous interest rates on your stable coins (Uniswap, etc.), far higher than any bank currently offers.
It could make sense when energy density and weight is critical, such as long range planes or some racing cars series.

However I would be curious to read about the efficiency of the whole system. From the energy input at the factory to the energy output of the ICE engine, without forgetting transport and storage which fuel people love to forget about.

I really doubt they are any close to a modern EV.
Is it really a big problem then? People who care about reading the content would counteract the problem even if it does get flagged as spam. Ultimately if your content is of any value then people will find a way to read it and the spam filters will learn from that.
Daml is a nice functional smart contract platform, with the ambition of smart contracts being really contracts. This is a few years old video about the original idea: https://vimeo.com/219723741, and this is their web site: https://daml.com. Today Daml is integrated with the Canton synch platform, and can connect several kinds of blockchains and databases: https://www.canton.io.
In software? I'd say about 50-60 in S1 and going down to like 30-40 in S3, but a high percentage none the less.

Outside of software, you will probably get to 70+%.

It's not just a facebook problem, its a problem of a lot of large orgs with large salaries and "prestige" associated. People get in just to use it as a "platform" to launch their career, they bring their status and political games with them, read books such as "How to win fake political friends and push your influence to others" and then implement them. They lack real visions, ideas or venues of productivity, so they delegate and communicate and call meetings and push ideas and agendas that only serve to give them the "upper hand" when its promotion time.

Just check out Facebooks internal network, where you gotta play nice and play politics or you will be look down on as "not having community spirit".
Besides the fact that the items that I needed weren’t in stock in the nearest 2 IKEA stores (which meant I had to drive 1.5 hrs to the 3rd one), the Click & Collect pickup itself was pretty seamless. Just park and scan the QR code and they bring the cart to your car.
It's a solution people come up with when they think in one dimension.

Increase minimum wage = no poverty

When in reality, for some people it would be:
Increase minimum wage = they get fired and can't find a job, end up homeless.
Honestly, I don't really know why this article is focused on the alarm clock instead of in getting the necessary sleep. I need an alarm clock because if I don't have it, I enter a loop of "sleep until late - go to sleep late because I'm not tired - sleep until later", all without sleeping less than eight hours. In extended holidays without alarm clocks my waking hour would shift to three hours gradually, but consistently. (and before anyone says it, exercise just makes me sleep more so it doesn't solve the issue). So yeah, I need an alarm clock or something that wakes me up.

I'd focus more on actually getting the necessary sleep, and also in not using caffeine regularly. In a new job where coffee was free, I started noticing that I was very drowsy on the evenings after lunch, and also happened in the weekend mornings. Turns out I was drinking a minimum of two coffees in the morning and my body had become used to having that caffeine, and without it I didn't work properly. I fully removed coffee from my diet and after a few weeks I returned to normal. If you are one of those people that "can't function without coffee", try removing it completely and see what happens.
Greggman and webglfundamentals have been a significant help to webgl. It would most likely not be as well understood or used without them. This is because they were essentially the person to respond to webgl questions on stack overflow and provide responses that fit your particular problem. I'd look at their avatar and think "yep that's the webgl guy" if I ever came across a webgl issue on stack overflow.

I've had questions answered by them myself and it was a good help.

What's stopping people from making up a new site? Call it heappointer, simple markdown editor and tagging system. Cache the heck out of it through cloudflare and your operating costs wouldn't be very large.
That’s valid! At scale Segment gets quite expensive, especially if you’re a b2c company
I find the assumption so very silly that you could imply increase wages for everyone and everything else would stay the same. Sorry, I can't help saying that.

But very well, let's assume it could work that way. Then you still haven't changed anything about the need for alarm clocks or work at inconvenient hours. So talking about minimum wage is really besides the point here.

Even high paid physicians have to work ungodly hours at times.
We had a heater outage recently, with temperatures at about -20c. More than half the house was heated by our fireplace. It churns out something like 7kw when used properly, which is more than enough for that part of the house.

The other part was fine with one 2kw heater for the night. The whole thing was pretty scary. I'll make sure our next house has 2 fireplaces. One m3 of firewood will keep you going for a couple of days, and more importantly: your pipes won't crack.
From what i read so far from their website, there are fundamental flaws in Google’s approach to this technology. They are not defining any core experiences at all but leaving them open.. eg.1) Skip song by swiping sleeve.. 2) take picture by tapping shoulder strap.. and a ton of other touches/swipes etc to do a ton of other things..so how would a user remember what to do when they want to skip a song ? Should i tap my shoulder or touch my collar or sleeves? Which sleeve ? This will create immense confusion.. it becomes unnatural.. people will get frustrated and would simply go back to their phone to operate individual apps. When users (lets say toddlers) operate a device like iphone , they touch , drag , tap etc and respond accordingly.. and try to do similar stuff on an android device too.. if such gestures mean different things on different phones it will get frustrating..
Rearranging my sleep schedule so that I fall asleep and wake up earlier means I lose the part of the day that I value the most -- the night. Should I really give that up so I can be more productive at my day job?
Narp, I mean some will probably end up as collector's items in a hundred years, as a glance into 2021 design trends - 100 year old advertisements and catalogs are great collectibles and time capsules nowadays - but at the moment they're more of a nice to have for the next year or so. I do like leafing through things like that sometimes, but at the same time I don't mind going to the physical store for a browse. More useful.
According to several heavy sqlite users on HN, performance is improved if you do locking at the application layer. No idea if this is true.
Thanks for taking a look. On load there's instances where numbers aren't yet being calculated which gives some text reading "(invalid date)" and "NaN" in the place of results.

It's only when you fill out the "Current situation" inputs that the request to the API fires to run the calculations and return the results - I suspect the case here may be that the request hasn't been fired yet as the inputs haven't been fully filled?

I'll be working to make this user journey more clear in any case
I use Sleep Cycle on my phone. It tries to detect a shallower phase of sleep by analyzing sounds and vibrations and will start to slowly wake you up when appropriate.

You can give it a timeframe when you want to wake up so you won't oversleep.
Idk Linux on desktop has regressed lately: OOM crashes/OOM killer kicking in (which maybe wasn't so great an idea to begin with), gnome3, snaps and other crap (that doesn't work well IME) littering mount points and other places with info used for internal purposes, systemd creating complexity for it's own sake (or rather monopolizing know-how at RedHat), wayland, bash/getline with vi editing mode broken more than it used to be ...

All the while I'm not doing things differently from a decade or two ago ): While Docker is working well for me, I'm not sure last decade's push towards containers and dockerizing everything is actual progress. Or rather, declaring defeat in front of self-inflicted problems with shared libs (which btw seems also to a large degree a problem with glibc's insistence on shared libs), language/platform ecosystems, and a false separation of concerns story mixing permission and lib versioning issues.
Instructions unclear, every page is upside down!
> you often get removed from the mailing list without any notice

Seems like nothing of value would be lost?

> They don't actually care if you read or enjoy their content, you are either one of the users who increase their opening and click rates, or you're a useless burden to them.

Confirms that indeed nothing of value would be lost. It seems like a win-win situation, spam-letters you wouldn't want to read anyway eventually remove you off their spam list because they can't stalk you.
A part of me really believes Python is being embraced.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25071847
Posted this because this seems like a genuinely awesome product/service. Curious to learn what other companies are making/selling the metaphoric shovels for the nascent genetic- and bio-engineering industries.
This is all still true. FreeBSD is amazing as an operating system, everything is integrated nicely, everything just works, sure the userland isn't the same as GNU in some respects but you get used to it (and some of the GNU utilities are available if you want - like gtar).

Coming from the experience of trying to build from source on Linux a decade ago ports is just an amazingly streamlined experience, it all really just works.

I only run it on my fileserver but it's a really nice experience there. I don't have the experience to run it in production at work but it's really a nice setup.
That explains few thing, but I guess it means no more newsletters for me.

It's not just tracking. I generally feel email is more useful with html on and pictures off. You automatically skip most colorful signatures , headers, legal whatever's ..., while still getting nice formatting
Yes, SO is very toxic towards contributors AND moderators.
I recall the scripting language that came with it was quite impressive.
> Yes, if that newsletter is using best practices.

Clearly that would be worst possible practices.
This is only really a viable option prior to launch, of if the probe is coasting and you have enough time.

If the probe is already near its destination, you have a very narrow window during which you can adjust its velocity for intercept.

If you delay too long you do not have enough deltaV to intercept, and either miss your target entirely, or end up in the wrong final orbit with no ability to correct your inclination or eccentricity to what your mission parameters call for. Then you've basically spent years to send a paperweight to Mars.
If you're feeling nostalgic, Archive.org does a great job digitizing these, and they go back to 1950.

https://archive.org/details/ikea-catalogs/Ikea-1950
This wouldn't work at all for me although I'm probably a minority. I never load any images unless I need to see them for some reason, which is extremely rare. I'd get unsubscribed from your digest but bad actors don't do this and would just keep sending me crap.

(Edit: I just read both Thunderbird and Protonmail do this by default, so maybe I'm not too much of a minority?)
Not necessarily worthy of reverence, though.
This doesn't seem feasible for people that either (a) have naturally longer sleep cycles and are thus prone to getting to bed later and then sleeping in (if not controlled, it adds up), or (b) have to be or do something by some time in the morning.

I'm both and I can't rely on my natural sleeping patterns to wake me up and get the kids to school/care.

That said, replacing a adrenaline-pumping/panic-inducing alarm clock with something that gradually increases sound or light sounds like best of both worlds. You can still rely on getting woken up when needed, and there's no need to shock yourself to it.
It's saved me about five hours a week of commuting in my current job, and ten or more at my previous one. I mean I don't actually do anything useful with the extra time, not even sleeping in since we still have to get up at seven, but still.
This is why (not the only why, but an important one) I only read email with mutt.
"At full scale, we expect a reduction in the CO2 impact of around 85%. If you consider well-to-wheel, where we have to transport fuel, we have a global supply chain, everything around that - you have efficiency across the whole process. In a well-to-wheel consideration, it is on the same level as an electric car."
It’s possible and likely that next of kin has no idea what to do with a GitHub account.

Would be better to add a deceased.txt or a text box in settings somewhere.
> Shipping options disappear and reappear randomly when refreshing the shopping cart

I got saved by this not long ago. Needed a fridge the next day after moving into a new apartment. Was prepared to spend the day cycling to IKEA, buy the fridge and rent a car, get it all the way home, deliver the car and bike back. But then the website borked and let me choose next day express carry inside for 0,- saving me the trouble of carrying the fridge up stairs, renting a car etc.
That's overly simplified; how are you going to get a better paid job if you have to work multiple dead-end jobs just to make it to the end of the month?

You, and many others, do not understand poverty or living as the working poor, living paycheck to paycheck, etc.
Just better building standards will get you a long way. I live in a house with rather poor energy rating by Swedish standards (E on an A to F scale), yet with 4 people and some sunshine we keep 75m2 (half the house) heated to 20c with -5c outside.
Congrats on the launch guys!
Show HN: Pure Golang PostgreSQL Parser powered by CockroachDB
I can testify once you hit a tricky point with GitHub support they're completely useless. And when push comes to shove they'll start playing games - leaving off names in emails so it can't be traced back to a specific employee, sending response that look like they're internal comments, etc. Honestly it was a level of immaturity I didn't expect from GitHub. I went from someone who owned tshirts, hoodies, octopints, etc to someone that only uses them if my work forces me to.
> The only scenario I can think of is when people didn't intentionally subscribe or were coerced into subscribing and those newsletters can go to hell and fully deserve to be marked as spam.

Yeah that's the better part of 95% of them for me.
You already have that kind of hybrids with ICE engines and they are bad. A lot heavier because of two systems, with a system that is rarely used (unless it's a gaz car with a tiny battery only for the taxes benefits) so it's not very reliable, and more expensive.

I will cite Carlos Tavares (CEO of Stellantis, Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Fiat Professional, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram Trucks and Vauxhall Motors.) when he was still working for Renault and talking about hybrids to the government. The guy is not a EV fan, far from it.

"Why not opt for the hybrid engine? We think that it can only be a temporary solution because it requires two types of motorisation, thermal and electric, which has an impact on the total cost of the vehicle and ultimately on prices. Two motorisations is one too many."

The same argument works for hydrogen.
This is nuts and absolutely _sadistic_. We live in an age of such overwhelming surplus there is no need for anyone to work multiple jobs.

Have a read into the physical and mental effects of poverty, especially on children.

Edit: also poverty is a trap, every thing is more expensive when you're poor.
You can disable, showing images.

And then you get button to show images if you need it.

I prefer to use gmail this way, since most of the images are usually tacky signatures, or legal disclaimers or something else I don't need.

And if there are pictures you need there is show images button.
Sorry, I don't know which companies are contributing "something good" to the world.

But I do know. A wide array of positive changes are taking place in the world and the world is getting better at most of the metrics.

> Please read... https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Bett...

The biggest theme discussed in the book is that over the past few decades, the planet has made tremendous change, but most people are oblivious to the possibility because they have warped opinions.
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You can have all the internet points for today
Yes I read that sentence and I would love to see the actual numbers. They may talk about the CO2 only too.
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Yeah why not? I mean you're doing an argumentum ad absurdum but you have the right idea.

Minimum wage and employee protection laws are the way forward. Everybody should be able to live comfortably, working at most 40 hours / week.

Minimum wage is bad in its own way, because it sets a "what is the least we can get away with" boundary for employers, but in the current employment climate, employers can and do get away with paying less (see the service industry where employees are expected to collect tips to stipend their wages, see the gig industry where the employer doesn't give a shit that the employee has to struggle full days to get enough work to get paid).
You don't fix races to the bottom by individual action.
There also is a backup API: https://www.sqlite.org/backup.html
10m/s is a pretty fresh breeze.
It seems like a non-problem, ie the system working as designed, and the GP is just misled by "best practices" peddled by email marketing scum?

If you're running a legit newsletter that people want I can't imagine enough people would be marking it as spam for it to actually affect your reputation.
ITA Antitrust fines FB for not informing on data collection commercial intent
Even with an alarm I find that I almost immediately fall into a cycle of waking up at later than 7PM if I don't stop myself - I don't even go to bed that late sometimes, exercise or not.

Its the only superpower I actually want - to be able to just turn myself off like lightswitch. My brain itself is fairly happy just sort of thinking about compilers or field theory and stuff like that when going to sleep but I physically cannot stop myself from putting my fingers in yet another pie when I'm awake so I end up in this hyperfocused state in bursts of an hour or two and then I won't be going to bed possibly ever.

Sometimes I'm completely fine, sometimes the only way I'm getting up before 12AM is if I haven't slept a second. Even more annoying is that I have no vices other than tea - ADHD has been bandied around at me in the past, could be something like that.
I lived in Spain for most of my life, and plenty of people drink milk in various forms: by itself, with chocolate or other flavourings, with cereals, muesli, etc. Supermarkets have huge shelfs for many brands of milk, and they're sold mainly in 6-packs.
This is an important step towards modularization of the cell phone and smart watch.

Bring the bits you need for the journey you're taking. Leave the brick at home.