skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe he means that if you were to randomly pick people from the working population (excluding children, disabled, unemployed, etc.), there is a 50% (or higher) chance that person makes minimum wage.

Extreme inequality combined with familial support. It's not uncommon now to have one or more kids living with the parents into their 20s while they go to college and build up their career, right as the homemaker enters the workforce with limited professional experience so you get 2+ minimum wage earners and one established professional bringing in support. Throw in the gig economy, which hoists capital and operational risk onto the employees (sorry, "contractors"), and you've got a majority of the working population making minimum wage.

It's even worse in university towns, where the college kids are almost guaranteed to be working for minimum wage while receiving external funding from loans or parents which can skew the numbers even more.
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Job candidates could die to biters during an interview! This needs to be tried once (and posted to youtube)! Preferably on max difficulty.
> What does ups and fedex do?

Drivers learn which places on their route have facilities that are easy for guests to use and get friendly with the gatekeepers.
They are also very big, making them easier to find with satellites. Also don't forget that those subs are not just randomly wandering around, you can bet both Russia and China are keeping track of approx. location of every carrier group very carefully.
Soviet scifi was there in 1929![1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Air_Seller
1 user searches for a product, and then clicks on 1: although you estimate this transaction generates 1kb of data, in fact this is more on the order of 1kb x the number of candidates, so a few MB.
Sounds like you have some terrible nightmares!
Why not use starcraft instead and filter by apm and multitasking? You are sure to miss out on a few good candidates but you will filter out a lot of people who cannot manage 3 bases really effectively while watching the minimap, while designing custom build orders that can survive in the current meta. It’s like interviewing boxers on their blitz chess playing ability because you want “people who can think ahead under pressure.” Please.

Skipping candidates “just in case” is like not hiring women “just in case” they distract the men. Those defensive hiring practices destroy diversity, diversity of thought, and the chance for a human to be evaluated in a fair or rational way.
This is just incorrect. Nowhere in the article does the author, Jim Salter, generalize about all open source software. When someone in the comments did make that leap, Salter pointed out that if these had been closed-source projects the bad code would have been put into production and no one would have known better.
Isn't everything a fake accomplishment? If I like baking cakes does it mean I accomplished something by doing so? And conversely if I'm a runner does it mean it's fake because I'll never beat the world record?
I remember when the boxes had bumper stickers in them and my health food store customers complained about potential toxicity.

Good times.
> It may be useful to apply this analysis to private entities as well

The mistake was thinking they were ever fundamentally different to begin with. Power is power is power. The only difference is which checks do and don't exist on them at a given point in time.

Edit: Clarity
This. So much this ...

Tip of the hat to you sir.-

This is so much in the spirit of the site, methinks ...

... support the thread, because it -fosters discussion-, and have the wherewithal to have your point of view challenged.-

Expose yourself to the opposing viewpoint(s).-
I see, I agree. I don't think it's a particularly insightful observation to say they are impartial- they have a very clear voice. When I hear someone labelled impartial, I assume that's an attempt to discredit their character.
> Suppose I buy a $100,000 house and it grows 5% per annum in value for 10 years.

Suppose it doesn't. It's been years since we able to count on decades of unbroken, steady home value inflation.
Amazon isn't the only employer

yet.
> This article points out the rather morbid fact that 90% of down syndrome pregnancies are aborted. [...] I guess this is standard practice, which is kind of sad, since those with Down Syndrome can live fulfilling lives.

I get what you're saying when you mention living a fulfilling life, but there is an impact to others as well. A couple I know decided to have one last child late, and unfortunately had a Down Syndrome pregnancy. Abortion was out of the question for religious reasons. They took joy in the pregnancy, and approached it with lots of motivation. Early on, they got a lot out of the simple joys of raising their Down Syndrome child, which others in this discussion have referenced. However it became more of a problem over time. There is a spectrum of functionality for those afflicted with Down Syndrome and some children have the capability to be more independent, or more manageable, while others don't.

In this case, although things started off well, it became apparent that the child would never be functional enough to be independent in any way, despite lots of efforts and investment from the parents. The situation created large stresses and constraints on the family - the parents, the siblings, their friends, etc. It changed what activities they could hold as a family, what social functions they were invited to, where they could live, and so on. Ultimately it destroyed their marriage and has created a lot of complications for them now, in terms of taking care of their now adult child.

My exposure to this basically confirmed that I would choose abortion if faced with the same situation, as the burden created on others' lives is simply too much.
Hmm... if a company blackmails people into submission, exploiting their economic dependence - we wouldn't call that positive PR. Branding success is "I love this company." and investing in long term goodwill of the brand. This is directly supported by the GP's link to the Pew research polls that show how they're squandering their reputation around the world.

What you are describing is Economic Coercion: https://www.csis.org/analysis/time-collective-pushback-again...
San Francisco has seen huge growth but constructed basically no new units

I've lived in SF for over 15 years -- this is obviously false. You could argue "not enough" units, but if you haven't seen new construction of multiple large buildings in multiple neighborhoods (Hayes Valley, Mission, SOMA, Market st., Potrero Hill, Mission Bay), then you haven't been in SF.

Literally walking around on the street, you can see thousands of new units. There was a pretty big uptick sometime around 2014 or 2016 as well. That said, prices are still the about highest in in the nation from what I can see.
Eh. I think it's more about decades of declining low interest rates. Low rates are only available to american's who can obtain credit, and leads to predation on those who cannot. It's about mortgage availability not housing availability.
Guess how we know you've never been poor.
>> UTF-16 is an abomination that is largely Microsoft's fault

> I think that's unfair.

Fair enough. It was a moderately 'emotional' response caused by some painful history of issues caused by 2-byte assumptions.

The problem I suppose is that MS actually moved to Unicode earlier than most of the industry (to their credit), and therefore played Guinea pig in discovering what works and doesn't. My complaint now is that I feel they should start a migration to UTF-8 (yes I know how challenging that would be).
> The cost of upgrading infrastructure in a busy city is enormously expensive. San Francisco is on a peninsula with no room at all to expand outward. The only solution is to build up and that’s a real problem in an area prone to earthquakes.

People always ignore this fact. Infrastructure isn’t free. When all is said and done the Central Subway extension will likely have cost over $2bn for 1.7 miles of subway. [1] The new transit center cost $2.2bn [2]. Rebuilding 1/2 of the bay bridge cost $6.5bn. [3]

Consider that money for all of this is artificially restricted by Prop 13, and by California being a net-giver state, paying about $40bn per year more to the fed than we receive back, effectively being a piggy bank for poorer states.

> Plus there are a lot of people that like the character of their neighbourhood and don’t want to live in an apartment building.

Many commenters with a lot of hatred for San Francisco’s unique brand of dirext democracy are sadly OK with overruling the expressed will of the people not to turn our home into New York just so some tech billionaires can sell more banner ads.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Subway

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transbay_Transit_Center

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_span_replacement_of_th...
Whip-its? This guy had $840M and his drug of choice was whip-its? That is strangely amusing...
Most of San Francisco’s housing pipeline is homes on former superfund sites and a landfill island in the middle of the bay.
It is infuriating that archive captchas are positioned offscreen on mobile and therefore can’t be solved.
This branched from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26589960.
Unlikely that Wikipedia will be able to charge for content, seeing as all of their content is CC-BY-SA licensed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Licensing_update

They may be able to charge for bandwidth (if you want to use a Wikipedia image, you can use Wikipedia's enterprise CDN instead of their own), but their licensing allows me to rehost content as long as I follow the attribution & sublicensing terms.

Google has no problem operating their own CDNs, so I find it unlikely that Wikipedia will be able to monetize Google search results in such a manner as you described.

Disclaimer: I work for Google; opinions are my own.
Fact-checking is the wrong way to fight misinformation
None unless you are faced with homelessness or this.

If company X is offering you a job, and you really need a job, and it's not enough to pay market rent, but X has company dorms available and it will be paid via a line item off of your paycheck, you might take it.

Anyone who needs this type of arrangement is likely going to get a refund at the end of the year anyway and doesn't care about the tax implications.

Amazon could start doing something like this to have labor for its warehouses if the housing market keeps pricing everyone out, for example. Maybe also office maintenance, food prep/delivery, etc. Didn't Foxconn house its workers at one point?

These could be the housing projects of the future if done at a big enough corporate scale. Would they decay into crime-ridden slums or would corporate housing police keep things in order, but in a dystopian manner?
Lanchester's Laws
The game of Risk seems to follow Lanchester’s linear law. That would imply that its wars are fought with spears or with unaimed fire, not modern cannons or long-range guns.

That’s at odds with the fact that it concerns world-wide war.
And if you try to say emoji.length, you'll get an error:

No such method 'length' for invocant of type 'Str'. Did you mean any of these: 'codes', 'chars'?

Because as the article points out, the "length" of a string is an ambiguous concept these days.
That and (depending on the state) they don’t have to grant you leftover vacation. I’ve has friends who planned this and then the employer accepted their resignation “effective immediately”. Not only did they not get to help usher along their replacement but they left thousands of dollars worth of vacation on the table
I can't believe it (I'm kidding; I totally can). I like that some of them mention the excavator (<3).
I feel like this celebration is premature - there are lot of ways misinformation can be spun around this; no group has yet decided to do so. There are million ways this basic fact can be twisted; let me free style a bit on Ever Given trutherism:

* The EU bureaucrats did this to make Brexit less awesome. Britain is now being forced to trade a bit more with the EU now a major shipping lane is blocked.

* the boat isn't really stuck, it was smuggling children from the middle east and was going to be raided, so they faked this to unload the kids and cover their tracks. Here is the satellite image showing where the sickos are taking the poor, innocent babies. The Ever Given has a Call Sign of H3RC. Or Hillary Rodham Clinton?[1]

* Israel did it to block Iranian oil exports and sink any chances of Biden reviving the JCPOA

1. This is an actual tweet I found by searching for "clinton ever given": https://twitter.com/BrassBallsBlog/status/137538252246974873...
Sometimes commercial companies get a tip from intelligence agencies:

"Your <reverse gateway> devices are compromised and leak PII." Nothing more.
That was very entertaining, thank you.
Got it now, thanks. Yes, I've heard that the greenish parts of the potato tuber are toxic and should be discarded. Contain some alkaloids, likely. The potato is a plant in the Solanaceae family, which includes common edible plants like potato, tomato, eggplant, chillies, bell peppers, etc., as well as some poisonous ones like datura. In fact, I was surprised to see how huge and diverse the family is:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanaceae
Your argument contradicts itself.
Actually I was able to search URLs with very little ram across the entire collection as they have a series of indexes you can download.

In theory someone could do something similar with terms, or you could first use URLs to filter the text size you download into Elastic or Solr and do your own custom search that way.

The indexes are really neat though, I highly recommend playing with them.
Prison is the most total and comprehensive control over an individual that one can implement, short of brain-in-a-jar fantasies or outright execution. Violence, and the threat of injury or death, are irredeemably and inseparably part of any prison system. Prison would not be prison if an inmate could safely leave.

You may hold an ideal of presumed innocence in society at large, but prison is the implementation of determined guilt. Failing to acknowledge that is a disservice to those in bondage.
If you want a pre-configured way to publish your notes or digital garden, Dendron's got an easy to use 1-click publish: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/53de5c1e-b20c-4adc-ae48-e1659e...
Russian Nuclear Subs Simultaneously Surface from Under Ice in Arctic
> If you read the book it’s clear communism, fascism, democracy and capitalism are really religions too. They require belief in a super human order - a set of laws that exist without backing in science or human agreement. E.g. “All men are created equal”

I don't agree with that interpretation, someone who champions democracy just has a set of moral values they want to apply, they don't think the universe is inherently democratic or anything like that.

Likewise for your other examples. They're ideologies, not religions.
>On average, this is not true.

While you might be correct looking at other markets, you would be surprised how average it is for Canadian Housing prices across Canada. It is impossible to not to earn a minimum of 20 % on any Real Estate transaction withing a year. It is very possible with a little luck to almost double your money on certain purchases in a very short time. I understand how difficult this is for people outside of Canada to understand but I'm not making shit up, it is reality and there is no limit to what the Gov will do to make sure it continues.
Tesla on track to produce 1M cars this year, Musk in a company-wide call
This should be a Show HN. I suggest reading https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638. Add your text as a first comment to the new thread and email hn@ycombinator.com when it's up, and we'll make sure it doesn't get flagged.
As long as people get their Amazon package on time, I don't think they personally will care.

They really need to strike and unionize.
I’ve found that technical types often don’t care about issues like this... but the name GIMP is imo an abelist slur and I really wish they would change it. Sadly the devs don’t seem to care, but there is a fork called Glimpse that aims to remedy this. If any of y’all care about removing discriminatory language from open source projects, please promote Glimpse!

https://glimpse-editor.org/
> If you're a Reddit engineer, what is the deal there?

Maybe what you meant to say is, "if you're an Apple engineer, what's the deal here?" It sounds like it isn't an issue on other browsers, which means the issue likely falls squarely in Apple's camp. Especially considering that Safari makes memory management the kernel's problem, I fail to see a way in which a "Reddit engineer" could be responsible for not knowing how to work around an undocumented interface.
I wonder what happens to RSS feeds in this situation. Programs I run that process RSS feeds will just fetch them over HTTP completely headlessly, so if there are any CAPTCHAs, I'm not going to see them.
>maybe the next search engine should use a push-system

So setting up a new search engine that way would require going to every site and convincing them to notify you of changes. Wouldn't that be even more limited than the current Cloudflare whitelist system? At least there's some chance you can get around the whitelist system.
As an aside,

if someone only runs a web browser on his machine (and maybe a few other programs that aren't resource intensive) then using as much RAM as possible sounds like the correct tradeoff since unlike CPU, RAM has the same power budget whether used or not (so it is worth it to cache results).

The alternative would be to page to disk, but that would hurt responsiveness. If nothing else requests the RAM you are better off keeping tabs alive.
In general I think this is more of a burden to women than men. I have no problem using a bottle on long drives, and my male friends have been mostly the same. But I've known women for whom it would be a deal breaker and would leave the job on that account.

This is based in both gender and sex, in that it's less convenient for the female sex and the female gender tends to be more modest.
That's not the point. The point is the disingenuous, and sadly socially acceptable, argument that something is bad/wrong because it is made by men or white people
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> I mean, it comes from every intro to algorithm and data structures classes at every serious CS program.

If you wanted to indicate the level of generality here you wouldn't have used the adjective "serious"

> Not sure what you are insinuating here... That folks from these schools or who do good at algorithms don't see black folks as their equals?

I said "least likely to have any experience communicating... as peers". Hard to talk about "culture fit" when you don't have experience gauging certain folk who're far from sharing your background. That's just simple empiricism, which is why the reciprocal notion is true for many Black folk as well. De facto segregation has ruinous effects.
One simple and obvious lesson to point out here is that you better make peace with yourself before coming into possession of any large sum.

Money can destroy you just as easily as it can empower you. Look at what happens to a significant percentage of lottery winners.

It's an amplifier, and it can amplify your problems and self-destructive tendencies along with your desire to do good.
A reminder that the goal of an interview process is not to be fair. This is not a sports event or a court case.

Mostly your goals align with "being fair", but not always, and that's OK.
Kind of prick the end of vine (the place where vine was cut/sheared) into that one single grape like a needle.
> I'd imagine that most people who are top engineers would rather be doing engineering than anything else.

Really? I love software development, but I don't think just churning out random CRUD software based on some specs is very interesting. A lot nicer to solve problems of your customers, see how the product makes them happier and think about ways to improve their user experience.

Somehow I assumed that's how others felt as well.
Dunno, I wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26595520 just now and my super dumb hash table has two bugs in its 21 lines of code:

1. It doesn't update—attempts to change the value associated with an existing key are silently ignored, although they do consume buckets.

2. It loops forever if the table is full and the key it was looking for is negative, because that invokes conversion of a negative signed value to an unsigned value, which I think is UB in C.

Maybe it has more bugs I haven't found yet.

Additionally the reason it took me 15 minutes to write 21 lines of code was that I changed a bunch of things in midstream, before posting the comment:

1. At first there was no "full" field in the hash table bucket, so there was no way to distinguish full buckets from empty buckets.

2. And then when I added it, I added it as "dead", with the opposite Boolean sense of "full", so I would have needed a separate initialization routine (to set all the dead fields to something nonzero). Instead I swapped the sense.

3. I was trying to detect the case where we'd looped back around to our starting point, indicating that the table was full and the search was unsuccessful, and I realized that the condition I wanted was not b == orig, which would always fail on the first iteration, but (b + 1) % table_size == orig. But doing that on every iteration seemed obscene, so I incremented b (mod table_size) to start out with instead.

4. At some point I think I realized I'd forgotten to set the .full field on newly inserted items.

5. Also I realized I'd forgotten to test the table[b].k == k condition in `get` as well, which would have made every search unsuccessful.

So I think it's reasonable to say that even a pretty limited hash-table implementation has plenty of opportunities to write bugs, more than I expected. But maybe I'm just running on low blood sugar this afternoon or something.
At least we ended up with Canada - some were trying for an 'Australia' deal.
If people didn't allow macros in Excel, stayed in read-only mode in Word and only opened sandboxed PDFs (convert to images in sandbox, OCR result, stitch back together), we would see a sharp decline in successful breaches. But that would be boring.
I worked for one of the startups Tony funded in Vegas and was around for most of the Downtown Project stuff, and was also one of the most vocal critics of what happened there. This story covers just the tip of the iceberg.

I'm really sorry he died, even though I was horrified by the externalities of what he did in my town and, frankly, didn't much like the cat personally. But this idea that all of this started when he went to Park City is just not true. The culture of heavy boozing and drugs was very much always a big factor in the Vegas downtown tech scene. I don't think that statement would be considered controversial by anyone who was around for the real surge of it, from about 2010 - 2014 or so. And look, I'm not a Puritan or an abstainer, but it's hard to take people seriously when most of the meetings seem to be done whole day drinking at the casino or by the pool in the Ogden condo.

Whatever. It's all over with now. I didn't even know Tony had left town - he'd stopped really making the scene outside his trailer park long before that. I wish he'd had people who could help him, but he spent a long time being told that he was an instinctual visionary whose every act was an act of genius. That isn't very good for honest self-evaluation.

I wish everything had happened differently, but it didn't. It's a shame.