skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s definitely become a semi-religious thing where I’m at. I generally don’t wear a mask outside and people have asked me to put one on from about 10m away. I’ll comply, just to not be combative at that particular moment in time, but remove it once they’ve passed by. I’m fully vaccinated now. I expect this social norm to be semi-permanent and I don’t really have a good idea for how to break it. Even carrying a vaccine card everywhere would, I expect, elicit pseudoscientific retorts that “vaccines don’t affect transmission”.
Then what is a real answer in this case?
No, but you could say “ADHD medication”, much of which is very similar
There's no such thing as infinite money. Cash just symbolizes value its not actually "value", and you can't make infinite value by just printing infinite cash.
Less government intervention: Let them fail. System can only fix itself, if we let the flaws fall.
> I've spent a lot of time reading the science over the last year and a half or so.

Pro tip: there wasn't any science to read.

Pro tip 2: when a pandemic's origin contains a lab that studies and publishes that virus, it's from the lab.
Is there a language with sane syntax (if, for, comparisons being a syntactic feature not commands requiring ; in weird places) that would still execute every line by default and support pipelines and && and || natively? Sort of bash that looks like a normal language.

Maybe even some library with stuff for parsing outputs of common commands?
World Adds Record New Renewable Energy Capacity in 2020 [pdf]
billionaires are criminal by definition, and their existence proves the absence of a (econ 101 style) market in whatever industry they came from. we can only fix this problem through efficient regulation of monopolies.
> Is it possible to learn that? To me it seems impossible to do a "short nap".

Yes. If you have to look after an infant you too may discover how wonderful 12 minutes, or seven, of closing your eyes can be. Did I sleep? Maybe, but I definitely feel better.
Blender is also an option, it can be scripted and it's possible to get pixel-perfect segmentation masks that way. The downside is obviously that you have to have a suitable number of 3-D scenes pre-built. But I think typically pasting foreground objects into scenes randomly is basically how these things are trained.
Well sure, but that's the practice of politics.

Just because there's no clear solution doesn't mean we disengage from it.

It's why we have these multi thousand year old political projects, to try to do better with exactly these kinds of questions
> As a user, I'm very happy the stores impose stringent rules.

I have seen this view lot from apple users. And I really feel sad that no body gives the enough credit to dev community because of whom you're getting these apps in first place, not from Apple directly (And I am sure, if they do, heck they will charge you like hell).

Please understand it is mutual platform for apple/google, devs and consumers. Now days, Apple and consumers has not much to lose as they have enough apps but dev's life is becoming difficult day by day - apple/google account charges, huge margin-cut over in-app-payments, rejection without any proper reason, no immediate support, bad apis and documentation. I am happy I quit professional mobile app making for good.

> I pay Apple to uphold this bar by any means necessary.

I wish you could pay devs instead of Apple to held this bar high.
With Bitcoin, you've had ten years to acquire some, in multiple different ways. It's about as fair as one can hope for while being permissionless and not requiring identification.

In the early days Bitcoin was given away for free via faucets, you just had to create a wallet

The existing fiat currencies suffer the same issue. It's called the Cantillon effect. People who are closest to newly created currency units (mostly financial insiders) pay lower interest rates and have more buying power with that money. They can also immediately turn around and lend the currency out at higher rates, pocketing the difference.
> It’s easy to make a profit when everyone is strapped for cash and you have an infinite supply

I’d expand this... It’s easy to make a profit when everyone is strapped for cash.
This seems like an oversimplification of what it takes to make a company grow and succeed. Is it either a) hire top talent or b) hire for weakness.

The question this article is posing is the wrong one, it’s neither a nor b. Companies need to hire based on what they need most, sometimes it’s profit, sometimes value, sometimes all of the above.

This article feels like it’s based on a strawman.
Why do you say that is a way of internalizing externalities? I see nothing there that would internalize them. It may be a way of reducing negative externalities, but via a method other than internalizing them (namely, reducing competitive pressure). Actually internalizing said externalities would seem to me to be the superior approach, as that would get you less of the negative externalities and more of the positive ones, whereas reducing competitive pressure would probably just get you less of both indiscriminately.

Edit: Oh, nevermind, I think I see now where you're coming from -- it internalizes externalities because it's all one big owner. Duh. Somehow didn't notice that at first.

That said, I think the problems of lack of competitive pressure are real, and it would better to internalize externalities in a more direct fashion that doesn't cause the problems that turning down competitive pressure would.
Probably you need at least farming so you have something for your slaves to work on that can scale easily.
Pity you need the computer to press mute for you. I do it myself but I don't have a butler either.
So interesting that people assume that companies will stay in punative enviroments. If there is a risk that a country is going to fine me 30b instead of 2b, I will just go to another country. Just like everyone does with taxes (Apple to Ireland, etc).

You could say, well, everyone should be issuing fines like this, but then all it takes is ONE country to NOT do this and they get all of the worlds corporate taxes.

Policy is not so simple. Just go through the downstream consequences of what you're saying.
And there's committees of people deciding which index funds to invest in and which to ignore.
I guess GoF means „Gang of Four“ Design Patterns (for anyone else wondering).
This is brilliant science. Spending more than 8 hours in bed isnt necessary, but naps are still helpful. With young children 5.5 hours in bed is not abnormal.
>>Taxpayers not only recouped everything from the 2008 bailouts, they actually earned a $15.3 billion profit. How is that “socializing their biggest failures”?

Taxpayers should have behaved like hedge funds behave with one another...merciless. Want cash cause no one else loans to you? Sure, hand 95% of the business. The difference between what I said and $15.3 Billion is the gift.
Hans Zimmer’s ringtone for the Oppo Find X3 Pro is fit for a Hollywood score
It's really important to check sources. What Reuters isn't sharing is that they're quoting YNet. No one in this country takes that paper seriously. It's literally a garbage tabloid. They literally publish articles for the sake of publishing article updates. Their Hebrew articles say the exact reverse - that the Pfizer vaccine is very effective against the South African variant, yet still a garbage newspaper.

Original ynet English Article: https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/HJMpKyeLO
While I've seen several examples of this being the only way to get out of never prioritized debt-cleanup that the team can't bother explaining to management in non-technical business-value terms. The reality is a sprint is always over-packed with stuff to do with zero room for side-projects and expecting people to work weekends on side-projects to solve company business needs is not exactly a sound strategy.

What one can do is is deliberately allot time to the team to work on any side-project as long as they are somehow attached to the business. There are ways to do this more organized, for example innovation-weeks or the famous Google-fridays.
> American finance right now is not that the public markets are overrun with *failsons* picking up stock tips on Reddit,

Had to look up failson:

White, middle-class, male, useless people—who have just enough family context to not be crushed by poverty.

- https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=failson

Seems a bit of a harsh, and loaded term.
But robots don't actually replace these workers.

In the case of McDonald's the kiosks only generated more throughput, actually adding work, so all the staff assigned to taking orders was put into other work.

Meanwhile self-checkout, while actually reducing throughput somewhat, made it possible for the workers to take on other tasks in the store - of which there are many.
The alturnative is letting things fail. It causes a lot of pain in the short term with people losing their jobs and general economic fallout. This causes a lot of suffering.

But on the other hand, the rich will lose more, and during the rebuilding a different set of people will gain the upper hand and end up on top.

It's hard to get the political will to actually allow what needs to happen to fix wealth inequality.
> At some point in the next millennium, all work will be creative work

Or caregiving, more likely.
Better title? Over 95% of GitHub repos using NumPy and PyTorch aren't getting the random numbers they think they are.
Linux command line – things a programmer can learn in a day
The article you link fails to mention that McDonald's also spent about 8.5 billion on stock buybacks and dividends in 2018, which would have been enough to give every one of their 210,000 employees an extra 40,000 dollars that year on top of what they already made that year. Not quite $44 an hour, but a hell of a lot better than minimum wage - and the company wouldn't need to spend a single extra cent or raise any prices in order to do it.

From the 2018 annual report: https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/content/dam/gwscorp/nfl/inve...
its there, search for ramanujan or look at bottom starting of 1900
What about the "independent contractor" loophole?
its must be there, search for the names, the tiles must have been collapsed
Please take an Econ 101 course, thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq_E3HquRJY
>These are people who would balk at the idea of downloading a song illegally or pirating most software, but somehow Photoshop was different.

Because the moral compass suggest Adobe is big, evil greedy for profit company so stealing from them makes you feel less guilty. And since everyone is doing it and it becomes a norm then why not do it?
That's just a wage increase from a single point in the supply chain. With a national minimum wage increase, all of the incremental wage incremental wage increases get passed to the consumer.
Article

Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms
Lauren A. Rivera

This article presents culture as a vehicle of labor market sorting. Providing a case study of hiring in elite professional service firms, I investigate the often suggested but heretofore empirically unexamined hypothesis that cultural similarities between employers and job candidates matter for employers’ hiring decisions. Drawing from 120 interviews with employers as well as participant observation of a hiring committee, I argue that hiring is more than just a process of skills sorting; it is also a process of cultural matching between candidates, evaluators, and firms. Employers sought candidates who were not only competent but also culturally similar to themselves in terms of leisure pursuits, experiences, and self-presentation styles. Concerns about shared culture were highly salient to employers and often outweighed concerns about absolute productivity. I unpack the interpersonal processes through which cultural similarities affected candidate evaluation in elite firms and provide the first empirical demonstration that shared culture—particularly in the form of lifestyle markers—matters for employer hiring. I conclude by discussing the implications for scholarship on culture, inequality, and labor markets.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/000312241246321...

The book

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691155623/pe...

> Drawing on scores of in-depth interviews as well as firsthand observation of hiring practices at some of America’s most prestigious firms, Lauren Rivera shows how, at every step of the hiring process, the ways that employers define and evaluate merit are strongly skewed to favor job applicants from economically privileged backgrounds. She reveals how decision makers draw from ideas about talent—what it is, what best signals it, and who does (and does not) have it—that are deeply rooted in social class. Displaying the “right stuff” that elite employers are looking for entails considerable amounts of economic, social, and cultural resources on the part of the applicants and their parents.
I wouldn't even know where to start with that, I'm sorry but I must simply say it's utter gibberish.
money isn’t real my dude, at least while we have that sweet sweet petrodollar scam going. see MMT.
Converting a Project to Meson: The Olc Pixel Game Engine
I agree that concentrating on living standards is a good idea, but I also think massive wealth and income inequality is a barrier to truly free society. I hope it continues to stay in focus alongside other issues.
I'm not sure what your point is? There's very little in human society where we know the precise right value objectively. We still make choices in the absence of perfect information.
Especially the last one is simply not true, because firing a minimum wage worker is more a problem for the employer than the employee, who can find another such job within a week.
I don't think anyone will deny the presence of inequality, but cherry picking the highest possible number to compare against doesn't really help anything.

Because the math is so easy, I calculated a couple other minimum wages (1985 vs 2020):

- $21, if it kept up with software engineers.

- $17.40 an hour, if it kept up with teachers. (Interestingly, only $16 if it kept up with superintendents).

- Doctors are the real losers. Minimum wage would only have gone up to $9.72.
Is this actually new silicon?

All the new features seem to be things one could implement in firmware... The things not easily implentable in firmware (new frequency bands) aren't supported.
I was in the same boat until I had a baby who was a _terrible_ sleeper during the night. Once I was down to 4-5 hours sleep a night, napping during the day was heaven!

Sometimes I'd have had too much coffee or been overstimulated through work or something, I found [these tips from the military](https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/the-trick-soldiers-use-...) really helpful. Even now, I pretty much only need to relax my jaw and do a few rounds of 4-7-8 breathing and I can have a nap on demand!
> Billionaires are criminal by definition

Sadly, billionaires aren’t criminal by definition (no such laws), but the existence of billionaires sure does cut against the idea of a perfect market (in a “perfect” market there cannot be profits).
I agree with you, but I think your comment could be improved by pointing out the specific issues with the article, e.g. wall street bonuses bring a cherry picked metric that is easy to manipulate.
Many countries in the WW2 era sold amphetamine based drugs as antidepressants, for "creating the right attitude", making your wife focus on housework, etc. (and other rather disturbing things). Essentially, drugging workers doing low-skill tasks to make them more cooperative or productive or something.

I wonder how much research was done at the time and has been done in retrospect.
I've built a (simple) free to use loom alternative, what do you think?
Ever since Loom has gotten so much traction I've been wondering if there's something special about their product from a tech perspective and tried to build my own MVP of it. The result is https://shareit.video

Surprisingly, I don't think there's anything special about Loom other than their marketing and first-mover advantage (if that is even applicable). I really only built this as a proof of concept but would be curious about what you think of it.
I would much rather want a serious refactoring rather than a single feature. Python integration is nice in any image processing application but would make little sense with the current state of PS.
Proper HDR workflow is needed but to be honest i stopped caring. The only reason i still spend time with PS is clients providing psds.
Given the annoyance the author expresses at the difficultly in getting the app into the Google and Apple app stores, I'm surprised they didn't just make a webapp instead. Since they were already using React, that would seem pretty natural. This app doesn't use any mobile-specific features, so it seems like doing a webapp would fit well.
As an architect I disliked Autocad and its scripting language, Autolisp which is the worse implementation of the Lisp way I know. It's when I discovered Scheme that I began to understand what the Lisp way could bring for me, as a non professional coder. And it's when I went down and analyzed its foundations, the lambda calculus, that I began to understand how a programming language can be built.

In the past, as a teacher in CAD, I have been writing rather useful code with Ruby working in Sketchup3D, and I loved this language. But today, as a past architect with time enough to think quietly (until death) about a programming language, the Lips way is my way: http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=fromroots2canopy

The only problem I encountered in my trip to the world lisp ... came from some Lisp priests who do not accept any other vision of Lisp than their own. And end up putting anyone off.

The only thing that matters is the pleasure one can take in elegantly coding beautiful algorithms. The rest is negligible, at least for me, who is nearing the end of my life.

Best regards

Alain Marty
The last section of the article covers your exact point, and suggests that some large companies might need a hybrid approach.

In smaller companies (or teams within big companies) the points in the article are absolutely correct though.
》To make a move you need to send $1 to this address.

This is very expensive and not very scalable.
This is a nice ideal, but it only works if every single business is onboard - otherwise they'll just jump ship to somewhere which pays them more.
I think it would probably just make sense to run postgres on a compressed filesystem rather than use an extension.

Looks like citus had good results: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2013/04/30/zfs-compression/
That's not corrosive at all. If anything, it's the kind of thinking that leads to recognizing one's worth. No person should stay in a job in which he is of the view the he is not commensurately compensated. Nor should he wait for some vague future in which that might the case "eventually". This was the point of raising the minimum wage in the first place. Why would you think it just stops there?
Wall Street hedge fund managers are often considered to be corrupt middle men. That is just the connotation. They are an easy and popular target.

Not saying it is a good reason, but that is why the article isn't targeting engineers.
The government is not a hedge fund. It has no expertise in running businesses. Had they done what your are suggesting, the markets wouldn’t have reacted the way they did, the companies would have gone bankrupt under government mismanagement, the economy would have continued to crater, and not $1 of the money would have been recovered.

It turns out that the architects of this bailout were very smart about the way they did it. Also, relative to the recent stimulus packages that have no hope of ever being recovered, the numbers from 2008 are quaint and the conditions under which it was given were extremely fiscally responsible.
Oddly enough I was just thinking the same thing. From what I can remember every ( Android) app that I've ever installed has come from a recommendation from somewhere else. I can't see how you'd ever get any traction if you mainly relied on the app store search results.
Ok :-) Seems you a bit like probability calculations, can be a bit fun I think too.

(Actually I also don't have ADHD -- I'm something else than the other ones who replied earlier in this thread.)
> We still make choices in the absence of perfect information.

The point is that imperfect choices are likely to be made with imperfect information. So, it's perfectly reasonable for people to be "for" and "against" the minimum wage being $44. Most people do not know the answer, so there's some consensus happening. Maybe every person should be part of direct consensus instead of a few people who are designated decision makers.

Humans appoint a few individuals to make decisions on problems that are not known at the time of being appointed, so it seems like imperfect consensus. Would people have voted differently in 2016 if they knew there would be a pandemic in 2020? Maybe. Maybe not. Systems should have ways of course-correcting on a much smaller scale than 4 years.

Guessing whether or not we should double minimum wage every few years doesn't work well. Numbers that don't take into account cost of living don't work. Why is the IRA income cut-off the same for someone who lives in Manhattan as it is for someone who lives in Omaha? The whole system seems off. Guessing a number for minimum wage and then mandating that until the next president updates it seems like the wrong approach.
Btw, I've heard fb is moving away from leetcode BS stuff for interviews. Can you confirm that?
Your hyperbole is going completely off the far deep end

"billionaires are criminal by definition"

What definitions are you using?

When you talk like this, you're hardly helping your cause. Ppl just dismiss you as intellectually dishonest
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IntelliJ Idea Shared Indexes
UUID's are always possible, you're thinking of the IDFA (IDentifier For Advertisers), which is tied to the device. If you generate a UUID and store it locally you should be able to maintain identity, at least until the user deletes the app.
HTTPS Everywhere? Let's Not
encrypt dns
What kind of technology enabled wealth gap in feudal society? It seems it was more about religion being used to subdue people.
I generally like The Atlantic but this is a prime example of why no-one trusts the media anymore. This is why people turn to fake news. Because all news is now fake news.

When I read any content related to the economy it seems that anything that helps the poor and middle class get ahead is immediately branded as "evil, socialist marxist propaganda", but if it benefits the extremely wealthy (and helps exploit those under them) it's "good for the economy and country".

Index funds are "worse than marxism"? Please. Even the prime embodiment of capitalism, Warren Buffett, recommends them, and have done so for years.
You left off an extremely relevant detail from your quote: "... annualized rate of return of 0.6% and perhaps a loss when adjusted for inflation"
in a functional market, competition for profit exists. because billionaires exist, we know they control their market, squeezing out competitors through artificial and illegal means.
Heh?

Who is we? Who is pressuring the US to do anything?

DPRC is a sovereign state and can do as they damn well please just like the US.

Get off your high horse.
> in a “perfect” market there cannot be profits

I'm curious what your definition of a perfect market is.

In free markets, without profits the companies will fail.