skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Zealand prices for Subway, after converting currencies are more or less the same as American prices (+/- $.50 - the ingredients are slightly different)

The people controlling the price of the sandwich are also the ones who want to pay their workers less.

We shouldn't cower and run at the thought of the bosses using strategies to fight back by comically jacking up their prices and then cynically blaming it on the government.

It's to be expected.
Min wage is meant to be a safety net to prevent a race to the bottom where people are exploited unreasonably.

We should be measuring it against how well it achieves that, not how it compares to some other group's compensation.
Is this more or less concentrated than other industries? I feel like tech is a lot more consolidated than the maritime industry, for example.
How does this compare to https://github.com/xocolatl/periods ?
I've heard that herd immunity would require around 70% vaccine uptake.

In the US, 77% of the population is 18 or older.

Thus, your argument is really quite weak...even if what you describe were true, it would only affect about 7% of the population versus current age guidelines.

However, what you are saying isn't true either. Nobody ever designated certain people to receive the vaccine and others to receive herd protection. We are simply rolling the vaccines out to more vulnerable cohorts first.

Also, if this news is true it simply means that we need to vaccinate in the third world, where people cannot work from home and weaknesses in health infrastructure and education exacerbate transmission (and as a result, mutation). That may be good for pharmaceutical companies, or it may be a situation where the logistical costs are higher but companies are pressured to reduce pricing or release IP for public use.
You can use aws s3 batch which can handle billions of files in just a few minutes

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/batch-...
I was part of a team at NearForm using this for a project on an EC2 instance. In order to move to AWS RDS we had to recreate the functionality of temporal_tables as a PostgreSQL function, rather than extension.

When we switched, we found that although there were minor bugs, we didn't have any noticeable loss of performance and we have used it ever since for many projects.

https://github.com/nearform/temporal_tables

If you're also limited by cloud services and the extensions limitations, this is a great solution.
Rome was an incredibly advanced society with a great deal of technology, though.
Thank you for this! It seems like many apps on the growth path go through this same investigation, since we arrived at many of the same conclusions you did (down to calling our own webhooks from within onMessageReceived to retry, or figure out which kinds of devices had the most problems). We spent over a year on this before we hit what I think is our maximum achievable delivery rate of around 85% (short of repeatedly hassling users to go deep into their settings or forcing them to give us an e-mail/phone number to use as backup).

Our app isn't even enabled in China but the points you make in 1 and 2 mean that plenty of devices in South America, Africa, Asia (and even some in North America and Europe) run into these problems.

I think (5) above is a serious unfairness problem since many conversations turn to "I didn't get your notification, let's talk on Whatsapp instead" which affects retention. Now 10-15% failed notification deliveries might not seem like much but if you're talking to 4-5 people either individually or in a group chat then one of them is bound to pull you into a more "reliable" app.

Incidentally we've considered actually reaching out to those top phone providers and ask to be put on the whitelist; not sure if you or anybody on here has tried anything similar.
This was almost a quarter century ago, but as I recall this was even with a PCI card.

I could be completely wrong, though. But yes we knew then that ISA was crap, relatively speaking. :-)
“Perhaps” isn’t a data point - it’s speculation, and is thus irrelevant. The money was recovered at a $15.3 billion profit. If they had included a number and a reference to the data backing up their guess that “perhaps” it might have been a tiny inflation-adjusted loss, I would have included it.

I’m not sure what your point in bringing it up is either. The point is that the bailouts were fully recovered, and that is undisputed. HN loves its pedantry, but there is little value to this particular incarnation of it.
Autotrace does have a tracing option "-centerline" which creates a single line on shape boudaries. I think it uses a fine thinning algorithm referenced in the scientific literature, but in the autotrace Todo list there is this item: "- Better thinning algorithm like CAT (Chordal Axis Transformation)
" . http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/
https://github.com/autotrace/autotrace
Ok, let me define that properly.

Invention on its own is worthless, you should know that as a compiler writer. All the blood, sweat and tears to make an invention practical, that's the real innovative work. Ideas are cheaper than execution ("ideas are a dime a dozen").

Getting back on track, Morse code can be used with tap codes, with mirror/lights and other equivalent systems, it can be used in writing, it can be used in many, many practical ways.

Morse code could have been applicable since thousands of years ago. The fact that it wasn't invented earlier and adopted for practical things (of which there were many, and of super high impact!), proves that it wasn't as obvious an invention as you say. The Chinese had mirrors 4000 years ago (!), coupled with a code such as the Morse could they could have caused a battlefield (and also country management) revolution.

In a similar vein, many pseudo-writing systems (your prisoners tapping) have been invented across the centuries. However, throughout history there have been only a handful of full-blown real writing systems invented, and most of our writing systems actually derive from those. An entire continent basically didn't have writing because of how hard it was to come up with that "simple" concept, only 500 years ago.

Your comment strikes me a lot like being straight out of this famous story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus :-)
As another user commented, it's about market segmentation and not equipment limitations. I can get near-symmetric speeds from other FTTH ISPs but it was significantly more expensive than I was willing to pay, and I don't really need it anyway.
Or perhaps deceases the waste and abuse of the corporation. Maybe they don't do the executive island getaway or have the company condo in the Swiss alps.

They'll jack up the prices for any reason, don't get me wrong, but it's not because they have to pay people more. It's because they see it as an excuse to pay themselves more.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson a.k.a. Lewis Carrol was a mathematician and he published enough original mathematical research.

Of course, he is much more famous as a fiction writer than as a mathematician and it can be easily argued that much more important mathematicians (e.g. Grassmann & Clifford and many others) are missing from that timeline, but he certainly cannot be considered as a non-mathematician.
YouTube is perfectly balanced: infinite like glitch
Can’t we just have biased media (like we do now), that makes their biased clear?
In defence of signal. I didn't even notice they added it until I read this article.
It would be great if we could look at the sample data size, look at its distribution, and type of significance tests used for this study.
Yes, but it's not a short-term boost like with Covid.

I mean it in that Covid will look worse and heart disease better on a short scale, but in the grand scheme of things Covid will die down and heart disease come back, since you don't have immunity or vaccines against heart disease. That means that comparing (for the same year) covid vs heart disease is somewhat useless (since covid is an exceptional and short-lived event).

Fixing both problems will probably move deaths to another category (since that is the purpose of having categories), but the argument was that addressing covid has less benefits than addressing heart disease (mostly because covid addresses itself over time, whatever lockdown/mask wearing we do, but heart diseases do not).
Yeah if you pair it with the average house price it's not great https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/housing-affordability...

Despite my comment I like life here. I wasn't really trying to give more than a data point from another part of the world.

My personal view is that a strong enough economy should be able to provide most people with a better than minimum wage job. But if you bump the minimum wage too high you simply raise the price of everything.
Your diet should be aligned to region you're living/upbringing. Don't just eat something because it is healthy which is what most of people are doing these days. Body, mind and Nature/Surrounding should be aligned with each other. Your mental health plays big role in physical health and vice versa.

Whatever you eat, remember important thing is body movement. Keep moving as naturally as possible (exercise, walking, playing). For many people gym is not sustainble but you can always adopt another physical activity which is natural to you.
> You are playing exactly in the game that the extremely wealthy want you to play.

The extremely wealthy probably don't care that much - they aren't reducing their income to afford an increased minimum wage, they're reducing yours.

(Assuming, of course, that you are not part of the extremely wealthy).

When a business's costs increase, they pass it on to the consumers (you). When they can't pass it on any further they reduce their costs, with the easiest cost to reduce being employee costs. Since they can't reduce the cost of minimum wage, they'll reduce the costs of the other employees.

You can't rein in the excesses of the extremely rich by mandating minimum wage. You might be able to do so by regulation (tax rules, maybe? Clamping down on tax havens would do more to even things out than any other step you may wish to take).
I think the key to understanding people's dismay is not seeing the Signal team as yet another 'crypto team'. People aren't hoping for Signal to do better than other cryptocurrencies; they're hoping for them to do better than the other messengers, and are afraid that crypto will jeopardise that.

I'm in more of a 'let's wait and see' mode (see: this article), but I understand the worry.
When has such a policy actually worked? Do you have any clean historical examples at a large scale?

Panic of 1873 is the closest I know of and it didn't go very well

I'm not taking a stand. It's just that macroeconomics is hard and counterintuitive, especially when we're dealing with something large enough to have currency implications
Market cap = whatever the market decided at that time, and is determined by offer and demand.

The whole book value + discounted future cash flow does not reflect the real stock exchange at all. If that was the case no investor would want share buybacks because as you say it would only reward the ones who sell...

When taking into account offer and demand stock buybacks make more sense: the buyback increase the demand for the stock. The offer will increase a bit (a few might sell) but not in the same proportion because the offer is not very elastic (most of your investors are in for a long ride and are not going to sell), so the price goes up, you get rid of some short term investors, and the long term investors see their share increasing in value. Everybody's happy and the dividend ratios do not mean anything anymore.
> Bailouts just encourage them to take greater risks, leveraging debt in dangerous ways that will blow up the system again.

In practice, this hasn't happened. As a whole, financial institutions are more risk-adverse than ever. Keep in mind, that they don't want another Dodd-Frank.
I’m still confused why people think that publishing apps to the App Store is a right and not a privilege.
criminal because otherwise competitors could actually compete, rather than be subject to illegal monopolistic forces. Criminals, all.
Yaron Minsky joined Jane Street in 2003. The success of Jane Street and the use of OCaml there is well known in finance circles. Finance is full of people who don’t exhibit herd behavior - many firms have a culture of studying fundamental causes and taking contrarian positions. That begs the question - why did OCaml not get widely adopted in finance?

Jet was purchased by Walmart in 2016. Mark Lore from Jet was appointed as CEO of Walmart to turn the company around, particular its technology operations (to compete effectively with Amazon). Jet’s tech was mostly developed in F#. Yet, Lore did not push for its adoption widely within Walmart.

IMO explaining away the failure of ML languages to gain market share over multiple decades as “herd behavior and network effects” is lazy.
Your work is fascinating. Thank you for sharing. It's a pleasure to meet you.
It's dead common in embedded software, such as avionics. Every task needs a watchdog timer. Basically you 'ping' the timer every so often, which resets it to (say) 1 second (or whatever makes sense for your task) Then it counts down. If it reaches zero, meaning one second has passed since it was reset it will trigger an interrupt. You of course design your system so that your task trips it every 500 ms (say). You don't ever want that watchdog to expire. But, being human, we write infinite loops, or code that takes 'too long' to run. And so when the watchdog triggers the interrupt that is a signal that you have some kind of sw or possibly hardware issue. You shut down or restart that task, and/or do other remedial actions, like alert the pilot in human manned airframes. You of course have to be very thorough in your design here, as this is your last chance to react to these errors.
That happened in the very first few years of the app stores. People were paying ridiculous amounts of money for them, especially on the App Store. Then the stores were snowed under with apps, undiscoverability prevailed, lately complemented by the fear of installing badly vetted malicious apps.

I didn't install any game on my last two phones. I install only mandated apps (banking, car sharing, etc) and open source apps after I checked that they actually have a repository and they are not abandoned. I'm rather using F-Droid than the Play Store now.
Any other clues for how to find this? I'd love to see a Pythagorean buddha.
I wonder how much of the conventional wisdom on sleep is wrong. I know a lot of people (especially post military) who claim they have essentially trained themselves to live adequately on 5 hours or less a night. But most sleep studies seem focused on short-term changes or average populations.

Maybe I'm weird, but I hate sleep. If I had the option to function off of 3-less hours a day, that would be like getting back 45 days worth of my time every year.
> Most people (~70% in the US!) don't have the savings to weather an unexpected 1000$ bill

According to this report the 60-80th percentile family has an income of $97k/year and a net worth of $423k:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf20.pdf
Sounds like you don't have a track record of good judgement either if your comment was originally:

"went to jail for banging a 13 year old"

Then got edited to:

"Akon faced outrage for dry humping a 14 year old girl"

When in reality it is:

"Akon drew criticism for an onstage act which included simulated sex with ____ — a 15-year-old girl.... Nightclub in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago as part of a fake contest, despite the club's claim to have a 21 years and over age requirement"

Not saying he's a good guy, but don't spread stuff like that about people.
It's a slang pejorative for "professional managerial class" that's been around for many years.
how much did your morals cost?
I can see that you don't want to wear a mask outside. Also, that you may be a 7 year old.
You reply is some quotes, establishing that in two countries Signal was already blocked, and an exclamation. I fail to see how you reached your conclusion.
Today this is made obselete by JIO.

Either you don't have a plan then you can't call anyone or even do a missed call or you've a plan then you can call anyone and you don't need a missed call as unlimited talktime is offered with all plans.

But a basic plan is only $2.1 dollar or so.
What is the point making a mobile app which is not working without internet connection? Just make a web app and call it a day.
Numbers from the article...

Israel Study (not peer reviewed yet):

- size of study = 800 (infected with covid 19)
- size of control (unvaccinated) = 400
- size of vaccinated (1 or 2 shots) = 400
- size of b.1.351 infected of those fully vaccinated (2 shots) = ? <= 21.6 (5.4%)
- size of b.1.351 infected of those unvaccinated = 2.8 (.7%)

South Africa Study (not much info, group make up is not given):

- size of participants = 800
- participants infected with covid 19 = 9 (.7% of all participants) (all unvaccinated)
- participants infected with b.1.351 = 6 (1.1% of participants)
Right. If Amazon just got a little bigger, and acquired a few more companies, magically they would stop their sweat shop exploitation.
This is so detached from reality I don't even know where to start... A Grammy-nominated singer comes out of nowhere, and decides he will go to an African country to make a futuristic revolutionary city out of nothing powered by... crypto? I seriously can't believe this story has actual traction on here, this is peak crypto, head-in-the-clouds futurism, utopia mentality, and of course complete absurdity. Do people have no sense anymore?

The only philanthropy stories I am interested in are the ones where dedicated people of character start from the ground, consider the needs of actual human beings, and work with their representative governments to bring change. Not this technology-will-fix-everything glitzy renders cryptocurrency-upgrades-society hubristic bullshit. People give that crap way too much airtime. Plus, the singer involved seems to have a sketchy history, which makes his intent here even more dubious (probably not doing this out of the kindness of his heart...)
More likely it is compartmentalized in such a way that every single person has plausible deniability sufficient to believe that what they are doing is good “I help people find each other!” As Upton Sinclair noted, it is hard to make a person understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it. Doubly so when the salary is FAANG high.
Yes, but what does slavery have to do with technology...? I don't understand the connection to the parent post.
An adult with a family should not be stuck at minimum wage. If they are that's a problem with the economy.
When did anyone say that? Apple and Google offer a service to app developers to host their app, and some developers are complaining it's too difficult to use.
You only need to read a few dozen job adverts to see that tech companies are focused entirely on technical ability and don't hire for other skills. How often do you see "must know Typescript, expert in Docker, passionate about algorithms" compared to "must understand writing documentation, expert in sprint planning, passionate about user value"?

Skills that aren't tech are rarely valued by tech companies despite the fact companies need developers with those skills in order to deliver the best tech. Sometimes the best hire for the team is the second best developer but the best person-who-can-explain-things or person-who-can-run-meetings if explaining things or running meetings is holding the team back.
Most PMs at most big companies are not that way. They just build what they're told and make incremental improvements on whatever it is they built. Big companies are slow, most people working at big companies do not care much about their problem spaces. You can tell in the quality and usefulness of the products, especially for software. Hardware seems different.
Ah yes, famous non-white females Albert Einstein and Lewis Carrol.
Ask HN: Why do engineers love working for Tobi Lütke? (Shopify Engineers)
I'm doing research for a few essays on Shopify and Tobi Lütke. A common theme keeps appearing: Engineers love to work for Lütke. It's been this way from the start. Because of his work on the Ruby on Rails project, many early Shopify employees were superstars in the open-source community and wanted to work with Lütke.

My hypothesis:

He approaches thinking and decision-making in the same way that he approaches engineering: logically and methodically. A byproduct of this is that engineers love to work for him and that Shopify is able to attract world-class talent.

I'm searching for Shopify employees (current or previous) that can verify/disprove/talk about this.
> I wish you could pay devs instead of Apple to held this bar high.

Let’s be honest, the majority of the apps charge in-app for every fart. At the dawn of the app stores you could find a ton of free apps and games from hobbyists, but now it’s all about squeezing money. And the guy in the article didn’t have to publish the app in the first place, could have uploaded the app to the phone directly through the dev tools.
It's not just that Joe is rich while Bob is poor. Joe is rich because Bob is poor. And vice versa. It can't be any other way. Grasp that and you've got the whole thing. Sure, focus on living standards and opportunity, but those are just two more metrics that illustrate the same inequality.
1 ADA is the lowest amount on the Cardano chain. I'd prefer it to be much lower for this game. I'm releasing an update soon where you'll be able to make multiple moves with one transaction (still 1 ADA), but that's the only way I've found to lower the cost of playing.
Question is would you spend 2 hours (equal time to watch a movie) swiping for match, or take a chance on a movie she may like?

On the other hand is there a part of tolerance where you embrace that your partner is not same as you, and that from time to time it would be nice to learn few things about her/him?

In article number of 500,000 movies has been mentioned, and if you use 3 sec of swiping that is really lot of seconds, and I do not think 3sec is enough to decide on some movies. But even with 3 sec that is 416 days of 1 hour swiping, or 208 weeks if you use only 2 movies a week (2hr). So, 4 years per person would take someone through the set, but what if you find out that you do not have any matching movies?

Personally I would rather watch 206 (2hrs) movies I do not like knowing a bit better person I love.
The loop variance is very high, so there's a lot of error, but in terms of the overall quality of my co-workers, the FAANG i spent five years at was definitely the best.

I do notice a substantial difference in average quality between them and less successful Bay Area companies, which does suggest that they are doing a reasonably good job at getting pretty good people in the door.
Hello there. It's an honor to meet you.

I suggest you are incorrect to assert that "no one is entitled to my CPU time." I agree, however, that advertisers do not have that moral claim right.
Money buys you everything, including highly skilled and capable engineering teams.

Lackeys are lackeys, they will do what you ask as long as the crumbs are big enough. The hand that feeds and all that.

It is obvious how Facebook benefits from obtaining this info, thus the onus is on them to prove otherwise. They haven't, so they didn't.