skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the true minimum is -infinity, and $0 is quite common. The legal minimum wage just excludes a particular range. Jobs that would naturally be in that range get pushed to one side or the other, with working conditions adjusting to compensate.

Some jobs go to 0, called "volunteer work" or "unpaid internship", and they get friendly conditions. There might be very flexible hours, a nice break room with delicious snacks, and work-sponsored parties.

Some other jobs go to the legal minimum wage, with work conditions degrading. The employer becomes more demanding because that is possible at the increased level of pay. Hours become inflexible for the employee, but flexible on short notice for the employer. The break room gets bad-value vending machines. People get fired for trivial things.
Well this is not applicable to all scenarios/available hardware. We don't even know what the computation was and how powerful a machine he had access to

But of course I agree, if you can, you should
This cannot happen on an individual level. We need to take the internet standards writing process back into the hands of citizenry. The hacker ethos is long dead and all technical bodies have become negotiating tables where giant corporations divvy up their turf.
Probably they have a web app to turn on and off the obelisk at DC.
Disregarding the merits of wage equality. If the minimum wage had grown at the same rate as Wall Street bonuses, so to would have inflation and $44 dollars would be worth far less than it is now.
How Fast Can You Type public static void main(String[] args){}?
How do I take this seriously?
'break through'???
It seems like this study has two groups of 400, so 800 people total, 1% of which had the South African variant, so 8 people. How can we draw any conclusions from this?
A society with no technology has hardly any wealth gap.

People who can leverage multiple technologies can multiply their efforts. Mass communication, mass distribution and automation of all sorts.

But Wall Street bonuses are subsidized by the fact the government socializes their biggest failures. Bailouts just encourage them to take greater risks, leveraging debt in dangerous ways that will blow up the system again.
> I’m being flippant, but there really could be constructive share ownership amongst the general population.

If only everyone could work in adtech and digital surveillance, we'd have endless growth and high profits throughout the world! But that's obviously not the case, so how would somebody working for trucking company arrive at the same compensation that somebody in adtech would?
I assume your objection is that this is unfair to you who spent all that time and effort into getting your current role? What would you have done differently had you known the future would be like this?
True, the more overregulated an economy is, the more corrupt it will be. That's just a fact of life. Corollary, the less regulated countries but with a strong rule of law for the few regulations that do exist are the less corrupt worldwide. Note that it is easier to have strong and consistent application of the law (rule of law) when regulations are fewer as it's more simple to handle for both the legislator and corporations which increase the level of trust and lowers corruption.
Because they're treating it like a religion.

I saw a news clip of a woman getting vaccinated saying she trusts the vaccine because she "likes science." The vaccines appear to be mostly safe, but because you "like science" isn't a reason to trust them. What she means is she likes Mythbusters and thinks that's science.
Weird... maybe he was also mad at economists because they proved again and again that slavery was more expensive than paying people a wage!
50 hours a week sounds brutal. I don't see the problem with the teenager (or adult with family) earning $20, but maybe you should consider working somewhere with shorter days?
That looks fantastic. I'll definitely give it a go for a test project. It could save quite a lot of time with creating versioning logic.
> seeking short term profit is the natural thing to do

Successful companies clearly seek the long term profit.

Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, how many examples are needed?
While there are several different physiological effects that contribute to what we call 'hunger', what I suspect you are describing is mostly related to different blood sugar profiles.

When you eat foods which are simple-carb based (i.e. sugars, or other small, easily-digestible carbs) your body can very quickly and easily utilise them, resulting in a fairly rapid spike of blood sugar. Importantly, because they're easily-digestible, their sugar will be released over a short period of time. In response to the sugar spike, your body will release insulin and drive the sugar out of your blood stream, but because the flow of new sugars from your gut has slowed or ceased, this can result in quite a low blood sugar state. When you hit this state, you not only feel very hungry, but also crave foods which will give you quickly-available blood sugar, to resolve the situation quickly. One other point is that while your body has the ability to release sugar (or other substances which similarly give you energy) from stored reserves, these processes are fairly slow - so don't really respond quickly enough to account for this sort of sudden low sugar state.

In contrast, if you eat a more balanced diet (with complex rather than simple carbs, some protein, some fat, more fibre) you change both parts of the previous effect: the spike of sugar into your blood stream is less pronounced, because the food you've eaten is less suited to provide it, and also the release of sugars occurs over a longer period. So you don't get the sugar spike, or the big hit of insulin in response, or the low afterwards which makes you crave fast sugars. And also, because this is all slower, thanks to eating foods which provide a slower release of nutrition, your body's systems have an opportunity to work alongside your food, and as (for example) the release of nutrition from your gut slows, offer nutrition from your body's stores to sustain you for longer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_infection
Yes, unintentional outcomes do happen, despite everyone’s best efforts. Sometimes we call them bugs, security holes, or design flaws. They aren’t unique to Chrome, either. There are bug bounties and hacking contests to encourage outside investigation.

Links about things like that do get posted here and that keeps me coming back. But it seems like for certain topics, good-faith critiques are often intermingled with large amounts of contempt. Often the contempt gets upvoted too, just because a lot of people agree with the sentiment.

I wonder if it would be possible to discuss such things without the contempt? Even the Chrome team’s attempts to improve security and privacy get discussed with contempt.
It might have made a difference, but we do not have a stable reference case to observe the difference. It might have reduced 1, 2, 10, 20% the number of infections, who knows?
In the end it's just a piece of paper/cloth in our faces; i personally don't get this anti-mask sentiment as if we are placing something really bad in our mouths.
I mean you can do the opposite. People who die from heart disease might be more at risk of other things (obese, etc) and are also likely to be old, no?
>immutable smart contracts that spread wealth in proportion to the number of people, accounting for basic needs and disproportionate wealth disparities

remove the smart contract bit, and that's same as taxation->UBI no?
Maybe you're just not as good at your job or it isn't as valuable as you think it is. Capitalism isn't a senority system; degrees,experience and responsibility mean jack if you can't convince someone you are worth it.

Alternatively, if you think flipping burgers for a "good fraction" of your current income is a good deal that you are envious of, then maybe you should go flip burgers. If not, what are you complaining about?
Thanks for this. I recently was handed a Mac for work and gobsmacked after running Little Snitch at earlier post's suggestion.
I could be wrong but is that chart showing total deaths. I think it's an unfair picture: many more people take alcohol than illegal drugs. Also as someone who massively regrets their drug use in their youth, I personally feel alcohol didn't damage me as much as weed and mdma. Those drugs really screw with your head. Personally I find booze not so much.
They're already replacing cashiers with kiosks. No reason to think some of the relatively more mundane kitchen jobs aren't next.
It is. Given the fact that the illegal practice has been going on for years, and the fine was only applied to 2019. But we have to consider the fact that companies have been behaving badly for years, and there was no enforcement from legal department. It will take a while for Chinese companies to adapt to it.
> Maybe stack-based languages are indeed less readable than alternatives.

That may be the case, but taking a core language feature and commenting "I don't like it, change it" isn't a very effective way to encourage discussion, in my opinion.
Taxpayers not only recovered everything from the 2008 bailouts, they actually earned a $15.3 billion profit. How is that “socializing their biggest failures”?

From [1]:

Early estimates for the total cost of the bailout to the government were as much as $700 billion, however TARP recovered funds totalling $441.7 billion from $426.4 billion invested, earning a $15.3 billion profit or an annualized rate of return of 0.6%...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabiliza...
Imagine thinking I was arguing for similar compensation

I said what I said, there’s nothing more to read into it than what was written

Oh maybe share was misinterpreted, I was referring to greater ownership of companies. Shares. Equities.
Nothing is lost. If you are IT professionals, it's your job to advise clients what to run, not the other way around. I know that when it comes to computers, everyone feels like they have something to say, but it's just like any other profession: we are the experts that went to university and have the requisite degrees stemming from our education, we are the experts with the help of our professional experience. Therefore we should be the leading force for our clientele, not the other way around. Customer is king, but that does not preclude or exclude professionals taking the leading role. If your sole business plan revolves around service, banking on a single piece of specific technology, your business is already doomed, as was every IT business before it. History is the teacher of life, and those who do not learn from history stand to repeat it, poorly and with dire consequences.

Docker's days are numbered: too many scandals, Google gave up on it. It is only a function f(t) before it goes out of fashion, just like everything else in IT.

Post scriptum: why persist on the illumos-zones-ZFS-configuration management with OS packaging constellation? Because it is bullet proof not for months or years, but decades thereafter. It is good business: less maintenance investment means more profit long term, and in business, it is the long game, and not trend pandering which counts. No business survived on trend pandering, for reasons which should be quite obvious.

You already unpack Docker, and when I read what all you had to do it was obvious to me that what you are doing is far more expensive than if you had gone the SmartOS-lx branded zone-ZFS route; you could have chosen to do so with the bullet proof substrate that are the lx-brnaded zones, the illumos kernel, and ZFS. The customer in your model is none the wiser anyway but you did not do so, which is illogical, since you take it all apart and custom-deploy it on custom infrastructure anyway. The system engineering and maintenance costs will kill your business long term, not to mention what they will do to each and every one working on that in terms of health and personal life. Babysitting computers and software will never be a profitable position.
> Why would you hire someone unless you had a need for their talents?

If you have an opportunity to hire someone with stellar talents, even if it isn't directly aligned with your business, hire them anyway.

Modify your business plan to capitalize (!) on those special talents. Even if you don't, there is the opportunity for unexpected synergy.

After all, I've applied many things I learned designing gearboxes to the D programming language.
Why is this comment gray? Is it wrong?
My "point", if there was any, is just that very few earn minimum wage. Therefore comparing <random high earner group> to minimum wage is pointless and kind of strange.

More meaningful would be comparing to the first quintile of wage earners.
I get a rise out of the "Marxism" boogeyman here. Few thinkers have done more than Marx to define and describe capitalism.

People should worry less about market structure and incentives. We have serious issues to repair in the financial markets, but the more pressing concerns should be quality of life, security, and productivity. We needlessly limit our universe of acceptable institutions and practices with a priori reasoning like "Marxism is bad, so this other thing must be bad too because I can describe it similarly."

For what it's worth, I think index fund concentration is a symptom of the moral hazard of bailing out losers and failing to help winners improve on critical growth areas. The downside is protected, so equities rally. As they rally together, correlation rises and people diversify using index funds rather than picking stocks. Allow some dispersion and stock picking will come back.

Two of this year's major volatility events have involved multi-billion-dollar losses by hedge funds with concentrated margin positions (Melvin and Archegos). It's only a matter of time before a chain reaction occurs, whereby one hedge fund liquidation leads to margin calls for other hedge funds, who in turn liquidate and exacerbate the process. If that happens big enough (or repeatedly enough), it will beat the bubble bullishness out of us.
This post is yet another example of why you should never use APIs for random number generation that rely upon and mutate hidden global state, like the functions in numpy.random. Instead, use APIs that explicitly deal with RNG state, e.g., by calling methods on an explicitly created numpy.random.Generator object. JAX takes this one step further: there are no mutable RNG objects at all, and the users has to explicitly manipulate RNG state with pure functions.

It’s a little annoying to have to set and pass RNG state explicitly, but on the plus side you never hit these sorts of issues. Your code will also be completely reproducible, without any chance of spooky “action at a distance.” Once you’ve been burned by this a few times, you’ll never go back.

You might think that explicitly seeding the global RNG would solve reproducibility issues, but it really doesn’t. If you call into any code you didn’t write, it might also be using the same global RNG.
Isn't that precisely what Brave is trying to do?
VMware's Unity mode lets a window in a VM appear as if it's a regular window on the host OS[0]. OP is saying you can run a cracked copy of Photoshop on Windows and have it "seem native" even on MacOS or Linux (though in practice the usual small things will differ: menu, some keyboard shortcuts, save as dialogs, etc).

I haven't used Unity mode for a case like this but back when it supported Linux guests I used it occasionally to "bring" some Linux windows to my Windows host and it was remarkably good. I was sad when they dropped Linux guest support from Unity-mode, but running vcxsrv and using X-forwarding is a good enough replacement, so I suppose it was a sensible move on their part.

0: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/16.0/com.v...
I am curious why you (your health authorities) don't run a trial first? Why would you not expect the Pfizer vaccine to have the same variant troubles as the AZ?
Artists in the Stone Age Were High at Work, New Study Suggests
I looked at some tech jobs in Wellington and shocked at how little they pay compared to SF. The cost of living in cheaper, but not that much cheaper.
There was a chrome plug in maybe a year or two ago that did something similar. It automatically clicked every ad on the page. It ended up impacting revenue / billing enough that Google removed it.
Disasters like powershell returning a 0 exit code even if there is an error? Its a pile of trash that doesn't add anything new other than a big shiny MS logo.
If you're not an influencer, you'll have to invest in marketing. Growing with established players (e.g. Shopware, WordPress etc.) is a good start because you can leverage existing channels in an existing market. Of course there a are lot people playing that game and some you'll compete with have really low labour costs and copy every idea that's able to grow an audience.

If you're trying to conquer a mainstream / trend market via bootstrapping - just don't do it. You won't be able to compete with VC funded companies.

Targeting low price mass markets? You'll likely drown in marketing costs before getting anywhere.

As long as you don't have some unfair marketing advantage (your best friend is Pewdiepie), you best bet is to find a niche B2B problem in a "big enough" market and solve that.
I doubt that a study 'Economic Benefits of Meth use on the Urban Poor' would be looked upon so well by the Ethics Board.
And?

Gaps are not even remotely what we should be focussed on and are purely based on jealous or indirect aggression.

Concentrate on living standards and opportunity that will help far more people than trying pull down a vanishingly small number of people.
Are you serious? Even if you don't know/believe an actual paper, you can always look at first principles:

1) If N95 masks didn't work, all doctors and nurses in ICUs treating covid patients would get sick quite quickly. But that didn't, and in fact they got sick at a similar rate to other doctors (this is from Peru where they had lots and lots of covid)

2) These masks literally stop the virus from passing into your respiratory system. So why would you be surprised if they prevent disease transmission?
Is it free software so it can be added to the f-droid repo? They have not nearly as insane requirements as the other distribution channels and encourage donations. I can't find a source link anywhere so I guess its proprietary?

Edit: While trying to sign in, the service required me to add a special character to my 32 character long alphanumeric password. Requiring the user to use x different kind of character types just annoys people and doesn't make your service more secure.
Yes, I've been bumping against that while reading through the comments as well.
Of course (though the spread will still hurt).

But there's a limit on how much you can contribute to an IRA. A serious investor will find the IRA contribution limits make it inconsequential. You also wouldn't want to fund the IRA with money you'll need before 65.
Show HN: Play with the Soar cognitive architecture in a Jupyter Notebook
It’s easy to make a profit when everyone is strapped for cash and you have an infinite supply
There was a statement after Ant IPO incident that the government ask Ant to have 30% in reserve for all the loans it is making, basically the whole business model of Ant would change. I would think it will never be the same for Ant, the valuation has changed forever now. Ant marketed itself as a technology companies, this regulation however ask Ant to register as a financial company.
thanks, will check it out
If you can work 50 hours a week, and can manage a team of people, it’s time to look beyond McDonalds.
If you compare menu prices at fast food chains in areas with high minimum wages (i.e. Seattle's $15) vs areas with low minimum wages, (i.e. the US's federal ~$8) the cost of items is higher but not as high as you might think.

You can see some comparison data here, or find other sources (I don't have any bookmarked to dig up, I last did the research on this a few months ago...) https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/why-big-m...
I know, crazy right!
The average teacher’s job is reasonably mentally demanding but despite waking and starting work at unnaturally early hours (in the US and China) people do acceptably with coffee. The students do worse because the schedule is even more divergent from their natural sleep schedule and they’re less likely to have coffee or other stimulants.
What's "no technology", because ancient rome was full of giant wealth gaps. Maybe if you mean hunter-gatherer societies, but i don't really know enough about them to comment.
Yes I should have given more context. In English speaking sphere you see attack on Facebook. While places in SEA and many parts of the world enjoy what it brings to them. And of course there are many using Facebook without complaining in "Western World".( Sorry for the lack of better Term, NZ and AUS aren't in the west and most EUR aren't really English Speaking but you get the idea )

So it is not all bad and all evil. While I agree with Facebook "deepens" the division between US or in general any politics, I dont believe it is the cause of division. I am still unsure what causes the divide in the first place.
Best UI Interaction’s of the month – March 2021
Highly likely this is a confounding factor - and compensating for it is essentially every decent policy for the last 50 years in the West.
Ok but during a crisis what's the alternative?

The alternative now is to disconnect the systems from the possibility of contagion, but the nature of crisis is essentially an acknowledgment of a failure to achieve in those efforts.

So what then, really?
I’m of the opposite opinion and would get away from all auto RNG seeding:

1) this will help reproducibility a great deal, which is a pain so often.

2) forcing users to actually understand the seeding of RNGs from the point that they are novice programmers could help allay bugs of the sort seen in this post, which I believe stems from having too much faith that RNGs will simply work out of the box as substitutions for ‘real’ random variables.
If the rotor motors are strong enough, it ought to be able to turn them gently to get itself upright again.

The motors might have insufficient torque for that though... Getting high torque on a direct drive motor means having lots of metal, which is obviously heavy...
Maybe do a retrospective study, but lack of prospective randomization would taint the results.
Why is it fundamentally impossible to stop aimbots?
In the extreme case, what if the minimum wage was $500000000 dollars. That would not work, and it would create a society where everything is done under the table. Now, keep halving that value and ask at what point do people no longer feel required to do things under the table in order to make a basic living (sans criminals). It's not obvious what the right number is.

On the other extreme, if the minimum wage was $0, it would be up to people to determine what they're willing to work for. At some point in the next millennium, all work will be creative work and the concept of a minimum wage probably won't even make sense anymore.
> What does spending 8 hours in bed but only sleeping for 5.5 hours mean specifically

It means that the TV is in the bedroom.
Market signals can't go backwards in time so I feel like everyone replying is looking at this the wrong way. The learning here is that some fraction of new versions of this gentleman or lady xupybd will have a stronger market incentive to not go to the trouble and risk and just go for the guaranteed $20/hr making more competition for the $20 hr no education jobs. Maybe the higher IQ people will push average teenagers out of such jobs. Finally the market will equalize when the supply for 4 year degree jobs drops and they are forced to increase the pay.
My counter example is slavery, which would lead to a very big wealth gap.
I think that large slavery state or system would need metal working, but will guess it has existed without.