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> If there were two shops offering you the exact same breakfast, but one was charging 50% because it paid its employees more, would you patronise it?

I do not believe that this situation truly exists, so this argument falls apart for me.

Also: many people are willing to pay more for “Made in USA”, even significantly more. Sewing and textile work is definitely more expensive here, and sometimes comparable quality can be found through overseas manufacturing (e.g. Arcteryx, Mystery Ranch). There’s room in the market for both, and the products are different enough for reasons other than some are MIUSA and others are not.

In other words, breakfast and coffee are not fungible commodities.
In order to keep benefits tax free, companies have to make them lucrative enough for lower paid employees such that they pass non discrimination testing. It’s not a trivial expense even if the wage is lower, the total compensation cost can be higher.
It's just reading about the firebombings of Tokyo and Dresden or the nuclear attacks on Hiroshimi and Nagasaki gives a kind of different vibe ...
A second home isn't necessarily an investment, especially if it's a vacation home. It can be just a place you go on vacation.
I've done the 1099 thing before. I had an accountant and my own LLC. I made sure to have a separate bank account that I dumped 30% of my billable time into. Each tax season I'd cut a giant check to the IRS.

I mean no disrespect to the "gig economy" people, but 1099 requires a lot of discipline. Most of them probably don't need to pay estimated taxes and instead will be cutting giant checks to the IRS each year. It requires a hell of a lot of discipline to stare at thousands of dollars of money sitting in your own bank account knowing you cannot spend that no matter what--that is uncle sam's money.

I wonder how many gig economy people wind up owing the IRS a ton of money. Especially when they have to pay self-employment tax on top of normal tax.

Plus I bet very good money 99% of them aren't paying state or municipal taxes. As a 1099 I had to pay Washington State B&O tax every year as well as some token amount to Seattle.
For sure! I'll always appreciate the deeper stuff that only humans can do. I just think it would be interesting to see how much of it we could automate. E.g., could it get to the level of decent background music?

Of course, there's always the possibility algorithmic composers could do even better than humans. Clarke told a story about that in 1957: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Melody

Text here: https://archive.org/details/1957-02_IF/page/n71/mode/2up?vie...
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So yet another case of the US's brain-dead healthcare system ruining everything.

We desperately need to sever the link between employers and healthcare.
This is such a bad faith argument that’s putting words in the author’s mouth. We all just want to be motivated to come to work everyday and be working on a product that we find interesting. I hope everyone understands everything can’t be a toy project (I think people do understand this) and even if something is interesting or meaningful it will still involve some level of “bullshit work” - the stuff you’ve listed. Every job has a bullshit to fun ratio and I think the author wants a fun part that he’s interested in and a ratio that’s acceptable. Nobody expects that ratio to be zero.
didn't this happen a month ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26561321
Is this one of those "conspiracy theories", about which I have been hearing so much lately?
I use it on Android and also quite happy with it after years of use.
I am interested to know what percentage of their user base they lost after the past few months. I know I personally cancelled my account with Robinhood, but I don't know if I'm in the minority or not.

I just don't see the point of them anymore. Once the other trading platforms started offering $0 transactions, I saw way less value in Robinhood - then, following that, the argument was "fractional shares", which many other platforms offer.

Is it just that they are the most famous name in the retail investor space?
As others have said, I think these "around the world" cycling things are more just about touring. For actual challenges, like Everesting or becoming a High Rolleur, there are hard cut rules.
RFC 7250 support (Raw Public Keys) is not in the list¹ of “Current features”, but neither is it listed under “Possible future features” or even “Non-features”. GnuTLS supports this feature, so GnuTLS is what I use. What is the status of this feature in Rustls?

EDIT: I found issue #423², but the reporter is not making a compelling case, since the use case presented is for a prospective new application, yet to be written.

1. https://github.com/ctz/rustls#current-features

2. https://github.com/ctz/rustls/issues/423
Is it.. not? Or rather, what would you prefer to call it?

I've long had that opinion - it is faith, in my mind. It's very logical faith, but faith nonetheless. Not in science exactly, but in the morals, honesty and competency in the results of those performing the science. It's faith that if i was to become an expert in the field, i'd be able to recreate their exact results and deem them correct.

Is this unsound in your mind? I'm fairly anti-religious but i have no problem describing my belief in science based outcomes as faith. It doesn't feel reductive, it feels honest - to me. It takes a leap of.. something, if not faith, to trust the results of results of humans. Some science is bad, some is good, but often you lack the expertise to determine which is which. So you logically go with the common assertions and proceed from there. I do think it's logical, but i don't think that precludes it from also being faith.

How would you phrase / reason through it?
Most people who are trying to live somewhere don't want their house price exploding, because then they get forced out by rising taxes and insurance.
I panicked even at the fake BSOD... so many memories. Winamp still looks good.
In the semi-rural area where I live we have 1/3 trumpsters who won't get it due to their political allegiances and 1/3 hippies who won't because woo woo reasons. I am assuming there will be a harsh reckoning in store for this and similar places.
That you shouldn't really care what other people think about you. Millions suffer needlessly under the imaginary weight of others expectations. Some even end up going completely insane or dying, due to this.

Live your life the way you see fit, and of other people have a problem with it that's their business
It depends on a country. A lot of people think that just because it's from a bottle, it's safer. In many countries,the quality of bottled water isn't regulated,or not regulated as much as the tap water. I lived in 4 different countries in Europe and always drank tap water.My own country is one of few in the world, where tap water is supplied pretty much exclusively from underground sources,so no purified river/lake water.

A lot of people mention Brita filters, which is an activated carbon filter, however a lot of households would probably benefit more from limescale filters.
It probably depends on the market. In Germany a very famous podcast by TV host Jan Böhmermann https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_B%C3%B6hmermann is only available via spotify. That certainly impacts people. Maybe not for being the sole reason for being Spotify users, but relevant attention.

Other communities certainly have their relevant content.
It's not any more or less dystopian than a plane pulling a Coors Light ad.

However, I've noticed the negativity around anything China related, and it just triggers memories of the kind of double standards my family was subjected to when growing up as a minority in the US.

It's the same pattern as British news coverage of the two princesses, whether we like it or not.
I'm just getting into prod with keycloak. It's pretty amazing for free.
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>I expect the police to not violate my rights.

Sure, we all do but if they violate your rights anyway, it does not give you the right to resist, ignore orders or even defend yourself... yes that a hard one to swallow for many people egos but that's how it is.

If there would be a way around this problem I'm sure we would have found out. But you just can't fight someone with a state given authority/power who most likely has the monopoly on force in the given situation. You have to take the legal way and to get a chance to do this you better comply with orders. Whether or not your rights where violated is decided by a judge not by arguing with a cop.

>and just because they routinely abuse those powers without consequence doesn't mean that we should be okay with it.

I doubt this is as routinely as people think it is and that there are no consequences but either way, whats your proposed solution? Do you think defunding the police would help? Or should people just open fire if a cop is abusing his power? I'm sure you can see that this would go nowhere. Complying isn't an option its the only option and the law clearly states that you have to comply. Then fight back the legal way if you can and impose the desired consequences on bad cops. Which BTW you cant do if you resisted even if you rights were violated, the moment you violate your duty the legal way will not favor you.

Everyone should act like they would want their loved ones to act if they have a police encounter.
You're not missing out on anything. The Pocket Casts UI is impenetrable and I can never remember how to tell which podcasts are downloaded, which I've listened to, etc. There's some overlap with the "archive" feature that is unintuitive.
Unhappily, you can’t be at Fry’s anymore, bored or otherwise.
It was definitely more hypothesis than question.

There's always the chance that the past is viewed with the optimism of youth of course. There's certainly a difference in social glue in a world where everyone is either self-employed or has a single layer of management above them. Plus, truly local companies are better local citizens (sports teams sponsors, money for charities, build decent and long-lasting buildings).

Dunno what the answer is besides accumulate a financial warchest, live where you like, watch the battle at a distance.
I can't really pick up any off-hours stuff since my wife works and I have to watch the kid. Maybe once they're older I'll have time.
> On the other hand, we don't end up with globally shared libraries that have 'completely' solved a particular technical problem space.

IME the more general a library tries to be usually the worse it is to actually use. Opinionated AKA designed libraries that have some specific intention behind them are more immediately usable and it's much more straightforward to see the pitfalls in using them as they tend to typically be intentional.
I don't follow Joe Rogan or really very many podcasts, and the ones I do are fairly topical. I'm not going to go relisten to old episodes the same way I would rewatch The Office. It really shifts the focus to creators and away from the IP. I don't think that's really a set in stone thing though, it's just the nature of the type of audio content that's popular right now.
Excellent project, also serves to provide some quick audio latency test for devices. Quality of playback seems to vary between browsers and devices (DDG/FF -Android); I presume it's consistent and better in iOS devices as it's known for better audio latency(Don't have one nearby to test).

If the author is reading this, Would love to hear about the quirks related to audio playback in browsers/devices you've found so far in developing this.
Seriously trendy. I had a CTO try to claim we were doing microservices even though our stack just had a couple of different systems serving different APIs. We would just roll our eyes whenever this person would try to brag about it to other C-levels. This was for a team that was just big enough to maybe justify 2 managers at it’s peak.
Fair enough. I never linger on the home screen and head straight to playlist/liked music, so I suppose it's not something that's ever jumped out at me.
> I am quite sure event Apple uses CocoaPods internally.

I’d be very surprised if Apple wasn’t dogfooding their own tool chain
My experience has always been people dismissing it when I show them the worst case. "Well, yeah, but that's timeouts downstream and etc etc and so of course it's hitting worst case". They then never have an answer when I ask "How do you know that?" or, the times it has happened, "How do you explain it taking longer than the configured request timeout?"

In every case it has been useful and actionable.
Podcasts may literally be the last major content category on the internet that is still open/inter-operable/syndicated. (remember when we thought RSS and Atom were really going to go far?).

Maybe not for long.
Quoting some book does not change the fact that most people understand SOA as being team or domain-bound and microservices as being much smaller.
iwyu is Google's project originally. It has worked for them for more than a decade on their ginormous monorepo.

Sometimes it gets some things wrong, so you have these escape hatches to control it: https://github.com/include-what-you-use/include-what-you-use...
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> I'm pretty sure that Spotify's API allows access to podcasts outside the official app.

I wouldn't be too sure about this. I know its API (or at least some parts of it) are only available to premium users, because they can't serve ads via third-party integrations.

I don't know if there's an exception for podcasts, but I wouldn't be surprised if your option is either the app or paying to not use the official app.
Using (defined) properties of the TLS ClientHello to determine how the server will respond.

For example, changing the certificate used based on the ALPN identity, the SNI server host, and the advertised client ciphersuites.
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We are a couple of students from the University of Michigan and we built a platform for researchers to have discussions around papers. What is special about our platform is that the discussions are associated with parts of the text through the use of highlights instead of having one monolithic comment section at the end. We are currently hosting all papers from arXiv and would love your feedback!
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It's bad for people to live in skyscrapers in the city, its bad for people to live in suburbs, where is it OK for people to live?
Winamp Visualizer in WebGL
That looks really good. I like how the hook is built into the store API.

My problem with a lot of these simple state managers is they often just stop short of handling asynchronous state. I think it should pretty much be mandatory to handle pending and error states on promises for state manager nowadays. Pullstate's Async Actions look pretty good for that.

I've been using Effector a lot recently because it has just a bit more power in managing the interactions between stores and events but if I needed something more straightforward Pullstate would be good. Thanks for the tip!
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Exactly! Publish all the leaks of this needlessly-sensitive non-secret information into a blockchain, so that companies and governments are unable to ignore the obvious reality. Right now they're free to continue sticking their head in the sand and acting like anybody who gets a hold of their lists is a witch. So many companies refused to take code seriously security until the rise of full disclosure. We need a similar watershed for fallacious identification procedures.
The goal of the ring project is to be much safer than OpenSSL without any notable decrease in performance. That is, my goal is to give you memory safety "for free" if you switch from OpenSSL/BoringSSL to ring. In some cases it is better than free because we end up being faster.

The assembly code in ring is some of the most heavily-tested code in the world. It's fuzzed pretty much continuously in various projects that use it, and a bunch of testing has been done on it. It is from BoringSSL, and much of it is shared with OpenSSL and/or Linux kernel. As we are able to replace the assembly code with safer code, we'll continue to do so, just like we've replaced most of the C code with which we started.
I agree, but at least they can claim they based it on hope due to promises.

This award, on the contrary, is looking back with an abundance of evidence to the contrary and despite that evidence go on with a complete farce. Even Soviets would put on some pretense of legitimacy.
TLDR: Owner of tech company thinks he should own all of his employees’ intellectual output. Big surprise. Huge.
Because there are insufficient votes in Congress to change it. Even the current implementation of various managed care organizations and mandatory coverage with limits on premiums and out of pocket maximums BARELY passed.

And it was gutted pretty quickly when the most important part of it, mandatory purchasing of insurance (I.e. a tax), was repealed in 2017.
I didn't know that, why do USA try to make companies take the role of a government, except that they can fire you?
Probably a small but not insignificant loss. I don't think the WSB / Memestock users are the majority of the platform. For a lot of people I know RH still has the best feeling UX and easiest access for simple investing.

I think they're fine but if pessimism means the stock takes a haircut or dive when it starts trading I'm going to buy-in. There really is not a similar investing app that appeals to the Gen-Z / Millenial market as well as Robinhood does.
And recent clamping down no?
I feel same way! Also paying, also using other app, because spotify podcasting misses the features I want.
It's a different approach to the same problem. For starters, you don't assume that you can take one sample (or pair of samples) and just use that.

Because these depth readings are being fed to applications as if they were good representations. What I am saying is, for one thing, before you try to really use that type of information, you integrate more data and do a lot more work. And that's the perception level.
This exists, specifically for the industry (food service) OP is talking about: https://www.pared.com/.
Rogan is fine (if dumb) light entertainment to have in the background. I haven’t listened to a single episode since the move now that it’s not on YouTube anymore. Spotify is also totally awful for podcasts as the UX is for a music player. Besides Lex now fills that hole with a lot more intelligence
>experience in building control systems

lol. If you mean 'design', you'd be surprised. Admittedly, I'm not aware of the full array of residential heating control systems, but I've sure seen some over-complex ones.
I'm not arguing against the fact that unemployment scales, I am merely stating a fact.

OP's question was "why don't you pay more? That will make people want to leave unemployment". My response was "higher wages will not incentive people to leave unemployment because they would be receiving unemployment that scaled with those higher wages".
I think YouTube will still remove a video if a scientist or physician talks about COVID having a 0.03% mortality rate.
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So far, the highest frequency that we've been able to determine that humans can process is about 28khz. That's about 1/3rd of an octave above what the limits of CD and most streaming services provide.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_range#Humans

"Old-fashioned" CD, when mastered with modern noise shaping, gets super-close to the fundamental limits of human hearing. Furthermore, as the above link points out, older people often can't hear above 15khz. Thus, if you're older, you might not be capable of hearing the difference between a CD and the same mix on BluRay or DVD.

FWIW: There's a lot of psuedoscience in the audiophile market. Things like DSD and sampling rates about 96khz make little sense outside of the recording studio. (This is because the absolute upper limit of human hearing is 28khz. 96khz exceeds the human hearing range by almost an octave.)
> It's not necessarily hard figure out what bacteria it is, but it takes time and expensive lab work.

Also you may not have time. If the person has meningitis for example, if you wait to try to figure out what bacteria they have before treating, they will be dead.

Broad spectrum antibiotics are great for this kind of thing in that you can start treatment immediately, and once you figure out the bacteria, narrow the treatment to that type of bacteria.
Good question. Have seen some interesting papers and systems. MIT Kimera Semantics is interesting .
Emacs gets it right; the asterisk disappears even if you execute many actions and then multi-undo back to the starting state.
Happy to be corrected on this but does a minute spent on Spotify listening to a podcast (that they haven't paid for) vs listening to music reduce their costs?

If so then it would make sense to establish themselves as a podcast player - with their users listening to podcasts through their app - even if they don't sell any extra subs and that alone might justify the up-front investment.
The author contends that the old fixed-basket-of-goods-with-fixed-weighting that doesn’t account for substitution is more appropriate that modern methods which account for substitution.

So if you started tracking inflation before automobiles were available, then your 2020 stats shouldn’t be based on costs of automobiles at all, but should reflect horses and carriages with weighting reflecting their use in your baseline year.

That this approach is both seriously flawed and increasingly so the more rapidly available products and consumer behavior evolves should be obvious.

The old method is simpler, has less room for difficult assessments like substitution and hedonic adjustments, but is fundamentally broken in dealing with the modern world.

Using an outdated fixed basket and weightings means you are ignoring what are currently essential goods but giving heavy weight to things that used to be essential goods but have become niche vanity consumables or luxury collectibles.
Joe Rogan will occasionally have guests that attract people who wouldn't otherwise be interested in common JRE topics. In my case, it was podcasts with Billy Corgan and Shirley Manson (of Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage, respectively).

I enjoyed those episodes a lot, plus a few he has with comedians I find funny. But it wasn't enough to make me subscribe. I doubt there is any podcast that I consider indispensable enough to subscribe.
I'm really not a fan of having a global TLS knob to turn in all Rust crates... that strikes me as heavy handed and inelegant. Why give a global configuration variable for something used by a tiny portion of crates? And what if a crate is incompatible with rustls? How do you express that with such a global knob in a sane way?

It's the wrong abstraction too - this is handled better by dynamic linkage. Rust just doesn't have a great dynamic library story (a C API/ABI is not exactly what I'm talking about here).

What you'd really want is a

trait TLS {
// ...
}

in some base tls crate and leave the implementation up to other crates. And any upstream dependency would require something like:

pub fn initialize <T: TLS> (tls:T) { ... }
Winamp really brings back some memories!
I don't think there is another broker with zero commission options trading is there? That seems like a big reason for a lot of people
Are you also actively working with other people/companies who might hire those same people to put caps on what they might get paid, or indeed to negotiate hiring them at all? Google/apple/etc have enormous sway in some areas re: hiring/referrals/etc, and engaged in 'antipoaching' stuff that prevented free movement of labor (imo).

The plumber/mechanic analogies fall down when you look at the size and actions of google in the marketplace as a whole, not just with the specific interactions of an individual contractor/employee.