skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point from most of the comments seems to be, if unemployment is enough to live on and the alternative is a job you don't particularly want to do, then there's no incentive to do the job you don't want to do?

If UBI just replaces unemployment, how does that calculation change? You still have enough money to live on you still don't want to do the job being offered?

Unless UBI is sufficiently low that you need a job to survive, in which case... is it UBI?
and the more built-in and capital intensive, the worse it will be. It's not so bad to have an internet radio die, as has happened with several architectures thus far, but it's painful when there's real money involved.

I always marvel at the people who built new homes with subfloor heating systems who usually have a closet full of manifolds, valves, custom PCBs-in-a-box, none of which will be available in a decade or two.

In addition, even if well supported (like Tesla), there's a number of product families that are priced like long term investments (electric cars, solar panel/battery setups) but have shorter term PC-style turnovers in technology. They may still work, but will be obsolete.
I believe you are sincere. But I think that if you were able to run a sufficiently rigorous blind test (note: precise level matching is critical) you'd surprise yourself.
That's the quality of the reproduction though, not the stuff you put into it. Agreed, I have Shure semi-opens I use for production that you hear things in that you wouldn't hear in buds but that's still just via regular old 16bit/44Khz WAV.
Some states driver's license numbers are deterministically computed with your name, date of birth and gender.

If you live in one of those states and your data is already out there (through a previous breach) then your driver's license number is already public knowledge to hackers.

According to an online calculator this applies to these states:

Florida

Illinois

Maryland

Michigan

Minnesota (Prior to December 13, 2004 only)

Nevada (Prior to January 1998 only)

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York (Prior to September 1992 only)

Washington

Wisconsin

http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/dl_us_shared.html
> a dishwasher, did not return on day 4 as he was offered a position at a larger restaurant for $18/hr. That is not a sustainable market rate we can offer

I don't think these guys understand what "market rate" means.
Same reason contracts pay more than salary.

If someone can Doordash, etc, and make more( while arguably dealing with less stress) they'll rationally do that.

Or since this is HN, can you automate some of these tasks ?
This is a dumb business idea. What 13 year old wants to use a platform that's only meant 'for kids'?

What Facebook should know is that every generation will want something of their own. Instagram already is a newer gen social network than FB. FB can't make it by definition, they are the establishment. The best they can do is identify the next one and buy it.
I'll always remember Mondale as the straight man for Reagan, this is a pretty good indicator of why he lost to Reagan so badly:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJhCjMfRndk
I don’t find the Clubhouse concept that interesting personally, but what does it say about the industry when big incumbents can just copy an innovative idea from a smaller player? It feels wrong to me. Isn’t this what IP laws are meant to protect against?
Everybody's gotta wet their beak every step of the way down. Landowner, restaurant owner, manager.

By the time it reaches ground level nothing left but crumbs
But the question is not whether their infinite extensions or limit are equal, but whether at each finite combination some property about the stream progress holds.
Internal Facebook email reveals intent to frame data scraping as normal
For most of the services I've looked this closely at, maximum would be a proxy for load. Or in the case of a benchmark suite you'd expect max to increase with the number of iterations. What do you find the maximum useful for?
These libraries already exist whether you write them or you use someone else's. In our case most of our micro services are node.js based so Koa is in every microservice and we use middleware for authentication -- and thus if the authentication system evolves (moving to JWT or a microservice gateway) we have to evolve that middleware everywhere.

Same with our consistent logging system.

Libraries are better than unique code everywhere for the same task - allows you to fix a bug once and to do consistency checking.
Would you wash dishes for $14? No? Neither would I. So why do you think anyone else would?
This is the answer that actually explains my problem! I went to the Learn X in Y site that another comment recommended and scrolled to the python guide[1]. It is a list of syntax, but it is (in my mind) insane! It goes right through all the math that is there and then jumps into lists. The first thing it does is show this!

# Add stuff to the end of a list with append
li.append(1) # li is now [1]

And this is exactly the kind of stuff that keeps me from getting deeper into programming. I look at that, and wonder, "what the hell is that . doing?" Now, I know enough python to know that it is calling some function on an object called 'li', and that li is a list. or something that can take a .append() command. I also know that append() is some kind of function. But, these guides never give me enough detail on what the . means. Worse, it seems difficult to find answers to this kind of stuff in aggregate. If I google everything I can find stack exchange pages on each piece of syntax and can get to the point, but for fluency and retention I really need that conceptual piece.

I don't write software, but I use python/pandas for basic work with restructuring data. The hurdle to understanding how to slice data frames was incredible for me. I couldn't understand from the examples why the behavior works the way it does. I often feel like I can get working code without any real connection or understanding of why the code works.

You're answer is great, I wish there was a solution for this disconnect since I can't imagine I'm the only one who feels this way.

[1] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/
It's great too because it has no bias.
I was able to see that the <Delete> key doesn't add the asterisk. But I can't reproduce this: "notepad!UpdateTitle can be triggered by keys that do not edit text, for example by pressing the the arrow keys." My arrow keys don't trigger the asterisk.
In Switzerland the cost of living is also >50% higher than other western European countries. Housing is even 100% higher. Service employees in Switzerland come mainly from Germany, France, Portugal, Brazil etc.
I don't see much of a difference between individual home ownership and people or businesses that own many houses. The latter group is more powerful, and might have more influence on politics through lobbying.
You may be right about China.

But the author of this article is not an epidemiologist.

He is not an expert on infectious diseases.

He is a former Republican congressman and a retired plastic surgeon.

Since Republican leaders have consistently lied about the pandemic for their own political advantage, and this author has no particular expertise in the matter, I'll make the inference that he has nothing constructive to add to this conversation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Ganske
These resources are commonly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pwlvy3zz9M&t=833s, https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/, http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/
The Microsoft contractors double-dipped. They got higher-than-employee wages during their contracts, and later got all the stock options they gave up by being contractors. Nice work if you can get it.
Is that true that most require this? I know people living in two different states on unemployment, and, to my knowledge, they aren't doing this.
Huginn is a pretty cool automation tool.

https://github.com/huginn/huginn
Doesn’t this whole thread make it pretty clear that they are?
FiiO appears to make a slightly newer model, the FiiO M3 Pro[0], which has USB-C charging instead of legacy micro-USB. That would be a selling point for me, but it looks like the trade-off is worse battery life due to the full touchscreen. Also, I'm guessing part of the attraction to M3K is work-in-progress Rockbox support.[1]

Love the build-quality, though. I've always regretted giving away my Sansa Fuze when I got my first smartphone, and at least microUSB is a standard instead of relying on Sansa's proprietary cables.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/FiiO-M3-Pro-Resolution-Touchscreen/dp...

[1] https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/FiioM3K
That would require interest rates to rise - which would pop the current asset prices and lead us into a decadal global recession.

There is no way out. Get out of debt and hoard as much as you can. Bad times are coming.
Different battery manufacturers? Batteries stored in different conditions?
There does exist open-source software of that type (TeX for example) but amusingly it's not much used (the average person using TeX is using LaTeX on pdfTeX which, while based on the TeX source code, isn't TeX).
That was the first riot in 44 years, and describing it as a race riot is a bit much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Little_India_riot
But what if the supply gets tighter ? The market rate must adapt (since it's a market). You may have to raise everyone or hire no one new, or vote for a communist 5-year plan.

Imagine if instead everyone wanted to work at your restaurant, EVERYONE, you'd fire your 6 guys and pay $2 their replacement, no ?
It is a double-edged sword. I believe the primary reason Windows has so many 'issues' in general is the sheer amount of hardware and ancient software that is supported. Keeping the surface area small is easier to maintain, more secure (less attack vectors), etc...

I am not saying one approach is better than the other - but when it comes to Apple it makes a lot of sense that they did what the did considering they have full control over their entire stack top to bottom. That being said, they did extend Carbon compat for a really really long time. AFAIK Photoshop was still Carbon for a long time after the switch to x86.
It's like telling da Vinci, at the moment of the reveal of the Mona Lisa, he should have used more paint so it can last 100k years instead of only 98k years. We are not dealing with a 10MB website with seconds long loading time and screaming for smaller images.
> They may be planning to leverage these tools in the future

If that's the case then creating a PR and raising it would be a waste of time, as it'd be rejected.
Switzerland is also one of the most expensive places in the world. As is NYC, where I live and the minimum wage is $15/hour and service jobs paying between $20-$35 is not unusual.

In the US, there are also places where the minimum wage is $7.50 (the federal minimum wage) and things also cost far less. The US in general is a much more diverse place than a place like Switzerland, and yet it’s all governed by the same federal law, which paid expanded unemployment benefits the same regardless of where the person is located.
A lot of these people are really only moving into the interior mountain towns because places like coastal California where the economic activity is that allows them to pile up this kind of wealth has become prohibitively expensive due to their own NIMBY regimes.
> Forcing freelancers into W-2 status is just another example of the government screwing people over "for their own good".

It's the government screwing _some_ people over for the good of everyone else, where it's presumed that "good of everyone else" is worth more to society than what is lost by those that get screwed over by it.

At least, that's generally the intent.
It's so disheartening to see Windows fall to such anti-user practices. But I guess this is par for the course for modern OSes. On apple systems I get a permanent system notification about Safari every few days. I have to dismiss it manually every time.
Yes. I had one company try to get me to sign a non-compete that would have ensured I couldn't get a job in my field for two years unless I moved across the country. I countered that I would sign that, if and only if (a) I was paid a two-year salary equivalent bonus on hiring, and (b) my offer was tripled since they expected to own everything I created 24/7. They backed down from requiring the noncompete.
If Google wanted to be cheap they could just hire them and pay them less, but they don't.
Unemployment benefits are currently the best they’ve ever been by a wide margin.
>Is there some intrinsic reason why employers feel compelled to pay so little?

The average US small-business owner makes around $70k/year, less than most devs: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/this-is-how-much-to-pay-your... . It's not like small business are rolling in cash. The only way for them to pay more is either to raise prices (meaning everything costs more) or hire fewer people. Would you be willing to patronise a shop that charges 50% more for coffee than the shop next to it because it pays its workers more? I'd bet not.

Switzerland is a very rich country, so all wages are higher; shops can afford to pay more.
Theres one single solution here: higher wages. If you can't afford it, then your business probably shouldn't exist. Cry me a river for the people that can't find someone to slave away for $9/hr with no benefits.
The Bund is like that but not all of Shanghai is so garish. French district for example - though I agree the city Shanghai feels most like is NYC (just not all copies of Times Square).

There's very little overarching design in the new development, and I grew to like the patchwork quilt-like mismatch of elements. Shanghai is a beautiful city, though if you said "this is so the Bund" then I'd agree with everything you said.
It's not that they could not afford doing it. It's that it's more affordable to not do it. Companies are not people, they have no ethics, they have no morality, they have only simple stimulus-and-response behavior, based on profit.

Make it more expensive to have long-term 'temporary' contractors, and they'll transform them all into employees overnight.
If you use alkaline batteries, doubling the current more than halves the battery life; Ni based rechargeables don't show that effect though
People taking a deal doesn’t mean it’s not exploitative, it just means it’s enough of an improvement (or the downsides of not taking it are bad enough) [0] that people take the deal. Indentured servitude was for some a willingly taken deal but that doesn’t mean it’s something we should bring back as a common, endorsed arrangement...

[0] In the US not working is a shitty way to live.
Preparing Rustls for Wider Adoption
Your Software's “Check Engine” Light: Design Problems That Lead to Failure
I'm so not looking forward to the jankiness of whatever the Android equivalent will be with AR glasses.
> People in Singapore really love their flats.

That's an awfully big assumption to make. I recently mer a few dozen Signapore residents and not a single one of them love their flats at all. They wish they could get married to someone in a country where they have more opportunities.

You seem to be jumping to a lot of conclusions.
Just to add another data point: I _can_ reproduce the second part.
I can reproduce this behavior. Though I noticed that removing a newline with <Delete> does cause the asterisk to appear.
I can tell you it probably was none of them.

I own Stax, electrostats that make Audeze look plebian, plugged into their fancy Stax amp (although not the fanciest), plugged into a Theta DAC that is basically a 44.1/48khz Schiit Yggy, and there isn't some amazing leap.

Also, fun fact, want a 90% Audeze LCD clone? Monoprice M1070 and M1570. I have the predecessor, the M1060, fucking amazing for a $300 can, but flawed enough that I recommend the newer models of it.
It appears you need to offer more money. Your wages have been deemed undesirable / unlivable and are thus uncompetitive.

Whether that is “sustainable” for your own cash flow was never the point.
Am I old fashioned? I treat opening some random QR code with the same hesitation as clicking a random link in an email.

And with a QR code I can't even 'hover' to inspect the link
Binance is already tokenizing equity on the public market (like Tesla stock). You may want to look into how they’re doing it.
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And more stress on the speaker/tweeter drivers.

Of course, when you look at these high resolution recordings, the amplitude of material above 20kHz is piddling. The amount of harmonics/overtones in acoustic instruments is minuscule in the first place.
This is a game for many multinational corporations though, because they work on so many things that almost anything could be construed as something relating to one of their product domains.
I don't think the prices are gonna correct as much as people think it would, considering my entire generation is waiting on the sidelines to buy, the demand will always be there until it's satisfied.
It's funny to think that if Buddy Holly were alive today he'd be 8 years younger than Mondale. People who've lived a long time connect to a world that seems so distant it feels like an entirely different era of existence.
While that's a good point, I think that many libraries still have the overall design goal baked into them. These aren't independent libraries that solve an abstract problem somewhere out in the aether, but rather libraries that are intended to fit into specific designs.

Consider a serialization library, for reading and writing objects from memory. This library could aim to have a minimal memory footprint, and may fit into the design of an embedded device. This library could aim to have maximal throughput, and would best fit into the design of a server application. This library might aim for usability by new users, and handle its own memory allocation for the serialized object. But, that would imply serializing the entire object at once, rather than streaming it to disk or to a network socket, so that impacts what designs can use it.

Libraries tend to be implemented such that they fit neatly into some original design. Figure out what that original design is, and that gives you a better sense for how it will fit into the design you're making.
Looking at the pictures, seems like they did that on purpose but I am also curious.
I didn't say increase or decrease. I said "...without police making thousands of interactions"
If you question the negative effect that would have on drunk driving accidents, I accept that its solely based on common sense and no studies were conducted to proof it.
What was it like in Kanab?
Great work.

This reminds me a lot of the algorithm that drives the Korg KARMA workstation. I often found myself letting it run like this to see where it decided to go. The settings were changed by knobs but there was often slight drift and changes...as well as a lot of 1/256 measures.

The KARMA architecture moved on to the Korg M3 and OASYS (IIRC) and is very interesting. There are some good videos on the topic and Stephen Kay I have found to be very approachable in the forums (albeit a decade ago).

There was even software to make your computer "double" what the KARMA was doing so you could expand to even more channels/instruments...days like this, I miss my synth.

edit: KARMA= Kay Algorithmic Realtime Music Architecture and it was a variant of the Korg Triton system.
> You are an IBM employee 100% of the time.

This is simply illegal. I am surprised at how the HN community is acquiescing to this throwback claim and isn't challenging it with righteous indignation. It crosses numerous legal, ethical and historic boundaries and should deeply taint the IBM brand for anyone reading it.
I've seriously considered replacing the SRAM with MRAM so as to not require battery replacement. It would need level shifters though.
That's an interesting idea - an "Uber" for general work. You're vetted for having certain skills. A business needs workers having that skill from say 7pm - 10pm this evening. You can bid in your price. The business owner can then choose the worker they want at the price they want.

What I'm wrestling with is whether this is utopian or dystopian? That's why I say it's an "interesting" idea. I can see it appealing to some people and not appealing at all to others. Maybe there's room for both kinds of people in the labor market? Your "base" workers who are always there and reliable and the "peakers" who are taking care of your excess load at peak times?
The big advantage that tech workers have is that the supply/demand relationship is more in favour of the workers than the company. In most cases if you end up not having a job for some reason, you would expect to be able to find an at least passable one fairly quickly. This means that we always have the fallback option of quitting if we're not happy. yThat then limits (to some extent) how shitty our employers can be to us and expect to continue to function.

The other side of the coin is the much larger group of people who struggle to find any job that will pay the bills. If they can get one it's a dice roll whether their boss treats them with some decency or not. They can't "quit if it's shit" because they might not be able to find another job and they risk starving or getting evicted.
Not at all. The author makes the assumption that "the developer experience is often poor" when working with APIs. That happens often, but not because APIs are elitist or anything like that, but because they're poorly designed and poorly documented. Otherwise, working with APIs is a bliss, if you're a programmer, it's several orders of magnitude better than working with files. Anyways, APIs are not even incompatible with files. APIs don't just return JSON or XML, any API can have an endpoint that returns a file. And the fuss about authentication/keys doesn't go away with files: if the data is protected, you've still got to provide the credentials, regardless whether the data is coming in the form of a file or a JSON document
To a reader of the London Review of Books? Almost certainly. To the general public? Probably not.

Though perhaps worth mentioning that the Fabian Society has long been influential in the British Labour Party, so plenty of Labour party members or folks in unions will have a passing familiarity.
That was obvious to everyone from the start. In Hong Kong the gov tries horribly hard to stay away from cash incentive for the working population (usually only for retirees) and they try to offer more consumption-oriented staggered offers (during peak touristic period, in cashless cash coupons, for a limited time, for limited purposes).

Giving so much cash with no other consequence than the "rich" taxpayers footing the bill one day maybe, is not gonna motivate the restauration workers who usually worked by necessity, not passion.
This business needs some bootstraps!
I previously dismissed esbuild thinking it was too limited, until realizing the extreme performance difference allows for far far more simplification than I had initially appreciated... I'm not just talking about the lack of 10k npm dependencies.

When a build process is slow, if we are unable to make it fundamentally faster we start to do loads of crazy workarounds that keep growing tentacles with increasing complexity and optimisation challenges: Incremental builds, caching, different pipelines for development vs production. We've been living with this stuff for so long it's easy to forget that when a full build is humanly instantaneous you can just throw all of this complexity away, you don't need it... that's when I realized I could use esbuild, I don't need those "features".