skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a good book on such jobs called "Nickel and Dimed"[1] by Barbara Ehrenreich, who went "undercover" and worked a bunch of such low-paid jobs.

A quote from the book:

"When someone works for less pay than she can live on ... she has made a great sacrifice for you ... The "working poor" ... are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high. To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed
I think unlimited recurring subscriptions should just not be allowed, period: all multipay plans should have a fixed & finite pay period, after which the service expires. Only the card holder has the unilateral right to re-establish the payments.
In rough order of significance, electric guitar tone is influenced by:

- technique (absolutely the most important)

- amplifier

- pickups + strings

- everything else (debatable whether you can even notice it)

I don’t know if there’s hard evidence but I think folks who think wood and nut types and whatever make a difference are nuts. The relative difference in stiffness between the strings and the body is so huge that believing that the neck and body effect tone seems to me like believing that asphalt vs concrete effects how a tennis net vibrates.
i can recommend teddit, that's reddit without the annoying stuff: https://teddit.net/
>I'm not sure why mindshare is relevant?

because many people commenting on security and privacy aren't necessarily experts on such topics. Their interpretations of what is secure or not comes from marketing and word of mouth.

If you look at the stats in an extremely stark interpretation; no device is perfectly secure (0%), but no device is so malware ridden that you are more likely than not to be compromised (50%). most users will be safe as long as they don't go out of their way to disable default security settings, and few need to. In that way, privacy won't be the main factor determining why a user purchases a device or chooses an OS.

In that respect, What a user feels (or what their immediate bubble feels) has more weight than any statistical reality. Or in other words, "mindshare".
I know it means nothing but I'm in the 5%. I've never had a case on my iPhone and I've owned every other generation since the original (I always skip generations for my devices since they started doing the incremental S versions). I prefer things without cases and the AirTags are going to be no exception. I'm going to throw them into a pocket or put them into an already existing spot so I like that it's thin.
SciteQt: A Port of the SciTE Editor to Qt/Quick – Android App and WASM available
Sadly, it’s because the farmers and agricultural sector will fight tooth and nail to prevent any subsidies from going away. Plus, the average consumer is going to notice the increased price of food and is likely to vote in a reactionary way. I don’t wish to be a pessimist but I don’t see how such a necessary but unpopular thing could be passed in the political landscape today.

On a bright note though, I remember the Beef Association (or something along those lines) were protesting against meat substitutes being sold alongside real meat in the same refrigerator. They seem to have at least lost that battle at the chain grocery stores.
As a Jewish genealogist who got involved in direct-to-consumer genetic genealogy testing very early on (14+ years ago), this is one of my biggest fears. Genetic signatures for endogamous populations, in particular, are really easy to pick out of DNA samples. It’s already openly discussed in Jewish DNA Facebook groups and blogs which chromosome segments tend to be Ashkenazi “pile up” regions, to separate true potential cousin matches from just plain endogamy. A bad actor, or nation-state, could easily do the reverse and look for those segments on purpose…
The presumption that the average person is interested in learning, or can be taught to be interested in learning, especially regarding difficult subjects like science and math, is completely false. The average person is fundamentally incompetent and lazy, and that's the danger of excessively optimistic and unrealistically empowering western culture - you end up with an army of ignoramuses who drastically overestimate their knowledge and abilities, and simultaneously as a consequence become less able to recognize competence or it's value in, for example, politicians or authority figures. I think this is one of the major accelerants in the decay of western society, at least in the US.
I get these all the time on mobile websites, and arrived at the same solution you did: tap Accept on the fake popup and then Block on the real consent box.

I suppose a site could trick me by making their fake popup look exactly like the real one. But in that case I would tap Block and be no worse off, other than seeing the same notification again the next time, at which point I would probably figure out their trick.

I thought of explaining this to some friends to help spare them some needless popups, but decided it was too complicated and would likely just confuse them. This is not an insult toward my friends, just a reminder that something that seems simple to you or me may be very puzzling for most people, no matter how intelligent they are.
This drives me nuts on Twitter. "See less often" is not what I want, and it doesn't even work.
To downregulate ACE2 all you need is a bad enough zinc deficiency.
Yes. That's exactly what I said. Except my main point was that even tor clients from 2013 only have a minor DoS vulnerability. It's not so dire if you don't update.

I actually put off reading about or implementing a v3 domain because of the new DoS problems it introduced. For most of the v2->v3 transitional period an old out of date tor client running a v2 onion service was no more vulnerable than a brand new up to date v3 tor client with it's new vulnerabilities not worked out yet.
I don't think this comparison with "the standard used in cryptography" is really accurate or useful.

Cryptography tries to avoid speculating on the attacker's motivation, but establishing trust from nothing is a different problem than sending private messages on a public channel. It's not clear the former can be done any other way than by creating incentive structures to make the cost of cheating greater than some known amount.

> Honest parties have no advantage over the attacker

Honest parties have the advantage that it's easier for them to agree (and they are rewarded for agreeing). An honest party who wants to play honestly is implicitly supported by every other honest party whether they are explicitly allied or not. Whereas a dishonest party doesn't just need to be dishonest to benefit, they need to get >50% of all miners to agree to benefit them specifically, or otherwise amass all that capacity just for themselves while outcompeting every other honest party put together (not just their specific enemy, but every honest party).

> and thus are left devoting ever growing amounts of energy to mining, continuously raising the bar for the attacker

Why would the energy usage be "ever growing"? Bitcoin might become more popular and therefore might have bigger security demands expected of it in the future, but that should eventually reach a cap. From that point only cheapening electricity generation would increase the expected usage.

> No competent military commander would pursue a strategy that depends purely on numerical superiority;

That is certainly what they'd do if there was literally no other way to achieve an advantage (which is the case in this kind of landscape). Everything else is just a way to make their forces work more efficiently.
I think it's good to offer more options, but the focus on BA/BS in the US is weird. In the UK, it was common circa-2000 for:

1. BSc, BEng, MSc monikers to be meaningless across universities, but to be used consistently at the establishment.

2. Multiple degree paths to be available that went from something advertised as computer science to computer engineering.

3. A straightforward path directly into master's level computer science education.

You couldn't make an assessment based on BS vs BA because the curriculum may be similar in both cases. Oxford used BA whereas Durham used BS with both producing solid graduates that can't be differentiated in most work (further research or industry.)

My experience in the US is that hiring has kind of perverted the nature of discussions like these. The focus is on a few select algorithms and maths courses whereas the folks who've done the systems work are arguably better prepared for many real world tech roles. The last half of your degree has to be more interesting and reflective of the individual, right?
Retool recently released “modules”, and it made me think the same thing, that this is one step closer to the thing they’re trying to replace.

Resolving merge conflicts in json (which is what defines a retool app) is another area where the benefits of “yes code” become more obvious. “No code” is not something I’m convinced is good. I personally think embracing code (but making it optional) leads to a platform more developers would enjoy

To pick on salesforce a bit, notice how the example of how to define the drop down they are using XML. That’s not “no code”, it’s just a constrained form of coding. Basically any library or framework that embraces code can also offer higher level abstractions just like Retool or Salesforce, without having to have the “no code” part to solve the problem. “No code” is also tangential to being a saas product, these tools could work more like codesandbox than dreamweaver or frontpage, for example.
I think the point of maximum leverage is making it easier to support good journalism via tools that don't have a corruptible middleman. It's impossible to support truly independent journalists via platforms like Patreon when those platforms are in bed with institutions like Vice, anyone who is truly independent and covering dangerous stories is subject to being memory-holed. But the desire to directly support real journalism is there, I think it just needs a robust payment system which is also robust to corruption in its own organization.
Just because it’s always been done or natural doesn’t make it a good idea. Plagues were pretty terrifying events throughout history until we became aware of how they spread. The advantage we have over our animal counterparts is our ability to learn from our mistakes and upgrade our culture to decrease the chance of causing unnatural deaths in our populations. You are right we definitely shouldn’t isolate as tribes. This should be on the individual level when being exposed to anyone you aren’t around daily. This doesn’t constitute a tribe. If someone carelessly takes part in the spread of a pathogen without attempting to prevent it from using their body to get to other human hosts who are perhaps more vulnerable, they are ethically responsible for the death of every individual that is infected and does not recover as a result of that carelessness.
Please don’t just vent here - submit your comments to the FTC website!
> It used to be that when dead animals were incinerated, the resulting black ash was mixed with bitumen and used as road surfacing.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/13/the-knac...
SOHO: Small Office / Home Office (I had to look it up)
>The merchant may register a subscription or other recurring charge arrangement with the customer’s bank or card provider.

An advantage of Direct Debits in the UK is that I see them all in my banking app and can cancel them individually. A company is legally required to gain my consent again before charging again.
Raped 3 times? Or were they triplets?
Ask HN: Why open source projects have bad design?
I’ve seen many open source projects have bad design. Even large enough organizations, in Linux space for example, have dated design. (Even ElementaryOS is far away from Mac in terms of UI). Also sometimes it seems to me that modern design makes the project feel “not open source”.
Wow I didn’t believe this stat, but sure enough 87% of people use cases on their iPhones. I didn’t know people were so paranoid, I love my iPhone 12 Pro Max because it feels perfect in my hand despite being so large. I feel like a case would ruin that.

I wonder if it’s paranoia or actual clumsiness or maybe just salespeople that get people to buy cases. I’ve owned an iPhone since the 3G and have dropped my naked phone exactly once, my 6 Plus, which was still usable for years after that.
US investment is the single greatest causal factor for prosperity in Latin America. Look at Panama and Chile, for example. In fact, the midas touch of American investment is visible in several other places outside of the Americas, including Taiwan and South Korea.

In my view, it is hard to label the immense prosperity-inducing capacity of United States foreign investment as bad-faith or unfair dealing. Cuba's government has spent years working on projects to attract spend-happy American tourists. Elsewhere in the region, entire countries base their economies around remittances from the USA. The US government could crack down on remittances and illegal immigration far more than already happens, but it does not, and millions of people in the region benefit as a result.

Respectfully, it takes a great deal of time, study, and travel to learn the dynamics involved in a region before you can say with confidence that Influence A is good and Influence B is bad. People who lean left in the US should understand that 'socialist' isn't a catch-all phrase; it means something different when you're voting for Bernie Sanders in the Iowa Caucuses than it does when you're bartering with your uncle for soap in Camaguey. I have been all over Latin America and I personally still don't consider myself to know all there is to know about the region. What I do know is that the "USA bad" narrative tends rarely to be accompanied with a discussion of the counterfactual universe where American influence is hypothetically absent from the region.
In 2019 EU imported 11.3 billion eur worth of food from Africa, mostly tobacco, cocoa beans etc.. Citrus was only 0.5 billion eur. In overall EU food imports it is only 10%. We also exported 9 billion worth of food to Africa.

Hardly enourmous, given Africa agricultural potential and production.
I was initially confused about this too. The title of the corresponding video of the article replaces "over at" with "in", which is much clearer. In other words, it's not "over" anything it's "over (there) at" the specified places.
Many of those libraries are implemented in C++, any language can call them.
Julia has a package that provides incredibility easy to use SoA. https://github.com/JuliaArrays/StructArrays.jl Julia's metaprogramming and multiple dispatch mean that it can use user structs fully transparently. Everything just works.
It's not about who else marked this as high quality. I want my signal to count (disproportionally).
Default bitpools on mac are very low for audio ime. To fix it, you can run the following:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5rfdj6/pro_tip_signi...
One major benefit of native app over web app is their ability to send notifications to get the user's attention.
I was not aware about this but stackoverflow shows me their consent box (and on every stack exchange site) everyday
Coolblue. They violated the advertising code. The verdict in Dutch is available at https://www.reclamecode.nl/uitspraken/uitspraak/huishouden-e...
How is it decentralized if step one is to upload the file to the central file-sharing service?
users continued to put things in their cart "so they wouldn't forget them". It was a very frustrating result; this was the exact behavior we were hoping that Lists would eliminate.

My wife does this, not just to Etsy, but on all kinds of e-commerce sites. So I apologize on her behalf.

I suspect that it's related that she's also one of those people who will never bookmark a web page. Instead, she keeps a hundred tabs open. I don't understand it. Some people are just wired that way.
Title should include that it’s a post from 2019
Clubhouse has one of the worst notification management systems ever.

There’s no way to select specific notifications you want (e.g. person you follow starts a room). Instead you get inundated with useless notifications about random rooms.
How about JavaFX? Swing has been old hat for years now.
BioNTech as well: https://biontech.de/science/pipeline
no, they just do it horribly - there is no reason to tank perf. it's a system built by consultants, for consultants - aka the people that don't know how to actually do it.
You also have to live near friends and family, not be in an area with cars, and live close enough to each other to be able to walk. The design of modern suburbs precludes most of this, as does moving around for job opportunities/schools with greater proportions of richer kids.

Therefore this previously near zero cost activity of raising toddlers becomes a $15k+ per year expense for just daycare, on top of the time you personally have to attend to them at home.
Some gasses will be consumed by plants and fungi. Granted, methane won't be one of them. But CO2 will. Now, when compost is dumped on barren soil, there is nothing to consume the gasses.
Not sure it would pay for itself even in 100 years if you use that metric.

$20 (likely current retail cost of a flu shot) x the 46 million older adults in the US is a hair less than a billion a year. Making 131 or so effective flu vaccines and getting them through the process with the prior known and effective process? (including all the failed attempts)

Hopefully we’d get some economies of scale, estimates [https://www.passporthealthusa.com/2018/02/how-much-does-it-c...] I found had it between 500m to 2.5billion and a decade each. So 65billion to 327billion.

So between 65 to 327 years for positive ROI if that was your metric.

If you’re talking public good, it would be immeasurable for us and the world though, no question, and on the high end that’s less than a third [https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-473918...] of what we’ve spent in Afghanistan alone.
Yeah, you're right. Better examples are:

Zika: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04064905

Influenza: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31079849/

Rabies: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28754494/
>Truckers are not doing so well these days

I thought there was a trucker shortage happening?
Gold is beautiful and durable and has been valued for millennia. The only value of bitcoin I see is the hope that someone will pay more for it later -- it is too volatile to be a currency. I could see putting up to 10% of my net worth in gold, depending on the price, but not more than 1% in bitcoin.
The big trick is not to get yourself in the situation of being a single mother with 3 kids for starters. Of course you can’t do the best for your kids with 3 of them on your own.
if i want to play devil's advocate here, i'd say you can't both

- remark that throughout your carrer you've been pretty much the only female in your team,

- note that you've been naturally assigned the role of greeting newcomers,

then

- be upset that a new candidate won't assume you're an assistant instead of a developer he'll work with.

He's just noticed pretty much the same things as you, and concluded the most likely job for that person that greeted him was an assistant.
The thing is, all of it is garbage compared to appliances from 20 yrs ago before mfgr's started designing everything to planned obsolescence and IoT. American GE at least has an extensive parts network in country, while if your LG/Samsung breaks at this point you are basically SOL. On top of that the COVID-19 supply shock issues have exacerbated this situation.
Reading the openreview link, the current understanding is that this approach is dramatically more computationally intensive than standard backprop - limiting its utility.
Is there really any substantial relationship between differential calculus and sequent calculus?

You might get the impression there's a unity because differential calculus has been generalized to functions of many things - calculus on metrices or tensors is analogous to calculus on functions of a real variable. But my impression is the term "calculus" overall, when use in something like sequent calculus or lambda calculus, is just a term for a calculation system. IE, Whether a system is called an "algebra", a "calculus" or something else is more historical accident than any thread unifying these things. But maybe there is such a thread and I just don't know about it.
The media is as diverse as the set of their independent owners. And what you get from any news channel is the view its owners want to show you. Thinking otherwise is plain naive as I see it.
> Unless TrustArc makes the unforced error of getting itself classified as a Data Controller.

Knowing how some scams and tax evasion schemes work I wouldn't be surprised if they could just set up a separate company that ends up with all the liability without any of the assets and just have that declare bankruptcy the moment the first fines hit. Rinse/Repeat as often as necessary.
I would love to have a chat with you - my company is in the middle of trying to decide on what route to go right now. We’re on Zoho right now and trying to make it work. Available for a chat?
Common sense, I guess.
Probably not easier, but it is free and much more configurable.
Faux-objective journalism is such a soulless drag. Everyone has biases, attempting to hide them is just gutless.

If doctors just prescribed whatever gave the bigger commission from drug companies, would you ever trust a doctor?
You can change your payment option to paypal, remove your card from NYT, then remove your card from paypal. They'll complain to you for a couple weeks, but they'll cancel it for you after a while after that.
The definition misses a common usage - to antagonize (others) online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content.

I wonder though, based on the professional/enthusiast fishing definition, could you call someone who is paid for (digital) trolling, a trawler?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/troll
This is literally what “sending you a bill” is. They don’t need to have an upfront agreement to charge your card. They need an upfront agreement that you will pay for services used at the end of the month. This is standard invoicing that these companies already do just without automatically charging cards.

When you pay your medical bills it’s still an explicit payment.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75oun5gvDAU&t=324s
honestly if 'fast' is your metric - they'd not be on windows