skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, what this means is the same “unskilled” labor is now actually worth more because it is resistant to automation. People doing automation resistant work get to share in the productivity improvements of other sectors, and that is perfectly fair.

But what’s odd about your argument is that the federal minimum wage ought to be $12-13/hour if it had simply been adjusted for inflation since the late 1960s. So by that measure, we value “unskilled” labor even LESS than we did half a century ago.

If we had adjusted minimum wage for productivity growth, it’d be about $21/hour right now.

So I think we ought to have a nationwide federal minimum wage minimum of $12.50-15/hour, adjust it for inflation continually, but also adjust for local cost of living so that the nationwide average (average of regions) minimum wage is around $21/hour, continually adjusted each year for cost of living.

And I am not worried about automation increasing unemployment over the long term. We should have targeted efforts to increase employment rate if there are periods of disemployment from disruptive automation, but we have more jobs now than we did a century or two ago in spite of two centuries of increased automation and mechanization.
If this were true, humanity would have stopped inventing new games to play the day that dice were discovered.
Cool idea. I’m not able to find some well-used apps with the search, like Headspace. So as we say, it’s about the execution.
Neither of those existential facts refute the premise necessarily
Similar experience to yours. European history didn't constitute a majority of the history lessons in my old days but one can understand that (there is a lot!).

I'm certain the quality of education back then in China weren't up to scratch for sure but for the curious you can always get books if you have an interesting topic. I find books even superior media over history education because like you said younger me simply wasn't interested enough in class :)
I agree about notarisation, I think it's the wrong solution. It gives Apple too much insight in what applications are used on Macs. This is my business and mine alone. I don't wany my Mac calling home with everything I open. Despite there being a way to turn it off.

I think simply spreading signatures of known malware for a local check would be a much better option.

However as a Mac enterprise admin I don't think the process is particularly difficult. When it came in I scripted it all once and that worked fine. Only issue is that sometimes it doesn't like if I make a PKG with a package from another supplier embedded in it. The problem is that I have to do that because some solutions have several packages that need to be installed in a particular order, and my MDM (MS Intune) does not provide a means by which to specify installation order. It just blasts all packages in a random order at the machines. So I re-package those. But anyway even that is not all that tough to get around.
> Oh sweet summer child.

Please try to keep the snark out. If they were snarky to you then I say go for it but I didn't notice they were snarky to you and, regardless of whether you agree with them, their contribution to this discussion is worthwhile.

Let's try and keep HN a cut above.
I find having a few notes on the intention of a section is the most helpful.
Thanks for both of these! I tend to just look up elisp stuff when it isn't clear from my Common Lisp knowledge, cheat sheets are perfect for this.
I think this comment implicitly assumes that just because people survive on less than 18, it’s livable

That’s not necessarily true, since many people around or below the poverty line rely on government assistance to survive.

Also, the federal minimum is so low and our social safety net is so weak (virtually non existent), many people would be instantly screwed by any sort of drastic/expensive event. (Like unexpected illness or the loss of a job or a car accident.) Is a wage livable if you can’t live through times of trouble?
Bitcoin is more or less the first international currency that cannot be blocked by governments or financial institutions.

You may not find this property valuable, but for someone who's banned from multiple banks, bitcoin is incredible.
1. If a business cannot pay its employees a living wage, it literally doesn't matter if you decide that "an employee's value is less than the wage".

2. If a business cannot pay a living wage, and has to cease existing or has to automate, let it cease to exist or automate.

3. "Cannot compete with third-world countries that offer shit wages and shit standards of living, and are ruthlessly exploited" really isn't an argument you want to present when advocating against minimum wage.

4. Price fixing !== setting minimum wage to a level that lets people, you know, live.
what? all that is required in the transition to fully-waged labor is to pay an equivalent wage to the former wage+tips. if management pays a lower wage, that is a choice, because management has full control over what they rate hourly and what they write on the check.

if the concern is that workers may be paid less, the solution is simply don't pay less.
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Everyone uses youtube. Local businesses use youtube. I took driving lessons and they use it. Small tech companies use it to host their promo videos, and so on. So people use it without even needing the "reach" that youtube can provide - it's just being used for hosting.
One aspect of markets for relatively new technologies is that there is a dynamic related to the practicality and affordability of products and social momentum for new product categories. I suspect that things like patents sometimes play a role there also.

For example, e-ink displays. Personally I think the idea of having a photo or framed image on a wall that can display an effectively infinite number of different pictures, another one every day, is an extremely attractive proposition compared to the low-tech standard of leaving the same image there for years.

But it looks to me that the pricing for the display modules is holding that market back. Maybe because of a patent or something and not enough competition. But also, it COULD become a big thing at any time for a wealthy demographic, especially for the smaller ones say the size of a normal sheet of paper. But that depends on whether it becomes trendy. Which is partially about luck and what individual people do and how many friends they have.
All that is true of course but I think the bigger issue is that the copyright system has to go or at least change dramatically. People walk around with video cameras now 24/7, they want to add music to their video. We should facilitate this.
> The problem is that none of these companies ever apply a gramme of logic or examine the merits of the claim

True, but, TBF, evaluating merits doesn’t scale, the authors of the safe harbor provision knew this, and this is exactly the outcome the law intended, though it does not mandate it.
I could tell a couple of stories but they'd be boring.
I never understood why HN didn't have a simple "sort by new" function for comments.

It would even help keeping the conversation alive when you can easily find a relevant reply nested 5 levels deep.
hmm shame, maybe remove some filters, maybe there are no hated apps like that.
The way the PC market developed is complicated.

IBM targeted a business market that hadn't really been seriously targeted by the "hobbyist" systems. The Compaq was really at the spearhead of the clones. (And IBM subsequently whiffed with the PS/2 and OS/2.) And then Dell revolutionized distribution. And even that is a gross over-simplification.
I know them (almost poetically, though not necessarily politically correct) as:

Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow.
Yes, and then OP said this which is why I responded:

“ That implies that the model is (in principle) just alright”

It implies any number of things, but not that if the model works in EU it can also coexist with the same model in the US. The scenario I said is an easy and fairly common example of why they could not coexist.

Without breaking out a form 10k and a fair bit of financial statement analysis, it’s somewhat like saying that “well I get 1GB internet in NYC, it implies the model for fast internet works so we could do it in Montana tomorrow.”

To the extent that it’s important to know and discuss the actual factors involved such that the MBAs doing these decisions at McD will take you seriously, that implication is seriously flawed. Hence, why this hasn’t changed since Milton Friedman and the 80s. Ever wonder why that is? It’s because arguments made without any Corp fin awareness don’t work with the audiences with the power to change it.
The hope that flourishes in Thy Channetrrea's music
Ok and where is the evidence the spread is significantly due to land border crossings? You really think the U.S. was being infected by Mexicans and Canadians? Refugees? That India is being infected by some or all the countries surrounding them? You must necessarily think these are illegal crossings because legal ones require COVID testing.

All it takes is a critical mass of your own population getting it, followed by wide scale gathering of millions of people with no meaningful mitigations. That's the obvious and simple cause.
And a good set of unit tests can also cover what's the most useful, like edge cases, complex sequence, particular client flows, bug that actually happened in prod etc
Recently tried out g2 and found way too much friction in comparing services. And most of the information was outright incorrect.
That's putting lipstick on a pig. Chronic depression is debilitating. A person without depression functions better than a person with depression.
>A more productive conversation would be to define the minimum quality of life that one should have, then calculate the cost of it, then divide by how many hours one “should” work to achieve that quality of life.

That's not productive at all for the simple fact that you cannot legislate people into wealth.

The real minimum wage is and will always be zero, because that is how much workers who are less productive than the legal minimum will get.

Let's be clear as to what a minimum wage actually is, it's simply and exclusively making employing unproductive people illegal.

It does not, and can not ever help low value added workers for the simple reason that all it does is prohibit them from working.
Is that not clear from my comment? Whether standardized tests are good or bad is a whole other debate.

The point here is- they lobby to get standardized tests mandated where they were not, then they lobby snd push their tests for statewide use very hard. All school districts have to buy test questions and other infrastructure from them only. And only Pearson certified teachers can evaluate those copies. And every step of the process involves Pearson getting paid.

This is like the Mafia.

Thanks for pointing it out.
The past year made me realize if you are selling your time for money that means you are a part of the underclass. Full stop. Having lots of assets that appreciate in value and you can comfortably exchange them for money when you need to, that's where you should be trying to get to.

This story is a sign that I'm not the only one I guess that feels that way. The r/wallstreetbets story another example.
As one enngeneer who became a gui designer for the love of it, I can recall all the rules he describes:
- Great rules

I also stress the facts that most engenees are so bad to understand the reality of these human rules on design...

Once, in a blog post a designer said this:
- "Most engeneers are visualy Handicapt : Deal with it"
I feel this is very true
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Tech debt is a tool and I think it's absolutely fair to put the needs of the business before documentation, or even code quality to a certain extent. As long as developers and management are aware that isn't free, and the cost must be repaid, I think it's the right decision in many cases.
Do you really buy into the excuse that somehow election rallies and kumbh did not increase the severity of the problem at hand ?
Its Standard whataboutery spewed constantly by the ruling party. They just don't even want to own up to their mistakes and the PM is staying silent as he is expecting everyone to forget and move on to the next hot topic.
The Central Government allocated covid related very critical projects(Oxygen Plants) to companies that are now untraceable. The Projects itself were floated in Oct(7 months into the pandemic) so they took actually a lot of time to do the job so poorly that we don't have any special infrastructure ready.
I mean if the Prime Minister is campaigning til the very day, the Election commission had to put a ban on it due to the exact reason. BJP is a power hungry party and they involve in open candidate buying in a lot of states post elections(The situation is so bad that the opposition parties actually have to camp with all of the leaders in a secluded resort to prevent any kind of horse-trading to happen).
Modi government will never accept their mistakes, which we have already seen with demonetization(another useless idea of the current government, which had already broken's India's back financially), or jobs or various other front the current government is failing on.
>> Not writing doesn’t block shipping (at least not right away).

>It should.

The rub is that it might not block what's currently being shipped. But that debt can come back to introduce headaches and delays for the next ship.
> Despite there being a way to turn it off.

There isn't; the OCSP checks happen on launch automatically.

I got Apple to encrypt it next year and delete their logs, though, thanks in part to the publicity afforded by HN to my yelling about it. They also committed to adding an off switch.

Hopefully they'll do it in a clever, privacy-preserving way using a bloom filter or something, instead of just sending the developer cert hash up to Apple as soon as you double-click an app.
> Its also worth noting that practically no businesses close when minimum wages have been increased in the past.

The problem got pushed somewhere, but where?

Very rarely does the owner of the business just eat the cost except in the very short term. If the business doesn't close usually one of two things happen:

(1) there are fewer hours available because books need to be balanced. Some workers that are able to keep their hours do better at the expense of those whose hours are cut. Basically this ends up being a wealth transfer between some hourly workers and others.

(2) prices eventually go up and cause localized increases in prices. Within two to three years you end up with the situation where that new higher minimum wage has about the same purchasing power locally as the previous minimum wage had.
The DuckDB folks are migrating from pull to push and put together this interesting documentation of their reasoning! They use a vectorized model instead of a compiled one, so it's another interesting comparison point. It seems like push will simplify how they handle parallelism.

https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/issues/1583
Mono-repos are like having a flat directory structure.

Sure it's simple but it makes it hard to find anything if you have a lot of stuff/people. submodules and package managers exist for a reason.
My experience aligns with yours. I had a video of a half-hour coffee-shop-style gig blocked because at one point I covered "Hotel California". This was just me -- one voice, one acoustic guitar played poorly, and was down a whole step from the original key.
The ADL has been around for over a century saying everything encapsulated in the pyramid. What is an "SJW" to you?
OpenBSD finally got installed because I had a corner case where Linux cannot rein in the misbehaving systemd.

This corner case is where I must block all network access with and by systemd.

systemd DHCP is still immature in dealing with Juniper DHCP server (used by Verizon FiOS) so I stayed with ISC DHCP server.

Further more, despite disabling DHCP in systemd, this systemd continued to spew network packets (think aggregate link and bridging).

Since I want no part of systemd accessing the network, I found that there is no way to QUIET that systemd despite its own config effort.

Not even Linux firewall can block this PID 1 (systemd).

Coupled that with recent but devastating CVE vulnerability of systemd, I’ve since moved to Denuvan distro, which uses SysV init as well as Debian APT repositories.

Initial pre-production review shows that this OpenBSD OS remains the only one OS that can block by PID.

So, I am sold.

No more effort to super-hardening of Linux. No more.

Just install and go.
Ahh, you are right. My eyes somehow drifted away from the _pull_ example with yield above the "basic push-based query engine" header, that is the one which I've found familiar.
More and more, ordinary people are not citizens in a nation, with a balance of rights and responsibilities afforded to them, but simply cattle: a resource to be cultivated, controlled, and harvested. This is true online, but also increasingly off. People are still operating under the outdated notion that corporations, banks and government institutions can be held to account because they are in some way vulnerable to the displeasure of ordinary people. They cannot, and are not.

Youtube does not care about your happiness. Their business model is unrelated to it. Youtube, like Google, is in the business of gathering up a bunch of delicious users and bolt-gunning and butchering them so they can be served up to ad partners for a tidy sum. In this arrangement, the happiness of the livestock hardly matters.
It seems there's no pagination. It shows total 220, but displays only 50. Otherwise cool idea, thanks!
So there is a big difference between legalization and decriminalization. I was asking about the latter.

While I can see some of the benefits of decriminalization (easier to provide help to those who need it, enforcement can target distributors rather than users, etc), it really just seems like a political half measure to me.
The ditch diggers dug the trenches to run internet to your home. Your internet connection has only went up in value/utility, yet the people who dig those trenches now don’t make any more than they did before.

The idea that employees are paid according to their value is entirely wrong. Employees are paid according to the labor market. The price of labor on the market is significantly controlled by supply, not the value to the employer of employing someone. Besides that, employers have much more power in the employment relationship. This is true even in tech. For example, the FAANGs got caught colluding with one another to suppress salaries via secret anti-poaching agreements a few years back.
Yes you can, it happens when you bump the sub module reference. This is how reasonable people use git.
Online Linux man pages editor
They are not distinct, stopping the former would also stop the latter, as such they are linked.
Writing is thinking and oftentimes just being able to explain in words what a thing does, should do, and should not do- has tremendous value as part of the design process before any code is written.
Basecamp does all of those things...

You really need to read up on how they operate before commenting about them like this.

"It doesn't have to be crazy at work" is a good read that explains where they're coming from.

Understanding that, this move is completely rational.
White House says Vice President Kamala Harris will chair the space council
Germany's biggest postwar financial scandal – DW Documentary
There are a lot of very good apps out there that have low ratings. But when you actually read the ratings, you realize that the users are just too dumb to read.

There are users that complain that the app doesn't work, although the description clearly says that it works only on certain devices or with certain external hardware, that those idiots DON'T have.
There are others that don't understand at all what the app ist supposed to do, so their comments are actually embarrassing themselves.

It pisses me off that the app developers aren't able to remove ratings from people that are obviously idiots.
Science Doesn't Work That Way
This is interesting but I also wonder where the effect tapers off. I'm working on a startup in a particular space, and almost all competitors have high ratings on marketplaces but behind the scenes we know their churn is HUGE because people strongly dislike the products. Are some products just polarizing such that the highs and lows will be more willing to submit ratings while the displeased but unmotivated mids won't bother with a rating but will still churn?
"reanimated"
Documentation is not generally useless. Most code is used far longer than it's intended life, most code is read far more often than it's changed, and documentation can save literally hours and days of struggle. Word of mouth knowledge transfer is abysmal at keeping critical knowledge alive. Nobody ever knows anything about legacy code, and it's because no one wrote documentation. Please stop telling people documentation isn't important
Devil's advocate - it is not necessarily the case that the social harm of a drug is matched by the personal harm. Arguably, the law has more business policing the social harm than the personal harm. Maybe it happens to be that alcohol - while poisonous - strengthens social bonds and is an overall net good, while cannabis - though relatively harmless - causes people to space out uselessly in front of the TV. Indeed, I believe this is a popular counterculture "conspiracy theory" - that the drugs that are illegal are the ones that cause the user to question the structure of society, in particular competitive capitalism.

I'm not endorsing any of the above - just pointing out that there are other reasons one might want a drug to be illegal than mere medical danger.
Looking forward to buying the completed book.
Ah, threads got enabled, and quite a while ago. However, not in a way that's spectre sensitive; only in a site-isolation context (https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/_0MEX...).

You state WASM's limitations aren't intentional; they just weren't finished - but being able to use those securely is part of being finished, and they weren't enabled in browsers until they were.

Obviously other hosts may do whatever they want. That's a valid hypothetical, but just as valid a hypothetical is that WASM implements relevant defense in depth features before such poorly sandboxed hosts become commonplace; it's not like they're not aware of the issue (https://webassembly.org/docs/security/). Hypothetically it might be "safer" than SELinux; but... today none of this matters, and the missing features don't appear to be intrinsic. It's not like native programs have had ASLR since day 1 either, right? Or maybe WASM stays in the "highly isolated" niche which is fine too, and would still allow various usages outside the browser too (e.g. for most apps that don't interact with other apps outside of a few carefully controlled primitives).

If people make poor choices about future development, things may end up less secure than they are today: sure.

So, on the one hand I can't dispute what your saying - I just think it's not the best thing to be focused on, because a trivial summary would make it seem like there's a real risk in having WASM as it is today, and that's not the case. We should be very careful in the future, yes, but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater; wasm's portability and sandboxing in practice today are likely quite useful and more secure (in a browser context) than a native app (outside of a browser context).
>Get your shit out of YouTube and any other Google product.

My thoughts exactly 5 years ago. So I did exactly as you say back then. So , did you notice? Did it help? I do not think so.

May be the problem is more complicated and leaving YouTube would not help ?
So you could push it out until practically forever.

But, there will still be repeated sections.