skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From 2008 to 2014 everyone was talking about structural stagnation and then there wouldn’t be enough jobs and chronic unemployment for a generation. Meanwhile economist like Paul Krugman and Stiglitz were saying additional government stimulus after the financial crisis would’ve solved the problem.
> which apparently felt that it’s scope included everything that the company did

Eh? Source? Elaborate.
Non-disparagement is different from NDA (non-disclosure).
A fast food job isn't an apprenticeship. It's just a shitty job. Management of a fast food restaurant takes a bit of generalizable, transferable skill, but there are always going to be an order of magnitude more workers than managers. A job where only 10% of the workers can move up is a dead end job for 90% of them. Every apprentice carpenter can become a carpenter.
Access to the ocean.

Right now, America owns China's coast, with the aim of making sure China has to get America's permission to get to ocean shipping routes.

A PRC Taiwan gives china a free access point to the Pacific.
I usually end up over provisioning because I need something that is billed along with CPU; for example I have super good C or Go code to run proxies on, they use like 2% of the CPU when they max out the network connection. I add more so the bandwidth goes up.
I'm referring more to people -- leaders in a position of power and influence over those below them, like a CEO or manager.

And the thought here is not novel -- it was taught to me as part of an Organizational Psychology class in b-school

One's ability to lead is only as good as their ability to get followers to follow their lead. Hence why so many people use fear to keep others in line -- it's the easiest and simple way to ensure compliance
Then a wedding ring is unprofessional.
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> Eh, nobody bought that car for the fuel economy!

True enough, but I'm sure there are other factors in play, such as public policy. Fuel economy standards have been going up.

The motor I'm putting in my conversion is a Netgain Hyper9 (high-voltage, double-ended shaft version). It's about 120 horsepower and less than 200 foot pounds of torque, so in theory the clutch/transmission/driveshaft should be fine. (I'm keeping the 6-speed transmission.) It probably won't be particularly fast, but we'll see. More powerful AC motors exist, but they tend to be expensive.

I haven't posted any pictures yet; I've been meaning to, just haven't gotten around to it. There's another guy in the UK I think with a youtube channel that's doing close to the same thing, but with a Leaf motor.
If an issue isn't urgent and you aren't going to fix it, why spend time on it? Why not send it to the team that you already know is responsible? Why do you have teams that refuse to investigate their own issues and instead have weird emotional reactions to bug reports? Why are they more likely to accept a git bisect that took zero brain cycles from you rather than do it themselves in zero brain cycles? This all just sounds completely dysfunctional. Flee!
IMO ruling by consent yields more productivity.
Tweet: "I’m planning on taking some time for myself before looking for new opportunities"

Seems like someone enjoying a break, and glad to have timed it to get a huge severance package.

Remember, it's not 6months pay to sit in prison, it's 6monrhs pay to do anything they want, including a hobby project, child rearing, a busoner idea, education... plus a few hours a week of job searching.
The US has interests in Taiwan, and none in Kurdistan.

Some of those interests are economic, and Taiwan knows not to give them up.

Others are geographic, and won't go away unless china finds another way to the ocean
we truly are no different from twitch.tv
I’ve worked with people who were passionate about each of those issues (maybe not all at once). None of them encouraged or participated in the dehumanizing of other people and all found that kind of behavior towards others to be abhorrent. I can tell you that if they were confronted with a list making fun of people's names in this manner said list would not have survived with any one of them being at the company, let alone all of them. =)

I would note as a follow up to this re: leadership and culture; 30 people left Basecamp today. DHH is hanging out on social media like it’s no big deal, back to talking about Apple. You know what’s consistent between the start of this incident and today’s behavior? The derisive and dismissal treatment of people that have been a part of his company for many years.
> This was probably 15 years ago, and I didn't quit or anything, but let's not exaggerate the virtues of old people.

That’s true, but every time we humans have tried “let’s throw everything out and start over” it’s ended in tears. And that’s the prevailing vibe I get right now.
Why are you working so hard to pretend they're completely different when it's obvious from a few moments of thought that tracking is tracking, full stop?

If someone wants to stalk you for a couple of days to find out where you live or work or whatever, what does the difference matter of "a few days" vs a "a year"?

I don't understand why you think this isn't something worth discussing. It's a safety issue worth asking about, no?

I find it truly bizarre that this is being downvoted. Especially on HN which is generally so extremely anti-tracking and pro-privacy.
SSD makers start warning that mining products like ChiaCoin will void warranty
Does that matter when there are plenty of other businesses and services doing not office work to support the office workers?
I agree. I love Fauna, and I'd definitely use their hosting even if they offered a self hosting option, but the closed source and vendor lock-in are really strong points.
Have you looked through the FAQ and protocol draft?

https://mnmnotmail.org/faq.html

https://github.com/networkimprov/mnm/blob/master/Protocol.md

The mnm client app isn't chat-oriented like Slack & Discord, altho it does provide presence status for contacts who've opted into that.
One of my all time favorites was the OG Django Book

http://web.archive.org/web/20080304015113/http://www.djangob...

I believe the idea to let readers annotate any paragraph with questions / additional comments has not been replicated to date, but it was immensely helpful. Sadly the Wayback version doesn't let you load those comments, but you get the idea
Cars are big items. Phones are small.

Worldwide car sales are tens of millions per year. Smartphone sales are hundreds of millions per quarter.

So not only are phones orders of magnitude smaller than cars there's two orders of magnitude more manufactured every year.

You can disagree with me all you want but it doesn't change the fact of those scales. Phones don't just pop out of a mold or an extruder. Manufacturing billions of them is a big deal and anything making them more difficult to manufacture affects volumes.
Host your domain with GoDaddy. In my experience the one thing they're good at is slow-rolling phishing complaints.
Well I certainly hope you don't work for a company that lets your political opinions influence the hiring stream, then.
HN nerfs the position of submissions with any flame wars (high comment to vote ratio) rather than political ones specifically. Those are not the same situations.
Unless you succeed, in which case you become the locals and kicking you out is aggression
It can take months or even years for proof-of-concepts to become widespread in the wild, particularly by those sloppy enough to be easily detected.
> Do you think people in charge of hiring, particularly outside of the SV bubble, are going to be eager to pick someone up who left their last job because they couldn't agree to stop bitching about politics on the company dime?

Depends on how you frame this. Describing it as "sudden change of company culture", "lacking leadership communication" or "wanted to change fields and took the opportunity" can both be valid and inoffensive to either side.

On the other hand, there's a chance your hiring manager will feel similarly strong about politics, especially in SV, so even your framing might work.
Politics: pronouns

No politics: trans people don't exist
>I didn't hear of actual attacks on people in the wild

You never would. It's a passive attack. It's measuring response time to normal operations to discover secrets.

https://mlq.me/download/netspectre.pdf

"Software based side-channel attacks are particularly unsettling since they do not require physical access to the device."
> In the US, internet provider are regulated as utilities and are stripped of any power on the content they serve, and the platform thrived as a result. What would Internet look like today if AOL had applied Apple's policies?

About the same as it looks today. AOL was a walled garden, and unregulated internet was so compelling that AOL was forced to offer it, or die, like so many other services did; of course, AOL still pretty much died, but it lasted the longest of the pre-internet national information services. Incidentally, that was back when it was easy to switch between competitive ISPs or set up your own and there was not much in the way of regulation. Now, we live under the threat of the cable and telephone companies pushing their products. Not a whole lot of clear regulation now, and not even the basis for local loop unbundling like congress provided in 1996, but the FCC watered down until it meant hardly anything.
You said computers not phones. More power for less money is massively overwhelmingly driven by being able to fit more transistors in the same size wafer due to modern processes not integration as you suggest.

>And you seem to suggest that early smartphones were already as fast as an M1, because they were "systems on a chip"

I never suggested anything of the sort. My point is that smartphones have always been integrated and computers have usually been more discrete. You said the drop in price or increase in value for money has to do with integration. This doesn't appear to be correct because computers have been party to this without largely being integrated in the fashion you suggest.
You're mis-construing the situation. The people are leaving because of the heavy handed and incredibly insensitive policy making, not because they spent all their time in committees and that's being taken away from them.

All the people that left that I knew were incredibly talented and productive people, they are going to be a nightmare to replace.
The notarization process is super painful, no doubt. I had originally written shell scripts to automate the process for my company, but recently switched to the excellent command line tool 'xcnotary' (https://github.com/akeru-inc/xcnotary). it's available through Homebrew.
A conversation about Compilers for Machine Learning
While I agree that the US healthcare system is terrible, this shouldn't be much of a concern for people making software engineering salaries. One good thing the ACA did was make it reasonably convenient to exchange dollars for health insurance without the idiocy of your employer being a middleman, and you can't be denied or have rates jacked up for preexisting conditions.
Chrome had 7 exploits caught in the wild within 7 weeks in 2020.

I believe it is going towards JIT being disabled, or most severely limited.
Talking about potitics often comes with intolerance of other people's views, belittleling of their opinions, castigation of their stance, and outright disrespect if not silencing their words by bundleling it with a larger political movement or ideology.

You might be tolerant but many people aren't.
With $50m we can save many more people than 11. Regulatory hacking vibes coming from this article
Private Equity funds are using homes as a store of funds - to diversify their holdings and as a long term move. This can be in cash or financed, but they can afford to eat the loss because there is excess capital right now. It's been this purchasing for years that is contributing to the crunch right now.

From an article in September: "Blackstone Group, which blazed a trail for Wall Street in 2012 when it formed Invitation Homes and became the largest owner of single-family rental homes in America, has returned to a familiar watering hole." [1]

It's another way to milk the middle class.

[1] https://www.housingwire.com/articles/blackstone-gets-back-in...
Yeah, JS is the only hairy part. I considered mentioning it, since I know it was going to come up. But luckily, all I've seen so far are basic demos (like leaky.page) that read data from a carefully-crafted array that the page itself populated. I've yet to be convinced that you could realistically exfiltrate meaningful data at any sort of scale with in-browser JS, especially now that more blatant bugs like Meltdown are fixed.

If anyone can show a proof-of-concept ("this page grabs your password manager extension's data") I'll eat my words. But I feel confident that most of these issues are purely academic and, while interesting, serve more to provide content for PhD theses than represent urgent hazards on the web.
Yeah, you'll find endless threads on github issues of people complaining Github doesn't have this yet. It's a real pain
“Nonetheless, the DE&I council attracted significant support. More than a third of the company — 20 out of roughly 58 employees — volunteered to help. They began examining Basecamp’s hiring processes, which vendors the company works with, how Basecamp employees socialize, and what speakers they might invite to one of the all-remote company’s twice-yearly in-person gatherings.”

https://www.platformer.news/p/-what-really-happened-at-basec...
Yeah I’m surprised it didn’t accelerate tbh. If I saw how Much work was about to be dumped on me I would bolt
> Chrome/Firefox for iOS are just UI skins around WebKit, Safari's browser engine.

It's even worse because WKWebView has been lagging behind Safari in terms of performance and features.

IIRC WebRTC wasn't available in WKWebView until 3-4 years after it landed on Safari iOS.
What's the alternative? Squeezing millions of HN readers into the top 30 posts? Not only it's too little room for everyone worth seeing to be seen, it's also a statistical certainty that a sufficiently large crowd will have 5-10 censors who will block any discussion they don't like.
My only thoughts after reading this: really cool (although I wish I had a use case to justify copying it) but how does one obtain a domain name like josh.com for a personal blog?
I remember that. Actually It was a blog that allowed Facebook login for comments. People were visiting, scrolling down to the comment area, and using that to log into Facebook rather than just visiting Facebook.com.
Are you seriously arguing that yhe entire EU McDonald's market is operating at a loss? That makes zero sense.

Clearly it is possible to operate McDonald's in the EU and not burn money. Thus clearly there is a fast food business model that involves paying higher wages. Does this mean that every fast food store will remain profitable with the same hours? Probably not, but it does clearly mean that some fast food stores would be able to stay open and profitable.
I made a ball move in AS3 in 2012.
Think of the business side of the problem as a collective action problem. You want to pay your workers a living wage, but to do so, you have to raise your prices. If you raise your prices, your business will go to your competitor, so you can't exist if you increase your wages (and your competitor doesn't). Meanwhile your competitor wants to increase wages but doesn't for the same reason.

If the government mandated that when you raise your prices, everyone else had to too, then suddenly increasing wages won't put you out of business! Same story if the government mandated that you raise your wages (in this particular hypothetical).

You're right that both sides of the equation need to be examined, but it's actually a bunch of equations with a bunch of sides.
good riddance to troublemaker employees.
Reminds me of a training I once attended --probably the most participatory and positive energy session ever. It basically had one point: "Don't be a dick".

"Don't be one to your friends, family, coworkers, or especially to our customers". The word is hard to define, but easy to recognize. And you kinda always know when you're being one.

Everyone has been one, and no one feels singled out or blamed. Doesn't let anybody leave feeling like a victim or a victor. Yet left people feeling powerful to call other people out for being one, without resorting to stronger language. That company had comradery; it's too bad it takes more than that.
Know what else is unprofessional? A list of funny ethnic names being shared around.

Edit: Like even ignoring for a moment how the employees felt about this how do you think customers and prospective customers felt? It's completely inappropriate no matter how you slice it, and DHH and Jason picked this as the hill to die on. Ridiculous.
I recall that old-fashioned society wasn't so great if you weren't DHH's demographic.
$100 is not too much for internet, I pay a bit more than that and it is the only internet available at all outside of my cellphones poor 4g coverage.
I think a big factor is that a lot of restaurants in the US are throw-away businesses. The average life span of restaurant is five years. A lot of people enter the restaurant out of a weird desire to create something - which is to say they're shoveling money into the business 'till they're out of capital and then another "entrepreneur" takes their place. And oppositely, landlords and local government pretty expect that the sequence of failures is going to continue. Everyone else (landlords, restaurant suppliers, consultants and so-forth) makes money.

But watch out for technology and automation...that is the part of the equation that has been "solving" the labor problem for some time now...

Restaurant is a little bit convenience but mostly entertainment. If a robot is going to spit some stuff for you, why not buy an cheaper even microwave dinner, they're not that bad (or cook it yourself for something good tasting and which you can entertain yourself with).
Colombian farmers break Guinness record with 9.36-pound mango
I guess the question is what do you do when you find people who present with that situation: that they’re perfectly capable to hold down a job but only to create $10/hr of economic value by their labor.

If you set the minimum wage at $15/hr and do nothing else, you have made that person worse off than today. Everyone around them now has more money, so everything is becoming more expensive. They now can’t find or keep a job, because any employer who employs them is losing at least $200/week, $10K/year by employing them.

I don’t know what the optimal solution is, but it’s not clear to me that the above is it.
RSUs are taxed as ordinary income but when they vest they become (usually) class A shares. The sale of those shares will incur capital gains taxes, if there is a gain.
The company banned talking politics on the work server, not talking politics on personal accounts, even on the company dime.
So when can I get my broken wisdom tooth removed since im apparently covered?
Hundreds of migratory birds take over interior of California home
https://www.interestingnews.club/2021/04/hundreds-of-migrato...

Natural beauty tips for men's face
http://healthwithbeauty.xyz/2021/04/15/natural-beauty-tips-f...

Colombian farmers break Guinness record with 9.36-pound mango
https://www.interestingnews.club/2021/04/colombian-farmers-b...
It's not peaceful to play host aggressive armies and navies.
You seem to have read too quickly, the poster was talking about someone working a cashier in a store that sells bagels, not about someone making money to buy bagels.
lobste.rs is going very well banning any off-topic subject like politics. Might be because is invite-only or because the rule was enforced from the beginning
The first known Spectre-like concept was actually traced to Pentium 3 times in nineties.

It took 2 decades for everybody to forget about it before the vulnerability dismissed as "not exploitable in the practice" came back with a vengeance.
>Micro combined heat and power is an extension of the idea of cogeneration to the single/multi family home or small office building in the range of up to 50 kW.[1] Usual technologies for the production of heat and power in one common process are e.g. internal combustion engines, micro gas turbines, stirling engines or fuel cells.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_combined_heat_and_power

Unfortunately, looks like the smallest CHP unit Dalkia Aegis will sell you in the United States is the Yanmar CP35, which does 204,040 BTU/h. https://aegischp.com/products/product-comparison/
Um, ya, you are only thinking of US/EU companies. There are plenty of other places that would RIP off your code in a heartbeat.
Managing real estate is a magnitude more difficult than managing 100 shares of Tesla or maintaining a website.

Let’s agree that value creation should not be the target of taxes. Sin or consumption on the otherhand would be more rational. Can someone enlighten me on the case for taxing value creation and not value consumption?
There is something very draining about 'menial' physical labor. Especially in the modern era, where lots of the remaining factories run 24/7 operations to stay open.

A bigger issue in more modern factories is technology augmenting old analog processes and systems. So now you have the physical burden of the work, which is much faster since all the 'thought' is handled by automation. However now you're responsible for the labor and babysitting the automation(which can go awry often and quickly).

I found it worse in the Winter, with the shorter days. Where sometimes you'd rarely see the sun in a month.
I don’t know about progressive, but he’s definitely something.

Here’s his last in-person RailsConf keynote: https://youtu.be/VBwWbFpkltg

He’s promoting anarcho-communism in a RailsConf keynote.
> You have to sign a longer lease but you are paying the same per month

Signing a longer lease demonstrates that the new lease isn't like the old.

Otherwise let's compare apples and oranges in the economy too.
us-east-1 is a very special region. All of Amazon.com runs/ran there for a long time. And a lot of global features of AWS itself run there too.
Exploitation that ultimately helped lift a billion people out of poverty in China.

A socialist US would probably, like most prior countries that called themselves socialist, be a poor, oppressive hellhole.
There is, hypothetically, a market price for these jobs. It is below the minimum wage (otherwise there isn't much point in the minimum wage). It is set by the pairwise negotiations of companies, customers and employees.

If there is an avenue for the market to reach equilibrium (eg, by hiring children cheaply) then the market is going to try and take it. It will just create a class of jobs that adults can't get employed in because they cost too much to hire.

It isn't a question of what the kids would like, it is a question of what choices consumers and employers will offer them. If wages were set solely by employee's incentives then they'd all be paid much more than current market wages.
Scientist: Extent of DDT dumping in Pacific is and#39;staggering&#39;
The regulation
In some states, minimum wage is 1-2 dollars an hour *less* for 16/17 year olds
>The safe execution of any untrusted Turing complete code is a pipe dream.

The safe execution of any code requires an operating environment that never trusts the code with more than the least privilege required to complete a task. It has worked in mainframes that way for decades.

The IT zeitgeist these days makes me sad. Things can be better, but almost everyone is pushing in counterproductive directions, or has given up hope.
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