skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My own intuition is that keeping a strong imbalance in power between employer and worker is at best a local maxima for the employer, and much greater profits can be achieved with a more balanced relationship with the workforce.

Cue Henry Ford on wanting his employees to be able to afford his products.

Moreover, it works even better when it's universal. If only your company or your industry had to pay higher wages, that's probably not great for you. Most of your customers aren't your own employees, so most of the benefits go to others while you pay a disproportionate cost.

But doing it for everyone helps everyone. People can afford more of everything, so they buy more of everything, so companies produce more of everything and make more money. Enough at scale to offset the higher wages -- by definition, provided the level of savings is unaffected. And if savings increase then that's good too because "savings" are invested which makes it easier for companies to raise capital.
I understand that theory, but I don't understand what leaving his laptop unlocked has to do with it. As the FBI already had a warrant to arrest him when they encountered him in the library, they had already made a probable cause showing to a judge by that point. The probable cause showing isn't the same standard as the "beyond a reasonable doubt" needed for a criminal conviction, but clearly the FBI already believed he was guilty before they seized his laptop, whether or not they accurately told the judge about all of the evidence and evidence-gathering methods that led them to that conclusion.

It's unfortunately entirely possible that they didn't tell the judge about all of it, but it's still not as though seizing his laptop was the event that convinced the FBI that he was guilty, or even that they claimed to be particularly unsure about their suspicions before that.
Yes, German women agree this is problematic.
If I don’t have an employer and instead get an autodonation without any supervision, then that’s the donor’s problem. Or teammates if it affects the level of future donations.
A key difference is that the cash payments in this study were unconditional, which is pivotal to the hypothesis being tested.

Unemployment stops if you take a new job. This increases the uncertainty and risk - why take a new job that might not work out and potentially pays less money than what unemployment pays? The risk is not worth the reward in this situation.

Now if instead someone tells you that you are getting cash for 24 months regardless of whether you find a job or not, you are incentivized to find work as fast as possible because you get to keep the cash either way. If you find a job, great now you have extra money for savings, and are reducing risk and uncertainty, rather than increasing it.
Well let me be the first to say: I'm intrigued.
Taking it to Twitter makes the criticizing person look super toxic. I think reputation can be saved by doing this privately
This is more of an assumption about why people aren't returning tot work. Reality is a lot more complicated: kids can't go to school; low paying jobs are even more shitty now than before; people are still refusing to wear masks and some get violent if you ask them to; employers are doing the minimum necessary to meet code; etc. So this isn't exactly an ideal test environment.

Since some states are cutting back benefits, we get to see a live experiment. If employment numbers go up in these states, then that might be a correct assumption. But there's a real chance that employment remains low.

Labor shortages were an issue before the pandemic. Society just cheered because we called it "low unemployment."
What about the racial bias this creates where people get judged on their looks or race
as the filtering for deciding who comes to the interview?

It sounds like a bad idea.
NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble
NPR had an expert on unemployment and unemployed people on this morning who pointed out that this narrative is not supported by facts. Instead, the people who received these enhanced benefits have searched for jobs at a higher rate than those without.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/people-search-less-for-job...
Rome also was able to use its building prowess for military ends like few other powers.

Examples are Masada and Alesia. How do you assault a military fortress that sits on a shear cliff?

You either build a set a walls all the way around the city and starve it out (Alesia) or you build a giant ramp that is slopes gently enough to get your army and siege engines to the walls of the fortress(Masada).

Also the bridge of Apolonius was a major help in enabling Trajan to invade Dacia.
Oh you know, I was confused. It was attributes from C#, not format strings. https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/attributes.html#a...

> Attributes are modeled on Attributes in ECMA-335, with the syntax coming from ECMA-334 (C#).
This is an intersection of so many things: politics (outsourcing your judgment to your enemy and effectively just doing the opposite of them), brain-structure propensity for fear, esteem for authorities and experts (fundamentally the tendency towards authoritarianism, whether it's based in expertise or other things), class tendencies that value visible signals of virtue, intelligence and taste, etc.
I expect a common complaint to be “why isn’t [].into_iter() working in my tests? —oh, it’s 2018 edition”, though this can be mitigated by a specialised error message which didn’t exist last week when I first learned about this matter.
Article abstract (contains statistical values) at

https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...
Care packages at 75: American compassion, and soft power, in a box
Ask HN: Why don't companies make light weight performance cars anymore?
Hello HN,

I love small, light weight cars and I know I am not alone in this. What surprises me is the trend in the industry towards making heavier and larger cars with too much technology. Even porsche 911 gt3, the pinnacle of my ideal car (sub 3000 lbs, 400-500 hp, stick shift, mid or rear engine) is getting beefier and beefier.

Is there any hope that one of the existing manufacturers would make a carbon monocque (tub), carbon wheels, carbon brakes, naturally aspirated engine with 500hp, no tech car with a stick shift and rear-wheel power delivery? <- run on sentence :) But I am so surprised that nobody is tapping this market, it is an easy 100-300k sale depending on materials, design and performance.

What gives?
I’m curious about your example - I have a cheap toaster and it seems OK (I think it was $40 new on Amazon?) What am I missing out on?
As they have always said, if you want to have good housing estates, there are three sound advices, location, location and location.

Personally I have been to Istanbul and the only main reasons I can think of Constantinople did not fall much earlier because of its strategic location at the edge of peninsular surrounded by natural three water/sea barriers and its extensive aqueduct systems.

Imagine the constant barrage of attacks from the Muslim Empires namely Umayyad, Abbasid and Ottoman over the course of around 700 years. This is due to prophecy that Constantinople will eventually fall to the Muslim army and only the best army General will prevail[1].

The attacks and sieges was started during by the Umayyad Empire in 674 and only in the year 1463 Sultan Fatih managed to finally subdue Constantinople for good. The only other time Constantinople was conquered happened during the Crusades'sacking in the year 1204. The Crusade invasion is only temporary and only lasted until 1261.

But the turning points of both of the successful sieges are very different. The Fatih's armies do not have direct access from the mainland and they do not have significant number of Christian Latin supporters in the Byzantine Empire and inside the fortress, unlike the Crusaders. The Ottoman basically have to resort to clever maneuvers like literally carrying the warships over hills to overcome the multiple chains barracades along the Golden Horn. The Ottoman was victorious probably due to conventional military strength and tactics but oblivious on the importance of aqueducts system supporting the lifeline of the city. The Crusades however, probably much aware of the importance aqueducts to the city due to their significant number of local Christian Latin supporters and managed to strangle Constantinople out of its lifeline. The recapture of Constantinople from the Crusade to reinstate the Byzantine Empire, however, is much easier because the Nicaean Empire obviously know the city inside out and the aqueduct systems.

This is my pure speculation based on my limited readings and observations of Istanbul, and more research needed to verify the potential causes of the fall of Constantinople and the importance of its aqueduct systems.

[1]https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2015/05/29/the-conquest-o...

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople
Privacy in the sense that, while the bank may own your data already, third-parties like Plaid do not. And at least up in here Canada, we're a bit weaker on the whole 'bank API' system, so it generally turns into a wonderful game of "hand over your bank account credentials".

Anyways, I definitely understand where you're coming from. Plenty of other products that do have bank integrations though, so at least of there's lots of options for you!

And thanks for the design feedback :)
I get the feeling you are right. I remember when I was kid during the late 90s and early 2000s, when these "unpolished" systems were the norm.

A lot of my peers were starting to use them, but just like kids today, they didn't really look into how things worked, they weren't really curious about them, they didn't really tinker with them.

They wouldn't go and update / rollback a driver. They would just complain if things didn't work, and maybe asked a "geek" friend for help.

Today, if a random game doesn't work, people will just try the next one.
Musk spends half his time on electric cars, solar power, and grid storage, plus he just donated $100M for a carbon capture XPrize. He's probably had more positive impact on climate change than any other human on the planet. I doubt other car companies would be so far along on electric cars if Tesla hadn't forced the issue.

Bezos hasn't been that focused on climate but in 2020 he did donate $10 billion to his Earth Fund.
Just don't give it your network password, don't connect it to the wifi.
My wife and I are high income earners in the state of California. Looking at our 2019 tax returns, I see our effective tax rate was 29%. Property taxes were 4.5%. So, together a smidge below 34%.

To get to a 50% tax burden, the remaining 66% of our income would have been taxed at a ~24% rate. Of course that didn't happen since we spent on things like our 401(k) and food (both of which are not taxed), plus our cash savings.

I stand by my statement that any high-income earner paying 50%+ in taxes needs to get a better accountant.
Only a bit rich if you believe that he is actually selling counterfeits.
Fun fact: some LG displays use Samsung panels internally and vice-versa

Another fun fact: When Samsung started in 1938, they specialized in trading dried fish. They came into the electronics industry in 1960s.
Text communication is being replaced by video, see TikTok
there's also a recipe for Turkish Goulash in the back :)

I just finished it last week, pretty amazing. Man, i feel for those kids stuck on Omelek tring to get Falcon1 in the air with Musk tearing into them on each failure. In my 20s I would have been naive enough to do it too though. Heh, thank god for youth.
Yeah, I wasn't allowed much TV, but was allowed Mister Rogers and sometimes Sesame Street as a kid.

I lean pretty progressive/leftie/inclusive, and I think I recall some of those ideas from both of those shows (but I also got some of that from my parents and teachers).

Which I suppose is why I wonder about bits like the "three of these kids belong together" and programming a child with mental machinery to look for differences in other kids for the sake of finding differences. And the "belong together" language around spotting differences sounds loaded, given adult societal context.
Two things bothers me here. It is described as free of charge while you should be paid to provide internet connection and power to consolidate Amazon network’s infrastructure. Second is the risk of the protection being too weak to prevent people other to access your camera, voice recording, wifi… this shortcut seem to mainly benefit Amazon while most of the costs and risks are put on its clients.
Right yes, but there are many jobs that fall under the "not engineer" umbrella. This might actually be perfect for people going for marketing roles, though.
Banks should be being more like Amazon. Send everyone a free $5 gift card. Then convert all those cards automatically into credit cards after three months.

Amazon should be more like banks. Gamify the experience and entice users into your program with rewards, points or "miles".
Yeah, a lot of communities work this way implicitly, but being explicit about it likely has some nice mental health benefits in itself, as even if most people people are totally understanding, sometimes the person themself needs it explicitly said that it's okay for them to just back off for a bit and they aren't letting everyone down. Sometimes it's our own expectations and beliefs that drive us the hardest when we need a break.
i5ie
>The pandemic did give strong evidence that it was at least close,

And it may be worth noting a couple other things:

- A fair number of people didn't have a great working situation at home whether in terms of the lack of a good work area or childcare/teaching on the side

- Under normal circumstances, it's not 100% virtual versus in-office. Distributed teams routinely get together for on-sites/off-sites which can provide a lot of the collaboration and team-building that people are lamenting the loss of with remote
Sorry. Subscription isn't for me. I don't want to be in a jail of non ownership as an illusion.

Please stop calling this as modern model. This is modern daylight theft
I suspect you're right about overhead. 10us seems much more aggressive than even the author is actually suggesting, though - the motivating example was a service with latencies in the 10s of ms, so sampling every few ms would be sufficient.

Also, if anyone reading isn't familiar with sampling profilers, Felix gave a great talk explaining them: https://github.com/felixge/talks/blob/master/fgprof/
babel is a transpiler, which is more than just a way to shim shim features in browsers.
Gripe
I'm a dev and don't even make $100k. The median in the US for devs is about $97k. I support my family, so I don't have loads of cash to burn.
Probably because that comment, like this one, goes against not just one, but several of the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Did you miss the part where I said I enjoyed the kind of work? It's like you're talking to a pianist, and you say "Piano is a ripoff, I made more money playing oboe -- you should play oboe." But I don't like oboe. People can like different things. I have artistic skills and interests that don't get used on some rando CRUD or SaaS app, and I like being around creative, artistic people.
I'm not sure if I agree that New Shepard isn't a "serious rocket".

Falcon 1 has a low payload (small satellite) with medium energy (LEO).

New Shepard has a medium payload (crew capsule) with low energy (suborbital).

As far as "similar to a large orbital launch vehicle", you can rank them as:

New Shepard < Falcon 1 < Falcon 9 < New Glenn

BO is definitely trying to "skip steps", but I think that the US space industry as a whole is certainly better off for Blue Origin existing.

As far as the BE-4, the single largest technical risk for a launch vehicle is the engine, and using an engine which will already be in use (for Vulcan) looks smart to me. Yes there are delays, but aren't there always?
I posted this below but the facts available actually discredit this narrative that enhanced benefits are causing people to sit out labor market participation.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/25/people-receiving-unemploymen...
stranger danger boogeymanism is so tiring. if you're worried about pedophiles, you need to be monitoring your own (extended) family first and foremost, then as a distant second, anyone else who regularly spends prolonged amounts of time alone with your child. just like abductions, sexual assault, domestic violence, and pandemics.
Next Gen CSS: Container
That was the WHO.
Faucii is technically trying to avoid being found out that he has connections to starting everything when an organization he had his hooks in had operations in the Wuhan lab.
oh there was an opt-out. that's interesting. how does that work? you obviously opted out before, but could you also opt out after they tell you what the automated decision would be? if so that would effectively be that kind of appeal that i suggested.
But that's the right way to do it really... I remember an obscure thing in c# when var was introduced that if you have a type called 'var' in scope, type inference doesn't work and it uses that type instead. This is the way new features should be introduced.
If you're talking about apps via Google Play, only for some kinds of apps (ironically, the ones that make minimal use of platform specific features tend to fare the best... typically games) Also, Google is actively culling apps from the app store that don't upgrade to recent Android SDKs which often forces additional development to make the migration. For many apps, that means they will die/disappear since the economics of mobile don't justify their continued development.
> They were raised with tablets

and macbooks. Totally opaque systems that you d rather replace than upgrade. That's OK -- it would happen inevitably, as it did with cars. The problem is that this culture has extended to software, where it is normalized that any technology must be offered through frameworks, APIs and prepackaged cloud solutions
I think that as long as it is raw cash it can help. I have however noticed that it seems like the 3 most expensive things in the US right now are Medical, College, and Housing. I've also noticed that the government subsidizes or dumps cash into each of these in one way or another. In college it is through pell grants and/or student loans. In medical it is through Medicaid/Medicare and also the tax subsidies around health care, and same thing with housing and the different type of loan options they have like FHA, VA, Rural Development, etc as well as the tax deductions they bring.

If we just hand people cash I think this would limit the distortion but if you subsidize people in just one area it seems that produces a disproportionate rise in price in that one area.
I don't remember being required to use a 7-11 credit card at a 7-11 for every transaction but nice try.
There are a lot of really interesting assumptions and projections being made about a number of classes of people going on in this mindset.

But okay.

Thanks for clarifying and sharing your perspective.
Yeah, deciding to go straight-shooter with some of copy was definitely a risk, but thanks for letting me know that you appreciate it :)

And yeah, the pricing section could definitely be made clearer on that. Thanks for the feedback.
Reminds me of an old discussion in comp.arch.embedded (dating myself here!) about what you say when people at a party ask you what you do.

Hands down best answer was the engineer from a defense company: "I build flying robots that arrive at their destination in a really bad mood."
Why not just list the cause of death as "accident", instead of "accidental self hanging" (embarrassing and needlessly specific), and also instead of "suicide" (since it wasnt their intent to kill themselves)
Apple is building desktop-class processors for iPad so that it can operate as a thin network client for a Linux server somewhere? That strategy doesn't make too much sense.
I read an article in the Guardian today that had a little stat in it that said that the richest 1% in the US own 43% whilst the richest 1% of Greeks only own 9%.[1] I wouldn't have thought that the contrast is SO big between countries. I agree however that the real stats are not as important as how they are spun and represented regarding the influence on public opinion. I also agree that something's (and with that I mean the rich) gotta give sooner rather than later unless growth alone will help everyone up sufficiently (which I don't think it will, especially with climate crisis looming).
[1]https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/may/11/oecd-higher...
$500 tax free is quite a lot of money to a low income person. That's nearly two weeks of work at minimum wage; probably a bit more than that after factoring in taxes.
This will be really powerful.

They have a staggering amount of behavioral data that any headhunter worth their salt will be drooling over and can charge outrageous premiums for ad space. Can still be screwed up of course, but they hold some pretty big aces in that space.
How could they introduce anything if you don't connect the TV to the internet at all?

My Sony OLED smart tv works the same way it did when I got it.
Think reading means you're smart?
Yes, SpaceX moved fast in its early years; Musk threw everything he could afford at the project and raced to the finish line, whereas Blue Origin only really stepped into high gear very recently.

It's true that Blue Origin started early stage work around the time you say, but you should keep in mind the sort of projects they were. Charon was a few Rolls-Royce engines connected by a metal lattice. Goddard was a conical capsule that flew to 85m. This was not anything close to the levels of effort that SpaceX was putting in with Falcon 1 and Falcon 9.
This website has some truly great stories. Where/how do I begin to understand this one?
Editorial board is not charge of the business of the newspaper. They are only in charge of editorial policy. The board doesn’t even speak for the newsroom.

NYT has huge institutional wall between editorial decisions and the business to keep them separate.

Here are the people running the company:
https://www.nytco.com/company/people/
With the big caveat that only JavaScriptCore can JIT, so third-party interpreters will always be performance-constrained. Not a big deal for languages like Python or Lua that are always interpreted, but things like .NET on iOS (Xamarin) have to be ahead-of-time compiled for decent performance, and it's a complete non-starter for third-party JavaScript interpreters.
Wow, 40% savings is awesome. I think I'm lucky to hit 20%, even including employer contributions.
> How do we square this [...] increased unemployment benefits are causing people to sit out

To start with, while it's a current talking point, it's not at all clear that this is actually what's happening.
I did some research for you and multiple HDMI inputs won’t be an issue.
Ah yes, the wonderful world of SCPs. When I first discovered the subreddit[0] I read through a ton of them. Some are very well written and the whole universe is very interesting. Would recommend to anyone interested in sci-fi.

0. https://old.reddit.com/r/scp
In my experience, borrow checker errors would only be “bugs” in a program that doesn’t have a garbage collector or if there is shared memory parallelism involved. Put differently, if you slapped a borrow checker on Go and your program was single-threaded, (I posit but welcome correction) borrow-checker errors would probably not be uncovering many bugs.
i m sure ease of tech has to do with it. In the 80s, lawyers would use SQL -- because that was the state of tech at the time. Problems that are out of sight are out of mind.

btw there is no such thing as techie anymore - everyone is into tech, there are very very few luddites left. There's a tendency of UI designers to infantilize their designs , but i m not sure that's based on actual measurable improvement or a certain "contempt" for the end user.