skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct that fixing housing policy is a major thing that we aren't doing to help people at the bottom. We absolutely need to put far more effort and political will into fixing this.

However, I don't think your math works out. There isn't any money in there for child care, healthcare deductibles, education, utilities, paying down debt or any of the other costs that tend to be much higher to people with less money and/or bad credit.

Edit: Your "500 a month for a decent sized appartment” seems inaccurate. Take a look at craigslist for St Louis or Omaha and you will struggle to find anything at that price point.
This is made worse by the fact that they're partisan political. It would be somewhat better if they refused free speech cases from all extremist groups.
I assumed they meant dollars.
This is also the goal of Read the Docs. We even use the same wording in our docs: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

The Python ecosystem has been building docs this way for over 10 years now, and it works great.
I've used Firefox as my primary browser basically forever it seems like. I never really liked Chrome. But Firefox still has some annoying rendering issues. For some reason text which should be aligned vertically center will look fine in Chrome but be slightly offset in Firefox (Windows). Or colors appear as they should in Chrome but not in Firefox (MacOS). Just little things that get under my skin.
As someone who spent a day figuring out that I need to downgrade node to make node-scss work, ant that’s the only way forward to boot up a rails app,… yea.
But ACA created a large market for individual insurance, and 30 hr workers don't get mandated free insurance, they only get the right to buy into a group plan.
What is “complexity” to you? Why does it have to come from somewhere?

I do a lot of statistics/sampling work. To me, randomness and complexity certainly are not mutually exclusive. In fact I would argue that randomness results in a lot of the complexity in our world, hell, quantum mechanics is entirely probabilistic, even for single particles
I'm going back for optics/photonics
I've made a couple other posts in response to how people seem to ignore the forest for the trees. The benefits for not working is a perverse incentive that stops large numbers of people from working - laziness IS the wrong word... but large numbers of people are still trapped in a system that rewards not working.

https://www.budget.senate.gov/newsroom/budget-background/the...
Many people are more fulfilled when their skills are utilized than when they have to space out while the talentless are allowed to spew jargon that won't actually change anything.
Compass I use is - what are my needs - have they been met? The answers decide how much work and what type of work.

Its very tricky though for multiple reasons. There is a wide spectrum of Needs so one has to develop a vocabulary or map of what exists before being able to answer the question well. Also Needs change with time and context. So the question has to be asked frequently. In relationships and groups that are important the needs of the other person or group also have to be monitored.
Popular speech doesn't need defending.

If the ACLU sacrifices its principles to earn the approval of the woke authoritarian left, then the people in charge never really had those principles.
In many of those cases they don't officially record it and it's called "wage theft."
Yes, except this scam app was free. Apple earned 30% of $0.
But that number is super misleading - you cant actually get that much compute from nicehash, you would struggle to get that much compute even from aws.

You real costs are going to be much higher, it would probably take you more than an hour to spin it all up and execute the attack. I feel realistic number is 10x to 100x higher
I use Ungoogled Chromium on Gentoo, and it takes my machine 5 hours. Well worth it, because I know that what is built is the source I see. Even FireFox is a binary on Gentoo.

Just my 2 cents.
I've been thinking about this for a long time. I don't think it's because wages are low or working conditions are bad. Both of those things are about the same as they were in 2019, before the pandemic. If a job at McDonalds was good enough then, why isn't it good enough now?

I think it's because people stopped spending as much discretionary money as they did before. People couldn't go out or travel because everything was closed. "Dinner and a movie" turned into "Netflix and a pizza", which is allowed people to save money for a year.

Some people are spending that saved money on real estate or crypto. Others, I believe, are giving up part time work that they used to do for extra income. A spouse can afford to quit their part time job and stay home to take care of children. Someone can get by on a stipend that wouldn't have been enough when people were spending more money.

If this is true, we should see a rapid return to low wage jobs as the country starts to re-open in the coming months. The federal unemployment increase runs out in September (I believe). If people don't start going work after that then this could be a larger societal shift.
Yeah he seems like an awesome dude and engineer/leader. Definitely will be following his blog now. Interestingly however, I had never heard of icanhazip before today. Had always used ifconfig.me.
I agree that comparing low head dams to dam failures is a weird comparison, so here’s a different one - on average about 10% of fatalities on moving water (ie rivers) are caused by low head dams (source: American Whitewater). That’s a lot.
As you note, hydraulic jumps occur naturally (and that’s what makes whitewater kayaking fun!), and deaths do occur on natural holes as well. Naturally occuring recirculating holes, however, are not as deadly as low head dams because they are rarely as uniform or as wide. There’s usually something that breaks up the flow or a place from which rescuers can reach the victim with a rope. Dams are typically wide and smoothly uniform across the width of the river leaving no place to escape.
Whitewater boaters (the people most likely to come across natual hydraulics) learn early how to distinguish the fun hydraulics from the scary ones. It’s usually inexperienced boaters that see the small drop of a low head dam and think it looks like a fun ride.
This is why running this (completely trivial) service yourself is helpful -- you can get the external IP from the perspective you desire.
Fair enough. (I'm getting old, it hurts my head to imagine pure-but-not-referentially-transparent language; however, imagining referentially-transparent impure language doesn't.)
> ““Zero-API” data layer lets you import server code directly into your React components instead of having to manually add API endpoints and do client-side fetching and caching.“

Sigh… I’m sure the author(s) of this framework mean well and sincerely believe this to be a good thing. I can tell you from having experienced php templates that did stuff like this that this is a terrible idea in practice. Worse, you won’t know it is until you’ve built quite a mess.

Consider for example needing to make a change to a view but your existing view has tons of data access logic embedded right in it. Now consider if there was tons of mission critical data access code inside sub components. Right there you’ve got to do a pretty risky rewrite just to change some UI.

I’m sure it’s possible to use this framework and speak to server concerns in such a way as to keep presentation and business logic concerns separate? but it’s way harder to do at scale. Thin clients are the way to go in pretty much every case I’ve ever encountered.
I'd advocate the same path I took: Better yourself and stop being worth minimum wage.

I worked fast food, Walmart, etc. I was worth minimum wage. I got an education, developed skills that are hard to find and become worth more.

My other posts point out that my phrasing was wrong (people are hung up on the word lazy) but my points remain: The US has a perverse benefit system that makes it worth more to work less before a certain point.

https://www.budget.senate.gov/newsroom/budget-background/the...
Cicero wasn't involved in the murder of Caesar. He was more republican than aristocrat and thus not trusted by the Liberatores. Also he was very anti-Anthony: The Philippics, 14 speeches in 44 and 43 given after the death of Caesar.

Another triumvirate was formed after the death of Caesar with Anthony, Octavian and Lepidus. The proscriptions were from that triumvirate and not just Anthony. Cicero favored Octavian but as future emperor, Octavian favored Octavian. Antony certainly hated Cicero and Octavian didn't find Cicero all that useful and well, that was that.
> that it outlaws all limits on civilian weapons ownership except those which also apply to the military.

Yes, that is the point; to ensure that militias independent of the national government have force parity with the professional military.

(Although strictly speaking I'm talking about the underlying human right that it enforces, not the second amendment per se. Just like the right to free speech isn't actually contingent on the specific wording or intent of the first amendment.)

> Even among gun rights activists, few would go as far as you are going here.

Thanks, I guess? Though that's more a condemnation of most gun rights activists.
Wow, that's really interesting, thanks for the link. It looks great, but it's kind of a jolt to right-click on a selection and not see the normal browser context menu...
Those employers don't care.

I suspect it's deliberate. If you can't plan your life, you are a slave to work.
> Kissing or touching before marriage will be rape.

Only if specific consent was not given and recorded on the blockchain.

In reality the group of people that endures that storm will go extinct or be conquered and balance will be restored in nature automatically.
These are also precisely the kinds of things observed just before either (1) a market correction or (2) substantial inflation. This is not tenable.
MOCO, a modern MySQL operator on Kubernetes
Person A is an employee with no managerial responsibility. Person B is the direct manager of Person A and no one else.

Is your interpretation of the author’s argument that Person B and all of her superiors hold the same objective of improving the quality of their work life, but that Person A does not hold this as their objective?
https://archive.is/qCstS
You don't think people having their careers threatened for their research is the sort of thing FIRE would have in their wheelhouse if it were a conservative?
> And if the pace of progress isn’t accelerating faster now than it ever has before then there’s really nothing special about this point in time.

I think the question of whether the exponent is changing depends on exactly what you're measuring.

Superficially, the exponent of something like Moore's Law is fairly constant, but when you throw additional aspects like the Gini Coefficient (how the power of computing is distributed within a society), Jevon's Paradox (lowering the cost of a resource causes the total consumption of the resource to go up) and network effects (use value of some capabilities grows as function of the number of participants), and the Innovator's Dilemma (low-end entrants to a market improve and push entrenched ones into higher margin but shrinking segments until they're squeezed out entirely) which causes systems to go through phase changes that can be fairly abrupt, even though the underlying transistors-per-dollar measure is accelerating at a constant rate.
I've definitely seen a pattern among the companies and businesses complaining about this. They treat their employees terribly.

I haven't heard any of these complaints from two of America's largest retailers that are known for providing full-time work with relatively good Healthcare and time off benefits (amazon and costco).
WTF? Source?
F-Zero GX has a widescreen option as well. It's probably one of the better looking games when you can pump it at 1080p or higher, but I don't think a Pi is quite ready for that level of abuse yet. Maybe another 2-3 generations of new Pi hardware.
At those low wage levels you’d either get free Medicaid (up to 4x poverty line depending on your State) or heavily subsidized marketplace plan.
> It's not racist in China to say the truth

mmm, I have had a number of Chinese people explain to me the “truth” about people of various races over the years
> the probability approaches unity that someone will know someone who has a lot of money and thus does not need to work.

No, because the wealth is concentrated among a few people.
Then government should protect them, instead of preserving jobs that left them working nearly full-time and receiving transfer payments. Transfer payments going to full-time workers are simply subsidies to their employers.
When I lived in Denmark, I did indeed eat out at restaurants less, but probably ate socially about the same amount. It's legal to drink alcohol in public, so on nice days, we'd either get takeout, or a single-use grill and some burgers and beers, and picnic in a park or on the waterfront. On particularly nice days you can see tens of thousands of people doing this in Copenhagen. On less nice days, just go to someone's apartment.

Now I'm back in the US, where it seems going to a restaurant is the default way of eating socially, even for just informal meetings with friends. Partly because it's cheap I'd guess, and partly there is less public space and more legal restrictions on what you can do in it. Overall I don't really like that aspect of the culture. Seems unnecessary to me to have the whole formality of a waiter who takes orders and serves you plates and whatever just for a random weekday meal with friends. But I'm presumably not representative.
High-Tech Police Lasso Is Being Condemned by Mental Health Experts
Any issue with execution quality would really hurt profitability, however. The yearly average rate of return is noted as about 25%. If there's a 0.1% slippage on the buy and sell sides, over a year's worth of trades that profit is gone.

And I'm not worried about "getting blown up" by a rise in volatility (although since this is fundamentally a short position it would be blown up by a theoretical 100% rise in a sector ETF), but I'm more interested in the risk-adjusted return or Sharpe ratio.

Since individual sectors are less diverse than the market as a whole, and since this strategy invests (shorts) one sector at a time, I would expect it to see greater day-to-day variability even before the reversion to mean comes into play. I'm curious about how much greater.
I use this as something of a meme/joke myself when talking with friends. I think it was widely used on Twitter in the form "I would simply just". For example when a friend is complaining about their job "I would simply just choose from multiple high quality jobs available at the job market, selecting one that both pays more and is more fulfilling".

It's usually a strong indicator the speaker lacks empathy or any real-world understanding of the constraints. Not all the time but it can be a good sign that the speaker has no ability to understand other viewpoints.

A good one from here recently on the subject of poor teleconference connections was (paraphrasing) "I would simply just get faster working internet, it would be simple to me, I would just do it". Because people don't live in crappy shared accommodation or get fucked over repeatedly by local internet monopolies, or move houses and wait months for providers to connect them or live in rural areas or struggle for money for reason or, or, etc.

I think it's also common in software because we have this need to solve issues rather than empathise and understand the struggles of people. Scott Hanselman writes about this with respect to relationships, how he has to disable "engineer mode" when his wife is venting about a problem. Sometimes stuff just sucks for people and trying to provide 'obvious' solutions, as if the recipient is incapable of that thought process themselves is demeaning and trivialises things.
We're talking about unskilled jobs where you aren't allowed to pee when you choose.
> Reasonable people can come to different conclusions on what it means for speech to be "free", what counts as speech, what context around the speech matters, and what entities should get "free speech" protection.

This is why it is encoded as an absolute, so that one’s perspective on what is reasonable or not is irrelevant. If speech causes harm that person can be sued for harm in a civil case. But the government shall not make any law infringing on the right to free speech.
I'll definitely agree with you in some ways. Two or three years into a career, no one is looking at your GitHub. But when you're just in college, a quick look through your GitHub can be a decent filtering function that I frequently use when I visited colleges on recruiting trips. A follow up conversation about some of your favorite projects and what's something interesting you've learned or done recently helps me catch those who don't have a GitHub or have lots of projects that aren't really theirs.
That seems to be exactly how the market is working.
You're saying you've never wanted an occasional 1 hr break during a work day?
Yeah, just imagine if Chinese internet users were prevented from accessing websites that exposed them to a diversity of opinions
Poor child. Wait until you have to build a sufficiently complex web app. Global variables are never the answer
> Both of those things are about the same as they were in 2019, before the pandemic. If a job at McDonalds was good enough then, why isn't it good enough now?

Because people have had enough. We saw the way companies treated employees during the pandemic—that is to say, like firewood that they could burn for profit, replacing them as they went through them—and many people are no longer interested in allowing themselves to be exploited for a pittance.

It's not a terribly uncommon phenomenon for people to be in a bad situation that seems, or has been treated as, normal for a long time, but when the situation changes temporarily, find that this sort of opens their eyes to how bad it had been all along.
> hiring is difficult is because companies aren't paying enough money

What i don't understand is why can't they simply raise the costs and pay more? Surely all their competitors have the same problem. If a business is not viable at these higher costs then you don't really have viable business.
The WEF is not some authority figure that dictates the future. They are commentating, and not even commentating on their ideal. It was just a, “the future might look like this.” Which… yes it clearly might.

Some conspiracists think WEF somehow controls the world, in which case I can see how that’s alarming, but they don’t.
Parse don't sanitize
I appreciate the demonstrations he does for nearly every video. Also, there are so many engineering topics that sound boring, but are actually really interesting when you dig into them. The dangers of low-head dams is a great example of one of those topics.
I teach NVC and find your summary delightful in its clarity and brevity. If you don’t mind I’d like to use parts of it when communicating the basic principles.

One additional component I focus on when I help people orient with nonviolent communication is the felt sense of their emotions (calibrating their awareness of anger, sadness, loneliness, numbness, joy, content etc.)

I’ve found that very useful in preventing getting lost in the intellectual/linguistic structure which may end up being misused if the speaker does not own their feelings.

The other aspect is the commitment to connection as #1 priority, over getting what you want.

And then, when you actually want to get what your want instead of showing compassion, or being connected, having the ability to remember and follow up on the commitment.

The addiction to power, including through victim hood, is a real one, and a commitment helps in giving it up. One day at a time ;)
Sounds like you’re advocating for removal of all laws?
> your existing view has tons of data access logic embedded right in it.

This is not at all how Blitz is set up to function. Your data access logic is clearly separated into query resolvers that run on the server.

What the "Zero-API" does is in practice is handle all the HTTP stuff for you. So as a developer all you are thinking about is "function calls". The function call happens to occur over the network, but as the dev you don't have to think about the details of how that happens.
And if your rules are to deliberately avoid opportunity, don't be shocked if somebody else makes the money not following your rules. Free market applies to the entire economy, not "the whole economy except the VC part because we're special".
> However, I believe most of these VCs still expect companies to be set-up as Delaware Corps. Anybody have any insight on that?

This is rapidly becoming less true. YC stopped requiring/recommending a Delaware corp back in W20.

There are countries that are more "investor" friendly where the laws about corporate ownership, governance and investment are clear, and enforceable. Singapore being one such. (Last thing an investor wants is to send money and not get any ownership that the courts will respect).

As long as you're setup in one of those countries, lack of Delaware is not a true blocker anymore. Mostly it's whether the fund is comfortably focused in the region.
A bug worthy of Peter Watts.
I prefer the kiosks, and when between equidistant McDs, choose the one whose kiosks are working. I'm pretty good with UIs, though, as a computer professional. Most of the people I see ignore them, and at two out of three locations near my house, they've been broken and down for months on end.

Plenty of McDonald's cashiers aren't great at using the POS, I don't know what we're expecting out of the average customer. 20% of Americans are functionally illiterate.
There were plenty of racist words to use before "Karen".
Yes, I know about what the IETF considers a "public Internet address", but it's sort of ill-defined for a lot of standard network topologies. NAT is a technique, not an explicit protocol. The RFCs simply cover the technique as it existed in practice.
>Was the primary driver of the Tiananmen Square protest caused by the CIA?

You are saying that if a CIA regime change pattern is detected and the CIA doesn't publicly disclose its covert/overt operations (even as it does expected post-op cleanup), it probably didn't happen? Quite interesting to maintain a permanent state of denial when history says the opposite is more appropriate...

After looking at timeline of CIA destabilization operations (using NGOs, rebel groups, terrorists, etc...) around the world and the constant funding of protests and extremism in China/Tibet/HK... Anyone that can do elementary level pattern recognition can see this for what it is...

This regime change operation extends to the repeated HK protests (many participants are paid to attend) and Xinjiang extremism (participants funded, armed, and trained by the CIA and their partners in Turkey/Syria/Iraq).

Paid HK protestors - https://www.rt.com/op-ed/525596-hong-kong-paid-protests/

Uyghur extremists as a China destabiliser - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=00Cvx0R8iDo

Uyghurs militants conveniently allowed into Syria to help the US overthrow Assad - https://www.timesofisrael.com/uighur-militants-in-syria-look...
That should be PrivacyTools.io
What are your hard to find skills?