skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TCL was the first programming language I learned because it was used to write scripts for IRC bots. Funny times :)
Good jobs with growth potential that don't require a four year degree and actually treat you like a human being?
I think if we took the reverse analogy, this would be like a situation where depending on the model of car you owned you could only shop at a specific grocery store.

Bought a Honda? Only Kroger for you.
Ford? You get Albertsons.

There's a sizable purchase with phones and computers that creates a cost to switching stores. There's no cost to me to go to Kroger one week and Albertsons the next.

Something like Amazon is more comparable to grocery stores, but I think there's a "trust" cost that makes them not directly comparable.
You can live off of minimum wage. Maybe not in some places like big cities, but certainly if you moved to cheaper cost of living locations.
The 1950's were an anomaly. Europe was in the doldrums, Asia was yet to develop. America had little competition for the resources it needed. I doubt those days are coming back any time soon. If anything its going to get worse as the rest of the world catches up and the dwindling resources people need are stretched between ever more people.
I've rarely seen any enterprise Slack ever configured for session timeouts. Misplaced trust on the employee device combined with convenience over security.
A historical example:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa#Islam_and_pilgrim...
Be careful. Sometimes the ease of living at home can be addictive and then they turn into wastrels. Don’t underestimate this risk.
This is non-trivial to do without gathering more info about someone's browser than users would be comfortable with (aka fingerprinting). Ideally, a website/app knows nothing about the machine it's running on and is perfectly sandboxed away from everything else.

A private key shouldn't be device dependent. 2FA was the solution here, but was not enforced properly. They were able to social engineer IT into resetting their 2FA token without any proof they were who they said.
That doesn't (and can't) prevent revenge porn or blackmail or doxxing in any way, because the victim is not a party.
> They also have trouble finding a male partner, especially because one of their requirements is that they should earn more than them.

It's not just the women's requirements: boys, at least those coming from a still somewhat traditional provider/homemaker household (and many effectively are even if she also has a well paying job) tend to be not really prepared for a role other than provider. But unless they are super conservative outliers they also don't expect to end up with a homemaker partner, at least not unless some freak accident makes them end up in trophy wife territory. They believe that women should be modern and all that, but they lack a clear idea of how they themselves would fit into the picture. Many find a way nonetheless, but others are bound for greybeard boyhood.
Yet given all this, for a substantial cohort of customers, the Apple brand is still bought as a badge of "coolness".
Somewhat ironically, most of my career has been in Ops myself. I still don't think open floor plan offices are a good thing. While working in Ops I was generally at an organization that was either large enough or geographically dispersed enough that calling me on the phone or messaging me through internal systems would have been faster and more reliable than walking to my desk or yelling, so I still don't really see any plus for open floor plans. Also, I had to stop bringing my vintage IBM keyboards to work when we switched to an open floor plan at my prior office job because /I/ was too noisy for others with my typing.
Not everything would agree. Most of the life on the planet's only hope is to be around long enough to reproduce and then be consumed in one way or the other. Humanity puts a lot of pressure on itself to flourish.
Some people have broad autism phenotype (BAP), which means they have many of the traits of ASD, but those traits are not sufficiently disabling to justify the label of a disorder. And BAP is more common among STEM workers than the general population.

However, the boundary between BAP and ASD is not fixed. Different clinicians draw the line at different places, and it is moving over time. And which side of the line one ends up on can be determined by external life experiences. A person with BAP who lives a life full of luck and supportive environments may never be disabled by their traits to the extent that an ASD diagnosis is warranted. Give the same person worse luck and a more adverse environment, and the same traits may become much more disabling, and they may end up with an ASD diagnosis as a result. So, fundamentally the same person, whether they had ASD was determined not by who they are but by what their environment is.

This is part of what annoys me about some of these popular lines that "autistic people" and "neurotypical people" are "wired differently". Are people with BAP "neurotypical" or not? And sometimes the label is determined, not by one's "wiring", but by stuff going on in the world outside one's head, by society and culture and family and friends and fate and fortune.
How would you study history, philosophy, or ethics, then?

Those classes covered things which I have never encountered in my _trade_, but which formatively affected my views on how one should treat others (or treat oneself). I feel like the stereotypical "liberal arts" education, in which one studies things that are not just focused on your trade, has an intrinsic value which is hard to articulate.
Is it a distribution problem? They can't build enough power cables, or they've already built them over as far an extent as is manageable? I can see how it's easier to just put a big data center on site, but it seems like it would be better to invest differently.
> nonwhite

Uh, trust me, white men can easily accumulate zero matches too.
That's about the only answer, although feature flags are hell. Once you have a feature flag, you now have 2 versions of your product. 2 feature flags, that's 4 versions to maintain, etc. Make sure you don't conflate "feature flag" and "setting", and make sure you clean up these flags when they're uneeded (and actively push the business to make them unneeded!).

Fowler has a good write-up about different types of feature flags: https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html
I hope people do not much from this study done in a single IT Service company based in India. One critically important thing to remember is they are "Outlay based" instead of "Outcome based". So things measured are hours billed, time-sheets filled and reports generated. What work got done and was it even half useful to client is of secondary importance at these companies.

I interviewed few years back so thing they ask it if person is married or have kids because they are likely to take more vacations.

I wish they actually detailed the company name. Because if they did and my guess is correct this company is getting hammered as J2EE/.net support model is collapsing. There were some very large layoffs in last few year even before Covid.
> Several low-lying island nations have already entreated the United Nations to freeze EEZs at coordinates consistent with twentieth-century land boundaries.

Do the UN have any power to enforce this? Or it's just one of this rules that is applied until a country with a big enough float decides to move the border?
I would hazard definitely given how rampant online game cheating is across competitive shooters. People give grief to Blizzard, Steam, etc for their overzealous methods of detecting cheats and possibly increasing the vulnerabilities of your own machine but without some form of way to ban or detect cheats competitive online gaming would be a dead market. It's a cat vs mouse market and I know back when I was playing WoW every day there was a huge market for buying bots to harvest in-game resources and fishing.
It may not kill banks, but it makes alternatives possible. I want decentralization for the same reason I try to avoid vendor lock-in. If the vendor I choose starts to go against my needs, I can choose a different vendor. If all vendors go against my needs, I can self-host. I cannot currently self-host online transactions.

I have no idea how the future of cryptocurrency will play out, but I'm interested in watching.
Zero value, negative value, for the purposes of determining whether we should be subsidizing college these are the same.

I think it's very unlikely most humanities majors are going on to produce culture defining works. Perhaps in the Ivy Leagues, but that's also where students are primarily wealthy and already capable of paying for college and therefore not subsidized by the state. I went to a highly ranked public school and most humanities majors ended up working either in low paying clerical work (data entry, event planning, on-site property management, etc.) or in food service (i.e. barista). These are jobs where you don't need a college education (or maybe just an associate's degree) and certainly not a four year degree in classics.

IIRC most European countries don't have anywhere near the size of humanities programs that the US does, most students that can't make it into a good humanities program or can't make it into STEM go to trade schools. Europe doesn't have quite the number of private schools offering these useless degrees to people who couldn't get accepted into more prestigious institutions.
I also echo this; I'm not sure what exactly the poster you replied to suggests.

Both normal and incognito on Google return similar results to what was returned to you.
And a similarly insane number of applicants. Anecdata, but I recently hired for an entry level position at my company and received far more applications than when hiring for the same role a year and a half prior. Lots of applicants who graduated a year ago and have yet to find work.
>You either have strong encryption that works in all scenarios, both good and ill, or you have weak encryption that protects nothing. There unfortunately is no middle ground, and plenty of people and governments have tried.

This is always stated as a universal truth of the technology, but this mostly seems like a people and organizational problem. We already have encryption algorithms that can encrypt content for decryption by multiple optional keys. Why couldn't we fragment and distribute one set of those keys among multiple legal entities? That would require coordination and agreement to decrypt anything. That wouldn't be a true backdoor anymore than the original key is a backdoor, it would simply be overhead on the existing encrypted content to allow it to be decrypted by multiple keys.

>Also there aren’t “central encryption authorities” that all encryption passes through. Anyone can implement modern crypto wherever, so banning it makes no sense. It’s like trying to ban the concept of Pi.

This is true, but defaults matter. If the US makes a law regarding encryption, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, etc are all going to follow it. You still might be able to roll your own encryption, but the people who do that will be a tiny share of overall communication. Laws like this aren't meant to completely stop something. Putting in financial regulations to crack down on money laundering doesn't stop money laundering. The goal is to make it more difficult and prevent the most egregious cases.
Are there any sources supporting these claims? Which comment is “the other comment”?
I'm confident that HN sentiment is a fantasy created by people who are barely working.
How the World’s First Bitcoin Casino Started with Leandro from Cloudbet
How would mobile networks fair with something like this if youre moving around?
If you're experienced in Lisp, I'm still curious about the question: is adding a lisp to a sheet more powerful than adding, say JS, and if so, how?

No, it won't be more powerful
Instead of a vague comment, why not read the article or respond to the specific accusations outlined on the thread?

Here’s a concrete example from two of my posts. My first submission received 511 points with 267 comments and was on the
front page of HN and received national news attention. This clearly shows interest from HN about Amazon’s power against small Amazon sellers.

My next post was shadow banned by Dang and was wiped off the submission page within a few minutes, without even a chance to be downvoted or upvoted by my peers.

The HN moderators have too much power and control, especially in regardless to lack of transparency and arbitrary opinions on who to shadow ban.

1. Delisted on Amazon – “Defective Product” with 6 complaints of 5164 sold in 2021 (travelhead.medium.com)
1 point by travelhead 3 months ago | past

2. Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs (travelhead.medium.com)
511 points by travelhead 4 months ago | past |
>The two situations belie a completely regressive tax. The billionaire gains net 1% on their billions and I as a peasant gain net 1% on $250k.

It's a regressive tax in that the person with $250k gains less in absolute terms than the billionaire. But that's just capitalism. But so what? Everyone's still better off than they were yesterday.

This also ignores the spending effects and money velocity increases inflation brings. This is why the Phillips curve is a thing. People are encouraged to spend money. Higher inflation->lower unemployment. Lower unemployment, more bargaining power, more wages, the marginal person is better off.

There's a reason why low inflation is correlated with the Regan era of corporate takeover. The wealthy today don't actually own physical assets, by and large. They own financial instruments. They'd like to be able to sit on them. They don't want to have powerful labor. Stagflation is what happens when there's an exogenous shock to the labor supply by the opening of the world combined with the oil crisis. Now you don't need more people to produce more stuff.

Why doesn't the Fed want 0% inflation?
You can't 100% undo it, but you can criminalize distribution. Uploading it to a system from which it cannot be deleted guarantees no leniency.
> Your comment only tells me you wanted a different study than the one they did.

Of course, don't we all? It would be much more useful to have data on what remote work will be like in the future (i.e., when kids are in school/daycare).

There is something interesting about knowing the pros/cons of what happened during the pandemic, but most of the time research is done so that the conclusions can inform future decisions. Here, the future decisions about WFH would benefit from disentangling the WFH aspect from the COVID-induced remote school aspect.

One way to accomplish this is to assume that all workers who have kids (and lost productivity as a result) would have had the same productivity gains of people without kids. There are probably smarter/more nuanced ways to determine the global pros/cons of WFH in the future.
It’ll make more sense when you start thinking of the economics profession as a priesthood.
> The thirst for USD around the world is increasing and all the so called printing by the FED is not getting to the other countries and international companies fast enough.

This is because all the Fed does is create reserves that it uses to purchase Treasuries on the open market. But when we talk of foreigners demanding USD, what they really demand are treasuries, thus more "printing" (it is electronic, reserves are just numbers in a database) actually reduces the supply of assets that foreigners want to hold. Of course the scale is not really relevant to make a big difference in either direction.

What would increase the supply of treasuries is more debt issuance. There is an insatiable thirst to hold risk free debt in stable jurisdictions where property rights are respected. That is why the U.S. can run enormous deficits every year and the yields on those deficits are negative in real terms. None of this has anything to do with the supply of Federal reserve liabilities, which are reserves, but with the supply of Treasury liabilities, both actual liabilities and the off-balance sheet stuff like mortgages which are federally insured and thus also risk-free. We live in a world where the globalization of capital means that the moment anyone has some money to save, they want to store it on account in some US Bank or as a US corporate bond or equity, as they don't trust their own local banks and their own local corporations. Thus the U.S. is the world's bank, and that's why there is a global demand for dollar-denominated assets independent of whatever the Federal reserve does to increase or decrease the supply of reserves within the US banking system. Adjusting those reserves with open market operations does absolutely nothing to supply more dollars to anyone in El Salvador (or in Kansas).

But the problem for El Salvador is not the technology of monetary systems, it is that El Salvador has an underground economy that prevents it from collecting taxes or having a working credit system. If all your dealings are under the table, you have nothing to show a loan officer. If you don't want to store your savings in a bank but want to instantly withdraw them and store them in a foreign bank or under your mattress, then you are not going to be able to get much in bank loans in your own currency. None of that will be solved or even improved with bitcoin. Proving once again that bitcoin is a solution in search of problem, even in the arena of El Salvador's monetary woes.
Gold is also a very bad currency.
We moved to a suburb built around 1992, and our street had most of the original first residents. Out of say ten houses of original residents, three houses had sons in their 30's that still lived at home. (One guy was a welder and has since moved out, so I believe he was just saving money for a downpayment somewhere.)

Snide comments about "kids these days" aside, housing is much more expensive than it used to be, compared to median household earnings.

[Edit] I'm totally guilty of snide comments about "kids these days"; I wasn't directing that at anyone.
I'm not disputing that it creates an incentive for making energy production more efficient. It does! In the analogy I gave, there's definitely an incentive for building more highways ("There would be an incredible incentive for expanding LA's highway infrastructure") - it's just that this incentive is, at best, completely useless to existing commuters taking the highways.

I'm also not claiming that it's bad for energy to be produced and consumed. It's not! It's just irrelevant if you're looking to consume electricity, and someone else is producing and immediately consuming it. And it's bad for you as a consumer if production goes up and consumption goes up by even more.

I have no idea what your point is about the Sun.
Why would that be true forever?
Easy, don't put that notice in every box, and don't expect that everyone that receives the notice would bother filling it out, and maybe once you are winding down that product, start delaying or just not sending the gift cards.

You only need to keep ahead of the other items in the same product category in terms of average score and review count. That's public information, so it's pretty clear how many of these gift cards you need to give out to top the category.
> Even on rare occasions when they show up to family gatherings they've got their face glued to their portable games and rarely speak.

That's not video games though, that's the general digital addiction going on. And honestly, as a teenager I used to avoid everyone with books and I doubt anyone would have described me as addicted to a paper drug.
There is a richness to life that has nothing whatsoever to do with money. To the technocratic mind that would confuse this fact, what is "useful" can only ever be presented in the terms of the economics profession.

Under such guidelines it is quite "useless" to, say, spend a decade studying Akkadian. But our understanding of the past would be so much poorer without people willing to engage with Assyriology. I'd like to see STEM-maximalists argue that one engineering field or another is somehow more difficult than ANE studies.
Perhaps much of it is not ideological on Google's part but actually simply the machine learning about what people want to see.

It's entirely possible that such a disproportionate number of persons is more likely to access links about vaccines and such politics than what you searched for that the machine, not the man, has elected to favor those without having any real political motive.
> are charging people like $500 a pop to "remove damaging information from Google results." And ALL THEY DO is fill out that form for free. Someone tried to hawk this service to my husband after he came under attack.

'ALL THEY DO' is what anyone does in a similar way. You are paying for what they know that you don't know how to do. There is nothing wrong or deceptive about making money in this way. (use of 'all they do' seems to imply this). Plenty of people are busy and willing to pay for things to have someone else handle the details. Google could easily publicize this but they choose not to.

Here is the thing. Someone charging $500 (or any amount) has already filtered people that feel they have a real need from everyone attempting to do similar. Now you could argue the fee should be less but the friction caused by that higher fee (for those who can afford it) is worth it. And those that can't can do research and effort (like with anything) to find a way to achieve the same.

People often expect everything to be free and nobody to make money off of knowledge. By the way if reputation managers are charging $500 nothing to prevent someone from doing the same for less and changing the market price. Also I'd image the rep managers possibly massage some things to get the job done something many people wouldn't know or want to do.
> Almost like there are other factors at play here than just men being lazy.

The story as conveyed by OP is textbook people being lazy.
Examining Computer Science Education
While it is given a brief nod in the paper, it is worth reiterating:

WFH during a global pandemic is not the same as WFH generally.

I say this as someone who has been remote for years.

Run this same study starting in September (barring huge Delta variant outbreak in the US) and you'll see a totally different set of numbers.
As you noted, it is likely that something went seriously wrong with raising them (coddling, over-helping, etc.). But you don’t need to be “kicked out” to start working on building your life and your career.
I think it is more useful to look at inflation / deflation as the comparison point for a currency rather than forex pairs.
That's customer support effort: you have to have a separate feature release communication for these beta users, and very probably some support when things go wrong because they're using a beta product.

That's also engineering effort: you need to maintain feature flags or a different environment, which is not cheap in the long run
Wow this is the REAL story then. I had no idea why this move to BTC came out of nowhere and passed as law so quickly. Really scummy move from the US, using aid money to bully small countries and enforce its will. Too many strings come with US foreign “aid”, it’s more like predatory lending. I hope this works out for El Salvador.
... or commit suicide.
The way you describe it, it seems that if increases to the money supply were driven by fiscal spending on government programs benefiting the poor and middle class, rather than being driven by monetary action by the Fed, then the poor and the middle class would be the primary beneficiaries of inflation, being as they would be closest to the hose, as you put it. Would you not agree?