skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn’t mean that the job pays less, it just means it doesn’t pay to sufficiently provide an incentive to take it.

People simply might not take what is likely a physically demanding job if the compensation isn’t sufficiently high.

There can be also other reasons like the fact that they might be looking for a better opportunity and not simply taking on any job.

Other things like the hidden cost of having a job which can include things like commuting costs, loss of other employment opportunities like part time jobs or side gigs or added costs due to having to pay for child care can also be a good reason why one might not take a job even if it does pay above minimum wage and even above the local living wage.
> If a job is paying less than what the government deems the minimum amount of money you need per month to survive

Unemployment benefits are designed to pay less than what people earned during their recent employment. Traditionally, it wouldn't make sense for someone to turn down a job offer in favor of unemployment unless the new job offer had drastically lower compensation than their previous job.

The pandemic unemployment assistance change this with additional $300/week payments, but that still adds up to less than typical entry-level wages in many locations.

This isn't really about jobs not paying people enough to survive. The survey responses included "I receive enough money from unemployment insurance without having to work" and a separate response for "I was not given enough money to return to work" with similar response rates.
> Actual public safety is an afterthought

Are we talking about the people who participated in a violent insurrection against the US, or is this another group?

If you want to have nice things (eg: a democracy) then you can’t be letting people who commit some mild treason off just because they’re dumbasses who got caught up in the moment.

The next yahoo who decides they want to try and block the peaceful transfer of power needs to 100% understand that they will be prosecuted.
You would. It would all come from jacob2484.
I forgot it used to pause and think :D
>This is one of many examples of our brains being much more powerful than our eyes. Too often we think of our eyes as perfect cameras. However, it is the brain that is able to accomodate [sic] for all of the optical shortcomings in order to resolve the world.

While this is a description of the human brain and human eye it's interesting to me that it is a very accurate description of the progression of camera technology in the last few years as we shift from the supremacy of Big Glass to the amazing results from computational photography being applied to cell-phone sized lenses
It’s called that, but the federal government is printing that money for the additional payout and there is no premium for the insured parties to pay.

So, yeah, this isn’t actually a form of insurance.
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Yes. As a single man in my 20's, when I would get laid off from restaurant jobs (I worked in an area with a large share of summer tourism and september layoffs were common) I would spend the full time on unemployment because the wage difference was pretty minimal.

Even now in my mid-30s, when I was laid off for covid I waited until the expanded benefits were almost exhausted for the exact same reason (I actually made about 20 dollars more per paycheck on unemployment during the pandemic than I did at the Digital PM job I was let go from).

The term "fun-employment" is frequently used for people who have negligible difference in quality of life between employment/unemployment.
Ignition of the atmosphere with nuclear bombs [pdf]
It's not purely associated w/ it, the article says as much:

> Many factors contribute to flooding, but a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely

To make an argument that climate change isn't a factor, I'd imagine one would need to look at the expected frequency of getting record breaking floods, fires and other extreme events worldwide simultaneously.
I did IQ tests at 16 and 28 and had pretty much the same result. And that's IQ my social intelligence definitely got better, given that I am a slightly autistic anti social to begin with.

The only recent study I find that mentions a lower IQ explicitly talks about teenager use and that it has non or little effect on grown up brains in terms of intelligence

However we are going even more offtopic here. We can agree to not agree :)
Thanks for the link. I'm not into lutes, but i found this among the suggested videos, and now am in love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9VI4tNMyJk
If you look at the chart in the link, about 45% of the difference between “list price” and “net price” is discounts or rebates to insurers.

It’s particularly gross and brazen, even by pharmaceutical rent-seeking standards, to justify cocaine-like profit margins because large buyers can negotiate.

Insulin prices are driven by anticompetitive behavior. If you look at metformin, a generic drug treating the same disease, profit margins are tight, driven by competitive economics. A 90-day supply is < $10 retail.
I would hope that the "I was not given enough money to return to work" option would cover that. I haven't done much in the domain of large scale surveying, so I can't say how much you'd expect people to skew their own answers.
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So is authority.
Society continues to push back on any regulations on addictive junk food and loading down budget food with excessive amounts of added salt and sugar - so yea, the company's freedom to make a buck exploiting addiction trumps your freedom to live a healthy and happy life.
The advantage is that a criminal confessing to their crimes is better for everyone else. Most people would rather see criminals not doing crime.

This is so obvious, it's not clear why this has to be spelled out. The purpose of civil rights like the fifth amendment is not making life easy for criminals, the purpose is protecting innocent people.

You can argue that the harm inflicted by some particular procedure to innocent people exceeds the benefits, but that becomes a utilitarian debate, rather than one about philosophical dogma.
The United States is a cruel place to live if you’re poor. Businesses think they are entitled to desperate labor at rock bottom prices, and a large part of the country’s leadership is happy to help.
Well since you didn't sign the NDA... care to divulge who was making this preposterous "offer"? ;)
There is a perspective out there that says our current extremity of partisanship is actually a product of the parties themselves becoming weaker. When parties were strong, they had greater leverage over their members so the party could be whipped more effectively on compromises. Now - the efforts to reduce party influence over their members (smoke filled rooms, etc etc) has led to more and more extreme members and leadership has fewer levers to pull them towards the center.
That seems like a strange clause I would want to include. I have (?) lines of code, as well as other IP. Why would hiring me for a year give them access to free license of all my IP?

I saw something in Theranos's employee contract about granting a perpetual license to all the patents of the employees. I have no idea why that would be reasonable.
I don't believe the blurred images at the end have anything to do with eye focus, as the author suggests.

After all, chromatic aberration is blurring of only a very, very small amount.

The demonstrated seemingly negligible perceptual effect of blurring blue to a huge degree in a multicolor image doesn't seem to have anything to do with that, but rather the fact that we perceive primary blue as a much darker color than primary red or green, and we perceive differences in lighter colors much more easily.

If the author were correct that we have big problems focusing on blue, then we'd see that blue text against a black background would be massively blurry -- but it's simply not. It's comparatively low-contrast (because blue is a dark color), but it's nearly indistinguishably as sharp as red and green.
I think your baseline assumption about the US "justice system" should be that it is a horror show from top to bottom. If you expect any kind of rationality, fairness or common sense idea of justice, you will not find it.
> So the right to life is a human construct? That means that it is totally okay for the police to shoot everyone they don't like.

No, it doesn't. Language is a human construct,¹ and yet there's yaught bleep mÜOL87 øō°0o. So something being a human construct doesn't mean you can safely ignore it.

¹: Esperanto, at least, is a human construct.
Blue is my favorite color. Has my whole life been a lie?
I think you make make an important point here. Right now, I think many people (in the US, anyway) are now creating a counter-narrative to the previous "war on drugs" mentality that vastly overstated the dangers of cannabis and vastly understated the harm of criminalization. However, it is certainly possible to go too far with this counter-narrative, and at times, yeah, I do think that some people are practically pushing the use of powerful cannabis if if it were some sort of health elixir. It can absolutely be a harmful substance, let's not forget that.

I do believe that occasional use of mild cannabis is generally harmless for most people. But I am in agreement with you that all use (or perhaps even typical use) isn't necessary harmless.
>You're 10X more likely to be killed by lightning in the US than you are to die due to lack of insulin.

But 100,000x[0] more likely to lose a foot due to lack of insulin than by getting it cooked off by a lightning strike.

[0]Estimated. Not sure if they even track loss of limbs by lightning strikes since it's such a rare occurrence but the diabetic, poor and footless can be found in just about any major city.
Even broadcast emissions aren't detectable at long distances. If you parked an Arecibo-class telescope in orbit around Alpha Centauri the only signals you'd detect coming from Earth would be intentional directional transmissions from an Arecibo-class (or Goldstone class) radar.

Our television and radio broadcasts aren't detectable by an Arecibo-class telescope out much past Jupiter let alone outside the solar system. Even our high powered radar systems wouldn't be detectable out even half a light year from the solar system.

The only civilizations that can be detected with a SETI-like program would be ones intentionally transmitting directional signals. Even then out past a thousand light years even a multi-terawatt (EIRP) signal would be difficult to detect.

Like inverse square law is as unforgiving as the rocket equation. Anyone hand-waving either of those principals is not trying to have a meaningful discussion about interstellar communication or travel, they're just writing about science fiction.
No, the drive was making a clicking sound and I knew it was gone at that point. I don't know if they have Smart reporting built in, but it was basically working then immediately not working.
You can tell it's not raytracing because you can't see the ear of the head reflected into the head. That's the tell-tale sign of raytracing, when an object reflects into itself.
Blue eyes white dragon in defence. Does that count as Sicilian defence ?
You got me interested as well on "a multitude of people living inside of you". A model which works suitably for me is just the adult and the big child.

The adult is writing this text. (Hey, after all he's the only one able to write or read!)

The big child, is literally me as a child plus the sexuality that came later.

(There's also an animal, but it is only noticeable in the most extreme circumstances. You know, table tennis and the like.)

With this model it all boils up to the child being tricked by the adult. Yes, it is tempting to assume that the adult is "raising" the child, but no. Internally it feels more like the child needs to be tricked into compliance, then all gets well (i.e. the child is seemingly happy after it is shown its place).

But, a multitude?...

I have trouble imagining any more personas. I'm curious how does that feel like? Multiple "adults" at the same time? Sequentially?
Apparently in the UK non-compete are enforceable even when non remunerated, although your other points might stand: the non-compete must be in pursuit of a business need (i.e. not just a punishment because you left), and as should not extend in time and space more than required to fulfill that need (non-compete more than 6 months are rarely enforced).
Of course ads exist to increase product sales. That doesn't mean that people are unable to actually look at the product label and make informed choices. Ads don't make you do anything. Thinking that they do is a crutch.
I don't think renewables and fusion will be an option in a post apocalyptic society. After a few generations of anarchy the knowledge will be lost.
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> I spoke to Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance

This guy became a little controversial [1] after a FOIA request turned up emails in which he appears to be conspiring with colleagues to manipulate public perception:

> “you, me and him should not sign this statement, so it has some distance from us and therefore doesn’t work in a counterproductive way.” Daszak added, “We’ll then put it out in a way that doesn’t link it back to our collaboration so we maximize an independent voice.”

> Baric agreed, writing back, “Otherwise it looks self-serving and we lose impact.”

[1]: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...
The JetBrains 2021 developer survey[0] shows that a larger proportion of more experienced developers are male, which isn't surprising. But the degree is to some extent. Percentages of respondents' professional coding experience:

male female other
no prof. 81% 15% 4%
< 1 year 88% 10% 3%
1-2 years 92% 6% 2%
3-5 years 94% 4% 2%
6-10 96% 2% 2%
11-16 96% 2% 2%
16+ years 97% 2% 2%

They obviously had the data broken down by age AND gender but didn't show it. I find this to be a suspicious omission. It may have negated the difference by gender or mute it to be far less newsworthy.

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/
"Ubiquitous Applications: Embedded Systems to Mainframe" (pdf)

https://www.davethomas.net/papers/ubiquitous1995.pdf
i guess with red you get a similar effect. The green channel is the one that affects most the perceived intensity. If you blur the green everything becomes blurred.
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It's interesting to hear you say that, moments after coming from a thread where people were explaining why California is so terrible.

I feel like the symbol of the 2020s is Chesterton's Fence[1], people chafing against restrictions and then having to reinvent them. I'm sure that some people are indeed fleeing California, and will then immediately start reinventing it.

Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. The reinvention could be like a clean-sheet reimplementation that's better than maintaining a smelly old code base. But that only works if you know all of the reason those code smells are there, and don't simply re-start the same process to recreate the same bugs.

[1] https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
That "rebate" is called those other well educated and well functioning kids working to keep the world running when you retire.
Corn subsidies have a huge impact on the price of high fructose corn syrup, corn is the US's most subsidized crop
The first google result:

> January 28, 2021

> Frequent cannabis use by young people linked to decline in IQ

> A study has found that adolescents who frequently use cannabis may experience a decline in Intelligence Quotient (IQ) over time. The findings of the research provide further insight into the harmful neurological and cognitive effects of frequent cannabis use on young people.

> "Previous research tells us that young people who use cannabis frequently have worse outcomes in life than their peers and are at increased risk for serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia. Loss of IQ points early in life could have significant effects on performance in school and college and later employment prospects," commented senior author on the paper Professor Mary Cannon, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Youth Mental Health, RCSI.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210128134755.h...

This is not really something one can "agree to disagree" about, unless you wish to dispense of the entire scientific method.
Like someone mentioned before on HN it maybe due to some removal or ban of a substance that was widely in use like for example leaded gasoline.

It is going to be difficult if not impossible to prove what it was but either way we should be extremely careful what materials and chemicals we use especially ones that can cause hormonal changes or damage DNA. Even more we should be careful what we expose kids to before they are fully developed.
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The simple answer to this question is that not all software at Xerox PARC was written in Smalltalk. In fact, Smalltalk was just one out of a few different languages and programming environments that Xerox PARC used. For example, the Bravo word processor was written in BCPL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_(software)). Mesa was also developed at Xerox PARC and was commonly used as an implementation language. Interlisp was also largely developed at Xerox PARC.
That disingenuous, ignores what I wrote, and compares two different things. Ads may increase sales, but ads don't force people to purchase products.
That's how it usually works in finance/fintech with non-competes that extend beyond the period of employment (and not just for traders/analysts, it is the case for a good number of engineers and quants as well).

You might not be getting the annual bonus (which is a major chunk of pay in finance), but you still get the full salary for the duration of the non-compete (usually 12-18mo). They also usually have a clause that it applies only to jobs in the same industry, so if you go from a finance shop to a FAANG company or another tech startup, then the non-compete is void, and you are welcome to pursue that opportunity without any 12-18mo timeouts (but your non-compete pay stops).

That seems to be a reasonable compromise, because if you really want to continue working in finance, you are welcome to wait for 1-1.5 years while getting paid full salary (minus the annual bonus) for doing nothing. And if you want to start working again immediately, you are welcome to do so, as long as it is in an industry other than finance, and the non-compete pay stops (because non-compete at this point becomes void).
I wonder if there are studies looking at whether exposure to advertisements affects self control. I would imagine that certain advertisements reliably decrease self control (as that is their intent). Would be interesting to have data to back this hypothesis up though.
Indeed, and such enterprise-management devices must be wiped for enrolment.

There's some management modes which don't require that but they don't offer the ability to install system certs.
VR for the win... (no not that VR)
http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr-revisited.pdf

Ok, maybe not for the win, but it's worth a look. I'm actually fairly certain one of the Paxos implementations I've worked with and used is really more of a VR bend to Paxos anyway.
(Major spoilers for The Expanse below.)

> There is no compelling reason to wait until a planet conclusively proves it has intelligence on it to nuke it into oblivion with a kinetic kill projectile.

Or send a technologically engineered molecule that can hijack single-cellular life to help establish your needed technology in the target solar system.
That's true, which is why there are food labels and lists of ingredients. However, ads don't make people purchase anything.
Intuitionistic logic, which is what you get from not assuming lem, still reaches a contradiction if you permit that as a valid proposition.
So, doing away with LEM isn’t sufficient.
You could use a logic that explicitly has more values though.
This analogy demonstrates that you understand the situation well… but it's a really tortured analogy. Can you think of a better one?
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Did you just agree that it does usually not affect adults?

Just to clearify, I, and I think most cannabis smokers, by now know that it was stupid to start young. But these studies do not imply a healthy adult loosing IQ points somehow by smoking weed
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> It is true though that various (decidable) proof systems are unable to prove that the Busy Beaver function has any specific value beyond a certain point.

Isn't the result stronger than that though? The value of BB(30) might be X. Or it might be Y. Neither value would cause any problems.

Thus, "the value" doesn't exist. There is no value that is the value of BB(30).
Totally get you.
This is the main reason I stopped;
I currently don't know. Just dealt with a random agency who was representing them.
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The rest of the article ignores that statement.

> To make an argument that climate change isn't a factor, I'd imagine one would need to look at the expected frequency of getting record breaking floods, fires and other extreme events worldwide simultaneously.

You have it backwards. To prove that climate change is a factor, you need to do these things. Storms causing floods that kill people precede industrialization.
Really dumb question while I'm trying to decide whether to use something like git vs. CRDTs to handle version control for user changes made in an app I'm working on: why do we even use git anymore for source code version control if we want behavior like this?

Nobody likes merge conflicts. We all want versioning. So long as we have versions at all why isn't the ideal interface for developing in teams something more like editing in Google docs? Why aren't we just doing that? Why are we still using systems that produce merge conflicts?

Hoping for insight from folks who have either done this themselves or looked into it.

Edit: one particularly nice feature of Google docs over Confluence is that in Google docs I can suggest changes that is somewhat akin to branches with git. I don't need to force my change through without review. This isn't a natural part of CRDTs, but it sounds like the nicest source control system might be CRDTs plus branches?
Not sure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_basin These seem to be feasible though.

> I can't help but think that our ancestors would judge us pretty harshly for treating rainwater like nuisance and not a resource to manage wisely.

Also considering that many cities are like wind channels...
It’s NovoLog. It’s a very common somewhat modern insulin. It’s not some sort of new thing, it’s just Walmart branding. If you’re a type 1 and use novolog, it’s just more of that.
How does this compare to Shipit?

https://github.com/Shopify/shipit-engine
First artificial heart inventor - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Demikhov

(Albeit non-human)
It’s interesting that this is the fourth "once in a century" flood in Germany since 2000.

That’s where climate change comes in: In the past, we had one "once in a century" flood per century.
Mine has been fine so far although the way it works (mounted virtual disk) does make me slightly uncomfortable.
Those jobs should have been paying more to begin with. That's the problem.
It's not always that obvious. A lot of employers in California would get at least as much bang for their buck by building workforce housing.
This is definitely a bridge too far.

YouTube is a public facing media platform, they can do as they please.

But dipping their toes into private content is Orwellian.

This has to stop.
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