skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other end of the spectrum you have Amazon drivers pissing in bottles--something that a steel mill laborer would never have had to do.

Are you really suggesting that laboring at a steel mill decades ago was a more comfortable job than being an Amazon worker? That's incredibly out of touch.

Even modern steel mills, with all of our technology and safety regulations, are difficult jobs. That's why they pay more than being an Amazon warehouse employees or drivers.

Older steel mill jobs were absolutely hellish. The struggles at modern Amazon jobs have been greatly exaggerated or cherry-picked in the news. There's no comparison between the two.
I would say a much bigger problem is the lack of building, and the lack of new houses.

The population grows about 2% per year. We have not been building nearly enough to keep up. Even if Airbnb is taking 5% of the units in a huge metro area (how?), then that is still just a few years of building that have been missed.

The root of the problem is that we let people hoard land by severely limiting what can be done with a plot of land. By doing this globally over metro areas, we cause a huge shortage of land which drives up land "rents" (rent in the economic sense, not as much in the apartment leasing sense).
Urban upper-classes are landowners, the endemic rent-seeking they are engaging in is via monopoly control of land, which people need for living and working. They are able to extract high proportions of people's income for rent from those who are unable to afford to join the land-owning upper class.
Because driving is unsustainable and destroying the planet. It can not be allowed to continue in its current form so the easiest option would be to push people away from it when they are able to.
Dan Ariely's response bothers me. Here's the crucial passage:

> The work was conducted over ten years ago by an insurance company with whom I
partnered on this study. The data were collected, entered, merged and anonymized by
the company and then sent to me. This was the data file that was used for the analysis
and then shared publicly.

On a plain reading, Ariely clearly states here that the data file prepared by the insurance company was the same as the one used for the analysis and shared publicly. But we already know that he modified the file:

- He is listed as the creator and last modifier of the published Excel file.

- In an email to his collaborator Nina, he admitted that he switched the outcome labels in an attempt to make the data easier to understand. So clearly the published file was not identical to the one provided by the insurance company.

So I worry that Ariely is taking us for a ride here. He had the most incentive to get the desired results, far more than the nameless insurance company.

The original insurance company dataset, if it exists, is probably lying around in an email somewhere. They were, after all, able to provide the final version, which was prepared not too long after the original.
Gitlab, too -- tho Jira still sucks.
you don't even need to go to the Stasi. In West Germany there also always was a recognition of the right to private communication which is why the so called Briefgeheimnis ('secrecy of letters'[1]) was enshrined in the basic law. Privacy of correspondence is very, very hard to circumvent for historical reasons but also because it just seems essential to me in a free society to not treat everyone as a potential criminal who is subject to mass surveillance.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence
Of course you're right! That statement was intended to be hyperbolic. I'm not actually suggesting that it would be a good idea to NOT have zero-sized collections.

I'm just exasperated that most of these modern, statically typed languages, give us TWO ways to write "nothing" (null and empty) and ZERO ways to write "must have something".

You COULD, theoretically, write a concat() that takes multiple, nullable, non-empty strings and returns a nullable non-empty string. Of course that's not ideal and would be horribly unergonomic. But you COULD do it. But how do you write a concat() that statically guarantees that if any of its arguments are non-empty that its output will be non-empty? You pretty much don't.
>Arizona is not in any form a net contributor to water resources as that is physically impossible unless they are fusing hydrogen and oxygen from space.

Arizona is not a closed system, so why would it be impossible for water to be flowing out of the state?

[Or water vapor]
I dont think it uses/sees your personal credentials - the login is done via your browser and tokens passed back to the app
Amazon attributed this to COVID-19 lockdowns https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/policy-news-views/our-recen...

Anecdotally, at the very start of the pandemic I had read a similar complaint from someone whose relative worked in delivery - with offices (and retail) on the lockdown there were fewer potential pit stops along the route.
“Largest single governing body” then?
Do you think this is politically viable, particularly in the US, which has a lot of open space and long commutes? Are you going to apply this tax to rural communities and farmers as well?
No. Corporate drones don’t understand startups. (They don’t understand much of anything.) If you want to play their game, learn and follow their rules.
If you spend a small amount of time investigating nuclear and the recent failures in construction across the globe, and compare it to the successs of renewables and storage, I think you'd change yourself mind fairly quickly.

Nuclear was a technology that was overhyped in the 20th century but never delivered on its promise. We have far better, cheaper, and more flexible tech now to replace it.
> Or maybe I just happen to have worked in various places that have their shit together a little more than the bloggers employer.

I hate to break it to you, but nothing in that blog is unusual in Enterprise in my experience. You appear to have been quite lucky:)
"Hey Bot, find out from Alice when I need to have those slides finished. Kind of urgent."

It immediately sends an email and a slack message. An hour later, it asks if you want to send an SMS or call to Alice.
Speaking as somebody who met his wife on OKCupid, 10+ years ago, a lot of that stuff has now gone away.

You can write a long profile, but in order to message somebody you have to match tinder-style. The quizzes are gone, the interests are gone, and the journals are gone too.

(There is the ability to send an "intro" message, which shows up to people who haven't matched, but it is hard to discover as a recipient.)

Where I am there are way way way more people on Tinder as a result I think.
I looked but can't see in the FAQ or anywhere - do you provide a way to migrate from Jira and do you integrate with bitbucket?
I thought this looked neat until I saw the price tag. Are you kidding me? You want to charge the equivalent of 2 Disney Plus memberships just for a /browser/?
I'll second the recommendation for Craigslist. Zillow is probably the last place I would look for a house to rent.

Short term rentals may end up being more profitable, but are also seriously more work, and a lot of the smaller landlords don't want that.

Then again, with the eviction moratorium and other regulations that make dealing with problem tenants becoming heavy handed, I dont think I would ever want to have long term renters either, so... good, long term renters get the worst end of the deal, I guess.
Yeah, I immediately blurted with laughter. Then proceeded to hear about the whole amazing build. I remember lugging around an IBM PS/2 P75 portable (AC powered suitcase) with an orange plasma (as in superheated/electrified gas) screen. Nice keyboard though. This laptop is probably about the same weight with batteries.
> Raising wages doesn’t create more workers, though.

Of course it does. My wife doesn't work because there's nothing that particularly motivates her to work rather than doing her hobbies. If you offered her more money, it might motivate her to re-enter the work force.

And if you can get 100k without a degree people who would be in college will be in the work force instead.
it's pointless to mess around with N95 if you haven't been fit tested. That means close shaves every day.
A good analogy would be playing 4K video on a machine that can only render 720p resolution. You'll get a lot more buffering (discomfort) with no improvement in quality (proven benefit).
A rental would only be on Zillow if it's listed with a real estate agent on the MLS. Which is pretty rare for most rentals in my experience. They are also usually more expensive.
Well that sounds a little weird - you're saying people aren't renting out houses on platform X because they rent them out on platform Y?

It depends on where you live of course but my wife and I recently house shopped and inventory was super-tight because (a) fewer people were willing to have people in to see the place due to COVID (b) fewer people were moving out of houses and into apartments due to WFH and (c) many people were looking to move from apartments into houses.

There was also a big move out of cities - you could easily rent/buy in NYC but good luck finding something in the suburbs.

All of these factors would affect rental tightness/availability where you are. I'd look into that more, rather than accepting a vague "yes, probably" as an explanation.
It is a complete video conferencing package by itself, so you generally don't need anything else. It just works out of the box to give you multi-party video conferencing across multiple rooms.

We use it in our (closed source) online tutoring / whiteboard software, and it is pretty easy to integrate, by taking their videoroom sample code.

What is it you're looking for?
The Zeppelin: Aboard ‘the hotel in the sky’
This is a mess brought about by the corporations that want to be considered persons under the rule of law in the U.S. but still want to operate globally and have to adhere to the laws of other countries. Nothing says that they can't wall off the communications of citizens of other countries from communicating with people of the United States. Twitter and all other social media platforms want the protections of this country but want to play in other countries in the name of profits. They shouldn't be allowed to play the victim as they have been and either ban all hate and violence per the U.S. laws and their own terms of service or they need to wall everyone off and create terms of service for every country.
Twitter Refuses to Ban Taliban Accounts, Vows to Remain ‘Vigilant’ Moderating
> It's worse when working with vendors

Well this works the other way around too. I found this especially true when delivering software which is considered an interim solution.

More than once I got root privileges on customer machines or seen my software run as root because the project owner found it too cumbersome to deal with his own employers security regulations. Or just wasn't given the budget to deal with it properly. Sometimes it's easier to get an exception than to follow protocol.

This is coming back to haunt you if something goes wrong or an interim solution wasn't so interim after all. If someone responsible for auditing permissions asks at this later stage it was always the vendors fault.
That would have a particularly large impact on food prices. Increasing the portion of food cost attributable to fuel by between 3x and 10x would hit poorer people particularly hard. It would raise the price of pretty much everything else too, all of which hits people harder the lower they are on the economic ladder.

Maximizing the speed of implementing renewable energy that can power EV's, and scaling EV production to more affordable levels are much less likely to stomp on the poor. And unlike trying to raise gas prices to $30 it's actually realistic from a social/political standpoint, especially since we're already on that path, just not as fast as we could be.

This is not a simple problem, and it's exceedingly rare that a complex problem has such a simple solution as this. Even the renewable/EV combo has inumerable variables behind it that have taken decades to get us to the point we're at now.
Subtly educate your friends about the corrupt imperial West. If you convince 2, and they convince 2 …
Yes, and Mantle is a vendor-specific (AMD only) API which only supported one platform (Windows). There were plans to port it to Linux, but there were never any plans to support other GPUs.

That, and Mantle ran on desktop GPUs. Metal was initially targeted at where the gap between API and hardware was the largest, which was mobile GPUs. At least with desktop OpenGL you had the "AZDO" techniques, but on mobile, you had OpenGL ES. Mobile GPUs aren't just smaller versions of desktop GPUs, they use radically different ways of drawing on the screen (although this gap is narrowing, as desktop GPUs are becoming more like mobile GPUs... basically, expect to see tiled rendering on desktops in the future).

If you were living in 2013, would you say, "Gee, I hope someone else forms a committee to adapt Mantle into something which, in the future, maybe in 2016, I could theoretically use?" Or is it faster to make your own API? Or perhaps you like working with cross-platform steering committees that were, at the time, falling behind and failing to address problems with their APIs?
I'm saying that unless you're really careful to specify what sort of "consequences" you're talking about, it's hard to separate your beliefs from his.
Because some people believe that a major part of solving climate change is having people live in dense cities.
There is no in between except for the people at these corporations that want to play the victim in every situation when their decisions aren't executed evenly across everyone.
well.. if you dont want to, you can download tribes1 archives preconfigured and ready to go on modern machines https://playt1.com/ (click on one of the configs)
Best decision we could have made. Wish it was done years ago. Only thing to do now is make darned sure we get out the people that helped the US and allies as quickly as possible. It’s not going to be easy, but it must be done.
Yes, imposing costs increases trhe costs of some activities. Unfortunately, there isn't a solution that involves no change in anyone's behavior.

If employees have to pay more on a commute, it will change companies' behavior.
Right. Furthermore, from the very abstract:

>We show that income in the least wealthy decile (10%) scales close to linearly with city population, while income in the most wealthy decile scale with a significantly superlinear exponent.

Perhaps suboptimal if you believe income inequality is a massive problem, but scaling linearly with population? That's actually better than what I'd expect, and certainly not as tragic as the cherrypicked wording of the headline/news publication seems to imply.

It's another episode of an editor using a result to say literally anything they already wanted to.

Meta point: Nothing against the study itself here, but growing increasingly tired of this sort of truth-twisting nonsense. It seems like it will never end. How can we fix anything if we can't at least agree to not outright lie to each other?
There’s a fair quantity of research out there exploring how higher inequality between income brackets tends to come hand in hand with there being less mobility between those income brackets (both in an intergenerational and individual sense). I couldn’t say the extent that is true of cities specifically, but without reading the paper to see exactly the arguments made I wouldn’t out of hand be willing to say the title is misleading.
Took a look. Unclear why this is in any way superior to Debian and customized XFCE. Nothing is said about my security and privacy using the OS. Hard pass.
Don’t use notebooks. Don’t write garbage code.
Podcasts are largely distributed via RSS, and it’s a blossoming advertising market.

Some services offer to splice audio segments with “current” ads, so that even older content can bring in new ad revenue, if I remember correctly.

You can do ads with RSS, it’s just not as lucrative because the market is small and harder to sell than standard web properties.
German chemists identified over 7,700 different chemical formulas in beers
Most people in the history of civilization were subsistence peasants, because throughout most of civilization, agricultural productivity was so low that it couldn't afford more than a small fraction of the population to work as 'professionals'.
Except they don't have the best food, they have the illusion of it.

When I had to do interviews recently I had to use a wide variety of Video Conference Software, and Zoom was the only one which had some arbitrary user unfix-able not configuration related problems.

Ok, slack also sucks bad if any part has a problematic internet connection, but I only ran into it after I had a new job ;=)

But yes, the UX is better compared to e.g. MS Teams, but MS Teams works way more reliable (for Video Conferences, assuming it's only used for that and no "fancy" business access control features are enabled).
by the fact they make less than minimum wage in many cases, I think gig workers are struggling even more than corporate minimum wage workers to get back. not having a "corporate environment" isn't worth 60+ hours a week just to make rent and food
You can rent monthly on Airbnb. If I can get a house for 1200/month on Airbnb vs what used to be available on Craigslist for 800 or 600 a month, is that Airbnb’s fault, or is it just the market rate now and it happens that Airbnb is the platform de jour ?
It's pretty clear that they are comparing the present state to the pre-pandemic state, not making some kind of normative claim.
>what makes school so compelling & part of what is so deceptive about it is that it creates a very expected, causal reward system

"The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects" - Adam Smith
I read this recently. I thought it was okay, but it didn’t really speak to me and I’m not entirely sure why.

Maybe it’s the cultural distance between the 90s and today. Or maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood for it.

I do think it covered some interesting ground and gave me a better understanding of the 90s in tech.
To make the LARP more elaborate I was in the room for the meeting described. I still have the T-shirt. This very much happened as described.
So the Taliban is on Twitter but not our last president?

What the fuck?
> Urban upper-classes are landowners, the endemic rent-seeking they are engaging in is via monopoly control of land,

Who has monopoly control of land? is there a cartel or corporation of all these shadowly urban upper-classes who own everything?

> which people need for living and working. They are able to extract high proportions of people's income for rent from those who are unable to afford to join the land-owning upper class.

Owning land is not "rent-seeking". Owning highly desirable land is not. Owning a large amount of highly desirable land is not. Renting it out is also not. Investing in appreciating assets of any kind is also not.
Thanks for the clarification, there’s definitely a pathway for us to allow for this in the near future. I think it’s a safer path than running after industry specific compliances.
Its complete BS that you cant stand on the merits of now. Just so some white men can hold onto political power and insight fear into the masses to get them votes.
No, it's Harpers.org which, yes, leans left, but is hardly "buzzfeed clickbait."
> subtracting one from zero and getting max_uint can be its own brand of fucking horribly awful.

Agreed. Silent wrap-around on overflow is also a really terrible idea.

> having the language itself throw in that circumstance can also be exactly what you don't want.

Then you have to check before you do it. Or call a special overflowing function. The default should absolutely be a crash. That wouldn't even really be anything new: what happens when you divide by zero in most languages? Index an array with an index > length? Should the array index just wrap around and give you the element at length % index?
Does intuitionism go beyond Gödel’s incompleteness theorem? Or is it an unrelated thing?
What were the challenges you faced attempting to have the valve pass?
Any plans of supporting kanban boards in future? We find that kanban works very nicely to manage certain types of projects, and we're currently using Jira's kanban features for many projects. I'd love to see alternatives.

Sync'ing with self-hosted Git servers would be good to have. Many of our projects are hosted on Git servers in a "secure network" behind a corporate VPN that, for legal and commercial reasons, cannot be hosted externally. Any thoughts on this?
Taking your scenario a bit further all, pay is limited by productivity. As wages rise, the least productive uses of time won't be able to keep up and will either fall out of the economy entirely, find a way to improve productivity, find a workforce that they did not consider previously or find consumers who are willing to pay more.

I don't really see how any of this is a bad thing. This has to happen from time to time for the economy to remain efficient. This is the phase in the cycle where the capital owners take their lumps and workers make big career making moves.
I don't disagree with your last paragraph. I think we just disagree on where that line is reasonably drawn.
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Unfortunately a lot of mailed chicks die along the way, ignoring other aspects of factory farming, it’s a pretty cruel way to transport animals.
> transportation, heating, cooling

Cant you already do all these with electricity?
The website is super slow for me, which doesn't feel like a good thing.
In this case, the differences are quantifiable and consistent. Different cultures do have different outcomes. But two similar cultures, one living in a landlocked state and the other having coastline, will have different development speeds.
We use Firestore as our DB :) I don’t think git and LFS as a hosting service could take us beyond a hundred users.
Ah, that's helpful, thanks—we must have posted at roughly the same time. It's... eh. I don't love it, I don't hate it. On the other hand, I don't especially like typing "internationalization" repeatedly, either :-) Once in a while is fine, but when you're trying to have a conversation about it, and have to type it over and over... it gets old.
I would implement it with a cash rebate to everyone in America for the average number of gallons used by an American in a year * $10 and call it the "green rebate" or something like that and make it clear that it paid for by a gas/car emissions tax.

The average American would be paying $0.
> In this case, these stem cells are coaxed to grow into blobs of brain tissue, without anything resembling thoughts, emotions, or consciousness.

Sure, I'm skeptical that organoids are anywhere near being capable of thought or emotion, but I don't see how it's acceptable that TFA can just assert so as fact with no further elaboration. Are the organoids developed enough to produce connections between neurons and show electrical activity by the stage they develop eye-like structures? If there's nothing like that, cool, no problem. However, if they do have that level of development, how exactly do you prove they have no subjective experience?
Aren't all these statistics able to be infinitely nitpicked since nobody can agree on which bucket to sort the emissions into?

Example: a car is produced, does the responsibility for the emissions go to the manufacturer or the consumer who buys the vehicle? Now do this for every single part and bucketful of metal ore down the chain of suppliers, manufacturers, shippers etc.

Drawing a line seems difficult and how do you even know whether you double counted at any point.