skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies do pay the minimum amount they can get away with.

That said, lower paid jobs are also lower productivity jobs. There is obviously an upper limit to what a company is willing to pay that is based on productivity, and higher productivity also requires specialised skills.

No-one is going to be paid $100k to flip burgers at McDonald's both because that job does not produce anywhere near that and because it's easy to find people. If it became too difficult to find people salaries would not go very high because of the productivity cap and they'd find a way to do without people or shut down (because no-one is going to pay $100 for a Big Mac, either).

Now, they could pay a medical lawyer minimum wage if they could get away with. But the supply is quite small because it is highly skilled and productivity is very high, and so pay can be high and can remain high.
Actually, I wonder what it could have been, if Jobs were alive.

Would he introduce any meaningful product categories we haven't seen?

Or maybe, because most innovations are an effect of opportunity due to foundational tech (battery, display, silicon, camera, wireless) Apple would end up in a similar place anyway?

One thing we know for sure - Apple would rent-seek and wall the hell out of the garden anyway. Jobs was a ruthless asshole, as evidenced by e-mail evidence unsealed by the courts.
Same boat. Basically, the only way to play is to already own, and use that inflated leverage to buy something else inflated. This is the opposite of what we should be doing, and nonplayers are completely priced out of the market.
Someone might have already tried to implement this un-ironically — only a matter of when probably.

That SCOTUS case would be quite interesting to watch.
> No one made a big deal about needing an extra vaccination

This is fine when there are plenty of vaccines to go around. The point is we should use the vaccines globally on unvaccinated people rather than giving existing vaccinated populations a booster.
"Instead of the employer/owner running your gas station, the employees that actually work it have 1 share each."

This is laughably naive. The power, then, devolves to whosoever authority gets to conjure the legal definition of "actual work". How can I be that person, and how can then use my power to enrich my friends and cronies and screw BuckRogers over? After all, all employees are equal, but some employees are equaller, and some are not even employees.
Do we actually believe that "big pharma" (in the form of 3 companies that make US approved vaccines) have greater influence than all of the collective industries

They only need more influence in key places like FDA and CDC, not more influence overall, to push health policies.
If you have a daily routine like charging your phone, why not just charge your watch as well?

Seems like more cognitive effort to change routine just because you take a weekend trip.
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I find records super useful! You can not only express things like a Point(x, y) easily, but you can also wrap primitive types like integer to give values semantic, behavior and typesafety. Records are the perfect fit for value types as used for example in Domain-driven Design.
Casio is a sleeper, they don't over extend and they are the best at what they do (which is to provide durable, cheap digital watches)
Yes, weaken labour regulations, allow workarounds like the gig economy, break up unions, enforce no increase in minimum, tolerate regulatory capture, permit highly wealthy individuals and organizations to have substantial say over politics through lobbying, campaign donations and think-tank policy marketplaces and guess what?
The elite will pocket basically all of the productivity gains, the more elite the more in your pocket.
Those with no leverage are left with a dwindling share of the pie.
Trickle up economics
This comment is confusing. I know many people in my neighborhood who are not even close to your 1% and own their house. How is this possible? We are not super rural.
There’s a whole book about this idea, Antifragile by Nassim Taleb, highly recommended
Fwiw, the study took place September 24, 2020 to December 21, 2020. The first vaccinations in the US occured in December 14. Pretty safe to assume nobody was vaccinated.
Also relevant: https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-e...
Companies/directors can (and do, see e.g. Theranos/Elizabeth Holmes) settle without admitting fault.

Presumably the goal is to lower the number of three letter agencies investigating you.
It doesn't count in at least Switzerland, and I believe all through western Europe as well...
That sounds more like an argument for the Canadian model where we went several months between shots (on the assumption that a high percentage of the populace partially-protected was more useful than a small percentage fully protected). I'm assuming semiannual or quarterly shots will be where we land until Covid is no longer a major threat.
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iPhones work very differently when compared to Android. By default, there really aren’t backgroud apps, iOS forces their usage to minimum. iOS has own thread for UI rendering and everything on background is not prioritized.
I don't live in the US, things are worse in Europe. I don't even make $100k in Europe but my salary is very good for here - I started on ~$40k in London!

But mainly I just want financial security - to own a home (to avoid the constant worry of suddenly having to move) and have some promise of retirement.
Owning any single family home (presumably with a yard) seems clearly more attractive than living in a public housing apartment complex.
Neilmed appears to be brand name saline solution, do you use it with a neti pot, or a syringe, or something else?
Wages are based on supply and demand. Minimum wage is an artificial propping up of wages. If there are too many workers, then employers don't need to compete to hire them, and wages are depressed.

Meanwhile we import over a million new legal immigrants each year (along with unknown numbers of illegal aliens), the vast majority of whom are low-skilled workers. The people decrying low-skilled wages are the same ones supporting policies that actively reduce those wages through increased competition.
A similar thing to 2) is probably the reason seemingly every product is priced $x.99. Everyone is probably aware that's basically the same as $(x + 1).00 but when you're on auto-pilot maybe you still feel like the former is a meaningfully better deal. I mean, it must work given how common the practice is.
> Yet rising productivity is no guarantee of a healthy economy. Equally important is how the fruits of productivity are divided.

It sure seems like you can. Isn't the article about how productivity has gone up without a commensurate increase in wages for the last 50 years? Where's the basis for a skeptical employer to buy this seeming counter-factual?

I support a much higher minimum wage, but this article wouldn't have convinced me of anything I didn't believe already.
> Public health officials need to understand that their primary job is managing public perception of a situation first and foremost.

Actually, public health officials need to maintain the trust of the public, or no one will listen.

And you won't be trusted if everything coming out of your mouth is a lie, no matter what your intentions.
> Has the productivity at the lower margin grown that much? I seriously doubt that.

That's the problem. The minimum wage is a legal instrument, not just an economic process. It is designed for the lower margin to be "overpaid" over what they could get from the market otherwise.

It basically says "everyone working should get at least this much of our collective production". This is what we have decided our society should work like.

Our collective productivity increased much faster than minimal wage, making the minimal wage worker much poorer by comparison.
The thing about the pipeline operator that strikes me is how toylike all the examples are. Look at this article for example - it’s a bunch of examples of adding and exponentiating numbers, as if you couldn’t do that already in a single line of code.

My suspicion is that once you move away from toy examples, most pipeline operator use cases are already covered by chaining class methods on classes. I suppose you could argue that the pipeline operator allows you to operate across multiple different data types, but I further suspect that handling many different data types with a single function is an annoying thing to get right and this won’t come up in practice all too often.

To be fair, the case of pulling in only the methods you need on rxjs seems somewhat useful… but do we really need a whole new operator just for that? And isn’t that the point of ::?
Just get the vaccine.
> 1. moving somewhere super rural

I don't think you're necessarily just limited to rural locations, but this does depend on what you require in a house.

If you're willing to buy a 1000 square foot apartment/condo, those can be had for ~$300K in some nice neighborhoods here in Chicago, with full access to the city's amenities.

If you're willing to live in the Chicago burbs (I personally am not), that same money will buy you a larger house with a yard. Still not close to rural, but definitely brings the problems that come with suburbia.
QE does not involve printing money. How does swapping bonds for reserves, i.e. monies of different durations, invoke a money press?

EDIT: I am also using 'printing money' in the figurative sense, I'm not making some obtuse point about actual notes being printed. I don't think QE is equivalent to figurative money printing, the money is not coming out of thin air.
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I mean for someone with natural immunity to get the vaccine is not going to reduce their immunity, and might boost it (or might not). So with fairly little downside, it makes sense to vaccinate them surely?
My first thought was “there are publicly traded companies that use an app to monitor their app performance instead of relying on data directly from Apple?!”

Surely giving access to your app’s data to a random company is not without risks and is kind of irresponsible specially more so if you’re a public company having fiduciary duties to your investors.
Sure, but interest rates are crazy-low.
Agreed.

That alone makes me want to donate.

Can it work as a VST plugin ?
I suspect the marginal utility is better in having a larger % vaccinated. If those on the fence about it hear that there are circumstances where it’s better to only take one dose, or none, many won’t vaccinate at all because it seems less important.
Yes, most audio programming languages allow you to create DSP graphs by connecting nodes together. This is often done with some kind of pipe operator (for example, ChucK has the "chuck operator", Faust has a bunch of operators for connecting batches of nodes in different ways).

My favorite approach is in Sporth: because it's concatenative, you don't need any operator, you just type the things you want to connect. Shameless plug, I made a playground for it: https://audiomasher.org/browse
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114621
Totally agree with your point, though Apple’s modus operandi would more likely be to create their own protocol and expect the manufacturers to adopt it…
Bean counters are often short-sighted, focusing on quarterly reports to keep shareholders happy.
> I think the weirdly-shaped long-tail graphs we come across are just sums of more naturally-distributed response times, for different types of responses. Another reason to limit variation I think.

The best method I've found for digging into latency is profiling RPC traces to see where time is spent. This at least separates the code and parameters that have simple latency distributions from those that don't. Some distributions will be very data-dependent (SQL queries).
I don't think so. It works on my laptop that only supports WebGL 1.
Top 1% of income earners in the US? Because that is $450k+. With that income, you should be able to easily buy a home anywhere in America in any city but the most expensive enclaves of those cities.
If you are in the top 1%, you shouldn't have to look somewhere "super rural" in most states. Or maybe I have a different definition of "super rural" than you?
Some say that it is not anti-intellectualism to realize the emperor has no clothes but enlightenment.

Either way it’s dangerous.
Are you willing to compromise on square footage and number of bedrooms, bathrooms, and garage? I don't know what kind of properties you're looking at. But have you considered settling for a smaller home within reasonable commuting distance?
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If you have a top 1% income you can easily afford a place that isn't super rural, unless your definition of super rural is wayyy out of touch
There's no reason to talk in generalities. PRC's thorough infiltration of TW military/industry and fact that ROC military brass are prodominantly KMT with pro-PRC sympathies has been intelligence consensus for decades. This isn't speculation, it's more or less accepted fact that guides US selling TW 2nd/3rd tier weapon platforms because they know anything that filters to TW military will finds it's way to PRC. Like everyone knows Israel intelligence has been very proficient in infiltrating Iran's nuclear program. PRC infiltration of TW is more comprehensive on whole of society level. No reason to pretend otherwise.

To your edit: any credible nuclear break out threat from TW would be taken out within 10minutes from PRC rocketry. Of all PRC redlines, the most serious are TW ones. PRC has fought with nuclear USSR and US over less important core interests while PRC wasn't nuclear. PRC will absolutely preemptively crush any TW nuclear efforts.
It's deeply unfortunate but not really surprising, these kinds of large scale experiments on humans are rather difficult to organize (for good reason) and outside of a naturally occurring disaster may not have happened at all.
~100k for 20% down gets you a good place in the non-Seattle Western WA. Not rural, close to Seattle and Tacoma and the airport, nice weather. Monthly payment is already lower than Seattle rent and will surely continue to look better through the years. Doesn't take FAANG money to achieve - just west coast software dev money.

Before the market really caught fire in late 2020, you could've gone in under asking in this area + gotten that sweet sub-3% interest rate.

That said, I like living in the suburbs and own a (decade-old+) car.
Norm MacDonald and Patrice O'Neal's comedy should be studied by every comedian as they pursued comedy and nothing else. No social saintness or political hackery.

If there were a Michelin star, we just lost two three star Michelins in about a decade... There aren't many (perhaps even any) left to fill this void.
When money is cheap, houses are expensive. When money is expensive, houses are cheap.
All the M1 machines have built in RAM, right ? And GPU as well.
> Workers later posted an online spreadsheet with the names of 41 employees looking for new jobs. Treehouse has a geographically distributed workforce and the company’s employees live in cities across the country

They forgot to include a link to the spreadsheet.

I found it here → https://twitter.com/nickrp/status/1436747911220457482

(and in case they delete the Twitter post) → https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D8419ThkbOibfMcGQRUi...
Those aren't economically relevant productivity gains. You're basically required to have a phone to participate in society, that's more of a monthly tax unless you use it to generate income. Same with housing, it costs much more than the minor changes that have been made in design saves per month.
I still think everybody should be vaccinated as far as it is possible, BUT it seems that what you said might not be true. The second vaccine dose can make your natural type immunity weaker.
Doesn't facebook & co design their service to be addictive, or, erm, "maximize engagement"? The internet is fine, as I see it, it's ad-revenue based social media that's the problem.

It's absurd to absolve a company as wealthy as facebook who optimizes for "engagement" from their externalities on children.
"But this time, it's different..."
His bias is just trying to distract from the fact he was on Epstein's flight logs
It is not a conspiracy to vaccinate more people. The lens you are missing is that the vaccine card is at least somewhat difficult to forge. You can trace the lot number and say, did this person get this dose.

But with previous infection, there is a huge camp of people who are just going to lie about it and continue spreading the virus freely. People have shown that they cannot be trusted to act responsibly.
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The media, political establishment (or at least half of it), and other industries are supportive of vaccine mandates. These loose groups of people can indeed influence the public, and are using this ability to promote vaccines. These premises are uncontroversial.

The problem is that some folks are jumping to the conclusion that they are doing this because they want to sacrifice their own interests to increase profits for big pharma. Either this is for an altruistic reason (hah!) or big pharma is actually more powerful than those people (or, maybe, that isn't actually happening).

I know it's comfortable to think that the world's largest economy is entirely under control of three companies, but I see no compelling evidence that this is the case.
Given a 100 bucks if you do, denied admission everywhere and job threatened if you don't.

I did not make the decision to vaccinate against polio, that was made for me. I trust my parents made an educated decision and its beside the point now, I am vaccinated. Does polio vaccine manufacturer have readily available risk/benefit data for people who've already had polio? Covid vaccines don't provide this data so burden of proof is not met. I'd judge polio vaccine the same way under the same circumstances.
... yeah, this is not going to be a productive comment thread. Sadly, COVID has been so politicized that I tend to say "sit down, shut up, and let the public health people drive". Even if they're wrong, they're close-enough to right to satisfy me and that's better than opening public health up to debate.
I feel like your stance is coming from a place of theory, like you're pointing out econ 101 and theory of supply and demand. From that perspective, you're correct. Flippers are filling a need/void in the market. I get all of that. What's out of whack is the flippers profit and how much market penetration they have and how they are not actually improving properties. Sure they look nice, but behind the walls they actually screwed a lot up in the process of making it "nice." Things that will cause major issues down the road. If this was known, the "value" calculation turns into a risk calculation very quick. (Home inspections are mostly a joke by the way).

If capital is so cheap, why is there no convenient vehicle that allows the buyer to buy an ugly home and hire a contractor to fix it up before moving in? (Construction loans are a joke). The $300K house with $50K fixes now cost $350K which is the value that was added. The flipper added $100K of fake value. I don't see that as real value just because some sucker came and paid it. People overpay for houses even in hot markets, all, the, time. People are motivated by all kinds of things. They have time constraints, moving for a job, kids starting school, etc, etc and sometimes they just pay what they have to to get what they want. It doesn't mean it's right and having so much of people's income going towards a mortgage isn't good for anyone except the flipper. So while I understand they play a part of today's real estate industry construct, I feel like we'd collectively be better off without them.

When flipping reaches a high level of market penetration (eg. a majority of listings are flipped homes) it gets more perverse. The pricing is completely made up, borderline or outright collusion is taking place, and the prices do not reflect value. Housing is a need, so somebody is paying the price and thus meeting your definition of "value add" but it's not real.

> How is this different from the middle man at the grocery store who makes pre-made salads and sandwiches and soups, so that you don't have to?

It's not. But his prices likely reflect something reasonable. And if not, I have infinite optionality. Without optionality, it turns into the ballpark where a hotdog cost $15
Agreed. Are we talking about the U.S? The data I'm seeing shows top 1% income as over 500K USD. That's enough to easily afford a home anywhere outside a few extremely expensive pockets of the U.S.

Also, you are not likely to do much better than that at Facebook/Google unless you are in the top 1% there as well (i.e. above Staff Software Engineer).
> top 1% of income earners

Probably not where you live, though.

You also left out commuting from Tracy.
you will own nothing and you will be happy.

live in a pod, eat the bugs.
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This is the lump of labour fallacy. Edit: in the form, the set of jobs we have right now is fixed and will be the same for all time.

The flow of money is circular.

If lower-paid people had more disposable income, they would spend more on things that employ other people. Services like restaurants or haircuts or yoga classes or personal trainers or personal shoppers or life coaches, the last three of which are pretty niche right now.

The people providing those services would, in turn, consume other services and products.

I'm sure a lot of new services and products would appear too.
Since the parent is in the top 1%, he or she probably works in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, Los Angeles, or San Diego.
Just created a step by step audio flow for this if anyone is interested, great way to actually do it:

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Look at the M2 money supply since 2020
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Actually, one other important note: 1USD isn't really always 1USD in the sense that imports become relatively more or less expensive for Americans in America. Reserve status doesn't really correlate too much.

Check out DXY. You'll see that as compared to a basket of other world currencies the USD has ranged substantially, from 0.76 in 2012 to as high as 1.02 in 2016. [1]

Being the reserve currency more often than not means that its a unit of account.

[1] https://www.investing.com/currencies/us-dollar-index
Canada is like this too, except the trend never got interrupted by 2008. By now our bubble is in the stratosphere by comparison.
These discussions are fun but rather pointless: e.g., sometimes a small effect is really interesting but it needs to be pretty strongly supported (for instance, claiming a 1% higher electron mass or a 2% survival rate in rabies).

Also, most published research is inconsequential so it really does not matter other than money spent (and that is not only related to findings but also keeping people employed etc.). If confidence in results is truly an objective might need to link it directly to personal income or loss of income, ie force bets on it.
Yeah, it’s really horrible when I have to show my age passport to get served a beer, too.

Edit: moreover, the party that wants fewer restrictions on voting is the same as the party that wants people to get vaccinated. And the party that is desperately trying to stop as many people from voting as possible is also very pro-disease. So this seems like a pretty unlikely scenario.
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