skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When your life (and health coverage!) depends on your job and you don't have the energy or time to shop around for alternative jobs, you have little negotiating power. Your employer will not simply raise your wages just because productivity has increased without you finding some negotiating power to demand it.

This is why labor unions are so helpful for the working class.
This is what I do, it's not a true rolling digest but it works well enough for my purposes.
Unfortunately there’s not a control arm here. Looks like maybe original design was to determine effect of the additive as treatment, with sodium bicarbonate as the control. But both arms were significantly different than the population average, leading to this publication.

Given that it’s hard to know if selection bias slipped in anywhere, for example during recruiting:

> During the study period, 826 unique patients aged 55 and older were eligible to be contacted within 24 hours of a positive PCR; 79 were able to be enrolled and receive irrigation materials on the day of contact.
I really considered getting into Factorio but your comment is exactly why I can’t touch it. I have certain demands upon my time that would inevitably go unmet as I fuss with factory.
Recently I learned of a quote attributed to Arthur C. Clarke (among other things, the science fiction writer and futurist): "...the goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system..." [0] So, if Mr. Clarke is to be believed, does that mean that organizations like McKinsey - and for that matter capitalism in general - represent old fashioned ways of thinking? Then, why do orgs like McKinsey get paid so much??? /s

[0] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#cite_ref-127
Oh man, I feel old.
Right, this is where this sort of blanket extrapolation breaks down.

Has the average productivity grown that much? Sure, I can believe that. Has the productivity at the lower margin grown that much? I seriously doubt that. The value created by stocking shelves at wal-mart just doesn't really change over time. There's a lot of labor on the lower end that is a solved problem with all the productivity wrung out of it decades ago.
Treehouse was the very first online learning platform I ever paid for when I started to entertain the idea of learning to code.

Back in 2012-2013 it was amazing. I sunk countless hours into the videos and thought it was a great value.

After building some basic sites I decided to take the plunge and enroll in a bootcamp. Fast forward to today and I’m incredibly thankful for taking these steps.
> The answer is to control the housing market and stop it being used an investment against inflation. Force people to invest in industry against inflation - not rent-seeking in housing

This.

Every boomer thinks he's a genius investor for simply blocking all residential development and looking at the price of his house go up. The government knows it and wants to keep the votes coming in so they prop up real estate as much as they can. Notice the same parties will simultaneously try to push some sort of virtue signaling (pro-diversity or whatever) to the younger demographics at the same time. They can't afford to pander to them via housing policy so they have to find something else...

This isn't creating any kind of value, nor innovation. Apple, Google and Facebook, like it or not, created a tremendous amount of wealth for the country. Housing didn't.
"A consecutive sample of outpatients 55 years and older were contacted from daily COVID-19+ lab reports between September 24 and December 21 of 2020"

What have the authors been doing since?
there's also ChucK

https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/doc/language/
> What are they trying to communicate about race?

That the hard racial boundaries are unscientific (despite attempts to make it so), and that it's artificial and depends on consensus, and therefore is subject to change, and is typically subjective to the involved social group: the "one drop rule" is an example of how arbitrary this can get.

As sibling pointed out, in the United States, Italians and Jewish folk used to be not white, but are now widely considered to be white, despite not having any genetic or cultural changes in the interval between the shift in categorization.
Interesting point you bring up. If this research claimed the opposite result, people here would be ripping it apart, but since it confirms their biases, they double down on it and accept it as ground truth.
So that makes me think: Given how ubiquitous Google's analytics service is, they could conceivably pull the same fast one, just substitute 'app' for 'website'. And the SEC is essentially saying "we'll probably only fine you a fraction of the money you made on this".
Looking particularly at latency measurements, I found the "How NOT to Measure Latency" [1] talk very illuminating. It goes quite deep into discussing how percentiles can be used and abused for measurement.

[1]: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/latency-response-time/
So much marketing and yet after scrolling through the whole page, my only reaction is, "meh..." - even though I know all these incremental improvements are great.
I literally gasped when I heard this. There is something uniquely sad when one's favorite comedian passes away.

There were many things that made him special, but one thing stands out right now:

I don't think I've ever seen a comedian pursue Truth so rigorously. So much of his comedy was him shining a light on a given topic and giving 100% unflinching attention toward it, even if everyone else wanted to ignore it or "move on". This often made the "joke" the audience, in that we found ourselves laughing when we thought we shouldn't be. But why shouldn't we be laughing? Why shouldn't we be discussing this? Wait, why is this uncomfortable in the first place? Have I thought about this enough?
DCRainmaker is pretty good at comparing the various sensors on different sports watches.

This is for the series 6 Apple watch: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/09/apple-watch-series-6-fir...
> What the CCP's been doing over the past couple of months is worrying.

Past couple of months?

Try past 40 years...

One of my earliest childhood concrete memories of watching a news event of global importance was the CNN, NBC and BBC coverage of the Tienanmen Square massacre.
The workers will leave all the other companies and work for you, so those other companies will be dead in the water and/or stuck raising their own workers' pay to compete

At least, that's how it was supposed to work in theory.. Now that we see people out there going for improved wages/jobs in line with good capitalist doctrine, the business owners are all screaming in rage about a "labor shortage"
>>a simple and effective change to the law set in motion an entire apparatus of management and engineering decisions that resulted in the creation of a new safety culture. It’s a case study of a classic attitude from economics: just put a price on the harm—_internalize the externality_—and let the market do the rest.

There it is — internalize the externality — when someone is profiting via externalizing costs or harms, they are essentially stealing from others (either the commons or the specific people on whom the harm falls).

Ensuring that external costs are borne by those who create them is simply requiring that people creating business are actually ADDING value to society, and not simply extracting or stealing value by creating greater external harm than their products/services create.
Because for minimum wage job its the technology that increased the productivity, not the worker itself.
Yeah that's interesting. I think incentivizing distribution of jobs might solve a lot of issue... but who knows there are always side effects and loop holes.

I agree, might be worth an experiment.
This study seems worthless. It had no control, it attempted to base its conclusion on a comparison with CDC data, and it didn’t mention whether participants were vaccinated.
Sprout: P2P Routing with Social Networks (2004) [pdf]
Both ideas are incorrect. Bouncing around would be random and the outgoing light would be scattered (as in matte reflections) in all directions. Absorbtion simply destroys the original light. If photons are mostly absorbed, we call that “a wall” or ”a fog”, not “a transparent medium”, which to be transparent shouldn’t have electrons whose energy level differences correspond to a photon’s wave length. The transparency and slowdown effect is a complex interaction between fields in the medium, which I honestly don’t have enough courage to retell.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CiHN0ZWE5bk
I don't have any statistics, but there may well be fewer brick-and-mortar gay hang-outs today, precisely because the internet has given people other ways to meet.
I think this is probably right?

If you consider positions like janitors, bussers in restaurants, hotel housekeepers (etc) and ask the question "what has happened since 1968 which would've caused productivity for these jobs to increase by 150%?", what would the answer be?
> You can't do both.

You can definitely do a bit of both. The sum just can't net you less than if you had done neither. Which is why many corporations just opt for neither.
Who cares if each effect is a factor of 2^(1/100) improvement, just give me 100 interventions and I'll double the value being measured.
There was a comedian on Last Comic Standing on which Norm was a judge who was making jokes at the expense of his Christian family. Something like "Your favorite book is the Bible, mine's Harry Potter. Big deal."

Norm had a scathing criticism, and it was the most serious I'd ever seen Norm. He said something like: "It's not funny to use Harry Potter to make fun of Christians. J.K. Rowling is a Christian, and she said if you understand the Gospels, you'll know how the Harry Potter series will end."

Now there was a bit on Seinfeld about how someone had converted to Judaism simply to gain the right to tell Jewish jokes. And Jerry was talking to his therapist about this and the therapist said, "So, this offends you as a Jewish person?" And Jerry replied, "No, it offends me as a comedian."

Despite his faith, one inferred from his LCS critique that the Harry Potter joke offended him not as a Christian, but as a comedian. That's how professional a comic he was.
Penis enlargement pill pushers!
In the 1930s, a store clerk in a large city could afford to support a family in a home they would eventually own on their single income.

Today, a couple with that same job would likely be in public housing and would be scraping by.
I've played this game a bunch, mostly in the player-vs-computer mode. Maybe removing luck would work for player-vs-player mode, but against the computer it would just reduce the game to feeling like a puzzle. Planning contingencies and managing risk is the main skill the game tests, and what gives it the 'battle game' feeling.

There's an observation to be made in these game -- people wouldn't complain about the dice, if their plans didn't fall apart when they missed a roll. The problem is in the fragility of the plans.
Exchange rates really don't matter much for most people.

Most people buy goods at home.

Relative strength and weakness of a particular currency against another just indicates whether imports are more economical or whether manufacturing at home + exporting are more economical.

This change over time is reflected in both exchange rates and accounted for in PPP adjustment. It may fluctuate over time, but I don't think that's a huge deal when deciding which country you plan to work in.
Safari is already shipping experimental support for WebGL 2. It will be months, not years, before it is enabled by default.

Also, OpenGL ES 3.0 is not from 2008. The specification was publicly released in August 2012, and of course it took years before enough devices supported it well enough (lots of driver bugs…) for it to be worth targeting.

The web is certainly a few years behind the native-code state-of-the-art, but it's not a decade behind. There's a lot you can do with these mature APIs.
Computers can't be compared to airplanes because computers operate in an adversarial environment whereas airplanes don't. A computer crashing because of a specially crafted malicious request isn't really comparable to a plane dropping out of the sky. Consider another product that operate in an adversarial environment: locks. Should lock manufacturers be liable if their locks were pickable?
That's a great movie!

There's also Japanese anime series set in the near-future sci-fi about a small company that cleans up space debris, called "Planet ES"
What about all those rumours about blood pressure sensors
It's getting there. The biggest employer in my hometown, a huge shipping conglomerate, was paying $8.50 until a few years back. Today, they're starting at $21. That's a huge jump.
> ...or they'd just raise the price of a banana to $4, to keep relative profits the same

I'd say for many products they can't actually do that because there's only so much demand. Also, because middle and higher earners wouldn't be getting the same kind of raises that the minimum wage folks would get if the minimum wage were raised.

If you're above minimum wage, you're essentially being paid at a market equilibrium rate: an intersection of supply and demand. But if you're at minimum wage, you're at "the company would pay you less if they were legally allowed to" territory.

My point is that "everything would be more expensive" would actually be a net benefit to the lowest earners.

Labor is very nearly never 100% of the purchase price of a product or service.

So, if you increase your labor cost by 100%, that doesn't mean the product's price increased by 100%, because labor is only one component of a product's price.

It's the same math that makes living in HCOL areas worth the expense (e.g.: increase your expenses by 50% and your wage by 50%. As long as you are paying less than 100% of your wage into your expenses that's a net gain).

McDonald's in Denmark is a great example. Their employees make well over $20 an hour and have 6 weeks vacation. Big Macs in Denmark don't cost double the price, but the workers are paid just about double depending on which region in the US you compare to.
I don't know what it is about Waterloo though, but everyone I've worked with who came through there was a significant asset to whatever team they were on.

There could be some filtering function here like the pool of grads who made a significant effort to come to the US afterwards, but yeah. 100% rockstars every time.

Don't just take my word for it -- from the lips of pg himself:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6655271
Sad to hear about their staff. It sounds like the company has been almost gutted.

Treehouse are skewed towards beginners but I wonder if the market for beginner content is too saturated? Udemy dominates for paid video courses (for beginners) and YouTube covers the free tutorials option.

Also, Treehouse's content is divided into lots of separate videos. It's a big collection of videos but it isn't always obvious how each video relates to another - I wonder if this confuses beginners? I presume this more modular approach was designed to let learners tailor their own learning path. Or to flexibly arrange the content into modular tracks.

Contrast the Udemy approach: The all-in-one course for a language or topic that promises the user a more linear curriculum. Of course, the quality of Udemy courses can vary hugely, but there's no doubt the all-in-one course is appealing to beginner learners.

These is a small but helpful YouTube channel which reviews online learning platforms (Udemy, Pluralsight, etc) called Tech Course Review. Here is an informative review of Treehouse from December 2020:

Treehouse Review 2021: Is Treehouse worth it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSuv0QaALZM
No - the claim is that money fundamentally arose for taxation (either to the government or to the priests), and may also have been useful for long distance trade between partners with no expected long term relationships.
This inflation is no joke.
This is completely at odds with what the experts say. They could be all wrong, or you could be. What are your credentials in virology/immunology?

And do you have examples of vaccinations favoring the apparition of variants for other diseases? As far as I know, that's never happened. On the contrary, I've seen researchers point to immunocompromised patients as possible sources for variants, as the infection lingers in them. On the other hand, vaccines, even when they don't work to prevent the infection do shorten it, so by that logic they should reduce the apparition of variants.
The problem is that, by not getting vaccinated, they're not _just_ impacting themselves. They're more likely to get, to pass it to others, to introduce a variant, etc. We're all much safer if everyone gets immunized. Or, at least, so the prevailing scientific theory and minds indicate... and you can either believe them or chose not to with no actual facts to back up your position... and be called an idiot ./shrug.
The rumor is that Graviton instances are being sold at below cost for Amazon to put negotiating pressure on Intel/AMD.

And that M1 only looks as good as it does because of Apple's de facto monopoly on TSMC 5nm. That AMD cores are more than competitive at the same node.
the one with the buildings?
What is the comparative quality of life like or those two examples?
Ok, so race is real.

What races are there? Is Irish a race? How, in fact, do you meaningfully define a race such that there aren't 20 races in sub-Saharan Africa for every one everywhere else?

And then, what do you do with that information? I'm Irish, she is Southeast Asian, Ted over there is Mayan-German. Does it improve life in any significant way?

If you wish to examine a granfalloon, just remove the skin of a toy balloon. — Bokonon
Apart from lack of interest in dis-incentivizing this behavior, two possible reasons come to mind - why managers like these exist:

1. (Nature) Some of them were just tuned that way since childhood.

2. (Nurture) When these managers were junior employees, some/all of their past managers micro-managed them similarly, which built up resentment inside them and instead of rejecting these traits & becoming a better human, these junior employees decided to 'Pay it forward' in the worst way possible and ergo, continue the vicious cycle.
Yes, this has been the case since they canned Forstall instead of making him CEO. (This was done to delay Jony Ive's departure.)
I followed the tenets laid out in this article to provision a home router on NixOS... only difference is I used BTRFS snapshots instead of ZFS (which would have been pretty heavyweight for a packet filtering appliance).

It's a pretty great system for such an application. All the details of all the specialized, rarely-touched, hard-to-remember moving parts (nftables syntax, dual-stack DNS resolution, RS-232 serial connection parameters, etc. etc.) are all neatly collected under /etc/nixos for future me to puzzle out... and under version control, backed up offsite. It would be pretty easy for me to swap out failed hardware or upgrade it.

I wouldn't mind getting more infrastructure set up on these lines, and then maybe figure out a good setup for NixOps.

It wasn't too bad learning a little Nix to keep the configs DRY, modularized and parametrized. I find the results clean & readable, even though I'm hardly a grade-A FP propellerhead.

My main complaint was that nftables rules need to be expressed as dead strings instead of proper objects in the Nix language, which limits their composability. This would be a nice thing for the wish list.
Ffs 2 of my all time favorite comedians gone in less than a couple months..
The Masking of the Servant Class: Ugly Covid Images from the Met Gala Now Common
> just like other countries got faster immunity, & stronger delta-variant immunity, by delaying 2nds doses

> Our local scientific bureaucracy is killing us & generating unnecessary extra social conflict, with their unscientific inflexibility.

Other countries delayed second doses either due to health and safety concerns or supply constraints while the US pushed forward with EUA before second dose efficacy was fully characterized. To me, this is the opposite of bureaucracy.
There's quite a few actually. The term is "live coding".

Supercollider sounds like what you're after. You can even use vim :)

https://github.com/pjagielski/awesome-live-coding-music here's a list of related stuff
A&W should have just called it the "Quarter-plus pounder".
You might look into Eric Weinstein and his Embedded Growth Obligation (EGO) hypothesis. Everything in modern society has been set up expecting and relying on exponential growth. Everything from attending college, to law firms, to doctors, to college professors, to social security and pension plans, and exponential growth is impossible to maintain long term. It worked great post WWII up until about the 70's.

Take a law firm, or most any similar hierarchical structure. You have someone at the top making the big bucks, with x junior's under them who all want to be at the top one day earning the big bucks. Once trained and experienced, most eventually move up. Maybe the same law firm, maybe they start their own. They then get x juniors to train under them, who rise up and who then get x juniors, who rise up, etc. At some point, you have more than enough lawyers and can't continue growing exponentially and expect the same level of prestige and compensation. Market saturation. But, we keep on going anyway, because that's how we've been collectively trained and it's ingrained in everything. Truly systemic to the point we are blind to it and wonder what's wrong. We've built a system of many systems all with an N+1 query problem and trying to come up with workarounds instead of fixing the poorly designed query in order to become performant again.
Yeah, because a very solid battery capacity isn't "Pro"...
Nobody in this study used just an isotonic saline solution, they added either Povidone-iodine (an antiseptic) or Sodium bicarbonate aka baking soda (making the solution slightly alkaline). Saltwater and basic irrigation appear to be fairly commonplace, I'm not sure about the iodine. The paper warns that prolonged use of an iodine irrigant should be accompanied by monitoring of thyroid function. But using the alkaline solution was almost as effective, if the paper is to be believed, anyway (they reference another paper where saline solution provided no benefit).
There hasn't ever been a gay bar in either of those towns AFAIK, so my point still stands. And that includes 'The People's Republic of Boulder'.
https://archive.is/3hCFR
Bill Burr and Bert Kreischer have a podcast. Once, Norm came up[1]. What they said is something I've heard from pretty much any interview about him: Norm is the quintessential comedian's comedian. He's up there trying to do what he thinks is funny, audience be damned.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVgX0AP3Gz4
NASA Selects Five U.S. Companies to Mature Artemis Lander Concepts
Productivity is a price ceiling for labor. It only raises wages by allowing marginal producers come online and compete in the labor market. It could also reduce the total demand for labor, so there's no reason to assume wages and productivity would stay linked. The correlation only makes sense in a first-order way: I produces twice as many widgets; "you should pay me twice as much." But that widget machine wasn't free, and it doesn't mean you'll sell twice as many.