skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK there are websites that automate this for you such as https://www.carwow.co.uk/new-car-deals

Could be a good business idea if this doesn't exist in the US
I have a guy at my job talking about himself as a senior devops engineer when he has like a few months of data engineering experience and comes from an analytics background.
So freelance workers are banned? Contractors are banned?

Wow, what a "victory."
WWII is such a rabbit hole. What if the Western Allies had working torpedos?
That's unhinged, unmitigated bullshit.

As if Coronavirus were the "disease that eases" that will drive sustainable horse dewormer development in an emergent free miracle cure fashion and take us to an immortal civilization.

Cull the weak, accelerate evolution!
I had no idea something like this existed, very interesting
bismark and metternich and so on managed to run around and mostly keep a general european peace with the balance of powers for 80 years from the 1820s on. too bad it all went to shit - but current events are not incompatible with the assertion that it's all going to shit this decade...
Agreed! I periodically burn some karma on this point and should probably stop. Most people are brainwashed to believe the system they live under is the bestestest and won't even consider any other alternative. Indeed this unfailing belief is necessary for the whole thing to work.

When you point out to them that political systems fight for their own survival, just like organisms and memes do they call that "whataboutism". But fundamentally we are all humans and we function about the same way the world over.

In times of stress we humans put a ruthless dictator in charge as a last-ditch Hail Mary. Once conditions improve we replace them with something more suitable. Trying to "enlighten" an impoverished place like Afghanistan is misguided and just keeps their society stuck. But most people think dictators are mysterious aliens that arrive out of nowhere and start oppressing the poor masses.

Before you click that downvote button, think for a second. Imagine that America was a place of poverty and desperation. Whom would Americans elect? Oh wait, we already know who middle America made president back in 2016. The way to get people to elect friendlier governments is to make their environment better, not moralize.
Brian May: Back to the Light?
The paper outside a paywall: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
I don't know answer but these spring to mind: Debt, overtime, multiple jobs, overcrowding, subletting rooms.
As another European, I am in favor of aligning ourselves in a mutually beneficial economic exchange with Russia and China, which causes interdependence and a diminishing risk of military conflict.

Putin, repeatedly, has been shown to be a reliable, and predictable partner - something we cannot really claim about the US, and increasingly less so in recent years.
This is great! But now that I have family and friends network, and a work network - how do I easily switch from one to the other? As far as I can tell, one has to log out and back in via the "long" oauth route for every device (ie: phone and laptop for work from home)?
> Isn't providing for those without means like the whole point of social welfare

That is indeed the point of it and should be applied to disabled/sick, etc like it already does. That doesn't prevent them from doing various jobs that the government needs to give a paycheck for and are either low skilled or can be part time. For example answering calls in a reception, or even doing first line support over the phone.
6 boys really doesn't constitute a society besides in its minimal definition. I imagine things may have been different with even just 12 of them since group dynamics can change dramatically. Although I do think we overestimate how easily any group of people can devolve into LOTF when not subjected to governance.
You are probably referring to this[1]. AFAIU the efood controversy relates to the gig economy. I don't see the connection.

EDIT: It has become clear to me that you don't undestand what you're talking about. Here's[2] an unbiased view of the law.

[1] https://www.lambadarioslaw.gr/2021/06/main-provisions-of-new...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/antypas.karipoglou/posts/1015925363...
Minimum wage is not the problem as this article seems to imply. People move up from those starter jobs, they don't stay there forever.

The problem is that the politicians and local governments have enacted strict building and zoning laws which disallow for new housing construction. This, in combination with market forces has driven up the price of housing artificially fast.
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> Apache is where projects go to die.

I thought that was CA? Oh wait, no, that's where they go after they're dead.
I learned to program typing them in.
I live in Sweden and I can tell you that it's not so clear-cut. Rent control means that people have to queue for many years for decent rental apartments.

We also have a lot of black market labour. The unions have historically had a strong grip, but are under attack by political forces that want to undermine that market with unskilled workers.

And on top of all this I think that people simply always prioritize living expenses above all else. As long as there is less supply than demand, prices are going to rise until some are out-competed.

People will have to pay, either with their time or with their money.
I'm a very occasional Excel user, I can never seem to get it to do what I want on real spreadsheets -- it always trounces my number formats, or background colours, or repeats a short-periodic series instead of creating a series over the whole range. Seems like it could use an idiot mode with a pop-up box with options like "don't change any styles" and "make a series over the whole range" that also gives tips like "use $ in from of a reference to prevent it changing over the series".
... why should companies expect to exchange unpaid commute time for longer hours working at home? It could be a thing if they raise pay accordingly, if not, well, this isn't the 19th century, it isn't even 2019 any more.
Here is the news from 2016: After 20 Years, NASA Finally Finished Building The James Webb Space Telescope

Now it's ready for the final tests before launch in 2018

https://www.popsci.com/james-webb-space-telescope-is-now-rea...
Below the federal poverty line people can receive food assistance, and sometimes there are state or local programs that help with rent. In general people just work more, borrow more, and live in a perpetual state of financial peril. It’s awful, and even if the situation improves, living like that leaves a lasting blow to the psyche.
America also has a lot of homelessness. Yes, there are homeless people with jobs, contrary to what most people seem to think.
Work multiple jobs. Or a full time job and gig work on the side. Share rent with others. Rent a room. I believe a chunk of the flooding deaths in the NY flooding was from people living in illegal arrangements (basements setup as rental space.) People find ways as part of a story which stats don't tell.

ETA: Where there's a demand, markets open up. In the Philippines, many people live in "boarding houses" which is a small single room and shared bathroom. In one place I visited, it was a dirt floor, light bulb hanging from the ceiling and a bed which was little bigger than a cot.
This is the journals pdf viewer not a personal website. Awful design contributes to why more and more academics use Sci-hub out out sheer convenience.
The difference between individual and organisational decision-making
What term would you prefer?

It is a very useful concept.
Get permission included in the agreement to display their logo on your website in your used by companies list.
Unfortunately it is a selected for behaviour. The fewer who do it, the higher the rewards.
Hah! So we can add the author of Empire to the list of uncounted thousands (Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?) of curious minds instructed and inspired by Ahl's work.
Minimum wage is absolutely a problem. Maybe not "the" problem, but it's a massive and highly solvable problem which only the profoundly ignorant could possible believe has no effect on low earners ability to rent a roof over their head.

> People move up from those starter jobs, they don't stay there forever.

Please explain to me how that's different from a serf paying off their ownership debt, or a slave winning his freedom by defeating 10 consecutive gladiators.
Ask HN: How do you get over a breakup?
Market forces = unprecedented liquidity injections into the economy increasing inequality faster than ever the past two years. Of course the lower classes are going to struggle. The most ironic part of this is we've had demonstrations against everything except that, yet almost every country in the world has been affected.
Gatekeeping like this doesn't do anyone any benefit, aside from trying to inflate your ego at the expense of others. If you feel the need to make snarky comments like this, it may be a good moment to stop and ask yourself why.
I think it's a combination of factors. More home building would help, but also regulating housing speculation might be a good idea.
Room sharing in my experience of being poor is the most common way to make it.
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Why decentralization will fundamentally change the music industry
As of right now, the way for any artist to succeed is to create a song → sign with a label to distribute the music → Success
But these labels have their own incentive to make money, so they take a significant cut of their profit. Is there a way without the middleman?

Yes, there is.
With decentralization, any artist can distribute their music and get paid a fair share too. Because unlike on centralized platforms like Spotify, instead of getting paid "per-stream", there is a much better way.

By distributing the subscription revenue fairly among listened artists. For example, if a user pays 10$ per month and only listens to one artist, this artist receives the entire subscription revenue. This enables musicians to make 10x compared to Spotify.

And instead of relying on Major Labels to create more music, the musician can create their own "Creator"-Token. He can use the proceeds of his ICO to make better music or invest in better equipment.

The current state of the music industry is gatekept by big Labels and once you sign the contract a vicious cycle of events begins.
We believe that every artist should be able to stay independent, but Spotify doesn't make it easy, because you cant upload music on Spotify.

Instead, only distributors can upload music on Spotify. Another middleman. And most distributors charge about USD 60$ per month to upload your music. This is a huge investment for small creators, and a decentralized alternative without hidden fees is needed.

This is where we come in. Demu.app is a decentralized alternative to other music streaming platforms. There are no hidden fees, and it is completely free to upload music on Demu. And it allows small creators to earn money from day one. Sign up for our Beta now → demu.app

What do you think?
Also people who are street homeless or living in their cars, but in many cases still holding down jobs.
These are the type of fitting used in many applications.

https://www.idex-hs.com/store/fluidics/fluidic-connections/f...

They are stupid expensive but usually work well. An alternative is to use a biopsy punch in PDMS and simply shove a 1.6mm tube into the resulting hole. The PDMS will hold the tube securely at most pressures.
Ah, that brings back memories.

Compiling your own kernel was kind of a rite of passage back in the day. Now I cannot remember when I last did that. Must have been 14 years or so, when I was still using Gentoo.
I've been using GL at work for many years now and while it has many faults (the MR comment/thread/discussion UX is atrocious for example), I don't think I stumbled across this one. What is it about?

(I still like GL, and I much prefer their CI to GH Actions - I just wish they would put more effort in improving existing features)
The theoretical cap for this, if you include every human being on planet Earth, is 7 billion/month. This translates into $84 billion annual revenue.

Google's revenue last year was 146 billion, and it operates not anywhere near the theoretical maximum. Most of that revenue is advertisement.
People underestimate the percentage of homeless who live in their cars and shower at the gym, and aren't just the unwashed "bums" sleeping on benches.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but these food delivery services does have a convenience factor in their favour: Unified UI (no more weirdly scanned PDF of their menu, or other nonsense), no having to explain over a bad phone line to some person who might not speak your language that well (or you not speaking his) your order, and hoping he wrote the right things down and don't make a mistake, and most important of all, ease of payment. A lot of these restaurants either don't accept card, or expect you to yell your card number across the phone to pay.

In all honesty, I also suspect that there is some value for restaurants, at least some of them, to not have to worry about hiring their own delivery driver. If that's not the case, a disruptive service offering just a unified UI + Payment, but no delivery should have appeared by now.
Aren't we all professional Googlers?
The real danger is to the psyche from monoamine oxidase inhibition. Beer is a mashed beverage, the boiling of the mash generates Harmala alkaloids. Alcohol is just one part of the story.
Time... an ill-fated rebound romance is useful, because after that fails, you feel bad about that, which is less painful than the one you really cared about.

Then just let enough time pass you can be a good partner to someone else.
> People move up from those starter jobs, they don't stay there forever.

The domain of “starter jobs” is rapidly expanding. It used to just be fry cooks at burger chains as well as newspaper boys, and before that we had farmhands, but now everything is a “starter job” that barely pays enough for rent if it does at all.

Basically the entirety of retail is a starter job. Even retail management barely pays enough to live. Delivery jobs are starter jobs. Customer support jobs are starter jobs. Work at a retirement home? Starter job. Many repair jobs are starter jobs. And plenty more.

You’ll see people 30, 40, 50 years old working these jobs. Still struggling.
Why would there not be a market for housing people with low wages? There are markets for cheap food, cheap clothes, cheap entertainment, ... Everything except lodging.

There's a hiccup somewhere in the "free market" of many countries that prevents it from providing cheap housing, even though there's clearly a huge business opportunity.
Time - it's easily the most powerful tool in your toolset. You can just sit back and wait like a year or two. Then you're magically either over it or semi over-it and ready for other tools to work.

Also: dating somebody else. Just be clear up front you're getting over a breakup (i.e. you're not good relationship material right now).

Runners up: working on yourself: working out, eating right, learning new skills, leveling up at work, etc
Unfortunately, I feel like I have just as many problems on Windows as I do on Linux these days.
Despite, as far as I know, even the Army saying they don't want nor need these Abrams. Keeping the factories running is good, one never knows when that industrial base might needed at scale. and we no longer in the 40s when car factories could easily converted to tank production. You don't need full capacity production for that, so.
So in other words it is new. Cannabis has been used for thousands of years, you’d think someone would have noticed a global trend earlier.
Yes you can :-)

I spent a lot of time extending the Hammurabi program. My version of it is lost to history like a lot of my early stuff. I also wrote a lunar lander game, and an orbit game.

Empire was first written in Basic.
Engineering Statistics Handbook (2012)
I feel StartingStrength is biased towards the interests of profesional athletes and StrongLifts is better for the regular person.

But the important switch is realizing that your job is not who you are, it just pays the bills. Your lifestyle, of which your exercise routine is a key part IS who you are in that it actually transforms your physical being, affecting both your job and every other aspect of your life.

You don't need to use a particular exercise regime, but you should understand that taking it seriously is about keeping "you the tool" in working order, whereas a job is just one in a long line of uses of "you the tool".
Is it free because they hope you'll but they're other integrated services?
Their cheapest plan looks to be $1/m (https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html)
I thought it also includes insurance, and you could also swap cars at any point? So pretty similar but a little more than a lease.
Imo some level degree of rent control is needed to prevent forces like housing speculation from causing housing prices to spike wildly in certain market conditions. Otherwise you end up with SF where it's impossible for anyone but the highest income earners to even exist.

I think the vienna model seems to have been fairly successful: if you build lots of high-quality public housing, the incentive structure is good for putting roofs over people's heads in an affordable way.
Beer and banana mix pretty well surprisingly.

Radler (beer with some lemonade in it) is also pretty common in Germany, with a similar reputation to what you describe.
Why wouldn't they be able to pick up a call and open a support ticket? or scan old books (press the button style). I do understand you point though. There wouldn't be enough for all of them. You can keep helping them and only use them when needed.

At the end of the day it's about having workforce available when needed that you're already paying for and not having to pay someone else. Whether you have to use it or not is a different matter.
why is this, it feels like every other person is a senior nowadays. does it even have any meaning anymore?

it seems like "staff" or "principal" roles are the real "seniors"
They compared minimum wage to median housing costs, and found that minimum wage is not enough to afford median housing.

But isn't this exactly what we'd expect? You can't have everyone able to afford housing that is in the top 50% of housing costs (except possibly in Lake Wobegon).

This seems like the housing equivalent of those periodic "richest N% have M% of the wealth" where M > N stories that present that as something obviously bad when in fact in any population where there are variations in wealth it is mathematically necessary that the top N% has more than N% of the wealth.
Isn’t the problem you’re raising here simply that the studies tend to look at populations rather than individuals or even sub-groups? It’s a neat way to demonstrate the problem. The challenge is that as long as we treat the RCT as the primary means by which we build knowledge, it will remain difficult to study sub-groups because it’s so hard to obtain a sufficient sample.
Back when I started using Linux, I had an ISDN card, getting that to work was an adventure back then, except on SuSE which provided a GUI for that. Fun times... ;-)
> Minimum wage is not the problem as this article seems to imply. People move up from those starter jobs, they don't stay there forever.

[citation needed]

The phrase 'starter job' may indicate where you're coming from, attitudinally. For many people, of all ages, there aren't starter jobs - they're the only attainable jobs. And I suspect many people bounce around between different similarly-poorly-paid jobs, without significant moves up. We're talking about people for whom 'the grind' is just surviving, and for whom the American dream of self-improvement through hard work has died - if it was ever alive in the first place.
Tinc is also pretty good and predates both by about a decade :)

Ps if we're listing alternatives zerotier is also one
I can haz git for lookie lookie?

Otherwise spookie, no trusty trusty!
> Food bloggers know that recipe-searchers are there to drop in, get an ingredient list, and move on.

This is not entirely true, though. If a randomly found recipe turns out particularly good, I'll bookmark the site and try out other dishes. It's a very practical method to find particularly good* recipe collections.

*) In this case "good" means what you need - not just subjectively "tasty", but e.g. low cost, quick to prepare, low calorie or in line with a particular diet and so on.
This is the actual source of the article[1]. The methodology does not support the claim the title makes.

>LendingTree used U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Census Bureau data to determine whether owning or renting a home is affordable to a person working a full-time minimum wage job. Assuming a person could afford to spend up to 30% of their gross monthly income on housing, LendingTree calculated how much in monthly housing costs a person working 40 hours a week for 52 weeks a year at an hourly wage equivalent to their state’s minimum wage could afford. Researchers then compared that figure to the median monthly homeowner costs for homes with a mortgage and the median monthly gross rent payment in each state.

So, to recap. This study assumes you must spend less than 30% of your income on housing and assumes that all housing costs the median homeowner/rent payment. These are both independently terrible assumptions but combined you get total nonsense. People earning in the bottom 5 percentiles of the income distribution do not rent places that charge 50th percentile rent. They also are not arbitrarily constrained to follow good budgeting guidelines which specify not more than 30% of income to housing. I know this because according to this methodology, the arrangement which I very comfortably made it through grad school in is apparently not possible.

[1]https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/minimum-wage-worke...
The speculation is a symptom. The systemic factors compromising the our ability to meet demand are the disease.
The US housing market has been a parking lot for global capital, some of which isn’t always clean money. I saw it first happen to Vancouver BC when Chinese stock market winners started buying up condos until prices were insane, but it continued to expand to the states with little to no resistance. Now Mexico and Columbia are in the top 5 countries leading foreign investment in US real estate. It’s a cash flow positive way to park drug money, along with a generally stable asset for any global investor.

The supply issue is very real. Per the article linked below, 1 housing unit is being created for every 6 new jobs. It’s absolutely unsustainable.

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/foreign-purchase...
> The researchers defined a maximum of 30% of gross monthly income on housing as affordable.

By that measure rents are unaffordable even to SV workers.