skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under the system you propose, there is zero chance that any mean worker will look at the pay of his higher-producing counterpart and not simultaneously claim to be underpaid and unfairly measured. You have to be completely unfamiliar with human nature to believe otherwise.

There's two types of systems you can choose to live under: one that makes it comfortable to be a mean producer, or one that incentives extreme output. It's fine to argue that the mean producer deserves more but let's not pretend that's not a tradeoff.

Extremely productive workers would not want pay transparency because that paints a target on their backs.
Not only that, sometimes the dislike button doesn’t seem to do anything
If John Deere employs no blue collar workers, it's going to be awfully hard to get their congress person/senator to vote for lower import taxes on farm equipment.
One way to understand this would be to ask people in the form of a question. Dear HN people who form this category, why do you demonize big tech while supporting unions who have killed rivals?
Pinning via unions is legal in C. Casting via a pointer is not and may produce incorrect code.
Seismic analysis of interior ignored gas and plasma as potential states.
These blobs are the continents of inner hollow earth
I’ve kind of been getting back into listening to the radio recently.

Am curious if there are any radio station-style djs one can support through Patreon where there is a mix of banter and music you can listen similarly to a podcast, though more regularly like a morning show.
This is actually nice, I can put ISOs from any Type-C device onto this drive without worrying about needing access to another working PC in order create a bootable drive to format my own systems.
The research I found from the FRED Blog tells me that "the college premium may or may not be very strong depending on birth year, family, and other inherited characteristics. When looking at the wealth premium instead of just the income premium, the college premium was weak for all races and ethnicities in the 1980s cohorts, whereas the college premium exists for cohorts in earlier decades." [0]

When we put that in the context of the conversation, it does indeed seem like non-college earnings are lower, and the advantage of going to college has lessened.

[0] Premium: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/07/is-college-still-wor...
Tell HN: I am doing online reading sessions on programming puzzles
Hello! I am the organizer of Offbeat Computation Club. Visit https://offbeat.cc/ for more details about our club.

We are now gearing up for the second edition of our club meetings. The first series of meetings was about analytic number theory. After 120 meetings across 7 months, it was finally concluded in the beginning of this month. You can read more about the meetings at https://offbeat.cc/blog/our-100th-meeting.html where I wrote about our experience running this book club on the occasion of its 100th meeting.

The next series of meetings is going to be about solving the CSES Problem Set. The book club meetings will focus on going through a few pages of the CSES handbook together in each meeting as well as on discussing techniques to solve each problem in the problem set. This topic was chosen by popular demand from the current members of the club. Most existing members of this club come from ##math and #algorithms channel of Libera IRC. Some members are also from Hacker News!

We are going to spend roughly 20% time reading the book and 80% time on discussing concepts and techniques for solving problems. A lot of emphasis will be laid on seeing the same problem from different perspectives in order to gain a deeper appreciation of the underlying patterns that lead to interesting mathematical properties related to each problem.

The schedule and notes for this activity is getting ready now. Our first reading session is going to be on Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 17:00 UTC. If solving programming puzzles sounds like fun to you, visit https://offbeat.cc/cses/ for more details and join us!

You can also join our chat channel via https://web.libera.chat/#offbeat or https://app.element.io/#/room/#offbeat:libera.chat (prefer the latter link if you are not used to IRC).
I work as an analyst for a MLB team. Bad calls are frustrating, but automated systems are not foolproof. It's been a few years, but there have been MLB games where the system is down completely. Can you imagine having to delay a game to get a tech out there? Woof.

But really, I think we give umps an apple watch or something that buzzes whenever the ball is a strike. That data could be available very near real time. And then, once the umps get real time feedback, you never tell anyone you're doing it. The umpires association would be down for keeping it under wraps, as it keeps the robots away, the old school "human element" folks would be happy, and the calls would get better!
This reminds me of the game show Family Feud, except instead of trying to predict what 100 other humans answer, I'm predicting what the algorithm answers.
when are we gonna have an anti-pandora or anti-spotify that specifically shuffles non-randomly to provide maximum diversity?
Some of these strikes will be covid vaccine mandate related.
That's basically just cooperative, and the main issue is that they end up not being competitive with corporation. We used to have a lot of cooperatives in Vietnam, they got outcompete by capitalist corporation over the past 20 years.
Many co-ops are exactly that - owned by the workers.

The question is: why are co-ops relatively uncommon?
To me it seems obvious that we will get technological solutions to voting that can make direct/local democracy more competitive against representative democracy.

I think we won't need national governments as much anymore, instead we need a global "lightweight" government that does as little as possible, and much more diverse and bespoke local city/community level governance where the governed mostly govern themselves.

Shared resources such as fishing quotas, forests, mineral deposits etc. should be governed by smart contracts where the incentives of the voters are aligned with long-term sustainability. It shouldn't matter which country a person is from or how big their boat is, if they extract X tons of something they need to buy X tons of quota for it on the open market.
I hope they find organic poop!
Like real estate and vehicles, domain registrations probably shouldn't be too private by default.
I don’t agree with the premise that there is a problem with boomers buying a home and renting it out to someone who would rather rent than own.

I see the problem is rather monopolies and hedge funds buying homes by the thousands and driving up the prices in select markets.
This seems like it's just a re-branding and downsizing exercise.

Which isn't a bad idea. An old joke is that Alitalia = "Always Late In Takeoff, Always Late In Arrival".
I didn't put any words in your mouth in the original thread. If anyone had a legitimate complaint about that, it would be Star; you did put words in her mouth, and I suggested that you might be mistaken about your interpretation. Here are my tweets in full:

> Is it possible @starsandrobots did read your tweet, and simply thought you were fallible?

> I thought her point was actually pretty interesting: is Etsy a reasonable outlet for Chinese artisans? Could it be? How?

And then, in response to your accusations against Star:

> It's possible that might be in her heart, but doesn't seem certain to me.

And then (though this was hard to find) I posted this, but I'm not sure what it refers to; maybe someone said "for shame" in a tweet that's been deleted:

> I mean, it's possible that Chinese artisans who mass-handmake things and post them on Etsy will run into "for shame" even if not yet

And then, in response to a now-lost tweet from an extremely bizarre account that I now suspect was a Russian troll (flip-flopped from fervent support of Black Lives Matter to suddenly being some kind of alt-right account):

> @AmyStephen You're using these terms as if they're opposites, but I don't think they are. cc @amyhoy

(I just found those last two tweets and added them to this comment.)

That's the whole thread!

After that, you blocked us both, apparently for eight years.

Anyone can read this (at least, if they log into HN and turn on "showdead" in their profile, since my comments are getting flagged) and see that what I'm saying is true and what you're saying is not true, and moreover that you were doing what you falsely accused me of doing, so I don't know why you are posting these comments. Maybe you just think people are really easy to fool?

As for mass-produced handmade artisan goods, I'm not sure how you think mass production works in factories, but it generally involves a great deal of handmaking, much of which is done by artisans. There are exceptions, like JLCPCB and chemical plants, but I think their goods are not the kind that would sell best on Etsy. A lot of the totally unskilled assembly-line work, like what I did when I worked in a bubblebath factory, has been long since automated. What's left is largely skilled artisan work like investment casting.
I imagine there are always opportunities around to solve technical problems, and pursuing those opportunities builds momentum towards a tech career. Most businesses interact with databases, personal computers and the Internet, for example.

Small org tech support appears to be the best answer. It fits with my suspicions that a willingness to be humble about doing ops or support entry-level work gains one valuable exposure.
would violate the spirit of the game

Not only that, but human error is part of the game. You’re playing against both your opponent and the umps. E.g. catchers trying to fake out the umps by snapping their mitts into the strike zone when a pitch falls outside it.
I don't know which world people like Dorsey live in. There is a massive chip shortage (all over the world) and energy shortage (in China and Europe). We don't have enough energy to power homes, and there just aren't enough chips for automobiles. This got to be an absolutely worst time to start manufacturing bitcoin machines, opensource or otherwise.
Easy to do on paper, but probably hard in reality. If you do that, pretty soon you don't have a market. It can also suppress prices as well by having too much capacity online I think. There's a lot of moving parts.

One question to ask yourself is who is going to pay for this block of nuke capacity? It would be very expensive to pay for that on a 24/7 basis "just in case". The market already clears reserves for a variety of contingency events and it's certainly a balancing act to ensure you have enough without over paying for something you'll only need in ultra rare occasions.

Part of the market philosophy is also not to signal out any one technology. You put in some requirements and let the economics find the cheapest solution. So you could ask for more reserves, but they probably wouldn't just come from nuke.
By observation; why crowdsourced recommendations for music suck is that there's no "cost" to being a critic/influencer, and therefore no real effective filter.

I realized that this is why current hip-hop is so much worse now; it's not (mostly) the artists; its that the "filter" used to be much more ruthless. Fewer opportunities for deals and "difficulty" in being an influence (e.g. DJ gigs, selling tapes from cars, general violence, general censorship etc etc) weeded out every content that wasn't good and every participant that wasn't dedicated.
> Since by definition half of people can get more than the average

Median, not average. Salaries are nothing like a normal distribution.

As the saying goes, Jeff Bezos walks into a bar and on average everyone in the bar is a billionaire.
What? How would executive pay transparency help workers? If worker pay is transparent for all positions, that would help negotiations. Merely making executive pay transparent does nothing to help anyone other than the executives.
Jock Yablonski + his family and Jimmy Hoffa (who likely did the same himself). They’ve gotten significantly less violent in recent decades but I really doubt they have knocked off the organized crime.
I always wrote it down to generally large intake of fresh milk and dairy. Norway has more mountains and less pastures compared to Denmark and Sweden.
Why spend $50k on a pool when you can use a livestock water tank instead?
> Then you've got your concrete plunge pools that generally hover around the $12,000 mark, but you need quite a significant crane to get those in.

> But the tank pools sit around the $5,000-$7,000 mark.

> "The pools are fully functioning pools — they have filters, chlorinators, pumps, you can get water heaters as well," he said.

> Mr Mortimer said his pools were made from corrugated stainless steel and did not require plastic liners which could be prone to damage as per typical above-ground pools.
Glad to actually get clarification of the misunderstanding. Thanks for being responsive!

I agree with you fully here. The semantic thing is that there's this useful self-reflective framing of contrasting "responsibility" from "blame" similarly to contrasting restoration vs retribution. The idea is that blame is about accountability, about finding fault, and it's commonly the mindset we're in when we're reactive in the sort of sense of not being stoic, being stuck on being mad that the world is the way it is and so on. By contrast, if we are taking responsibility, we are asking ourselves how to actually respond to the reality we face instead of focusing on figuring out who to blame. I know that's not a universally recognized distinction, but I find it very useful.
It's really hard for them to raise capital, even getting loans from a bank is a challenge.

For anyone that's interested there's a new coop startup accelerator https://www.start.coop/
A large per-paycheck tax base disappears.
Stop Looking for Mentors
> Here's a sequence of outputs: 6,5,3,3,3,5. Does this information allow you to predict the next output? No.

Your prng looks like a truncated LCG, it could be broken if enough outputs are known. For example, 16 bits could be bruteforced in this case. If the internal state have more bits, depends on how much bits do the outputs provide, you could probably break it by Lattice (https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/37836/problem-wit...).
> There's two types of systems you can choose to live under

Evidence? I would argue it's more likely that everyone benefits if pay transparency exists, especially the workers that provide the most benefit.
Friendly feedback: your titles are inscrutable. I read the one you used in your submission and I wonder, what is a “measure learn” and why would I want to build it?

You need some commas!

Better way to build, measure, learn

Build, Measure, Learn with Lean Experimentation
> They've long dominated the food and fashion worlds, this year they've dominated sports, and now they're aiming for the skies.

This is a joke perhaps?
I used to belong to a union and while helpful for blue collar work, the benefits go away pretty quickly when you can negotiate as an individual, have high mobility and strong demand for skills.

When I was in union you negotiated as a group. You bring up the bottom and pull down the top. Seniority determines most of your compensation, not performance.
Axboe Achieves 8M IOPS Per-Core with Newest Linux Optimization Patches
In my experience, the mean worker will look at the pay of the higher producing counterpart and not care. There definitely will be outliers, but they usually aren't the higher producers. They're just the people that are better at negotiating.

Companies that pay workers what they're worth is rare as fuck.
Fair point. So HN folks who support unions who have previously engaged in hired killings but are against big tech which (to my knowledge) have not done so, why do you support one but not the other?
Is it bad that when I hear ITA, I think of the airline pricing optimization software system that Google bought?
> temporarily embarrassed millionaires

At Amazon and Uber? The problem is that they aren't not millionaires; they're mkaing 250k-650k/yr. At those companies, even in extremely high CoL, you can pay the landlord his due and be a millionaire in 5-10 years.
Hacking for US Government? Not Worth It
I personally believe that we need far better consumer protection laws in the U.S., in general.

I'm certain that laws attempting to curb specific abuses such as with these printers will be like playing whack-a-mole, but perhaps after enough moles get whacked hard enough, the culture might start to change course. One can wish anyway.
With music, you can both verify that a person liked the music as a teenager, and present that person with other music sharing the same qualities to see if they like it enough. This provides empirical evidence regarding this theory on their musical preferences. Such evidence is missing when trying to understand why someone has a “fake tic”.
This is “decision by committee” in practice, with all the issues relating to decision quality and operational tempo that entails. They are empirically inefficient, so other organizational structures very effectively outcompete them.
It's mostly the very uncut reality of the suffering of many human beings who are legally denied any dignified methods of peacefully leaving our world.

Reading this shouldn't make you depressed, it should make you pissed as hell that medical science has been held back for decades now because of religious bullshit, and also give you some motivation to call your lawmakers and demand they legalize doctor assisted suicide/euthanasia (unless you live in some of the few places that offer it), in a style that isn't completely restricted from the actual individuals choice & dependent on the whims of caregivers or legal guardians who aren't the one actually living in a torturous hell on Earth.
I nearly doubled my salary when I jumped ship. Market is quite competitive for decent devs even if they are junior.
And junior isn't always a good indicator on programming ability as well, my friend wrote a Pascal compiler in two days for example.
So, not homeopathy?
Does not 'barely avoid crashing'.. it was going to crash! except driver took over and steered it away from pole!!
> There was drinking milk, and buttermilk, and fresh curds, and old curds, and something called "real curds," and whey mixed with water to make a refreshing sour drink

This sounds a lot like Lithuania today. If you go into most supermarkets the milk products section is usually bigger than the produce section.

They also like potatoes. Usually served with milk products...
Welcome to McDonalds, home of the Mcadoyble.

Now given that burgers cost us money to produce, wouldn’t you rather have a podcast?

Does this whole thing not seem insane to anyone else?
Spotting Hotspots for Cancer Immunotherapy
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Fortunately, you can't catch obesity from being in close contact with other obese people. Or take it home, and transmit it to younger and/or more at-risk people; Cheeseburgers don't work that way. More vaccinations mean better protection for everybody - this is the whole point.
He may be real Satoshi Nakamoto
Something I think would be an interesting sociology research topic is what the difference is between the sort of person who prefers Moria/Angband, and the sort of person who prefers NetHack.

Maybe many like them both, but once I discovered NetHack, I thought it was obviously far superior, yet I have a sibling who was totally in the other camp no matter what I said.

To be clear, I never came anywhere near ascending or anything. But basically, I felt like each game of NetHack was a unique story, and even dying was usually interesting, while Angband amounted to just grinding until some bad luck happens.
Somebody teach the young ones. You need a text editor. Git is a very nice to have. Everything else is optional.
Firecracker MicroVMs
Yes the timestamp changed but url remained same.
I'm pretty sure it's done via collaborative filtering (other user preferences), and not the actual music features (like Pandora does, or did before).
Most comments that people post on my videos disappear [video]
The FSD team must be pissed at Elon putting so much public pressure on them to roll out the beta more widely. They have to know releasing it widely in this state is going to be a nightmare.
I didn't actually call you racist then, as anyone who reads the Twitter thread can see; it's easy to see that the things that I'm saying are true, and the things that you're saying are not true. Even Star didn't call you racist. But (if I recall correctly) I knew that the line of questioning would quickly lead to you either having to take an explicitly racist position (which you'd probably be uncomfortable with) or strategizing on how to reduce the impact of racism (which you'd be even more uncomfortable with, if you were racist).

It's true that instead of asking, "What kind of goods?" I asked you whether you thought Etsy was a reasonable venue for Chinese artisans to sell their wares, which seems to me like a question you could have easily answered by explaining what kind of goods, saying something like "Of course, but people in North Carolina are reselling injection-molded Chinese toys like https://t.co/something." Instead, you blocked us both for eight years and counting, so I concluded that the discussion was leading someplace you didn't want to go, so you actually were just racist.

And now you're responding to me telling the story of how you treat people by smearing me as "dishonest" and "weird", which seems entirely in keeping with the kind of aggressive behavior that the whole discussion thread is about.

I really don't think that kind of behavior is the kind of behavior we strive for here, although I guess probably whoever is flagging all of my comments disagrees with that.
It sounds like they're developing real tics because of subconscious influences from the tic-tacs, real fake tics which are more or less the same as real real tics just brought on for different reasons.

And regarding the music analogy: it's not about the person liking just the music from their formative years, it's that the music they're exposed to during those years has an outsized effect on their preferences going forward. If they pass an intuition check they'll eventually realize the _reason_ why they care so much about the specific technical details they do isn't because that music is inherently and objectively better, and if not then they'll spend the rest of their life complaining about how they just don't make 'em like that anymore.
Noam Chomsky: Ireland robbed poor working people of tens of trillions of dollars
Or rather go to the only comment there from someone who knows their shit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28821316

and skip the site altogether.
This is what a junk mail folder looks like on a mailbox that registered a domain and didn't employ domain privacy:

https://ibb.co/jbF4169

It's like this all day, every day, and that's only what's gotten through after several manual efforts to hard reject common offenders by domain and IP addresses.

I appreciate there needs to be a middle ground of some sort, but the old defaults were an absolute problem and should never have been able to persist for so long.
Curious for your thoughts on Square's memo on this: https://assets.ctfassets.net/2d5q1td6cyxq/5mRjc9X5LTXFFihIlT...
Remove healthcare and retirement benefits from employers' purview, then tax employers on the difference between their wages and 1.25x the poverty line (including the typical cost of healthcare and 5% or 10% for retirement) in the positions' primary work county at a rate like 2.5x.

Basically set a floor on compensation that's liveable.
Completely agree with you. I'm always frustrated when I read papers that use patents as a proxy for innovation/research.

In fact, most people doing research in that area know that very well, but then, it seems there are no alternatives to patents (which are standardize, public, easy to access, and can be tracked across even centuries..).