skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They worked pretty well in Scandinavia, and is one of the reasons people there are well payed, have good protections and world class health care.
> why are real wages flat?

Good question. One answer is the government consumes ever more of the GDP. This is going to negatively impact real wages.
I've never seen the term "dataframe" used as it is on this webste, and the commenters here seem to all use it. Judging by the examples it seems to just refer to a "row" from e.g. a CSV or SQL query. So is that all it is, or am I missing something?
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Yesterday (16/12/2021) dr.dk, which is the public, "official" state broadcaster. They get their data from SSI (statens serum institut). I took a screenshot and notice today that they are showing numbers, not percentages.

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/status-paa-coronavirus-lig...

Scroll down to the info graphic "Omikron-smittede fordelt på vaccinationsstatus"
You should also use a programming language where the keywords are in french.
> I wrote a Python script that ran on a Raspberry Pi, that would pull the 2FA code from an Android emulator running on another machine running the 2FA app, and then the script would paste the 2FA code in to MS Teams running on the corporate laptop using a USB keyboard/mouse h/w emulator

That's fucking hilarious/brilliant!
tin foil hat andy right here
Python might not be energy efficient in the hardware it is definitely efficient in the wetware.
Sure, that's why you get the token from the issuer or card brand. That way there's only one entity that stores the PAN, and no third parties are storing it.

To quote the article linked above, "The central bank said the facility of tokenisation shall be offered by TSPs only for the cards issued by/affiliated to them."
I think though its kind of the opposite, because their point was that now memes aren’t just made by young people. Their point memes are made by everyone (ie old people too) and they’re just not funny, no?
Panda's et all do investigate Data. There are tools in Ruby for Datascience but the resources are thin or completely lacking.

A scraper using Scrapy. Had a tool in Ruby with Hydra (multitreaded) and message cueus and whatnot to speed it up. Spidy is just faster. Not because of the language, but because the tooling is much further along and has far more effort poored into.

Server/infra management: ported from chef to ansible. Not for speed, but because stability and availability (of a.o. resources). Unexpected side-effect was that ansible was actually faster and used far less resources on the servers (chef-deamon was notoriously bad). Not sure why, but I don't think its the language design.

FluentD, moved to flowgger and plain-old-syslog. FluentD is an awesome piece of software, but it was hogging our (micro)servers enough to be noticable, measurable and show up in the billing (as higher CPU/memory vpses).
Here's a screen recording of the race condition PNG, for those without Safari.

https://youtu.be/KwbcVLvGfws

I found that doing a small amount of activity like resizing other non-Safari windows caused extra glitchiness, so I was doing that throughout.
Calling focusing on that a specialization means a 6y education difference in some countries.
And yet people still think hiring Indian software and IT engineers is a good idea.

This is not a racist thing. So don't disagree because it hurts someone else's assumed feelings.

There is a significant gap in that sort of knowledge there.
I find that as the scope of information grows that meta-information becomes far more important. I don't need to know how to solve a problem, but I need to know the terminology for how to get to information about it.

Sometimes you can only guess at the meta though, for example I'm building an RTS type game at the moment and I needed to figure out how to get units to move together and pack around the destination point. Even though the scene is 3d they are only moving on a 2d plane, so I searched for a circle packing algorithm and found usable results.

Sadly we're not looking for this skill when interviewing, there they'd have asked me to display skill in different algorithms and structures, language questions etc.
That is left as an exercise for the reader
That's not a bad idea to future proof yourself.
> Okay, so TVs and cellphones are cheaper, but necessities like college, childcare, and healthcare are up significantly.

It feels like it would be better if the basics were cheaper and the trinkets were more expensive...
The science-fantasy novel Celestial Matters is based on ancient Greek physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Matters
While Peters point of view may be seen as dated and chauvinistic, I do feel like the absolute necessity of dual income living today, especially in the city, has had a huge negative impact on quality of family life.

I don't even have kids and I recognize what he's talking about. By the time me and my partner are home (7pm) and have prepped, cooked and cleaned up from dinner, there's no time or energy left to do anything productive or thoughtful. People mock millennials for eating out or ordering in too much, but the temptation to just eat at work and then claw back precious time in the evening is very high - i'd do it in a heartbeat if my partner let me.

It's just market forces at work of course. Once couples become DINKs, and bid up the cost of housing, the single income families simply can't compete and become extinct. Median house prices are 10x median income. Banks will lend you <5x income. For most here now (the UK), buying a property on a single income is a mathematical impossibility without first saving for a decade, living with your parents until you're 30, and then taking out a 30 year variable rate mortgage.
Not everything is "just your opinion, man".
Every side of an argument can be argued for, so every position ever is equally valid?

It's not because a side of an argument is gaining traction in certain communities, for its own merit as far as I know (I believe in objective truth btw), that this is sufficient for calling that (pejoratively, as your comment feels to me) a "meme".
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Many people have a misguided belief that home ownership was easy in the 70s, 80s or even the 90s. Yes the prices were lower and maybe the cost/average income ratio was lower but I can attest to the fact that it was no easy feat even back then.

Plenty of people lost their homes, renters had far less rights and although when looking at things through averages seems to indicate a better off middle class, the wages of the top 10% middle class (Mostly Unionized) were propping up a huge amount of the middle class that were grinding it out living paycheck to paycheck with none of the social safety nets currently in place.

I find it incredulous that so many people are blind to what is coming in the next few years, there is a huge sense of entitlement and victimhood based on some idea that the world was easier back then. We are coming out of what I consider almost 35 years of prosperity resultant from "Winning" the cold war but a reconning is right around the corner.

I don't expect many to take my advise but if I was in debt, renting a home and unemployed, I would stop bitching about minimum wage and would be finding a job real fast, the days of help wanted signs in every window are about to end.
> Since you are in the EU, have you asked them if they have confirmed with their DPO that the suggested data collection and processing is GDPR compliant?

That was one of the six concerns I raised with Drata. Their reply was: "Feel free to reach out to your Drata administrator internally with concerns. Do note, that when your company contracted with Drata, any edits or redlines they provided will prevail for all employees of your company."
"One side effect? Societal harm by tech companies these days, far outweighs the opioid crisis."

No.
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This does not match my experience using Airpods Pro on Windows.

On the other hand it is seemingly impossible to use the microphone of these Airpods and listen to music at the same time. The quality is atrocious. Something that I assume is possible on a Mac. (Anybody knows of a solution? I read it's because of bluetooth profiles or whatever...)
I have a circa 1970 car, and a modern car. The 1970 car is very cheaply built, and is mechanically simple. The quality, complexity, and sheer number of parts of a modern car has increased enormously. Much of that is due to regulation, most every aspect of a car is heavily regulated today. None of this comes for free.
Important discussion with some potentially huge long-term implications (CC0 would disguise the provenance of information that might become globally disseminated by Big Tech). Most of the action on the talk page:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Abstract_Wikipedia/Lice...

Though I'll be surprised if this attracts much attention here today.
What is this Apple email masking service? I keep reading about it but every time I pick "Apple Pay" to pay some service it tells me it's going to give them my icloud address and it gives me no option to choose "mask my email" or anything remotely related or giving some alternate email
A monitoring agent is used on platforms such as UpWork, where you often deal with untrusted contractors for hourly contracts. That is a part of the contract that both sides need to agree on before starting any work.

The screenshots can then be as part of the dispute resolution process, and can also protect the contractor in case of disputes from unscrupulous companies.

The agent captures screenshots every few minutes, and the contractor can review and redact any screenshots before sending them.

Adding a monitoring agent for an existing contractor is a major change in the contract terms, and not something that I would consider acceptable.

It's not normal, and not something you should agree to.
You can't eat a smartphone, you can't sleep in an internet connection, you can't do your nursing job through a computer.

Formal education is more expensive. A balanced diet is harder to get, and more expensive. Housing is more expensive near your work. But gas as well if you live far from it.

Today's people debt is higher, and you can't easily work one job, raise a family, and afford education plus buy a home.

It was more common in the 70'.
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With a daily business in the digital agency — webdesign, development, project management, online marketing, you name it… — it’s getting quite hard to manage all our clients online, especially handling their data in a secure and easy way.

Sure enough, we’ve used the famous password managers, but let’s face it: those aren’t tools to collaborate on a daily base with a big team. They're good at what they do: managing passwords. But we needed a broader set of data.

That's why we build Hypervault. It took us more than a year, but we're convinced that a sensitive data manager will be the next step in protecting ALL your company data.

Happy to hear your thoughts!
I disagree with this premise, I have worked across many countries and I can tell you bad script kiddies and programmers exist universally, everywhere. It just so happens the population of India and China are quite large compared to the rest of the world, so they're more easily visible.
I have worked with some of the best talent from these nations as well, so I would be very hesitant to attach a particular country to it.
> A true Valley technologist has never met a monopoly they didn’t want to detonate sky-high with technology (thereby reaping gargantuan sums).

I'm assuming we're making an exception for their own monopolies? I think most people are in the "would like to get rid of monopolies that abuse them but keep or ones that reward them personally" camp.

It's only really noble if you're against them as a general principle and demonstrate that by giving up the ones you have the power over.
There is always places people can contribute. Look at some terrible softwares.. medical, insurance, 3pl logistics etc.. they don't need extraordinary brilliance to improve.. just UX, better systems, process and lots of area to cover.

If you can improve one industry a bit more than it is today, isn't that a sufficient place in the world?
Facebook HR also got the same question (with the same answer) in the company-wide forum this week. Did I miss some big news story that’s causing this to be on everybody’s mind recently?
But to which level? Basic automation, i.e. sorting by proficency is not really done better by a human than machine. The problem doesn't lie in automation but how we apply it. Don't blame the tool, blame the user.

I think there is a lot of room for removing overautomation and creating transparency. Though just outright abandoning automation would hurt even more since human routines are even harder to evaluate/ make transparent.
A lot of business around the world are built around this silent charges and people being forgetful or not active in checking their expenses.
> You're starting from the false assumption that everyone on the team is paid the same.

It doesn’t matter. Even if they are different, one person getting a raise changes the relative dynamic. Maybe I was being paid more than this team member and now we’re the same, and maybe I still think I’m worth more. It elevates the basis of comparison.

Also, to expand on my post, it creates the impression in the team that the way to get a raise is to get a competing offer. It says that person was being under paid. Maybe that means you are too? It’s just bad all round.
No, it's because many patients don't trust you anymore when they see you looking things up instead of answering immediately without thinking. #-(
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I like that point about mental health. Side projects can be great, speaking from experience. It's just a legal question, although in many countries (I can only speak for Europe), you won't get into much trouble if you stay out of the employer's business and strictly separate code for side project and your main job. It's more complicated in jurisdictions where the employer has more say about your life while being employed.

But if coding isn't your thing (not every developer likes coding), there are a lot of ways to utilize that time. Sports is a great way, spending time with family another (esp working remotely).
To put things in context, I don't come from a Python background but from a Go background, where methods are always called with their package (unless it's in the current package). I got used to it because it makes the context clear.
> You can still fire up some CAD software and do proper work on the Q6600. I mean, right until you want to listen to music or do some very light web browsing. Then it will suddenly become quite painful. The amount of waste in today is incomprehensible. No seriously, properly incomprehensible.

I recently set-up my old Q6600 as a station for CNC machinery, that thing flies with LinuxCNC on a small SSD. There's no issue running firefox and a music player at the same time (though I tend to not have other things running when milling something but more by cargo-cult than actual tests of the impact on the real-time behaviour needed for the CNC machine control). Some operations on Inkscape are of course slower than on more recent hardware but otherwise it's still very useable.
No, compared to what I hear from other places there is no hate against men compared to what sometimes get described here; it is just that women are preferred and get slightly higher pay on average if my contacts in management are to be believed, but keeping women on board is a priority and also they pay us men very fairly.
Don't let this become the new normal, find a better client.
Obligatory “Always has been” meme. That is one of the major profitability cornerstones. And obviously inflation always hits harder low profit margin goods (which usually make up >40% of low-middle income budget).

Inflation hurts the poor, almost always, exception those with fixed interest rates debt burden.
USD 8k/w is not the pay a employee will receive, but the cost of the operation of that one employee, and it is ballpark numbers -- I work in Europe also, I am a Danish citizen.

Again, I advocate developing in a timely manner, and not do over engineering (neither under engineering).
We have quotas we need to fill. Hiring a white male is basically a nonstarter without prostrating yourself before HR
Gonna leave out housing and education, but for healthcare, you are painfully incorrect. European countries has vastly more regulated healthcare and yet pay about an order of magnitude less for it.
I suppose the makers of Nim named that flag for a reason - giving up memory safety by disabling bounds/overflow checks should be never be the default for networked software in a production setting, so benchmarking in that mode would paint an unrealistic picture.

What you want are comparable compiler flags across languages, say "optimized for performance, yet retaining safety" and "go as fast as possible and disable all brakes". Which, to be fair, is the default for C anyway, but this is not a desirable default. I'm sure you can similarly game Rust bechmarks by using "unsafe".
Who the fuck has time to do that?
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paypal is worse than credit card for me. For one the paypal always shares your paypal email address where as when I pay with credit card I always give a different email address to every merchant.
It sounds like this would be a nightmare in Unix filenames; even if everything in my system is perfectly clean utf-8, I could be trying to open "café.txt" and get a No such file or directory error because the input has é encoded a different way from what is saved on disk. You would need to list the directory contents, decode everything, perform the comparison in Unicode code points, and pray there is no more than one match. Any web UI that deals with files would have this kind of issues.
> We were almost there in the UK, and then Omicron struck

The end of the pandemic will not be linear. Expect periodic setbacks. Even during a time of general decline, there will be flare-ups. Even during a time of general increase, there will be lulls.
An internet connected smartphone is not equivalent to the postal service (plus a pay phone or landline I guess). It may be that you use a computer or something else for the things that most people use smartphones for, wand so don’t realise how much they cover.

You also didn’t mention having to go to the library (distance + fuel/car/travel costs + more time) for information, finding jobs from newspaper advertisements or word of mouth.

But the claim I was disagreeing with is that most Americans are worse off now than in the 70s and the description “most Americans” does not match the sort of very poor people whom you describe. So I feel this comment is only partially relevant
> Wojaks can be used by just about anyone for any purpose. It's the same for Pepe and just about any other image based meme format. Older memes by contrast had a solid base.

I dont agree with this. We already had memes with multiple purposes.

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a1/de/27/a1de27eb430466b48c31b03a1...

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/4d/a7/70/4da7703c373818e0e7c9a9143...

Although an interesting read. It's my opinion that meme culture today is the same as 10-15 years ago. It's not better or worse. It seems the same.

Although i would say the internet itself has changed alot. The internet used to be a place for regular people. Now it's full of corporations. It's all about money and advertisement these days, not communities. That's what i miss.

I think this overly corporated internet does have an effect on meme culture though. In my opinion we have become less creative. Big platforms became addictive loops and content creators become content factories. Both which are not good for creativity. Which is somewhat a point i think the OP made in that certain memes arent being replaced with new ones. e.g. pepe.

But then again. Pepe is the best.
Don't even jest, I heard something similar told at work without the /s part.
It's called "Hide My Email" and you can use it to sign up to services in apps:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425
Why is that such a big problem for leftists that men and women have slightly different ways of expressing themselves; behaving; interacting socially, etc... ?
> So why is she feeling like her job is to defend the competitiveness of the company in front of other coworkers?

Because that is literally HR’s job description?

(If you’re looking for a group similar to an HR department, but flipped so that their job description is “defend the workers in front of the company”, that’s a union)
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yeah and most of those parents have been refinancing their homes to support their spoiled children. That is going to end real soon and many of those kids are going to witness their parents lose their homes and become impoverished due to their lazy yet extravagant lifestyles.
Discussion from the post of this on Backtrace's blog at the time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068015
Where I work the code review process has mostly broken down. There is just no bandwidth to get anything done beyond the most basic sanity checks. To actually make someone improve their code I'd need the time, energy, authority, good will and probably other things to explain and teach the other programmer what and how to do it differently. But shit needs to get done and if the code works it's hard to convince management why I should invest so much of our time essentially redoing work that doesn't need redoing.

I suspect that this bandwidth problem exists elsewhere also.
First of all, I hope you'll be alright and end up with a job you like.

But I think it's important to distinguish between cases where people hardly work but get praised for their output, and cases where the employer notices and tries to get rid of the employee. The latter case is obviously problematic. But what if Google told you they love your work even though you hardly ever work? I wouldn't see it as problematic at all in this case.
You state govt keeps inflation low by manipulating how it's calculated in order to keep the fed rate low, which insidiously keeps stocks up. And this happens, apparently, because the Fed really cares about news headlines? Does the ECB and BOJ enact the exact same policy but for unrelated (but equally conspiratorial) reasons? Are all the central banks and politicians around the world in cohorts, or is there something else going on here?

Long term interest rates have been going down for decades. This is a long term trend, caused by low GDP growth expectations. The labor force participation rate keeps trending down. Healthcare costs keep trending up. Population is aging. These are fundamental problems for which there is no great solution, and interest rates are low (along the curve) as a consequence. The Fed is ultimately only a minor player in this. They can provide excess liquidity, but only for so long. Ultimately rising inflation forces the Fed to withdraw liquidity and the market will inevitably deflate. Fed policy postponed a market crash by a couple of years so it wouldn't hit at the same time as covid, and that's a good thing.

But who benefits from a steady stock market? Regular people. Pension funds. Who benefits from crashes and wild gyrations? The wealthy. Hedge funds. This makes perfect sense, because a treacherous market is best navigated by the most experienced and wealthiest parties.

You seem to argue the opposite: that a market that has steadily gone up and up and up because of Fed/inflation manipulation has somehow benefited the wealthy elites at the expense of regular people?

Yes, workers get paid too little and much in the world is unfair. But your analysis is mostly conspiratorial silliness. I don't know what you mean by "ridiculous race war", but Black people in the US are 20x poorer (by net worth, on average) compared to whites so a race/color blind analysis of the economy doesn't work.