skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Youtube and the algorithm want you to put out content every day, and will penalize you, and literally give you less money if you don't.

I am not familiar with Youtube's payment system. Are you saying they do something like reduce the $ per ad / per view you receive based on the age of the video?
Wages have been going up for restaurant staff, not down, because nobody wants such a high-stress, low-quality job. Offering lower starting wages will end up with reduced staff and burnout.
For a lot of people, the lifestyle they want is "a place to live" and getting a job that pays that much is impossible.
Congratulations, your program is now thread-unsafe because you thought using a temporary variable is expensive :-p using mutable static variables is a terrible idea in most situations.
>the $50-100/month for each service that would likely be required if every single one had to support a fully-staffed call center

You're estimating what, that every customer would on average spend at at least an hour a month on the phone with each and every service they do business with?
The word Boomer echoes loud and clear. Are there actually Jimmy Buffet fans under 50? I'm one year away from being able to live in a retirement community (gasp) and I still think I'm a college freshman, but the contrast is sharp between this article (The New Yorker) and forums such as /r/antiwork on Reddit, or Twitter in general.
It would look like somewhere between $7.25 - $725/hr, depending on their circumstances.
Shouldn't it be easier to look for new jobs if you have a financial buffer? If anything being more pinched => more time being stressed out and/or more time at work (trying to rack up OT) => less time/energy to spend looking for new jobs.
Ask HN: Does anyone know a site that hosts personal RSS feeds?
There are a dozen RSS apps for iOS, but I don’t like hopping between Safari and such.

I’d like something with a minimal plain UI much like HN.

Hosting my own just doesn’t sound feasible.
Henry Ford, capitalist extraordinaire, famously paid his workers $5 a day, double the average automaker's wage at the time. This extracted maximum value from said labor.
Sorry to hear about this experience. I’d love to find out what happened and renew the license for your project. Feel free to email me jcoghlan at gitlab and I’ll be happy to help.
The idea is that they think of themselves as a labor monopsony. They are foreseeing an increase in supply (due to higher living costs forcing more people into the labor market, either those not previously working or those who are now taking on second jobs) and thus plan to accordingly reduce the price (wages).

The main fault in their reasoning is the belief that higher living costs necessarily results in more people getting into the labor market.

At some point the marginal benefit to a worker becomes zero or negative, where higher living costs can actually result in a reduction in the labor pool. Whether we are at that point though, is not known yet without more information about the localized economy.
I think there should be an exception for people who are financially dependent on someone else. If you're a teen living at home you should be able to work for whatever someone will pay.
From my experience going back to 1990 everything is actually MORE controlled by the majors than ever before. Its so easy for google to bury you, all the so called "discovery" platforms are a pay to play scheme. Once pay to play became the norm in southern california the music scene died and that was back in the early 90s even before the internet.
That's exactly it. Streaming is the modern radio, it's not the entire business.
I really don’t see why there is a huge leap of faith with coronavirus vaccines, but not with the many safe, effective vaccines and medications we all benefit from throughout our lives.

Have you always felt this way about the medical profession? Have you any specific reasons to doubt the medical profession and it’s institutions, across many nations and accreditation agencies, now in particular?
Actions of the franchisees reflect on the brand (that's the point of franchise agreements). In case I want to avoid giving this guy money (as is my right as a consumer under capitalism), how can I easily confirm which franchises his company owns? I can't, you say? Well, next time I want to eat mediocre food in a bland corporate environment, I'll have to go to Chili's instead.
One guy that works for a franchise of an increasingly irrelevant restaurant chain has a bad take in a private email conversation and you think this is the end of capitalism?
States and even cities already do set their own minimum wages. I don’t see how further complicating the issue by requiring each individual building to consider the apartments available within a 1hour drive radius to figure out what their minimum wage needs to be.
You can't do better with a non-inlined function.
It's not so extreme, you have to trust the HSM manufacturer.

Try generating randomness using casino-grade dice, and xor-ing it with the HSM. Maybe then.
No, the same time will be spent.

You can't flag "this scientist is honest, never reproduce anything from him anymore". He can turn dishonest the next day you do this.

If there are more dishonest scientists, we'll just find more useless papers. But the time to reproduce will be the same.
I don't feel like this is necessarily too far on the overly woke side, but how the hell has it come out that such a large part of the US hates women, non-heterosexuals, women's rights, voter suppression, etc.

How did it get to such a state that so many places find it acceptable to pass things criminalising LGBT or abortions?

Disclaimer: I do not have the ability to vote in the states
Hidden Variables Identified In Quantum Mechanics
Well, to host anything serious, you’d have to have the right infra.

Like a good edge router, redundant power supplies, RAID arrays, a backup mechanism, and a very good upload connection (ie 500mbit). By the time you setup all that, you may as well be using new hardware to make the investment worth it.
Congratulations with this great news in these complicated and confusing times!
by their definition not because the inside of the apple is not 'messy'
This is a distinction without a difference. I don't care that different Applebee's are managed by different groups.

It never ceases to amaze me the way that people with any type of power treat and think about people with less power.
Start off by charging them extra in taxes to cover any welfare their full-time employees qualify for.

edit: with a 200% penalty for administrative fees.
And when they dial it up a bit too much and people start moving to some new platform in frustration, they can just use those service fees to buy that!
so i would agree when talking about comments like "i could code twitter in a weekend! why so many engineers there!"

but this is different. github is a 14 year old company, with annual revenue in the hundreds of millions USD

I literally cannot think of any other comparable size and age mysql user who has not successfully sharded long ago and avoided outages of this magnitude. and in return we get hand-wavy excuses of "complexity!!!" from their former vice president of engineering who was previously also their first DBA.

criticizing these excuses is not trivializing the complexity, it's more of a "we all did this at our respective companies, who also had a lot of complexity! why can't you? we are github users, we rely on you and are very unhappy, we want to know how this happened" and just getting excuses as an answer.
After Osmans video all cheap x-ray tubes ware just gone on ebay for weeks.

This often happens.

The video also did not really emphazise the dangers involved.
Yup. Or: people who have decent jobs and are conscientious about them are more likely to decide to drink coffee daily to make themselves more productive, and these traits also make them more likely to (a) be more conscientious about their health, (b) have health insurance and be more able to pay medical bills.

I don't have numbers on this, but I have the impression that many people drink coffee on weekdays in order to be awake for their job—and they probably wouldn't make it a daily thing if they didn't have a job—and therefore daily coffee drinkers will contain a much higher proportion of people who are healthy enough to hold down a job.
>would reward companies based on the degree to which they enrich their rank and file employees.

How would this work? How is this different than a payroll subsidy or the EITC?
Based on the abstract you are overstating the conclusions of that paper to a ridiculous degree.
Would have liked to see an APL on the Python VM ala Hylang. Still waiting for Hy to become stable enough to switch to for Python work but that’s the ticket right there.

Trouble is that APL/J gain their magical abilities by specialising the semantics to things that fit array processing. It doesn’t work for general programming.
My totally uneducated guess would be that whatever long term health effects that stimulants have on heart rate are minor compared to other stimulant effects (like blood pressure, appetite changes, etc)
Reading down to the later parts of the article, this sounds like a bad game of telephone from upper-management to middle-management.

Central Applebee management puts out vague message about inflation affecting costs and revenues. That hiring managers need to work harder to retain their employees by giving potential employees more flexible schedules (which may have a benefit of cutting costs: some employees may be willing to take a lower pay if they can have a different schedule).

Some middle-manager reads that statement as having to do with gas-prices making prospective employees more desperate for a job.

And the rest is history.

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Upper-management always issues vague strategic-level statements. Its the middle-managers who have to translate the vague statements into something that connects with the lower-level employees. This middle-manager colossally failed at the job.
A Brief History of Construction Startups
If your free tier customers are costing you a lot of money, you're going it wrong.
I did an experiment and given that my power (from National Grid!) costs about 16 euro cents per kwh, it costs me ~3.4 euro cents to cook a 180g potato, and ~18 euro cents to buy it in the first place.

Also, bringing the water to 100C over 10 minutes, and cooking covered on low for almost an hour, use roughly equal amounts of power.
Not a fluke but a waste of human and natural resources, yes!
It's pretty hard to avoid being the product regardless of whether you're the customer.
My guess is that performances have just started opening up again in Canada.

That's usually a big part of revenues. From what I've seen by watching recording performances, there have been many places throughout the US to perform live in that time. Varied state-by-state even.
>Otherwise it sounds like you don't think anyone should be able to live anywhere reasonable without roommates?

I think your confusing "should be able to" with "shall be able to, enforceable by law".

I don't expect that a 15 year old working his first job as a fry cook at an Arby's should be compensated enough that he can afford to live on his own. In fact, that could be dangerously disincentivizing his hard work toward his education.
It's not a flawless system. Science is highly reliant on humans and we're not reliable.

But it's reasonable to think that some reproduction is better than no reproduction.
The filter stops cholesterols which are abundant in coffee.
All of this is pretty much how I feel on the matter, too. GTK3's interface was a really lovely blend of skeuomorphism and more abstract widgets that came together to make a really unique experience. Even if it didn't work in every context, I appreciated how well it worked for less complicated applications and making great-looking, device-agnostic GUIs. Cawbird was a wonderful native Twitter app made possible with GTK3. Curlew packed all of the important features of Handbrake/FFMPEG into a more streamlined, simple package. Foliate took e-book reading into the 21st century. So many amazing apps were enabled with this switch, and even though it's still a second-class toolkit, it was my guilty pleasure on Linux.

In comes GTK4. Much like the article alludes to, the elegant and simple shadow of interactive elements goes poof. Developers spend hundreds of hours crusading against letting people use third-party themes, just so they can simplify and reduce UI elements to a nigh-unusable pulp. Developing with GTK4 is a nightmare. Using GTK4 is a pain in the ass. For christs sake, there was a devastating font-rendering glitch that existed for more than ten months after the first GTK4 release that was ignored in lieu of simplifying buttons, developing a new forced stylesheet and telling people "don't theme our apps!" Whenever I take this up with a maintainer, they immediately take it personally and write out a litany of reasons why I'm wrong and why I'm not allowed to disagree. The priorities here are almost unbelievably misaligned, I've pinned my GTK packages at the last GTK3 release and await some sort of admission of failure.

I simply can't take it anymore. These are the people making desktop Linux miserable, and I frankly feel no remorse watching their attempts at "simplifying" the ecosystem crash and burn.
Pros:
- Very easy to learn. If you know TS/JS+HTML, there are ~ a handful new syntax expressions to learn, but otherwise you're good to go.
- Easy to integrate an external CSS framework such as bootstrap
- Built-int TS support. Being able to use types in your frontend code is delightful.
Cons:
- The generated output puts the vast majority of the content in the JS files (vs having a least some skeleton or so in HTML).
>Start off by charging them extra in taxes to cover any welfare their full-time employees qualify for.

Isn't this equivalent to raising the minimum wage? I'm not sure what's the point of policies like this other for the cathartic effect/grandstanding.
> Is this true? Desktop apps have far more power to create privacy or security concerns that web apps do. The web sandbox isn't perfect by any means, but it's very good and far stricter than anything else on desktop

This isn’t inherent.

If every program could run in in its own container then this wouldn’t matter.

There’s zero interest by anyone in doing so in yhe desktop, since the money is in selling services.

But virtualization approximates this.
The stated requirement is that the inside is messier than the outside. I think that's uncontroversially true of an apple.
That takes into account the specific set of apartments within a 1 hour drive of each individual work location in the US and automatically updates as apartment rents fluctuate?
UBI won’t do anything I’m afraid, that experiment already failed during the pandemic and now we have massive inflation across all assets.
If you don't already know, there was a project to extract all the illustrations from book scans in the Internet Archive and they were uploaded to and could be explored on Flickr.

It was probably one of my favourite things on the internet, no hyperbole. You could search for words and you would get all sorts of strange illustrations/block prints/photos that may or may not have something to do with the term. The fact that the illustrations were taken out of context made them even more fascinating and mysterious.

And now it's gone..

All the time people had spent delving the depths of the archive of 5+ million images and curating the most interesting images, just gone?

I really really hope that some backup of the metadata was done before the delete button was pushed.. but I fear the worst. From the sounds of it the account was voluntarily deleted by IA. I find it hard to believe that they of all people would just nuke that information?

What makes it all the more painful is I'd actually done a full scrape of all the metadata that Flickr makes available through its API, but I can't seem to find the data from the scrape that I did that included the all important view counts..

http://web.archive.org/web/20220308103246/https://www.flickr...
OK.
I don't have much sympathy if your only point is that you want to have things but not work or pay for them.
Yes. I am a huge fan of chemex coffee. I have tried a lot of different machines and the simple chemex always comes out on top.
You should include traffic in it.
There is one simple solution: replication. Stop complaining and start replicating.
When they are denied the opportunity to easily obtain better positions through structural roadblocks, I would to an extent say this. At a minimum I would say that they are being exploited.
That was my initial reaction, but the more I think about it—is it really so unreasonable? Right now, we force employees to deal with the burden of ever-changing real-estate markets. Why not make employers do that?

And if it's too much of a hassle for the employer, just pay your employees substantially above the minimum.
Can Freight Train Cars Go Electric–and Self-Driving? Parallel Systems Says Yes
The core line of logic "We can pay our workers less, because our workers are more desperate" never gets any better. It's one thing to say they're going to pay less because the business isn't viable at these levels of pay, but extending that to "so we're going to focus on who we can exploit" is where it crosses the line. Becuase if the reason you're cutting wages is that you can't afford them... well, let's start with that big fat juicy CEO bonus.
UBI could allow the elimination of minimum wage entirely, along with a ton of other scattered welfare programs that have lots of administrative overhead and the typical middleman industries that leech off of government programs.

It’s a no-brainer!
A few issues with this:

> The mistake here is seeing a counter-argument as being against a person, rather than as against a particular artifact. What matters is what’s out there.

This is not how it works in most of real life. There are political impacts within a community or organization depending on how an argument goes down. Potentially permanent schisms.

> So, if the critiques of an article find only “moderately bad flaws”, that often increases my trust because my prior was that the flaws would be even worse. If the claim that some types of watermelon taste bad to certain people at some times of the year survives the skeptics, then that might be an above-average outcome.

This is empirically not how most people operate.

> We need to design our norms around the unfortunate reality that most people are not helpful when criticized.

No, design norms around getting the best possible world. That unfortunate reality is only one of many factors to take into account.

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I'll hold judgement on the conclusion overall; I think it may make sense for arguments when nothing political is on the line and everyone is a psuedorationlist. Beyond that...unsure.
Unlikely to hold interest for anyone here, the points are simplistic in the extreme, as though the author is early on his software development journey. Godspeed, software developer.
Just because it is a biological prerogative does not mean that it doesn't cause suffering. I've seen lions eat gazelle babies straight out of the womb, is that not suffering? Now, that is an extreme example, but people having kids in a bad environment, just because they can, can cause undue suffering to the child. That is why it is prudent to wait for the right time, is the parent commentor's point I believe.
The font rendering on that example of "the perfect button" is rather atrocious. It's kind of sad that Windows is (was?) the last bastion of serviceable font rendering.
Can you elaborate? Especially about the first part
Scratch under the surface and you get Twin Peaks.
The flat UI trend baffles me. The removal of text from icons and buttons baffles me.

For example, in Windows 11 I spent close to a minute looking for "Rename" in the right-click menu in Windows Explorer. Turns out it's not there! It's been removed out of the flow of the list and put in the top of the right-click menu, behind a small, picture-only icon that I've never seen before.

MacOS is guilty of this too: Buttons along the top of native apps like Finder don't have text anymore, the buttons are flat without borders, and the icons are thin lines. How is anyone supposed to know what they do??

In most UIs (Apple and Android in particular), I can't tell when one of those on-off switches is ON or OFF. Is the dark side ON or OFF? Maybe the light side is ON. Oh, it's the opposite when Dark Mode is enabled; great.

Bring back text. Bring back nice buttons.
Manual Matuzovic has a good HTML boilerplate, and he goes line-by-line into what it does. https://www.matuzo.at/blog/html-boilerplate/
For everyone mad at at "Don't theme my apps," consider why developers are doing it.

Getting complaints about how your app is broken because of an overzealous theme that is beyond your control sucks. And after 10 years of dealing with it, GNOME developers decided it was enough.

And... I don't wholly agree, but at the same time, themes had a decade to get their act together and stop angering GNOME developers. They didn't.
You obviously don't live in Indiana....to think there are basic renter's rights. That would be a huge win.

I'm only slightly kidding. The Indiana legislature was "too busy" to consider a renter's rights bill this year. They were busy trying to "solve the problem" of transgender kids playing on sports teams in schools. That's obviously way more important than lower income people having affordable, safe places to live.
I know this won’t be popular but minimum wage shouldn’t exist. Basic income, sure but not minimum wage. Every discussion of minimum wage blames employers for something that is completely out of their control: inflation. When the price of gas, housing and food rises the business where you work doesn’t suddenly have more money to hand out. If anything their costs have gone up too reducing what they can afford to pay out.

It blows my mind that people continue to act like rising costs are the fault of their employers, who have no control of it at all.

No doubt, this exec in particular was a moron who deserves to be fired for even suggesting what he did but the overall sentiment just doesn’t jive for so many businesses that are getting squeezed harder and harder everyday.
Suspected Okta hackers arrested by British police
FTA:

> this book author did not write his texts in written German, but in a form of the Swiss language, which I did not understand with reading. So I noticed that I have great difficulties to read the text.

This makes me angry. The German Swiss have deprived themselves of their own culture by normalising the practice of writing a German variety that is not theirs, and that is not spoken. The other three Swiss ethnicities wouldn't dream of doing such a nonsense.

It is nigh 100 years past time that someone who cares – following the footsteps of Adelung, Karadžić, Manzoni – pushes through with https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieth-Schreibung and takes it to the schools, so that in future generations people like Renato won't have trouble reading their own native language, and the pupils of Romandy learn a (secondary) language that is actually useful for orally communicating with their fellow countrymen, unlike what happens today.
How about: MacOS and Linux are hugely over represented among developers, but all the customers (who aren’t on mobile) use Windows.

We don’t want to switch to Windows ourselves, and we also don’t want to foreclose on the Windows audience.

Finally I don’t think it’s the case that very many of today’s web applications would even make sense as single-user desktop applications. They are fundamentally structured ways of communicating with other people, not of interacting strictly with one’s own data. The server part is essential.
wow i really love this. will try it out tmrw in a new greenfield project.
Is there still a value in this as a Reductio ad absurdum? A short cut that makes it less neccessary to slog through a prior art battle in each and every case?