skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to fly across the Atlantic for that. If you make $50k~$55k gross in one of the 9 US states with no state income tax, your effective tax rate is less than 10%, considering the standard deduction, 10%, and 12% rates.

A cursory search suggests that France, like the US, has a progressive income tax system, so a highly paid worker in France would also have a high tax liability.
Nope, pretty sure it means everybody else will suddenly make the same… which will be worth a lot less when the price increases that are necessary to sustain this astronomical minimum wage kick in.
I use noteself for this, which is an extension of tiddlywiki using an in-browser pouchdb back-end. This can then be sync'd to a couchdb instance, which can be self-hosted - which is what I do.

It's perfect for my needs, I need to work out setting up separate databases for separate note purposes (keeping personal and work separate). I find tiddlywiki / noteself's structure perfect for the various streams required for the management of projects.
We need a better blended system. I'm the only person I know that's written a compiler, an emulator and written my own kernel modules (for fun really), but my degree was not really worth the paper it was printed on because all the tech we actually learned how to use was 10 years out of date.
It can get worse: me and my teammate trained a new dev for half a year with the explicit intention for him to take over should one of us leave. When the day came, said new dev was moved to another team, the product was given to an outsourcer and I was told to train them how to develop in two 2h sessions before I left. (The product was a legacy mess we were in the (multi year) process of refactoring into something maintainable. Documenting the intentions midway or even the status before was beyond the time budget we were allotted. All of this while doing feature development, without having proper requirements or user stories or access to customers who understand their use case, of course.)
Intimate familiarity with how you started a fire doesn't necessarily correlate with the skills to put it out.
I don't understand how those situations you mentioned should be given high priority given the number of people who are being paid poverty-level wages currently.

I'll grant there is a high count of counter-examples, but the number of potential employees that match those counter-examples feels quite low.
Most websites built as SPAs using React are slower, buggier and more expensive to maintain than if they had been built using mostly server-side rendered pages, like we did in the 90s.
Don't we need to define what livable is first? Sharing a studio apartment in NY is livable but in a smaller town is inhumane. It seems weird that we don't have a minimum bar for what we define as livable.
Raspberry Pis are still widely out of stock. And not just Pis! The car industry has been facing chip shortages, Fujifilm's flagship digital cameras and lenses are still impossible to find and have been for years since the chip shortage started... Two years after Nvidia released their flagship GPUs they're finally able to be purchased, but they're only six months away from releasing the next generation, which will also likely be sold out immediately. No one has been able to use TSMC's latest fab tech other than Apple, because just Apple's demand for chips maxed out their entire production capacity. This is the largest chip shortage in my lifetime certainly, and possibly since the invention of the semiconductor.

Predicting an oversupply any time soon when chips in the leading, middle, and trailing edges are in an unprecedented shortage is like predicting that someday California will have too much housing. I mean, on a long enough timescale, maybe... But that's well into the "being too early is the same as being wrong" territory.
POLITICAL œconomy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects: first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or more properly to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public services. It proposes to enrich both the people and the sovereign.

The first object of political economy is to provide subsistence for the people.

-- Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/smith-an-inquiry-into-the-...
Oh, you've just picked another of my personal scabs there.

"We'd like you to use our website, but we don't take it seriously"

You know the companies, they stick up your renewal quote 20% and hope you'll not notice. You go to their web-site, and there's just an "accept" button.
You enter 'web-chat and after 30 mins, they'll knock it down to an 18% increase"
Then you phone them and after some endless messages around "have you tried using our website" you can eventually escalate it through a few phone operators around the world to 'on-shore-customer-retention", who'll knock it down to an inflationary 3% increase.

Feel all this could easily be replaced by some 30 min online IQ test - I'd still waste the same time, but at least it would cost them less to retain me.
The Fed funds target rate is a range. It was previously a range of 0.25% to 0.5%. After the .5% rate increase, the range is now 0.75% to 1%.

That's what the (confusing) 0.75% to 1% label in the graph is indicating.
I do the same, for multiple domains I own. Definitely not difficult.
There's two reasons this argument doesn't work.

One - some 15-20% of Americans have a zero or negative net worth, which straightforwardly inverts the argument. Let's say minimum wage is $1 and the family owes $100 in credit card debt that they are not paying off. They must perform 100 hours of labor beyond their current production to pay off their debts. Now some brilliant economists move minimum wage to $100/hr. Their debts are wiped, as the banks didn't automatically increase their balance to $10,000.

Two - it's not regressive. It's a tax on everyone, proportional to how little labor you do. A defining characteristic of the poor, compared to the rich, is that the poor make their money from their labor and the rich make their money from their existing money ("savings" / "passive income" / "investment" / "401(k)" / etc.). Suppose, in your example, your brilliant economists move minimum wage to $100/hr. Immediately, one hour later, their bank account has twice as much money! Sure, they have suffered a temporary loss of purchasing power, but after 100 more hours of labor they've regained it. Meanwhile, some other family in the same economy has saved $1,000,000 in a bank account, representing some five hundred person-years of full-time work at $1/hr, perhaps inherited over the centuries, perhaps gained from business. Their savings are also rather wiped, leaving them with roughly 1% of what they previously had - but regaining it will take them another five hundred person-years of full-time work.

So it is certainly a tax, but it is very progressive. Really these are the same mathematical effect. The more money you have, the more it affects you; the less money you have, the less it affects you; and if you have negative money it even affects you positively.
I've been using the same mechanical watch, more or less every day, for a little over 12yrs now. Miyota movement, stainless body, Sapphire window, about $300. In years of machine shop work the movement survived fine, and has one scratch on window from some tungsten carbide.

Has kept brilliant time, maybe a minute a month, and taught me that my watch being accurate to the second was something that, for me, just didn't matter. I started working around pulsed high voltage last year (100kV+) and now it loses a couple minutes a week.
As a drinker, I stick to ibuprofen. I wonder if it's as good for social pain.
Coming from the data world, it will always be my bias, but I think there is a good case to be made for it being a good on-ramp from deep domain knowledge (which you have) with a gently sloping technical learning curve from “business analyst“ to“machine learning engineer“
You are trying to build your arguments with particular cases. It's more fundamental than that in my opinion: Freedom, necessitates, that people are free to chose how much they sell their labor for.

Now if you care for fairness, you should look that people are paid fairly in proportion to how much wealth they have generated for the business. That's obviously something people like Sam Altman wouldn't want you to think: That means tech businesses would have to share their bounty with software developers (and other employees) relatively to how much they contributed. The bounty share should remain for the lifetime of the company.

Obviously, no one in the leadership of the tech industry will want to entertain that. They would rather focus on hospitality businesses and businesses they have no business in.
I think a $0 minimum wage should be accompanied by some sort of UBI.
We're still reading the text of a speech from 1999, which would seem to say something in its favor.

Dated pop-culture references in something that's ~25 years old is hardly surprising.
maybe there's a way to include those words like "bl0ckchain" and "crypt0" or even similar looking cyrillic letters eg:

сrʏpto ʙloϲkchain

from https://www.irongeek.com/homoglyph-attack-generator.php
> You managed to weasel out of most of my points, which doesn't make for very fruitful discussion.

It seems to me that you are the one weaseling, since the points you are responding to bear no resemblance to any points I've actually made.

> Soooo many stories of pro-lifers preaching one thing, and doing something else when they themselves face a situation wanting to abort.

I am not any such "pro-lifer" (I'm not a "pro-lifer" at all, that's a buzzword, just like "pro-choice" or "bodily autonomy"). So whoever you think you are responding to here, it isn't me. Nor are all people who believe abortion is wrong "pro-lifers".
This vaguely reminds me of somebody I know who's also pretty smart, but socially extremely odd to the point of being rude/insensitive. Though I'm pretty sure the person I know is on the spectrum and likely doesn't realize/mean it.
If companies shared this data or it followed you around then this would be akin to a creepy social credit system. If it's an observervation during a test then it is just a kobayashi maru and not the same thing.
This misses the part of the game where the doctor's office has you fill out forms giving them a bunch of the same info they already have. Twice. In the same visit. This may take 20 or more minutes. For no good reason whatsoever.

Then the ongoing ARG portion where you have to repeatedly sit on hold for hours with the provider's billing department, insurance, and the state insurance commission and/or your congressperson's office, to finally get all the billing sorted out without getting screwed, all while receiving all kinds of scary letters that the people on the phone will tell you to ignore.

[EDIT] Oh and I bet the Canadian version of the game doesn't even have some of the greatest antagonists of the American edition: the people whose entire job is to wander around emergency rooms bugging very sick people about payment and insurance.
> Why not $50? Why not $75?

You don’t have to look hard to recognize that people who push for an increase in the minimum wage are actually pushing for raising the minimum wage to “infinity” (in their mind) - i.e. communism.
> If a big company loses interest, they'll keep struggling along, because they can get hit with the stick of 'you'll never get another contract from us ever again.'

It is an extreme and rare measure for an agency to ban a large contractor for lack of performance and in the rare cases it has happened to large contractors have almost always had the ban lifted upon appeal to the GSA. In most cases where there has been a failure to deliver substantial or primary responsibility can be laid at the feet of the government agency.
> Do you worry about being hit by a bus before you have FU money?

No. I don't work that hard, and my work is generally enjoyable, I've made a lot of good friends, and get to live in the area I grew up in near my family.

> A lot of responses seem to be focused on high cost-of-living areas

Well, my response was to a poster asking "why do you care about making more if you make 200k?" and the answer for some people making that amount of money is that they are only able to find work paying 200k+ in a high COL area.

> More input and more interesting problems both feel like more responsibility for the same comp

The thing driving more interesting problems and more input is a title bump, which in my neck of the woods means a 50% or greater pay bump, so I would say that's not for the same comp. Whether it's more responsibility is variable, but I know engineers two levels above senior who more or less have the same responsibilities as a senior engineer except their project is "harder" and more important to the company (this does not mean the more senior engineer is actually working more hours though).

Perhaps a meta point here is also useful. Once you're senior, most engineering work available is not interesting and does not help you grow as an engineer. Engineering work that helps you grow as an engineer often makes you more valuable. Companies usually give interesting work to their best engineers. If you can quickly climb the ladder to where your job feeds you interesting work you can enter into a "winners-win-more" sort of feedback loop. This is a strong incentive to front-load your career growth by working really hard for your first decade in industry (or at least years 5-10).
Aussie here, never realised this was a complaint. Everything I see across nearly every site is always the total price.
If I ever bought a £4000 piece of clothing and it turned out that it does not protect me either from bullets or some seriously hazardous environments I'd bin it out of sheer disappointment.

But I know there are people that think it could have been money well spent.

To each their own I guess.
Personal email server, web server sites.
Because the spec is terrible and full of corner case.
> React offers a thin layer on top of JavaScript

I think you've completely missed how much "magic" react really does behind the scenes. I guess the most recent example being strict mode and confusion about why console logs are appearing twice in the console when a component only appears to have rendered once.

> If other libraries were actually as good, they would take over developer mindshare.

History shows us that out of two options, the early option usually trumps the more thought-out option.
Yes, you could. You would be limited to 180 days of history on initial pull and your data would always be up to 1 day behind. Otherwise, yes, you could. It doesn't really feel like this product is aimed towards aggregators or dashboard and more for underwriting and bank account validation.
Ah, thanks. It probably depends on what you mean by tenant; there's no real accepted definition. By tenant, I mean a separate user space, and I think that is analogous to Keycloak realms. (So dan@example.com in tenant 1 has no connection at all with dan@example.com in tenant 2; separate passwords, different profile data, etc.)

But it sure looks like you can have multiple tenants (in your SaaS application) all against one realm in Keycloak if you don't want that level of separation. In fact, here's an article from 2020 discussing that exact architecture: https://medium.com/swlh/using-keycloak-for-multi-tenancy-wit...
Tangentially related but there is an effort to get some of the features of JAX into PyTorch: https://pytorch.org/functorch/
Agreed, it really feels like a16z just dumping money into their "investments" to try and make them catch on but haven't actually considered if the product makes sense or if people want it.
This same issue is true of hotels, although some websites do a better job of surfacing it than others.
> The taxi driver is going to text or email HR or the hiring manager or someone?

That would be indeed implausible. But not every transaction happens between undeferentiated cogs.

A specific person organises the interview logistics from the company. Let’s call him Joe. When they agree with a candidate on an interview date Joe picks up the phone and calls the hotel to book a room. After that Joe calls George the trusted taxi driver they always work with. He lets him know who needs the ride and when. They exchange pleasantries. George also lets him know that the one on Monday cussed him out when he thought George was not driving fast enough. Joe laughs, and tells George that that’s crazy since he is always on time if not early. George feels good about that. He likes that Joe noticed that he is always punctual. They say good byes . Joe makes a mental note to not hire the cussing candidate.

What is implausible about this?

> How frequently are people so rude to the taxi driver that they are disqualified from consideration?

Have you met people? Happens all the time.

> Does the taxi driver get compensated?

Yes. He receives a steady supply of rides and the company pays him for that.

> Why is the taxi driver doing this?

He is a human being and those in general don’t like it when someone mistreats them. They let others know when it happens.

> Does anybody vet the taxi driver's personality testing ability?

Yes. It is called a personal connection. The driver behaves like a decent human being and only rarely say that someone was rude to them so the hiring manager believes them when it happens.

I think the reason you find this story implausible is because you are thinking on a different scale. A team of hiring managers managing 500 interviews per week for a megacorp can’t do this. They won’t have the mental bandwidth, they won’t use a specific driver, they won’t have the personal connection. Not every company is that size. Some company might only interview a few people a week.
There's Wikimedia Commons! It even (somewhat) addresses this particular issue by having a system for requesting specialized media-related edits—video editing, photo retouching, SVG editing, mapmaking, etc.

For the unaware, Commons, a repository of media files, is but one of many Wikimedia "projects" (including Wikipedia). It's mostly used for images, but also hosts video, audio (including MIDI), 3D models (only STLs), and PDFs.Aside: considering what the Foundation seems to like doing, I'm surprised they don't do more to promote the "other" projects, especially to Wikipedia contributors—Wikipedia editors (even split by language) vastly outnumber those of the other projects, including Commons and Wikidata, which are multilingual.

Commons' request system connects those who recognize needed edits but cannot make them with those who check the requests pages and are able to. There's the Graphics Lab[0] for edits to existing uploads, and File requests[1] for new uploads that are needed. Judging by the archives, they seem quite underutilized, though that might only be a sign of how few Commons contributors there are. Probably also has to do with the offloading of requests to local pages in many languages of Wikipedia.[2]

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:File_requests

[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5324355

There's an interesting variation in the nature of barriers to being able to edit. Hardware and bandwidth cost money, but skills cost only time and software can be free. I'd say the Graphics Lab does decently in "teaching how to fish" through tutorials and lists of FOSS software. This contrasts with file requests, where there's no equivalent, because the most common reason that someone can't take a photo of something is that there physically aren't any instances of it nearby.

This kind of barrier to contribution really isn't specific to media; analogously, not everyone has access to the same resources for researching edits to Wikipedia. Wikimedia's also trying to address that: everyone with >10 monthly edits in any project has free access to the databases participating in The Wikipedia Library.[3] Most are relatively specialized, however (IIRC, JSTOR is the most generally useful of the lot).

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library
Ah yes, that followup all of 5 days later, repeating the same assertions. After which it has been... almost 4 years of silence. (Your WaPo link notes about Bloomberg's followup that "It is unclear what, if anything, resulted from those efforts." Gosh, you'd think they'd just go ask their many, many, oh so reliable sources, about all the damning evidence all of the subsequent investigations turned up by looking at the little Chinese doodads sitting on all those hacked motherboards, waiting to be forensically examined.)

There is a world in which Bloomberg reported on some of the most serious widespread compromises of scores of companies ultra-paranoid about security who are appalled to learn about the hack long before Bloomberg, triggering countless deep investigations, discoveries of devices & disassemblies, analyses, tracing the APTs back to their Beijing or Shanghai offices (and maybe hacking their office cameras etc), wholesale upheaval of the supply chain, bankruptcy of compromised firms, becoming a touchstone for the intelligence & infosec communities, a cautionary lesson about supplychain hacks & hardware which must never happen again, in which, like the Snowden leaks, the hits just keep on coming, Bloomberg avidly using its deep sources and secret access to report on it every step of the way for clicks, and the naysayers are silenced by public & private evidence and all the experts quietly stop doubting it or endorse it as they learn the truth and leave comments on Twitter & HN about it being legit etc.

There is another world in which the Bloomberg report was ginned up and was some sort of fabrication or Chinese-whispers or severe misinterpretation and nothing like the big hack happened, and so it appears and that's that, and they double down denying there's anything wrong with it while preferring to never talk about it again.

>> “The Big Hack” suffers from something of a time bind: If Bloomberg was on the mark with its claim that about 30 companies were affected by the hack, it stands to reason that further details of this wide-ranging intrusion would surface sooner or later. The Erik Wemple Blog asked Bloomberg if it is aware of any developments on that front. A Bloomberg spokesperson declined to comment.

I am fairly sure which world we live in.

> Riley was even promoted about a year later

Fair enough.

> and claimed billions in damages

Of which they have thus far earned $0, and changed no one's beliefs. Regular people continue to have no idea who Dominion is and think Fox was wrong, security experts continue to believe Dominion is insecure hackable junk, and QAnoners continue to believe that the reincarnated JFK hacked the voting machines to steal the election or something.
> erode the gap between the poor and the rest of society.

Why just erode it then? Why not just jump to the end state then and completely eliminate it by demanding that everybody get the same wage?
Isn’t it only possible to host things on your phone if you can have a listener that binds to a socket/port? I don’t think mobile apis allow for this. Am I wrong?
sure but in general i feel like it would help a lot
Only former employees were fully complicit.

Anyone with a critical view of these organizations has seen exactly the extent of the harm. The endless news releases should be an adequate trail to follow.

People, at large, have chosen to ignore all the unbelievable actions so they can continue to stalk others online -cough cough- I mean, keep in touch with grandma.