skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The key difference is that the phenomenon I'm talking about comes from people who haven't taken the time to understand the problem, or they come up with "solutions" that have already been tried and found not to work.

IME, that is a common 'reactionary' response. Often the problem has changed.
If that kid doesn't have a future beyond living with his parents, sure. But it's a pretty flimsy argument when you consider the future and his parents' living conditions. Personally, I'd like kids like that to be able to save up for college and retirement. But in the alarmingly common situation where that 17 year-old is helping a single parent get by, that $25/hour salary starts to make a lot of sense.
You described many of reasons I left a previous company. As one of the higher level engineers, I was constantly writing "tech specs", reviewing tech specs, doing code reviews (one week I had 12), and forced to present slide decks full of fluff against my will. Usually I'd push the slide shows off for a few weeks, but eventually I'd run out of excuses. Occasionally, I'd get to do some real work, but it mostly involved refactoring an almost decade old smoldering dumpster fire, so I left.
Sure, if we want to philosophize about it, and I agree with it - but that's not going to help people get $25/hr. It needs a practical solution, forcing it when so many people will feel slighted wont help. What use would the hospital be if all the support staff got $25/hr and the medical staff walked out because the support staff is getting paid more than they are, but without the very real and legal responsibilities the medical staff have? This compounds on the other meta aspects of having worked hard to get there, student loans, etc. If I paid customer service agents more than the programmers working on a product, I soon would have a very stale product with really good customer support. And soon after, no product at all.

Its not that one side wants the other to suffer or stay poor/oppressed so they can feel exceptional. They dont want to feel their entire struggle and outsized contribution was for nothing. The other people dont factor in at all - they are trying to feed their family first (humans are gonna human). Why bother being a nurse and doing all that night school if they could just be support staff and get paid the same without the responsibility + extra loans? We are not even talking about the real rich vs poor here, so even thou the idea is to close the rich/poor gap - the solution of not raising adjacent workers pay to get it done, does nothing to solve it and only introduces obstacles to the real goal.

I think discussions like minimum wage end up talking past each other (as happened with my friend and I over many talks). It is desperate for a divergent solution. I dont have one that doesnt involve completely rebuilding every social/societal construct from it's foundation. Basically pointless and not something thats going to happen. But I am sure someone smarter than me can find a 3rd way without adding bugs/negative effects to other branches
There is no scenario where increasing minimum wage improves anyone's quality of life, except if you're a Politician needing to buy votes.
With the pandemic/post-pandemic, lots of folks can now afford to work remotely for extended periods.

AirBnB's strength has always been in cities, but the cities are cracking down hard on STRs. E.g. NYC passed a law making rentals for < 30 days in the city illegal.

I do wonder there is a regulatory risk that cities will push out the min time to, say, 60 days if they feel that they haven't solved their "AirBnB problem" with a 30 day min stay.
Well, Airbnb's business model is to make a market and take a cut of each transaction.

If hosts and guests discover one another on the platform but cut Airbnb out of the transaction then Airbnb is losing money.

Losing money is a major problem for a business that seeks to make money.
Any job between 0 and minimum wage becomes either a 1099 job or a black market job. When people say $25 minimum wage, they really mean make sure anyone paid less is on the black market and has no protections.
Rent prices in the Bay Area, Seattle, LA, NYC, and other high minimum wage cities beg to differ. As a percentage of monthly minimum wage earnings I'd bet rent comes out as higher in high minimum wage cities than low wage cities.
> Not really
...
> help me book a hotel and comp it

If they comped it, that sounds very much like they helped you a lot. Not sure how anyone could describe this as "not really" helping?
This assumes that every relevant detail is speced out. In many projects you don't know exactly what something is going to look like at the end of the project, so over-spec'ing is just as much a problem.
If you hate the low skilled, then raising the minimum wage is an excellent idea, because it will prevent them from being gainfully employed.
You do realize that minimum wage has not kept up with inflation, and much less the cost of living?

> Increasing their pay of made up units (dollars) doesn't actually make them any richer, it just moves the scale and prices go with it.

This take is completely divorced from the reality of the current world economy. We currently have a situation in which value is being squeezed out of the working class, and into the pockets of ogliarchs. Increasing the minimum wage would compensate for the massive deficit between produced value and wages, to the benefit of the people actually doing the work.
You only need one promotion, L3 (entry level) to L4 (mid level), to not get fired at Google. And the company is quite generous with how long it gives you to get there. L3 to L4 is basically about writing good code on your own, and isn't really affected by promo culture -- doesn't really need shiny work.

Several years back, you had to also eventually get to L5. This was more affected by promo culture, but was also largely unenforced, which is why they get rid of the formal requirement to get to L5.
Understood. Is your project open source? I'm curious to see what the solution looks like when you sort it out. I feel like there must be a lot of heavy lifting (but also a lot of cruft if all you care about is a narrow case) being done by pdflatex to get to an output pdf. It will be interesting to see what the minimal solution looks like.
there are at least 100 million people who've used Plaid alone, not to mention other aggregators (MX, Finicity, Yodlee, etc)

like it or not, it is a mainstream thing by now.

plus, as others have mentioned here, with oauth-enabled banks the aggregators just get a temporary token.

https://www.protocol.com/fintech/plaid-lawsuit-settlement-op...
Imagemagick just shells out to ghostscript.
Sounds fine on the surface. Until you dive deeper and think the taxi driver will eventually be aware of the leverage they have. And decide to be malicious with their own biases.
No-escape makes serialization and deserialization simpler, faster, and easier to test.

For example, import/export is a breeze on the command line with typical Unix tools such as awk, sed, grep, mlr.

No-escape makes international standardization clearer for Backus–Naur form (BNF), the same way other standards use no-escape BNF.

For example, no-escape is the same choice as with the existing international standard for IANA tab separated values.
Cmon man, you’re ruining dreams here
Science actually suggests fasting increases metabolism, or at least keeps it stable, unlike general caloric restriction.
As a user, Airbnb is hostile. The price you see is never the price you pay. It's impossible to tell which listings are actually the cheaper or more expensive than others. The only reason to use them is selection, they have properties that VRBO & others don't. So focusing on improvements for their hosts is smart, but feels like it will still bite them in the long run. I already avoid Airbnb when possible.
yeah, my systems are really small in comparison (1-20) but with higher order derivatives (up to 4th order), so reverse AD is not the best in that regard
>You might be as stoic and nonplussed as you claim, but we're all the heroes of our own stories, or something.

I prefer the terms lazy and non-confrontational, myself. But no, my first response to undue difficulty isn't to lash out. Better to save my energy and time and just hang up, walk away, etc.

I'm the above in part because: I'm certainly no hero and don't expect my words to magically fix the cable industry or have some insularly bigoted person see the light of day. There are others who spend full time+ attempting to do such feats with varying success. Some may find that lack of resistance as tacit approval of the current norms, and they may be right on a subconscious level. But I simply don't have the energy or will to care 99.9% of time with so many other things demanding my attention.

I don't see myself as some paragon of patience turning the other cheek, I just say to myself "I don't have time to deal with this" and run away (metaphorically speaking. Mostly)
We don't need Thomas to tell us the minimum wage has gone down, but if you want.
9.5 Your PR will be held up for at least a month with the back and forth.
UPDATE: Got the email 2 hours ago
Holy living crap. I was all with it up until I saw the actual full HTML example. That is an incredulous amount of overhead for what is essentially one of the most basic and fundamental operations in *GL.

Comparing this to Canvas is almost like comparing assembly to C. I'm honestly very surprised.
These are reasonable points in the context of normal everyday life. However, when making a hiring decision, there are likely to be several competent candidates who could all do the job just as well as any other. If you've got an easy way to filter out potentially problematic candidates based on their soft skills, might as well do so to avoid a bad hire. There's no room for giving the benefit of the doubt in this context.
Well, Larry Wall's latest project was called "Perl 6" but has
been renamed "Raku"-- in belated recognition that it really
is a new language, and Perl is going to continue being Perl.

The main reason to learn Raku at present is simply that it's
profoundly different from most other things out there-- there's
no particular "killer app" that's emerged for it, but it's
unusual enough that this might happen yet (no one expected Perl
would be critical for "Web 1.0" and the Human Genome Project...).

Some Raku features:

(1) it's numeric types include true rational numbers, so
there's less chance of being tripped up by floating point
approximations (e.g. 2/3 is really 2/3, and if you multiply
by 3 later you get precisely 2). It also does big integers by
default: you're less likely to have overflow problems.

(2) Raku's regular expressions have been redesigned from scratch,
and it ships with expanded capabilities to compose them into larger
structures called "grammars": Raku is a uniquely powerful tool for
writing special-purpose parsers, ala domain-specific languages.
(Note: this is how Raku parses itself-- it's not implemented in
the usual lex and yacc style.)

(3) Extremly convenient features for handling CAP
(concurrency, asynchrony, parallelism), possibly the easiest
to use of any language.

As for Perl (meaning the original, Perl 5), it's vastly
superior to traditional bash scripting because all the
components were brought into one process where they could be
made more consistent and talk to each other easily.

How Perl compares to Python is a little difficult for me to
answer: I prefer Perl, but I could be biased on this one, and
there's no question Python has quite a bit of momentum at
present in a number of areas.
> The US government gets $0.16B less that it can control in social spending. But in return, a regulated non-profit institution gets $1.1B more in its budget.

There's no reason to think the non-profit accomplishes anything or doesn't accomplish negative things. And there is an opportunity cost to the non-profit getting that money rather than, for example, schools.
There's tons of fraud on AirBNB (and increasingly VRBO). We've rentals on both service in the past year try to redirect us to 2nd locations or get us to pay 'damage deposits' on shady third party websites. AirBNB's customer support immediately said 'definitely sounds like a scam' when we reported it, then held our $6k for a month. My wife had to threaten to sue to get them to release it. At no point during that month did AirBNB take down the fraudulent listing (even while the reviews piled up saying that they were redirected to a run down loft instead of the nice house they had rented). VRBO refunded our money in a couple of days when we reported a host trying to get us to pay on a third party site.
Prices pay the cost of inputs.

The inputs of a business are labour, materials, and capital.

A wage pays the support, training, risk, and trust costs of labour.

And if that wage falls below those costs, then labour cannot be sustained.

Given numerous market and power asymmetries, it's often possible to impose lower-than-living wages by shifting risks and costs to labour.

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.

Adam Smith actually writes on this extensively in Wealth of Nations, with insights that remain valid over 240 years later. Which answers your initial question.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26127620

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/

http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/smith-an-inquiry-into-the-...
I actually thought this was a game as I was reading it. In the same vein of Papers Please.

Utterly horrifying.
Bug report: on page load, the play/pause button for the stop lever interaction [0] shows the play icon albeit the animation is already playing.

(The div needs the class 'playing' added, e.g.

<div id="stop_lever_interaction" [...]>
[...]
<div class="play_pause_button playing"></div>
</div>

instead of

<div class="play_pause_button"></div>

)

[0] https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/#stop_lever_interacti...
There were tons of reputable management companies all over a decade ago as well. VRBO was founded in the late 90s.

Literally all of the lodging management sites that take a cut of transaction have this potential issue, and they've all figured out how to deal with it. It's a solved problem.
I don't think I've ever seen a web site where the content was so interesting, but the presentation was so piss poor that the bulk of visitors likely leave without having even read any of this cool stuff.

For the love of god, throw your web site away and start again with some simple, static HTML pages.
>and it's an example of judicial activism, something the conservatives on the court have always claimed they're not doing.

Conservatives on the court only care about "judicial activism" when it favors the left. The Supreme Court redefined the Second Amendment in DC V. Heller and Conservatives never so much as grimaced.

Of course it's judicial activism. Why do you think Trump's list of nominees was picked by the Federalist Society? Trump literally said he would nominate justices to overturn Roe v. Wade back in 2016[0], and that's exactly what's happening.

[0]https://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/19/trump-ill-appoint-supreme-co...
Conflating 1: a person who is knowledgeable enough that raising minimum wage paid in fiat currency does nothing, and 2: not wanting to improve living standards for people who earn less, is quite the jump. Everyone arguing against it has good intentions.

In fact, the reason many people are arguing against a minimum wage increase is because they recognize that is is _always_ regressive against anyone that isn't a Politician trying to buy votes.
Polo also allows drafting players from the stands (If someone goes out injured, you've got 15 minutes to find another player.) and I've seen it happen.
depends on where you live - growing up in New Zealand we don't have a tipping culture, servers will get to you, in your turn, try and demand service and you're cutting against a cultural grain, perceived to be trying to claim you're better, more important, than the other customers, or the server.

I read somewhere that our "obnoxious American tourist" stereotype came from some time in the 60s when rich tourists started flying across the Pacific, showed up and and started demanding service like they did back at home
Cloud computing growth is in no way going to decelerate anytime soon. We have not reached peak cloud.
Steve? I assume you are talking about Steve.

Yeah, that guy had problems.
As someone who worked at IBM for 6 years, I'm fairly sure no one in management above me had to go through that asshole test.
Maybe the DoJ will allow Visa to make another offer with all the comp Plaid is getting
I agree with this, but why is anonymizing this data even important? If it's secure just for you, who cares? Maybe I'm missing something.

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I misunderstood the "review" part, but still. How hard is it to secure the name of the reviewer. I still don't think they need to be truly anonymized.
Perhaps, but that doesn't make the candidate a 'shit person'.
To give some color: there were a large number of (small) insurance companies that were paying less than 50% of their revenues in actual medical payments. In those cases most of the costs were in bonuses to the executives. This was a measure to kill of those (which it did). Now we are left with somehow controlling the excesses on the other side.
Competitive Programmer’s Handbook [pdf]
cardiac stress is a leading cause of death and serious injury among adults. Inflammation of the heart muscle is not a minor thing! The article says (as best as I can read it) that these are side-effects lasting more than 4-6 weeks. There is an information blackout about negative side-effects of vax, and also some heavy-handed enforcement-type situations. I believe this is newsworthy in the USA and elsewhere.
Those examples aren't actually capturing carbon from the atmosphere. They're capturing carbon produced as a byproduct of industrial processes. There's a massive difference when you're already working with concentrated carbon dioxide and when you're trying to capture it from the atmosphere.
why not $250,000?
I really think friends won’t last long, you might change your opinion in the future… I don’t know
So these threads usually have a kind of friedman-esque approach to this question: Minimum wage laws stop people earning at all if they're worth less than the minimum wage.

Maybe this is true for many small businesses, but what proportion of low wage employees in America are working for companies with whom their employees at such pay have basically no negotiating power?

It's all well and good making these often glib approaches to policy, but if we know anything about economics it's that prose does not beat evidence when it comes to seeing what actually works.
The PDF spec is officially available here: http://www.adobe.com/go/pdfreference

There’s also this book which provides a good introduction and overview and is useful for understanding how the format works (although the PDF reference itself is pretty decent too, as far as specs go): https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/developing-with-pdf/978...
(You can find a PDF copy if you look around.)
EDIT: There’s also https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/pdf-explained/978144932... which might be even better.

However, be warned that the PDF format can be quite complex and is not exactly for the faint of heart. It’s best to use an established library to generate PDF output, like PDFBox, iText, PDFSharp, PDFKit, etc. Those tend to have their own tutorials.

For emphasis: Do not generate PDFs “by hand”! You risk inadvertently generating PDFs that do not fully conform to the spec, and not noticing it because PDF readers are quite lenient in what they accept. A lot of PDFs in the wild are not standard-conforming in some way or other, because their generators were not carefully written against the spec, but against “whatever Acrobat Reader accepts”. This is the bane of every software on the receiving end that needs to process PDFs.
I highly recommend this episode of the Huberman Lab podcast about intermittent fasting from a Stanford professor: https://youtu.be/9tRohh0gErM
SecureDrop: Safely And Discreetly Share Information With The Washington Post
Was a part of that job being enjoyable coming from the fact that you weren't interacting with customers? Low pressure, hard to muck up, not dealing with disgruntled and abusive customers, etc.

My wife has talked about enjoying the merchandising aspect of her early jobs for a bakery and winery.
Can anyone explain to me why their DAC is so cheap?
As for libraries, it seems PDFKit is the dominant one.

https://github.com/foliojs/pdfkit

As to why it’s so inaccessible…because Adobe created this monstrosity to do just about everything. Text, fonts, vector graphics, raster graphics, forms, color spaces, JavaScript, encryption, signatures, 3D artwork, video, audio, Flash, and probably more. It’s bonkers as to what it can possibly include, and it was developed during a way different time.
It was also supposed to have Peter Sellers in it, but he twisted his ankle and couldn't do the role.

Slim Pickens was the perfect choice for Maj. Kong; Sellers could not have pulled it off.
Sure, right next to the Hooli phone.
Yep. It's very convient to pretend that we jumped from Apache template-includes to React, but there was a messy time in between where client-side rendering with jQuery was extremely popular.
It's obviously a scale and a balancing act, because you can't be seriously arguing that any increase will force all unskilled labour into unemployment. So I suppose the argument is that some people think it's too low, some too high, and some just about right.
since they are heavily based on existing aggregators, they are limited by the lowest common denominator (if a good chunk of e.g. Yodlee-scraped credit unions only support 180 days, then that's a limiting factor for everyone).

I would expect they will gradually improve and cut out other aggregators and replace with direct connections that have more & better data as they go along.

Or maybe not, because with Oauth they then become at the mercy of the bank that issues the token (banks can revoke tokens or attach individual conditions on what data is accessed and how much).

It's not an easy business to be in.
>that most people have not read their religious texts.

What do you think qualifies you to judge if most Hindus have not read the Rig Veda, most sikhs have not read the Adi Granth, most Muslims have not read the Quran, most jews have not read the Torah, etc for every religion?

I find people take the experience they have with one particular religion around them, and then paint all religious people the same way. It's very strange because it makes no sense, yet even in places with very well read people like HN you see it all the time. I certainly agree there is a lot of polarization in the world right now