skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "living wage leads to inflation" story is right wing fearmongering. Prices don't just magically rise. They rise either because demand exceeds supply, or because monopolists realize they can capture from consumers. There aren't really shortages of the type of food/goods people at the bottom of the economic totem pole (who will benefit from a living wage) purchase. If prices rise due to a living wage, outside of a few corner cases it'll be the result of big business profiteering, which is the real problem that needs to be addressed.
That's by design - SurePost is a last mile USPS delivery service. You get slightly cheaper/ faster service than the traditional USPS methods (because UPS essentially consolidates and forwards the packages to the delivering post office / hub, skipping many of the sort steps a traditional USPS package would take.

If you want a brown UPS truck to deliver your package you have to choose one of their "regular" service, like Ground or one of the air services.
Manhattan is 1/5th of NYC by municipality, and about 1/6th of the city by population. It's historically the wealthiest borough, so it's not particularly surprising that its residents would have a higher-than-average living wage attainment percentage.
Manhattan is not NYC. Most poor people live in the other 4 boroughs. Most wealthy people live in Manhattan (and Brooklyn).
Cesar Alierta wouldn't like your comment.
I've lived in NYC in the past and informally had discounts of 5-15% for services by paying cash, nothing declared, no receipts. Years long relationships with a mechanic or handyman can net some pretty deep discounts if they know you won't be a problem about billing disputes.
>means using definitions of "violence" and "abuse" very different from ordinary English

Incredible how the same critic is never moved against women when engage in the same kind of Newspeak. Let's remember that "speech as violence" was not invented by men.
Yeah like healthcare, emergency funds, basic entertainment, education, food that isn't going to ruin your body, the ability to take medical leave / time off so you don't burn yourself out.

You know.. the hand-wavy stuff.
Yes they should give you a warning to stop or migrate or pay. Companies should be fair to people, Cloudflare and Facebook included.
$0.21 USD/kWh here in Australia.
Do not underestimate that holding the problem in your mimd is part of the solution. You have the answer in your question i believe. I do not see the reason to try to compare to a past you (something that i find myself doing too… mmmh) find the strategies that work for you and stick to them. Good luck to us the old people :)
Not sure if this is a joke, or how you think actual commercial partnerships work.
"winter" implies there's a forthcoming "spring". Parent is suggesting the possibility of a permanent impairment, that crypto may never "recover" to public interest and price levels seen in the last few years.
Not sure you are the author but I don't really think that's what pop culture is considered colloquially. And you're basically just describing any cultural ideas that can be considered "viral." I guess a sufficiently large number of people accepting that viral idea makes it popular but pop culture to me is just music/movies/books etc that are popular.

Basically this piece is just saying "the dominant (read: popular) culture in tech companies is bad" and they all have basically slight variations on this bad culture.
Rather than asking, why not do the math yourself?

Since you want to talk about medians, what is the median take-home pay? What is the median rent? What percent of pay should rent be? What is it actually?
I wonder how this data is meant to be applied. With caveats like rent protections and family size, I'm not sure what this data can be applied too.
Their next story: microwave theft up infinity percent in the last 75 years.
excellent point, thanks. It's added. I mostly prepared the post with the reddit history, that means someone missed the opportunity to inform the broader Lisp community there.

For Maxima, what could be added?
The title is misleading. Yes, a code editor, but for game development. It includes a graphics module, physics and other. For a code editor, it's not minimalist. For a game development code editor, maybe minimalist.
If u re like me and got nerd neck, blood flow to the head could be impaired.

The inside of my mouth feels constantly cold. So I know I got an issue, but appointment is in march.
I'm doubtful, simply because most people wouldn't trust an unrated app which is named using txt speak to handle their wallets. Happy for you to prove me wrong! You only have a handful of reviews in both of the major app stores...
I don't, as I bought one (second hand) before they introduced it, and got the hopefully-for-life subscription included.

Should they change their word on it, I'll be using GDrive to sync, since it's running Linux it is easy to do that anyway. In any case, you can move files via USB only.
Yes, this is my point though. The term has been defined in an ivory tower by people who seek to control other people's lives. The use of the term "Living Wage" is a politically charged word that _implies_ it is a number that is required to be hit, but instead it is some number decided by an institution that would like persuasive numerical proof that their pet policies _must_ be implemented.
Today we'd talk about value objects[1], small objects that represent simple entities whose equality is not based on identity. Some languages include types to represent things other than numbers. Things like Timestamp and Duration. Most modern languages allow defining new types, which can be made immutable (barring language features like reflection that "go through the back door"). For example a Point that has x and y values assigned at creation and unchangeable. Any Point{x,y} is equal to any other Point{x,y} if x and y are the same, so there is no need for identity. In practice, the runtime may keep different instances of points, just as there may be two int values, i, and n, which are equal but stored in different memory locations.

1 https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ValueObject.html
You are 63% of my age (there's a coincidence there, do the math).

A point I haven't yet seen in the comments: how much the advancement of civilization owes to 20-30 somethings. Take The Beatles, Alexander Hamiliton, even Anthony Fauci (who had the rare reprise late in life) as examples. At around 40 I gave up any illusion I might do something illustrious, and accepted that from then on, I would just work for a living. My best work became my children, and I'm happy to have done that.

Many of the other comments line up with my own observations at this sage old age:

* more distractions (my house seems to be aging much faster than me, and taking up much more time to maintain)

* bigger responsibilities (more savings to manage with less time until retirement to fix investment errors, offspring where simple existential needs like food and diapers have been replaced by tuition, aging in-laws with real decline issues like eyesight and bad joints)

* less energy. true, and most especially I can't skip sleep like I could 20 or 40 years ago.

* burnout ( this stuff does get old, and "boring" as noted by one commenter)

* underestimating the value of my experience. Not writing that really clever code when a simpler solution will suffice, for example. The ability to tell people a realistic estimate of work, not my old optimistic "couple of days" estimate that was almost always 10x short

* ADD, not helped by social media (stay off it when working, or always) and a trying to ignore the constant stream of news (except HN of course lol). But a great help in being open to new methods where I find myself evangelizing about git to people half my age.

* exercise, fitness, diet: need to up my game after covid isolation and increasingly creakey joints. It does make a difference. In my case living in The Big Easy doesn't help.

* Did I mention sleep? Why yes I did, forgive my forgetfulness....no, actually I put it here intentionally because it is that important. Exercise helps with getting quality sleep.

I am still writing code and I "provide value" (their words) in that I can solve complex data analysis problems that come to me after co-workers reach the limits of using vlookups and pivot tables in Excel. I'm not the fastest and I'm always fighting imposter syndrome, but that's quashed whenever I catch a glimpse of production code written by pricey consultants and realize they make the same mistakes and use truly ugly workarounds even I wouldn't consider.
An 8% sales tax on food at bodegas is arguably a regressive consumption tax anyway, so I think it's fine consider this legitimate and ethical civil disobedience in response to inhumane living conditions.
Take this with a grain of salt. MIT's Living Wage Calculator for someone in the Manhattan area calls for $7k annual expense for transportation. In Manhattan. So I think they are attempting to make a granular data set out of a course one.

Where the data gets really suspect is how it tries to predict demand for social services. Except we already know this data. New York's SNAP Participation rate is 84%. So we are not expecting to find millions and millions of new people eligible.

To the broader point, MIT's Living Wage Calculator uses an average of costs across the income bracket and does not account for any welfare or social services. I do not think it is an accurate tool other than for course comparisons between regions.

Programs like Title IX, Medicaid, SNAP, etc exist to help make up these differences. And I think these type of studies are kind of belittling these very effective programs by ignoring them.
I assume you aren't suggesting that scientists were wasting time studying how different things can cause us illnesses, and that the first time humans realised a pattern between swimming in sewage and getting sick was where we should have ended research into germ theory?

So I also don't understand why you'd stick your head in the sand and think we shouldn't try to learn more about how things that are known to cause mental health issues actually do cause them, or ways to mitigate it beyond a binary "no more of this wide-reaching concept"?
Have you viewed the map? https://blogs.cornell.edu/livingwage/

Almost all of the red sections are outside of NYC. They don't have access to this NYC underground economy. Though The Bronx and Queens are some of the worst-affected areas, Erie and Rochester come up right behind.

The racial and ethnic slant is also hard to miss. If the NYC underground economy is indeed the only thing keeping minorities afloat, that means the economy is dependent on exploiting minority communities (keeping them working in illegal ventures, preventing upward mobility).

If you select the Finger Lakes region (5 hours away from NYC), and then select Race-Ethnicity, it couldn't be starker. Workers of Color lights up most of the map in red, with a median income of $16.80-$25.00. Select White Worker, and it's very light red and mostly green, centered around the city, with $21.48-$32.49. White people do well and everybody else struggles.
All signs point towards 'sourpuss' being a dedicated troll account. Looking through their submission history it's quite plain how they've peppered their submissions with deliberately inflammatory content, and then never commented on a single one. Not saying that these green accounts are their sockpuppets necessarily, but their account is certainly a lightning-rod for lulz.

Whatever the case may be, submissions like this boil down to drama and personal conjecture rather than intellectual gratification. I'll keep flagging them until their submission quality improves.
This happened to me with kids. I've always been a lazy slob who plays video games in their spare time. By my late 30s I was starting to feel like a bag of garbage.

But when I had kids it forced me to move and do things. Now I feel better in my '40s than I did in my '30s.
The requirements will expand too. The startup is probably not worried about ADA compliance, deep Unicode compatibility, localization (the reason why we need to be good at Unicode), complying with the backup policy, security team review, auditing requirements, immediate compliance with privacy laws in other jurisdictions (e.g., a US startup might ignore EU law right away but the Fortune500 might not want to), especially with regard to personally identifiable information, etc.

You list a lot of perfectly valid "external" things that a Fortune500 company might add, but there's also internal things that it may need immediately that a startup won't.

(The backup policy being a particularly trenchant one, in my opinion. It's not an every day thing, but we've certainly seen several stories over the years on HN of startups basically going "whoops, we accidentally the data, sorry we're shut down now because this is unrecoverable for us".)
> Even if you could magically squeeze higher wages from Walmart profits without destroying the economy

This is a pretty extreme claim to make without evidence.
Manhattan COL _is_ insane.
None of these strike me as an epidemic, just a note that they're made of copper and stolen like other things made of copper. This doesn't look like a serious, decision-changing issue.
If taxes are theft, is it immoral to use tax subsidized goods and services?
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This may sound entirely irrelevant but certain common diseases that usually show up around middle age cause brain fog, which we usually incorrectly diagnose as "aging". Diabetes is one such disease which highly decreases focus and energy on most people. Luckily, once managed, those effects mostly disappear.

In my case, it was allergies. I discovered that I had gluten allergy (mild) since birth that somehow stayed out of my radar for 28 years. Only after age 28, its side-effects became so apparent that I had to take action, only to find out that it was there all the time.
Yes, let’s not spread around some idea that mental ability declines at 40. That’s just ridiculous and not backed by science. It sure is backed by ageism though.
I took Spanish for 7 years and passed all the classes. Countless hours of homework involved every week.

As of my 30s, I can now mostly read warning labels and some of the Spanish manual if I happen to grab the wrong one out of the box. Conversations with a native speaker? No way.

If that wasn’t a complete waste of my time, I don’t know what is.
Isn't this what a cashless society is meant to solve?
It's precisely 0.025 inches.
Is that high? It sounds pretty similar to California.
The living wage calculator is pretty interesting. For example:

1 adult, 0 kids: $22.71
1 adult, 3 kids: $72.20
2 adults, 1 working, 0 kids: $32.13
2 adults, 1 working, 3 kids: $48.98
2 adults, 2 working, 0 kids: $15.53
2 adults, 2 working, 3 kids: $36.47

Considering that the gross wages of two working adults are 2x base wage, or $72.94. This values stay at home at $23.96, the difference between 2a2w3k of $72.94 and 2a1w3k of $48.98. This suggests an efficiency to performing as an home parent of $12.51 or 34% over wages of $36.47! That is a significant cost in order to obtain the benefits of two income such as income source diversity.
Your own article addresses this: NYC (correctly!) counts students as homeless even if they're living long-term with other families or in family shelters, of which the city has many.

"100,000 homeless children" does not mean "100,000 street urchins." It means that many of the people who make up NYC's informal economy have living situations that the city (again, correctly) classifies as unstable, or who are dependent on the city for stable housing.
You would be surprised at how often people with no experience try to build a physical mass market product that nothing more than an RPi in a box. And they often go under because the BOM is too high and the software is garbage.
Lots of good advice in this post. I have just one addition: get a mental math app. Practice each day, this seems to help for some reason, possibly because it relies on using your working memory.
Not necessarily poor people, but something like half of the world's workforce is "informal." Not formally recorded. The on-the-books view is way different than the total view.
That's retro fashion.

I doubt that most wearers think the Casio is the superior watch compared to nowadays smartwatches
first do these: zone 2 & 3 aerobic exercise, meditation
than add these: lions mane, rosemary, common sage tea
if adventurous these too: semax, pigs / lamb brains
Probably because Minecrafts model is still mostly as "free" as it was 12 years ago; you pay the one-time upfront fee and after that Mojang/Microsoft gets out of your way and just lets you play and permits you to both let your creativity run loose and see what your friends can come up with.

Roblox by contrary runs on what amounts to a "financialize every individual interaction" model. That just becomes tiring for children after a while.

Kids are encouraged to spend as much money as possible on lots of bite-sized microgames, all existing on the "Roblox" platform, whilst being encouraged to use Roblox' own (proprietary black box, not reusable outside of Roblox btw) microgame creator to create more games, which they will alledgedly get paid for by the other kids buying those games and it can "be paid out in real money". That sounds got on paper, but in practice it's basically company scrip[0], since Roblox already takes a cut out of every internal currency purchase of a microgame, but once you try to convert it to real cash, you need to have an absurd amount of profit from your microgames first and they take *another cut* when you try to pay out. It's a model basically designed to keep every dollar converted to robux as robux.

At some point either mommy catches on that their kid is spending an awful lot of money on Robux/the kid gets frustrated that they're not getting their actual payouts because they want to say, buy a real world thing that you can't get with Robux and gets hit with the "earn 1k$ worth in Robux or we don't pay out" wall.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
I hear this a lot. I'm inclined to share the sentiment for the young student going to NYU, the intern at a museum/art gallery, or the actor waiting tables while auditioning and doing off broadway. They made a choice, and clearly think the city can offer them enough to deal with poverty and desperation.

I'm less inclined to share the sentiment about people that were born and raised in NYC and have their entire social network there. They had less choice in the matter, and they might be even more desperate if they lost connection with their social support group. In addition, many people born and raised in NYC are missing skills that would be considered essential almost anywhere else in the US, such as how to drive a car.

Regardless of how/why someone arrived in NYC, the prosperity of it's population is a direct concern of cities. The income of it's tax payers directly correlates to a city's tax base, and we've seen what happens when a city's tax income falls short of projections. Poverty and desperation also seem to go hand in hand with expensive problems (for the city) such as crime and poor public health.
Could it be just fatigue? Do you sleep well?

My wife got diagnosed at 42 with sleep apnea, with no prevalent cause (she's not overweight, does not smoke, etc). Turns out it's just her brain that sends the wrong signals to her breathing when she sleeps. It was life changing. She always felt tired and felt like she could not do her job properly. She got a CPAP machine and now she's feeling better than ever.
In this occurrence, I couldn't measure the benefits of that specific element of culture.

It may have been silent and powerful, I'll spare you the extra comment ;)
While you're correct, and I do account for this in my statement, most studies on the topic found that people refuse to move not due to financial reasons but due to social support systems, primarily family or cultural connections. Something that's not entirely unique, but relatively uncommon in the US, is large cultural and ethnic enclaves in cities, New York City happens to be home to largest number of these, and therefore many people grow up in New York City ingrained into a culture that ties into their ethnicity, and the city itself, in a way which they would not find anywhere else in the US if they moved. Leaving this and family behind to leave the city is considered untenable by many people, especially in cultures that emphasize family connections and multi-generational households as the norm.

These emotional draws are much more meaningful and significant causes for why people don't move than whether or not they can afford the U-Haul one time.
Why not go to a doctor/psych and start getting some blood work done to see if it's a brain fog, mental health or xyz thing? It sounds like you feel like you're loosing your working memory that you had previously, so why not see if good mental health, diet, exercise and professional insight might have. Worst case there you get healthier over all likely increased life expectancy but you're out some time/money

I don't know if this would help, but I'm in my later 20's. I didn't actually know how much my mental health played into how I performed, cause I felt fine. I went to a therapist it turns out I've been *redlining* anxiety most of my life I just got used to constantly operating at that level, and I was wondering why I wasn't getting the performance I thought I could give when doing fun non-stressful environments. It just snuck up and built up over years and that became a normal for me.
Suppliers lobby to limit the amount of housing being built. Suppliers build luxury apartment buildings which are out of reach for lower-income residents, further limiting supply in the lower band of the housing market. Surely the suppliers share a large part of the blame here.
You explained it very well, and “The Book” looks interesting.

But… Apart from being nice to look at, a (very big) bookshelf is such a waste of space I wish there where something in between a real book and an ebook.
>Last year around February, I found myself having to pay contractors for various services that they provided me as I completed my new home. An occurring question that kept coming up with each conversation was - how do you want me to pay you or do you have “X” payment app on your phone that I can send the cash to?

This is a great application for a form of payment called a Check, or Cheque. It works with all banks as long as they're inside the same country, provides a durable receipt, and can be traced, cancelled and re-issued. All the contractors I've ever dealt with accept them, usually on the same terms as cash.
Love the story! At one point, you are asking about the purpose of the giant hole in the backside of the display: The most plausible explanation is that, it is to allow air circulation within the device to prevent overheating.
There are plenty of tariffs that offer cheaper home charging than that. I get 6 hours of 7.5p/kWh. On a 7kW charger that's enough for a 0-80% charge every night.
The high price office chairs often have a lot more adjustments so they can be a good fit to more people. And they're durable and available. There's value in being able to buy the same chair multiple times for your whole career (if you like it).

Of course, just because a chair has some good qualities doesn't mean it's right for you. Lots of people love chairs I hate, etc.

If you don't want to pay for a fancy chair, your options are really look out for used office equipment dealers, or try a bunch of lower priced chairs in a retail office store and see if one happens to be a good fit; they won't adjust in the right ways if not, but if it fits, you sits.
Really cool man! I think a nice feature could be search chords by scale (so I click C major scale and then I get all the chords + variations in C Major).
Having some friends in such countries (Argentina), my anecdotal reports are that they end up holding dollars rather than crypto.