skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would anyone still build it manually? Tokidoki automates all of that, and all you have to do configure your .toki bundles after you've installed the right SpaghettiWare layer for your architecture and connect it with either Tutti or Frutti. Easy peasy lemon squeezy! Oh that reminds me you do need Squeezy running in the background.
Hopefully some of it will be caught by the IRS now that they're finally at least close to being adequately funded -- assuming the "conservatives" don't succeed in their fight against reduced deficits and tough-on-crime policies.
Doesn't "slowly forced" imply lack of agency?
Same, i went from 220 to 195 since the beginning of October.
A side but related question: when can we use Python to extend VSCode? Really don't want to learn JS/TS.
is it? I clicked the Play Store link on their website and it goes to a 404
This is interesting. I feel that I live pretty comfortably. I went to the Living Wage Calculator, picked my state and county. I have more children than 3. It looks like it's about five dollars an hour per child. With that I don't make a living wage. My food and housing expenses are a bit more than they list. The others are pretty close (depends on the year, but they might average out). Interesting.
They tax property at a higher rate. If you rent, your rent includes the taxes. You pay either way, the specific tax structure doesn't make a huge impact. If the city provides services, you're paying for them.
COVID? If so take it easy, it will get better over time. If not, ask older family members if they experienced the same thing.
> if Walmart didn't employ these people, then taxpayers then they would be required to be subsidized by the taxpayer even more

Or Walmart could pay them a living wage directly, and just lower it's profits a little. That's how it works in every other developed country on the planet. Even Australia with it's $21.38 minimum wage and healthcare for all has only 3.5% unemployment [1]

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/unemployment-rate
I have to chuckle a bit each time I read about “living wages” and such in the developed world, having spent my years from 18-24 on an equivalent of about 250$/month in Eastern Europe. And yes, I also had to pay my rent from that money (which consumed about 60% of that). I would have considered myself rich if I traded places with those Americans living below the “living wage”, so it’s hard to muster much empathy for their living conditions. And I can’t be the only one as Eastern Europe is still much richer than most of the world.
Ask HN: What made programming “click” for you?
How did programming become one of those things that let you enter a flow state? Was it some concept or mental model related to a style of programming or doing lots of projects?
> Many (most?) "poor" people work full-time jobs, but the pay from those jobs is simply inadequate to cover basic living expenses without drawing on external resources.

You hear this a lot, but I haven't seen any data that support it. According to census data, among "householders" (presumable the head of a given household) in the bottom quintile, 68% do not work, 13% work part time, and only 18% work full time. 62% of households in the bottom quintile have zero workers in the home.[0] In both the bottom and second-lowest quintile, the mean number of earners per household is less than 1!

[0] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/explaining-income-inequality-...
At least Fast and Slow had half a dozen concepts. Well, imagine that Noise is also book sized, but only has one concept to present.
And yet SUV/Pickup is the most popular category of vehicles in the USA
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I think it's easy to mistake the concept of fads within technology with the application of arguably necessary abstractions. Most of what is new and faddish is just another abstraction around some (probably, relatively) archaic system.
The abstraction is the new thing, not the technology or the language that it's written in.
Is this a misleading/attention grabbing headline, or does TFA just do a poor job of describing the data? Based on some quick googling about 29% of the NY population is age 21 or younger, and 13% is 65 or older. That's 42% of the population that I wouldn't really expect to be earning a living wage. You still end up with a third of working age adults who aren't making a living wage (~60% of the population is working age, ~40% of the population makes a living wage). At first glance that still seems like a shocking number, but if you start thinking about the numbers of stay at home parents, people on disability, part time workers, etc. it has to trim the number down quite a bit. What really seems to be missing is intent, i.e. how many people are working in a job where they don't really expect a living wage?
The Importance of Values: How Values Shape Who We Are
Apple now has 900M subscribers across their services
You work for someone and they pay you in cash. No banks or the IRS are notified. So you don't pay any taxes, but you also can't easily spend your money.

I know throughout much of Europe it also happens to pay some construction workers in cash. This removes the tax man, the construction worker makes more money, and the boss doesn't have to deal with as many regulations.
Some taxes are. Taxation is the only methodology to manage large modern populations, that are not effectively self-sufficient.
I interviewed with them. It was quite peculiar. I asked them how they were going to manage the extreme planned growth rate and no one had an answer. That was in late May.

(They didn't offer me a position for a given reason that was also weird. Strange place.)
Buzz Aldrin: Without Walt Cunningham, there would be no moon landing
Is it possible, maybe, that it's not "some stupid people" with "much importance" - but actually the average person doesn't want technology to vocally support neo-nazis?

To be honest I don't really care either way (at least in this case), but I see people making this argument always act like it's a few elites ruining the world and it's impossible that the average person doesn't 100% agree with them.
If taken at face value, doesn't this imply that the remaining 60% of New Yorkers not earning a living wage are either living in poverty, or on their way there? That can't be right.

Seems like there's data missing from this calculation. Or gross oversimplification for the sake of clickbaity ideological articles.
It's so crazy how socialism keeps failing people. Totally unpredictable.
There’s some history here people are missing.

Back in the day we used cutesy names for boxes, and we did it for good reason:

Back then, before cloud services, when you were building out an application, you would build one computer, load it up with some services, and then when that one started performing poorly you’d add another computer and move some of the services off.

You would frequently rebalance which services went on which box, in order to maximize performance.

But these boxes weren’t services themselves, they were just the machine some set of services happened to run on.

So we gave them cute names because the hardware was largely meaningless. They had no inherent purpose, so we named them Athena, Zeus, etc so we had something to remember.

These names were largely not used for the services. Maybe you did have your FTP service on Athena, and maybe that was the only service on there. You still served it from ftp.techdazzle.com or whatever.

I feel like people just ported this concept forward into the microservices realm because it’s fun, even though it doesn’t really make as much sense in a cloud environment.
Does that factor in the cost of replacing the battery system every so many years?

I've only looked at two wheelers i.e. electric scooters and the replacement cost of the battery pack is 40% of the cost of the vehicle, every three years.
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As I age (going to be 59 soon) my programming abilities just increase (along with my waistline, unfortunately). I even went back to school and finally got my master's degree in 2016. So, maybe see a doctor? There might be a legitimate medical issue.
This is just spam. It provides no value in the form of describing how you got the 50k users and is basically just an ad. Flagged.
3. The vast majority of the people living in New York City are in absolutely dire circumstances but somehow won't leave to literally any other city in the US where they would immediately earn more relative to the cost of living.

To this last point, moving has costs. At minimum transport costs (fuel, bus ticket, whatever). If they have some furniture worth taking, they need a U-Haul.

People might not have the small amount of cash/credit required to move across the country. Staying in poverty in NYC might be their only option.
That's for the country, we are discussing ny
Came here to say much the same. I'm older (51), and have felt I was losing my ability to think over the last few years, and also to express myself clearly in conversation. But a great deal of this is to do with a number of huge problems that have happened with my step-children and the near-constant onslaught of having to deal with a variety of agencies and not just run off into the sunset. Plus I decided I could self-build an extension to my home.

It may well be that the OP has other load that has crept up on him; until you take a step back it's often difficult to see what's happened over a period of years.

But burnout is a thing, and sometimes you need to take stock, take a break, and maybe even make some big changes. You're only here once, so it's a good idea to give it your best shot, IMO.

As far as anyone can tell.
I don't quite understand the corking documentation. Is this like TCP_CORK? A buffered/batch send? Can anyone point me to details?

https://docs.socketify.dev/corking.html

https://baus.net/on-tcp_cork/
Talking about cross-platform toolkits, there is no “best of the best” technology. Business requirements are first, technology will follow.

In this article, I’ll explain how React Native works to give you an understanding of whether it is the right choice for your software product. By describing the pros, cons, and capabilities of React Native, I’ll reveal nuances of this technology that we faced during cross-platform app development.
You're right! I went ahead and edited it to hem closer to my original intent.

I totally agree that NY has a significant (income:cost of living) problem.

My main objective was to draw attention to the difficulties in measuring the size and distribution of this problem, caused by the unmeasured informal economy and unbalanced access thereto.

I definitely don't think that the informal economy makes up for low reported wages, but it definitely is a ballast that we'd be better off understanding, given its scope and entrenchment.
It's a hard problem. The flip side is, there's gotta be a way to talk about problems that exist today even if they're less severe than the ones in the past. When we talk about "medical malpractice" today, the bad treatment is typically much better than what you would have gotten 100 years ago, but I don't think that proves it's a bad term.
Industries evolve. In this case Cloud probably killed them. They failed to adapt when a new innovation came along.

This can happen for multiple reasons, but mainly because incumbents are at a disadvantage in the face of radical innovation since they not only have to learn the new tech, but unlearn the old.

Some companies also double down in the face of new tech and keep improving their obviously inferior product. E.g. when refrigeration was invented, companies that shipped ice from the arctic focussed on shipping it faster instead of accepting the inevitable and pivoting while they had resources to do so.
People mentioned already how the overload, responsibilities and distractions that only multiply with age make it difficult to allocate sufficient energy and focus to get a strenuous mental task done. This is much easier when younger. I recall spending long stretches of time reading e.g., a book front-to-back. I don't think the reason I am not doing this anymore is due to declining mental ability. During the pandemic on occasion this has happened again :-)

One simple trick that works for me sometimes is to create a "clean room" for the brain: e.g. change work environment and/or isolate for a fixed period pushing all other deadlines further out. Remove the external pressure and allow time to get into flow.

Ofcourse it might be that what you have to do is materially more difficult than previous tasks you handled. Using mental support tools (notes, diagrams etc) might bring it back within reach.
Which part do you live in? This was the norm in the neighborhood I grew up in (north of UWS), as well as everywhere I've lived (Harlem, north Brooklyn).

I wouldn't expect it to be the norm in areas where the foot traffic might pay credit cards by default; I think it's mostly in areas where cash business comes first anyways.

Edit: I wish people wouldn't downvote you. It's a massive city, and it's entirely possible to never experience this!
Why be cynical and jump to negative conclusions when you can look it up? “Living Wage” was designed to be a term that helps people understand that the legal “minimum wage” is not enough for people to reasonably live on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage

Given the goal, the name seems pretty descriptive, so what term would be much more descriptive?

It’s fair to say this framing has an emotional component. This is perhaps a reaction to the calculatedly emotion-free arguments being used to keep the minimum wage so low that people are going hungry and homeless at increasing rates.
Lovely tool! Suggestion: colorized keys should be off by default as some colours are difficult to distinguish if active or not eg those against yellow keys.
Agree unless you are talking about the living wage for a single parent. Then you need to pay for daycare, might need a two bedroom, a car, etc.
Nice, this will be a great reference for me as I'm learning all my chords. I built a little app the other day to help me practice the chords, you might like it. https://chords.adammenz.com/
Doubtful you are declining mentally but should speak to your doctor if concerned. For me at 43 I noticed that my ability to focus has declined. I have so many things competing for my attention that I can't focus on anything. Essentially context switching is killing my ability to get things done. Too many people at work constantly pinging me. Im in a strange position at work where so many random projects are dumped on me, usually all of them are handed to me behind schedule. I have a report I have to generate each week that takes a full day to create. I have a team of contract developers I lead that are just not very good. All day long I get pinged on email, teams, and slack. I start the day with ~15 emails from offshore teams. Constant meetings. Plus my kids get home at 2 from school. Context switching has completely burned me out. I feel guilty ignoring my family and working late but I think I am really going to have to work until at least 7 several times a week just to stay ahead. That or start working from 5am to 6:30am to get a jump on work before my kids get up.
"living wage" is always a strange term to me, it's a very wheezily term - just say how much it is.

Just for reference, here is the "calculator" (I can't validate it's reasonable): https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/35620

To put it in perspective, everyone is dramatically above the poverty line here. Living wage is >2x the poverty line. You can get food, clothes, entertainment, etc. in a "living wage".

To me, if this is true, people should leave. Move where you get more bang-for-your-buck. As that happens, the wages will be forced to increase and prices will come down.

Fundamentally, if people are fine living in New York with those wages, who are we to stop them? If they want to move to have a higher quality of life in some suburb, that's fine (quality of life being: more stuff, cheaper, not in a smelly city, more disposable income)
This is just one of the many reasons why I don't think I'm as concerned about AI models as people around me are, either for art, text, or coding.

These technologies today are highly subsidized because the people making them want to create a lot of buzz. Yes, as they mature they're going to get better; but I also suspect they're going to become more limited, harder to use, more narrowly targeted, and more expensive to access.

In general, we rarely use new technology to its full potential, because doing so usually closes off commercial opportunities to exploit that technology. The norm is that new technologies are used to a fraction of their capabilities on the market, and are often locked down and purposefully hindered in order to protect market segments that are built around exploiting those technologies. See the ebook market and voice assistants, just off the top of my head.

Given that so much of this AI training/hosting is happening serverside where access controls are easy to add and where AI as a service is the most obvious monetization model, I would not be surprised at all to see AI go in the same direction.

I'm not sure what will happen with ChatGPT -- this is not a prediction of what I think will definitely happen. But I don't think it's impossible that ChatGPT transitions to focusing specifically on being a platform for other businesses, even if that limits its flexibility and the range of content it can produce, and even if that means it gets priced primarily for large businesses rather than for indies/startups.
Short summary: "Making diagrams with a GUI didn't feel hard enough, so I do it with Haskell instead because Serious Computer Science"
Humans are not ideal gas particles bouncing around in a frictionless canister. Aggregate unemployment rate says very little about the difficulty of finding stable work that pays enough to support a small family, or of the high switching costs involved generally with changing jobs.
Most if not all the slower chargers I know of are at or above the domestic capped rate of £0.34/kWh. Sadly the days of a free charge seem to have gone (but were good when they lasted, thanks Tesco!)
1) I used to feel that way and then I tested myself against my younger self and was as good as ever. A lot of this could be 'in your head' pun intended.

2) Oxygen: past 30 if you do not exercises or do cardio you will probably pay a price. Everyone is different. 30 mins running will make you feel 10 years younger.

3) You may have more perspective and more distractions. In my 20's I didn't even read the news. Who cares? Now, I 'care' about all of those 'issues' and I'm constantly engaging my mind with those materials and it's a distraction. Even children, colleagues, other responsibilities - those wear on your focus. 'Young me' could just sit there and work and literally not give a thought to anything else! That's a luxury. If you can create a silent work environment without distractions maybe that might help.
>Men are continually trying to paint sexism as symmetric

Exactly, considering that in almost every societal metric that matters men do worse than women sexism against men is much worse, nothing symmetric.
Supplement vitamins B1, B2 and B3. You might have hit a common deficiency presenting itself after 35+. Your neurons/glial cells need a support.
Always happy to see new source code editors.

> Lightweight multi-platform C++ code editor designed for modern hardware

Maybe change this description. At first blush, I thought this was a "C++ code editor" rather than an "editor written in C++".

My favourite languages, Java and SQL, are not in the supported languages list but hopefully support can be added with LSP.
Diesel emissions are not particularly good for one’s health.

https://www.epa.gov/dera/learn-about-impacts-diesel-exhaust-...
Manhattan is only one of five boroughs of NYC, and it's the wealthiest of the five.
> if Walmart didn't employ these people

Walmart earns $13k of profit across each of their 2m employees. One could make the argument that if Walmart had to pay each employee an extra (say) $3k annually [1], management would instead choose to shut the whole thing down and return capital to the shareholders, which would be a choice available to them. But I don't find that argument compelling in the slightest, and Walmart does not have any compelling IP that would preclude letting management shut it down and have the likes of Target/Kroger fill the gap in the market.

1 - an additional $3k annually would be transformative to the life of the average Walmart employee.
Ask HN: What's behind “I was checking your website on behalf of this email”?
Over the last few months this type of spam has exploded in my inbox: messages that begin with "I was checking your website on behalf of this email". I presume it could be the latest form a spam that is momentarily effective. It's also not untrue, by virtue of being meaningless (and a little deceptive).

In the last 2 days I've received ~30 spam emails (that beat my spam filters), ~90% of which began with that message
That's on you, it happens quite often :)
What do you think about people deliberately making models based on an artists artwork (SamDoesArt) in order to deliberately copy their work and antagonize them? They've explicitly said that is their motivation too.
Don't you think it is chaos already? I mean there's literally two murders a day and 100k homeless ppl
A big one is people are probably living in higher densities than the data assumes, eg the housing budget for a living wage assumes 1 single adult will live alone in a studio. In my younger years, I knew a lot of people who were sleeping like 3+ adults in a 1 bedroom in NYC, which obviously not ideal but people make it work if they don't have the money:

"The FMR (HUD Fair Market Rents) estimates include utility costs and vary depending on the number of bedrooms in each unit, from zero to four bedrooms. We assumed that a one adult family would rent a single occupancy unit (zero bedrooms) for an individual adult household, that a two adult family would rent a one bedroom apartment, and that two adult and one or two child families would rent a two bedroom apartment. We further assumed that families with three children would rent a three bedroom apartment (the adults are allocated one bedroom and the children two bedrooms)."

https://livingwage.mit.edu/resources/Living-Wage-Users-Guide...
4k for transportation seems like a lot for a single adult in New York.
Yes, tech companies are building an image of pop cultures, but they are not. For example, layoffs are never "mimicking" what other companies are doing. Pop culture people may think it is, but business people -- who tech CEOs really are -- always tries to make the right decisions.
I believe the main article ends at the "Share" button, then there's a separate ad or section about the educational models.
Ok fine :)

Go read “The HP Way” by Dave Packard. It was standard procedure for HP to hire promising engineers from Flyover State U and take the best and send them to Stanford for an MBA. This worked really, really well. Until it didn’t.
I haven't dug into the methodology, but for example, a lot of apartments in NYC are rent stabilized. There is universal preK. Many receive Medicaid. Also, did they check whether the household has a living wage or just each of its working age inhabitants?

I'm not defending these mitigating factors as a good solution to people's money problems in NYC, but like you say, "living wage" is a fraught term that conjures up vague and charged imagery inappropriate for a rigorous analysis.
US Federal agency weighs nationwide ban on gas stoves
This made me think of Chumby
How do you comment on more than 100 thousand homeless children in NYC? Are they also a part of some cash scheme?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/nyregion/nyc-homeless-stu...