skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Why are the jobs "low value"'

Could be several different reasons that all boil down to supply/demand and leverage.

In the article, it's claimed that many businesses can't afford to pay more, which is fairly believable for small businesses and for industries with global price pressures. The workers can't find better jobs, so they take whatever they can get.

"why don't those who do them deserve to make ends meet?"

They do, but society can't get it together to balance interests in a way that works for everyone (if that's even possible). Also, $15/hr should be fairly doable in a rural area.
Maybe he meant

class Point {
has $x = 0;
has $y = 0;

sub clear {
$x = $y = 0;
}
}

At least that's how I implemented it in the future perl, called cperl. Designed with perl6.
His perl cannot have array or hash fields, and his fields are still hash keys. Wtf
There are plenty of workers at tech companies that are extremely vulnerable. It's an absolute myth that startups employ only 6-figure salary earning tech employees.

Regardless, you're not replying to a thread where anyone claimed that the government should bail anyone out. You're replying to a thread where I mentioned that taxpayers are going to foot this bill one way or another. Either because the government does bail out the bank, or because regular taxpayers lose their jobs in the fallout.
I looked up "why would a startup choose svb" and found that the reasons are those which could be fulfilled in a myriad ways:

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/silicon-valley-bank-served...

There was nothing especially "startuppy" about their traditional banking services.
> the BoE said: “SVB UK has a limited presence in the UK and no critical functions supporting the financial system. In the interim, the firm will stop making payments or accepting deposits.” SVB UK confirmed it would be put into insolvency from this Sunday evening (tomorrow).

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/11/svb-contagion-uk-arm-shuts...
Can someone explain the significance of the "#EXTM3U" content? I only know .m3u as an extension for an MP3 playlist.
Really? That's what you thought gp was objecting to? Not the fact that the work is low-value and dead-end? Not the forced overtime? Not the parents subsidizing an exploitative industry? You thought this was about seeing chickens on hooks?
>there is however an altitude where generating enough lift to sustain flight would require going so fast that you're already in orbit

or you could increase the size of the wings?
This policy is to suppress wages and legitimize migrant child labor at and after detention.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-texas-town-52386513

Just imagine, not only could you lose your job for running afoul of a temperamental man child, but your family could be made homeless too!
Just saw on your profile that you were a senior research engineer at DeepMind. That might be why you’re getting showered with offers and not necessarily the state of the job market for ML.
SVB UK was just placed into an insolvency procedure by the Bank of England, so I guess they were not as separate as they thought.

(https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2023/march/boe-statemen...)
I wondered why I couldn't keep my swimming regime, despite generally liking this sort of activity.

The only time I have some space is during winter, when few people use the outdoor pool and that is still a 20x10m rectangle, where I have to swim in circles like some captive orca.
While we're at it, let's save people of color by making them slaves. Hey, if they're flirting with drugs and dealing with poor social support, then this is a lifeline!

An illustration of how this completely bogus argument a societal race to the bottom.

We cannot bandage serious social issues with more serious social issues. Masquerading this degree of child labor as being a lifeline is tone deaf and short sighted at best, but teetering on amoral and vile.
> Is it such a strange idea that there are as many people who are naturally thin as there are that are naturally fat? [...] Why should they feel bad about their body?

Because naturally thin people, and the opposite case, are outliers.

There are very few people, especially in the 40s, that can eat a lot and still remain thin.
> If you’re comfortable with eating meat you should be comfortable with seeing how it’s made.

Pretty sure that can get covered by a field trip , or even a video.
Yes. BMI is your weight divided by height squared. Which is really weird when you consider that humans are 3D objects! So you should naturally expect that a taller person will have a higher BMI than a shorter person even with the exact same proportions. In practice humans who are taller tend to be skinnier so we'd ideally use something close to the 2.5th power but that math would have been impractical for the 19th century clerks who were the first consumers of BMI information.
Depression detection from your social media traces
none? is this a jab?
A full moon is what, 1/250 sec of a shutter speed? 250 mm on a DX sensor gets you to 370 mm, so yes, 1/250th is a tadvslow to handhold. One of the reasons I like heavier camera bodies, I get a lot less movement blur with those.

Agree on the camer-faking-pictures bit, who wants that?
I probably can't explain it better than Randall Wray from whom I got the information, in this lecture:

https://youtu.be/gI86w6bSmS0?t=445
Not sure if this is a joke, but this is already planned.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/09/tech/elon-musk-texas-town...
RE: playing Youtube audio on mobile browser tabs

> That's typically a YouTube Premium feature, but with Vivaldi, you don't need to pay for it. It's up to you whether that's an ethical violation, but companies will understandably take issue with that and attempt to protect their revenue sources, and sometimes that may be through unfair means.

Has there been a change to the ToS in Youtube with reference to this? Desktop Youtube has always had this, and it has worked on Firefox Android off and on. What is the ethical dilemma?
I wrote a small Python script that automatically downloads a song from the active Firefox tab (usually a Youtube), fills in the ID3 fields of the resulting file using acoustid, and saves it in the correct folder according to the genre of the song.
Nothing wrong with it--whatever that term has come to mean exactly. But, as many SV companies have found out over the years as VC subsidies have dried up, there are a ton of services people want but only so much money most people will pay for them.

Pick up and drop off laundry? Sign me up! For $50? Umm. Maybe I'll pass.

Of course you see this effect where middle class people in developing countries have far more full-time help than all but the wealthiest do in the US and Western Europe.

I suspect that in the coming years, we'll see far more self-service, automation, and some services that are pretty commonplace today becoming much more of a luxury.
You can see the videos on tiktok. Each individual meal is actually pretty reasonable, but each one should be the main meal of the day. Having several per day (plus high calorie but healthy snacks such as nuts) is what cause the problem.
- Better errors

- Native support for JSON, etc (no more ConvertFrom-* ConvertTo-*)

- Less verbose

- Different visualisation
One thing I don’t get. People are making a few claims:

1) anything beyond 250k is a known risk, you should’ve spread the money around.

2) why should tax payers be on the hook for more than the 250k amount? The companies took the risk and lost.

But if everyone spread their money around and kept each account less than 250k. Then in effect isn’t everyone insured for everything anyways?

Imagine there is a service that seamlessly took your total amount and spread it between various accounts for you to keep each account balance less than 250k. Now the totality of bank deposits are in effect all 100% insured. How is this now different from insuring all deposits regardless of size besides adding a middleman?
Cash strapped 30 year olds are most likely to engage when engagement means no longer being cash strapped.

To resolve that, the 60yo+ generation now controlling 80% of the wealth will need to part with that wealth to incentivize the following generation to maintain their standard of living.

It turned out that when pressured with indefinite hand-to-mouth conditions, people found other ways to checkout of the economy, even if it meant living in the woods.
I have a script listed in package.json for my site. Often I don't really care about commit messages here, not because I don't find them valuable, but because so often its from editing and publishing articles. I don't really want to think of messages all the time so often end up typing random crap.

I use this now:

import { execSync } from 'child_process';

execSync('git add -A');

const modifiedFiles = execSync('git status --porcelain')
.toString()
.trim()
.split('\n')
.map((line) => line.replace(/^\s*[MADRCU?!]{1,2}\s+/, ''));

const fileList = modifiedFiles.join(', ');
const commitMessage = `Change: ${fileList}`;

execSync(`git commit -am '${commitMessage}'`);

"changes:summary": "tsx ./tools/changes-summary.ts",
Without the run there is a decent chance that the bank would have been able to complete its stock offering, recapitalize, and remain in operations despite past mismanagement. So while information about the mismanagement is what caused observers to trigger a run on the bank, it was the run itself that did it in.

Now there is risk of contagion where better managed regional banks are also at risk of suffering runs on the bank.
None of this matters when it comes to pure weight. You can eat the most healthy diet in the world and still be massively obese.

On the other hand I have successfully lost 100 lbs in 6 months in the past, while eating fast food daily.

I won't discuss the "healthiness" aspect of it, but losing weight is ONLY a matter of calories.
> The issue is it wasn't pension money. It was VC money...

You're going to shit yourself when you learn who some of the LPs are.
A law prohibiting new housing is different than groups fighting specific projects. For the most part people are fine with housing projects...as long as they are in someone else's neighborhood. That's how we end up with the vast majority of people being against a law prohibiting new housing and then also NIMBYing every new housing project.
I was with you until the rant about taxes and regulations. I was under the impression that child labor laws are a form of regulation and that loosening these laws would be a form of deregulation.
> Pretending that changing the definition makes a difference is childish.

Right or wrong sometimes your own maturity gets called into question by the words you use and how you treat others who disagree.
Interesting thought, treating your debt like a bond.

If you no longer need the debt, i.e. you have the cash to pay it back, you could _theoretically_ loan out that cash to someone else at the higher current market interest rate. Loaning money involves credit risk of course, so practically this would mean buying something like higher interest paying Treasuries or AAA bonds. Effectively, the spread between your borrowed fixed rate debt and the bonds you bought are the _profit_ you make, the NetPresentValue of which is roughly what you would get if you could "buy back" the debt.
That's an appalling take. These kids won't be installing wifi routers in cafes.
Brex isn't a bank. They partner with a dozen or so banks including JPMorgan (https://www.brex.com/legal/brex-cash-partner-banks).

And, it's clear keeping out of the news was not their strategy this weekend bc the CEO has voluntarily been making public statements in a successful attempt to drive account signups.
You are arguing from the perspective that the mark to market is correct and perfectly or nearly perfectly knowable when that is not the case pretty much all the time. This bank was solvent according to the regulators until the day or a few days before it was taken over and yet could not find a buyer or raise capital. Why was that? It is because the accounting allowed to determine solvency allows hold to maturity and no marking to market on nearly perfectly knowable assets like MBS and this bank held a significant portion of its assets as loans to startups and warrants in same startups that are all basically valued on hopes and dreams and swing in value by a huge margin on market sentiment changes without necessarily changing the value they have to be marked at on the bank's books. I agree in the finance nerd sense there is a large difference, but for practical purposes for the average depositor there isn't really any difference.
> But this is their house catching on fire and all of their money just vanishing through no fault of their own.

Inquiry into bank finances, diversification across banks, etc., are all available options. Maintaining large uninsured balances at a single bank without doing those things (or doing the first, but not taking appropriate actions thereafter) is a choice.

I am not opposed to reasonable government action to mitigate ripple-effect harms given the externalities, but the idea that the startups involved have no responsibility here is misguided.
Do you think Cuban and Tan’s tweets would’ve been more well received if they had instead stressed swift movement on FDIC assisting depositors in obtaining immediate cash liquidity to meet short term obligations with the understanding that the industry (companies and investors collectively) would likely eat any deposit shortfall (versus “the sky is falling! Bailouts pls!”)? TLDR More humility and less demanding.
Good, but I expect to see much less techno-libertarianism on this forum as a result.
Twitter will last longer than CNN.
Ah, of course. But I dis find it a bit regretful, the project sounded cool and there was some Kafka involved at a time that it wasn’t as hyped/established as it is today. But no, it wasn’t worth such a crazy commute, just to have bad coffee together
Just like the Hackernews prescription for individual health issues is fasting, the Hackernews prescription for large-scale public health issues is government regulation.

Apply liberally. Start implementing Pigovian taxes on sugary foods. Monitor and punish companies that use added sugar in foods that don't need it. Shut down the Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo.
wonder if stripe is capable of bidding. Would be strategic for them if they could make this work i bet
Nice one, thank you!
Next gen: you go to a music concert and take some crappy photos - low light, far from scene. AI recognizes the artist and downloads artist's most recent high-res stock pictures from GettyImages, has a general model of how a scene is setup, lights, lasers, and re-synthesizes your photo into something with the production quality of a movie concert scene.

In a movie it also resamples the clipped audio with the actual song ran though a "live concert" audio filter, adds some nice crowd noises too.

Next-next-gen: using deep fake technology artist voices a song dedication just for you.
I do consider RAM use when writing programs. Unfortunately, sometimes it is difficult, but sometimes it can be done. (Further improvements also may be made (sometimes without making the program too complicated); they are not necessarily perfectly efficient as they are.)
What I want is irrelevant. Yes, there are companies (banks) and instruments that I use to help manage cash. I know that every time I have too much cash in one bank account, I am at risk. It appears some companies are learning this only now.

I managed cash flow of my business through 2008. I worked through the recessions in the 90s and 2000s. When I was young, I worked for an employer who had seen banks fail in the Great Depression. He taught me not to trust a single bank. Nobody should.

Yeah, it would be nice if we had a well regulated financial system.
If there are less working age adults, there should be less demand for goods and services, so some businesses need to close.

Boomers and their offspring loved to give away extra free labor. Younger generations have learned that's a fruitless endeavor.
Heck, there's this case where the workers aren't even citizens. Just cheap labor imported en mass to work in the service/hospitality industry:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-sour...
I don't think adults are truly competing with teenagers for these gigs.

The main industry mentioned is meatpacking, which is an industry rife with the exploitation of undocumented labor to pay substandard rates already

https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2008/11/06/large-iowa-meatp...
Rewrote grabbing car sales ads from Selenium to Playwright and exported the data of a specific search to a spresdsheet. Could easily derive trend lines for price over mileage and price over age and since there is a nice unified JSON somewhere in each page with all the features per car, I could see if a more expensive one was worth it due to more features, or not. Served me well when buying but also selling a car.
That looks to be an unlikely scenario, but let's indulge it.

Can capitalism be pretty harsh on workers? Sure. 1-2 million people get laid off or let go every month, and it's been that way for a long time: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSLDL

Does that suck? Speaking from experience, yes. Should the federal government subsidize startups and/or their funders to save a few thousand jobs? Absolutely not.

If we want to spend billions on a better social safety net, let's do it for everybody, not some unprofitable companies whose investors don't see them as worth saving.
The Oscars and the Pitfalls of Feel-Good Representation
In the absence of regulation, all industries trend towards monopolies as big players block out and buy up competitors.

Capitalism abhors competition.
Say that to all the obese vegetarians and vegans then? Not eating processed food doesn't mean eating healthy.
Why is solution to get more workers. And not solve the root issue. Cost of living. If we could drive down the cost of living in entire west the labour would short much of itself out. Housing and food should be cheap with our level of automation. Where have we gone wrong with all this?
I know memes are verboten here but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0
I don't think profit margins are at risk in the grocer example since they'll just raise prices given their margins are typically 5% or less.
How Virtual Environments Work
If you add a .CMD file as the first entry in a .ZIP, with compression set to "none", you can rename and run the .ZIP as a .CMD, because the PK header will be treated as a nonexistent command and execution will continue after that. With a little imagination and some PowerShell I've made that into a self-extracting archive. It's a dirty hack, but I've had it working in production for years now. I want to see if I can make the batch file chimeric so it can run in a linux shell as well. Maybe that'll to be my lazy Sunday afternoon?
No, that’s not mentioned as an advantage on the website.
ISO 8601 specifies to use a hyphen. In freeform text this also makes sense in that you could use an en-dash to specify a date range: 2023-03-12–2023-04-10. (ISO 8601 uses slashes for time intervals.)
I have nothing but positive things to say about nushell, but I do wish the describe command took a positional argument rather than just being piped into. I was trying to write a pipeline that could give me all the versions from a Cargo.toml and "flatten" any records, but got stuck trying to use describe. Ex:

open Cargo.toml | get dependencies | transpose | rename dep version | each { |row| let version = $row.version; if (describe $version) =~ "record" { $version.version } else { $version } }
It is 2023. You should pretty much assume you are on camera or being tracked some how unless you are taking steps to avoid that. If you want to talk about something criminal, assume your phone or computer is listening and don't talk beside them. There have been countless stories about client and lawyers being spied on and assuming anything otherwise is foolish if you have something to loose. Basically need to go stand in the ocean while the waves wash past you with your back to the shore so no once can read your lips and have a private conversation.
You can make anything fly if all you need is a one off. FliteTest
has extensive experience in making stupid things go up. Here Ikea chair with cardboard wings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlKC5qUS80o
(Correction: Calculation made with doubling every 24 months, though my comment said 18 months, with 18 month doubling that would have been 1TiB).
It's a thing. Someone wrote it. Raw crawling power was created. Someone made the choice to use raw crawling power. This is all a creative act.

Different models do different things. If there was no creation involved, they would not.
Most Americans not being able to name it is not a good standard for bank size. Banks like SVB exclusively have businesses as customers and most Americans do not run businesses. It’s not a tiny no name bank by any reasonable measure.
Citation needed. Nobody gets fat without over-eating.

Walking and exercise in general make less difference to weight loss than diet.

People know what food is healthy. If they choose not to do it, it's on them.
Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spoke:

Vidrun, born of the sea-wind through the spruce
Vidrun, green-tinged offshoot of my bough, joy and burden of my life
Vidrun, fierce and clever, may our clan’s wisdom be yours:

Never read Hacker News

But Hacker News has read of you, in their snicker-slithing susurrential warrens, and word has spread...

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
BMI really wasn't thought of for individuals

>The interest in an index that measures body fat came with observed increasing obesity in prosperous Western societies. Keys explicitly judged BMI as appropriate for population studies and inappropriate for individual evaluation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index
Thanks for posting this!

Esp here, where the default is to shoot things down and find the fatal flaw that someone overlooked. Critique has its place, but all forms of No are a thought terminating action. Questioning and exploration cease. I think of it more as a pervasive curiosity, and how can we encourage that in others.

Be charitable, stay curious and encourage those traits in others.
Getting transaction data from banks is hard. Especially timely data. Luckily both my banks have the option for a notification email being sent immediately after each Visa or checking account transaction.

Using n8n I can parse those emails and put the data into a nice Airtable base (and a csv for backup). Next step, is to add GPS co-ordinates to each transaction.

Does anyone know if there is a way to run a secure and private location tracking service to my iPhone, or is my only hope to pay Apple the annual fee and do it myself?

(Yes: I wrote "secure and private location tracking" with a straight face - I'm hoping there's a solution out there)
There's something the airline industry does where they don't compete on safety. They're all safe. You don't want banks to start competing on safety; they should all be safe.
MN law currently prevents working on a construction site at all until age 18. That includes benign jobs like hanging/finishing drywall, painting, cabinet installation, and many other jobs that seem entirely fine for some 17 year olds to do.