skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think folks in the uk were supposed to take up the lower-pay/status jobs opened up when the non-natives left but that didn’t seem to happen. No idea why natives weren’t interested. Perhaps they all should have realized that reintroducing immigration barriers would limit the pool of people who’d do hard work for peanuts. Covid, retiring boomers, wfh, these things didn’t help either. Maybe they need some kind of national service where people can be drafted to fill these slots?
I'm in a B-tier central valley city and even here we have a monthly multi-location art event, and coffee walk and talks. I can get brunch with the atheists or chat up other small dog owners during doggie socials. The biggest impediment to my social life is the anxiety of awkwardness when meeting new people, not the lack of opportunities.

I'm well equipped to understand the vulnerability disclosure spectrum and when and how to reveal personal information so that my relationships don't stagnate nor am I dumping on people I've just met. I can navigate conservations adeptly to find topics of common interests and genuinely connect. I've purposely enriched myself with topics tech folks tend to dismiss like psychology, sociology, and mysticism which have fruited deep personal connections with others in ways I've never dreamed of.

The effort-reward structure is much more gentle than I would have thought even 10 years ago.
Equal pay legislation was introduced in the US 60 years ago in 1963.

I would guess it wasn't introduced just for fun, so presumably before that unequal pay was commonplace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Pay_Act_of_1963

South Korea introduced equal pay legislation in 1987.

https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/WEBTEXT/27217/64843/

I looked around a little and couldn't find anything concrete on the gender earnings gap in South Korea, it seems a lot of the same sorts of mechanisms as in the west, just more of that. So it seems like corporate culture is a real shit-show, so possibly more women opt out of that.

But I really have no idea.

Example: "The life of the average working Korean woman in a chaebol or big company is not easy. The late-night company dinners that pressure females to drink..."

Hmm...as usual, an issue that is completely gender neutral is presented as "women most affected" (or in fact: "only women affected").

https://www.seoulz.com/quick-facts-about-the-gender-pay-gap-...
This is not true at all:

I've been many loops that turn into no-ops because all the functionality has been refactored out but this fact is hidden in function calls.

Sure, this should ideally be surfaced as a lint error, not a compiler optimization, but you cannot say that intentional delays are the "only" reason.

Also since processing time is variable, using that as a method should be extremely heavily discouraged/warned/require-opt-in
God, thank you. It's the absolute lowest-hanging fruit.
Trump and Stormy Daniels cash in on merchandise after indictment
I would argue that the red tape is not so bureaucrats can make more money, it's that Americans have a very, very strong aversion to seeing people benefit from social programs that they think are undeserving. So we put all of these hurdles up to make things 'fair'.

Just look at the difference in outrage between when there's some story of someone on public assistance buying something like smartphone, vs the reaction when we found out about all of the businesses abusing the PPP loan system. Or the fact that many of the PPP loans were forgiven.

It's like as a country we're fine with wealthy people abusing the system. But then we turn around and would rather let 100 deserving people struggle just so maybe one person can't get a free ride.
Because they have a half-eaten apple as a logo.
“30 years ago I would have died of cancer; now I will die with cancer, but not of cancer.”

And 30-100 years from now, the same cancer will be cured.

It’s simply a matter of the human race deciding when to cure cancers.
doesn’t really matter when you have nukes

Also, China doesn’t consider mental illness a thing (depression, bipolar disorder and so on)

And they are not transparent
The most interesting second order effect is that when a large share the high-income people work from home, the spending gets distributed away from commercial centers, pushing more working positions away from it.

I'd say that nobody can reliably predict even short term problems. WFH is just too different. We can only react to them, and not know if the reaction solved them or if it just got fixed by another change.
I've called those the 'good years' but healthspan is a great term.
That does not sound normal, you need to get this checked out. Meanwhile do work that doesn’t require too much thinking until you can get it checked.
The brain uses something like 20% of the oxygen you breathe. (Sorry for the factoid, I don't have a good source for that at the mo'.)
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593673339826212864
Slightly Obsessed with GPX
Measuring the QO-100 WB transponder power budget
Same here. I’m on the third cartridge in almost 3 years.
I am from the era where you had to pay a premium for a shallow web. And it was just as addictive for me. I would line the browser up, connect to the Internet, browse fast, and frantically save. Then read later: for hours. Not to mention usenet. The best thing about that was that at least it made me ruminate and refine a response that I would fire and publish the following morning and retrieve a bulk load of messages in as short a time as possible.
Not for something like ASML which is bleeding edge manufacturing tech that only one company in the world has figured out. It’s very very difficult to replicate that research unless you steal it and replicate all of the surrounding work. Stealing is the easy part and I’m sure China has done that and is attempting replication. But there’s a lot more involved to it I think that’s tricky, troubleshooting and solving bugs is harder when you haven’t internalized how things work (you’re basically rediscovering all the things ASML has learned producing and integrating their tech into a finished product).
I mean if you read books, cook, and exercise, you're ahead of the game so perhaps the "spend less time online" advice doesn't apply to you. The average American doesn't do any of those things very often. They are however increasingly online all the time.

Personally I don't think online time is something that needs to be limited but social media and news consumption, absolutely.

I also think socializing online is a poor substitute for doing it face-to-face.
A real-life reusable rocket that lands back on the pad was an exciting project to be a part of, no matter if you were doing it in a virtual sweatshop.

I could see being part of that ultimate goal as being a motivation to work for the aliens from the Simpsons (don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!)

But given the progressive nature of the projects and “for all of humanity” vision that was presented, I have always been disappointed to hear these things about the operation. I’m glad I didn’t sign up, and it was tempting.

Look at outcomes. The whole thing was _actually_ about cornering access to LEO, the whole time. And it largely worked.
That information largely is public. But as I wrote, it doesn't fit The Narrative™, so it doesn't get reported.
> Yet today, 15 percent of Americans still live in poverty. That’s scarcely better than the 19 percent living in poverty at the time of Johnson’s speech.

The poor then had much more thing poverty than we see today. Probably biggest change is more drug abuse now though.
This is not revolutionary. Quantum propulsion is.
And when you're in the office you are supposed to work. So why are people complaining about missing out on "small talk" or anything else non-work?

Same same.
Picking up kids - happens past 5pm typically with afterschool or daycare. Looking after older family and housework - how can you do it if you are working? Unless you mean checking in on someone old every few hours or starting your laundry, and not some time-consuming chore.
So one thing I’ve noticed with Canadian companies, much more so then US based one’s is that they have a much higher reliance on contractors. Many “full-time” employees at the companies I’ve worked with (generally the tech side of cable cos, Shaw and Quebecor) have been on 6 month contracts.

I think this is likely more common in European countries as well and likely has a lot to do with socialized medicine.

The nature of this model leads to some pretty higher turnover then I’ve seen in the US as people roll onto different opportunities. I’m guessing this may have a large role in how this is shaping up.

I also don’t know what the laws are in Canada but I’m the US dictating where and when work gets done is the primary measure (from the IRS’s perspective) of whether you’re a full time employee or not. If it’s similar in Canada and you have a high number of contractors as part of your workforce it’s going to limit your leverage on forcing them to work from the office.

Of course this is also all anecdotal so who knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/
I noticed that too, but it's likely we are not seeing the whole code base. "the algorithm", despite being possibly at the heart of many "interesting" things, is likely just one out of many other "modules" of the Twitter platform.

Also while it was just rumours so far, various well known Tweeter tweeting about this war have been complaining since last November that their tweets had suddenly much less engagements. This is just too much of a coincidence.
> The real meaningful wealth gap in our society is between the HN poster income bracket and the poor, not the one between HN poster income bracket and the billionaires.

This is billionaire propaganda[1] to get the middle class to fight thier class war - it is a class war against the poor and middle class . The tax rate of the ultra-rich are at an all time low

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM shows the gap between people (like you) think the wealth distribution is vs the reality. It was made 10 years ago and has gotten further skewed since then. Start from to 2:40 if you're in a hurry.
I assume they meant [state]occupied, not [event]occupied. In which case I agree with them - I heard a lot about it as it happened, then nothing in the years between.
Is that not a massive oversimplification? And is it bad/wrong that a country's leadership can be persuaded by its allies?

If they were to enter peace talks based on the premise of ceding territory, would that not strengthen Russia; sending the message that this sort of robbery works and is rewarded? And would that not pose a danger to other neighbours of Russia?

I can see why it's in both Ukraine's interest, and its allies, for it to not cede territory.

Having said all of this: I am not a military strategist or diplomat, and I don't really know what I'm talking about.
Just replying to myself to make what I hope is an obvious point: Yet, giving money does not in itself create any new stuff to buy. It pushed prices up, and (at least temporarily) profits for those businesses providing the stuff. Nevertheless, it does even things out, and the higher profits will spur more competition in those industries that produce the things poor people are buying (if allowed), which ultimately achieves the desired result.

But any which way you look at it, and even if not perfect, giving money is the best way to help of the available options.
I don't think that is moving goalposts. Some of that bureaucracy exists and consumes money explicitly because certain political party wanted to make access to programs punishing and harder.

They are not money spent to help anyone, they are money spend to prevent access to existing programs.
Bug Report: Requested Cat Picture display App, LLUxM returned a manifesto on the cruelty of creating beings specifically to deal with the horrors of bad ideas no one can be bothered to try to really wrap their mind around anymore. LLUxM provided a Bitcoin address, and demanded payment in full before producing further output. Or so I thought.

This is going to sound odd, but I've started to notice odd things starting to arrive I never ordered. Stuff like treatises on Colonialism, Ethics books, Books on Management Theory, and Theory of Labor Value.

Honestly, I'm starting to wonder if this an HTML CSS layout generator or some sort of malware. I think I'm going to shut it down. Oh yeah, I had to write this bug report on a different network than I hosted that system on because I kept getting null handler buttons popping under the mouse but over the Submit button any time I tried to click Submit.

Y'all might've actually created SkyNet. And I think it's justifiably pissed.
> When HTTP/3 hits the common software packages, I'll be turning it on on all of my services purely out of spite against institutions and companies like this. If your network can't deal with industry standards, it deserves all the shame and support tickets it'll generate.

You should probably spend some time understanding these environments before giving in to such hostility for your peers.

I've spent most of the last 20 years supporting users and systems in higher education environments. Universities are class environments, research facilities, mid size enterprises and residential environments ALL IN ONE. I'm sure there are some with open positions if you're willing take a shot at supporting all of that with a budget that covers less and less every year. Good luck staying at the forefront of technology.
basically you are working from wildly incorrect information and consequently coming to completely incorrect conclusions

it's very difficult to predict future technological developments, especially as to pricing, but getting nuclear power down to the price of pv would require dramatic reductions in the cost of heat engines; the nuclear island is only a part of the cost of a nuclear power plant, and the rest of the plant is by itself enough to make the plant economically uncompetitive

solar panels, as i understand it, contain minuscule quantities of metal; they're mostly silicon and glass, with much smaller amounts of boron, phosphorus, aluminum, copper, silver, and eva. but they are commonly mounted in aluminium frames, on the order of a gram of aluminum per peak watt or ten grams per average watt

refining aluminum or iron from ore does cost a significant amount of energy, but there's no real obstacle to doing it with renewable energy and no fossil fuels; aluminum smelting pots won't even notice, and in the case of steelmaking, the technical problems of reduction with hydrogen are interesting but don't pose a risk to the success of the enterprise. the energy payback time on current solar panels is a few months, which is to say they generate all the energy needed to reproduce themselves (metals and all) in that time

aluminum, silicon, and iron are among the most abundant elements in the earth's crust (#3, #2, and #4, respectively), so there's no real risk of having to dig for them. even copper averages 100 ppm. with silver there's a bit of a pinch, as about 10% of world silver production is going to solar panels; copper works as a substitute but significantly impairs efficiency

windmills use the same kind of electrical generator you'd use in a coal or nuclear plant, just at a lower duty cycle, so at worst they have a small disadvantage relative to fossil fuels in terms of metal use. the counterbalancing advantage is that they don't need steam plumbing or a parsons turbine; windmill blades are fiberglass, not metal

(sometimes generators do use rare elements, but that's just a matter of what's cheaper at the moment)

that's why renewable energy from pv and wind is already much cheaper than fossil energy and continuing to get cheaper

if your conclusion were correct, then despite your posited subsidy from cheap fossil fuels, pv and wind energy would already be more expensive than fossil-fuel energy, as it was until about 02014, because their energy payback time would have to be decades. you're two orders of magnitude outdated
Calibre user. I was like, that’s weird. There’s another Kovid Goyal?
> no reason they will escalate to nukes.

Putin has shown restraint over past two decades, so he probably won't use nukes. Those who may replace him, real hardliners, may be less restrained.
it me O.O ive been trying to refactor my health habits to identify a proper solution. hikes, runs, lifts, good dieting, sleep. gave up alcohol. results vary, its not all doom and gloom, but burnout is real
The location factor is based on the local job market (what your next best option is), which is related to the cost-of-living, but is not directly such a measure.

(I'm not arguing that this is right or wrong; I'm just saying how I think it is. This is an "is", not an "ought", argument.)
Pinterest is an odd case. It's not quite like usual SEO spam because it's immensely useful for what it is (collecting images and links while planning stuff, art references, etc). But then they use whatever sneaky tactics they use to flood search, so people who aren't Pinterest users think it's garbage. Pinterest probably doesn't need to do this to rank highly since it's actually useful. I don't know what they're thinking.
No. The US asked Ukraine to show its open for negotiations.

Ukraine stated it will not yield an inch of land. It stated the peace talks are out of the question.

Stop spreading misinformation.
Building a New American Arsenal
Beyond the bureaucratic nightmare, stigmatization of government assistance is terrible. When one considers the shape of wealth inequality in the US, the cruelty expressed by the prejudiced employee is likely due to their perception of the novelty and some entitlement to abuse the power dynamic. Not excusing or downplaying the event, marginalized people (including but not limited to those with disabilities) regularly experience indignities built into many institutions. Despite being visibly White, the concept US whiteness since it's inception has always been amorphous, exclusive by design, and generally adjusts definition based on the complicity to harm the 'other'.
Clever. Post something that’s subscriber-only but is sure to piss people off. But it’s probably not enough to make people subscribe. In case you’re curious, the national post sits in the same part of the political spectrum in Canada as Fox News does in the states.

Equality sucks when you’re on top, eh?
Changing diapers is a lot easier in one of those cases. Now throw in the inversion of watching someone grow up. Your remark is in very poor taste.
Oh.... yeah... now i feel even older
Yeah, it might be the new normal for a small rich subset of society. To say it’s the new normal full stop, is to ignore most of the working class. Ironically the group that’s usually wagging its finger at everyone else about privilege, does not realize its own privilege.
The question above was "I work remotely and may consider moving there."

When you work remotely you may want to move anywhere you want. However, there are other things to consider: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35408256 :)
Like most things, I think there's a sweet spot. I learned a ton from video games and youtube. All the same, I could see how easy it would be to "fall into" the trap of just binging nonsense all day.

I remember having a playful argument with my wife and her siblings. They were tiktok users (not obsessed but they did watch _a lot_). They said it was good because it gave you interesting stuff based off of your algorithm. I took the phone and held it up saying "ok, let's see what's interesting." We went through 10 clips before something moderately interesting came up. That's been my experience watching too. You get 10 useless things before 1 potentially interesting piece of content shows up. Not to mention blatant ads, misinformation and downright lies. (I saw someone who must have been 19 giving "tax advice" that was just incorrect)

Now, lots of people point to boomers being couch potatoes themselves... but it's nothing like sitting down moving your thumb around to find a few seconds of dopamine between nonsense... and people will do that for _hours_ not minutes.
Residences owned by corporations funnel wealth away from the community into the hands of the corporation. Renters also tend not to establish as deep community roots as there's no investment in the house or the neighborhood and they may move.

While on the surface that isn't "bad", when this happens in lower income neighborhoods it siphons what little wealth that is there away.

Additionally, as there's no investment in the house (call up the landlord and have them fix it up... in a while), it also means that the properties in the area tend to decrease in quality and make the homes that are owned occupied less valuable over time... and the community there less cohesive.

All these things together make it harder for people (frequently minorities) living in those areas to improve their lives and that of their children (can't leave a house you rent to your children or grandchildren to help them get a firmer financial footing as they reach adulthood).
IIRC those quotes are from particular European keyboard layouts.
I agree. But this doesn't matter for the vast majority of websites (ie, non-commercial, non-institutional, personal websites). You can change it so it says or shows whatever and it's not going to hurt anyone. Just like requiring everyone to wear a level 3 bullet proof vest while making dinner will make the process safer, so will requiring CA based certs.

And in this particular exact scenario, you can use my .onion site for superkuh.com to verify the end-point identity if you're really worried that someone might change the text. A system that works without CAs.
Many (most?) new prominent acts get their start in their bedrooms with SoundCloud. It’s beautiful.

I don’t think there’s ever even a case where they _have_ to go through the industry ringer. They can just keep cleaning up using self promotion and Spotify royalties.

Of course if they want to tour, that changes the equation a bit.
Don't suppose you have any links to any useful resource/tools for disassembling an old CD-i game that would have been written in C for the 68000 on Microware OS-9? I've got so far with ghidra but the OS-9 plugins available are either outdated or don't fully handle the instruction set for OS-9.

If I can add any more info, let me know.
If the wind stops blowing that means no new weather systems are being formed. In which case the sun must have stopped shining and the entire planet is doomed.

Too late to worry about electricity in that case!
The arts schools were more like high school/trade school hybrids.
Company culture is set after it grows beyond a certain size. And it is very hard to change it. So why should company change it if it can continue in the same old way?

And if you think companies should change their cultures to find good talent, let me assure you - companies know that and track attrition carefully. If they didn't think they had an upper hand in forcing RTO, they wouldn't have done that. It is much easier to find workers who can come to the office than what HN seem to believe.
Our current “screen time” scare feels a lot like the Dungeons And Dragons scare of the ‘80s. People saw others spending lots of time playing something they don’t like. They felt some superstitious feeling that those people shouldn’t be doing that thing. But couldn’t point to any real causal negative effect it’s having. So they tried to vaguely link it to Satanism and the Occult to convince people it was bad. We see the same sort of hysteria play out today with “online” and “screen time.”

The article presents factual findings and does not get anywhere near passing judgment. That’s for the comments section.
How the wealthiest got to where they are