skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The natural conclusion is that jobs (at least in the US) are a type of labor market. There is push and pull on both sides.

During the pandemic, the market heavily favored employees. The market now favors employers.

The direction of the price of labor seems to have been more or less appropriate during each of these periods.

On a personal level, I don’t have much sympathy for folks whose worst experience in a labor downturn is simply not getting an inflation adjustment — it’s about the mildest correction in defined labor costs/benefits that can happen to them. I don’t think these folks realize how close to having no job they and/or their current peers actually are — that would really suck.

To the issue of whether MS should make this move or not (esp. given their financials), that’s a different issue. As I have mentioned elsewhere, I think that there will be quite a bit of quiet total comp boosts to favored folks — RSUs, retention bonuses, spot bonuses, promotions, “promotions” (e.g., different title, same job), etc.

Salary curves are rarely smooth and unidirectional over the course of a career. Most folks, in fact, will have a very spiky salary curve. I think many folks who came into tech after 2009 or so just haven’t seen or experienced this spiky curve, and their limiter range of expectations is showing.
I like javascript, but I always think about the time when I was working as a front end developer, and a guy across the room suddenly stood up, walked over to the white board, and wrote "F*CK JAVASCRIPT" in massive letters. I believe his concern was around the lack of type safety (this was before we used Typescript). And this was someone not prone to dramatic gestures.

At the time I laughed. Guy must be having a bad day. Javascript rules, look at this widget I made.

Cut to a few years later. I am fed up with React, and the entire javascript ecosystem in general. The trend-based, article-driven development, the new framework/pattern you have to learn/unlearn every six months, the SPAS that made a simple web app spool up the user's laptop fan with all the javascript it was processing just to do basic stuff we could do much more simply in the 90s.

I ultimately quit being a developer in 2019, switched to doing design full time. I still write javascript for personal projects, because it's the thing I'm most familiar with. But, only vanilla javascript.

Javascript rules, but also: f*ck javascript.
Look up --write-mostly and --write-behind options in mdadm(8) man page.

I can't recommend such a setup though. It works very poorly for me.
At this point the US government/IRS has got to be the largest holder of crypto in the world.
Definitely lawyer and accountant.

PRFAQs, COEs, and WBRs.
Photographing an exoplanet 25 light years away with 25km/pixel resolution (2020)
Plan to photograph an exoplanet 25 light years away with 25km per pixel resolution (2020)

This is fascinating. There is a plan to directly photograph exoplanets by sending a series of telescopes 500+ AU in the opposite direction of what we want to photograph and using the sun as a gravitational lens. We send out waves of these small telescopes to get pictures at various focal planes.

This video has a good description of the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI
The last app using ATSUI for text layout.
Yup everyone who disagrees with you is taking payoffs as part of a big conspiracy. What other explanation could there be for why people disagree with you?
Here's the managers in "Office Space" telling the employees to always think of what's good for the company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0NNVm5ajMQ
A couple days ago I started thinking that VS Code had slowly morphed into something that was starting to feel bloated. I took a look at Sublime, which I once loved, but the customization to make it look like I wanted seemed like too much. Maybe I’ll give BBEdit a try; I don’t think I’ve ever used it.
Also this question seems a bit ridiculous: "I can decide the time I start and be reasonably confident of having work to undertake"

If you're driving a cab, you work when people need cabs. If you're delivering food, you work during times of the day people are ordering food. This is the nature of these jobs. Does an icecream truck owner get to decide to work during colder or rainy weather because that's what he prefers? Of course not; he has to work at times and places where people are likely to purchase ice cream.

It hardly seems reasonable to blame deliveroo for the fact that people tend to cluster food ordering during one or two periods of the day.
Maybe in the US. Maybe.

Here in the UK, after tax, $50K/yr doesn't even cover my mortgage, and I live in a house that over 100 years ago, according to the 1911 census, supported a family of 5 on a carriage drivers single income.

I earn a top 1% salary as a dev and retirement will still be 20-25 years away for me under ideal conditions - i.e. a 40% savings rate.
"Modern Javascript for the Impatient" does a good job for the language itself. It doesn't try building on non-existent prior knowledge. It assumes you program, but in other languages.
Turning “hard private” into “soft private”
Trouble is you can't use /dev/null as a filesystem, even for testing.

On a related note, though, I've considered the idea of creating a "minimally POSIX-compliant" filesystem that randomly reorders and delays I/O operations whenever standards permit it to do so, along with any other odd behavior I can find that remains within the letter of published standards (unusual path limitations, support for exactly two hard links per file, sparse files that require holes to be aligned on 4,099-byte boundaries in spite of the filesystem's reported 509-byte block size, etc., all properly reported by applicable APIs).
Are you sure the data survived? ZFS is sure and proves it with checksums over metadata and data.
I don't know madm well enough to know if it does this too.
Tell that to the tons of working people out there without workplace sponsored group health insurance. But it's "only" on the order of $200-300/mo for a basic individual plan, and depending on tax income you can get some or all of that back when you file your returns. If you're interested in reasoning from horror stories, might as well ignore FTE group insurance plans too since those don't necessarily protect against life ruining expenses either. If anything, employers should be more on board with sponsoring trips to Mexico/India/other places with quality no-waiting healthcare on the cheaper side of things.

As for people pursuing their passions if only X... there are many people who for various reasons do not have to work and who don't work, it's not a hard sell to extrapolate that the behavior of more people joining that class would be much the same as people already in it. For most of them, most of their time is not spent on Star Trek-ish ideals of bettering humanity/themselves or on passion projects.
All generalizations are bad.
Just turned 50, moved countries to Sydney. Send 3 CV’s and all bounced. Yet the 20-something boss I currently have (and who is brilliant) moves mountains to try keep me. I don’t code a lot (mostly architecture) but I reduce technical risk and add value in a very wide area. And the most interesting and valuable work I’ve done has been the last couple years.

That’s okay, I get it. Older guy and it’s hitting HR and they have checkboxen. I’ll figure it out.
Your argument being what? Government shouldn't enforce laws, especially when it comes to one of the biggest scams of the century?
If you want bioweapons, you'd start with viruses that conveniently already infect humans, and probably wouldn't indiscriminately infect the whole world including yourself.
I’m kinda curious how this would make truly sensational news completely blasé
You're saying we shouldn't spend literally all of our waking hours like productive robots and actually spend some time enjoying life? I'm just hearing this now for the first time.
Seems like a good time to BUIDL.
First babies born in Britain using DNA from three people
The best claude model is closer to GPT-4 than 3.5
I guess I disagree with Plato, unless he's talking about how I no longer know anyone's phone numbers off the top of my head.

I think it's fairly well established that when you think about a topic well enough to generate ideas and put them on the page that you also cement those ideas in your mind. If you want to remember something you read (or see or do), write about it. In your own words.
Yeah but the weekly WBR where the directors ask what a cell means on the DataNet report but the data isnt' sussed out so the L5 Data science guy that reports to the L7 PMT will spend the next week changing SQL to produce that requested view for the next week WBR.

Many L6 promos over the years went out to folks who could quickly and accurately build WBR decks that gave L8s the visibility they wanted.

So maybe Bezos is the lawyer, and all the directors are accountants.
Very few reasons to stick with Android. Apple has the Apple Stores to fix your device, iMessage, and guaranteed OS upgrades for years. Not having iMessage is a social death sentence for many teenagers too.
I still feel vindicated, you don't need Typescript to write type definitions and also type safety on the server/api can be done with Graphql and writing gql
They are not comments they are php8 attributes
...that seems like an obvious joke to you?

My God, we must run in different circles. I had people I know who shamelessly posted almost that exact thing. A few of them, lol.

They weren't joking. :P
True - and fair point on the UK comparisons.

Though of course, sometimes there are easy options that the UK missed out on because they are inept and apathetic, which would vindicate some of those comparisons to some extent.
> The truth is they have never been in the race to begin with.

Product race? My understanding is they've been so concerned with safety/harm that they've been slow to implement a lot of tools - then OpenAI made an attempt at it anyway.

Google has generally been ahead from a research perspective though. And honestly it's going to be really sad if they just stop releasing papers outright - hopefully the release their previous gen stuff as they go :/
You could get a Honda 600 in 1970 for $1200. Again, that's pretty far into the "novelty" category, so I don't count it.

I should have qualified what I said-a car the size of a Dodge Dart in 1970 is now twice as expensive.
I get lost every now and then trying out all the code editors on the market. My current usage in order Webstorm, VSCode, Sublime Text. For a long time I only used SciTE.
Who is offering significant competition? If Amazon and google are the only game in town then it’s like a game of chicken where they don’t have to collude on price they just have to be fine with current margins and simply are watching the competition to see if a price reduction happens
Yay, nice! finally a simple cli for treesitter.

treesitter tech always seemed cool, but never felt I had access to it on my finger tips.
one such tool is https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic (semantic diff)

will definitely be trying this out.
I was assuming they used a different architecture to get the increase instead of just letting it eat hardware that way. Especially with the speed numbers in the post.
> If there is any technological progress trend, then in the long term people will be vastly, incomprehensibly richer than us

There are still people who enjoy "roughing it", some who enjoy it so much they spend large amounts of their lives effectively living as pre-agricultural people did.

As is seen in ennui and frustration among the rich, or grouchiness among the old, the human psyche adapts to what it is used to in terms of emotional responses.

> so they will be much more able to deal with problems than we are.

We are still dealing with the fallout (literal, and figurative) of tetraethyl lead. Stopping it at the beginning would have been far more cost effective, and "deal with it" effective, than all of the technology we have put into remediating it since. This is one example. An ounce of prevention is often far better than a pound of cure. Let's let future scientists, who will be far more capable than us, invent new things instead of spending their efforts rectifying our mistakes.
+1 to this. Nowadays when I see some "Considered harmful" post on HN its tends to be some dude on his personal blog talking about how in his 2 years of programming experience JS framework X is bad and instead you should use JS framework Y. Instant red flag and I'm likely to ignore.
>We recently had to wrangle a bunch of 400Mb+ XML files, and everyone else’s editor struggled even to open them, while I happily regexed my way around extracting various data

Way back with version 4 (I think), I used it to work on a CSV that was way larger than the amount of RAM I had in the computer. Amazingly responsive. Not that long ago I used it on some XML monstrosities that were pushing a gig in size. Still worked.

I still use it as my main environment today. Over the years you accumulate a variety of little snippets and scripts (in all sorts of languages, including AppleScript) and whatnot that help with your particular workflow. It's very much like a prettier, pointy-clickier version of Emacs in this way.

I really miss BareBones Mailsmith, which was like BBEdit for mail. In today's world where everybody uses HTML email (boo!), it wouldn't be so great, but man alive it was good.
If only the Sith deal in absolutes, why does Obi-Wan say it that way?
Until they actually make any of it available in anything but an obscure expensive API you have to request access to, they might as well not even exist.
When I was younger, I tried to spend as much of my free time as possible learning things that would enhance my career. New programming languages, frameworks, etc, things like that.

Eventually I realised that doing what is basically your job in your free time is fucking exhausting.

Nowadays I try to spend that time learning things which won’t enhance my career. Gardening, cooking, woodwork, much less stressful and more fulfilling imo
> numbers seem too large to be employee reclassification for legitimately-paid employees, no

Yes. Which is why it’s unlikely to expect the claim to quarter. (It might get reassigned from FTX to Alameda or Blockfolio, though.)

> it's more likely the IRS is calling the embezzled money income and/or wages

Partnership taxes on the embezzled money.
In fairness to the AI, I have often been confused by stock images or old images on news articles that are not from the event in question.
Don't forget the ability to fine tune based on one's own data sources. For me, this is more important than any of the six reasons you mentioned.
This is a very interesting discussion, one way to think about the issue is: "what should be the minimum wage" and "who defines it".
If you set a minimum wage too high, you are taking jobs from lot of people, and if its too low you risk people getting paid less.

Whatever number you come up with is going to be arbitrary. A country wide minimum wage is stupid because the cost of living in New York is very different from Lousiana, a state wide makes more sense, but even so, it varies greatly from city to city within the same sate, so a city wide makes even more sense, if you keep adding granularity you'll reach the individual level, because the cost of living within cities changes fast, and there's a plethora of other factors to consider.

I have worked for really low wages in the past, even the lowest of unskilled worker still provides a value. Senior programmers on NYC are worth at least $60/h, now, how much a really low skilled worker is worth? At the time I was an unskilled worker it was was around $10, and thats how much I got paid despite the minimum wage being $8, anyone could get a job for $10, so thats the value a worker with essentially no skills was able to provide.
The $8 minimum wage didn't make a difference on wages, because unskilled workers were already providing more value than the minimum wage, so policy makers were behind in raising it, which they did.

Raising the minimum wage and matching it to the market price at $10 wouldn't make any difference either, however, raising it to $15 would wreak havoc, you are basically saying that any worker whose job isn't worth at least 15$ should not be working.

A Minimum wage value written on a piece of paper can't magically increase the true value of a worker, wages won't drop to $1 if you set it as $1, and also won't raise to $50 if you set it to $50.
We need 4DWW - Four Day Work Week. This would give all of us the much-needed day to catch up on administrative stuff, so we can have our weekends back for relaxing. We will have time for side projects again.

Fight for 4DWW !!!
This! AWS was doing this in 2017 and 2018.
There have been opportunities to try running at world-record pace on a giant treadmill, with a crowd to watch you land on your ass while you try and run at a sub-5:00/mile pace:

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a23634309/runners-attempt-...

For reference, I believe the pace Kipchoge ran for his world record is about as fast as I ran when I set our high school's 2 mile/3200m record. It's a solid record that I still hold 45 years later, but Kipchoge did it for 24 more miles. Insane, indeed.
There used to be a lot of nice default packages, but I'm not aware of any actively maintained ones (other than "company X's config"). So instead...

First, find the docs for ESLint and each of the integration packages that you've installed for each major dependency. Then just set each rule to the strictest setting. Then as you're developing, you'll start running into overzealous rules, prompting you to either disable the rule or write some override/exception.

TSConfig, on the other hand, isn't extensible so you can just throw a couple configs from github.com/tsconfig/bases in your `"extends": [...]`. The base config `@tsconfig/strictest` might be of interest to you.
Ask HN: Phone camera with no post-processing
Are there any phone that allows me to take natural pictures without any photo enhancing ai or post processing?

I thought an iPhone would be the last phone to do this but I was wrong.

Update, RAW images seems to be the solution here.
Try ft.com. Most of their revenue comes from subscriptions, not ads, so they are not striving to generate clickbait like most papers.
Pharo is anything but lean, so I don't think their relative merits have changed at all.
I'm guessing a bus driver in 1911 was kind of a high skill job, sort of like software development is now. How many people could drive a car back then, let alone a bus?
This is basically a 'partial truth' that is ultimately misleading.

Min wage. changes the supply, not demand. It may or may not yield less employment depending on elasticity.

A business is a balance of power between investors, execs, labour, customers and suppliers. More money to labour means less for the others at least nominally.

If businesses are flush with profits, then they'll eat the higher labour input and that's it - and the 'cost' will be to investors.

Otherwise, prices may rise - this may or may not cause a material reduction in sales, it depends.

Or reduced payments to suppliers.

Corporate entities are often very inefficient and will not get off of their buts to seek out better efficiencies unless they have to.

There is a F100 retailer that I know of that is flush with profits, they pay crap wages, and their distribution is a mess, people handing of XLS files all around. They don't care. If they had a 'union' they might have to seek efficiencies there (which may imply cuts to labour somewhere, or less money to vendors).

Most importantly, it's an issue of power. 'Skills and Abiblity' for example, give people power in an equation, some have very little power, which is why there are market interventions for wages (and safety by the way).

You can see this more acutely in healthcare, where there are stronger regs, because the power asymmetry is bigger aka the supplier has the power of 'life or death' over the customer.
As someone who owns a FA430 and has a sensitivity to flux fumes causing headaches and drowsiness, I agree with everything in this comment. Keep in mind you can become sensitized to flux fumes after repeated exposure (happened to me) so IMO it's better to go overkill on fume extraction before it becomes a problem.
I'm German and have lived in the US for the past 30 years, still have traces of an accent. I don't care, though, having a Germlish accent in Spanish wouldn't stop me from chatting up all the Spanish speakers around me.
Would love to see @dang's take on this!
Not always. Often, but not always, and that's the problem. This afternoon for example, even off the East Coast of Scotland the wind was about as brisk as a stroll with your elderly grandmother. If you've got 10GW of wind turbines, but they're running at 5% output, that's 500MW, which isn't nothing but it's not even enough for Scotland.
Is this really relevant? I'm not understanding why it would be. I was referring to Eb (minor third of C) and E (major third of C).
Liquidation is more straightforward than trying to keep the beast alive while you operate on it.
Thinking the unthinkable: what if the US defaults?
Like I already explained to you, not everyone agrees on the definition of open source. You have your definition, the open source foundation has theirs, and other people have their own. It is not a well defined term.

Why are you pretending you get to define the english language for everyone?
Impact of warmer seas on fish stocks leads to rise in pirate attacks
It doesn't help that yesterday's IO announced several "big" new features that sounded very familiar:

* AirTags, but for android. Even called "find my device". Not "locate my device" or even anything different!

* Live Photo wallpaper, but for android.

* Emoji wallpaper, but for android.

* RCS features to bring it closer to parity with iMessage, for android.

in other android news this week, WhatsApp turns the microphone on all night to listen to you snore or whatever: https://9to5google.com/2023/05/09/whatsapp-android-microphon...

Clearly what the iPhone needs is a real competitor. Google's got a lot of great stuff going on, maybe they should pass the phone baton to another company.
I lived abroad for a while. So I wasn't the right demographic for Erasmus being American. But I made so many friends who were participants. I ended meeting them at the same bars and cafes. Where students and just graduated, former students would meet and hangup.

I didn't get to do any exchange programs just 4 years of my nose to grindstone. And I feel like I really missed out and messed up.
The Swansea tidal lagoon was well dodgy… the promoters owned a quarry in Cornwall and they wanted to sell it’s rock at inflated prices (plus producing concrete is hardly carbon friendly)

Severn barrage is interesting but would have a quite large impact on the local nature habitat
> as a regular worker bee you cannot have benefits of CEO's job without risks & efforts of becoming and working as CEO

I'd love the "risk" of failing up. Do the golden parachute and handcuffs come with that package?
TP–7 Field Recorder
...because they don't want to be excluded from their friends' and families' group chats. And once they join the blue-bubble club, they of course partake in the chanting: "Blue bubbles only, please!", "The green bubbles mess up group chats on my iPhone!", "Images in green bubbles never look right!", etc.
Where would you even go if the US defaulted? It's such an armageddon level event that I don't know how you even begin to hedge it.