skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might also be due to demographics in Western countries. If the ratio of workers to total population decreases while the demand for work remains the same, there will be less competition for jobs and workers will be able to demand higher pay. It also depends on how many can be replaced by machines.
Doesn't it?

And I don't, by any measure, mean that all of it does, but nowadays we have luxuries we simply didn't have before, are these not fruits of that increased productivity?
Congrats on the launch!

I saw the submission for editable.website [0] a few months ago and really liked the approach.

I'm definitely going to give PostOwl a try as well, thanks for building it!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35456083
Seems quite complicated. I think you set your protein goals too high if you need to be so careful about what you eat. In general, a diverse enough diet that gives you enough calories also gives you enough protein.
Fantasy Meets Reality
You've described my tremulous feelings on the whole situation very well.

I blame mostly the Murdoch media. The government was always full of Tory pyschophants, but the media kept the masses informed enough to keep the damage in check. People used to resign in disgrace if they failed their post.

After the phone hacking scandal in 2007, the Leveson Inquiry[1], and the resulting lack of action that passed after it, Murdoch media has only been emboldened to act and report disgracefully. As much as I hate the Tory's, I blame the Blair-Murdoch relationship for kicking it off.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveson_Inquiry
Two comments:

First, I take your claim seriously that it’s an either-or decision. Then, clearly I'd hire the "proactive" one. As a manager you simply don’t have time for micromanaging or you should be doing something else.

Second, I question your either-or. Why not try to find interested and experienced candidates? Sure, I don’t know anything about your business. It may be extraordinarily hard to make it happen. But that’s the job of the manager: develop to workplace in a way so that it becomes attractive instead of micromanaging.
Good one. People making half a million dollars every year are just a few steps away from slavery because they're paying 50% in taxes.
I used to date a person who needed to use a wheelchair from time to time. Not only is the world inaccessible, but there are so many grandfathering rules that most places don’t have to change.

Something this article misses is that many people act totally inappropriately to people using various aids. They used to have people question why they needed a chair. They had people call them wheels in public.
Similar HN topic 4 month ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379610

> Poland is a remarkable success story. But it is not alone in catching up with Britain. South Korea and Slovenia are both set to overtake us in terms of GDP per capita too, as early as next year.

This hold only true when looking at PPP per capita. Looking at GDP in US$ per capita, tells a very different story:

UK $45,850.43
South Korea $32,254.63
Slovenia $29,457.40
Poland $18,321.28

Source: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/GDP_per_capita_cur...

vs. https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/GDP_per_capita_PPP...
If you don’t want to lose the placebo maybe don’t read the studies:)
"Regional international governing body"

I remember when regions were smaller than nations...
Fun facts, the oldest attestation of Indo-European language is now the long extinct language Hittite. The language is attested in cuneiform, in records dating from the 17th to the 13th centuries BCE.

Hittite people created an empire centred on Hattusa, and also around northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia [1].

[1]Hittite language:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittite_language
Let me explain this as clearly as possible.

The issue is not that a therapy commercial talks about therapy, the issue is that it presents being in therapy as something you need to do to date attractive women. That would be as if, say, a Corn Flakes commercial presented Corn Flakes as curing cancer -- something hugely desirable, but with absolutely no causal relationship to the product, and which completely misrepresents the product.

Please go away and don't post on HN again without thinking about what you're saying.
I think Brexit is just accelerating the decline just as COVID was a punch in the gut for the economy. But Britain has been in decline since the 80s.
He was pretending to be dumb, not deaf, but yes seems that should still work and realistically what you'd do.

I can understand not taking pretending as far as using a wheelchair though, seems you could too easily end up in situations where you have to try to explain No no I'm on the side of people with disabilities, I'm not taking the piss, etc.
I don't consider the British economy really closed, do you? They import quite a lot. Quite a lot more than they export. That might contribute.
Post-war Japan has had some really good marketing. You'll never see films or comics depicting Nazi Germany under Allied bombing and the suffering of those on the homefront loyal to the Third Reich; anybody who who tried to create a "Barfuß Jens" or "Das Grab der Glühwürmchen" would be torn to shreds for being pro-fascist and few would consume anything so tasteless.

Yet ordinary Japanese people conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army committed the equivalent of the Holocaust across Asia, widespread atrocities terrible enough to revolt even Nazi observers. It's not like they would have treated Westerners any better either; look at what they did to Allied POWs. But whitewashing with articles and films, not even that many really, and today Westerners are expressing "understanding and empathy" to the wartime Japanese, loyal to their country and divine Emperor, receiving the consequences of a war they themselves started.

Understanding and empathy are good but let's not be uncritical about what their purpose is or unaware of the larger historical context.
I don’t get why brexit is constantly brought up as the cause of some of this rather than a reaction.

This whole thread and story has folks explaining how this has been a slow creep over 30+ years.
I work at USPS and rural carriers are paid on evaluated time. While some locations don’t get many packages because Amazon has taken the load off with their own contractors, many offices have to make multiple trips because of the package load which essentially means USPS workers in those rural offices are working for free on those second trips. The package load is a real problem.
I stumbled upon this page once and then had a hard time finding it again. Thx.
I believe you missed a “ye” in there somewhere.
I'm all for evidence based medicine, but I don't think the authors could make me trust them less if they tried.

Under all the studies cited and the scientific analysis there's this subtle, yet clear, gnarly conservative discourse that can be summed up as "Therapy? Be a man, would you?".

And if that's not enough, there are all the ... I lost count how many, subtle logical jumps that seem reasonable for the sake of argument and brevity, but if you spend more than a second on it make you go "wait, that's right".
I do think this is important as an awareness exercise, however, it is worth noting that a lot of the issues CANNOT be seen unless you actually do bring the wheelchair. I learned this in 2018 when as a student I attended a conference with a fellow disabled student in Chicago. I was responsible for pushing her (she could use her arms but it was faster to navigate the city if one of us pushed). Not all train stations have a wide enough platform for wheelchairs to roll across, so your mobility is limited by which stations you can use for the train, which means walking farther from the station to where you actually wanted to go. Accessible hotel room with a pushbutton door shut too quickly for her to get into the threshold. Thankfully one of us was there to hit the button again each time she needed it reopened, but sometimes you had to physically catch and push the (heavier than normal) door before the button would re-open it. If you were just "thinking" about being a wheelchair user, and not actually trying to navigate this, you would not have a sense of the timing of this door. Another complication was her foot in a cast sticking out. The lovely, welcoming residents of Chicago catcalled her using wheelchair-related phrases, one guy on the train pointed at her and told her to kill herself, and someone kicked her cast in a crowd. The general attitude toward the disabled, in that environment, is unkind at best.

When I was a child (in the US), the science museum in my hometown had an exhibit dedicated to the ADA. You got into a wheelchair and tried to do tasks. It showed how payphones at a certain height are too high to reach, how difficult it would be to go up a ramp with an unapproved slope, etc. I wonder if it's still there, because that was my first foray into thinking this way. The Chicago trip however, basically radicalized me.

The article has a reference point of the UK and I don't know what their laws are with regards to accessibility. But it's clear that in both countries public attitudes toward accessibility have a very long way to go. And I'm sure most other countries can say this as well.
They were making austerity jokes in Yes Minister!
It might be interesting to see whether this affects current thinking about the plausibility of Indo-Uralic. (Probably not much, if it all.)
Ehh. We’ve been here long enough to both know that there’s a balance. $10 says the mods won’t change the title to the suggested one, precisely because of this balance.

It’s not about clickbaiting. The whole reason the research is getting funded in the first place is to try to find the link.
From the article:

> Some implants got infected or detached. Others buckled at the corners. Occasionally these protrusions broke through the skin, forming holes that would fester. The hole of the health­-spa vice ­president was so tiny that he originally mistook its fermented odor for an STD.

> Later, doctors unaffiliated with the Pe­numa would compare such penises to “a torpedo,” “a penguin,” “a pig in a blanket,” “a beer can with a mushroom sticking out on the top” and “the tipped-­down nose of the Concorde.”
Exactly, taxing assets instead of income is a no-brainer. All income that is not used for consumption becomes an asset itself and if people cant consume all their income then that should be taxed. The reason it isnt done is that any country that introduces wealth / assets taxes experiences immediate wealth flight (see Norway for a recent example). A wealth tax can only be done at a global level for example through the OECD.
It’s ironic that you’re complaining that you can’t avoid paying the government when the only reason you can pay for anything at all is because the government uses its monopoly on violence to protect your property rights. Paying the government is the price of participating in commerce at all.
This struck me as well. Not using the service whose entire reason for existence is "sometimes you need to use the phone and there are no equivalent options" seems like a self-own unless I am missing something.

At least in the United States there are various apps and sites you can use that are free that will provide relay services. I had to avail myself of this a few times when some respiratory bug made me impossible to understand speaking but I could still type.
“Revolutionary” is relative to the context it’s in. It doesn’t matter if the rest of the world is capitalist if academia is Marxist.

Also - the world isn’t capitalist for ideological reasons. You have to work hard against nature to destroy the notion of personal property.
This is very sad but true. Life is harsh for a lot of people. I have a basic capacity to work and all my senses intact without any major pains and I am very thankful for it. It makes me want to find ways to improve life on this planet somehow.
When I think of the phrase "trickle down economics" I always think of the mighty Colorado river in the Rockies and by the time it gets to Mexico you're left with a cup of water.
They didn’t pretend to be deaf. They pretended to have a speech disorder that prevented them from using their voice.
I will keep saying this: whatever the government's true intent might be, this issue isn't going away. You can develop good/sound tech that either decincientivizes the extrems of platform abuse or detects such abuse while preserving privacy in all other cases and doing all this in a publicly auditable way or the alternative is secret backdoors and device exploitation with zero oversight and transparency.

Look, I'm on HN, I'm into tech, I work in tech. But nothing absolutley nothing provided by tech is worth tolerating abuse of innocents. There is no social, legal or historical expectation of infallible privacy for communication. Governments have always had the right to invade privacy provided there is a legal reason to do so. The idea that technology can be used to undermine the first and most basic reason of a government's existence (the security of their people and in this case the most innocent members of the people) has only been a thing since around the 90s and the price has been high. You can't build bridges only the bad guys can blow up? Then build bridges anyone can blow up but with a high cost. Anyone can blow up real world bridges with enough money on their hands already!

I am not suggesting weaking e2ee crypto but requiring lawful intercept capabilities into messaging apps. Not scanning messages (different topic) for everyone, but giving law enforcement access to the app on the device after being presented with a lawful order. Criminals will just use something else? The let the government do something else about those other things while catching most that still use popular apps (most robbers use the front door fyi, reduction not elimination of crime is the goal).

You don't think the government can be trusted? So what, we live in a society. The contract we have with the government is they develop a probable cause and get a judge to sign off on a warrant and in return we expect them to provide security. You don't like that contract then let's talk about changing it, but if even one innocent child can be spared these nightmares (or even not so innocent adults!) then technologists are conspiring with criminals if they knowingly refuse to obey laws that have existed long before electricity was even a thing!

If the demand is to weaken encryption to allow dragnet surveillance then unless that is lawful in your country (it is not in the US) then why are we even talking about it? If they have a warrant, give them access.

FFS! There are RFCs on how to provide lawful intercept access. I am not suggesting anything new. Why is signal or whatever app anymore special than at&t or the postal service? The government and the mailman can open my mail and we vote, send credit cards/checks, passports, and many other documents much more critical than anything we say on signal.

Please, show me reason here. I am not saying all this just to start an argument or to be contrarian. What am I missing?

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3924.html
Wow, $43 per year, that's not cheap! It's likely the price AWS pays to acquire a single new IP at the current market price.

Three years ago, they had about just over 100 Million IPv4 addresses, which at the estimated market price back then, would have been worth ~$2.5 billion worth of IPv4 addresses!
https://toonk.io/aws-and-their-billions-in-ipv4-addresses/in...

AWS has been the most active buyer of IPv4 addresses over the last few years, so it's probably quite a bit more now. And in the AWS blog they mentioned "the cost to acquire a single public IPv4 address has risen more than 300% over the past 5 years. "

Should have bought some IPv4 in 2014 or so, would have been a great investment. Back then it was about $11 or so per IP.
penumba!

> Elist sat behind an imposing desk in a borrowed office and spoke about his
> forthcoming book, a collection of parables for spiritually minded surgeons
> titled "Operating with God." His ghost­writer had rendered his voice so
> skillfully, he said, that he'd found himself moved to tears while reading
> it. Beside a gilt statue of a jaguar in the corner of the room, someone had
> propped a mirror with an image of Jesus etched at its center. As Elist
> recounted passages from his book, his merry face, crowned by a hair­net,
> hovered next to Christ's.

The above reads like a Tales From the Crypt movie script, in the leadup to Elist slicing into yet another victim's Johnson.
I've been reading gesture recognition papers that claim to be real time and I've yet to see one I can reproduce in real time or reproduce at all.

The necessary hoops to jump when writing a scientific study seem to be very different from the hoops to advance a field.
Animals are intermediaries which process low bioavailability foods and turn into a nutrient highly bioavailable source.

Bioavailability is something vegans practically refuse to acknowledge let alone discuss.
Exactly.

When you stop thinking in age-related grades, and start thinking in individual subjects, you realize how stupid the current system is.

People are differently skilled/talented in different subjects, why group them by age, instead of subject-specific ability?!
I think more likely it's because they taste delicious together
Text to speech and speech to text app, powered by Whisper or the new tech, to allow deaf or mute to use the phone. Who's going to make it?
And that’s all fine and dandy until 30% of the theater is standing and then what are you going to do? Pick your poison
I mention this in my comment too - sexual harassment about the wheelchair I've seen in person.
Similar to abstracting maps and geography into GIS data and getting things like geographic proximity and POI-type filtering with lower overhead than creating a category tree for place articles in Wikipedia.

For instance, Wikipedia right now relies quite a lot entirely on manual tagging (authored categories) for classifying related subjects. If you want a list of all notable association footballers, for instance, then the best way to get one is to go to Category:Association football players. But then you're stuck in a very human, flawed, and often in-flux attempt to reach a consensus definition of that, and the list remains out of reach. (Hell, American players are categorized as "soccer players" under the same tree, confounding things like search, because that's the kind of thing Americans do.)

With abstraction, you get classification for much less, and the consensus problem moves from an arbitrary, authored category tree to a much narrower space. If an article is about a footballer, and the abstract data for that subject contains occupation Q937857 (association football player). The dialect and language don't matter — a footballer is a footballer. If you just want a list of footballers, you can get just a list of footballers without even going near things like SPARQL: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinks...
The improbable story of the bra-maker who made astronaut spacesuits
I feel like the Dart syntax is very very close to Java!
Historically, the working class movement, did see work as honourable, and the capital as less so, because they lived of the work of others. There was a lot of pride associated with doing a good job and to provide for your family.
> Where do you think wealthy money is if not in the economy?

Being leveraged to extract rents, the very enemy of productivity.
Some old PlayStation 1 games kept the O yes and X no configuration even in the US. final fantasy 7 sticks out especially as a game that kept this control scheme.
I'd be willing to bet that the problem is the work isn't getting done. I've seen this many times now. No one is going to care how much you time you spend walking your dog if you're getting your work done - you only draw attention to yourself when you're lacking, and then your manager starts looking for reasons, sees you work 20% less than expected, and then what would you say? You'd call them on the carpet, too. I'd give them a part time job since that's what they seem to be capable of.

I've religiously filled out time-sheets, in various forms) for 30 years, and I don't think they have been looked at more than a few times by my managers since my work gets done, and more. But I know for damn sure the laggards get scrutinized.
But unfortunately nodays with the prices of IPv4s it's like it's broken. The best price you can lease is probably in the ballpark of around 0.5 USD / IP.
Have you done it yet? How was it?
It's better to buy your own IPv4 addresses :) The price of single IPv4 address, is about the same as renting it for a year from AWS for $43.
Location (which includes physical isolation from possible attackers), large population, natural resources (including relatively mild climate in large parts of its territory), available space for building, stable and relatively quick justice system, top notch advanced education, enormous scientific and industrial base. It's not as much as the US should or must be #1, it's just that it's hard not to be #1 given all of this.
Indeed this is so, but where does one find further information online (or not online) ? Such a case where language and genetics do not align is unusual in the world, but I have read that there are a few cases. Mostly associated with conquest and/or assimilation IIRC.
>It’s not about clickbaiting. The whole reason the research is getting funded in the first place is to try to find the link.

Tieing grants to mass media popularity of research papers is an even bigger problem.
> In most cases, workers can own the means to production as many corporations are public

A thing being true throughout an economy and it being permitted by the formal rules are not the same thing.

Socialism is not merely where some workers do control some of the means of production, but where the entirety of the means of production are cobtrolled by the workers by virtue of their being workers.

If some people who happen to work also happen to have a private property relationship to some capital sufficient to be on par with their labor in terms of importance in their personal relation to the economy, then they are just petit bourgeois in a capitalist economy.
> with high-contrast and clearly-interactable elements

Yeah, I miss that a lot. My favorite example is the iTunes sidebar icons going from clearly distinguishable different colors to flat uniform monochrome.

Why? Because someone decided it made the interface look "better" as an art object, rather than being a better user experience.
Yep, our politicians care so much about children they have been housing unaccompanied refugee children in hotels with no guardians. Many of them have gone missing. For children who are citizens they took away child benefits for poorer families and school meals. Schools are falling down and underfunded. We can't find teachers even for the more prestigious schools. Children have been strip searched by police with no supervision at schools.

All of their actions just scream "we must stop harm to children", don't they? /s
Haha he's a pretty entertaining guy. Good tip on Overpass Turbo. It's wild that open data is full of so much stuff and enables all these use cases. Big fan of the tool as well.
>Wait, that doesn’t track. Until 2020, Britain had one of the most open and trade dependent economies.

That does track. The finance industry required an open economy. The actual "makes things" industries? Not so much.

Of the two the finance industry is much more vulnerable to deglobalization. Paper wealth can evaporate overnight.
> fuzzy, flat search for launching applications (I mean we basically do the same on the CLI right?

The first time we each had to debug a $PATH search order issue makes this a yes&no answer from me.

There's still a hierarchy and locations... but most of the time we can just ignore it and get on with things.