skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve always heard it referred to as serial monogamy, as in a series of monogamous relationships. Either way, don’t see how calling it “modern” adds anything to the understanding of monogamy. Does anybody really hear monogamy and think that there’s no way the relationship will ever end?
added sugar IS unhealthy. Too much nature sugar IS unhealthy. acting like its not is silly.
I actually never made any of those claims. My general take is that companies who are in dominant market position will use basically any excuse to raise prices, including the ones you listed.
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> What makes 33 special?

Election season is starting, and someone wants to use this as a talking point.
Are you being rhetorical, or are you actually positing that CEO pay is driven purely by supply and demand?
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You are not even going out and you want then to raise prices?
Sure thing buddy - you go build paint.net in a day. lol. Post a reply to this tomorrow and I'll check it out.
Unity updated fees to up to 4%
..."In the updated fee structure Unity is supposedly to soon announce, download counts would not be counted retroactively (i.e. all games would start from zero when the policy is implemented) and fees would be limited to 4% of a game’s revenue once it reaches $1M"

Still think the trust is gone, developers will just move slower to another engine
Indeed, driving mostly. Some foot traffic, the neighborhoods were a bit more sensibly laid out with the immediate needs nearby.

I can't speak to public transport... growing up in a rural area I've always been predisposed to driving whatever bucket I had :)

It's so starkly different of a driving experience, I have to assume it compounds the time seen on their routes!
> Don't hate the player, hate the game (seriously, the system is screwed up horribly)

I say it is fair to hare the player unless they are working to change/improve the "screwed up" game they are playing.
One problem was the standard was bug-for-bug replication of a particular version of SQLite.

There’s very good reason for that not to be a standard. (Now, assuming the SQLite documentation is licensed in a way which supports this, copying the documentation of SQLite’s supported SQL as of that version into the standard might have been viable, but no one interested in having WebSQL proposed that or any other resolution.

That relates to the cited issue of absence of independent implementations, which would have been a problem even with a spec that supported independent implementations and verification of their compliance independent of a particular reference implementation. though I personally think the spec problem is a bigger real problem (even if not the decisive policy problem) than the “everyone is using the same underlying software to implement the spec” problem is in this case, where the shared implementation is a permissively licensed open source implementation sponsored by several of the browser vendors, among others.
Not with full x16/x16, though I suppose you don't necessarily need that.
It connects all of your computers and devices in a way that feels magical. For example, if I have a Plex server named myplex on port 80 at home, and if I want to access it from my laptop, I just go to http://myplex.

It doesn't matter if I'm at home or anywhere else, if I have internet then that just works. I don't have to open a port on my router, configure DNS, or anything like that, I just install and run Tailscale.
> Your average line worker cannot impact the entire business like this.

We already use this to justify the massive disparity in raw salary, so it doesn't make sense to use that same argument to justify the massive disparity in percentage increases as well. The scope of influence is already factored in to last year's salary.

Raises on the order of hundreds of thousands would not make sense, but why not raises that are comparable as a percentage of pay? Each front line worker making (for easy math) $50k a year in 2022 can absolutely contribute more than $20k to a year's growth.
They accidentally have a point there though.

1. poorer people spend a much higher % of their income, whereas rich people save it.

2. there's a lot more poorer people than rich people, which unfortunately can mean they're more capable of moving prices.

This is sort of related to why the middle class thinks full employment+low inequality economy is worse. There's other middle class people to bid up prices, and service at restaurants is worse/more expensive. It's nice to be in a high-unemployment high-inequality economy, if you're employed.
The problem is, the propaganda was all just propaganda in the end. Yes, we got cheap trinkets out of China, but at what price? Insane amounts of economic devastation, as none of the promised benefits other than said cheap trinkets materialized. None of the countries that "change by trade" ("Wandel durch Handel") targeted became democratic, and instead of "trickle down of wealth" we got a "trickle down of shit and exploitation" [1] while the elites at the top got ever richer and richer.

[1] https://www.allaboutlean.com/hoshin-kanri-3/bird-shit-hierar...
Trudeau says intelligence shows India is behind slaying of Sikh leader in Canada
How much is executive comp really at a publicly traded company as a percentage of revenue? 40% raises for most employees across the board probably dwarfs it.

I don't see how stock buybacks relate more directly to anything here than retained earnings, or other kinds of reinvestment. They're just an effect of market conditions and the stock price.
But do they do the most for the company, though? What about those who actually invent their products in R&D, or any of that?
> Settle in for a wild propaganda-filled fall season

> There is no reality where line workers screwing in the same 3 door bolts all day long are getting what amounts to an effective ~70% pay increase in one year.

Please align your own comments. They are looking for a 40% hourly pay increase over 4 years, and a reduction to a 32 hour work week. These combined work out to an increase of 12% in annual pay, over four years. No UAW hired since 2007 makes more than $17/hour.

If you're looking for more details of what the UAW wants, they are in this article: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/13/where-uaw-negotations-stand-...
Only if the contracts automatically follow profits. Profits are not a ratchet, while contracts typically are.

Also they are asking for more than pay raises and shortened work week. They're also demanding health benefits for retirees and defined benefit pensions among other things.
One big difference is with a NBA team there are only about 9 - 11 other primary contributors, maybe some coaches and back office staff. At any large company there are tens of thousands pulling the boat (pick your metaphor), however the rest have limited bargaining power (without a union). CEOs sit on the board and are good friends with board members and often return the favor on other boards and networks.

CEO wage negotiations have nothing in common with employee wage setting.
That is generally how it works though. The buyer wants to pay as little as possible and seller wants the maximum. That works in most circumstances.

In the case hiring, in a tight labor market, there are more open roles than people, so the companies that want a particular hire, or value experience in that role, need to pay more to secure the candidate. And those that don't, end up with roles that aren't filled. In a market with more labor, then the firm has its pick of candidates, and can make lower offers, secure in the fact it probably will get a bite from a candidate with fewer options.

It works that way with oil, or hog futures, or my corner bodega's sandwich prices.
Yeah TinyCore is always missing from these intros to immutable Linux… it’s been around a while and has a great design (though the implementation leaves some to be desired, and probably has no corporate backing to explain people not knowing about it…)

It’s solid and simple, unlike these other immutable Linux distros
Let's say I wanted to do this. How do I actually get started?

Let's say I make a website that showcases my qualifications and lists out the services I offer.

How do I actually get a client?
Which Python Client? The one using ADBC/nanoarrow? If not, the issue might be related to converting columnar data to row-based.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FOp160CZYE
So those with the least leverage to earn more just so happen to deserve to be paid just as little as they are, and those who have severely disproportionate influence on their earnings just happen to be making exactly what they deserve?

Trying to justify exorbitant C-suite salaries because they often work hard (in conditions significantly easing working hard due to having a litany of assistants to handle boring stuff, private jets, drivers, Michelin starred meals with regulators, lawyers an executives counting as "work") is silly when you look at how hard so many working class people work. But I know you know this, so it seems you're just blaming them for being born poor, unconnected and not having the "big business brain" that all C-suite executives must have.
Coincidentally, The West has a track record of having really well-trained and well-equipped death squads that act in foreign territory. Go figure.
The problem is the car manufacturers are massively leveraged against and now China has our economies by the balls. All the CCP needs to do is squeeze them and we're in for many years of pain as we unravel our unhealthy dependency on both China and the automotive industry.
Jeff bezos has something to say about the 5pm thing :

"By 5 p.m., I'm like, 'I can't think about that today. Let's try this again tomorrow at 10 a.m,'" he told the Economic Club of Washington, DC.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-daily-routine-201...
It is duck-typed government. Just smaller than a city/town.
Yes and no.
The U.S. can and does make new money to pay debts...basically out of thin air. As a self imposed limit, they agree to pay interest on that debt. Again, yes they can create money to pay that interest, which because of the mechanism they set up, would cost further interest payments.

So what's the real limit?

Inflation.

If you have too many dollars in circulation chasing too few goods, you get inflation.

Therefore, the limit is the the extent to which interest payments on the national debt are sufficient to induce inflation beyong productivity growth.

At least, this is my understanding.
Well there's no such thing as UN law.

There is nothing above the sovereign nations and they are only bound by their treaties, bilateral and multilateral - despite having a name like "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea", this is not some law which UN could pass or modify, it's a treaty which is binding only on those who sign it, and any modifications to add extra restrictions it will be binding only to those ships whose countries agree to these restrictions. UN (and any other international organization) is subservient to the sovereign countries or a place of discussion, not some "world government" above them.
Because as it expands it becomes a heat sink that consumes an ever greater share of the US economy and will gradually drive economic dynamism rapidly toward zero.

It's the Japan scenario. Take a look at their budget and or spending, and the share going to interest (debt maintenance broadly), over the past 20 years.

The result? US GDP per capita: $80,000. Japan's GDP per capita: $35,000. In the year 2000 Japan's figure was higher than the US figure.

Now, the US will be able to kick the can for quite a while yet, especially if it retains the global reserve currency and can distribute economic damage (debasement) more globally.

The tape to watch is the average rate of interest on the debt and the share of spending going to maintain the debt. Imploding demographics and entitlement growth are gasoline on the fire. For a while you can just keep trying to push the average interest rate lower, so the interest costs don't get out of control as the total sum soars by the decade; that eventually begins to fail, as it did in Japan. You can only drive the interest rate on the debt pile so low and then your last game is to begin aggressively debasing the standard of living of the people, through currency debasement, to reduce the debt problem. And it's thus Japan's standard of living has been hammered over the past two decades. South Korea will shortly (within a few years) surpass Japan in GDP per capita.

Tens of trillions of dollars locked up yielding 0.5% or 1% or 2% per year (now or in the future), is the heat sink. That capital should otherwise be acting to spur economic growth, innovation, invention, economic well-being, social welfare, infrastructure, and so on. Instead it's being locked away yielding zip, in ever greater sums, at ever lower average interest rates. It's an economic heat death process and it will tend to keep going until it eats everything it can (because no political entities dare step in front of it on their watch).
I can follow your logic for basketball players beause I know the players compete with each in grade school, middle school, high school etc.. until being recruited to play in the NBA.

Does this mean that I have been missing the CEO tournaments? surely they must compete with one another after all how else can you compare who is better without a direct face off?. It seems like the big companies always get the best CEOs so they must have scouts all over the place on the lookout for that great undiscovered CEO talent.

Or could it be that big companies always produce "great" CEO because its a lot harder to fail and a lot easier to win when you are stearing the biggest ships.
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On the Federal Reserve Economic Data website, you can put together your own charts to put the debt data into context.

Here’s one that I just created, which compares the ratio of debt payments to tax collected over time:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=18ZzX
> If you're the CEO of a company and you increased profits by 92%,

If it's a company of one than I agree. In any other scenario the CEO led the company to a 92% increase. The CEO didn't do this alone. They maybe managed that increase and had a part in it but others most likely did the vast majority of all the work.

Now, how do you feel if the CEO fired 50% of the workers and maybe the remaining work twice as much to make up the slack. This leads to a 92% increase in profits and the CEO deserves the vast rewards?
Well, if interest rates remain high, perhaps CEO pay will go down.
some of us still make calotypes

https://www.flickr.com/groups/1384661@N22/
It's a privilege, you might leave with a sense of being generous but in the end you also feed into a culture of systemic abuse and exploitation.

I really dislike traveling to the USA and being forced to tip because employers don't pay enough, it feels really, really wrong.
I work at one of these "larger firms".

You might be surprised at how much even basic things like security response or considerations are valued at "larger firms", or inconsistently applied (in part because of their size), or don't accord with the users' interests.

It's typical for "larger firms" for example to have a vulnerability evaluation process that pretty much boils down to "can we avoid responding to this vulnerability at all?" and if there's any way to avoid it, they do--because even patching will cost money. Across a big service with a variety of components? Potentially even "real" money. And the mistakes these companies make, when they make them, are often huge (like Sony storing plaintext passwords), even when they're elementary mistakes.

Put something on encrypted storage and served by a reasonably-configured OpenBSD server? That's probably quite a bit safer from compromise, when considering all threats, than Flickr or Google Drive or whatever. What it's not safer from, probably, are corruptions and loss (like from bad hardware, mistaken deletion, key loss, and so forth).

So I use both services and self-hosted things--but it's certainly the case for my "sensitive files" that they don't go within sniffing distance of a "larger firm" cloud service but are stored and backed up with my own encryption, using tools like OpenBSD and the utilities stemming from it.

As for whether it's "tech independence", perhaps it's more about being able to make the choice for yourself about where that line is drawn, rather than being forced to accept serfdom because you don't know any better. If someone takes this as a first step, moving cloud providers could be their second, or DNS registrars; or maybe revision 2 of the script (or someone else taking inspiration from it) can describe how to host your own nameservers and MTA. But there has to be some place to start, and an opinionated cookbook is not a bad one.
Nah, I read every incident report for military in the US because it was part of my job. Since we were talking about US military aviation I felt that was the avenue. I have read every incident report for Russia, not that I even could.
The American would be the hare in this story.
The "small towns" that get the most money this way are those that produce the best products, which tend to be the ones that were already the most successful. The most desperate towns gain very little from this scheme because they don't have anything to offer. The only reason that Tokyo isn't benefitting the most of all is that it's specifically excluded from taking part.

If the goal was to transfer some of Tokyo's tax income to towns that need it more, why not just do that, without all the complex bureaucracy and inefficient loss of tax revenue? If the beneficiary is meant to be the town that educated a person, why not run the system that way? (All that stuff is on record in Japan).
Two A.I. Models Try to Authenticate a Raphael Painting and Got Different Results
As someone pointed out "1.5 million in cash" for not doing the job you were hired for is .. not zero.

I'm fairly sure I could achieve the same results for considerably less.

Moreover making compensation dependent on stock price movement encourages corruption and fraud - look at the numerous Enrons and other financial claims. All of which left the majority of those responsible enriched while destroying the lives of others.
It's the long tail of the Internet, but with humans' knowledge.
yes actually - I spoke with a contractor at giant banks, at a high level of security, and with it compensation. The casual stories he told were related to beyond-belief daily animosity, racist language, whoring references and other verbal attacks and harsh emotional content. The whole thing was told in the same breath as I get this much per hour (a lot), I travelled to this place and got this hotel, I got this bonus.. in the same breath.

There is more going on with people and work and money than most people seem to acknowledge when speaking in general.
> A bad SRE team can destroy your company.

Ah, and the SRE team assembled themselves, hired themselves, decided what to work on, direction, technology, plans, etc all on their own?

Or is there a C-Suite running the SRE team, even if indirectly?

> If the entire C-Suite quit, uh… what exactly would happen? People would continue doing what they had already been doing?

This is beyond naïve, I'm not sure what to call it. Yes, things hum along for some duration... and then what?

C-Suite are not laborers, as you've queued into. They provide direction, guidance, goals, identify problems, etc.

Take a human being without any of that in their personal life. What becomes of them? Nothing good... it's similar for a company. The wrong leadership dooms a company before any of the line workers even notice.
Just to point out a demonstrated, viable, successful reality achieved under different values and assumptions, the Mondragon Corporation/cooperative produces car parts, among many other things, and has pre-agreed ratios for wages for executives relative to the lowest wages paid to workers, and this tops out at 9:1. Studies have found that worker-owned coops have a greater survival rate than conventional businesses, and that they have higher productivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation#Wage_reg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative#Longevity_a...
I think it was in Michael Palin's show Sahara, he's talking to some locals living in a village in the middle of the desert, and while I'm wondering why anyone would ever settle out there, the person being interviewed relayed that many more people used to live there before it became a desert. It wasn't that they moved out there, they were all that was left. Kind of post-apocalyptic.

Edit: found the mention, he's talking to folks from the dogon tribe in mali, [0]@29min - 30min says that the area was heavily forested 500 years ago. The location is the bandiagara escarpment, old cliff dwellings [1]. All the episode of Sahara are on youtube, I highly recommend the series.

[0] https://youtu.be/oZHR16GN1EU

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandiagara_Escarpment
> nobody wants to do that job for $1m/yr

I invite everyone here to raise their hand if they're just as hard-pressed as me to think of any job that they wouldn't do for a million per year.
My work is fulfilling but financially it's not great.
I've tried something like what you're describing. Most years I'd start with a week or two of solving problems that don't involve any code at all.

For example, a day one teaser (these are 12 year olds) I liked to give was an 8 by 8 grid on the floor. They would get in groups and devise a way to move from a start to an end location. Then they would enact it, first me receiving their directions and later other students. I would of course take their directions a literally as possible, with them frequently getting exasperated ("that's not what I meant!").

We'd go from that to generalizing some rules and formulating steps. Once they had working rules, I'd add obstacles or change the start and end locations.

My goal with these was to develop the skill of seeing discrete, reusable steps, and how they mirror each other between problems. Learning loops and conditionals without ever writing coding, for example. Seeing the need for variables as storage, etc...
Shhhhh.

We kind of need to keep that lie quiet so the Treasuries market stays liquid (I mean, kind of weird we all know the government openly manipulates the rate of return on the world's most common financial instrument, no?).

It's kind of why we can't min the $1tn coin to fix the debt ceiling. Everyone just agrees it's pretty convenient to ignore the market's weirdness and run with it (because the illusion of a risk free rate is a nice one).
>Tim Cook is a wizard of supply chain, and in many ways that’s a large part of Apples current success, IMHO. The list goes on.

Okay but don't many other companies deal with supply chains? I guess software companies don't, but "companies that trade in physical goods" is a pretty big segment, and it stands to reason that having "a wizard of supply chain" would be useful. Doesn't this translate into an argument in favor of "leadership is leadership wherever you go"?
My understanding is lower classes historically didn't eat much meat. They couldn't afford it.

In a college English class that covered poetry, decades later the only thing I remember clearly is the professor commenting on how "greasy Jane stirs the pot" meant there was meat, thus this was an upper-class meal, otherwise it wouldn't have been greasy and she was likely a servant. He went on about how elegant it was to convey so much info with a single word but it only does that if you know enough context, which means enough history.

So the existence of this pack of cards likely suggests rising wealth generally. It suggests a world in which people who didn't normally eat meat might begin to eat meat enough to need or want written instruction because their associates likely also didn't know how to carve meat or someone would just show them or tell them.