skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meaningless for tech workers in the UK. You quit from a £100k a year job, your £90 a week isn't going to be noticable.

Far more useful is if your employer lays you off (short of major disciplinary reasons), you get at least 1 weeks pay for every year you've worked there (1.5 weeks if you are older).
Coal is used for chemical processes, heating (locally and remote) and also generating electrical energy (also locally and remote). From those, only remote electricity can easily be replaced, remote heating might be replaceable, but would take some investments and not sure if this wouldn't be more expensive and quite inefficient. Anything locally working can't be replaced easily, and forget chemical processes.

And yes, coal is also used to compensate for fluctuations, but those are only very little numbers. AFAIK the harm from having nuclear plants idling around is far bigger.
That is the point. As you increase price, fewer cow units are sold because people don’t have unlimited money.

If the reduction target is not met, it just means the tax is not high enough.
I read that as "We should allow paying developing country salaries in a developed country to allow competition".
How would increased unemployment benefits assist a worker below the poverty line? Unemployment payments are below minimum wage, and by definition cannot be supplemental income.
This doesn't really match my experience. Friction for most video calls is very low. Our org uses teams, but my team uses old zoom accounts we got during early covid, for small groups we use slack huddles, and when we talk to AWS product folks we use chime. Once in a blue moon someone will even send a google meetup my way.
KDB is the epitome of finance software. Cool in theory, and a decade ago probably the right choice if you needed to separate compute/storage and just get crazy high performance, but god damn I hate actually having to deal with it. Would rather DuckDB or even just Polars every time these days.
It's us in the EU who are having the sacrifice though. As we're left behind economically and technologically as a load of octogenarian bureaucrats decide to ban genetic engineering, AI, etc.
I agree. A lot of times hard work is a good un-to-itself, and more so when helping others, or community.

I think this thread was more about widgets.

Why would people work hard, go above and beyond, so their company can ship 0.007% more widgets this quarter, or improve efficiency 0.02%. When they will not be paid/rewarded any more than the slacker next to them. The people that do have that 'work' ethic, seem to be getting taken advantage of by the employer.
My goodness, nowhere near Singapore efficiency. 10 years to reduce to 60% homelessness. Singapore did to 90% in less than 10 years with near nothing other than pure debts and human capital in the 70s. And not only that they managed to maintain that for more than 3 decades. I would like to see Camel in 10 years time when they flip or some incompetent mayor voted in. When they able to do it 3 decades in a row, come back and let me know. PLUS all the example cited spread across multiple cities. Singapore had done it all in one single city and much more with less than 3-5M people. Again when you have something like that in America then I am impress. Otherwise, American achievement mentioned there dime a nickel many spread across Eastern Asia. Don't ride on Singapore tailcoat. USA is one of the worst country in a lot of metrics to benchmark against Singapore. Even the so call journalism freedom metric is just mirage in USA....look who employ those journalists. Their news outlet are so bizzare is like they reporting an alternate multiverse USA that I am not aware of.
> Its not like I can take a holiday in europe and still collect.

Last year I was vacationing in Sicily and I met a French girl who was doing just that: traveling Europe while collecting unemployment from her home country. I am in favor of generous unemployment welfare, but there should be controls in place.
Yes of course, it's pricing in a negative externality that was previously not accounted for.
Someone smoking 5oz per month is likely making poor decisions.

But I think a more reasonable explanation is they were trying multiple different strains or growing conditions. They may expect to toss out a fair bit of sub par pot.
Yes, the USA is one of Germany's closest allies, but the reliablity of that partnership is now being put into question due to the USA's increasing protectionism (on both the left and right), and people's concerns about the potential of a second Donald Trump term (or someone Trump-like).

Because of this, EU countries are working rather hard to try and insulate themselves from potential changes in their relationship with the USA (hence the big focus on an EU military and strategic autonomy).
Governments taxing food usually isn't a good idea. They should attack the problem in a way that doesn't make it so food is more expensive for people.
As someone who uses both I still contend that Slack is superior. The messiness seems to come from too many channels being made and needs to be actively pruned by management and company practices around Slack need to be communicated to employees.
That's ok, they'll just find another tax carve out.

VAT is the real answer. If people had to pay consumption taxes, the issue would go away. You have to spend the money somewhere.
The prompting feature looks great — excited to try this out.
I am curious about how you think a $290/week (minimum wage) budget works.

Can you give me a breakdown of how a family of three can survive off of this? I figure if you can't see how anyone in America could be below water on a minimum wage salary, you must have a good idea of how to survive on a shoestring budget.

Here, I'll make it simple.

At approximately $1,260/month, how would much would you allocate to each category?

Rent/Mortgage:

Groceries:

Transportation:

Utilities:

Healthcare:

Personal / Misc:

Entertainment:

Debt repayment:

Savings:
No, your information is false.

>A considerably strong increase of electricity imports to Germany is seen from Poland. Starting at a lower level, the Polish electricity import rose by 400 percent in 2021, compared to previous year. [1]

..and that was / is coal power.

Media critical of the nuclear exit here in Germany pointed out that the immediate solution to the disappearence of German nuclear power from the network was to increase energy imports, namely more nuclear power from France and more coal power from Poland, which made the whole move even more questionable.

[1] https://www.eupd-research.com/en/conventional-electricity-im...
I love that "let's keep things apolitical" then just talk about politics that
he might disagree with.

There is not such a thing as apolitical. If you say something of sort you
are just in agreement with the current political status quo you are inserted on.
Just by his definition of "I only talk when things really get political" is
statement to that.

Open source software is political statement, and imho it benefits from being
more political (or open about it) not "less".

Also this whole videos plays like a series of click baity phrases, I couldn't
watch through.
In many areas, the notion of government services operating at a loss doesn't make sense - police, fire department, armed forces, libraries, parks, etc.
The company I work for used Slack, we were happy, but higher ups were looking to cut costs and they noticed they had Teams for free, so guess what... bye bye Slack.

Absolutely a monopoly maneuver.
Cows aren't the problem. Large scale industrial mono-agriculture and meat processing are the problem.
Not OP but for everyone I know the desktop is mostly either empty or a messy “temp” folder.
If they've shipped it, it HAS to do SOMETHING.
I’m not very savvy with client science, but does this make any sense? The methane produced by cow farts comes mostly from consumed grass and maybe grain. Grain would have some petrol inputs, but does a grass-fed cow? It sounds like it’s neutral.
Incredibly enough, the "VirtualGirl" executable is archived at the Internet Archive:

- https://archive.org/details/virtuagirl265

It has been found worthy of preservation.-
From where does the (extra) greenhouse gas emission come? The cow itself consume renewable feed (of course [1]). Is it the transportation of feed, production of clean water, random diesel tractor stuff? Maybe deforestation due to feed production?

[1]: Or is there feed where the carbon is taken from e.g petroleum somehow? Sugar is a hydrocarbon after all...
As well intentioned as this may be, I suspect the ultimate result will be to make the hiring process even worse for applicants as employers will be incentivized to avoid people who have gaps in their employment history or seem to have a propensity to job-hop. Not only that, I suspect employers will also try to add even more tests and competency-checks to the interview process.
The moral philosophy is not about trying to solve problems. It's about justifying the state of affairs. When a new state of affairs arises, a moral philosophy justifying it will get adopted.

E.g. Lockean ethics making property a fundamental right (later implemented as a "self evident god given thruth") is just a semi-theological justification for priviliged classes holding their privileges.

A bit like divine rights of kings, or superiority of certain ethnic groups, or intellecual and moral superiority of the noblesse.
None of those places have a good idea of your identity, though.
Base load is more of a fairy tail. For the applications I'm talking about, I explained them in a sibling comment.
Good thing we have scientists who can model things so we don’t have to guess blindly! https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-price

I live in Denmark and look forward to this change.
The 'gene deserts' unravelling the mysteries of disease
> So any web app that runs on multiple nodes reinvent k8s

Most of them only reinvent 1/10th-1/100th of Kubernetes.
> BTW the fuel is mostly coming from Kazakhstan. Does that ring a bell?

Then switch to Niger or Namibia (where France partly gets theirs from), or Canada, or Australia.
It's not extremely weird, when they stated both of those reasons, multiple times, in press releaes and bug reports.

I am well aware of where their profits come from, but when going after them in the public sphere, you must address, and refute the reasons they publicly cite.

Also note, often there are multiple reasons. By ripping down their stated reasons, and showing the absurdity of them, and also validating how it literally hurts accessibility for those with visual disabilities, you doubly ahow them to be an organization filled with uncaring individuals, which care not for accessibility.

Personally, I wouldn't want to work in a place that wouldn't put in a wheelchair ramp. I wouldn't want to work with people that accept that. Yet that's Google.

What does it say about those working there?
Cow digestion produces on average 220lb of methane per year which acts as a potent greenhouse gas.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/making-cattle-more-sustain...
Supreme Court tosses claim Biden admin coerced social media to remove content
I guess the main question is, will more money be paid out of the program. If so, who should pay it?

If lots of people like the idea, a non-profit quitting insurance company could be created. It seems that it would largely end up being a savings account however. For instance, instead of retiring, simply quit.
>Oh it ended up owned by Porsch?

No, VW Group owns Porsche, the car brand. There is also Porsche SE which is a tiny company, which owns controlling shares over VW Group.

The short squeeze happened because there aren't actually that many shares around which you can buy.

>I know that a merger doesn't involve paying the market cap. It's more about convincing the shareholders that their final shares in the merged company would be worth more than the sum of whatever shares they have in each part.

Shareholders opinions are totally irrelevant. The only thing that would matter is the family who owns Porsche SE agreeing, which isn't going to happen.

Market cap is the product of the number of shares and what the market thinks a single share is worth. So the market cap matters as it puts a bound on what the price could be. But in this case the price at which shareholders would accept such an acquisition is irrelevant, as their is a single shareholder who holds controlling shares and gets to make the decision.
> But they feel it especially at work, because that's the place that they interact with other people the most, so it's the place where there should be the best chance of real human contact. And it's not there.

The worst part is, modern workplace is actively hostile to creating meaningful interpersonal bonds, while it keeps a face of being ridiculously welcoming and inclusive. When you are in such environment it's hard to spot that the game is rigged, and you blame yourself for your interpersonal failures.
The ticker is meta
I love the font-work on the cover. You may not think much of it, but today I was browsing some upcoming books "by-their-cover" and all of them were essentially some bad-ass-wanna-look character close up. Uniform to the bone. When did being original became such a liability?
ALGOL Generative Art from 1968
Can you point to which part in the license gives you the impression that using an unmodified version of AGPL code requires using AGPL for your entire application?

Either way your interpretation is not our intention so I'll make sure that's clarified.
This is an edge illogical case. Like technically you can sell your apple shares for $5/share, but no broker even has the functionality to let you voluntarily take a loss.

When someone with money defaults on a loan, it's usually because a.) they don't actually have money or b.) the loan is for their company, not them.

All that to say that "having money" is functionally equivalent to "propensity to pay".
That article is several years old and out of date. The poster you replied to would have been referring to current wages. Low income wages have made the largest percentage gains of any bracket since 2020.
That was a great article.

If I'd read this when I was first learning measure theory, I would have had a much easier time. In fact, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that sigma algebras were just the "nice sets and subsets" of things that we can extend measures from finite additivity to countable additivity.

I used to think mathematical objects were somehow "inherent". I was always amazed that people had discovered and proved so many interesting things about them. Once I realized they were often just defined to be the thing that has the property we want to prove something about, it got a lot less mysterious.

Note, I'm not saying we just stop there, or that this is somehow bad. The next obvious step taken by mathematicians is to start removing bits of the objects they study, and try to figure out what's still provable until we get to categories, logic, and start arguing about things like the axiom of choice.
Very few negative externalities are actually accounted for. This is political grandstanding at best.
Cows literally fart methane, a greenhouse gas an order of magnitude worse than carbon. There is no green way to mass produce beef and those externalities should be taxed. However, I know nothing about Danish agriculture so I don't know if this tax is fair and well thought or not, but industrial agricultural production of beef absolutely needs to be taxed.
> In general case given a system it is impossible to prove it is not self-contradictory.

If you're asserting it, by merely asserting axioms, then (in the general case,) yes. If you're constructing it, and showing that the axioms are satisfied, then no: there are several ways to construct a model that nobody has ever found a contradiction in, and you can construct spherical geometry this way.
Pedantic point but you can be above the federal poverty level while still qualifying for Medicaid/SNAP.

The Federal Povery Level for 2024 is $15,060. Assuming 1,720 hours a year for full-time employment, that's just under $8.76/hr.

The federal minimum wage is still $7.25/hr. So, the ultimate takeaway is in most states in the US working full time employment at the minimum wage of the state you will be below the FPL.

One important thing to think about though is what percentage of low wage full-time jobs are actually still at the federal minimum wage?
> Taxes on producers inevitably get passed on to consumers.

And just like any tax on consumption, it would have an outsized effect on lower income consumers. That’s not necessarily wrong or unintended, but it’s the reality of any program like this.

If this were CA, there would be some cockamamie “low income meat consumer tax credit” proposed alongside. And then even if it’s added, it’ll get removed after a few years so just the tax remains.
I think this approach is probably in line with Google's, or at least it seems like it. Trying to intuit what I really want instead of paying attention to what I actually searched for is also one of the big reasons why I find Google search to be terrible.

I am not its target demographic, it appears.
> Exercise improves sleep, improves cognitive function and make tasks easier and more enjoyable.

Sleep maybe. My cognitive function is down for extended periods of time after prolonged exercise. I see no effect on exercising vs my life enjoyability except immediately after exercise I feel happy, because that torture is over and I can resume thinking.
Yes, I believe you do need to have a good math understanding to understand why a model is behaving the way it is and develop intuition into where the problem might be but that comes with experience. If you're looking into ML research then absolutely you need to learn the math but if you intend to support ML as a programmer then there's plenty of space for you to do so
Ask HN: Is there a better VoIP provider than Skype?
For more than 10 years I've used Skype to make and take telephone calls.

For a long time I think Skype has gone downhill, particularly the iPad version. More and more often it can't find the microphone or the user interface updates haphazardly like a bad React app or it will ring and ring and ring and there is no way I can hang up. On top of that I am getting an increasing rate of messages that seem like pig butchering scams and I am getting notifications about Donald Trump that I don't want.

It seems like you should be able to get a SIP number and access it with a tablet app, phone app or a desktop app but the last time I tried it it seemed all the SIP providers I found looked really sketchy and I struggled to get it working.

Is there some simple way to get SIP or another VOIP phone working as a consumer in 2024?
Good thing it’s not all food then, but things that are actively bad for our continued existence on this planet.
There are other foods that are cheaper and more CO2 efficient than beef. Chicken, Pork and Fish for instance.

Making it expensive so that consumption of specific types of food is expensive is the point. The more expensive, the less consumers are likely to consume that type of food.

This carbon tax can also be used to subsidize CO2 efficient foods, making them cheaper for the consumer in the end.
In 1998 I started work at the 'Advanced Techniques Department' of a traditional UK engineering company (Plessey). We primarily used Symbolics Lisp machines (and later, TI Explorer Lisp cards for Macs) but one of our contractors used HyperCard to build demos that could be easily taken to customer sites / used in exhibitions to get customer feedback. We also used it to mock user interface concepts, etc. We also made a lot of use of ResEdit which was great for creating and modifying assets such as icons, strings, bitmaps, etc.

Once I got into the Mac ecosystem, it was stunning how quickly you could build sophisticated (for the time) GUIS, demos etc. It sure beat trying to build interfaces using curses on a traditional unix box and was a lot cheaper than a Sun box or a Lisp machine!
Both of my adult children have foregone career paths for menial jobs (retail worker and admin stuff). So far, they are both really happy. Living their lives without stress or overtime.

Blue collar work wears out the body. Are you going to be welding at 50? Working as a guide at 60? Tile workers in my family all stopped in their 40s because they could no longer do it.

I could quit my programming job and live on a lot less, as I have savings and already own most of the stuff I need, but health insurance is a problem. (And I like having money).
Could you explain which externality this is? I know they produce a lot of methane which is more of a GHG than CO2, but as far as I know, that methane is a part of the carbon cycle so it should be a net neutral contribution.
Woah this seems really cool, I was wondering whether Kerno can be deployed to multiple clusters, and how that would look like in the app?
Totally. There's absolutely no in-between.-
Everybody feels better when healthy, and worse when sick.

Viewing this topic purely through years of life extension is severely flawed.
I think GP was drawing a parallel between Euclid’s fifth axiom of and results like Banach-Tarski since the fifth axiom is independent of the other four, and Bnach-Tarski follows from the Axiom of Choice which is independent of the rest of set theory.

The pun was intended, by the way.
Of course!

Remember business thrives on there being a certain amount of unemployed people to create competition for jobs and keep wages low.

If everyone was employed then employers would have to pay decent wages because we would all be employed elsewhere.

Imagine being headhunted for a job at Mucky Dees for £25 per hour.

Unemployed are called workshy and feckless here on Airstrip One.

We have forced work clubs and the unemployed have to search for 40 hours each week for jobs, meaning that every local employer receives thousand of job applications that they throw in the bin. This is intentionally degrading and dehumanising.

The nazi's degrading and dehumanising "Work will set you free" over the entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp comes to mind.

I think it is everyones right to not work and be supported by the state.

WORK does not set you free!
This doesn't make "food" more expensive. It makes specific food options more expensive. The options that tax the environment deserve to be taxed.
A brave new world where the poor people eat artificial meat and crickets while the rich get to eat cows and chickens.
This is internalizing the cost of the externality. If paying the true cost of something is oppressive, hooboy, you're gonna have a bad time, because humanity has been living on credit for 100+ years wrt carbon emissions, the ag revolution, etc. I too am unhappy when a discount I was getting due to mispricing disappears.

If you don't believe in climate change, the argument is not worth having.

https://www.wired.com/story/everythings-about-to-get-a-hell-...
And, as far as things go for the other 30%, I've known people on SNAP and Medicaid who need to very carefully limit how many hours they get, and even decline raises, for fear of edging over a threshold that causes them to lose support and end up even worse off, economically.

It strikes me as a great example of a policy incentivizing (enforcing, really) the very thing it's ostensibly supposed to discourage. These folks have dreams and want better jobs, and they're often deeply ashamed of being on welfare, but if you're supporting a family your overriding moral imperative is to make sure everyone is fed and healthy and that trumps everything else.

It's so incredibly stressful to live in a society where people have been raised on a Calvinist worldview that teaches that it's immoral to be unwealthy.
I've tried it, but it didn't work well together, still looking for a solution, CRDT is the hard part, haha.
A single parent of three kids is considered a household size of 4, with a poverty line at 30k. That is basically the median full time salary in several professions in the retail and food industry.