jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nothing is axiomatic in economics. It's not a hard science -- there is too much complexity for us to create highly accurate models yet. It's not proven that UBI will cause inflation uniformly across the board.

You can make argument that this will happen. But it is simply wrong to state that it is an obvious mathematical derivation.

And once again, the potential systemic impacts of the policy that you are describing are not the same type of thing as a condition that an individual must meet to receive the payment.
> How do you handle things that are priced by weight?

I assume they'll handle it the same way Amazon Prime Now seems to handle delivery from Whole Foods: it's a platform where weight doesn't actually matter.

I get insanely variable results when I have Whole Foods items delivered via Amazon Prime. 2 lbs of chicken breast might be as little as 1.2 lbs, or as much as 2.5 lbs. In either case, it's priced as 2.0 lbs. If you're savvy enough to weigh it and realize you've been stiffed, Amazon refunds the entire item, so it's a win for the consumer...I guess?

In general I find that my weight-based fruit/vegetable/meat/bulk bin item purchases via Prime Now slightly exceed whatever I actually requested and paid for, and Amazon never charges for delivering more than you initially requested. But maybe 1/8th of weight-based items will be drastically under-weight. I have a kitchen scale handy, so I always catch this and report it. Amazon has never failed to refund the full cost of the item, but I do wonder how many other consumers are never noticing that they've been scammed when Prime Now fails to deliver the weight that was paid for.
OP should really read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This submission is against the guidelines.
That's simply not true. A lot of these projects provide software with excellent capabilities. The problem is, after someone writes a good algorithm the project is not done. Producing good end user documentation, a user interface that makes sense, or choosing UI paradigms that enable casual users to be productive - those are tasks which can easily take up the majority of a developer's time. A good case could be made that many open source developers don't even recognize these areas as goals or see how their project could possibly be structured any differently. This results in a lot of wasted time for the users, use case failures, a lot of duplicated effort across inaccessible projects, and the impression that these programs are not efficient.

However, by far not all GNU projects look like this - a ton of them could be considered "good as is" even by commercial standards. For example, Octave just works as it should, is well documented, and doesn't fight its users all the time. Even Gimp recognized usability was important, they just got it completely and mind-bogglingly wrong.
One huge benefit of HTML/CSS/JS is this: you are downloading the actual source code. This allows different platforms to interpret it as they will. It also allows developers to learn from each other in an open way. Of course, it allows for security audits as well, since JavaScript can be profiled. Overall, it's the most communicative form of programming.
Apologies n0! We just started blogging and are yet to optimise our post page for design.

I agree with you - it needs to be easier on the eyes!
So how does this affect other people? Let's say I do work for a European company, but I live and work in the US as a freelancer. Are the services I provide and the files I transmit now considered exports? Do I have to deal with yet more complexity come tax time? Sounds like it could be a huge pain in the ass.
Unless you use a Mac!
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the site is down for maintenance.

got a few books though.
As a graphic designer I agree, and wrote on this before:

http://i.liketightpants.net/and/my-favourite-logo-ever-is-fo...

> I heart the complete absence of symbolism. And the departure from traditional corporate marketing is all the more exciting because it rhymes with the product itself. GNU Pascal is open source software: it is changeable and redistributable at will. As such it is built more on the values of the academic world than on the traditional corporate ethos. And while visual identities for open source software tend to be pale imitations of corporate aesthetics, GNU Pascal is one clue of how such software could find a style of its own.
Incentives, and the corresponding KPIs, are always a good place to start looking if one is trying to find out why systems and people behave the way they do.

When I read the title I thought the paper was about business ideas and similar things. Having quickly read the paper, citations is a likely reason for, what the authors called, me too science.

Maybe it's time to be more bold.
Learn to make a budget and stick to it. People who follow and understand the expression "Waste not want not." and act accordingly will be in a much better position.

Start with going over your latest bank or credit card statement and really think about where your money has gone and where it should be going.

"How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!"
Clearly it’s not essential, as Microsoft and Magic Leap have brought products to market without it. But the experience of basically wearing sunglasses indoors while your AR imagery shines glaringly bright against its surroundings is hardly ideal.

If you’re aware of any applications of LCD to accomplish optical subtraction in AR, I’d love to read up on them.
I think people are searching for answers that no one has yet, and also for leaders to gauge both sides of the impact of any response.

We must admit that a severe economic impact is also a severe health impact. That much is settled science.

So one reasonable question becomes how much damage, not just in terms of dollars, but in terms of lives, would for example a GDP of -25% cause?

The impact of the virus to the percentage of the population that requires treatment is magnified significantly by an overrun healthcare system. That is a salient point. It means that spreading out infections over a longer time will allow better treatment for hospitalized COVID patients on average and save lives.

But graphics like the famous “flatten the curve” animation [1] are unfortunately quite misleading. The “capacity” line is drawn crossing some point on the y-axis which makes the graphic look compelling. The true ICU/ventilator capacity line is perhaps 4 pixels off the y-axis on that chart. We also don’t have any x-axis units, how many months would the curve have to stretch to keep the number of cases under capacity? And there’s another factor, for as long as hospital ICUs and healthcare dollar spend is dominated by COVID cases, there are all the other healthcare needs of the country / world which are suffering.

It’s reasonable to expect a macro level analysis of the net health impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) such as widespread and long-term suppression. I have yet to see a compelling scientific analysis on this topic.

Even the UK Imperial College report admits that there is not a clear cut moral or ethical “answer” based on the severe economic and health impacts of taking dramatic action to populations that otherwise would not be severely impacted by COVID.

The thing right now that’s confounding me is trying to comprehend how China and South Korea were able to, not flatten, but stop exponential growth, given the level of spread that we would expect to have occurred before suppressive measures were taken, based on the unmitigated R0 range. There were a lot of people traveling out of Wuhan before the lockdown [2], and yet the impact to greater China was relatively minimal, while most of China is now back to work.

Frankly it gives me hope that there’s reason to believe, particularly with warmer weather coming, that it’s easier to get R0 below 1 than we might otherwise suspect. It would be a welcome relief to be spared having to make the extremely difficult choice for or against long-term suppressive measures.

[1] - https://images.app.goo.gl/FtdN3kYowN2bSD3HA

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/22/world/coronav...
On iOS the phone gifs are comically long.
as a new haskell learner who started this month, I've really learned empathy from banging my head against the language

the docs have a specific tone or pattern that's everywhere (and by docs I mean everything -- library readmes, examples, language intros, and stackoverflow posts)

they all read like 'well, you probably haven't been introduced to monads yet. I can't answer your question directly in a short post (these posts are all like 6 paragraphs, nothing short about them), but I'll tell you why you can't do what you're trying to do and I'll also explain why I can't tell you what a monad is'

also my laptop battery keeps dying because the builds are so expensive
Please Dont. They have plenty of cash, still the lead in IPC, (for now), Marketing Power to defend their position, long term contract and business relationship in Sever Market, and incentives to partners should AMD inches closer.

For the first time Intel's new CFO finally admitted their 10nm wont be as profitable. But that doesn't mean they are not profitable as some media is trying to spin it.

They expect WillowCove to be ~15% faster than their Icelake, speeding up ( cough ) their 7nm introduction in 2021. ( That is marketing speak for higher 7nm product volume launch ) and moving to 5nm GAA in ( late ) 2023, roughly a year earlier than TSMC 2nm GAA.

Their 14nm+++ is the 2nd highest performance node to date ( I think highest performance honour goes to GF with their IBM / 14nm node ), and plenty of capacity coming up shortly.

So while they may not be in node's leadership and likely wont regain that anytime soon. They are definitely capable to compete. If anything I felt sorry for AMD not getting higher Server Market Shares and higher Profits / Revenue. They have been working so hard and deserve a lot more.
Interesting background on the Windows 95 Startup sound early in this interview with Brian Eno: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/ar...
Use of the word 'idiot' usually heralds an intemperate blanket comment.

What popularization? The article merely and briefly reports what the researchers said.'Experts from the university's microbiology team recreated the remedy and then tested it on large cultures of MRSA'.

Where's the lack of understanding on the part of the BBC team? The effect of the mixture may be found to be of no significant account (90% is not much) but that's another story that's down to the researchers.
Encrypt it, then store it where ever you like.
What do you mean "has been" stopped? There's no definitively stopping this without HTTPS, which I'm pretty sure hasn't magically "happened" in China in the last couple days.

The GFW may have ceased its attack, but there's no check you can possibly add into an asset delivered over HTTP which can't be undone by the GFW.

As long as there's a script being delivered over HTTP, the GFW can intercept that script request and replace with a script of its own.
Inking, sharing and reading mode are user facing features. Standards in web browsers have to do with the APIs and rendering and such conforming to standards.
I know of people who wear headphones at work not playing any music, just as a signal to other people not to disturb them.
> Just give me a mini-USB compatible charge port instead, the industry should have standardized on that by now.

They have, in Europe anyway:
http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2009/49.html
Thanks for your input.
Yes, I think in adding Jest
> Solar and wind require much higher-skill labor as there is much more maintenance that needs to be done.

Are you sure that the steam turbine (high RPM, balancing, thermal stress to blades, steam conditioning) is easier to maintain than a electric generator or an array of photovoltaics with control circuits?
> otherwise whatever we do would be right since we're doing that.

I didn’t follow the logic there. Are you saying everything everyone does is right?

I dig that, but it’s a strange thing to see in an argument.
You should look more deeply into that Kansas study. They cherry-picked their data in a way that is extremely dubious:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ianmsc/status/1332407421151576064...

Turns out that if you pick slightly different start and end dates, you can get dramatically different results.

Even if you think there’s a justification for it, plotting the counties’ data next to each other shows that they’re torturing the data. That is a perfect example of the horrible, flawed methodology that has been getting published all year.
Please explain like I'm five.
What are you running Element on? These issues make no sense. I run multiple clients on several devices, not experiencing such things.
Apple does not like to share anything from these on-going discussions. I'm surprised to see these details coming from Hyundai
And remove your work ID badge. No joke, the guy with the flag in the picture in this article was identified by people on social media and fired... because he had his company ID badge on.

These people are giving peosecuters a field day, displaying clear proof of multiple federal crimes.

That guy in Pelosi's office who stole her mail (and posed for pictures of both) also gave his name.
I'm willing to bet there's a not insignificant fraction of society who are profoundly interested in the lives and writing of people who have done harm to themselves and / or others.
"winners" failing is not much of an indication - obviously there is a staggering number of investment entities and often they are competing with other "winners" (look at the payment market, with Stripe, Balanced, Braintree etc, they all raised serious money) and someone usually comes out on top.

Whether or not Magic is a smart investment - I can't really tell, but I suspect that if I were to choose between Magic and Twitter back when they were just ideas, I would bet on the former.
Erlang has asynchronous message passing by default, on which synchronous message passing can be built.
We wouldn't want to miss out on a great speaker because they couldn't afford to get to and stay in London.
Mandatory execution sees offenders only as their offence, rather than human beings, and denies offenders the opportunity to change for the better. It is cynical and pessimistic.
Because Apache is where code goes to die, and Java code is dying ;)
This probably won't make me switch to Rust any time soon, but it was a very entertaining (and enlightening) read.
Thanks for the advice, been looking at Paddle/FastSpring. If I may ask, did you start with tax collection on day one?
I second that. Over last 6 years I happened to login and see other people dashboard a few times. First time it happened hair raised up on my arms thinking someone else can see my stuff. I simply logout and logged back in. I never manage to delete or do any reckless stuff with other people servers. But I feel what the OP was going thru.
Any clue "How" did it fix everything?

With everybody's router blasting at High Power, what can you actually do on your side with just one router to compensate?

Thx muchly!
Debian too. Although the fact they use Ubuntu suggests Debian support should be a given.
That’s for large parts to be completely underwater. It’s not a sudden event in 2180. It will start by 2060-2070
The thing is, can a publisher more than quadruple your sales? I think the top ones can.
It's not tough to solve.

The whole scrub thing was a red herring: you don't need to scrub anything to not leak data, you just thin provision. It's (mostly) fine if customer data stays on your disks after they delete. It's not fine to give it to the next customer because you don't know how disk abstraction works.

My issue is mainly how they coped with it, which has nothing to do with their (at the time) technical incompetence: they simply lied about the effects.

Competent or not, lying on your corporate blog isn't a good choice. It doesn't take any special skills or training to be honest on your journey from incompetence to competence, all it takes is integrity.
There are a couple mentions but no top comments:
Amazon has installed a mailbox at their facility, this mail piece specifically says to use it.

AND this mail piece says 'BE DONE by 3/1' when workers have until the end of the month to vote (context: amazon must stop anti-union mandatory meetings etc during voting).

This could be a legal violation & is a big deal. I think at a minimum breaks the spirit of the NLRB mail-in voting ruling.

HN seems to consider big tech = oppressive surveillance. I'll let you draw your own conclusions.

This is also the latest in a long list of extreme tactics some aren't mentioned in this article. To name a few:

Amazon also fired an activist who was speaking out. It's been reported Amzn has been penalizing pro-union employees with baseless and unfair management penalties/'strikes' and purposeful last minute over-time demands as punishment. Digital surveillance. Management basically stalking associates in break rooms, asking if they are only there to organize and attorneys and consultants drawing graph person relationship research charts to map their employees. A big propaganda push online & a pretty successful press drive - most of these articles Amazon gets many inches of positive talking points.

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/22/18277322/amazon-fired-warehous...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/22/how-amazon-is-fighting-back-...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/02/amazon-...
when retail on reddit are locked out

"Retail on reddit" doesn't use a broker that allows after-hours trading? Or am I reading this phrase incorrectly?
Excuse me, are you using IE6 ?
There are hackers out there looking for a "business guy" to "marry," but... the "business guy" has to bring more to the table than just an idea. If I partnered up with a "business guy" I'd be expecting somebody with some serious chops when it comes to prospecting and selling (and closing!), some useful connections to potential customers, partners and/or investors, and some knowledge of how to do business development and marketing. And if he knows at least a little bit about accounting and taxes, that would be a bonus.

But wanna-be Jack Welches who think their idea alone is enough to stand on, "if I can just find a hacker to build it" are a dime a dozen. So don't be surprised when you don't find a veritable onslaught of hackers lining up to beat down your door.

Anyway, to answer your question "Where to find a good hacker?" Well... there are lots of places. Starting here is a decent bet, but look for meetups in or near your town... if there is a HN meetup, or any technical user-group (Ruby User's Group, Java User's Group, Linux User's Group, Perl Mongers, whatever) go find them and start hanging out with those folks. Use LinkedIn, poke around sites like Quora and the various StackExchange sites... just don't be too obnoxious with the solicitations, or you'll piss off people who might otherwise be willing to help.

CS departments at area universities might give you useful leads as well. But read this:

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2010-1...

before calling up CS professors.

Some other food for thought:

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2010-1...

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2010/10/05/social-network...
A co-worker (a web-developer) read through the article and guessed it's a spoof, or a joke, because of countless buzzwords and somewhat strange tech selection (schema-free on MySQL holding compressed JSON). Just saying...
There is a distinction there: the way Java is used in the enterprise and for Android apps is very different.
Honestly it depends on your place in life. If you REALLY believe in the company and can afford to do so, then it's probably worth it.

I don't have that luxury (2 kids) right now so when I went to the current startup I'm with it was a sideways step. However I really believe in the company and was willing to take the risk of it not working out to make the move.

In fact I'm technically making less due to increased commute time and benefits changes but again, I really believe in the company.
According to Dave Itzkoff, an employee and frequent contributor to the NYT, this is a hoax. http://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/15847765293
Neverending was a competely different thing, which they scrapped to start flickr. Maybe it had some influence?

but as far as I remember, flickr was just a page with a single image loading at a time and users would type in a field to correctly tag it. Like how captcha works today.

Bradley Horowitz explained it well in a conference.
The really cool trip is the one from Copenhagen to Hamburg on the ICE - they actually load the entire train onto the ferry, kick you off it for an hour so you can swan about on deck, and then it's back onto the train once you dock. Very cool.
Did you see the "Yummy Raspberries" demo on this site? It's a pretty exact... well, raspberries to raspberries comparison. Unless one or the other was poorly implemented it's the same demo on both sides, again with Flash outperforming.
The paper should do better. But one of the things it tries to do well is language use, and one of the reasons it does it well is that it has people like Corbett working on the problem of what constitutes good writing and usage. Words matter, even if "tweet" is not a good example of why they matter. Corbett and his predecessors have done all kinds of interesting stuff, some of it fun, some educative, but some serious, serious especially when it comes to reporting on war: Do you call this group terrorists, or insurgents, or resistance fighters; do you call that group anti-Israeli, or humanitarian, or pro-Palestinian? We've taken this memo out of its native context and taken it as a sign of some deep problem at NYT in its relation to technology, but "tweet" is a drop in the ocean of language problems that Corbett deals with. Check out some of his public musings here: http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/author/philip-b-corbett/. I see no reason why an institution as important as the New York Times should not do a whole lot better in the ways you suggest, and also continue to try to set some basic standards for writing.
Not only that, but Sophiestication won an Apple Design Award.

My estimate of the percentage of women at WWDC is 5%.
My insomnia is, annoyingly, pretty hard to beat. Part of it is genericly caused, and part of it is delayed sleep-phase syndrome, both of which can be helped by various well-known practises, many of which have already been mentioned here - however both my job and my life means I have days when I don't get to bed until 3/4am, which screws me up.

My bigger problem though, is that even if I can take care with the physical Insomnia, I also have mental insomnia. I find it impossible to clear my head, and that regularly keeps me up until a couple of hours before I wake up. I'm unable to sleep while my brain is thinking of something, regardless of how boring it is (until the point that my body is just so tired I can't stay awake, which is when I fall asleep), and if I manage to get my brain to a state when it could sleep, suddenly it instead thinks "but what about.." and returns to the topic that's interesting enough that it keeps my brain running in circles, unable to stop concentrating. Really annoying.
Office on the Mac, lways (to me) felt like a kludge. It did not work like other Mac apps, it did not look like other Mac apps, and yet it did not work quite like it did on Windows either.

There was Internet Explorer for the Mac also, it was even a bigger kludge than Office.

I guess Apple thought they needed Office and IE at the time, but surely not because it was great software. In retrospect, I wonder if it really made any difference at all.
He doesn't actually care about porn; it's just an easily defensible position upon which to base controls over a wide variety of apps that harbor even the most tangential possibility to be used to view any pornographic content.