jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No I get that, but are you really advocating giving everyone the amount that the lowest tier get today? It's like $35k per year total.
If you gave everyone an amount of money proportional to how much money they already had (or proportional to how much income they had) then it would, indeed, make no difference because it would not change the wealth distribution, just the denomination of notes. Like a stock split.

But most basic income proposals (aka "citizens' dividend") suggest giving the same amount of money to all people (possibly with less for young children). This would actually change the income distribution. It would not necessarily require the government to print more money or even to increase taxes since (most of) the proposals also suggest eliminating existing spending on food stamps, welfare, social security, and other such expenses.
Please come ask any questions on https://matrix.org/beta/#/room/#matrix:matrix.org -- or #matrix on freenode which is bridged to the same matrix "room"!

(disclaimer: I work on Matrix)
Economist lets you read a limited number of articles free of charge each month. The link gave me the full article so perhaps you used up your quota, or their rules are different in your territory?
"pump in free money into the economy and price of everything will rise relatively"

This makes no sense. Runaway inflation is always a worry in any economy, but "free money" does not cause inflation. The government distributes plenty of "free money" as it is right now, and we're not seeing runaway inflation.

Those who support basic income argue that implementing the policy would more likely lead to the so-called "virtuous cycle" where, because people have money to spend, the economy improves etc. and because you're cutting out the current safety net and bureaucracy that surrounds it, you can afford to give people an income that will provide for their basic survival needs.
A friendly rejoinder.

Concorde was the safest form of commercial air-travel, until one day in Paris it wasn't.

Nuclear currently has around 3% share of power generation globally. More share than Concorde had, certainly. But not enough to say definitively that nuclear's comparative safety is not just because of its comparative scarcity. It's been a low-hanging fruit.

Scale up to 30% share and be necessarily exposed to new risks which were not exposed at current levels of deployment.

Many of these additional risks would be from economic factors: we'd probably never achieve 30% share without a less rigorous and much less costly safety regime.
That's what BioNTech has been researching for years. BNT162b2 is, slightly exaggerated, a by-product.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioNTech:

It develops pharmaceutical candidates based on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) for use as individualized cancer immunotherapies, as vaccines against infectious diseases and as protein replacement therapies for rare diseases, and also engineered cell therapy, novel antibodies and small molecule immunomodulators as treatment options for cancer.
Uber India isn’t like Uber New York but it’s a million times more reliable and predictable than almost any other commercial service you can get in India.
How do you cast in VLC? Is it Chromecast or WiDi?
They could also just ban SEC and NYC IP addresses instead. Ultimately information wants to be free.
The list includes a decent size city, Buffalo, New York, as well as some small towns. Buffalo has an Urban Homestead Program.

https://www.buffalony.gov/306/Urban-Homestead-Program
Google can afford not buying that service though. Can Mozilla afford Google not being their customer? I genuinely don't know.
Thanks Colin. I appreciate that. You are probably right, but I was hoping to give a little background as to why I even wrote that one.
I can't believe that the interviewer is asking the interviewee to implement a sorting algorithm and is making fun of candidates online. That certainly is not a place that I'd want to work.
Yes! I was just looking for an app to reinforce my unimaginative opinions about heteronormative lifestyles and socially regressive gender roles! Void in my life: filled.
> I just felt a little jealous. They have the kind of freedom I would someday like to have. Maybe Dutch men should be fighting to work less.

I wouldn't be too jealous. There's some fantastically amazing things about Dutch society, but it has its share of problems... a huge rift opened in Dutch culture after WWII, for a few reasons. The country was largely savaged by the Nazis, but also a sizable minority of Dutch people collaborated with the Nazis. It shook the country pretty hard - to this day, "collaborator" has massively insulting connotations in Dutch. The kind of thing you might get into a fistfight over.

I don't know the earlier history so well, but it seems like since WWII, Dutch culture has become more clique-oriented, where you have your close friends from a very young age, but casual acquaintances keep each other at arms length much moreso, and it's a bit less trusting of a society than others.

I think it's better when you get out of the big cities, though, semi-rural areas of the Netherlands are beautiful and the people seem a lot friendlier and happier.

I don't know, maybe one of the Dutch residents can add on or correct me, but the social relationships in the Netherlands seemed strained. From my limited study of the history, this definitely wasn't the case from between the Dutch Golden Age until WWII. It seems like a lot of Dutch social institutions are built around the fact that neighborly associations and quickly-built friendly acquaintanceships don't really happen as much in the Netherlands. I love the country, but it's not somewhere I'd want to live, especially as an outsider.

Anyway, this is second hand, I only spent a few months there over the course of my life. It's based on what I've heard from local people and a couple expats who moved there, one who loves the country but points these things out. Maybe someone Dutch could weigh in and say whether this is on the mark or the off the mark... it seems like a lot of the social institutions and customs evolved to compensate for some problems that were never fully rooted out after the war and decolonialization.
It's the easy option to opt for retaliation. I'd advise against if only to keep your own principles strong. If you value openness, talk to them. If they cannot find a replacement during the two week timeframe then they may ask you to stay on longer. Use this as leverage for fairer pay during that period (unless you already have to move into your new job). If they do not offer more, then stick to your principles and leave. That is the fair and just way of handling them without weakening your own moral code. And finally, good luck!
Not really no. If you do, something like https://koding.com/ might help?
Designs always look different in context. This looks like a cool service
I wouldn't be surprised if what he learns from using the service so intensively is worth more than the publicity.
Tptacek doesn't have to look at the latter question. He simply made a useful point that this has nothing to do with the department of homeland security (and by inference the excessive laws passed as part of the war on terror) but instead another department that is administratively connected.

Of course the US government is acting badly here, and if someone is making a strawman argument it is right to call it out as misdirection, but to my mind, tptacek was simply providing a useful fact.
Is Ruby's strftime different from C's strftime?
I've tried Allmyapps before, Ninite was better. Haven't test the new version though.
There is a disease in a lot of "cutting edge" software businesses, the idea that something on the decline or old hat is already obsolete and dead.

It's ok to build apps using PHP or Perl if that suits the particular app, even though such choices are unsexy. It's also ok to still target windows. It's a multi-billion user platform with multi-billion dollar revenues. Just because it's uncool doesn't mean you can't still make a quite good living off of it for the foreseeable future.
He provided a useful piece of background on the thread. I was about to post a comment about "oh look, they overreached with the too-wide anti-terror laws and are using them on music pirate, quelle surprise," so it is useful to know that, except in name and org chart, this has nothing to do with homeland security (and any of the laws associated with the war on terror.)
RabbitMQ is a complex beast and was, last time I used it at scale, ridden with problems under load. We had extremely serious issues like spontaneous lockups.

We eventually abandoned it when we realized our queueing needs could be modeled in Redis. In a way that we fully control, understand and can debug. And it wasn't even much work!

I'd argue this is highly preferable unless your project really needs complex routing of the kind that only AMQP can provide. Most projects don't.
The Marathon Winters aren't really that great... bad for cornering (no studs on the sides) and the studs have a tendency to fall out.

Much better are the Nokian W 240.

These can be got from Peter White Cycles who have a great selection of winter tyres:
http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/studdedtires.asp

What make these better is a higher stud count, studs on the side knobbles, studs are embedded and won't fall out easily, and they have a lower rolling resistance than full gnarly off-road winter tyres.

Oh, and when Peter White refers to aggressive riding... he means skidding. If you skid a studded tyre on a clear surface you can rip the studs out and damage the tyre such that you lose the benefit. When you're on clear roads, avoid skidding.
Very true. The datastore unreliability was a real nightmare. I was getting periods of 60 seconds where it was unusable...

But it does appear to be fixed now.
Some actions have default moral and ethical values. Hacking into somebody's computer is assumed by default to be bad — it would be bad even if they hadn't intended to use the test for their class. Most actions, such as reading a sample test, are not as clear cut.
It's not just you, the droid's camera is terrible unless you're in perfect light. The latest cyanogenmod makes it a bit better though.
Your site and idea look great. I would probably move away from the paid accounts and try to monetize another way. I am sure you probably do have some paid users but I wouldn't pay for a service like this even though I like the idea. You'd probably be better off with an advertising model.
Why not just a [wireless] link phone <--> cameras?

It might be better to keep cameras as a separate package.

I'm far from an expert on photography but afaik -- physics imply that there are constraints on getting good images because of sensor size (especially in low light conditions; number of photons per cell/second).
Exactly, the blog post's author doesn't seem to have realized that the limitations are simply design tradeoffs.
Seems to be down now. :\
I find it really interesting to see the steady gradual rise on the second graph (of flikr usage) of the Nikon and the Canon 5D. Honestly, while the graph definitely shows the dominance of the iPhone's camera for the majority of shots, it almost seems like it's simultaneously showing the Rebels being replaced by D90's and 5D's.
What I find is that people of my generation have some basic idea of at least some computer jargon because of what we had to learn just to get our PCs working in the 80s and 90s. What in fuck's name is a parity bit? We learned because we wanted to get our modems configured to play Doom together when our moms weren't on the phone. I'm not talking about people who went into computers, I'm just talking about the people who used them.

Nowadays everything just works so damn well. My phone works with my printer without any driver installation let alone mucking around. So nobody has any idea how anything works.
A common pit I fell into is the "inheritance" of add_header. If you use a single add_header at a lower level all add_headers at the higher levels are ignored for that server or location.

As some headers have security implications this is an easy way to shoot yourself in the foot.

Another security related point is the suppression of the server version. While nginx can omit the version number out-of-the-box, you unfortunately need an extension to remove the header completely.
You're not making a cohesive argument, you're just drawing tenuous allusions:

"Kind of like Westworld"

"Like a cult"

"having many of the bureaucratic characteristics of communism"
The fact that I can use Python to program a game on a raspberry pi, and use the same language to train GPT-3 is evidence that general purpose computing has not been declining...
Side note: If the Square-Cube law is true, then maybe the American Airlines UFO is definitely not a drone. Some were claiming it was likely a drone.
Teams that call themselves "platforms" are very often tempted to operate in a mode where they add a lot of one-off endpoints tailored to the specific use cases of particular callers. This skips the whole economic value of "platform" and makes them consultancies instead. My company has this problem in a big way, there are CTO-level efforts towards reusable abstractions and generic extension points instead of all this deep cross-team cross-service coupling. It is frequently the way I can add the most value in a design review: help the team come up with abstractions based on their domain model that are sufficient for their callers, instead of building to the letter of current callers' requirements (and signing themselves up to keep doing that for each new caller).

"How often will we need to change this and what will that be like?" is usually my top design consideration after "will it work?" So yes on that one.
You know what most sites and services do when they need our help? They ask.

If Mozilla is going broke, ask for donations by all means! Slap ads all over Firefox by all means.

Get my consent first though, eh? Give me a chance to open my wallet before you start ruining the only reason I interact with your company.

Can I note this is not the first time Firefox had made people think they've been hacked for monetary gain. I also disabled any and all checkboxes that involved being experimented on which they have ignored for this one.

Remember when they promised it wouldn't happen again? I do.

https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-investigates-mr-robot-fire...
The company that has a major browser, a major mobile operating system, and a few major websites is scribbling notes.
I think he does explain his reason for this way of life / "worship" as he calls it.

"There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship--be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles--is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive"
Have you ever witnessed or reported a crime? There is a provision in the US immigration law that lets illegal immigrants to get legalized if that's the case.

Edit: or a victim of a crime. There was an investigative news story about this topic, in a la or a sf news paper about a month or so. I am searching for it.
But it fails to account for property taxes which in many areas have increased dramatically.
His writing is really entertaining and informative. But I have to disagree with this. The point of hedging is risk management. If something really weird and unexpected is happening, basing decisions on a standard options value calculator seems like a terrible idea.

Also, you have to decide: do you think this was a stupid (retail) investor or a smart (institutional) one? If stupid, how do they have a few million dollars to blow on a bet like this? If smart, might they have some plan, like they think they can trigger a squeeze of some kind? This all just raises so many questions for me.
> Gamestop went from 90 to 140 overnight in late/early trading - when retail on reddit are locked out.

Retail can buy/sell call options overnight.

The Bloomberg opinion article states:

> Yesterday someone bought thousands of GameStop call options with an $800 strike price expiring tomorrow. They cost 87 cents per share. If the stock closes above $800 tomorrow those options will pay out; also though all notions of money and value and human society will be rendered meaningless, so I don’t know what you’ll do with your payout.

That hypothetical person YOLOing $100,000+ could very easily be a retail investor throwing away money for the lulz. Maybe someone who won big a few months ago and feels fine throwing their excess money away.
Yep, not excited for Wifi6, i'll wait for wifi6e to upgrade. My AP-AC-HD works great.
What was your website traffic before you launched your product? How did people find you?
If they do a 15" laptop, please make the keyboard configurable. I mean, no number pad for people like me and number pad for people that need it and tolerates an off center touchpad and space bar.
It’s basically a consequence of us not having any national ID card.

Many people don’t have driver’s licenses (whose requirements vary by state), most people don’t have valid passports, etc.

If we had an ID card that every citizen would be reasonably expected to have and there was a nationally standardized way of getting it, then of course it would make sense to require that ID to vote.
No it doesn't. My mail server is massively rate limited even a year later.
> This turns FPGA's into tools for quickly iterating on a design and little else, because for real use ASICs are just too good of a deal to pass up.

The dynamic reconfigurability lets FPGAs have a niche that can't be easily filled by ASICs. Being able to treat FPGAs like any other software target (albeit with a esoteric language exosystem) was a game changer in a lot of ways. I've heard of systems that reconfigure at runtime as well.
This is very exciting. I worked on these kinds of technologies a bit in graduate school (before switching gears completely and getting a PhD in astrophysics). In the coming decades, we will be able to detect who is on the path to disease before they ever begin showing any symptoms at all. Granted, curing these diseases post-detection is a whole different matter.
Prisoners have the right against cruel and unusual punishment. They certainly aren’t protected by the 4th amendment. Do they have 1st amendment rights?
Technically correct; the best kind of correct.
Reference for the 135 companies claim?
Isn't that the truth. Sometimes I feel like the only sane person in an insane world when no one seems to admit that no one really understands how to architect software.
So I'd counter - where's the value of spending half a billion Euros on a few blockbuster movies? Or 10% of an Olympics game? Why do you want a right to watch soccer games and want to deny me right to knowing more about the universe around us?

That being said, I'd go back to explaining very carefully how everything we have around us is built on top of people doing weird stuff just to know more.
Looks really good!

One thing I've noticed from using it. If you try it without logging in and click the "Upgrade Now" button, it doesn't do anything and fails with:

dev_index_1421847173.min.js:2 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'email' of undefined

It seems that it's trying to check if my email is "trial@skyhook.io".
I'm not sure that selling 4chan is even possible. Despite the best efforts of its founder, it apparently isn't profitable, and no legitimate company with deep pockets will touch it because of its content. With 4chan being essentially worthless (because no one will buy it), the "something else" that is in play is probably his desire, in his late twenties, to do something that generates cash. He has likely leveraged his notoriety as the founder of 4chan into some other, more legitimate opportunity.
Gaa, another framework that's opinionated about the data structures it gets passed. No thanks.
HGST drives are slightly larger than Seagate of the same advertised capacity. Replacing Seagate drives with HGST ones is therefore easy, while it's often impossible the other way around (fortunately :)
"I think there are far better ways to do this on a small object of limited lifespan like a smartphone"

Namely?
Because we could usefully distinguish billions of sites by their tiny little icons?

ETA: To expand, I just opened the top 12 stories on HN right this moment in new tabs. I recognized the NYT logo in one favicon and the Apple logo in another. Of the other eight that did have favicons, those little icons told me absolutely nothing useful. A few of those sites did indicate their names in the titles, however.
IT'S NOT. You're not supposed to pay into your kids college fund until you've fully funded your own retirement. There are college loans. There aren't retirement loans.
We've spent dozens if not hundreds of man-hours trying to come up with reliable heuristics to get rid of "title junk". The state of the web in this regard is shameful.

There are many sites that don't even include the article title in <title> at all (even hackers like Zed Shaw get this wrong).

It is yet another thing that proves the rule that "metadata that isn't prominently visible in the browser is guaranteed to be wrong" (see meta description, meta keywords, and comments for worse examples. These often aren't even escaped properly.)
the workstation part probably doesn't matter as much as esx/esxi.

Ideally I'd like to be able to build a vm in vagrant under virtualbox, and then push it out to a esx/esxi acceptance box, then push it out to a esx/esxi production box.

It would mean that the devs could build the images, then get ops to have a look over the config/add their own fixes, then deploy the fixes into production. Not many enterprises I know really want to run virtualbox in production.
I'd love to think so, but they released their original and very basic programmer-oriented JavaScript library back in May, and that didn't lead to anything.
You can do it in nightly already.
Re: Hummer H2 and H2 Truck, except it has an option with 2.9s 0-60!!¡ It will be a staple.
If carbon capture is good then why do they encourage composting? Shouldn’t we be taking that organic material and burying it somewhere?
Probably it is now. But not when it was live.
Tesla Lifestyle addon, hopefully. The photo at the campsite has a bunch of accessories in there, too.
This is how every Tesla presentation goes. It's never been about Steve Jobs level presentation polish, it's always been about the quality of the product.
Eh, that portion of the truck crowd was never gonna go for a truck that doesn't make loud ICE noises anyway.

I think the goal was to look heavy duty (which it does), not big, which is for people with insecurity issues.
Is it not? It's the lawyer appointed by the public.
I don't think those benchmark links are really furthering your argument; in both Chrome and Safari on my Mac I get roughly twice the FPS with the HTML5 version...
Informationless trading adds volume but is not thought to move prices. Check your assumptions.
Is it somehow conflicting with other extensions? I haven't had any issues at all since installing it.
Honestly, the first thing that came to mind when you said "search" was "search space" - an abstract Cartesian landscape like something out of Tron. I'm probably abnormal...
You could, but this has been part of ICE's charter for a long time. I'm only making the point that this isn't some crazy RIAA subversion of the Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security sounds scary, like, "the US Government thinks the RIAA's IP claims are vital to national security!".

No, they don't.