skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title is wrong. It should be "we talked to 4 pro-UBI Facebook group admins, and 1 expert"

TL;DR Associate professors of philosophy who manage Facebook groups promoting UBI like the concept and think it's feasible in a number of ways. The only economist (and only full professor) interviewed says:

"UBI gets all this attention and popularity, but I haven’t seen one model that’s even on the planet of financial feasibility."
I have difficulty believing that this is some ironclad law of economics without a lot of further study. Does it hold true for other countries? It would certainly be possible to pass laws that decrease tax revenue (just reduce all taxes by 90% across the board). I would guess that this "trend" (untrend?) is at least partly due to the fact that those changes to tax law weren't random, but were passed by politicians who were reacting to contemporary conditions (both economic and political).

It's like observing that a driver keeps adjusting the gas pedal but their speed never changes and concluding that it's not possible to change a car's speed using the gas pedal. In reality, the driver is actively adjusting to local conditions (like hills) to maintain a constant speed.
I've been thinking about setting something like this up, but over email. Anyone who opts in to the mailing list would be able to submit a link+description, and once a week some software would automagically send out an aggregated email to everyone who opts in.

The problem is getting it to the optimum size. If it's too small, it won't work because nobody will want to post. If it's too large, then the signal-to-noise ratio drops and it's no better than Reddit or HN.

Also, moderation is hard.
Digg isn't much older than Reddit. (Nov 2004 / June 2005)
UBI would be less successful, or, I can see it run into problems, if it were to replace medical care, for example. There would be those who would forgo the checkups in order that they might have more money for something less critical. I would lean heavily toward separating those to avoid that hazard.

My take would be Medical, basic education [k-12], would be provided by the state and the rest, immediate things people can't skimp on [housing, food, clothing, etc.] could be covered by UBI
This is a decent motivation for "manual automation". Figuring out what is a face in a picture is hard for a computer but easy for a person. Comparing that face with thousands of existing faces to eliminate 99% that aren't anywhere close to a match is easier for a computer than it is a person. Deciding if it is a true match is easier for a person than a computer.

There are a lot of situations that would benefit from such a workflow.
For some reason, you told me to "call [you] a dipshit on hackernews you big pussy see how that goes" [1], but not before telling me to "go fuck [my] mom" [2].

Here I am. None of us understands what you're trying to accomplish here, but unironically using the term "SJW" would have been a giant, neon dipshit detector even before reading the rest of your posts. Thanks for self-identifying.

1. https://twitter.com/ryanfaceryan/status/696188157155348482

2. https://twitter.com/ryanfaceryan/status/696186759416143873
Well yes, that is a good thing. But it doesn't work if the government does their math assuming revenue from that tax is constant!
The Jingoistic tone of this article is pretty distasteful
I found it a good intro to the subject. I am surprised by how negative the comments here on HN are.
Gdb works well for embedded Linux targets, provided you have Ethernet or a serial port. You can bring gdb up I the target and then connect the host to it and debug from there. If you're using an Eclipse-based tool then you can set that tool up to connect to a remote gdb.

At least, that's how it works when I'm developing under Linux. I'm not sure about Windows or Mac OS.
Also, tweets from a dev and former PM this evening both demonstrate an unforgiveable level of dismissive arrogance toward user feedback. Twitter is clueless when it comes to UX.
Learned something new. Thanks!
What is the best “I was broke and almost 30” autobiography you can think of?
Basically, a "rags-to-riches" type of story where someone decided to leave their career behind in their late 20's/30's to start something. Interested in ANY suggestions you may have.
I think your first point might be a much more important one than the one argued in the video you link. The first MMORPG experience is about as much fun as you can reasonably have in a video game but a great deal of the fun comes from it being first: the lack of familiarity, the unexpected, the 'emergent gameplay', the interactions with everyone from befuddled strangers to helpful friends.

Once WoW got everyone who was ever likely to try an MMORPG to actually try one, MMORPGs reached 'peak players'. There is (statistically) no-one left for whom any MMORPG is a first one and no amount of 'sandbox' or anything else can change that.
Please include a source when you cite numbers that could be considered contentious?
Since this is a research reactor, they probably had to make more structural compromises to accommodate more sensors, injection ports, etc than what a power plant version would need. I bet once they played with it for a few years they would have s better idea of what they actually need for a more practical version.
No, not talking or thinking about race leads to erasure, which is another form of racism. (For race/racism, you can substitute gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, etc.)

To try to make this clear by analogy, one of the reasons that #OscarsSoWhite is a meme is because if black children only ever see white people winning Oscars…they won’t believe that they themselves could win one (and there’s 95%+ white winners for all acting categories in the Oscars). Having visible role models is important. Having discussions about equality and representation are important.
I use Docker to achieve a similar thing...

1) Boot up a new Ubuntu docker container
2) Run command / script
3) Use `docker diff` to see what changes to the filesystem were made

Obviously it's only useful for some commands, but at least it's safe :-)
wtf. The article doesn't actually answer the question!

The last answer comes closest. But the others aren't even close.

Lame.
There's nothing wrong with reducing the incentive to work. That simply means jobs that must be done will have their wages rise. Jobs that don't need to be done will disappear.
I watched the videos and those are absolutely amazing. Ordered a PO-20 'Arcade' unit. Can't wait to start playing with it.
I am sure that own instances will run much better, but i prefer cloud services for storing such important data.
wc lvls?
It would be necessary to augment UBI with free healthcare and education, and, maybe, a part of the UBI should be in food or tickets that can be exchanged for food in stores so as to make sure it is being used for survival.
Let me rant about a bigger point: What are coroutines conceptually? Well, it's a "thing" that we use in order to express sequential code (I'm sure there is more abstract definition).

What is a difference between Erlang Proc, Golang Goroutine, Operating System Thread, and this kind of Duff's device - not much if you think about it. It's all about sequential code with
a bit of context (variables) attached - the closure.

The only difference between a thread and asynchronous programming is how you deal with the context - is it explicit or implicit?

In this Duff's device, the context is passed explicitly. It's an (arguably nice) syntactic sugar over a trivial state machine.

The main point here is - how large is the context? If that's a few variables, sure you can pack them on a struct, or just async programming. If the context is somewhat non-trivial, having it implicit makes sense. If the context is really large you probably _must_ use OS / programming language help.

The problem - the larger the context, the costlier the context switch. It would be nice to have some kind of magic that would be able to chose the optimal coroutines hardware implementation based on the size of context.
The best Dutch machinists that I'm aware of (when it comes to precision) are located in a tiny little village in the south of Groningen, about 2 km from the German border. It's as out-of-the-way as it gets.

The problem why they searched all over Europe is that it wasn't just the accuracy, it was the part size combined with the accuracy. Making small parts with a lot of precision is relatively easy if you're willing to discard a whole pile of them after QA. Making big parts with any precision at all is tremendously hard (because the piece warms up as it is being worked and large pieces will expand quite a bit as they warm up) and discarding a single piece is going to be ridiculously expensive.
But there's a good chance your grandfather had the cojones to join a union to fight for better working conditions. It's better to live a life where you can actually improve your lot than live as a subservient cog holding on for an ever smaller piece of the pie.
For me the giveaway in some of them were that the computer-generated ones were "from a photograph". So, the woman with the hair up in an impossible position was a human-generated one [1], for example. Also, the ones that looked more photograph-like were also computer generated. For instance, compare [2] and [3]

[1] http://turing.deepart.io/t/4.jpg

[2] http://turing.deepart.io/t/1.jpg

[3] http://turing.deepart.io/f/3.png
A very well written wake up call. It's pretty much exactly what I'm doing right now and I needed the motivation to make physical exertion a mandatory part of my daily life. Thanks for posting.
The most interesting part for me is that the CEO talks to 2 of his VC's every day
yeah I'll take a look, @dang the web rusts a lot so a lot of old stuff might be archived [0] there.

[0] Internet Archive https://archive.org/
Loop fission
8/10, also got "App not Setup": http://imgh.us/not-set-up.png
I use bitbucket for the same reason. As an agency of <20 employees, we have 30 or more clients and many of them have 5-10 projects. Most of them are small projects that we don't touch often, but bitbucket is the only place we can afford to host with that many. We pay for a plan for our own org and we set up free orgs for most of our larger clients since there are rarely more than 4 devs who need access to the projects.
Huh? That may be true for some generic website/application startups. But if you're going for something requiring a lot of domain specific knowledge, I can't agree. There's more than a few fields with few enough experts that one can remember them all.
No. The problem of deciding on the level of UBI remains, and remains impossible regardless of who is making the decision.
Following the passage of Obamacare, insurance companies are required to cover blood labs as part of an annual preventative care visit. This is a great opportunity that far to many people pass up. You get a lot more insight out of those labs than you do from just blood pressure and resting heart rate -- especially if you track things year-to-year.
Very scary. Not only am I even MUCH more sedentary than this guy, and also 34 years old, according to 23andme I am at very very high risk for blood clotting.
Driving the adoption of identity politics seems to be a synergy between the Western ruling class's interests and those of a subset of leftists. My guess is the ruling class likes the ideology, and supports it, because it provides a moral pretext for weakening historically dominant demographics. Once these demographics are sufficiently cowed, they will be more willing to let go of self-determination and accept supernational rule (rule imposed by the EU on European nations, for example).
Hence the 'Carbon tax'
I dropped 50 lbs 2014-2015. It's worked wonders for my confidence. I didn't really need the boost for dating since I'm in a long term relationship. It did come at a time when I transitioned to a new role within my company and needed a massive boost of confidence to get over imposter syndrome and pioneer my own destiny.
Yeah. Hopefully the UBI amount exceeds the cost of health insurance premiums, or Obamacare penalty for those going that route.
I wouldn't rely on it being safe, it makes a lot of assumptions that programs that do destructive things might violate.
What a terrible article. Lots of unprovable allegations and over-the-top adjectives, very light on actual facts. Looks like it was written by representatives for the prosecution or DuPont.

The author throws "America" and "China" in there, and seems to assume that that’s enough to prove guilt.
I had a TIA at 28 working like that. Some people need warning signs and I definitely did as I thought I was invincible. I recovered physically in a few months but the shock took years; dying never occured to me. I get more work done now than I did then, working 4 hours standing behind a computer while spending the rest of the day walking in nature and thinking and having conversations via Skype with my peers. I believed then fast typing and iterating for long stretches of time was a thing that speeds up work and could do it for 18 hours a day: it is nonsense. Programmers who believe that have a lot to learn. They might be dead or worse before that though.
The United states pulls in $3-trillion in taxes. We have 225-million adults over 18-years old and if they (we) were handed out $2,000 a month each that would equal

EDIT: [225 million * 2000 * 12 = 5.4 trillion per year.]

If we're talking about the solutions mentioned in the article I suspect administrating the various types of handouts may add an additional 50% cost to that [$5.4 trillion per year.]

A basic income may work for Switzerland due to it's amazingly tiny population. (Less than half the size of L.A. County) In the United States, I would think inflation, laziness and complaints that $2,000 was not enough basic income would rule the day.
Botting was actually much more fun the playing the real game.

Back in the golden days, the bot frameworks rsbot/powerbot/rsbuddy gave you a Java API into the game. Your script gets called every game loop (by the API) and you can tell your character to walk to places, click on things, pathfind your way around the game world. The API could access your player's levels and experience and gave your script (a Java class) an onPaint event to draw a GUI.

Botters were spending their time learning Java, on the forums were people talking about more in depth programming concepts and ways to improve code quality. The bot frameworks were open source (with the exception of "modscripts" - a series of regexes and what not to remap the bot APIs back into functions in the obfuscated Jagex client).

Jagex has also implemented turing tests - "random events" where your character get teleported a special area and has to perform a challenge. The bot framework has scripts to handle this as well and was generally not a huge issue.

The best part was that it was all real, if your code misbehaves, people will report you and you will get banned. If your code works flawlessly, it will run for days and you'll get rave reviews from fellow botters on the forums.

If anything it was a great environment to develop CS skills.
And of course after you botted up your stats and unlocked new abilities the game becomes even more fun.
Make yourself an expert instead. The advice you are looking for is specific usually. Better to just learn what you need yourself
By my understanding of the event, a wall of mud and ash buried the city 10+ feet deep almost instantly. Fossil were found with food in their mouths. What timeline was this "simulation" built on?
Podcast: The History of Hadoop
if you consider the sun to be an unlimited source of energy ( which technically speaking it is not) then energy is still limited. it is limited by the amount of light we receive and our technological ability to extract energy from said light.

our technological ability to extract power from the sun is so limited we are forced to mine the earth to extract solar energy from the past (aka oil).

natural resources do run out. they are frequently converted into forms that are unuseable. in the rare event that a natural resource can be converted back to a usable form (recycling) we must further tax our energy reservoirs to perform such feat.

the wealth that was taken from the earth was not taken from anyone you know now. Perhaps your great great great grandchildren will live in a society where oil is more expensive then gold.

However even when we remove all the factors I describe above there is still wealth 'theft' taking place in our society right now. The issue is that some forms of wealth need to be extracted by many people working together. when you have these creatures called billionaires that own wealth they in no way produced all by themselves you know that wealth among these collaberative groups was distributed unevenly. This is known as wealth inequality and it happens as a direct result of extracting wealth from other humans.
One of the most interesting questions that people consider, when thinking about basic income, is whether or not people would still "want" to work if they were being given enough money to get by. That is a question which has a lot of opinions but not a lot of data behind.

One way to study this might be to take a population which is on welfare, and for some of them replace their welfare with 'one string attached' basic income. The string is that if they take the BI they cannot also take welfare. However any money they earn by working doesn't affect how much BI they receive, it's a constant. Then compare them against other people in the study who were left on welfare.

The goal would be to see how many BI recipents returned to work versus welfare recipients over 1, 2, and 5 year time spans. Trying to get a sample set in the 100 - 200 people range could be very expensive but it would help establish some data with which to analyze the question of whether or not people will work or not while getting basic income.
Oh hey, look who the US government leaned on again.
How I made my first web app (I used React)
I think the question about how wide the net of diversity should cover geographically is an interesting one. Some people will say that because the users are a worldwide audience that the demographics of the product/service producer should reflect that demographic (so reflect the demographics of the user base rather than the more traditional local talent pool or population, regional talent pool or population, etc.

But I think people make these demands arbitrarily [or rather not, but whenever it benefits them]. So as an Irishwoman or an Indian man, I might not fret about the diversity of a product/service from Ireland or India, but then if a product or service from the US or Japan is used extensively in Ireland or India, I might insist on it having representation of my country/ethnicity.

You also don't hear people saying, HonHai (Foxconn) should hire a more diverse workforce, or Xiomi [or even Lexus, for example] even though many of the products out put by these companies are used in diverse places.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279476 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10284508
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> No, not talking or thinking about race leads to erasure, which is another form of racism.

Erasure seems to be jargon with no widely accepted meaning outside of social justice. For now I will stick to what I perceive to be the average of the various dictionary definitions of racism. By that meaning, not talking about or thinking about ethnicity is definitely not racism.

> if black children only ever see white people winning Oscars…they won’t believe that they themselves could win one ... Having visible role models is important.

I think you're saying it's important to have visible role models with the same ethnicity and/or sex, and/or whatever other bodily attribute we're focusing on at the moment. But why would anyone think that unless they already have racist and/or sexist beliefs?
I used to play on a Minecraft server called Civcraft[1] which, while not "massive" in the conventional sense, has/had a large enough player base and a persistent world. In Civcraft there is no skill/XP ladder, all you have is your wealth and reputation. You can lose your wealth by having it stolen, and your reputation by your own behavior or the words of others, so it makes for a more dynamic game. Still, you ended up with people at the top of the pyramid who wouldn't be readily dislodged, just like in real life.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/civcraft
I'm just asking what one of these companies would get out of buying Twitter?

The problem is, think about how badly the userbase is reacting to this essentially-minor change. If they wake up one morning and Twitter says "redirecting you to Facebook!" they're going to be outraged. So you wouldn't be buying the users, you'd be buying a shitstorm.
One of the advantages of truly universal -- everyone gets it, regardless of need -- payments is that you can do away with a gigantic bureaucratic apparatus whose only reason for existence is to try to determine who "really" needs help and who doesn't. It's also generally seen as a more palatable option for people who are offended that someone else might get something they don't, even if the other people truly do need it.
http://importpython.com is a Python Weekly Newsletter. Unlike some of the other newsletter on Python it's not just the best of Reddit but articles that aren't even on Reddit. Check it out.
There is a genetic component to one's political orientation
>The simple truth is that if you are getting blood clots in your 30s (I am 34), there is something horribly wrong with your lifestyle

I'm not so sure... I tend to think the sedentary lifestyle is revealing some kind of predisposition for them (especially given Gavan's apparent level of fitness and activity).
Zero-Determinant Strategies in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (2012)
Geology in Space: Recent Martian Discoveries Edition
225 million * 2000 * 12 = 5.4 trillion per year.

Basic income arguments usually revolve around numbers. But what of self-respect? There is something very concerning about faith in a benevolent State-parent that will feed and clothe us instead of enabling us to do so ourselves, by removing policies that keep Americans poor.
This design is fundamentally hard, I don't think the removal of ports will make it much simpler. Same with Tokamak. Lockheed's design (as disclosed) is much simpler. OTOH Lockheed's design is also vaporware until they publish their experimental data. They've supposedly done hundreds of firings by now, but haven't disclosed any data.
(I'm going to refer to Bitbucket Server as Stash here because that's what it's been called for most of the time I've used it and to keep it distinct from the public offering I'm comparing it to.)

Stash and Bitbucket have converged more than I expected, mostly because my recollection of Bitbucket was closer to Github than it actually is. But versus Bitbucket, Stash is missing Mercurial support, snippets, issues, wiki, project overview pages, and some social features. The lack of snippets was particularly vexing to me in my day-to-day work until we started using Slack. And Slack snippets are still a poor substitute for Gists.

Versus Github, the difference is more pronounced. Github has better search (and it isn't even that good), much nicer pull requests with superior integration to the issue tracking system, a much better API, better profile pages, static site generation, and in-place editing.

Yes, I know the answer to the lack of some of those features is "use our other products too", but Atlassian's competitors offer products with lightweight issue tracking and wikis. And while the features Stash provides are generally decently implemented and usable (the last few versions have been a big improvement), Confluence... is poorly suited to be used as a programmers' wiki, to use the gentlest language I can muster.