skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually agree with a lot of what you say, which is why I prefer to start a UBI very low (not directly displacing existing programs, but since the income from it counts as income, gradually reducing eligibility for them), tied to a dedicated revenue stream that is expected to grow with productivity (which, unless something else is wrong, should over the long run grow substantially faster than inflation), rather than using a benefit-first calculation.

I'd really prefer to take strong steps to eliminate the risk of overshooting a sustainable benefit level, but -- while there are certainly costs to that -- the "mass exodus from the work force because benefits are too generous" problem is self-limiting.
Rust is C-linkable, right? How hard would it be to use this from C?
I wonder if it would make more sense with this kind of product to offer longer term contracts (say 4 year) and avoid the monthly billing. No one would ever buy a USB hard drive on a monthly rental, that would be ridiculous! Regular billing for something so mundane just invites people to cancel and lets MS meddle with pricing.
If you just want to ignore the broader OSS ecosystem, and run your own version of Crates.io behind a firewall, that's 100% supported today. The only real issue is that how to do so isn't particularly well-documented.
We need to shift our approach towards analyzing Greek Life towards one framed around group theory within America: https://medium.com/@ryanstr/in-defense-of-greek-life-8ac736d...
> if you think filming porn is akin to filming a romantic comedy

That's not the comparison I was making.
> I just watched the People v. OJ Simpson. Here's a man who was clearly guilty of a heinous crime. Yet, his lawyers' job was not to pass moral judgment on him, but to represent him. It was their ethical obligation to try and exonerate their client by exploiting every shred of doubt so long as they did nothing to undermine the integrity of the process (lying to the Court, etc).

As a people, we've made the judgment on the tradeoff that we should like the criminal system to behave this way because it's better off to have a thousand guilty men go free than jail an innocent person.

I believe we have strayed a little off track if we apply a similar sentiment to something like corporate loopholes.
> Of course free money is better than no free money! That's all this will prove and few will debate that. The real questions are: 1) is it worth the cost, and 2) is it better than alternatives?

I think the majority of dissent in the United States would actually argue that free money is worse than no free money. (If this surprises you, you may also have been surprised that Trump is going to be the GOP nominee.)
Huh, you're quite right. I guess I mentally conflated "Olympic athlete" and "lost medals" into "lost Olympic medals".
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Now, this was the first, thoughtful reply I got in this. I'm addressing it last as it deserves a bit more thought. Let's look at the points.

" If you're the state of Germany, they probably don't think it's legal for others to spy on them."

It's true. An NSA proponent we shred on Schneier's blog made one good point: each country makes spying on everyone else legal for them but makes it illegal for anyone to spy on them. I call this The Game where they all gripe if they're getting spied on but keep doing it themselves for the benefits. Truth told, major nations have to do it just to break even or else they're going to loose contracts/territory to better equipped nations. NSA always claimed countering that sort of stuff was all they did at economic level with rest being political negotiations and self-defense against threats. I know, I know... ;) Yet, that probably-false claim is a good idea of what spying nations find acceptable in reality and don't do anything besides punishing individual spies as long as it's within the unspoken rules of the game.

"But, isn't a whistleblower someone who believe they are serving the common good by uncovering illegal, immoral and unethical behavior?"

Yes. The Panama Papers, Pentagon Papers, Snowden's leaks of unconstitutional behavior, Snowden's foreign leaks of destroying an ally's telecom (Belgium)... these kinds of things are illegal and abusive to the point they should be leaked. Key factor is they go against what country's citizens has deemed acceptable and endorsed. We're fine with them recording chancellors, business negotiations, whatever to look out for us. Disrupting innocent parties, breaking their oaths to us, selling individual companies' secrets, and so on? Not part of any deal I was made aware of between U.S. voters and intelligence community.

"Can it not be argued that Snowden was helping out the countries (especially our allies) that there government and people were also being spied on? "

Reality: over twenty nations spy on us even stealing our I.P. for their nations' benefits and trying to rig foreign contracts. Many of them are "allies." It's just the real-world in action. They want us to not spy on them? Then they need to disband their own spy agencies or imprison anyone caught spying on us.

"you spy on our citizens, which we can't do as it's illegal, and we will spy on your citizens"

Very worth whistleblowing. I've called out NSA & GHCQ on that for years as have Brits I know. They can't collect info on their own. I don't care how many intermediaries they put between point A and B. Just tells me how guilty their intent was. :)

"If Snowden is a traitor, what does that make the NSA?"

I said Snowden is a whistleblower and traitor depending on specific leaks. This polarization people do is childish and unrealistic. People, organizations, are often a mixed bag. NSA is an organization that has many honest people working to get legal intelligence or more rarely protect us from hacking. It's also got its share of scumbags and illegal activity that betrays its oath to Americans and mandate. Reward the good, punish the bad, and increase accountability where needed. Always my answer.
I wonder how much of that was a set of theoretical blinders (as you say), vs. how much of it was just the practical result of the huge demands of the Space Shuttle program.

The STS famously had all sorts of contradictory goals (some came from outside NASA) that resulted in sub-optimal design tradeoffs--which in turn required the highest-performance engines NASA could get their hands on.

From the outside, looking back, it seems like the Space Shuttle was so (unexpectedly) demanding that it basically took over NASA for 25 years. Maybe there just weren't enough resources to pursue other launch vehicle ideas, even if people there recognized the need.
The two replies to my comment both need a response, so I'll make this a sibling.

Looks like I was wrong, and I was working harder when I wrote Windows C programs than I needed to. The Windows API documentation is sort of confusing and I got the impression that only the CRT functions have a C interface.
There's a lot of OSS stuff as well, (well, "a lot" for how old Rust is) but we just recently added https://www.rust-lang.org/friends.html to the website to showcase production users.
does HN do demographic yearly surveys?
I think you're misunderstanding a bit.

The factory will produce 35 GWh in cells per year and also receive 15 GWh in cells shipped in from other suppliers like Panasonic. Thus it'll produce finished packs totaling 50 GWh / year.

In other words, total output of the factory is 50 GWh / year, 70% of which is vertically integrated.
Article you may be interested in from 2013: http://www.economist.com/news/international/21588385-giving-...

Basically UCT (Unconditional Cash Transfers) work well when lack of capital is the primary problem.

But often times the cycle of poverty is self-reinforcing because of deeper issues and UCTs don't fix those (such as undervaluing education). Instead CCT (Conditional Cash Transfers) can often be more corrective to enact lasting change to poverty cycles.

Ultimately, I think some sort of UCT and CCT combination would be the best and least overhead form of welfare. But that is just IMO.
> Yeah, I don't have a clear idea on where the web should "end", but wow... web pages able to eat all my cores and have data races seems like a line to be crossed with great caution and care.

We crossed that line long ago (well, not precisely with data races, but with message/event ordering races...)
No. Please believe me, you still have something to lose. (BTW, lose != loose)
Beethoven wrote music from the 17th-18th century, and Brahms in the 18th. That's essentially modern music, when the comparison is with the 11th century. It's recorded on paper, and we can reproduce it easily.

"Summer is icumin in" is from the 13th century (I can't find a reasonable recording).

This is older, and was on HN 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11607392 / http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-performance-in-1000...

In addition to peasant and court music, there was religious music. But I have no idea how common it was.
-For that exact reason, Churchill instructed the SOE (Or, more probably, the armed forces in general, but it has been a while since I came across this anecdote) that whimsy or plain silly codenames for operations were OUT.

He didn't want any widows to receive a letter stating that 'It is with utmost regret we inform you that your husband died heroically for the Empire during the execution of operation PINK UNDIES' or something of the sort.

Makes a lot of sense.
I never used OneDrive, but I was a hotmail user back in the day. Sometime in late 2003 early 2004 Microsoft decreased the max inbox size from 6 MB to 2 MB [1]. A few months later gmail came out with a 1 GB inbox. It was clear to me Microsoft was standing on the wrong side of internet history then and it looks that way to me now.

[1] I could not find a citation for this. Sorry, you will just have to trust my memory from a decade ago.
Great stuff! Thanks for publishing it. I'm looking forward to future posts.

I'm curious about how you're managing the data on a drive itself. Are you storing the blocks as individual files on a filesystem? Are you doing direct management of the block device itself? Something else?
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You might accurately describe what you would do, but I think the evidence from the world around us is that most people in the US do see sufficient marginal utility in things beyond what it takes $15K-$20K -- or even $30K-$40K -- to afford to exert additional effort to earn beyond that level given the opportunity. So even if we could somehow establish a UBI that would (after accounting for whatever inflationary effect the UBI itself had) provide a standard of living comparable to $30K-$40K in current dollars (which I don't think we can come anywhere close to today), I don't think you'd see a whole lot of people who were had job prospects not working.
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Famous? Among whom? Other than libertarians who already agree with that point of view.

I didn't read everything Bastiat wrote, but he appears to be describing either the absolute or the comparative advantage of trade (e.g. the first few sentences of the last paragraph).

But trade is different than a gratuitous gift. Trade is part of the free market economy of mutually beneficial exchange. So trade is stimulating production in other areas and it's also allocating goods based on aggregated preferences, not the arbitrary whims of philanthropists.

I'm pretty sure Bastiat and other libertarians would agree that cash is much, much better gift than specific goods.

Finally, the jury is out on dumping. Most mainstream economists will admit there are instances where dumping should be prohibited.
"Another promising gene therapy, close to being submitted to the FDA for approval, has been developed by Ohio State University, Nationwide Children's hospital, and Avexis"

I would be very interested to know how the economics of that work out. Is this a classic case of the costs and risks publicized (OSU) and the profits privatized (Avexis) ?
Trump Supporters Are Rarer Than Unicorns in Silicon Valley
Xcode 7.3.1 doesn't seem to be enough.

I installed Xcode 7.3.1, but git hasn't been updated to 2.7.4.

$ git --version

git version 2.5.0

Do I need to do something more?
Meanwhile, Homebrew's Git is at 2.8.2 (latest).
His Dodge Caravan is shelter, which is pretty fancy shelter if you were from a poor village in Africa so I think he'll be alright. If he's not brainwashed by pain = gain, then I think what he's doing is really cool.
Sorry to hear this. I love my Brother to death, and I can't imagine going through what you went through with yours.

I hope things will get better.
One step closer to my dream of "Wordpress on Lambda"!

What other projects exist to run a blog on Lambda? Apart from going full in on a locally-compiled static site that I just upload to S3, that is? (Hugo, Hexo, Jekyll, etc) I'm imagining a full admin web interface that uses a Lambda-driven API, themes, a front page with dynamically generated content from the Lambda-driven API, etc.
I find it obnoxious when someone interprets a post uncharitably just to say it's wrong. It erodes the quality of discourse by forcing writers to expend time and words preempting pointless gotchas.
Interesting! You'd think that the major wind power manufacturers would have looked at all possibilities. One major immediate concern is that these look quite ugly and fat compared to the relatively thin and slender supports that the latest generation of turbines uses. I'd love to see a side-by-side comparison of these towers and the various alternatives.

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/78480146-crowley-ridge-wind...

Is one example of lattice towers in production that I know of (but not like the ones you describe and I have never seen those being used for windmills).
I'm not criticizing them, just pointing out another reason why Hackers are replacing them.
Why is the idea of a permanent underclass unable to work appealing to anyone?
In my case, it wasn't very long. I had a tendency to stay up till 4-5 AM working on my side project, and would tend to get in 1-2 hours late. I was fired after two months of this.

It wasn't the only reason I was fired, of course; there were some other reasons, ultimately coming down to political-cultural clashes. But it was by far the lowest-hanging pretext. I seldom made it in before 10:30 - 11 AM.
Who has control of the money in Saudi Arabia, is it in a few hands, or broadly distributed in a stable way so people can make good consistent long term decisions?
Makes sense. I like the UCT in principle, but I can't argue with the evidence that CCT does have positive effects.

Of course, CCTs may eventually have the same problem as traditional welfare policies: self-perpetuating bureaucracies, contradictory incentives, resource misallocation, etc, etc.
So to be the devils advocate, why wouldn't the country print more money rather than rely on money from abroad?
[taps on forehead] "It's so... lifelike! At first I couldn't tell it was a robot."
We can agree on that!
Just out of curiosity, what was the idea behind his startup? I've been avoiding getting a job along the same lines, but can never imagine going into 100k debt for a startup obsession.
Any chance that blog is based off a static site generator I can use? it looks like pretty much my ideal blog format.
Yeah, that's a fair assessment. I think more research needs to be done in this direction, there's got to be a good way to determine initial parameters for this sort of thing.

But I can't help but think that it'll be too politically charged to follow any sort of logical regime that might result from research, which makes it sort of scary to approach. You'd basically need the public to agree on the terms and limits of a well-defined system without turning it into a partisan mess. Unfortunately I can't think of many examples of this currently in existence.
Why would these companies want a private blockchain instead of using a database and a history table? Or even more simple, timestamp log files? Is this many companies coming together to put clearinghouses out of business and therefor needs this technology to establish better trust among the players? Unless I'm missing something, it appears to just be hype with people saying build it with blockchain?
Shoot the messenger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_messenger
Bolsa Familia[1] in Brazil was a pretty succesful program. Poor families get money as long as the children go to school and get vaccinated. Money is distributed to the female head of the household by a debit card network which helps to reduce corruption and theft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsa_Fam%C3%ADlia
It's sad, really (Seeing a grown company make these kinds of 'mistakes'). We're using OneDrive for business, and it is a PAINFUL solution to even deploy it in a windows-only environment without some major hacks that you need to keep maintaining (due to the fact that Microsoft keeps making arbitrary changes to that environment)--not to mention user data synching, even on Windows 10 hosts. Not to mention the amount of issues you get when you hear from uses who used to have Microsoft accounts with their corporate email addresses, and now are having issues connecting because Microsoft is confused about who you really are--and no, there is not corporate way to fix this proactively :|

Frustrated? YES!
[Atlanta native here] Tell me about it, and don't forget to mention the humidity--a factor 5x more important than temperature per se, in my eyes. If I had to be in the hot sun, I'd take 100F in Phoenix over even 70F in Atlanta _any_ day.
First thanks so much for doing this, I really appreciate it. I only did a quick read of your post apologies if it addresses these comments/questions. I recently built a system for image storage and made some similar but different tradeoffs so I'm very curious about some of the motivation behind your decisions. Definitely would be cool to go into them in a follow on post.

I'm curious why you choose to what seems like an identical bucket stored on many nodes. I have recently built a specialized system that resembles facebook's haystack for storing several petabytes of images. I think it is way more simple and efficient to precreate all the possible 'slabs' on each machine, and just place the data in a round robin fashion over all open slabs. You can periodically grow these with system calls to allocate blocks of disk to make it efficient, maybe several 100's of megs at a time when running at scale. That way each server makes its own placement decisions, and no master is necessary to figure out data placement. Especially since you went with a mysql architecture, I think this makes a lot of sense. I guess it does make things more complex on the erasure coding side, since each block would then have to be erasure coded individually. It might be worth exploring though, since you could completely eliminate the requirement of a master.

Of course my system is considerably simpler since my smallest atomic unit is a whole file (keyed by sha1 hash + length to deduplicate), like facebook's haystack it was designed primarily to be an image store. I also do full replication rather than erasure coding, and only plan to implement that later.

One thing you didn't go into very much that would be very interesting would be the on disk format of the bucket. I used a modified version of folly RecordIO that returns the disk offsets and stored my payload using thrift with the sha1 hash and some flags. This allows for both quick indexing to each block and a nice recovery story. I'd also be interested in what sort of index format you are using, I store mine in both mysql and in a google sparsehash table by record token. Storing the index locally has great benefits if the mysql server goes down, I'd be curious if your system does that as well.
There is nothing at all in your post that I disagree with. I'm in support for making it legal and thus safe. But that is a different topic.

The parent asked "how will you reduce demand?". I mentioned some ideas (rather a combination of many factors). There could be many many more ideas. But you called my assumptions naive while coming up with your solution on the lines of, "things that are legal and openly traded have a lot less market than things that are illegally traded". Now many might argue the soundness of such an assumption and call it naive and simplistic.

You say you are open to suggestions. I'm sorry, but it seems more like you are open to suggestions that agree with your views.
What would be the significance of courts passing from predominantly public to private? Are there are clues from history about possible future effects of this?
Yikes. I hope the wounds heal over time. What you all did sounds right. It seems like your brother had a problem and giving him more money would have exacerbated it.

Hang in there, I'm sorry you all had to go through this.
> Whereas the Tesla quick charge stations, I believe you can leave your car unattended while it is charging.

This is correct.
Jacques, you are too nice, you could have said you have also the practical experience of what is building a windmill[0]. A very nice read for people enjoying both using a computer and their hands building stuff.

[0]: http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill
I understand that. Problem is that I can "steal" other dev's app client_id and use in my app. So it seems impossible to use such client_id for auditing/evidence. With a web client I cannot do that since I don't own the domain, so I can be proven to be a party in some transaction
> I think the idea is that a UBI would increase the cost of labor

Different UBI proponents (which come from across the left-right spectrum) have different ideas, but none of them that I've heard from has favored UBI for the purpose of increasing the cost of labor generally. Especially on the right, but also usually on the left as well, reducing the disincentive to work inherent in means-tested social benefit programs, and avoiding the same problems that minimum wages seek to address while not limiting the minimum economic value a job can produce and be worth offering are frequently cited motivations.
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That, and I think a lot of it is also pattern matching. When we hear that someone is homeless, we compare that person to the mental image we have of the homeless people we've encountered on the streets.

One of the great tragedies of our society is that we've allowed our mentally ill to slip through the cracks. Untreated schizophrenics and PTSD-suffering Vietnam veterans may or may not make up a significant percentage of the homeless we see -- but they're certainly the most memorable. They stand out. They ingrain, in passersby, a mental map of homeless people as "crazy," or "violent," or "dangerous." And so we start to believe that homeless people are broken somehow. Many people go a step further; they start to regard the homeless as less than human.

These pattern matches are powerful blocks on empathy for many, many people.
I had seen a few photos of it before, but I don't think I had fully grasped the scale until looking at these photos. I was always like: yeah that is pretty big. Then I realize those small things in the corner are semi trailers. And only 15% is done? That is crazy.
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