skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing this does for people who don't have jobs (who arguably are most in need of something like Basic Income) is it hopefully causes more jobs to be created. But these are going to be low-wage jobs (e.g. expect to see jobs that pay exactly $30k per year). So basically, what you're proposing is to give people a chance at a shitty job (and remember, it's just a chance, it certainly won't drive unemployment down to 0%). That's very different from Basic Income. One of the big benefits of Basic Income is that, freed from the need to work just to have food/shelter, people can seek out more fulfilling things to do instead of having to work crappy jobs just to live. I guarantee you nobody feels fulfilled by working a minimum wage job.
If they built that route what's the likelyhood it wouldn't also have stops in Philly, pitsburg, Cleveland which would add significant time. I can't see it being a direct route with no stops inbetween.
If you live in a society, you benefit from its education system even if you didn't attend it, as all the folks who were educated in that society's educational system are the rest of the folks who contribute to the economic system and its health and robustness.
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It fits a pattern. I was a hardware engineer at Valve during the early VR days, working mostly on Lighthouse and the internal dev headset. There were a few employees who insisted that the Valve VR group give away both hardware and software to Oculus with the hope that they would work together with Valve on VR. The tech was literally given away -- no contract, no license. After the facebook acquisition, these folks presumably received large financial incentives to join facebook, which they did. It was the most questionable thing I've seen in my whole career, and was partially caused by Valve's flat management structure and general lack of oversight. I left shortly after.
I wonder how useful martian soil is for making glass or ceramics.
But I didn't imply anything about violent crime at all.

Whereas the original article did handwave away the fact the ultra rich frequently do engage in other legal and somewhat-less-legal forms of rapacious behaviour - whether it's battling for political dominance, running competitors of their dynastic business empire into the ground, engineer elaborate financial deceptions or sue critics into submission - despite already having access to sufficient resources to retreat to tiny utopian idylls with likeminded neighbours if that was what they really wanted.
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Absolutely - there are a whole host of issues to consider. I was just putting out an anecdote to counter the assertion that techies won't particularly care about state-provided health care. The original point is likely true for a good swath of people - just not all.
In accounting terms, your pay is calculated as hourly rate * time working. It's averaged over the year and paid monthly.

All the holidays are time not working over the year. So, yes, it is definitely lowering your pay.
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I could be wrong, but it looks like a valid and interesting article. While it is a duplicate post, enough time has passed since the original submission. It may have been reflexively flagged due to concerns that it consisted of politically partisan clickbait.
> It goes without saying one should install some flavor of linux on the first ssd.

Surely it goes without saying that one should install whatever OS they want to on the first SSD? Why is Linux mandatory?
a washing machine, with little parts that can be replaced with wood or metal, seems like the kind of thing that can be kept in good working order for a long time.

I'd be leery of a chainsaw with handmade parts.

I also kind of wonder about lubricants and fuel in a chainsaw, how hard is it to safely duplicate those oils?
> Asking someone to used an XMPP client, ideally should be the same as asking someone to use a torrent client

It is the same, and the majority of people can't manage to do either.
Agreed, "mayonnaise man" sounds like an internet legend in the making. To claim it is not beautiful without a link, but give such a fascinating description...
It certainly seems incongruous to require explicit scoping on usage when identifiers are reused inline. Conceptually they have the same principle where it shouldn't matter if you don't cross the streams.
I'm facebook friends with this guy.

..... Unfortunately, it is NOT satire.....
These smaller routes do seem like a very practical case. Another is people going to/from the twin cities -> Milwaukee -> Chicago. You can do it on the Amtrak now but it's very slow and just easier to drive.
I wouldn't grant total leeway with other ways of using this technology either. I'd be upset if the government were doing the same biometric analysis on faces extracted from CCTV feeds across urban areas and archiving the results, for example. But processing photographs taken for government ID to see if they match wanted criminals seems pretty non-objectionable to me.
I'd agree with the top of Unman's comment about striving for more, while disagreeing with the bottom.

Signal is better than PGP.

Running crypto without PFS in this threat environment is an irresponsible bet to make with data.

My point was that failing to continue to maintain vigilance, even if it sounds paranoid, is also irresponsible. Unless one is willing to be that we have a perfect crypto system, some amount of humility (as evidenced by Moxie's speech) is warranted. Else we'll be talking about Signal in 20 years in the same way we're talking about PGP.
Sorry, I don't understand the question.

I dump the DDL in order to save in source control. So when the same apparent structure has different DDL it causes confusion, especially when you have other devs, and each dumps the current DDL to save into source control.

I do pg_dump scheme -C -s > database.sql and store database.sql in source control.

> pg_dump -Fca

I would not use -a here, you should save the data and DDL together - if there is a disaster it's a lot easier to restore that way, and it doesn't cost much extra.

i.e. save DDL in source control, together with code that uses that structure.

Save both DDL, and data, in backup system.
You're making the assumption that IP (designs & patents) will be enforceable on Mars. That sounds risky. You can't even get those guarantees on earth among nation states.
I wouldn't call it a bad interface. Although it is definitely orthogonal to the git interface. It isn't officially part of git.
More horrifically imagine a few Imortan Joe types seizing control of the Machines in a large enough area and leaving everyone not useful to them to starve.
You might think you would prefer to live now rather than 1900, but I would suspect that the word "live" had greater meaning then.

Here is Ben Franklin on the appeal of the traditional Native American life:
"When an Indian Child has been brought up among us, taught our language and habituated to our Customs, yet if he goes to see his relations and make one Indian Ramble with them, there is no perswading him ever to return, and that this is not natural [to them] merely as Indians, but as men, is plain from this, that when white persons of either sex have been taken prisoners young by the Indians, and lived a while among them, tho' ransomed by their Friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevail with them to stay among the English, yet in a Short time they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it, and take the first good Opportunity of escaping again into the Woods, from whence there is no reclaiming them"
> This has been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt by xxxxxx, a professor in yyyyyy's Department of Anthropology

Anthropology and "shadow of a doubt" never fit well with me in a sentence.

I'd like to hear an independent view on the data.

A lot of bone and not many 'human made' scratches with clear evidence of carnivore activity in the cave.
It's written in Cyrillic and the word скоро... It just says right now or today is and the date. Most likely some kind after before thing..
This would be a recipe for disaster.
That's probably got more to do with you hanging out at "American places" due to a language barrier. Many countries that don't speak English have online platforms with vast communities of their own. There are massive social and video platforms in Asia/Europe you probably never heard of.

Russian/European version of Facebook is called "VKonakte". Chinese version of YouTube is called "YouKu", Chinese Facebook is called "Weibo". In those places you will barely find any American users or people that speak a lot of English.
Wolfram is known to be super arrogant. Granted, he has accomplished a lot as a business man and is probably almost twice as intelligent as me, but there are probably more useful books out there.
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You've actually made an argument for the FDA, not against it. Otherwise patients with cancer would have to decide between thousands of chemical concoctions which will either kill them, let them live, or do nothing, in which case they will still only live or die. Why would there only be one experimental drug on the market if any one is allowed to market to patients independent of efficacy or risk?
That is a surprisingly fun fact.
I second this and if you are in the Bay Area and not getting a job, you seriously need to look at what's wrong in your approach.
I think you are. I interpret that as the estimates for each year are quoted in 2010 dollars unless noted and that those estimates (that is, the ones for each year) refer to actuals in each of those years. Then they are summed to produce the $600b.

"from the relevant fiscal year" implies that each value relates to a corresponding fiscal year. Your addition of 'only' is redundant.
What makes you think so? You just hang out where the rest of the Americans are too :)
Hinton. Hands down. Just read his early deep learning MNIST work.
And he has a great sense of humor.
Patents are only enforceable for 19 years, so the cost is too high for the speed at which mars development will take place this century.
Did the same thing with XNXX's DB dump. Had my code scrape the new DB every 24h and present a tube-like interface for browsing. I removed everything with over 100 views and a few other filters.

Turns out you get a ton of revenge porn (with drunken tags and titles), badly tagged home videos and strangely tagged CP. Never got off localhost for obvious reasons and promptly deleted every bit of GreaseTV.
How does it break down? The largest Matrix rooms we've seen have got ~50K users in them with very high traffic, and Synapse is good for at least 10 msgs/s currently (with orders of magnitude improvements on the horizon).
Rust is powerful, but the expressivity isn't very good if you're coming from the scripting world.
Hinton. Hands down. Just read his early work on deep nets. Unsupervised, no ensemble, nailed MNIST and self-awareness of features. And he has a great sense of humor.
It's marginally on-topic IMO, and people are probably just getting burned out on this whole topic. I didn't see it or flag it, but had I seen it, I would have been tempted to flag it. shrug It happens, there's probably not a big conspiracy or anything.

Unless there is...
Vim users should check it out, even if only for inspiration for a clone.
So, what the author of the article gets wrong is how many H1Bs want to be citizens and how hard it is to become one. Currently for anyone who starts their immigration process, it takes anywhere between 7-15 years to get a green card if you are a citizen of India or China and are already employed here.
Nope, anyone with a block is just someone who hasn't learned how to work. There's two reason for not doing the work.

1. You don't know what you need to.
2. You know what you need to do but are lazy and unmotivated.

Neither is a block.
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You mean that investing in marketing branding and advertising is still the best ROI for most companies ?

I don't really understand your point but I'm not educated in the subject either so ..
How are the prices outside of Paris, say a 30m away by train?
H1Bs do not work for minimum wage jobs. Why then is the minimum wage not rising ? If you do not consider the Indian consulting companies, H1B get paid higher or on par with most Americans and most have graduate degrees.
This is important for soundness; it's shadowing, not replacing

let s = String::from("hello");
let s = &s[..];

Here, the second s refers to the first, and if it were go to out of scope right away, would be dangling.

let s = String::from("hello");
{
let s = &s[..3];
// here, s is "hell"
}
// here, it's the full string again

This falls out of the usual scoping rules, basically. You can think of any variable introducing a new scope where it's valid; if you don't close it yourself, it's closed at the end of the enclosing scope.
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There are a lot of benefits, as others have mentioned, that come from science and exploration. There is another related one, which is the many kids in high school who will then decide that maybe going into Sciences or some space related field is really worth pursing and making a living out of, rather than, say, decide to focus on building an app that makes a whipping sound when you shake your phone, or various funny noises: you get the idea.
I'd have to dig around to find the source - but honestly, its because we dont have good drawings, or even partially complete understanding on how to build the pieces. The Saturn V was not mass produced, and was built on something less then an assembly line - it was semi-bespoke basically.
> It's like saying a Java developer fights the type system.

Plenty of people have fought the type system in Java. Happens all the time with Generics and Type eraser. How many projects have work around for that Scala, Flink, etc...

And it is a fight with the borrow checker because there a plenty valid and correct code fragments that the borrow checker rejects.
Yeah my New Years resolution is to stop being that guy that says "well actually" followed by something smug. I'm certain I've broken this already.
That's been true for awhile. After I graduated in the late '80s I wanted to go back to school for a masters degree and was politely informed by multiple universities they were only looking for students who intended to get a PhD.
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Some of them do.
> Just no, a $130k salary in the US would be at least 70k€ in Paris. In others city it would probably be less but the cost of living would be much less too.

In regard to this, I think what needs to be mentioned is the number of $130,000/year jobs in the US for developers/engineers, even outside of NYC/Boston/SF.

I live in the Great Lakes Region in the US. The starting salary for most engineers that I see is $50,000-$60,000k and then those companies also have health insurance benefits and the like. The salaries for experienced engineers that I've seen are closer to $100,000 (~5-7 years experience), and you can probably nearly double that for NYC/Boston/SF. I'm not sure of the cost of living differences between Paris and those cities, but I think US engineers are unequivocally paid better, even if you account for all of the great social benefits that France has (and many areas in the US desperately need).
Yeah, I hear you. The reason I brought it up is other parts of this thread are about differences between a university setting and online videos - even though I studied CS for the content, people I know from school gave me job opportunities as well.
Isn't people getting burned out by contradictory information exactly the theory? /conspiracy
Almost everywhere does this, and it is such an insane rule.
I don't buy it. I know people with clean language that I don't trust, and friends who swear that I do. But in general I see profanity and anger as a red flag in relationships to be heeded, because it shows a general lack of respect towards others.

Next thing you know, evil will be good and good will be evil. Oh, wait a sec...
I wanted to like XMPP, but I never did. It drowns developers in complexity so they never get around to solving anything interesting or useful.

Bonus: I once discovered I had two of the main culprits for XMPP getting one of its worst misfeatures (lack of sensible framing) in the same room so I got to yell at them for it.

XMPP was form over function. And it wasn't even pleasant form.
Care to share some details about how your business is doing today? Are you profitable?
We need to clarify what reasons you might have to dump a database. One is for disaster recovery, the other is for supporting ongoing development.

For many, many PostgreSQL users in need of basic disaster recovery, a simple pg_dump of the entire database is sufficient and reliable for backup. That's not to say that these are sophisticated users, some are small manufacturing companies, some are small retail business, etc, etc. Anything more than a simple nightly dump is more (sometimes) than their staffs can handle. I think anyone on a more sophisticated basis would be using archive logs which are also a mix of DDL and data by their nature... moving into replication which isn't so different).

In a disaster recovery scenario, definition of the database (DDL) can and really should be treated the same as data. If I try to recover DDL from one safe-keeping repository and the data from another, the likelihood that I'll encounter a mismatch and not be able to recover is greater, one missed commit in an important DDL change could mean I can't restore data aware of the uncommitted code. (Most) DDL and data are statefully co-dependent and putting them on separate a separate footing is unnecessary risk.

Now managing DDL and, say, test data during software development is a different matter. I want to version control my DDL (there are a number of good techniques for this), while not fully retaining data, and certainly not doing so in source control. In this case I do want that separation so that I don't pollute my DDL files with data (which would overwhelm them), with the exception, perhaps, of certain kinds of seed data needed for bootstrapping the database (if applicable). Mind you, I wouldn't use pg_dump for getting the DDL but would rather use one of the purpose build database versioning tools to manage code as I want to organize it and before putting it in the database.
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Hum. I've seen your name before. I have the feeling we had a similar conversation some time ago over a similar article.
The usual approach in CS is that if someone wants to continue in a post-doc-esque role but has gained too much seniority, they get promoted to research scientist, or a similar title. That has higher pay but otherwise is structured fairly similarly (e.g. you can hire a research scientist on a grant as a "soft-money" position with a fixed-length contract). Some places even have additional pay grades above that, called e.g. Senior Research Scientist or Staff Scientist or Research Fellow (titles vary widely, as well as which titles are restricted to PhDs, versus open to people without PhDs). There are plenty of people who spend long periods as perma-research-scientists because they enjoy and/or are good at the position, and PIs are happy to keep hiring people who've developed a good reputation. In some of the larger departments, research scientists with a good reputation are de facto assured of ongoing employment despite the term-limited contracts, because someone who knows the ropes of this kind of job is enough in demand that if their current PI doesn't manage to snag a new grant to keep them on, someone else in the department will be happy to hire them away when their current contract expires. Besides it being useful to keep such a person around if you can afford it, some big grants, like those from DARPA, essentially require research scientists to be hired, because DARPA wants a contact who's a full-time professional researcher to interface with, not a professor / postdoc / gradstudent.

Does physics academia really not have another position you can promote someone to, if you want to keep paying them to do research for you, but they've "timed out" of the postdoc role? I had assumed this kind of research-scientist role wasn't CS-specific, since it's existed for a while, and at big universities, CS hasn't traditionally had the clout to invent completely new job titles, so hiring is usually mapped onto stuff that exists in some form or another at the institutional level.
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Just wanted to add another data point for comparison.

South East USA. All numbers in USD.

Gross earnings = 104000 / year
Bonus + Stocks = ~12000 / year

Income tax = 31986 (27.5%)
(Fed + State + Social security + Medicare)

Earnings after taxes = 84014

Expenses :
-----------

Rent : 1 BR in the city = 800/month or 9600/year
(Living by myself)

Utilities = 150 / mont or 1800 / year
(Phone + Internet + Electricity)

401K contributions = 628/month or 7545 /year
(My only retirement savings. I don't think there'd be anything in Social security in my time of need)

Car payments - 500/ month or 6000/year

Gas/fuel = 110 / month or 1320/year

Car Insurance = 150 / month or 1800 /year

Restaurants/bars = 600 / month or 7200 / year

Misc expenses = 3600 / year

Balance = 45149

I have a personal family commitment expense of 7200/year.

Employer provides health insurance and also 800 per year as seed money into my HSA(which I can use to meet deductible for the insurance).

Even after all this, I'm a dumbass who didn't save that much.

I think I'm at the best situation in terms of making money.

Plot twist : I'd most likely move to Denmark or Netherlands later this year because my GF is needing to be there. I'm taking the leap saying, new experiences and crafting a family life is better than saving money.
The author gets most of the things wrong in this article. Even though H1B is not an immigration intent visa, most H1Bs come with an intention to stay here. If you give them a chance to stay in the United States, they'll happily stay here. Right now the time to get a greencard is anywhere between 7-15 years for citizens of India and China. H1Bs include students who got their graduate degrees at a lot of good universities and want to work, start a family here, just not people who move exclusively for jobs. Even with a lot of wait, people are rady to wait so long to get their greencards. H1B is not indenture. With little hassle, you can easily move employers if you are smart. Make the regulations strict on consulting companies who abuse the process. They play a volume game where they apply so many visas to improve their probability. A lot of small companies looking to hire engineers and ready to pay market wages miss out since their chance of getting a H1B is less.
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45k = 24XX € per month after taxes. (on 12 months)
I can't believe you're saying this. Quality and performance must be the topmost priorities in any graphics application. That's something you have to design your architecture around, not a thing you can optimize later. Poor performance and poor quality are no gos for any artist serious about work. Having an application that is too slow to be used or mangles the quality of your work is as bad as not working at all.
Actually, you can't say it works if it can't provide a reasonable performance to get the job done!
How can performance not be a priority?
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Moxie explicitly gave Zizek credit in his speech.