skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an old argument, but it isn't very useful. The problem with simplifications is you can easily go too far, and not realize it.

This kind of arithmetic assumes the tax code stays basically the same. This is just silly. The whole point of UBI schemes for those that support them, is to be part of a complete overhaul of the tax code, in order to [avoid bad things happening]. Regardless if you support this view or not, you can't really get anywhere without accepting the premise.

Ok, so what if there is a real overhaul? First off, a lot of programs and tax credits don't make any sense anymore. So your number of 10k/person wiping out the entire tax base just doesn't work. More realistically keeping the rest of spending and tax code fixed, people have worked out that you end up with approx $3k/person (just using round numbers) in UBI "for free". Not much of a UBI rate, obviously, but hardly the scenario you present. This doesn't really speak to the economic impact of that many state and federal employees suddenly being unemployed, either, but bear with it for now.

So how do you get from 3k/person to 10k/person? Bear in mind, the whole premise of UBI is that a combination of income inequality and automation are going to unavoidably cause massive job loss and further inequality. So you restructure your tax code to directly address that. Something like an effective rate of 6 or 7% on the first 150k/yr (i.e. basically the same as today), and double that or a bit more on anything above... would get you to the 10k/person, without touching any current spending. That last part is important, this assumes entitlements like SS through payroll taxes are left alone. Obviously, it would be more sensible to roll those whole programs into a UBI also.

I'm not saying this is the right thing to do, I'm just pointing out that the arithmetic you are using isn't actually demonstrating anything useful. UBI programs only make sense if you make progressive changes in the tax code, but they can be made to work in a way that is not a radical change to today.

[edit] Found a similar but better articulated argument, see: https://medium.com/whatever-source-derived/the-case-against-...
How much of the API is the same? Would the average project require a 5%, 50%, etc rewrite?
You could give everyone about 50000 a year with evenly distributed income.

Not that I think that's a good idea
Do you happen to have a source for that?
Obviously, we do have this right, and all of modern society assumes it. Libertarians love to talk about "at the point of a gun," but, then, this would have to apply to all taxes. As soon as you agree to any level of taxation -- say, for defense or public safety or to build highways -- then you've conceded this right.

All that's left to argue about is how much and what for.
True, the damages they have done far surpass the ransom income, but the inflation of the currency itself based on global attacks probably helps them over the long haul. Sort of crazy that bitcoin markets react to ransom hauls in a positive way and to me - that is the biggest danger to bitcoin and a large source of potential revenue.
Linux official distro package repositories. Free open source software has had currated software repositories for many years and since hosting is quite cheap not much of a "business" model is required.

Don't want to deal with the official repository you can easily host your own and provide a package that adds your own repo and serves the latest and greatest version of your software. Want a solution that targets multiple distros and bundles deps there is no snappy.

Preventing untrusted users from installing software is also a solved problem. Require the root password or simply don't let them use sudo.

If you give morons and bad people physical access your machine AND permission to install software it seems to me that you have put you in a bad place where no amount of lockdown can render you safe.

Rather than make the futile effort to render your situation tenable when we know it wont how about we continue to improve actually feasible use cases?
Conceptually? It's not that different, and the only problems with Java were its implementation.

* Java was plagued with security problems. One area where Java really shot itself in the foot was that unsigned applets were sandboxed, but signed applets had unfettered access to everything, so you had to choose between signing and sandboxing. And then once security concerns became a big thing, Sun responded by killing support for unsigned applets saying it'll increase trust, but what they really did was make the problem worse by killing the sandbox.

* Java was proprietary until long after its star had fallen.

* Java was introduced when computers weren't that powerful. The JVM took forever to start up and would slow down your whole computer while running. Most of us kept Java disabled unless we had to use an applet for something just because of the massive performance hit.

You can make similar arguments about Flash, too: it too had security holes, proprietary software, and performance issues.

There is one thing I really liked about Java and Flash, though: you could turn it off. If you don't want a site loading some heavy Flash monstrosity and eating all your RAM (I had so many issues with Flash killing the RAM on my old laptop with only 512 MB of RAM), you could just turn plugins off or install an extension to force you to click to load Flash content. You can't do that with JavaScript, so maybe WASM will bring that part of the old days back too.
Since nobody here has yet admitted to using this API, these business folks are rather hypothetical so far.

(I expect some exist, but we haven't heard from them yet.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14341972
Dirac's book is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Just think about the fact that this book from 1958, which makes a valiant attempt at justifying a few parts of the formalism (it's on my bookshelf), is basically a high-water mark even though it's very flawed, especially given what we know today. What does it tell us about the ability of physicist to transmit ideas to the next generation with high-fidelity if, to understand why the quantum formalism is how it is, you recommend reading a 60 year old book by a guy who was alive when it was being formulated!

Some of those flaws:

(1) Dirac postulates, as most people do, that measurable observables are to be identified with Hermitian operators. This is a mistake that can be traced back to von Neumann. In reality, the larger class of normal operators are perfectly fine as measurable observables. Indeed, measurements are properly associated with only an orthonormal basis, and it is completely unnecessary to label them with eigenvalues, real or otherwise. (To see this, just observe that there is no physical difference between experiments that measure x and x^3 for the position of a particle.) Dirac's discussion on page 35 is just wrong.

(2) Unless my memory fails me, Dirac gives little to no justification for why we use tensor products to build up the state space of a many-body system from the state space of a single-body system, a tectonic shift from classical mechanics at the heart of the weirdness and power of quantum mechanics.

(3) Dirac was written before Bell's inequality. I mean, just look at the pithy discussion by Dirac (p. 4-7) to justify fundamental indeterminacy, one of the most profound things we know about the universe. Do you think this would have convinced Newton? Or Dirac in 1925? (We know it didn't convince Einstein.) This sort of thought experiment is lovely for an article in Scientific American to give laymen a sense of where things come from, but it's nowhere near the rigor with which we should teach physicists.
Remarkably prescient for 2008.

1. A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom. Something is broken when Sony and Universal are suing children. Actually, at least two things are broken: the software that file sharers use, and the record labels' business model. The current situation can't be the final answer.

8. Dating. Current dating sites are not the last word. Better ones will appear. But anyone who wants to start a dating startup has to answer two questions: in addition to the usual question about how you're going to approach dating differently, you have to answer the even more important question of how to overcome the huge chicken and egg problem every dating site faces. A site like Reddit is interesting when there are only 20 users. But no one wants to use a dating site with only 20 users—which of course becomes a self-perpetuating problem. So if you want to do a dating startup, don't focus on the novel take on dating that you're going to offer. That's the easy half. Focus on novel ways to get around the chicken and egg problem.

Tinder launched in 2012.

17. New payment methods. There are almost certainly things whose growth is held back because there's no way to charge for them.

Bitcoin.
Even if such a thing were true. In his position, wouldn't you?
In the 80s we couldn't do the "download code" part. The most interesting code was in books: K&R, Software Tools, Thinking FORTH, SICP, etc. They taught me an implicit lesson that all my code could be that polished and readable; graduating to the working world in the 90s was a shock.
Some more info on the trees: from Calgary Downtown Association [1], some excellent photographs from various sources [2][3][4], and from the structural engineer [5].

Sadly, the architects (Cohos Evamy, merged and renamed DIALOG) don't have a feature on their website or in an archive I could find.

[1] http://www.calgarydowntown.com/saw/Stephen-avenue-info/steph...
[2] https://christophermartinphotography.com/2010/10/22/the-tree...
[3] http://calgary.skyrisecities.com/news/2016/10/steel-trees-st...
[4] http://www.tboake.com/steel/bankers_hall.html
[5] http://astint.on.ca/bankers-hall-galleria-trees-sculpture/
Does he offer PDF versions of his books tho
This isn't really true, there's a lot of marketing misinformation on both sides. Both with Intel and with TSMC/Samsung/GloFo.

The thing is that with "14nm/16nm", the front end of the line (FEOL) was with FinFETs at a "true' 14/16nm density, but the backend of the line (BEOL) and interconnects were at the older node.

But this doesn't necessarily mean that Intel has a moral high ground here, since they've had a lower than industry standard density from "32nm" and "40nm" and below.

TL;DR: "nm" node names are basically useless now, just know that TSMC 10nm isn't a production node and TSMC "7nm" ~= Intel "10nm"
How does one generate a negative number of products?
> I think it would be wonderful if the WannaCry malware infects the NSA to the point they're shut down for a week or two

Would it also be "wonderful" if the US Army "shut down for a week or two?" How about the Coast Guard?

As an American, NSA protects you, that is NSA's job. NSA's job is not to impress you or make you think they are good guys.
I gave up on Amazon the other day. What did it? The "accidental" signup for Prime. They have a multi-year track record of doing this to people, some of whom can't afford it. I rarely need to get anything from them. So I cancelled both Prime and my account. They are clearly uninterested in keeping up service quality these days.
Tech doesn't work. Tech can't work. It is all hype and a dream. Just like Theranos.

Those who invest deserve what comes with it....
I sure hope those billionaires agree with you, because they're under no obligation to stay while the rest of you decide how much more of their assets to take.

I mean, I hope you're right. Because if not, this kind of policy is basically sprinting toward having a society of people with no market-useful skills and a strong sense of entitlement. That may be egalitarian, but it doesn't sound like a "higher utility" to me.
Craigslist has one of the worst UX. How come has it not been improved in years?

Why doesn't Craigslist get any competition? It should be trivial to implement something that's 10 times better...
High income earners in big cities are not typically considered to be part of the middle class. This proposal still lets them (us) keep the golden handcuffs because post tax income is still monotonically increasing in pre tax income under the proposal.
If only we had used Lisps for all the things!

We could have had Lisp instead of JS, but no, that would have worked too well; management wants Java. We almost had a Scheme instead of CSS: DSSSL, which could also do structural transformations of the document tree. But once again, no. The simplicity multiplied by the flexibility of a Lisp, equaled unacceptable complexity, for some strange definition of complexity.

XML looks like it really, really wanted to be a Lisp, what with its orderly nesting of tags. I almost wonder if XML stumbled and fell, due to the supporting pillars of parens being knocked out or corrupted, left, right and center.
But will that actually work out mathematically and economically?

You can make it work, yes. Should you is a whole different argument - but bear in mind the rates on high earners have been much higher in the past. So there is at least some historical evidence that your last statement is not strictly correct.
> This one-year-long deprecation warning comes atop what is a fairly reasonable migration path for most users

After working at multiple, large companies as well as doing government contracting, it would take a year just to propose and get funding for very minor changes. Sometimes it would take months to get critical bugs or security issues approved and taken care of.

A year works for many tech companies. Maybe even most. But it's laughably tone deaf when talking about larger companies or government organizations.

This is why the majority of companies I've worked with opt for APIs from, say, AWS and only consider using a Google API if there is literally no other choice. No one wants to be focused on X and suddenly have to allocate money to change something that's working to use something else.
> Note that even Alsup thinks this is what happened, he just didn't think there was enough evidence to take action on it

This is only a preliminary injunction. Uber is entitled to the most favorable interpretation of the evidence for this motion. They won't get that later, though.
You can argue that this will fail, but I love it how they are trying to go for something big.
We already have "supplemental income" with the EITC. It's literally designed for that purpose, it's just not universal
Back in 2010 I ran across Sanjoy's method for using the musical scale to perform more complicated arithmetic (mentally calculate pi^6 +/- 5% within 30 seconds).

Can't wait to read the entire work.
Does Facebook have paid APIs?
This sounds plausible, but my question in this context is always: given that people in first world countries are not currently starving to death by the millions, where is the money coming from to keep them alive? If this money were to be replaced by a UBI, who would realize the savings?

Like the apocryphal aerodynamic analysis proving that bumblebees can't possibly fly, an analysis concluding that we can't possibly afford to keep people alive suggests that we're probably missing something. Because we do.
I agree, that's a fair characterization. But please don't say I said: "it's not worth doing." Re-read my original comment.

My point is we're not solving any sort of world crisis with immigration, so by people selling immigration as "we're changing the world" we have the potential to put refugee countries in far worse positions than they are now.
Selective enforcement is worse than enforcement by-the-book.
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> Like, I haven't found much details about the actual physical experiments around the spin of electrons (and certainly not of other particles).

The Stern-Gerlach experiment (1922) is what you're looking for. "Modern Quantum Mechanics" by Sakurai opens with an explanation of this experiment and its consequences.
At least an amount of people would say that the demos are a sham - that'd be one way of generating negative products.
I think this can be attributed to the companies core values. Amazon is tirelessly customer centric and deprecated an API is painful for customer. Especially if Amazon could write a wrapper for new API and let people continuing using the old.
Actually you can still put nginx inside a cgroup and have nginx read the loadAvg inside the CGROUP instead of the global host loadAVG by calling getloadavg();
I downvoted this comment, because the general "Google shuts things down" narrative remains. Companies invested real money in integrating Google's existing services.

If Google's New API is so easy to switch to, and companies will get value from the switch, then they would do it automatically.

The truth is that the old API probably worked perfectly fine for some companies, who are now forced to spend time and money migrating.

If you were a purchasing manager in the IT department if a midwestern manufacturing (for example) company, wouldn't this kind of service shut down scare you?

AWS seems to support their services forever. That's what Midwestern manufacturing-type companies want. Hopefully Google will learn this, so AWS will have legitimate competitors.
Ask HN: Does Amazon Ever Plan to Reopen the Cloud Drive API?
Last August, this API went "invitation only", and since shortly thereafter it's been closed to new developers: https://developer.amazon.com/amazon-drive

"The Amazon Drive API and SDKs are currently closed to new developers.

Thank you for your interest. We received an overwhelming number of API invitation requests with many innovative integration scenarios. We have ended the invitation period to focus on enabling new customer experiences with current developers."

Does Amazon have any plans to reopen this API?
I just delete accounts every ~3 months.

Used to, when I really used reddit. Now I basically have a different account in each device to upvote/downvote.
I was born in Hong Kong and I lived there until I was 12 years old. Around age of 8, 9, when I was in my 3rd, 4th grade, the school installed a computer lab and we had to take compute class every year. This was around 1999, early 2000. We learned the basics of Words (we loved playing with art work) and we also played with HTML using Dreamweaver. There was no SO and Yahoo was our primary search engine at the time, but we as kids didn't know anything about search engine. So the only way we learned was sitting in class mess around, and then go home and mess around more after downloading the free trials. Later I joined the school's newspaper club (I was the founding member) and we used Dreamweaver and Words to create newsletter. I enjoyed it.

I came to America and I was surprised by the poor computer literacy here, well, at least in my middle school. That was 2003. School were using Mac (first time, I have never seen one in HK, so I thought they were really cool looking), but the teachers would just teach us how to use the outdated Mac Word (whatever it was called back, Apple's own version). I think we did learn one or two lesson of basic HTML, but that was it. Computer class in my middle school was seen as a time break for students. Nothing exciting, teacher would just walk around and check if the student followed what she typed. I also had a single technology class in 9th grade and again teacher didn't care much and we just spent our time watching YouTube (yes, that's around 2005, 2006) or playing GTA on the computer.

I never took AP Computer Science, but I was already learning to use phpBB and started to do some light programming here and there. I don't know if I ever came across SO, but I know I used to just rely on Google search and look at either forums or blog posts. The rise of SO and convenience of Google search meant I didn't have to dig so deep on my own, but I enjoy learning the crust on my own whenever possible.

I am now 25. Although I can't do front-end development, I still believe I am a lucky person having exposed to a good CS education early on.
Either "the emperor has no clothes" or they are starting a revolution only comparable with the multi-touch one. No middle point here.
Show HN: A mix of Slack and Notes to organize side-projects / meetups / etc.
Craigslist is one of the best pages on the internet. It's functional, it loads fast, it doesn't have a stack built of buzzwords and bullshit. It works on every device everywhere. I mean, what business does a page have being megabytes and megabytes if it's gonna display a couple bytes of text? None. It doesn't matter if it's "technically free" these days, that's just bad design and engineering.
Bridgewater Place in Leeds (UK) has had at least one death caused by the wind tunnel effect now and regularly has to have road closures around it when it gets gusty (though living in the UK, at least bad weather isn't often a problem /s)

edit: should have read the article before commenting, would you believe this is one of the first examples. Apologies for what turns out to be an entirely unnecessary comment.
Machine vision is usually an exercise in data reduction. Greyscale is typically used in most computer vision applications, so it may be the case that Waymo has more information but that is not necessarily of any benefit.
Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system with SQL-esque queries
What's wrong with the UI? If I could change one thing about craiglist it would be the junk/scammers.

Competition for craigslist is hard because of network effects.
I don't think you understand how corrupt security-theatre government reasoning works (see TSA)

1) We need funding to fight X
2) If X happens anyway we need more funding

As long as there is a veneer of democracy over the outright theft of tax funds, there will be a way for these "essential" agencies to grow until they kill/consume their host.
People hate migration no matter what. Maybe Google should consider what how sustainable this service is going to be before selling it
> lacked the ability to correctly calculate the impact

And didn't bother to get the ability either.
So you tried the same joke on both Hn and Reddit. Interesting
It's because they asked for $300 when they could've asked for $30,000, considering they infected a lot of large organizations.
You mean going big to fool investors and the public? They have no sales, no functioning tech demos, nothing but hype.

Give me a fucking break. So few think critically on HN anymore, it's just hype cycle after hype cycle. Remember when Snapchat was gonna change the world because they did AR and had spectacles?
I've seen what would appear to be a coordinated push in anti-UBI think-pieces over the last ~1 week.

Not saying it is coordinated, but I find the timing suspicious. Feels like it's agenda driven.

Not to mention most of the objections (like in this article) are just arguments from incredulity or traditional. Most are "well it's just impossible" as a presupposition.

It's the kind of low-level FUD that you expect to see in political articles but as they are all presented as an economic article it seems to fly more under the radar (this kind of nonsense writing is usually called out for what it is when it's politics).

Of course UBI is inherently political and, more telling, threatens an entire way of life for some very powerful forces.

Again... not saying it is coordinated, but it would be easy to see why there would be a push to discredit the idea in the US.
Yep. I now run a different bootloader that plays nice with OSX.
I use Python to suck structured data out of our sales CRM's REST API and transform it into a nicely formatted narrative biweekly report in Excel for exec management. Pleasingly, it's reduced the aggregate time the sales team spends "writing about work" from about 80 hours a month to under 20. Subsequently I've extended that script to also automate the process around reminding relevant people about expiring legal agreements and the like.

Using Python 2.7, BeautifulSoup, XLSXWriter, Fuzzy Fuzzy. As a Python newbie, the hardest thing was working out how to even pick a version and an environment to start building on.