skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a good story in the last bit, but it's horribly written and deserves to be better. Despite there being some interesting elements, it is still pretty much unpublishable (in terms of coherence in characterization and setting, plot, etc - basic elements of good writing). I think a fanfic writer can come up with something better given the same material.

I think Stephenson could also do that material justice, IF he rewrote it.
Or you've got five years to work a reduced schedule and see if you can "make it" as an artist.

Seems great, as opposed to just trying to make it while working full time.
I don't believe there is anything better, at least that I'm aware of. Is it adequate? Probably not. Is there something better? Not that I know of.

To be clear, I only know about the freezing. I got free monitoring but didn't take advantage of it. Instead, I just froze my credit and hope for the best. I don't really need credit for anything, so it has been fairly painless.
>And the reason that "the code is self-documenting" is a bad smell is because in 3 months even the 'rock star' who wrote it won't remember without appropriate help

That simply means you're working with poor developers.
Would you not work? Basic income is nearly not enough to access luxuries. Sure you should be able to live off it, but I think most people would likely want more, the difference from forced equality being that you can still work and keep that as luxury money.
Also, similar to the ACA, individual states can attempt to block the roll-out.
Yeah. Through hole is gonna be a bit of a pain still, which makes me sad... but it would be too difficult to market to smaller players if it was card edge, for example.
Randomness? lots of people (youngsters?) do new things, some will fail and some will succeed.

the only thing that they have in common is they started doing something, you should buy a lotto ticket to win one!
I can't talk to the claims about economists but I can tell you that Friedman and people across the political spectrum agreed that this was good public policy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/why-are...
> and the Mac Mini is embarrassing

Embarrassing is an understatement, I'd say it's overtly consumer hostile
https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/1000779/large_7cbe8b3f...
2012 Mac Mini on the left; 2014 Mac Mini on the right. The unscrewable bottom was one of the championed features when this design initially launched
That's why I have approximately 0 faith in the pension plan my government(s) have in place. I'll save for my own retirement so I'm not high and dry when they mismanage the funds or change policies or whatever.
Sounds like this is a prime example where evidence would help. Just thinking "a lot of the problems..." doesn't do much to show why that is the case. Especially without even knowing which extensions you are specifically referring to.

That is, my guess is these extensions are the equivalent of Chesterton's fence. They were introduced for a reason. If you have evidence that that reason is no longer apropros, present the evidence. But don't just complain about the fence.
Magit, the magical Git client, hits 100% funding for Kickstarter
The freedom is freedom from immediate starvation. Rather than be forced to work a crappy job just so you can eat, you have more freedom to pick and choose your employment, spend time on education, work on art, or whatever.
That sounds like Anecdata. Especially the 99% claim.
Basic Income is often proposed in conjunction with cutting basic social services & welfare payments, thus achieving a net gain for the government. This seems to make it attractive to both the neoliberals and the neosocialismés, but I believe this is a terrible mistake that will have the exact opposite effect to what its supporters intend - there will be more poverty and debt slavery, not less. (Methodology debates aside, I generally think both sides want people to propser & be happy).

My proof is by example through thought experiment: I'm a grad student who has a bicycle accident. Without free gov healthcare I now must go into debt to either the hospital or a lender (medical purchases are just one example of an essentially non-negotiable expense). Perhaps I already had other debts, but somehow now my interest payment + living expenses payments are more than my basic income, otherwise known as the normal life of a grad student in todays society anyway - in my case BI didn't work. This is just one example of how easy it is to slide back into poverty with such a system, it could occur slower and over a few generations but sooner or later poverty is back. We just pushed the goal posts back a little bit.

Instead I believe we should leave our dealings with money to the marketplace, but should definitely act as a society to provide a good life for all citizens by seeing that their basic needs are met. Make free public housing that all citizens have a right to ask for. Provide basic but nutritious food to the populace, for free. Encourage free markets and capitalism, but see that the basic needs of every citizen are met - and perhaps a little power in the marketplace i.e. money is also a basic need, but its still only one of many. "If they didn't already exist, people would think public libraries were the most radically extreme socialism".

For these reasons, the growing popularity of BI is worrysome to me. It's just neoliberalism made pallitable by a once-in-every-few-generations wealth transfer.
I think people who have that view feel that corporations can't arrest you, can't seize your assets, can't restrict your travel, etc etc.
There seems to be a common bait-and-switch tactic performed by proponents of UBI, in which they mention UBI as a replacement for social programs when talking about affordability, but back away from that assertion when questioned about how to handle (for example) recipients that spend all of their UBI on drugs instead of food.
"Your data never hits our servers"

That seems to be a pure local web-app. Kind of a remix of the local aspect of Tiddly Wiki and DabbleDB's approach to data massaging.
No, I believe this is a case of special war tactics, subchapter information war special tactics. This, in my opinion and experience, is an attempt at pacifying the American public at large about the inequalities and lack of fairness which the country is currently grappling with. It's subversive in subtly attempting to prevent the populace from going out onto the street; I don't care who wrote it or where it's coming from. The only thing that matters is the content and the intent. If the intent was the exact opposite, then it is extremely poorly stated and has achieved the opposite effect.
PDF with more info here: https://github.com/beagleboard/pocketbeagle/blob/master/docs...
> Is everyone currently clamoring to elect politicians that want to increase welfare and other "Great Society" programs?

People aren't clamoring to increase welfare because the people whom it's perceived to benefit aren't the ones who actually have the largest voting power.

People absolutely do reward politicians for securing funding for their constituents, usually in the form of earmarks, targeted tax breaks (e.g. disaster relief, geographically targeted bailouts), and stipends. In fact, it's one of the strongest predictors of support for politicians representing smaller districts.

Only at the national level (ie, when running for president) does it become problematic to be perceived as having spent Congressional funds on your own district, because the new constituency includes people who had their money "taken away" in order to provide those earmarks.
How much did that recent war cost?
> Lua is not compiled to machine code, but to an intermediate bytecode form.

Correct.

Now look at what Roberto Ierusalimschy means by "interpreted language": "… the distinguishing feature of interpreted languages is not that they are not compiled, but that any eventual compiler is part of the language runtime and that, therefore, it is possible (and easy) to execute code generated on the fly."

Is that what you mean by "interpreted language" ?
5 years is an eternity in today's age, progression-wise. Hopefully results will be published as the trial progresses.
I found this article to about Zero-Knowledge proofs to be very helpful.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-kno...
or it could be pages that mention the people link to the articles
> Given the free software philosophy, a free program is always superior to a non-free program, no matter how bad that free program is.

I never understood this opinion. If I need to navigate to drive to my grandmother's house, and none of the free nav software knows how to get there, but I have access to some proprietary software that will do the job, then why not use it?

I can stop using it at any time I want, no strings attached. I can also reason about its ability to perform actions that serve its creator's interests rather than mine (capture my data and send it to the mothership, mine bitcoins on their behalf, ...) and I can make rational decisions about whether the ability to find my way to grandma's house is worth the risk. Often, the math works out that I am better off occasionally using the proprietary software.
Idea: what if they could hide from the recipients how long the program will take, while guaranteeing they'll get two years advance warning? Then for the first three years we might get something more representative of behavior on indefinite BI.

I do realize that by this point this would be hard to hide.
That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

I imagine this could be an issue if, say, it's a project like Firefox and they start including some binary blobs. Without an explicit CLA, couldn't a FOSS-zealot contributor now sue to have their code excised from the product?
I too am impressed by the scope of this effort.

I hope it provides some meaningful and insightful data either way, though I'm partial to a positive result from this effort.
Arguably the first rule of litigation is to sue the people who have the money.
Not bad, especially since most of it would go straight back into the economy. People who need the money tend to spend it immediately.

I feel it would drive a great de-urbanization, as people try to move places where they could get the most for their UBI.
Facebook Proxy Past Paywall https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/sec-discloses-edgar-corpora...
杭州“共享医院”获批复 社会资本办医成本降低
央广网杭州9月21日消息 据中国之声《新闻纵横》报道，共享单车、共享充电宝、共享雨伞、共享汽车……共享经济成为眼下的热词。这两天，在杭州又诞生了一个新词“共享医院”。一个由多家医疗机构“拼”起来、实行医疗资源共享的医疗新模式出现了。看病真的可以像“逛商场”一样？“共享医院”会改变传统医疗格局吗？浙江的这一举措在各地的同行中引发了反响。
Ask HN: Top 5 books for bootstrappers?
I have some credit in my Amazon account and am looking to get some books that will help me grow my startup.

Any ideas or advice? I'm familiar with Eric Ries, Founders at Work and hoping to find some new gems.
The first part is a race against time to survive.

The second part is a war between humans for scarce resources in space.

The third part is about humans, who are largely doing fine, finding out stuff about the past and themselves.

There are some deadlines & urgency in the last part, but I think it's a tall task to try and create urgency when the previous sections were about the entire human races being extinguished.
That's the end game, certainly, but having guaranteed income and additional programs doesn't hurt the experiment.

The idea is you can help pay for UBI by cutting the then-superfluous programs. But the benefit for people is in having the unconditional safety net, not in having access to only one program.
this might be true, but i don't see why it should be. if two pieces collide at a high speed and shatter explosively, why would they stay confined to a single plane?
Pretty much, Jobs thoughts on sales/marketing people driving companies more relevant than ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AxZofbMGpM
10. Try to strike up a conversation with the stranger you’ll be sitting next to for the next X hours. I’m not even an extrovert, but this is my favorite part of flying. I’ve sat next to some really interesting people. Some folks don’t want to chat but in my experience that’s pretty rare.

Some strangers I’ve previously sat next to: a retired nurse flying to take care of her mother in law who had dementia; a radiologist who had previously been a physicist at fermilab returning from an MRI conference; a bar tender/stripper; an evangelical who hosted asian exchange students; a heart surgeon who specialized in ablasions for treating a-fib; a 60’ish year-old man flying for his first time; a nanny/aupair; a Jewish grad student from Cape Town.

The flights pass so much more quickly when you’re engaged in conversation, and it’s pretty easy to get most people talking. Two of those passengers mentioned above I ended up in a car with. I gave the evangelical a ride to his hotel since it was on the way home from the airport for me. And with the radiologist we missed our connecting flight and rented a car together to drive the last 150 miles.
I think you are right but for the wrong reasons.

The whole point about Basic Income (at least the unconditionally one) is that there are not going to be any jobs (or very few and only for highly talented people). And even if there are jobs it will always be worthwhile working (as long as it's unconditional)

So if you, like me, believe that's the case, the whole discussion about whether people want to take a job or not becomes moot. It doesn't matter if they would have, they can't.

A much more important discussion then becomes how we make it work financially.
Evenness of communication is about giving everyone roughly equal chance to speak up, not having some parties dominate the conversation.

in my work experience, there are almost always one or two leads who dominate the conversation.
I suggest changing "conjest" to "condense".
On United 232, 111 people died.

An additional 47 were seriously injured.

The remaining 120+ people had "minor injuries", which, because the plane erupted into flames, I assume had to do with smoke inhalation.

This can't seriously be considered a good outcome. The PTSD of nearly dying in a fire would personally be too much for me. Again, that is my bias.

Also, are hijackings being considered here? They are common enough, terrorist or not.

It would be cheeky to say that a hijacking is not an accident and therefore isn't included in the stats.
Here's such a map for Singapore we created quite a while ago:
http://xiaoji-chen.com/2011/isochronic-singapore/
http://www.chsommer.com/isosin.htm
Now there is a potential demo ;)

And thanks to you Amit for your gamedev resources. I reference your site all the time and know many have learned a lot from them!
At least in the case of Exxon, the company actively engaged in a misinformation campaign regarding climate change and its link to oil. This is more similar to how the tobacco companies operated in regards to cancer.
there are plenty of factors at play. for example:

i would hope the "not being owned by a datamining advertising giant" of wire or telegram would be a good reason to use them instead of whatsapp.
If you use magit and didn't fund this, I encourage you to contribute so the author gets paid an even better wage for his time helping us all.
"Good documentation" might be a bit of an overstatement. The second you get off the beaten path with a Raspberry Pi, things can get pretty hellish. Try bare metal C on just the second rendition, and weep before the non-existent documentation for the SoC they used. The official response to this issue (to paraphrase) was "it's fairly close to the previous version; you can figure it out." I don't want to know what sort of suffering you would have to go through trying to do bare-metal programming on an RPi 3.
Yeah, hire below-average developers instead and never end the job of cleaning up.

I heard about startup that changed team three times, and had to rewrite codebase likewise.
Ahh so the prompt isn't bash then? That explains some of the bugs I got.

I'm not going to criticize your approach as it totally makes sense in terms of building a minimum viable product but I do think you're going to run into a lot of problems with that approach as your project gains traction as it's very different to how a terminal emulators traditionally work. Plus you'll potentially spend a lot of time reimplementing Bash features like it's builtins, scripting features and the multitude of parsers it runs (depending on if you're interested in having a REPL environment like you would normally would with $TERM + $SHELL).

That all said, it looks like you're handling pseudo TTYs decently, which is an easy thing to get wrong (I say that from experience as I've screwed up PTYs in the past!) but also probably the most important part to get right, in my opinion.
99pi recently released a podcast on the basic income research being done by the Finnish government & YCombinator:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-finnish-experiment...
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I've found a better approach to comments is not to put them in at all.

Then, you raise a PR, have a code review, and whatever the other developer is confused about that you had to explain to them - that's where you needed a comment and what you explained to them is what the comment should be.

Developers who have their "head in the code" will almost always (unless they are very smart and very empathetic) fail to realize what is hard for other developers to understand because they will fail to accurately model to context which the other developer has.
I disagree, you're citing an agreement between me and my bank. The bank may have authorized Equifax to store the data, but I did not. The bank was authorized to share the data (by me), and Equifax was authorized to store the data (by the bank), it is a fine point but it is a fact. So in all of this, the bank is the one who is not in the wrong.

I can't say whether Equifax's agreement with the bank provides any clauses to allow for revocation of Equifax rights to store the information about me, but if it does not then I need to go out and find me a new bank with some better lawyers.

(I'm saying that a scenario such as this whole series of negligent behavior and events, should trigger one of those clauses.)
Maybe more twitch streaming, or more elite gaming as a result? I find that whole economy rather strange but then I remember that a lot of "work" these days is just shuffling imaginary money around.
Are you sure? Last time I checked the ones llvm had and gcc did not were:

Dynamic alloca overflow detection

Symbol size changing for global variables

Adaptive global redzone sizes

Invalid pointer pairs detection

Support for no_sanitize attribute

Support for dead stripping of globals on Linux

I might be out of date on some or even all, so please correct me where I'm wrong. Thank you in advance.
I think the whole "credit locking" thing is dubious at best however.

For anyone that had their credit locked or frozen previously the hackers would have also gotten access to the pin numbers that permit the unlocking of one's credit file. What's to stop someone from using the PIN to unlock it and create before opening credit in a victims name?
Hey, author here. As several of you have noted, there are a lot of tweaks to speed this simulation up - making it 2D increases (unphysically) the collision rate, the particles have overly large collision radii, and the fragmentation threshold is quite soft initially but then quite high for small masses.

Regardless, I hope the video is fun - the sudden burst of fragmentation makes for quite the sight.
>Whereas the reality of people receiving free money might be somewhat different. There's the drip, drip welfare payments of just enough money to survive without being motivated to find a job.

That's why I always clarify that an essential piece of Basic Income is that it is unconditional. Whether you're on the bottom rung of society or the top, employed or unemployed, basic income should be the same amount.

When the choice to get a job changes from "Well I'd lose my benefits" to "Well my basic income is no longer enough, I'll work part time", then state welfare no longer becomes as much of a trap. It can finally make strides towards lifting people out of poverty.
I knew I should have specified diphenhydramine! It could have averted this precise discussion.

But then I was worried that nobody would recognize its chemical name.
This reminds me of the USB Armory. https://inversepath.com/usbarmory
When was SQLite ever not cool?
Who is he and what are his crimes – Imran Awan
I said very much the same thing in my review:

“[The characters] spend most of the third part literally doing nothing. They are assembled into a team of seven by a nebulous authority for some secret purpose; neither they nor we are told what it is. They go from place to place to investigate something or other, making several pointless stops and excursions and wondering, as I did, what was going on and when something was actually going to happen.”

https://blog.plover.com/book/Seveneves.html
Seems like the most obvious conclusion is that labor for crappy jobs will become a lot more expensive. Basically any sector that relies upon cheaper labor, or is highly undesirable (think working on pipelines, coal mines, agriculture, sanitation, even low level medical care). And if it isn't based on wealth and only income, I can see a lot of professionals dropping out too once they've become comfortable.
For most travel, time, rather than distance, is most relevant.

People allocate travel by time, mostly.
When your application grows, eventually you need to de-normalize data if you want to keep having reasonable performance for some operations.

You can reach a point where it's not feasible to have everything done by joins.

EDIT: I mean in relational DBs in general. In this case, 400+ columns probably mean SQLite may not be the engine to use, regardless of schema :)
I wonder if it has anything to do with the $600 1099 floor.

Staying below that might encourage under-reporting on taxes; staying above that gives the researchers pretty reliable addresses and SSNs from participants.
I wonder what this says about AI in the future, since you can imagine that as AI becomes more powerful, it starts to make inferences that aren't explicit, and discovers connections that aren't obvious. In some cases, those connections will be wrong, in others, they will be right, but whether or not harm comes from inferred facts, it'll be hard to make a system aware of it and foolproof, as even human beings can't yet do this.

And how would this be tested in court? If a human being and a machine can both "read between the lines", a human has the right to publish a blog article about his investigation, but a machine cannot? If the conclusions are 100% fact and not slander/libel, what does this mean for free speech?

It seems to me some kind of global blacklist would be needed for these protected individuals, that courts could update, but then we'd have to be on guard about abuse of these, both from hackers, and also governments (e.g. let's add Paul Manafort to the blacklist) using them beyond the intended purpose.
1. Who can pay 10 trillion Dollars: The assets aren't sold in a big package all at once.

2. The economical effect: A bunch of companies get what they pay for. This may create economic growth.

3. Not enough liquidity in dollars: We could always print more dollars

4. Would the US accept other currencies? : Who knows but most likely American Companies would buy American Assets.
Trillions. That's what's currently going around in quantitative easing. That's why many are calling for QE for the people. Instead of giving money to financial institutions, give it directly to the people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
At the point where they start to put back the conditions we have around welfare today. Or at the point they start to treat us the same way employers treat us today.
Sure, for a time, it may become impossible to have a runaway defense budget, might even indirectly make going to war less appetizing, certainly would decrease petty crime and the expense that comes with this.