skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect prices to change in order to reflect the new system, but I think people's "sky is falling" concerns about the price of consumer goods shooting up is way off base and sensationalist.

UBI alone simply won't provide enough discretionary income to cause sharp increases in demand of goods. Not to mention, the type of goods that a basic income affords are those that are already scaled out and are easily scaled out - ramping up supply would happen relatively quickly in the unlikely scenario that demand for these goods does go up drastically.

As I've repeatedly said in other comments, I believe demand for these simple goods will stay relatively flat since they are such fundamental necessities people are already consuming them and won't necessarily increase demand significantly (UBI won't cause demand for toilet paper to go up significantly).
Can something be a trinket and savings at the same time?
I'd like to know what he did that disabled Tesla updates. I might actually start to develop some interest in owning a Tesla, if there were some procedure I could follow to disable all the remote backdoors Tesla has left embedded in their rolling computers.
I'm Brazilian, so my poem favorite poem is in portuguese, its called A Máquina do Mundo (The World's Machine).

Wikipedia as an assert about it:
The most prominent of these later metaphysical poems is A
Máquina do Mundo (The World's Machine). The poem deals with
an anti-Faust referred to in the first person, who receives
the visit of the aforementioned Machine, which stands for all possible knowledge, and the sum of the answers for all the questions which afflict men; in highly dramatic and baroque versification the poem develops only for the anonymous subject to decline the offer of endless knowledge and proceed his gloomy path in the solitary road. It takes the renaissance allegory of the Machine of the World from Portugal's most esteemed poet, Luís de Camões, more precisely, from a canto at the end of his epic masterpiece Os Lusíadas.[0]

[0] Wikipedia about Drummond, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Drummond_de_Andrade
Very nice! I've always been fascinated by synth and sequencer programming.

Small nit: I'm used to being able to drag "upwards" to make a knob's value higher, but here it seems to do cause the value to decrease. Perhaps I'm just too used to how FL Studio behaves and others prefer this way.
This is basically what I did with my Acer netbook for a few years. I threw Arch Linux on it and used it through most of college.

With the largest battery I could find for it, it easily got at least 10 hours, IIRC. I don't believe it approached 20 hours, but this was also about 7-8 years ago.

I don't remember the exact model (it was one of the later ones they made, I believe). I have it around here somewhere if you really want to know which one it was.

The worst part about it was the screen resolution. It was something like 1024x600. There were a few applications and light games that assumed your screen was at least 768 pixels tall (Photoshop CS2, for example, which otherwise worked perfectly in WINE).

For something a bit more modern, I'm continually intrigued by the GPD Pocket Mini Laptop [1].

[1] https://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_613003.html?lkid=1106...
I live on the Mississippi river and they also changed the 100 and 500 year flood lines. In my city alone after remapping the flood lines they added 2000-4000 additional houses to the 100yr flood zone and now required to have flood insurance. I'm in the upper midwest in a location that hasn't flooded in the last 100 or anywhere near close to that. Thats not to say it ever will, but the changing of the flood lines has little to do with sea level rise or lack there of. It has more to do with money than anything.
Filter for single board computers on Digi-Key's new product page: https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight?f=1832277859
I will do after I've cleaned it up, it will appear at the blog repository at:

https://github.com/jasmcole/Blog
> Sound waves and radio waves are of completely different carriers.

(ITYM "media"; a carrier is a waveform onto which a signal is imprinted.)

In an electronic circuit it's just frequency, whether the waveform came from a microphone, or from a radio-frequency oscillator.

When you mix audio into a carrier to produce a radio signal, it's all just math functions realized in the same medium: the medium of voltage/current changes versus time.

In radio, audio frequencies that were once carried through the air are imprinted, via electronics, onto radio frequencies.

For instance, a 500 Hz audio tone modulating a 700 kHz AM carrier creates 700.5 kHz and 699.5 kHz side bands (chopped to just one side band with SSB (single side band) encoding). The fact that there had been a sound wave moving through the air is now imprinted in the radio wave medium.

"Low frequency" in radio basically starts in a range that is outside of radio, yet high enough to be usable for carrying audio signals.
My plan for a total exchange is to be under the hypocenter of the first blast. I don’t even want to be aware that humanity is finished, never mind try to scrape by with Mad Max.
The mandatory Milton Friedman quote:

At one of our dinners, Milton recalled travelling to an Asian country in the 1960s and visiting a worksite where a new canal was being built. He was shocked to see that, instead of modern tractors and earth movers, the workers had shovels. He asked why there were so few machines. The government bureaucrat explained: “You don’t understand. This is a jobs program.” To which Milton replied: “Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it’s jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels.”
Hibersap: call business logic in SAP back ends for Java developers
I fell in love w/ a fantastic little CLI util called 'lnav' which has an embedded sqlite db and lets you do all kinds of querying (eg write SQL queries against a few million rows of server logs in a custom log format, or use regex to transform files to/from arbitrary formats...). http://lnav.org

It's sort of a mini ETL powertool.
Flask vs. Django
Looks cool! Do you have a mailing list to sign up for the Windows build announcement?
Building M.UBER: Engineering a High-Performance Web App for the Global Market
Trump Supporters Built Massive List W Personal Information of Thousands
My point is that bringing up the ACA repeal is moot, either way, because it's repeal is still active and not finished.
Oil companies have been compensated for those benefits by people paying for oil. They have largely not had to pay for those harms. Allowing them to be sued brings their compensation more in line with what it should be.
I'm lazy and would start with Textrazor or Alchemy Api
A bit unclear indeed. By that I meant that most of stuff I do either fits well in pandas dataframes and requires mostly standard operations, already well implemented in pandas (actually, there are so many of those, that by 'standard' I mean practically all operations I need) or it's image data, that Keras handles very handily.
This is, by the way, another reason UBI is a Utopian fantasy: It’s impossible to imagine an elected government resisting the temptation to fiddle with the formula to achieve policy goals and reward constituents, just like today’s tax code.
Good luck restricting that from future generations who will vote for more largesse...
I see what you mean. Yes, there are counter examples of kernels that can be compiled without extensions. With my rough knowldge of the Linux kernel in particular, I imagine there are a few places where the use of extensions makes for much better code than without, and for those places the change is of debatable utility. However, extensions are the rule rather than the exception for the kernel. The bulk of the kernel could be written without them.
I didn't say anything about backups because I'm not sure of their current state, but last I saw they are encrypted at rest with keys Apple controls, same as nearly all the rest of your data. Apple's website would indicate that's still the case as well.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
I wonder how well it would perform against the Eternity II puzzle.
Not OP, but the chapter Ymir, near the end of the first act I'd waaaay too long.
Hot off the presses new novel
Windows only, maybe the title can be changed.
Before I had a family, I had a lot more time on my hands to play around and try new things. I'm sure that has something to do with it.
How does the French bank know if I owe $100k to some other bank and am now 2 months in arrears?

Edit: also, comparing nominal interest rates is meaningless, you have to compare the spread vs. the risk-free rate for the given currency.
Why Wages Aren’t Growing
I'll highly recommend reading this, if just for being good conversation at your average dinner party
Universal Basic Income (UBI) at it's core increases income for everyone - universally.

What you're thinking about is a negative income tax or some other BI that is disproportionately weighted.
It's 2017 and scanning /0 for PUT still reliably gets a bunch of shells...
>A lot of the people who received welfare in the second or third generation often had no idea how a job works. They were late all the time or just didn't show up for a week.

I dont understand. You have seen firsthand how entitlements ruin people, and you're arguing that UBI will be good for society?

Edit: why the down votes? Are adults who do not understand the concept of a job not a problem? How else could so many of them live without this knowledge if they weren't being handed out the resources to enable them?
It's not unusual for governments to create such project requirements that only one or two companies can bid on it. The "winning" company is known long before.

Happens in all sectors.
Announcing Intel Clear Containers 3.0
I don't see why not. There's plenty of 'collectors' items that do hold actual value - A copy of many first-run comics, for example, make good display pieces but are also valued in hundreds of dollars by collectors, and only go up as they get farther from first printing.
google chromebook. you can run android, & get various tools like ssh natively, and then you can do many more things with android tools. turn on dev mode and you can run linux in the environment too. You can buy a laptop for $300, get either an intel or arm cpu, it all just works.
I wonder if this will make it crash to $8,000?
U.S. Household Wealth Rises to a Record $1.7 Trillion
Makefiles date from an era where a 200MHz machine was fast and 32MB of memory was a lot. It's not really as painful as you think.
> it's perfectly fine to say horrible, racist things about the chinese.

No it's not. The common criticisms have absolutely nothing to do with race.
I fail to see where they said "below average developers".

Unless you think the average is "superstar".
I've had a React Native based fitness tracking app live in both stores for over a year now. If I had to do it over again, I would still choose React Native. It's made the whole cross-platform development process incredibly simple, and it provides excellent tooling out of the box.

Some dependencies on third party libraries made upgrades difficult, but the core library added the functionality I needed eventually, so I no longer run into those issues. Overall it's been pleasant to work with.

iOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plansible-weight-lifting-jou...

Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plansible_...
Is there some well-trod path to being able to appreciate this sort of work? I'm looking at the pictures in the article and wow do I ever not "get" this, to the point that I can't understand how one might "get" it. That camel...

[EDIT] if it helps, the only one I kind of appreciate is Croisière, but even that one seems like it'd be better if it were less shoddy and cheap looking. It looks like a quickly-made scale mockup or model for some other, fully finished work, and I don't follow how that (lack of?) quality contributes to its value, in any sense, as sometimes such things can.
Ok, seen in that light it makes a bit more sense.

The chapters where people are treated basically like grass, letting them dry out when conditions are unfavorable, and just hydrating them back to life when things get better - that's some seriously puke-inducing allegory. That's a world I would absolutely refuse to live in. Something is seriously wrong with a universe that produces that kind of outcome.
Tensions were so high in the 80s, I remember me and a few other kids discussing that very thing with a teacher in 3rd grade on the playground. (back when kids actually had daily recess plus P.E.)
New evidence that the highest energy cosmic rays come from beyond our galaxy
Check your air filters in your heater. If they aren't clean then your AC has to work a lot harder to cool the house since air flow is blocked.

Also another good one is clean the coils on your AC. Its the same concept. If air can't flow through the coils then your AC will work a lot harder and suck up more energy.

If you live in a area where it cools down at night and don't have a lot of humidity, then look into buying a whole house fan. I live in the Denver area and it will really cool down my house quickly.
> The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

Thanks; I'm a little surprised I missed that!
Yeah, I just figure having completely separate streaming services and content for separate ethnic groups is probably lower return than the equivalent for different genders; and neither sounds like it would have all that much to offer.

It would also be supremely easy to compete them out of existence for any establish VOD provider, because all they have to do is add some categories or a survey; and put some tags on their content. If they have a lot of customers in a demographic and they know they want stratified content, they can just commission it.
Unlocking requires attention. They'd have to take your phone, point it at your face, and stop you from closing your eyes or looking elsewhere.

If they can do all that, how can TouchID or a passcode stop them?
Acho, the hackeable JavaScript log system
Neat! But wouldn't Earth's gravity be affected by all the additional mass from moon-meteorites hitting it? It probably wouldn't be by much, but possibly enough to have an effect on how long it would take before the number of collisions leveled off.
Hello! This is a great product, I gave it a spin in a local setup with some actual production data. I'll compare it to Metabase (even though you aren't trying to do the same thing).

* I really like the editor. It beats metabases ACE editor anyday.

* Here's the line graph comparison between the two: https://imgur.com/a/gd5P8 I think that metabase wins here because I can get more information off that graph rather than an area under the graph kinda thing that Franchise is trying to do. Is it configurable somewhere?

* Can I link other users to the question somehow?
> It's a finer point, but if I have authorized Chase Bank to share data with a credit reporting agency, does that mean I have also authorized the credit reporting agency to retain that data? I don't think it does.

I think you're placing too many constraints on a hypothetical contract just to support your initial argument. Most likely the contract is carefully written in such a way that it's legal for them to do whatever they wanted to do with your data to begin with. It's pointless arguing over what ifs.
Yes, BI involves dismantling certain pieces of the social safety net to replace it with a social safety net. The party that opposes wealth redistribution will oppose BI.
Sounds a lot like a phone
Nice work guys.
New in PostgreSQL 10
Do you disagree with the reasons given in the "Is this really worth the extra effort?" section or did you just miss it?
Better yet, one could have completely private pension plans, where everyone is safe from both bureaucrats and kleptocrats.
>one animal killing another is a foundational part of our ecosystem.

At the same time though, our """ecosystem""" wasn't designed in billions of years to take our guns into the equation. Human has the ability to conquer pretty much every (big) animal there is on earth. Give me an AK-47, some generous supply of bullets, and let me hunt whatever whenever I want, I'd sure be able to clean out a very significant part of a jungle. It would not have happened if I had to wrestle with the bears for their meat.
The core is 12 years old. The reason it has stuck around so long is that it's the only really single-core *TI processor left. That means it's dead cheap for the amount of performance you can pull out of it, not unlike 4-core computer processors.

It is indeed on its way out but I'm going to miss it.
This title is wrong and makes the problem worse. If we want people to believe the European Commission is acting corrupt by selectively hiding reports, we have to start by not twisting the conclusions of said reports, eg in headlines or on social media.

The report said that there was not sufficient evidence to conclude that piracy is harmful. The article gets this right but then still somehow manages to screw it up in the headline. I can't imagine that's an honest mistake, so it must be a lie.

Well, at least now we know that TNW can't be trusted any more than the EC.
> I know this will never actually happen, but I sincerely wish the Social Security Administration would publish a complete official database of real name to SSN mappings.

A full list might not even be necessary — a form that would allow you to trade some basic details for an SSN might be enough to scare various agencies straight. At least that way isn't quite as iterable.

Honestly, this doesn't even sound all that implausible to me as long as some sort of sufficient warning was built into the announcement to give organizations a way to build alternatives. Say two years. After that, levy major fines against anyone who's not compliant with certain very basic security standards.

The biggest hurdle here isn't going to be backlash as much as it is comprehension. Just like with net neutrality and encryption, most lawmakers are going to have a hard time understanding why SSNs as secrets aren't a good thing, and they'll have to be convinced.
Google's intention is to improve Android, because that's how they make their money: People using Android, and sending their data to Google so Google can sell ads. Google doesn't make their money selling consumer hardware; that's more of a side business, and is really there to push Android forward, so more people use Android, so more data gets slurped up by Google.
Unless the relative velocity's are extreme they would merge on the first collision. So you get millions of small fragments from the first collision and one much larger one.

On the other hand if it's got high relative velocity's they would both end up destroyed into millions of fragments. Picture firing balls of sand at each other.

Moon even has a molten interior these fragments would be mostly liquid.
"Humanity does not ask you to be happy, it asks you to be brilliant on it's behalf."
I would guess they'll draw on the 3B in credit well before then.
> You have seen firsthand how entitlements ruin people

My grandfather received a very lucrative PhD offer at a very prestigious American university, but he didn't have the money to make the trip himself, and airplanes were much too expensive for him. So he found a ship in the harbor that was taking a passage to the US and volunteered to be a deck-hand.

Now his grandkids, those in India and those abroad, drive cars, go to fancy bars and restaurants. I've never been a deck-hand in my life, and I have cousins who have never even seen a boat up close.

It's easy for us to think that "entitlements ruin people" because it allows us to legitimatze our individual struggles, but it takes a leap beyond to comprehend whether our struggles should mean anything or are simply an artifact of the technology and logistics we have available to us.
Don’t know, but I can tell you Blackberry used to trade there before packing up their bags for greener pastures and switching to NYSE.
remains relevant in the dangerous age in which we now live (Amazon description)

Put that next to the convincing arguments Steven Pinker makes in 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' about this being the safest times ever. Makes it sound a bit cheap.
Fortune 2017 Most Powerful Women List
Viva mexico
What developers can learn from the best museum designers about UX
Very few people have that kind of bargaining power. Calling someone who doesn't a "sucker" is just being an ass.
As long as the paychecks keep cashing, I'll make those CRUD apps.
Scholar.Google down?
Checking on "downforeveryoneorjustme.com" leads me to suspect that scholar.google.com is down. Very intriguing. Thoughts?
From my last link.

“Chinese companies’ share of global electronics production, meanwhile, rose from 30% in 2012 to nearly 60% in 2016, and this share will rise to 87% by the end of the present year.”
> For each input, if the referenced output has already been spent by a transaction in the main branch, reject.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_rules
While we might want to talk about fallacies of a government contract, the reality is, well even software companies fall for it. Without giving much away, my ex-employer a fairly large "product" company wanted to implement a system from Peoplesoft's competitor.

The management wanted to save cost which meant neither full time employee (FTE) were hired nor retrained. So they brought in IBM consultants.

Once the project was over IBM left only for the company to realize they had no one to make incremental changes to the system or maintain it.

They spent extra money to hire another developer and consultancy to maintain the system.

Takeaways:
a. This was not the first time IBM had delivered shoddy product but "low cost" was a driving factor so they get hired again and again. This is true for both private companies and government.

b. Low cost also means companies don't want to hire FTEs rather make do with contractors. This creates dependency.

c. It is not entirely on IBM or other consultancies but general ineptness too. People holding on to their jobs, hiring and creating messes:

During the development of the aforementioned project one of the workflows fell within my team's domain. But the finance team had some "developers" who wanted to justify their salaries. They wanted to develop but had zero understanding of what do words like "standards" and "best practices" meant. I spent hours and hours arguing over why certain things should be done in a certain way. I was always told I was too uptight.

In the end of module written by these "developers":

a. Transmits salary for the whole company via plain text files

b. If a, was not enough the text file is emailed to 60-70 people in the company who have no authorization to look at salary data. It is always maintained that without sufficient background people might not understand the salary data at all because it uses "employee ids" instead of names.

So not everything was IBM's fault on the project.

Currently, the salary in text is a huge security risk but no one cares. All our efforts to write a program to obfuscate data was rejected for being "too complex".
> the Mongoliad stuff looks tripe too

It's not like Stephenson's other works but I found it to be perfectly competent historical-ish fiction.
I was at a company that used ADFS with Slack. The other day I was trying to get to another slack group and selected the wrong link in my history. It logged me into my old company account and rooms. Apparently the AD team doesn't push disabled accounts to service providers. (I left four months ago).
Reading the article, it looks like they did test on Mac hardware, just doing the initial distributed test on cheaper hardware first and then confirming each one individually on more expensive mac hardware. Or at least that's how I read OP.