skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As for why I think we can't come to an agreement, it's not because we are already in disagreement but because I believe (from this tiny conversation) that our views on things are so far apart that it's hard to bridge that gap in this medium and in a short period of time.

In which case I still don't see the point of bringing it up?! I mean, either you think it is worthwhile to discuss something, then you do, or you don't, then you don't. What's the point of engaging about something and then wasting bandwidth with explanations of why you think it's a waste of bandwidth?

> As for the last part, I'd like you to consider why people react differently to those wordings.

Now, are we talking about people as in "people out there" or as in you?

Because while I can see that different approaches are more useful when trying to reach different people, it seems to me a bit like you are trying to reject arguments on purely formal grounds even when you understand them perfectly well, which ultimately is just evasion and not sincere communication, and I don't see it as my job to overcome that artificial burden.

> I've also observed that the wording doesn't matter if only the wording has changed but the attitude hasn't.

So, what is the attitude that you imagine and how is it a problem?
I checked it out on Amazon, and the threat to the Earth is out in the open by the 27th page of the story in the hardcover edition. It's also literally the first sentence in the blurb on the back cover.
I imagine that one could do well if you break into a niche that isn't really represented in other platforms. If you could make an indie VOD you may be able to get content cheaper and then you can market to those who like indie films.
Hyper + fish does.

Hyper + zsh can.
Oil companies do not emit CO2.

Cars, planes, trains do about 35% of it.

Manufacturing most of the rest.

I find this all rather populist, I'm not sure it's the best approach.
I started using the BB Black when it was first introduced and am quite surprised it didn't become more popular. At the time, the alternative was the RPi, and the BBB was way faster and had dedicated Ethernet (something the RPi still doesn't have -- its Ethernet controller hangs off the USB bus).

To answer the question though, honestly I'm not sure how you can go wrong with it being a smaller community. You can largely take advice about the RPi and apply it to the BBB (or the PB, in this case). The hardware and software is all roughly similar, after all.
S.1804: A bill to establish a Medicare-for-all health insurance program
Like all IBM projects now day the bulk of the work was done in India for likely less than $5 CAD/hr, while they billed out $100 CAD/hr or even more.

The actual numbers may be slightly different, but still these are close to reality.

What a great profit margin for a failed project.

I wouldn't be surprised the code is like a lot I've seen from Indian-based sweat shops (btw there are amazing Indian coders, but you generally won't find many of them in these software houses producing the run of the mill code) - cut and paste code that hard codes every option and combination. And who cares because IBM makes money every time someone asks for a change.

IBM is the winner here, and everyone else is a loser.
Why are entrepreneurs so overoptimistic?
I think peoples choices in a situation like this will be wildly different than if there was a government provided basic income that was available forever, or at least had the appearance of being available forever. Having extra money for a couple years doesn't let you permanently exit the workforce in the same way a permanent basic income would.

As well I think for established people with kids and other commitments 1000 isn't nearly enough to get by but there is a real danger that for young adults you give them this option of completely checking out of society if it's available forever. Rent a cheap house with friends, smoke weed, and play videogames sounds like a pretty decent option to a lot of 18 year olds. Or even younger maybe? When can kids legally drop out of high school?

I really think basic income is a bad idea. I don't think we are anywhere near the point of mass replacement of the entire workforce with robots/ai even in the developed world. Forcing people who are working to pay into a system that lets people contribute 0 to society while enjoying a decent life(24k for a couple/roomates is completely livable in many parts of US especially without a car) is both unfair and likely to cause significant social strife between workers/non-workers.

I really think a basic livable wage with the removal of the minimum wage is a far better solution. Set some minimum livable wage based on 40 hour work week and have the government top up wages rather than incomes. Obviously there would have to be some sort of progressive claw back system to encourage people to find better paying jobs and not just go with the easiest thing available. Maybe have the government act as an employer of last resort creating some busy work cleaning streets or repairing roads.

I really think it's important for people to have something to do when they wake up in the morning and to be contributing members of society. Not only out of a sense of fairness for the people that are working but I think it is incredibly unhealthy to not have any responsibilities in life.
I'm not arguing that they weren't allowed to store the data. It would be less controversial apparently if I argued that Amazon grants a revokable license to consume the content on Prime Video and it is governed by the click-wrapped Terms of Service.

Im not saying they never had a right to store the data, I'm simply saying that it should be revoked. Let's not give them more responsibility and more data, they've already proven repeatedly that they can't handle it.
Oof. My bad, sorry.
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In that case, I apologise! It was not my intention to be blunt or rude if you were asking out of curiosity - sincere apologies.
This seems like an overweight person suing Coca-Cola and Krispy Kreme when they get diabetes.
this is not a question.
i know there are tons of those that say no to basic income (just glance the comments here), yet if i was eligible (different country) i would have applied right away and quit my job.
i have a few side projects and some of them just weeks and months away from release, i could return the money with interest if things go as planned (maybe a contract). banks are aggressive, i can not ask my family, kickstarter and similar are too visible, ventures are so noisy and my goals and the respect for the people in general not aligned with them. this would be ideal because it is quite relaxed. here you go, an ideal setup!
And yet, there has been no increase in the rate of sea level rise for as long as records have been kept.

Here's the sea level data for San Francisco, CA since Abraham Lincoln was President:

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....

Nice consistent trend going back 167 years. 1.94mm/year, +/- 0.19mm, for as long as we have been keeping records.

There is NO increase in the rate of sea level rise here, or anywhere in the US, that is above long-run trends going back to the start of record keeping. A quick glance at official government data will prove it. In fact, many West Coast stations (as well as Hawaii), show a decrease in sea level, due to continental rebound and volcanic rise.
And remember, the SE is phone sized while all the other decent (specced) phones are tablet sized :)
Hey, Erik Welsh from Octavo Systems here. We make the chip in the PocketBeagle (https://octavosystems.com/octavo_products/osd335x-sm/). Ask me anything.
The title of this post, "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason", is the very first sentence in the book [0]. It's not a spoiler for any meaningful definition of the word, the word spoiler should be reserved for things that spoil the enjoyment of a work, like a surprise ending.

[0] http://www.nealstephenson.com/news/2015/04/13/seveneves-exce...
This isn't going to stop until we stop treating SSNs like they're secret. Mine's not; it's been leaked at least once that I know of and I've given it freely to dozens of clerks and HR staffers over the years, any of whom had ample opportunity to jot it down for personal use.

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. It wouldn't impede their use as Social Security Numbers, but it would make it extremely obvious how inappropriate they are as a proof of identity. Maybe then we'd finally be forced to come up with something a bit less insane.
Well, we agree about the economic acts of war, but not about IP theft.

Open source is great, but your original argument would say that it's OK not only for me to copy and republish your works, but also to close-source it under my name.

It'd also be OK for me to take your journal, edit it a bit, and publish it. Then you might die because of my editing rather than your actions.

No question, IP rights as constructed are often abused. We might also note that SpaceX is not using patents, but trade secrets because of this. And just because it's not patented, doesn't mean that Elon would not be justifiably pissed if the secrets got stolen.

Stealing is still stealing, and we need to understand that just because part of the bundle of rights to some IP still remain behind (e.g., the original copy remains), that something valuable hasn't been stolen.
I've written a javascript library to deal with folding and mapping recurring promises (i.e. promises that resolve to a value part of which contains clue to the "next" promise)

https://github.com/google/chained-promise
I think most of this is, or should be, uncontroversial. While it's incredibly important to avoid bad developers, once you hit a certain high level of technical ability other traits become more important. Besides, this isn't a fixed scale. Except for a few outliers, the concept of "more skilled" doesn't really have a meaning once you pass a certain level.

At that point, what many shops do is hire people they enjoy being around, which is usually a shorthand for hiring people just like them, and then create all sorts of pseudo-psychological justification for it. The truth is that one day isn't going to tell you much about a dev. Some people are really good when first meeting strangers, some people are very uncomfortable for at least a week. Everyone deals with that nervousness differently, and on the other side, most people are incredibly unaware of their own prejudices that might be affecting their one-day reaction to a new person.

At the end of the day, there's really no magic formulas for creating great teams.
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This looks really cool!

I've been meaning to learn SQL for a long time, but I'm unfortunately in an unrelated field. Could anyone recommend some resources for learning SQL? Preferable targeted towards an experienced programmer
Commenting on the research design.

This research, to me, seems to be ignoring the biggest open question of UBI. All tests to date have looked pretty good, but have only been done on a micro level. The fundamental issue one really needs to answer for UBI is the macro scale effects.

As a society, if we were to redistribute trillions of dollars without commensurate economic value being directly created, we'd expect to see large scale inflation.

Money is a complicated subject, but essentially it represents a transfer of a future scarce resource. For commodities, the cost is essentially the sum of labor to generate it (either to mine the raw resources, build the factory, discover the technology, etc).

If no economic resource is being added to the economy, then you are just devaluing money. That is usually very regressive, and in this case could be made worse by people slightly reducing their economic labor because of the extra income stream. I could see this leading to a bad cycle, where any economic gains due to increasing UBI are later undermined.

Anyway, it would be nice if UBI worked, but I've seen no evidence that it will in a large system. It would be nice to get confirmation of previous UBI studies, but this research proposal is likely to just generate the same data, without addressing any of the open fundamental issues.
Sorry, I meant 1 microsecond.
If they feel that only their culture can appreciate the goodness of the food adequately, then _why do they care_ about what foreigners or Michelin judges say about it? Cook the same great food you normally do, and don't worry about the critics. (I know, easier said than done.)
BeagleBoard is fairly well established. The BeagleBone Black was one of the most popular boards by survey on hackerboards.com—even a couple years after the then-latest revision (2014)—second only to RasPi products, which were undercutting BBB on price.
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http://beagleboard.org/Support/BoneScript/updates/

It seems that the easiest way to get started is to use a microSD card.
"it could occur slower and over a few generations but sooner or later poverty is back." But, if the UBI is set to a percentage of GDP, then as overall wealth increases, the wealth of those depending on UBI increase. In the past few generations, ex. since the 1950's, real GDP has grown 6x [1] while the population has only doubled [2], meaning the real wealth of our society has grown three-fold in "a few generations".

[1] http://www.multpl.com/us-gdp-inflation-adjusted/

[2] https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&...
FIST principle: First In, Stay There
Getting rid of your ORM because you get stutters is silly: just find out where the stutters are and address these surgically, either by using more specialized features of your ORM or just dropping back to straight SQL.

ORM's are still a great solution for a wide majority of scenarios.
I think in a 3D simulation, the initial fragments would have various trajectories in 3D space, and their orbits would intersect back in the original plane as they pass through it in different directions. (Unless you meant unrolling the center-of-the-orbit as a line, then the fragmentation expands that as a plane? Not sure on the implications of that.)
Agreed!

In addition to the authors skills, Vue just seems to win the readability battle hands down when compared to other js frameworks. The single file components are really quite magical in practice.
It's an optional extra just about anywhere, but most routers have dyndns or some equivalent built in these days, and besides your address changes so seldom that you can run a server for a small group by just telling them the new IP when it changes.
The Pi Zero can be extremely hard to find at $5 depending on where you live, though. Ditto for the Zero W at $10.

They're pretty awesome, but every time I go looking for one it takes a few days. Still, it is sort of fun. Like hunting for a newly-launched console.
Just shy of $38 billion in one quarter revenue is "Buttloads of money". I wasn't necessarily relating it to the share price.
In the case of BI, I disagree. Politicians will see this for what it really is -- the most direct way to buy votes (by promising increased BI). It would be quite popular with both parties, I'm sure.
paired with Proxmark3 or ChameleonMini you can make your rfid cards N in 1
I just got my NanoPi Duo and it’s pretty cool. With WiFi and its form factor it’s very useful.

Though I kind of wish it used an H5; I can’t imagine it costs much more but it’s a much better SoC.
Since they have a control group, they can at least learn how people's behavior changes when they get free money for 5 years. 5 years is enough for going back to school, getting retrained, moving to a new location for better work prospects, etc.

They can't claim to know how people will behave if it is a lifetime, but evaluating some change is better than evaluating none.
Bill Gates: Control-Alt-Delete a mistake (2013)
The global financial crisis showed that insurance isn't the answer. The problem with "hedging against all futures" is that the hedging is part of the system, and when the hedge grows to the scale of the thing being hedged, you have to start asking how you hedge the hedge (and so forth). That is, if Equifax can't pay out for a sufficiently large mistake, why would you expect their insurer to be able to do so? And, worse, what if the insurer is "too big to fail," so instead you just have the public serve as the backstop?

Hence I think your latter point is right, executives really need to be more criminally liable. It's hardly unheard of, even if Ken Lay died before sentencing.
Looks cool. Any plans for D3.js reporting integration? How would someone add their own reporting types?
Its not. Hurting them is wrong.

I also don't like junkies. Is that also wrong? Why do you tell me what i should like, and based on what ethics do you tell me what is morally right?

What if I tell you that liking foreigners is morally wrong where I live? We don't hurt them, but we don't like them because they keep telling us what we should do, and keep trying to conquer us for a millennia? Still we live in peace since a long time, we treat our guests well, but we don't categorically like them. Each and every guest can become an individually liked person, and even unliked ones are treated fairly (given a fair trial before execution ;) Hint for autists: It was a joke)

Jokes aside: Is this immoral? Why?
Thank you, that's very kind. I'd like to post more often, but real life does tend to throw a spanner in the works!
But a different collision probability.
database.use {
insert(Book.TABLE_NAME, Book.COLUMN_ID to 1, Book.COLUMN_TITLE to "2666", Book.COLUMN_AUTHOR to "Roberto Bolano")
}

That's pretty bad design: you're throwing out type safety with this API.
> Make free public housing that all citizens have a right to ask for.

Median rent in the US is $934 thus this one benefit costs the US goverment as much as this proposed BI would. Unless we are talking about housing where people aren't which is likely a non-starter for a slue of reasons.
> they are both about solving problems;

My car won't start. Shouldn't Google solve that first, before attempting to further improve search results? It's really easy to solve. (I lost the key)
There is already sizeable group of have independently wealthy people with inherited money. If we look at how many of these people behave in different wealth categories, it might give a clue.

If it's determined that money makes lazy and that's moral hazard there should be really high tax for inheritance.
The financial struggles of a breast pump startup
I'm not even exaggerating. If you're into KSP, I think you'll like the book!
The mission behind a company like this is admirable, but I can't help but feel like it is the wrong approach to diversity. It reminds me of BET... why would we want to segregate content to one specific channel or network? It feels backwards to me. True diversity would be having this content everywhere.

A service like this is almost like a specialty kitchen item. My fiancée is a stickler for this stuff and it is something I really love about her. She hates speciality, single-use items. Take the cherry-pitter[1]. It's obnoxiously large, like a beefy can opener, and the only thing it does is remove pits from cherries (and, apparently Olives). She doesn't want stuff like that in our kitchen, and I don't blame her.

Regardless of your cultural background, why might you want to buy a standalone TV/streaming package for one vertical of content? I think we'd all agree the future would might involve a-la cart purchases like this... but we aren't there yet. Once you combine your Basic TV via Sling or Playstation Vue, Netflix for the riff-raff, and an add-on luxury package like HBO GO - you don't have any more room for speciality items. They need to be REALLY special in order to work. Just like the cherry pitter – there just isn't any room left in my drawers for a single purpose item.

[1] https://www.oxo.com/products/preparing/fruit-vegetable-tools...
Not a whole lot can be done to stop it. I'm really not sure what we can do, beyond freezing it. I guess we could add monitoring to it, but I'm not sure that will help.

They should absolutely not allow PIN retrieval online and without a whole lot of serious vetting. That they do is yet another metaphorical kick in the teeth. I am just now learning about the PIN retrieval, so this may result in my needing to change strategies.

Fortunately, I don't rely on credit. If I need credit, I can easily qualify for a secured loan. It also helps that I sat on the board at my credit union for a while. So, credit isn't a problem.

I do feel sorry for those who aren't able to just stop using credit. See, according to what I've heard/read, freezing your credit actually negatively impacts your credit score. If you're freezing it, you must be at risk. Or so they seem to think. So, by defending yourself you are actually potentially harming yourself.

It is already eating up your time, perhaps some money, and adding stress to the lives of many innocent people. Then, when you want to alleviate some of that stress, or reduce your risk of harm, it harms you even more. There isn't even a realistic option to opt out of the game.

It's pretty horrifying and it is difficult to not be angry about it. I'm fairly well insulated but I can certainly empathize. I wish I had the answers. I wish I had a solution. I don't and I'm not sure anyone does.
Sorry, I didn't mean to spoil your fun. It does say that on the back of the book, and is mentioned on the Amazon page.
No, because certain things are fine in an interpreted function that will fail to compile, and throw totally uninformative errors. E.g., one time I spent about 3 hours trying to figure out why a relatively simple, perfectly functional Numpy function, limited to the subset of Numba primitives wouldn't compile. A labmate with actual knowledge of C looked at the code and in about 30 seconds suggested it might be having two return statements; she was of course correct that this was the problem. Doh.
Keep calm and code on: Productivity tools for developers
Sort of tangential, but why does everyone prefer the SPI interfaces on those little TFT screens? They support parallel ones with 8 and 16-bit buses.
> Disconnected from SQLite (Error: Invalid LatLng object: (NaN, NaN))

Too bad, I was looking forward to that mapping demo. It might be just what I need. I'll try again in a few hours.
This is a new product from an established company. The original Beaglebone was released in 2008, 4 years before the original Raspberry Pi, and is far better supported from a technical perspective (meaning PCBs and spec sheets, and not umpteen unanswered forum posts about the same issue with the blind leading the blind).
I don't know Swift, but non-mutable borrows are useful in a large number of languages. Are you sure a String is represented as a single reference? In Rust a String has a reference to the actual contents on the heap, a length, and a capacity. So that's a bit heavier than just a single reference, same thing with Vec. Rust's semantics are similar in that if you pass a Vec it will 'move' those 3 things, still, passing a string or vector slice (an immutable borrow) is faster, and moves less data, because it only copies a single reference.

I find it hard to believe that 'large structures are rare in Swift'. People don't make structs with multiple fields? You never want other structs to hold one or many of those? These are cases where non mutable borrows are useful. I understand that in Swift this is probably abstracted away from you and done by the runtime (or compiler) if it can, but that doesn't mean non-mutable borrows aren't useful; you just probably don't see them.

Of course, that's just a guess, I don't know Swift.
Apple Maps had a rough start, but people forget Google Maps wasn't always perfect either.

It would be nice if Apple users had the ability to submit corrections to Apple somehow.
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