skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> UBI essentially assumes that everyone is a rational actor and that they will not succumb to spending the basic income on non-productive things (drugs, alcohol, gambling, excessively expensive consumables, etc). This is demonstrably false, especially if individuals don't have a day job.

Most people that collect social welfare payments in Australia and New Zealand don't do this - they are frugal with what they get and are careful to pay for their essentials first.

Those that aren't able to budget like this are often offered help in the form of budgeting advice and planning. Sometimes they will find themselves in a situation where they receive the payment they are entitled to, minus the cost of their rent - which is paid directly to their accommodation provider (often the government).

Beyond this, the number of people that don't benefit from their welfare payments because they fritter them away is vanishingly small.

BTW, here in NZ we do actually have a UBI, it's available to everyone regardless of income. The only condition is you have to be of retirement age. Unsurprisingly, it is very, very popular and nobody ever brings up the kind of objections to it that you have here with regard to UBI.
Considering the airlines financial history of government bailouts and bankruptcy I wouldn't be so sure.
... a fact which can lead to hilarious misunderstandings
I think your theory is most important, but one aspect that needs more thought is lack of proper sleep. Apparently that's a killer for weight gain and seems to widespread.
I don't think the problem is with social media. I think the problem is the competence of the average person.

How many communities start out full of reasonable, productive discourse, like HN, and then go downhill once they become popular? How many endless summers has the internet suffered?

Mediocrity is the enemy of progress.

Edit: I also take strong offense to the nonsense that the desire to aggregate knowledge began with the Islamic Golden Age. People have been centralizing knowledge for far longer than Islam has existed[1]. Frankly, the inclusion of Islam in this article comes off as forced and unnecessary. It doesn't surprise me that the author is from Iran, although his wikipedia page doesn't list any information regarding religion...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_the_ancie...
I run our clubs website using Jekyll. With this I could make a quick change to a markdown file and push it if I needed to update while out and about.
I can't talk about too much, but we do quite a bit with softbank[1], and I live in Japan working with HQ.

The bets they are making are actually pretty predictable, they are all more "sure" wins. Many of these companies will not exit for a long time.

They are making some (in my opinion) questionable bets on more early stage companies though. If the bets are < 100 million, some of these are more traditional R&D bets that might not give proper returns.

Of note here is that "softbank" is actually a massive investment fund though. There are multiple sources of money, not just 1 "vision" fund. Even the way the decision making is done is pretty fragmented.

Edit: wrong press release link

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2017/09/18/skymind-...
[2]: https://skymind.ai/press/softbank
There is a huge difference between sounding like an advanced feminine product, which from your follow up post is what you're getting at with the iPad comment, and using BOOM in the name of a company in an industry that has lots of dramatic media coverage and footage of mid-air explosions, landing explosions, explosions just after take off, and so on.
Chromebook

I'm still waiting for Amazon to restock after I saw this post go up: https://blog.lessonslearned.org/building-a-more-secure-devel...
I went to a regular public school and we had a mandatory program called 'Life Skills' that served roughly this purpose in 8th grade. It wasn't a full class though. As I recall it was 2 hours each Friday afternoon for a semester and everyone rotated through a few sub-classes: cooking, wood shop, sewing, and mechanical drawing.
I'm not sure what happens in the case where say sanctions against Iran or Saudi Arabia could freeze assets as well.
It's more than that, simply pixel-doubling the UI is also terrible. Real hi-DPI support (to me) is actually rendering at hi-dpi.
Creating HMDs with an angular resolution sufficient for being a screen substitute, is still a work in progress. Otherwise, I image what you describe might have happened.

The available market was gaming. With its emphasis on "presence", high frame rates, high polygon counts, dislike of visual artifacts and blur, and tolerance of low angular resolution.

And even now, as parts become available to create a better screen substitute, the market isn't seen as worth pursuing yet. But 2018 should see a higher-resolution generation of gaming HMDs. And there's Varjo to watch/hope for, though it will be $10k-ish.
Fundamentally though, the article fails to engage with whether these phenomenon are really a problem.

As the number of contributors grow, and as Wikipedia progressively moves from a no information recorded, to a most information recorded state, we would actually expect contributor growth to fall.

Additionally, with the increase of the "great unwashed" online for lack of a better term, yes, the density of intellectual and worthwhile thought online goes down. But does that matter, or more accurately, is that cause for concern over and above the general phenomenon of an "appearance" focused culture? Does social media cause, or merely reflect the values of our underlying culture?

What I do know is that I have been born into a time where I have the most access to knowledge of any human civilization ever. I can download Wikipedia. I have e readers. I don't even need to pay the university any more because I have so much access to libraries, knowledge and communication and computation.

While I am of course concerned about our societies values and their consequences, it is hard for me to take seriously the concern on the face of it that social media is destroying knowledge, when it is available in amount, redundancy and accessibility in greater amounts than it ever has been before. Period.

Perhaps there is also some anxiety on the separation of knowledge from the "appearance of knowledge" industry as well :p
Un-closlable pop-up window.
How does a software person get that far with hardware that fast?
In defense of cash: why we should bring back the $500 note and other big bills
What are you using to replace Voice? I've not found any good alternatives.
I saw a recent study that said the moon probably did have atmosphere from volcanic activity... but only for around 70 million years. It dissipated into space.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X17...
I mean, even outside of Shenzhen, if you want bluetooth the NRF52832 has fantastic hardware layout/design documentation and a frickin' Cortex-M0+ processor for core logic and communicating with the BTLE stack. The ESP32 has wifi and bluetooth and has dealt with all that FCC crap (but uses a weird MCU core.) Etc, etc.

Living next door to a few factories probably reduces your iteration times from weeks to days, but IMHO - and maybe this is the 'H' part, I'm still learning - the time that you as an individual wind up spending on design and figuring out software issues are pretty sizable, even compared to a fortnight for a nice 2-4 layer PCB.

Either way, we are certainly living in a wonderful time for rapid prototyping. Dropping the 'IoT' tag, embedded systems are super super exciting in all kinds of areas; telecommunications are just one of those.
jimminy stated they'd never uploaded any videos, which makes it even more puzzling.
It's good if you lease for 36mo. That 7500 is taken right out of the negotiated amount.
Fair enough, obviously early access is part of the price differential during the initial release.

But are you claiming form factor is not part of the price at all? If so, how do you explain it for books that have both versions actively in print?
Sure is a good thing we didn’t elect that warmonger Hillary Clinton.
Yeah, that's a valid question. I do use it on a phone and I don't think a phone's on-screen keyboard is suited for programming or heavy terminal use, but I've used termux for small things that I need to do when away from home. For example, rsyncing music from a server to the phone so I can listen to it, or fixing the config file in RetroArch with Vim, since sometimes fiddling with options can get it into a state where it needs an external text editor to fix, and Vim is easy to use on a restricted keyboard.
With NoScript, the article displays completely correctly except for the large banner image at the top, and it is unable to even ask about notifications, let alone close itself.
> $7500 federal tax rebate, most people can't take full advantage because they don't owe that much

I am pretty sure most of those who can afford to purchase a 35k+ car are making at least 40k / year and owe that much in federal taxes, unless I am not calculating something right
> Is electricity, say, easy to use because it is all supplied by one centralized world-wide supplier, or is it easy to use because voltage, frequency and so on are standardized, so you can plug in your appliances no matter who the supplier is?

The voltage, frequency and so on only became standardised because of either monopoly providers or government regulation, depending on where you are in the world. There are parts of the world where they've actually ended up with different electrical standards in different parts of the same country as a direct result of having non-centralised suppliers and multiple different electric grids.

> But also: Do you think that ease of use for new users is a worthwhile optimization target? I mean, at what cost for non-new users does this optimization come, and is that cost worth it?

Yes, and ideally, it's not a cost for non-new users.
Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries for Scarce A.I. Talent
According to US census bureau, per capital income in US has increased by 10x since late 60s. Jet fuel prices have increased around 6x, from around 30 cents to around $2. So wouldn’t that make jet fuel more affordable?
Turning Corners into Cameras: Principles and Methods
This is the standard "engineers other than software are idiots" type HN FUD. For the record, Boom is staffed by aerospace veterans from the likes of Scaled Composites, P&W, Adam Aircraft, SpaceX and Boeing. https://boomsupersonic.com/about/ They might know thing or two about cost analysis.
Extra radiation exposure is minor at those altitudes.
Paper is available here: http://people.csail.mit.edu/klbouman/pw/papers_and_presentat...

Abstract:

We show that walls, and other obstructions with edges, can be exploited as naturally-occurring “cameras” that reveal the hidden scenes beyond them. In particular, we demonstrate methods for using the subtle spatio-temporal radiance variations that arise on the ground at the base of a wall’s edge to construct a one-dimensional video of the hidden scene behind the wall. The resulting technique can be used for a variety of applications in diverse physical settings. From standard RGB video recordings, we use edge cameras to recover 1-D videos that reveal the number and trajectories of people moving in an occluded scene. We further show that adjacent wall edges, such as those that arise in the case of an open doorway, yield a stereo camera from which the 2-D location of hidden, moving objects can be recovered. We demonstrate our technique in a number of indoor and outdoor environments involving varied floor surfaces and illumination conditions.
> It is a health issue, so it's great not to blame people but saying "you can stay like this for how long as you want" is also a bit weird imho...

Unless someone asked for your opinion about their weight, why would you say anything at all?
While I can see the benefit of specific scores for specific activities to be quite useful, such as credit scores, HN karma rankings, drivers license points, I am very opposed about using the results of one type of activity to control access to a completely different type of activity. Especially when the question is access to privileges or rights controlled by the government, since interactions with the state is fundamentally involuntary.
> I'm French and I hope we do not align with the American cultural doctrine of self-reinforcement, which has, I dare say, slowly drifted towards a worrying train of thought were everything is equal, any opinion has value, any choice you make is to celebrated.

Is that how you perceive the United States right now? People tripping over themselves to accommodate diverse opinions and points of view with an irrational excess of mutual respect?

It sounds like you're describing a caricature of a Unitarian Sunday school, or some other thing that represents pretty much the opposite of Trump's America.
Nope. You can increase carbon pollution in one area while still reducing total net carbon emissions.
SUV's are also a fair bit safer for the occupant, especially in side-on collisions at higher speeds where someone in a sedan might end up with a bumper through their temple VS a SUV driver who might just lose a leg.
Prepare to see some new sites get very popular then get "our incredible journey"'ed.
You don't even have to itemize (it isn't a deduction), so I think most people would be able to take full advantage of it. I would bet anyone who is in the market for a $35k+ car (or even 28.5k+) is going to be at a point where they can take full advantage of the rebate.
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Using Safari's reader mode circumvents all that bullshit. No pop-ups, no large banners, no questions about notifications, no ads. Just the article (though ads were probably downloaded - I never saw them).
How is a sonic boom 1/40th the volume of Concordes going to affect wildlife?
That's subsonic fuel efficiency. Supersonic is another thing entirely.

The supersonic wing is also terrible at subsonic speeds, meaning it takes a terrifying amount of fuel to push it up to altitude and supersonic. Military supersonics deal with this by getting a drink from a tanker after takeoff.
All they need is a single incident, not even involving an actual explosion or deaths, and the brand will be irreversibly ruined forever. Why put your company branding on such a thin razorwire of acceptance in the first place?
Too much of anything is bad, even exercise.
SpaceX has launched 3 boosters a second time. However, they don't expect to start launching them many times until another revision in the hardware.
I am listening, I'd like to know more from them.
Ask HN: Have you received a response for YC Winter 2018 application?
- Or will all invites/rejects be send out on October 24th itself ?

- Do the late applications start getting looked at after October 24th - or only after first round interviews are complete ?
Like with any language, the level of abstraction is up to you... one could just as easily "lose control" with C++.

Hundreds or thousands of times slower Java? Have you considered that the conversion was done with a weak mastery of the language or runtime?

The HFT folks working in Java would be taken aback to learn the language doesn't work.
Yep, I have read it and I have lived that life. A fairly accurate portrayal. I have many, many stories from those years that will be fun to entertain the grandkids with.
Wow. Given that this works with ChromeOS, this appears to give me what I've been looking for for a long time: something that makes a Chromebook a usable developer laptop.

Now time to buy a Chromebook and try it out.
Three mistakes that lept out at me, some of which the author seems to identify towards the end: using new technology, allowing themselves to get politically sidelined by missing meetings, and getting too heavy into process.

It seemed like they'd have been better served by pushing back on the YC advice (requiring them to be at meetings), by picking boring technologies (python, Java, JS), and by stopping work on all of the other stuff (studio projects, etc.) that proved to be a distraction.

That said, the introduction of the Dwayne fellow really seemed like the root of most problems that weren't YC-caused.
For one of our client, Adya[1], our team at Alaris Prime[2] implemented the very same idea for the web. It is a file manager that displays a huge list of folders/files from multiple clouds (file storage) providers. We needed a fast-loading, smooth UX and way to do it was to move things around as little as possible - only the visible viewport of the user's browser.

We should be writing a case study on it but never got around to doing it.

1. https://www.adya.io

2. https://alarisprime.com
we own one, can agree that its great! it's my wife's daily driver, and with my own trips in it, i can't even imagine getting another ICE when the time comes to get a new car for myself. the L mode itself is almost a new driving experience, controlling the car fully through just one pedal and trying to eke out every last drop of kinetic energy back into the battery, and making it a challenge to never use the brakes. it's nearly as fun as a manual transmission. i mentioned this before in another thread, but the most hilarious part of ownership is the maintenance schedule. it's as follows:

* every 12,500mi: rotate tires

* every 22,500mi: change cabin air filter

* every 5 years: replace brake fluid

* every 150,000mi: replace battery cooling fluid
In Massachusetts, if you do benefit from the tax rebate, the final price is $22k. For a lease it's $115 per month, with no money down after rebate:

http://massenergywebservices.com/drivegreen/table-all.php#bo...

I've confirmed other prices through this program and believe they're accurate.
Thank you for the summary.

The first two links to http://www.dickpountain.co.uk/home/computing/byte-articles/t... , which was informative, and I enjoyed david-given's HN comments in the second submission.

Do note that both of those links were submitted by the same person on the same day, so that's a duplicate submission.

The third link noted (1995) in the submission title; useful information missing from this one. It links to the same Usenet posting.

The last link you gave is this discussion thread, so I don't think it's quite fair to include it as a "on HN before" reference.

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about the topic could update https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems and/or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Group ? That's where I expect to find mention of "TAOS operating System"; a name which simply redirects to Tao Group.
imagine a picture of an airplane and BOOM next to it. Tell me what 97% of the people think it is.
"Criticizing the history of the United States is fine, but it's not even in the same universe regarding human rights abuses."
I thought this was an outrageous remark, and felt compelled to object. But you say that's deflecting from a vast oppressive machine. Criticizing an easy target. Trying to cast the US as the world's "bad guy".

No-one said you called the US perfect. No-one said US atrocities excuse Chinese ones. I guess if by definition you say Chinese ones are greater, and I guess they are one of the "truly evil" countries you referred to, there's not much can be said to you. The US merely has done evil things - other countries actually are truly evil. I guess it's natural for humans to think that way about their own group, but still, it bears reflecting on, that each group thinks that way about itself and others.

Whole countries have disappeared in the 20th C when they say they want to do things their own way, not the way the US wants - not just individuals. But it seems you don't see that. "Trying to cast the US as the world's "bad guy" isn't brave or controversial, it just gives cover to the truly evil nations committing ongoing genocide." There are a number of interesting things going on in that sentence. It's so thick with what seem to me labels, ad hominem dismissals, false assumptions, straw men etc that it's impossible for you to hear what is said to you on this subject. You said criticism is fine but keep coming up with reasons why it's not. This has been interesting for me, thanks.

Anyway, I'm still wondering - are you only interested in what the total number of US killings has been, or only what it isn't? What's your estimate of the total? You are obviously better informed than me on the subject, or at least think you are, having told me to read more about it.

I repeat: What's your estimate of the total number of US killings?
You just made me start rooting for Iran’s space program.
I always said they should be called BANG
This seems much too simplistic.
I'm trying to learn Chinese. I set my browser to open a page with a random Bible verse in Chinese every time I open a new tab.

This helps me pause before browsing (should I really be looking at that?) and also study somewhat frequently.

https://pingtype.github.io/verse.html
At this point, why would anyone ever join a startup? Even the lottery tickets are gone.
Concorde used turbojet engines, with afterburners for takeoff and from M0.95 to M1.7

Boom is using medium-bypass turbofan engines which are much more efficient.

As for comparison with the F-22, The F-22 engines are quite reliable. The F119 engine (to my knowledge) has never had a core failure requiring shutdown in flight. The RAM (Radar Absorbent Material) coating on the F-22 is maintenance intensive, but not required for a SST. Almost 50 years of research should provide a paint that can handle the heating of supersonic flight, with minimal maintenance.
Close, cerner.
I imagine it's a huge upgrade being able to design with computer modeling. I honestly can't fathom how they calculated supersonic airflow when designing the Concore.
I took a number of bookbinding workshops there, and I also would recommend it highly. Everything about that experience was amazing.
Thank you, I needed a good laugh!
Airbus/Boeing are not known for quick delivery. It took >8 years to get the 787 from launch announcement to a customer, and that's after who knows how many years of internal studies and research.
This is bad for ozone layer and for all of us who live bellow it. We should be trying to make electric aircraft not this - 5k ticket and using some with old missile engine.