skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody disputes that there are lazy people who wouldn't work if given UBI. The dispute is whether that is actually a problem for UBI.

The questions we need answered to know this are:

1) How many (what proportion) of these lazy people are there?

2) How much economic output is wasted by employers trying to filter these lazy people out of their workforce.

3) How much economic output is wasted by the systems employers have to create to force the lazy people whom they do hire to be productive.

4) How much economic output can we gain by giving non-lazy people a safety net that allows them to find ideal vocations for their talents and preferences.

Proponents of UBI generally maintain 1) is low enough to be out-weighted by 2-4) while skeptics claim it is high enough to out-weight 2-4)

Really, these questions can only be answered by data. While 2) and 3) will be very hard to measure with small/medium studies, we can start getting a pretty good idea of how big 1) and 4) are respectively. So far there have been promising indications that 1) may well be out-weighted 4), but we need more, better and larger studies to be sure.

UBI's biggest challenge will likely not be finding ways to minimize 1) vs. 4) sufficiently, but will be finding ways to overcome people's cultural and political fear of 1)
Very exciting. This will revolutionize the hobby industry. No more etching. It would imagine it would be an easy exercise to build a machine with an integrated drill, so you can go straight from printing to soldering. A PCB will literally be a PCB.
At the core of this is the old, philosophical question of, "Is it better to let one hundred criminals go free if it means not wrongfully convicting one innocent man?"

Considering that we are talking about bail (meaning 1-2 weeks in jail, not a lifetime in prison) and we have justice systems that are right 80-90% of the time, I lean towards the more pragmatic statistical approach.

The "internationally recognized human right" thing seems like a thought terminating cliche, not sure why that should be the end of the discussion.
Not switched default browser yet but I'm using FF57 as my main browser on my home PC and mac. On chromebook I'm stuck with chrome lol.

So far browsing websites seem to be faster in general but when I use complex webapps like Spotify, JIRA, Netflix, etc. chrome still seems faster. I'll probably use for 2 weeks before I commit on a full switch (and import my bookmarks and switch over my work PC).
I'm interested in something like this more generically - like a task runner that creates maybe creates a branch for a particular job/training run on a remote server that you can monitor/trace source for.
Bless their heart.
That has empirically been proven false over a decade of C++ use. Additionally, C++ allows for plenty of memory safety problems without any syntactic ceremony.
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I remember Linus mentioning [0] about the major benefits of tuning Linux for super computers that came to be really useful for when trying to get performance out of a mobile phones decades later.

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA&t=39m
> And before resorting to underhanded insults (you're a lost cause)

Sorry about that. It's really difficult to tell the difference between a professional troll and an honest person with a genuine difference of opinion. It's been a tough few years for every Bitcoin believer.
Interesting, that site says his background is actually Swedish(-speaking, at least).

>Born Linus Benedict Torvalds on December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, Torvalds is the son of journalists Ana and Nils Torvalds who belong to the Swedish-speaking minority.
The latter is false because the APIs for image manipulation don't give you features like hardware video-compression-codec decoding, and so you just can't really drive a <canvas> fast enough using JS to draw video on it.

The JS graphics+SVG APIs, however, do have all the right primitives exposed to let you do flash-level animation. It's not a matter of incapability; it's just a matter of nobody having coded the right framework, or the right framework (i.e. the one Animate uses) being proprietary and without an open-source attempt to clone it.

That doesn't suggest browser vendors should step in and put the capability into the browser, any more than the inability to do realtime 3D without a framework like three.js or a game engine like Unity's HTML5+WebAssembly engine, suggests that browsers should create a common, native game-engine-like API.
Linus is awesome, and he deserves all of his success/money, and possibly more. But it is also important to recognize all of the others that were involved in making Linux such a success. Linux w/ only Linus would not have been the success it is today.
Huh? What in my post makes it sound like I'm not being serious?
Good. The glacial migration from Python 2 to 3 is one of the worst things about an otherwise fantastic ecosystem. The tide is turning though, with Django having already dropped support for 2, and now with Numpy too hopefully Python 2 can be properly consigned to the history books.

For people wondering why it's been like this for almost a decade(!) since Python 3.0 was released: Python 3.0 was actually terrible. It lacked many critical things, and was riddled with bugs and security flaws until 3.3, which was released 4 years after 3.0. This cemented in many people's minds the idea that Python 3 was a bad thing. Python 2 was and is a fantastic programming language, so it was a very high bar to move up from. Python 3 has come a long way since then, Python 3.6 is now a decent step up from 2.7.
>Obviously if you take the random strangers off the street and invite them to your home, have a deep personal conversation, lend them money, ask them to take care of your kids, start kissing them, or whatever your definition is for a “close interaction”, they sort of stop being strangers at that point, and you are more likely to get into some altercation

In other words, you agree that you shouldn't lower your defenses for a random stranger, you only disagree about where the stranger/acquaintance boundary exists.

As for the other point: do you actually know that the risk is lower conditional on you not using standard countermeasures (that probably exist because of the legit risk)? Have you stopped locking your car, and started leaving your wallet out where it's easy to get to? Walked home alone through dangerous neighborhoods? If not, why not?

Don't equate the post-countermeasure crime rate with safety.
Whose responsibility is it?
Instead of all the money funneling into one person/org, that wealth (and several times more) was spread to the many people who built things on Linux.
3 days ago till now was a 25% jump in price. I was on record saying it was a good idea to buy in at $5800: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15679776 it's currently $7200.

And 60 days ago I said to buy in at $3k: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15259134

After Bitcoin crashes, it's always a good idea to buy.

A 25% fluctuation is still the norm. Sure, it takes 3 days rather than 1 day, but it's not mistaken.
The delta v required to get off Luna is way less than earth. That's one big economic advantage.
I believe that no information about user actions and behaviors should be recorded by a browser. It does not benefit the user in any way, only Google and advertisers.

Also we should remember that data needs to be stored first before it is aggregated. What happens with information about each single event?
>He is so afraid that he wants to build a twenty-billion dollar wall that everyone knows will accomplish nothing. So we’ve purchased a plot of vacant land on the border and retained a law firm specializing in eminent domain to make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible for the wall to get built.

So they are protesting the cost by making it costlier, got it.
LLVM recently got support for Fortran (through Flang), so Python 2 has at least 30 years to go...
Python 2 came out in 2000 and goes EOL 2020 I think. Perl 5 was released in 1994 and has no planned EOL date, so it is currently winning by a fair margin.
The only true “write once run everywhere” is ANSI C, please don’t overestimate js in that regard. Unless you’re using polyfills and babels, it is feature-detection hell never ever imagined on desktop or embedded.

Asynchronous, parallel or progressive io existed since forever, and barely is an exclusive property of js. Moreover, it is not required from application programmer, unless the platform is built in a way that it is impossible to avoid.
Thanks for posting this, every little bit helps.
How do we compare it with C89 implementations out there?
What? No! Python 2 is only 17 years old.

I can still run Java, C, C++ and Perl 5 (picking the first 4 languages that occur) that were written before then, with no problems.
This article is fake news. All the browsers fail it.
not sure if I am happy or sad to see Agilebits go this route
Go :-)
ANSI C (C89), Fortran 66 and COBOL 61 will easily be the most serious contenders.
“Impact” sounds like a qualitative metric, not a quantitative one, which is fine of course. But the parent asserted that promotions should be based on measurable data, which I’m still unconvinced is practical to do well.
What you call workspace is likely called profiles.
Try running Firefox --new-instance -p
Politics really is ruining Thanksgiving, says data from 10M cellphones
If you read about what has already happened in Zim, you'll understand why people would do that sort of thing with ease at even the thought of upheaval. I agree with you on the whales but man... back in the 2000s people were desperately trying to change fiat into anything at all that would hold value. Consumer goods like dvd players, you name it. Hyperinflation is no joke. On a side note in places like SA bitcoin is viewed as less volatile than fiat a lot of the time.
It would probably be more accurate to say "if it can't prove there aren't any data races".
Thanks, that's great feedback! That's a good point about basic businesses not needing a monthly bookkeeping company. I've been pretty happy with Wave, so I don't think I need Bench yet.

And I agree, it would be difficult to stay up-to-date with all the tax laws. Ideally I would want to have an accountant as a co-founder, or at least work closely with an accountant who specializes in startups. The idea is that one accountant would create a streamlined process for all startups with similar situations. Then startups could pay a much smaller fee for a repeatable process. In your case, it sounds like your tax situation might be a little more complicated. But I do want to stress that we would have an accountant who double-checks everything, especially for the first customers.
You probably have a good reason for doing this, but why do remote development over rdp instead of developing locally and syncing with git?
Every time one of these JS-related posts come up (especially performance-related ones), I find interesting the seemingly huge disconnect between the JS-hating audience of HN and the actual silicon valley corporate/startup world where heavy-JS/React/SPA is everything.

Let me begin by stating that I'm not hating on either side of the fence -- I've been on both sides (and arguably, I still am on both sides, if that were possible).

As someone who works on a lot of side projects, I can very easily see the argument of keeping web sites JS-light, and not even dive into all the React stuff. Most projects don't necessarily call for it except for certain very specific things. (I actually do not use React on any side projects of mine, and still stick with jQuery.) On the other hand, after having joined a JS-fullstack startup this year, I can see that an article like this one is completely speaking to me/us. All I can say is, without the giant background context of working on a monolithic fullstack JS codebase, none of it makes sense; but when you're in such a job, everything of it makes sense.
Overcoming Overfitting
Yes it is. Importing a cheap Chinese WiFi access point that has an exploitable default password should be as illegal as importing Chinese fentanyl.
You're right, sorry, I misread it. I'm losing the battle of trying to keep up with all the branches of this thread.
Mondo lame. :-(

That said, I can't help but wonder "what the heck happened" since this seems - to me - to be such an obviously good idea. Was TS just mis-managed, or is there actually something fundamentally wrong with the business model?

I am a member of a non-profit makerspace which has been growing steadily over the years, and we have observed that most - if not all - of the "for profit makerspace" type ventures in our area have failed. But is there some fundamental reason why? I'm not sure anybody can really say right now.
Thanks for the pointer. It led me to a few useful links. Michael Franz has a personal web page at http://www.michaelfranz.com. His thesis is at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.20.1....

I think http://hokstad.com/semantic-dictionary-encoding is your work, so I assume it is a good description of what I can expect from reading that thesis.
>Yes, but don't confuse the problem of implementing a garbage collector with the problem of implementing a system that can support a garbage collector. The former may be non-trivial, ...

In most cases it isn't non-trivial, and that's further compounded by the fact that the GC currently has to be part of the module payload at the moment.

If we're talking strictly implementation difficulty, then interop with VM-managed GC objects may in fact be more difficult; I'm certainly not an expert so I couldn't tell you.

>... but the lack of it is not a showstopper for implementing your own garbage collector as it has always been done.

Per the very first sentence of mine you quoted, I never said it was. It certainly is likely to be far from practical, however.

Also I suggest reading the sibling comment that Steve Klabnik replied with prior. The wasm host bindings proposal is now separate from the GC proposal.
Very good point. My pet theory is that the emphasis on asset-ownership as a means of retirement is what is decreasing the velocity of money. For example, let's say we had a system where instead of purchasing a home/stocks/bonds to save for retirement, you could instead pay the government $X which essentially goes toward an annuity with payout determined by the age at which you retire. The government could just immediately spend that money - perhaps on other retirements - and your actual annuity is just an accounting entry. So this is similar to social security, except you can pay more if you want to.

The emphasis on assets for retirement locks a lot of money up in an unproductive musical-chairs of asset transfership. For example let's say I have a pay-day and want to spend $100 on buying stock. When I buy that stock I'm purchasing it directly from someone else who now has $100 instead of the stock. They can spend that money on goods and services, but in my opinion there is a far greater chance that they will reinvest that money in some other asset. If the actual assets in the market don't change, I think you can say that my investment increased the total sum of costs of all assets. I'm not 100% sure this is solid logic but it's some rough reasoning.

The problem is that at any given time more people are buying new assets instead of selling them off. This is because you can make money on purchased assets through rentiership (dividends, renting, or collateral for a leveraged investment that pays dividends/can be rented), and also because people are cautious and save more than they need, since asset prices are unstable.
Do you know from experience? There are some extremely low market cap altcoins -- you should give it a try. I do not think manipulating markets for any length of time is as easy as sideline commenters seem to believe, and it certainly is difficult to make it profitable.

Ripple (XRP): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15203894
Don't forget that Apple was a heavy Pascal user in the 80s. Wirth designed Clascal (used with the Apple Lisa computer) for them, which then got morphed into Object Pascal for the Mac. Many applications were written in Object Pascal. Apple developed Lisa Toolkit (an application framework) for Clascal. This was then morphed into MacApp for Object Pascal.
Having been a member of a union, I've seen unions protect unpopular people, including sexual harassers. I have mixed feelings about this. I do think the harassers deserve to go through a fair process ultimately though.

Also see for example how "progressive" police unions are.
Thank you, @newman314!

While we think that subscription makes it easier to use 1Password and not have to purchase apps and upgrades for every platform, there are many users that prefer to use licenses. We are going to support both for upcoming 1Password 7 on Mac and Windows.

The same is true for 1Password service vs host-it-yourself model. I have 30+ vaults shared with my team and family and it is much easier to use the service but I can still keep the data locally and set up sharing manually if needed.

There are some features that are simply not possible without the servers doing the heavy lifting: shared vaults and permissions, travel mode, Chromebooks, etc. I just hope that technically savvy HN crowd understands that and doesn't see it as an attempt to push everyone to have a subscription.

Roustem, Founder of AgileBits

I used to develop 1Password for Mac and iOS. I now develop 1Password service with Go, ReactJS, and Terraform/AWS.
Blue Gene runs Plan 9 and Inferno
Yeah, for the longest time everyone kept using library support as an excuse for sticking with 2. But at this point I think it's the exception that a decent Python library doesn't support 3, rather than the rule.

The only one that comes to mind for me is fabric, to be honest.
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Yeah, if you allocate in the main loop or preallocate you're still going to pay the overhead of a heap to keep track of those allocation :).
A Buyers Only Real Estate Agent Is Not a Winner
Fun new ways developers are experimenting with voice interaction
Business and trust
..or they can give it directly to people. There is an initiative for Europe that wants exactly that, Quantitive Easing for People. I love the idea and am sure it would do more for the economy than just pushing banks to lend more money.
Didn't even know you could do this, neat! Very convenient, I used to do it manually.
> It does not benefit the user in any way

Really? The browser-maker learning what features people use vs. don't, or what features are fast vs. slow on actual user machines, doesn't benefit the user by getting them a better browser over time?

I would like it if the statistics from Chrome in particular, were sent to Chromium-project servers rather than Google servers, though. Even if only Google's derivative of Chromium is collecting the stats, the Chromium-project staff are who will (theoretically) make the best use of the information so collected; and so it'd be much better for them (as a non-profit org) to steward that data, rather than it ending up owned by Google.

(Yes, yes, a majority of the Chromium-project staff are Google employees; that doesn't change how changing the data's ownership would change what Google thinks it has a right to do with it.)
Floobits does not work. I've tried it several times hopefully. It simply doesn't do anything.

Please enlighten us to how you got it to work at all. I use neovim.
Show HN: Derek Serverless Bot (in Go) for GitHub Projects
You don't discard them completely, but new things that can be made by reading local files vs using a cloud API are just made using a cloud API. Updates to current apps I'm guessing will still support local file users if it's easy.

Your website has no obvious way on how to buy the standalone version now. It's pretty obvious through behavior that it's a deprecated mode without stating it outright.

Most people can deduce it's an official PR position to deny the behavior that is being shown, like your doing right now.

But please, just be honest and say it's deprecated. Or start supporting the on-prem users again & ask for a software maintenance fee. None of this on the fence stuff. One guy that I have seen that has done it out right is this one: http://www.keyboard-and-mouse-sharing.com/maintenance.htm

Once deprecation enforcement starts becoming too much, those users are going to go away. A chunk of these customers don't want to do that although, because just paying the $24/year is cheaper than the time and hassle it would take to switch to something else. You could even combine it with the cloud version and just let people choose. But they are not going to chose that if they know on-prem is still deprecated.

You guys used to make features that would explicitly avoid server side decryption, like watchtower. We want that back.
Highly doubtful has any idea of even gender and age. They have a broad idea of localization and perhaps a pretty laughable attempt at "interests". Absolutely guaranteed to be nothing of value though.
Not that I'm a fan of government regulation for technology issues like this but the security situation is beyond a joke.

For one, it's time to hold companies (and executives!) accountable for security of the data they are charged with protecting, often without your consent (eg Equifax).

For another, insufficient product liability for companies being lax--even negligent--with security. Honestly I don't see an outcome like network-connected lightbulbs bringing down the Internet as particularly far-fetched.

Frankly I don't even know what the market for IoT even is. Who needs $50 light bulbs that will DDoS someone one day? Or, worse, compromise your network to an attacker.

And all for what? So you can turn the lights on after you go through multiple steps to unlock your phone?
Ronald Minnich (if you don't know him see [1]) comments :

[1] https://share-ng.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/san...

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"The semiannual TOP500 Supercomputer List was released yesterday. It also shows that China now claims 202 systems within the TOP500, while the United States claims 143 systems."

My fellow Americans:

Did you ever want to directly experience the transition to being a Tier 2 country? This is what it's like. It starts with the cancellation of the collider in Texas in 1994 (see Tyson's comments on that one). It continues as steady decline through the next two decades, under both Republicans and Democrats, and now it is reaching its culmination in the Trump administration with the replacement of scientists by political hacks. It's not fun. It's quite sad to watch, that's for sure.
The vast majority of money made on open source actually lines the pockets of executives. Linus' wealth and the salaries of all the deverlopers who build Linux or stuff on Linux combined is less by far.
If I understood correctly, this says Vanuatu is unhappy that it got gray-listed for dubious tax practices, whereas other tax havens weren't. This will affect the price of "imported food, such as rice, and fuel."

> The offshore financial sector kicks in only about 4 percent of the country’s annual output of roughly $800 million, but its existence requires an ultralow tax environment that deprives the government of some revenue.

Not sure I get this. I don't see a rational reason why such tax havens should exist in the first place. If efforts are made now to regulate them, surely that's a good thing. Hope they will be able to transform their economy anyway.
When I visited Finland for this year's Worldcon (SF convention) I learned that all Finns learn Finnish and Swedish, the two official languages of Finland. Knowing some German, I found the Swedish street signs more helpful than the Finnish ones!
I don't deny that. But right now I'm worse off relative to my goals at the moment than I would be if house prices were more stable. I'm not saying that rising prices are not good for some home owners, only that they are not good for all home owners in all circumstances.