skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be true if every economic good were produced within the community. I don’t know how isolated these experimental communities are, but I doubt they source 100% of supplies from the same group that’s getting the basic income.
Interesting that the founder is currently facing rape charges.
It is not accurate that most employer-provided health care is provided by firms that self-insure. Self-insurance is common among firms with more than 5000 employees, and sharply less common with firms with smaller numbers of employees. Though the majority of the American workforce is employed by "large enterprises", the definition of that term is "firms with more than 500 employees".

Regardless of that: we already know what happens when the economics of health insurance for a region become unfavorable for insurers: they simply exit the individual (and, ultimately, the small-group) marketplace. No law requires insurers to offer products on the individual and small-group marketplace, and, without the mandate, it's reasonably straightforward to predict that many/most insurers will leave those markets.
How on earth is VS Code a 'ripping and rebranding of Atom'?

That's just patently false.
Considering the vast majority of companies fail rather than become unicorns, I feel their experience is much, much more generalized than the alternative.
Money is not the only factor. IT informs me that we are getting great support from github for our enterprise instance. As a user I have no clue what support means, but the people in IT are the ones getting that help.

So long as gitHub provides value we will stay there. Support is worth it when several thousand developers get an unplanned paid vacation every time a server goes down (of course git is distributed so the a few minutes of downtime will affect nobody, but much more than that and people notice).
This is why the capslock key was invented. :)
Clearly. And is this statement based on the well known fact that rich people have always been happy to have their money taken away and given to poor people without trying to undermine any genuine efforts at wealth redistribution for economic growth?

That's why we don't have any rich people any more and wealth inequality is at it's lowest point in decades, right?
Wrong, depending on electricity costs, at current prices it is more efficient to mine Monero than to just write them a check.

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/xmr
No, its the reason we need brand-independent safety certification of electrical gear, of the style provided by, e.g., UL.

Its also why we need actors in the chain of commerce to have strong protection against counterfeits, which negate the protection of any safety certification program.
what an great article, i dream of a future where i use internet instead of going to bank. i will buy music and ticket straight from artist without using intermediary. wow.
That's a rough guess; the 59 cycle just started, but it's still opt-in, not on by default. But we can say for sure it will be at least 59.
To say that something is majority, you need to compare with the minority, minority was not provided.

Although I recognize a HN post can't possibly be able to enumerate and compare the magnitude of all possible ways the US influenced the world and tell objectively if it added more benefit than harm.

How did the US improve the stability of Middle East on the 1953 Coup d'Etat of Iran? Supporting Taliban in the 80s?

How helping overthrow (lots) of elected governments in South and Central America help them?

How is it that the US is a democracy champion but is more than happy to support cruel and corrupt military or religious dictatorships for it's own benefit? How does that help the world?

Are you really taking into account the implications of these actions and how they helped shape the current stage on your benefit-harm balance?
I was one of the small-time investors in TechShop and really believed in their mission. I still do, and I'm sad that they weren't able to get a sustainable business model. I learned a lot at their Austin location and made some pretty neat objects. They had said in their last investor meeting that they were trying to pivot to provide services for non-profit makerspaces, but it didn't happen fast enough due to their cash position.
This is off topic but I've had to use AIX for a recent project and it's jarring to see the lack of software available for AIX compared to Linux. Makes me happy to go back to Linux.

So it's all relative =)
Agree, that is a big problem that we are working hard to solve. It isn't solved in this release, but it is high up on our task list.
Did you intend to link something? I see the [1] but no link
Vegans will always say their way is better. There's a commitment there with zero room for compromise, and I think IMO for many it's a fad.
Stuff spills, rain, etc... accidents happen.
Well, going exactly from the quote, using surface area:

6x9 fuji: 54cm^2

35mm frame: 8.4cm^2

That fits roughly 6x
The 25% figure was across about half a million grants, so there are a lot more NSOs than you'd expect.
Apple's own cables are nothing to write home about, though I haven't heard of anyone being electrocuted.
Venus is pretty sweet as it is. Go high enough in the atmosphere, and you have about Earth atmospheric pressure and room temperatures. That altitude in the Venus atmosphere is effectively an Earth biosphere sized almost-Earthlike living space.

One convenient circumstance: A breathable Earthlike atmosphere will float at that altitude, so it would be easy to live in floating balloon habitats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ5KV3rzuag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-old7YI4I
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The “broken down” brick could have the kind of short which would deliver mains voltage to the cable.
This is super cool! As a former Swift dev who is now learning React as well, can you talk a little bit about your process? Your site looks super polished and I'm curious about how you went about learning React, designing the site, etc.

I'd be thrilled if I could come up with something so useful and it's a perfect "sample" initial page to make.
If you only need archival, it might be easier to get an autofeeding scanner like a ScanSnap and scan all of the pages when you're done with a notebook. I used mine to scan a lot of old notebooks before throwing them away.
Just as a tangent, the term for this is 'hypergamy' and one can find more research and writing on it searching for that.
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> Follow the rules and it won't break.

That's the problem here: you're on the honor system that everyone knows and follows every rule every time. Maybe you have a really top-notch team, great code review, etc. but can you say for a certainty that this will always be true, or that it's true of every bit of code you use?

Being able to prove that in advance, especially in more complicated scenarios, has a significant value from checking on every build, especially when you think of the many bugs which have been caused by maintenance code breaking some of the assumptions which the original authors had.
I'm curious about your 2 assertions, because they are new oppositions to veganism I haven't heard before. Where did you learn that veganism causes rising infant mortality, and also that veganism causes an increase in gas?
shuffle-t and marlow?
lower voltage means more transmission losses as well as heavier/more expensive cabling to deliver the same power.
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Killing for an insult is self-defense in a society where tolerating an insult broadcasts that you can be taken advantage of, with no repercussions. (Typically because the justice system is absent, toothless or corrupt.)

"Honor" is not a cultural failing, it is a failing of legal structures.

Where such systems don't exist, our rhetoric is not far off from this line of thinking.
Where do you live that politicians aren't constantly trying to remove welfare benefits?
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You might be thinking of wilful infringement, which in some jurisdictions can significantly increase the penalties for infringing some types of IP rights.

This in turn can lead to the perverse position that someone doing R&D in a certain field may be advised by their IP lawyer not to read existing research papers or patents, so that at least if they infringe and get sued, they can honestly say they didn't know and it wasn't wilful.

Of course this completely undermines the entire principle of publishing knowledge through academic papers, disclosing inventions through patents, and so on.
I purchased the standalone Mac 1Password app, but moved back to LastPass.

I hate LastPass, and want to use 1P but LP just seems to work better. Despite being bloated and ugly.

Admittedly, I haven't tried 1P for around a year now. So as I have a license, I have been tempted to go back. Is it worth it?

My biggest gripe is in Chrome on iOS. Nothing ever seems to be able to autofill correctly and the UX is just horrible...

1. Tap Menu Button

2. Tap Share Button

3. Tap LastPass

4. Authorise Touch ID

5. Select Password

6. Autofill fails... Go back to 1. (Then hold to copy the password instead of fill)
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I haven't seen any proposals for UBI that rely on printing money to fund the benefits so I imagine that the Fed will still be able to control money production rates and keep the total currency within fixed limits.

Would this run away inflation be possible in a system where we're drawing money out of the top of the economy?
Well, it's all of the above really. But does it really matter? The point is that we'd be better off relative to our goals if prices were stable. So we are a counter-example to the claim that rising prices benefit all home owners. They don't.
But the vegan police will demonize you if you dare to question their beliefs, or support your own non-vegan nutrition choices.
Hey Arjun,

Congrats on your launch. You might want to disclose your interest in the product here, though.
Does the first row of your keyboard really have a U after the Q?

Does the layout of the letters matter in an argument against using the shift key?
Amazon should have a UL certification required policy on anything that runs off line voltage. Even then, there's stuff on Amazon with fake UL certifications. Like this solid-state relay.[1] There's been a UL warning notice out on this item for over a year.[2] Yet it's still on Amazon. The fakes are rated for far more current than they can handle.

Switching power supplies are easy to do badly and hard to do right. I had to design one recently. A switching power supply is a short circuit waiting to happen. A switcher puts DC, as rectified line voltage, through the tiny transformer. Then it cuts the power just before the transformer saturates, becomes a small DC resistance, and starts to burn up. This happens a few hundred thousand times a second. If the switching MOSFET remains on too long, the device will burn up. A switcher is thus always on the edge of burnout.

MOSFETs tend to fail in the ON state. A static charge from a finger touch on the gate input can very easily blow out a MOSFET. The gate of a MOSFET has only a few atoms of thickness between it and the body of the semiconductor, and is very vulnerable until wired into a circuit with anti-static protection. Even in good plants, some will be
damaged in assembly, especially in very dry weather.

Thus, switchers need protection circuitry. This adds considerably to the cost and complexity. Ones that don't have it will mostly work, but when they fail, you have a really bad day.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/MYSWEETY-SSR-40DA-Single-Semi-Conduct...

[2] https://www.ul.com/newsroom/publicnotices/ul-warns-of-solid-...
This isn't an iPhone we're talking about, this is the charger which is connected to 220V AC power. The chargers are build very small, and cheap off-brand chargers have insufficient clearance between the LV and the HV side. This is dangerous, and can cause the 220V mains to go through to the USB port. This is also a very well-known property of cheap phone chargers, and you can find many teardowns online that show what I'm talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-b9k-0KfE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfJ3Ui8IS04

http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/2016/10/25/cheap-usb-charger...

I have also seen a few videos of teardowns of actual faulty chargers. For example, there was one where some of the insulation in the transformer windings were damaged, and you would get a continuous shock just by touching the LV side of any devices that are plugged in.
You are spreading FUD.

> (URL's? Form data?)

> this telemetry does cover usage.. i.e., this seems to include what URL's you're browsing; this could be a security risk for apps like Dropbox and OneDrive.

Back these claims up with something specific and concrete, otherwise they're just wild speculation.

The search bit you're quoting refers to when you, say, search for something using Amazon via the Amazon search provider built into the browser search box, a piece of data is sent along with the request to Amazon to attribute Mozilla as the source. In aggregate this influences how much Amazon pays out to Mozilla for their default presence in Firefox.

I'm happy to try to clarify any concerns about telemetry or other data collection you might have (in an individual capacity, not as a representative of Mozilla), but usually that should come before the flinging of damaging accusations over a public forum.
The hole would be smaller, thus more likely to be affordable with wages / savings / etc.
> "we don’t currently produce in sufficient quantities to make it a sustainable diet for the entire population"

I wonder what we are missing in our crops that, if grown, would bridge this gap?
The post I was responding to wasn't citicizing UBI, but rather criticizing this specific type of program which DOES inject money into the local economy from outside doners.

> And if solving economic problems were as simple as "just take more money from the rich people and give it to the poor people," this problem would have been solved centuries ago.

When in history have we tried anything like UBI? How can we know if it works if we have never tried it?
Recently my original macbook charger died with a bang and tripped 20A breakers (220v). It was in perfect condition before that. Maybe 5 years of use but rarely ever away from my desk.

First time any charger I owned did such a thing and I had many very shady chargers for various pc laptops, phones and batteries.

Replcement charger in local store, 100$. I wasn't happy.
VS Code is trying hard to be an IDE for all languages. If you use pure VS code without extensions, it quite snappy. But as you start adding more and more extensions, it starts slowing down and that too quite fast.
I agree. Maybe all this experiment can prove is that giving money directly to people in "poor" countries is more effective than international aid programmes that started after WWII. Big news.
Ada is a Pascal dialect? How do you figure? (If you mean "somewhat in the Pascal flavor", I might be able to see it...)

A more C-like syntax, with a more Pascal-like semantics, might actually be a reasonable sweet spot. (I think the C syntax won for a reason. It's terser, without being so terse it's unreadable, and therefore gives you higher bandwidth. Most peoples' complaints about C are the semantics, not the syntax - though I'm sure at least some people dislike that too...)
Yup, I had one who was looking for someone with "Mongoose DB" experience.
Depending on where you get your figures from, somewhere between 80-85% of the jobs in the US military are non-combat, where there is as little risk of losing a limb as there is going about your day-to-day civilian life and losing a limb in a car crash.

If you didn't find something in your breadth-but-not-depth high school studies that grabbed your interest to the point where you decide that it's worth pursuing a four-year college commitment to study it in further depth, I struggle to understand how twelve months in a minimum wage job (a repetitive daily routine that affords you little if any spending money) would help clarify a direction.
I would like this think so, but am too cynical and pessimistic when it comes to business. The avg cost of a human life is ~7.5 million [1] (old stat, may be different), that is a minor accounting issue for Amazon if they were actually sued and lost for this.

[1] https://www.theglobalist.com/the-cost-of-a-human-life-statis...
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I wonder if meat cubes will count as vegan when those come about.

I hope so, cause I'd love to go vegan for all the environmental reasons, but god damn do I love meat, and cooking is my primary hobby so I'm not willing to give up all the history of recipes surrounding meat. For now, buying local is my solution.
Politicians can't favor one group too blatantly without backlash,. There also need to be PR campaigns that sway public opinion. I bet a lot of money goes there.
Where did you get that info? I'm running Nightly (v59) but it's not enabled by default. Can't find anything on their roadmap either.
The founder of this company is also facing rape charges, as a side note.
I think it has been shown that the majority of politicians in the UK (or their partners) own extra properties.
Google is very “Chinese Revolution” on the inside. You can totally have negative career and social consequences for being public at work about your conservative viewpoints and voting preferences. At the same time you can have positive consequences for signaling virtue to liberals. You could say “that’s not Google” doing this, but the thing is, Google totally supports, condones, and encourages this behavior.

But those are internal affairs, so you might argue this is irrelevant. But recently this attitude slipped outside with YouTube demonetization of conservative commentators, forced de-trending of popular conservative videos and forced trending of liberal ones?

If you want to play this ball, expect defense to get involved.
Correct, generating money out of thin air is absurd.

Not sure what that straw man has to do with being rewarded for mining cryptocurrencies and exchanging them for fiat though. That is clearly very possible and often profitable.
Interesting you mention law, since there's an epidemic of unemployed and underemployed graduates of law schools with huge debt burdens they cannot afford to pay. Which I think illustrates my point rather nicely.
It's completely ok to spend citizens' money on benefits both old and new, if that's what society decides.

It might not always be smart, or sustainable. Just as it wouldn't be smart not to do it at all. But there's no first principle of morality to reduce to. And if there were, there'd be you'd still need agreement on it for it to be meaningful.
Why would spaces be sent over the wire?
I've been using the Moleskine Cahier XL for 3 or 4 years now, and I love them. Soft cover is flexible for folding back, they're lightweight, a comfortable size for carrying with my laptop, and hold up well. Each book is roughly 8 months of working life.

I don't use page numbers though - I do date every single entry.

https://us.moleskine.com/en/cahier-journal-brown/p0408
How can one give up bacon? Should be a philosophical question.
A company I worked for always was looking for senior devs. Not because they needed them, but if one would stumble in accidentally they would still hire the programmer (and fire one of us? I never saw this pan out!)
Your claim is contradicted by your quotes which specifically calls out people not working and spending their money wastefully.
>Send money directly to the extreme poor

Ahh, so GiveDirectly is a charity? It certainly isn't universal, so calling it UBI seems misleading at best.
Easy. Delete cash and crypto currencies and let men of the state set prices.

Poof, no inflation.
I don't think it's that there aren't productive places for investing. Housing is unique in that a regular person can get a loan to purchase an asset that normally appreciates, and they can deduct the interest from their taxes. There are a lot of transaction costs, so the market isn't as liquid as some others, but where else can the average person get that kind of leveraged investment?
The problem is some kids get one shot at college, via scholarship or otherwise, and some universities (including mine) have no barrier to entry to a given college (say engineering) if you declare it your major on entry, but have extraordinary transfer requirements.
I have been waiting 10 years for "emergency" interest rates to rise and the subsequent price fall here in Europe. So far it hasn't happened.
So is Ross 128b tidally locked or not?
"Over the duration of this experiment, it's quite possible you'll create a society that abandons skills / equipment / expertise necessary to sustain an economy. That won't be a problem until the experiment ends, and then you've left people in a place far less than where you found them."

That would be a valid result of the experiment though, in light of the fact it is completely impossible to implement UBI everywhere at once. UBI isn't useful if there isn't a path from here to there. We have no lack of wonderful utopias whose only problem is that there is no path from here to there. If UBI can't prove itself out on a smaller scale it can on no account be tried on a larger scale. If the worst some bad social engineering idea does is leave a single county worse off, then it will be doing very well as bad social engineering ideas go.

It appears from reading this post that tracking the skills of the community is already part of the plan. There are certainly predictions about this from both sides.

(I'm a skeptic, yes, but I promise to treat the results from this experiment fairly. However, bear in mind that even total success at this level still wouldn't prove to me that we should immediately adopt it at a national level; I'll need to see a larger one. But I will admit that I was at least wrong about this experiment, because I don't expect this to prove out very well either. I also expect a lot of spinning of the results to make them look as good as possible, so I reserve the right to unspin the results.

As a token of such good faith, I offer that while I remain a cryptocurrency skeptic, and a BitCoin skeptic in particular, I expected BitCoin to be totally dead by now, and it is not. I say this to demonstrate that I can indeed eat crow.)
Tell me about it. I was the victim of some of this bad find yourself advice. I had a 3.8 when I petitioned to transfer into EECS from L+S. I got in but the following semester EECS was heavily impacted and they turned away 4.0s.

The liberal arts are awesome. I took a ton of their classes. You really can find yourself there. Engineering is not awesome. You cannot find yourself there. You can only suffer which was I will admit, gloriously awesome. But I had nightmares for years afterward that I hadn't finished this rec or that rec. EECS sent me to the hospital my senior year. It's a tough route but I'm tougher for it.
And this from the whitepaper:

> We also compute a new XMR-to-USD price, modeled as a random walk (a monthly change is
uniformly random on the interval [-5%, 5%]). For each miner, we also sample the XMR mined
(directly as its estimated USD value) uniformly randomly from the interval [$1, $4]. This mined
USD is added to the bail fund

Makes me wonder if they understand the volatility of cryptocurrency.
All of the articles talking about the genius of instagram’s filters seem to forget one the earliest popular iOS camera apps — Hipstamatic. It was released a year before Instagram and apple named it App of the Year even.
> Garbage collection by its nature implies dynamic allocation

i'm not sure i follow - you're saying that a gc existing implies that one cannot preallocate and avoid dynamic allocation?