skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Browsers became a way to deliver general-purpose applications over the Internet rather than just structured documents. Once they did, then all of the features that are being maliciously used here have very useful applications like responding to mouse input.
Right, and the charger is plugged into the wall which provides 220VAC. The cheap chargers are unsafe because they don't have enough clearance between the high voltage and low voltage sides of the circuit, so the isolation can fail and energize the USB port with 220VAC, for example. This is a well-known failure mode of cheap phone chargers, and it should be obvious why these shortcuts are illegal in most countries.

Teardowns of cheap USB chargers online explain what I'm talking about, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-b9k-0KfE
And while waiting tables, you might consider community college. It's a lot cheaper way to try some things and figure out what you want.
This could be super useful for code reviews. I wonder how well it works across continents (I'm guessing fairly well).
The term "hypergamy" has been almost entirely co-oped by redpillers, in my experience.
There seems to be lots of confusion about what constitutes UBI here. This isn't talking about America or developed nations. And government led UBI experiments in developed nations were always doing UBI in place of other social welfare benefits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots

The argument isn't about if UBI is good or bad. It's if UBI is better than the current social welfare structure. The question is, "is it cheaper and more efficient to just give people money and get rid of the several programs we have?".

And I'm quite sure any UBI done on a large scale will end up taking money away from those who don't need it in the form of higher taxes so it effectively balances out.

Yes it is income redistribution. That's not necessarily bad. We already do it in several forms. It helps society more than it hurts it. Most people are ambitious and don't want to live at or below the poverty line for the rest of their lives. Some do, that's unfortunate.
That's actually why I said the bigger issue than the liability one is the PR one.
The questions that GiveDirectly are looking at are not about the technical implementation, but whether it actually produces good results.
One of my life goals is to find alien life. Yeah, dont ask to much questions..
Yup. 45 applications, several face-to-face interviews and homework assignments since June. No offers. This is with over 6 years of development and 11 years of technical work and leadership.

Hiring practices suck when the only advice my father can give me is "make sure to smile and be positive!"
Every single proposal of UBI has included it replacing all other welfare benefits. That simplification, and the resulting reduction in administrative overhead, is among the top arguments for UBI. Also: spaces before question marks look strange.
>In the US at least all the rates are marginal. The only "disincentive to work" is completely psychological and made up. If you make more money, you get more money. There is no financial scenario where you make $1 more and lose anything close to $1 in government benefits, tax credits, etc.

Well there's at least one, though you're generally right that welfare cliffs have been all but eliminated in the US.

That said, here in Charlottesville our healthcare.gov market fell apart for 2018 and the one remaining insurer's second-cheapest silver plan is a tad over $10,000 per year. Under 400% of the federal poverty level, the ACA guarantees a subsidy of the difference between the second-cheapest silver plan premium and a certain percentage of your income (sliding scale, but no higher than 9.56%). That means if you're at 400% of the poverty line, $48,240 for a single-person household in 2018, your premiums are capped at $4,612 and thus you receive a subsidy for $5,468. At 401% of the poverty line, you get nothing.

Thus, effective marginal tax rates are >100% between $48,240 and $53,709 — it does not make sense to earn any more than the lowest end of that range. A bit of an extreme case that won't hold in more functional markets, but... personally frustrating.

/rant
My personal guess about why federal law enforcement is obsessed with this issue (if it's not just as irrational as it seems at first glance): secure communications and devices are really an obstacle in prosecuting crimes like insider trading or trade secret theft. Prosecuting crimes that leave plenty of physical evidence behind (like bombings or mass shootings) isn't really hindered if you can't read an attacker's phone. But the difference between "lucky timing" and "insider trading" might hinge entirely on the contents of communications. The public and most legislators aren't going to be scared enough of financial crimes to support backdoors, so LEOs tell nonsensical scary stories about how they need backdoors to stop kidnappers and terrorists.
We've provided subsidies and guarantees to try to help poor people and manipulated markets with predictable results countless times. In the US, higher education loans and urban housing are modern day examples of this.

UBI isn't inherently different. It's trying to pretend you can manipulate a market with no detrimental side effects, but it's been tried many, many times.
I would think that it's, at least, less of a mystery in Norway (or the Western Europe/Nordic model in general) -- at high marginal rates of taxation, and a wide variety of public benefits for free, there's less of an upside to making more money, so the enjoyment of the work itself matters more.
look here: https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/02/12/034206/pwn2own-2016-w...
Hi there! The preceding review is from my sister who has a very similar sounding username (amoothy12 vs. amoorthy). Still, I'm thrilled to have her as a shill for CivikOwl :)

Looking forward to some non-biased reviews on our product. HN users have given us great feedback in the past - blunt and thoughtful.
That VS Code is not Emacs-like, that’s my problem with it.

In my experience nothing beats Emacs at editing text. Vim has better shortcuts, but Emacs is just smart about everything.

My problem with Emacs is that it’s showing its age, it’s hard to configure and you have to learn an old and obscure LISP dialect for it. On the other hand I’ve heard that VS Code plugins are a joy to develop, MS apparently did a good job at that.

But Emacs? Yes please, I want that — plus to be honest, in 20 years from now Emacs will still be around, whereas I have my doubts about these fancy new editors.
"From the government's point of view, they were trying to maximize tax revenue, right?"

This is a GOP tax bill, so no, not really.
Have you worked with professional engineers? They're probably the profession most similar to software development. Yet, pay is comparable and working environment is similar.

The comparison to sweat shops rubs me the wrong way. When I was saving money for university, I worked 40 hour weeks in fast food. It was grueling, it paid minimum wage and I fell asleep exhausted each day. I saw people work 60 hour weeks in that job to try to live off it. But, that job still pales in comparison to a real sweat shop.

I'm an EE. I have all the qualifications needed to go into a field with a professional association guarding the entrance. I even worked summers in engineering departments. But, I chose software because it was better.

I feel like you're making comparisons to jobs you have no direct experience with.
I analyse blockchain transactions so you don't have to
It's true if ANY economic good is produced locally. You can look for individual prices changes.

Additionally, production costs are highly variable component of local prices and can be dwarfed by transport and retail costs (e.g. produce in the US.)
Given the a "data race" is essentially defined to be the class of races that Rust's type system guards again, yeah it saves you from all of them.
Alternatively we can use UBI to remove special income grants, if UBI is sufficient for a modest survival we might be able to drop social security and the non-medical portions of government disability payments in favor of a flat income grant. This would reduce the bureaucracy involved in these systems.
I find myself wondering if keepass is going to introduce a new vault type of small individual files in a directory and move into where 1Password used to be (including "cloud" using any of many cloud storage options).

edit: Seems to me that even if you set a fixed file size of 1-2k for each entry it wouldn't be too huge, or perhaps a dual-file per entry system with one small fixed-size file (128-256 bytes?) for indexed info (URL, name, username), etc. and a second fixed at multiples (or powers) of 1KB for added data (actual passwords, password history, notes, etc.) you could mostly avoid disclosing information even about URL lengths, etc. You could probably reasonably obscure a lot by doubling the larger file's size as the minimum increment and for most scenarios the file size would still be pretty trivial by modern networking/storage standards. Would stink for binary storage or images, etc. but there are different solutions available for that.
In short, what is important to people in their residence changes.

Friend of mine bought a house he and his wife loved. Five years later he came to understand what owning a Dr Horton house means, and they wanted a better-built house.
I love it too. I completely understand why some people want to avoid a hosted solution, but it makes sense for me and my family. I've probably recouped the subscription cost in the time savings compared to having to troubleshoot my wife's setup every couple of months.
I think there's an evolutionary reason why we didn't remain vegetarian or vegan. I don't know the science, but I do know plenty of people live healthy lives on meat-eating diets, and do just fine. Questions like this really only lend themselves to hyperbole. There is really nothing a meat-eating person can say that a vegan will agree with, and likely vice-versa. It's a zero-sum argument.
At its heart, UBI sounds like a good thing but it ignore basic human nature and particularly in-group and out-group conflicts. UBI in America would calcify a class system where one group of people works and another lives off their work. The working group will come to resent the non-working group and it will further divide the society. People are living a bubble if they don’t think this would be a major source of political and social friction.

Also, I don’t think the proponents of UBI can account for how many people would simply not work if they had the option. I love programming but there are some days where I don’t like my boss and my co-workers. I endure some discomfort but at the end of the day, I’m compensated for that. If you told me I would get 50k per year and free housing, I would probably spend most of my time snowboarding and playing video games rather sit in 1 hour planning meeting. I would probably be much more likely to do this if all my friends were snowboarding and playing video games ….
Right - as of recently, I would claim that the market is distorted in a weird way where hiring senior people is just a better deal for most startups than hiring juniors and training them, even factoring in all the associated costs, because a weird effect where market rates for senior developers are maybe ~2-3x higher but they are 5-10x more effective.

Market rates for senior developers relative to juniors should go up in this scenario, but they haven't really, and I don't understand why.

The main selfish economic reason to hire junior developers is if the marginal return of hiring someone sooner swamps the relatively higher total cost, which is why you'll see companies like Google that have huge RoI on engineers hiring many more college grads.
Why? Even if a whole country would have UBI they still need to import stuff...
That's a misrepresentation of Buddhist beliefs. The whole reincarnation thing is a teaching about karma than a literal belief that you will come back as a bedbug if you're naughty.

Anything else?
Wrong again, there have been cross-platform wrappers for the (very well documented) 1P format for a LONG TIME, see here[0].

Slightly non-intuitive, but functional.

[0]: https://github.com/georgebrock/1pass
Fantastic article -- and interesting comment. Thanks for posting.
That doesn't sound like a problem. If it's so widely-used, is it really trivial?
Same. I have a tough time empathizing with people who expect free upgrades forever (especially if purchased many years prior) if they don’t articulate how those upgrades should be funded.

I think it comes from a desktop software mentality, where things remained rather static relative to mobile’s rapid changes.
Context: I'm an academic in applied math. Like most of you, I juggle multiple things -- courses, projects, students, committees. I spend most of my tube time in Emacs (yes, I know this half sentence tells you how old I am), and for each "project" (a research project, a course I'm teaching, a student I'm working with, etc) I keep an org file with a log of day-to-day or week-to-week progress. Every so often I go back and write an entry about my plans for the next month or so. This has worked reasonably well for me.

A very nice thing about org-mode is that most of the rest of the time I'm either writing code or papers, and all of that is in Emacs too. So if a thought pops up about a project while I'm in the middle of something else, it's really easy to jot it down in the right place and go back to it later.
Step 1: Distribute 2 L of clean, potable drinking water to every person, every day, at no additional cost to them.

Step 2: Distribute 2200 kcal of nutritionally adequate food to every person, every day, at no additional cost to them.

Step 3: Allocate 20 m^3 of private, secure shelter to every person, with right-of-occupation intervals lasting no less than 4 years, at no additional cost to them.

Step 4: Allocate ~350 L/day for treated water and sewer lines--sufficient for cooking, cleaning, hygiene, and sanitation--to every person, at no additional cost to them.

Step 5: Distribute 800 W of electrical power to every person, at no additional cost to them.

Step 6: Allocate 50 Mb/s data network bandwidth to every person, at no additional cost to them.

Step 7: Build sufficient additional public infrastructure for transportation, healthcare, business, and recreation, such that a reasonable amount of use of those commons is available to every person at no additional cost.

Step 8: Distribute a quantity of spendable currency to every person, with no requirements for eligibility or restrictions on its use.

Starting at step 8 is, in my opinion, a recipe for inflation and rent-seeking.

UBI is, in essence, an attempt to create a mixed economic system that is communist at the bottom end and capitalist at the top end. If you do not establish the minimum quality-of-life boundary by producing or taxing-in-kind the required goods and services as an inherently governmental (+ non-profit NGO) function, the rent-seekers in the upper class can and will capture some of the benefit intended for the lower class, and possibly enough of it that the lower class can no longer solely subsist upon it.

If the subsistence-level of existence is guaranteed, there is no longer any leverage provided to a person with more resources by virtue of the poorer person needing to accept a bad deal in order to live, while the richer person can walk away from the table without meaningful consequence. Workers cannot be as easily exploited if everyone can afford to quit their jobs. Renters can always fall back to their sleeping cubicle.
We authenticate when people try to use the link. We are exploring ideas on how to enable fine-grain permissions for sharing.

The link is an association between team members who are in a live share session. The workspace (i.e. source files) is not stored in the cloud. During a live share session, the communication is facilitated by an Azure Relay in the cloud. We are also looking at the ability to have peer-to-peer communication if you are on the same network.
Absolutely.
There is a near hundred hour startup cost to get into helping gnome, so making this process simpler should really be prioritized.
Really? The music that some people make (in my case, Peter Hollens, Taylor Davis, Clamavi De Profundis) makes me so happy I am very glad to give so they can make me more. In this world, it seems a very easy thing to understand that they can only make music if they are paid for it. This is the ideal model, there is no greedy studio stealing most of the money, I am directly connected to the artist, it just makes so much sense to give a few dollars. And also, I am not paying a lot here compared to the amount of quality entertainment time I get.
Curious, Why does it matter to you?

On the Atom.io website https://atom.io/ it reads "A hackable text editor for the 21st Century". Well I can code in JavaScript 5 and 6. I love love it when a project sticks to web standard, and not have to worry about slangs I don't care about.

> Typescript is great at catching bugs

The same with JavaScript. Google Closure compiler and anyway most IDEs "understand" JavaScript too and catch bugs. JavaScript is dynamically typed not typeless.
I'm traveling to China with my laptop/cellphone, how I keep them secure?
Do you think ARMs don't have branch predictors or multi-level caching? Did you know some supercomputers are being designed around ARM computers? x86_64 is not king anymore.
The Cornell Note-Taking System [pdf]
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That's not correct.

In the second case:

You bought a house for $50k, which in a year appreciated to $100k. You sell the house for $100k, pay the capital gains of X% on the $50k of appreciation which gets you $100k - ($50k * X% ) to play with.

You lateral move would not be to a house worth $100k, it would be to a house worth $100k-($50k * X%) because you d not have $100k, you only have $100 - (50k * X%).

If you wanted to defer capital gains and play with entire 100k, then instead of doing a sale you would do 1031 exchange.
Taming the masters of the tech universe
How active shooters are changing school security in the US
Could you link the issue so we can look into it?
Chrome only makes this effectively useless. Considering that the entire browser market is moving to a largely unified web extension format this is not that impressive. "Everywhere Chrome works" is simply repeating the mistakes of the past, but with Chrome now instead of IE.
Yeah libraries are a different thing. I find bugs in python modules all the time.
You can't just wrap a statement the compiler has deemed to not pass the borrow checker and make it compile. Unsafe blocks can bypass the type system, but you have to call extra magic to do so.
This is a bad idea for a couple of reasons:

> “If generating money out of thin air by using a computer program seems absurd, that’s because it is,” Grayson Earle, who dreamed up and co-leads the project, told In Justice Today

Does this person actually understand how crypto mining works? (Classy of them to take a swipe at the very technology enabling their project, by the way.) Even with a GTX1080 TI, at $0.12/kWH you'd be lucky to make $0.01 of profit per hour mining Monero. Most people will be mining at a loss, meaning a direct donation would be more efficient.

Secondly, the whole idea of raising a general fund to pay the bail for accused criminals is absurd. How are the recipients selected? What happens when they actually do abscond and the money from the fund is lost?

Bail serves an important purpose in mitigating flight risks. Why don't the authors of this project work on a technology solution that accomplishes that without collateral? Say, a cheap GPS tracking device or smart phone app.
Streaming downloads in Elixir: a protocol love story
Most of these people are on the Windows version, I'm guessing. The 1Password Windows version is very neglected by AgilBits.
Cards Against Humanity Buys a Piece of the US Border to Stop the Wall
Not to mention a commentor with an industry reputation in the field, whereas the replier has none.
In that case Joe is clueless and should stay in the same house he bought.
Because being the author of an article or a blog post automatically gives you credibility?
Well cash injection by definition create inflation. However it could be a neutral effect if, for instance, you get rid of unemployment benefits at the same time.
You are right about the ACA subsidy, I completely forgot about that because I was only thinking about income taxes.
I would be extremely interested to see the social/psychological effects of UBI on how people treat the homeless. This is a bit divergent but if UBI was introduced without any increase in mental care I am curious if the portion of the population remaining homeless would be exploited for their earnings or supported into stable life settings. I do believe it's a good idea to try UBI but this particular point has always interested me.
The land near BART that’s available for development in the near and medium term is the parking. Six story apartments on all BART parking is what, a couple thousand units? That’s a drop in the bucket. To replace enough SFHs to make a difference with buildings of that height, we would need eminent domain seizures of entire tracts. Not gonna happen.

It’s true that an entire city built out of six story apartments could work, but realistically development needs to squeeze in the gaps (infill). A mere six stories is a huge waste of a gap.

Path dependence is weird like that.
Thanks! Will give it a go. I also found some interesting templates and design ideas here: https://market.envato.com/
My wife went vegan and it caused her to become anemic. She talked to two different doctors, and tried different supplements. She is far healthier with a little meat in her diet than without. I'm not claiming this is the norm, but you should realize that not everyone tolerates a diet completely devoid of meat.
It's not "the browsers" it's primarly the culture of including "whatever" on the pages one maintains. It's so easy as it typically doesn't affect negatively those who decide to do so.

And it's typically not a decision of one person.
Custodian worked graveyard shift for 23 years for best reason (free education)
Personally, I actually don't have any issue with any of the individual telemetry data, although it can certainly be used to fingerprint and for other nefarious purposes, or even if it's opt-out instead of opt-in, but collecting it by default is definitely a new change.

In fact, your link explicitly explains that you cannot control the extent of data collection now. ("There is just one control for data upload for Firefox") It also explains that this is a new change ("which is on by default.")

Trying to spin this or casting aspersions on casual users who noticed a change won't change the facts.
As it is in the U.S.

Given that, the logo they chose is also somewhat... unfortunate.
Chinese Nationalism Jostles with Academic Freedom in Australia
Probably, but it's possible for this to happen without a ground fault.
That's fair. I suppose I overestimated the significance of Chuck's username.
So you think it is awesome then?
Just navigated my own running instance of gitlab-omnibus with Firefox's javascript.enabled set to false. It looks fine to me-- I can navigate, view the issues, and presumably post comments.

What is it that you are claiming is unusable without JavaScript?
As did I, but I just couldn't get over how slow it was.

Startup time on windows was rough, meaning I had to remove it as a default editor almost immediately for most filetypes. Worse off, opening large files would grind Atom to a halt and usually lock the editor up.

Beyond the performance, I thought it was a great text editor. The problem is I just have no use for a slow-to-start editor when I can just DL vscode and get the same features with considerably better performance.