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Silicon Valley should reject UBI
Universal basic income (UBI) cuts against the grain of what Silicon Valley stands for. Silicon Valley solves problem by using computers and Technology.

The world is rapidly entering a time of demonetization (where companies and individuals pay far less than before for the things that they need), and is about to enter a time of rapid de-employment (where high school graduates, college graduates not from Stanford or Harvard, and anyone with any sort of blemish on their resume will find it more and more difficult to find a job). Companies will have fewer employees and pay less salary to keep pace with demonetization.

One solution may be UBI. Just let the government give everyone a check. But Silicon Valley can do better than radically new government policy that relies on politicians.

In the near future of demonetization, companies will still have market values and volatility, which is where another solution may be, such as with a computer program (open source) that can be used by any competent person to successfully trade the stock market, a successful robot trader.

One argument against this is that as soon as any algorithm is implemented, it is no longer useful as the markets adjust. However, successful human traders adjust and are still successful. Thus, this argument that robot traders are impossible is actually an argument that humans will always be better than computers at trading stocks. But as seen with chess, image recognition, and go, betting against computers is not a wise decision.

Crowdfunding can make small groups fantastically rich. How about the reverse? Crowd redistribution where a small group gives people who will never be rich and will never be famous, the ability to pay for their needs.

Is Silicon Valley up to the challenge to use computers and programs to find a solution? Or is Silicon Valley going to give up and pray that politicians and UBI will work to keep the Luddites happy enough to stop them from trashing the place?
It's a very old PM joke. The original version is "double fhe number, shift to the next time unit."
So in fact the problem with 'socialism' in Venezuela has nothing directly to do with the living conditions described in the article, but is just that the rich in Venezuela are not sufficiently rich, or are rich for the wrong reasons.
I give an estimate with an error margin, that is usually larger. eg something like "that will take about 3 weeks, plus or minus 2 months". The plus or minus bit reflects the uncertainty in requirements, things that could change etc.

Often it is the case the goal can already be achieved with existing functionality, but may not be as direct or elegant. That is why I include the "minus" bit covering this scenario where a solution is already there.
Fork is elegant only in the sense of a 1980s process with one thread. It's basically undefined otherwise.

Even back then CreateProcess() would have worked just fine.
Also, 1/3 of rental housing in SF is rent controlled, meaning that rent increases are limited to a fraction of the CPI. This causes a large difference between current market rates and what established tenants pay. It explains both the low prices reported here, and some of the seeming discrepancy between wages and housing costs as reported by market sources.
Incredible, the average HNer here is naive enough to thinks he has 'rights'. Rights are something that governments 'grant' when it is convenient so that citizens do not rebel and can be exploited appropriately. You generally have no protection form the state if they decide to make your life miserable.
Out of curisoity, what would your library provide over the web animations api.
Agreed, some things are still missing (in particular my pet peeve, iterators; also unicode strings). But for what it provides, OCaml's stdlib is reasonably well designed and performs well.
How the “Access Hollywood” tape could have been faked using deep learning
That's why you always use a weighing scale :)
Yes, we 'd insert new rows every 30 minutes or so. Also, we did try partitioning one of the 3 tables (which made sense) into multiple tables -- it didn't improve the situation at all.

Again, there are probably tunables and practices specific to MyRocks that we just didn't consider. We just didn't want to pursue this any further.
Do you really believe that giving lawyers to people you have already detained is acting as "world police"?
Casino dice are actually cubes, at least as close as manufacturing tolerances of 0.0001 inch can make them. For example:

https://www.casinosupply.com/collections/casino-dice/product...

This is to help make it easier to spot alterations or flaws which could affect their randomness; shaved corners become very easy to spot, when packing them together it's easy to spot ones with height differences, etc.
The best jokes have their roots in reality. Of course, when the joke works in reality, is it still a joke?
OK, so is there another place I can get free S/MIME certificates?
That is correct. It ought be no-one else's fault if someone cannot produce anything of value greater-than-or-equal-to that required to sustain their own life. Such people are as vestigial to society as an appendix is vestigial to the human body. (And yet, annoyingly, we still have appendices. sigh.)

Of course, I do believe it possible that the other person who was replying to you in this thread, may have different views than mine.
Schools essentially try to double dip here dancing between for-profit/non-profit status.

By giving a tuition-waiver instead of "free tuition" they can consider this a business expense and write off the tuition.

The worst part about this is the write off gets bigger if tuition is bigger.

Don't fall victim to distilling things down to a headline. Read deeper and understand.

It's not just about what things do but how they do it and in this case this had to go.
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>Democracy : Rule ( tyranny) of majority

Thanks! That's accurate. Majority= asses.
Programmer, Interrupted (2013)
I read that, and I don't think it contradicts my view.

Kennedy introduces a real reform bill; Nixon introduces a weak, "compromise" bill so the opponents of real reform (like the insurance companies) can use to oppose it while avoiding the wrath of the people who understand the status quo is terrible, by looking like they also want changes. Kennedy, defeated, judges whether accepting Nixon's bill - despite its intent - is still worth it, or whether the unions are right that it imposes too great of a cost on employees (25% of premiums). He makes a decision, then later he regrets it.
It says I own 86 domains but is using my given names and not my email address. My name is not unique. Hardly a valuable service. I own less than 10 for the record.
Surprise to see Plano TX on the list of top 10 cities with highest percentage of Income spent on Rent.

Toyota and bunch other companies have moved their HQ or operations here, it may have to do something about it.
Ok... so here's another tidbit.

Meta-analysis was really developed (although not originated) in psychology, attempting to wrestle with replicability issues in much the same way as is the case now. It's really the introspective nature of the human behavioral sciences that drives that as much as the complexity of what's being dealt with.

And I'm not sure why you think psychiatric theories can't be falsified. It happens all the time. If it couldn't, this registered replication stuff wouldn't be getting so much attention, because it would be a non-starter.
Why is software so buggy?
Does the author include on-site power generation in his analysis? My home PV solar and energy storage systems supply almost all of the electricity I use.
Yes, a "lot of legal back and forth" by Government lawyers writing secretive memos that are nothing but a sham. Throw them in the same cell.

They also of course killed his U.S. citizen son ("I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father") and 8 year old daughter (not a U.S. citizen, so clearly worthless).
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It's not that incredible; for most use-cases there is often an optimal(or "better") way to implement a solution that's specifically designed and implemented to support it, as opposed to relying on systems and designs that are broadly applicable/useful (e.g RDBMS).

We just figured out exactly what we wanted, stored the data in chunks, compressed(we used 2 var-int encoding schemes, and snappy compression), indices(skip-lists) for each file and each chunk and for queries, we parellize access to as files required across multiple OS threads (scatter-gather). In fact, I am sure we could have gotten better performance if we wanted to spend more time on that problem. It wasn't novel or particularly interesting or hard anyway. Just something that needed to be done to help us solve a problem.
The advice to dress for the job you want instead of the job you have is cliche but true.

The company I work at is casual, hoodies and sweatpants are okay. Most people wear jeans and a t-shirt. I wear a button-down with the sleeves rolled up and khakis.

My rule of thumb is to dress like someone at your direct manager's level. That way you don't seem too formal for your own job title, but people also think you care about someday getting promoted.

If you want to take a look, one of my friends (a fashion consultant) wrote about this technique on my career blog: https://www.climbuptheladder.com/why-dressing-like-your-co-w....
AffX – A micro state manager
I think you need to just expect and brace for a certain amount of rage on HN if you say that you did something outside the norm. It’s unfortunate that people with literally 1 or 2 sentences of context can be so judgmental and completely miss the point.
I also used macchanger in the past but it seems that recent versions of NetworkManager overwrite the changes that macchanger makes.
I do not understand though. Whitelisting MAC addresses is something you can do, but 99.99% of the wifi spots out there don't have it enabled. Why should my phone leak my MAC address needlessly instead of just generating a new one every 5 minutes or so?
Average New Jersey rent is higher than average New York rent? That's a bit unexpected. But I guess NYC is way different from the state as a whole.

Also, average rent is obscure, if it lumps together different housing sizes. Breaking it by number of rooms would make it more usable.
> rich for the wrong reasons

Bingo! I hear that being the state-appointed redistributors-of-wealth (or maybe their friends and relatives, too?) is important, and that actually doing or making anything of value ... isn't.

For instance, they otherwise wouldn't have shortages of price-controlled chicken. (It's apparently a very easy animal to raise; cf another comment-thread here.)

The living conditions are a consequence, not a root-cause.

EDIT since fuck you HN why can I not reply to my repliers anymore:

The poor being poor is indeed a consequence of their preference to queue-up for handouts rather than do anything productive e.g. raise their own chickens. Which is to say they are indeed getting exactly what they deserve. I'm puzzled at having to repeatedly state the obvious throughout this comment-section.
That's what I was saying. It mostly seems to be a thing that happens in Silicon Valley and some big cities. There's good programmers in places with lower cost of living that are cheaper. Even the high end of them would approach the low end of the typical salaries in Silicon Valley. One approach I'd explore was a mix of highly-experienced people in the domain with large checks plus good programmers in the cheap areas supporting their work. There's also a few companies in my area that will pay for smart folks college if they do a 3-4 year agreement with the company. If they already program and have good mentorship, they should start getting pretty good in the first year. The salary combined with the yearly college expenses is usually about half of a Silicon Valley programmer. Multiply by several hundred people to get a lot of savings that could accelerate features or get into new markets.

If I was Mozilla, I'd doing the later buying small companies doing user- and privacy-focused variants of popular services. Then, they could have a whole umbrella of stuff to offer to differentiate them based on reputation. I'd at least try a paid offering in the enterprise space as well.
I believe price per square foot is higher in SF/NY than San Jose, but I think the reasons that median rent is higher in San Jose are partially due to the following:

- SF and NY have always had a high percentage of renters and a long history of rent control, skewing the actual amount people are paying in rent down.

- San Jose is closer than SF to the highest paying tech jobs, driving the median income in SJ (according to some studies) to the highest in the nation and supporting rental increases.

- As luxury apartments are a relatively newer addition to San Jose, the rents being paid are going to be higher than a 20 year occupant of a sweet rent controlled apartment in the city.

So the reason San Jose rent is showing as more expensive than SF/NY is largely due to the metrics of this particular study. However, as tech companies are continuing to heavily invest in the South Bay and Peninsula, I would expect to see a continued upward trend in San Jose median income and rent.
In the last several years, I was at two companies that got rid of all their previous code, and did radical re-writes of everything

This is almost always the wrong thing to do, mind, especially if you're fresh to the situation and don't know the full product functionality. It can pay off, but it usually doesn't; and when it does, the results are often mixed - things might be neater, faster, more maintainable etc., but usually they're less featureful or buggy in some other dimension.
Making publication ready Python notebooks
Not everyone agrees with you:

http://savetheeaglesinternational.org/new/us-windfarms-kill-...

My point was that the elites of Martha's Vineyard were able to kill the project, and at least part of that was based on what they look like. Windmills in the distant ocean view are much less impacting of views than ones prominently arrayed across ridge lines.

It appears there's one rule for little people and other for elites.
This data has long been available in the form of Basic Allowance for Housing rates for military personnel. Fort Smith, AR gets paid the least, and New York City the most.
The problem is the rent control apartments in NYC skew the data and does make it apple to apple. That is the difficulty here. Rural NY to Rural TX, I will bet anytime that Rural TX is cheaper especially in the Rio Grande Valley and West Texas.
I don’t have strong feelings about Cringley. He admits in the book he basically wrote an industry gossip mag, so I took the whole thing with a grain of salt and just tried to enjoy it.

That said, I think your other comments are correct but somewhat miss the point. Certain types of work you can pretty much only be exposed to within a large company that can muster the required volume of funds / expertise / reputation. And learning to corral diverse groups of people with competing needs and priorities is pretty much the definition of a transferrable skill.

One example from my own life: I’ve bounced around financial institutions (mostly banks and credit card companies) for the last several years. To continue building the skills I’m interested in, I need a better understanding of the internals of big banks. It’s simply much more difficult for me to try to learn those things in a small company or startup, unless I can get one of the few spots available in a company like Monzo, which would require me to not only get the position but move away from my friends / family / etc. (And then I’m still looking at a small company’s new vision of how a thing should work rather than seeing how it actually works in most situations today.) There are always tradeoffs, and sometimes a big company will have positions that are better suited to your current goals.
What kinds of results did it generate?
Much like the author, I'm tremendously surprised to see L.A. at the top -- this doesn't match anything I've heard before, or what I hear anecdotally.

The author says: "One possible explanation for Los Angeles being more expensive than the Bay Area is if renters in Los Angeles are less likely to have roommates or a rent controlled apartment."

Curious if anyone here on HN has any alternative hypotheses? Perhaps technicalities of city boundaries? (E.g. NYC includes Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx, whereas from my understanding LA proper excludes much of the LA "area".)
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Right, so then the austerity kicks in. On some level the GOP knows this.
Yep, feel free to modify to spoof a real hardware MAC address (as the original version of my blog post suggested: https://github.com/paulfurley/www.paulfurley.com/commit/bebc...)

As @_fink on Twitter pointed out, colliding with a real existing MAC address is not ideal.
Solaris was extremely popular in the late 90's through early 2000's.
All the startups I worked for personally used Sun hardware. (No big names, they all failed.)

Even Ebay used Solaris for their back end for a time. See https://www.linuxtoday.com/high_performance/2001011200106psh...
You can downgrade through iTunes. Download the IPSW and put phone in DFU mode and then Alt + RightClick on Update iOS in iTunes when it you plug the device in.
The price controls can't be enforced everywhere, or trade would just move to the black market. They are presumably only enforced on stores that are not politically connected, and that are large enough to draw notice. When they are forced to sell below cost, these stores won't stock anything, so the price controls have no positive effect.
Can anyone point at the performance differences with TokuDB? InnoDB is a great starting point, but it has a lot of limitations that TokuDB does not have.
Good tip, thanks for linking to this.
Exactly the point!
Love the f strings but I sometimes don't use them if I'm worried that the code won't necessarily be run in Python 3.6. Unless it's a self contained docker container - I'm wary of using the f strings everywhere just due to compatibility issues.

Side note: Languages like Ruby have had this for a long time. Better late than never, Python!
> While Chromium is open source, if Google pulled out, I'd expect the remaining development effort to be on par with e.g. Pale Moon

I don't think that's quite true, for several reasons:

* The biggest external contributors (Opera, Samsung, and Intel) put in more development effort than Pale Moon has, by a wide margin. (I think non-Google contributors to Chromium outnumber those working on Opera's Presto at its peak, though less than Opera's desktop product and Presto at that time.)

* Last time we saw any browser vendor leave the browser engine business (i.e., Opera killing Presto), we saw plenty of people jumping ship to keep working on browser engines (and not just those let go), so if we were hypothetically in a Chromium monoculture it's unlikely that Google pulling out would stop every Googler currently contributing from continuing to do so.

Also, when it comes to the Linux kernel, remember that both Windows and FreeBSD implement the Linux kernel syscall ABI too, which you can argue means they are alternative implementations of the kernel.
The senate didn’t used to be elected by the people

What we have now is much closer to rule of majority than what Benjamin Franklin was referring to
Not working on Firefox Nightly.
Aiming for perfection wouldn't have delivered the product any sooner, of course.

Zero defects is something worth striving for at the lower levels of a product, stuff that is heavily reused by higher architectural layers. When you can have breakage at any level of the stack, engineers need to have too much context in their heads to correctly detect and resolve issues. In the worst case, they make local fixes that don't address the underlying problem, which turns into scar tissue that can make the underlying problem harder to resolve, besides damaging the codebase.
How many people are renting homes in the US?

I always hear people talk about their mortage, as if buying a home was the only thing that goes over there.

Probably has to do with the bad social security?
I just don't get all the arguments that say wind farms are ugly. I just don't.
There seems to be only one available remote job, which is S&M - SUPPORT.
Is this correct? I was hoping for development remote jobs
A good research foundation is a photocopied report from 21 years ago and a video of someone presenting at a white supremacist conference?

How about this: Turkheimer and Nisbett, two giants of the field, addressing the question head-on in an invited piece for a magazine last year:

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-...
Or to be more precise, those access points probably need a consistent mac, not your real one. So it would be nice if you could configure those networks to receive their own mac, but that stays the same over time. This is what the NetworkManager 1.4.1+ "stable" setting does.
I don't understand this "China == Evil" attitude on this website.
Rents in LA have rapidly increased inside of the last five years whereas income hasn't really been keeping up, unlike the Bay Area.
I can only comment on Kansas City, as I used to live there and I agree with you. It's great for the time being, however, it is starting to grow very rapidly. Not quite at, say, Denver's pace but it makes me wonder how long the city will keep its low prices. The rent prices were listed at $954 in MO and $1127 in KS. Both are on the expensive side and i literally don't know anyone who pays this much for rent. You can find a very nice place (20 minute drive from downtown) on both KS and MO sides of Kansas City for $500-$700 per month.
American citizen Enemy combatant and Trump didn’t just drone him?

Wow his guy respects more rights than Obama

Let’s see if he lasts long enough to get a lawyer! Anyone got a prediction market we can bet with?
Every site (with a few rare exceptions) lets you confirm whether an email is a real account or not. You can block the reset password and login flows ("If you've entered a valid email address, we will email you instructions to reset your password" / "Your username and/or password is incorrect").

But every site still exposes it during the sign-up process ("You already have an account. Login here >"). Hiding it during the login flow is largely security theater leading to a poor user experience making people guess & check which email address they used for your service.

If you cannot do more advanced risk analysis: a) email the user after a few failed attempts, b) lock the account down for a period of time, c) lock that IP out from attempting any logins for a period of time, and most importantly, d) monitor lock outs. If an account is getting locked out frequently, be proactive and reach out. 99 out of 100 times it's the user struggling with things like your password requirements, but 1 out of 100 it might be an attacker.
If I had to pick a place to live off the cheapest cities list, I might look more closely at Pittsburgh or Tacoma. Why so cheap?
You're absolutely right.

I think inequality is fine as long as it's not hurting the economy (which it is when the inequality is large enough) and thus making things worse for the poorest people.

Moreover, someone that possess more resources than some countries in the world has a huge power over other individuals, sometimes more than governments. I think we want to avoid that if possible. Think of the majority of the press being possessed -in France at least, I'm not sure how it is in the US- by a few individuals.
Do you like the idea that everything you see on TV or read on the news is decided by a few individuals ?

So I'd say poverty is not the unique issue here. Avoiding concentration of too much wealth also avoids concentration of too much power.
Hmm. `ps -A | grep -i chrome | wc -l` adds +1 per tab for me on Mac OSX as long as I navigate off the home. Does it cap eventually?