skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Exactly, if you are more prone to sunburn, wear more sunscreen. Same as handling your own feelings.

If you could "handle your feelings" as easily as putting on sunscreen, literally every psychotherapist would be out of work.

> And yes, feelings are completely in your head.

Anything you will ever perceive is "in your head". You don't control a lot of it. "Positive thinking" doesn't cure depression or schizophrenia.

> Nobody else knows how you will react nor do they have any control of your consciousness.

Human reactions are actually fairly predictable. Being rude, arrogant or condescending is generally off-putting. Some amount of control can be exerted as well, for instance, it will almost certainly be impossible for you to not briefly picture a TINY PINK ELEPHANT after having read this sentence.
I started to do something like this for my Windows box but then I realized that tracking process execution is not all that useful if you don't also track DLLs (because it's simple to just dump DLLs in a trusted applications folder and wait for them to be loaded). Tracking DLLs would just produce too much noise to monitor which put me off the whole thing altogether.
Did they eat the roast? Talk about adding insult to injury.
It's already incentivised: accepting an answer gives you +2 reputation.
Those youtube videos are highly recommended
I think there's another piece of context about TCP/IP vs. everything else (SNA, BNA, DECNet, X25, ISO/whatever etc):

TCP/IP was based on datagrams at the bottom levels, and expected them to be dropped if something went wrong, everyone had a phone system mind set - world-wide PTT charged for phone calls, the mindset was that they'd charge for reliable data connections (by the minute or the byte) and the protocols essentially mirrored that - you talked to a supplier who did all the low level stuff for you, and essentially made a call to a remote machine - under IP you sent datagrams and most of them got there.

I think that TCP/IP 'won' (and it wasn't obviously going to win at the time) because:

1) the connection to the wider internet was very simple, and essentially stateless

2) it let people innovate everywhere else up the stack

3) no company (or country) owned it
Amazon Raises Annual Prime Price 20% to $119
> If people don't even know what gender you are/what color your skin is, can they actually be intentionally racist/sexist towards you?

Not directly, but often indirectly since in such a situation it is common to assume you are a white male. That's a bit off-putting if you are not one, but you might put up with it rather than clarifying your gender/race if doing so opens you up to a risk of direct sexism/racism
Zero network effects, escalating acquisition costs as the space gets more saturated, and few other potential acquirers.

Having said that, this isn't a bad outcome by any stretch so congrats to them.
I don't think what I said came across correctly. Of course overly broad questions will get downvoted. What I meant was, "questions that will likely benefit another person in the community". I.e. there is a sweet spot in terms of specificity. Asking for help about a very specific problem with a homework assignment or asking for advice about what class to take next are too specific and more than likely won't benefit anyone else.

Regarding your point about CS, I meant something like "within the broad range of questions related to practical computer science, specifically programming." Yes, I know there's another Exchange site for more theoretical Computer Science topics, where some questions might be more appropriate...
Nope. rummaging through the trash doesn't require a warrant.
Is this going to be a massive maintenance problem in ten years time? I thought that’s the lifespan of panels.

Usually the problem with building lots of infrastructure is it gets expensive to maintain. It happens with roads and buildings. Will it happen with solar?

(I’m hoping not because efficiency is still improving and prices are still going down whereas for roads I think it went up - but I don’t know why).
I'm only 47 but it was the same experience for me. Ended up taking a data engineer job at a local government agency - depite the lovely site (inside University of São Paulo campus) it pays 1/3 the market average.
It's not even the same question. The HN title substitutes "feasible" in for "good idea".
I doubt he explained anything proprietary as being "closed". He spends considerable time correcting people when they summarize his views and use that term because (as he also explains) that's a reference to open source, a group founded over a decade after the free software movement which ostensibly promotes a development methodology purpose-built to remove the ethical underpinning of free software. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Closed for more on this. In practice, open source philosophy is disposed of in the face of powerful, reliable proprietary software ("How can I get a copy [of that proprietary program]?") and that's why proprietary software businesses like open source and don't care to discuss anything in terms of software freedom. But software freedom is far better for computer users in cases where the two philosophies conflict or diverge. See the section named "Different Values Can Lead to Similar Conclusions…but Not Always" of https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.... for how this plays out in practice.

As to using someone else's tracker (tracking is what those devices do most of the time, so why not acknowledge that's what they chiefly are by calling them by their rightful name?): this is right in line with understanding that software freedom concerns control of one's own computer. Remote services (such as /., Hacker News, Google mail, and more) might run on nonfree software. That's a bad choice for the computer owner (all computer owners deserve software freedom) but it doesn't say much about use of the service because service users don't have a say about someone else's computer. By the same token, those that choose to own and keep trackers on their person have already divulged the location of the tracker (and thus themselves), and that choice was never Stallman's to make. So the choice for Stallman (or someone using someone else's tracker) comes down to making the call or not.
Much like the automation levels of self-driving cars, there are different kinds of autopilots. A small aircraft might have heading-hold/altitude-hold only. A modern airliner will pretty much fly itself and the crew is only there to "supervise" (to the extent that they are seeing a similar rise in accidents in situations the autopilot cannot handle, because the crew doesn't know when to override it and they don't have the proficiency to fly the plane properly in those situations).

You might be surprised to learn that autoland has been around since the 60s... the UK were early pioneers due to notoriously poor weather in the British Isles, autoland systems allowed them a highly safe all-weather landing capability in zero-visibility conditions. The US was much slower and our aircraft really only caught up to some of the UK aircraft's capabilities in the 80s and 90s, and tended to rely much more heavily on ground guidance.
It's not unheard of for groups of employers to share (often times illegal) blacklists of known "troublesome" workers. Recruiters supposedly sometimes maintain similar blacklists as well.

> https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703389004575033...
People won't be able to borrow against their lost wealth either (or only at very high rates). Builders/Flippers will stop spending and so the construction trades will suffer a lot... ditto RE sales people and their 6% commissions. I don't think inflation would be high for long.
My primary concern is that most people in the margins depend on rent, and shopping locally because the cost of ownership of home, and transport to bigger (cheaper) shops is above their threshold. They're trapped in the locality of poverty.

Which immediately makes them prey to being exploited by inflation of costs, prices, to match the UBI guaranteed income.

TL;DR what stops a landlord and local shopkeeper increasing prices until the UBI is drained?
I'm the same way; I found that the creative work that I always envisioned was not happening on the job. Now I'm at home, but I've got emacs open in another window banging out some SIMD code. Maybe I'm ahead of the curve -- everybody says vectorization is the next thing, but hardly anyone knows how to do it or how a computer works.
One guy I know sent in his dna to ancestry. He was immediately matched with a woman as highly likely to be his sister. He was shocked and they connected. Turns out they are siblings and both adopted at birth. So there’s some upsides to these sites

Nevertheless hopefully ancestry etc would have sensible policies to protect peoples’ privacy unleSs a court order is involved.
Further, in California and most other states, a 'fetal blood spot' is taken from every newborn and tested for a variety of genetic diseases, and the spot is retained in some state filing cabinet (or refrigerator?) somewhere. See an older comment for details & links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6811167#6811805

Just as there was a state proposition (sponsored by the relatives of one of this killer's victims) to expand DNA-testing of criminal suspects, a future policy change could send investigators into those filing cabinets, if the blood DNA isn't too degraded, to do a broad genetic dragnet for criminal suspects (or their relatives).
An excerpt from Michelle McNamara's letter to the golden state killer.

The race was yours to win. You were the observer in power, never observed. An initial setback came on September 10, 1984, in a lab at the University of Leicester, when the geneticist Alec Jeffreys developed the first DNA profile. Another came in 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for the World Wide Web. People who weren’t even aware of you or your crimes began devising algorithms that could help find you. In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated their company, Google. Boxes holding your police reports were hauled out, scanned, digitized, and shared. The world hummed with connectivity and speed. Smartphones. Optical-text-recognition technology. Customizable interactive maps. Familial DNA.

I’ve seen photos of the waffle-stomper boot impressions you left in the dirt beneath a teen-age girl’s bedroom on July 17, 1976, in Carmichael, a crude relic from a time when voyeurs had no choice but to physically plant themselves in front of windows. You excelled at the stealth sidle. But your heyday prowess has no value anymore. Your skill set has been phased out. The tables have been turned. Virtual windows are opening all around you. You, the master watcher, are an aging, lumbering target in their crosshairs.

A ski mask won’t help you now.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/letter-to-the-go...
Which form and scope of UBI is more common in everyone's mind when people think of "UBI". Is it:

1) UBI is a replacement for the wasteful fragmented welfare programs. The "efficiency" gains by consolidating into UBI will pay for most of it and maybe a modest tax increase to round it out. Whatever _that_ amount is, that's what we call UBI. This would be less than $14k a year. It would be just enough for food, living with roommates, and riding public transportation if the recipient didn't share a car.

or

2) UBI is a minimal and comfortable standard of living (home+car+food) so people don't have to work. The release from the stresses of earning a living will unleash a flurry of productivity in art, science, self-improvement. Society would flourish. This type of UBI is much more expensive... maybe about ~$30k.

Which form of UBI dominates the discussion? If it's the 2nd one, I'd argue that's mathematically impossible to provide.
Why UBI is difficult to even make desirable:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/01/universal-basic-income-sw...

Alternative idea, a universal job guarantee: https://dsa-lsc.org/2017/09/30/why-socialist-job-guarantees-...

I'm still learning about this other take as UBI seems prima facie a good thing, but there are a number of severe flaws in the idea.
Battery throttling was introduced somewhere in the iOS 11.x series; 10 didn't do it.
The article describes that they found him through the database, and obtained a DNA sample from him to match to the evidence material.
The sites have more privacy controls than that.
It has been drilled into me that the #1 rule of investing is proper diversification. If that is true, startup equity kind of goes against that grain? It's asking to place all the eggs (your productive time) into one basket. That's not much different than a salary except much higher risk without diversification.

Even ycombinator does not fall for that, they invest in thousands of companies and they have a lot less to lose than many employees.
Can you elaborate? In all the dozens of Django projects I've worked with, I've never felt like Django got in the way, mainly because everything is pluggable and you can just not use it if you don't want to.
I was the IT guy at a government intelligence agency in Canada as an intern one summer. I had access to darned near the entire building. I had secret level clearance, but I could get into rooms that required top secret.

And I was allowed to wear jeans to work because IT guys need to get down on the floor frequently!
Gmail’s New ‘Confidential Mode’ Is Misleading and Unsecure
I can see it now: "Hi. We're not actually related, but I believe you may be 2nd or 3rd cousins to someone who left a brand new, pink hairbrush at my B&B."
I think "Like £10,000 a year." You then respond, "Individual poverty threshold in the UK is around £15,000 a year."

That's not really an argument against UBI.

You essentially said that if someone wants to live above poverty, they would need to make £5,000 a year.

That's $7000, roughly. 2000 working hours in a year. So call it $3.50 an hour. Not really sure exactly when and how taxes come in, but you get the rough idea.

Seems entirely do-able to me. Everything above $3.50 an hour is increasing their luxury out of the poverty threshold.

Do I need to follow the rest of your flow-chart, or have I gone far enough?
This is weird af. I don't think anyone truly consents to the use of his dna this way, and its a strange case of privacy violation.

Im actually stunned, I don't yet have an opinion on how this should be handled.
Kubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) has been released
This is part of the circle of miscommunication when discussing UBI. It goes like this:

Q. The tax rate would be too high.

A. Not if UBI is small.

Q. Small amounts won’t make a difference.

A. That’s why it needs to be enough to live on.

Q. Then the tax rate...
> I’d encourage you to take these implicit bias tests, specifically the Race IAT and the Gender-Career IAT. If you’re like me, they’re going to hurt.

Hurt, and possibly needlessly so. I would also encourage reading about the flaws of said tests: https://qz.com/1144504/the-world-is-relying-on-a-flawed-psyc...
One thing I don't see addressed here or in research on the topic is the macroeconomic impact. Would a UBI cause inflation or other mechanisms to make up the difference in prices? For example, if everybody received $1000/mo would candybars eventually adjust to be $1001? This seems like something that small-scale experiments would be unable to discern.
Do you have to track your time where you work? Where I work we don't do any time tracking, as long as my work gets done everything is all good.
It's not true, but they have to signal somehow.

Latino here, never experienced a single thing they're claiming on their site. I've been using SO since around 2009.
I wasn't talking about mean or hurtful language. I was talking about telling someone that their question isn't a good fit for SO. The consequence of that may be a feeling of being "excluded". So now everyone has to add a smiley face at the end of their comments when they say, "You didn't add any sample code. I don't know what you're asking help about" or "I can't understand your question, you should rephrase it"?
would require “doubling the personal income tax.” A UBI that pays every American $10,000 a year would cost about $3 trillion

No, it wouldn't. Because if you give an upper middle-class American $10000 and you raise their tax bill by $12000, you neither actually spent $10k on them, nor did you actually increase his effective tax rate by that much.

The idea that an UBI would literally cost the $10k for each person is to not understand basic accounting. Or to be dishonest, I guess.
I find it's a valuable heuristic simply to try to make your code short (in tokens, of course, not characters).

That rule means that it's worth defining a new operator if you use it enough to save more than the amount of code you need to define it.

There are exceptions, of course. I have a higher standard for macros. But overall the principle of optimizing for brevity has held up through decades of programming of various types.
Also the timing helps a lot in some cases. Not every old and correct answers are updated constantly.
as someone who can edit posts freely, you've got to change a minimum amount of stuff. you can't just add a comma or change one word.

(also as the sibling comment points out, once you can do that, you don't get anything for it.)
>One of the reasons we didn’t get any financial reform in 2008 was that their simply was no other economic system/theory to turn too.

Other? I would have thought (I am no economist so I apologize if this is daft) that the sensible response would be to permit all of the banks who engaged in gambling to actually lose their bets and suffer the consequences of their own actions. Those which extended loans which could not be repaid should have entered insolvency, with the debts owed to them eliminated. Likewise, the fraudulent practices conducted should have resulted in hundreds or more of banking executives and other employees sent to prison.

It would seem to me that the solution we settled upon - giving them titanic amounts of money, assisting their consolidation, and playing pretend as if the fraudulent loans issued were still owed by those who they were foisted upon, foreclosing on homes, and significantly derailing, if not destroying, the lives of hundreds of thousands of families - was the 'other economic system' here. It certainly was not the one laid out in black and white on paper and followed for a century or so. Under that one, when you extend credit to someone out of funds you do not have, then place bets on repayment while lying about the odds, you crash rather than luxuriate in the spoils of a looting of the masses.
> In the evening I mentioned that there were just two problems for which the finiteness of the theory remained to be established; both problems are well-known and feared by physicists, since many long and difficult papers running to fifty pages and more have been written about them, trying unsuccessfully to make the older theories give sensible answers to them. When I mentioned this fact, Feynman said, “We’ll see about this,” and proceeded to sit down and in two hours, before our eyes, obtain finite and sensible answers to both problems. It was the most amazing piece of lightning calculation I have ever witnessed, and the results prove, apart from some unforeseen complication, the consistency of the whole theory. The two problems were the scattering of light by an electric field, and the scattering of light by light.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS optimised for security, multi-cloud, containers and AI
More likely they are just using a package with enough pins to discretely input every key without a scan matrix. There are no real cost constraints on doing this nowadays with modern IC packaging. The added hardware inside to track all those inputs is inconsequential with modern process technologies. Then their marketing dept. got a hold of it and came up with some BS to sell it.
What makes this reference even more bizarre is that Pokemon and Star Wars are incredible successful global brands.
Those get automatically deleted after a few months. https://stackoverflow.com/help/roomba
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> Gerald W. Johnson, a journalist who covered The New Deal during the 30’s for the Baltimore Sun, wrote that what angry poor people want is never usually money (or else they would have revolted a long time ago), but hope for a better future for either them or their children. Eric Hoffer, who wrote a book in the 50’s called “True Believer: On The Nature of Mass Movements”, had a similar argument.

Perhaps UBI on its own is not sufficient to give hope for a better future, but combined with affordable education maybe it would be?

I imagine if one could take some time off without fear of starvation (or going massively into debt) to raise one's skills, then upward mobility would be much more accessible. I don't know if UBI is the only solution but I can see how it would at least solve part of the problem.

I'm too young to have experienced it myself but my understanding is that there was a time when people could actually survive off jobs which didn't require a college degree. I don't think this is possible in most places anymore and given that college tuition has only increased, it seems like upward mobility has decreased.

I realize that college isn't necessarily the right path to upward mobility but I think you can generalize the argument to most forms of education and it would still apply.
I think more and more people know about equity. We should focus on making that said equity more liquid for private companies.

So many founders get rich early by selling their stocks to investors when raising money. Most of the time, employees just can't because the board won't let them.

If we allow employees to sell their stocks after they are vested you reduce the amount of risk they take when accepting a lower salary for higher equity. It would also stop the mentality of considering equity as zero when evaluating offers and give more financial flexibility to employees.

There is so much money circulating in private markets, but employees just can't access it. This seems pretty unfair to me.
This is more than that: it wasnt his dna, it was one of his relatives dna on the site that got him found.

Im guessing that any relative has a right to divulge his dna and rat out a blood relative in a situation like this, but I doubt people actually consent to that use when they are looking at a genealogy site.
It could potentially cost far more- the $35MM is just the SEC fine, they could still be subject to other actions by differing agencies. Whether that can or will actually happen? Who knows..

but in any case, yahoo is already effectively dead, so this is pretty meaningless imho
Depends on the locale. In many places, there is more housing than demand for housing, and so rent is based on the cost more than the ability to pay. In bay area markets, rent is based on the renter's ability to pay of course.
But I have no say over my uncle’s privacy controls. If someone finds my hair, and my uncle allows himself to be publicly searchable by DNA, then the person who found the hair knows it belongs to someone associated with my uncle. They can then find him on Facebook and commence further analysis.

It’s the same problem we saw with Cambridge Analytica. Incidental data shared by our friends can reveal information about ourselves when analyzed in bulk or supplemented with additional data.
Talk with your doctor to ditch the antidepressants ASAP, and make sure your doctor tapers your dosage.

I’d recommend mindful breathing exercises and meditative practices. CBT may also help you. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. Hope that helps, and best of luck to you.
I'm pretty sure valuation-wise they were doing better in 2014 than today... https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/04/22/weebly-valued-at-455...
It is from the introduction to On Lisp, and there is a great deal of explicit source code in that. A lot of which is in fact about domain-specific languages.

http://paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html