skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad this study is happening and I'm excited to see the outcome, but I feel like I ought to caution people who are expecting this to add this to their arsenal of pro- or anti- UBI arguments in western countries against comparing apples and oranges. My personal prediction is this study will show substantial gains in economic outcomes, health, social standing, etc for all groups that receive money. I'm guessing UBI proponents will leap on the opportunity to advocate for similar programs in western countries. If my prediction is wrong, I'm guessing opposite will happen.

I caution that either conclusion would be unjustified because this is not a UBI experiment, this is a charity and aid distribution experiment. The question at hand here isn't "is UBI a wonderful thing" but rather "how do UBI-like distribution methods compare to others?" If you want proof consider that Tavneet Suri's isn't a UBI economist focusing on western countries, "her expertise is as a development economist, specialized in Sub-Saharan Africa" [1]

I object to labeling this as a UBI experiment. "Universal Basic Income" is used to describe various proposals to address inequality and unemployment in developed countries where economic gains and jobs are being automated away from the masses of low-skilled workers and up to the elite of high-skilled workers. This is far from the sub-Saharan African context where the economy is still developing and leaders are mulling how best to sustainably extract countries from extreme poverty.

[1] http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-directo...
> The interesting thing here is that the common response here is: "Hey that's a great theory, but in real life, I just paid off my mortgage with my proceeds from bitcoin."

Mortgages have been payed off with lottery wins. That doesn't make lottery tickets a good investment.
Well, here is the thing- our cooperate overlords have created the perfect system to shirk regulations by shifting production to whoever is the most desperat.

My money is not on goverments or companys here. My money is on some plague drastically reducing the number of humans capable to produce carbon dioxide. It looks containable now, but contain something like Ebola with millions on the move and the UN-Institutions collapsing under this circumstances.

You can not enforce quarantine, if a whole country decides to walk.
Prolog.
That's a lot of "will" without the hows and whys that should go with it to make an interesting point.
Buffett should follow his own advice, and stick to commenting on things that he understands.
Op-ed: Ray Ozzie’s crypto proposal–a dose of technical reality
This is good advice. Most people just flush them. It is important to remove ticks the proper way. Tick pullers are the best, and haven't failed me in removing the head after probably 50 removals from my dogs. Tweezers are a close second. Do not twist, and do not use the suffocation method or the burning method.
30 minutes is still a hell of a long time to wait, especially for a TSA check which is next to worthless.
I've heard of persistence hunting, but I've never seen it suggested that was our primary competitive hunting advantage. Do you have a citation of some sort?
> It is not unreasonable to argue that fiat currencies around the world are not stable because of inflationary monetary policies.

If you're comparing the stability of the major currencies to Bitcoin you really need to look at the price charts for any digital currency.

> Buffet always holds billions in cash which is constantly depreciating in value.

Buffett is always ready to use that cash to make deals. True, they have a lot of cash, but it's not like he doesn't constantly use it to make investments.
Except for the features list, how good really are stars and issue counts indicators for anything? Gogs has been around for longer and has received much more publicity, so it's bound to have more stars. Similarly, Gitea has more contributors whereas Gogs is mostly a one man job, so Gitea users might feel more likely to receive an answer than from Gogs. It really feels more like you're comparing the community there than the product.

That said, I agree that Gitea should publish a features list and list the differences between the versions.
Packages for databases – a suggestion
It seems to me that not a lot of thought and introspection was put into that comment, because I highly doubt you have that same benign attitude towards everyone. I'm sure there are plenty of stories about what people think/say/do that make you take a different position. For example, just today I read a story about a man who murdered his wife - with the son in between, and he pushed the knife through the boy to hurt the wife. But the problems were there long before, and such people exist aplenty. It's easy to be satisfied with everybody and their choices only for as long as you don't get to know them all too closely...

I doubt there is a single person that really benevolently accepts what each and every person does/says/thinks. Except maybe my late grandmother, who probably never raged about anyone in her entire life.
>The commemorations of Marx’s 200th birthday

As someone from east Europe, I find this pretty funny.

>Today, his most high-profile critics are ignorant gobshites.

You must read 10k pages of related work, before you can criticize someone like Hitler or Nazism....
> When lines get long they drop the security theater and start letting people through very quickly.

Which airports? US domestic flights? Because internationally I've never seen this happen.
> show me the commits I've made from each repo that I work in, sorted by time

It does show the commits from each repo sorted by time. Repositories are not sorted though, if that is what you are asking for.
Grandma got both. Encephalitis is definitely nastier (and can have permanent effects on brain if not caught in time). She also got bitten by the only poisonous snake we have around here. It still hasn't stopped her from hiking in the woods all the time
I've heard this is a Canadian thing -- I also measure pretty much all distances by time. (15 minutes away, 2 hours away, 12 hours away, etc).

This might have been the consequence of switching from imperial measurements to metric in the 70s.
Thanks for the links. In the future, please don’t use indentation to set off lists like this. It makes it difficult to read due to side scrolling, particularly on mobile. People often use - (hyphen) or * set of bullet points, and separate lines with new lines. You don’t get <li> elements, but it does work. Plus, your links will work, too :)
I disagree with your argument that panels need maintenance except for replacement of failed components under warranty, which would be done by the installer.
I love language-based systems! The one that really got me interested was SPIN:

http://www-spin.cs.washington.edu/

And, to an extent, Taos:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607
Microsoft’s mission: AI for every developer
Your claim is also largely true for drug trials. There is also huge variability due to genetics, cultural placebo response, variations in diet among cultures, cultural or individual symptom expression, and so on. Every science faces an enormous amount of confounding variables.

Doesn't mean we should stop doing drug trials, or economic trials in this case. Well designed experiments can be informative, even though care must be taken to generalize them.
ncdu is much better than just du.
The comment is replying to a blanket statement that Buffet doesn't invest in tech. He may be conservative about it, but he clearly does invest in tech.
lastpass-cli ("LastPass command line interface tool") [0], with several aliases:

$ alias | grep lpass
lp=lpass
lpls='lpass ls'
lppw='lpass show -c -G --password'
lpsh='lpass show -G'
lpst='lpass status'

[0]: https://github.com/lastpass/lastpass-cli
Sorry, I misspoke! what I get for writing without adding.

I averaged about 90 watts in winter, around 2kwh a day, so 60 ish a month, so roughly eight or so bucks for the power with the rest from the odd fixed charge.

In summer I had one efficient window AC and would use about five times as much energy.
Not an expert, but I was convinced to switch from "nuke is a bad idea" to "nuke asap is a less bad idea than any other current option" when I was pointed to the ridiculously messy situation we have and the transmission problem

1) the situation now is that, as longterm as nuke waste is, it pales in comparison to the long-term of coal and natural gas extraction, transport, and burning.

2) renewables are great and where we want to go...but the tech is not at a place where we can get 100% yet and we have no efficient way to transmit power long distances nor store power, so we can't have solar in a desert in Arizona power Fargo Minnesota.

Why do you think nuke power likely doesn't make sense anymore?
Servicebot Open-Source v0.9: Webhooks, Payment Scheduler, Major UI Changes
previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16985460
According to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc First/business class seats are where the airlines make all of their money, so Concord would be economically viable today.
USV has invested in CryptoKitties (https://www.usv.com/blog/cryptokitties-1).

This doesn't invalidate his position, but it's worth remembering he is not an objective observer in the situation; his company is positioned to directly gain from a crypto-mania.
I find myself using noti a lot. It's effectively just a message generator that can receive data over stdout or trigger manually. It uses whatever the most appropriate notification method for your system is, so it feels very seemless. I use it for long-running tasks where I don't really know how long it's going to take.

https://github.com/variadico/noti
That's a rather low bar.

Scamming people can also put food on your table. Stealing can put food on your table. Neither is particularly productive.
Isn't this what Boom (a YC company, I think) are essentially doing? https://boomsupersonic.com/
I think this issue is a bit subtler. Month to month viewership statistics are not the same as an explicit ballot.

Grown adults consistently reveal preferences that are different from their stated preferences.

In other words, people may lose what they really want by voting against it with their eyeballs and pocket books. Even when they woukd vote for it in an explicit ballot.

"I would prefer to eat healthy, but ice cream is just so much better tasting than broccoli."

One check on this is a regulator who imposes the choices for you based on your stated preferences, which is a check that grown adults often choose to add to their lives. Dieticians and personal trainers are popular for a reason.
Safety standards for animals are lower.
Nope. Not even close.

The worst part of this is that you have to make sure your house is clean. Food, get people to chip in, alcohol get people to bring their own drinks. If you're having to bend over backwards to impress people, they're not your friends and they won't be.
Quantity of demand is equal to quantity supplied
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Co-Star is a mobile application combining traditional methods of astrology with NASA data and modern technology to create a branded, hyper-personalized and social astrology experience. Nearly half of millennials believe in astrology – and that number continues to rise as more people are searching for meaning, connection, and community across all aspects of their lives. Since launch in October 2017, Co-Star has grown incredibly quickly and was ranked in Apple's top 100 entertainment app weeks after launch. We are an early stage startup (we just raised a seed round of funding) looking to expand the team as we continue to gain traction and develop the app!

Some of the technologies we use include

- Haskell (our whole web api is written in this!)
- Swift
- Python (we use AWS Lambda to wrap python libraries we don’t want to port to Haskell)
- React + TypeScript

We are looking for a full stack developer who is familiar with at least one of Haskell, Swift, or AWS and is open to learning the others! We love types at Co—Star, and a passion for statically verifying code is definitely a plus!
There are currently three of us (founders) working on this. You’ll be our first hire, so you’ll have a big say in what we do and how we do it.

Contact jobs@costarastrology.com
Nah, there are lots of answers. Whether they're correct or not, that's up for debate.

By your 40s most people are set in stone in their ways. I'm sure I'm no different even though I try to be as flexible as I was in my 20s. Easier said than done though.
New Evidence That North Korea Could Still Conduct Nuclear Tests at Punggye-Ri
I'm talking about the whole country, not just the cities. Why are you only talking about the cities?

What I'm really talking about is all old Americans, all across the country. I'm not focusing on any subset.

> American hate rail and public transport for some fucked up nonsensical reason

Nonsense. This is simply wrong, as talking to an American would tell you.
Don't forget how they jack up the volume on the commercials.
Yes? I’ve had high sierra on a late 2011 mbp for months.
Serverless doesn't mean there isn't a server—it just means you don't have to manage server instances. You can treat all of AWS as your server. Which means there must be a way to separate your work from everybody else's work who is sharing AWS with you. Thus the configuration.
Release notes for version 18.05, 2018-04-30 include:

> CVE-2018-10115 - Incorrect initialization logic of RAR decoder objects in 7-Zip 18.03 and before can lead to usage of uninitialized memory, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted RAR archive.

Excellent article from the bug discoverer here: https://landave.io/2018/05/7-zip-from-uninitialized-memory-t...

Some good discussion in the linked HN discussion from a couple of days ago.
"Bitcoin has produced a transaction processing infrastructure that looks a lot like Amazon Web Services (something I am sure Buffett would agree is extremely valuable)."

How many transactions per minute can AWS do?
Any time I read "serverless", I get a violent allergic reaction. There is no such thing, as software requires hardware to run on,

The meanings of words morph over time. When developers mention serverless everyone knows what it means it that context. Just like when someone says there is a bug in their code no one thinks that there are roaches running around in their computer.

and the person or persons who went "serverless" simply chose to stick their head(s) in the sand and punt the OS engineering and hardware design and maintenance off to someone else,

When I write a program, I'm not writing assembly language. I'm also "sticking my head in the sand" about the how assembly works. AWS has a whole team of people that know how to do that stuff.

hoping that it will just work. But it does not, and eventually there will be an outage and lost money. One can punt this responsibility off to someone else, but there will be consequences.

AWS is probably more reliable than what you could do on prem or at a colo,

If you want reliable infrastructure, first you must become a master system, database and network administrator, then you must apprentice with a mentor to become a system engineer, and finally after several decades of practitioning as one, you will have enough experience and insight to become a system architect. There is no way around that, no punting will help.

Tell that to Netflix. They host everything on AWS. They purposefully moved from an on prem architecture to AWS because they realized where their core competence was.
Amazon Lightsail aka AWS VPS Solution – ITsyndicate
I don't think it's that simple, if you asked someone if they would pay 50$ to save 8+ hours off a long flight I think a significant portion would say hell yes. So, it's more a question of cost vs. saved time.

50$ seems crazy as supersonic flight is going to use far more fuel, but it also means the aircraft, pilot, and flight attendants can make more trips. So, a minimal cost increase might be possible.
Celebrating 200 Years of Communism
I think salary notifications in general are a sign of the company compensating in a fundamentally unfair way. Unless you are being hired to negotiate, paying you based on your negotiation skills seems unfair. It's harder -- a lot harder -- but I'd encourage the CEOs reading this to create a compensation scheme that is "fair by design" and pays correctly without the need to negotiate. Here's what we do, though I imagine there are likely even better ways available: https://blog.expensify.com/2016/06/17/expensifys-comp-review...
> Bitcoin will resist inflation and is somewhat out of control of governments or any central authority

Can you back this up? From what I can tell, governments can ban mining, shut down exchanges and co-erce developers. If the handful of devs that have commit access to Bitcoin were working for the CIA, would we know? What kind of damage could they do? Eg. Could they introduce consensus bugs without anyone noticing?

> Today, people can transfer their wealth as bitcoin across international borders.

Again, citation needed. How many Chinese people are doing this? The exchanges are banned, right? So how could your family buy Bitcoin in China? OTC? What's the spread on the OTC market in China versus US market? Is it actually worth it?
When I was typing that I was thinking the hypothetical observer. I don't think there can actually be one with respect to actual time. But to be able to think about how maybe it does work you have to think as though there was a an ability to observe the universe in such a way.

But you are right, if there was a outside observer the same stands, just for that observers observer -- hypothetically.

> In a world where physics depends upon time, is it even possible for time to not be steady?

I think so. Physics is a construct that we have to describe how our universe works.

Lets think about things in "ticks" where a "tick" is just one particle or I should say interaction happening in our universe. Or better think of our universe as a big state machine. Between each new state there are many ticks arranging the matter and getting ready for the next observed state. And by observed state I mean observed by the universe -- or realized. Now we have two time domains to think about. One, tick time. How long is a tick? Would it matter if some ticks took "longer" than others. Then you have the notion of time outside of a tick, that gives ticks its "tick time" or what makes some ticks "longer" than others. If this is anywhere near the case then time outside of the umbrella of each realized universe state does not matter.

I may not be doing a good job of getting the notion out of my head. But try to think of it if you were in a video game. Lets take it back to maybe the "Max Payne" days given it is a game that has some dealings with time. If you were playing the game on a laptop and closed the lid and the computer suspended would Max be able to detect or care even that the time between rendering one frame the other went from something like 60FPS (well back then 12FPS) to 2 hours our observed time to render the next frame? We would be the hypothetical observer. Max would not have a clue.

Anyways thinking about how time works is always fun. About all we can do is learn how time works from our observable position.
txt files, small ones
OK, we've added a “will”!
> a business that makes $250,000/year for 4 years is more valuable than one that makes $1,000,000 year one and nothing thereafter

Well not if you discount that future income, and consider opportunity cost.
Interesting to see how this really compares to KubeVirt, which seems to be doing the same thing. I don't think KubeVirt is "just" pets as far as I understand. [disclaimer: I've been very peripherally involved with KubeVirt because they asked me about integrating virt-v2v support].
Wouldn’t a more costly to produce product eliminate the large margin of existing first/business class?
> The article is claiming that languages that allow a blocking style of programming via green threads (to still get the same high concurrency) allow a more natural way to program.

I would say this is a subjective conclusion at best. We might ask instead which model facilitates collaboration. That is in a large, very concurrent program composed by many developers which model is going to lead to more robust code. The interesting thing about M:N programming is that large programs in 1:1 languages (Java, C#) tend to converge on to the M:N model. Many large concurrent Java programs therefore end up involving several carefully monitored threadpools with well-defined contracts that describe how work gets scheduled and distributed between the threadpools. But this is not an argument for M:N languages precisely because the "problem of scheduling" often tends to be very domain specific. Other programs have lots of success with the Reactive model because they're never truly blocking and waiting for information that hasn't arrived. Some find success with Actors. It's worth considering then that different concurrency problems call for very different solutions and saying one model is better than another is erroneous.
Yes--there's a great discussion of their strategy on this podcast: http://www.airplanegeeks.com/2017/08/02/463-boom-supersonic/
Libraries can only help with printed paid content. Electronic content can be licensed to only be viewable by one individual.
I use a shell script for such config. eg tmux split-window -h ; tmux send-keys "ls -la" C-m; ...
The English alphabet is a good example of why the Indian complaint doesn't make much sense.

The modern English alphabet descends from an ancient Proto-Sinaitic script, which was adopted and transformed over time by the Phoenicians, then the Greeks, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons, and then underwent some further evolution into the script English speakers use today. Of course, this is extremely simplified and the development wasn't this linear, but it's a rough sketch.

Just as it would be odd and inaccurate to call the modern English alphabet Proto-Sinaitic or Phoenician, it's inaccurate to call the modern number system Indian because, as you note the "arabs then took it and created other concepts". What we use today is the modified system, it's not purely of Indian creation.
I think it's not so much marketing as developer experience, and tooling. As a sibling post mentions, Mix and Hex are amazing. Mix new is a very nice gateway into a new project, giving you a fully working setup and even setting up the basics of a supervision tree, if you want it. Beyond that, it makes some less approachable aspects of OTP much simpler for a newcomer to use. Once you get the basics, Genservers are very nice to work with.
I've stopped hiking and camping largely because of this. Its just not worth it any more.

This page has an uncommon photo of just how small the nymph deer ticks are. https://sectionhiker.com/backpacking-lyme-disease-prevention...
I'm kicking this list off with two programs I know:-

1. Ethereum Foundation Grant

2. OST Kit II Developer Program
Question regarding the list of "fundamental properties of money":

Should "liquid" (easy to spend and trusted to be exchangeable for goods or services) be on that list? I wonder if it's generally left off because it's assumed, but BTC is not currently what I would consider "liquid;" the average time to confirm a transaction ranges from 30 minutes to (sometimes) over 16 hours [source: https://coincentral.com/how-long-do-bitcoin-transfers-take/]. So it's not a money I can spend on a pack of gum.

Contrast that with cash, checks, or credit cards, which generally clear in under a minute (checks being the notable exception, and indeed, the exception that makes them not always equivalently useful to the other two).