skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real problem with UBI is the people who need help the most are least able to help themselves. I have friends who are mentally unable to advance beyond assistant usher at the movie theater (the head usher is some 16 year old kid who started two weeks ago). I have a friend who is convinced the CIA had the doctors put a bug in their knee while doing surgery.

These are the people that need the most help, and UBI won't help them. Both will fall for scams, and otherwise not provide for their basic needs if just given money.

UBI can help the disabled who are mentally competent. There are many things that I do daily that required working eyes/ears/limbs. Some of them society can make "reasonable accommodation" for, but some of them are not possible given that disability.

UBI can also help those who had "bad luck". Though here we quickly get into people that it is hard to be sympathetic towards. I know of a lot of people that are poor because they continually waste their money on drugs (legal and otherwise - not medically required), gambling, trinkets... They may never be rich, but a different spending habit could change their life. (You will note here that I'm injecting my own value judgement on their lifestyle)
This is really cool and I'll use it. My only negative comment is that white on black is really harsh on my eyes. It would be nice if the theme could be toned down a bit somehow.
Lots of insight here. Great post, thank you.
Thanks for this, pretty useful for when I'm not on my own device.
I will also check out your site ? But do you mentor ?
You failed to read and/or comprehend what I said. Show me an example where children are forcibly separated and shipped to detention centers in different states when a parent is charged with a misdemeanor.

I already pointed out that children are only taken away in cases of neglect or abuse.

But if you must continue patting yourself on the back for how 'rational' you are while you can't provide any rational basis for your arguments, knock yourself out.
There are certainly bad ways to move toward wealth equality. In terms of implementation, I was actually thinking more of either a George-ian land tax [0], or through some form of encouragement for the wealthy to spend their money into the physical economy rather than the financial abstraction economy. If I figure that part out, I'll run for office.

[0] https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2015/04/01/why-henry...
As I read it, the whole point was that those normal hassles of a job aren't worth the (small) differential between the salary and the dole, and the suggested alternative was go on the dole.
Do you really consider this an obstacle? Obviously you need to have a validation set for the optimization and a new/unused test set for estimating out of sample performance.
> I take food vouchers in exchange for non-food (like gasoline or something), and redeem them with the government for cash money. Who is making sure that I can't do that?

You can't redeem the vouchers for cash, only for the good or service the vouchers are designated for. So a food voucher would let you redeem it for food. A healthcare voucher would allow you to pay a healthcare provider for whatever services you received.

Edit: oh, you're saying you pretend to be a food provider. The solution to that seems simple. Lifetime ban from voucher funded industries for anyone caught doing that and forfeiture of 3x damages. That's just an example, but if you make the punishment great enough I doubt you'll have a problem with it. It seems like it's pretty easy to catch someone doing what you described. For one thing, you'd have to be registered as a business to even engage in the practice you describe.

> I would have to submit to being regulated as a food provider, and would have to meet certain standards in order to do so, and would have to file appropriate paperwork to establish that I am doing so.

Sure, but how do you think the welfare system works currently? You'll always have bureaucracy, but you can have it in greater or lesser degrees. I contend that my proposal would have less bureaucracy than what we currently have. You already have to register with several state agencies if you want to run a grocery store (at least in my state). Whole Foods doesn't find that too onerous.

> Oh, and the cost of the food I sell has to be regulated; can't have me charging $20 for a hamburger, even if it is a "premium" one.

No, that's the whole point of switching to a voucher/market based system. You as the service provider can charge whatever you want. The population, as recipients of the vouchers, can redeem them anywhere. If you charge $20 per hamburger you'll go out of business or change your prices.
Ugh. Sounds like a severe case of resume-driven architecture.

In my experience, you won't know whether you need microservices until you're on at least v2.0 of your application. By then, you have a better understanding of what your real problems are.
SE Asian here. Some things I've noticed:

* Talent is extremely rare. The ratio is about maybe a tenth as much in good areas vs somewhere like NYC. Put it this way - our interview process for senior engineers involves asking them to build a linked list, and it involves a lot of hints.

* The unicorns of the region are app+logistics, things like Grab, Lazada, ofo.

* Or things that cut through heavy bureaucracy - alipay, iMoney, iPay88, WeChat. Stripe and similar companies have tried but it's hard to pierce the bureaucratic layer.

* Scaling is a very different game. You simply can't hire a hundred of the best people. You can get maybe 2-3 excellent people, and the rest will have to be trained from scratch. This makes moving fast difficult.

* However, living costs are low... founders in SEA except Singapore can live off $10k/year.

So from all these points, it's extremely dangerous to move fast. A lot of local startups overextend into multiple countries then run out of money or can't manage.

The SE Asian game is similar to the Vietnam War. One has to move slowly and carefully. Higher tech may not defeat a well entrenched local, and companies like Uber have bled trying.

I think the startup game in SE Asia and China is moderate tech. You won't have Google or Apple, but you'll have Tencent, LTE, and Huawei. The biggest tech companies in SEA are things like telcos and job listing sites.

Asians are not sharks but bottom feeders - they can survive at lower depths, under more extreme conditions. Ideally startups in SEA would be more like MailChimp, Reddit, Postman, Runcloud. Where it's not a race, but the unit economics matter.
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You don't need any of this stuff. It might be technically cool to do SMS now, but there is an android app for SMS Gateways. Just have an extra phone that sits around and sends SMS all day long. Much cheaper than Twilio if your sending large amounts of text messages.
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Is this software that he presently wants to see disseminated randomly, or is it provided here for academic purposes at this time?

I don't know if it's his intention to have this library become part of a bunch of linux or BSD distros or not. But, it seems kind of presumptuous on your part to assume that he does.
Same incentive as for tax evasion.
You also have penalties from context switches, although you can reduce their impact by performing them in a lazy fashion. AVX512 is even worse, of course.
I’m not walrus01 but I know of a few ISPs in the Bay Area that put an emphasis on net neutrality and users’ privacy, on top of running a good service: Wave on the SF/Daly City side, and Sonic’s running fiber in the East Bay. Both have impressed me, especially Sonic which provides their own VPN and runs a public wiki that rivals my company’s internal IT wiki. I’ve also heard good things about LMI but I have no personal experience with them.
Raising wages however should increase shareholder value by helping them lure better talent in a competitive market. It only proves that corporate America is an oligopoly.
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To each their own, I use to enjoy such. I absolutely hate it now. Given a codebase, I want to know the story. Why was the code written, what problem was being solved, why did they decide to solve it in a specific ways, WHY, WHY, WHY? I need to know the whys. I want the story, I want to know the domains. How is the software layered, can I explore one layer without going into other layers? I don't want to do so with a debugger. I want to do so with a document reader.
Since several people made the same point about word segmentation, I obviously didn't express myself very well.

What I was trying to say is that, assuming you speak the language, you will recognize "dog" a separate ‘ thing’ in a sentence. If I point to a German Shepherd asking what that is, anyone who speaks English can reply "dog". It can't be shorter; it could be longer but then you're adding information ("big dog").

Even illiterate people know "dog" as a distinct ‘ thing’. Since even spoken words are distinct concepts, with a beginning and end, and having boundaries (even if the speech waveform looks continuous), it seems natural to show the boundaries (eg., by placing spaces) if you going to starting writing down the words.

Well, we know the spaces weren't added in early writing, by why not? Wikipedia's reason #1 is that adding inaudible spaces would be illogical. I'm not convinced that that was the main reason. The other reasons seem more plausible.
We will also need to see how the job market reacts. If people don't feel like they need to work, employers will have a harder time finding good employees and making them stay. So they might start offering much higher wages and fancy benefits, which in turn will make more people want to work so they can enjoy those perks. Positions that still can't be filled will be automated away. Sooner or later the market will reach a new equilibrium.

I'd call it a success if about half the adults end up working and the other half stay at home, just like people used to do 100 years ago... except this time, both men and women should be free to choose which side they want to be on.
> ... not a write-only operation (Perl excepted).

Really need to squash the Perl is write-only. Modern Perl is quite readable, supported by tests and linters.

http://modernperlbooks.com/
Disrupt some shit and duck? :)

If I were to guess; they will start inserting their own content into these filtered pages, after some time. Newly created ones will be nice and clean, but after some months perhaps, mysterious stuff will start creeping in when those URLs are viewed.
This should be fix, let me know if you try again and it works.
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> Yes, if the attack vector you're trying to close is a compromised keyboard/network/terminal and not a stolen-while-unlocked device.

however, not having the TOTP key in your password manager would also protect against malware on your machine running the password manager from gaining access to your account.
I kind of get what systemizer is saying. People may think of evolution of technologies as cycles but it is never that. A new technology 'Y' is always developed because the incumbent 'X' has some shortcomings. And even after a period of disillusionment when we revert back to 'X', it is not always the same. We synthesize the good points of 'Y' back to 'X'.

Coming to this topic, I see Microservices as a solution to the problem of Continuous Delivery which is necessary in some business models. I can't see those use cases reverting back to Monolith architecture. For such scenarios, the problems associated with Microservices are engineering challenges and not avoidable architecture choices.
Do you have a blog? I would be interested in hearing more of your story.

Do you take those legally?
I agree with you, however it's not easy to force government to act in the common people's interests either. You can say voting, but it's getting harder and harder to find any honest representatives to do work in good faith.

Take this example, the people voted that DC tipped workers should get a higher minimum wage, but now it's being repealed by the DC city council:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-...
The language used in the README is extremely odd. What do you mean by pipeline? The term 'priority' is confusing because what you describe is not a classical interpretation of priority. That sounds more like job ordering with a limited DAG form of dependencies (sequential, fan out, fan in). How does data flow from one job to the next and how does it get combined for a fan-in? What if I have two jobs that get fanned in to? More documentation coverage of the basics of what you're talking about would help.
Matches the question, but should be obvious why.

I do not have the inclination or resources to secure and keep my server up to date, unless we are talking about a periodic "apt upgrade" that I could configure to run automatically, but no more than that. And at the very least I know how to reasonably secure a Linux server, at least initially.

If running your own server gives you peace of mind in terms of security, then read more about how security works and the threat model you'll face. Just to give an obvious example ... running your own Wordpress is one of the worst thing you can do on your own server, putting your whole server at risk, not just your website.
Yes, SQL Server Express is available for Linux.
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I agree that it's useful, I even think more people should do it more often. Creating your own language (and learning other people's) is a way of having deep thoughts, not just expressing. Words for patterns (or abstract ions generally) are a quanta of language.

I just think there can be downsides to them. These are theories as well as terms and they become parts of our worldview, even identity. This can engage our selective reasoning, cognitive biases and our "defend the worldview!" mechanisms in general. At some point, it's time for new words.

Glad people seem ok with this. I've expressed similar views before (perhaps overstating things) with fairly negative responses. I think part of it might be language nuance. The term "ideology" carries less baggage in Europe, where "idealist" is what politicians hope to be perceived as while "ideologue" is a common political insult statesside, meaning blinded and fanatic.
If you work a job that allows you no free time that is your choice. Whining that other people have leisure time is absurd, if you want leisure get a better job.

I am disturbed by people's aversion to taxing the wealthy. After WW2 the top tax rate in the US was over 90% and until the 70s it was over 70% but since then we have been systematically fooled by the wealthy to believe the absurd "Job Creator" story and income inequality has sky rocketed as a result.
as a user, i'd be pretty fucking happy if ./configure disappeared off the face of the earth.
Wrapping my head around D3 rotation transitions
Also, is cross-compilation even a goal for a software library written with the clear caveat that it makes use of specific CPU features?
> I wouldn’t call it a myth, I’d call it a theory with inadequate evidence to support or refute it.

So, “hypothesis”? The article did present some evidence to support it’s argument. I’m sure you know that when discussing evidence and science, “theory” means something has been more or less proven.

Your hypotheses that a significant number people will do nothing good with the money is the unproven “myth” or common hypothesis the article was talking about.

The problem with the belief that unearned income is unhealthy and will lead to laziness and drug use in any significant amount is that it prevents people from trying to see what happens, because if true, it’s seen as at best a waste of money, and at worst doing damage to the participants. The hypothesis that unearned income leads to laziness is a real and significant impediment to the testing of that hypothesis.

By and large, people who inherit money don’t end up wasting away high and broke. There are a few, but nobody is suggesting seriously that we need to do lots of studies to see if inherited wealth is different in other countries or rural vs urban settings. Why should money given to the poor be thought of so completely different than money given to the rich?

We have some strong pervasive ingrained cultural beliefs that money must be worked for and not given, knowledge must be gained by derivation and struggle and not just told, success and stability must be attained through risk and competition and not cooperation or social programs.

These beliefs predate most of science, so it may be worth examining our assumptions about what needs to be tested.
So true. I love Aloha shirts (I grew up on Oahu). The best thing about them is that they are multi-purpose. Need to wear something to a wedding in Hawaii? Aloha shirt with slacks. Funeral? Aloha shirt, totally acceptable. Fancy restaurant? Again, Aloha shirt. Business attire? Totally acceptable (it's really the norm for business people if you're 'dressing up').

Where else can you get away with wearing such a comfortable, fun shirt in so many different contexts.
You realize that all of Pride and Prejudice is ~280KB, right?

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342

:)
While outright fraud is probably rare, "questionable research methods/practices" are standard. Most people doing them dont even know there is something wrong with it. Pick any biomed or social science paper and I will quickly find some indication of them (lack of blinding, weird unexplained sample size changes, missing controls, failure to show a direct comparison of the variables you claim are related, etc).
"The atomic testing of the 1950s raised unsettling questions. If the detonations in the South Pacific were sickening Marshallese people and killing Japanese fish stocks, were they also exerting milder effects as far away as the United States?"

Good to know that it wasn't "unsettling" until the possibility that it might have an effect on the United States was raised. Seems that we were as unconcerned by an "international uproar" then as we are now.

On a less sarcastic note, I wonder if the decline of trust in science in America has something to do with the current lack of a common enemy.
There are many different kinds of debugging, and a debugger optimized with an interface for pinhole inspecting and stepping isn’t the best tool for logging and log processing, it is ok for them to be separate things.
> Yes you should. Bob supported a host of vacation-related workers and kept the economy moving. You sucked money out of the economy and sat on it.

Eh. I'd rather say that Bob diverted labor toward supporting his luxury consumption, whereas I made capital available for increased production (of cars, houses, food, etc.). The truth is somewhere in between. I think your read on this is a little too simplistic.
Programming after 9 (your brain can't stop) and taking an extra nap will affect your sleep cycle.

I go to sleep when I feel sleepy, usually it's around 12:30AM. If it is weekday, I wake up at 8:15am. If it is weekend, I wake up at around 9:30am. I still feel tired on the whole day but that doesn't stop me to be productive. I think I feel tired because I get some pressures in my life.

My best productive hours is from 10:30am to 12:00am. I was productive in the night, but I stopped working in the night few years ago, because that affects my sleep cycle. I solved programming problems even in the dream.
Quit rewarding these companies but staying at your job. No one gets the golden rolex anymore and there's no pension. The advice of 'find a good company and stick with it' no longer applies.
I've seen this a lot, a lot of employers seem to think they're doing their employee a favor and are insulted when they demand higher salary/better hours, but they are quick to mourn their loss and to say they can't find anyone when the employee decides to leave.
Yeah, I don't think you can eliminate fraud entirely. But we already have fraud in our current welfare system.
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OTOH, you don't need to say "All rights reserved" to hold your rights:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved
World Cup is fixed - so no it cannot
In case of SDR you should not forget to get a license to transmit in GSM spectrum:

Legalities and options

The GSM spectrum is very expensive private property. You may not transmit (or even receive) in GSM bands without permission. In the UK, it is an offence under the Wireless Telegraphy Act to transmit on licensed bands without permission and furthermore intercepting GSM without a warrant is an offence under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.You should apply for a licence (example from OFCOM below) before commencing GSM testing and will also need a faraday cage to suppress radiation. (For these reasons, GSM interfaces get less scrutiny than TCP/IP for example).

https://www.contextis.com/blog/binary-sms-the-old-backdoor-t...
Hmm, I thought the problem was that the acceleration of the car (for example sideways acceleration when going through a bend) was perceived as a sideways component of gravity – as the principle of general relativity tells us, they are the same thing – without there being a corresponding visual input, even when looking outside. In contrast to something that replicates the actual horizon, the blue liquid in these glasses would feel and adapt to the same sideways acceleration as your body feels, so I thought that was the point.
"The unemployment benefit is 400+ euros per month. So tell me who in their right minds would go to work for 500 euros or even 800 euros, whilst they have to spend petrol to get from and to work, work prolly 10+ hours a day, in the sun most likely cause thats what means tourism industry, get told by 'BOSSES' on what to do, and get treated awfully."

This is the argument for Universal Basic Income.

Give everyone something less that 400s euro, whether they work or not.

Let's say its 300 euros. Then the decision is don't work and take home 300 euros, or work and take home 800 or 1100 euros. There is a much greater incentive to work.
> You can't redeem the vouchers for cash, only for the good or service the vouchers are designated for

You are misunderstanding the scenario. I am a food provider. Someone buys food from me for vouchers -- what do I do with those vouchers? I assume I exchange them for cash from the government, otherwise, I can't pay my rent or my employees or for cleaning products.

The problem with not regulating the $20 hamburger is that I sell a $1 hamburger for $20 in vouchers, and slip the customer $18 in cash (that I replenish by redeeming the vouchers, as above). Yes, I'm committing fraud, and yes, if I get caught I'll get in trouble. But if fraud is widespread then it becomes impossible to detect.

Yes -- this is how food stamp and EBT programs work now, but they work with huge amounts of bureaucracy, a stated non-goal in your system. So I don't really see a differentiation here between what you're offering and what food stamps already do (poorly).