skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that really approximates UBI. You're only giving money to some of the people involved, and there's a definite transfer from a specific person to another specific person involved. For a closer approximation, you'd need everyone to join a group, periodically funded by those members of the group who can afford to do so at the time funding is needed, almost like a kind of insurance.

Let's say you have 20 people in a group. At a given point in time, you might have ten people each funding one "share" in the system, two more people funding two shares each, two more funding three shares each, and six who cannot fund any shares. When the time comes to pay out, all 20 people get one share each: the ten "neutrals" get back essentially what they paid in, the four "over-funders" get less than what they paid in but still get a share each, and the six "under-funders" get more.

The following month (or whatever pay period you use), one of the people who had been funding three shares loses a lucrative job and can no longer fund any shares, but three of the former under-funders find jobs and can now fund a share each. The group still has funding for 20 shares, so everyone still gets a share when the time comes. It also demonstrates the importance of neutrals in the system: several people going neutral can make up for an over-funder who finds themselves in a bad spot.
And I wonder if I'll ever learn to not make flippant generalising comments :)

I'd say there needs to be a distinction made between finance going towards funding productive activities and the rampant financial speculation largely divorced from underlying productivity which is where I see a good chunk of modern finance's efforts go towards. Its this latter 'dirty' side of finance I think we can do without - the 40 years post bretton woods period shows its perfectly possible to have a financial system that functions safely.

For large IR type transitions I agree it would have take a lot longer or possibly impossible to see such huge transitions without the power of collective investment. Indeed its no wonder vaclac smil called it the age of Synergy. The chinese may have been coal and natural gas as far back as 10th century but without all the pieces in place they only transitioned to majority coal use in the 20th century
If there is no free will, then the word "choose" is not a special word that implies consciousness. The word "choose" simply means particles flow one direction instead of another due to some combination of other particle flows. Therefore, whether I have free will or not, yes I did choose to believe.
That title though. I clicked thinking there was yet another scandal in the brewing but it's actually a software named volkswagen. If nintendo goes batshit when people refurbish gameboys I wonder what volkswagen will do.
I was thinking the same. I hadn't even heard of Tierra until this post. Seems insane that Zoho would cheap out on a registrar.
In my case I stood there in the rain for 15 minutes waiting for a car that never came and eventually canceled, so I walked around till I got to a taxi stand. A little less than magical.
I agree with your first paragraph. That said, you have no problem with the front-facing camera silently applying a beautifying filter with no option to disable it? Honestly, that statement, followed by the claim that that camera is only for taking selfies to the exclusion of all non-vanity uses, sounds like sarcasm - but I'm pretty sure you're not being sarcastic. Can you clarify?
The contract already exists with the drivers and already contains that clause. The court ruled that, as a consequence, Uber can force the drivers into arbitration.

The word “forced” is perfectly reasonable to use here. If I signed a contract requiring me to pay money, and I didn’t want to pay, and finally a court ruled that I had to pay; it would be fine to state that the court ruled the other party can force me to pay.
Qt qualifies then, at least on Linux.
It's the salaries disclosed in their form 990, so yes, not all salaries.

Here's the 990 for 2016-2017:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/6/67/Form_...
What industry/field did you go into afterwards? B2B or B2C startups?
Oh, I wished for such thing for so long! No distractions and clean, thank you!
Transient Smartphone “Blindness” (2016)
On Linux, Qt and GTK are the platform native APIs.
I don't understand why we would look to physics when consciousness is a product of neurobiology. Yes the principles of chemistry are physical principles and biology is based around chemistry, but that doesn't mean looking at the behavior of particles can explain the entire system besides some minor insight on how parts of it physically interact.
Come on. Most users want their "chrome google account" to be the same as their "web google account", and it is confusing when they aren't.

You can argue it is unethical to build tech for the military. But you have a really broad definition of unethical if it includes improving a product so the default is what most users want, and you need to adjust some things to make it the way you want.
The article was making it sound like later is better. Maybe because that way you can drop the kids off on the way to work and then have more work time in the afternoon while they're still in school? But I suspect it's more likely that whatever time it is works because you set up your work shift schedule around it or whatnot, but you don't have control over _changing_ that work shift schedule, so changing the school start times becomes a problem.

This is obviously not an issue for people with flexible enough working hours.
Square introduces payroll
People like you take the fun out of this community
Yes, Shazam has done a lot for genre, and diminishing the care for genre at all. Now for people that have spent way too much of their life defending or living a genre, what I mean is that it allows artists to be more creative and less pigeonholed, and it allows people to explore more of what they want.

People want certain sounds, and want more of that sound.

Shazam has been a key component of the discovery process.
As I understand it, it's questionable whether Congress ever actually intended it to apply to state-law claims. The Supreme Court just unexpectedly interpreted the law that way 60 years after it was written. Since then, binding arbitration has proliferated and US states have effectively been unable to create any kind of consumer or employee protection that can be enforced in civil court.
Other fun software made at least partly in jest (though still quite useful):

eatmydata (https://packages.debian.org/sid/eatmydata) is an LD_PRELOAD library to disable filesystem syncs, to speed up test runs and other cases where you don't care about data integrity (such as if losing power would just mean you run the tests again from scratch anyway).

echochamber.js (https://github.com/tessalt/echo-chamber-js) makes it look like your page accepts comments, displays them to the person who submitted them, but doesn't show them to anyone else.
Establish an endowment to ensure they are not fighting for survival in the future.
I gave up on QT and decided instead to invest time learning javascript frameworks, which provide a lot more flexibility for creating apps.
Seems similar to the Cell architecture of PS3 (if you look at how all the "Synergistic Processor Elements" are networked together via a bus). I wonder whether it was based on this?
Just done my first six months traveling (in SE Asia) while working remotely: a new hotel every 3-5 days, 80% of the time through booking.com (or agoda and then via booking.com).

Haven't had a single problem yet. Not a single one. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but...

...I suspect the hotels are declining your business and using "bad software" as an excuse. For this to happen twice in a row is definitely suspect.

Which makes me wonder how many other things that we blame on bad software, are actually socially caused?
> these $400k+ earning SEs are a double-digit percent of the engineers I know with 6+ years of experience (N > 10)

Well they would have to be, wouldn't they?
Selena scola is the employee name

https://selenascola.com

It is an AI
Because there are some terms which are antithetical to law. If you sign a contract stating that you're willing to become someone's slave for $x, that violates natural rights and would be voided by a court.
Google used to have song identification via voice search and a widget on all Android phones since Lollipop. Then they killed it for no reason other than to screw over existing users. Widget is still there in Nougat but doesn't do anything.
Because it’s almost universally agreed that some terms are not acceptable and thus not enforceable. Selling yourself into slavery is a common example. More gentle would be a contract where you agree to a pay rate that is less than the minimum wage.

The disagreement is merely over which side of that line arbitration clauses fall on. I happen to think that the right to have your grievances heard in court should be considered fundamental and inalienable.
Samsung warns of dangers of 3D television (2010)
> I was thinking to just have Firefox on my phone as well.

Passwords sync just fine to Firefox on iOS too. No need for a dedicated password manager.
What protects the database of people who have signed up for e-mail notifications when their given e-mail has been involved in a breach?

(Put another way, "What stops this database of breaches from becoming another entry in the database of breaches?")
Absolutely right. Privacy was an Enlightenment concept granted to so-called "Enlightenment thinkers" which were really just egotistical white Europeans. It was a mistake for a country as great as the USA to think that privacy should be appropriated from a gray and troubling past.
Is that link supposed to tell us something? A person with the same name is working with AI in some capacity, and ...?
Think of it this way. Imaging you're immortal, and you're going to go to a deserted island for all eternity, and you can take one book with you. Suppose you want to maximize the probability that the one book you take with you will provide you value as long as possible.

You could take a practical book about how to survive on a desert island. But, since you're gonna live forever, everything in there is stuff you could figure out on your own eventually. So this book's value is only short-term.

You could take a new age book with lots of feel-good, intuitively-pleasing platitudes. But, again, you could just invent all that by yourself. Probability of eternal-term value: 0.

A collection of stories like the ones in question at least has some chance of providing eternal-term value, precisely BECAUSE on the short-term they seem so absurd. If they were intuitively pleasing at first glance, then you could just come up with them yourself eventually. This same reasoning would apply to any similar collection of stories, but the stories in question at least have a lot of precedent / test-of-time / reputable endorsements.
> you won’t be able to hire as many similarly talented/experienced people

But we're talking about starting a company. Typically you'll already have a technical co-founder or someone, no? If you grow you can grow to SF. Has no VC ever asked, "Would you be willing to relocate to <CHEAPER CITY> for two years?"

> And what’s in Davis?

UC Davis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Davi...

> In 2006, Davis was ranked as the second most educated city (in terms of the percentage of residents with graduate degrees) in the US by CNN Money Magazine...

~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis,_California

Have you been there? It's nice. :-) It's close to the Bay Area and has lower costs and UC Davis. (And you don't have to put up with the constant cold winds! It's toasty there all year 'round!)
Any company interested in multinational growth should build localization into their app architecture to begin with, anyway. Then just contract out the actual act of translating the strings.
The combination of an interpreted shell with a statically-typed, AOT-compiled core is a time-tested architecture that leads to quick development times and lots of power. Python is a good choice for the former component of this mix, and if you use it, you want to be able to interact with the GUI.
Let’s hope it means their main patents expire circa 2022, which is not too far away.
This philosophical line of thinking is without much basis. In certain Buddhist teachings is the idea that we really only have about 60% free will. That is, 40% of our actions are not something we ever could have done differently, but there's still room for plenty of actual choice. Personally this seems pretty high, but even 10% truly self-directed free will would still be astounding.

There's no scientific understanding of where exactly consciousness is rooted, so if you take that to assume it means there's no such thing as conscious choice, I conclude you are a fatalistic downer who I don't want to hang with.
This whole thing is atrocious. We had a brief period of HTML5 stuff being cool and fun, and now Google is doing their best to completely ruin it on Chrome, which has such an undeservedly big market share that web apps have to work around all these asinine restrictions and gotchas. They already ruined some of my one-off pages that play sound because now the user has to click them to start them. Do notification noises even work in Chrome now?
You can get most medical equipment from China/India at up to 100x lower prices, but nobody would even dare to use them on any patient (in first world countries) because of the liabilities... and that's why customers only get products made by certified companies, who accept the liability and consequently tighten their manufacturing, and pay for whatever IP.

The same would happen with any other kind of software/hardware where liabilities are regulated. Suddenly companies would have to tighten their development processes, triple check for IP, formally verify every component, get certified and insured, and prices to the consumer would skyrocket.
Google Play Music has a Shazam feature that's just as good (though I haven't rigorously tested it, it's never failed me), so lack of Android support is no real loss.
On the other hand, as TSB recently demonstrated, moving acquisitions over to the parent bank's platform isn't exactly risk-free itself.
That's not laundering. That's selling shovels (and jeans and beans and baths and beds) to the gold miners.

There may be a laundering component to it, though. If you're a fund manager, and you can't steal the principal directly, you might be able to invest it in a company that you can then require to set up headquarters in a place where you personally own rental property and service businesses. Chances are that some of the money you give to the company in your capacity as fund manager will come back to you in your capacity as landlord/business owner. Then you can turn around and invest that in your own employer, if you feel like it, so you can also buy in to all their outstanding lottery tickets.

This is just possible. It is not guaranteed to be happening.
> I have a family to support. I can't let them starve

This is a bit over the top. Ppl who are not senior tech professionals manage to feed their family.
What information gleaned from Qualcomm code would actually be useful or applicable to Intel improving their totally different hardware?
The contract does say so, though. “Without the contract saying so...” is a counterfactual with no relevance to the actual situation.
> eatmydata (https://packages.debian.org/sid/eatmydata) is an LD_PRELOAD library to disable filesystem syncs, to speed up test runs and other cases where you don't care about data integrity (such as if losing power would just mean you run the tests again from scratch anyway).

Was never aware of this library and just used ramdisks previously, thanks for sharing!
France is full of "service" jobs, those are crap and lower the average. Just ignore those and look at the jobs that matter, if you're the kind of developer who would have the skills to relocate to SF.

If you're senior, in France, you can get a fairly good salary as a developer. There is definitely no glass ceiling at 40k; you can get more than 50k easily, and above 70k if you have can find the right company with a good fit.

Comparison with SF is hard because it's such a weird place in terms of housing, US healthcare etc. So if you compare to Germany or UK, you still make less in France, but the gap is much smaller than 10 years ago and it's still contracting.

That started before Macron actually. You can find jobs in well-funded startups (instead of the starving startups of 10 years ago happy to raise a million), and more and more international companies (US and others) are now recruiting engineers in France.
Would it matter?

The court will not decide the unconscionability of that contract. An arbiter will. The conscionability of a contract that has mandatory binding arbitration must be decided by the arbiter. The courts are only involved in enforcing the arbiter's judgement, which is not subject to any review. The arbiters judgement is not subject to the courts. The arbiter could decide you were meant to be a slave by the contract or another arbitrary decision[1] that has nothing to do with the contract and assign you a 10 million dollar penalty. Under US arbitration, I argue you have no real rights. With no limit to financial penalty and no review by courts of law other than to compel others to steal your property at the whim of an arbiter, there are no real rights left.

[1] Arbiters are not limited to the subject of the contract nor are they limited to the subject of the dispute.
Those salaries seem low, are they not based in SF?
Exile was my jam. I could never quite get used to Avernum, much as I liked being able to see many more tiles on one screen.

Part of it was the controls: I preferred a proper top-down view over isometric, but the main reason was probably the fact that parties were smaller. In Exile, a party could be 7 characters (I think), and it made the combat feel much more tactical.

Still, both the Avernum and Exile series are amazing, and I can highly recommend them. If you're starting fresh, Avernum 3 is probably a good one to start (it's also the on iPad and decently playable).
> I clicked thinking there was yet another scandal in the brewing but it's actually a software named volkswagen.

Thats the joke though. It passes tests for you even when they would fail. Like Volkswagen AG
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I always figured it was because many SV startups are selling to other startups/VC portfolio companies at first (more open to new products, less risk averse with vendors, etc..) so it makes sense to be where your customers are.
Brilliant timing - I visited the National Museum of Computing (the computer museum that’s next to the actual Bletchley Park house) 2 weeks ago as Ruth Bourne was giving a talk while stood at the reconstructed Bombe. It was incredible to hear firsthand from someone who had been a part of this war effort.

She couldn’t even tell her mother what she worked on as the news would be “all round town within minutes”.
That's not a gentleman's agreement. It's the exact opposite when you actually consider the target of abuse in the agreement: their own employees, people, whose lives they were seeking to actively harm.

If they'll actively, illegally, seek to harm their own people, who could question whether they'd illegally try to harm a competing company? It makes perfect sense that that would be in the realm of consideration.
I've been using wxPython for many years, and it works very well. What are the advantages of PyQT over wxPython? Anyone experienced both 'worlds' in a non-trivial application?
And yet, with all that rigor, you still captured and saved sniffed wifi data.

And hired and encouraged folks like Levandowski. Caught only by accident. (I know, he wronged Google. Just pointing out that this rigor hasn't stopped characters like Levandowski.)

Your rules, processes, trainings are like the shite lock on the door of my house. They are for the honest folks. And by the way, compelled upon you by FCC decree, not taken on voluntarily.

This could very easily happen at Google. Not saying it did, just that I am not shocked and surprised that it could. You have >100k staff. You really think they are all so noble?
upgrade to the TR 2990wx and home CAD/CAE/VFX/Photogrammetry/video editing becomes super nice
It's basically an effective way to get HIBP out in front of more people. The announcement from Troy Hunt's side: https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-... :

"This is major because Firefox has an install base of hundreds of millions of people which significantly expands the audience that can be reached once this feature rolls out to the mainstream. [...] I'm really happy to see Firefox integrating with HIBP in this fashion, not just to get it in front of as many people as possible, but because I have a great deal of respect for their contributions to the technology community. [...] They've also been instrumental in helping define the model which HIBP uses to feed them data without Mozilla disclosing the email addresses being searched for."
I've had several anti-union libertarian coworkers in the video game industry, each one thought they are exceptional so they don't need a union and they trust their choices/negotiation skills - to be fair probably everyone in game industry has a robust opinion of themselves.
Why not hire more of them, and rotate people off the front line for a period of non-disturbing-imagery? It's not like there's a shortage of moderation work that needs doing.

Of course, that would require Facebook to spend money, and add headcount.

And we know that they only hired these people as a Public Relations exercise.
This is actually great for EU residents, as shareholders and bondholders will (initially) be on the hook for excess risks being taken, not residents.

Not all bank shareholders were wiped out in 2008, while they clearly should have based on the amount of public money some banks got.
Yes, that's happening already. The founder of the company I work for (Rachel Delacour) got a good exit by selling to Zendesk and now she's a business angel.
Flexibility to do what, though?

I'm genuinely curious: what doesn't Qt offer that a desktop app might need?
This has happened in the past to me as well, several times.
I've been telling Dominic and Juan (even Feross, Mathias, etc.) that there is a simple fix for this with CRDTs (GUN's or not) since 2014 - Dominic (SSB) has been the most cutting edge, he adopted some CRDTs I think for log relay, why not also for identity?

Skip to 11:45 into the video, the algorithm/cryptography for it isn't that hard either: https://www.decentralizedweb.net/videos/talk-better-algorith... you could do it in SSB without needing gun!
You are correct. They discuss here how it works: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/06/25/scanning-breach...
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> And a beautifully resonant, lush instrument that can't rise above the 2nd and 3rd chair instruments will be resigned to solo work, only.

There are a lot of recording and amplified gigs, though, where relative volume doesn't matter much. For example, I play for dances with fiddlers, and the fiddle is always amplified. A more responsive fiddle, one that let you keep excellent tone while playing faster, or one with just better tone all around would would easily be worth accepting lower unamplified volume from.
Arbitration clauses are usually in everyone's favor because it dramatically reduces the cost of dispute resolution. The only downside is they prevent class action suites. In a b2b contract that usually isn't a consideration and so arbitration is a benefit - it would be foolish to try and remove it.
Prince of Persia and Rollercoaster Tycoon come to mind (and are apparently quite the HN darlings).