skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 on this also. I'm not sure how this would play out.
The prices might just normalize for the middle class, as if they ended up getting no UBI at all. But if rent and food prices go up across the board then it'll be as if it has no effect at all.

The upside is that the UBI will still support people that end up with financial shocks -- something unexpected happening in their lives. That little bit could help a lot
A good one.
I used to feel like the author of this post, but trees have come up at each of my last few jobs.

BFS is a trivial algorithm and you really should know it. It is only a few lines.

Do you work with things that have dependencies? Do you work with hierarchical data? What about hierachical apis? Tree traversal is a powerful tool, and not knowing how to use trees is a sign you may take the stick-and-rock route when it comes to solving problems
I now list all of the open source (applications, libraries, etc) I use at the end of the year and I decide on a bucket of funds and split the donations between the top 5 most important projects to me this year (application, library, etc).

Giving money away feels great (not sure why) and you can pretty much count on a thank you note.

I am now trying out cloud providers that use and contribute to open source software and standards. ie, mailbox.org
concave a 1KiB library to build web applications
Libpg_query: C library for accessing the PostgreSQL parser outside of the server
Not the first time Wag has made the news for mishandling (and killing) pets[1][2].

[1]: https://nypost.com/2018/05/14/embattled-dog-walking-app-lose...

[2]: https://www.ajc.com/news/national/pet-dies-after-dog-walker-...
Strange title. The connection to Malthus is tenuous at best.
It's more accurate (somewhat) to say that a lot of intellectual activity moved. The issue is historiographically complex but the traditional view of early medieval Europe not doing a lot to advance human knowledge except in some specific (and not very abstract) fields is mostly true.
in my private life i use discord exclusively, it's great for organising all the different groups/clans/communities i'm part of.

it would be perfect for remote workers, if you have a group, and then channels. you can set access laws, to restrict who can access what. plus live chat space and other groups.

i use slack professional, but we are all in the same space, and if i wanted i could walk to a team mater, rather than slack them.

sorry if a bit rambly.
Me as well. I was struggling to see what is new, but then recalled that I've been on the beta of this for months.
You are aware there a whole bunch of other parts of the planet?

Total worldwide sales of the leaf are north of 400,000 units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf

"Global sales totaled over 380,000 Leafs by December 2018, making the Leaf the world's all-time best-selling highway-capable electric car."
> chasing all value to $0 as fast as possible.

The marginal cost of distribution of software is nearly zero. Therefore the cost of software, not just OSS, gets driven to zero. Hence why so many commercial services have switched to "advertising supported", "SaaS/hosted/online-only", or cloud subscription.
> but really overlaps with WiFi in most use cases

The UX around free public WiFi is so terrible that I really never want to use WiFi again outside of my own home.
> There is no naval enemy on earth that is even remotely competitive with the US in any regard.

I find this hilarious in the context of the incident,

Who would win: the greatest navel power on earth operating a highly sophisticated and technologically advanced destroyer, or one container ship?

Just because there isn't an enemy now doesn't mean that you can just forgo training. They shouldn't sink to a lowest common denominator, but rather strive for a higher standard. They're hardly in top shape according to the report
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The guy who wrote this works on the machine learning team that I manage. This is his side (personal) project, and the project is real. He has been working on this for years. Not a April first joke.
You are straying from the original issue which is "is loss of different kinds relatable?" and not "is 1 form of life greater than another".

At what level on the spectrum does the offense creep in when someone tries to relate to the loss of a parent? Is sibling loss relatable? Half-sibling? Cousin? Brother-in-law? Where do we start the grief-gatekeeping?

If I lost 5 children and someone told me they lost a parent so they pat me on the shoulder and say they understand, can I be offended?

I have lost grandparents before, but felt nothing since I didn't know them. If someone told me they'd lost a grandparent close to them, I think it'd be offensive for me to say I could relate.

> I had no idea so many people value animal life above human life.

I think this is the problem. When people say they relate they are not claiming "my dog == your mom", merely that they have felt grief through loss of a relationship/bond. As emotional loss is relative, we don't currently have a way to measure if that loss meets threshold levels that make it acceptable for them to converse with us.
Example URL http://wavyurl.com/. This does make copypasting urls tricky.
If I do something bad to a person I say sorry and it means "I'm sorry I did something bad to you".

If something that's out of my control happens to someone I might say sorry and mean "I'm sorry a bad thing happened to you".

I'm British and find that sometimes I think similarly to another person who is British, and at other times I think differently to another person who is British. It's wild.
If people only hire people with references how does one get references?
Interesting theory re: reduced frontal area. In college I drove an E28 ('82-'88 5-series) BMW, which were pretty darn small cars, and I actually was fine in it for over a year before I even realized it had a telescoping steering column, which made it even better!

As my height is mostly in my legs, I don't notice the head room issues as much, but I notice across all three vehicles I've mentioned, they all have very minimalist dashboards, basically a flat slab sloped away from the cabin as you descend with some knobs on it. I could hang my right knee out in that space in front of the controls and over the gear shift if I wanted to stretch or twist, and all that is taken up by super tall consoles, or climate control panels that jut out and tilt toward the driver now.

Since you mentioned Mustangs though, I had this same issue in the '96-'04 generation of Mustangs, but on the driver side. The way the door handle assembly curved inward toward the driver to meet the dash made actually quite a small space between the door and the steering wheel. If I put my left hand at 9 o'clock on the wheel, it was physically impossible for me to raise my left leg high enough to work the clutch, as the combo of wheel/hand/door blocked my knee from coming up as high as it needed.

I wonder if this is some sort of "perception of safety" design, as all these spaces I'm talking about would normally be empty and useless with an average driver, and so these big interior panels are growing into those spaces, perhaps to enhance the feeling of being cocooned and secured by the vehicle? Similarly center consoles keep getting taller as well. Just a thought.
> but most OSS projects won't get the kind of OSS contributions they want for the kind of money they need, simply because the kind of contributors they want can get 10x better pay on the job market, so why they should bother with OS when they can freelance?

It would still be nice for those who are interested in working on those issues regardless of payment.
This is an interesting point since the owner wasn't involved until the dog was dead we don't even know if any such decisions were made.
>Sadly, the best argument against UBI is that vast, vast majority of people will not be working full time on F/OSS or quite possible anything else.

There's a reasonable argument to be made that those people that'll end up doing nothing are already doing nothing. They're either unemployed, mooching of someone, or working some completely useless unproductive job that needs a slot to fill, that could easily be replaced by a machine.

As for actually productive people, I think very few of them would actually be happy with sitting around watching TV all day.
This sounds tone deaf to me. Having worked in quant finance myself for many years, I can safely assure you that investors look at price to intrinsic value metrics as a way to gauge overpriced stocks, not as a consensus metric of belief over future earnings.
http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2014/08/passages-i-highli...

The entire Chinese economy is as rigged as the government can make it. The stock and bond markets are fake, the state owned enterprises are run as fiefs of the Party-State, not for profit, all the major banks included. Nothing is trustworthy. Combine that with a property market that’s been going up for decades and a ruling class that would not be happy if the middle class that started rioting if their savings in property went up in smoke and you have a fake property market too.
I have made a couple of applications with Flutter. Mainly for Android and iOS. I really think Flutter is great. It's my favourite framework currently. It feels like a modern Android SDK and frankly how the Android SDK should feel like. My "biggest" project currently is an alternative to the official NissanConnect EV app for controlling Nissan electric vehicles. You can find it here if you're interested; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.kjeldsen.ca...
It's also open source; https://gitlab.com/tobiaswkjeldsen/carwingsflutter

I think the Flutter team takes accessibility quite seriously; https://flutter.io/docs/development/accessibility-and-locali...
You have to be careful with quotations that come from his fiction (as I think both those do) as opposed to essays or letters. That said, Heinlein did love writing the "competent man" character so there is a strong argument that this reflects his own views.
Yes this is true, but the point is that Netflix had to enter the content production industry, or risk having no content. Netflix had dominated online streaming but once it was clear that it was a popular thing, the content owners started taking their content away. For Netflix the choice was "make our own good stuff" or just give up.
In some ways but not in others. Edge Computing is actually a pretty hot area in telco but also other areas. One of the issues is that there’s so much data being collected, some of which needs real-time action, that you need distributed computing to filter and take actions based on rules. This edge computing can be fairly substantial.
It is not much of a problem if Q4 is better than Q4 of the previous year. That is actually a more meaningful comparison than Q3 to Q4, each quarter will be affected by different issues (end of financial year, college opening, winter, summer etc) whereas across years, the influences on each quarter are similar.
>Feeling Good is by David Burns, a Stanford professor who developed Cognitive Behavior Therapy.

Uh no, I don't think so. The wiki page on CBT [0] doesn't mention Burns. (I did read Feeling Good years ago, don't remember anything about it - maybe because I'd read Ellis and a lot of others first.)

I did get a lot from, and have recommend to others with success, Albert Ellis' book The New Guide to Rational Living, about what he called rational emotive therapy - many subsequent methods are very similar, because it works. In short, observe your negative thoughts and change them. No woo or huge cost involved. From [1] :

"REBT is the first form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and was first expounded by Ellis in the mid-1950s; development continued until his death in 2007. ... Psychology Today noted, "No individual — not even Freud himself — has had a greater impact on modern psychotherapy" ... In his first major book on rational therapy, Ellis wrote that the central principle of his approach, that people are rarely emotionally affected by external events but rather by their thinking about such events, "was originally discovered and stated by the ancient Stoic philosophers" "

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_emotive_behavior_ther...
The news media has done such a horrible job distorting these distinct groups of people that it's so surprising to see that this needs to be pointed out. Most often I see channels like CNN refer to the umbrella term "immigrants", which I imagine is extremely offensive to folks who pay thousands of dollars and wait in line compared to someone who cheats their way into the country.
Used to know a guy: brilliant young man, excelling in the fields of physics and mathematics, and not a slouch in many others – at an amateur level driven by curiousity, but with an intelligence base nevertheless.

He had an older brother, who was, by the younger brother's own admission, a notch above himself in the intelligence department. The older brother was said to have been bored working at Google.

My suspicion is: someone in dire need of intellectual engagement might want to work at Tesla simply because of the opportunity to exercise one's mental capacity in a challenge of equivalent magnitude. (Not Tesla specifically: I suspect any company with similarly-driven heavily-pushed technical production would suffice, for a person with the knowledge of that sphere.)

Imagine Einstein or Hawking sorting paper in an office. How do you think their minds would feel in such an uncreative, unproductive environment? I'd wager they'd suffocate soon without an opportunity to express their intellect in a meaningful way. Same story, I suspect, happens with the brilliant engineers and designers at Tesla.

(Which isn't to say that the nightmare-ish conditions they're being put through are necessarily worth it, or that they can't find an outlet for their capacities elsewhere. Working for a company is simpler, in that one doesn't need to make as many choices as an independent entrepreneur would have to. It's also prestigious – since the company has a big name – which may or may not play its role.)
Ask HN: Why no favorite link alongside each comment?
Currently one has to click the timestamp for a comment which then gives you the options to mark it as (un-)/favorite, flag or navigate to parent/story. Any specific reason, I would like to think (anecdotally) that marking a comment as favorite should be as frequent as marking a story?
Yeah people definitely end up doing unethical things out of desperation, whether it's committing a crime or working at an ethically questionable business
If you haven't already seen it, take a look at this video [0] showing a line of tank trucks filled with sewage, because Dubai built a lot more skyscrapers than their sewage system could handle.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Hv8IHA3ig
Sure. Tools are still difficult to maintain and develop. I love VS code which is free (as in Microsoft). It has replaced JetBrains Pycharm for me.

That said, I have a JetBrains subscription because their suite has a lot of value if you deal with multiple types of databases (or Java/.Net). Their business model is refreshingly straightforward, the coding is solid and I don’t mind giving them money.
Broadcast has other solutions like broadcast. It's when everyone has different things you need 5G.
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It's not the money, it's having to buy it.
Community effort to connect content creators with founders who need traffic
I spent lots of time recently trying to find good places to have links for my SaaS placed.

Quite time consuming to find good, ranking SEO posts, medium authors etc.
On the other hand there are
bloggers, authors or website owners, sitting on good SEO-optimized content and don't have the time to start an affiliate program to monetize their work.

I thought: Why not connect all of us to each other?
It's a simple 5 question typeform, and there is a google sheet attached to it.

That way everyone can use the info and we can build a nice list where people can connect.
Let me know what you think, and heres the url to the form:
https://fullserviceco.typeform.com/to/WeaTnK
Why wouldn't crimes go down with UBI? people commit crimes out of desperation. The crime rate is substantially lower in socialized europe
Seems pretty straightforward to me. The premise is that tech businessses have exhausted the extant food supply for opportunities and growth and are becoming constrained by hard natural limits. Seems like a spot on metaphor to Malthus.
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Try for fitbit
Yeah, but it's not really accurate to say that intellectual activity moved because the Church was systematically harassing philosophers.
> During one assessment many years ago I was accused of not being sufficiently "loyal", and I (ah, youth!) responded, "You want loyalty? Get a dog."

Never grow up, I'd say.
Any roadmap for Chrome?
Why is jemalloc not included in glibc then?
The most amazing things to me is that all of the non-military vessels in the area at the time were transmitting AIS. Isn't a warship supposed to be able to navigate in a combat environment, with the presence of jammers, based only on its radar data?

Having precise AIS data flowing in for every ship in the area is navigating on "easy mode".
5 or 6 links news does not make. Now to condense it to: list of news sources and we have more incentive for people to actually vet what they read, why and when.
No, haven't seen much of them, just remembered reading about them somewhere, and looking at the issue tracker they link seems activity stopped a while back - if status is easier if not active, then that's a problem, I would have thought the initial step is hard already. :/
Prices would adjust accordingly. Why do you think people do those jobs now? being a garbage man pays pretty well
> covers their drivers during rides now

In the US. It's not clear if they have this anywhere else.
I think one of the points of prison is that you don't get what you prefer.
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What sign-in methods would you like to use? Old school Email & Password? Or maybe Github, Facebook, Twitter?
For curiosity's sake... we know now that Theranos was never anything more than hot air and marketing. What caused you to defend them at the time?
Maybe it's the time (and how they change). I'm a bit too young to have read it back then, but I did read Shadowrun stuff in the late 90s, and also Neuromancer.

Maybe it's me - but I don't really see a lot of differences between all those, in a way that I could label it a parody. But did technology advance that quick in less than 10 years that what you described changed?

From a certain standpoint they're all "equally ridiculous", not so different. (Not a judgement of quality, I love them all.)
Facebook has about a decade of privacy fuck-ups, manipulation and dark patterns behind it.

Sure, they're not 100% evil, heck Hitler was a pretty swell guy with his close friends too, but at this point they should be guilty until proven innocent, not the other way around.

The deluge of anti-fb comments is the public finally having enough of their crap, so you should get used to it.
Sure, just saying don't let the local sentiment change you. I personally have found the opposite once outside the echo chamber, granted like HN, I am naturally pessimistic/skeptical. I've found common-person use of tech and common tech business to be nowhere near as negative.
I was also curious and looked it up:

Pagan philosophy was gradually supplanted by Christianity in the later years of the Empire, culminating in the closure of the Academy of Athens by Justinian I. Many Greek-speaking philosophers moved to the east, outside the borders of the Empire. Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism gained a stronghold in Persia, where they were a heavy influence on early Islamic philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_the_Roman_Empire
He has an interesting idea in using a free MailChimp account. I would have thought of just having a local email list but it seems very ‘tidy’ to use MailChimp instead. I have set up MailChimp for a customer but never used it for myself.

I just put on my TODO list to start 2 lists: one for family and friends and one for interesting tech.

I will never totally leave FB because I use it to pimp my books and open source projects, but I think spending more that 10 minutes a week engaging with FB is a waste of time. Opportunity Cost.
To get started all you really need is trig. As you progress you'll need more advanced math.
One of the reasons why shortened work (Kurzarbeit) worked for Germany is that the government subsidizes it by paying the workers back some of their lost income, on the rationale that it's better to subsidize them for a short time rather than for them to become unemployed for a potentially long time.

The maximum duration of this Kurzarbeitergeld was gradually extended through the 2007-2009 crisis from 12 months up to 24 months.
It isn't just CO2 though.

As a city dweller I look forward to a future with less air and noise pollution.
It's not really the tool's purpose. I was thinking of a favorites list for me to not lose track of what I liked. Or perhaps create different lists for ease of use.

Really not something I can't do with a list of my own, but I'd love having it easy to use on the site.

The signup is sad because I don't use social media, so I hate when sites alienate me.
Can't turn off the lights.
>> About half of the amino acids only use the first two nuclides and ignore the third.

I've often thought some of that redundancy in the code could be a feature. Important (more sensitive) sequences could evolve to a coding that is more robust against mutations, while things that are less important could be more brittle in their encoding. This seems hard to prove though.

It also allows a particular triplet to have more neighbors, meaning you can go from one amino acid to more options without going through intermediates.
My theory is that many developing countries use
the wrong metric to gauge their success

More cynically these developments are probably a conduit for a lot of money getting into the pockets of corrupted public officials.
Do you think that if they'd bought a BMW, the answer would be different?

People who regularly change their cars regularly change their cars ...
A counselor I saw once defined grief as love with nowhere to go. I think that connects well with what you suggest here.
Because it is almost always sucks to work for others :)
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There is irony here. The notion of a tech sector is entirely an equal and opposite reaction against actual Malthusian Traps (exponential population growth vs linear food supply growth) that are caused by depleting resource bases. See "The Limits to Growth", a 1972 MIT study by Meadows et al., funded by The Club of Rome.
Fether Beta is out
I feel similarly about using root locus diagrams in control theory with Laplace transforms. I'm just beginning the DSP part of my EE degree.
If one doesn't understand a scientific theory then their understanding of it contains no information. Ancient philosophy rarely contains information. As a result the two often appear to line up.
I wish more site would use columns, like in print. I agree that really wide text is hard to read, but instead of making one narrow column you need to scroll through, you can divide it into multiple columns.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/columns
It also has a lot wider range of industries to protect, so if the UK would be happy in scrapping food subsidies to let African food be competitive in our markets, but other countries like France want to retain subsidies for protectionism of their farmers, it's no dice.

That scenario is exactly what happened in the Doha Development Round.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha_Development_Round