skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your story reminds me of a story about heroin addicts in Russia who started taking krokodil (a homemade version that causes slow body death and decay). Addicts retreat into their addictions to hide from their problems. It gets harder and harder to break the cycle, because they don't address the core issue and they are creating more problems from themselves (physical, legal, social isolation). In the case of krokodil, stopping the drug meant dealing with the pain/shame of open sores and rotting flesh.
Many people think of addiction in terms of physical symptoms and mental toughness. In many cases, human addiction is a tragedy on a mass scale. The people that work with addicts are truly doing God's work.
It's an often repeated misconception, but in Airbus planes the pilot has full control of every single control surface of the plane. Disabling the flight enveloppe protection system is probably necessary if you want to tail strike, but it is perfectly doable.
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I think UBI should lead to self-actualization in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_need...
I've never carried ID, nor driving licence. The few times I've been stopped it was never an issue, even the morning after an IRA bombing as I was on my way to work.

In traffic stops or getting booked for speeding I've just taken driving licence and insurance to a station on a producer.
What's interesting is that modern crash-rate statistics for the two companies are essentially the same, meaning there doesn't seem to be a superior choice of the two approaches
Fantastic point. These people were focused on getting a job, any job, so that when the 2 year period was over, they could survive. Which of course is a good thing, but really won't produce what the idealistic goals of basic income are. I doubt (m)any of the participants sat down and thought, now that i can survive forever, what can i do to change my life, build a company, chase a great idea, do something special.
http://n-gate.com/ also covers FOSDEM.
If you think that country is US you are hilariously mistaken https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-ethnically-diverse-...

Africa and India are more diverse than US
I've "installed" this PWA via Brave on Android. So it now runs upon the Brave engine when I launch it, I suppose. I hope Brave continues to block trackers when executing "installed" PWAs.
Holding it back compared to what? I come from a CLR background and look enviously at the jvm ecosystem all the time. Haskell, BEAM, etc are almost all a step down from jvm once you factor in tooling.
> A web page from 1994 still renders unmodified today, on any platform, and will for the foreseeable future.

Rose tinted glasses.

There was a time not too long ago where IE6 was virtually required because of activex, vbscript, ie specific markup, etc.
> Unless of course some of the rich decide to buy additional cars just so they can drive more

This workaround would be made moot by adding a rule saying you can use at most the square root (or any other sublinear function) of number of your cars.
They shouldn't live in the US I guess, because that place is designed for cars and nothing else.
We recently did a proof-of-concept at my company and came to some similar conclusions. We can see state charts driving our development process exactly as you described, so it’s good hear that others are finding success with this approach!

We are going to be incorporating xstate at a basic level in one of our next projects, but I’d eventually like to see it become entrenched in how we do all UI development.
Sadly the article doesn't include any suggestions.
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Same thing in France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering
Huh?

>That’s why I think Oracle is sort of hedging its bets with Java audits and not going in there as strongly. It’s too soon. Give it five years when you’re stuck in Oracle’s ecosystem and Oracle needs money. Then they’ll start auditing.

This is burying the lede...
Im not sure these people are mentaly ill. In the past such people were lauded as important thinkers. A monk living a minimalist life was not sick. Hermits living alone, most always in pathetic circumstances, were consulted for thier wisdom. How many of our great religeous leaders spent some years huddled in a cave alone? These people may not be normal, but i dont think this is a new problem... if it even is one.

Not everyone gets to have a good job, a wife, kids and a house. Our society is very competative. There are worse reactions than becoming withdrawn. These people are not violent. They are not addicted to drugs. They are not in prison. There are far worse social ills.

And lighthouse keepers. That used to be a thing.
You could argue that the degree operator is just another name for multiplication by the constant pi/180.
You only have to show ID if you're stopped under the Road Traffic Act, and that only applies if you're the driver of the vehicle.

There's other powers that PCSOs have for people who've been engaged in anti-social behviour, and those powers are probably misused.

But otherwise there's no legal requirement to identify yourself to police. If they have enough to detain you then they can detain you to find out who you are. But that's not the same as just demanding ID from everyone.
Sorry, definitely missed the context on that one. Why wouldn't you want to install in AppData/local?
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I see articles like this and then see a bunch of comments about not wanting to use Java because of Oracle. But these articles are somewhat misleading in that there are free versions of Java out there. I think the authors of said articles just wants to stir the pot. This is old news and not really relevant with all the free alternatives. Even on our Ubuntu builds, when we install Java it's the open jdk variant that gets installed by default.
I agree the loss of control is unacceptable. I agree that only being able to get commercial apps like this that monetize through advertisements and selling opaquely-gathered tracking data is unacceptable.

But I'm curious how much download weight matters, outside of as a proxy for "how much bloated ad bullshit is hiding inside the app bundle"?

I'd wager the difference between a 2KB PWA and a 5MB or 30MB native app download is relatively insignificant — in storage space, in cellular data use, in initial download time — to your average user when compared to streaming a film on Netflix or downloading a F2P game with 100MBs to GBs of assets.

(where "average user" is assuming most of these apps are only localized in English and only available in largely-western countries — totally get how the story is very different in emerging markets)
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I have noticed something interesting.

I did not find about recent two Google related big news on HN.

One is Apple revoking Google certificates on iOS devices: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-unblocks-googles-internal-apps-on-ios-devices-report-says/

Another is Google shutting down Google+: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-pages-will-shut-down-on-april-2/
Maybe it's my hate of the macbook air for lacking ports combined with my hate of people used by instagram on top of my hate of everything faceboook, but I had no problem with this particular sentence about the trend hardware has been following for a few years.
I actually agree with it, the macbook air is not for work, at least not technical. it's akin to a toy for rich kids that like to brag and live pretend lifes on instagram.
There’s a response to this in the article - those free versions are only supported for 6 months.
Also, if you live outside USA/Europe, let's go to a important conference may be a few thousand of dollars more expensive that sending an email to the editor with the draft of the paper.

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One of my friends received this. He was previously a rugby player and coach, but was feeling heavier and heavier every day. So he quit.

I think this type of income is best when 'between careers'.. when someone desires to walk a new path.

The alternative seems to be to leap into a new job, which could perpetuate misery.

But if a person has time to step away, and create stillness and clarity, then that decision can become obvious.

For him, the income was enough to live, for him to become a more conscious spender, and when he stopped receiving the money, he chose a new career in door-to-door sales which he's loving.
Its important to have a consistent sleep pattern; trying to regain sleep on the weekend will just throw your sleep cycle out of whack. Personally, I get about 5 hours on average during work, and I am often far more tired after a super-sleep on the weekend.

Other things that help are not eating just before bed, and ensuring you have enough time in the morning to actually wake up! Oh, and get the best mattress you can afford
https://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Consumer+...

"The class of persons able to buy goods and services other than those that satisfy their basic needs. ..."
It still makes no difference. All vendors offering OpenJDK builds offer it under the same license, as the license is dictated by the open source OpenJDK, which is owned and run by Oracle, and developed mostly by Oracle. If you actually read the license for any OpenJDK distribution, you'll see that the copyright for the software is owned by Oracle. So all OpenJDK distributions are equally "tainted".
> my old university buddy who's from Zambia, jokes with me that the Chinese are colonization 2.0

Lived there myself, can confirm.
A producer is the police making life a bit easier. They don't have to do so, the offence is complete and they could charge people for it.

If you're the driver of a car and police stop you ans ask for ID you commit an offence if you refuse to identify yourself.

Section 164:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/part/VII/crossh...
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Why do we even need hidden files? Why not just put all the configuration files/directories under a single directory specifically dedicated for this and use file system attributes for all the directory-local metadata?
"piss off" is accurately interpreted as "go away and leave me alone". Whereas "fucking come on then" is often a precursor to violence.

But sure, intonation is a thing. "I beg your pardon" can be said in a threatening way.
Just spent 10 minutes throwing out food before I read this :D
You can do that with mobile-web-app-capable and add to home screen on both ios and Android. No address bar and it looks like any other app. You need to host the site though.
The people being threatened are not the police, but the other members of the public.

(I'm not saying that I agree with this, but it is the argument being used).
You should consider saving this comment so that it can be kept added to other similar article's that come out every few months.
So why is the punishment for 'swearing' instead of 'intimidating a police officer'?
FYI: Mermaid is supported in Markdown on both GitLab and GitHub.

It's awesome, I hope they continue to extend it.
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> is there a reason to cover up except hiding criminality?

There are lots of reasons people might want to do this.

Including such minor ;) things like "told the wife I was going home, but I'm going out with the boys to the pub".

With your face recognised and in a database, it could then come to light at a future point. With your face not in said database, it can't. Pretty simple really.
Someone showed me that GCC Ada supports older versions of Ada, while AdaCore's Community edition does not. There are other differences of which I am unaware, but I found this difference to be a particularly major and surprising one.
I didn't think it worked like that, but I could be super wrong.

Last I saw things launched from the home screen or in a webview from another app use the "Android System Webview" as it's rendering engine.

IIRC there was some work done to make that runtime swappable, but I'm not sure how far that went.
That's why automation and taxing those who use automation to generate income should be the driving force behind UBI.

Let the robots do the grunt work.
That’s the trap the author is trying to warn people about falling into.
I think what they mean is OpenJRE, versus Oracle JRE
After a light skim, this seems like a good match; the land/area isn't used for much else anyway and since PV installations are usually devoid of humans and engines it wouldn't be a bad idea to roll this out on a larger scale.
Of course something similar to this can come to market, there is a market for this as nothing actually answer to these needs even if it is a niche market.

the success of the openpandora[1] demonstrated without a doubt that as long there is demand for a specialized hardware based upon having a real keyboard then it is possible to successfully sell, and now the pyra[2] is following.

I would not be happy with your HP Elite, a convertible is definetely not suitable for any serious work, lacking an ethernet port is a no go.

[1]: https://www.openpandora.org/
[2]: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
> you have to constantly take your phone out of your pocket and open up the RTD app to show the guard

How often are you checked!?

I've only used a couple of trains in the USA, but in Europe it would be very unusual to be checked more than once on any journey. Twice can happen on long journeys if the guard changes.

Usually there's either no check, or only a check by machine like a ticket gate.
We can't stop omnipresent surveillance, because if someone chooses to put cameras on their store-front that's their business, but apparently we can stop people trying to avoid this surveillance.
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I'd love that but I don't think it'll encourage hacker culture. Instead we'll have the Can-Code making things for the Can't-Code like we do now, but with even fewer checks for nefarious activity.

Case study: people copy-pasting random code into their Myspace profiles
The way I conceptually see it is that people with lower income pay less once a year, during tax time, and save a lot of money then. All other times it's just much simpler if prices/fees/whatnot are based on actual usage. Can you imagine owning a gas station or running a parking lot and having to deal with income verification from all your clients, and then dealing with the government to get reimbursed because Joe Schmo is low income and got a 25% discount? That would be a recipe for wasteful bureaucracy, black market activities like low income people using their gas cards to fill up others' cars, and generally just tons of inefficiencies.
simple != reliable

What is so hard about writing CSS in JS?
I don't disagree with your last point! I think it is about incentives and it's likely that the agro lobby (at least in the USA) is resulting in subsidies to meat that artificially lower its actual cost. But I will say that specifically, I find it very hard to get my omega 3s in a sufficient (and cost effective) quantity outside of meat and fish. The ratio of omega 3s to omega 6s is not great in many plant substitutes. I think it's only chia and flax seed that have a comparable ratio to grass fed beef, and even then, you don't get the same macronutrient profile as in fish. This is the case everywhere with meats and fish -- you actually can't completely replace the macronutrient profile with vegetables. You can get close, but you lose out on things, and this is especially the case for parts of nutrition that we're still continuing to learn more about. This is my oversimplification, but I think there's a reason why humans have been omnivorous for most of their history; personally, I've always felt most healthy when I've been omnivorous but leaning towards a plant based diet (easier to keep it diverse)

I'm a little curious as to why you didn't address my other points. I really don't agree with the premise of that guardian article. We need huge reductions to corporate emissions to avoid dangerous climate change. I think it's a bit of an anthropomorphic fallacy to believe that our consumption habits have a larger impact on the climate than demonstrably larger corporate contributors. It's pleasant to believe that we really have that much direct agency. But, it's wrong. If we really want to battle climate change, it requires coordinates, global pressure to the top.
Ohh...?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ios&sort=byPopularity&prefix&p...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=google%2B&sort=byPopularity&pr...
I mean, I don’t think it’s designed to “put an input on the page”. Tracking things like hover, dirty and pristine states, sync and async validation, etc, is an inherently complex problem.

If you just want to put an input on the page, that’s just three lines with React. (Especially with Hooks.)
True. But I think "French" in particular was used this way for lots of things in English, maybe 100 years ago. "French letter", advertising "French lessons", etc. I guess it faded as the place became less exotic.
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First time I used vim more than a decade ago, I got stuck too. Kill vim from other console and then googled it for future reference.
> The failure of pure open source

I see the opposite with languages and runtimes these days. If anything, I'd say there's a failure of trying to make money on the language/runtime itself instead of thinking or other parts of the company.
look at the pyra: https://pyra-handheld.com/
> is there a reason to cover up except hiding criminality?

Yes, organizing a union while avoiding the police helping to blacklist you for your efforts: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43507728
This thought has been around for the better part of 50 years. There are substantial problems even if such a standard did exist (and many have tried), because of the inherent distributed computing problems.

Distributed computing requires that systems make tradeoffs, and the semantics of those tradeoffs must be present in the interface. With a local library call, you get all of 1) consistency, 2) availability, and 3) partition tolerance to failure. In a distributed system, that interface must choose which combination of AP, CP, or theoretically suboptimal (not quite AP, not quite CP) mode it wants. The consumer of the interface must negotiate with the provider of that service to enforce these guarantees.

In 1994, Sun Microsystems wrote a classic paper why common RPC systems were not the norm at [1].

[1] https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...
I know what you are trying to say. Personally I would like to hear convincing reasons why lowering barriers to contribution is inherently a good thing, in all cases. I mentioned a few cases later on where it might not be favorable, to me, at least.

And again: it was just a way to get the attention of people who might agree with it, to hear their side. Or to start/stimulate a discussion.

I don't like to just believe things because it sounds good and because it has been repeatedly said to be good, without explaining why. The point was to question it, or come up with scenarios where it is not favorable. Do you agree that such scenarios exist where it is not a good thing, or not?
Unemployment benefits (Chômage/Pôle Emploi) are only allocated to people actively looking for a job after they lost a previous job. They are typically 70-80% of your previous income and are granted for 2 years. It comes with monthly oversight and training program. Entrepreneurs are welcome to it and can ask to be given a lump sum and have dedicated training.

RSA (Revenu de Soliarité Active) is given to anyone, based on their resources: young graduates without a first paying job, refugees waiting for immigration decision, people who haven’t found a job in more than two years, even unpaid members of religious orders. It comes with medical coverage (“universal” medical insurance is based on your status in France).

Both are revoked when you find a job. It used to be possible that a part-time job would pay not much more than either stipend; because of that, both programs were described a possible “disincentives” by opponents (typically right-wing small-government, aka “Libéraux”). Even proponents saw a lot of edge-cases: people having to wait, seeing their hours cut or being fired soon after they changed status and struggling in the transition. To ease the transition, partial stipends were made possible.
637 points, 260 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038258 - Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door

875 points, 643 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19048976 - Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps

234 points, 262 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19051541 - Apple restores Google’s internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment

160 points, 155 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19040966 - Google+ for consumers will shut down on April 2nd
Stop doing drugs? Get roommates? Stop working part time?

(used) Cars are 1-3k per year.

Not exactly affordable if you are making 15-20k/yr.
This dude that runs the firm is my uncle too. Documenting the Bullshit has the following implications -
1. The rest of the employees know what the fuck is going on
2. The investors knowing what is going on
3. The patent office seeing what the hell is going on and fucking up all their IP.
Other techniques can produce genetic changes just as large as direct genetic modification. For example, irradiation, interspecies hybridization, and selective breeding. So your "black swan" argument is invalid.
There's been increasing consolidation in the automotive industry, nothing new here.

Big challenges need big investments and it makes sense to work on open standards. Car makers don't want to become the next smartphone industry, with a race to the bottom among OEMs and Google reaping all the profits.

German groups know very well that creating distrust in the industry is not a winning strategy when everyone works with the same suppliers.

Disclosure: former HERE employee, executives always insisted on the fact staying neutral was key to long-term success and that we should welcome investments from other OEMs.

I admit that European countries have conflicting interests in the matter, however I'd rather have them look at more pressing issue first, like measuring and enforcing emission standards. "Unfair" competition against Google and Uber... I can live with that.
Africa is a continent while India is a country. India is indeed much diverse than almost other countries.
> you're less likely to be chased into ridiculous lawsuits.

Microsoft has sued/legally threatened companies over Android and extracted many billions of dollars from them:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2015/11/01/microsoft...

* https://www.computerworld.com/article/2475440/android/micros...
I really take exception with their point on insurance. They try to insidiously suggest that the poor and urban population pays more for insurance than other populations due to... Well they don’t say, but I do take their inference. The fact of the matter is that the auto insurance industry is highly regulated and cannot discriminate on many factors. Their rate books are reviewed by regulators. The fact that poor and urban residents pay more has to do with the risk to the vehicle. The chance of damage, theft, the type of car, the experience and record of the driver, etc. all factor in. It may be unfortunate, but it is it not some grand conspiracy or inherent bias to hold these people down. I wish other types of insurance (like health) were as easy to shop for as auto insurance. You can easily shop multiple insurers and compare prices from the comfort of your home and pick what works best for you. It’s really incredible when you think about it.