skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decreasing marginal utility of money is just a theory, and there are many flaws in the theory - including measuring happiness with a discrete scale of questionable boundaries (5=very happy, etc.), considering self administered questions at face value, etc.

Another theory is hedonic adaptation- you adapt to whatever and regress to a baseline.

Finally, there seems to be proof that some people do not spent their money on what will make them happier, the typical example being buying an object instead of an experience.
Why? In both cases the user of gas and roads is creating negative externalities for others. Taxing them compensates for the externalities. The externalities aren't dependent on income, so an income based tax doesn't seem appropriate.

Externalities are:

* Wear and tear on roads

* Congestion

* Cost of policing roads

* Road deaths and accidents

* urban pollution

* co2 increase

The latter two don't apply to electric cars, and urban pollution doesn't apply to a gas tax on rural drivers. Otherwise they both seems to be things either a gas tax or congestion charge could make up for.
Sure! I run qmail, dovecot, djbdns on one of their stock FreeBSD 11-RELEASE images on their cheapest static-IPV4 level. Blacklisting hasn't been an issue (knock wood) anywhere except for Yahoo and they were impossible mail recipients when I had a real business static CIDR space so screw em. The VSP is great about maintaining the inverse address mapping. I have the SPF records, not sure that they do anything.

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i don’t think he was doubting you, he was asking for evidence of your seemingly insightful claim.

Your points don’t seem to be aligned though. Minorities suffering is not the same as blaming the first coincidental victims of economic downturn.
These really make my blood boil. I continually trip whatever it is that makes Google think I'm a bot (probably a VPN + ublock). Sometimes it takes upwards of 5 tries (each with 3 or 4 tests) to pass. After the first failure the audio one stops working, and sometimes that's unintelligible. I honestly wonder how anyone who's even slightly visually impaired is supposed to pass them.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the not too distant future they were hauled up before the courts on discrimination grounds, and not before time. There's something very wrong when a human consistently fails CAPTCHAs. For one thing I've tried selecting all boxes containing parts of a traffic light/fire hydrant, and only the ones that mostly contain parts of the object and have failed both times.
For Google ReCaptcha, simply install the Buster addon, it solves the captcha for you via speech-to-text.

For captcha's in general, I think we should stop pretending that we can prevent bot traffic from a dedicated attacker without annoying the users.

A simple captcha from the 2000's (the ones with lines over a word or number of letters and numbers), should be good enough to hold off basic script kiddies. Same for a basic TTS audio clip.
There's a lot of interesting cultural work going on with the phenomenon of otaku and their relationship to media in Japan, and some of it's inspiring for research in the West too. Patrick Galbraith explores the lolicon phenomenon, for instance. What gets to me most is when people treat them with derision or contempt or buzzwords to dismiss their problems, plight, and twisted as it may seem to us, way of life. I genuinely think that many hikkikomori or otaku have a more refined appreciation of the fictional world than those who must live day to day in the real world.
Why do you necessarily think they are all hired developers?
I find it surprising that you and many others are surprised and even upset by this story.

Imagine someone never having used vim, maybe new to Unix overall, or new to terminal programs. Maybe this person is a student and is trying to learn. In some way he ends up in vim and it is not very intuitive how to exit it. The person searches for "how to exit vim" and find that SO thread and learns how to exit vim.

Does that sound so weird?
If you act in a similar way towards colleagues trying to learn something new you should rethink your behavior.
> What's the purpose of taking pictures and fixating on the past?

Personally, I find no value in that, but I respect differences of tastes.
Hiera-editor: A GUI tool to manage your Puppet/Hiera for you
(This is a reply to the GP comment, since it got flagged while I was typing my reply.)

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> If you downvote this you're to dumb to even look stuff up on Google.

What do you think the first result is when you search for how to exit Vim?

> RTFM is at least 50% of what makes a good programmer.

Stack Overflow is part of the metaphorical manual.
Holy crap it's scary that he's building his own speedometer like that. GPS based speedos aren't all that accurate. Ballpark, sure, but not accurate. There are also many circumstances under which GPS won't work.

In many countries a car without a functional speedometer is not allowed on the road, for safety reasons.
> I presume it’ll stay this way for a while (years!).

It turns out iOS 12.2 will be "one heck of a release for Progressive Web Apps…"[1]

[1] https://medium.com/dev-channel/progressive-web-app-progress-...
What is the advantage of JVM if there is no Jar deployments. Other than language syntax, most reasons to use JVM is to get all of those libraries
You should read about the "walk out of jail" cards that are made for each member, to be distributed to family members.

There's a thriving secondary market for that.
Considering how common french fries and french toast are, it's a fairly unhelpful generalization to teach to students. Aside from a french kiss, there aren't many common phrases in US vernacular that still make the association french=sexy.
People are sorted into different classes in companies. You’ll never get a company to pay six figures for someone they consider a free intern - regardless of whether it’s in their economic interest.
This was cool and inspiring to read. I too enjoy making little apps to meet my needs and it was educational to see how someone else structures their tiny projects. Not just the projects themselves but also the lil domain they're hosted at.
I’d guess that from a certain point on you don’t look at the financial incentives only, but that you want to maintain your “status” (for different definitions of that word depending on different social environments).

For example I know of people close to my age (late 30s) and from my social circles (middle-class people) who pride themselves for almost never using the metro, even though in the city where I’m living (Eastern Europe) the metro does a pretty good job at transporting most of the city’s population. As such, if a system that would forbid car circulation based on their license plates were to be introduced I’m pretty much sure that those same people would buy a second car especially in order to circumvent the new rules, and I’m also pretty much sure that that second car would be almost as “good” as their first car. Doing otherwise would be seen as a diminishing of those people’s social standing.
I've downvoted your comment, because you claim without explanation that "gas taxes and congestion prices are different", and therefore the article is foolish. Maybe you're right in some meaningful way, but showing that will require some evidence or explanation.
For the last line, you could have said IABYUT.
You forgot the most powerful of them all: Ctrl+Z followed by kill -9 pid
Sure, but that’s not what I, or the World Atlas, said. There are 16 individual African countries more diverse than India.

1 Guinea
2 Tanzania
3 Democratic Republic of Congo
4 Uganda
5 Liberia
6 Cameroon
7 Togo
8 South Africa
9 Congo
10 Madagascar
11 Gabon
12 Kenya
13 Ghana
14 Malawi
15 Guinea-Bissau
16 Somalia
> none of them compliant with GPL ideals

That's totally fine with me and the beauty of restrictionless freedoms, you can do what you want. I license lots of my work that way, keep other parts hidden, etc. It's a healthy model instead of this rampant litigious approach often coupled with an irrational fear of theft. To be truly open sans restrictions is to take the bad with the good and recognize that what you open is not specifically where you make your money. Happily the industry continues to move towards unencumbered software especially on the language/runtime front.
A View from the Trenches: Software Development Estimates, an Analogy
There are a bunch of invoicing/simple billing Stripe integrations with third parties. I don't know why they don't offer a baked-in product for this and/or promote their brand to consumers more.
Has anyone managed to make decent looking org charts using Mermaid or one of the other text-based diagram generators mentioned in this thread? I've been looking for a way to make it easier for the one person we have who is working in HR to update the org chart each time we make a new hire. As bureaucratic as an org chart can be, keeping our up-to-date makes it easier for new people to figure out who everyone else is, and also helps existing staff figure out where newer employees fit in.
I agree with you, but, to be clear, the issue isn't VPNs, it's that the VPNs you are using are also used by spammers/bots/etc. or a large amount of other people. If you set up your own VPN somewhere that is just used by you and your family (for example), you will never run into this issue.

As a case in point, the same issue crops up with lots of users going through the same corporate proxy.

And it's the same reason that you can run Netflix (for example) through a personal VPN with no issue but will run into problems if you use a popular, retail VPN service.
There are good designers out there who don't know HTML, CSS or JS. There are also good designers out there who know all three.

CSS-in-JS (or if not, BEM at the least) is a closer fit to the mental model of styling things in design software like Sketch and Figma. So having to use CSS in full utilising-the-cascade-and-complex-selectors mode could reasonably be seen as a bigger barrier to entry than just using something like Styled Components or Emotion. I've come across plenty of designers comfortable with CSS who felt more at home using Styled Components.

I'm not arguing that there won't be some people for whom CSS-in-JS creates barriers, but there will also be others for whom it knocks them down.
You're right; if you take an apprenticeship, you learn on the job and get paid.

if you can find and be accepted by one

In my area, we have a few trade unions and a steamfitters training facility. They take new potential apprentices 2x a year. When I looked into one a while back, there were over 500 people in front of me on the _reserve_ list. I nope'd out and looked for other avenues. There were a few others, but also had similar insane lines with estimates of years before getting an apprenticeship.

So yeah, while that path does exist and costs no cash out of my pocket, its mostly wishful thinking that this is a "get in, learn and do, and get paid" and more of a "hurry up and wait... maybe".
As far as I remember, Opera with its own rendering engine used to be one of the most web standards compliant browsers.

That said, my point stands - I was pointing out how browsers like Firefox and Chrome are still bloated softwares compared to early Opera (pre Blink, Presto versions). Them "dropping out of the race" is irrelevant to that aspect.
Change name in pubg mobile – id card trick
It's not compulsory to carry ID so how on earth would it be compulsory to produce it upon request... It is extremely common to not carry any official form of ID in the UK.
There's a bit of irony here. You're poking fun at people stuck in a new unfamiliar environment doing the wrong thing over and over without looking into why it isn't working.

Somewhat similar to how most of your comments here are down voted and/or dead/flagged, yet you keep posting new ones with the same tone.
Jesus, at my high school it's an accomplishment to know how to read
> A monk living a minimalist life was not sick. Hermits living alone, most always in pathetic circumstances, were consulted for thier wisdom.

Monks and hermits were praying to their God and meditating on spiritual topics, not playing video games and posting on internet forums which is what the hikikomori mostly do.
1. As I said, this is a huge reason stuff like Recaptcha exists, and why custom ones can't work here, even if they're probably better if done correctly.

2. You can also use stuff like timing how long it takes someone to fill in the field, hiding form fields with CSS or JavaScript, randomising field input names, checking the referrer, etc. All these come up in tutorials about captchas.

3. You could ask them niche specific questions instead of requiring them to do general tasks. This is what I do with all topical internet forums and sites; have a wide array of custom written questions on the topic in place of stuff a bot can easily figure out. For instance, all questions on Wario Forums are about Wario Land and WarioWare games, not things meant to be 'culturally neutral'.
Then you are ill informed, because it is neither.
Rare snow rollers spotted in field near Marlborough, UK
Have a look at the Valohai.com that offer both a cloud agnostic orchestration and an audit functionality for deep learning workflows.
> Also, has anyone computed the cost of the economic externalities here? Time shifting ones commute either has severe financial repercussions for the employer (lost productivity) or the employees (a decrease in effective wages).

That, or companies implement flexible working hours, which allow time shifting without penalty.
Language Design with Brian Kernighan (2016) [audio]
It's great if you're inspired, but be aware Kiyosaki is primarily a salesman: https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-real-estate-invest...
I imagine the residents had previously tried such things outside of the study.
Wouldn't UBI lead to a population decrease as the people living in poverty (for whatever reason) are the ones that reproduce the most? It sounds to me like housing costs should decrease in the long term as the supply becomes greater than the demand.
Admittedly I've never (that I know of) met an incel so I can only go by the things I read online. It seems to me they have a negative opinion of feminism, racial equality, and progressive-socialism. They've been told the reason they're not wealthy, popular, and happy is because of those things. So they imagine a distorted mirror world that would put them at the top.
There are many required services: testing/certification, charging/refueling, parking, mechanical maintenance, inspections, cleaning (assuming ride sharing will be the top use case), dispatch, redistribution, picking up stranded vehicles, etc. On the commercial vehicle side, things get more interesting with logistics (loading/unloading of cargo, dock operations, etc.) and to-the-customer or to-the-door delivery.
"Professional" isn't defined by taste in text editors.
It reminds me of Calhoun's rat experiments where rat society essentially broke down as population density increased. There were types of rats called "The Beautiful Ones" that are very similar to hikikomori and NEETs

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

https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-rats-turned-their-private-paradi...
Discussed at the time (775 points, over 400 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14403036
I'm not sure I'd agree that GPL compatible licenses have failed.

To take one example Kubernetes, one of the most popular projects around at the moment is Apache 2 licensed which has been agreed with the FSF is an open source license. Other popular projects like Tensorflow also use this license

Likewise very popular projects like Visual Studio code, React Native and Angular make use of the MIT license which is also GPL compatible.
MIT's Joy Buolamwini on biases and ethics of facial recognition AI
Adding value. Lets say there is something in your life that you care about and costs you $100 a month. If I find a way to provide you with the same value for $20 a month and manage to do it at a cost of $10 a month, if I can persuade you to do business with me, you get the same value for $80 a month less and I get $10 a month in profits. If I manage to convince 100,000 people to also save $80 a month, I get $10 * $100,000 or $1m a month - not by taking away from others, but by saving them money.

Of course, plenty of people get money in ways that doesn't align with this ideal, but as an entrepreneur, that's the way I think about things and I have no problem with receiving $1m a month if I do so by saving others money and/or providing them with goods or services that they choose to purchase and that makes them happy.
> I'm writing "sufficient amount", because it is obvious that a basic income experiment that doesn't allow people to get by without working would not be basic income either, but a subsidy to the salary, as they already exist in many social welfare systems.

This is not "obvious" at all, and there's no reason why we couldn't start meeting people halfway, in a sense. Realistically, no amount of BI would allow people to "get by" in a highly-desirable urban location like SF or the Valley. It would probably be priced for areas with a more manageable cost of living, and even there most folks would be supplementing it with at least part-time or "gig" work.
Yes, I am aware Vue is more similar to React than the others. I probably shouldn't have said anything about Vue. Since I did, here we go.

There is another component to React which I didn't mention that gets inspiration from the 3D world: the API. When I first saw React's API, the first thing I thought was "that looks kinda like OpenSceneGraph, cool!" Now this is the very subjective part, having spent 8-9 years doing 3D graphics React felt natural to me. Given its popularity, I must not be the only one either. I am glad you like the Vue API but it doesn't feel like a 3D engine. For whatever reason, many people seem to prefer the 3D engine feel. On purely technical merits, I think React and Vue are basically the same. But I think there is some intangible difference in how the tools feel. Some people like React and some like Vue and both are right. However more people seem to like React.
Did you know vim has an easy mode?

vim -y

Think you can figure out how to quit vim from easy mode?

<C-O>:q!<CR>

(from https://stackoverflow.com/a/27439752)
Additionally

- You can keep headphones on and keep listening to a podcast without being rude to the cashier

- You can scan and bag stuff in an order that makes sense (e.g. so you don't get eggs at the bottom) at your own pace
It seems to me that being a young man has become harder. More pressure to achieve and more status trinkets to get. Not like fancy cars, but having a cool job, work out and travel a lot and so on. My dad had it easier than me, and I in turn have had it easier than what my sons will have it.
Moments of Weirdness with Ralph Northam
Fascinating that social media, in any form [1], will follow you forever and pop up at inconvenient times.

----------------

[1] His analog yearbooks.
And where does it say that he was convicted?
You only need 15 minutes to get your foot in the door someplace.
I drive an electric car. It is CO2 free only at the (hypothetical) tailpipe, not across the entire generation cycle. My car emits CO2 for every mile driven, just not right in the urban center.
In some countries these jobs (baggers) does not even exist.
Movies get almost everything wrong. It's story telling, if you're pretty well informed and you focus on the details, you won't enjoy it. chess, computers, health care, murder, law, driving, explosion, romance, communication, it's mostly all garbage. If they matched up and looked like the real world, it would make for a very boring movie
> I'm guessing you've never written something that can, for example, dynamically generate XLSX files out of filtered datasets in the browser.

Guess again :)

> our users value fast and regular turnaround time on feature updates far, far more than the site loading a little slower

That might be acceptable, for a time. Particularly if you’re working on a product that doesn’t have many/any backend developers. Or a backend. Or a product where the developers are more specialized in frontend. Or a product where the backend does not have a mechanism for handling long running tasks

But at some point for features like various file exports in the browser, one might want to fix the “why can’t we build X feature and delight customers as quickly server side”

Or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What's the point of a VPN if you're easily identifiable? Surely you want to blend into a crowd?
> BTW, Google has used OpenJDK extensively even throughout the court case, and still does, and has even forked it internally.

But isn't that their problem? The Oracle claim is that APIs themselves are copyrighted , and need permission from Oracle to even use the APIs?

It wouldn't matter of the software package was licensed. If Oracle's argument is accepted, then even invoking the APIs need a separate license outside the permission to copy JDK.

I really hope the judge finds in favor of Google. APIs should absolutely not be copyrightable.. But that's the main issue. And I still stand by my assessment that Java-anything is harmful for your health. And if your company has $$$, using Java is attracting sharks.
I love FastMail. Multiple domain support, unlimited aliases and a fast mobile website. It's just really great.
>things like "told the wife I was going home, but I'm going out with the boys to the pub" //

Do people do that for real, beyond jokes?

So the reason is "to enable dishonesty"?

I mean everyone with a password or driving license has their face in a database.

Meanwhile, the shops you were in know that you were there, Google probably know too ...
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From the post on kaboom:

> The fact that the article contains actual code is like kryptonite to Hackernews; the vote-to-comment ratio is well in excess of ten to one.
I cannot find any source on his 'conviction'
Thanks, I tried this build: https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload and speeds are much improved (more than 2x, I'm getting 893.1Mbps downloads now).