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The reason for IBM's failure is pretty obvious. Their old school bare-metal servers at Softlayer are a good value, but the need for bare metal is decreasing with IO improvements like SR-IOV and real hardware level virtualization (ex HVM on AWS). I've also heard IBM is running that division into the ground.

Their cloud offering sucks. Last time I was curious, I couldn't even figure out how much my server would cost. They're too used to old school contracts when I can easily setup a server with many providers in 5 min with $5 for a month. IBM has never been a commodity business, but nearly everything they sell is becoming a commodity.

GCP's problem, as far as I can tell, is too much "cute" shitty documentation. And their hatred for maintaining services on a reasonable timescale. Everyone I know, even outside of tech, has lost a Google service they loved over the years to neglect. See Golang package management for a notorious example in the devsphere. You can't maintain dependencies on old package versions. Wtf?

It seems to be common knowledge that Google's infrastructure is technically the most solid of any cloud provider. That's just not enough when you need something easy to setup that you can build then forget about for a decade. That's just the reality of how software projects are done for non-technical businesses
Any thoughts about PEP 582? https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0582/
JS interpreter, thanks to asm.js, can be used to run any language. Knock yourself out.

Of course you get to deal with a bit of FFI when calling built-in functionality of the browser.
Something I've found to be exceptionally good at helping with reading (I've been reading ~50 books a year for the past 5 years, on top of a full time job and family) is to use Goodreads - it gives you those short term endorphins when you can mark a book as read and can help it compete with all the other offerings of the world that reward you more hormonally.

Alternatively, if you don't want to use the tool, I would recommend getting a nice notepad to write in some short book reviews, which will give you your endorphins as you fill the book up more. And you get the additional benefit of being able to look back through your notes to see what you thought of various books and how your thought x time ago.
You could. It is a very low amout of money though, so I'm not sure you'll be able to afford nice computers and recent videogames.

And if you wanted more money, why wouldn't you work part time, to have a more confortable life ?
There are currently weird issue in Finland. There are labor shortage and more than 146k unemployed people in Finland at the same time.
I wouldn't do that for 560 euros. Would you?
This was a fun read, but there are some strawmen and misunderstandings in the article.

> This should be acceptable as conjunction is commutative.

Ah, but Prolog's comma (,) is not logical conjunction, and all Prolog programmers know this! The case is quite similar to, for example, && in C, which is also not logical conjunction. Both of these operators mean "and then", not simply "and". In certain cases, there is no difference, so often you can read either of these as a simple "and", but you cannot do that in general. And yes, we do lazily call it "and" or "conjunction", but we never forget that these words are not to be interpreted in the strict logical sense.

So there is no need to introduce "conjunctive quantifiers" to Prolog, it already has them, written as a comma.

> (∐ X ∈ 0..2) even(X)

> Would be the exactly same as writing:

> even(0) ⊔ even(1) ⊔ even(2)

> All variables in Prolog can be interpreted as this kind of choice-existential quantifiers such as above. Binding a variable is similar to doing a choice. If the choice is wrong, we attempt to backtrack from it as long as we have other choices we can examine.

No, this is an incomplete model of what you can do in Prolog. If you write:

?- X = f(A, B).

then A and B are not choice-existentially quantified. They do not, at this point, correspond to choices that you can enumerate and backtrack over. A and B are simply entirely unconstrained variables. Many many people misunderstand Prolog logical variables as something like lazy streams of possible solutions, but they aren't. Not until you do something that tries to bind them. "Reinventing" Prolog in this way gives you something that is not Prolog.

> We may also present prolog's disjunction through disjunctive choice:

> even(0).

> even(s(s(N))) :- even(N).

> Corresponds to:

> even(X) :-

> X = 0 ⊔ (X = s(s(N)) ∧ even(N)).

It also corresponds to:

even(X) :-
X = 0 ; (X = s(s(N)), even(N)).

The author may not be aware that Prolog already has (again, not-fully-logical) disjunction?

> It might be this gives us a sound concept of negation in the language, but I haven't concluded that it'd do so because I'm not certain. For example, the negation of the above one might be:

> ¬even(X) :-

> X != 0 ⊓ (X != s(s(N)) ∨ ¬even(N)).

If all you know about N is that X is different from s(s(N)), then there is no relation between X and N, and the recursive call to ¬even(N) will not tell you anything about X. So this won't work.
A person would take a job for the same reason that people take higher paid jobs with more responsibilities over lower paid jobs with fewer responsibilities: more money.
Ooh, nice one. A genuine defense of gambling as pure entertainment rather than a system built on exploiting addicts and people's irrational perception of chance events. I haven't seen that in decades. Are you next going to say cigarettes aren't addictive?

EDIT: Okay, fine, here are citations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy

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

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.13929
Genuine question - why do people install the Slack App? I haven't in ages, I just use the web-app and am very happy.
This whole study is a tragedy.

They made a study on a basic income, it cost huge amounts of money, and it was build to fail by declaring a stupid goal.

The other results look quite promising, but I tried looking into the data and unfortunately it's very weak. They made only questionaires and the return rates were very low, so it doesn't say much. They had really stupid mistakes in the report (confusing p-values and chi^2 values, wrong additions), all seems really sloppy.

In sum they made a study on a stupid goal, and the real results are not very meaningful due to poor methodological quality of the stury.
Capturing startups seems like a gamble, compared to Microsofts strategy of just forklifting customer that already known and trust them into Azure.

And at this point IBM is basically starting from scratch. You have to be an enormous company, with existing IBM contracts to even consider them a cloud provider. They also made a mistake with Watson and focusing too much on that one product. Right now it's hard to see that IBM cloud offering doesn't necessarily involve Watson.
yeah, why not?
If that makes you happy, with UBI, you can withdraw from society.

But I bet that after a while, also videogames will get boring. You will feel the need to do something outside. Be it some volunteering, just to meet people, or a job you love. Without the need to be profitable, the tyranny of profit.

It wouldn't be that bad, right?
no, but it makes people happy.

Now, obviously that's a bit against the capitalist grain and all that, but think of it this way:

the Luddite rebellion, and mass unrest happened in the UK because people's livelihoods were taken away. Either through automation, or enclosure.

This left thousands upon thousands of people with little left to lose forced to crime in order to eat.

This is expensive for wider society, you need to spend money of security, courts, jail, insurance public damages.

Paying money to make them happy, so that they don't _have_ to turn to crime, or a radical dictator candidate is a price worth paying.
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The acquisition price of 5 billions seems a little unrealistic, way above any value that Activision could win from Candy Crush and its derivatives.
A near canonical example of "Tragedy of the Commons".

That which is no one's responsibility will inevitably trend towards crap, IME.
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Most people would prefer welfare than a job like that, even if the job meant more money.
Basic Income is a completed unworkable pipedream, a revival of the “utopianism” of 100 years ago, when society thought that everything could be fixed if we just introduce “x solution”. But we live in complex changing times, so they need for “simple” solutions will always be appealing. For examples, see the current political situation in the USA and Europe.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19114834
My understanding was that as automation eats jobs people will need money to live whilst they pursue self-actualisation, creative living and community-based work/contributions (in place of "finding a job"). If the reporting is correct in that the aim was to see how people would respond given the current state of affairs - get a haircut, get a job - then maybe the aim was misguided? Better mental-health, for example, and contributions to common/public good (freed from the scourge of having a job and job-seeking obligations) might be what matter most as the jobs people tend to do are replaced with jobs that they can't yet do. During that transition period of creative destruction what you really don't want is civil unrest (or opioid abuse), right? Perhaps this should have formed a greater part the metric. Of course, how you go about raising taxes in this new world might prove an even more thorny question which relegates the former to "continuing research".
ITT: people who live in countries that aren’t ravaged by malaria share their vague feelings of doubt about whether or not getting rid of mosquitos is a good idea
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Perhaps the participants in the study were carefully selected to get the desired outcome.

I can't imaging that this is true in the general case.
How many non-devs (equivalent to the group of RAM < 6GB) use slack?
You don't need a well paying job to afford rent and food - just don't live in ridiculously expensive areas. USA has a plenty of very cheap places to live. As the rest of the world, with maybe a few exceptions of very expensive micronations.
My counter example: Complex life / Darwinian evolution (infinite monekys + objective function).

The other option is genetic farmer ETs 'lifted' us from proto-humans, or complexity is DNA + morphic resonance.
I think their stock has tanked a lot recently in the past month, so maybe there's that.
> The hat is the official merch of your current sitting president. The way it's treated as an overt symbol of hate is insane

Why? Hatred (as in the speech the cameraman was filming) is the overt policy of the President.

The emperor isn't naked, he just has a really bad hat - but we have to point out what we see, no matter how many people are wanting to intimidate us into not seeing it.
> And the report I heard said they were happier and had better mental health, which has got to be worth something on its own.

Even economically, since mental health issues can be very costly
The other alternative is also locked into one company.
The recipients did however report “less stress symptoms as well as less difficulties to concentrate and less health problems than the control group,” said Minna Ylikanno, lead researcher at Kela. “They were also more confident in their future and in their ability to influence societal issues.”

It did help people be healthier and happier though, but the headline only points out that they're still unemployed. We must be doing something really wrong as a society when we treat jobs as an end, rather than a means.
In your current life, do you only work the bare minimum required to support a life of sitting at home and playing video games in your free time?

I think the main reasons most people would still work are:

- To give purpose to their lives and occupy their minds/bodies

- In order to afford a better lifestyle than they could on only UBI (nice house, holidays, going out etc)
Correct - there has to be a clear indication that you are consenting. It can't just be hidden away in a 60 page document in a statement that says "I consent to being tracked, etc".
One particular species of mosquito, even.

The ongoing insect apocalypse is a problem, a potentially civilization-ending one. But wiping out malaria wouldn't be, and at this rate we'll probably do it by accident even if we don't implement this.
We're already giving free money to people, but at the moment we're giving money to people specifically for not working and for subjecting themselves to humiliating bureaucratic processes. So people get simultaneously rewarded and punished for not working.

Instead, let's just give them the money and give them some freedom.
In the vast majority of capitalist societies, you don’t need a “well paying job” to eat. There are all manners of safety nets. Even in the USA no-one has starved to death in modern times.
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There is no reason. Most people would end up doing exactly that. I find myself somewhat in that position. I work remotely as Software Developer / Analyst 1 day a week earning a living wage and spend rest of my time reading :) . Interestingly, taxes in Belgium are so progressive that working 1/5 pays quite much more than 1/5 of full salary.

BTW - You must know the Polish phrase from communist times: "Czy się stoi, czy się leży, dwa tysiące się należy.". For English speakers: "Down you lie or up you stand, either way you'll earn a grand". Here is how it looked like: https://d-pt.ppstatic.pl/kadry/k/r/1/01/3b/58f074a3247ac_o,s...
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As an extension, I'd like to know whether the performance of the people that were employed (or became employed) during that experiment has improved to a measurable degree due to their increased happiness; I'm aware it can be very difficult to measure an will require long term study, but that would be a factor that would make both governments and businesses happy with providing a basic income.
DRIE ? My googling magic appears powerless against this acronym ...
Dunno the society but I would drop jobs to program videogames. Don't think it would be a net benefit for the world but would increase my well being for sure.

One question remains tho. If I were to benefit economically from the art production that basic income would enable me to do, would it be ethical to keep that income?
"The founders of Glide, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2019 class, had a notion that building mobile apps in the enterprise was too hard. They decided to simplify the process by starting with a spreadsheet, and automatically turning the contents into a slick mobile app." - techcrunch.com
> If you're poor, sick or have no job than there is even people who'd argue for mercy killing you as not being strong enough for our good society.

Where do you meet people who argue for that? I Have never heard that outside of (very) dystopian novels.
> Diablo 3 got bad press mostly because of its auction house

But it was all balanced and designed around that auction house, so it still impact the whole game, even after a bunch of patches.
As an app developer & architect I'm continually surprised by how often I bump into other techs on projects where BIG EFFORT is being put into all kinds of crazy ORM shenanigans, or subsystem development, or integration because people didn't understand how the underlying database platform could be managed through SQL or how the underlying data could be manipulated through SQL.

Developing an data-driven app without understanding how your data-management solution works is like using just one rollerskate. Sure, you can get places, but...
But as someone else has to pay for their free money, the perceived happiness needs to be quantified.
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Subtlety: there are at least two groups who hate each other's corporate media. People at the Presidential rally(+) aren't going to denounce Fox as corporate media.

(+) is this a thing? Did all the other presidents do this?
Another commenter pointed it out; these were people that already were unemployed for two years. Which can mean a number of things, but for one, having a gap of two years in your CV will make potential employers raise an eyebrow.
the program faced state-internal opposition from Republicans

Republicans have had no power in the CA legislature for many years. Democrats had not only control of all committees but also constant supermajorities for much of Brown's term (except for the timeframe where three Democrats were ousted in the same term for criminal activity).

Except for single-vote majorities in 1969-70 and of just the Assembly for just part of 1995-6, the Republicans haven't had a majority in either house in the past sixty years.
Indeed this Bloomberg reporter entirely misses the point! The point of UBI is to free people from BS Jobs and instead help people find meaning in life beyond their "unemployment". It should encourage creative risk-taking with a guaranteed safety-net income. If people are cash-poor they cannot think beyond the stress of paying bills and are forced to take a "wage-slave" JOB (Just Over Broke).
I am not familiar with R dplyr.

The code snippet I posted doesn't adequately demonstrate it but the DSL is strongly typed with full type inference at every step. So for example, it knows that the type of the table after the "join" is has a field "age" of type "int", and that filtering on it is okay. Trying to filter on a non-existent field will cause a compile (not runtime) error.

Second, the "steps" are actually plain functions. `#` is simply the reverse function application operator defined as `a # f = f a`. Which means you can abstract operations. For example, you can define a generic function that can take any relation with an age field and filters for age > 60. Thanks to strong types, using it incorrectly (i.e. on a relation without an age field of type integer) would cause an compile error.

Also, the language itself is a deeply embedded DSL. So "ordinary" code also compiles down to SQL. You can do things like loops etc. (for example, create a function that filters over a list of age limits rather than just one) and it will try to generate the best SQL possible.

of course the SQL generation is currently not implemented, so all this is theoretical, but I'm getting there!
> So you can say "free money didn't help people find jobs", or you could say "free money didn't discourage people to seek jobs". The connotation is a bit different.

Right. Most perceptibly, you could even frame it as "Disincentive effects from unemployment benefits may be lower than previously feared; switching to free money didn't make people seek more work."
Where does that estimate come from?
My (basic) understanding is that, in order to find the factorization of a composite N, Shor's algorithm requires an amount of qubits (let call it q) such that N^2 =< 2^q =< 2N^2.
Right now RSA is at most at 4096 bits, so q=8192 could be enough.
Anecdata, I was completing a proof of concept for deploying one of my companies apps to GCP and AWS comparing them and evaluating what platform to use. About 3 days before finishing my work and demonstrating how both went to my colleagues my GCP account linked to my company email address was blocked and then deleted with no warning otherthan a single email saying I had violated some T&C.

I tried very hard to contact anyone about my issue and naturally got nothing

We went with AWS

Two years later I've left the company now valued in the billions and spending several hundred thousand dollars a month on AWS
What tooling do you need? They're just source code files that you can edit with a code editor or an IDE (DataGrip). In addition you need a file to deploy your sql to a database, this can be a sql or shell script, or a gradle file or even make.
The indie games would still be there. And Diablo has been dead for quite some time already.
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That's one thing that keeps getting omitted in these things. I don't believe that current unemployment benefits are just as expensive as "just" giving everyone the same amount of money.

Plus if it has to be a minimal living income - like minimum wage once was supposed to be - it would have to be higher to cover rent, food, and other mandatory expenses in most places. Or is the idea to adjust it according to where people live? That will just open it up to a lot of fraud attempts.
> EC2 is not an airgapped machine. That's known as cloud backup not offline backup.

Nobody said it was. This subthread is about the importance of testing backups in general.

> If you have TBs of data you can afford a library and another PC to run the recovery test.

They already explained how that's not enough. Yes, they can add more, but you're missing some info there.
I spent my mid/later 20s becoming increasingly disgusted & sick of commercial software work, quit a job & ended a relationship, spent a few months somewhat depressed, doing very little, visiting family and friends.

At some point I read a lot about climate change -- not sure if I recommend doing this, but it certainly helps to put things in perspective. What will the world be like in 30 years? What do you want to be doing then?

I found in my late 20s I started to take a much longer term perspective on things. I've re-thought my relationship with work: previously work was kind of a thing i did by default, without really thinking why. Now it's something I do to generate money to invest toward things on a 5-10-20+ year time horizon. Maybe I need to grind away at work for 5 years. So what? Not that long. I did contract work for a couple of years and got a large pay rise out of it, which has stuck in subsequent permanent jobs. Work can still be a grind but it pays more than enough and I largely firewall work away from the rest of my life. If you start trying to save money when you haven't really focused on that before, that in itself can become a bit of a game. What's a good "move" to make? Move house to somewhere cheaper. Ride a bike instead of taking the train. Learn to repair your bike when it breaks. Prepare your lunch instead of buying it. Don't spend money on travel. Don't buy things, borrow library books. Don't pay for the gym, go for a run. Don't pay for a new thing, learn how to fix the old thing.

Some of my colleagues who are in their 40s just work part time, either so they can spend more time with family, or just because a couple of days work a week provides them with enough money, and they're far more motivated by having more free time.

Anyway, enough rambling from me. I'm also reminded of an essay I read a while back:

> My dad went through a period of removal when he
> was my age and working as a technician in the
> Bay Area. He got fed up with his job, and figured
> he had enough saved up to quit and live extremely
> cheaply for a while. That ended up being two years.
> I recently asked him how he spent that time, and
> his answer was that he read a lot, rode his bike,
> studied math and electronics, went fishing, had
> long chats with his friend and roommate, and sat
> in the hills, where he taught himself the flute.

> After a while, he says, he realized that a lot of
> his anger about his job and outside circumstances
> had more to do with him than he realized. As he
> put it, “it’s just you with yourself and your own
> crap, so you have to deal with it.” But that time
> also taught my dad about creativity, and the state
> of openness, nothing, maybe even boredom, that it
> requires.

From Jenny Odell's "how to do nothing". It's worth reading the whole thing.

https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f5...