skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep hearing that. It strikes me as a way to decide now to screw people over on this specific detail on the theory that, someday, there will be UBI and everything will work just fine.

Someday never seems to come on such promises.

I was openly homeless on Hacker News for 5.7 years. Plenty of people here are UBI proponents who argued that I of all people should also be a UBI proponent due to my poverty. Such people were not throwing money at me.

I'm old an cynical. If you aren't willing to open your wallet right here, right now and help out poor people you personally know, I am skeptical that "someday" will ever come.

A lot of people on HN make quite good money and routinely espouse a lot of high-minded ideals. You would think of all places, this would be one where someone trying in earnest to make their life work via some kind of online income would most find help to readily solve their financial problems and stop being desperately poor.

I'm no longer homeless, but I still live on under $20k annually. I get treated like a whiner with no real point for using myself as an example in these discussions.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they usually aren't.

I'm incredibly skeptical of such arguments. People on HN expect good, well-written content on the front page of HN all day, every day. They aggressively use ad blockers, actively find ways around pay walls and routinely tell me that writing doesn't deserve to make money and I should get a real job.

Writing is something I am capable of doing, in spite of my handicaps. I have six years of college and I know a lot of stuff and I can be on a computer at home and write.

If well-heeled, high-minded people who regularly come together in large numbers on HN can't be arsed to help me stop being poor, then it seems really extremely unlikely to me that the poor will ever get anything like UBI.

I'm not for UBI. I don't think it works. But, moreover, I don't think it will really happen.

I think talk of UBI is like when so-called friends tell you that if they win the lottery, they will give you half of it. In reality, that's typically a lie. It's an easy thing to say because winning the lottery is so very unlikely.

People actually willing to help are willing to do whatever they can in the here and now, no matter how small. But most of what I hear is promises of someday while I continue to flail and most people react to my flailing by making me feel like I am doing something wrong. I'm an embarrassment. I'm doing something socially inappropriate.

Perhaps I shall just go away at some point and leave HN to the well-heeled, high-minded types who like to talk a good game and do nothing. Then I won't be actively making them look like the hypocrites they so obviously are in most cases.

I'm tired and trying to do some paid work. If I don't return to this discussion, everyone here can just assume that's why.
GG Wash, a very pro transit/rail site, did an analysis of Amtrak cost-per-mile recently. https://ggwash.org/view/10891/funding-amtrak-is-more-cost-ef.... Amtrak's direct subsidies are more than 10x higher per passenger mile than roads. The site then adds back in a bunch of externalities like CO2 and parking (which is totally fair), and concludes that Amtrak is ever-so-slightly cheaper per passenger mile ($0.439 versus $0.447). As we move to more electric vehicles, car travel will become outright less subsidized than Amtrak even accounting for all the externalities. But look at the usage: 6.5 billion passenger miles for Amtrak, versus 4.24 trillion for roads. Amtrak is a rounding error in the country's transportation system.

In fact, rail as a whole is a rounding error, accounting for less than 1% of passenger miles. The political attention spent on high speed rail, subways, etc., is completely out of proportion with the actual number of people who use it. It gets a lot of attention because yuppies use it, but 99% of passenger miles in the U.S. are logged on cars and planes.

Rail doesn't deserve the amount of political attention it gets. Public money spent on rail is welfare for yuppies at the expense of people in need. Most low-income people can't afford to live near a train station in any U.S. city with a significant rail network. Low-income people who use public transit ride the bus, which costs half as much per passenger mile: https://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/transpor.... So when you spend money on rail, you're spending money on something that (1) disproportionately benefits yuppies, and (2) you're spending more of it to move the same number of people the same distance because rail is a less economically efficient mode of transport. It's morally indefensible.

Disclosure: I love trains. I ride Amtrak all the time, and ride the D.C. Metro every day. Which is precisely why we shouldn't fund rail. If you look around a Northeast Regional, it's mostly business travelers. Metro is likewise mostly white-collar workers (in the evening, comparatively well-off tourists and locals enjoying the night life). The folks cleaning houses in D.C. aren't hopping onto the Orange line at Clarendon, they're driving in from Herndon.
I feel it is warranted. To me, paywalled journalism feels hostile. I don't want an internet where every link I click wants me to buy a new subscription. It's the same reason I don't pay for TV anymore. And I don't mean I'm pirating it, I just don't consume it.

If this is the only way to save journalism then I'm guessing regardless of people's ambitions it's probably doomed anyways. I mean, there has been some success, but seriously, how many monthly subscriptions do I need? I pay for Creative Suite, Jetbrains Toolbox, YouTube, Amazon, multiple Patreons, a few VPS providers, Mullvad, and so many other things. Monetary value aside, I just can't manage to have more subscriptions, less one for every major publication just so I can click on links and not get paywalled constantly. I don't read from these publications regularly at all.

The day every link on the net wants it's own subscription is the day I completely stop bothering with reading entirely.
Yes.

"Y'all are scum-sucking bastards."
Based on the description it sounds pretty dangerous for the limited value gained from doing so. The reporter said they could see the container, but that doesn't mean it's immediately accessible.
It seems to be working for Instragram, but they implemented the simplest possible thing for stories - you can have your "everyone" group, or your "close friends" group. No custom labels, no additional groups, just those two and thats it. I see quite a few friends who never even participated on G+ or similar making use of it.
From the article:

> In 2013, researchers discovered that a related fungus was attacking fire salamanders in Belgium. Called Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal for short), it seemed poised to do to salamanders what Bd has done to frogs.

> But this time, things are playing out differently.

> Researchers discovered the outbreak and identified Bsal quickly. They immediately began running experiments to understand the threat it posed. Thanks to barriers to trade now in place, Bsal has yet to threaten another species anywhere. [...]
Twitter is considering labeling Trump tweets that violate its rules
It's funny because Google has this guy, I think he's called Alex Russel, running around and telling the world which websites are too slow and how to improve web performance.

Somehow the rest of Google seems to ignore him.
>US taxpayers and voters are not the customer. They're the board.

I think you mean the shareholders. Who elect the board (Congress). And vote for the CEO (President) who is accountable to the board and shareholders.
Your first point is just blabber. Cisco is a large company and this is a $100 product that they don't really care much about. It's the type of product that is produced at the cheapest possible cost, by interns. The way this product has been developed and managed is completely intentional and not a sign of mismanagement. Come back in 3 and then 6 months and let's see what effect this has had on their revenue and market cap, and then you can start talking about mismanagement.

As a sign of the quality of the current median developer, I think you are spot on. But I don't know that it's worth griping about. That is the world in which we live ... so live in it. In fact, all the better for those of us (if I may dare to put myself in a more elite group) that are highly skilled ... we don't have to work on some me-too unimportant SOHO router, at correspondingly low me-too unimportant wages.
There is a reason that Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in America, and that is because his policy presents meaningful gains to the working class that perform all of society's labour, and without which everyone would immediately die. Working class people are, on the whole, shifting from supporting capitalism to supporting socialism.
TBH, this is the function of an awful lot of audit/compliance systems. Their value is mostly not in catching actual fraud but to keep people who might be tempted to cheat on policies "just this one time" or "just a little bit" from doing so.
> Wish I could test it. Wish pandas had a read_image function to get data from line plots like it has read_html.

Below each chart discussion in the article there's a link to the data, which in this case points to: https://infographics.economist.com/databank/Economist_dogs.c....
What feels slow in YT for you? I've never noticed myself being bothered by it.
I had a similar experience back then. I actually grew out of needing it. I would just go to the site, type out my question and answer it myself when I dug in to the details of asking a good question.

I'm not gonna sit here and say you asked a poor question, because answers/commenters can be jerks. However, learning how to write software is hard, and the idea that a magic site can answer any question you need to make 6 figures is ridiculous. The tough love I received on SO made me write better questions and think more atomically.

I have had this conversation with my wife many times, who is working her first development job: "Yes the people can be cruel, but there's no better way to see the obvious gaps you have in your expertise than to expose yourself to them."
Isn’t the solution an advanced care directive? Where you make decisions in advance of something happening, just in case you end up in a situation where you can’t decide yourself?

E.g. no extraordinary measures or no CPR, or, get me into one of these nursing homes and not this one.

Even in public health care countries, there’s plenty of decisions that are a good idea to make in advance.

I don’t see why they can’t be scaled toward cash healthcare countries.
Every single ER will charge every insurance company/plan differently, so that list would be pretty unreliable.
I don't have strong opinions or awareness of Yang's platform, nor have I gone out of my way to learn much about him, other than seeing the random sensational stories that pop up on my feed (e.g. his thoughts about circumcisions, wrt health policy).

But knowing little of his background (e.g. career, wealth, any other attempts at politics), I think it's cool as hell he acted on what must have been a wild "what if" idea to join the race. I'd like to think that the more normal, non-political-machine-produced humans who go through this process, the more accessible and interesting that process will be to the average person.

It seems Yang afigured out how to "hack" the Democratic primary process to get on the national debate stage. I call it a "hack" because someone like me thinks the possibility of a no-namer like Yang on stage with Sanders and Warren is too absurd a reality to imagine. But Yang did his research and found he could target the minimum requirement of having 65,000 donors [0] -- a number that seems laughably low, because of how easy it is today for anyone with a phone/computer to make small donations, coupled with Internet platforms like Reddit that let Yang find voters/donors who aren't willing to provide the traditional value (e.g. large donations), but can make all the difference when the metric is number of people, not cash on hand.

Yang likely has no chance in the primary, so I won't have to wonder if my vote for/against him would have been even slightly biased by subconscious feelings about solidarity with other Asian-Americans. However, I like that I can just marvel at the sight of an Asian-American strolling on this rarefied political stage, like it's a normal thing. And yet, it isn't -- It's something I don't think I ever thought I'd see in my life. Not because I think there's a hard barrier of racial/social injustice. It's just something I had apparently had no reason to imagine or contemplate. Just like I don't ever normally contemplate the idea of 2 cats trying to steer a Tesla. There's nothing that logically blocks that concept in real life. But seeing it in real still feels like a small, happy surprise.

0: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/candidates-reach-for...
Show HN: Editing crypto index like editing a word doc
As a method of prediction, this all depends on whether big bettors are justified in their confidence. What sort of private information would make it worth making a big bet?
It solved the problem of "It's 2016 and the fourth presidential debate. I want to post about Marco Rubio! But I don't want to annoy my non-political-junkie friends with this..." IIRC, Facebook had Friend Lists at the time, but it wasn't easy to share content exclusively with a friend list.
to me what Shetty shows is how the power of smart and thoughtful entrepreneurship can not only thrive profit-wise, but can produce results that benefit for everyone even in such high risk (surgeries), low reward (large chunk of clientele appears to be made of India's lower income population) industry

I don't think one could naively apply his methods to the US healthcare system and get the same results, but what he has done at least demonstrates once again that the healthcare system is likely irrevocably broken
Ask HN: Experience Transitioning Captable Tools?
I've heard people start with cost-efficient tools like captable.io [1] and later transfer to premium options like Carta [2]. Anyone with experience? Is the transfer (export to CSV, and import into new tool) painful?

This post is useful to compare captable tool options: https://www.capshare.com/blog/gust-vs-carta-vs-capshare

[1] https://captable.io/pricing (free)

[2] https://carta.com/pricing (inquire for details, but annually > $2000)
Humans store about 1.5 megabytes of information during language acquisition
Adrian had also reviewed a paper on design considerations of Amazon Aurora: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/25/amazon-aurora-design-con...
macOS's HFS+ and APFS are case-insensitive by default, which I feel is a bit less confusing to users ("What do you mean that 'document' and 'Document' are different things?! They're both 'document'!")
FYI: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6434/1459

> Anthropogenic trade and development have broken down dispersal barriers, facilitating the spread of diseases that threaten Earth’s biodiversity. We present a global, quantitative assessment of the amphibian chytridiomycosis panzootic, one of the most impactful examples of disease spread, and demonstrate its role in the decline of at least 501 amphibian species over the past half-century, including 90 presumed extinctions. The effects of chytridiomycosis have been greatest in large-bodied, range-restricted anurans in wet climates in the Americas and Australia. Declines peaked in the 1980s, and only 12% of declined species show signs of recovery, whereas 39% are experiencing ongoing decline. There is risk of further chytridiomycosis outbreaks in new areas. The chytridiomycosis panzootic represents the greatest recorded loss of biodiversity attributable to a disease. [emphasis added]

Damn. I mean, I hate those Asian stink bugs, but at least they aren't killing me.
Fully accurately, you'll only be able to get retrospective locations (and probably some interpolation thereof), for pretty much the same reason that I can't actually tell you for sure exactly how many seconds the next decade is going to have. We won't know how many leap seconds it has until it is over, or the standards body commits to including no more. But I can tell you exactly how many seconds there were in 2000-2009 inclusive.
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Internal Apple documents undercut claims about your right to repair
Nonsense. Those people were elected by the majority of voters, as weighted by our system (for better or for worse), not because of voter apathy.
> Did the free markets ended slavery in US

In a very oblique manner it did. Industrialization (which was very much a product of free markets) of the Northern States made the economics of slavery untenable in the North. Once people were not as blinded by profits, they could actually see that slavery was a moral evil. In the South, the economics were very different and therefore a lot of rationalizations were formed as to why slavery was not that evil.

In addition, Industrialization enabled larger population growth in the North as well as larger production. This is what gave the Union the advantage in manpower and material that allowed the North to win the Civil War.
I diverged from a very similar career path due to layoffs spurred by my employer being acquired, the remaining HW design team told to promptly relocate to Bay Area, whereupon they were gradually weaned out by extremely large work loads. Those to made it were then told to promptly relocate to SE Asia. The layoff, in hindsight, seemed the most appealing option.
If you were plagiarizing you could compare your paper with your sources. Might not be a bad idea even if you aren't to make sure you didn't fuck up and cut and paste something from your sources.
Thank you for the better links. I just meant that as an example.
The major flaw in PredictIt is the low maximum cap and lack of interest paid. That makes it unprofitable to bet on small corrections even if you're right (e.g. 5% to 10%, or 5% to 1%). So PredictIt shouldn't be considered precise at small percentages.
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Any chance you'd like to chat with me about a new type of fusion device I'm working on? At low density the theory is more like a collider, but as density increases, it might become turbulent and disrupt the periodic motion I expect. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
While there may be some phony charter schools out there both of my children went to charter schools that were far superior to the traditional local schools.
This would be a shockingly blatant way of demonstrating Twitter's double standard for celebrities. Arguably, if they're going to continue to engage in it though, this would at least be transparent.
Bitrefill Now Lets You Pay for Airbnb Rentals with 5 Cryptocurrencies
Why the downvotes to that post, people? Most who use stellarium have played with celestia, and vice versa, I've also personally always associated the both of them together.

Celestia was THE play tool I used to play with my new screens/graphic cards for a very, very long time -- not a silly game.
Show HN: Nurse turns Dev to create emoji EMR
hi! I’m Natalie, an RN of 8 years/aspiring developer trying to learn HTML, CSS & Javascript basics and fundamentals by creating my first web page. (https://www.nataliepeterson.dev) I have become increasingly interested in development and UX design after frustration with current EMRs. This is the beginning of my journey. Feedback is appreciated! Below is my github repository: https://github.com/nataliepeterson/coconut
It's not just April Fool's, either. Antd got into a bit of hot water late last year because it was discovered that they included a Christmas theme that got automatically enabled on Christmas and didn't tell anyone about it.

https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design/issues/13098
Yeah, that's a good example: if you must have the user add metadata, keep it as simple as you possibly can. "You have exactly two buckets, everything goes in one or in the other" is about as simple a metadata system as you can get.
For me, circles seemed to do the opposite. Instead of blasting an update to every person on my friends list (coworkers, family, friends) I could limit the exposure to a subset.

This seemed like a better way to control spam in the ~3 posts I made on Google+.
Gitlab CI
Is abuse such as non-physical abuse actually a problem? Is yelling at someone when you’re angry problematic?

I see and hear a lot of things I don’t want to experience. Instead of being a victim and demanding trigger warnings, I move on.

Maybe the unsavoriness of the world is just the natural state of things that we should get over.
if you end up with "too much" money in your HSA, can't you just reduce the amount of money that goes into it? obviously you can't just go buy a car with the money, but to me it seems like there is a strong incentive not to overspend from your HSA if you control how much of your paycheck goes into it.
It's even worse than a straw poll. PredictIt's 5% withdrawal fee destroys any potential profit opportunity for new users betting against a candidate with low winning chances.

For example, if I were to sign up and bet against Yang at 5% odds, even if I won my bet, I'd make $0 profit because my entire withdrawal amount is taxed at 5%. If Yang's odds were set at less than 5%, I'd actually lose money even though I won my bet!

Given this, the market for low likelihood outcomes is extremely inefficient and it's very plausible that these odds are being gamed by candidates vying for attention.
Instead of worrying about such basic mechanisms, perhaps they should be thinking about bigger things, like adding Google-like search to the filesystem. User-mode approaches, such as mlocate/updatedb have not been very successful (imho).
I've lurked the incremental game community for nearly a decade now. Some good ones to google if anyone is looking for more:

A Dark Room, Shark Game, Idling through Loops, Idle Skilling, Trimps, Idling to rule the gods, Derivative Clicker, Factory Idle.

A friend and I wrote "Dungeons of Derp" an (semi-unfinished) idle/incremental dungeoncrawler - "diablo 2 but with autonomous hero": https://idle-dungeon.firebaseapp.com/

Fork it!
https://bitbucket.org/bseidensticker/bot-game/src/master/
Though to be totally honest, Belgium could withdraw from NATO and still benefit from it, since any enemy would have to go through multiple NATO member states to even reach Belgium. France pulled this stunt once.
Sounds really exciting.

Are comparisons to things like the JVM or native binaries already possible?
Planck EZ: A Powerful, Backlit, Open-Source, 40% Mechanical Keyboard
MT-DNN: Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding
Given that in-process sandboxing in the face of spectre is currently an unsolved problem, how do you plan on actually addressing it? The only established mitigation at this point is to just use process isolation, so what's the plan or is there just not one?
Excited to see this come about and how it could be used with the OpenFaaS watchdog on Kubernetes. https://docs.openfaas.com/architecture/watchdog/ - is the 5 nano seconds the time to fork at the OS level or a kind of in-process hot performance?

I got an error with the example however.. is everyone else seeing the same thing?

Unpacking wasi-sdk (3.0) ...
Setting up wasi-sdk (3.0) ...
Removing intermediate container d552f4538e26
---> 713ff6032205
Step 8/8 : ENV WASI_SDK=/opt/wasi-sdk
---> Running in 4189f307a30e
Removing intermediate container 4189f307a30e
---> a142a5620a28
Successfully built a142a5620a28
Successfully tagged lucet-dev:latest
Lucet hasn't been installed yet... installing...
Creating a RELEASE build
cargo build --all --release --bins --lib
error: failed to read `/lucet/pwasm-validation/Cargo.toml`

Caused by:
No such file or directory (os error 2)
Makefile:11: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: * [build] Error 101
They do this in Maryland[1], I wish it were standard across the US

[1] https://healthcarequality.mhcc.maryland.gov/Article/View/f84...