skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing like that, in a showboating over-the-top style, is effectively its own special genre. It's not supposed to be economical. It's not solely meant to communicate a specific message. It's the "hold my beer" of writing. It's the kind of writing other writers appreciate for what it is -- like the jokes that comics tell each other -- not meant for general consumption.

If you want to label it as "bad writing", you're certainly within your rights. But it's reductive, it misses the point, and worst of all, as an insult, it's rather boring.
It depends on what you're doing with the forex trading.

If, as I'm guessing is the case with your brother, you trade with the hope/expectation that a rate will move towards you in the future and you'll profit from that rate move, then that's just common or garden gambling.

But it's also used to buy or sell currency because you cash in that currency, hedge the forex component of an asset/liability, make a market etc. Different people have different use cases.
Would society be better off if Linux kernel developers stuck to doing things that paid?
Is basic income having “everything”? If that’s the case, why isn’t there more downward pressure on wages? Because if $635 is all it takes, we are drastically overpaying everyone!

A (very) modest ammount of health, housing, and food security is more like a foundation for an individual, rather than the entirety of their existence.
A big problem about the basic income is that it is perceived as money that you get for nothing and so people don't have to work and therefore they are lazy.

Let me give you an analogy:
Imagine that breathing air would cost money and you would have to work in order to breathe. Unless you don't work you would die. Would then a basic income be something that makes you lazy or would it be something that gives you confidence in surviving the next day?

The same is true for the "basic income" that is used by its recipients for food, medical care, clothing and shelter. So how in the world can we deny the basic needs to most of the population in our civilization and call these people lazy?
Do the Math: Scaling Microservices Applications with Orchestrators
Does Approval Voting really pass the "favourite betrayal criterion"?

There are scenarios where if you don't vote for both Good and Ideal, bad will win, and scenarios where if you do vote for both Good and Ideal, Good will win (over Ideal)

You obviously don't know which scenario you're in when you vote, so you don't know whether you should vote for both good+ideal or just ideal - both options can cause a worse result

I suppose the idea is that you use polling to decide which scenario is more likely and vote accordingly
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समय से पहले या स्खलन को रोकता है
यौन रुचि उत्तेजित करने में सहयता करता है
रक्त प्रवाह को वृद्धि करने में मदद करता है
पुरुष यौन अंगों के कार्य को बढ़ाता है
क्षमता बढ़ाता है तथा आत्मविश्वास
ग्रेटर सेक्स ड्राइव प्रदान करता है
चिकित्सक द्वारा स्वीकृत और अनुशंसित
बहुत आसान शिपिंग और बिलिंग
बिना पंप्स, बिना कोई सर्जरी, न ही व्यायाम
बिना कोई दुष्प्रभाव के साथ १०० % सुरक्षित
लिंग की नसों को मज़बूत बनाने में सहयता करता है
यह शक्ति प्रदान करने में और कामेच्छा बढ़ाने में सहयता करता है
जीवन शक्ति को पुनर्स्थापित करने में आपकी सहयता करता है
अधिक से अधिक यौन आत्मविश्वास और नियंत्रण का एहसास

उत्तेजित अवस्था में शिश्न की लम्बाई ओर मोटाई बहुत हद तक इस बात पर निर्भर करती है कि उत्थान केन्द्र कितना सशक्त है। जैसे ही मस्तिष्क में काम जाग्रत होता है वैसे ही वह उत्थान केन्द्र को लिंग के स्पंजी टिशू में रक्त भेजने का आदेश भेजता है। यदि उत्थान केन्द्र सशक्त है
Well, this test is invalid for one more reason - recipients knew that the experiment has "end date." This means that the employment rates would not be affected since people could not treat the benefits as a permanent thing and plan accordingly. If you would take 1,000 people and give the lifetime benefits, I would assume this would change things a bit.
Forgot to reply to this initially. Those links are much appreciated. Thoughter can be used for this kind of thing right now, although the UI/UX needs improvement to facilitate such "list matching" use cases.
Most countries grant freedom of movement to its citizens (within its borders), and there's a significant risk of unemployed/underemployed people intentionally moving into the state seeking a better social safety net.

In the U.S., this already happened in Alaska with the Alaska Permanent Fund. All residents of Alaska receive annually a portion of the proceeds from Alaska's oil revenue. Alaska tried to prevent internal migrants from receiving this by having the dividend be dependent on a person's years of residency in Alaska , but this was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Zobel v. Williams[2]. Now, anyone who has lived a whole year in Alaska is eligible to receive the dividend.

As such, a social safety net as generous as UBI will likely not be workable in the United States. Other states' unemployed residents would likely swarm the state with UBI. (Unless of course, if the Supreme Courts decides to reverse its decision in Zobel v. Williams.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund#Permanen...

[2] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/457/55/

"Under the plan, each adult resident receives one dividend unit for each year of residency subsequent to 1959, the first year of Alaska's statehood. Appellants, residents of Alaska since 1978, brought an action in an Alaska state court challenging the statutory dividend distribution plan as violative of, inter alia, their right to equal protection guarantees. ... the dividend statute creates fixed, permanent distinctions between an ever-increasing number of classes of concededly bona fide residents based on how long they have lived in the State."
The argument is that there’s less personal risk sine a failed business won’t result in the founders becoming homeless.
The monk who sold his ferrari?
I'd suggest looking at retirement- one of the important facets of retirement is the encouragement to continue contributing to society once retired because it is always necessary to be productive in some way or form for the human condition as we understand it. It is psychologically damaging to not be constantly doing stuff that is at least mildly fulfilling in some way. If a sizeable portion or even a majority of people recieved UBI we would quickly learn as a population what's always been advised to our elderly.
The only way to completely prevent to get malicious code in your products is writing all code by yourself including the interpreter/compiler and maybe the operating system too. Machines should be off the Internet of course and security should be there 24/7. And of course you need to have a very high bar and a paranoid process to select the people you hire.

But now you will move at the pace of a bacteria on a snail. But since the company will probably introduce vulnerability bugs in the code they write, it is probably not a very good idea.

We are using open source and free packages to save time and move fast. Security and speed/usability have tradeoffs.

The paranoid will do everything in their knowledge to protect themselves but they will move slowly. The naive will not do anything and sooner than later will get burnt.

Assuming you trust your current modules and you can trust that they will not be altered, you can lock down the dependencies. But now monitor and updating a library when a bug or vulnerability is found in a modules become another burden.

Those actors that have the budget, patience and the motivation will always find a way in.

I sometimes feel quite sad about the real situation but there is not such a thing as perfect security.

That said some of the suggestions I see here will dramatically improve the situation with a relatively small effort. 2FA and reproducible builds for example.
Humans have always had a cognitive advantage over machines in the past. This will not necessarily be true in the future.

What advantage do we will then have? The only possible advantage I can see is that raising a human for 20 years + housing + food + other expenses and then employing him would be cheaper than replicating another AGI, but I cannot imagine this to be true.
The farmers would still try to hire the markerters even with a UBI, unless you're proposing that the UBI will eliminate the profit motive. It probably won't unless it's so large that it destroys the economy and replaces it with communism.
It would also been useful to see results of the one in Ontario, Canada, but the Conservative government that was elected last year cancelled it before it had run its course (after promising to let it finish during the campaign).

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/basic-income-ontario-...
* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/hugh-segal-basic-incom...
> Software engineers are professionals and they should have ethics exams, a board, and licenses like other professions.

We never will be a true profession until we have those things. Calling ourselves professionals now, or pretending like we are comparable in credibility to something like a civil engineer or an architect is just jerking each other off.
Kobo is not always DRM Free. I see plenty of mention about Adobe DRM on a lot titles, especially those published by big five.
Interesting, I didn't know this. Maybe the KC-46 was the prototype (though it might be checking other inputs) to the MAX system?

> The KC-46 has a two-sensor MCAS system, which “compares the two readings,” the Air Force said.

> Moreover, while the MAX 8 MCAS will reset and come back on automatically, the KC-46’s system is “disengaged if the pilot makes a stick input,” according to the Air Force

So it seems someone did their homework in this case (well hadn't they done, it would have gotten very ugly as well)
And it's way simpler to manage = Less public employees needed.
> they don't need to do unimportant stuff just to put bread on a table

I think at first they will, but I think over time they will realize they don't have to do anything at all. People work because they want something, or at least I always have.
So let's say you've successfully engineered a plane with detachable wings. Congratulations!

Now what happens when this system malfunctions and one wing pops off for no reason in normal flight?
What's wrong with this tweet? This is a common view. Gender identity is a very extreme concept that erases sex as a protected characteristic.
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If the minimum wage was abolished, low-end labor might actually sink to being paid that little.
You may have thought you'd be more "qualitatively" useful, but the wasn't the prevailing wage for creating art, that you found insufficient, at all reflective of general society telling you that it wasn't more "qualitatively" useful?
OP wrote: "I would have been far more qualitatively useful to society at large."
There are far more people that need UI work (in the form of websites, apps, etc) these days than art. UI work scales very well, art not really - you can affect way more people and that is reflected in the salary.

"Qualitatively" UI work is far more useful to society.
Pilot error is always assumed for pilots of all races. The French pilot who was allegedly responsible for crashing an Airbus during a flyover for an air show fought decades for clearing his name.

He also claimed that the system had "artificial stupidity", that was the time when pilots first had the fun of encountering the many Airbus "flight laws".
no government will be able to give people basic needs except at the cost of other people. I believe this will eventually happen, but through technology, not through these 'Robin Hood' type politicians. if you look thoughout history it wasn't any societal rules or enforcements that advanced us, but application of scientifical discoveries to build products that help make human life easier
Pilot error is the leading cause of airplane crashes. If someone offers you an even money wager that pays you if the next crash will have pilot error as a significant cause, take the wager.

I am at least twice as likely to kill my airplane than my airplane is to kill me.
So, what's the alternative? And would it be as interesting to read? People generally like the human interest aspect. Especially as this isn't "news" but more a form of anthropology, a visit to two secretive warring tribes of rural Britain.
at least you're not in charge of anything.

the plane's crashing, and you're telling the pilots (who you think might be jocks which makes you feel...even less safe?), "No don't turn it off, I have 50 years of data that says systems are safe." perfect example of doing data wrong. crazy dangerous arrogant ideas like this contributed to this tragedy.

when the systems are failing, you better hope you have some pilot jocks / true fixed wing enthusiasts at the controls, who know how to make the systems work for them, or take control if they fail, rather than some data jocks, with blinkered faith in the systems, who count cost of lives as "notwithstanding".

flyers deserve competence from their systems and data, not just from their pilots. we need pilots who have earned their capabilities, and systems that have earned their impression of reliability. current MCAS occupies a privileged position in charge of safety it has not earned.
UBI might solve rent, would it solve "relevancy"? There are genres of art where the means of production became so easy/cheap that the world is flooded with them, I recall reading a blog from some years ago discussing how EDM music had become so cheap and easy to produce that the market was flooded with content which fewer and fewer people would actually pay for.

UBI might give people the opportunity to explore their interests but ultimately wouldn't you end up in the same place? Torn between a desire to make "art" which suddenly everyone else is also trying to make and follow their passion, or get paid substantially more for UI Development?
In the end its about music after all. You can be shitty on Turntables but as well on Ableton Live. Beatmatching is only the groundwork of good mixing. Jeff Mills is great both in technial but also musical terms.
How do you propose to do this? We have a lot of trouble doing it with old people already.
Of course if there is MAGICALLY enough 'resources' all citizens could enjoy basic income.
New technology enabling scientists to identify origins of illegal timber
Yes I am aware of the "infinite work hypothesis" however blindly running into the future and basing 7-8 billion human lives and our entire civilization upon this hypothesis without any mitigation strategy seems naive and high-risk at best.

I will also point out that automation is currently starting to eat fields that were traditionally un-automatable due to either skill, labor price (or both), including everything from complex farm work done for cheap to surgical robots.
Article makes some good arguments for approval voting, but the "Ballot Spoilage" argument is a bit disingenuous.

Ballots can't be spoiled in approval voting because any set of circles can be filled in. However it's a lot easier to corrupt a ballot undetected. Just fill in more bubbles for your candidate.
How many people work full time ubpaid on the Linux kernel? For the 4.15 kernel, AMD, Intel, Google and Red Hat contributed between 35 and 50% of the changes, depending on whether you count number of commits or number of lines changed.
> But the real question imo is “does this scale without destroying the country’s finances?”

It depends on how it is implemented and the numbers involved.

One proposal [1] would be to give everyone $US 10K per year starting at age 21, and not having income taxes start until you have an income over US$ 40K.

This allows one to get get enough for the bare necessities (shelter, food) "for free", but if you want to have a life that's more than just subsistence living, you would have to work--but you get to keep a lot of that upfront.

If you want a 'fancy' life, then you'll have to work more, and there would be personal income taxes. Presumably there would be corporate and sales taxes as well.

I don't know enough about the math to know if it is practical.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/why-are...
Which is neither here, nor there.

This is not about literally seeing into the future, and knowing about unforeseen events.

This is about making the best prediction with the data you already have.

And if (as per example) you had "1000 miles of 100mph and 100 miles of 5mph in some traffic jam" with 500km left to go, the average will be misleading as it will lose too much info to be able to help you give the best prediction.

In that situation I wouldn't reach for the average, to make a prediction to the person waiting for me. Would you?
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I don't think anyone claimed to be 100% certain that was the cause (feel free to correct me if that's wrong).

Given the obvious similarities between the two incidents (same phase of flight, same apparent pitch control problems, known issue that would result in that behavior, etc), I don't think it was unreasonable for people to point out the likely connection.
After taxes on the 100K plus the costs of commuting and childcare, that difference might not even be so stark.
I welcome this idea. I look for an opportunity to take an overnight sleeping train occasionally but usually it fails because there is no connection between the cities I am interested in.
Last time I used an overnight train I arrived after a good nights sleep in Genoa. Even if the train is slower than a plane, the fact that you travel while sleeping means you save time.
There's absolutely no basis for a judgement like that without introducing assumptions about what's valuable and what's not.
I don't understand how that applies to what I was saying. I was commenting that it's not an issue that crops up often in practice, which is probably why the engineers at GMail made the assumption that it could reasonably be ignored.

I'm not saying that it can never be an issue (this it obviously is in this case), I'm saying that it's not necessarily a bad engineering decision. Adding code to handle weird corner cases of a standard means adding code that won't be used 99.999% of the time (a number I pulled freshly out of my buttocks, but wouldn't be surprised if it was close to the truth in this case), that's more likely to rot, be poorly tested and become a maintenance liability.

I'm not saying people never find $20 bills on the ground, I'm saying that if most people routinely found $20 bills on the ground every other day we'd probably have heard about it by now. The fact that it only came to my attention in this email (and I hosts my own email server and have written SMTP clients and server code in the past) tells me that it's probably not such a widespread problem. If GMail started routinely bouncing incoming mail because they didn't support the standards correctly I'm sure we'd see an article or ten pop up on the front page of HN.
But there's a lot more risk for the investors, and there's a lot less money for companies to buy their products.
Japan’s Busy Fighter Force
I am employed and making more than 100K and still I am not doing anything productive for society. So even if I quit given UBI and become "unproductive" it will have no meaningful impact on anything.
GNU Emacs isn't written in a million lines of Emacs Lisp. It comes with a library of applications, which has that much lines.

The core GNU Emacs is quite a bit less lines of Emacs Lisp.
UBI is the biggest pie-in-the-sky proposal I've ever seen. Number one, this study shows nothing. It's absolutely worthless to select a few hundred to a few thousand people and give them free money for two years and measure the result.

The far more serious question, is how sustainable UBI is at a macro level. The proposals I've heard mention as much as $1000 a month per person.

That would cost the U.S. somewhere between $1 and $3 trillion a year, just on paper.

U.S. is already 15 years from Social Security insolvency. We have a lot of debt ($20+ trillion) and we're talking about creating a program that costs more than anything like it, ever.

I see no evidence to support the claims and the program has a real possibility of completely wrecking an economy. Beyond reckless.
> It's like retirement: some may learn a skill, volunteer, etc., but most just watch TV and wait to die

How much of that is due to retirement coming for most people when they are old? I'm pretty sure that if I retire at, say, 67, I'll spend a lot more time watching TV than I would if I had retired at 27.
Indeed. "fuckbonnets"? This article would have been much better without these.
I never properly learned DJ-ing with turntables, but that’s how I first got introduced to it, and I must say the inherent simplicity (hard, but simple!) of that setup made it easier to understand how mixing works.

There’s definitely an elitist side to the new turntable purism though and I think DJ-ing with software is much more practical and accessible for most. Although I think it makes sense to try out turntables at some point just to understand where it comes from.

When you talk about mixing in Ableton, the one thing I wonder about is the live aspect. In most DJ-software it’s super easy to set cue points and loops and do remixes on the fly. As far as I understand, with Ableton you’d have to prepare your track properly by cutting it up in ‘clips’ before-hand. Or does that become super fast with practice?
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I agree with all of this, but I'd add:

5. Visibility

A physical library can be browsed, including by a visitor, and serve a useful social purpose.

I often find it interesting to see what books someone has on their shelves, and it can lead to interesting discussions. I can't recall a time when I've discussed the contents of a Kindle library with someone.
Ask HN: What do people take pictures of?
I think a lot of value can be extracted from pictures people take on a daily basis. For example, pictures of restaurant menus and foods can be extremely useful. I still go to restaurants without seeing their menu, and ordering items without seeing what they look like. I think that's a problem, and the data (pictures) already exist across thousands of cameras/phones.

Other than pictures of food, what other things do a lot of people take pictures of?
FAA defended 737 Max to the very last minute, FAA is nothing else but a cheap tool for big corporations like Boeing.