skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who was born and grew up in a totalitarian country, I hope I am not going to underestimate your risks but I would say that some bad law now and then does not mean you are on the slippery slope to a totalitarian government. It just means that we live in an imperfect world.

I admit that I do not know much about Australia, but AFAIK you are not on a strategically important location right next to a much more powerful aggressive neighbor, there is no major economic crisis (think "we cannot get enough food" type, not "we can afford slightly fewer iPhones" type)... do you really have enough reason to think about moving to another country? Did any rich and independent country in history just "slipp" to totalitarianism? I am not saying you should not be cautious... but this feels out of proportion. Just my $0.02.
Revolutionise football using your science skills
Thanks for clearing that up, didn't say that when I read it, indeed, it originally said "Facebook passwords".
> Following this logic you're saying that ~30% of the population is unworthy of discussing ethics?

I'm having trouble thinking of any unethical action that would not have a good chance of being approved by 30% of the population except perhaps where the unethical action would cause such widespread and apparent harm that it would directly affect a majority.
Of course, if there is somehow 'enough money' in the system let's give it to the people to guarantee 'sustainable and desirable quality of life'. Question is where to take such large amounts of money for everyone. I know one country where citizens get free money - Quatar, that's because of oil and because they use cheap labor from immigrants from various African and Asian countries.

Whole idea of basic income is like from communist manifesto. You need to exploit someone or some other nation in order to get money for your citizen who wants to have 'sustainable quality of life for free'. A) exploit rich people B) exploit immigrants and use them for cheap labor

both ways are historically verified
I love maps like these, they give such a great sense of where the people are. A technique that this map doesn't take advantage of is using color or brightness to represent population growth or age distribution, so you can project into the future.

Along these lines I also like maps adjusted for GDP and economic growth that show where the money is and where they're creating more of it.
This sort of buck passing is what kills people. The software may have performed according to its specification but it didn't do what it was supposed to, or it wouldn't have crashed the plane. Now sure, we could identify where things went awry in the chain of steps from "make the plane fly right" to a detailed functional spec, but when it comes down to it, the software was meant to "make the plane fly right" and it did not.
Is it a legitimate argument that smart hardworking people who are considered economically valuable will be swayed to non-economically valuable interests within this system?

As a former fine arts student that became a UI developer mostly for the monetary stability, I do feel like if I had the ability to fully invest myself creating art without constantly struggling with relevancy and rent, I would have been far more qualitatively useful to society at large.
But there is on the KC-46 tanker for the USAF, but unlike the MAX it cuts-out upon pilot control input:

http://www.airforcemag.com/Features/Pages/2019/March%202019/...

Again it derives from trying to push an older non-FBW design to new limits; a 767 wasn't designed for the large shifts in CoG which occur when offloading fuel in flight. A FBW type like the A330 that was its rival for the USAF contract can just subtly command constant minir trim changes.
> desirable quality of life for all

Then what is there left to work for? Also, I thought the job of a society was to protect it's citizens' negative rights (various freedoms from, freedom from want not being one).

I think this might turn out something like retirement, as people will have to work less: some people make very good use of their extra resources, but many will just sit and watch TV. This is a bit in an inherent bias in the HN crowd, because most of us tend to be more intellectually curious and would likely spend the time learning a new language, etc.
I use org-gcal (https://github.com/myuhe/org-gcal.el). Since I only use Google Calendar for syncing, this works well for me. The set up is explained at the end of the article.
> How common is it for divers to start panicking underwater? It surprises me that that's even a thing.

I am a seasoned and experienced diver. I used to dive literally on a daily basis. Until that one time when without warning I totally freaked the fuck out at 20 mtr over nothing at all, with only UP UP UP UP UP on my mind. I managed to keep a lid on it and safely ascend, but that was also my last dive. I am not sure this will won't happen again, and I could endanger my buddy, group, or myself.
> In theory there is no difference between theory and practice...

This is really good.
>This just seems like an attack on an entire group of people that I'm guessing have annoyed or belittled the author at one time or another.

It's an attack on an entire group of attitudes/behaviors.

Unless people that exhibit them are entirely defined as personalities by those attitudes (which I don't think is the case), it's not an attack of a "group of people", and even less so, an attack on particular persons.

>For what purpose?

To help stomp out attitudes/behaviors that are not good (at least not good according to the author).

>I don't believe he is genuinely trying to advise and help here. The tone isn't right for it.

You are mistaken, or don't have a clear grasp of what it is said in that post.
Of course I can. That doesn't mean I actually will go back and fix them.

TODO statements are little lies that programmers tell themselves. "I'll go back and fix this/refactor it, yeah, yeah...". And most of the time, that doesn't happen.
It is called controlling the narrative.
With the possible exception of GSF1, I'd say all of them are done by some people from all groups.
No, of course that's not what I'm saying.

I'm saying she is an intelligent, very well-accomplished member of the minority community. The kind of person you need on an ethics council.

Is there anything she's done (personally, directly) that you find upsetting? Or is just being politically conservative enough to disqualify her in your opinion?
Mature, balanced and on topic opinion.
> Is it shameful because we suspect that it was an intentional lie on their behalf

Exactly this.

> or is it shameful even if it was honest opinion of these Boeing representatives at the time?

It seems fairly obvious Boeing was aware the 737-MAX had some serious faults, but instead of admitting those faults it seems fairly obvious they went out of their way to deflect blame way from their failed aircraft onto the now dead pilots.
It's nice when your model is simple enough to make conclusions obvious, but simplistic models of complex systems have a nasty habit of being incredibly inaccurate.
To create a backdoor, you could not be obvious. Like do something obviously evil in the driver... You'd build it out of many building blocks in several components that individually look like honest mistakes. "Mistakes" that can be combined to create something malicious.

That's what you need to achieve plausible deniability. You'll need to make it look innocent.

(I also write Windows kernel mode drivers.)
This is terrible advice. It’s like telling someone to not learn how to program, just use wix for your websites.

If you want to learn how to dj, learn to mix on turntables, cdjs, or a controller. IMO, you’re missing a lot of fun if you rely on Ableton for everything and you have less control over your mixes. You can do just as much with Serato fx as you can Ableton effects if that’s your worry.
sure but what's the alternative? Unlike mail servers where there's tonnes of good commercial solutions you can use, I'm not aware of many good options for curated software library repo's

There's tools you can use to add automated scanning to your repo's and pin versions of packages, but that's doesn't really feel like curation to me...

companies like Sourceclear seemed to me to be going down this line but that doesn't seem to be the drive of their offerings any moe.
The Army thought a veteran faked his health issues while having lead poisoning
Which is neither here nor there, as the accusation I was responding to was that "it limits the audience".

Other languages can only dream to have such "limited audience" as to be ton the top-3 TIOBE...
I'm interested to see what the report says about this. My understanding is that the procedure is "turn off electric trim and don't turn it back on". Not a procedure that you can follow "repeatedly".
When you realize that automation is eating the jobs that these people used to do, and realize that the service economy can't fit even a fraction of these displaced workers, you have a scenario where we can produce goods for sale in mass with minimal labor but now less people have money to buy things.

Creating a death spiral because consumers buying things is the fuel which makes the entire economy run and grow, so when you fire them all and replace them with robots, your individual profit might temporarily rise but as we all do it, more and more fall out of the workplace and can no longer consume, hurting the economy based on consuming.

Basic income may come across as a luxury today, in a world where there can still be enough jobs for the number of people in the economy, but it very well may become a requirement to ensure that consumers exist to buy automatically produced and automatically served goods.

P.S. the taxes don't necessarily rise on the workers, but rather on the automators and producers. The amount of income and wealth in this country is not decreasing, rather, the amount of it going to workers and consumers is. Is it ideal to have the government redistribute it such that the engine stops running poorly and works well again? No, but the alternative is worse.
Presumably the tech is different, but Zune DRM for music bought before 2012 would've stopped working in 2017. The service itself closed down in 2015. So maybe they have a model where the license is valid for e.g. 5 years, and at that point in time the devices would've been clever enough to download new licenses.

Has anyone made "ZuneBook" puns yet?

Edit: hah Zunebook was an MS tablet that was supposed to compete with Amazon Kindle tablets...
I suppose the validity would depend on at least:

- How much does this actually happen?
- Is the job market over or under satisfied?
- Does what people end up doing somehow turn out valuable to society, even if not in a way we know how to assign monetary value?

There are so many unknowns.
Great that somebody are actually trying it out and getting us some data.
Facts!
> I've seen, and personally believe, that a more experienced crew could have saved the flight, but that's different from calling this crew incompetent.

I think this jump is unfair. It's easy to say this but the reality of the matter is that all public information we have points to a system that should have been redundant wasn't, a system that was in place (MCAS) was not as well known or understood as it should have been to pilots, and we also know Boeing (just like Volkswagen) made an explicit choice to cheat with the explicit goal of profits. Except in this case Boeing's choice directly led to hundreds of immediate deaths. This last point is why I, personally, think your comment is unfair. You're dismissing Boeing's mistakes but accepting all of the pilot's.

Someone at Boeing in executive ranks, like Volkswagen, needs to go to prison if they are found guilty of neglect. As should the employees of the FAA who approved flightworthiness.
I don't buy ebooks, and this is just one reason. This is the complete list:

1. For some reason they cost a similar amount to print books

Sometimes a bit less, sometimes the same, sometimes more. Distributing a physical book means you have to print, handle, store, transport, store again, handle again and transport again (using a simplified model of the journey a book takes to the end user). That costs money, and it costs effectively $0 to get an ebook to a user. I don't see that saving being passed on to me, the consumer.

Not only that, you're generally paying for less than you get with a physical book in terms of rights and (IMO convenience)

2. You can't (or maybe you can) lend them freely.

Last I checked there were limits on lending with the kindle/amazon. Maybe that's changed, but I don't want to have to think about that, I just want to lend the book to someone.

3. You can't give them to someone.

Maybe this has changed since I last looked, but passing on the book to someone else and it now being "theirs" isn't possible. Again perhaps that's changed these days.

3. Cognitive overhead

Can I do this stuff? Can't I? How do I do it? I don't want to have to think about that. Last week I gave a book to my daughter by just putting it on her desk. It was easy.

4. Longevity

In 10 years will I still be able to access my books? 20? Yes, because they're over there, on a shelf.

If ebooks cost a fraction of what they cost today then I would totally consider them. It's a tradeoff. Right now ebooks don't swing the balance towards them.
> Then what is there left to work for?

Perhaps to pass the time? You can’t just sit around and do nothing.
Basic income can be engineered in a way where this doesn't happen.
Totally agree.

Some of the sentiments expressed here was borderline racist. (badly trained, overworked cluelless third world pilots not even capable to follow a checklist).

One of the worst smear jobs was actually by the New York Times accusing the captain of the Ethiopian plane not having trained in a 787-MAX simulator.

Hello? Wasn't that the whole sales pitch that the plane requires no training at all for certified 787 pilots? In addition the MCAS crash scenario was neither part of the manuals nor of simulator training.

Great smear job, NYT! I'm sure Boeing will thank you with a ton of ads.

This[1] fascinating piece outlines what happened to a US pilot who felt uncomfortable with the minimal training provided and wanted additional simulator training or at least an instructor on his first flight. Spoiler: It was not a great carreer move.

If I sound angry as hell, I am. That Boeing didn't ground the plane after the Lion Air crash (they were busy smearing the airline an the pilots instead) is nothing short of criminal.

What a disgusting company!

[1] https://qz.com/1584233/boeing-737-max-what-happened-when-one...
I’m sorry, but “getting free money makes people happy” isn’t exactly a shocking result is it? The result that the employment level was consistent is mildly interesting, though I’d expect the numbers could be different with a longer or larger test. But the real question imo is “does this scale without destroying the country’s finances?”
I wish BioWare could buy back their independence from EA, like Bungie did from Activision.
Maybe because it's hard to control? I could imagine if enough people work within the jurisdiction of a local government but live outside it then the experiment could get skewed.
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Unless local governments have the ability to levy significant taxes, the experiment would be unrealistic. The impact of UBI needs to be studied at the societal level, not just the individual level. Who pays the higher taxes, which jobs would find no takers, where would wages need to increase to compensate, etc.

Most countries which are not the Unites States don't have the power to make large scale systematic changes that this requires. It might not be possible even in the US, what with states shipping homeless people to other states and all.
except they are not representative of an entire society - specifically they are only representative (usually) of a subgroup of society that _cannot_ work.
Fun in a same way as trashing your neighbor's car just because you like to see sparks and glass shards flying all around. Rather an indication of a sad frustrated life
Perfect response.
You also lose information, because @1 and @2 magically appear. With || notation you have to explicitly spell out, beforehand, exactly how many variables will be in the block.

tuple.collect{ |x,y,z| [x * 3, y * 3, z * 3] }

is better than

tuple.collect{ [@1 * 3, @2 * 3, @3 * 3] }

because with the latter, I need to know in my head that there will be three parameters.

The more I read about this syntax the worse I feel about it.
I don't think it's a matter of keywords. I'm working with both Elixir and Python on different projects right now.

Pattern matching is very deeply ingrained into Elixir. Two examples to scratch the surface

This is pattern matching in function arguments

def process_file({:ok, {file_name, file_content}}) do
...
:ok
end
def process_file({:error, reason}) do
...
:error
end
def process_file(_), do: error

This is pattern matching in assignment

{:ok, content} = File.read(file_name)

Actually the = character is the pattern matching operator, which accidentally ends up assigning values in some cases: it can't assign to the :ok atom but it can assign to the content variable. If File.read returns {:error, "some error"}, the match will fail and the program will stop. Usually I get a notice from Sentry and a supervisor process will start it again, possibly running into the same problem or not. Sometimes errors are caused by external services that have occasional hiccups.

Some changes are so structural that turn languages into another one and I'm not sure it's worth it. We have so many languages to choose from.
are sure? how many plastics including textiles would have to be replaced if we did not have the chemical properties of oil to create them? Any idea? I bet you are wearing at least one item of clothing with a textiel created with oil chemicals..such as nylon or others
Which is why this was trialed on a small subset first to evaluate hypotheses such as what you suggest. According to the article, those receiving UBI were not economically less active than controls who were not receiving it (i.e. they had similar probability of being employed).
OK it looks like pilots actually followed the procedure but could not manually trim stabilizer back to neutral.
Doesn't the fact that you earn more by doing UI work prove that you are far more useful to society than by making art?
the argument goes that if people get free money they lose motivation to work and spend all their time on a sofa killing time, which isn't healthy physiologically and mentally.

it's quite idiotic argument, but i've personally met people who discard the whole idea of UBI based on it alone.
That would be easy to workaround.
Ok on other resources with more details from the report it does look like pilots followed the full procedure
We absolutely can, do and should consider a person's beliefs completely in isolation with regard to the task they are doing. Being able to do that is fundamental to how decent society is expected to hold together.

Otherwise, how do you expect a Jew, an Atheist and a Hindu* to operate under the same legal system? No joke; clearly someone in that crowd is badly, badly wrong about some of the most important assumptions in their life. It doesn't affect their ability to contribute and live properly. If we can't separate out people's irrelevant beliefs, the logical implications are not pretty. The reason this works is because we accept that people can be completely, catastrophically wrong about one thing and still muddle through as well as the rest of us at everything else.

* Edited. ty.
So people who peddle wacky pedophile conspiracies are out, but people who actually participate in pedophile conspiracies are fine with you?
"I’m sorry, but “getting free money makes people happy” isn’t exactly a shocking result is it?"

Well, in the context of the experiment the people would have been able to garner state support through a bit more complex social security / social services schemes so it's not entirely about that they have more resources available, but also how they were given those resources and how many needless strings were attached to those.

I agree on principle to your point, but it's not as blatant as if the people had been living in abject poverty and then given money beyond their current financial means.
Bad programming was not the sole or root cause but it was a cause, and people died. You can't punt on that unless you want software engineer to actually mean code monkey. The same way a building architect has to sign off on the design demands of a a client, a software engineer on safety-critical systems must evaluate the spec and consider the effects of edge cases.
> And if they want to do them, they will have to work.

I thought that was the argument _against_ UBI?
Exceptions are clearly superior to error codes in most cases. Easier to maintain, easier to handle, and you can attach much more contextual information to them.

Shameless plug for my open source PHP error handler: https://github.com/slashtrace/slashtrace. I use it as a catch-all mechanism that displays detailed information about the error when running in a development environment, but sends the data to an external service (Sentry in my case) when in production.

Obviously there are a ton of places in the code where you want to catch and handle exceptions yourself, but having a catch-all acts as a safety net.

I do like their approach of logging stats for exceptions that don't represent system errors, but which they monitor anyway (like the BadClientRequestException).
If you give people everything, they just won't work as hard. At least, I don't think they will over the long term. It's like retirement: some may learn a skill, volunteer, etc., but most just watch TV and wait to die. This is hard for many of us to realize, because we spend much of our free time tinkering with and leaning technologies.

I hear a lot of people saying that society is bound to provide all the needs of a person. I can definitively say for America, that was not the social contract on which she was founded.

Lastly, this is sort of conspiratorial, but isn't this commonly the way we see dystopias arise in stories? I think democracies function differently when the average person is a net contributor that expects a return in the form if infrastructure and services, rather than a check.
And can brutally backfire.

"First and foremost, our deepest sympathies are with the families and loved ones of those onboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302."

and

"Safety is our highest priority as we design, build and support our airplanes."[1]

Yeah, sure! We believe you.

[1] http://www.boeing.com/commercial/737max/737-max-update.page
I like Gmail. I like Chrome.

Why would I sacrifice my productivity for some abstract over-arching notion of "balance"?
I think this would have a much more dramatic benefit toward US politics than the elimination of the electoral college, adding new US states, or fighting gerrymandering would.
Are Nokia phones still sold in the US? We have plenty in Asia that are nothing but a phone and texting.
The placeholder images are interesting:

https://www.outsideonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/img...
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Having enough money for housing and food is not "everything". People will always want more and this will drive them to work. They will just be a little bit more secure and happy.
>I strongly believe that that is not true.

All when and good when it's "our" opinion that's considered valid, and "theirs" isn't.
You really shouldn’t ever trust the NYT. They haven’t been trustworthy for a while.
I think you're equating 'society' with 'the market' here.
This. If you take existing pensioners then you are preselecting a population that is wildly different than the population that the UBI scheme would target.
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