skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand where you're coming from, but the idea that every person has the same basic requirements falls flat immediately.

Take just a small sample of different folks

Person A: Single 35yo female with high blood pressure

Person B: Married 62yo with dementia

Person C: 14yo with Type 1 diabetes

Person D: Married 36yo with a knee replacement

Person E: Single 21yo attending college

That's 5 people. Not a one of them is all that rare. They each require some form of the goods you've described, but the actual needs of each person vary A LOT.

The 21yo in college probably doesn't need a car. The guy with dementia probably can't have a car. The 36yo will need a form of transportation that accommodates the knee. The food requirements of the person with diabetes and the person with high blood pressure are specific and different. The meds those two people need are specific and different.

And that's just 5 people with relatively common situations. Once you actually start trying to get those "basic requirements for living" to work for the entire populace you quickly realize that "basic" is not actually basic, and usually the person best able to decide what they need is... drumroll... that person.

So instead of a condescending, authoritarian approach where the government strictly provides goods, UBI tries to give each person the ability to choose for themselves what they need, and how they'd like to prioritize it.

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Now, I still have a lot of problems with UBI, and I'm fairly convinced it won't work. But I do strongly believe that the "pile of cash" approach is the most egalitarian and efficient solution to meet the specific needs of the incredibly varied population if UBI is something we're going to try.
You would be surprised. Many years ago I worked on a CMS for a large household-name client. Their entire website was made up of individual HTML pages. No shared header, footer, or anything; if you wanted to update one of those, you would be updating it thousands of times.

My task was to move all of that into a very minimal CMS. All the content would be in flat files, and the page itself would load the header, footer, content, etc.

Because every page was different, but mostly similar, I wrote an Emacs extension that let you identify the content areas (it tried some heuristics and you could guide it) and it would do the extraction and emit the flat content file and the replacement JSP file.

What you have to realize is that many people have systems that are designed for 1 "thing" and have since "scaled" that up 1000x. People still treat their website as a directory of arbitrary HTML. People manage 1000 servers like they managed their one and only very first server. It is the natural way of growth. Engineering is figuring out when that model doesn't apply anymore, and changing it. Engineering is in short supply, however, leading to stories like mine above or the "thousands of pages" blocked by EasyList.
> every single older developer I've met has been extremely knowledgeable

To be fair, this observation could be massively influenced by survivorship bias - more talented devs tend to be the ones still programming in older age.
Love this idea: closing the experience gap which makes it ridiculously hard for many talented graduates to land at their first job.

You should beware of MacDonalds and Starbucks though as soon as they start feel feel shortages ;).
Seriously -- every Adblocker will allow you to subscribe to custom lists, there's no vendor lock-in, there's no network effect, there aren't significant regulatory or commercial barriers to entry. This isn't like Facebook.

Blockers like Ublock Origin also don't benefit from legitimate sites breaking; if they're turning on EasyList by default it's because they think it's currently the best balance available for their users.

If anyone can make a better list than Easylist, then they should just go do it. In fact, companies already tried to make an alternative with the Acceptable Ads initiative -- and if their list is better, people will switch to it. The only barrier of entry to displacing EasyList here is quality over time.
If you're still learning how to read, write, and do basic math as a teenager, society has failed you.

I propose homeschooling or private schooling for those who can afford it. I have determined that the public school curriculum is trash, the people creating it are trash, and the people teaching it are trash. If you want trash students, please, send them to trash schools.
Transhumanism is incompatible with nature
That's a general rule, but there can be scenarios in which it isn't true, they're just far away from the "current meta" ie the way you'll usually see the game played.

There are strategies that play through late-game. Because resources are finite in StarCraft, after a certain point your income is always zero. At that point if one player has "money in the bank" they're actually ahead not behind, because they can build more units in response to their opponent's current composition which can't be countered.

Ordinarily for example if you're crushing a Protoss and they build a Dark Shrine as a last ditch, no problem get detection and shut DTs down before they cause trouble. But if you have no income and nothing left in the bank then you may just never be able to detect those DTs with what you have, and no way to build a detector. Now you're in a race - win before the DTs kill you.

There are some crazier corner cases, if you lose all workers and can't afford to build more then spending everything also becomes a bad idea for a similar reason and spending down to zero actually increases your risk of not being able to buy workers if somehow you lose them all.
How do a spontaneously organized group of pro-PRC students get someone’s passport information and marriage license?
Brute-force attacks using Kali Linux
Any idea whether this is damaging/depleting for the soil because it is so fast-growing? If so, to what extent can the soil be artificially rejuvenated through fertilizers or other tools?
1. The box only fits one ballot. This is easier to do with bits than with real boxes, of course. "This is box number 12345" and that number is present also within the homomorphically-encrypted payload and we can confirm that the sum of the box numbers in the public database is the same as the sum of the decrypted box numbers. And of course I can tie you-the-person with the box number that you voted with publicly, to prevent you from sending multiple boxes to be counted.

2. The tallies are added without opening the boxes, so anyone can confirm that computations to add together the tallies for a region were all done properly. But we don't give everyone the ability to decrypt ballots ad-hoc.

The only big question here is about key compromise at the end; that is a matter of properly destroying the decryption key at the end of the decryption of the tallies, so that this key cannot be leaked out to someone to try and decrypt individual votes. There are some options for making this part more robust—open-source software and secret sharing schemes—but I mean there can be very fundamental issues of trust at the highest level and if those issues are sufficiently pervasive then no amount of cryptography can protect the election; you just have a dictator who is prepared to fix it at all costs or so.
I think this is a neat idea but have one question. I'm not a chemist but am curious what happens to all that carbon after it's taken in by the tree. Does that carbon become something else? Or does it just kind of hang out in the tree until the tree dies? Once the tree dies, does all that carbon just go back to the atmosphere again? Thanks for any insight!
I think PrEP is great and I don't think we do a great job of getting it to people for whom it makes sense. That being said, the CDC has an excellent position on who should be getting it and that's not a lot of people.

PrEP is well tolerated given it's known side effects but conservative medicine dictates that we don't prescribe medications unless we have a measurable benefit and that's not a large group of people. A homosexual male who has lots of unprotected sex with strangers should probably be on it. A hetereosexual mostly monogamous person probably shouldn't be.

A big factor here is that the prevalence of HIV in the US is low, at .34%. Globally it's a bit higher at .48%. It is also often not that contagious. That being said, under the right circumstances it could be so it's real important to be aware of the risk factors.
Dividends at taxed at income tax rates
Have you heard of POTS? I wonder if electrolyte imbalance was/is driving some of your symptoms. Doing low-ish carb (nowhere near keto) and IF 18 hours a day, I have to supplement electrolytes or else I have very similar symptoms to you. YMMV of course.
William Shirer was an American living in Germany during Hitler's reign. Here's what he said about how successful propaganda can be:

"I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state. Though unlike most Germans I had daily access to foreign newspapers, especially those of London, Paris and Zurich, which arrived the day after publication, and though I listened regularly to the BBC and other foreign broadcasts, my job necessitated the spending of many hours a day in combing the German press, checking the German radio, conferring with Nazi officials and going to party meetings. It was surprising and sometimes consternating to find that notwithstanding the opportunities I had to learn the facts and despite one’s inherent distrust of what one learned from Nazi sources, a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one’s mind and often misled it. No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime’s calculated and incessant propaganda. Often in a German home or office or sometimes in a casual conversation with a stranger in a restaurant, a beer hall, a café, I would meet with the most outlandish assertions from seemingly educated and intelligent persons. It was obvious that they were parroting some piece of nonsense they had heard on the radio or read in the newspapers. Sometimes one was tempted to say as much, but on such occasions one was met with such a stare of incredulity, such a shock of silence, as if one had blasphemed the Almighty, that one realized how useless it was even to try to make contact with a mind which had become warped and for whom the facts of life had become what Hitler and Goebbels, with their cynical disregard for truth, said they were."

[edit] The quote is from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, which is very good and a surprisingly easy read for how long it is.
How does online voting differ from mail voting?

The only difference I see, is, the mail is sent via the postal service and the online vote is sent via my personal computer and internet connection.

To get around this, the government could issue verified voting tablets that are locked down and use secured connections.

Otherwise, people can force me to vote different without the authorities noticing already.
> I've seen this stated many times, but nothing is forcing anyone to offer a particular salary or demand a particular salary.

What do you mean by this comment?

Younger people are willing to work for less and I don't see how your comment relates to that idea.
Being a valuable senior developer is about 10% what technology you know and about 90% how good you are at working in a team to solve a business problem with a machine, and those fundamental skills haven’t changed much since 1960.

That’s true. But if you haven’t learned that in 10-15 years - there is something wrong. That means the difference between someone with 15 years and 30 years would be marginal.
Well, to a degree it is zero sum.

I think the answer is a portfolio (an almost infinitely complex one mediated by markets with externalities internalized via carbon fees ideally) but each part of that portfolio will exclude other tech that fills the same niche. One type of insulation will be slightly better than another for a certain purpose

And I have no real philosophical objection to nuclear.

I just despair at people who use nuclear support as a shield for climate change denial. A passive aggressive "well, we tried to save civilization but you weren't grateful for the way we did it so we're just going to let humanity die to spite you. But you can't blame us for still voting for climate change deniers even now because you don't like nuclear which is a perfect solution with no drawbacks whatsoever. Ha, in your face hippie".

Which is where I came in, saying people vocally supporting nuclear often don't seem to care about nuclear at all. Its just a rhetorical club to give them the illusion of the moral high ground.
Can they help building a time machine to undo the iPhone?
Forgive me, but it doesn't look like much. How can a tree with such a small mass contain more carbon than a massive tree with trunks and branches? They don't even seem to be very close together in those photos:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-02/we-alread...
Or the person was not taking PrEP as prescribed, either missing doses or taking it inconsistently. Once they're infected, if they keep taking just Truvada, then that strain will begin developing resistance, which they can pass on, potentially to others taking PrEP correctly. There have been I believe 6 cases of people being infected with resistant strains while in PrEP.

That's why it's important for people taking PrEP to be screened regularly, and put on a proper cocktail if they test positive.
What big tech company do you work at that can edit other people's websites to link to renamed URLs? I am sure that "mv /www-data/adverts /www-data/foobar" is a trivial operation. Making links work (adblock will block the 302 you skillfully put in place) is harder.
It's outrage-porn peddled as world news by the BCC, plain and simple. The tell-tale sign is that they didn’t bother to get both sides of the story. There are videos of the incident readily available on Youtube [1] which show what exactly happened.

There’s one group of HK/Australian pro-Hong Kong protestors on one side. There’s another group of Mainland students exercising their right to free speech by playing and singing the Chinese national anthem on the other. Was this extremely annoying to the pro-HK protestors? Definitely. Was it offensive to the Australians? Yes. Were the pro-China crowd offended by the signs saying “free Hong Kong”? Yup.

You can see the ensuing minor scuffle ("violent clashes" according to the BBC) between between a tiny handful of students from both sides. I saw exactly one sign being torn down. The vast majority of the students were just standing there peacefully.

The BBC article makes it seem as though the Chinese students strong-armed their way into the crowd and started beating people, which is objectively not the case. This is the narrative of the two pro-HK students who they interviewed. If there is evidence of threats and intimidation, then that evidence should be brought forth and those students should be formally reprimanded at the very least, or expelled/criminally charged/deported at worst if the complaints are proven to be valid.

It’s easy to see why they’d write a story like this though when you see the emotional response elicited even from people here -one can only imagine the effect it'd have on the less educated masses.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CkH3zqoGWw

edit: Another longer video of the "violent clashes" or "Lennon wall violence in University of Queensland" as described by the Youtube uploader (warning: extremely long and boring video where nothing happens)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiRmRPsJ-sM
> socially awkward to opt out

random aside, there was a kid in my Texas high-school who stopped saying the pledge around the time of the 2003 Iraq war. While I didn't necessarily agree with the method, a few of us did appreciate the fact that he did that; it showed that sometimes the most patriotic thing you can do is not blindly support your government.
> As long as you get off the sinking ship of technologies that are obviously waning

But then you would have to compete with young people starting out in the same technologies. And they are more naive, more easily manipulated and exploited, corporations love that and prefer that to 20 year experience in the field they can't even understand could be important to all the new technologies.
The point is not to stop anyone on earth from behaving in a shady fashion its to make it systematically challenging for the normal behavior of non malicious people to enable malicious people.

If you can buy or take over responsibility for extension foo and automatically exploit thousands of people who automatically get updated to foo 1.1 now with 1000% more malware then it will happen.

If you have me/foo and you want to take over maintaining foo and you have to create you/foo and convince people to remove the working version of me/foo and switch to your you/foo this is a small burden for legitimate users but a higher bar for scummy companies whose accounts will doubtlessly either have a bad history or far more likely none at all to lean on.

Further the time required to convince users to switch will be much longer leading to more time for something to be discovered as malicious before users are effected.

Best this whole process makes exploiting users much less valuable and thus you have less of it to start with.
If the position was one you didn't agree with, would you still be defending such a hyperbolic example?

Do we agree that how you present an argument is important in how the argument is received by others?

I don't follow why an argument with "decent awareness" (whatever that could even mean) or one that is non-novel has different standards to a novel argument or one that has less awareness.
You should fix it. You would be helping in the fight against ads.
>avoid Chinese goods because of shit like this.

Wie bitte???

This hurts you far more than it does China. Use systemic, not individual, actions instead (insofar as you can). Vote for political admins likely to respond to Chinese human rights violations, support protest movements, etc.
I just visited the AutoTrader site (from the UK), and uBlock Origin blocked 34 requests related to ads and tracking. I recall in the past having been surprised at the number of extra requests being made via their site. They don't serve only vehicle listings.
Strange nobody mentions the value of domain knowledge. My opinion is that there's little difference between young and old developers, but a difference in their domain knowledge. Valued software developers understand not only software but also their problem domain.
I would love to see an example of something like this.

Please.
Possibly Sutton Hoo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo

I know about the neolithic villages currently under silt in the english channel, but that's about it.
No, but Americans do seem intent on labeling any modern day version of MKUltra to be a conspiracy theory only an idiot would believe. That might be worse than just censoring it.
Firstly I am a proponent of the idea of software as a new form of literacy - it is eating the world and as such if you are literate you run rings round the illiterate - no matter what your age.

But

companies are pyramids - and some roles (like sales) mean their value to the company can be measured on an individual basis. But most roles cannot - and the further away from the customer you are the more it is true

As such the only metric available is "number of people reporting to you"

It would be nice to find some other metric - there may not be one.

As such the push away from coding into management is inexorable. if we look at highly literate companies (say Washington Post) then the managing editor spends most time not writing but managing (with some reading involved)

to;dr - we have two antagonistic forces - being software literate is for now a force multiplier so why would you not keep doing it? But most organisations can only measure management ladders - so if you want pay or security you climb.

Perhaps the book "Developer Hegemony"
offers some answers?
Grad school (and tenure-track) isn't considered great for work/life balance, but it seems mostly self-induced. If I had limited myself to 40 hours a week in grad school I think I would have been just as successful.

Anyone I know that wanted a tenure-track position did get one (and had options). I graduated from an unranked department and had a positive experience on the market.
Regarding maneuvering, might it be feasible to place the detector as a statite somewhat shy of one Hill radius for slightly more ray extinction but functionally unlimited maneuvering capabilities?

Presumably we'd want solar sail tech to be a bit more mature before doing so, but Ikaros has already demonstrated the viability of attitude control via dynamic reflectivity.
I can't find a logical interpretation of this comment. It seems to conflate unrelated issues of open source ad companies.

How does company interest in an open source hurt you? Why can't a corporation be part of the community? How is that in any way against an ideal?

You can fork Firefox if Mozilla rejects your patches.

Even small community hacker project maintainers can reject patches, and you can form of you don't like that.

IMO, don't devalue your work by refusing to work on a project with millions of users and preferring unpopular low impact projects.
It's not about carbon per tree. It's about carbon per acre*year. Dense woods grow slowly so they take in very little carbon per year even though they grow very large. Fast growing trees are much better at quickly taking CO2 of the atmosphere.
I think most people would agree he has an agenda, but your post is just an ad hominem attack against Thiel and doesn't address the original poster's question at all.
It is part of the wood itself. Apparently wood is about half carbon. All known living things are made of carbon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood#Chemistry_of_wood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-based_life
Google's done that repeatedly with Google Labs, GMail Labs, Google X, Area 120, department-internal projects like Search Demo Days, 20% time, Google Ventures, giving high-performing employees a charter to work on whatever they want for a couple quarters, etc.

It never seems to work, and it never seems to work for the reasons outlined in The Innovator's Dilemma. Big companies are held hostage by their customers. A new company needs to a.) find new customers b.) be hungry and c.) have total freedom to configure the market around oneself. None of these exist within the cushy environment of a big company - a.) is contradictory with maintaining Google's brand image, b.) is contradictory with continuing to pay the people involved in these efforts, and c.) is contradictory with Google getting first dibs on the spoils of these efforts.
Maybe you're getting mixed up with Java, but that example type is wrong, since you used `new`, the vector was allocated in the heap and the appropriate type is a pointer type: `vector<T>*`.

What's more, that's a highly unusual example. Rarely would you need to heap allocate a vector. In the case of stack allocation the syntax would be `vector<T> myVec` which is as succinct as possible.
The carbon becomes part of the wood of the tree.

After the tree dies, it would only go back into the atmosphere if the trunk was burned.
NASA's mission to 'touch the sun' surprises during first data delivery
KDE and Gnome Are Joining Hands to Build a New-Age Linux Desktop
A Guide to Exiles, Expatriates, and Emigrés – Mary McCarthy (1972)
When Pinball Was Illegal in New York (and Chicago and L.A.)
"Well, without jokes about Thunderdome..."

Anyone care to explain?