skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Monetary and fiscal policy is not the same as us balancing a checkbook at the end of the month.

This is a candidate for most tired meme on the internet and I really don't understand what it even has to do with this discussion as I've never met a household with a printing press (running the press is exactly what GP was referring to).
Mental Chronometry
I don't think mobile FF has an ad blocker - at least not on iOS
I keep hearing that mosquitoes are not ecologically important, and their extinction would have little to no ecological effect.

However one indirect ecological consequence if something like this worked would be the migration of mammals to regions previously largely uninhabitable due to mosquitoes. Would such a migration and/or population increase have some ecological effect? I don't think anyone has explored this potential outcome thoroughly.
> then you don’t have money for medication so your quality of life is shit

Not if you live in a country with universal healthcare. I have no concerns about healthcare in later life (or at any point in my life).
The date it was founded (31 December 1600) is the date it received a Royal Charter from Queen Elizabeth I.
> There is no need to print money in a growing economy...

There is, for a number of reasons, but not least of which is fairness. If I get a dollar, then the size of the economy doubles, my purchasing power as a fraction of the total amount of economic activity doubles. This creates wealth inequality over time, too. Likely to the benefit of the same people.

I hear you re: Cantillion effect, though I'm sure that could be solved with a targeted tax.

Most importantly, philosophically, nobody owes you a risk-free return over time on your idle, un-invested capital. I can think of no justification for why your dollar should be worth more in the future than it is today. At best, I could see an argument for the same amount, though I think a little bit less to encourage investment is a totally reasonable place to draw the line.

> ...some of the highest recorded levels of economic growth in history has generally been slightly deflationary (the United States during the 1800s is a prime example).

You mean the industrial revolution? I'd say there were externalities that affected that. Counter-point, the great depression.
Iran funds this. The advanced rockets by Hamas, the drones by the Houthi. Proxy war like usual. They are using Yemen for themselves uncaring of lives, we are killing so many innocent in Yemen. Life’s complicated but after the Iran deal, funding these groups by Iran increased significantly, and so did our subsequent killing of innocents.
We would need a similar-in-principle industry for engineers if they are legally and professionally responsible for code. It would likely be smaller and cheaper since most of us are not responsible for lives though.

You definitely wouldn't need a lawyer on retainer.
Facebook removed doctors' fact-check video because Ted Cruz complained
100 harmless modules can be built by 100 developers and be easily pieced together to form something devious. Also, a program can be harmless and even useful if used for personal/internal purposes but be pure evil when locked down and distributed.
It's a one time incentive to get people to install the app.

They've offered free $ to get people to install their browser add-on, encourage use of Alexa etc. It's a common tactic to get the user to do something.
Just to educate, “Arab” isn’t a religion, it is an ethnic group. A majority of Arabs are Muslims, which is the religious designation.

The Middle East is no more warlike than the west. Remember is only been a couple generations since World War 2, and sectarian violence has been around within the last two decades in the west.
Pensions don't generally pay out mid-career, if I'm not mistaken. What's the relevance here?
> To succeed in using application development to increase agility and innovation speed, organizations must adopt five elements, in any order: microservices; purpose-built databases; automated software release pipelines; a serverless operational model; and automated, continuous security.

When I worked at AWS, it used to take us months to change the position of a button in the UI. Things that our competitors did in hours and days, we did in months and years.

I'd say that as a general heuristic, if you want "to increase agility and innovation speed" do the opposite of what Amazon does.
Evitando Los Riesgos
"Pass our screening" -- I both like this, and do not like it. While I agree that not everyone is made for remote work, most of the skills to communicate and work effectively when remote can be taught. So what are you screening for? The underlying personality traits that make or break working remotely? Or the learn-able skills?

Also, while not as important, it is worth noting -- for people like myself who have been working remotely for almost a decade, having to go through a screening is a turn-off.
That's the problem. A lot of people thought that saying "This won't work and could make things potentially worse" was equivalent to "I think people should die of Malaria".

I remember this experiment coming out on HN (different account) and voiced that it's would more than likely not work and if we're lucky, won't have an adverse affect. I got ripped as a flat out racist because I wanted black people to die of malaria.

We're better off trying to increase dragonfly populations to consume mosquitoes (which they do). But then we risk increase sparrow and other bird populations with the increase in food supply, which could then migrate to consuming more grain crops.

Currently larvacide using 2 different hormones (depending on targeted breeds), not found in any other animal or insect thus far seems to be the best route in curbing mosquito populations with, after 20 years of field use, have no to little impact on the ecosystem.
That could be the case but the inertia doesn’t come from the team.
Check out reddit's "whatisthisthing" sub-reddit for lots of pictures of discovered unexploded ordinance. Europe is littered with tons of it from the world wars.
What do you screen in a candidate?
Google seems to be running out of money, that's why...
Is there a vulnerability pivot_root breaks that applies to unprivileged users? I wrote quickly and imprecisely and agree that in general chroot isn't especially helpful against the superuser (for a bunch of reasons).
Because it doesn’t add anything to the discussion
Bitcoin being "tolerated" is more accurate than "approved of". That's what I mean.

And again, if they didn't tolerate it, they could ban/outlaw it, just like China did.
Leaving the home directory accessible is the exact problem that needs to be solved. An attacker doesn't need to break out of a sandbox to access the rest of my system: they can download it from debian.org. Being able to open new files after initialization is a bug.

The solution is to initialize the application before it can touch untrusted input, and then drop any ability to do anything other than process the resources set up in the init phase. The program will ideally be running in a completely empty namespace when handling untrusted data.

You can think of FDs as capabilities. Dropping the namespace prevents the program from requesting new capabilities. It's perverse to tie owning capabilities to being able to request new ones.
This was unbelievably beautiful, thank you for sharing it.
Thank you very much for your suggestion! A free tier is just added!
> in America we have less trust in government and more trust in the individual

Maybe, excepted that Facebook is not an individual. Compagnies are not individual.

They are just private entities seeking for their own profit and should be treated as such.

There is no trust to have in Facebook: if they can fuck half of the world to double their benefits, they will do it. That's it.

Trusting such entity to ensure "common good of people" through a currency is simply madness. And Libra is exactly that.

I'm sorry if it shock the American "free" way of thinking, but this is our European way of thinking.
A picture that will never leave me: 0745, one fine Tuesday morning, Van Diemem straat, Amsterdam about 30 years ago on my bike on the way to work. Ambulance parked on the side of the street. Very young guy on the stretcher, clearly a corpse. Very fancy briefcase sitting upright next to him, his hand still aimed at it.

It wasn't the corpse that got me, but the briefcase. It talked tales of ambition and a future and suddenly there was none of all that. Heart attack, according to the 5 lines he made in the local newspaper the next day. I can still see that briefcase. It's a good reminder.
How much leverage? You can’t compare an unlevered equities portfolio against a 5x (or more) levered real estate portfolio.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20969633
> We're about to have a huge election. There is no literal threat to democracy

Elections may be necessary to democracy, they are not sufficient. Most authoritarian states have elections, too.
Librem 5, PinePhone and Shift phones, to name a few devices/manufacturers currently working on such ideas.
Unfortunately, there is no technical information yet about the type of drones that carried the strikes. Could it be the shahed 129 ?
> You-are-supposed-to-reward-returning-cash-cows…erm customers. Period

That's not how the world works. Can't tell if this is a joke or not. Either way, this article is not written well.
> Maybe, excepted that Facebook is not an individual. Compagnies are not individual.

Corporations are exercises or government power, in fact.
Playing out as Naval Ravikant predicted on the After-on podcast: https://after-on.com/episodes-31-60/044

Eventually cheap drones, anonymous assassination markets, etc. will make commercial flying a thing of the past.

Written summary of podcast - https://podcastnotes.org/2019/03/20/after-on-naval-01/
> anyone could say that some feature X that harms the user is actually just a bug and you would be hard pressed to beat reasonable doubt

That would fall under criminal negligence then.
Medicare for All Would Cut Poverty by over 20 Percent
Is this part of the debug.com project? Or something else?
What Challenges Do You Have When Adopting Micro-Services?
Never heard of them, thanks!
I would definitely argue they're linked, given that plastics are primarily produced from oil and so intimately tied to fossil fuel extraction.

There was another interesting article on HN yesterday about the depletion of soil minerals as a result of monocultural planting and a corresponding (and horrifyingly steep) drop in the mineral content of fruits and vegetables. This was news to me but not really surprising; I've felt for years that much American food is just not that great based simply on the experience of eating it.

Ultimately these are all problems of the industrial model that developed countries in general and the UK/US in particular have exported very successfully (which is not to say that other countries and cultures haven't also catastrophic environmental decisions). While the reductionist approach of identifying, selecting for, and then maximizing particular quantities has yielded great dividends, it does so at the expense of the system as a whole; just like a diet consisting of abundant refined ingredients allows rapid growth but eventually leads to obesity and sclerosis.

Adam Smith, revered by many as the father of modern capitalism, offered a famous example of a pin factory to show how the division of labor into multiple parallel tasks yielded far greater outputs than would be possible if one laborer had to serially perform all the different jobs involved in the manufacture of a pin, and generations of industrialists have applied his advice to great profit. But they have also ignored his caveat that an excess division of labor is both soul-destroying due to boredom, and weakens the laborer through overspecialization and a concomitant loss of flexibility and thus economic bargaining power by allowing the buyer of the labor to determine 'value' of the laborer's skills by limiting the opportunities for their development.

The basic problem is the pursuit of maximal yield through endless division without regard to the structural integrity of the overall system; industrial economists' tendency to reduce everything to the lowest common denominator of fungibility through division and offloading of externalities is just as dangerous to the biosphere and the social body as a diet of high fructose corn syrup and vitamin pills would be to the individual animal. Those who insist on wealth maximization at the transactional and the blind operation of market forces as the distributive mechanism of wealth are in the grip of a cognitive addiction little different from an infant hooked on sugar, and responsible people must steel themselves to ignore the screams of dissatisfaction which will greet a transition to a more sustainable diet.
This reminds me of my dad, who saw how much his family worried when his older brother was sent to Vietnam and decided not to tell them when it was his turn.

For the rest of her life my grandmother used the Army training my dad for jungle warfare and then stationing him in Alaska as an example of government mismanagement.
Just because all workers can be trained to work remote does not mean all employers are capable of doing that training for all employees.

There should be cases for skipping the training like yours, but it’s going to be necessary for a lot of companies who otherwise would burn 4 months failing to on-ramp somebody.
I’m ok with prosecuting software developers individually if we first require them to adhere to a set of standards in a similar fashion to real engineers.
Add in Tor and bitcoin, there’s complete anonymity, a funding mechanism and virtually zero possibility for response.

When groups felt wronged, they “voted from the rooftops”. Now they will be able to anonymously vote from their basements.
I used to work in investment, and I sometimes did cash-flow modelling for individuals...even within industry, the work is often woefully inadequate. I can't see the FIRE crowd getting this right (every FIRE person I have talked to seems mildly delusional).

Usually the "model" is some bogus Excel projection of historical volatility and returns into the future. That is nowhere near enough.

The quantitative mistake is not looking at returns as a random process (i.e. not ending up with a monte carlo sim with your assumptions, not modelling returns/volatility/etc. as random processes, if doing that then not using non-parametric models, if doing that then not using enough data, etc.).

The biggest practical mistake is understating the effect of volatility. Once you start or plan to take income, volatility becomes very important. Thinking that you can ride out volatility, the de jure thinking today, exposes you to intolerable risk (usually at the point where you are not able to bear that risk i.e. when you can't generate income anymore).

The aim of any retirement planning should be robustness. There is some kind of insane irony (the financial world seems to specialise in this) that people are attempting to invest in a way that requires maximum robustness but are often using strategies that produce totally non-robust returns (i.e. 100% equity ETFs).

If you are going to try this: stop and consider whether you really understand what you are doing.
> portion of the investment return

I'm not super on top of a lot of the details here, but I thought Libra was like a currency. What investment return?
"We aim to bring all of those companies on our marketplace"

Sounds like they are not working with them at all, but want to. If I were them, I'd be worried about those companies coming down on them for mis-use of their logos.
Isn't this also the strategy of every military at this point? Take out power and infrastructure, starve the opponent into submission?
WaveFunctionCollapse: Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example
I do wish you'd said

> I work in metal fabrication and my I'm lathe.
Thanks, not sure why I'm being downvoted...
I think that's a bit harsh on the NHS - a more reasonable view would perhaps be:

“Compared to the other 18 countries the UK has middling funding and middling performance overall. We can be proud of the fact that the UK is a standout nation where people are not put off from seeking care due to cost, and the NHS is cheap to run. But austerity has bitten hard, and the lag of investment shows. If we want to hold our head up high next to our European neighbours we can and must do better.”

https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nhs-receives-mixe...

I don't think anyone thinks that the NHS provides the best healthcare, that's unlikely given the amount we pay for it, but as a country I guess we do have "cult-like" obsession with making sure everyone has access to healthcare.
Private tech companies should not be issuing currency. I can’t believe we have to have this conversation.
there is no rush to kill play store or apple store. ms could relaunch a windows phone but ms do not want to waste in consumer hardware, it's better to them invest on other types of "OS's" like github, azure, xboxlive, which are also virtual markets. the question that remain, can Intel make a x86 phone? I guess it depends energy research.
IMO you’d look for time management and communication skills as well as a strong sense of self-assessment and independent decision making.
Defense Digital Services has a project working on defense of this kind of stuff

If you're into that sort of thing, you should go check them out as they're hiring a lot of folks
The thing Vanilla had was you were locked in a realm, faction, class, and spec. That was you. People learn to know you. You become friends. You build up a name. You know a mage who can come? Sure let me ask my friend, slfnflctd.

And you know what? I didn't even play Vanilla. But I have played a plethora of games where community was important, including SWTOR.

I had a similar feeling in Legion (the cross-realm pulp is terrible but PvP was decent). I was attached to one character, and no more split farm. However the RNG fest of legendaries and the mega grind of AP were not my cup of tea. I kinda liked the relic system and the augmentation aspect of the legendaries.

(I quit hardcore raiding end of WoD.)
> Germany is deconstructing itself by [...] ignoring millenium problems in governance, such as unchecked mass migration.

What are you talking about? Germany is 25% immigrants, the US is close to 100% immigrants.
This is because feature verticals build their own UI, right? Seems like there should be a solution to this.
> monetary systems operating outside of the state could be argued to be one of the strongest weapons against tyranny

This is in direct contradiction to your previous paragraph, unless such a system is inherently decentralized, and not controlled by a single entity (such as FB).
No conventional long range AA can shot down small drones flying low and slow.

Short range air defence can, but as its name suggests, it's short ranged.
Isn't it highly likely that any crypto currency will be seen as a vehicle for speculation?
Definitely -- but while most places don't actually suffer from all those things at once, a lot of them do worry about most of them, and will bring them up if they're out of criteria based on which to differentiate candidates.

I've seen places where availability for sudden overtime was a big deal, even though it was rarely needed. The reasons were completely stupid but it was a big deal and it played a big role in deciding hires. The projects were well-executed and deadlines were rarely missed, but management quirks meant that every team lead and manager was afraid of not being able to cope with crunch.

Also, a lot of these problems aren't "global" -- a company may actually run into all of them, but not everywhere and not with the same people. Companies that do value choosing the right technologies over following trends will nonetheless have one or two people who would like to be more bold. They may generally aim for building stable teams that executes on a plan and delivers things on time, but they nonetheless won't be devoid of newly-hired managers who don't have experience running things like that, or who might be willing to compromise on this side of things for a volatile, but high-potential project. Even toxicity can be surprisingly well isolated.
And you can't avoid it really. I asked the hospital if they took my insurance as I was being rolled into the ER. They said yes. That means that they are happy to bill the insurance, not that that are in the insurance network.

Check out this story:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy...
Being employed as a computer programmer does not mean you are bright.
>There is, for a number of reasons, but not least of which is fairness. If I get a dollar, then the size of the economy doubles, my purchasing power as a fraction of the total amount of economic activity doubles. This creates wealth inequality over time.

You assume that as an economy doubles prices won't decrease. The natural tendency of a free market is a decrease in prices due to competition, technological innovation, and other factors. If anything, holding the same dollar will lead you to purchase more goods at a higher quality than before as the market develops and expands - a higher purchasing power.

Wealth inequality is exactly what is caused when you print money to match the growth of the economy due to the aforementioned Cantillon effects.

>Most importantly, philosophically, nobody owes you a risk-free return over time on your idle, un-invested capital.

There is nobody that is giving you that return. The so-called "return" is the tendency of a free market to lead to cheaper prices and higher quality goods and services. If anything, I can't see a justification to allow the public's money to decrease in value over time.

>You mean the industrial revolution? I'd say there were externalities that affected that. Counter-point, the great depression.

Yes, there were externalities that affected it, but the core point remains the same. Competition and rapid technological innovation lead to a decrease in prices over time. The Great Depression was not a consequence of a natural deflationary regime rather it was the consequence of extremely lose monetary policy during the 1920s ("The Roaring Twenties") and it would have resolved itself quite quickly but as letting people be unemployed is usually politically unpopular Roosevelt enacted price controls that extended the market correction process that would have otherwise taken a much shorter time than it did.
Sorry, no. This is just reckless. I'm trying hard to assume good faith here.

"Wait and see" is a good approach to see whether your new electric city bus line is working or whether people prefer your website logo in red.

You can never, ever take back what became basic necessities on a nation level while being even remotely democratic. Once people have it, they won't give it back.

And you seriously think Facebook is to be given any such power, even after Cambridge Analytica? We're talking about currency, and billions of people. Lifes are very much at stake.

But sure, let's wait until Facebook uses Big financial data to get some populist party manipulated into power and a mere few thousand people die from the consequences, than be all enraged on reddit for a week and unable to change anything? I'll keep my typical German mindset, thanks