skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is a higher-paying job the goal of UBI?

Avoiding trapping people in positions where they need a dead end job with no advancement potential which forecloses opportunities for self-improvement is, indeed, one of many arguments for UBI.

> I thought the fundamental macro issue was that as automation of one kind or another becomes an increasingly inherent part of new technologies, it will inevitably depress the human job market beyond its ability to employ enough people to maintain the economy.

That's less credible of an argument than that it will create a rate of change of needed skills which will leave people stuck who cannot afford to retrain.

Short of AGI or output levels so high that diminishing returns make greater output of minimal value, automation should multiply the value of human labor while shifting skills in demand.
tl;dr:

> What does this say about Forth? Not much except that it isn't for me.

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If you're interested in Forth read "Thinking Forth".

http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
What if you're 99% sure someone doesn't know what they're talking about, but there could be on shred of crucial information, you aren't privy to, since companies are sometimes large and unwieldy things, and information doesn't always flow as it should.

You could call someone out, and make a fool of yourself, if you're wrong. It would make me very hesitant to ever actually do something like this, because you never know.
You must also watch Ushanka Show:

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Life long Porphyria sufferer here, a hallmark symptom is Insomnia.

I've lived on 6 or less hours of sleep all my life, the only time I sleep longer is during a bad porphyria "attack", then it's like 19 hours at a time, but that's only several times a year.

Subsequently, my career choices accommodated it, I became an entrepreneur so I could set my own hours (like after Noon), and a 40 year career doing late night broadcast radio.

I've seen these "studies" so many times, all I can do is Laugh, oh, and keep on Living this way, and I've made it to 65, and still going, so hooey on those "studies".
As I wrote in another post, there's a highway near me where you almost always hit every red light, but it's designed such that going say 20% over the limit won't work either. I believe some people deliberately go 20% under to reduce the waiting.
The cost of a digital copy for libraries is also many multiples of the cost of a paper copy, which libraries purchase at normal retail prices. I talked with a local high school librarian who told me his library simply couldn't justify having ebooks as they could cost as much as $200 for licensing that still isn't perpetual.
It should be something the common user can do, right now you need to go to enable some obscure and scary sounding settings to enable that, that's unreasonable.
There are two classes of users: normal people who want to use your service and people who actively weaponize it for their own ego. Those latter users have all the time in world and can defeat any attempt to stop them. This is because, online, time is the only resource that matters. You have a limited amount of this resource. Your company has a limited amount of this resource. Your normal users have a limited amount of this resource.

There is a discussion below about Flat Earthers having every right to speak -- and I agree. And in fact, I doubt anyone would truly care about Flat Earthers having their Flat Earth forum or even adding an occasional Flat Earth comment whenever NASA posts a round Earth photo. That's never been the problem. The problem is that some users don't stop there -- they're on a mission to change the world. They going to abuse your platform to the extreme to promote their views. Most big platforms right now have a huge mess of people tossing free bytes at each other.

If a small group of dedicated people wanted to ruin Hacker News for the rest of us, I have no doubt in my mind that they could. No amount of moderation could stop them. I've seen it first hand a few times with other services.
Go EFF!
I never really understood why "all" wasn't actually a catch-all. If it's not a catch-all, don't call it all. Or at least give us a -Wallyesreally, which doesn't currently exist afaik
It's impossible to tell an edgy kid "ironically" spreading Nazi memes from an actual Nazi until they start shooting.
People use visa, mastercard, bank transfer/swift, paypal etc but have no clue about the implementation. This doesn't stop them using them. You are focusing on the wrong things. Users have no interest to know what's going on behind the scenes but you can be sure they won't use cryptocurrencies again when they find out that the bitcoin bought yesterday is now less valuable and they are no longer able to buy whatever they planned(i speak from personal experience). Wtf does the programming language has to do with the end user experience??? Fix the volatility and you may have a successful cryptocurrency otherwise all you get is a gambling tool and a way for shady people to transfer money anonymously. Obviously for this latter group of people loosing some money is not an issue.
There are some weird speed signs near me. One that particularly irritates me is set up to flash if you're over 25 mph. But the speed limit is 30! There's also a flashing sign by a school, that is left on at times that the regular sign specifically says the school speed limit is not in effect.
> The only other companies paying that to IC hires that I know of are in the financial industry and that interview process is even worse.

OpenAI is paying way more than 420K for ICs [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-int...
People often are already able to do that but don't, because surprisingly to some, most people find the idea of leaving everything and everyone you know just to find a better job absolutely dreadful.

We need to remember that we're talking about humans, and not some particle which can simply find a shorter path to wealth.

Edit: To be clear I'm not necessarily opposed to UBI, but I find this 'people are but cogs in the machine' view of economics especially appalling.
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I've been to a location and it seemed more like <6. Maybe <12 if they run shifts. (I could be very wrong). The other 13 would be at the HQ, doing coding or marketing or something
If the goalposts move as fast as these trains are marketed to move, I'm sure we could find all sorts of things worse than the already terrible tragedy of a deliberate derailment, explosion, or sabotage of a high speed train.
Coming from a world where latency and performance is paramount, I think it's perfectly acceptable to write code targeted at a specific architecture you know won't change. I understand your points though, and it's definitely not a style you should use in 99% of programming.
GHC (Haskell) has -Weverything which is great for this. I’d much rather get all warnings and blacklist the few I don’t want
Why not ban both? I can't see the social utility in allowing either in a private forum.
When you get militant about subtle behaviours this happens. There is too much nuance in human interactions for policing them to this degree. You will always offend someone. They had a choice of offending those who didn't like gender neutral pronouns or those in the SE community that supported that mod.

I don't really have a horse in that race but I don't see a way they could have come out of that without offending anyone. If we're going through a culture change that changes the way we address people so be it, but it's going to get messy once we start enforcing new social rules.
HAVING applies to groups. Sqlite3 doesn't allow HAVING without GROUP BY.

If a sql dialect doesn't require the GROUP BY then I think the entire select result is one group. So you'd only get either 1 or 0 rows ever.

Or so I think :-)
Are WeWork offices 24/7? I thought they were only open certain times of the day.
I got the glimpse of the demise of the Soviet empire (1970s+) - the literature revolved around monthly magazines. It wasn't hard to subscribe to one. They would publish homemade and overseas masterpieces in chunks. So we would wait until the end of a piece, rip it from the magazines and bind it in a book. I never thought about it, but it seems that serial writing/publishing was natural in those days. I suspect it has deeper roots.
Thanks for your comments and encouragements!

The success rates of the attacks are not really emphasized---we only show that they work. They provide other benefits like robustness against point removal defenses.

The attacks are optimized for different criterion. The sticks attack is supposed to be easy to construct, at the cost of perceptibility. The distributional attack is more geared towards imperceptibility. Indeed, we do bound the perceptibility of the sticks and sinks attacks, just with different metrics. You can even argue that the number of sticks we generate is a measure of perceptibility. Compared to other papers in terms of visual perceptibility, our attacks are not that crazy. Of course, human perception is the true metric, and I think more work must be done on quantifying perceptibility in 3D. This paper is the first step, and I mainly wanted to show that there are factors other than perceptibility that we care about.
I have found that codebases that have not been built with warnings accrue bugs. Static analysis techniques from newer compilers etc reveal these bugs. Sometimes it's pretty astonishing -- you'll find bugs that make you wonder how anything works at all.

Even if you have some mild disagreement with the warning or some critical context that indicates "that's not a problem for us" -- fix it anyways. This goes for both static analysis and compiler warnings (ok, yes -- they're both static analysis). Keeping the codebase green means that you can build with `-Wall -Werror` and prevent new bugs from creeping in. If there's code that absolutely can't be rewritten to avoid the warning, you can mask the warning locally with things like pragmas.
> Of the participants, 43% are working full or part time while 2% are unemployed and not looking for work. Another 8% are retired, while 20% are disabled and 10% stay home to care for children or an aging parent.

It's slightly disingenuous to classify retirees as "don't want to work," though I suppose that's the definition of retirement.

> 20% are disabled

WTF? Is this just an odd (or intentional) sample of people, or are that many people actually disabled?

> 10% stay home to care for children or an aging parent

This one I get. As one's post-tax income gets closer to the cost of elder/child care, outsourcing it becomes less cost effective.
You'd have to ask the devs, but I think lispy people tend to live in a bit of a lisp bubble. I know I sorta do with elisp because of emacs.
A lot of people become industry insiders by building other people's businesses. Then, when they can't overcome the inefficiencies, they leave and start their own business. This is the story of Zoom, and others.

Building someone's else's business, as a launchpad for your own, isn't a bad idea.
Is that a remote job? I mean should I bother applying from Europe?

Thanks :)
> There have been a few studies that found that the group of people consuming child abuse media and the group that actually molests and rapes children doesn't have too much overlap, contrary to what one might expect.

Do you have some links for this? I've anecdotally heard it both ways.

https://olemiss.edu/depts/ncjrl/pdf/I%20C%20A%20C/2013%20-%2... seems to imply the opposite.
Let me rephrase this: private equity is extracting too much value out of early stage companies and left nothing for the public market.
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That quote is disingenuously conflating the driver's legal fault with the pedestrian's non-legal fault. The pedestrians aren't being sued for being hit.
The problem is, "respected fact checkers" are anything but. The HN discussion you linked to actually mentions some interesting things that these fact checkers omitted.

Factcheck.org claims: "there is no evidence that Hunter Biden was ever under investigation or that his father pressured Ukraine to fire Shokin on his behalf."

However, the fired Ukranian prosecutor testified in court that "the truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma Holdings, a natural gas firm active in Ukraine and Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was a member of the Board of Directors." [1]

Testimony taken under penalty of perjury is evidence, and factcheck.org was wrong to claim that there is no evidence.

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Relational database queries are supposed to be _declarative_. As a user, you're not supposed to think about the mechanics of execution because the database system is supposed to be able to decide how to execute your query using whatever magic it wants, as long as it satisfies the contract that it gives you the right answer.

It's absolutely useful as a debugging tool to build up some semantic understanding of what the query means, and I encourage every database user to learn to use EXPLAIN, but relying on a mental execution model is borderline dangerous.
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Overfitting at its finest
Thicker pillars are a cheap way to solve the problem.

You can also use different, stronger materials. But those are generally more expensive.

Subaru solves it with better engineering and using higher strength steels (and reinforcing the B-pillar with a boron reinforcement bar).

Making the pillars thick is just cost saving.
> To imply that those who don't wish to act the way you wish them to don't care about minorities is invidious and not supported by any evidence I've seen.

It is if how I wish them to act is to care about minorities, like for instance the population that is not a part of, in your words, the population that's "overwhelmingly binary" - aka a minority, by definition.

> As are most people until they are compelled.

So you're ok with calling people what they want to be called. Nice!

> You could probably fit all 42 into male and female and cut out a lot absurdities.

Why do you, of all the people in the world, get to decide what is and isn't absurd? Is there a particular scientific method you're using to define absurdity?

> I'd go for 3, male, female and 3rd sex. Come up with a better name if you like.

I'd suggest if you need a better name for people that are neither male nor female you educate yourself. Lumping people into "other" isn't particularly useful for those people or even descriptive.
I currently live in San Francisco. I’m moving in January after 1 year.

The premium I pay to live here is insane, yet the city elects to tolerate a totally unacceptable
Level of crime, drug use and general squalor. I don’t think we should lock people up for being drug addicts, but where do we draw the line between “locking people up for stupid reasons” and “literally do anything you want with no consequences”. No one here even calls the police for the blantanty criminal and disruptive behavior of mentally ill homeless people. The police won’t show up/do anything.

I’m a pretty liberal person, but honestly the conservative media has it right with the situation in San Francisco. We spend a crapload of money every year on programs to help these people, at the total expense of law abiding tax paying citizens. While I believe the government is well intentioned, enough is enough. Do I and my neighbors not have a right to live in a habitable city? I had out of town friends visit from overseas and they were appalled. They were accosted multiple times and were afraid to walk around. I don’t blame them. I would not recommend anyone to visit this city. Good bye sf, I won’t be back.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/what-happened-at-we-w... is a really good read.

Neumann does come away as a bit over the top:

> “I rarely give away my power, and when I do, it’s to my wife,” who he said was “99 percent right,” according to multiple people who watched the speech. Neumann concluded with yet another moment of life coaching: “Change your inner self. Change the world.”

> "The S-1 detailed the extent to which Neumann controlled his company, and had benefited personally from his position: he had bought buildings in which WeWork then took out leases, and received $5.9 million in exchange for selling a set of We-related trademarks to his own company. One clause called for Rebekah to name a successor in the event of Adam’s death. The entire thing was dedicated, in an epigram, “to the energy of We — greater than any one of us but inside each of us.”"
Simple answer: because moderation doesn't move the business needle.
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You cannot defend what you cannot precisely define and threat model. Non-secure platforms cannot be defended nor threat modeled. If you send a military/intelligence critical message to someone then you need E2E encryption. In order to asses correctness you need more people to buy in than those only backing military applications. This is found in technologies like TOR which wouldn't be effective it couldn't be used by non-military agents. If there is no need to include the greater community, than there is no pressure on sponsored developers to pursue mathematical correctness.
Eh. I don’t think it’s a good idea for a startup still going through rapid change (whether releasing new product lines, entering new markets, testing new pricing) to go public, since as soon as you do it’s hard to be “experimental.”

There are, however, private companies whose business models have largely stabilized like Airbnb and Stripe that I agree should’ve gone public already.
It'll be interesting to see how this'll affect startups down the line. If employees aren't cashing out in a reasonable amount of time (or at all), will the majority of startups suffer a brain drain of top talent? Will startups need to come up with a new way of compensation beyond just equity?
Allowing people to commute from outside for work decreases property value in major cities.
This opens some interesting questions. What certificates and independence requirements the police have?

How would these scanners and help?

Without the scanners who would they be dependent on?
Ok, but now replace flat earthers with people advocating and organizing meetings for people interested in joining ISIS.

Why do we want a world where platforms protect videos promoting and glorifying beheadings, exactly?
I agree that there might be evidence, and Factcheck.org may have gotten that wrong. But perfection isn't the bar we're aiming for, nor is it practically attainable - "usually correct" is reasonable.

Moreover, let's not confuse testimonial evidence with fact. They are not identical. In our judicial system, the jury is the finder of fact; they weigh the evidence to make conclusions.

We also can't let a minor technical error in a tangential report invalidate the rest of what otherwise is a lie -- specifically the primary bold claim in the example advertisement that's at the heart of the article.
"He has alluded to the concept of panspermia, the idea that Mars and Earth have exchanged material or even life in the past due to asteroid impacts anyway."

As far as I'm aware the existence of material on Earth from Mars is an accepted fact albeit not proof of or synonymous with panspermia.

The following article says it's been pretty well confirmed since 2013 that meteorites thought to come from Mars really did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite
That's an improvement because the victim is the person at fault, not a bystander. The incentives are aligned to motivate people to behave responsibly.
I recently took VIA rail, from Vancouver to Edmonton. Partway through the trip the attendant announces we'll be 6-10 hours late, which is normal. It hasn't been on time since April. Some daft Europeans with a connecting flight were relieved that we pulled in to Edmonton only 2 hours late! The best in weeks!
Serious question, why should anyone have to work?

It's easy to imagine an alternate reality where UBI is a thing and working is optional.

I think there's a legitimate case to be made that freeing people from labor should be societal goal.
It's rare to see a comment on HN about economics of UBI that gets it.
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For bonus confusion points, DISTINCT happens after SELECT and before ORDER BY (and DISTINCT affects the usage rules for ORDER BY).
Personally keep a printed copy of the actual logical order of operations, it comes in handy.
Or, rephrased, "They become really expensive for me to acquire and add to my crappy pile of product spaghetti in a monopolistic fashion! It would be much better if they went public when the were still cheap."
Which truths are objective? Who decides that?

From the spectrum of Math -> Physics -> Chemistry -> Biology -> Psychology, where do you draw the line? This isn't an easy question.
>>>If you badly feel you're in the wrong body and you want it changed, I'm ok with that. I don't see any other reasons are needed.

Should this apply to other physical/genetic characteristics as well, such as ethnicity? Should Caucausians be able to change their physical appearance (via tanning, etc...) to Native American, identify as such (cough Elizabeth Warren cough), and then be entitled to any/all social benefits legally accorded to Native American people?

What sort of implications would that have, internationally? Say someone has their body altered to appear Han Chinese, and then they go to China, expecting to be treated as a Chinese (or at least an ABC), because that's how they "identify". What are the second and third-order implications for how the world views American leadership?