skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many thousands of people would you kill to save your own child? For many people the answer might well be all of them. Turns out emotional response isn't a reasonable way to come to a logical conclusion for how we ought to order society.

I'm sympathetic to those people's plight but ultimately I place a very high valuation on not only my privacy but everyone's privacy, A much lessor but still very great valuation on preventing such evil happening to the victims, and only a small valuation on preventing the ultimate sharing of those images between perverts except insofar as it serves to lead us to people doing the wrong.

I believe that via a substantial effort we can work to reduce the abuse of children, I think we can via a lot of work take down the groups of people sharing such data by infiltrating such groups and taking down the people participating. I believe that outright stopping all such sharing is probably impossible and I'm unwilling to implement 1984 to try.
I wish we wrote SQL this way actually. But yes it’s the one thing the entity framework got right.
I don't think you'll find much sympathy for those who take out college loans beyond what their future occupation will realistically support in a forum like this.
iCloud. - Why?

* No Installation.

* Cross-Platform (iDevice, Mac, PC, Linux).

* Encrypted.

* Simple enough for any person to use without handholding.
Just implement a rental price freeze at the same time you implement UBI.
I don’t think you can speak authoritatively about other people like you. Maybe they have kids in college and need a text book. Maybe they are getting hit with unexpected medical expenses. If I assume things about other people’s money, I’m very likely to be wrong.

I once made $25k and my boss made $50. I thought ve was rich and couldn’t even imagine what to do with all that money. I could have said “for him most likely the $220 is gone to sit in a bank or spent frivolously.” I would have been super wrong. Finances are private and unique. Talking out my ass about what other people should spend their money on is boring and useless.
How do UBI proponents propose to deal with rent-seekers? What's stopping every slumlord in the country from jacking everyone's rent up $1000 / month in response to a UBI subsidy of the same amount?

It seems like you could deal with this via a Japanese-style de-zoning (which I like) or nationwide rent control (which I don't). But maybe I'm missing something—what do the UBI experts say?
I've never worked in an actual restaurant, but I did give up programming for a couple of years recently and after a while got a job delivering pizzas (in my car).

It was pure bliss. Most of my time was spent relaxing in my own car with my own music, or socializing with other employees in the pizza shop. Some (very few) customers were dicks, but who gives a fuck? All I do is deliver it, I was neither expected nor in any way able to help them with anything else. There is no concept of "oh, here's a bunch of work I didn't expect to have to do today." Show up, drive around, ???, profit, leave.

Since then I've accidentally stumbled back into software development and while it certainly has its upsides, I am infinitely more stressed. I miss the pizza gig almost daily.
You laugh, but:

"There is very little accountability for drivers. In this case, Reardon only had to show she was not texting, not drunk, and not speeding. Meanwhile, pedestrians are faulted for not doing things that go above and beyond their legal requirements: like wearing bright clothing, or walking after dark."

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/12/we-need-to-change-the...
At least where I'm from...

Out of curiosity, where is that? This seems like a much better policy than I've seen...
The Rise of the Financial Machines
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/06/28/suvs-ki...
Unsubstantive? Most homeless have mental health issues. You can’t think logically or know if anyone is taking advantage of you when you have a mental illness. Google giving these helpless people $5 is NOT helping!
At Ikea in Portland I spent $35 for the largest top and 4x$4 legs.

So just $51 for a nice looking dependable desk.
Show HN: Mole v0.5.0 (SSH tunnel client with keep alive and connection retries)
Highlighted Features

* Auto local address selection: find a port available and start listening to it, so the -local flag doesn’t need to be given every time you run the app.

* Create multiple tunnels using a single ssh connection: multiple tunnels can be established using a single connection to a ssh server by specifying different -remote flags.

* Aliases: save your tunnel settings under an alias, so it can be reused later.

* Leverage the SSH Config File: use some options (e.g. user name, identity key and port), specified in $HOME/.ssh/config whenever possible, so there is no need to have the same SSH server configuration in multiple places.

* Idle clients do not get disconnected from the ssh server since Mole keeps sending synthetic packets acting as a keep alive mechanism.

* Auto reconnection to the ssh server if the it is dropped by any reason.

Link: https://davrodpin.github.io/mole/
Is there any chance that the "Security Engineer - Offensive Security and Assessment" role could be remote? I am OSCP certified and am working towards my OSCE. I also have experience with Linux, Python, Ansible and AWS/Azure/GCP. Seems like a good match but onsite is a bit of a deal breaker. Don't want to waste anyone's time applying if that's the case. Thanks in advance for your answer.
Yeah give me raw sql any day: it’s far more readable to me than the unnecessary abstractions we write to make things easier
(1) Yes, all politicians. Maybe they're lying by omission. Maybe they're using euphemisms to soft-pedal the facts. But they're still lying.

(2) With all of the nefarious shit Facebook has done and continues to do, I can't muster much outrage over yet another piece of evidence that Mark Zuckerberg is a piece of shit who has no business possessing as much money or power as he does.

Things aren't going to get better until corporations who engage in this sort of malfeasance start getting their charters revoked, their assets expropriated under civil forfeiture laws, and their executives prosecuted under the RICO statutes.
You are correct in that quite often who implements provider vs consumer depends largely on market position. There is technically no reason Apple can't become a consumer, other than they aren't interested in doing so. Also consider that, should Apple choose to eliminate your account, then you've lost whatever you use Apple to sign in with unless those downstream providers offer some kind of recovery mechanism.
I don't know how inflation doesn't happen. If you increase the money supply you increase demand for goods.
If you don't see a reply link below on the main comments page try clicking their comment link which looks like "7 seconds ago" and you should find a reply to link there. I think hacker news is designed to make it harder to have a quick back and forth discussion for some reason.
Why does it "seem intuitive?" It's never seemed intuitive to me. It doesn't make sense to me that McDonald's is only charging me $4 for a meal because there are people in the world with zero money, and that if suddenly those people had greater than zero money, McDonald's would suddenly start charging me more than $4.
This seems like an oversimplification. If the landlord issue like you describe is really a core problem, then they can pass a law like they did in California, capping rent increases at 5-10%/year. That problem doesn't seem tied to UBI at all.

Rice would also likely increase in price due to higher taxes needed to pay for the UBI.
everything is a tradeoff

Thank you!

I agree there are good motivations behind the "encrypt everything" argument, but at the end of the day I'd like my browser to be first and foremost a tool for ME, not a tool for Google to manipulate website administrators.

I understand the implications of visiting a non-encrypted HTTP site. Every time my browser throws up a "this site isn't safe" roadblock and makes me perform extra clicks, I cry a little. Lately those extra clicks take me to a different browser.
Um, kind of weird edit. All I mean is that both made the point that the "good" parts of technology cannot be separated from the "bad", and that people will rationalize their participation in the system.
It is interesting that they chose to control Facebook instead of calling it a monopoly and splitting it into two, because it's their interest to have a choke point that they can conveniently go after. Apple is big and they provide e2e encryption, but they're not a choke point because not everyone uses Apple. On the other hand, everyone (except me) uses Facebook.
One of the arguments for UBI is a decreased bureaucracy because there is not a requirement to verify conditions on its recipients.

> your dependency and wield this power against you?

If there are conditions placed on the payment, it is not UBI.

It is also laughable to think that citizens of a large modern country are not already heavily dependent on the services supplied/organized by theri governments.
It is amazing to me that people that are supposedly "pro-business" and "pro-market" are against encryption.

Mostly encryption protects privacy and business information. Corporate espionage is bigger than state espionage or terrorism my many multiples, and directly threatens national security as well as markets.

Encryption is pro-business and pro-privacy for business and individuals. Without encryption or with backdoors you are trusting that bad actors don't get access to it, they will.

Why have a world class security system, yet plenty of keys under rocks in the backyard?

I wish encryption was framed like this:

Going without encryption or including backdoors is another level of trust, like leaving your window open on vacation and putting a note that says, "Only Sally the neighbor can come in through the window, please" (Sally being the gov't). Guess what, Sally won't be the only one coming in. In that situation you may as well open the front door because that is the same as the backdoor or window, just less obscurity but more attractive to underground/opposition forces whether that is state, corporate, personal or more.

Oversight and security has gotten lazy, two decades of surveillance based detective work without warrants over real detective work with warrants has made enforcement and security lazy and unable to operate without all the noise that comes with access to everyone's data. Initially it was about terrorism, but everyone knows it is about business information, personal information and other over steps like the drug wars or fights against sex workers or other wars on people that are low hanging fruit that are picked on constantly. Good detective and intel work needs to come back and less of the surveillance type.
Or flows just replace the r with the s for select
It... kinda doesn't matter? If you're stepping out into a street, not at a crosswalk, not looking where you're going, with your face buried in your phone, you're not only an idiot, you're being incredibly self-centered.

Obviously a driver should be paying attention in that situation, and if they still hit the person, unless it was impossible to stop in time, they should be held responsible. But that's not really the point. Someone just got hurt or died, and it was completely avoidable if the pedestrian had taken some very basic steps to be aware of their surroundings.
In a world where there were no existing welfare programs, I can see UBI discouraging work and increasing bureaucracy.

But almost every UBI/Negative income tax proposal that's serious wants to _replace_ existing disparate welfare programs with UBI.

The advantages of doing that replacement would be:

1. lower bureaucracy since we would just hand over checks to folks rather than doing all kinds of checks to see if they are eligible

2. every person would be treated the same way, we would get rid of welfare cliffs in benefits
That'd be Norway.
The same thing that stops them now. If you back the rent up people move to a competitor who's not doing that. Rent is not solely based on how much you can afford. It's supply and demand.
Except the one they're building now...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen

"About 90% of the 286-kilometre (178 mi) line to Nagoya will be built underground or through tunnels"
Democracy and freedom are as if not more important than economic opportunity. Free markets, free minds. China provides neither.
I look at this the other way around: if you’re only writing CRUD applications and relatively simple user interfaces for them, you tend to end up doing join-the-dots programming, but for almost any other field I’ve ever worked in, things get more interesting.

For example, we have a client at the moment who makes a type of device with a lot of user-configurable behaviour. An embedded web server allows access to its UI from a browser, and we were originally brought in to build that web UI for them. On the face of it, this is a substantial but straightforward SPA development, just one where the back end happens to talk to APIs that communicate with various physical components in the device rather than a traditional database.

However, it turns out that the way users view that device and how they want it to behave is very different to the way you have to program the various physical components to make useful things happen. That means even in this superficially simple project, we have some interesting algorithms in the front-end to present application-specific visualisations of the current state of the system, and we have a much more involved algorithm sitting behind that UI that converts the user’s tidy, intuitive view of the world into the very untidy and often counter-intuitive data formats required internally to program the hardware components.

To make this comment slightly more topical, I’ll also mention that the behind-the-scenes algorithm is essentially a form of compiler, taking a serialised version of the user’s world as input and running through a pipeline that systematically converts the data into the required internal formats. The first generation was written in Python, and has proven to be reasonably successful, but we are always a bit nervous about maintaining it just because of the number of edge cases and interactions inherent in the world we’re operating in. For the second generation, we made a big decision to go with Haskell instead, and for this sort of work, there were very welcome benefits including greater expressive power when writing data-transforming code and a strong type system that prevents mistakes like accidentally forwarding data from one pipeline step to the next without applying an appropriate transformation.

I agree with Beltiras’s point in the GP comment, and I probably wouldn’t choose Haskell to implement the kinds of software mentioned in that comment for much the same reasons. However, it definitely has real value in the sort of situation I described above, where we have both integrations with other systems but also substantial data crunching to do.
I do this too! I thought I was the only one
My favorite is "FAQ: The 'Snake Fight' Portion of your Thesis Defense".

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-port...
So when someone sees the car sideswipe yours in the parking lot, they describe it how...?
(not an economist but I'm really interested in this)

What's the difference in theory and practice between UBI and changing the standard deduction/marginal rate? Like if we give out $6k a year to everyone through a $500 check, what is the difference in how that money is spent versus if we increased the standard deduction to where people would pay $6k less in taxes? (assuming that people are in fact paying at least $6k)

I get that this is partly an experiment to figure this out, but what does the current theory say?
UBI sounds nice, and I'm sure that the experiments will show that it's great, so long as the UBI funds come from an external source. Now, imagine how things would look in Stockton if everyone received UBI, but that it also had to be funded in a closed system. I'd wager real money that it would be a huge drain on the economy.
They don't have to pick numbers equally from below and above zero. They could try to make your odds as difficult as possible by picking 10^20 and 10^20-1. The power of picking a random C is that there is a nonzero probability it will fall between their two numbers.
Re the last sentence in your comment: the New York DOT performed an analysis that "found little concrete evidence that device-induced distracted walking contributes significantly
to pedestrian fatalities and injuries": https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/distraction-shou...
Would be cool to make a system where the train could drop off tailing cars and redirect them to stops, and pick up new cars which are accelerated to a matched speed and then linked, removing need for the train to fully decelerate at intermediate stops.
You would obviously get some inflation. How much is anyone's guess. It wouldn't eat up all the UBI, but some percentage of it, certainly.
People would still be free to work and gain income that way... UBI doesn't force anyone to be dependent on the government.

I'm not sure why you think there would be a deeper bureaucracy. UBI would be way easier to administer than the current mishmash of welfare programs since there's no need to determine who qualifies or to what extent - everyone gets the same thing.
The first quote is almost literally a contradiction. "Remove your security without removing your security" WAT
> What is TLS?

Thread-Local Storage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread-local_storage
It's fair to forget OSI models since most of programmers don't need to deal with layers below IP, but the fact that there are 3 more hidden layers shouldn't surprise you. As for someone who writes SQL queries for work, I expect some level of understanding of how your underlying system work. Not in great detail, but at least a general picture. I usually consider the desire of understanding an blackbox as an indicator of whether the person will become a great programmer.
It is not reasonable to equate the rules regarding eminent domain in the US with the effort required by the Chinese government to acquire land.

Nor is it reasonable to equate the complexities of raising revenue in representative government with the ability to direct expenses in a command economy as in China.
Google Maps’s Moat
The sooner Discord dies, the better off gamers will be.
The funny thing is that if people wanted to implement some version of this without the government, they could. Take all the people who support UBI (there seem to be a ton of them online), have them pool a percentage of the income, and redistribute it evenly among the participants. The pool of participants could grow according to the success of the program. No government intervention required...and completely voluntary.

The arguments I've heard against it always seem to suggest that the proponents don't actually want to give any of their income (only the "rich" should), or that it will only work if the government does it everywhere all-or-nothing style.
_You_ understand the implications of visiting a non-encrypted site because you are a technologically savvy user. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the world does not have the experiences you and I have. Overall, it's a major plus that this is currently happening, honestly.
This is a decent description:

https://asq.org/quality-resources/control-chart

This is not process control in the sense of feedback control theory. It refers to using statistics to monitor industrial processes. When people like Deming started promoting industrial quality control, it was their intention to provide very simple tools that any factory worker could use to monitor and improve processes on their own or in small groups. So they favored graphical analysis over sophisticated statistical tests. A basic control chart was easy for anybody to produce.
Not a single country here in Europe would be so tolerant on illegal economic immigration, America is extremely accepting. What other country lets people live so many undocumented immigrants in their country? The last refugee crisis literally tored EU apart.
Testing UBI on a small scale fails to address how inflation will impact the buying power of the recipients. Findings from experiments like this are worthless.
I feel conflicted about this having programmed in both OO-heavy and pure FP Scala. On the one hand, sure if you want to write pure FP in Scala, some of the tooling is better than Haskell. Most notably the IDE situation with IntelliJ's Scala plugin has made leaps and bounds in progress the last few years and mostly handles pure FP Scala code just fine. And having access to the JVM ecosystem is an absolute god-send and huge boost to productivity. This is true even outside of library dependencies when coding. If you try deploying to production with Haskell, there's often a large gap in production tooling (monitoring, diagnostics, GC tuning, etc.) when compared to the JVM.

On the other hand Scala has its own share of infelicities when it comes to pure FP. I've mentioned this elsewhere, but the core language of Scala, that is the language that is left after you desugar everything, is OO and the FP part is really just a lot of syntax sugar mixed in with standard library data structure choices. That means if you're coming from a pure FP background a lot of things will seem like hacks (methods vs functions/automatic-eta-expansion, comparatively weak type inference, the final yield of a for-comprehension, subtyping to influence prioritization of implicits for typeclasses, monomorphic-only values vs. polymorphic classes, etc.). Treating Scala as an OO language side steps a lot of these warts.

And then there's the social factors; the Scala community is split on how much it embraces pure FP and pure FP is a (significant) minority within the community. This carries over to the library ecosystem where things are basically split into Typelevel/Typelevel-using and non-Typelevel libraries. Many workplaces have a fear (well-placed and not so well-placed) of the Typelevel ecosystem. Years ago Scalaz was something akin to the bogeyman in some places. Cats has a bit of a softer image, but still comes off as an "advanced" library in the Scala ecosystem.

Most of the social weight I feel is behind the non-pure-FP parts of Scala. Sure some of the libraries in pure FP Scala have good documentation (but I don't actually think the situation here is far better than Haskell's once you leave the core Typelevel libraries). The ones with excellent documentation though live outside the land of pure FP (Akka, Play, Spark, Slick, etc.).
I’m super-curious how Mars will be governed.
Tesla’s ‘Smart Summon’ Will Fetch Your Car–Sometimes
React made the DOM declarative; Hooks make React declarative
It seems like a correct observation to me. A nothing / false apology that seems to serve little other than to kick the hornet's nest.

I'm curious, how do you see it?
Hmm, after your comment, I just checked Android and it seems as if it's still there for developers to choose to add or not...https://developer.android.com/training/basics/network-ops/co...

But perhaps you were talking about as a user of Android (not an app developer), you no longer have the option to deny a specific app from connecting to the internet. Is that what you meant?
The interstate highway system was originally envisioned as going around the cities, not through them. Unfortunately, local politicians and construction unions pushed for the opposite, resulting in the displacement of thousands of homes. St. Louis (where I went to college) is a sad example of this; I-55 was a dagger through the heart of the city and to this day there is bitterness over how many homes were razed in the name of progress. The city never really recovered from it, actually.