skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nokia was a big company with comfortable profits too in 2007. If you haven't yet I'd suggest going and driving a Model 3 around for a day. Tesla is supply constrained right now the demand is infinite for these cars and soon trucks as volume drives down price.
Yes, that
I wonder what a “good personal human assistant” As A Service would look like. A real human that knows all about you (and 100 other clients) and can book appointments, plan vacations, or who knows what.
> My sister works up in Alaska. Tribal members up there have exactly what UBI promises: a baseline check every month. This has not stirred people to innovation. It has led to a gluttony of drug and alcohol addition and a forgetting of the ways to live off the land.

Perhaps an alternate explanation from "having guaranteed income makes people lazy, stupid, and drug addicts" might be "living in a place with little to do, few resources to use, and a natural environment that can be best described as 'often actively killing you' on good days"?

And in general I find these takes offensive simply because, with specific respect to Native lands in various places, people are putting the same notions of what is considered "success" in the Capitalist West on completely different cultures.

The notion of "work hard, build stuff, earn money, die wealthy" is very much a recent thing in human history, starting in the 1600's when corporations first became a thing. For millennia, the condition of existence was not centered solely around the accumulation of wealth; people lived, to live. They lived to grow and eat food, to experience other people and places, to stave off disease and to of course, pass on their genetic material. There is nothing inherently human about the accumulation of material wealth; we all seek security, of course, but we had security in relatively different amounts and methods for long, LONG before the existence of money.

I'm not arguing of course to return to the caves; merely pointing out that the capitalist values of earning and hoarding vast fortunes are incredibly over-emphasized whenever success is discussed. Many, many people see money not as something to hoard or invest, but simply as a vehicle with which to live comfortably. They value it for it's ability to ensure them long lasting security but that's it, and if they could have that money without working, you're correct, they'd probably live very simple lifestyles; none of them going out to change the world, or invent some new thing, or solve problems. And I'm saying there is nothing wrong with that. We have approximately six hundred of every conceivable product, all begging to be purchased, all manufactured at ludicrous scale, a ton of which will end up in a landfill either unsold, or sold and forgotten within a couple of years. And to accomplish what?

If you want to talk about how to really further the species, then I think we need newer, more interesting ideas than the next app, or the next gizmo, or the new format of television.
If human history suggests anything, it would be that at a certain point invading other colonies will become more profitable than founding new colonies in sub-optimal locations.
I'm involved with some large youtube channels and wanted to comment on why Youtube works for content creators.

There's 3 reasons why they like Youtube:

1. easy-to-use (free, no administration)

2. discoverability, though large channels already have a built-in audience that is self-viral!

3. monetization, typically $1k - $5k/million views/month (eligible above 10,000 subscribers for acceptable content)

The downsides are:

1. "copyrights", which are mostly Youtube takedowns (seldom DMCA)

2. the sporadic nature of payments. You might get $0 next month, or $1000. Very mysterious, so creators rely on Patreon to pay their rent.

3. Occasionally your comments get disabled, related to "copyrights." Then you have to manually re-enable, which is a hassle for hundreds of videos.

Oh, and your account could be deactivated at any time. :)
Well, eventually everyone will have the experience of getting UBI when they turn 18, prior to achieving high income. It will just be something everyone has from the start of adulthood and an accepted part of reality.

Which leads to me think that it'd be a temporary issue and will naturally resolve itself over time.
Even if Android was pure C++ instead of Java, given how those Frameworks got designed, I doubt it would help much.
Right on target. "Learn to code" is the new "let them eat cake". And Biden doesn't get this?
I have a similar system in my rented apartment, and there's no issue with batteries after 4 years so far.

I wouldn't choose it. Every ten pushes of the switch, nothing happens, and there's no visible / feelable state of the position of a switch.
Awesome answer. Any particular resources that you can point to in order to learn this?
SigParser – Email body parsing library for developers
For flatbed scanners you would use something like SANE or Vuescan. Most devices have a different driver.
Well, you can “downgrade”... You just have to start all over. Which IMO is absolutely atrocious.
I'll second (third?) LineageOS + microG! Full ROMs combining both are available [1] (OS updates often seem to have to be installed manually, but are supported on popular phones for years). In addition to using everything from the F-Droid repository, I can run Slack/Discord/Messenger/WhatsApp/GroupMe (though notifications are hit-or-miss) and a good few other apps (Duolingo, bank mobile apps, Uber but not Lyft). Many of these apps can be installed via Yalp Store [2], which is a frontend for the Google Play store with a built-in account to provide some anonymity. It'll do until I get a Librem5 [3].

TL;DR: no Google, most things work, but not necessarily smoothly. I've used it for a few years now.

[1] https://lineage.microg.org/
[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstor...
[3] https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
Why an Internet That Never Forgets Is Especially Bad for Young People
Cool, thank you both.
A lot of what you just claimed is completely false or misleading, given your rants throughout this thread though I doubt it’s worth time to enumerate it. You seem very intent to distract the discussions for this post towards Apple and whataboutisms.
Humans are not ruminants. We can not survive on hay. We can survive on the high-nutrition parts of plants, but creating these parts is resource-intensive. In some cases the whole plant is simply difficult to grow (pests, fertilizer, etc.) and in other cases we don't get very much food from each plant.

There is a whole lot of tree attached to a cashew.

Goats and sheep are happy to eat the weeds on a rocky hill, and cattle do almost as well.

Other food animals are happy to eat disgusting waste. Pigs, chickens, and catfish are especially willing.
Chicago sets its train tracks on fire when it's this cold (2019)
I think Defold may be a good option for you, it is quite polished and easy to learn and use.
I've been using godot for about a year now, and really like it. I am really excited about the upcoming vulkan renderer which should help with my main gripe which is no ambient occlusion. Some people have found some novel ways around it but I am choosing to just focus on my gltf assets and work on my blender skills in the meantime.

Linux native gamedev is possible!
> Also, would you stop working if you got 12k a year for free?

Please define “free”. It’s not free. It’s just other people’s money. The scheme is literally we’ll collect money from everyone and then give it back.

If everyone has an extra 12k... NO ONE has an extra 12k.

>Who wants to do nothing all day long?

Oh. You might want to venture outside of your bubble a bit.
Thanks, AWS CloudFormation looks like what I've experienced with other cloud service providers.
Totally agree and signed up for monthly recurring $10.
If the side project is something that can be a real product/service and/or company, as well as monetized, then pursue it. However, maintain your real job (even if it becomes mundane as a result of excitement from side project) until side project becomes viable enough to replace current job, good luck.
If you’re referring to the crowd-sourced collection and contribution of Wi-Fi SSIDs, iOS has the “Wi-Fi Networking” toggle in location services that turns this on or off. If you’re referring to the use of that data, it is one of several components in the locations API that cannot be separated out.
One thing I fail to see mentioned here and in such articles is the complexity of colonization. We are falling in the trap of "idea == profit". A lot needs to be done, and can go wrong, between both.

Some examples I am thinking of, and I am certain people will have more... All are compounded by the LY distances between colonies and whatever home is:

- Terraforming - It would be the exception that new planets are 100% hospitable to a specific species. How long to properly terraform, and then how long before the can get to a point where they can launch a new sub-colony? Need proper population, technology and resources.

- Culture drift - how long can the colony and home share the same culture, with same values and objectives?

- Political drift - Imagine you are part of a colony, with "home" some 4 LY away. How long before you will want to have full autonomy, specially given the distance?

- Cultural and political factions - Is it possible that individuals in the colony have different objectives, resulting with political infighting or open war? What would then be the impact on the colony?

- Protection - Depending on technological advancement, how can a colony protect itself from external rogue elements (big warship gone rogue, pirating the colonies for resources?)

For sure, many of these things depend on the type of species colonizing its region, how much sentience and free will they have. I also assume they haven't solved FTL travel!
I don’t see where he used a kettle. A contrived example? I don’t own one myself because I use a microwave.

How about the stuff he discussed in the article? All of it seems valid.

Personally, I wouldn’t mind a little home automation that works with a voice ui. Over time, it’ll become cheaper, more reliable, and transparent.

Also, I prefer to optimize for 99% of my time instead of the rare event. I can pull out a pot when the power goes out.

Like people who would rather use gas cars instead of electric because of range and there are 180,000 gas stations in the US, you might want to check back in 10 years.
"...the fact that the tech sector has such a powerful role means that it will be highly regulated by society."

I think this reality will arrive hard and fast in the 2020's. The breadth and depth of regulation globally will depend on election outcomes. But it will happen either way. GDPR and CCPA are just a taste of what's to come. We'll see regulation in several key areas including:

- Social media's goal of increased engagement vs mental health.

- Cross border cybersecurity.

- More jurisdictions adopting GDPR/CCPA-like privacy laws.

- Cloud providers (consumer in particular) and vendor lock-in vs portability.

Some is already happening, but expect to see a ramp up. Don't interpret this as me being pro/anti regulation. Just a reality that's coming IMO.
This is really fascinating, basically an examination of ideas to change the U.S. tax code to make it less regressive and more fair for the majority. Spoiler - a lot of it includes taxing the wealthy at higher rates and taxing capital and assets
Ask HN: What is the difference between progressive and oppessive?
I am struggling to see the difference between progessive agendas, attitudes, policies etc from the actions of oppressive regimes.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21924216

Yes.
Mmm if there were only IP microphones to connect to something like a Raspberry Pi (An Odroid H2 in my case) to have multiple mics, one on each room without the need for multiple servers...
What is your surgeon was only paid to do something on you that was unethical?
Step 1: Never, under any circumstances, sign into Google Play Services. Better still would be to rid your Android of it altogether and install LineageOS.
wtf is hipster yoga?
Leave out the cynicism please
Working homelessness is a thing in California because of outrageous housing costs. The problem there isn't insufficient wages, it's insufficient local housing.

You can live a spartan life on $12,000/year in many places in the midwest and not die of poverty.
Batteries last 10 - 15 years with regular usage (30 on/offs a day). They use just a regular button cell battery.
I think there's someone working on adding more tiles.
F-Droid is a pretty cool foss app "store" as an alternative to the playstore.
Does intelligence and innovation predict cultural change? Is there evidence that this is prevalent in other species?
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Previous discussion on the possibility (mentioned in the article) that an advanced industrial civilization existed on Earth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21840320
I loved those books, but the dark forest theory doesn’t make sense. Given a dangerous universe it would make sense for a civilization to try to communicate with other civilizations to create alliances for mutual safety.

The civilizations that are able to forge alliances will tend to out-compete lone wolves.

Liu assumes that it is somehow a lot easier to wipe out a civilization than communicate with it, and that for some reason your civilization has to decide to wipe out another civilization without communicating with it.
Instead of switching to Gmail I'd rather think about what exactly makes an email non-personal. For me, it's not about if the senders adress is "name@example.com" rather than "name@gmail.com" but rather what's written inside the mail. Mailgun etc. let you write just normal emails like you would do in gmail as well.

I think the annoying thing about those services is that they are mostly used for mass-mailing. It doesn't matter if you send the same email to thousands of people via gmail rather than anything else - it will still be a poorly customized email for the recipients.
It’s been tried before. Lots of times. The reality of “let’s form our own utopia town/city/commune” always loses out to reality of primal human interests.
The thing is that I already meditate and do yoga every morning. I also either run 10k or fitness every morning and play team sports. Even when being mindful, that does not give me a clear purpose.
I've helped with documentation myself, so yeah, it does feels nice to be part of the solution!
Make Monthly Updates Easier?
I don't have a ton of experience in this space, but I've been looking for a good, simple 2D engine as well. My two top picks are Godot and GameMaker [1]. I've been building prototypes in both, and both have their strengths. I'm currently leaning a little more towards Godot since I've had a bit of trouble getting GameMaker to work well on my Mac (it's been fine on my Windows PC).

I tried Unity, but it really feels like an overkill for what I want. Both Unity and Unreal are really geared more towards 3D, and to me they complicated 2D development because of it.

[1] https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker
I don't see what the big deal is. If you don't like it, just don't have a face.
The tactile feedback part of the switch is definitely an area we have tagged for improvement.
"Peace for our time." - Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time

That was too easy! :)

(My understanding is that although the quote appears to be naive, Britain started preparing for war in a serious manner. The USA also started their build-up at least a year before Pearl Harbor.
Fun and a great learning experience, sure. But, at least with respect to infrared, I'm not seeing the cost effective part when fully integrated solutions with ~19x greater resolution and then some can be had for $400 retail; the BOM for such a project will approach (if not exceed) this figure. Prototyping is often deceptively expensive.
I've wondered the same. Might be possible for form an organization. Would need legal help as well to lobby for our group.

As far as being a software dev consultant under AB5, this is the best resource I've found on how to go about it, though I found it a bit to put together:

https://insight.ieeeusa.org/articles/california-bill-ab-5-th...
This is cool. Those who find it interesting might also enjoy Matt Adereth’s Dactyl [0] project. Similar idea, it’s a parameterised geometry 3d printable ergodox/kinesis style ortho board on steroids. I imagine the two would play quite nicely together.

[0] https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard
You already killed my hope for the new year: people stop misusing "leverage" as a verb.
Thanks a lot for the feedback !
Most of the auto-lighting cases can be handled with a motion sensor and/or a timer. I've got two internet capable sockets and I've yet to found a use case for them.

The only case I found useful is using an internet capable magnetic sensor on the garage door to notice me when it's opened or closed, so that I have a peace of mind after driving off.
If the author is reading this, this might be the greatest single article I’ve read that expresses the benefits of Rust and how minimal the trade-offs are. Wonderfully written piece, thank you!

BTW, in your bounds checking examples, I think it can be further simplified (would need to check the output to see if it's any better), this:

fn fill_1024(array: &mut [u8], color: u8) {
// Perform an explicit, checked, slice of the array before
// entering the loop.
let array = &mut array[..1024];

for i in 0..1024 {
array[i] = color;
}
}

Could be:

fn fill_1024(array: &mut [u8], color: u8) {
for i in &mut array[..1024] {
*i = color;
}
}

Here's the playground: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

Thanks again, this is a wonderful piece.
May as well give up a mobile phone all together, never mind smart phone. Your location is constantly tracked by the telco.
Thanks for the rabbit hole! Spend a few hours on this blog and his recommendations... and then theirs.
Social progress, like rights for women/gays/minorities, reminds you of oppressive regimes?
100 is probably a big number. Consider that would only get you their services for about 30 minutes/week on average. They're also not going to know you and your preferences very well at that point or be immediately on call.

That's certainly far more than an admin at a company covers for anything beyond very cursory attention.

Travel agents can still help you a fair bit within their area of expertise. My experience is that for a very long time, most largely just booked flights, hotels, and cruises before the days of self-service. However, there are specialty companies that can help handle a lot of details for certain types of trips.

There are also companies that offer virtual assistants but, going by past experiences with not so good admins, I'm a bit skeptical how much value you'd get in general.
Yep, that's why Yang completely lost me when he dropped Medicare for All. Universal healthcare would dramatically reduce the dependance of workers on exploitative employers and it's way more feasible than UBI. Over 50% of healthcare today in the US is already funded by the government.
> Shouldn't we be a little more worried about introducing this kind of extra complexity into our lives?

Yes, we should. I'm currently building and I wouldn't touch this stuff with a 10 foot pole. The only thing I'm considering is Philips Hue bulbs, but only for the configurable colour temperature and brightness, and if I can find an alternative that doesn't need a web connection I will use that.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2249/
> How is the rate of demand for dollars growing?

> Hint, global assets are all available for purchase on dollars. As more and more products get built in China and other countries and they are all willing to accept dollars for them, the rate of demand for dollars increases.

This doesn't contradict anything I said.

Yes, I understand why demand for dollars is going up. No, that doesn't mean we can just print dollars faster than demand and expect no inflation.

> As for visa on arrival, most countries on it are similar GDP-wise. Which means their citizens have a low cost to convert to USD and their capital accounts are open so citizens can freely chnage into USD.

So would it be fair to say that you're retracting your statement that this is "uniquely American"?
The sun still requires space to harvest, much like anything.
That is a very good list, but I fear that we won't achieve any of those. Maybe we can make some incremental moves towards achieving those goals.
> The problem there isn't insufficient wages

Yes it is.

> it's insufficient local housing

Insufficient housing given wages and insufficient wages given housing costs are the exact same thing. If you have one you, ipso facto, have the other.

California has insufficient low-end wages (and poverty support programs) given the prices (not just for housing, though that's a particularly significant aspect of the issue) created by the wealth of California's high-end workers and capitalists.
Given their focus on technology and modernization and massive investment in R&D and STEM education, it is likely that China will grow further still. China’s R&D investment is now at the top of the world about on par with the US. There are also a very high number of capable engineers in China as suggested by PISA results.

A key difference with middle income countries that only earn export income as manufacturing base is that there are quite a few Chinese companies that possess its own technology and brands. DJI, Oppo, Xiaomi are some examples. Many of these brands are not well known in the US but have become increasingly competitive with global brands, at least in some respect, in Asia and perhaps elsewhere.

It might make sense to compare them to Korean brands a while back, with an additional advantage of massive domestic market.

Their forward-looking focus on major industries of tomorrow like AI, EV, and biotech does not hurt either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21868570

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21692002

Since there are many areas in China that could be further developed, the service sector will also likely grow.

My point is that the US ought not get complacent and believe in wishful thinking that competition from China will simply go away in time.
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