skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another tactic not mentioned: I disable automatic app updates, and never update most Google apps, at all. Eventually, they fall so out of date that they break or at least suffer from reduced functionality eg. Google exchange services.
There are no real negative consequences. Fiscally conservative people want people to think there are because it's a way to counter government spending with an argument that makes sense on the surface, despite the fact that the argument is completely wrong if you spend a few minutes thinking about it.
I see that it works on mobile but u can not for the life of me figure it what the control scheme is. I just touch the screen and the car and to randomly move.
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Depends on the lottery, sometimes there is no one getting all the numbers correct so the prize money accumulates to the next round.
The real downside of Yang's plan is not including children in it which is odd because he talks a lot about a UBI funding the work of parents staying home with their kids.

The ideal scenario in my mind is a property tax, of some kind, that funds a UBI for children. Ideally, this would be at the federal level, but unfortunately property taxes have been deemed unconstitutional. This is likely true for wealth taxes as well.

But there is nothing to prevent states and cities for instituting a property tax -> UBI setup. It would no doubt help greatly with the problem of "buy properties and do nothing with them" aspect of rich foreign investors in some regions.

One of the things that Yang seems focused on is stuff that can actually be done. A wealth tax sounds nice, and he agrees with the spirit, but that is simply not a federal level option at this time. A constitutional amendment would be great to fix this, but that takes a long time and would require people to get out of survival mode to make this happen.

So Yang takes the practical approach of getting money in the hands of everyone now using a tax scheme that seems to be inoffensive to wealthy people. It probably is not, but the only way to really know is to do it.

As for the children, I am hoping this is also just a pragmatic thing. While it is hard to get this country to accept giving free money to other adults, it is even harder to imagine this country supporting giving money to "those people" with "lots of children". This is why schools are funded locally and why a UBI for children would need to be locally funded as well for now, particularly if the desire, as mine is, is to use land taxes.
"Maintainability" for FizzBuzz is a loose term, but a major disadvantage of this one is that each cycle length is encoded twice: first in fizz/buzz, then in numb.
I don't think that the trade war had disproportionate effects on Altman's prop 1 companies.
We know that income isn't tax at the same rate of capital gains tax right?

Also maybe worth looking at how big of a tax break Amazon got for their R&D budget who only benefits... Amazon.

The thing that matters here is the rate, the tax rate and America has it wrong, I consume the same % as a wealthy person, my class collaborated way more (raw amount and rate) to the society than the wealthy.
The 4-6-8-... and 9-5-7-11 rules are really nice to have on hand. The rest of relating years; 99% of the time I'm going to be calculating dates for the current year so those seem less useful to me (not to mention that part is a lot more complicated to remember)
We all know what everyone is trying to draw.
> The problem with having a handful of people be billionaires and trillionaires is that money is power, and with that amount of money you have nearly unlimited power and influence over everyone and everything. A system that will concentrate that much power will be inherently evil, it will and does serve the needs of that few over the needs of the many.

It is kind of right but essentially wrong. In any society with the size of more than hundreds of people, it always has a power structure, and always has a small number of people concentrate power way more than others. It is not a problem with super rich people. Even in all the Communist countries (Soviet Union, Mao's China, etc.) where everyone is super poor and there is no millionaire, power structure and concentration of power still exists and is way more cruel than in a market-driven society.

Of course UBI doesn't solve this, because there is no way to solve this. Even if you nuke the modern world to stone age, power structure and concentration of power will 100% appear again and keep growing when you have a team, a tribe, a city, a nation.
Sometimes with products like this one the value that it provides to the customer varies significantly depending on a use case and it's hard to put up pricing without either cutting out a long tail of smaller users or losing money on the big deals.

I have an API that market research and medical customers are willing to pay 100x more for than consumer social, at the same time the consumer companies have 100x the volume.
There's no law of nature that data/eyeballs-based monetization (including advertising) has to remain viable everywhere that it is today. I find it entirely plausible that 10 years from now people will have to directly pay for more of the services that they use.

You're already seeing this with the increased number of paywalls around publication content. I expect we'll see more subscriptions and services just shutting down if people aren't willing to pay.
Even if automation isn't coming for people's job, isn't it time we moved away from this idea that every single person has to work for 40 hours a week for 50 years of their life just to survive?

What about spending time with family, or learning a new language or just enjoying one's time?

When do we reach that magical future where we actually have leisure time and can enjoy the fact we're more advanced than we were a hundred years ago when everyone worked hard?

I'd like to get there now.
Altman's bet was about absolute values, not proportions. The trade collapse impacts those as much as anything else.
I think the idea behind this algorithm is that you have to remember one anchor date in the current year, and then you can find all other days in the same year.
> Sloppy developers are sloppy in redux as well.

Agreed. But the mess they make in MobX is in my experience much more difficult to clean up.

What I meant with render method changes is that mobx tracks access to state during a call to render (which means that anything that might influence rendering, must be accessed inside render). It seems like it's not a big deal, but it can lead to surprising bugs if one is not careful. Redux otoh uses props to pass data to render, which is much more explicit and allows regular react dev tools to be used.

I might have some details wrong - I met MobX a year ago with two legacy apps and it was a hell to maintain. Still is actually, I'm just not that involved in these projects anymore. It's magic, and not in a good way. For new projects we use Redux Toolkit, which strikes a nice balance between verbosity and being explicit.
Once your business is accumulating cash faster than it can spend it, it's time to pay a dividend.
Protect yourself from WiFi skin burns
The items that can blocks WiFi and microwaves are: stone, metal, and water.

==Stone==

The denser the better. That's why rocks > concrete > cinder blocks & bricks.

Heavy black basal rocks and black tourmaline work best as they have a high iron content. Check out the YouTube video called "Does Black Tourmaline Protect Against EMF's? | EMF Protector"

If you can find them for bulk and cheap, you can fill them in a gabion fence for some major protection while you sleep.

==Metal==

Basically, if it can conduct electricity well it is good enough to block microwaves. Copper and silver is best. Next is iron. Aluminium is cheap but still a good material.

Aluminium mesh screens work great even with the holes for low frequency wavelengths like microwaves. See "Shielding RF Radiation with Aluminum Screening" by thisirradiatedlife. Build a Faraday cage. See "Sleep Inside A Faraday Cage" by PrognatusSeptem on YouTube for a good example.

Spend about $20 on stainless steel wire/rope of 300+ feet on Amazon and wrap it around your house. This will act as a big antenna for the microwaves.

==Water==

These WiFi signals effect water molecules. Since we're mostly water, that's why it can easily pass through other materials with a lower moisture content. So use water as shield to absorb it before it gets to you.

Buy cheap pool rafts and fill it with water at Walmart. They should be $5-7 each. Fill them with water and build a fort with them.

==Summary==

Remember, stone needs to be dense for it to work. Other than that, try to combine from the three categories above and the thicker the better.
You can try this for yourself with zero downsides - leave it at home for a day and see how it goes. If it's not that bad, leave it at home the next day too and then don't use in the evenings. Or try to delete some apps and keep the phone with you.

You don't need a drastic "I'm deleting all my accounts and ditching my phone" intervention. And in my experience, in the long run big sweeping changes are far less effective than incremental changes to your habits.
Ok, fortunately Yang also wants to increase capital gains taxes to the same rate as income taxes.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/capital-gain-carried-inter...
The government would need to get money somewhere for the UBI program.

It can only do so either through taxation, or by printing money, as the government is not a value-generation enterprise.

If UBI gets its funding by taxation, UBI can't work economically (not to say it wouldn't be "UBI"). Even if you tax all the rich people, it won't provide enough money for the program. Besides, you can't really tax the rich, the moment you declare an aggressive taxation regime on them, they fly their money out of the country (and possibly their businesses too, which would generate poverty). If the assumption is that it would tax "everyone but the poor" then it's not universal "income", it's just another "social program" paid by the middle class.

If UBI is funded by printing money, then it's a debt generation engine. The USA is already heavily indebted due to at least 100 years of irresponsible governments spending a lot more than what they made through taxes. UBI would only make matters worse, and could easily lead to a currency crash within at most a couple decades (which would wipe out retirement funds, savings, etc. therefore generating poverty and causing social unrest)
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You should look into welfare payments in Australia. It's about the easiest to get and most generous on the planet, and a small percentage of people do choose to be lazy and life off it.

But the very vast majority don't.
You can have that. Acquire more assets.
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Figuring it out is part of the fun ;)

(But spoiler, it's just about moving relative to where you start touching... press then move up the screen to go straight.)
Neat! Now all it needs is 3 or 4 massive animal/human hybrid monsters to smash it all to rubble... ;)
Happy new year everybody! We built this feature for quite some time. The backend consists of a static website generator, Nginx and a node server cluster. Happy to answer any questions.
Complete speculation by TeenVogue. Absolutely no backing evidence that modern mass shootings are in any way connected to the ones mentioned in the article (probably because they’re completely different).

Surprised this made it to the second page.
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> "UBI just doesn't solve that..."

It might not solve is but it's certainly a ding in the arc of the current status quo.

The problem with no floor is it creates fear. Lots of it. When you fear losing your job and/or your home your view of the world gets very narrow. Your options limited. Availability of opportunity and resources cause you to make bad decisions (e.g., blaming minority X or Y for your fate).

It's true UBI will not solve the power imbalance. But it can be a step in the direction of undermining the status quo.
BMW also didn't care about it since the main point of the BMW brand was driver engagement and sporty feel aimed at purists.

Autonomous driving goes against that mantra and was seen as something uncool, for old people who couldn't drive or something like that and would get you ridiculed by driving purists.

That, however, was before sporty cars became luxury cars and vice versa.
At this point you’re probably better off buying an iPhone and disabling iCloud backup (or disabling iCloud entirely).
I find it strange that the author thinks that Dark Forest theory is implausible. It strikes me as the simplest of explanations.

Granted Cixin Liu stretches physics into all sorts of implausible places, but it does make a strong argument for the theory.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48838110-three-body-prob...
That page errors out with "TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'i.unobserve')" and shows zero content when loading in Safari 11, making it INCREDIBLY high performance!
> 7. Review your cloud sync

I used an Android device for a short while a few years ago. I disabled all sync functionality and would back up to my own storage device.

After an OS update, all of the sync functionality was automatically enabled and everything on the device was uploaded to Google’s services anyway. So I deleted everything that was uploaded, then deleted my google account, and bought an iPhone and swore to never use a google product again — and I haven’t.
And over 10 years ago, people were joking about bubbles in the context of companies like Facebook. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2007/dec/19/here...

Whatever is to come with e.g. the decreased interest in the public markets for loss-making companies with no apparent path to profitability, the last 10 years have apparently not been a bubble for any reasonable definition of the term.
Exactly. Scottiestech's YouTube has some good info on how your smartphone is tracking you more than you think. Sometimes I think about building my own phone with a Raspberry Pi or use LineageOS.
Yea nope. Leap days not having a weekday? How would that even work?
The whole "idle time" vs. "longest wait" distinction is suspect and it's surprising they don't go to more effort to justify it.

What "longest wait" measures is (b_i - a_i) in:

Time a_0
lock
Time b_0
unlock
Time a_1
lock
Time b_1
unlock
...

What "idle time" measures is (b_i - a_i) in:

lock
Time a_0
unlock
lock
Time b_0
Time a_1
unlock
lock
Time b_1
...

At least for the spinlock variants, "unlock" should be an extremely cheap operation (just a store for most variants), which means that those two sequences ought to be essentially identical in terms of timing: it ought to be possible to move the "Time a_i"s across the "unlock" operations with a timing impact less than a microsecond, i.e. the two sequences ought to have essentially the same timings.

The fact that the timings are supposedly different on a millisecond scale is therefore quite suspicious.

Perhaps the chosen clock ends up calling a syscall, which can end up in the scheduler on syscall return occasionally and throw off the measurements that way? Or just the fact that there's one extra syscall in the critical section sometimes causes other threads to make different yielding decisions which throws off the scheduling?

More generally, it would have been great to see a deeper investigation into scheduling behavior, which is possible on Linux using the tracing infrastructure and visualizing with different tools like Hotspot.

Getting a worst-case delay of ~1.5ms with a naive ticket_spinlock that can yield is really not surprising, to be honest. All it takes is for patterns like:

1. 3 threads pull their tickets in order.
2. The middle thread yields and something else is chosen to run by the scheduler, or perhaps the scheduler decides not to run anything for a short while on the off-chance that something else becomes runnable, which is a fair choice because after all, you yielded.
3. The last thread is then blocked by the middle thread.

It just boils down to the fact that "yield" is a bad primitive. You should fall back to futex-based synchronization instead so that the kernel has a better idea of what you're trying to do. The article comes to the same conclusion anyway, in the form of "just use std::mutex".
You don't. You use a large central inverter to convert to AC for the house load. The problem with Teslas is that they won't supply power at all with the usual home charging setup.
Freebase was not just "shut down" out of nowhere. A data dump is still available, and some of it was merged into Wikidata but overall the resource was found to be of poor reliability. It may have had very accurate data on average, but this was not enough for many Wikidata use cases.
You tax coorperations, not rich individuals.

Although if you sit down and work it out I’m not sure it makes sense quite yet. UBS though probably could.
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The article does a good job of explaining some of the numbers, but it’s important to remember just how large they are.

To a spacefaring civilization a million years might be the human equivalent of a decade.

The sad truth is that intelligent humans (enough to think and act on thoughts of space travel) have barely existed on the cosmic timeline, and likely won’t live long enough to know the answer to whether or not we’re alone. Not because of some romanticized fermi gate paradoxical reasoning, but simply because we ran out of time.
Nice. My take on the simplest possible API:

https://github.com/will123195/venti
Got it, fill pockets with stones,jump in deep make, voilà no WiFi burns.

Although now I think about it, I have never had a WiFi burn, so perhaps I am made of stone, or perhaps water, I'm pretty sure I'm not made of aluminium.
10-20 years from now, they'll care that their heads are getting chopped off for future thought crimes that they are committing with their phones right now. Our porn habits will be used as justification to depopulate the world, while the elites continue to rape children for fun.
Protect yourself from WiFi skin burns (NO this is not a real thing)
> They can't so much as coordinate with the PAC.

There were whole weeks of "The Colbert Report" where Colbert and Jon Stewart legally set up a super PAC for colbert to run for "president of South Carolina" where they exploited every bit of the super PAC legislation just to show how easy it is and what kind of legal things people can do with the money. The "you cannot coordinate" part was hilariously easy to get around.
OK sure, there are some tenuous connections, but none of that has anything to do with "Amazon passing $0 in taxes."
No it is being deprecated in 2020.
These look like great resources, thanks!
Usage examples of "Open Source" from 1993 and 1996:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.ms-windows.pro...

http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/fall96/0269.html

Especially that Caldera announcement for OpenDOS seems fairly high-profile.

I'm not suggesting that Christine Peterson is lying when she claims to have coined "Open Source"; it could be coined independently on several occasions, or perhaps she had seen the term but merely forgot about it.

Even if OSI would have coined the term, that still wouldn't mean they should be in 100% control of all usage of it. That's not how language works.
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Love the idea. I hope it sticks.

I think you should add a statement addressing the privacy issue. Will you or won't you sell data? Is the data encrypted? Will the vendor not sell the data?

I can see this product being a lot of fun. But not at the expense of loss of privacy.
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There are earlier usages of "Open Source"; see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21928290
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You might check with your public library. Ours offers free access to Lynda.com from your home by redirecting through the public library's websitt.
Starting with Android Pie, backups are encrypted with a key not known to Google[1]. Doesn't cover all of sync, but that is encouraging.

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-and-android-h...
> UBI just doesn't solve that

Doesn't it though? You create a floor, so that anyone with a miserable job can say "screw you" and quit and go start their own business without having to worry about how they're going to make rent before the new business starts making money, and you get a lot more competition. More smaller companies instead of fewer bigger companies. And the big companies would have to pay more to get some people to not do that, so you get less inequality.

How isn't that solving the problem?
I like it how those patterns reveal different screen sizes/resolutions.
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Also 99% "of the population" doesn't use Android.
I'm inclined to read it as early opportunities having the highest average growth potential. Big companies are more likely to be already around their actual ceiling.
> money is power

Money isn’t power. Power is power. If Putin became bankrupt tonight, he’d still be one of the most powerful people on earth tomorrow morning. Power is the capacity to have others do what you want, including handing you their money when you need it.
Case in point: how many million-dollar lottery winners ended up having any nontrivial influence on their community or state? Nearly 0.
I hate iOS but good god android is awful! I bought a cheap one on new years to use as a balloon tracker (GPS boards are expensive so it seemed like a good idea.)

There are absolutely no diagnostics, every setting (including critical ones) seems to move around between OS updates. They’re constantly breaking things you actually need (termux API is missing half of what’s useful and silently fails on most things now) while still letting malware installed by manufacturers through. I think when I first connected the phone to a network it pulled down ~1Gb of shovelware including facebook. Thankfully it was on WiFi since I didn’t want to use up the data until we launched the balloon.

This of course never worked. It was able to connect and use data for about 30 minutes, I’m not sure what we did to make it work but it randomly stopped after that.

Mobile OSes need to die, they don’t help people they’re just another tool for corporations to push users through confusing broken mazes in order to manipulate them.
TS works well. But ImmutableJS is slow, really slow.
https://jsperf.com/immutable-js-iteration
This is not correct. Some tribes have large sovereign wealth funds and other valuable tribal assets, the income from which is used to fund UBI for members of the tribe. These payments can be substantial, significantly larger than what Yang proposes in some cases.

Many of these tribal UBI systems have been in place for decades, so they are a good laboratory for studying the effects of UBI on population behavior.
Well, even if we're not alone, we must acknowledge that someone had to be first to develop the ability to travel through the cosmos. It may actually be us.
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The prop 1 companies underperformed Altman's expectations in a way that the market as a whole, and the prop 2 and prop 3 companies, did not. Explaining that via recourse to a trade war is difficult.
This is a GREAT post. Super technical. Lots of stuff to learn.
It's only true if the program is about to exit, for long running programs like daemons, ``memory leak`` is still a thing.
Completely agree. I would rather have hierarchies determined by free-market forces rather than a state-organized system. Corporate monopolies should be deterred by the state, but trying to cap individual success via something like a wealth tax would cause problems for the whole market.