skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you prefer a system which teaches you in let's say a high quality education system?

If yes: imagine a world where more people are willing to do other jobs more social because money becomes less relevant.
The problem is big companies impose so much power over governments, which often depend on them for that military power and technological superiority that those companies can influence the countries to do what they want. Think about how many of our wars were based on oil. Think about how our government has threatened to put tariffs on France for trying to properly tax tech companies.

Countries have dropped rules on tech companies, and tech companies have retaliated to the point that those countries relented and begged the companies to come back.

No, tech companies aren't going to start driving tanks across enemy companies' lawns, but they don't have to. They're so powerful they can use countries' militaries as their pawns.
Q&A: Legendary designer Yves Béhar on his next chapter
Jordan Peterson has a quote roughly to the effect of: if you make people play a game they can't win they might flip the whole board over. Basically, people who feel powerless get angry.

I think the blanket mindset is: I want X. I don't have X because of those people.

Replace X and those people as needed and it covers the philosophy behind a lot of violence and division.
> However, these jobs are not meant to create wealth. They're meant to provide subsistance. This is much the same goal of UBI.

I'm not even a proponent of UBI, but I immediately see a few problems with your argument here:

1) They often don't provide subsistence, hence the necessity for many people to have multiple jobs. While we can adjust UBI accordingly (to some extent, obviously CoL is a thing), it's significantly more difficult to adjust around people working multiple jobs.

2) You're missing a critical component of UBI, which is that people are free to pursue whatever they might like (including nothing at all) without the fear of losing basic necessities. Low wage jobs obviously preclude you from doing that--because you're, well, spending your time working those jobs.

This is hyperbole of course, but we may very well be missing out on a modern-era Emily Dickinson or Darwin because they're spending all their time working minimum wage jobs.

3) Everyone's already moving heavily towards automation. Corporations don't employ people out of the goodness of their hearts. The second it becomes cheaper to automate something, those jobs will disappear. You can already see this to some extent with automated checkout lines, internet vs. retail shopping, etc. Unless you do something drastic ala NJ and Oregon with enforcing low-wage work like gas station attendants, those jobs quickly fade away.
why do boomers buy SUVs? is it just because they think it's safer?
If we stopped producing all plastic right now, the oceans would still be full of plastic. Even if we treat the source we'll still need to clean up. The damage has already been done. It won't go away on it's own over time.
Another issue is who owns these automation processes. If I used my vast financial resources to develop (i.e. pay people to develop) a new automation process, what rights do you have to my gains? Why should I share it with you?

This mentality and ownership really needs to be rethought.
I use Insect[0][1] as my calculator and it is great and does not have the odd choice of having case-insensitive identifiers plus does not require me to have Haskell installed. I would prefer if Insect was written in a compiled language but I am glad that it exists and JavaScript is really not a deal breaker for me as I need nodejs installed anyway (the same cannot be said for Haskell and this is going to be true for most people) plus you can get "compiled" single binaries for it from the release page[2] that you can put in `~/.local/bin` and not worry about it. I highly recommend trying it out. A bit slow to start but if your window manager supports hiding/showing bound windows through user defined shortcuts (like bspwm, awesomewm, i3, sway, herbstluft and most other tiling window managers) then you can just have it launch in the background on startup and you will have a convenient calculator just a few keystrokes away.

[0] https://insect.sh/?q=%3F

[1] https://github.com/sharkdp/insect

[2] https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/releases
>I think that the incel problem has a very specific issue in the fact that it's culturally ostracized; people who suffer from it are labeled as shy and lazy.

The issue is that society has a fairly strict range within which social, psychological, and physical features are considered attractive, and some subpopulation will always fall outside of these norms - but how society values these outliers changes over time and given the consumer, status driven culture in the U.S. there may be more of them now and they're being rejected worse than ever...but this increase in the trend is just speculation in my part.

Regardless, for some people, no amount of therapy is going to make them forget that they have suffered the collective judgement of society and weigh in at the bottom of the attractiveness scale, with little realistic hope of improving their rating without wholly changing appearance, personality, and or interests.
I'm running Debian testing since 4.0 beta and never had an un-bootable system or something got broken due to normal updates. I've just reinstalled the system once to migrate it to 64 bit, since there was no proven procedure to migrate a running 32 bit system to 64 bit.

There were rough patches along the way but, all distros were having the same problem in someway or another (vdpau, fglrx, multi-gpu support, ndiswrapper & wireless stuff, etc.) but it's a set it and forget it affair for a very very long time.

...and obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/963/
... I don’t get it. If it’s only splitting equally how is this easier than a calculator app that’s already installed on every persons phone? Or, you know, having some basic ability to do simple math in your head or on a piece of paper?
Yeah, having reads rebalancing the tree in a multithreaded subsystem is probably not optimal. Might be that the Splay-trees have outstayed their welcome :)

FreeBSD’s tree.h used to have, iirc, both RB- and Splay-trees.
Game-Changing DevOps and Cloud Trends (2020)
Try getting healthcare in the US without health insurance, and try affording health insurance when you don't have good enough work. Yeah... thought so.

You edited your post to add a line about emergency healthcare being a legal obligation of hospitals - we both know that emergency healthcare (i.e. "I am literally dying right this second") is not the total of necessary healthcare for many people. I invite you to try surviving very long as a diabetic when the only treatment option is to go to A&E when you are literally dying.
7ct of that is power generation. The rest is taxes and other things.

Nuclear does massively reduce the French CO2 Footprint.

And French taxpayers will pay for storing the waste forever.
But jazz isn’t dead either...
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So we agree that prosperity is not as simple as everyone has a job
Higher ups might not even see that number, they see avail time divided by paid time, and they want to push "efficiency" up.
> one problem with UBI is that it comes at the expense of personal gratification and economic productivity

I wholeheartedly disagree with this. UBI allows people to pursue what they are passionate about, work where they truly want to, and help start a new business. The data backs that people will not work less, but be able to have more freedom in what job they do work in. I highly recommend Yang's book about this: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/andrew-yang/the-war-on-...
> economic violence

This construction is linguistic violence!
I'm way out of that loop, do you have any citations or more perspectives to underscore this claim?
‘Handy’ comes from the WWII ‘handie talkie’, a transceiver small enough to hold in the hand¹, which followed the ‘walkie talkie’, a transceiver small enough to walk around with².

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portable_radio_SCR536.png

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scr300.png
Learning Faster in Lightning Speed
> You call devs Junior until they have over 5 years experience? Wow, that’s harsh

Less than 3-4 years is absolutely junior dev. Up until around 7 or 8 years is mid-level. Passing beyond that would be senior dev and the other titles then follow.

With the obvious note that it's not strictly time bound - someone could easily get stuck at mid level for much longer if they aren't progressing. It's pretty hard to still be only junior after 7+ years
This was why when Argentina swapped out a job guarantee (plan jefes) with a UBI-type program, many of the women who did the job guarantee jobs of caring for the elderly, etc. kept doing the work in spite of the government telling them it wasn't "necessary" any more.

While it's theoretically possible that they might have spontaneously started doing these jobs if a UBI program had been initiated I'm not aware of any example where this has happened.
For-profit film school turned Hollywood dreams into student debt nightmares
Open-source software judges accuracy of computer predictions of cancer genetics
Of course degrees matter. Knowledge creates productivity, which creates wealth.
Welfare for able-body with able-mind individuals is another ridiculous socialist stunt that they pulled after WWII. “I eat, I shit, I deserve money.”
Financial stress explains upwards of 30% of the cross-sectional variance of life satisfaction.[1] If the hypothesis is that the US unemployed are significantly more financially stressed than the Canadian unemployed, then that would almost assuredly be reflected in differing life satisfaction scores.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.536...
My personal opinion is that we're not going to convince people to stop flying, so we should decarbonize air travel regardless of its relative efficiency.
Untaxed? Where? Got the car gassed up.
Vim-Ify All Things with the Drop Alt Keyboard
8 years and $1B later, California’s computer upgrade is not doing its job
It seems to me that the difference is that with UBI you can use the time that you would otherwise be working to prepare for a new job, look for a new job, or to do work that doesn't pay (e.g. art).

On the other hand, a low wage job takes up the same amount of time as a regular job but doesn't provide many of the benefits (e.g. financial security, sufficient discretionary money to pursue your goals, the ability to purchase a house, etc.).
If working a job will prevent financial ruin, then it's a good job. No job has to be permanent.
>>The "goal" of a low wage job is for an employer to make a profit from someone else's labor

That is the goal of all jobs, high, low, middle

Employers are not charity, they do not employ people so they can have a good income.

Employers employ people because they need work done to make money off that work, the second you cost your employer more than they make off your work you are out of a job.

Sometimes that cut off is more direct (i.e if you make widgets your per hour the rate of manufacture can easily be factored into the cost of making the widget) but if you some do something more nebulous like cleaning the floors, or filing papers, that can be harder to calculate but every business does.
I made anither comment about the blueprint editor in UE4.

It helped me both rapidly prototype things and learn UE4 design patterns / practices. Some of the core functionality and perf related things I'll bang out in cpp but for most things I stick to blueprints.
>Although it was originally conceived as a site where lonely individuals of both sexes could meet, exchange experiences, and provide support, both the concept and its online manifestation were taken over by men complaining about their own involuntary celibacy and debating the causes behind their frustrations

Because dating is asymmetric and loneliness is much more pervasive among men. It's incredibly frustrating that academics and media outright refuse to acknowledge this fact! This article is an ideologically driven, sensationalist dumpster fire.
Plastic packaging isn't the leading cause of plastic in the oceans mind you. But I agree wholeheartedly, it's up to government policy to fix this. Consumers have proven they won't give it up. Businesses are economically encouraged to keep it around. There is no hope outside of regulation.
Hackers Are Abusing a Bug in Firefox to Take over Computers
And what about Gary Null?
I try to worry much more about what works rather than labels.

If you stuff all your functionality and data transformations into class definitions, your class definitions will be full of dependencies. Now all the fundamental elements of your program depend on each other and can't be separated.

It's like trying to pile up concrete until it forms a cave instead of laying it down to make the floor and building on top of it.

What am I missing?
> Changing versions can be very disruptive in many situations.

You assert that, but is that really true? Updating "stable" distro should be non-event, the very opposite of disruptive.
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It is not the same for drivers though. Drivers have to use their real name as in their driving licence . I doubt that a registered legal name is going to be that kind of offensive.
Classic masochist
Demoted and Placed on Probation
Yes the same startup is trying to collect trash at the mouths of rivers. But even that is not far enough upstream. The problem must be tackled before the trash gets into the river. But how do you convince a developing country to invest in waste disposal infrastructure that has no economic benefit to them? Politics is much harder than tech.

This startup might as well be funded by the petroleum industry. If they can convince the lay person that "we're on it" ie that someone else is solving the plastic issue, and individual consumers can go back to using as much plastic as they wish, it will be a terrific investment.
> I challenge you to find a C “boot camp.”

C isn't a language that lends itself to bootcamp-stye learning.

With Javascript, you can get something on-screen in a few minutes, and even if you make mistakes, you will normally see something. It's a more forgiving environment.

With C, a small error prevents compilation at all, and it's going to be a relatively long time before you're ready to progress past the "printing text to the console" stage.

C is flatly harder to learn, and unless you're the kind of person who likes mental challenge, it's less rewarding than Javascript. It isn't the kind of thing you tackle because you need hirable job skills by the end of the month.

There are still some excellent C tutorials out there (for example, I think Handmade Hero's[0] intro to C is good, and Handmade Hero itself gets you to the "shiny colors on the screen" stage very quickly), but HH has a different mentality than a bootcamp. HH is about learning, exploring, breaking things, and figuring them out on the fly. A bootcamp is about gathering the minimum knowledge necessary to be productive as quickly as possible.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ntGDm6hOs
I read the man page and I understand what -L does, but I still don't understand why the -L is needed in this particular case when the request works ok without it.

Is the user only wanting to curl from the original page and any redirects are considered bad?, etc.
Sodinokibi Ransomware Publishes Stolen Data for the First Time
You’re taking that sentence as an absolute, not in the context of low-wage jobs. And it it is a liberal fantasy, right next to meritocracy. That wealth stays put exactly where it is, at the top of the chain. All studies on labor show productivity gains far outpacing salaries in the past century. A well-paid knowledge worker today can barely meet the lifestyle of his factory worker grandparents.
I came from poverty, struggled all my way up, and I'm a strong believer that no matter what, you have to WORK and to earn your life. Those people with good life from born and call others "slave" are not helping anyone, in fact you're trying to make more true slaves by that attitude. Always encourage others to work/study/be-independent as much as you can.

During the time without a job and when I am in poverty, I _NEVER_ sought for food stamp or any government help, I consider it is a shame to me per my own standard, and this is the only way I got out of the poverty.
Could we treat it like the lottery? Put $x into a fund each year that grows to ridiculous levels for unambiguous cures for cancer(s) along the lines of the recent cure for Hepatitis C.

On March 27, 2019 the Powerball prize was up to $750 million. People were going out of their mind buying Powerball tickets. A system like this would:

1) Make rewards commensurate with difficulty

2) Allow companies to recoup all or part of their R&D investment before even selling their cure
Ubiquitous\unanimous
>Being a bachelor of economics will not make you a better burger deliverer.

No one said it did. But if your other option is something that's more productive, then the only way you'll agree to deliver burgers is if you're paid as much as the alternative. This has been known for half a century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

Pay rises in industries without productivity increases to match those in industries with productivity increases because of competition.

Of course, this is in the hypothetical where everyone has a college degree and assuming that the value of a degree is in human capital, which I pointed out explicitly was something I'm assuming.
Untaxed as a verb. E.g. California reducing property taxes to absurdly low levels with prop 13, diverting the spoils of the land to the owners instead (in the form of ridiculously high valuations and streams of rental income).
>the left

I will indulge you, though I doubt my points will perhaps provide any clarity to your understanding of the situation. Trump has undertaken many efforts that will force the impoverished and disabled into the McJobs creation that Trump is so proud of during his tenure.

The Trump administration has cut benefits programs that our society's most vulnerable rely upon, like SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)[0][1] or Meals on Wheels[2] and reduced the number of people qualifying for disability benefits.[3]

Trump's plans for 2020 and beyond look to go even farther[4] in targeting the elderly, the disabled and children.

[0]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/21/trump-...

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/04/trump-adm...

[2]https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2018/02/14/what-...

[3]https://www.thenation.com/article/chained-cpi-poverty-score/

[4]https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/t...
This is a great point. It's $400 in sales per month. I'm willing to bet hosting, domain, any paid ads, any fees from leanpub, etc. makes up at least $100-200 a month. Probably be better to just do freelance/consulting on the side and make an extra $100/hr in a day.
What I didn’t do to write a book (2017)
I did learn something new though. I would have assumed that either zero or tens of thousands of people would buy a technical ebook, in the same way that any random musician's album usually makes $0 or becomes a hit. Small consistent sales are a surprise to me.
Do you have any sources to back up that claim?
You can't get treatment for life-threatening "conditions". You can only get treatment for life-threatening "emergencies". You got a tumor? Good fucking luck. You got a seizure because of your tumor? Come on in and we'll make sure to send you an absurd bill later.
"Old Amsterdam" is for tourists, and isn't old. [...] Next time you are in NL (anywhere will do),

I have been born and raised in The Netherlands. I have eaten plenty of old Dutch cheeses during my lifetime.

The thing is, Old Amsterdam is one of the few old(-tasting) Dutch cheeses that you can easily get abroad, such as in rural German, which is where I picked up that admittedly bad habit ;).
As a 30 year old, I buy an SUV (well, a crossover, technically) because its a good average between efficiency and carrying capacity. I don't want to have to rent a U-Haul every time I move something bigger than a breadbox.

Two adult homes can presumably have a big car and a small car, and prefer to take the most efficient choice for the given trip (and have the shorter commute take the less efficient vehicle), but generally, people need to occasionally move stuff around.

It is, also, safer. I've seen what a minivan does to a Corolla, and I'd much rather be in something the size of a minivan. I sit higher, have better visibility, etc.
The Miracle of Kindness
Glad someone else shares my perspective.

As a frugal person who watches their finances closely and also enjoys having profitable side-projects, said side-projects still have to be worth my time to really "enjoy" them if I intended to make money.

As someone with a tech background, the cost and time involved in marketing / support is something I still underestimate.
The FDA Announces Two More Antacid Recalls Due to Cancer Risk
People like that are precisely the best example. They're not going to start by banning a kid for calling someone the f word. They're going to pick nutters like him, because they can say to the free speech advocates "oh so you support him?".

Look up Martin Niemöller's famous saying, "first they came for...". Those who forget (or don't care about) history are destined to repeat it.

If big tech are willing and able to act politically in concert, we have a serious risk of dystopia.
https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/es/07...

This is the result Google currently features for "productivity effect on wages". The chart shows total compensation tracking productivity very closely, although it only goes back a quarter century.
Unfortunately the existing landscape of flipping burgers and driving for Uber Eats is fairly limited.

UBI allows people to be productive in ways that haven't always been appreciated by society such as raising children, producing a profound portfolio of art, or caring for the disadvantaged.
> I don't think low unemployment is the unequivocal positive sign that politicians/ think it is ("We're putting millions of Americans back to work!").

It's just the kind of marketing that happens to work with the Protestant mentality of the majority of people here. And that's slowly starting to change, with Sanders and other progressive politicians asking about the well-being of Americans as opposed to raw numbers about whether they can work 4 part-time jobs or not.
Lots of medium sized (and larger) companies self insure and pay an outside company for administration rather than insurance (insurance companies often offer this type of service).
The article fails to mention an of the viruses that are carried by the Varroa mite. The problem in not only the mites physically attacking the bees, but the proliferation of a suite of viruses they carry. One that is particularly harmful is the 'Deformed wing virus' (DWV) [0].

Luckily there are some promising developments on this front. Research efforts led by Paul Stamets [1] have developed an extract derived from mushrooms that, when fed to the bee colonies, have been shown to drastically reduce DWV and Lake Sinai virus.[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deformed_wing_virus
[1] https://fungi.com/pages/bees
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32194-8
This is anecdotal of course, but I don't think it's just boomers who are buying SUVs. I'm 30, I see a lot of people my age and older who are buying SUVs. Unfortunately, I don't think concern for the environment rates high among other generations when push comes to shove. They buy Mercedes SUVs without a second thought when the economy is doing well for them.