skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. I always expect a link like this to either be some super basic examples (e.g. how to implement flocking) or articles detailing techniques used in games from ~20 years ago.

Very cool how recent and modern these are (along with super reputable authors)
China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen
I don't think the clusterf*ck is necessary for anything. It is an indication of immature people working on something when a product goes through a phase like that. Of course, at the stage where the project is 100 lines large one does not need much structure but it can be added gradually without a noticable disruption in the flow of features supported.

The whole 'scalability engineer' and 'compliance engineer' title mumbo jumbo sounds very phoney to me. As far as the compliance part is concerned I feel inclined to make up some fake dictionary definition for it in the style of the devils dictionary for maximum cynicism. Compliance: a lot of paperwork that asserts that a set of desirable attributes apply to the mirage that management has dreamt up about a project. The mirage may or may not be in any way related to the actual state of said project.
Is this AI revolution ever going to happen? Siri and Alexa still hear the wrong thing half the time, even when I speak and enunciate very clearly. What jobs have been eliminated by this revolution that I’ve been hearing about for the past decade? The self driving cars are not picking me up and not delivering my packages.

I have a better solution than airdropping everyone welfare money so we can laze around all day - make it easier to start businesses. It’s extremely easy for me to create a tech company that scales to millions of users. It’s extremely difficult for me to give massages, cut hair, sell retail products in a physical location, and innumerable useful services that require licenses, bureaucracy, tax forms, inspectors, and on and on.

Even worse is that whatever the poor saves is immediately lost to inflation - education, healthcare, housing, and literal inflation to the fed printing money.

Rather than bandaid government-created problems with more government and a disincentive to create value for society, I wish we would let people other than CS majors become entrepreneurs organically.
The assertion that most people and most countries in spoken language say “day [of] month”, which I find anecdotally accurate, although that’s mainly in European countries and languages

This matches why almost every country in the world uses “d/m/y” in normal usage.
Other social services should not be cut to pay for ubi
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This happens on NY 73, which is a road in the Adirondack High Peaks region between the highway and Lake Placid. It’s legit — even though cars are parked, you still need to slow down!

I usually avoid Google maps for traveling in areas that I don’t know. It takes you off on stupid routes that save marginal time (if any) too much. Waze is good for interstate travel, but IMO Apple is better for giving you the “right”, low drama route.
A malicious guard is just a malicious node. It can also be used as some other hop, or there can be non malicious nodes without a guard flag. I think there has been at least one publication taking a closer look at what malicious middle nodes can do.

I'm not familiar with bridges or the snowflake proxy but I think this would work:

Public bridges are public so no one cares about those. Now you run your own private bridge. First of all running your own leads directly back to you. Second it puts you on the list of even more paranoid people. Since you know and connect to that private bridge one can assume you trust that bridge for whatever reason which indicates some kind of "personal" relationship to that bridge.

The private bridge now connects to the second hop. This is a malicious one. The operator sees an IP which does not come from an official relay in the consensus. I don't know if a node knows he is in the middle (at least a guard and exit must know they are at the beginning and end of a chain, i guess?), but if he does he would now know that a private bridge is connecting to it. So you could enumerate private bridges.

If someone runs dozens of nodes, which is actually happening, this looks like a viable option. Correct me if I'm wrong.
It seems that there would be a huge selection bias in this study. They only looked at programmers taking their course. But wouldn’t the best programmers be much less likely to take a course for improving their skills? So it’s no wonder they found that only a tiny % were very good. We can’t really conclude anything about the population at large from this.
Its all nice and hand holdy to think about utopias but utopias don’t have the best track record for the human race
"MegaCorps" in any kind of healthy market will still compete on price, so simply stating that they will "pocket the rest" of AI-related productivity improvements is ridiculous.

The more likely outcome is that prices on a whole lot of things are about to drop drastically. Of course this does nothing to help the people who are left out of a job and can no longer contribute as they are no longer cost-effective. UBI is one option to address this, at least partially. Do you have a better one? Ban AI? Do you happen to be an anti-capitalist, and your convenient solution is (big surprise) to remove capitalism as an economic system?

I'm not saying the effect of more people being outcompeted from the job market will never be a problem. Perhaps parts of it will be solved with income redistribution being increased. Perhaps part of the effort will be in creating new jobs where humans can not be replaced. Some cookie cutter "anti megacorp" rhetoric ain't likely to help much.
Neat, but I think that's an in-universe explanation for a stylistic decision.

Like "Quiet does commando ops wearing a bikini because she breathes through her skin".

No, the game designers wanted her to wear a bikini, so they wrote in that she breathes through her skin.

Same here.
This has nothing to do with the tech companies, and everything to do with failed local and national governmental policies.
Nowhere in this article does it blame tech giants except the title.
Even If You Weren’t Born into Nobility, You Can Buy Your Way In
The prevailing view seems to be: robots will take our jobs, therefore we will need UBI, which allows people to live without work.

The way I see it, the main problem that UBI is solving is inequality, it's a rich to poor transfer. Excessive inequality is bad because the aggregate utility goes down (rich people don't gain much from an additional dollar, so it's more effectively used by a poor person).

Transfering cash directly is the most efficient way of decreasing inequality, so UBI is the right approach. At this time, the amount of UBI should be below what allows a comfortable life, because it would lead to a feedback loop in which people would be increasingly demotivated to work.

And what about robots? There is a danger that automation will further exacerbate income inequality, so redistribution is a natural response, because it would increase the effective wages of low income jobs. It seems unlikely that robots will literally take our jobs, you can probably always be someone's slave (not literally) for $5 / hour.
That is great, but how ridiculous is it that this microsite is made with 100% js dom manipulation instead of just static html? I wonder if they did that because using static html would have potentially not rendered the way they intended on all the current devices...
“Google Drive” would like to receive keystrokes from any application
Just add more smartphones to the cart and those other cars will be considered the error.
The article mentions, several times, the number of billionaires and millionaires who live in the city, as a result of the tech industry.

The housing issues cannot be disentangled from the buying power and demand of tech workers.
Well MegaCorps still need customers who can pay.

Otherwise we have Great Depression again, when there was a lot of production, but public simply didn't have any money to buy it.

The solution last time was to basically distribute money to poor, e.g. fund mega-projects with tax money. I feel like UBI sounds pretty much like that as well.
Could you run one decently sized single board computer with 15 android virtual machines instead?
But the author follows that with "It works the same way for 100 as it does 10e100."
It's unclear to me the connection between tech giants and the horrors of drug addiction. Are the tech giants supposed to enforce laws on the street, or is this the duty of law enforcement officers? Is it because of the great disparity in wealth that makes "tech giants" culpable? I think that's bullshit. The blame rests on the city officials, in my opinion.
Of course the two are comparable. In both cases an author is inventing a person and situations and narrating their invention. Calling them incomparable is a transparent attempt to shoot down the argument without actually engaging with it.

The joke described a hypothetical person who was born and died on certain dates, and then fleshed that out with additional invented details: gender and use of diapers at both the beginning and end of his life. If you're going to complain about the author of the joke assigning their fictional character a gender you might as well also complain about them assigning him to use adult diapers, since many real actual people would also be deeply offended by such a mis-diapering. If you're going to complain about the author of a short humorous anecdote assigning their character a gender you might as well also complain about the author of a novel assigning their character a gender.

I'm happy to have a serious discussion here but I'm not going to bother if you continue to try to dismiss my arguments without engaging.
It definitely is target at a large number of identical servers, but is still very helpful for just a handful of hoses.

Putting everything in YAML is helpful because no matter what service you are setting up, the format is the same to read and understand. And I hope you are using modules and not shell command directly (except for the small cases it is necessary)

Ansible can be as simple or as complex as you made it. I bet your script isn’t as nice as an Ansible setup, nor as maintainable. Ansible’s templating engine is super flexible.
I always assumed Android phones report location data for the traffic detection whether you use Google Maps or not.
I've worked and lived by San Francisco for 25 years. Downtown (market, tenderloin, mission) have always had blocks that are fine right next to blocks decidedly not fine. But if anything, the streets are less gritty than 20 years ago.

There is rampant car theft. Don't leave your stuff visible in your car, and don't conspicuously open your trunk with sparkling goodies inside. But that's advice that was reasonable 30n years ago.

It's as safe to bring your family to SF as it is to NY. And, like NY, there are wonderful things to see and do here. You just need to be smart about it.
I'm not sure about their security either, see my other post below.
You've pointed out why UBI makes no sense. As the saying goes, if everyone is a millionaire, nobody is. Likewise, if you give everyone $X that amount becomes the new baseline.

This is also the reason why it makes no sense to fight wealth inequality. Without wealth inequality, there wouldn't be wealth, only a baseline.

What UBI tries to solve isn't a bug, but a feature.
That’s a fair and reasonable perspective. I’m curious if you’ve worked on such a product that had a baked-in level of maturity from the start? I never have. I’d be much more inclined to agree with you if I had encountered a v1 product that wasn’t a total clusterfuck!

Scalability engineer and compliance engineer very much are phony mumbo jumbo from the perspective of a software engineer. However from the business perspective they are very real and I think they are helpful to communicate one’s own level of maturity and ability for the business owners to trust you to get things done for them. It’s about communication and signaling more than the reality of what you do.
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Because if you want to switch providers, you’d have to do that all again. Or if your current provider’s VPS just dies (I’ve had it happen) you’d have to do that all again.

With Ansible, you just run it again and in a fraction of the time its back up.
If automation will truly do all jobs, then by definition we have human-level AI. As labour supply enormously limits economic growth, we would have economic growth that is unimaginably large in this scenario. Imagine how quickly a startup could scale if they could clone their best engineer. Now imagine that applied to the economy as a whole. We would get economic doubling times on the order of months. If we truly get automation as flexible as any human, economic growth would be truly insane. Even mild redistribution would be effective in such a scenerio.

Absent human-level AI, there will remain tasks that only humans can do. Hence we will have jobs.

But truly, if we do get human-level AI, it seems to me we will have bigger problems than unemployment. I hate to get all Nick Bostrom, but it really does seem like the objective functions of the machines would be all that matters in this scenerio. As it is their objective functions, not laws, that would decide our fate. Either human-level AI is far off, in which case technological unemployment is not a worry, or it is not in which case technological unemployment is the least of our worries.
Imagine a mandatory allowance for your kids... like you are required to feed them and cloth them. Add a requirement to give them some cash too... otherwise the state takes them away for negligence. (Not actually suggesting we do this..., just a shower thought).
You don't need both bounds anyway. A countable set without a lower bound in any representation is already a paradox.
That article isn’t about UBI in much the same way that capitalism isn’t about money. Capitalism is primarily about obtaining advantage and money is one measure among many.

The supposed goals of capitalism are great: competition, innovation, refinement, transformation, and others. The problem is that those are goals they teach school children. They aren’t the primary goal that actually matters in practice. If capitalism could be refocused to these more ideal goals it would be better, perhaps more utopian. The difference is that the primary goal is highly exclusive while the ideal goals are highly inclusive.
Performance, cost, security. For small businesses, it may be a wash (due to ability to hire system engineers), but for medium to large business rolling your own is almost always better.
I don't get it. To me, everything the article mentioned about dystopian nightmare sounds like a issue of the government, not caused by the private companies.

The root of the cause is they aren't redistributing the wealth well. They should offer the poor, an affordable medical care, a shelter, and just simply hand them the money. The cost should be lower than dealing with daily thefs and drug dealers crowded in the street. Most of them choose theft and illegal drug because they can't afford the foods, houses, and medical care.
You're stranded on an uninhabited island and got a robot army fulfilling your every wish.

...why again do you need customers?
I guess this is a US thing, then. It's definitely not true in general, as I said.
Doesn't your 40K job become a 30K salary + 10K UBI?

I never thought UBI meant communism. If you want more out of life, get a job that pays over-and-above UBI.
I find it hard to believe that it would be effective at reducing inequality. It would make the lives of the poor better for sure, but it will not reduce inequality. When Jeff Bezos' net worth can swing $9B in a day as it did this past Friday, giving the poor enough money to purchase food and bare essentials isn't going to make much of a dent in their net worth. I'm not saying it won't help them out, just that it really won't tip the scales as far as inequality is concerned. It's a more fundamental issue with how the current state of capitalism is structured in the U.S.
Is it just me or submitting posts on Reddit is returning error 500?
Something seems to have happened to reddit, the error rate on RedditStatus[1] has just gone high and I'm unable to submit anything, neither posts nor comments.

[1]: https://www.redditstatus.com
That was always the case... Tons of "nouveaux rich" have become "nobility" over the last 10+ centuries...

I think the French had the right idea with the guillotine...
https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

Also recommend automate the boring stuff with python by Al sweigler. I liked it and it's free under the creative Commons but you can give the man some money if you find some value from it.
LOL on your first point.

For your second, Ansible is specifically designed for long term maintainability and security.
I considered it but I thought that "to descend" was too rare and formal in English to really carry over how the phrase truly feels in French. "I descend down" decidedly feels much more awkward than "je descend en bas" to me, if only because I've heard the latter a lot and the former probably never.

"I climb up" might give a somewhat better impression of how "je monte en haut" sounds in French, although I suppose that you can very much "climb down" in English so it's not a perfect match.
The only relevant question is whether that person has a life outside programming and work. If yes, then it's truly a case of remarkable talent. If not, it's a case of sacrificing something in exchange for something else.
The europeans are thinking about that: I read an article where the head of the ECB explored this as an alternative to negative inflation
Apparently tourism is solid.

from: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/A-...

"Tourism is still booming, despite San Francisco’s miserable side making headlines around the world. In 2018, 25.8 million people visited San Francisco, up 1.2% from 2017. They spent $10 billion, which was also up slightly."

As an anecdote, my S.O. watches a Youtuber, a Japanese airline stewardess who makes typical travel/foodie content. She had a San Francisco vid a few months ago.....which made the place look like heaven on Earth. I don't think she even once touched on or mentioned some of SF's problems. I wonder how many other foreigners are formulating travel plans based on similarly one-dimensional picture-perfect content.
Why is it the tech giant's fault that the city failed to convert money into housing? Why did the city let the tech giants in if they are so harmful? If you don't want drug addicts to use their drugs on the street why don't you build special drug clinics where they can clean drugs [0] for non inflated prices [1] at controlled dosages [1] if they sign up for a program for addicts?

[0] dealers often are addicts themselves, take their own cut and fill the missing amount with foreign substances and more potent substitutes which then cause multiple orders of magnitude more health issues (including death) than the original drug

[1] when you have to spend $1000 per month on your drugs you are more likely to become homeless, homeless people have to steal or become prostitutes to fund their drug addiction

[2] physical dependency to drugs can be satisfied without becoming high. this means you can have people that go to the clinic every week for the rest of their lives but live completely normal lives but if you shut down the clinic they will die a few weeks later because they overdose on street drugs like every other drug user
How does this compare to the Python stuff in CS50. Is it somehow better than the official tutorial in the python docs? Better than Learn Python the Hard Way? The new Google courses? Others?
On the other hand, if you download it all at once you aren't constantly reloading a page when you get back to it and you aren't limited to reading it when you're online. I do see the point you're making, though I think it depends on the author's perspective.
I think the idea is that with automation and capital concentration, we need a model where the masses can be like modern medieval serfs.

Basic needs are taken care of, and the ultra rich get to accumulate their wealth.
Sure, but it's a very different baseline when you can afford basic needs instead of being homeless and hungry. The fact that some other people might feel "less rich" as a result shouldn't really be considered an issue.
Using "img" is all the more surprising since the most common HTML elements such as "p", "h1/h2/...", "body", "dl", etc. were already defined and commonly used around 1986/87 in a vocabulary summarized in The SGML Handbook and detailed in ISO TR 9573 - Techniques for using SGML. Following that vocabulary/DTD, "fig" would've been more approriate, but then that old generic SGML vocabulary didn't know anything about URLs.
Character is destiny. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. ― Heraclitus
True! That statement does follows the math formula, and by itself the statement is true regardless of complexity. It will work the same way for small numbers as large ones.

The 10e100 comment does precede the implementation, and this particular O(1) implementation of course might not support inputs in the range of 10e100 exactly.
If you were aware of the mind-boggling diversity of human language you would not make claims like “typical languages do X so one that doesn’t is idiosyncratic” (unless backed by serious research spanning the thousands of known languages). You would also not think experience with a few languages from the Indo-European family is generalizable.

Standard Chinese for example uses Y/M/D and I’m sure you can find many examples of other formats.
Megacorps will still have competition (other megacorps), along with customers (you, I). Automation will bring down costs all over the supply chain, so margins will be thinner. But - they still need customers. No customers, no product.
When I lived in NYC, a local coffee-place-slash-home-design-store offered a subscription, whereby if you used it almost every day, you'd be getting significant discount on your artisanal latte. I think they went on to try and create some kind of loyalty rewards app, but for a while, this concept was real. https://www.10best.com/destinations/new-york/new-york/articl...
It's best to not call it the wuhan virus - it's no longer accepted to name a disease after a location or person, and 2019-ncov is the recommended name to use until an official one is announced
The connections are not simple to see immediately. There are many interwoven systems at play here. For example, high pay attracts engineers, landlords prefer high earning tenants. Other companies start in SF because there is a lot of talent there. They grow and attract more engineers.

That's just one system that can contribute to a changing city, and there are many others. (including city officials like you mention).

I'd encourage you not to dismiss the idea outright and try to fit it with a simple root cause.
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That way of paying UBI conflicts their interests (pun intended). But it has an upside too: You could target exactly zero inflation in a UBI-based monetary system without adverse effects.
In what way will the direct transfer of money from people who have more to people who have less not be effective at reducing economic inequality?
It seems to me that while any one of those metrics isn’t particularly useful in isolation, if the same person is consistently at the top of all of them, that’s telling you something.
AMD can’t even get 8K displays to work under Linux.
To your last statement, most proponents of UBI emphasize the "Basic" part of it. As in, it's meant to provide a subsistence level of income that a person could survive on, but not in comfort. I'm personally in favor of that level explicitly not being location-specific so that if you want to live solely on UBI, you have to live in a low cost of living area to do so.