skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguing that there's more money in doing real climate science vs fossil fuels is insanity.
It's not.

But that's besides the point. The W3C haven't been in the driver's seat for a very long time now when it comes to web standards.
Seconded. This looks really nicely done.
None of that supports your 'accusation' claim.

> because in an economy of scale, snacks simply are irrelevant.

That's not what 'economy of scale' means.

> If you view snacks as an inherently important thing

I don't, and it's unrelated to my argument.
Dying of cancer in a hospital leaves a huge traumatic mess for people to clean up too. Chances are they're cleaning up for you for days and weeks, and the trauma of dying is still going to crush your loved ones. One day of scrubbing blood vs weeks of changing bedpans, catheters, and cleaning up other messes.
I'm not quite getting your point, and honestly it seems like you're digging deep to stick with what you originally stated.

The climate I live in is colder than the majority of humans. Maybe the vast majority. I have a very efficient heat pump (I've been using it for 8 years now -- it's well proven to me by now). Ergo, any notion that heat pumps only work in balmy conditions has no bearing on reality -- yes, those super cheap air exchange units you grab from Home Depot to take the chill off in Atlanta during January might have such limits, but that has no bearing on the market as a whole.

The article linked talks about how Germans don't heat with electricity -- even with very efficient heat pumps -- because a regressive tax on such use makes it uneconomical. I don't see what solar heaters (which seldom even pay for themselves in great conditions -- e.g. California -- as an aside) have to do with this conversation.
It depends on the country. Sweden, Denmark, Norway, NL, Germany, Switzerland, France.

Others probably less so, depending on how well the economy is and general attitude towards workers rights. Eastern Europe much less so, in some cases (Romania, Bulgaria) conditions are still terrible.
Give each resident $1,000 per per month. Paid for by a 10% value added tax.

I can image a possible situation where this ends up taking money from poor people and giving it to rich people. Unlikely, but possible. That wouldn't be good.
Render is more flexible than Heroku: you can host apps that rely on disks (like Elasticsearch and MySQL), private services, cron jobs, and of course free static sites. You also get automatic zero downtime deploys, health checks and small but handy features like HTTP/2 and automatic HTTP->HTTPS redirects.

It's considerably less expensive as your application scales: a webapp that needs 3GB RAM costs $50/month on Render; on Heroku you'll pay $250/month for 2.5GB RAM, and $500/month for the next tier (14GB RAM).

And you get free chat support.
Ah yeah, I'd typically create cards "just in time", so to speak, because I found that my retention would drop significantly without the context of what I was learning fresh in my mind.
Paywalled, can anyone with access to the text expand upon the ML algorithm? Specifically, is AlphaFold based on AlphaGo MCTS? Or is the name similarity incidental?
All the ideology and social problems aside slack is still an awful chat tool. Even if there wasn’t a philosophical problem with it I don’t know why you would use it.

It’s popularity is due to marketing and abusing some social phenomena, not merit.
Doesn’t the top .01% already live off the rest of us?
Wouldn't this just leverage the existing sales tax system? Now that local sales taxes are collected nationwide, it would be much harder to avoid.
It doesn't matter if it's solvent or not. Once it's implemented and people are dependent on it, it has to work going forward, and people will pass whatever laws necessary to ensure that it doesn't fail.
services is the key, that means every business will be contributing. allowing clothing and food to escape helps those high up the income ladder immensely. I will be curious if it excuses elective medical treatments and supplements.

consider how empty section 2 is this is just a trial balloon
I completely agree. If I were them I'd do whatever is necessary to get the acquisition out of the spotlight and then claw back every promise over the next few years. I have very little doubt that this won't happen, unfortunately for .org and the internet...
> Progressive Guaranteed Income

Doesn't progressive income tax make UBI progressive?

But yes we should fund this with a LVT not VAT.
They explicitly ask the user to consent to the TOS during the signup flow.

Yes, we all know nobody reads the TOS. It's still extremely inaccurate to claim Discord has these behaviors without asking consent, when they ask for exactly that.
I lived in NYC from 2001-2012 and much prefer my 20-minute car commute now to any amount of time in a jam-packed rush-hour subway. Nothing like being 5mm from a stranger's face while both of you pretend you're not 5mm from a stranger's face. The LIRR is more comfy obv but at $250/month still not worth the aggravation, and unless you happen to work at Penn Station, you still have to walk through rain/snow/95-degree humidity or buy _another_ pass for a subway/bus.
18992.1(b) excludes UBI for anyone "receiving benefits under the Medi-Cal program, the County Medical Services Program, the CalFresh program, the CalWORKs program, or Unemployment Insurance" so if you are currently receiving any form of welfare, f you, otherwise here's your free money? Seems like a really strange approach for something that is trying to improve economic security. Does anyone know what the reasoning here is?
Startup ISOs are totally broken, and VCs and founders would rather write 30 page treatises on all their complexities (of course, glossing over the 99 ways to screw employees), than actually try to improve them.

A small percentage of people got rich off options a handful of times a long times ago, and since then countless people have been screwed.

Public RSUs for stock you can sell immediately on the open market are fantastic.

Common ISOs are toilet paper. At a _minimum_ you should get a 10 year exercise window, and if the CEO tries to say that would make it so early employees can hurt cap tables for future rounds, he's basically saying he doesn't consider your equity grant to be real equity as it deserves to be clawed back for the sin of not wanting to stick around for the 15 years it takes startups to IPO these days.

These exact same people will try to convince you that their ISOs are a valid subsitute to liquid RSUs, THEN say that they don't deserve to be "preferred" instead of "common" because the VCs put in actual money (hint: so did you if you turned down a public company to work at the startup. Biggest difference is only that you're way less diversified).

Am I ranting? Of course, but if VCs and founders are going to continually "educate" engineers on their equity offers, engineers need to stand up and inform each other of the pitfalls. I know countless people, myself included, who have been screwed by ISOs. You can actually lose money because the 30 day window forces you to pay strike price + taxes on gains, then you find out that the CEO sold the company at a bargain so liquidation preference kicked in and he just took a huge retention bonus instead.

The way out of this mess is not Github treatises on how to evaluate your equities. The way out is for engineers to continually tell founders/VCs that they will pick public companies instead of startups until ISOs get fixed. If ISOs screwed over VCs instead of engineers, they would have gone to DC and gotten this fixed 10 years ago. At an absolute minimum you shouldn't have to pay a dime in taxes until you've actually realized some money in your checkings account. VCs/founders don't care because they don't have to care because engineers are still too gullible and accept these bogus deals.
Many of us in California don't care if you think they "shouldn't" live here.

I'm perfectly well aware of the economic and tribal arguments. The former are not convincing and the proponents of the latter can go pound sand - given my preferences, I'd exclude them long before I'd exclude immigrants over paperwork.
That's not much different than TestFlight (acquired by Apple) or MS AppCenter (acquired as HockeyApp).

PS: I'm using an iPad Pro 10.5 over LTE right now with an original Apple Wireless Keyboard 1 with proper arrow keys. I use Vim on it and can save to shared services. Heck, you can even fire-up the embedded python with :!python3<enter> It also redirects phone calls from my vintage unlimited data plan, so I don't need a phone... but it looks goofy talking into my iPad John Oliver-style. ;)
It sounds like you would be interested in Matrix. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)
> the US tried to prosecute the author of PGP for the crime of FOSS development

If you're referring to what I think you are, then no, his "crime" was publishing a product that was not allowed to be exported to the public (effectively exporting it). You're statement is equivalent to serving poisoned food and saying you were prosecuted for the crime of owning a restaurant.

No matter if you agree with the export ban or not, it was a law and Zimmerman broke it. That's what he was prosecuted for.
It's still true, and regretfully for you this is a free space. Racism is falling over oneself to justify discrimination. Tschuss Knabe.
This has been done with Mumble, it just needs some refinement. Mumble (the client) and Murmur (the server) [1] [2] can handle many people on a small server. I have run a murmur server for a long time and it is very stable. The voice quality is superior to anything else I have used. The client does need a little bit of refinement to be as happy-clicky easy as Discord. If anyone has not tried version 1.3 [3], give it a go. There are public servers if you want to try the client without hosting your own server. Their code is all on Github and I am sure they could offer suggestions if you were using their libraries in your application.

[1] - https://www.mumble.info/

[2] - https://github.com/mumble-voip/

[3] - https://www.mumble.info/blog/mumble-1.3.0-release-announceme...
A 10% VAT added on top of our ~%10% sales tax?

The $1,000 is going to be spent entirely on taxes!

The range and domain of taxes being piled on CA residents has reached an unimaginable scales. I know many people and companies who have left the State for precisely this reason. Atlas Shrugged.
Right, but the QEMU project is also simply loading X86 (or other) assembly code and interpreting it in a virtual machine... unless I misunderstand this project and it does something more sophisticated.

> the limitation of having half the screen showing the executed code

I'm not aware of this limitation, could the QEMU port use this to show the ASM that's being executed to get around this?
Yes, he moved away from fusion after basically showing the whole non-Maxwellian approach for aneutronic fusion couldn't work.
Yes, but as a general rule, universal social welfare programs (medicare, social security, etc.) are much more robust and not subject to cost-cutting than means-tested ones (medicaid, welfare, food stamps, etc.)
Protocols tend to be a good first step, but they're extremely vulnerable to abuse without something larger working atop them.

Email is a protocol. Implementation is a practical nightmare because of bad actors. Something to control bad actors is vital to any communications system, regardless of whether you classify it as "service" or "protocol."
Predictable Accelerator Design with Time-Sensitive Affine Types (PLDI 2020)
Hi sneak.

Your reply on the Quora post basically says "if you browse the web like I do, you won't see the popup".

If you reflect on that for a little bit, you'll realize you're doing something to your readers that you, yourself, won't tolerate.

I'd encourage you not to. It detracts from your message.
This is really cool, thanks for sharing! I'll see if this fits my needs, and maybe reach out to Yarn core devs to learn more about front-end build pipelines :)
I haven't done the math on this particular case, but I believe it is incorrect to say a UBI program will simply cost number-of-people multiplied by dollar-amount. Income tax would likely go up, too, so top earners will likely "give back" that dollar amount they received in UBI when they pay their taxes.
Napping as an adult is normal. There's plenty of research and info about this. No need to be judgmental.
Do board gender quotas affect firm value?
It's pretty much impossible for me to go to sleep any earlier than 2am, so getting to work at 7 would require me to only get a couple of hours of sleep at night, which isn't nearly enough for me to function on.
This was great. Something that bugs me about relativity is, how is speed measured relatively? I can imagine how it looks if both objects are on a straight line, one moving away from the other. What about objects in a plane, where one moves but never intersects the other?

Sorry if this question sounds nonsensical. I'm having trouble explaining a very graphical question.
The author of the article explicitly waves off IRC and offers some good suggestions at the bottom of the article.

(More than privacy concerns, a major concern for IRC in this era of mobile devices is protocol chattiness. Phones save battery power by minimizing messages per second required, and IRC's protocol isn't designed to work well with that architecture).
Seems like a Digital Tax like they are proposing in the EU would be something that could supplement this on top of general VAT. Would like to see more of this flushed out in principle, similar to what Yang was proposing.
Whether the restriction is reasonable or not is up for debate. The issue is that they created a vehicle that only works within a specific geographic area, then failed to document that area or warn users that it existed.
Or just Matrix.
I'd second the point on different cultures doing it differently. One of my profs once said he had a book written by two mathematicians, one German and another Italian. It was fairly evident who had worked on which part. He also mentioned that the "old style" German books would almost apologize if they "had" to use just a few pictures to illustrate something.
Could you compare your product to PostHog that has also launched on HN recently ?
This UBI excludes people who are:
"California residents who are 18 years of age or older and receiving benefits under the Medi-Cal program, the County Medical Services Program, the CalFresh program, the CalWORKs program, or Unemployment Insurance shall not be eligible to receive a universal basic income under the CalUBI Program."

Medi-Cal is state medical for poor families in California, so a lot of people who this would help would be excluded from getting the benefit. This bill seems like just creating another bureaucracy that moves money around without improving things much.
Yeah I don't understand that argument -- how could silently deleting emails enable censorship? I guess the email server could censor emails by silently deleting them? If so the fact that it's not in the protocol certainly wouldn't stop the censor...
TypeScript classes, constructors and enums say hi.

Talk about moving the goalposts...
I was going to say this has come in very handy when shipping from systemd to syslog type parsers.
Well, not spec, but proposed spec. [1]

Driven by Google, but under the auspices of W3C.

> The W3C haven't been in the driver's seat for a very long time now when it comes to web standards.

That was exactly ghostpepper's point.

[1] https://github.com/WICG/ScrollToTextFragment
I suggest you read up on LVT.

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

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/08/09/the-time-may-b...

https://www.strongtowns.org/landvaluetax
As a completely biased user/person who is insane enough to adopt an editor as a lifestyle, I've been using a vim emulation layer for Emacs (Evil) and I've in a sense gotten used to it.

That comes after dozens of hours twiddling around with configuration files that let you set leader-based keybindings and change pretty much every aspect of how the vim emulation behaves. And after using it for a while I've found it behaves pretty much exactly like vim, which in itself is a godsend in a plethora of vim emulation plugins that don't get everything quite right. Somehow it just works how you'd expect. If lsp-mode becomes stable enough we might live to see "IDE"-like features in Emacs being workable.

I wouldn't recommend this approach for everyone, though. Because most of Emacs was not designed to use vim emulation you often have to switch between plain Emacs and the vim layer really often, or even worse write entire keymaps for unsupported features. When you have to do this depends on the functionality you want to use, and this is variable enough that it's not possible to immediately get used to - you have to learn how everything works first and adapt your muscle memory/config to it.

Evil is also baked into Emacs, so you'd have to use Emacs with its 44 years of cruft and get used to its unique methodology to take advantage of it. People may either become disinterested in this or completely entranced by it (see: the author). Either way, you'd be spending time learning a lot of new editing paradigms instead of doing actual work.

Also Emacs is slow when opening and searching big files, and this stems from a fundamental decision about how Emacs stores open files in memory. In those cases I have no choice but to open a minimal vim to edit them.

In addressing the slowness problem the xi editor[1] is trying to move in the direction of never blocking the user's input and separating frontend/backend. However, last time I checked the JSON-RPC they were using was not performant enough for their needs. There was also a huge debate on how to do collaborative editing, and the problem they eventually stumbled upon was that in some cases you'd have no choice but to essentially do the same thing as git merge does to resolve editing conflicts. Also because the protocol is so generic people ended up creating dozens of frontends in several different languages that support different feature sets instead of combining all their effort into making an even better standardized client.

Text editors are at the same time universal and full of tough issues to solve. It is indeed a shame that the programs that are most capable of running programs lack good text editors, and vice versa. One time I got fed up with having to constantly use the mouse when using IntelliJ so I wrote an LSP server embedded as an extension so it could be controlled from emacs. Unfortunately I didn't have the time to constantly keep up with the internal APIs that broke every few weeks and fix all the edge cases.

[1] https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor
The most resilient case for UBI (by that I mean that it blunts more criticism) is that cash transfers are cheaper to administer and arguably more effective than welfare programs. I thought it was odd that this wasn't proposed to entirely replace those programs with a simple to administer system (no verification of income, no verification that you're looking for work, etc) that still "delivers" the benefits already received by people covered by existing programs. This proposal definitely seems framed poorly...
I don't understand your line of thinking. You consider taking money against the will of someone who worked for what they have, in order to give it to others, a "strong ethical underpinning"? That sounds like theft or robbery by proxy, like the reverse of Robin Hood; the King taking from the peasants in order to give it to the court subjects. That does not strike me as ethical at all, unless you are talking about a voluntary program where, e.g., you get to sign up to have, e.g., 2% extra tax take out that is then used to pay for things like UBI.

Is that what you are talking about, a voluntary thing? I am all for a new form of government of voluntary "a la carte" democracy, where, e.g., if you want "free" healthcare, you can sign up to be taxed for it, or if you want "free" education, you can sign up to be taxed for that, or if you want to "help" the homeless (which I do) you can sign up to be taxed in order to "help" that too. By all means, you want to fund the CA UBI, you should demand to sign up for that, maybe through your employer or when you file your tax return every year.

Anything but voluntary payment of taxes for anything outside of the core functions of government is actually the opposite of strong ethical underpinnings; it's objectively immensely immoral and unethical, no different than other forms of theft and slavery.
Billionaire Condom
Can you give an example of a success story from the recent 5 years? I'm not talking about the Harvey Milk days of California.
I just signed up as a paying customer about 3 hours before this HN thread. Mochi has been fantastic so far - it has most (all?) of the power of Anki, but a much more thoughtful UI. Although Mochi imported my Anki decks seamlessly, I prefer Mochi’s native Markdown support.

Thanks for making it!
I appreciate that they took the time and expense to create a proper study looking at the numbers.
I _just_ received the following email:

if you're reading this it's too late. we have your data.

here's where you live:
*****

how do we have this data? we read this:
https://link.medium.com/esfwWoQ4f4

so what are we doing with your data? not much (that's good!)

we're just using 377428 emails from their customer database to send this mass email (that's bad!)

because right now, ANYBODY can do what we just did, and they might do something really shitty with the same data we took

we don't want that. the guy who wrote the medium artcle didn't either. he warned slickwraps and they didn't do shit
It’s hard not to appreciate the cost savings, saved lives, and benefits employees and employers would see from universal healthcare.

Has anyone seen any studies on the potential impact it would have on insurance and medical administration industries? i.e. lost revenue, jobs, etc.?
Like git, even an open protocol will come to be dominated by one supplier.
Apple's control-freaking and exploitation of customers has reached peak unreasonableness. I don't think SJ would've been so focused on making trillions when some billions could be had with cooler, repairable, lasting products. Personally, I have one foot out of the door (hackintosh) regarding the Apple ecosystem. I'm going to let the iPhone 6S, iPad Pro 10.5 and Apple Watch 4 run however long they can, but that's probably it for me, I'll stick to repairable devices like my ThinkPad T480.
As Churchill said...

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing. After they have tried everything else.”
It is possible to run out of other peoples' money.
In the study, nearly all the computed savings comes from two sources.

1. Decrease in pharmaceutical costs as a result of better bargaining power.

2. Decrease in administrative overhead, calculated by extrapolating the overhead in medicare to the entire US healthcare economy.

I don't have an informed opinion on either of these estimates, but my intuition is that #1 seems reasonable while #2 seems unlikely. The justifications they give include lower executive salaries and decreased fraud. From what I have been told by healthcare professionals, medicare has less incentive to negotiate cost, less incentive to investigate fraud, and therefore lower administrative cost.
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