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I read the article.

The problem with any US government plan is the lack of sound policies.

After you start with policy goals, then you can look at UBI, high-density housing, service industry staffing in the Bay Area, infrastructure maintenance, etc. together.

Having said that, the most visible problems with UBI that should be addressed (in policy. see above.) are:

1) Would it further inflate rental prices?

2) Is voting for free money the fatal flaw in democracy that this unattributed quote says, "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."

Modern Greece is an economic cripple from public sector benefits for example, as are all US cities. What happens when you expand that to the population at large?

3) In this proposal, what would be the effect on the industries taxed? Would people shop out of state? Would they avoid online merchants? etc.

The political issue is that any party that promotes UBI will be accused of pandering to their base by the other party. And it's an effective argument in the absence of, again, policy.

I would go so far as to say this. The most patriotic thing that Bay Area residents could do is to finance Yang or Sanders to create a PAC to design and promote logical government fiscal policy for 10-20 years, then become the third political party for elections.
> Do you have any evidence at all that this is the case?

Do you accept this from Forbes? https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/12/13/how-to-p...

How about this from the LA Times? https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-amazon-...

"The goods may look real online, but there is no guarantee of authenticity — whether sold by a brand, a third-party seller or Amazon’s direct-sales arm."

> It's the opposite of what is said in the article

In fact it is _not_ the opposite of what is said in the article! Read it again. Nowhere do they say that you're safe from counterfeits if you buy from the right links. The article steers well clear of even mentioning inventory commingling. The most insidious aspect is that you believe that they've exonerated Amazon, when they just neglected to mention the other half of the problem.

In the last example, they give their credulity away entirely.

"We compared a recently purchased set of Tweezerman tweezers...the seller had swapped in a model that was different from what was listed on the page"

Who was the seller, you ask? The page they link to says "sold by Amazon.com".
But they get affected by the taxes? So they'd be worse off than they are now?
Modest housing at that, not the "luxury" apartments that are springing up everywhere.
right, but templates are just.. templates. Someone had to have designed those templates in the first place.

Based on my understanding of thegrid's approach, the problem was that they did try to automate the design process itself and it just didn't work very well. If they just used templates they may well have succeeded.

I do think it is possible to automate certain aspects of the design process, now that we have convnets.
So the Bill benefits anyone spending less then 10k/month on the non exempted things...

I make about this much and feel this type of tax may actually help me spend better.

If they added additional exemptions for local and US goods this could be really neat.
Agreed but fair is nuanced
I’ve always thought that this is going to hit illegal immigrants hardest. Rents on the low end are going to rise by $1000/month, and those without the subsidy aren’t going to be able to compete. Or California could provide $1000/month to illegal immigrants, but I doubt that would pass even in California.
how can something be true but not accurate
I have followed this language passively for ~1.5 years. I think it's revolutionary, and the big barrier for my adoption is the fact that I do not currently write services for the JVM.

But the ability to define services as HTTP/Ingress endpoints, Docker containers, and Kubernetes/Openshift resources natively as part of the language is incredible. Add that to the fact that they have native support for things like tabular data and table queries as primitives, stream operations, distributed transactions baked in, multiple kinds of service-level auth natively, and a bunch of other goodies like observability/metrics primitives + support for Kafka/OpenAPI/etc etc and you have one hell of a language.

Interoperability with the existing Java and JVM ecosystem is huge.

I would be unpleasantly surprised if this does not take off, or at least similar concepts in other languages. Today, the closest thing you can get is Pulumi for defining infrastructure + deployments in code, and then your regular application codebase on the side.

If you want to see a featureset that a modern language built for web-services & cloud-native architecture should strive for, check out their learn-by-example list (in particular, the items past basic grammar & syntax):

https://ballerina.io/v1-1/learn/by-example/
The main reason S and X chew through tyres is the driver activating “electric smile mode” which is where depressing the accelerator pedal causes driver and passengers to smile.

Rapid acceleration and deceleration will wear tyres faster. There will be a large negative correlation between “area on power graph shown in orange” and “longevity of tyres.”
Under this proposed bill how are they going to prevent illegals from claiming this benefit? I didn't see it mentioned in the article.
I love summer, it will always be my favorite season.
like https://epiphany.pub/

With version control and programmability
That's for two cards as well, so only ~$12/ea. Pretty reasonable.
HVAC engineer here. Hard to tell as they don't provide any details on the rate of evaporation. One issue for ongoing use would be scale buildup - particularly in areas with hard water. Probably the best option would be to fill it with demineralized or RO water.
> would still be in fine shape to be used in fixed systems

I don't understand what you mean; if the charge they hold is a fraction of the original charge, or worse, who's going to be using them as-is?

I'm sure there's value in recycling the various exotic materials they're made of, but I don't see how that would be anywhere near 90% of the original value
Consider using a smaller, lighter-weight network (e.g. TinyYOLO) and object tracking (instead of running inferences on every camera frame) for faster throughput -- I imagine you should be able to get through with <1/4 of a V100 and still real-time for all practical cases.

You can also customize the network to your use case, e.g. you don't need YOLO's default 5 anchor box sizes if you know the thing you're detecting is a license plate.

Also, profile your code and see where your bottleneck is. If your bottleneck is at NMS for example there are things you can do to speed it up. I've seen a lot of cases where the neural network runs fast but there's a lot of Python bloat for pre/post-processing -- not sure about yours without seeing code.

You really should be able to run a license plate detector/reader on something a lot smaller than a V100. A Xavier or quite possibly even a Jetson Nano would very likely be good enough if you use it well.
Tried to start a local in-person meeting for CGAA (Computer Gaming Addicts Anonymous). Posted flyers all over my university campus, which has like 30k undergrads. Nobody showed up, week after week. Not sure how to let people know and I’m not a “growth hacker” type so I gave up.
>the other hasn‘t

Just because some people don't believe that is likely, that does not mean it is not _plausable_

Is it plausible that there could be a biological lab in Wuhan? Yes, in fact, there is one.

Is it plausible that some countries do research on biological weapon? Yes, in fact there are multiple cases of such occasions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Biological_...

Is it plausible that biological lab can leak bioweapon? Yes, in fact this happened before, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
How would one find these "top 50 python libraries" list?
I was thinking of a dorm or hostel. My food and rent could potentially be covered, leaving me to work on personal research or a business from cafes.
> However, Amazon also permits sellers to operate from countries that ignore US court orders.

Something that would help here is if Amazon would display the seller's country more prominently (or at all). It's a lot more problematic if you're not even aware that you're buying something from a seller in country without a functioning legal system.
"The program would be paid for with a state value-added tax of 10 percent on goods and services, with exemptions for (...)"

VAT is such a PITA (I'm originally European, so I know a thing or two about it). Tons of additional paperwork, plenty of room for fraud and cheating (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_trader_fraud ).

Just be honest about it, increase existing property taxes, which people already pay anyway and are naturally progressive and avoid creating complications.

Also, I would start with lower amounts, and see what actually happens.

And ... Why wouldn't every capable homeless person from all over US move to California if they would be paid to do it (and I can't imagine more forgiving weather for homelessness, anyway)?
Even Social Security?
“Lethal force” is its own definition: it is lethal, which means the target dies.

“Fast response” is already defined as “fast enough to stop a killer” which implies that these things will be deployed 24/7 waiting to be called into service at a moment’s notice.

That means you are setting up expensive infrastructure and a need to justify the ongoing expense which means a police force predisposed to using lethal force for any encounter.
Interesting that they'd pay for it via something regressive like sales tax (maybe a bit less regressive because it doesn't include groceries, but still)
React itself is nice and simple, but all the cruft needed to run it is a bit off putting. If you’re happy to have a meg of app code you can build great things though.
Any new housing is good, even if it's luxury; when people move into luxury apartments, it relieves demand on wherever they were living before, lowering prices.
Do you mean you CD to a dev environment?
Well...

The good thing with a VAT is that it's very simple and hard to evade. Income taxes that are progressive on paper can become anything but with enough accountants massaging your accounts.

But with a VAT, everyone just pays it. And those accountants can do productive work that benefits society.
I feel like there should be a better thing than kubernetes. In theory it’s simple, but in practice it’s so convoluted!
Some things that happened in 1973
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30 million adults in California x $1,000 x 12 months = $360 billion / year.

20% of adults are on Medicaid though, so if they're excluded it's $288 billion / year.

California's total current budget is around $210 billion. So taxes would more than double.

On average each adult's taxes would go up by the amount of the UBI. The specifics of who would bear more of a tax burden would depend on how it's taxed. Under this plan, taxing consumption and excluding Medicaid recipients would mean the tax burden would fall disproportionately on low income households.
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The new housing is not expensive because it's "luxury", but because it's rare. Just like the old modest housing is.
We shouldn't forget that the novelty of this disease, and the unknowns surrounding it, are causing the (probably necessary) extreme reactions like those we're seeing now.

In the longer run, after the patterns are better understood
and treatment protocols are in place, we will probably normalize to whatever the non-zero steady state infection and fatality rates that results, much as we do with diseases like influenza, malaria, etc.

As that happens, the reactionary controls that are in place today will gradually lessen and we'll be back to a business as usual.

Of course, the short term shock of this might send a fragile world economy off the rails, but pretty much any globally correlated emergency incident would have done that.
Any time you goose the demand side, prices go up. Rent, college, health care. It's the guaranteed outcome.
Well... Go is a language that wants to be something specific, rather than be something for everyone. That means that some suggestions just don't fit, not because they're hard to implement, but because they're wrong for the language. It is very appropriate for the language designers to say "If that's what you want, then you don't want Go. There are other languages that fit what you want better; go find one and use that." That's completely reasonable and proper.

It's also possible for the language designers to say the exact same words, and be ignoring real problems with the language - problems that could be fixed within the spirit of the language.

If you go to the Haskell people and say "This language would be so much more usable by so many more people with an Algol-like syntax", they're not going to listen to your helpful suggestion. What you're asking for is something that would not be Haskell. But to those asking, they think it's a perfectly reasonable request.

I don't have a great example of the second kind, because languages with those kinds of designers typically die early.
I think the original comment should have been “sounds like a FairTax ( http://fairtax.org/ ) system.” The FairTax is a libertarian proposal for a national VAT or sales tax, but — to reduce the regressive effects of a sales tax — to send everybody a “pre-bate” (money equal to the tax a person would expect to pay for food, rent, etc.).

I don’t know if the California bill is actually based on the FairTax proposal, but it does have both components, even if it uses different names.
Elixir is now fully mature (almost at v2.0) and probably the best all-round language, with a super powerful web framework (Phoenix) and a very rich ecosystem. Highly recommend playing with it!
”but you’ll ruin the character of this place”
I think it's a good idea since most people change smartphones every year.
Great that landlords will ultimately get this as a windfall and normal people will see no improvement in lifestyle eh?
I just bought a Pixel 2 from Amazon.ca and it seems fine.
These can be functionally equivalent as profits are eventually spent by somebody. The real question is not what general tax system you use, but rather what you exempt from the taxes.

That and how much profit from other areas ends up in California vs profit from California ending up in other areas etc.
Heh, nice to find someone who walked a similar path! :-)

Ah Spivak...yes, I absolutely agree it's one of the best books to build up that mathematical maturity everyone talks about.

For me Spivak took about 6 months and I managed to do almost all of the starred exercises - Gifted? No. Brutally determined: yes. And I was quite fortunate to be in a place in life where I could put serious hours in to it at the time.

After that, I learned to relax a bit more as I realised I had pushed myself way too hard and was close to burning out. I still love looking back at that damn book though. There's just something that's so special about it...the way the exercises build upon each other and connect together. It's really unique.
just did a complaint to FTC as well. In case, anyone wants to know how to file a complaint

https://www.ftc.gov/faq/competition/report-antitrust-violati...
Agreed, but sadly, I would expect a meaningful property tax increase to met with impenetrable resistance in CA. Property owners have a very large influence in the state.
What do you like the most about it? What's missing?
For a use case where we ingest hundreds of millions of data points to hadoop then run spark etl jobs to partition the data on hdfs itself.
And then next day we have several million updates on the several datapoints from the last day(s).
What would be recommended on a hadoop setup ? HBase ? Parquet with Hoodie to deal with deltas ? Or Iceberg ?
Or hive3 ?
Great time for Georgism!
I spend about $20k on personal items only (no business).
Have they actually improved its weaknesses, though, besides upgrading the engine from time to time?

For example, today I replaced a front wheel hub-bearing on a FWD car. These are designed with a cast steering knuckle that the axle goes through. The bearing assembly is mounted on the front of the bore, the axle goes through the bore into the hub-bearing from the back, and there's a little seal on the back of the bore that the axle rides on.

Diagram: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Steering...

The weakness is that water inevitably gets into the bore around the back seal (since the axle moves around a bit) and the only way out is through the bearing out the front. It rusts out. Nobody has improved this design for the past 50 years, as far as I am aware. Perhaps a weep hole? Perhaps they need to be completely filled with grease?
or suddenly being not a part of a desired ethnic group
dantillberg has the right of it.

We were doing some complicated fitness tests on our data to return appropriate rows to the user.

Actual:

SELECT * FROM things WHERE ... AND columnA>? AND columnB<5;

Expected:

SELECT * FROM things WHERE ... AND columnA>? AND columnB<?;

These sorts of mistakes tend to sneak back into projects that previously had this handled, so you do have to watch for regressions. (But that's not what happened in this case, if anyone is wondering.)

I don't know if there are any good ways to audit for these sorts of problems these days. At one point I joked that I was going to write my own database library that only accepted Prepared Statements and nothing else, but barring a full SQL query parser, I'm not entirely sure how I thought I was going to prevent someone from doing that.
The Medicaid income threshold is something like $1300/month. If you're earning that much, then the amount going on non-medical, non-food, non-rent stuff is probably under $500/month. Assuming you're currently paying sales tax on those purchases at ~7%, and this proposal increases that to 10%, you're paying an extra $15/month in tax.

(This was a quick calculation based on info from the internet, so I could be mistaken.)

BUT if you can buy medical insurance for less than $1000/month, then can you give up the Medicaid benefit and have the $1000 instead? If so, as long as medical insurance doesn't cost more than $985/month, you're better off with the higher tax and the $1000, than with the Medicaid benefit.
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Well, the bill just says resident so maybe Oregonians can take a cash vacation.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xh...
IDK. One side says “it doesn’t because you need to pay for them and that’s that” and the other side says “a wall”. So... imma sit this one out.
Maybe add SMS option for paid/premium accounts?
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JSX in favor of HTML has won. Compiled server side languages are the future. Everyone writing untyped is converting.
Vue is definitely a better framework, and for built for larger projects (performance)... but React got the first mover advantage after angular abandoned it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ah yes, Yang gathered "a surprising amount of support" and I guess nobody was as surprised as Yang, who came in eighth place in New Hampshire behind Tulsi Gabbard with a number of votes indistinguishable from none after getting 1% of votes in Iowa. As we can see Yang's UBI platform is sweeping across the American imagination.
> Would it have upset you if they were asking for any review at all, instead of requiring a 5 star one?

That has largely the same result. Most satisfied customers don't bother to leave a review, so real reviews tend to skew towards people who have had issues.

If you bribe satisfied customers into leaving a review then your reviews are no longer from the same sampling population as your competitors' reviews and you end up looking better than you really are by comparison. Plus, if the incentive isn't offered to everyone then people who get it (and then are disproportionately likely to leave a review) will tend to like the seller more because they liked receiving the incentive.

It would only be fair if the same incentive was provided to all buyers for leaving reviews of all sellers.
That's a good idea! I'll update it to include a few suggestions.
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* The overwhelming vast majority of functions do not allocate resources that need to be explicitly cleaned up.

* Cleanup is no more painful with exceptions - try/finally is not materially different from defer.

* In any language, a healthy pattern is "if you allocate it, you clean it up". This pattern in Go and Java looks basically the same.

* Go's lack of exceptions mean that you pay the penalty of error handling on every function call, not just in the tiny fraction of a fraction of a percentage of function calls that allocate resources.

* For business processing... this is just a non-issue, full stop. There's generally only one resource that gets allocated - a transaction - and it gets cleaned up automatically on exceptions. All that noise in Go is an utter waste of time.
If space is not at a premium, then it's perfectly reasonable to buy twice as many half-efficient used batteries if you get them for cheap.
How can I see one of these in action?
I like summer too, but I think because time has sped up so much I've adapted to preferring spring because it's an anticipation of summer.
Maybe try partnerships with paid but self hosted software, is that a thing?
MacBooks are still all the rage even with the crappy keyboard.
You're right user reviews on Amazon are manipulated. Bought a bluetooth earphone on Amazon DE, was contacted by vendor to exchange a five star for a half refund.

Also came across Facebook ads that asks you to buy random crap and leave positive review in exchange for a full refund, and they call this "free samplimg".
It seems that the more basic course is Discovering mathematics (MU123). http://mathschoices.open.ac.uk/mu123
C# design patterns mostly asked by interviewer
It's time to stop taking about 'diversity' and start talking about race at work
I was curious if this had been discussed on hacker news, and found that it has:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22141719
A small router device put in between might help, say a repurposed (OpenWRT?) WiFi access point, or a small Microtik or similar devices. By having forcing all IoT devices on a second private WiFi network would allow to set rules so that for example they can be reached by devices on the home network but are prevented to connect anywhere else on the outside.
I've tried a few things recently that help with that:

1. Don't do exercises unless you want to. Completionism is a trap.

2. Take notes. Rewrite things in your own words. Imagine you're writing a guide for your past self.

3. Ask questions. Anytime you write something down, pause and ask yourself. Why is this true? How can we be sure? What does it imply? How could this idea be useful?

4. Cross-reference. Don't read linearly. Instead, have multiple textbooks, and "dig deep" into concepts. If you learn about something new (say, linear combinations) -- look them up in two textbooks. Watch a video about them. Read the Wikipedia page. _Then_ write down in your notes what a linear combination is.

Anyway, everyone's different of course, but these practices have been helping me get re-invigorated with self-learning math. Hope they help someone else out there. I welcome any feedback!

(edit: formatting)
TiDB relies on Spark to do analysis, using their TiSpark integration package. It's not built into the database but offers a smoother install than operating a Spark cluster separately.

The only "newsql" database that truly does OLAP+OLTP (now called HTAP) well is MemSQL with it's in-memory rowstores and disk-based columnstores.
I would love to read about the actual safe shelf life of common foods. Being from a diary region of the. US, I have no faith in the stamped on dates