skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The point of UBI is not to fund people's vanity adventures in education

What a twisted way to phrase "train for their next career step, which will make them earn more money, so the state gets more tax money than before"

But for you, it's always "vanity adventures" when it's other people's education, right?
100% false.

If a business allows a nonprofit to use excess capacity, the capacity is still a business expense.

Google and AWS have huge amounts of unused computer capacity at low traffic periods. They can still expense those items even if they allow charitable use when not needed for business use.

Worst case if no unused capacity a business can call the expense a marketing expense and can ask the nonprofit to acknowledge their support of the activity. This is not uncommon.
My Volvo wagons can take a few 4x8 sheets diagonally from the store.
Maybe it should when the very future of that market is decided by those factors. If people aren't going to be living or utilizing those spaces the market value and actual demand will continue to deviate until at some point where it crashes and fucks over the people living there. Meanwhile the foreign investors, who likely won't be hurt by losing a property they didn't even use, won't give two shits.
This assumes the absence of a sandbox. Trusted computing can happen with our without a sandbox, much like "regular" computing.

If your system is running unsandboxed, untrusted third party code, that's pretty bad, regardless of the presence or absence of a trusted platform. As an example: FLOSS systems are definitely capable of running malware.

On the other hand, a reproducible build of open source software might well be what runs in (and relies on the attestation provided by) a trusted computing platform.

I do see one practical concern with integrating trusted computing on a general purpose computer:

If an implementation depends mostly on security through obscurity to achieve the desired attestation capabilities, this makes it much harder to audit it for vulnerabilities or backdoors. But I don't see how that is a fundamental property of a trusted computing system.
Why? Potential pirates are just gonna steal someone's stolen cc details to open up a netflix account.
doesnt let you copy artist info, feels like we are back in FLASH applets timeline
> I've never thought that a black or a Hispanic should be treated or thought of badly because of his or her race. Nor do I think that my thoughts and experiences should be discounted because I am a white male. Everyone should just be treated as an individual. Is that so controversial or retrograde?

I'm with you on this. I don't think it is controversial.

On the other hand, your sweeping comment on "young people" being "insane", seems to do a categorical kind of "discounting" based on their age (as opposed to race). As if they haven't "grown up enough" to shed bad ideas. Which is by definition an shifting of the goalpoasts because by the fact of life, the cohort of "younger people than you" will always keep growing in size and there's no mobility: there's nothing a younger person can do to be older than you. A fair comment to call "younger folks" "insane" then? I found it unfair, even if our political ideologies align.

This is an example of a lack of self-awareness that I meant to capture by saying "critical theory rotting out the internet". I'm not claiming you're a part of this group, by the way, for all I know you may change your mind or reinforce the deliberate nature of your comment. I appreciate you giving me a concrete example, though. From my point of view, people are too free to be critical of the ideas they want at any time, courtesy of the internet, without actually having an in-person, stimulating, and productive discussion with real human beings that share a different view, and therefore do not learn how to adapt themselves to new ideas, and therefore have a stunted/warped/non-existent way to introspect, and therefore are free to shout out products of criticality theory (which can be for any ideology, conservative or liberal[0]) without the feedback and nurturing of personal growth through genuine intellectual humility (it is performative intellectual humility[1]). So here I am, challenging you, hopefully in a positive way, as you've challenged me (perhaps less explicitly and more gracefully).

In my personal experience it happens in "all sides"'s internet communities based on politics or political philosophy. Which is expected since the largest participants are not there to have their minds changed, and this hard-headedness then becomes this mirror which is what people model themselves to become. And cannot recognize this cycle for what it is. Huge net negative all around.

[0] Note I don't use "criticality theory" as a politicized term like Jordan Peterson and other right-leaning folks like to use it, for reasons I don't care to discuss here.

[1] This blur between genuine and performative can get into some weird postmodern ideas, but again, even exploring ideas like that has become politicized by the Peterson camp, so I don't care to discuss here.
Doesn't this produce different output? I could be wrong but I think your code is more equivalent to an inner join, not a left outer join.
Show me all schools in the system, and their associated teachers, including schools which have no teachers.
You're always paying for power regardless of whether you're offering your unused drive space on a distributed system.
Boeing 737 Max certification flight could come within 'a few weeks': FAA
It's perfectly normal engineering practice. Camshaft, gearbox profiles, and bearing surfaces in your car have very tight tolerances. A one slightly unbalanced turbine blade in your airliner engine would assure catastrophic failure. etc etc
What about a simple program where only one spouse works but all money is shared. My wife and I effectively get the same paycheck on the same day.
Crick scientists support DeepMind’s effort to make Covid-19 data available
Snowboarding gear tends to actually be fairly good also. Probably with the three layers you didn't have insulated trousers? It's the non insulated bits that tend to get you.
It's a moral imperative.
Not sure if this is a "trojan horse" for breaking encyrption, or if this is really just another push by the eff to keep section 230 immunity as bigtech so desires.
Every time I feel secretly embarrassed for running my small projects on a simple cloud VPS VM, an article like this comes along and restores faith in my decision to not over-engineer things.

This has come up on HN before, and it's a great read - "You are not Google": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576092
Tried it on konsole 19.12.2 (on Arch), it works for me.
Lack of preparation and lack of looking ahead causes most problems. Of the three times I have come close to dying in the backcountry (all of them due to stupidity on my part!) two of them were due to failure to look ahead. Both times I was saved by my dog.

Thinking you know what to do is a recipe for disaster. Its the same thing that causes you not to check the return value from a system call "hey, this can't fail".

I teach adults how to be out there safely and how to train and look after kids who of course don't yet have appropriate judgement.
How do you handle an empty string vs a string that was never set?
That works until you have to support lots of old versions.
What it’s like to survive a shipwreck
I'm not 3xblah, obviously, but I deal with those sites by not using them.
> bad occurrences with disastrous occurrences, and is useless for trading volatility or understanding tail risk

As someone who actually traded volatility for a living, this statement makes no sense. Tail risk is almost always exogenously driven and endogenously compounded.

> If everyone is long the stock, a negative catalyst will hurt the stock faster and with more magnitude

What does “everyone is long the stock” mean? Short interest is low? Valuations are bullish? (With the latter determination depending on rates. 20x earnings is bearish if rates at 10% and bullish if they’re 1%.)

Prices can always go down. Revenues, and cash flows, can always go down. If people are staying home and supply chains breaking down, revenues and cash flows will go down, regardless of where they started from.

How that fundamental change translates into asset prices may vary with leverage and interest rates and potentially short interest. But the driver, revenue shock, is constant, as is its effect.
10% of Covid patients in intensive care unit
Agreed.

Cloud storage is a commodity race to the bottom. Cloud providers want you to use their storage systems because it means that you’ll also use their more profitable associated services in order to save money on egress. Accumulate enough data, and you’re locked in because of the high cost to migrate. Because IO dominates so many workloads, you already get a bunch of bytes for cheap when you are running a cloud storage provider. It’s already dirt cheap and potentially a loss leader (I suspect).

So, I have a hard time seeing how “spare free resources” are going to be competitive when you factor in the network, capital costs, power, etc. Then there’s some unknown legal risk that you are e.g. accepting money to distribute child porn to people, just like there’s a legal risk associated with running a Tor node (not commenting on whether this is just or not).

Just my opinion. Not speaking on behalf of anyone here.
Why the Ashes of People with Aids on the White House Lawn Matter (2016)
You would think that's a big part of the problem, but some of these issues like:

- Pharmaceutical companies sponsoring/paying doctors to push their products

- Paying doctors to put their names on papers they haven't even written or reward for research they never actually did

- Companies that engage in patent thicketing and product hopping (drug companies abusing the patent system to hold onto market share and prevent any generic competition)

- Pharmaceutical companies engaging in price gouging tactics
> I think that the step from Prokaryote to Eukaryote is much more difficult. (Feel free to disagree. Nobody is sure.)

Do you (or others) recommend any books exploring these conditions of life? The biology course I took online dabbled in explaining the difficulty of biological existence but wasn't the purpose.
Oh my god. We had a bug awhile back due to null equality comparison treating nulls as non-equal; I wish I'd known about mysql's equivalent ("<=>") back then!
>Who cares what specific the money is spent on if it is making people healthier, less stressed, and happier?

And here, in one sentence, is why we will NEVER see UBI in the United States of America. There is no ability to be the moral whip and maintain control over someone else's choices to make sure they don't 'waste my money'. Therefore, it will never happen.

In the US, at least, it's not about doing what's right. It's not about making sure people are healthier, less stressed, and happier. It's about making sure they live the 'best' life they can, as defined by groups like the "moral majority".
Hard drives consume less power when idle, like CPUs.
How is using the word “dead” offensive?
I use TinyTinyRSS every day and it's my primary way to access the internet. I can say that in my bubble it's not dead.
Some folks are raising the headboard end of their beds a few inches for improved nocturnal glyphic drainage - something coined as "inclined bed therapy."
They aren't dreaming of Mars as a solution to their problems.

They dream of Mars as it is exciting and will lead to new knowledge, understanding, and meaning.
Isn't it a case of investment efficiency versus efficacy? If all you care about is capital increasing capital, then efficiency is a good measure. If you care about how the increase in capital impacts peoples lives, then giving $1 to a billionaire is less effective than someone on minimum wage.
Seattle has even more waterways than the Bay Area.
Their AutoPilot has driven billions of miles. Yes, the driver must still be paying attention and ready to take over. That doesn’t mean the system wasn’t driving.

Miles per disengagement I’m sure is not too high. That would be a good metric to have. But total miles is still ~2 billion.
It's well known that the Soviets advanced in the Space race because they neglected people's lives. Cosmonauts were launched in half-baked, hastily assembled spacecraft. It's a gruesome example of iteration.
That’s not formal payment. For the house especially, that sort of thing is simply owned by the person.

I’m not sure what standard you are using to determine “payment” but to me, it’s so vague that you could reasonably claim toddlers are “paid” in food, shelter, and toys to entertain their parents with cuteness.
For whom is it not worth it? Software devs? Are they representative of the average white collar?

I couldn’t live without excel.
>My citation says 66% of US Bankruptcies are tied to medical issues.

Your citation says

>A new study from academic researchers found that 66.5 percent of all bankruptcies were tied to medical issues —either because of high costs for care or time out of work.

(My emphasis.) In other words, people going bankrupt because health problems = lack of work = lack of income. That does not contradict my citation which states that 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills; that is, bills for health care treatment exceeding available income.

Your article goes on to quote a study author who carefully elides the difference between the two. Oh, by the way, he is a prominent proponent of Medicare for All! Imagine that.
It seems that Filecoin fundamentally relies on a proof-of-work type system called "sealing." The article calls it "an intense amount of work" that you must do in order to host a file. Does anyone have any estimates or comparisons for the CPU/energy consumed?
You can get pretty far with docker and things like ECS / Fargate etc too.
Who is "you" in this scenario?

I want to be able to secure my computer (an ATM, say) against people with physical access to it. A root of trust (that the original purchaser of the device controls) allows for that.

Or, to be slightly more dark, I, as an enterprise IT administrator, don't want the employees fucking around with the hardware I deploy, even when they have all day to poke and prod around. I'm the root user of those workstations, not them. I need to be able to enforce enterprise security policies on them, and I can't do that if they can "jailbreak" the company's computers. (They want to run arbitrary code for personal reasons? They can do it on their own arbitrary personal devices, then, for which I have conveniently provided them a partitioned-VLAN guest network to join.)
The video game sector is unstable and toxic. IMO, Valve compares favorably to other video game companies as for one thing it’s still in business.

Flat organizations are unusual, but survive about as well as other similar organizations. The difference is when a giant reorganization/buyout etc hits, they more obviously change into something else.
I use my left pinky to press Ctrl, and I use the right hand for L (index finger), so it makes no difference whether I press L or Enter using my right hand. I would probably use the right pinky for the Enter key. Works either way to me, but I am used to pressing Ctrl-L (left pinky for Ctrl, right index finger for L).
I am currently using Feedly with their recent "Leo" feature and it is really interesting how well it works.

It requires some setup and imho is a bit expensive (Pro+ plan required) but this announcement should give a good overview of its capabilities: https://blog.feedly.com/leo/

Innovation in the RSS space is still happening and therefore I wouldn't call it 'dead'.
The only way to be sure: CI checks out master, merges the feature branch, and tests that version. If successful, push to origin. If the push fails (because a parallel pushed happened in between) start from the beginning.

The challenge here is that pull request might be tested again and again. It increases the CI load by some factor for large projects.
> The carpets were dusty, and the escalators had broken down. A cheap pine table was littered with trinkets and scented candles. A vase was wedged between new titles, its bouquet of sunflowers sagging in brown water.

This is a really bizarre intro. I've been going to the Union Square B&N regularly for years. It's perfectly fine, normal retail condition and as busy as ever.

The carpets are clean, the escalators don't seem to break down any more often than anywhere else, and what does a "cheap" pine table even mean? This article is making it sound like a K-Mart or something.

It just makes it hard for me to trust the rest of the article when the narrative it starts with seems so blatantly prejudiced ("littered" with "trinkets"?), from my first-hand experience.
Disabling CSS :hover and :active states might break sites. Tracking pixels could be as simple as a background image set for either of those CSS states.
Interactive introduction to TypeScript 3.7's nullish-coalescing operator
I don't think that is true. Here a few things people might do:

* Spend valuable time with a young child

* Relax at the park

* Spend time with family and friends

* Take care of household chores or administrative life tasks that one has been procrastinating on

* Go hiking

* Read a book

* Watch a show or movie

* Learn a new skill or start a new hobby

* Build a website or start a blog that isn't profitable but adds value to the world
They'll go back.
The dark side of .io: How the U.K. is making profits from a shady deal (2014)
I use this, works perfectly fine on daily/frequent basis (not dead): https://feedreader.com/online
While this does work, the Falcon Heavy has convinced Elon not to go into that direction again. Its actually not that simple to strap these together and just making a bigger tank is actually easier.

Poorly for the current market using a FH makes sense, but to break to another level, building one big rocket is better. Both the US Saturn 5 and the Soviet N1 were big single tube vehicles.
Fortinet Web Filtering at my work has blocked this page under the category of "Hacking" :(

I just submitted a re-evaluation and it was updated to... the hacking category

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Web Page Blocked!

You have tried to access a web page which is in violation of your internet usage policy.

URL: https://projectsandcastle.org/
Category: Hacking
ICANN's process for taking down domains works, if sometimes slowly. It's not always great for preventing the next phishing domain from popping up three minutes later from the same attackers.

I can see both sides of this one. Namecheap is doing the right thing by protecting customer privacy, and Facebook reasonably wants to stop what is probably a well-organized and persistent phishing campaign aimed at their own customers.
> Given that, the downsides of e.g. not being able to retarget advertising, not being able to understand effectively how users are using the website (with minimal effort), etc aren't worth the costs.

Downsides to the company. All upsides to me (you can understand effectively how users are using the website without doing extensive telemetry; in fact, this reduces your chances of A/B-testing yourself into full-blown user-hostility, as is common these days; see also: overfitting, Goodhart's law).

Not to mention: if you need detailed analytics, there are couple of self-hosted solutions available. Not at all that more complex to use, and at least they don't leak visitors' data to various shady third parties. Note that this particular product targets parents of small children and is bordering on "medical information" territory, so an analytics script from some random third party[0] which can track what FAQ options piqued your interests is especially worrisome in this context.

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[0] - I noticed from your profile that you have experience in the marketing industry, and you seem to not recognize Smartlook.
"Unproductive for discussion", then. Calling RSS "dead" will offend people who are partial to it, because there are fanboys everywhere, and that's not going to lead to a particularly useful discussion.
underated
How do you expect UBI to be funded? Either taxes or wars, and we haven't invested very much in our army.
IPFS is by no means 'relatively unknown'. It is used in dozens of projects. See: https://github.com/ipfs/awesome-ipfs
The same argument is often made here about various programming libraries.
Nah. The adtech people are already talking about persistent identification mechanisms to allow the same identification in the absence of third party cookies.

If you're privacy-minded, it's worth keeping an eye on these efforts, as some of them involve getting publishers to require a login and an email address or phone number from their users, then using that as the persistent identifier.

If that idea takes root, then we'll probably want to cancel accounts and avoid making new ones.
I have a spreadsheet at work that does this for manual tasks. It calculates minutes to perform the task X # employees X yearly frequency of task.

Once I've plugged in the values, I go back and ask if we really want to spend 30 hours a year updating intranet employee profiles or if we should use that time to fix some bugs or code a new feature.

Its quite effective to pushing back on unneeded tasks.
That's literally what they're doing?
That might be so if one could choose to work half-time for half pay. This option is usually not available, though, at least in the US. (Certainly I couldn't, particularly once one rolls in medical insurance effects.) There are pretty good reasons why many positions don't offer this option.

As for my example, I've no idea if the impression was correct. But it's certainly the case that stay-at-home moms stayed at home for cultural reasons and/or because they wanted to, at least where I lived. Being well off (ha) enabled this option, but it certainly didn't drive it.

edit: Note also that your scenario doesn't involve taxing unpaid work, which is what I was discussing. Instead you're just shuffling it around, which is a different argument.
I came to comment on this post after receiving notification in my RSS reader. So I say this:

Pretty lively dead standard!
The coronavirus has reached Venice, CA
I find this trope of Kings/Emperors being "poorer" than most people today, to be an extremely annoying trope. This trope is purely a rhetorical device used to justify inequalities, because "look you have a cell phone and infinite McDonald's deliveries on Seamless, you're richer than a King of old!" Meanwhile you're shackled to your job, shackled to your location, shackled to your apartment/mortgage, shackled to your debt, etc.
Well that’s the thing, the economy seems to fall out of balance too often. It’s either WeWork times or decimating-the-system times. Don’t we need the middle ground more, where the good companies can stand out?

Is this a political or a central-bank policy issue?
Nope, I read HN through RSS.
> For example, it is literally possible for an employee to have so many payroll deductions including court-ordered wage garnishment that net pay would be negative. How do you handle that in all legal jurisdictions where the company operates?

By issuing a error and demanding that a human deal with it. Obviously.
Whats missing is proof of delivery, and thats the most important thing. I'm not just paying AWS to store my files, I'm paying them to deliver my files.

Maybe this could work as an alternative to glacier. But even then, I doubt it. I'd take Amazon with an SLA any day of the week.
Why does Facebook want to know who these people are? That itself seems a bit creepy. Sure, get the domains taken down, get Whoisguard to block them from registering more domains in future. But what does Facebook want, names and addresses? Weird.
There's an ICANN process that allows you to file exactly this sort of domain-specific takedown notice. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en

The big drawback of the process it that it doesn't work well for phishing attacks, where taking down one domain is of limited value. It's designed more for things like nissan.com