skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a pretty misleading assessment of the study:

> Overall, there was a slight reduction in the number employed during the pilot compared to the number employed prior to the pilot. Ten respondents moved from unemployment to employment while 32 moved from employment to unemployment. Of the participants who moved from employment to unemployment, 13 (40.6%) enrolled in full-time education during the pilot with the intention of re-entering the labour market later as more qualified workers.

The work disincentive seems well below 10%.

> If you consider multi-generational entrenchments of poverty as its own problem, worth serious merit, then the work disincentive could be a disaster.

The meta study you linked to shows a marked difference in the effect across genders. It seems pretty likely that a reduction in the labor force would caused by a significant factor by families where both parents work, and one has the ability to stay home with the kids. I don't see any data here talking about an increase in household where neither parent works. I suspect that any decrease that does exist, applies to single-parent households.

When you take this into account alongside the number of these the "work disincentived" that are people moving into full-time education programs, it doesn't seem obvious at all that here will be a negative effect on multi-generational poverty.

Finally, that article seems to lack a basic understanding of economics. A reduction in employment due to reductions in the job supply (such as during a recession) is in no way equivalent to a reduction in employment due to reductions in the labor supply. When you reduce the job supply, you reduce consumer income due to job loss / wage reductions, this compounds to further lower economic activity and thus leads to more reduction in the job supply. When you reduce labor supply through UBI, you don't see the same drop in consumer income, and wages should actually go up.
The BMW logo is iconic and has become the brand, with that this is what would be classed as a "New Coke" moment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
From “flat Earth” to climate change denial, kids are deluged with fake science
I'm also enjoying Kubernetes. I started a hobby project on GKE just to learn, but now the project has 8,000 MAU or so and will be scaling up more in the near future. K8s is totally overkill, but I've had a good time and it's worked well so far.
Get into developing web technology. The web is the crucial "space of freedom" within which all other modes of freedom (political or otherwise) currently depend.

I want to start tackling these big issues, too...

That's why I created a new kind of operating system, which runs in web browsers, called Linux on the Web! Online desktop here: https://lotw.xyz/desk.os
Answers like this is the reason I came back to HN.

Facts and to the point.
>I imagine he's talking about the response to the Yang campaign,

This predates Yang. Yang like all libertarian-UBI advocates, typically side-steps this issue.
I'd be very surprised if it was only 20%. By my estimation many office jobs are 50% or more just being paid to sit at a desk.
Looks shit on paper too. Like someone forgot to turn a layer back on before merging in illustrator.

It needs that black ring. Would be fine if they brought it back
Might it be worth considering that choosing to not work and choosing to contribute to society in other ways could, for some people and in some circumstances, be slightly different decisions?
Flash News! Software engineering is hard.
Jesus. Multiple types of suffocation for babies < 1 yr old
Yeah, I too thought of Rouge Male. There is a 1976 movie of it starring Peter O'Toole worth watching. On Amazon Prime.
Love how their camera shot is taken from the bike lane.
We've been using this docker container for a few years now, and it's been really great for us. Every once in a while we get some wonkiness with committing offsets, but we haven't tracked down the issue, and I'm guessing it's our code, not the container.
Probably under the assumption that pooling resources and sharing a house means their expenses are NOT the same as two single people.
I would argue that achieving self-sustainability on Mars forces the issue, even. The problem we’ve had on Earth is that because the costs of being wasteful, polluting, etc are externalized, which makes such behavior “cheap” in the short term — on Earth, the environment is constantly handing out loans that we rarely if ever repay.

That’s not an option on settlements beyond Earth’s surface. There, you’re forced to live with every decision you make almost immediately, so if you’re wasteful or stupid it’s promptly going to bite you in the ass and potentially threaten the lives of everybody involved. You’re not given the option of fixing things later, you have to do the correct thing now, and I think that’s the type of environment it’s going to take for humanity to change its ways.
Because I don't want to live in an un-air-conditioned shack subsisting only on wheat and soy.
If you don't have high scalability requirements, virtually anything will work. You're probably paying $55/month over the odds.
you stole that from reddit! :) https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/fdtym6/til_t...
I don't follow that. HQ2 was about creation of new jobs and immigration of more people into the area.

For a fixed supply, higher rents are caused by a larger number of people demanding housing at the current prices. Higher wages only affect that by (a) causing immigration into the area, or (b) raising people out of poverty so that they can afford housing when they couldn't before.
Yeah, that's the main problem. They got rid of black color ring surrounding the blue rotating propellers. That killed the logo.
That's right, I'm writing this essay series for founders whose anxiety is interfering with their happiness and effectiveness.
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There are other vehicles called "Starship" that aren't actual starships either - the Beechcraft Starship (a twin-engined turboprop pusher aircraft) or "The Starship" (a Boeing 720 used by Led Zeppelin and other bands). It's a proper noun chosen as a name or model designation for the vehicle, as opposed to a common noun describing the vehicle itself (a spacecraft).
I doubt any serious economist could corral up enough spare tike to waste on a rebuttal of this idea. Not every idea rises to the level of serious discourse. The Yang UBI amount was much smaller than the amount paid by social welfare programs to the people who receive them. That's just arithmetic.
Being a couple is 1.5x more expensive than being single.
That gets me thinking: in some parallel universe history of the Earth where interior lighting and photography was primarily developed by and for people of color, I bet average indoor lighting would be brighter, and Caucasian skin would often be washed out in CCV.
I'm a tall, lanky guy and I can't float at all. Well I do float, but my point of neutral buoyancy is with my head a few inches below the surface.

That said I learned to properly tread water while getting my open water SCUBA cert and turns it it's really easy. Last time I tried, from completely fresh, I was able to tread water for 40 minutes before I got bored and quit. I probably could have done it for another 40 minutes, at least. This was in a pool though so I was relaxed and the water was calm.
Exactly. I don't have a lot of interest in comments that boil down to, "This thing was not made for me and I'm upset!" People like different things. People like to make different things.

If somebody wants to start a discussion about narrative journalism's place in the world, fine. If they want to ask for a more condensed version of the story, also fine. Better still if they say, "I'm not a fan of narrative journalism, so I dug around and here are the 3 best traditional news stories I could find on the topic." But otherwise, I'm with the "I DON"T LIKE THING" angel: https://thefrogman.me/post/41542126320/by-jo-b-tumblr-for-we...
interesting. I'd found the app before but couldn't tell if there was an export feature. I'll try it out
And of course, no one talks about establishing an upper bar for those who have way more than they need.
Anecdote incoming. I work double full time and have done so for approaching a decade. It's definitely proven to be a significant competitive advantage in my case. I don't know too many folks who could have comfortably retired in their 20s (that didn't grow up with generational wealth).

Still, I've seen many folks in esports do crazy workloads and get nowhere fast. So there's more to the formula than just pouring in more effort.
That was Alan Stern's take if I recall correctly.
For example, one Indian supplier Apple approached in 2018 was Superpacks, which operated a packaging factory in Bangalore. Apple sent auditors to assess whether its supplier responsibility practices were up to Apple's standards. The audits revealed dozens of violations. The site had no safety measures for storing chemicals, lacked monitoring for noise and wastewater, and didn't have several environmental and construction permits. It didn't properly test drinking water for workers and the site lacked a fire hydrant system, according to a person close to Apple.

Apple spent months pushing Superpacks to fix the violations. However, the Indian company stopped giving updates and missed deadlines for fixes. Apple ultimately didn't give it a business contract. Superpacks didn't respond to a request for comment.
AI-Based Drug Discovery Pipeline Generates Drug Compounds Against Coronavirus
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/03/05/apple-india-manufacturi...
As a counter data point, I fairly enjoy alerts like these. Whether you like them or not is quite subjective. If it was a really serious distracted driving issue, then the entire billboard industry likely wouldn't exist.
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I would have to check, but the resources on lex/yacc that I remember would make a point of their usability at scale. Generally it would be unlikely to wrote a faster lexer than what lex could do, but very likely to write a better parser than yacc. However writing a small lexer and/or parser _quickly_ would be easier with those tools than hand rolling one almost every time. Its great parser generators are still being developed and improved, and its fine to point out issues, but this article misses the point by a wide margin.
> It is the job of the CTO to steer excitable juniors away from the new hotness

Sometimes it's the CTO who is the excitable one pursuing new hotness...
The total mass launched to orbit is currently in the order of 500 tons per year. To start a colony on Mars, millions of tons of material would need to be shipped there from Earth. This massive launch capacity is why they want to build so many ships and creating an assembly line is how they want to do it.
"don't give them the benefits they want, don't pay them enough, or just don't suit them very well "

80-90% of the population would fit into this category.

You are not entitled to social services because 'you don't like your job'.
They are not that different from other space startups.

> "We succeeded in launching the rocket," Zhang told the media. "The experience we gained from evaluating the rocket's flight conditions will help us remodel the rocket as well as advance new rocket research and development."

http://www.bjreview.com/Business/201811/t20181126_800149381....

Plenty of trials and errors here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_artificial_satelli...
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Outrage!
>Anonymity can supply that effortlessly

Until the real name leaks, which is only matter of time. Anonymity is what i mean by fixing the issue by hiding the information.

>If you post with your name, you have become a public persona. Just hinting at the fact that public personas often have staff to manage public relations. You could of course kill that, but the repercussions would be quite severe

Yes, right now it is an issue with using real name. We should not fix it by hiding the name, we should fix it so that using real name would not cause harm.

In other words, we should take the information being public as the base condition and solve the problem that arise from that.
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Using the reminder aka notifications feature of the android app got the habit to stick for me. Total pita to figure out how to get it turned on though :)
Also when you take into account that the moon is formed from the outer layers of the earth it lacks a lot of the heavy elements like iron that the Earth has in it's core making the mass about 1.2% of the mass of the Earth [1].

It's much smaller compared to the earth than you would think just by looking at it but it is still a very large moon for a planet the size of the Earth.

"Of all the moons of the eight planets, Earth's moon is by far the largest relative to its planet, with a diameter of 3476 km and hence a ratio to Earth's diameter of 0.2764. By comparison, the next largest moon relative to a major planet (Triton of Neptune) has a diameter ratio of just .0546." [2]

The moon is also larger than Pluto (in the same reference as above) :)

[1] https://www.universetoday.com/20489/moon-compared-to-earth/

[2] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/General_Astronomy/Planetary_Mo...
I bought some early last week. I got supplies two weeks ago when friends and family were laughing at me saying I was being paranoid. Now they are asking me where to get some hand sanitizer or bleach since it's sold out everywhere.
I appreciate your posts on the Permanent Fund here.

I have a friend who moved to Alaska last year for work last year and will probably be there for a few more years. We had discussions about the fund recently because this is the first year he qualifies for it. He will very much be in that camp of using the check in the fall to splurge and will do so until he is able to move in a few years.

As an outsider, it seems frustrating to me that the funds aren't used to improve the state (schools, utilities, infrastructure). I've expressed this to my friend and kind of derided him a bit for being what I see as part of the problem. In reality I guess I can't really blame him for taking the money and (eventually) running, but it just feels wrong to me.
Mass transit will always be worse than driving, unless traffic and parking are both really bad and transit can skip the traffic somehow. This is because of the last-mile (and first-mile) problem and the fact it can't be truly on-demand. The only way to solve these issues is with some system that starts and ends in a personalized trip, which would ironically probably be more restricted (it would probably have rails and fences)

Also, most mass transit have similarly restricted areas to roads, for example you can't walk on the light rail in seattle any more than you can walk on the road it's built next to.
Considering how much carbon footprint it creates, I'm not sure the trade off was worth it. I'm happy they're shutting it down for now. Maybe once everyone is on renewables/cleaner energy sources it'd be a project worth restarting for using idle capacity.
Be careful, or be roadkill! https://imgur.com/a/kBQtJVJ
But in this case "bowling balls" is really "whatever the workers buy with their money" -- if local housing is supply constrained so they have to spend it bidding up housing prices, they don't get so many bowling balls.

This is still a "constraining the housing supply is bad" problem, not a "higher wages are bad" problem.
The problem is UBI simply becomes the new $0 per supply-and-demand. If you didn't have to work for $UBI, and everybody has $UBI it has no value. Yes, the math is more complicated than that; upshot is a limited supply of essentials will be priced to take into account that EVERYBODY has $UBI. If I'm poor, limited housing means rent goes to $rent+UBI. If I'm sufficiently above poor, $UBI goes to $0 because I paid for $UBI (xN) in the first place, getting back some of what I paid in taxes.

Someone who couldn't afford broadband before UBI wouldn't be able to afford broadband after (beyond a brief blip where the market sorts pricing out) because rent & broadband just increased price according to everyone now having UBI. If anything, more won't afford essentials and near-essentials precisely because overall prices will rise.

It's the same reason why minimum wage really doesn't work: prices increased to match a baseline income for low productivity, coupled with an increased population unable to earn at all because they simply don't produce $minwage value (and are now marked "poor" and routed to get their needs provided by a bureaucracy).
I'm not. I'm just judging him for doing so. Which is wrong. I shouldn't have phrased it like that. I guess that stigma in society around people who are perfectly happy being happy and don't feel the need to "be great" is sensitive to me because my wife constantly receives a lot of crap for it.

So you be you, previous poster. Just don't look down on others who don't want to change the world.
My first production k8s use was actually due to resource efficiencies. We looked at the >50 applications we had to serve, the technical debt that would lead us down the road of building customized distribution to avoid package requirements incompabilties, and various other things, and decided to go with containers - just to avoid the conflicts involved.

Thanks to k8s, we generally keep to 1/5th of the original cost, thanks to bin packing of servers, and sleep sounder thanks to automatic restarts of failed pods, ability to easily allocate computing resources per container, globall configure load balancing (we had to scratch use of cloud-provider's load balancer because our number of paths was too big for URL mapping API).

Everything can be moved to pretty much every k8s hosting that runs 1.15, biggest difference would be hooking the load balancer to the external network and possibly storage.
> When multiple threads simultaneously allocate or deallocate memory from the allocator, the allocator will serialize them.

Memory allocators designed for multithreaded use will not serialize allocations and frees. Such allocators use thread-local data structures and try to avoid touching non-thread-local structures that require synchronization. I am "S. Schneider, 2006" and that was one of the main points of that paper. Modern memory allocators (tcmalloc, jemalloc, even I believe modern glibc) follow similar designs.
>They created consent where there wasn't any

Well... maybe. The effect size is so weak, it barely did anything.

To give you an idea: people's hunger-levels probably influenced them about 10x more than whatever Facebook was doing.

I'm sorry, you're giving this study credit where none is due. Your conclusions are not supported by the evidence.
In the current case, politicians are deciding to route dollars to rural roads because people live there. In the UBI case, tax dollars are given to people who live in rural areas who then pay tax to fix their own roads (or maybe we don't change how rural roads are funded and we just add on UBI?). Seems like you're making a distinction without a (meaningful) difference.
You can easily make it yourself: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Hand-Sanitizer
Is there a petition to rename the ISS "The Death Star" yet?
I think I speak for more than just myself when I say that blockchain has enormous potential and cryptocurrencies have already proven themselves to be a viable technology.

The problem is more the social and economic aspects of cryptocurrencies. The community is filled with scammers, get rich quick schemes, and self-appointed blockchain experts who have no idea what a Merkle tree is. All these people who see cryptocurrencies as this profitable investment creates a roller coaster market that undermines their usefulness as an actual currency. What you want in a currency is stability, you don't want to suddenly not be able to afford rent because the market collapsed over the last week.
A new firm says it can to link satellites to ordinary smartphones
Kube-OVN 1.0 GA Released
sigh...

there are plenty of reasons humanity should be multi-planetary other than escaping climate change.
Here's the original, classic "Cool URIs Don't Change" post by TBL himself: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
So what happens to the cellulose after the alcohol evaporates?
Same. I'm in Illinois so I've seen these exact messages they mention in the article. I'm almost being trained not to look at it anymore, because I assume it'll be something dumb. Apparently it works for some people though. My wife usually goes out of her way to read them, I know.
This is dope! Love it, web needs more art.
Singapore is working 'round the clock' to find coronavirus cases
Cool tool, but as someone who actually works in the terminal, I would hate this after one use. Maybe alias it to `explody_clear` for fun use every once in a while.

If I want the terminal cleared, I want it cleared immediately so that I can go about my next task, or wipe sensitive data from my screen. Adding a delay to the task will annoy me immediately.
It's definitely alarming. These cases of selective enforcement seem to happen at random. I think you're right that it's mostly face saving.

Recently they even turned on one of their own:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/04/met-officer-...
Polly knows probability: Parrot can predict the chances of something happening
No, from the farmers I grew up with. They hated Democrats for wanting to remove those specific subsidies because it was good for the environment. But to do it it means you have to have land be otherwise "unproductive".

So they get rather angry at being forced to farm every acre of land knowing it will spite themselves later. Its a bit more complex than anyone makes it out to be. But easier to just call farmers dumb and that they vote against their interests. Which is ultimately self defeating and ignores the realities of modern farming and the history of how we got here.
The end of slavery was also a huge disincentive to work
During a shortage:

Commodity is available. Commodity is affordable.

Pick 1.
Is anyone ACTUALLY surprised? Seems like an obvious supply/demand situation, and of course (bad) people are going to take advantage of that.

> "We urge retailers to behave responsibly throughout the coronavirus outbreak and not to make misleading claims or charge vastly inflated prices,"

Urging retailers isn't going to stop the train of capitalism. I applaud their optimism, though.
I think that schedule actually sounds pretty great. I mean, it wouldn't work in my life now because I have kids and a dog and whatnot, but in my 20s? I'd have done 36-72-72-36 in a heartbeat. Imagine always looking forward to a three or four day weekend!
I feel exactly like you and when I read stuff like this one - I wonder whether those people understand they're doing stuff wrong and that writing about it won't magically make them better. It's as if they're trying to hack through their own shortcomings by throwing computer applications to the mix and writing an article about it makes it work.

To me, this article is just more white noise.
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Dont forget climate change alarmism.
Ok, but I understood the person mentioned in the article does this with every book regardless of subject. And like the OP said, I just can't relate to living like that.
Yep it is silly for people to be hoarding hand sanitizer. A simple 70% alcohol solution would work just as well. That’s what we spray our gloves and biosafety hood with in the lab.
Go on Amazon, literally half of their listings for sanitizer are "currently unavailable".
Winter in Europe was hottest on record by far, say scientists
Random fan here: you DO rock. Thanks for your incredible work on making ML a first-class citizen in Clojure!
New logo looks like shit. Being ironed is the least of its problems. What kind of potato-headed executive greenlit this BS?