skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, these things aren't economically productive

The problem with UBI is, that you need people to be economically productive, to create money for fudning the UBI.
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It's more possible now than it has been previously, if only because you can reduce the effect on the population by leaning heavily on the better grocery delivery infrastructure which you could beef up with government resources as needed. It's still horrid, and wouldn't be fun for anyone, but yeah, I suspect you could.
And here's an actual expert to provide a view: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=463

> A personal note: I know the disparagement of Times-er from long ago, from my grade school years, I think; I was taught that two times more than X really means 'three times as many as X'. Since authority figures insisted on this interpretation, I avoided the construction entirely (as, as far as I know, I still do). Yet I've never stopped asking, "Why don't you understand the clear meaning of what people are saying?"
https://archive.is/9I3Yy
"That is not replacing X. It is something different, less."

Like UNIX vs Multics?
The feature you are looking for exists in `fish`
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=463

>> That last reaction incorporates one criticism of Times-er, namely that it is "illogical" or "irrational": X times more than Y MUST MEAN 'Y plus X-times-Y (that is, 'X+1 times Y'), not 'X times as many/great as Y' (that is, 'X times Y'). (In the most common variant of this reaction, X times more than Y is disparaged because it is said to be ambiguous, with both the 'X times Y' and 'X+1 times Y' interpretations.)

>> The appeal here is to the idea that ordinary-language expressions are simply realizations of logical (or arithmetical) formulas. This is just backwards. The formulas are there to represent the meanings of expressions; they are not the prior reality, merely cloaked in (those devilishly vague) words of actual languages.
I admire you using command.com that long. I haven't had a Windows machine where that would even run for years now.
The crap hitting the fan scenario is when people are barred from payment because of something non-illegal that they did. It's a third-party payment service, so it's possible.
Thanks, the whole interview is extremely interesting and relaxing to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzDA6mtmKQE...
Ottawa orders cellphone providers to cut prices by 25%
That's just sloppy language and you got used to it. Twice as fast means twice as fast. Two times faster means two times faster. One time faster would mean twice as fast. 0.5x faster would mean 50% faster or 150% as fast. 0.5x slower would mean 50% slower or 50% as fast.
These days it is difficult to know what people are saying on the internet.

Do you mean it is or isn't possible, or something else?
Well, it depends. Only considering Saas, i have a hard time to imagine that as well. If include highly specialized stuff, Catia and so on, SAP etcc.., and devide that by total number of users (not employees) the picture changes.

I am currently at roughly 40 per user. That includes MS Office 365, three mail accounts under Office 365 for the TMS / WMS suite, Wordpress and Slidebean. Hope I didn't forget nything.

On the other hand so, Catia liscences are usually part of the service (for engineering corps.) or part of the product development costs (for manufacturing corps). in both cases costs are covered by customers. Especially in Aerospace these costs are the least f the cost problems.
For me, several books by Greg Egan fall into this category. Permutation City, Diaspora, Quarantine, and Schild's Ladder have all... changed me.

I was a different person before and after I had read those books, and now I categorise all works of fiction into those that forever alter my way of thinking and those that do not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Egan#Novels

Which reminds me, I should finish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_(series)

The Culture series by Iain Banks, especially Inversions also satisfy this requirement, as does The City at the End of Time by Greg Bear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_at_the_End_of_Time -- which is a difficult to consume masterpiece that nonetheless left me permanently horrified in the way that H. P. Lovecraft tried but failed.

For the non-fiction category the CGP Grey video "The Rules for Rulers": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

and Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig_qpNfXHIU

have totally changed the way I look at all political discourse, and this is coming from someone who has already absorbed The Prince. It's based on the Dictator's Handbook, which I should read also, but the CGP video was an effective summary already!

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...

Last, but not least, if I'm allowed to include lecture videos, then the "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" lecture by Al Bartlett is absolutely amazing. You will never see the news in the same way again after watching it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O133ppiVnWY
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by M. Twain
> to buy a bunch of expensive equipment

It should be said, though, that some as-a-service vpn and a good network engineer could probably hack together a good-enough temporary solution.

I'm thinking of aws vpn services, along with proper routing and bridging on the appropriate sides.
Judging by the comments here, they are doing good publicity for Namecheap.

I expect the people who post on HN to be representative of people who buy domain names. So while it may be bad publicity for the general public, it doesn't really matter if potential customers see it as a good thing.
> the ultimate measure of business is money / resources

That's not untrue, but perhaps too reductive a view on business, as it ignores "soft" market factors like being primarily risk-oriented vs revenue-oriented, the company's reputation, leadership vision, employee fitness to perform, technical debt, etc.

Yes, they all boil down to more or less revenue, profit and growth, but if you only ever look at the spreadsheets, you'll be divorced from reality.

> Dedicated solutions introduce rigidity in handling data in exchange for optimisation in handling business logic. They succeed when benefits in the latter area are worth the loss of freedom in the former area.

A major selling point for custom software beyond the simple Excel-like CRUD variants is its adoption of sectoral or company assumptions and goals. Yes, that introduces rigidity, but not all rigidity is bad. Most if not all sectors have standards and regulations to comply with, as well as market constraints.

I would suggest good rigidity is the kind that keeps you from making mistakes, forces you to get to know your audience or develop your business, whereas bad rigidity is due to leaky abstractions or poorly bounded contexts. The latter indicates the product is maladapted to day-to-day business operations.
Ideas don't come out fully formed-Interview with Franco Maldonado of Convertify
Based on your stated preference:

Critical Thinking and Intelligence Analysis by David T. Moore, also available online: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a481702.pdf
Some that have impacted my mindset considerable in the last few years:

- Factfulness by Hans Rosling: In the advent of information flowing from everywhere, it changed the way I look that the world and process it. It is fascinating how much influenced we are just by our hardwired biases and the media.

- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl: Everyone goes through their highs and lows, this account will teach you how to stay put and proceed forward.

- Turn the Ship Around by L. David Marquet: In a world where we are constantly trying to innovate, it is not possible without unlocking the true potential of the workforce. This is not possible without appropiate accountability and autonomy. The book goes through how to achieve enough of both. You do not have to manage anyone to gain its benefits.
You need to learn English. What’s the definition of in development?
Ask HN: Ethically, should I disclose why I track “Hours Worked”?
A senior leader at my company recently demanded that all engineers log the number of hours worked for every engineering ticket, stating that the data would be used for software capitalization. I have inside information that the data will actually be used to measure that engineers are spending 85% of their time on "real work."

Ethically, should I tell the engineering managers the real reason why this "Hours Worked" metric is being tracked?
+1 to Lojban for not having these issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
Why is this downvoted? This is absolutely right.
Entering the USA you can be required to hand over details of social media accounts etc on your ESTA. Pretty horrid stuff.
It is illegal to take them? Or are you merely referring to the fact that it's illegal to sell them?
This article is missing a crucial outcome. Likely it ignores it on purpose. The person accused of cdong something might turn out not being wrong. Wrong accusations happen. You shouldn't assume just because an organizer team has detected a problem, that it really is a problem.
"A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick
(there is also a nice movie after the book, with the same title)
The us is totally unprepared for this. Similar to our all out other public infrastructure, we've been neglecting it for years.
As far as I am ware, Uber has to date been the only third-party application ever granted a com.apple.private entitlement.
Apple marketed a lot their Liam iPhone dismantling robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYshVbcEmUc
> The main thing I want to see is stronger privacy laws regarding transactions. There's some hope here with the EU.

There is some hope here ... that there will be new rules to ignore?

Like, how do you think such rules could ever be enforced effectively and in a way that the public can actually trust that it is being enforced effectively (to avoid chilling effects)? Plus, how do such rules prevent data leaks due to security problems?

It's like you want to build a system that is maximally vulnerable to abuses and then just declare that using those vulnerabilities is theoretically not allowed instead of using the technology that we know reliably preevents all those problems. How isn't that completely naive at best? Next we'll remove all authentication from IT systems and just make it illegal to log into systems without authorization? How well do you think that would work?
None of these really require the manufacturer to step in and give you any money or discounts.
That’s not an ad, it’s the core functionality of a product you use.
I'm not sure they "get it", to be honest; most of the engineers run with security protections disabled so they don't see these…
it is a 70 years old drug with its safety profile well studied.
It is irrelevant how many people read your articles; the critics will also show up as readers in the statistics.

Let's start the professional experience with another
person's view:

https://research.swtch.com/yyerror

"Seibel: And are there development tools that just make you happy to program?

Thompson: I love yacc. I just love yacc. It just does exactly what you want done. Its complement, lex, is horrible. It does nothing you want done.

Seibel: Do you use it anyway or do you write your lexers by hand?

Thompson: I write my lexers by hand. Much easier."

I happen to like both bison and flex, which are relatively easy to use and bug-free in my experience. Yet your article spreads hundreds of lines of FUD about these tools, a strategy that many ANTLR people use.

I have used ANTLR. It is not intuitive, the documentation is horrible, if you happen to find some advice on Stackoverflow it is likely to be for another one of the incompatible versions.

I suppose if you use ANTLR long enough, these problems go away. But bison or Menhir don't have these problems in the first place.
I would better endeavor to digest the content and let it be forgotten than to spend time organize it and remember it repeatedly.
So you're saying it's really the "X window system"?
I personally don't squash commits and loose information. I see the value in having a compressed view of the log history, but in that case I use

git log --simplify-by-decoration
+1

Clunkers are generally functional machines. At least here they don't accept the clunker if you can't drive it in there.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41587-020-00003-1 has a roundup of other drugs that are currently on trail. From said article, we can expect data in april.
They're only blocked when you don't allow them.
I've never seen a school ask for proof of address in Europe.

As for banks, it depends a lot on the country. While it's an issue for the homeless, it shouldn't be for people who're staying at some temporary accommodation. For instance in Germany, where most banks ask for proof of address (the registration at your municipality), it's also trivial get a valid document from whoever is hosting you (landlord or main tenant, it doesn't matter, you don't have to be on the lease).
> Their point of comparison is between an NVIDIA Tesla V100 and a 44-core CPU.

Not quite. Further in the paper: "Similarly, for larger Amazon dataset, the red and black line never intersect, and the red and blue line intersects on 8 cores. This means that SLIDE beats Tensorﬂow-GPU with as few as 8 CPU cores and Tensorﬂow-CPU with as few as 2 CPU cores."

Yes, they have a beast machine, but it can outperform the GPU with only 8 cores in some cases.
Made-in-China Censorship for Sale
It's still very sci-fi now, but I would bet a fiver that in my life time-ish or 2 we will have bidirectional brain computer interface.
The public if largely mislead on the risk of epidemics, flooding, etc. Democracy needs education to run smoothly.

There is many studies that show that the government aligns strongly with big money. Just look at the state of health care as an example.
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> Sounds like a great employer

The employer was US Intelligence anencies. That is how they operate. The ends justifies the means. Collateral damage, be it physical, emotional, personal or professional is seen as part of the role.

I'm not saying I agree. But it's important to point out how skewed (usually mistakenly) most ppl's perception is of those three-letter outfits.
Minimum wage in Bulgaria (part of the EU) is €3,743 per year. Now imagine someone that's not full-time employed. €20 for them is not nothing. For them that would be the equivalent of someone earning $100k a year having to pay $500 to have a bank account. Note that often these low income accounts also have to pay when doing (some) transactions.
PIR Insulation
>Sure there is. Walk into a grocery store, get a push notification for some sale items.

Or: walk into the store, open the app of your own volition, and peruse the sale items.
If you're poor, you aren't going to deposit cash in amounts that are anywhere close to what a bank should consider suspicious.
This is what really irks me here in the Netherlands too. I'm fine with digital payments (e.g., contactless debit cards) for the bulk of transactions, but cash should be guarded as a valid alternative.

The past year I've several times been in a store where digital transactions didn't work for one reason or another (telephone line got cut by roadworks, internet modem crashed, etc.). Fine, I'll just pay with cash in the mean time. Not so for 80% of the other customers: some rush to the in-store ATM, some just give up because they can't be arsed to carry even a single €50 note around.

One problem is that our governments like the idea of eventually banning cash.
By change their ways, do you mean Namecheap should violate their customer's privacy without any due process?
This is precisely the security model of Chromebook, and it's pretty great.
Yes... well-studied does not mean without drawbacks.

Right now on this day, OP is probably more likely to die from chloroquine administration than from the pandemic.
I do understand it but, for my colleagues and friends who don't have English as their first language, it adds another caveat to learn and remember without a logical basis. That's another place to introduce ambiguity and errors.

I don't get angry at non-standard usage but I think it's important not to ignore the purpose of consistent style.
You may be reading "crap hits the fan" as something massive, like a collapse of the banking system.

I'm not the OP, but I can also read it as "crap hits the fan for me", and this makes it simple to imagine ways in which a person can lose access to digital payment (by theft, by being blocked by the bank for whatever reason, etc.) and if this happens, life would be difficult on a cash-less society until this access is regained.

Just imagine if you're accidentally identified as a financial supporter of terrorism or something like that, and your bank accounts are blocked. How would you buy even basic necessities if cash is not allowed?
As a non-native, I learned "then" and "than" in different contexts, months if not years apart. I also learned them in speech and in writing at the same time.

Please don't quiz me on how to read bear, pear, tear, fear, spear, clear, and dear.
So what do "0.5 times faster" and "50% faster mean"? Are both identical to "half as fast"?
Feels like a waste of time. Just make a memory dump and analyze it offline.
Maybe I am naive[1], but I have difficulties seeing that happening in the EU. I mean, that we would have significant amount of merchants accepting only payment systems that are not available to everyone. Of course, if someone has evidence of (a possibility of) opposite, I am keen to educate myself.

[1] However, given everything I know (which is not much) about US financial system, I do understand that people there worry about things like this
Oops, edited, thanks.

I’m not looking for 1 answer perse, mostly looking for opinions.
Mental illnesses help entrepreneurs thrive
Speak for you're self. /s
Judging by the number defenders of advertising every time one of these sorts of threads shows up on HackerNews, it's astonishing to me how many people's livings are dependent on this garbage.
Man... any good alternatives for adding Sonos multi zone functionality to a traditional stereo?
What is data collection and what are the most important events to track
You are assuming there is a market for used Sonos gear. I pretty much assume it is not. Dismantling and recycling used electronics is what actually happens. Even Apple boasts about their Liam robot to dismantle iPhones... what percentage do they fix and resell and what percentage they dismantle? Who knows?

Note that the didn't take anything. It was an offer between two parties.

Since they were going to dismantle the obsolete tech anyhow, they just allowed consumers to send them to the local recycling centre (it's debatable if this part was fair). But since they wanted to make sure these things actually do get recycled, they bricked the devices that the consumer said not to need anymore and agreed to recycle.

What people wanted was a 30% discount for existing users. They got this, in the name of being green. A true win-win-win.

This move just teached other companies not to try similar stunts. Just let the devices die of old age, sit for a while in a drawer and let the consumer figure out what to do with the e-trash... using the local recycling centre or worse.
How does that work in Italy exactly?
My mother passed away when I was 11, in 1992. My grandfather, who owned property outside of Bristol (UK), planted a forest in her memory and named it “Pam’s Wood”. He said that memories fade but that the forrest would grow higher and thicker as time went by and that even in the far future his daughter’s name would be remembered even though everybody who had ever known her had long passed away.
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Ben
> while ignoring countless other use cases where someone legitimately does need to ensure that the platform can be trusted

99% of the time this is DRM :/
It's not one thing. It's many, many things. Each one, on their own, is good, but not a game changer. It's how they all come together in a consistent, well designed whole. This union is idiomatic. Sure you can do all this stuff in other ways, elsewhere. But there is so much ceremony. Clojure is opinionated in a good way that makes nice things succinct and idiomatic. So you will get many different answers. They are all true. And they all come together. The whole is very much greater than the sum of the parts.
I don't believe that they'll get fixed. It'll just be filed under "huh, that's terrible!"
Lawns are also great for kids to play on.
That is interesting for $40.

I just purchased a very basic greenscreen and 3 point lighting kit for about $120 on Amazon.
Important to note that the datasets used are sparse, and that the key to this algorithm is better exploitation of sparsity. The GPU over CPU advantage is a lot lower if you need sparse operations, even with conventional algorithms.

"It should
be noted that these datasets are very sparse, e.g., Delicious
dataset has only 75 non-zeros on an average for input fea-
tures, and hence the advantage of GPU over CPU is not
always noticeable."

In other words, they got a good speedup on their problem, but it might not apply to your problem.
More accurate to say gitflow is fine for webapps. TBD is broader than gitflow, and i agree that when you have to maintain multiple versions in the wild, i would not use gitflow.
Why wouldn't there be a market for used Sono equipment?

Wouldn't even that existing owners use them?
The Bell Curve has been thoroughly debunked I believe. Genetics aren't nearly as important as environment for IQ scores, as proven by adopted children.
another rendition of this John Hopkins map https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
Suck dick dumbass.
You do realize that cash was in use before electricity as a utility was a thing, right? And that food is actually more critical for survival than electricity, right? And that you can exchange cash for food without electricity, right? And that blackouts is a thing that actually happens, right?
They're not exactly advertising it =)

Just like Hugo Boss don't mention their Nazi Uniform Design Division in investor calls.
It seems what happened was that Google is following Apple's footsteps, allowing apps related to the coronavirus to be only from "recognized health organizations or the government".

I think this is fair and helpful in preventing the spread of misinformation. But Google should've been more transparent and tell developers the reasons for the app takedown. However, I'm still highly skeptical that suspension is needed as the data presented was purely factual and without misrepresentation.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/05/apple-rejects-coronavirus-ap...
Even if they killed it, it wasn't accidental!
I created a convenience tool for this use-case.

Enter your phone number and the amount. Let others scan the dynamically generated QR code with their Swish app.

You can also link to payments for sharing. Phone numbers are encrypted in URL and there is no backend.

https://swisher.carlb.dev
https://github.com/carlbarrdahl/swisher