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> The problem with UBI is that we would turn it back into the welfare system we have now.

That's not a problem with UBI.

IMO that scenario is not likely, let alone guaranteed.

I appreciate a pessimistic outlook as much as the next guy, but I don't think we should abandon UBI because you think it may change in the future.
I saw this on Reddit several hours ago. Good to see it shared here too. I looked at only a few articles and loved every word.

Someone else mentioned Nielsen Norman -- I'm a huge fan of that too. Jakob Nielsen's rant against remote controls is a fun read:https://www.nngroup.com/articles/remote-control-anarchy/
If you're stating a global cost, make it explicit. Because most organizations can deploy DNSSEC cheaply, and who knows the global cost for total deployment of anything.
So what's your opinion on ubi given your observations with your wife's family finding ways to get out of employment, if you don't mind me asking.

Personally, I don't think that you're ever going to get rid of those sorts of people, so someone ends up "paying for them" anyway.
If your plane isn't full enough you lose money. You want to be able to predict when to cancel flights early enough you don't have to refund too many customers without wasting money on empty routes.

You also need to manage how much you're overbooked to allow for full flights when people miss their flights or cancel at the last minute.

You also need customer support for all sorts of actions.

These are just a few of the many hard problems they face.
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Regardless of how good a book may be, I think Scala itself might prove to be a challenging language to learn FP through. I use it daily at work and definitely appreciate all its strengths, but I don't think I'd ever really understand it if I hadn't studied Haskell first. I'd recommend it as a second language, after you've been bitten by the bug and want a job writing functional code.
> Really? What GPU? Free or non free driver? Wayland or Xorg? It ain't simple.

It is simple. Just use a mainstream distro, and use the default driver and the default display server. And that's it. That's what I use.

I really hate when people trash talk Linux as some masochistic experience full of rough edges that requires 1000 hours of work to tune. It is not.

On the other hand, with Windows: OEMs preinstall Windows in your computer. But that's not the only thing they install. They add unnecessary bloatware, and sometimes, even backdoors. If you decide to install it yourself, you have to download drivers. And luckily one of those drivers is not the Network card one.
This. I was responding to

> filling network is already in place

when the last mile needs a couple hundred million charging points (with grid to supply them concurrently) and so far building them out has barely started. This is the entire reason I'm still burning gasoline for a couple of years; I can't rely on finding a charger at our next apartment.
I don't think comfortable is the right word. Jeff Dean personally talked to some SWEs to try and convince them to stay. Two people can take a valid moral stance and come to opposing viewpoints on the same subject.

> I feel like you drastically exaggerate how concerned Google is about valuing its employees.

I don't know what I would have to gain by such an exaggeration. It's not like there aren't a lot of current and X-Googlers that are highly critical [1] of the organization for a number of reasons. I'm not afraid of being critical, and I have nothing to gain by talking positively.

Are there other companies that regularly survey (see Googlegeist) their employees and actually make some progress on issues? Do those companies hold regular meetings with the CEO (TGIF) where anybody can ask a question? Tough questions aren't rare. They are quite common. Which other companies have those both and a survivor benefit? I'm asking seriously because I think that it's quite rare.

Do I have criticisms the company? Absolutely. But compared to corporate america, yeah, I will go out on a branch and say that Google values its staff.

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
Accurately separating what is important from what is trivial in the flow of current events is indistinguishable from predicting the near future.
That framing implies that all the relevant actors have committed to strategies that they'll see through to the end.

Learning from what's happening in Sweden should help guide decisions elsewhere.

The process of comparison is messy and politicized and in some sense always potentially premature, but I don't think for all that it should be forsworn.
This experience has been so humbling. I grew up in a rough household and when I had barely scraped myself past high school graduation and gotten work as a SWE and eventually made it to some fortune 50 companies I thought I had life figured out. Then I started bumping into things and struggling playing my favorite games. My eye doctor casually telling me I have RP and discovering I'd be going blind in the parking lot post appointment really knocked me on my ass.

But there are silver linings. I was born with severe hearing loss but it's stable and corrected with hearing aids. I don't have any balance issues (I have USH2A, which only results in hearing/vision loss). I'm so fortunate to have experienced all that I have and all that I will. Thank you for the kind words.
What constitutes 'basic necessity' changes every year.

Is a car a basic necessity? What about a mobile? Broadband? Netflix/Cable wouldn't be an obvious choice but many will argue it is. Washing machine? What about food delivery for those over 55?

You know those 3-wheel motorized chairs, between scooters and wheelchairs for the elderly ... they are definitely a 'necessity' for some but really quite 'in between' for others.

Once UBI is initiated, the arguments to increase UBI will be unyielding.

The next generations' youth will make arguments about the 'inhumanity' of such and such. They may have a point, but we will be the 'old timers' thinking they are mostly ridiculous and actually voting.
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I don’t have any hard evidence for this, but my intuition is that it’s about the trade off between the cost of hiring and training workers versus the work output you get from each one versus the workers desire to earn income.

For the employer, it would be better (in theory) to have fewer people working for more hours, because then training costs less and the workers become more and more expert.

For the worker, the desire to earn more is most easily accomplished by working more.

Both of those are offset by the decrease in productivity and increase in fatigue and burnout as you work too many hours.

Right now, most workers and employers have landed on about 40 hours a week as a good balance between these concerns.

However this has changed over time and will change in the future. For example there’s recently been an increase in so-called “30 hour jobs.” For example: https://30hourjobs.com/
Not the original poster -- I'm presently trying to arrange my life to accommodate 50% work and 50% family. I know a number of people who would love to do 50% work and 50% life.

Life is too short to give 100% to a job unless it is a job you love or it underwrites either love or necessity.
I really hope you're wrong, because that would be implying that HNers are selfish assholes who don't care a dime about the rest of their community.

While I personally am comfortable working from home and my company is doing well, I'm sad that I couldn't visit my parents and my grandmother for Easter. And it particularly frustrates me that my grandmother has to sit at home and practice social distancing, where she cannot do anything much besides sitting in her chair and watching TV all day. (She doesn't have or want a smart device, and her chronic back pain keeps her from engaging in most other home activities.) And that's before I consider the people around me whose lifelihoods have been impacted or obliterated by the shutdown, or the essential workers who often have to work without adequate PPE.
Someone on lobste.rs posted a few days ago that they are doing an month-long experiment programming with their voice. Maybe get in contact with them.

https://lobste.rs/s/qi5dmk/how_does_your_current_dev_workflo...
>They’re simply not capable of such things.

Google and Facebook are not cutting edge technologies. They are in the position of IBM in the 80s and Microsoft in the 90s, a legacy technology with huge market share being able to charge monopoly prices. A home grown alternative to google search is not beyond any university with a 100m budget.
From a business POV, whoever stakes the metaverse first, has entrenched their game engine.

The metaverse will not be AAA budget quality, anything of that caliber, such as Fortnite, can easily be scrapped off potentials. A metaverse is by definition community created content, most of it will be utter garbage.

VRChat exists. It doesn't look pretty, but it works.

Putting a bridge between Minecraft and Fortnite doesn't make a metaverse, it's just a bigger walled garden with a bridge.
Chief Censor...for film and literature publications.
I do the same thing. I find tremendous value in skills and code familiarity overlap. It provides a lot of flexibility. I can focus on growing junior folks, and I get a lot of satisfaction in finding these folks other projects, and supporting the lifestyles they value. It requires a different set of values and management style which is why it’s less common.
> What if Google and Facebook just said “No, thank you.”?

We'll get anti-google/facebook/tech propaganda campaign like in the past. Remember the months/years of neverending anti-google "news"? Remember the months/years of neverending anti-facebook "news"? Followed by congressional hearings/etc. Notice how it all seemed to have stopped when google/youtube/facebook/etc decided to give state-backed "news" companies preferential treatment on their platforms?

> I think Google and Facebook have more power in this relationship

In purely business/financial terms, sure. But not in the media/political terms. You think these tech companies have more power than state backed news companies?
I was involved with similar trades at JPMorgan and Citi. Investment bankers gave these presentations to hedge funds to convince them to short the housing market. Then, they created a CDO, called the hedge fund the "manager" and tried to dump the bonds on Asian and Middle Eastern investors.
Your use of the word partial could lead to confusion. The Diagnosis Keys are a subset of the Daily Tracing Keys for the days youre contagious. You then upload these Daily Tracing Keys and associated day numbers.
Also you are incorrect about the involvement of a timestamp. The protocol uses DayNumbers to track the specific day a Daily Tracing Number was used.

In terms of privacy, small-scale adversaries can deanonymize infected users that have uploaded their [keys by keeping logs] of and limiting who they have come in close contact with.

On a large-scale, adversaries in control of large Bluetooth receiver networks (such as cities performing traffic analysis) can now track the movements of individual infected users over the course of a day. One could argue that this is already being done to track anyone with bluetooth enabled.

In addition, the process of uploading to the backend server could alert adversaries monitoring your network that you (the device using your IP address, uploading to the server IP address) have tested positive for the virus.

I recommend that you look at other contact tracing protocols that circumvent some of these issues by decrease or eliminating the linkability of identifiers, allowing users to censor records uploaded, and encourge the use of network-anonymization.

*Edit Spelling - Source: https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...
> Easily? No. The only player to have the top rating longer than 10 years is kasparov.

That's because you are looking at a FIDE list which starts in 1971. Mikhail Botvinnik was the world champion from a nearly uninterrupted period from 1948 to 1963 (he lost to Tal once).

Capablanca was undefeated from 10 February 1916 to 21 March 1924 and remained a contender for best player in the world until his retirement in 1931.
You can right-click to delete a box and redraw it (works for lines too).

edit: author just changed it to shift-click
I’m not sure if you’re willing to consider a change of employer, but when I worked at Apple, their accessibility team never ceased to amaze me. They have several blind, as well as deaf and paralyzed engineers on their A11Y team. I’d argue that’s a large part of why the accessibility story on iOS is as good as it is. Having engineers that have various disabilities work on the accessibility of their products helps ensure that solutions genuinely solve problems in an effective way.

I know you may not want to have your disability define your career, but if working to help others that have the same affliction appeals to you, let me know. I’m not there any more, but still have connections I could reach out to for you.
Some scarce things that everyday people want are likely to go up in price (ex. rent in cities that are already struggling with housing prices).

Some things may drop in price (higher demand allowing to spread fixed costs over more units; or, lower volatility allowing for smaller margins).

Some prices that would increase, may only do some temporarily, as the market catches up with production or competition (ex. greater stable demand for basic housing makes it less risky to build said housing, so more of it gets built).
Option #2 sounds great if you know what immunity means in this case.

We don’t know how long immunity lasts or what it looks like, there are even reports of reinfection.

There are also severe complications to the heart, lungs and liver after the disease, which wouldn’t occur with option #1
The W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are the basis for many accessibility laws and more useful for actually learning what makes a site accessible.

If you don't already place an emphasis on using semantic HTML markup, learn more about that, it's the foundation of accessible design.
As an employer, I can give you some color.

1) Hiring is a pain, and there's ton of friction.
2) Ideally you want to get max efficiency out of roles that serve "business critical" functions.
3) More people on payroll (parttime or not) = more time wasted for me on management

These two factors incentivize me to avoid having too many part-timers, if I could
> I'd like to think I'd have had the foresight to see what was coming if someone was pitching it to me like this.

Well, you can test yourself, short ideas are abound in these uncertain market conditions. It's surprisingly hard to have clarity while things are happening, even if they are obvious in hindsight. For example, do you believe you should

1. Short restaurant equipment suppliers because up to 15% of restaurants could go out of business? https://www.presciencepoint.com/research/research-archives/m...

2. Short Chinese tech companies claiming to have exponential growth numbers in the wake of "The China Hustle" and Luckin Coffee? https://citronresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/GSX-Te...

3. Short tangentially related healthcare companies trying to cash in on COVID test kits? https://hindenburgresearch.com/scworx-evidence-points-to-its...

I believe at least one of these things will appear extremely obvious in hindsight ("duh, restaurants going out of business was a no-brainer").
I'm a full-timer and I have to admit that I find it frustrating to work with part-time colleagues. Sometimes you need them, and they're not around until the next day. Not saying they shouldn't be allowed to do it, but there's definitely a cost.

I don't think there's anything special about eight hours a day. It's more about just having everyone keep the same hours, so that you can get a quick turnaround on questions/requests. So I think it'd work if companies built entire teams that were part-time, working on the same subset of the week.
Serious question, what hours do you consider to be 100% of your time?

I ask because the current 40-hour schedule was fought for in the early 20th century specifically because it worked out to 50/50: 8 hours for work and 8 hours for “what we may,” each day (allowing the final 8 hours for sleep).

Considering Saturdays and Sundays off, that means a 40-hour schedule is only 5/14 of the waking hours per week.
What's your opinion on advertising in general?

I kinda consider ads a violation of human rights, given they're literally made to influence your decision making, therefore taking away a bit of your free will
I've wondered this too. I can only assume it's because they send infected patients home, and they spread it to their families. That and hospitals & nursing homes, where infected staff may be spreading it between the patients/residents?
I back up my /home and system partitions daily. I back up my long-term archive partitions daily.

/home partition: Straight-out cpio backup in full (around 9-10 gigs). The /home partition is restricted to work-in-progress directories and personal documents. I break that large cpio file into 2000MB chunks so that they can be transferred on any USB thumb-drive.

There is no need to hold anything else in the /home partition. Anything you keep 'for later' goes straight to an archive partition.(Photos, music, videos, software, ebooks,etc.)

Archive directories/partition(s): plain old rsync. The first time you do this, it will take hours. Subsequent rsync backups take only a few minutes for (say) 8TB of archives because you make very few changes to an archive partition on a daily basis.

System partition: This is where you get sneaky. Only backup the important information, such as:

The /etc directory which holds all of your configuration stuff for your apps.

A list of the installed software packages.

mysql databases.

crontabs, .bashrc files.

website.

/usr/local directory.

EFI boot partition.

The thing with the system backup is that you only keep the stuff that will allow you to completely rebuild the system in the case of a disaster. You can re-install the distro and then rebuild the system to your specifications in less than two hours if need be. That is only about 2-3 gigs of backup space rather than (say) 20 gigs.

Here is the 'ls' and 'du' output of my last night's non-archive backup. Total 12 gigs. 'centrepoint' is the machine's name.

[jvs] /x/BAK/2858-200420 > ls

apache2_valid_200316.tgz jvs.centrepoint.200420.cpio-d partition_tables.centrepoint.200420
backup.time.centrepoint.200420 jvs.centrepoint.200420.cpio-e root_bashrc.centrepoint.200420
debian.pkgs.centrepoint.200420 jvs_crontab.centrepoint.200420 root_crontab.centrepoint.200420
etc.centrepoint.200420.cpio letsencrypt_valid_200316.tgz sda2-EFI.centrepoint.200420.img
git.200420.cpio Linux_Mint_19.3_Tricia uname-a.centrepoint.200420
jvs.centrepoint.200420.cpio-a local.centrepoint.200420.cpio www.centrepoint.200420.cpio
jvs.centrepoint.200420.cpio-b mysql.centrepoint.200420.sql
jvs.centrepoint.200420.cpio-c new-system-etc-copy

[jvs] /x/BAK/2858-200420 > du -hs .
12G .
Wow. You are right. What the heck.
why you might want to 3D print steels

3D printing tool metal is an established approach which facilitates complicated internal structures that cannot be otherwise machined and has been experiencing strong growth in recent years. Such structures are critical for establishing precise thermal control during high energy applications which correspondingly enables greater accuracy by reducing part warpage during temperature change, exceptional cycle times and part lifetime in a range of production industries: polymer injection molding is a certainty, but this probably also has applications in weaponry, engine design and some other aspects of aerospace.
>>One-third of which were in elderly homes [1].

That's entirely irrelevant. In Spain, about 80% of the deaths were of people over 70yo, with 40% concentrated on the cohort of between 70 and 80yo.
do you have any resources to look at for setting this up?
You might as well say "what any government who is trying to enforce revenue transfers from spotify and youtube to their local musicians is trying to do is called a state-funded music". "What anybody who is trying to enforce revenue transfers from cinemas to local movie studios is trying to do is called a state funded film industry". "What any government who is trying to enforce revenue transfers from carbon emitting power generators to renewable generators in the form of a carbon credit is trying to do is called a state funded clean energy system."

Oftentimes governments seek to redress one party whose work is being taken advantage of by another party whether that's from a principle of fairness, a desire to maintain the health of both parties, more mercenary reasons, etc. Doing this outside of the narrow regime of taxes and subsidies is not only not uncommon. It's entirely normal.

Also, it's worth mentioning that the most trusted media organisation in Australia is state funded so it can't be that much of a bad look.
Other protocols have suggested that uploads be governed by authorization codes provided by health-care providers. Another suggests having providers digitially sign records uploaded to the server too.
For some people, procrastination is a form of emotional management.

For others, sometimes the best strategy is "embrace the suck": do it even though you're likely to fail. Keep repeating until you don't.

Having a good well rounded education or library of random facts helps you dig into problems because it gives you perspective. Learning should be a lifelong process.

Finally, physical health is very important. If you're not working out, start a regular, manageable, cardiovascular exercise routine. There's many benefits to this, better sleep, better focus, and confidence building.
That's assuming that the only two outcomes of a SARS-2 infection are "dead" and "completely recovered". There are case reports of young and otherwise healthy adults who survived SARS-2, but where a CT shows the lung tissue mostly obliterated. Sure, they survive, but running a marathon or going on that diving vacation might be a sudden death sentence for them.
I would love to read more about this in your blog!
Sway is my daily driver and I love it!
Isn't their strategy basically the same that Johnson was doing in the UK initially?
I find that a lot of news articles these days don’t amount to much more than what’s in the headline/subtitle.
I know from a few general humanities classes I took that it was a common way of thinking about sculpting during the renaissance. And modern learning material on the topic presents it as a visualization aid. Let me be clear: It wasn't some mystical way of thinking there was, literally something that existed in the material. Again, it was more of an aid to thinking about the endeavor.
What you want to do is possible, but the sound won't be anywhere close and what's more important, you will probably still play as a guitarist, due to smaller scale length and lighter strings.

I know you specifically asked for other options, but everyone reading this: grab a used bass from craigslist or a pawnshop! Something like an older Peavey will do just fine. A decent instrument can be found for a hundred bucks (or less!) and you can always flip it again later.

Any guitarist should fiddle with a bass from time to time. It will make you see the known tunes from the other POV and appreciate some nuances you've never paid attention to.