skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, and my argument is that proving that welfare recipients who temporarily received a greater subsidy than other welfare recipients self-reported greater levels of happiness than welfare recipients on less money does absolutely nothing to undermine arguments about welfare dependency.

The arguments - with varying degreees of plausibility - are all of the form 'long term welfare dependency is unhealthy for society' not, 'welfare recipients would be happier if their welfare income was lower'.
Four P2P distribution tools for Git repositories compared
A degree from a reputable university doesn't count in _any_ profession (ok, that's hyperbolic - it certainly counts for something in run-of-the-mill office jobs). Even doctors, lawyers, actuaries, accountants, etc. have to prove they are capable to a central authority before they can work.
I don't know about other candidates, but when I'm preparing for a phone interview I'll have spent time learning about the company and will have tailored the general questions I expect the interviewer to ask me to map closer to the job spec and the company ethos. It's nice when I mention skills I've used in various projects and the interviewer knows what those projects are because they've glanced through the links supplied in my CV/application.

As an interviewer, I'd hope the applicant has done similar work. If they haven't - or give me a stock response - I'd want to spend a couple of minutes probing their response with questions about how they used those skills in their portfolio work.

Asking about the skills they've developed while building their portfolio work as a first question generally (my personal view) helps break the ice, engage us both in the conversation and make for a happier rest-of-the-interview experience.
Is CS a soft science? There’s a ton of massaging in machine learning IME.
Being deeply interested in each problem at hand would top my list. That provides the motivation for developing skills that lead to getting better faster.

Other than that, I would say specializing and getting great at one or two things at a time (e.g. "C" and 3D graphics). Finally also seeking out exposure to other programming environments: languages (functional, lisp, etc), frameworks, frontend, backend, realtime/embedded/IoT, shrinkwrap, verticals.

It all comes down to experience. The closest thing to a shortcut is forcing yourself to do things outside of your comfort zone. Surround yourself with people who you can learn from and do so without ego getting in the way. Pair programming to pick up little tips all the time that you may never see written anywhere.
The first one was .4% the size of the cares act and it was for healthcare, not corporate giveaways:

More than $3 billion for "research and development of vaccines, as well as therapeutics and diagnostics"

$2.2 billion "in public health funding to aid in prevention, preparedness and response efforts — including $950 million to support state and local agencies"

Almost $1 billion for "medical supplies, health-care preparedness, Community Health Centers and medical surge capacity"

$1.25 billion to fight COVID-19 internationally.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_Preparedness_and_R...
Radio frequency waves may decrease incidence of tokamak magnetic islands
> for the people that are tasked to make websites (i.e. us, HN readers), they're easier to work with and they save us time. It outweighs all the end-user-facing cons by a lot, because companies need us, and our salaries are expensive.

Our salaries are expensive because, presumably, we're being paid to make something that serves the users. So anything that benefits us at the expense of the people we're serving should be rejected. How self-centered can we be?
- No linux client

- Too many frills

- Too slow
You specifically claimed “true number surely being far lower“ than the official numbers and are now citing a conspiracy theorist with no relevant experience as evidence that the scientific establishment is wrong.

I’m sorry you fell for Alex Berenson’s shtick but that doesn’t make you better informed.
I’m cautious about what apps and services get access to my location and I feel like I have good control, but I don’t really have any idea of how carriers like Telenor and Telia handle my location data. Are you planning to touch on this or investigate it in the upcoming articles?
It's a disgrace that all countries are not already boycotting the FIFA championship in Qatar. Slavery is just one of the many things wrong with the decision to hold the championship there, though it's definitely the worst.
With some exceptions, "you have to do it in Java" or "use JNI" sadly is still the correct answer.
Do you have a source for claims that (a) google parses emails for purchase histories and (b) sells it?

https://myaccount.google.com/purchases is empty for me, and I sure do have a lot of email receipts on my gmail.
It also says "Purchases made using Search, Maps, and the Assistant are organized to help you get things done, like tracking a package or reordering food".

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase...
"Google says it doesn’t use this information to sell you ads."

Google used emails for ad targeting which was mentioned in Microsoft "Scroogled" ad campaign in the US. But Google says it stopped doing so years ago.

Do I miss something?
I, for one, would be quite fascinated by such a blog post - you make it sound downright magical! I'm curious, are there languages that in your opinion support dependent typing well enough to allow all the concepts that you are describing?

Also, does support of dependent types suggest, imply, or require a particular paradigm (function, imperative, procedural, declarative, etc) or is that an orthogonal concern?
What's the deal with him?
It’s also important to note that the direct and indirect benefits of traditional welfare are also considerably higher than even the highest suggested UBI allowances.

For example in the UK housing benefits would be greatly dependent on where you live in some London councils housing benefits can be as high as £400 per week, this alone is more than the highest proposed UBI allowances that aim to match the tax free allowance (currently at £12.5K).

UBI with removal of all other benefits could easily mean that the people that need it the most would be getting less and sometimes much less.
Yea maybe save it for when speech is actually a real issue and not over policing and treating it like it's your personal servant. Grow up and get over it
Clueless and dangerous.

> Now, the whole world is looking into universal basic income to stimulate the economy.

As if that was a testimonial to anything but "moar of the same" among trigger-happy central banksters, deadbeat governments and widespread socialist beliefs among the morally and spiritually corrupt populace.
This isn't a laptop and suffers from a bit of "neither one thing nor another" syndrome; it can be used as either a kinda awkward tablet, or a _really_ awkward laptop (good luck using one on your lap on a plane or train or something, say). I think a certain amount of scepticism is warranted.

If you _just_ want a laptop, a laptop will be far better than this thing. If you just want a tablet, an iPad will be far better than this thing. If you want both... well, maybe it works, as long as you don't want to use it in laptop-y scenarios and you're okay with Windows' tablet experience? It feels pretty niche.
Bypass cloudflare JavaScript-challenge using hooman on Node.js
It is not helpful to try and conjecture whether or not upstream "cares about users". There is no reason for me to refute or agree with your point on this matter; if there is some other desktop environment that you prefer to use instead, then my agreeing or disagreeing with you wouldn't change your ability to go use that. I will not join in an angry mob for or against these developers either, that won't help anything get done. I politely request that you avoid trying to make these type of arguments about some other person's motivations in the future, because the only real outcome is to turn people against each other and create enemies, when what you really want seems to be just to get the bug fixed in a friendly way.

Just from looking at the bug report there was a technical reason given related to other bugs and deficiencies in freetype. Please read the bug report in full detail, no developers are deleting features for no reason. Distros always have the option to choose whatever solution they want in response to user complaints. They can stay on an old version of whatever package they want or they can patch Harfbuzz and contribute the patches back upstream. You should take it up with your distro if the problem persists and they've not bothered to do either of these. Either way you have to be prepared to deal with the consequences which are: missing out on other newer features because you stayed on an old version, or spending the time/money to get the work done to add back in the features to the new version. Or you can upgrade anyway and do the workaround which is to convert your fonts.
> You could also run an Android VM in the cloud and RDP to it when you want to use sketchy (edit: free) apps. This approach could have saved Bezos some trouble

The article also points to WhatsApp as the infection vector.

I agree that anything Facebook produces is fair game as far as being sketchy goes, but it’s not the only messaging platform to have been exploited.

Do we run all messaging services in independent sandboxes in VMs?
Microchess for the Kim-1 (2006)
You bet, you win, someone else is losing.

I did not wrote this for the few people taking the money from the majority. I wrote this for the majority of people thinking they can win just to give it to you.
You don't need a framework, you can just use the interfaces directly. You know, like a framework.
The main reasons why we shouldn't use “click here” as link text
Very interesting! On this topic, there is also Boden [1] - though it has been a little bit quiet of late...

[1] https://github.com/AshampooSystems/boden
GitHub Stores Deleted Credit Cards
>Your about page is not improved by using react.

Well...fortunately people don't use React for making About pages.

These examples of why not to use React in these comments are silly, people use them for web apps 95% of the time.
Face Masks and Politics of Vulnerability
Works on Haiku: http://0x0.st/i_3I.png
Planes do not fly over Moscow, so that one is a bit off.
I don't know if the problem is that you don't know OCaml or that you don't know C, but yes, it is considerably harder; in OCaml you cannot embed objects in other objects as you can in C (and C++, and Golang), because OCaml uses the Lisp memory model, as described in http://canonical.org/~kragen/memory-models. Consequently you end up with things which are perhaps conceptually a single object potentially strewn around the heap at random, however the allocator and the garbage collector choose to arrange them, and linked together by pointers. There's a lot of payoff for this — it's safe and trivially easy to write parametrically polymorphic code in OCaml, while it ranges from fiddly and error-prone to overwhelming to impossible in different languages in the C family — but it's a major fundamental difference, and it does have some runtime efficiency costs.
Yeah nowadays it is very hard to find anything about Objective-C++, even Apple has taken the documentation down, so only old timers still have some references.

Even the link I provided, who knows for how long it will still stay up.
Are you asking how it happened in Finland, or how it would happen in a theoretical future world?

Start my taxing the rich. Also consider the money saved from reduced bureaucracy around unemployment benefits.

The money spent on corporate bailouts the past few months would probably be enough to provide UBI for quite a long time.
I though they had multiple domains instead for most ads? As seen here (however this is 4 years ago) - https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-block-ads-on-youtub...

If this is still true, this pi hole update might solve those ads at least?
Some of the accounting tasks like filing invoices into dropbox folders. I thought about writing an incoming email filter of sorts but now our accounting company switched to a dropbox alternative that doesn't have an API. And paying some of them (same amount every month) which requires login to online banking, 2FA etc. When it comes to access to the company bank account gig-worker wouldn't work.

There are some services, especially for travel expenses with automation, multi-layer approval processes etc. Those are too complex for a 5 person or less company.

And https://www.spendesk.com doesn't help because we already use credit cards and automated payments where ever possible.
That hosts server was shut down. They don’t maintain a blocklist anymore and removed it from the internet.
In src/main.c at line 33 i had to add an ;.
I wondered if there was something in the reflection they didn't want readers to see, coz it looks like someone just dragged a smear brush all over that side of the picture to hide it. Like they were smudging ink on a canvas.
Scientists create new recipe for single-atom transistors
Many airports nowadays seem to be deliberately hostile to sleepy travellers, most commonly by having armrests between all seats so you can't lie down across several, but sometimes even by having staff come around and wake up sleeping travellers on a regular basis. The Guide to Sleeping in Airports exists for a reason, and it rates New Delhi highly: https://www.sleepinginairports.net/guides/new-delhi-airport-...
Exactly what I needed, thanks!
Having done some old Skool desktop dev recently I can't shake the feeling that modern web development is mostly just trying to reinvent wheels that have mostly been sorted for 20+ years.

I guess it's understandable though, the web was never really designed with its current use-case in mind.

People do so love forcing square pegs into round holes though.
At my last job, the 1 hr/week Time & Expense data entry task we had, I would've happily paid $10-15 per upload for someone else (or a bot) to take care of.
I mentioned it to the other person commenting as well:

Gambling means someone has to lose.

It is not a job. It is not a way to earn money. It is a way to take money from others.

The majority of people have to lose, otherwise it wouldn't work for the few people trying to get all theothers to 'play with them'.

And yes i think poker is one of the 'fairest' 'games' but the same issue applies.

Imagine everyone winning in poker. Go figger
The scary thing about the comments on that review are the ones from people who are clearly academic scientists, claiming bugs don't matter because you can just average them out in the wash and professional developers aren't qualified to judge their code. This confusion between intentional pseudo-randomness and bugs seems to be widespread.
Interesting. Which Pascal IDE did you use?
That's interesting, why don't planes fly over Moscow?
Total cost of ownership (Maintenance and Innovation)
Is there a good list of web based tools that let you load/save locally or via cloud storage like draw.io does? diagrams.net is so cool!
> The only drawback is Windows and its tooling.

I switched last year from using Linux and macOS for 10+ years to a surface laptop. At the beginning Windows was going on my way all the time, but now that I’m more familiar with its system and powershell, it’s way better, and I really enjoy it as a dev environment.

The main pain comes from a lack of familiarity. Once that’s behind, you can be quite productive using Windows.

I now spend almost all my time in powershell and only use WSL for some specific stuff.
Ah, I forgot to add the citation on that line. The spending numbers come from the CIA World Factbook site, [0] above.

Your number likely includes State, Regional, and Local spending (which was presumably excluded for all nations in my numbers).

Even with the 33% figure, for the US to make up the ~15% difference would require ~3 Trillion in annual spending.

The existence of Social Healthcare programs in those countries is a huge chunk of the difference, I'm sure.
Upload an image and get a 3D photo back
> The question is: for a given country, what proportion of the population can theoretically be supported by the efforts of those who pay those taxes.

idk, you tell me:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/08/bill-gates-...
See point 3.
Good point: they added that feature after I stopped using it but it’s a good option for some cases, especially if you want to do things which the caller shouldn’t be allowed to directly perform.
Contrary to what gets discussed here, C++ has more than just two good compliant compilers.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support and embedded compilers, or more legacy like platforms aren't listed.
Counterpoint: Sometimes "I don't know, what do you want to do?" is exactly the wrong response from a leader, because it leads to delay, confusion, and incoherent and conflicting actions by different people. In my professional life I've been in situations where I was either happy to have a manager who simply made a decision, or unhappy to have someone who deferred them, because having a fast, clear process was more important than making the optimal decision.
I believe that GP is talking about the unroll.me service which was caught selling purchase receipts to companies like Uber a few months ago.
The problem with using some shiny new library/software/app/technology is, that it might dissapear in a year. The developers will move on to new companies, and work with some new shiny tech, and all your codebase will be useless due to a unmaintained library and no new people (developers) who know how to use it.

I wanted to make an example that it was like starting work at a company, and seeing that they're still using phpBB (but with a 1 year old library)... but it seems phpBB is still being developed...
[2] says Bezos' iPhone was hacked via WhatsApp with the NSO Group-developed exploit. It is not possible to run iOS VM in the cloud, and even for Android it does not sound practical at all.
Perhaps the SPA pattern, for all the justifications from developers (and yes, of course there are genuine cases where it's a good fit) is really an outcome of Conway's Law[1] in action. In a large enough organization, you corral your dev teams into isolated, specialist "backend" and "frontend" groups which end up communicating largely through decoupled APIs. As with microservices, it's not really about whether this is the most efficient and user-friendly approach to delivering useful apps to the end users, but how much this architecture mirrors your company's org chart.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
Yes, and it’s pretty great.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=auchenbe...
I can't argue for oil, but for food, unless everyone agrees to eat only processed food or cook by themselves, it's still going to see some inflation.
I wish the article was shorter. Still, this is an interesting topic.

"By wearing a face mask, you publicly announce that the conditions of your existence do not end at the tip of your nose. The metabolic gesture is the acknowledgement that we all are still primarily interrelated intensities of biological mass, not some invincible members of a metaphysical landing party, powered by an ethereal substance called freedom. We are just another species of political animals in the wild, vulnerable vectors of alien particles, and that is where the new notion of political agency can be fostered—in how we bond or withdraw from bondage, in order to elaborate on our own limits; in order to continually update our agency on an ever-changing cosmic background of reality."
Ok. Why are you making that argument to me? I never asserted the opposite? Why are disagreeing with a point I never made?
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Actually the abstract points out that this hypothesis is one going against the largely held scientific view of biological factors and gender differences...

A rebuttal a year later in the related section points out omissions from this paper and offers a deeper perspective on the differences

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-11202-013
They're trying to hit a headline price (albeit for a model that no-one should ever buy). This is fairly common, though it's a particularly egregious example; even Apple puts 8GB in their headline-price-don't-buy machines these days.
I am researching these kind of tools at the moment, and, although I'm not convinced myself yet, I am curious to learn. What kind of vanity metrics are gitprime and code climate plagued with?
Yes, but iOS requires you to use Objective-C (or Swift) just like Android requires you to use Java.

I know the comment put Objective-C right next to C and C++, but it doesn't belong there. All platforms should have (at least) C interfaces, not requiring C++ or even Objective-C.
I'm guessing you mean something other than FOSS (free / open source software) in your critique of FOSS. Reason being, Swift is FOSS (https://github.com/apple/swift), both the compiler and the standard library. Likewise, the Microsoft C# compiler is also FOSS (https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn).

You seem to enjoy closed-source platform libraries (WinForms, AppKit), and want to promote developing software that relies on them. The survival characteristics of this approach don't seem very strong. Good luck!
That's true. My point is just that inheriting massive fortunes is a problem because it keeps wealth concentrated across generations. But there are so many loopholes around inheritance that it's not trivial to address this.
> "You fool! ...you [should] have been born a different color/different gender/richer...etc

Do you actually know someone in person who has said this in response to someone else's misfortune? Or are you just using the image of some random person saying this to fuel an anti-white man sentiment?
For "classical" websites, it was not possible to screw it up. The feeback was always there - clear, unmistakable, universal across sites. Boom, "No Internet", site's gone. Press "back" to get the previous state and click again/resubmit later. And it was nice that you could actually do that - use the "back" button to revert to the last correct state even without an Internet connection. Can't do that with almost any SPA these days.

I suppose it just boils down to the fact that with more freedom comes more freedom to fuck things up. But when you see an industry systematically fucking things up, and being driven by economic incentives that encourage fucking things up, one has to wonder whether some of those freedoms should be taken away.
> an entirely different compilation paradigm where you optimize abstractly based on clang's IR

Doesn't most of GCC's optimisation happen at the level of an internal IR?
The tech is cool but I still can't shake the feeling that from a practical perspective, in the context of videogame graphics, that's a lot of work for a meager difference in the end result compared to good old rasterizer shading. Sure, you get more accurate shadows and reflections... But I'd gladly trade that for more detailed models and larger, more complex environments for instance.

Maybe it'll become the new standard for real time 3D graphics in the future but for the time being I file it next to HairWorks as an nvidia gimmick whose main purpose is to make the competition look worse in benchmarks because they don't implement that API when it practice the visual difference is fairly subtle.
Maybe after this guy landed a plane there:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust