skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing both sides of my family doing everything they can to scam the government and NGOs for benefits just so they can avoid going to work, I always think the UBI might only work as intended for perhaps 10% of the most highly motivated individuals among us.

If I had UBI, I'd quit my skilled and productive developer job and probably drive a taxi, because it's more satisfying, even though my contribution to the society will be much smaller and in a certain sense, my skills would be wasted. And I'd probably take half a year off on a beach every year.

Because of that, my tax contribution would be much smaller (probably zero), and the country would have less money to treat sick people, buy hospital equipment and build housing for the poor. That would worsen life outcomes for many people and will likely cause additional deaths.
I guess you have to find out what excites you! Does meaningfulness from work drive that sense of excitement? Perhaps it could be your own personal project that excites you. Personally, I enjoy what I learn from working as a software engineer and writing them down coherently as blog posts. This help to cement my understanding and also give me the ability to share with others. One example is my article regarding design patterns that I was learning just a week ago! Hope to share with you all (:

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-03-3-more-cloud-de...

Or perhaps you could start an active lifestyle again. Working out always helps to curb motivation issues at times. Give that a try!
Why Psychological Horrors Move You Closer to Enlightenment
Some amazing question begging happening here. Value is subjective.
The number of times you say "I" and "me" in this sentence tells me all I need to know about you and your priorities. Maybe think about your mother more than once a month.
Yes there are things you can do, but they're not very effective, especially if you've been training a while.

Focusing on general strength training, flexibility and improving your endurance is much better use of your time than doing these solo drills.
Playing Games on a 60s Computer [video]
I guarantee that if you drove around and looked at people using weed-eaters that day, at least 1/3rd of them would have been wearing shorts. Heck, I bet the majority of them weren't wearing eye protection.

I'm an adult and I can accurately evaluate the risk of pebbles hitting my shins. Unlike dust or toxins, there's no lag between my actions and noticeable harm. Also, the maximum possible harm is limited. Nobody was ever crippled or killed by a weed-eater throwing pebbles at their legs. OSHA's action in this case was entirely unnecessary.

Stories from my coworkers were equally ridiculous. One time the company got fined because a worker was wearing earplugs instead of earmuffs. Both block sound just fine! If anything, the earplugs should work better because safety glasses can break the seal of earmuffs.
Sure. I think everybody remembers. I imagine the actions by CA's governor not only saved a lot of lives in CA, but probably helped NY get its rear in gear.

But I'm saying something different: A full reopen without proper precautions would put CA right where NY was, in a surprisingly short time.
That Mediatek module is nice! Thanks for that, and for the wisdom.
Can you please elaborate? I'm trying to find documentation. Having a real `core` as opposed to a vCPU can be really a game changer provided that the Linux Kernel can benefit from this arrangement.
Not what it means to beg the question.
Buying back is still better than dividends. Because you get stocks back.

The point is companies now save a lot of money for growth and survival.
if your factory is closed while your competitors are allowed to be open that would definitely be unfair if all other relevant conditions about the factories were the same, in this case if they were in proximity to each other.

And just in case you're going to ask what proximity has to do with the matter of justice, it is because as his competitor's factories are located elsewhere than Alameda they fall under different jurisdiction, do his competitors ever have any regulation based on where they are located that they can then refuse to obey because Tesla's Alameda factory doesn't have to do it that way?

If there is unfairness here it is of the same sort of unfairness engendered by the world being a large globe with different climates, countries, governments, currencies, and cultures and where you choose to place your factory means your natural greatness of being must be hampered by the base restrictions of existence.
Google "comorbidities" + "[insert any disease]" and you'll find this same topic discussed over and over.

This is something the medical profession has been dealing with pretty much forever. There is no reason to believe that suddenly there is a conspiracy to change how they handle reporting.
Yeah, that is a good question. A worker can reasonably claim that they should not be asked to break the law as part of their job. I am curious to see how all this plays out.

Having said that, I read somewhere that there are like 10,000 employees at Tesla's Fremont plant. Do we really think the County would actually follow through and arrest 10,000 people? Thank Goodness we do not live in such a society.. Perhaps they would arrest just the management, perhaps just Musk? Shut off the power instead? Ugh.
I'm not sure you're actually looking back on it more objectively. In fact it looks a lot more like you got burned or denied some grant or funding and are now a bit bitter and lashing out on these.

This is an assumption but you're probably from the US since you used the "justify taxpayers money" catchphrase that's so overused as FUD for the spending narrative over there. So how about these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...

Are they worth it? What are they good for? How many generals and support staff do you need? How do you measure and know it's enough? What's the breakthrough another plane, ship, tank, spy tech, drone at the cost of 700B to 1T per year would achieve? (and please be specific if you're going to reply, not the old "because it's worth doing" argument -- that could justify any amount of spending)

I think there are worthier things you should have opinions about than science spending because you seem very worried about the worthiness of it all. The worthiness of scientific progress and discovery?
Should every paper be worthy? Must everything be immediately right and world changing? I'm surprised why someone that claims to have been in the field needs some sort of instant gratification for scientific work since that's rarely how science works. Not many cutting edge scientific breakthroughs can be said to have been "worth it" immediately. Sometimes it takes years, decades or even centuries for us to actually figure out the true value of some discoveries.
We should never stop building or financing science or scientific experiments and we should never say that "it's enough", that's just nonsense.
> But the farther away any trader gets from fundamentals -- e.g. buying something they already think is overvalued because they think it will continue to climb -- the statistically riskier it is and the more likely they'll lose money.

How? By what mechanism?

The fact is, as long as shares of the company don't actually get removed from the market entirely, the price of the shares is what people are willing to pay for them.
ARtillery Briefs: How Do Consumers Feel About VR?
Disclosure: I work at Amazon building cloud infrastructure

Indeed price/performance is how customers I've talked to evaluate what they're able to get out of a platform. The "t-shirt" sizes are what matters in that comparison, and yes the microarchitecture of Graviton2 can be an advantage for many workloads. The best thing to do is to give all your options a try, and use a cost estimator to help decide.
>Translation: my employees now must weigh the consequences of losing their jobs on the one hand vs. being arrested on the other.

"First, I’d like to be super clear that if you feel the slightest bit ill or even uncomfortable, please don’t feel obligated to come to work. I will personally be at work, but that is just me. Totally OK if you want to stay home for any reason."

https://electrek.co/2020/03/17/elon-musk-tesla-coronavirus-p...
Glad to hear it! I love making The Amp Hour and am flattered the people listen on a regular basis. Thanks for being part of the community!
Concur – An unusual UI framework with multiple back ends
> Isn’t Cassandra basically DynamoDB 2, but open source?

Yet you need to deploy it somewhere and maintain it. DynamoDB just works and that’s why people will happily pay extra because they can put effort on something more meaningful that maintaining a database.
The Graviton and Graviton2 processors do not offer SMT. Search for "each vCPU is" on https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/announcing-th...

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/hbv2series-vms-are...

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-new-amd-powere... (no pricing)
“Whoo-oop! I'm the old original iron-jawed, brass-mounted, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of Arkansaw!—Look at me! I'm the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother's side! Look at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar'l of whiskey for breakfast when I'm in robust health, and a bushel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when I'm ailing! I split the everlasting rocks with my glance, and I squench the thunder when I speak! Whoo-oop! Stand back and give me room according to my strength! Blood's my natural drink, and the wails of the dying is music to my ear! Cast your eye on me, gentlemen!—and lay low and hold your breath, for I'm bout to turn myself loose!”

― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
After a few days of lockdown, it became pretty clear in Seattle that the general public was incapable of using its parks and beaches responsibly.
I don’t think their stance is extreme as you make it seem. Insert their username into the same list you just provided:

im3w1l, HN, your keyboard driver, CPU, firmware, motherboard, ISP, Google

One of these things is not like the others.
What I would love to see is something like jsx supported directly by the browser. Although, I'm not sure what that would do in non-browser EcmaScript environments. Perhaps something like lit-html's html string tag is more likely to be standardized.
Comment nodes, multiple text nodes in one element node, CDATA section.
Personally, the common uncomfortable experience I encounter is related to unfamiliar domains I have to deal with. As a client-facing software engineer, numerous times I was quite nervous when I have to talk to clients. The fear of not being able to speak clearly, or explain a technical concept well to a stakeholder can seem rather embarrassing. One of the ways to deal with that was to delve in deep into those new domains and train me to be equipped with those communication skills. One such domain for me will be sales. Here's my blog post that I've learnt about sales in my attempt to be comfortable with the uncomfortable. Hope you readers find it useful! (:

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-03-24-how-to-improve-...
Why would you expect a paycheck if you choose not to work?
> "potentially false speech where the truth simply wasn't important"

i couldn't make sense of this, which motivated me to actually look at the essay, thanks :) i recommend the bit with Wittgenstein – it's what made the proposed distinction between "bullshit" and "lies" click for me. (at least i hope it did!)

what i got from the essay is:

bullshit may contain false statements. but their falseness is ultimately besides the point, because, unlike a lie, the bullshitter isn't trying to convince the bullshittee that those false statements are true; they're just props, parts of a scheme to convince you of something else.

explaining it in the abstract gets kind of unreadable (the essay suffers from this a bit imho), so here's an example:

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say i'm doing a (bullshit) pitch for my new startup, "Uber for cats", and lead with one of these two sentences:

• "Facebook kick-started the social media revolution." (probably true)

• "Facebook created new jobs for marginalized communities." (probably false).

i'm saying something like that because i'm trying to create an impression that:

• I'm a visionary who aims to revolutionize stuff / cares about positive social change

• My startup is, at least to some degree, worth comparing to Facebook

and notice: it doesn't matter whether that opening sentence is true or false. either way i'm bullshitting – using that sentence to create an overinflated image of my startup. i might even build my bullshit out of entirely true things, arranged in a misleading way – anything works, as long as it gets you to invest in Uber for cats :)
Don't go, sue when you get fired, and collect the money. All while staying at home. Isn't that obvious? You will be fired for not committing a criminal act. Labor attorneys are salivating right now.
“Nothing Is Certain, Except Death and Taxes”
I'm very worried about its backups and what happens when the next Big One hits SF.

As far as I've ever been able to determine from talking to anyone at IA (e.g., Kahle, Scott), they don't really have any sort of backups that could actually be restored from in a disaster situation.
You are being completely disingenuous.

"Right to work" has a completely different meaning than "Right to work in just and favourable conditions".

The latter refers to the fact that IF you are working then it should be in a safe environment not that you have the right to work at all.
This isn’t an expansion of government power. This is an expression of exactly what government power is supposed to be for. If a government can’t effectively respond to a major pandemic, what good is responsible government for exactly? (I know there are some people who would call for a significantly reduced role of government in public life, e.g. to military defence and the enforcement of contracts, but I don’t fall into this category and the reasoning for this is almost always pure ideology.)

You also talk as if this virus is scaremongering ... there have been over 200000 people who have died over the course of 5 months due to this virus; it is highly contagious, and there is no cure on the horizon. As far as I’m concerned, we’ve got a lot to fear. The best way to manage that fear isn’t to imagine the threat isn’t real, but to meet it a measured and responsible way. Many countries, of which the US is in some ways a unique exception, have done this.
Well, I live in NYC too and will be back in restaurants and bars the day they open. I’m not really worried about covid, but even if I were, I think I’ll almost certainly get it eventually regardless of whether I go out or not, so there’s no point trying to avoid it.

So, now you know of at least one person.

By the way: “how much health risk are we willing to accept to avoid a given amount of economic damage” is one of the most clearly political questions I can imagine. The effects of the virus have to do with biology; weighing multiple different tradeoffs is politics.
> . I think that a crisis like this is exactly the time to try new and experimental ways of making things available.

Yeah a crisis when the stress level of anyone is already much higher is the best time to crank the stress of authors even higher by experimenting with their livelihood without consulting them!
Webcomponents should help with this. Although the current API is not as pleasant to use as react.
yes and no. if you look at how the numbers are collected and aggregated life expectancy was actually a bimodal distribution and the average was impacted by infant mortality. If you remove that you will see that the improvement in life expectancy is not as impressive. Also, it may be that the increase is not due to caloric intake as much as it is due to technological progress.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectanc...
I have had this in my toolkit

https://gitlab.com/teknopaul/xgenjs

Gives me neat html in jQuery syntax.

$(...).create("div.foo#my-id/input{type=radio}");

Results in code that is just js, no template needed and no data binding.

$(...).create(...).text(quxx).data("foo", baa);

N.b. create() and most Jquery methods return a nodelist so chaining is easy.

I can work on sets as easily as nodes.

create("input[5]").addClass("btn btn-primary").click(...)

Wrote it years before the framework wars and never got sold on any of them.

I prefer code you can see, but I imagine thats not to everone's taste.
It's not like people are demanding less testing. Public demand for testing is as high as it's possible to be. Test capability is being ramped up as quickly as possible, but even if we manage to double it every month, it will be February of 2021 before we can test everyone once a week.
Having used NiFi in production, my biggest issue with it is handling source control and multiple environments. As the "IDE" is effectively also the runtime, the lines between "local", "stage", and "prod" are easy to blur.

They have a built-in source control product called "NiFi Registry", which can even be backed by git. The workflow for promoting flows between environments feels clunky though, especially as so much environment-specific configuration is required once your number of components gets high enough.

Moving our Java, Ruby or Go code between environments or handling versioning and releases was a piece of cake, in comparison.
Average != actual, though. You can pay whatever fee you want.

I'm pretty sure that if you set a fee of $0.10, your transaction will be verified much sooner than you might think. It would be interesting to quantify, at least.
What's the cost and how much I'd need to pay?
lack of evidence isn't evidence of non-existence.

The reason the US lockdown was late is because the administration is incompetent. Why is it that other countries locked down as soon as possible, despite "lack evidence"?

It's because a default fail-safely system is better than a fail-deadly system.
Many of his complete shows can be downloaded as mp3's, see the following for instructions: https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Mooo_Server.

Also there is an online radio station inspired by Peel: http://dandelionradio.com/
I remember reading that some people, especially those under 40, don’t develop observable antibodies. Or, could’ve just been the flu. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/health/coronavirus-antibo...
The HN consensus is always that only opt-in is acceptable when it comes to online privacy or anything else that affects them personally. Apparently opt-out is fine for everybody else.

You put 'livelihood' in scare quotes, but I don't understand what's deserving of mockery. Writers make their living by selling their writing.
I think they have been keeping apace for the most part, but the integration of F360 is a really nice feature if you do a lot of mechanical/electrical integration. I think it might be a bit overplayed, since my designs are usually, "Here's the mechanical space you're allotted, it's probably not going to change", but that's not the case for everyone.

As for KiCad, the most recent release (5.1.x) have been really stable and introduced a ton of features over the series 4 release. Like anything, once you're used to the methods, it's hard to get an objective look on how things work but I can tell you that I use KiCad for all of my professional design work and it has served me very well.

One thing I continue to be excited for is the extensibility of KiCad, since Python scripting is a main feature of KiCad (though the program is written in C++). This has developed a wide range of user plugins and scripts that have opened up some awesome new features.

One of my favorites is the Interactive BOM plugin, it's really quite amazing. Here's a user showcasing it on twitter: https://twitter.com/arturo182/status/1254376168322670593
Show HN: Simple IRC Services System
Solution to Leetcode’s Flood Fill
This is really an interesting easy question on Leetcode. YOU WILL LEARN A LOT
Are you claiming that Covid-19 is the worst global crisis since WWII? I find that claim to be unsupportable. I will of course agree that this pandemic is effecting nearly the entire globe, but the worldwide death figure for Covid-19 is between 285K and 290K. For reference (and I acknowledge it did not effect the global population) the Khmer Rouge was responsible for somewhere between 1.5 and 2 Million deaths between 1976 and 1979. Covid-19 is a viable pandemic with far reaching effects, but to compare it to some of the atrocities seen on this planet post-1945 is a bit premature and alarmist.
You cant see price data without creating an account that requires a social security number and government ID, which is a bit suspicious. Looking at a different, larger exchange, I see virtually no action to be had at high strike prices: https://www.deribit.com/main#/options?tab=BTC-25DEC20
Population density is fundamental to the problem. A finer-grained approach is probably better than one-size-fits all.
The Hot Snakes session is visceral and amazing. Peel had a way of bringing out the raw essence of whatever band paid him a visit. Great stuff.
If you think it's possible to "educate" everyone participating in an anonymous online discussion you have failed before you even began.
SS: This does not have a services bot.

If you /quit, a clone will be created with your nickname.

When you reconnect, you can /msg oldnick RELEASE and you will regain your nickname as long as your user/host/real name match.

Any messages you received while offline will be displayed at this time as well.
Behind the scenes Musk's lawyers told him to do this - - an arrest is a significant action that may be necessary for his lawsuit to go forward. He is daring Alameda county to arrest him, and their lawyers know this game as well.
I miss punchfork. Yummly is the yelp where punchfork was the craigslist but with a modernish interface for recipes.
Did he? I missed that part.

I guess I still feel sad that someone that otherwise could be a productive member of society was so horribly misled as a child.
Airport screening ineffective against Covid-19: US health agency
Between the twitter rants, the poverty vow, the new child, the name of the new child, and now this, well.. All in the last 10 days or so too. The last few years have not been all that kind either.

I mean, new fathers, even after the other six babies, still do pretty goofy things. However, it's more putting the milk in the pantry type stuff, or mixing up coffee grounds and water.

Not daring public officials to arrest you during a pandemic and all but demanding employees to work during said pandemic.

I feel for the guy, things are tough now. I hope he finds the peace that he seems to need.
There's a general level of elitism in the programming world. GUI tools are seen by some programmers as a "worse" tool, but without any real evidence, and it's likely due to the fact that GUI tools enable non-programmers to reach some level of output that used to be the sole domain of programmers.

It's a similar train of thought that leads to a lot of game developers to look down on games made with GUI tools like gamemaker or such.
TypeScript.