skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to be really careful about generalizing from "personally getting regular free money" to everyone getting it. Under a UBI, everyone, unconditionally[1], gets the free money. That has significantly different dynamics than you alone getting it.

What happens to rents, for example? If everyone's income goes up, so does the rent. If everyone wanted to live in the same places, for the same reasons, and suddenly has higher incomes, they would bid up the rent, just as they do in well-paying urban areas. Would you be so comfortable if everyone used that free money and it established the bare minimum for living expenses?

And before you say it -- yes, I know, the core problem there is actually rent eating up everyone's discretionary income, their "slack" -- hence why I advocate dealing with that problem first (not just rent, but every such eater -- healthcare, education, etc) before letting those things leech the UBI too [2].

[1] yes, yes, up to the age/citizenship eligibility requirements, you get the point

[2] My earlier elucidation of this point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22604788
I feel going out of one's way to use a 3rd party library like Redux with React is a bit different than a database's internal query optimizer.

Quite frankly the fact so many developers are replacing Redux with hooks is proof it was never the right choice for their project in the first place.
Universal basic income seems to improve employment and wellbeing
Is the thought process that we can or are going to get both universal healthcare passed (even the Democrats can't agree on this) and UBI passed in this political environment? It's going to take a bigger crisis than covid-19 to do that.

It's also not the usual argument you hear from UBI proponents (we can reduce costs because we only need UBI).

I don't say this to be a dick, but political change has to happen within political realities.
DaVinci Resolve would be one such editor
Do you find upgrading low end CPUs to be less expensive overall than going straight to mid range CPUs and skipping the upgrade cycle?
Selling My House by Owner – Step by Step Guide in 2020
Outside of retail, all of the rest of those have real national security implications.

And if by retail you're referring to burger joints or Target, I'm afraid that's just market effect.
fair enough. It is an innovative idea.
Yeah the appliance was old and painful to work with at the best of times. We actually managed to remove it when it broke and we couldn't figure out to fix it:) Ended up replacing it with gathering stats on the actual application servers, which was so much better (better even than recording keys, because the app sees traffic without any encryption in the way).

EDIT: I guess my original point was that, while it's not a good idea, at least as of early 2019 it was possible to do the old-style encryption.
The Sunk Cost fallacy, with the peripherally related Opportunity Cost.
Well, I'll bet anyone $100 he doesn't have a theory everything.
That statement reminds me of this saying: "If I can't have it, neither can you."

I just did an internet search, and it's called "crab mentality" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality

> While any one crab could easily escape, its efforts will be undermined by others, ensuring the group's collective demise.
Elon Musk's X Æ A-12 baby name choice might not be valid in California
What do you consider low density? I really don't like the idea of stamping out all single family homes and nice green areas in proximity to cities. Mixing high density in with commercial areas seems fine though.
Yeah, I believe they're switching to branding similar to the X1 Carbons across everything, so it'll be T14 generation 1, generation 2, etc.

I just hope this doesn't imply they're going to start making laptops a lot like other manufacturers (e.g. less durable, more soldered down components, ...)
I live in Montreal. Incredible amounts of condos have been getting built left and right, and they are inaccessible to people that need housing. The end result is that the price of housing for those that need it the most has increased dramatically. Now the city, after spending years focusing on getting more condos built, realized it's not going to fix the issues and will start building at least a few thousand units of state housing.
Some of them actually do support darwin and we have a function in our company overlay:

withDarwinEnabled = drv:
drv.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: {
meta = with super.stdenv.lib.platforms; {
platforms = darwin ++ oldAttrs.meta.platforms;
};
});

but really, we've only run into a couple of things we've cared about that are Linux-only, and just PR'd fixes upstream and duplicated them to our overlay temporarily.
And how much of that is going to be spent on COBRA payments to continue your health insurance so you don’t become homeless if you happen to get hit with covid-19?
And the CPU usage spike as you type into a simple textbox. Without even looking at RAM usage. Text input lag and UI slowness gives it away at the first interaction.

At this point, I could almost tolerate the wasted RAM and CPU if interaction latency wasn't that bad.
For what is worth being able to enforce conventions like

present?(p) // return bool
get!(g) // throw if not found

a-la ruby/elixir could be good
Senators Want to Know If Amazon Retaliated Against Whistle-Blowers
You probably are.

Go to Vegas and there are whole shopping malls where, to indulge in just a degree of hyperbole, I'd have to look hard to find something I could afford. Or at least would even consider affording.
> Git: gitlab, github, bitbucket (just to name a few)

None of those hide the contents of your repo from the company that's hosting it. I suppose self-hosted Gitlab hides it the same way that Keybase does (the company's software sees your repo, but it's not stored in plaintext on their disks)
Programs that benefit richer people aren't framed as "social programs" and generally aren't saddled by Kafkaesque bureaucracy and scrutiny.

Compare the sheer toil of using food stamps vs using the mortgage tax deduction.
Yep, writing non english keywords in C++ is like having prolog code inside c++ :-)

(but as a non english person, I find it very helpful to be able to have unicode in strings)
I may blog about it ... I've put it on the list of things to think about.

Thank you.
> Names can only use the 26 alphabetical characters of the English language, according to the state constitution.
Not only does this spell trouble for X Æ A-12 Musk, it also means bans on diacritical marks, such as accents in names like "José."

Wait, what? The English language does not have words like café or attaché?

Musk's and Grimes' choice is stupid, but the law seems stupid, too. José is a perfectly fine name.
Toronto launches ActiveTO to encourage people to get outside yet keep distance
The Web Is Becoming Unusable
Could this stop? Every time some heretic evades the "cloud" and self-hosts, people (whose income presumably depends on the "cloud") spread FUD.

Here's the security of the "cloud":

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/03/hacke...

Why on earth should a maintained server that just runs git over ssh be less secure?
Big decisions impacting many livelihoods were made based on this model's projections. Its scope is way beyond academic.
> city planning, building permits, incentives, taxation, traffic

If I were a Toronto resident I would not want a foreign, powerful, rapacious and often exploitative private company involved in those things, as they are better handled by democratic institutions.
Eric Yuan is at least socially vulnerable to the PRC, before the question of whether he is collaborating. Zoom is mostly developed in PRC, and they were found to have architected their system in an impractical way which “just happened to” expose customer secrets to the PLA.

I just don't find it that plausible that Zoom was accidentally architected in the singular boneheaded way that could send the only keys necessary to decrypt sessions, to servers in a country where those keys can be, and regularly are, secretly compelled from the people transporting them (inb4 somebody plays whataboutism with NSA, yes, it's bad when the U.S. does it too, but NSA doesn't mean to compromise U.S. national security).

That country happens to be the PRC, which is seemingly on the verge of an aggressive war with the U.S. over, among other things, their insistence on illegitimate claims to international waters in the South China sea.
I asked an Estonian which poet's work to use and then bought the book [1] where his poems are translated to English.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Drifts-Sing-Essential-Translatio...
Thank you for sending this! I'll check it out.
Coronavirus contact-tracing: World split between two types of app
If you wait a little longer, AMD is expected to release these as Desktop APUs; I don't think I've seen a comitted release window yet, though. My guess is sometime q3, but I would love for it to be sooner.
Seems like they are using COVID-19 as an excuse to dump a sinking ship while trying to save face. Real estate value isn't going up, interest rates are going way down. But since people found out what Google was trying to do with Quayside, they've had nothing but opposition.

EDIT: Update from CNBC: "Toronto was expected to make its final decision on whether or not to let the project move forward on May 20."
Sadly, this post retroactively suggests that we should not care about his arrest and death.
the author complains that the stock market is up since its lows and labels that as fat cats getting rich again.

> It is not right that society’s richest people profit from this crisis while millions fall into desperate poverty. I include myself in this.

there is an easy way to start rectifying this injustice, if the author truly believes it is not fair. He can donate his wealth to the government - yes that is a thing. Will he do it? After all he argues it is fundamentally unfair. Writing an editorial is just talk, time he does the walk.
The lingering impact of awareness is fascinating and underappreciated. It takes advantage of the familiarity effect.

It would be fun to measure. Buy the cheapest add to get your brand seen by as many people as possible in a market, and then spend on the highest intent keywords.

See what it does to total ROI.
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There is some reports that they sell your contact information to shady investment marketing companies. Many people have observed a sudden influx of calls from small, unheard of investment companies calling them up with investment offers, after they have signed up with Zerodha.

Also there have been much publcised issues with futures trading on their platform, with a court ordering them to refund a large sum to an invester.

There also have been issues with outages:

"Unfortunately, the steep increase in client base and consequent surge in orders has led to several bottlenecks because Zerodha’s infrastructure has not kept pace.

The system conks off often and it is common to find traders expressing their angst against Zerodha, especially on days of high volatility.

Yesterday was a textbook example of this.

The news about hostilities between India and Pakistan led to a sudden surge in volatility.

Traders scrambled to take new positions or cover their existing ones.

However, Kite, Zerodha’s flagship trading system, was down and out.

It stopped taking orders, which is an unthinkable eventuality given the mayhem that was being witnessed in the markets at that time."

From https://rakesh-jhunjhunwala.in/zerodha-held-liable-to-compen...
Perhaps it's not about the nominal operation as a 5G tower; rather, a bunch of powerful software-defined radios that could interfere upon command is a pretty reasonable attack vector.
Generations are linear, so if you are on 6, roll back to 3, and make a new change (I'm 90% sure) it will create 7.

I've used NixOS a liiiiitle bit on a laptop but not enough to really get into it. We're toying with the idea of exploring supporting NixOS as a primary local development environment (and a host for cloud-based development environments) but there's lot of work to do to make that work well.
Prof G had mentioned that Nordstroms could be in a position to be acquired by Amazon back when he made the Wholefoods acquisition prediction. I wonder how their books are fairing these days
This is actually a really interesting acquisition, keybase wasn't going anywhere yet was producing some really good stuff. On the other hand zoom is a bunch of security and cryptography amateur, I can't wait to see what's going to happen. Good luck!
Well chisel the language itself is proof otherwise. The existence of chisel, built on scala is also proof otherwise. People get interested in things where there's incentive to learn. Have a little faith.
So you give the tools to watchdog groups, and eventually the council has to adopt them in order to reason about how they're being measured.

Then the endless game theory rounds begin...
For those of us that live in Toronto and have experienced Palmerston and City Place; Kensington Market and Metro groceries it's so obvious that another set of condos built by a giant corporation are not what we need. You can call me cynical all you like, I'd rather have my city move in the direction of Europe (Vilnius or Paris) than Manhattan or Tokyo.

Count me as one of the many happy people that this fell through, even though I'm generally positive about Google's other enterprises.
This has always been a shit argument. Injustice has to be fixed across the board, otherwise it's a tax on just the honest/moral people.
I share your skepticism that it can get done in the US any time soon. We can't even get people to wear masks during a pandemic.

The article in question is about Finland, where healthcare is already universal, largely free, and much liked by the populace.
I think this is the first time I thought TSNM; Too Short, Need More
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While I'm no fan of these companies, I'm not convinced by that particular argument for FOSS either. Imagine the world where we would be always iterating on one lineage/model of refrigerator, each automobile type etc. instead of many companies rebuilding basic stuff. I don't believe we would be better off. Not all progress can be driven by consensus and iteration, some needs to be done by competition, divergence and outright discontinuing old approaches.
If you ask a random sampling of Redux users why they're using it, you'll get tons of different answers. Some people use it as a caching layer. Other people use it because their SSR solution requires it. Other people use it because they like the action-command pattern. Other people just use it because they see it as the "M in MVC" and consider it mandatory in their projects. Other people just use it because it's the default. Some people use it for more than one reason.

If something else comes along and fits one of those niches, it's no wonder people will get interested in it. It was the same with Apollo. A lot of projects replaced Redux with it.

And to answer your question: some people are moving to hooks because of useReducer. Others because of useContext. Others because they can create custom Hooks. Some because of third-party hooks. Others for a mix of those.
Sure, and in most cities incredible amounts of condos have been built and prices of rent for low-income individuals have increased massively.

It does not work in the real world. Supply is not supply. For one, these condos being built can essentially not be rented, and that means that they are not supply for low and middle income individuals.
I wish Math used normal english, not greek letters - english is my second language too..
A Condo in the U.S. refers to a specific type of apartment that you can buy, and usually cannot rent out or modify. Typically they have all the trimmings out of the latest catalogues when they are built, so they fetch expensive single family home prices due to all that granite. They are popular for downsizing after your kids have moved out of your house, or find yourself widowed or divorced. Due to their illiquidity and lack of space, they are less popular for younger people who might want more bedrooms some day if they have children.

In most major cities in the U.S., any sort of property, even an empty dirt lot, is prohibitively expensive to the majority of the population. In LA in particular, the median home is unaffordable to 75% of the population. And the median home is a rotting bungalow precariously positioned on wooden posts built in 1947.
When starting a new project, I ask myself whether I want to use "vanilla" Vue.js or Nuxt.js.

They're two different kinds of projects, with different trade-offs, even though the underlying front end framework is the same.
Huh? Who, Lenovo or AMD? They both have fine Linux support.
Author here. I mentioned a couple of other benefits in the post, namely TTL (time to live) and the ability to have fine-grained role-based access control. Your servers should use certificate-based auth too, to join a production environment. Then you won't have the trust-on-first-use issue, because server authentication simply compares the CA of a client & server and you don't have the dreadful "are you sure [y/N]" question when connecting to a box for the first time.

Basically, certificates rule the world everywhere, but due to rough UX, they haven't seen broad adoption for SSH. That's until now, hopefully :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_on_first_use
Online Advertising margins have been gutted year over year. Demand (people willing to pay for advertising) , today, has fallen to so few players (the largest brands and programmatic) anymore. Users have become so ineffectual to interacting with ads (and effective at blocking them) that measurement has become a black art of approximation, at best.

There is no bubble, as that time passed sometime before 2016.
I saw numbers for supreme court justices a couple years ago but I can't find it.

https://pumpkinperson.com/2015/07/26/anne-roes-study-of-extr...

Says Nobel prize winners had an average IQ of 155, which is a 1 in 4000 score that couldn't be driven by just sub 100 effects.

Hard to find IQ scores on really high performers, I guess it's hard to convince a CEO or a supreme court justice to take an IQ test.
Fedora works great on a clean install with no tweaks on my new thinkpad.
Then they can pump oil using solar energy.
I always try to tell folks that frameworks won't save them from themselves.
Well, in Toronto they are quite expensive, so it really doesn't help. And that is mostly by design. If Google wants to build cheap condos, then so be it, I don't think anyone will oppose them.

They would have to be really cheap though, because in NA condos can generally not be rented out.
Oh boy! I had a similar cascading failure situation once with a Nagios "cluster" I inherited. The previous engineer distributed the work between a master and 3 slave nodes with a backup mechanism such that if any of the slaves died, the load would go to the master. This was fine when he first created it but as more slaves were added, the master was running at capacity just dealing with the incoming data. So each each additional slave node, the probability of one of them failing and sending its load to overwhelm the master increased. Sometimes a poorly designed distributed system is worse than a single big server.

I ended up leveraging Consul to do leadership election (only for the alerting bit) and monitor the health of all the nodes in the cluster. If one of them failed, the load was redistributed equally among the remaining nodes.
What ever this is, the use of colors, arrows, bad clip-art, and everything else just yells, "DON'T LISTEN TO ME."
It turns out that CS folks with distributed systems and functional programming experience can be super productive hardware designers because distributed systems have very similar design-level tradeoffs as ASIC design e.g. how many copies of this processing-element do we use?, what's the correct ratio between storage and compute?. They both have pretty rough verification and correctness related to not being able to instantaneously-sharing state, so things like clock-domain-crossing aren't that foreign to the distributed systems folks.

You don't have a notion of clock cycles, making timing, or fan-out load in distributed systems, so if you are going to try this you definitely need some extremely experienced digital logic designers and chip architects around to keep everyone on the rails, but in turn the CS folks are really good at producing useful abstractions that make architecture exploration easy while maintaining correctness.

TL;DR: I've found it easier to teach folks that know Haskell and distributed systems design about hardware constraints than to teach RTL designers about functional abstractions and been really productive with a mix of both groups.
this doesn't even have authenticated encryption
Zen2 desktop cpus with integrated gpus are the next thing AMD will be releasing.
(side note for RMS, I still have a "RUNGCC" sticker on my car (it's been 5 years !!!))
Hey, if you could give us an idea of what your current skill level is, people would have a better chance of suggesting a path for you. What is your current raitng, and where do you play?
Our current way of life is based on a system that ensures that those at the bottom bear the brunt of the costs, it always has
I'm not saying that rent won't go up, but depending on the UBI scheme it probably won't go up 1:1.

Rent goes up because there are more people looking for a limited resource in urban areas: if you want to work in the city you must live near the city. A UBI that isn't tied to location makes it easier for people to live elsewhere, which reduces demand.
A First Look at Pipedream's Event Sources
It still benefits from a faster CPU, at least when paired with a top-end GPU: https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems...
its usually faster than the i5 9400F
When I was in Azure last year we used an internal Git repo named, I think it was named 'onebranch'. There are only two things we posted to a private github.

First was our description of our JSON apis, which would eventually be sent to a public github.

The second was some internal documentation we had for our internal clients. I don't think there were any 'secrets' in there, but it would be documentation for the internal side for internal clients that no outsider could ever use.
Those sneakers are likely a Veblen good.
The cookie issue may be changing. Here is some discussion from yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23090393

Also sounds like the author should use an ad blocker.

> We need platforms, tools, and legislation that help guide the web to a future that isn’t complete shit.

Legislation to fix UX? Or to resolve the aforementioned cookie issue? I'm skeptical that legislation is going to make any changes to UX in the direction that the author is wanting.
UK’s NHS Covid-19 App
Would it?

Couldn't the "hacker" have simply generated a new GPG key and added it to the account he had control of?
I’ve had a lot of good interviews. Most have gone something like this: phone conversation just to make sure I understand the job and they understand a little of my history, phone screen with basic technical questions, in person interview with one or more people, phone call or email with a decision later.

I’ve never been asked to whiteboard in twenty years of applying for and getting hired for development (coding ) positions. I’ve only had to do a take home project twice.

It’s a good process for me. A week or so from beginning to end. Sometimes there’s a recruiter at the start which is inefficient for me, but not enough to make me pass.

Is it a good process for the company, though? Do they get good hires who perform well?
Isn't that a separate problem which Vancouver is already trying to fix by occupancy rules?
I don't think this builds right now, but it's my favorite example of a project really leveraging the expressivity of Clash to do hardware design: https://github.com/cbiffle/cfm
And those malls are usually pretty empty, from my experience.