skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind this article largely restricts itself to considering direct cash transfers to people in low-medium developed countries. I would be careful about trying to generalise the conclusions to developed countries.

It stands to reason that unrestricted welfare would reduce hours worked in developed countries. This would be especially true for young adults with no dependents. Why work overtime at McDonalds when your rent is already paid up for the month and there are so many fun video games to play?

I think we just have to accept that UBI would give people that work undesirable/uninteresting jobs an off-ramp from the economy. The problem being that our economy depends on these people performing such jobs. Employers would have increase wages significantly above the UBI level in order to attract workers, but that would either erode the UBI through inflation or cause an inflationary spiral if the UBI were indexed.

I haven't heard a satisfactory explanation as to how UBI avoids these pitfalls.
Back when the sterling actually meant something this could never happen. The world’s reserve currency must never be questionable. But WW2 broke England’s back, although they were only called on it by Soros much later.
Ask HN: How do you help loved ones with tech issues?
This is pretty neat.

Since a new server is launched for every preview, it would be cool if the packaging used cloud-init vs docker-compose.

If containers are a focus perhaps you could support k8s deployment/svc manifests and compose via something like https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose

For k8s you could quickly launch a single node cluster with kind
Builders and architects: two types of programmers
I guess if you like to be babysat by a giant corporation it is
I disagree that "the right is fractured." The US political right has never been more unified, and its unifier is Trump. Trump is wildly popular among Republicans, and all the old seams have been closed: religious vs business, populist vs rich, etc.

The left is legitimately fractured, but maybe it's not as bad as it looks. Sound and fury on social media in the Bernie camp, yet the party coalesced strongly around Biden.

I'd like to hear the case for a left "political upheaval." Where will it come from? Bernie's theory was that youth would vote en masse, and that did not happen.
Thank you for a fantastic anecdote!
Or we could label it: "I use a password manager like every other tech-serious user."

... that would encapsulate the basic reality that no one can actually remember all their ~500 secure passphrases.
I mean, for a start the messages are stored locally, it doesn't protect the messages server-side, because they are never stored on the server. All the pin does is keep the server-side data, i.e. your address book and conversation information, safe.

Secondly, outside of encryption, it should not be Signal's job to enforce whether a logged-in user of a phone can see that user's content. It is the operating system's job to enforce user-level security, and users of Signal are unlikely to keep their phones without a pin, fingerprint, or other level of authentication.

The fact that you cannot turn off the option to lose all your messages when you lose a pin that you have been forced to set is horrific for those of us that rely on conversation history as a memory aid, and is precisely the reason why I have refused to set a pin.
We have food safety laws thanks to 19th century “poison squad” (2018)
>stop all immigration

Regan's amnesty for over 3 million illegals: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128303...

Bush doubles immigration: https://immigration.laws.com/immigration-act-of-1990

Trump supports immigration in "greatest numbers ever" in 2019 State of the Union: https://time.com/5521860/2019-state-of-the-union-trump-trans...

The GOP has supported immigration since the civil war. Both parties are controlled by the same political forces, and neither are on the real left or right, however hard though they pretend to be.
I developed something like this for my frontend team at a previous company as well. Much needed and I'm surprised not already mainstream. Love the focus on privacy/security.

What's the difference from https://featurepeek.com/?
The stock photo of a nice blended family in a park had me laughing.
Prob. different PM though.
In Haskell, `sum` adds a collection of numbers, i.e. instances of the Num typeclass:

Prelude> sum ["a", "b"]

<interactive>:4:1: error:
• No instance for (Num [Char]) arising from a use of ‘sum’
• In the expression: sum ["a", "b"]
In an equation for ‘it’: it = sum ["a", "b"]

You appear to be refuting a straw man.
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I've seen several people make pretty glaring mistakes based on their nuanced understanding of the details of some situation, when an idiot off the street who knew only the basic, surface-level facts would have gotten things completely correct.
At one point in time that tablet was owned by an individual. Who is to say some artifact can only be owned by the originating geography’s government, and not an individual, or other government?

What matters most to me is whether it was stolen or whether it was legally sold, legally abandoned, etc
> I think if that really matters you should be against anything in the kernel to make it work well as a VM under Windows or MacOS or BSD, and in VMware or VirtualBox too.

Why? I would guess that a very large share of linux kernels run under a hypervisor in some data center, in a public cloud or some OpenStack cluster. Won't those mostly be the same features?
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There were more issues, but that one was what pushed me over the edge.

I constantly had problems when attaching/deataching external monitor to my laptop, once in a while it wouldn't switch, or various parts of desktop (like task bar etc) would move around.

When they introduced PulseAudio, it wasn't ready at the time, so there were a lot of audio problems back then.

Overall the experience with Ubuntu was that every new release was taking some old bugs away and replacing them with new ones.

I hope things improved since then.
They mention its a 'first draft' and they want to work together to try and get a final draft in ~6 months.
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> Right now if you re-install Signal on your device, you lose all your messages.

Right now, if I re-install Signal on a new device, it will (hopefully) prompt me for a Signal-generated passphrase that I've stored very securely, and then allow me to restore everything, messages and address book, from a backup that I've diligently made and stored under an additional layer of encryption together with the rest of my data.

Will that facility remain available? Will the backup remain encrypted with the strong passphrase, or will any app with access to external storage be able to exfiltrate something that the Signal Foundation would be able to decrypt under the assumption that SGX is broken?

While I've so far been impressed with Signals' choices (prioritizing security but staying usable), I'm extremely disappointed with the new reliance on SGX, and forcing me into this scheme would likely get me to ditch Signal.

In particular, if I get a dialog forcing me to set a PIN, I'm out (at that point, Signal will be broken for me anyways - I'm using it to talk to very non-technical users that react to UX changes with a blank stare; they won't be able to use the app if a mandatory modal popup shows up, and flying over to teach them how to deal with it isn't exactly an option right now.)

I use Signal so I don't have to trust opaque stuff happening at a third party. From my understanding, Secure Value Recovery relies heavily on SGX, and becomes mostly equivalent to plain text (brute-forcing a short PIN) if you don't trust SGX.
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Thank you for sharing these insights. Definitely a fascinating read!
Python is also blazingly fast when your Python program spends 99% of its time outside of Python and inside some highly optimized library like NumPy. That's because the interpreter overhead doesn't matter when you are not interpreting.
The original project [1] hasn’t seen any commits in a year.

[1] https://github.com/subspacecloud/subspace
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Alex Jones was banned from YouTube, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Spotify pretty much simultaneously and after years of successful use of each service. You can argue that the conspiracy to remove him from those platforms was a good thing, but I don't think it is reasonable to suggest that each of the platforms coincidentally decided to boot him at the same time. They clearly coordinated to ban him, they didn't coordinate in public, so I think it makes it quite clear he was actually conspired against.

It also strikes me as a bit disingenuous to suggest that because he can just go create his own Twitter or his own YouTube and host things there he wasn't censored. He technically could, but that doesn't change the impact of banning him from the major services. It seems as perfectly clear that they are censoring him as it is that the big tech companies conspired to do so. Again, you may argue that it is right to censor Jones - he is either a liar or crazy, but it makes no sense to argue that he wasn't censored.

I think in isolation, it would be better if Jones didn't share his opinions. But if I had to pick between realities, and in one Jones was free to spread his conspiracy theories, and in the other big companies get to decide what we can and cannot say online? Well, it's a pretty obvious choice for me.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted? Backups are an essential feature of chat apps, and it seems pretty sane that a lot of Signal users don't want any information stored in the cloud, full stop.
> What are you talking about?

The "breaking of norms", from your comment.
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Great troubleshooting.

TLDR; int overflow in C
> The brand is absent from most countries.

Who cares? Countries are not all equal. This is one of those "Either the sun will come up in the morning, or it won't. Two choices; fifty-fifty" arguments.
Hello, thanks for your comment!

I had a look at the angular way of doing it: very nice to see other approaches! From a quick look it does seem to require quite a bit more steps and to be more limited in scope, but the documentation looks very good indeed! Thanks for sharing!
Patience and time.
NYT is not app but website (IMO) but Slack is app. Not good comparison target.
What do you think if Spotify added "buy and download" button for specific podcast episodes?
> I have definitely found the deaths-by-date-of-death to be the most useful

Tracking deaths is actually the worst, most lagging indicator. It takes a very long time to die.

The most useful was the CDC tracking cases-by-illness-onset, that gave you a great understanding of what the trend line really looked like over the last couple of days.
It would be more in line with your local library refusing to catalog your book. Youtube is a content host, not a publisher.
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What is Tulsa's broadband like? Not sure where to find the info after a glance at the FAQs.

If anyone from this program is reading this please include local broadband providers with those large apartment complexes and speed. If the broadband is poor-a local gigabit fiber initiative that the local apartments are mandated to offer would be better than bribing high income individuals to move to a city center.

Got to hand it to Tulsa. Still better than paying some large companies millions in tax breaks to open a warehouse w/o air conditioning.
I didn't think about that part of the competition, that's true.
In current law, the distinction is called common carrier status. Enforcement is lax and irregular, and it mostly isn't being properly applied to the tech giants.

We don't let the phone company disconnect phone calls in which people complain about the phone company, or about China, or about the governor. We don't let FedEx decide that you can't ship an unauthorized biography of the FedEx CEO.

Common carrier status has never applied to news media. The closest we ever had was the fairness doctrine, which is gone and wasn't the same thing anyway. Fox News is clearly news media. Most of what we call "Google" is clearly not news media.
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Really? At the last company we had like a 200 lines PowerShell script for all of that.
By this logic Bernie Sanders endangered lives because one of his supporters shot Steve Scalise. To my knowledge Jones just said something like Sandy Hook was fake, which is clearly a bad thing to say, but it doesn't threaten people.
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> "It's kind of a difficult thing to ask. "Do you want this app to work like every other app in the world in the ways you've come to expect?" If people were to simply reinstall Signal and find that all of their contacts were gone, all of their groups were gone, all of their block lists were gone, etc... they'd almost certainly be surprised. It's not a behavior anyone expects."

You could say:

"Hi there! Do you want to keep a backup of your conversation metadata locally, or via the cloud? The latter requires you to be badgered for a pin every day and lose all your data, even the information that the pin doesn't protect, if you lose it. The former allows you to backup to a file you can save on your computer, and store a password in your password manager!"
The article mentions Gnucash iOS app but the links in the official wiki was a dead end. Can someone point me to the correct link please?
Yes indeed, what I said was a fleeting suspicions was a fleeting suspicion. Are we really at the point in online discourse where being literal is so foreign to people that it needs to be attacked?

I’m basing my suspension on the reported article, I’m not making any accusations. Though as has been reported, there have been issues where poor reporting of numbers (like reporting deaths by date reported instead of date of death), led to significantly distorted interpretations, which good data scientists would tell you that you need to avoid. This is similar to someone making a “technically true” graph with an offset origin to make it look like there is a huge relative difference between two columns. In that case how you make your visuals matter. And if someone tells you that you need to “manually change the origin to zero” and you won’t do it because your report suits your narrative, then that’s an issue. If it’s actually the case that she wanted to keep showing deaths by date reported instead of date of death because a spike appearing in the less acccurate report made it look like deaths spiked after opening up, then that’s a valid issue.

But again, this is all just speculation backing a suspicion and it will be interesting to see their response. Her report is extremely light on details and can’t really be described as whistleblowing as much as just someone venting personal frustrations online and making currenlty unbased accusations. That may change if she provides further details to back her claims of cause.
"There are dozens of us, dozens!" Bill Gates.
Does this line of thought apply to land as well?
It may be true that bitcoin will be a good store of value but this article doesn’t make a good case for it. For example, bitcoin is quite volatile, which would tend to make it a poor store of value. The article doesn’t address that aspect at all. If obvious drawbacks aren’t addressed then the case isn’t made.
One of these three is not like the other
Whether or not trans athletes should be allowed to compete in the same classes as their cis counterparts in MMA is a conversation we can have, but it is beside the point. Trans women are women. If someone makes plainly transphobic comments, and then refuses to apologize for them (or even doubles down), I'm not going to go and listen to hundreds of hours of their content to attempt to gain a more nuanced understanding of their attitude towards the trans community. I'm just going to think of that person as a transphobe.
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> Employers would have increase wages significantly above the UBI level in order to attract workers

It also must be considered that many categories of jobs currently can’t be filled without some form of immigration because the existing social safety net of charities and government benefits never makes picking strawberries or meat cutting preferable to unemployment.
Is there anybody interested in building or using a service that routes static public IPs to self-hosted servers, over WireGuard? I made a prototype a week ago, here's the homepage:

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I realized that I didn't want to ever deal with port-forwarding, NAT, or dynamic DNS and decided to create this. Message me if you want a signup link.
payments taking over a day to go through

Consider that when you swipe your credit card and get payment approved in a store, that’s a round trip to the mainframe back at Visa HQ. Or when you withdraw cash from an ATM. Mainframes are perfectly capable of near-real-time operations at massive scale. The problems you mention are not technological.
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> since a variable-value dollar would present an easy arbitrage opportunity

It is an easy arbitrage opportunity! That's why young adults working in San Francisco can retire earlier if they leave with their earnings.
Btw I highly recommend using pythran for your use case which apart from speeding up python significantly allows you to translate your python code directly to C++. Here is a blog post exactly about this use case: https://serge-sans-paille.github.io/pythran-stories/pythran-...
Yeah, because all Boston cops are of course trained in peacock handling.

The mating call app was an ingenious solution to a novel problem, and it worked like a charm.
At least one way is to get a religious exemption.

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Anyone removed from a project they started would have reason for revenge. As I understand the timeline she was told her role would change, then went public with undocumented complaints and accusations at which point they fire her. (Accusations she has since backtracked on it seems, apparently)

If you where told that you where no longer lead on a project at work and your reaction is to email the customers that “the new guys taking over will likely not serve you as well as I have” I expect you’d end up fired as well.
Every few years, there's a story about people wanting the Mona Lisa returned to Italy.
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The LSAT protocol[0] implements the HTTP 402 code with payment performed over the Lightning Network, which has minescule fees and instant settlement.

[0]: https://lsat.tech/
To add an interesting part about history: after the US became an independent nation US merchant vessels were not under the protection of the Royal Navy. This made US ships a good target for pirates from the Barbary States who would not only steal the cargo but enslave the crew (the pirates also raided European settlements near coasts for slaves). Because the US didn't have a navy at the time they decided to pay tribute to stop the attacks. At one point the US paid a fifth of its annual budget in tribute to the pirates. This led to the creation of a permanent US Navy and to the Barbary Wars.

Now 200 years later the US Navy is a pretty powerful fighting force.
Oh well, I think that will take several years to land.
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I won't google a random HN username unless any disclosure.
It seems to me employers would have to pay higher wages without migrant labour.
Decoupling with Chain of Responsibility Pattern in C#
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Yazz Pilot (https://github.com/zubairq/pilot) was originally written in Lisp (Clojure) but we switched to Javascript, simply because it was easier to get third party developers on board with Javascript compared to Lisp
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No, there's a religion-based opt-out for religions that object to government support. But it only applies to income from the church (such as to ministers).

There are a few other narrow cases as well, such as student workers and certain government jobs.
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I would love to do this, but I live in a country where cash isn't a thing. It's explicitly not accepted in most places.

How can I spend the same effect if I only have a debit card? I am wondering if two accounts or a currency card is a good idea. But it's just not the same as having a physical pile of cash that you can judge how fast it's going down and how much is left
Trigger's broom scene from Only Fools And Horses. Classic British comedy
Why do submissions get flagged? Serious question
Why do submissions get flagged?

There was a huge discussion recently about the new Lidl Cloud, incl. doubts that it just may be rumours.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151069

Since they new Lidl Website is out now I published the link:

Posting:
-------------------
Lidl Cloud incl. test access
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=stackit.de
-------------------

And got flagged immediately. Serious question: Why?

The level here seems to get lower by the day.
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A dollar is worth one dollar, literally by definition, set by the US government.
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What's the best way for a newbie to get their feet wet here and be useful?
Garum is supposedly similar to south-east Asian fish sauce so as someone who can't stomach even regular seafood, let alone that horrible stuff, I'll stand by their humorous assessment :)
This is actually debatable. How many different GPUs are supported on Windows vs ob Linux? There are really only three vendors left on PC, while Linux supports these as well as a bunch of mobile GPUs...
It's a niche product and people who search for those keywords usually already know what it is and that they need it.

That's the beauty of organic search traffic.

When I did paid ads, in the other hand, the best I remember was 2% click rate, then 20% trial download, then 10% purchase. At those percentages, a $2 cpm will cost me $5 per acquisition for a $9.99 app, so I have little wriggle room before it becomes cash flow negative.
It can appear that way if the light source is large, or there are multiple light sources. Then what you mostly see is a faint penumbra rather than a dark shadow (the umbra).
But it wasn't a conspiracy now, was it?
Hmm, because they use the word PIN (personal identification number) I set a 6 number PIN, I feel a bit stupid about that now. But then this means that my messages are in another place than my phone? A bit unclear from what the app told me...
Charity goes both ways. Jones hasn’t reported more details than this, so to attack reports that don’t align with hers based on inaccurate language while supporting her complete lack of details seems dishonest. And come on, we both know what a developer throwing a fit means.
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