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> I believe this has been debunked by previous UBI studies, Give Directly, etc..

One shortcoming of the UBI studies I've heard about is that (naturally) they focus on settings that I don't have much confidence would necessarily translate to other settings like the current US. I can easily imagine the efficiency of UBI changing over time, let alone across locations, due to a plethora of factors. This isn't really a criticism of the studies (they're probably doing the best they can, and achieving good results on those is obviously a prerequisite), but rather of how much we can extrapolate from them and how much weight we can put in positive results currently. No matter how perfect their results, I'd totally expect people to be reasonably skeptical of their extrapolability (if that's a word) in the beginning.
They pledged the patents as collateral. So if they (or their acquirer) don't repay the loan, JP Morgan is entitled to keep the patents.
HP-48G sitting on my desk right now. Onza sticker on the back and my childhood 7 digit phone number on the original nameplate, scratched in with, I'm pretty sure, a Pentel Quicker Clicker.
Honestly is random all that bad? Should eventually trend towards 50/50 positive/negative which I'd take any day of the week considering how useless most government is.
Nice! I actually made a note to move off of them for this reason.
Everywhere I've worked in the last 10 years has been a cornucopia of databases, programming languages, cloud platforms, linux flavors and everything was different except for one thing: they all used RabbitMQ.
Personally, I gained about 200 points after having a tutor for SATs in high school. I don't know that I would have studied as well/hard without it.

For me, the SATs/SAT IIs didn't test what was a meaningful way to assess my strengths in the first place: analytic reasoning & creativity. That only partially came across in my extra ciriculars since primary education is largely memorization without understanding.
Panorama Tab Groups is the best replacement for the old Tab groups extension : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-tab-...

I resisted upgrading for ages while there didn't seem to be a clear winning replacement.
I have to wonder about the competence of a hiring manager who thinks that sending a candidate (who just rejected their offer) a dead fish in a package, without any other context, is a good idea.

But then again, we are talking about tech recruiting, so it’s probably not all that surprising.
>Suggestions?

Decide whether it's worth worrying about and if not, don't?

Was your boss angry about it? Or were they just making conversation about it?

One of those is worth worrying about, the other may be annoying but doesn't matter.

You can't control people. I dunno, even before everyone had cameras on them all the time I was taught to assume everything I did in public could be seen and maybe even be recorded by anyone, my dad was a bit paranoid, he taught me this as a child long before cell phones became ubiquitous. It's just the way it is. If you're in a public place, people can see you, people have cameras, the internet exists.

Again, I agree, I dislike pictures of me existing randomly, I try to avoid it. I'll dodge cameras and shit if I see someone taking pictures. But I know, inevitably, there's not much i can do about it. But I also realize, people tend to have short attention spans and memories and live in their own worlds so in the end it doesn't really matter and most people don't care enough to remember some random picture they seen of me anyway.
What? "because of YouTube videos," isn't that like saying "violence happens because of video games," etc.?
Interesting. Thought Facebook didn't screw over its own employees

seems they are getting inspired by Amazon
If that’s the core argument for UBI i.e. it’s far more efficient, why do such proposed initiatives come with significant tax increases on the population? Your analysis should theoretically support a net decrease in spending on welfare (hence lower taxes) or best case, no additional increase. You would have a lot broader support if UBI wasn’t tied to egregious tax proposals like a wealth tax.
How is it that nobody thinks they've just learned to use bait?
This would be a good "attract mode" feature to have on a commercial pinball machine in a bar, etc.
> 17 valedictorians

You think that's bad? I know some kids at a public school in a rich neighborhood that had almost fifty valedictorians.
As long as the GDP grows faster then the deficit/interest, we’re good.
Odd, I've been running it for years and it's been flawless. Integrating new clients is a breeze using their, or any amqp, library.
I believe GATs are at least somewhat supported in chalk https://github.com/rust-lang/chalk/issues/116
Why don't we just wait non-anxiously?

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If you were capable of replacing your use of rabbitmq with 3 lines of python and a redis instance, you shouldn't have been using rabbitmq to start with.

That doesn't mean redis is a drop in replacement for any of the valid uses for rabbitmq though...
> with an untested one

Not sure where you got the idea that the Covid19 vaccines will not be tested. On the contrary, they will be the most tested and scrutinized vaccines in history. Even now you can find countless articles/blog posts explaining every little detail of the progress of the testing so far. In a few months there will be even more. Then the FDA will give the Emergency Use Authorization, and millions of people will be vaccinated under that. By the time the FDA provides the actual approval, there will hundreds of times more testing data than for other vaccines. There will be enough data to have statistical power to identify side effects with a prevalence rate of 1 in 100k or 1 in 1 million.

>We're more likely to reach herd immunity before a vaccine is approved, sooner the better.

That's possible. That doesn't mean we won't need a vaccine. Herd immunity diminishes in time, and then you have new bouts of the disease. This virus will not simply go away. The only way for it to be wiped out, like the smallpox virus was, is to have a very determined vaccination campaign.
> UNIX commands are more an accident of history than a cohesive, coherent, composable design. PowerShell was designed. It was designed by one person, in one go, and it is beautiful.

I'm curious about that design and would love to learn about it.

Note, that I'm not interested in learning how to actually use powershell as a developer, but understand the abstraction design choices, that went into it.

Every time I tried to learn about that, I'd find recommendations about Books with 1000+ pages and similarly time consuming resources.

Do you have an recommended read for understanding the design choices, that went into powershell, while not learning the details, that a everyday windows would need?

Things I care about:
-How do Lamdas work?
-Arrays are Objects. How exactly? -Typesystem
-Are there native wrappers for the kernel APIs how do they fit into the objectmodel?
-Since to my understanding no shortflags exist, how is verbosity avoided?
-How thight are interfaces defined. If a tool provides a new interface in a new version, can old tools still work with it?
It's amusing that TFA never mentions Sci-Hub, [0] which arguably renders it all moot.

0) https://sci-hub.now.sh/
I think the likely outcome is going to simply be more mix of remote and onsite in the future. Any company that makes it through this is going to realize remote works fine. I'm sure there will be some companies that will still insist onsite-only, and they'll lose a bunch of employees who just realized they prefer remote.

Regardless, what I really hope is that at the least this helps companies shift towards more remote-friendly culture and policies. Things like: every meeting has a conference link; one person remote, everyone remote; more async communications and decision making. If you do sit in a room together, have some empathy for remote people, and make sure you have high-quality video and audio, no tapping on the table or "side-conversations" while hovering over a mic, and make sure you have remote videos feeds visible and are sharing the screen you're discussing.

It would be great to see a list like this amended to include how this type of thing is handled at the company as a whole (eg top-down, global policy as opposed to varying by individual teams/managers) - like a "remote-friendly" ranking scale, or maybe a "Joel test".
>I will also disagree that the SAT is a leveling field. The reason is that in the high achieving schools, the child is sent to private tutors and classes every single year of their lives starting in elementary school. The parents will spend $1k+/month on activities as well as academic classes. That type of knowledge seriously adds up.

This sentiment is littered throughout the comments here. Do we want colleges to admit the brightest, most academically ready 18 year olds? Or to simply admit equal percentages matching race and income levels?

You even seem to admit the student would be better off with those extra classes.

>That type of knowledge seriously adds up.

Personally I'd have no problem with someone smarter than me getting into a college over me... It's not as if you can pay a tutor and then go to bed while they do the work for you, you still have to put in time...
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I've seen news sites do this before but I don't understand why they don't have actual video or photos of what they are talking about. Does anyone know why they just included renderings of the art installation?
A related article is https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/university-california-...
Argh, tried this and after messing with it for 20 minutes, it simply won't install on my year-old, completely up-to-date Windows 10 Dell laptop. Fie on Epic.

This is why I don't buy games any more.
The devil you know is better than the devil you dont.

SAT and ACT has been around for so long, I think college admissions can account for deviations to a certain extent.
> However, almost everybody I know never uses credit cards to buy anything. Everyone I know uses debit cards.

Why? Here in America CCs give fraud protection. Debit cards only after the first $50 after a fraud charge. Banks almost always reverse CC charges.
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This is an awesome idea! I couldn't find the project on Github (only the data sources txt's)... am I missing something? Making it an open-source project is really important if your target audience is made of devs.
> "Also, look around groups of wealthy people. The ones who don't have to work anymore. Sure, some of them live a life of leisure, but many of them still work, because they get bored otherwise."

People who built their wealth, they keep working because it's in their personality makeup.

People who inherit wealth often wind up frittering it away.
Well... take abandoning non-8-bit byte sizes. Are there any such architectures where someone was planning on shipping a C++23 compiler, but this would make it difficult or impossible? My impression is that for such platforms, you'd be lucky to get C++11.

Non-little-endian might be a bigger issue - it would rule out quite a few embedded CPUs.
Not using a GUI at all would be much simpler.
There's still lots of relevant work to do deeper in the stack. It might just not be at large internet scale companies (I doubt this but lets assume it's true). Most every university has a systems research lab doing interesting things. I think I paged through 5 different professor's websites in CMU's systems department the other month and found 9-10 interesting projects.
I agree with you 100%

I run a completely distributed company and no one in their right mind would argue that a completely distributed company or even a partially work from home company

can be as good as the same people working TOGETHER in one office

The bonds are much stronger

The interaction is much better

Two superstars together are 10 times better than separately

However, when you do remote, it's only 5 times better

At minimum, it is 50% worse to have a distributed company than have a real same office, same location company

What really makes people say 'working from home is just as good' is a combination of

1) liking it for other reasons (more time with family, less pressure) and rationalizing

2) being able to cut out time wasting things (which they could anyways cut out if they were better at saying no to time wasting stuff

3) not ever having done it for a long time and seeing the long term implications

There is a very good reason that very few companies have become very big and very successful while being distributed companies
Godot is far more polished and complete I found. Defold wasn't quite there yet. This was approx 6 months ago.

Godot was a pleasure to use, I didn't feel the need to revisit Defold.
Linking to a particular hash is a great idea. I encourage you to open a feature request as this could go a ways towards making users with extensions that require that kind of permission feel more secure
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There exist (clearly functional) processes to improve the scientific consensus. The government changed its recommendation. Do you think they were convinced by a YouTube videos or perhaps did some other process cause then to amend their recommendations?

If so, why not steer people toward that process, especially when the harm of wearing a mask is low, while the harm oh reopening the economy due to a lack of understanding the covid dangers is much greater?
One thing that threw me off is that sometimes people artificially construct names or modified forms of names. For example, "k8e" is an alternative form of "Katie".

Not being familiar with this surname, the first thing I noticed was that "ten" and "ever" are both English words. So I tried reading it as "ten oh ever" or "ten zero ever". I couldn't understand what that would mean, but it was the best interpretation I could think of.

In my experience, smart people are more likely to be idiosyncratic, so I wasn't inclined to dismiss the possibility.

I tried putting "tenOever" into Google, but the first two pages of results just take me back to him and his research. I tried Wikipedia too and search results there were also dominated by his work.

It wasn't until I came to the comments here that I was able to find the real answer.
TI calculators are a racket. They begged, bribed, and threatened their way into being the standard for educators and used that monopoly position to avoid competition and innovation. It's why a TI-84, a device with a $15 manufacturing cost, costs the student $130.

https://youtu.be/zoGl8-Wc-L0
The next time you see a surfer, give him part of your paycheck so he can play in the surf all day while you work to support him.
I’m not sure how it’s compared with market rate but friends are usually more trustable or at least making people feel that way.
Does anybody know of a powerful calculator model (e.g. multi-line display like a graphing calculator) that has the ability to display commas out of the box?

For example, if the result is 1,998,241 it should display that way---not 1992241.

I don't usually need powers of ten notation.

I don't mind adjusting settings, but I don't want to have to download stuff to make it do this.
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Punishing the people who put in extra time to improve themselves really seems like an odd way to go.
Ask HN: Best practices for SaaS billing with Stripe
Hi HN -- hoping someone could help us understand the best practices for doing SaaS billing with Stripe.

We charge a monthly fee ($100) per "team" for the customer (w/unlimited users).

Customers can have different numbers of teams but it ranges from ~10-50.

I'd like to set it up so that there is a monthly subscription ($100 per team per month) but we also offer 10% off if you pay 6 months up front and 20% off if you pay 12 months up front.

So my question: In Stripe should the 6 month and 12 month discounts be SUBSCRIPTIONS or COUPONS? The 10% and 20% discount would be applied one-time (vs. prorated) so customer would be invoiced up-front in one payment for the 6 or 12 month block.

I could create a standard month-to-month and then customize the 6 or 12 month pre-payments based on # of teams the customer uses but then I'll wind up with many SUBSCRIPTIONS since each customer has a different number of teams, which feels messy...

Hope that makes sense -- really appreciate advice!!
You are right in our case redis failed spectacularly with celery queue when tasks in queue exceeded the memory of the machine. It took weeks to diagnose as error message were inconsistent and setting up a Message Queue cluster with redis is a nightmare.

Went back again to tried and tested rabbitMQ and it works so well. Also adding new nodes and removing nodes so easy, just used ansible to setup Erlang cookie and connect the node (thanks to OTP and BEAM). The best part is for important task queue for which we cannot accept failure we built a mechanism for fault tolerance. When you work with high availability and fault tolerant queue rabbitMQ is so good, it can recover from hardware or even VM failures, can’t say the same for redis which was a nightmare even with redis cluster.
has that been happening? i guess so, in some sense, because the interest rate is "0"...
We believe that many divisive issues in the committee come from a disagreement on either stated or assumed priorities.

I’m curious: Which divisive issues would have had obvious resolutions if there had been broad consensus on the C++ committee to adhere to these goals & priorities?
I can't help but wonder at the motivations for these changes, at UC and other schools. It seems to be a combination of equity (it favors rich kids), effectiveness (it's not that predictive) and risk aversion (can't prove racist admissions if there's no standardized comparison).

And yet... I wonder if we're throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Standardized tests _seem_ like they could be such a such a powerful force for fairness & efficiency. I wonder that there isn't a way to improve the test - especially since, at this rate, the SAT could be obsolete in a decade or two.
Nativier wraps a website with Electron, and in the end it's not a native apps. What I mean is a Google Drive client like Dropbox client in linux where I can sync a directory in my computer, to a directory in my Google Drive.
There are some unofficial Google Drive client in Linux like Grive2 (https://github.com/vitalif/grive2), but like any unofficial apps, they are prone to break when Google update their API.
Yes, but you need a reputation to get paid.

Ifixit is a company that is built around reverse engineering consumer electronics. I also read about a company that completely breaks down cars to determine the cost of manufacturing. And we see it all the time with "Security specialists" who do their best to find security faults by partially reverse engineering apps and such.

The early IBM clones were built by reverse-engineering the first machines from IBM.

To get a reputation, I would start a blog, break down and explain whatever you find interesting. Keep in mind that it will take a lot of work to get started but if you love it, it might be lots of fun. It's important to focus and be consistent.
Laravel performs way better than Django, I also prefer the migrations/model styles that resemble Rails a bit more.

Django might be better w/ 3.3 or whenever they fully integrate async into the view/db layer, but w/ laravel I can plug in swoole and go from 110 reqs/sec to 4600+ on my dev pc - w/ 12 threads and 200 connections hitting a post api logged in, updating the database and the caching layer, and queuing notifications.

Just ran some big benchmarks on laravel w/ php-fpm vs swoole last night...as an aside. I also don't like some of the ways django handles auth. If I were to use python, I'd definitely go w/ FastAPI, it seems much more joyful a framework.

I'd also love to do something like go for sessions/auth/jwt and hasura, postgraphile, or postgrest or some sort of api from postgres, and then most of the logic would simply be postgres functions/triggers/etc...there's also some nice 'built-ins/ecosystems stuff that even rails lacks'.

Auth is built in, vs devise (being almost a requirement). Message queues, notifications, .env, events/listeners, are also all built-ins. Eloquent is nice, though repositories using straight sql or the DB class are probably more performant, but you lose a lot of the magic that makes laravel nice, so there's trade offs. Also all the many drivers for caching/queues/etc and telescope is a very beautiful way to debug and so is ignite for error pages.

Horizon is nice to manage queues/etc. I keep trying to move to another framework just for the sake of 'something new' and boredom but after 8 years on laravel, I still keep coming back. Wordpress is a totally different story, I charge 35% markup on my normal rates just to touch wordpress because it sucks so bad and hurts my brain to work w/ it. Also, I don't really need to worry about how to setup vue or react, laravel-mix pretty much handles all the webpack stuff w/ a few exceptions if I'm using Tailwinds or creating aliases for paths, etc...
That's a very short-term solution.

It's on a par with throwing all of our junk into the sea.

Once upon a time, the sea also appeared to be 'infinitely fillable'. Not very much later, we now can see that it isn't so.

Sooner or later the CO2 storage space will be filled to capacity, then what do we do?
To me it looks like the paper describes exactly where C++ has been going since its inception to this day.
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Not if the population is not a random sample. Cal Tech admits would have no problem doing a two year A.S. in CS in one semester. Doesn’t mean you can expect the same of the average community college student. A highly selected student population could easily have the worst student in class at Harvard doing better than the best student at Directional State U.
> This is a cynical rewriting of history.

Seconded. I was on the Internet before gopher, and I never really saw the point over regular ftp (and, a quick glance at the wikipedia page right now doesn't really tell me what the real extra value over ftp is).

Conversely, the web's value was immediately obvious.
Teaching Chinese kids is a pretty huge market, I’m not sure which company to recommend tho.
More time is only an advantage if you get it and others don’t.
GWMAIN.ASM ( https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/09ad7bc671c90f0ee... )

BILL GATES WROTE A LOT OF STUFF
One interesting insight of MMT is that taxing $1,000 from the rich and giving $1,000 to the poor, is not actually necessarily "free", or net-non-inflationary. Because the poor on average spend more of the money that they have (on basic necessities like food and consumer goods), causing prices of those goods to rise which reflects in headline inflation. Whereas money in the hands of the rich tends to result in inflation of financial asset prices.

If a redistribution of this sort did cause a too-high level of consumer inflation, some additional counter-cyclical policy would be needed to counteract it. (The point I'm trying to make is that making sure that federal spending debits and credits cancel out to zero is neither necessary nor sufficient for good economic policy.)
Any trend up or down on the past 3 months? Until lockdown, WFH for me meant coding on the couch. After lockdown, it took me some time to get a comfortable chair and ergonomics worked out. I'm still adapting, just ordered more office equipment that arrived on Sunday. When layoffs hit my company, that definitely made feel worried. Now that's over and I've been tuning out the news. I feel like I've been much more productive the past 2 weeks than when this started.