skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>how do we ensure that rents don't just go up by that amount or wages don't go down by that amount?

Two ways to answer this:

1) If you're printing money, then yes, prices will rise, and if price controls are implemented it will lead to shortages (e.g. Venezuela)

2) If you're not printing money, then competition will simply lower the cost. It's the same as today - outside of terrible policies like rent-control, why don't landlords just raise rents by $5000? Because the renters will leave and rent from a landlord that undercuts the crazy landlord. In the market, profits tend to 0 and if profits are too high more supply will come in to get a cut of the profits. It's not magic.

>BI just ends up funneling money directly back to the wealthy (eg, landlords and business owners).

Your view on reality is skewed. I mean, yes, people will buy products and services from landlords and business owners. That's not 'funnelling money' anywhere, that's just buying products and services. What do you think people will do with that money, if not to buy things they want and/or need.

>I'm not convinced yet that Yang has a thorough enough plan here.

For sure. UBI does not solve anything and is unworkable, but not for the reasons you stated.
Tips for Responsible Drinking, from 16th-Century Germany
That's beautifully terrible :-)
Ajit Pai doubts Elon Musk’s SpaceX broadband-latency claims
Scientists find evidence of link between diesel exhaust and risk of Parkinson’s
What I've heard is the opposite. If you are going to burn fossil fuels for heat, those oil burning boilers are more efficient than most hot water heaters and furnaces. The hydronic system is also efficient at getting heat in the right place.

To really improve on an oil boiler, you could get a heat pump or maybe active or passive solar. If you have a system that generates hot water you could probably run it through existing pipes.
Half agile isn’t real transformation
It's very early days.
So.. loans, but with way shittier terms for the borrower?
Windows itself collects telemetry so I can see your point, but your example is bad. Single sex bathrooms are not symbolic at all and are a serious issue.
This is probably excellent, and undervalued, advice.

I wonder what fraction of potential English learners can afford $20+ per hour... (Right now that won't beat the unemployment payout here in the States, BTW.)
We can't do anything about it though, Google will just shrug off the blame on a dodgy algo and keep going.
> Right, because people are gonna provide core dumps in their feedback.

Not my problem. Sounds like a problem for a company with a QA team.
Makes you wonder what they've done or gonna do to the underlying GitHub infrastructure to further their marketing/whatever agenda.
I don't understand the optimism around UBI. UBI is a band-aid and a sign that a system is actually failing. I get why some people, especially intellectuals, want UBI, but they seem to believe that UBI is free of consequence. If society "needs" UBI, that means that not enough people can build wealth or that the welfare system isn't effective. Handing people money isn't going to change the fact that too much of the economy is bolstered by massive amounts of debt. UBI may just perpetuate the problem and encourage more debt to be taken out. One argument for UBI I've heard is that places like Alaska give their residents a "dividend" of something between a few hundred to a few thousand bucks. But the reason Alaska can do this is because they effectively own their oil industry, and their GDP far exceeds their debt, whereas the United States federal government(as well as many states) have debt that exceeds their GDP.

UBI will be needed when automation actually destroys enough jobs where it makes sense. I don't know that we're quite there yet, but it will happen soon. Wanting UBI before its time seems like an admission of failure oh the system.
She Gets Calls and Texts Meant for Elon Musk. Some Are Pretty Weird
For one, it removes pathological situations where people are disincentivised to work because it would mean they lose means-tested support.

The great unknown is whether it also disincentivises work itself in a way that would be a negative overall.

The general idea is that it removes the threat of poverty, which potentially allows people to make more rational decisions, and negates the need for cruder solutions like minimum wage, regulations, unions etc.
Like "Literally" "evolving" to mean "metaphorically"?

When "X" becomes "Not X", that's not evolution but coopting. It's degradation, and it's often purposeful.

"Libertarian" means something, which is why the "Libertarian Party" required an oath to adhere to the non-aggression principle. The fact that statists moved in to ruin the "Libertarian Party", take the oath and betray it, may make them "Libertarian Party" members, but doesn't make them libertarian (in fact, the opposite).

Are you a Christian if you're not Christian but call yourself "Christian"? Are you an atheist if you believe in a god? Are you "blind" if you have perfect vision?

I realize that this assault on reality/truth is at the heart of many issues today.. We have no language if things can mean both a thing, and/or the opposite of that thing.

...which is the point.

You may have a libertarian perspective on an issue, or a group of issues (as almost everyone does), but that doesn't make you libertarian, which means liberty in all issues. There is a line between minarchist and anarchist, and a reason for both terms.
Walmsley isn’t “an MBA”, she has a Master’s in Classics and Modern Languages ;)

Real world experience trumps a degree in almost all cases. It certainly helps, but you don’t need a PhD to be a scientist, and you definitely don’t need one to lead scientists.
Learning Pascal on the Classic Macintosh
Do you believe welfare is similar in that regard? If not, why?
Has your friend applied for unemployment? He should be eligible...
Visual Studio is as visual as C++ is.
Our welfare state has gaps where non-workers, who should be supported by welfare, are still getting screwed. I thought this paper on the subject was interesting: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/01/20/how-to-fix-o...

Seems like UBI fills in the gaps in a sloppy easy way, while also giving money to workers, who don't truly 'need' the welfare. It frees them from the chains of being stuck at their job, but universal healthcare would probably do a much better job at that for the worst-stuck people (e.g. hate my job but I have a chronic illness with monthly costs > a potential UBI).

Maybe give welfare a cool silicon valley style name instead of the one with baggage and Jack Dorsey will get on-board.
I used to think that Tesla was about eventually making cars that would be affordable to the most people. Now he plans to increase the price even after buying a car? No thanks. And I would never trust people to behave in a robotaxi if that ever becomes a thing.
Yeah, my mum does get tense about that kind of stuff. Tech support calls to her are regularly interrupted by her saying things like "oh, what's happenened now?!" I was originally pretty down on skeumorphic design in aesthetic terms, but the new iOS design language is really hard to have intuitions about. When talking to mum about clicking on one of those blue "back" links at the top left in settings I really wish I could call it a "button", but it doesn't look like a button, so I just have to say "click X at the top left", whereas if I was able to say "the button that says X at the top left" it narrows down what she's looking for significantly.

I really like the idea of a "confirm" button for significant taps, such as a phone call, which could be enabled in Settings.
Did the players test positive for Cov2 antibodies?
If hamburger restaurants are more likely to close than sandwich restaurants, that's interesting and useful information. If restaurants owned by asian/black/brown/white are more likely to close than the average that is useful information as well, and can tell us about different people's access to capital. Including data on race provides more information on which businesses are closing. If race is a statistically significant variable in which businesses are closing, why willfully ignore that variable?
The central bank exists to ensure that your fears here are misplaced.
Without necessarily being worried or annoyed by telemetry, I could understand that people might question the need for it; is it required by other package managers?

Collecting data creates a risk that the data will be intercepted or misused at a later point, and there are often legal requirements regarding data collection and processing too.
The best way to start generating income is to change your mindset.

Instead of asking other people, all of whom have found their own specialized niche that will never be applicable to anyone else, step away from the computer and look around.

Just in the past week I have heard from so many friends that are looking for good people. They never post stuff on job sites - it's way more trouble than its worth. They ask around.

Get outside and talk to people in your community. Call friends, call relatives. Volunteer your time. There's an abundance of opportunity right now in this churn - make it happen!
Microsoft’s romance with open source software is on display at Build 2020
previous discussion on the same repo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22407835
everything is kawaii until you actually start using the products ^^
If he or she has good sewing skills, making masks and selling them on Etsy.
Joining big rooms is still slow because you currently have to check the keys of every server in the room before you know whether to trust the events in that room; we're fixing this with MSC1228 (using keys as identifiers so you don't have to separately check the keys).

Once you're in, though, performance has improved 2-3x over the last year, and there's easily 10-100x more improvements to be made one way or another. We're also about to add active/active clustering in Synapse at last, which should make bigger servers zippy.

In terms of receiving traffic after you've torn down the server; this is equivalent to getting people trying to talk SMTP to you on port 25 years after you've taken down your MTA. You can mitigate it by explicitly leaving all the rooms on your server before you tear it down, though; i've just filed a bug at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7551 to track maintaining a script to do so.

Sorry you've had a crap time so far though :(
Dreaming about Microsoft implementing proper autocomplete hooks in cmd.exe.
But you can’t prove anything about universal income without the universal part. As without it it’s not the same thing and we don’t know if it’ll have the same effects.
Thanks, that's a really interesting insight. That must make it really difficult to type on the iOS keyboard in portrait - I'm thinking more and more about getting her to do stuff with voice commands.
We have regard for bathrooms as well as telemetry for a shared reason: privacy and a sense of control and safety. We are exposed and we seek to limit our exposure.
If you don't have any servers, you don't collect any metadata ;) We're playing with this at https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/dip_p2p_matrix/ and live at https://p2p.riot.im (albeit very alpha)
University labs are generally good at dealing with patents. Researchers do generate patents where it makes sense, and the processes are set up such that the university gets some ownership with the option for the researchers to transfer the knowledge to companies e.g. student graduates and founds a startup with the patent as foundational IP. This is all intentional and it's one of the ways for the labs to do their job of disseminating their discoveries and transfer knowledge to industry.
I think the move by Mconnell and Trump to end foodstamps and unemployment programs in the middle of the worst economy in us history makes his red pill comment even worse. Do you want to buy a car made by workers treated as slaves owned by a ceo who endorses mass starvation of those who are unable to find new jobs ?
Ah, great, just be rich. Or be poor and don't register your kids anywhere. Let's not either forget single moms, missing dads, widows, disabled kids, not hitting replacement levels, etc.

A growing population leads to numerous economic, militaristic, and scientific advantages. Why would any country willingly shackle themselves to their detriment
I would respond by simply saying nothing is getting done already, so worst case what would the difference have been? By your argument, no difference.
Flipmine is an incredible tool our mutual friend has built!
Is there a standard for "IDE backends", and can I plug one into my favorite editor, Vim?
Oh right yes. Be sure to buy their aggressively advertised book and tutorial videos!
The developer of factorio was charged 20 dollars for charge back.

I imagine G2A is using a more fraud-friendly payment processor.
So it's the exact opposite of what's trending in western webdesign illustration now.
That sentence is very misleading. Nobody checks the Close() error because the right thing to do is to call Err() like with the text.Scanner.

I suspect the right github code search would reveal way less buggy code.

https://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/#Rows.Err
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_birth#Selective_reduc...
Super excited for the improvements to btree indexes, that is some interesting work and very impressive results. The improvements to pg_stat_statements will be very welcome too!
China proposes controversial Hong Kong security law
B.C.'s top doctor Bonnie Henry says 2nd wave of Covid-19 inevitable
I've always wondered, does using a PIN make it both safer for the consumer and merchant, but also make it harder for the consumer to argue fraud? With my signature-only card, it's easy to receive the benefit of the doubt from the issuer when a shady charge hits, but with a PIN card, would the issuer respond, "It's your PIN, you agreed to guard it, so it's your fault."? I'm imagining some sort of ATM fraud situation where someone records or otherwise logs the PIN number. Or is the safety more from the chip not being replicable?
I was driving the other day on the expressway, three guys lined up across all three lanes and slowed down blocking traffic at ~30mph (typical is 70). Then after about 3 minutes of that and people honking etc, they hit it and probably hit 120mph +.
UBI is no good if it's not durable and reliable to the recipient.

If you imagine that UBI would allow people to live with a lower level of stress around starvation, you have to imagine that they would want to rely on that income a decade from now. Saying "find a rich benefactor to decide to give money away" doesn't reasonably test anything meaningful about UBI. I can tell you that people will generally be happier if you give them money one time. Don't need much experimentation to validate that hypothesis...
And how much was the seat belt actually worth while it was patented? How much of that value should go to the inventor of the seat belt?

Is 10% reasonable? Too much or too little? How much value should be captured by the consumers that wear the belts? How much by the manufacturers that licensed them voluntarily? How much from compulsory installations? How much value should be captured by unlicensed installations?

Should the value of raised speed limits count, or just the direct impact of reduced collision injury severity?

Are we discounting the possibility that the patent licensing fee demanded by the saw-stopping inventor was actually reasonable in the US, thanks to hyperinflated medical costs, and the saw manufacturers were basing their decisions on international sales in countries with sane healthcare systems?
Right, so you're in the second camp where UBI adds extra costs to the existing welfare state. So there are no savings.

> It frees them from the chains of being stuck at their job

Yes. It would be nice to get nice things and not worry about working. You can't get away from the underlying reality that jobs aren't fun but they still need to be done. Also, we know that populations that are wholly supported by government welfare with no incentive to work suffer from drug/alcohol abuse and crime.
Reddit Is Collapsing, Power Users Exposed
Thanks - that does look interesting for sure.
Chief, the leadership network for women, raises $15M in funding
Heh, never thought about it that way! But good question.
Yes, it can translate on 2 axes at the same time, since the control loops for each axis run in separate threads, so there is no control locking. The same is with rotation - it can e.g. pitch, roll and yaw at the same time.
I don’t live in the US, so please take what I’m saying with a grain of salt. I imagine you are a smart and decent person on the other side of this screen.

Usually print media is considered higher quality journalism than TV media. There are numerous studies that show reading print media leads to people being more informed than just watching TV news. Whether this is correlation or causation I can’t really say.

My understanding of both Fox and MSNBC is they are entertainment programs, not so much news programs. I’m not sure it’s fair to compare those to anything in print, nor do I think it’s entirely possible.

A good news article might present both sides of a story, but try to fact-check claims by both sides, and bring in supporting evidence. That’s the key differentiating factor of quality journalism - helping bring facts to the forefront rather than let people on either side spin the facts for their purposes.
browser console is a pretty under rated feature. I wish it was used more extensively to teach people how to code. so many cool little hacks you can do on public web pages that cement new concepts quickly.
Symbols matter. When someone tells you they don't respect your privacy, it's appropriate to believe them.

The bathroom comment is off topic flamebait.
Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment
He might need Windows AND the WSL2.
Jnana yoga
You can approximate. Close enough. It's going to be impossible to implement without testing the concept.

I'm not here to convince you, and if you're not a policymaker or the Fed, I don't have to.
We had a pretty epic one about someone posting about a very, very suspicious white car going around the neighborhood at 3:30 am, pulling up to houses, etc. A long list of comments about how everything is going to hell, things aren't like they used to be, this is why you should buy a gun, blaming the local officials and political party, etc. Finally, a post:

Hi Tom, that white car is mine. I have delivered your newspaper every day for the last 5 years with it.
"A responsible coordinated disclosure procedure has been performed following the discovery of the NXNSAttack described in the paper below. Several DNS software vendors and service providers have adopted measures to protect against the destructive measures of the NXNSAttack."

Maybe nobody is really taking it seriously. It's been posted to HN like 5 times now and failed to get any traction either.

http://www.nxnsattack.com/
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Depending what he was doing in call center and if he wants to keep his current job or is open to find a new job, he might be able to find a job for a company that hire people remotely.
He can even look for this kind of job internationally. Some industries have been hit quite hard, but some others have seen increase of activity (i'm thinking in the saas world, mainly tools that are being use for remote working, but i'm sure there's other industries as well)
I think there is a nuance in reducing screen time versus increasing natural light exposure.
yeah. Looks to me like the issue lies more with the base telemetry data policy surrounding Windows 10 itself, which has been a point of contingency between Microsoft and users ever since Windows 10 released.

Even if winget allowed for disabling telemetry entirely, our OS is still collecting telemetry too, so it seems the point is pretty much moot, imo.
I would use that confirm button.

In 10 years of owning an iPhone I’ve initiated ~10 phone calls that I intended and probably ~30 other calls.
See https://wiki.haskell.org/Typeclassopedia#Introduction

[Generally you'll get a better response to things like this on Haskell Reddit "Hask Anything" threads, or maybe Stack Overflow.]
> the best way to handle things like routing or database access

See, I'm always a little concerned handing something like database access over to an unaccountable framework for fear that they'll do the wrong thing and a) it'll be my fault and b) I'll have to figure out how to work around it under time pressure.
She should troll those people more, might not be completely out of character for Elon
Small Sample Size Effects in Statistical Recognition: Recommendations 1991 [pdf]
My question is not "are empty streets safer?" My question is "how do we know the amount of reckless behavior isn't influenced by a once-in-a-lifetime event (pandemic)?"
That is indeed a bit of a pain point. From what I understand, it's a bit intentional and the library authors want you to prefer flatter data structures. Now of course not all structures CAN be flat so you can hit a bit of an impedance mismatch. However, I think Ecto is amazing for more common (for me at least) cases.
The author uses what look like Dribbble screenshots to prove his point. Dribbble does not represent the majority state of product designs.
I was just starting to fall in love with gunDB a few months ago and that is a nice new page.
Thanks - that was something I'd noticed, hence my mention of it, but it was clearly a bit too tacit! I think I might get her to turn it off anyway, because she's not used it so far and doesn't do anything on the phone where undo would be useful.
As someone still on Postgres 9.6, does anyone have advice on how to make the business case for upgrading to 10, 11, or 12? I want to upgrade but I have a hard time articulating the benefits against the costs of downtime and risk
Just because one side might be more willing to mislead doesn't mean that their stance on a topic is more likely to be the incorrect one.

Showing which news sources employ the most underhanded rhetorical devices may be a positive goal in itself, but it doesn't, by itself, help the audience make their own determination on an issue. Even more of an issue is that a viewer's determination of which source is more willing to mislead or omit relevant details is much more likely to be influenced by prior opinion than by the content of either source.

Basically, the problem isn't, in itself, biased news sourced, its that the format is fundamentally ill-suited towards giving individuals enough information to come to a reasonably well-supported position on just about any topic of moderate complexity. Further take any topic that appears to be of simple complexity and scratch the surface a bit and there's a decent chance it will turn out to be not so simple.
This company is far more dangerous than FB. They masquerade as a public service but are nothing more than a data mining trick to cull PII from as many as possible. I have read it described as Twitter for old people, but to me, its where the dumbest and the most gullible seem to hang. Its really a site for 'Karen's' to whine and complain about the most asinine things... But its their underlying business model that is atrocious. IMHO its the worst social media outlet around.
> Get outside and talk to people in your community.

Not sure if that's the best advice given the present situation...
Media Creation tool doesn't download the ISO with CU updates. It downloads one that is about a year old and then once you run Windows Updates, it has about a years worth of updates to install (if not more).

The point was that Windows 10 2004 is RTM but you have to be a MSDN subscriber to download it, or find some shady Russian website to get it from.
How is their web UI a disaster? It's the only I've seen deliver a cohesive experience in all devices, mobile and desktop. One of the better crafted SPAs out there, actually.