skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there is a widespread agreement amongst proponents on how things are to be funded. Some want it to be revenue natural, others a wealth tax, others VAT, others via printing money, others a mix.

I'm not sure UBI is the right way to go. But if we are to do it, my own current thinking that you start by trying to keep it neutral in the tax code (so most families get increased taxes that claw back the majority of the UBI value)

But then we need need to account for additional funds needed beyond that:

- Those currently earning less than would be clawed back (net-recipients of UBI)
- Those who we would expect to become net-recipients, that would also cut back on their current earnings.

The latter group, I'd expect to be smaller than some suspect, but still big enough that it needs to taken into account.

So how much extra are we talking about?

Back of the envelope math starting from:

https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-household-income-percen...

127,679,100 households in the US, in 2018

If we take the approach that this acts as an income floor (the clawbacks per above), and we set that floor at $40k.

We can see that 33% make less than that from the data. For laziness sake, I'll assume a linear transition from 0% to 33%. That would imply $20k/year at 16%, which is roughly what the data shows. So we can assume an average of 20k UBI for 33% of households as the net benefit.

127,679,100 * $20000 * 0.33 = $843B

Then we need to take into account those that stop earning. So let's round it up to a trillion. Note household income already take into account existing transfers like social security and unemployment benefits so we can't subtract those out as savings.

The US is wealthy enough to raise taxes by a trillion/year. It is something like 5% GDP. But that is a massive increase. It doesn't come for free with "neutral" taxation. On the other hand, we could have a lower floor, but then I don't think we actually get the benefits.
First I've heard of LanguageTool, and it looks like they have some off-line capability, but this seems like an area where having it run in the cloud makes more sense. LanguageTool definitely __feels__ more trustworthy than Grammarly, so I'm giving it a go.
It seems there is more than one plugin for using Rust in vscode and they don't have the same level of support LSP and RA. It could be more clear which is considered "official" from RA's point of view. Also, one of the likely candidates only gained support for RA recently, in the last couple of versions.
Magic leap is AR which consumers and businesses definitely don't want.

VR has nothing to do with Magic Leap or even AR. VR probably has a consumer case (consuming media) but no real business use case until after the consumer case has been made.
i bet you missed the times when uTorrent turned on uTP and almost everywhere in the world ISP hardware just failed because of x100 traffic.
Perhaps. Gopher is simply a single, world-wide, hierarchical, indexed and searchable directory tree. Its sole means of transport is ftp. It can move all manner of formats about but only display ASCII text. The only thing resembling hyperlinks are the lowly gophermaps, one per directory. Gopher servers are small, simple and require few resources. Gopher clients are minuscule. Gopher with veronica is essentially a library card catalog that directs you to the proper stack and shelf to fulfill your query. And there is not a single commercial farthing to be made anywhere...
I don't mind hand-writing CSS for a small project, but I feel like once you've got a decent team, it ends up being duplicative and wasting a lot of time. How many times do you really need to style button/link and write out your 8px margins (or is it 6?) Sass solves this too, but simply applying classes is even easier and faster for me at least. I thought BEM was horrible when I first saw it, but once I used it, the productivity just feels like magic.
Today, the official preparation materials for the SAT are provided for free to anyone with internet access through Khan Academy, and others in this thread have claimed they are as good as privately available tutoring. I suspect that no matter how effective the publicaly available test prep is, somebody will always be able to convince parents to pay them to do better, whether or not that actually works. For strong cultural reasons, having the police enforce a ban on all nonfree activities intended to prepare students for the test is not viable.
That would probably require changes in laws around the 40 hour work week and overtime, don’t you think? If enough engineers are making less, they’ll probably request the ‘exempt’ status be removed and suddenly they get overtime for those extra hours.

Did people that live in company towns tend to work 70* hours a week?
You must of followed a good guide on getting it setup. Took me 2 days to get it solid. Then we decided to just use redis.
Nationally, the clearance rate for arson is typically under 23%, meaning the vast majority of arsonists get away with it.
In general, clearance rates are pretty bad across most crimes. The homicide clearance rate is typically below 62%, clearance rates for non-fatal shootings is typically below 55%, clearance rates for reported rape is typically below 40%, clearance rates for motor vehicle theft is typically below 20%.

And the actual clearance-by-arrest rates are lower than those values.

And conviction rates are even lower. (*edit: relative to the total number of crimes. Conviction rates are pretty high for the cases that State's Attorneys or prosecutor's offices accept and agree to prosecute)

The standard of proof for State's Attorneys/prosecutors to accept a case from Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) is pretty high, and it's expensive to build and prosecute cases. Clearance rates would be higher if law enforcement agencies had high definition surveillance camera networks covering all public spaces, but I think people would also find that solution unappealing.

I'm a homicide researcher in Chicago and I've come to the conclusion that the legal system will never be able to solve or even make a significant dent in the homicide problem, and taking a "law enforcement only" approach is the same as just surrendering to the problem forever. If you want to solve crime problems, you have to explore preventative solutions, namely give people better paths and eliminate paths that empirically lead to only bad destinations.

[0] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
But it can be very difficult for people who are certain they are right to neutrally present things they feel are wrong, which means that to achieve this goal Wikipedia may need to increase the ideological breadth of its base.

that's not enough. what is needed is the ability and willingness of editors to have an open mind and actually consider opposing views. to many times such clashes just end up in editor wars instead of a neutral text.
Theoretically nothing but it'd probably be a PR disaster even for a site like Facebook if people found out it was trying to steal their passwords. (Is that even legal?)
It's too late to edit my original post but since I posted this, a contributor added more comments to the issue.

It turns out that as long as you have Basic telemetry settings in Windows then the Terminal app doesn't send anything out to Microsoft by default.

This comment goes into more details on what is exactly collected and sent to Microsoft if you use "Enhanced" telemetry (which you don't need to use): https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5331#issuecomme...
Or the dozens of other devices in your house that have the benefit of mains voltage.

I don't think perf per watt was a differentiator in the compute chosen for your TV, your monitor, your AV receiver, your fridge, etc.
I'd like to offer a recommendation for Zoom Tab Close[1]. It's an extremely simple extension that closes out the leftover tab when a zoom link received by the browser redirects to the desktop app. Just one bit of friction in my day ... gone.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zoom-tab-clos...
The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983
WireGuard Endpoint Discovery and NAT Traversal Using DNS-SD
Why does this make any sense?

Generally speaking, students at top universities are intelligent and hard-working. Their talent is not normally distributed, and this is increasingly the case as admissions becomes hyper-competitive. Not to mention, students self-select into courses to which they are most suited and likely to perform well.

If all students in a particular class master the subject matter, why should some students be forced to receive failing grades?

Should the purpose of higher education be to rank students on increasingly marginal criteria or to...educate?
It's an interesting idea. The other major language similar to Finnish is Estonian. Recently Estonia has been above Finland in PISA results, but I am still extremely skeptical of this idea. From a grammar standpoint I'm not sure that Finnish is actually easier to learn than English.
> It’s hard to call something an “open standard” if anyone who wishes to use it needs to license patents from nokia.

If something needs a licence, it isn't open. I mean, it literally doesn't meet the definition of open.

What's more, if the standard was open, then that would be great, but adopting it so soon and setting it to be the default is woefully shortsighted.
I heard a lot of praise about Nats, but isn't it more like a kafka alternative? Someone new need to spend sometime grasping the stream concept.
We initially hired the QA manager as our first QA hire, then he built the team in his country. After a couple of years we paid for his visa and he lives in the US now and has been with the company for over five years.

We went through Vietnam including Nha-trang on a tourist trip two years ago, of which I think Nha-trang is sort of their tech capital, I was really impressed with the level of development there and how modern it was, although I didn't talk with anyone directly in the industry while I was there. It definitely had an international modern vibe compared to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
I didn't see multi-account containers mentioned:

https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers#readme

That one changed my life. It allows me to log into different AWS accounts at the same time. Also different Gmail accounts at once (like my kids' email and mine).

Also it gives you a massive boost in privacy since cookies don't follow you around since they are restricted to one container.

Combined with Container Tabs Sidebar:

https://github.com/maciekmm/container-tabs-sidebar

You get the tree style tabs with automatic organization by container.
You would think, until you get to a split brain issue.
The master and failover lose connectivity, and they each then think they're the master.

There's ways to repair it (and it has happened to me one total time in 4 years), but it does happen. I personally try to make my message processing idempotent for the worker to help alleviate these situations.
Yeah... what you describe isn’t lying about working from home. It’s changing where ‘home’ is. I was considering doing that this summer for some hiking trips, too.
Because people will be paid well to do it, they might as well put more effort into it. You get what you pay for in that way!
Ring codes? They look like tree rings.
They got rid of the writing section in 2016, it's back to 1600 (with optional essay)
You are correct, this is technically offshoring, not outsourcing since they are on the company payroll.
>the primary evidence that deplatforming works seems to be a study that shows that bigots left Reddit and declares victory, completely ignoring that Voat started at the same time.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-ba...

Deplatforming leaves people with a smaller audience. Only a fraction of the audience follows a banned person to another platform. Voat is nothing compared to Reddit.
The implication is that you define someone purely by their career. It's socially corrosive because we end up with people valuing themselves based on their vocation, & consequently we judge a man's worth on the salary he brings home
I dunno how we can expect ordinary people to fully understand what’s going on and how to fix it without any guidance.
Woman with fingernails as long as rulers shows how she washes her hands
Is it in the ToS?
Nothing good will come from Microsofts meddling with Linux. They're positioning themselves to cripple it.
> Impulse Blocker is here to keep you away from those distracting, timesink websites

... which are the primary use case for Firefox (and all other web browsers.)
Typescript is becoming VERY popular. I Deno (the potential replacement for Nodejs) is written in typescript.

I hadn't worked with types before, and hated it when I first started, but once I got used to it, it's a nice experience.
You’re right, I was mistaken (and too late to edit my comment).

Out of interest, is there a page anywhere explaining the difference between RustEnhanced and Sublime-LSP + Rust Analyzer? I’ve got both installed, but when I enable Sublime-LSP + RustAnalyzer the experience and functionality is different enough that I assumed it was overriding RustEnhanced.
Yeah...i'm pretty sure that is the whole intention. Us New Yorkers have been having the same problem as they tried to take away standardized high school entrance exams. Most doubt the intention was to make it fair -- the intention was to make it opaque so admins could pick and choose students rather than leave it up to people studying their way in.
5€ after a quiz about Crypto – easy task – Only Eu and some exceptions
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I can't describe in short how Tree Style Tab improves tab management.

* You can logically organize tabs, very valuable when you researching something, or when you work on multiple related web pages. Say, issue tracker, a PR or two github for this issue, a couple of doc pages related to the code, etc. The beauty of it is that the tabs mostly self-organize based on the opening order.

* You can expand and contract whole subtrees to keep current things in focus, and other things, readily available.

* You can have 30 or 50 tabs and still actually read the captions of the tabs!

* You can bookmark the whole subtree, or move it to a separate window, or close all of its tabs, or refresh all of its tabs, etc.
I haven't used Peertube. What are your thoughts on it?
Because Shopify is announcing they are going Remote First. Remote Work is NOT the same as Work-from-Home. Work-from-Home assumes that the employees still live close the companies headquarters and occasionally go to the office. Remote-first companies DO NOT have headquarters. Your office is anywhere you'd like it to be (it could be at your home, but it could be any other communal space if you prefer so)

I wrote a similar answer on the thread (which suffered from the same issue as here) from Coinbase announcing going remote-first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23257935.
Always around!
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Yes, just like the letter C is generic when naming a programming language.
If it's super simple like that and the throughput isn't massive, use something else you don't need to support, like AWS's SQS.

If you're bad at hosting and need the throughput, there's cloudamqp.

So many options for pub/sub systems so use what works for you.
All those examples show writing revealing an idea, not the text itself appearing.

The structure of the original sentence is just harder to parse at first glance because it's missing words or punctuation, or written in the wrong order.

"Text revealed on Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank" is much easier to read.
A friend of mine claims his HITs (identifying/verifying if a tv show switches to a commercial in a 30 second video) pay about $12/hr for anyone who doesn't get banned for low quality answers.

I've seen that there are a number of tools (usually like browser extensions) which allow you to filter and sort HIT offers for the best use of your time.
>I agree, when It's part of the subject in test. I don't see any reasonable cause for a student to have to know about file types to submit a test, if that test isn't about file types. I don't, for example, expect my doctor to know how to convert an image file because that's not his job.

Understanding the conditions of your test is part of the test. And your doctor doesn't have to know. His toolchain forces him to use certain programs and settings. If anything is set up wrong, your MRI image is just a worthless CD-R.

>This highlights the level of knowledge the users of this application have in this area. The developers should have made it Painfully Clear that uploading directly from an iPhone isn't supported.

They did. The supported file formats were clearly stated. Your issue here is with apple.

>I agree they should learn this stuff, but don't think it should cost them their grade to do so.

It doesn't. They can retake the test without punishment.

>Now, I'm not saying that we shouldn't increase public understanding of these "slightly-technical" topics but I think we're a long way off and we can't expect that understanding just yet.

I disagree. The sooner people learn that renaming a file does not constitute conversion the better. When I was a student 15 years ago it was painfully clear you could not upload the 50MB .tif file your scanner spat out (silly websites at the time would just not take 50MB uploads most of the time...). I think this "slightly-technical" knowledge is something akin to correct spelling and grammar. It's fine if you disagree but, in my opinion (even if that was not the intent of the college board), this is not a bad lesson to teach.
I used to watch some of these IQ debates in college, they can be really good.

The longer format and strong moderation really lend themselves to interesting discussions, and you can learn a lot. One of my favourite debates of this format (though not IQ) is Peter Thiel vs Eric Schmidt (then executive chairman of Google) arguing about whether Google was still capable of innovation [2012]:

https://youtu.be/PsXFwy6gG_4
"every time some wackjob group is screaming at him"

"He took a very moderate and reasonable stance "

No, you don't get to label anyone who disagrees with a risky, existential upheaval as a 'whackjob'.

UBI is a fairly extreme ideology, partly because of the social welfare application, but mostly because of the cost - which its proponents tend to ignore.

We can argue a little bit over what 'free money' means for people, but the case falls flat when someone talks about a program that costs $350 Billion a month, or about 3 Trillion a year. FYI US economy is about 20 Trillion.

UBI is not a discussion about 'free money' or 'welfare' or 'means testing'.

UBI is a discussion about the existential level of wealth transfer or debt creation that comes from the most expensive program ever conceived by any government in the history of civilization.

The UBI discussion really needs to start with 'where do we get $350B a month'?

Because all the nice talking points are otherwise academic.

Yang reminds me a little bit of Marx - really amazing insight and thoughtful understanding of problems ... but solutions that miss the point entirely.
Technically, you only get legal issues if you do anything bad with the stolen passwords, but it'd totally be a PR disaster so they wouldn't do it anyways.
I switched to redis since several years ago for simple task queue solution. For my usage (low to medium traffic at most in corporate environment) redis is easier to use and has very little cpu and ram footprint compared to rabbitmq (note that I only use redis for message queue, thus low memory consumption). Never got any message dropped so far. RabbitMQ uses too much memory right from starting up, not ideal for use in a resource constrained server.

https://redislabs.com/ebook/part-2-core-concepts/chapter-6-a...
I'll say again- I'm a huge Linux fan. I use it daily. I've been using it since Ubuntu Breezy. But my Windows PC has never given me the headaches that the Linux desktop has and continues to have. Today I use Windows and WSL and sleep well at night.
An animated apparatus would be an automaton, so I would translate as "robots for the win."
UC Berkeley alumni here. Don’t know that this is a good thing.

Currently, the UC’s provide a lot of weight to holistic applications. These often favor privileged kids, as they have access to far more opportunities than others. For some, the SAT provided a sort of leveling field in that regard.

Still, it wasn’t perfect, but I fail to see how what they come up with will fix the issue.

Of interest is that all of this is taking place in a state that has banned affirmative action.
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If I wanted to upload raw photos from my camera to a generic file storage site and they all got magically converted to jpeg because the browser thought that was the best image format, I’d be pretty pissed off. Browsers should follow standards.
Bullshit jobs? Like which ones exactly? Who determines which ones are bullshit and which ones are not? We don't just create jobs for nothing. Companies that hire excess employees tend to go out of business or shed workers during a downturn like we're experiencing now.

In the meantime, no, we had a thriving restaurant and travel industry 2 months ago but the fact those people have been laid off or furloughed doesn't mean their jobs were bullshit.

It's never been tried at a macro scale for an extended period of time. You are being recklessly ignorant of the very real economic risks. Spending trillions more on top of the trillions in deficits we already have, but making those deficits permanent and ongoing with no ability to pay down will cause rapid inflation that could very easily evolve to hyper inflation like happened in the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1920s and like has happened more recently in Venezuela and Zimbabwe. We may get there without UBI based on current trajectories, but UBI will just usher it in all the more quickly.
I think there's a strong desire to maintain the victorian view that animals are simply moving plants with just more complex senses & reactions because acknowledging a deeper emotional & intellectual model inside of animals might require meaningfully changing our highly profitable food supply chain as well as social and legal frameworks regarding property
Covid-19 Exposure Notification API for Android
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/coronaviru...
I have heard so many people justify companies locating in the Bay are due to the talent found in the area. While that may be true I have a hard time believing that companies would not be able to recruit in cheaper large cities like Austin, Dallas, Chicago, Philly, Etc if they offered Bay Area money.
Funnily enough, I'm working through this book right now. The writing amuses me to no end, from the anachronism of calling it "the calculus" to the chain rule being referred to as a "dodge".

It goes well with 3blue1brown's calculus series on YouTube, which gives more of a visual intuition for the concepts.
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