skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Search online for "trust amazon poll" and look at the results. People appear to have an overwhelmingly favorable opinion of Amazon.

For example, look at The Verge Tech Survey 2020. 91% of those surveyed had a favorable opinion of the company, and 70% felt they had a positive impact on society. Most of the other polls have similar results.
Technological ineptitude is something that is utterly reckless to take for granted. First, the internet was free and for nerds. Then companies took notice and conquered it. Now governments are coming too. The only thing that governments know how to do, by definition, is to dominate territory and the internet is the new frontier
My account is a five year old business account. My most recent refund I issued was Aug 2019. A line item on the PayPal statement was called "Fee Reversal" for $12.46 USD

However, a read of their current policy shows it's no longer the case - so I'll likely get dinged on my next refund.
Slight aside: Poor people aren't trying to maximize profits. They are trying to minimize risk.

It's a small quibble, but it helps explain the different behavior of the wealthy and the poor. More importantly, it explains the mindset that changes with wealth.

Bret Devereaux of the acoup blog had a good piece on this in reference to medieval farming estates of lesser nobles and the abject poor [0]:

"I led in with all of that risk and vulnerability because without it just about nothing these farmers do makes a lot of sense; once you understand that they are managing risk, everything falls into place.

Most modern folks think in terms of profit maximization; we take for granted that we will still be alive tomorrow and instead ask how we can maximize how much money we have then (this is, admittedly, a lot less true for the least fortunate among us). We thus tend to favor efficient systems, even if they are vulnerable. From this perspective, ancient farmers – as we’ll see – look very silly, but this is a trap, albeit one that even some very august ancient scholars have fallen into. These are not irrational, unthinking people; they are poor, not stupid – those are not the same things.

But because these households wobble on the edge of disaster continually, that changes the calculus. These small subsistence farmers generally seek to minimize risk, rather than maximize profits. After all, improving yields by 5% doesn’t mean much if everyone starves to death in the third year because of a tail-risk that wasn’t mitigated. Moreover, for most of these farmers, working harder and farming more generally doesn’t offer a route out of the small farming class – these societies typically lack that kind of mobility (and also generally lack the massive wealth-creation potential of industrial power which powers that kind of mobility). Consequently, there is little gain to taking risks and much to lose. So as we’ll see, these farmers generally sacrifice efficiency for greater margins of safety, every time."

[0] https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...
Diablo is the ur-ARPG on pc, and it doesn't have any choices to speak of; the story is completely on rails.
Syntax changes of this magnitude would make the Python 3 migration timeline look quick and painless.
Weight loss is in our head
Isn't this the guy that runs delicious's excellent successor Pinboard.io ?? I have been using pinboard ever since adn it's been a great service.
There's a character limit on HN titles.
68K single board computers are fun. Here's the one I did in college in 1982 [1][2]. 6 MHz 68K (I think). 4K 16-bit words of EEPROM. 1K 16-bit words of static RAM. Two RS-232 ports.

The way the class worked was that they would supply the processor, and I think they may have also supplied the RAM, but everything else you were on your own for. Anything you see in those photos that makes you wonder "Why the heck did he use that!?" probably has the answer "It was cheap".

That's why it is on an S-100 bus prototyping card--I found that at a surplus store. That's why the reset button says "CLR"--the Caltech EE stockroom had for some inexplicable reason a box full of cheap buttons from some old calculator. That's why the power connector is weird--found that and its mate at the same surplus store I found a power supply.

I put a nice feature in the RS-232 connections. Note that the cable between the RS-232 connectors and the board plugs into an ordinary DIP socket, which is not a keyed connector. The way it is wired up is that it works both ways, but one of the ways is like using a null modem.

There was one very amusing incident when I was writing software for it. The 68K cross assembler ran on Caltech's IBM 370. There was some HP workstation in the lab that you could enter your code on and it could submit it to the 370 for assembly and retrieve the output.

The HP workstation was a few years old, and no one really knew much about it. It ran some weird OS and nobody had bothered to learn much about it--they just all knew enough to edit, submit stuff to the 370, and do simple file manipulation.

The thing was full of several years accumulated projects from students, research code from professors, and who knows what else, so space was tight and no one really knew what was safe to delete.

One day I'm using it to submit my code to the assembler, and I notice that in a lot of the file command there was some letter or digit (I forget which) that you had to include but didn't seem to have an obvious purpose.

So I did the obvious thing--I tried one of the commands but with that letter or digit incremented.

It turned out that was the drive specifier, and I was now using the second drive in the workstation--a drive that nobody else knew it had and was completely empty. They had been struggling with lack of free space on this thing for years, and all that time there was a second drive in it just sitting there empty!

[1] https://i.imgur.com/Ts9wcfW.png

[2] https://i.imgur.com/3D4rvdC.jpg
Bus conflict damage is largely a myth, at least for modern ICs. Output drivers are a lot more robust than you think. More likely the extra current will cause a reset or glitch if the power supply circuitry/decoupling can't keep up with the current spike.
ex-AWS employee here. I worked in one of the managed services (can't say which one because it might reveal my identity). In Managed services, instances are created in AWS VPC so employees have access to underlying VM.

We have used that capability to get stats about the type of customer workloads, and devised feature products based on that.
It seems like calculators exist for the features they don't support more than the features they do support.
It's his personal observation that Jerry Yang is the same nationality as his manager, and therefore thinks the same way.
It's "communism 2.0" if you've never read Marxist/communist texts and take the most superficial, lazy view of what people think communism is.

And all of this defiantly ignores the enormous impacts of globalization and automation on the "getting better" metric.
Somebody needs to file a JUICY class action against Apple - - and also make Tim Cook sweat at the Judiciary meetings in DC by dragging him through the red hot coals on this one . . .
I remember Bill Withers.

https://jango-index.ml/?artist=Bill+Withers
As someone in their mid-twenties, I can confirm. Since a lot of users don't have iPhone's/iMessage, and/or just don't use Facebook/Messenger that much, it's become a go-to messaging platform for those that don't seek out the more dedicated ones like Whatsapp, at least in my non-technical circles. I'm in several group chats that all organically cultivated on Snapchat in the past couple years.

Besides that, they've built out their first-party content platform pretty well, which I assume is what's driving their advertising growth, and (anecdotally) is shared in-app relatively frequently, although I've recognized some reposting/reformatting of said video content from Youtube or other sources, e.g. WatchMojo.
The problem with OSS funding is that it becomes a popularity contest. There need to be a model that is not zero sum.
Keynesianism 2.0
Here’s a metric:
Total number of slaves.

Here’s another: the suicide rate for Americans aged 15 to 24 years old

Or: Lung cancer incidence in India.
I read three volumes of Das Kapital if that counts?

Random side note: Here is a snippet from a Lincoln speech -> https://pastebin.com/quzZqbiK
Highly recommended to check out the pg_repack extension for this situation. CLUSTER requires an access exclusive lock, preventing anything from reading or writing the table during the cluster operation. pg_repack works around this by creating new tables with your data, clustering those, recording/replaying all of the transactions that happened on the original tables during that time, and then renaming everything (something along those lines). Very noticeable speed improvement and reduction in read loads when I did it last.
In the event we did go socialist, UBI would be a much more effective way to allocate goods and services than a centrally managed economy. Let people determine what they need most, and use 'credits' to get it -- save the paperwork for less ordinary needs / circumstances.

That said, I prefer capitalism.
And you still don't know what Marxism actually entails? Impressive.
Isn’t that the entire point of vaccines though. To essentially give a small amount of exposure to your immune system so that it

A) knows how to deal with the pathogen specifically

B) doesn’t go wild and kill the host in its own right whilst trying to figure out how to properly deal with the pathogen

My understanding is that without exposure you body kinda throws a lot of different types of t-cells at the issue. Once it kinda knows how to handle it, it just throws the specific variant of t-cells needed.
One of my client charged $100k+ for their SaaS product. It simply guided clients to setup their IT budgets. They had 10s of customers. The value this software provided was worth it to the right customer.
The cost of some chain lube, grease, a citrus based bike cleaner and a couple of brushes should total less that $50/60 (they often come in bundles) and will keep you covered until they run out (approx 8-12 months, less for the chain lube).

I clean and re-lube my road bike when it gets dirty or starts making noise (literally once every 3-4 months), and it gets ridden 3-5 days a week.
I clean and re-lube my mountain bike slightly more frequently because it gets far dirtier and gets ridden far harder - usually if it starts making noises, or anything feels (too) gritty or it's just too dirty. Once a month it usually gets a quick clean.

All in all, it's a fairly minor amount of time, money and energy.

As for component wear, I'm going to disagree with the OP - my friends and I have found that better components _tend_ to last longer, up until the point of diminishing returns (race level componentry). For example SRAM GX would be preferable over NX/SX for quality and lifetime.
Mkultra
(before anyone gets their pitchfork, this is a jest in reference to the same book the queue I was replying to comes from, where an AI becomes God)
You've never had a NoMethodError in Ruby?
You have to trust that an unbroken line of honest surveillance users will exist at all points in government and business, decade after decade, across all political parties and industries. How exactly is that going to happen when even convenience store chains are recklessly using ai driven mass surveillance now?
A proposal for the first crewed interstellar spacecraft
Michael Arrington, author of the article, concludes:

> But the fact that this is coming from Odeo makes me wonder – what is this company doing to make their core offering compelling? How do their shareholders feel about side projects like Twttr when their primary product line is, besides the excellent design, a total snoozer?

Well, Michael, you might be smart, but you were quite wrong on this one. TWTR is currently a $29B company.
No, a land value tax is Capitalism 2.0 - deriving tax revenues from people who don't work instead of people who do work.
What tortured definition of 'socialist' includes a privately owned and operated market economy?
Two Women Charged in Attack on Democratic Wisconsin State Senator
Totally agreed on the reduced cruft - when I was modifying the codebase I felt quite comfortable with the code and it's readability. Despite it being someone else's code, it was understandable and intuitive and I felt at home with it. I could see what to patch and edit, and it worked as expected without surprises. Important for something as critical as a bootloader to use principle of least astonishment.

I only picked up on tamper resistance based on the GP as I was wondering if I missed something and ended up patching unnecessarily or was misunderstanding something. It's also possible I'm using a stricter definition of tampering, as in my project I considered removing the SSD and modifying the ESP as being "in scope". I recognise for many that's not in scope, and where you fall back to relying on FDE to prevent booting the system anyway.
The UBI is also basically the welfare system most countries have without the expense and pain of trying to find the "cheaters" (See Australia's RoboDebt).

Its still capitalism and you still benefit from seeking a higher paying job but once most jobs have been automated it lets people easily train for better jobs without having to constantly report back to some defective government department and randomly getting their payments cut off.
I can get paid to write code nobody uses?! Sign me up!

Zero users and loving it!
Hey, this is really cool. I wonder if you can give it some meta thinking prompts and see how it reacts?

Q: How do you sporgle a morgle?

A: (The question doesn't make sense. Why are they asking this? Because I'm a computer and they are testing me.) Are you f'ing turing testing me?

EDIT

Q: How many rainbows does it take to jump from Hawaii to seventeen?

A: (They just did it again.) Fxxx off.
I can’t help but think that UBI would distort job markets. Let’s pick an example of a “sucky job” (and I say this as just an example, I realize these guys work hard and are vital). A garbage man. He get’s paid $42k a year because they have to find people who would be willing to do this sucky job and need to pay higher than minimum wage to do so. At some point of income, people would be willing to accept the suckiness.
Now let’s throw UBI into the world. Everyone is getting $2k a month. Now a garbage man says “I’m not gonna be a garbage man anymore, I can do something I love now, like a music teacher that pays $30k”. Now we have no garbage man and the wage would need to increase to find new people. To cover that, taxes go up. Higher taxes are a regressive solution to giving people more money.
Won’t it just be negated with increased cost of living? If people get 1000 a month free, you better believe that rent starts at 1000.

The free money will never do what it’s supposed to do in the long run. It’s better to just give the actual service for free (healthcare, college, transportation).
> The best Amazon can do is ensure brand managers don't have access to this data

This is easier said than done. Data exists in multiple places. It transforms in the form of reports and presentations. Policing this is expensive, which is why it almost only happens under regulatory pressure.
Yep! And they're pretty magical. Beyond materializing joins, you can use COUNT_BIG to greatly speed up common DISTINCT queries and the two row trick[1] to enforce complex constraints.

[1] https://spaghettidba.com/2011/08/03/enforcing-complex-constr...
Certainly true in France,Sweden, and Japan in my experience. I had a Nokia (of course) GSM phone and a PHS (DOCOMO) phone in Japan.
You really think only East Germans had issues with espionage?
That’s a really regressive tax and would punish poor people, who have a much greater portion of their net worth tied up on land than a rich person.
Redirected funding to parents to hire their own teachers, or enabled teachers to teach a group of say, 20 students, in a privately provided location to safely continue teaching. The massive population that makes up a school simply doesn’t work in a pandemic, but teachers unions and the institution of public school is too rigid to change whatsoever. They would rather hurt children than adapt, it’s absolutely pathetic and immoral if not evil.
Very creative！
Pretty much every language I've learned, I've learned on my own and only possibly later gotten paid for using.

For example, I picked up Elixir (which I currently make money using) by rewriting a Rails app into Phoenix four years ago. That app never made me any money, but it did provide a great motivation for learning Elixir!

Similarly, I'm learning Rust now. I'm going through books and videos, building toy projects and slowly picking it up. I've never been paid to write Rust, but that will likely change in the future.

Other languages, like Racket and 8088 assembly I've never been paid to write and likely never will but I don't regret exploring them a bit.
The point is that the type of a local variable can almost always be inferred based on what it’s assigned to.
Security isn't in Zoom's culture or DNA. It's not how they think, so they'll keep having issues.
most of the middle eastern countries have UBI. Hasnt really done anything for them
And it will obviously never just sit at $1000.

There will be a riot every other week to change the UBI payments.

"Too high!"
"Too low!"
This seems like something an even mildly competent lawyer could get you off of. If a chemical is solid at room temperature, it definitely cannot be a liquid at 100% concentration.
Several years later, Wave was especially disappointing to me: It was Slack, before Slack was a thing. They just didn't know how to market Wave, so no one knew why it was useful.

If Wave was first released a couple years later, with identical functionality, I think it would've done well.
It is evidently not a solved problem. Why would large financial services companies be working on these things we're talking about if that were the case?

Do you know what solves the problem of checking every type of every thing you want to use before you use it, where the checks don't incur any performance penalty at runtime? Static type checkers!

Modern compilers usually don't even require any explicit type declarations, as they can infer at assignment. So they provide more safety for less code than your examples.
Not if you don’t understand it.
UBI frees people from economic coercion.

poverty is like having a gun to your head. you do what you’ve gotta do.

if salaries for essential, dirty jobs must go up, i am all for it.
At least where I'm from, poor people typically don't own land. They rent. I guess the argument can be made that the landlords would put the rent up to compensate.
Thats interesting. Its profound because it is profound, or because it replaced the nouns and verbs. Like, if you replace nouns of an existing sentences from a book on astronomy and use it in your regular conversation, wouldn't it sound profound? (like, saying to someone, hey one day you will explode like a supernova, but it will take time.)
Or you just need to pay more for garbage disposal. In Zurich for example you pay per bag of garbage.
I'm looking forward to that :)
For the price of that phone I could buy 50 second hand android phones that would work much better. I also haven't seen any evidence that purism will be selling replacement parts or that parts will be available in 3+ years when they are needed.
The next MacBook may be Apple's cheapest laptop in years
GDP is a bad metric. The planet does not have unlimited resources to fuel unlimited growth.
Agreed. People get caught up in this binary capitalism xor socialism see saw, and device the side based on their own personal tipping point.

UBI can exist in a capitalist structure. It can exist in another structure. It is not mutually exclusive to capitalism.

And when the day comes where job demand far exceeds supply, it becomes an inevitability.
This is true of almost all donations to all organizations, IMO. That's why I like Give Directly. The recipient is the best judge of what they need. There are things that specialist organizations with economies of scale can do, but by far no-strings-attached cash donations are better than most.
This is far less tyrannical than what people live under in the rest of China. Imagine it
Small business owner here...I use Wave for accounting. They absolutely do refund the fee. Shame on the processors who don't refund it, and shame on those who hasn't been doing that since the beginning (Strip, Paypal...) because they are knowingly sticking it to small business owners. I've used Wave for 4.5+ years and this is how I've known it.

"Regardless of the type of payment you received, the full amount that the client paid will be refunded to the client by clicking on the refund button at the bottom right-hand corner of the transaction details."

https://support.waveapps.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004056523-...
That would expose confidential trade secrets and competitive intelligence. It'd also jeopardize their internal security posture to release that information publicly.

I don't buy it, but I imagine that'd be the excuse.
> Even the most hardcore anti-capitalists have to give respect to how the combination of capitalism and technology has worked to lift most of the world out poverty and provided us with the security and comfort only kings enjoyed just a few century’s ago.

no, we fucking don't.
Same reason regular companies cannot be banks in many countries , you would be able to give loans unfairly to your other business even if they are not credit worthy. It is wrong whether it is Best Buy or Amazon to be both marketplace and seller.

Even if the controls were somewhat weak in practice, his inability to commit to that even on paper is damning.
It can be a land value tax with a progressive rate. And yah as other said, poor people don't own land anyways. Now the middle class would hate this.
For the 30% of Americans who rent it's not any of their net worth. But I agree it's weird to pick real estate as the only asset class. Introduce a progressive wealth tax and eliminate capital gains taxes in favor of taxing all income at one rate.
Please use the original headline, it's much better.
Fortunately, the first sentence says it all, before the pay wall hits.
Could you please share the prompt you used for these responses? I'd love to play around with them myself!
I've had to make myself one for the Amiga 500.

Just IPL lines -> diodes -> switch -> GND.

The IPL lines can be found on CPU socket, Paula socket and left expansion port.
If I have to pay higher taxes but it means everyone is working in a job they love that seems like a worthwhile trade.
I'm still trying to make sense of this announcement. With a lack of type annotation in the Ruby core, I chose to build off YARD to make gradual type safety work. Now I don't know if there will be a standard that supports type safety or if I should continue down the path I'm already following. Help me, Ruby core developers. You're my only hope.

(edit: I should have explained that I'm talking about the type checking features I'm developing in Solargraph: https://solargraph.org/guides/type-checking)
True, and I had not considered that. I like the idea of growing more trees though.
> Now we have no garbage man and the wage would need to increase to find new people. To cover that, taxes go up.

You're taking this as a given. Why? Remember that we are living in a time of record profits for many industries.
No no you don't understand, people working of their own volition is distortion of the job market.
What was your take?