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> _Many_ sellers on Amazon.

> This is not true of _all_ the brands carried by Best Buy.

Now you're just playing word games. Both Amazon and Best Buy sell some amount of stuff that could be sold direct to consumer, and some amount of stuff that could not. Even if the proportions are different, I'm not seeing how they differ in principle.
Hi, everyone,

In the past, I always asked by some marketing colleagues to do some database scripts job when they need to change some content on our app or website. That's a boring job, and what you need to do is just mapping their spreadsheets to the database. Since it's not too frequent, I also don't want to make a full content management system for this simple job.

But what if make their spreadsheets a real production database? That could make all of us work less but make things going better. What's more, you even could write back some statistical data like Page View to the spreadsheets, and they could see the feedback clearly and tuning the content.

That's how SheetSQL born.

If you have any idea about it, feel free to leave your comments.
To me it feels different because telecoms, airlines, banks, real estate, and all the other industries have undergone consolidation whereas the technology companies under fire practically invented the markets they are dominating.
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> Rich people may not eat more food, but they may eat food that is shipped in from all over the world. They don't drive dozens of cars at once, but they do have lots of things delivered, and tend not to take public transport as much. They also tend to fly a lot more (which is a big source of emissions), and live in big houses with lots of lights and area to heat and cool.

I think it may be the other way round. Rich people are able to buy locally sourced, sustainable grown groceries, whilst poor people have to settle for cheaper, intensively farmed ones. A good example would be meat. Meat of local, free range animals is way more expensive than meat of intensive animal farming. Same with cloth; poor people aren't able to choose between cheap or ethical/biological fair trade cloth. They have to choose that, which they can afford.
Its a good point you bring up. And I think people don't talk enough about other options that assume you're working or trying to find work, such as increasing minimum wage and unemployment benefits dramatically, instead of UBI. Or like that proposal you brought up.

I think UBI is easier to swallow for some people, cause they'd get it as well, they might be more willing to open up to the idea.

That said, I think the amount you'd get on UBI would balance itself out to what can be given. If everyone becomes lazy bums that rather not work, we'd all see our UBI payments decline year over year until we can't live off it and would need to go back to work. A bit of a simplification, but it's possible that the system thus finds a stable level on its own that works.
> how is that a point in favor of people in the field being unaware of them?

Perhaps they are movtivated readers and deliberately don't read the argument for comprehension. Kind of like what you just did there.
We should have a carbon tax and we should have a UBI, but they don’t really have a lot to do with each other.
True, but the solar system can probably meet all our growth for the indefinite future.
I’m for UBI as long as it is actually universal and EVERYONE receives it and we remove all other government sponsored financial aid and remove all the other supporting institutions. It would mean we no longer need to pay people to decide who receives money and who doesn’t.

I support this because it’s fair for all and much harder to game.

I also support this because it would be a net neutral outcome . Basically people would just get their money back.
You're right. I misread the parent post when they were saying, doesn't "hit the cache, it should be passed on".
That actually seems to be working. I maintain ruby grape, a mid sized project. We get $144/month from Tidelift. As more companies signup for corporate sponsorship the $ amount increases. It’s a pool.
You tax something you want to reduce. Since carbon emissions are associated with most travel and great-tasting food, it sounds like paying people to sit at home, watch TV and drink themselves into depression.
I find it rather hard to take seriously the writings of someone (Karel Donk) who believes that Hitler was good and that the holocaust never happened.

But I'll answer this anyway. UBI is unconditional. If a cash payment depends on the recipient's behaviour, it wouldn't be UBI. The same amount would be paid to everyone of working age.

Why mention China here? Something very similar happens in the UK with benefit sanctions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobseeker%27s_Allowance#Sancti...
I think a lot of that needs the modifier of 'in cities.' There's cheap housing out there but so many jobs require living in or around a city.
So grandma who lives on a lot with a single family home gets a $50,000 annual tax bill to incentivize the building of a 400 unit apartment building?
> There are homes today that don't have internet because of financial reasons.

Homes today don't have internet because of market reasons. Artificial monopolies, lobbying, and decades and billions of dollars spent by the government in failed and incomplete projects have created the current situation. And now without net-neutrality, it's getting even worse. This is all because of policy not finances.

> All UBI would be doing is establishing a floor. Right now, that floor is zero and results in many very unfortunate situations.

The floor today is not zero. Go to a village in Africa, or the Amazon rainforest if you want to see what zero really is.
Not parent, but I have bitbar menus for ssh’ing to digitalocean boxes, connecting to corporate vpn, and displaying uptime information from uptimerobot.
Depends on your product, model, and demographic.

At work our refund rate is like 30% for Japan. Investigating this, it turns out there is a cultural behaviour where converting at a higher rate early and refunding if it's not a good fit is the normal way of doing things.

And in a past life, general 4% refund/return rate is pretty common across most ecom markets.

Not saying apps are in this boat but if you ignore refunds in business you're in for a bad time.
They sold off most of their chemical company to Eastman Chemical about 25 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Chemical_Company
Rethinking extinctions that arise from habitat loss
annihilation signals from the dark matter microhalo around the PBH.

What? Since when do we know enough about dark matter to say something like that?

Even if we did the diameter of a black hole with the mass of a dozen earths is smaller than a beach ball and the density of dark matter in the outer solar system is one AMU for every three cubic centimeters. I'm skeptical we have equipment sensitive enough to detect such a small number of interactions at the distance of 500+ AU.
It's literally “My boss has this attitude. My boss is Taiwanese. Jerry Yang is Taiwanese. Therefore, Jerry Yang has this attitude.”

It is exactly nationality-based stereotyping, based on a single example.
Apple threatens to remove Airbnb from App Store in commission row
Let's say I'm a landlord. If you give my tenant $1000/month, I'll just take it. Their rent is now R+1000 next year.

You could tax the $1000 back away from me, but that doesn't stop the price from rising. It actually just boosts my incentive to take every last cent of the $1000 that I can extract.

I think you all need to think more about the economics. You have to be willing, on rational grounds, to step away from free markets in some other way in order to make this viable.
From a nilhistic point of view, isn't most work already performed by human useless and pointless in both the grand and minor scale? I do agree that my observation even from the Covid lockdown, is that many people's default state to pursue is activities with 'ease or non-challenged' rather than 'difficult '. To me, Covid lockdown proved why UBI was a bad idea.

If humans have free time, they create dance videos on Tik-tok.
kd-trees don't work well for high-dimensional vectors, so when working with embeddings, you typically have to use something else.
Have you tried Thorium?

https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/
Same Tegra that was in Tesla MCU. Off the shelf.
For the same reason people already work unsatisfying jobs to earn money: to earn money
Depends on their group test size and what factors they consider when they decide to group or not. It's why they ask if you're a first responder for example (least they do around here).
Potentially not. If the big giants want to take the role of a publisher, why would a startup do the same?

If the startup isn't interested in moderation, it wouldn't need a huge staff.
Ugh. This factoid is now stuck in a bunch of memories though, and they're swear it's true the next time it gets debated.
If you look hard enough, you'll find evidence of what you want. Life on Europa or Enceladus seems like a far shot but relatively possible. Pluto feels like an entirely different league.

This article seems to point more at our obsession with finding life than anything else.
Gosh, you're right. How could I be so stupid? I can see now these taxpayer-funded investigations are a massive waste of resources and time. Can you tell the lawyers to drop it? Once they hear your Best Buy argument, I am sure they will see the light.
Or a userbase that for some reason dislikes and abuses you. Maybe you have made enemies because of some random political statemant. A large enough group could ruin you.
10 reasons why real estate prices are going up:

1) Home buyers are more likely to be younger people and older people are more likely to be home sellers. Younger people (buyers) are more likely to be active now and willing to move.

2) People are rethinking the small studio apartment they were quarantined in and are looking for better or larger places to WFH in.

3) Money is usually a chief concern for sellers but with the mortgage forbearance and deferral options why would anyone bother to sell their appreciating asset that they can keep and live almost for free in?

4) Interest rates dropped to near 0% and will remain there for about 2 years. That substantially boosted home prices.

5) Some people living in apartments felt that it was hard to social distance there so they bought a house with land and separation.

6) Substantially more free time to browse houses for some people now!

7) The inflation rate is increasing. Fed target is to overshoot 2% to get to 3% or more annual inflation.

8) Old people aren’t interested in moving out to nursing homes and end-of-life care facilities now where cases are perceived to be more concentrated and undesirable.

9) The Census is happening this year and the government would prefer if people move around less to keep their numbers accurate.

10) Homes containing unevictable tenants can’t be freed up for the housing market to consume. Even all the bad tenants that mistreat and mishandle their landlord’s rental homes get to keep mishandling their home while you have to keep looking for an unoccupied affordable home.

There is a massive shortage of homes in certain parts of this country so existing homes keep getting bid up and up. Even if some of these reasons disappear, the others will still remain.

On the first home I offered 5k over asking price when there were 10 other offers and was bid out by 1 other guy. The second home I offered 10k over asking price and narrowly beat out the 10 other offers. With that many offers, the housing supply could double in my area and housing prices would still keep going up. It’s a very hot market and I don’t see it shifting anytime soon. Not at least until we see the Momths of Inventory metric (which is a leading indicator for home price direction) increase to over 6 months and that might not happen until next year or beyond.
And even if it does, could it be atmospheric/captured carbon instead?
I wonder if we might be underestimating just how much rich people can burn carbon though. A 1-hour speed boat run with 2 marine V8 engines chugging at it is probably one person's gas consumption for a month. Who knows how much all those private jets burn. All those rooms in the mansions, that need to be kept at some temperature level. You could probably sell it just by noting that Larry Ellison burns 50x as much carbon as one of the Mexican laborers who trims the lawn and rides back home on his bike.

In any case, there's probably some math / clamping functions you could use to incentivize the general population into doing their part, and that we don't end up in a perverse situation where carbon-burning is incentivized through fuel subsidies. And direct funding into battery recycling. Top-to-bottom this strikes me as a bunch of technology and math problems, which we can do.
I was on approx 60k eur in Amsterdam a few years ago with 3 years experience
I mean America isn't in a place to talk these days, or as the Fed would say "brrrrrrrrrrr"
The difference is the same as having $0 and having $20,000 in monopoly dollars.

The number printed on the notes is irrelevant, the only thing that matters is what you can get with them, and if an apple costs 20,000 monetary units because there is so much money in the system (as it does in many countries) then everything else readjusts to match those levels.
I work for a fintech startup. I'd be very surprised if we had to report emissions. Yet, we are definitely a method for the rich to get richer through investments. And we currently benefit from a particular kind of carbon footprint - somewhat indirectly.
I don't think they should pay more than they owe, and I'm not sure why you interpreted it that way. (Though I have paid more than I'm required to sometimes because of the pain of dealing with records and filing. Struggle with it until it gets to an acceptable level, then just pay to be done with it).

But Gates and Buffett both say that they SHOULD be paying more in taxes - but they don't. So what they're really saying is, all those other guys (the "well off") should pay more, and then they'd pay more, too.

This supports the original poster's contention that the billionaires would seek that tax break (for "fairness") even if they didn't need it.
No I say this because if someone says solar is impractical in NYC and but nuclear somewhere else is, the comparison does not make any sense.
Ask HN: How do you know what to learn next in your career?
Do you guys have a system to learn new things related to your field?

At university/ college, they build a curriculum around gaining foundational knowledge and then branching off into different subdomains.

How do you know what/ when to learn next in your career?
I don't see them as dealbreakers for a sufficiently well-resourced organisation. After all, I wanted to pursue a related model for websites, so I wanted them to be surmountable. But for a startup they would be high barriers, especially since most software folks have never even heard of trusts.

Mind you I had an advantage in that my scheme, payment and usage were tightly linked. I had a protocol that could prove a user had visited a given website, without needing to reveal that user's identity to the website and without the ability for the user to falsify visits. But with opensource software there's currently no good way to verify usage, there's no expensive signal that the code is being consumed. All that's left are cheap signals, easily gamed, like github stars.

At $DAYJOB I've pitched a concept of universal asset accounting which would actually make such a consumption signal possible in theory. For inspiration I was looking to inventory accounting and cost accounting, particularly resource consumption accounting.
Couldn't the userbase be more to blame than Twitter?

Pew Research says that "Twitter users [are] more likely to be Democrats" [1]. Also, 80% of all Tweets mentioning national politics were apparently made by users who "strongly disapprove" of Trump [2]. That provides a potential explanation for why comments and trending tweets may "favor Democrat issues" -- supposing that even is the case.

I can't seem to find any reputable articles or evidence regarding the "trending tweets" political breakdown and "campaign contributions by the staff of Twitter" -- could we be pointed to some sources?

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...
[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/10/23/national-pol...
A lot of the people objecting also think someday they're going to be a baron of industry who needs income incentives to keep workers toiling away for them.
> There's no GPU shader compiler on the system, all of the games' shaders are compiled for this exact GPU micro revision. There's a lot of other ways that the games are tied specifically to this SoC.

You're missing the point. If they can port a third party x86 game using a notoriously janky decades old game engine to ARM then they can easily move to using a different SoC if need be.

> That's cool and all. I was correcting your specific assertion that the switch is Japanese hardware.

You were being pedantic about what is and isn't hardware engineering. You can't just sell a bare PCB with a SoC on it.
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I guess what I would say is that "best in class" clearly isn't good enough given the results and the environment in which these decisions are made. Looking at the results, I'd say it's not working. Either we need to turn up the dials, regardless of what everyone else is doing, or find some new dials, but the status quo won't do.
The funny thing is, it's not even learning. It just is using the context as information about what is wanted.
A fantastic sports talk radio station in Dallas/Ft Worth is https://www.theticket.com/. They have a great mix of current events, random topics, funny bits and local sports. You can easily listen to their stream using the SportsDay Talk app. The morning show from 5:30 - 10:00 is the best.
> At first, my stress levels were high because daycares were shut down and I was panicking about my business. When I accepted the fate of my business, I chilled out and just hung out with my kids.

You might be in the minority of people with mature enough emotional response and ability to deal with stress.

What would happen if you had an existing alcohol/opiate/etc addiction? It seems that UBI provides few precautions from money flowing towards addictions and relies on everybody being at their best behavior and vice sector not expanding to capture that disposable income.
So exactly how does a normal person get Android 10 working on S2? Can they simply get an over the air upgrade directly from Samsung?
Higher standard of living.

There is nothing stopping you from working 10 hours a week and living like a person in the 1920’s. Local doctor who will put a $1 poultice on your skin cancer, no AC, no car, 10 to a house.
Are we still allowed full verbal use of the spectrum, or should we say "singularity" here?

Asking for Nathan Poe.
Zuckerberg did what you are implying. He said what Congress wants to hear by saying Facebook's business model isn't based on Cookies. He is banking on Congress' poor track record of proving perjury and the law enforcement acting on it.

Other CEOs gave truthful answers, which is ... out of 10s of thousands of data points, I can't give you a blanket yes or no without commiting perjury.
LuaJIT isn't really comparable. Filip touched on why the tracing compilers struggle: tail duplication. Avoiding tail duplication means having heuristics which keep traces short which means limiting your optimization scope.

You can see an example of working around the limited optimization scope by templating Lua here: https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT-test-cleanup/blob/master/be...

This makes some variables which would otherwise have to be loaded at the start of the trace into constants in the recorded trace. A more complex compiler can just do the same optimizations without the fuckaround.
I really like the e-book template used for the rust book.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch01-01-installation.html
You may find the recent RAPIDS open source community GPU stack benchmark on TPCx-BB relevant, where they beat out the rest of the tools at something like 2x cheaper hw for 44x faster. It's an interesting industry benchmark b/c requires handling diverse use cases and out-of-core optimizations (eg, 1TB going through a 16GB GPU, and combo of matrix, tables, etc), so just say BlazingSQL or cuML won't really work, but all together covered it.
This is really powerful, there are many profitable AI startups that could be built using this technology. I am almost mad that its on the HN front page
On the other hand, there's me. I hate not working. I would appreciate a UBI, as it would let me get out of a not so great place, and let me focus on working on what I like to do, but I would definitely still be doing useful work.
I remember a company doing this some time ago.

You have an account, filled with a monthly recurring amount, what ever amount that is. Then you click these "contribute" buttons, placed by the open source project webmasters in their pages.

Each click of button registers that project to your account and the site distributes your monthly amount among those registered projects.

Not able to recollect the name of the company though. Spreadrr, or Poolr or something.

Edit: Another comment got it. It's Flattr
Planet X and the Annunaki. I really enjoy some of those 'out there' outer space/alien documentary shows because even if untrue, they expand my mind with ideas. Sort of the mind expansion of getting "high", without the substance part.

They have an episode on Planet X and Annunaki and predict a black hole is Planet X.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Annunaki/dp/B07JW478HG/ref=sr_1_1...
its hung about out there for a few millennia, I doubt it's going to be a problem for us in a the entire lifespan of the human race...
> we're doing something valuable to society because someone in society is willing to pay for it

This is where you are completely wrong. I'm not even going to bother explaining, because there are too many obvious counter-examples.
Funding UBI isn't the issue. A sovereign currency issuer can literally create money out of thin air, taxes aren't necessary. The only real limiting factor is a collapse in productive capacity and the attendant inflation. The problem with paying people to do nothing is that it directly reduces productivity because hey why work if you can get just as much money doing nothing? Arguably most jobs today aren't really productive anyhow though. If 80% of HR Business Professionals were instead paid to watch Netflix and look at Facebook, what would change?

This is something a lot of people just don't understand. Our entire monetary system isn't predicated on exchange or store of value like they teach you in school, it's a system of coercion. That sounds ugly, but it's observably true. Taxes, in particular property and income taxes, impose a requirement on everyone to participate in the state's ledger game. The question becomes is that coercion eucivic or not? A society without coercion isn't an option. Nature abhors a vacuum, and human societies abhor a power vacuum. Given our present level of technology, the alternative to monetary coercion is closer to gulags and plantations than it is to Star Trek.

The coercive aspect of monetization is perhaps most clearly seen in the example of imperial British Kenya. When the Brits rolled in they wanted the local to work in the mines. Local Kenyans, quite reasonably, said screw that we'd rather not. The Brits then imposed a head tax on every Kenyan adult payable in Pounds Sterling. And, in that economy, the only way to get Pounds Sterling was working for the British government. So maybe you could get a job as some kind of functionary, but the vast majority of jobs were, you guessed it, working in the mines. In this way the sovereign currency issuer was able to coerce the behavior it wanted, namely the dirty, dangerous and unpleasant work of mining, without any overt violence.