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They indeed can be. When wrapped properly... I liked working on that board once it was brought up but the first two weeks seemed to last forever with minimal progress. Wire wrapped boards critically rely on the tension of the wire during the wrapping to make good metallic contact in such a way that oxidization can't make the connections degrade.

The big advantage over soldering in my view is that you an 'unwrap' without damage to the pins in case of errors. If you do that with a closely populated board that has wires that have been soldered you will likely cause some damage.
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The issue here is really that you can't get the kids excited about software unless it does something in the real world.
Or it just says something about confirmation bias.
That is what is meant by "guaranteeing". They way you interpret the term nothing ever and anywhere could be truly guaranteed and the term becomes useless.
No, you would not need NOT gates, you'd just have the chip appear at the different spot. They're address lines, after all.
They already are. It's not something that's changing because of UBI. And if it's truly a UBI, then it will be a lot harder to deny people that basic income than it currently is with welfare and social security.
I think that’s a flawed analogy.

Reading and writing are necessary to participate in society (such as read and sign contracts), that’s not the case for writing software.
UBI wouldn't solve this in the current US system, and it's already a solved problem in Europe.
Are you sure that impression doesn't come from the fact things that aren't soundbites don't end up in front of you?

As I only spend 1 minute a day on political news, there's a lot of scope for politicians to do non-soundbite things and me not to hear about it.
> People are dependent on the state anyway.

I'm not advocating for no state at all. But there's a difference between a state that protects your rights and defends your country and one that provides everything for all. That's not at all the same level of dependency we are talking about.
Size of the object doesn’t matter. Gravitational force depends on its mass and how far away you are from the black hole. Standing on a shell ~6300 km above a black hole with the mass of the Earth is equivalent to standing on the Earth itself.
Corporations are also theoretically accountable - you don't have to buy an iPhone if you don't like what Apple is doing. Are there clear practical limitations to how customers can exert pressure on corporations that way? Limitations that render it largely theoretical? Sure! (Same with elections.)
What happens if the transaction is fraudulent?
I've never seen this happen on the time-scales that a CPU runs at. Such short time shorts would cause a local voltage drop but nothing you could not handle with a small cap.

Have you actually ever fried a chip because of a bus conflict?
It's a silly thing to do. Diablo copies a lot from roguelikes. In fact, it is considered the first commercial roguelike.

"Diablo by Blizzard is considered by many to be a commercial roguelike, a roguelike that was graphical and real-time. Developers Brevik and Schaefer had in mind a graphic version of the "old Unix-based games". Eight months into development, the decision was made to make the game real-time as opposed to turn-based. Diablo is by all accounts a Roguelike, but with graphics and real-time gameplay."

http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=D...
> well crafted desktop applications written in any decent systems programming language or even interpreted languages (not speaking of Javascript).

These generally cost more money to develop/require ITs permission to be installed/get features slower.
how about US is USSR 2.0.
law is replaced with political views, ideas to improve economy been replaced by some social dreams.
Seriously I can only here socialist debates among democrats. Not trying to create jobs, bring talents to country to support those rose dreams.
Nah that's to boring.
By automating and modernizing construction business you can have lots of government money. US infrastructure is lagging behind any fist world countries. Let small businesses innovate and you'll find so many people not depend and simply waiting.
Instead you have light drugs allowed from one side, heavy opioid epidemic from second and approaching universal income from another and country still rulling by big business interested not to innovate but keep rates expensive.
To me it sounds like something so dangerous but nobody cares.

Are you really that socialistic drunk not to see that in current reality people just jump into drugs world with passive people happy to be on a basic income.
I came here for this. What a way to start an article with a foregone conclusion.

This is quite typical of discussions on this matter: Every discussion of "where to go from here" immediately asserts that "where we are is great!" which often leads to conclusions of the kind "therefore we should proceed in the same direction, but with this one weird trick."
This is a crock of shit. You can vote for which style of shoes will succeed this spring very successfully. Virtually everything else more complicated is a crap shoot. Anything systemic requires the people actually use all the tools at hand including government.
So, has anyone tried to get the glasses to use servers other than Google's?
That’s so untrue. Kids love creating logical gates in Minecraft.

Show a kid how to create a small game and they quickly fall in love with software.
To be blunt, if that's your impression then you don't know how to use photoshop. If you did you'd understand the vast and extreme differences in capabilities.

I don't have a good easy analogy to make but the two pieces of software, Photoshop and gIMP are not remotely in the same league.
> Surprised we haven't had a social network where the gimmick is just high quality photo and video that actually looks as good once it's uploaded as it did on your monitor.

Isn't Flickr kind of doing that? And there's https://www.smugmug.com/ as well.
> Unfortunately, airlines avoid taxes on aviation fuel because of the Chicago Convention. It could be difficult to enforce a carbon tax on fuel for international flights.

Why can't airports be taxed based on the CO2 generated by planes landing at them? The airport can recover this from the airlines however it wants, including incentivizing lower polluting planes by charging lower landing fees.
That works as long as you to know the email you signed up with and have forgotten the password. But what if it's the other way round?

I'd imagine most web savvy people these days have several email addresses and lots of us will use disposable emails or tricks like adding '+something' to our emails when we sign up.

I've recently run into this problem on a couple of sites [I'm thinking Trustpilot and Mastodon but could be wrong], whereby my password manager had saved my login name and password but, when I returned to the site, it wanted me to login with my email address and password. [inconsistent naming of form fields twixt registration screen and login screen, no doubt].

I couldn't remember which of my half dozen or so email addresses or "+"-added variations of them I'd used, or if I'd used a disposable email like Mailinator to sign up. So I clicked on the "forgot login" link --which then asked enter my account email address, in order to be sent a password reset link!
> Hence why international coordinated action (all countries pricing carbon) is the best option.

Also not going to happen
One cat get lots of wheels, cheap motors, ultrasonic sensors and fake Arduinos for 129$. Though mummy with solder iron doesn’t look look that sexy as in current photo.

Edit: I was thinking about this problem recently. There is LEGO camp with their educational robots. Sets with power functions are great for the start.
Then there are these educational toys like in the article. And I don’t believe in this at all. They will get boring soon and there is no way for upgrades.
There are educational microcomputers like micro:bit. I think they are great if they were used in schools, but that part of education is parental topic in most countries.
And there is dyi corner, I have electronics lab at home. I built a simple Arduino based vehicle with ultrasonic sensor that turned left if encountered obstacle 50 cm away. It was most popular toy for weeks! Despite duct tape and lack of aesthetics.
The best estimate as to how much carbon the product released times the price of carbon of course. I'd guess the estimates would be on the high side to encourage domestic production.
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I am busy in the field of fractal arithmetic and quantum logic. Thanks to an incompetent advisor I was dis-advised to follow an academic schooling and missed the boat. With UBI I would have finished the basics of these two fields long ago and published them for the good of science releasing a trove of new techniques, insights, algorithms and hardware designs. Now I have to scavenge for work and waste my time.
They still have some selection criteria for internships. It's not like they take the first 100 students at random so you're left with the same issue. You have to narrow the selection. That likely includes interviews.
We could. But we're not.
Comparing UBI to the welfare system, UBI's upsides:

U1. Simple to administer
U2. Efficient spending since the UBI beneficiary has the most information about what he/she needs

But downsides:

D1. Will inflate cost of everything, including cost of housing and healthcare
D2. Some fraction of beneficiaries will spend it poorly, meaning we might still need a welfare safety net for them (which itself might incentivize spending UBI poorly)

The alternative is an even bigger welfare system, let's call it Universal Basic Needs. That should include Universal Basic Healthcare, Universal Basic Public Housing, Universal Basic Food (aka food stamps aka rations), etc. It's diametrically opposite to UBI, and the upsides of one are the downsides of the other.

With UBN, there's no need for unemployment insurance, which is a problematic part of the current welfare system because it incentivizes not being employed. Defining the 'basic' level isn't easy, but it should be good enough that each member of congress or parliament wouldn't mind living at that level for a day per year.

I find either of these opposite options better for the future of society than some middle ground of welfare benefits.
Carbon taxes are regressive but if it is all paid back as dividend then

a) poor people will end with more money than they paid

b) rich people will end with less money than they paid

c) no change in aggregate demand (although minor increase in velocity) so likely little additional inflation

So it still redistributed from rich to poor while disincentivizing carbon heavy processes.
I bet if you fed this to GPT-3, the resulting output would be indistinguishable from the input.
IMHO it's a lot harder to deny a concrete, targeted entitlement than a super-wide payment for everyone without a reason/need that might just get reduced to nothing over time.
Sharing and collaborative editing. Being able to coordinate some process via a shared spreadsheet in a browser is efficient and resolves all issues of conflicting versions. Think of an overview of who is going to the office on which days this week (useful in times of working from home due to Corona).

Responsiveness is not the primary concern here: good enough is fine for most purposes.

This is not a replacement for a proper spreadsheet editor (I prefer LibreOffice myself); it's a tool to collaborate on tabular data with a group of people and minimal overhead.
If you take a fresh tomato, it will be firm - kind of hard, but it doesn't take much force to give up.

If you freeze the tomato, it will be hard.

If you wait for a few days, it will become soft.

Another example is a handshake. A soft handshake is what you shouldn't do (like handshaking a fish), a hard handshake you shouldn't do either (because it will hurt the other person), the best handshake is a firm (or solid) handshake.
Damn, that's pretty good.
A few years ago I left the company I was was working for. We had an internal doc wiki that hardly anyone used. I was one of the ones who did and I would document code changes and things like how to setup a dev environment and to list known gotchas.

During my final week when I was doing code handover I sent an email around the company pointing out that the wiki would answer most of the questions they might have about the apps I worked on.

Three months later my phone starts ringing. I was in a new job so I didn't answer, but they kept ringing. Then they started calling my wife as she was listed as my next of kin. My wife also didn't answer as she was with a client. After a few hours, my wife picks up the call and texts me that my previous employer was desperate to speak to me. So I called them during break and after a bit of an ear bashing I was informed their whole warehouse system was down and all business had stopped.

After a bit of diagnosis I realised that they had fallen for the first gotcha I listed in my docs, they deployed the wrong DB driver. I asked why they didn't read the docs. They responded "what docs?". I explained that I sent an email round before I left with guidance on the app. Rather than apologise they berated me for not doing more to alert people to the existence of the information. It was that attitude that contributed to me wanting to leave the company in the first place.

I think the moral is that no matter how good your docs, some people will always ignore them even when the world is collapsing around them.
I'd love to see a post like this on instruction selection.
In Central Europe it’s relatively common to have schools and university organizing Scratch workshops for kids. Local hackerspaces or Linux user groups help organize that kind of event all the time. There are a lot of small initiatives like this if you look around for workshops targeting kids.
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> 3. Charity - let's say we actually give every person enough money for food, housing, and utilities. Some people will mess up. They could spend it all on an addiction or just make a bad investment. Even with UBI they could still end up hungry or homeless. Will we help them? Or will we say "you had your UBI, the rest is on you". This changes the morals of how we treat people in the worst times.

I think it should be pretty clear today to any scientifically-minded person that addiction is a mental health problem. Here In Germany, the vast majority of homeless people are addicts or people with major mental health problems. You have a small minority hiding from the law, and an even smaller portion of healthy people choosing the lifestyle.

Instead of relying on the charity of wealthy people, good public mental healthcare, public addiction centres and social workers engaged with the homeless community are the ways forward.
My somewhat minimalistic youtube: https://imgur.com/a/hkrB04F

I use Stylus plugin to resize the videos and ublock filters to hide things like breaking news, views, "For You" search results etc.

Custom CSS in Stylus: https://pastebin.com/vcqVNfv4
Ublock Filters: https://pastebin.com/wsaTXG0H
This is what I'm also afraid of.
For the shadow to be significantly larger than the shading object, the object must be significantly closer to the light source.

For Earth, in solar orbit, that means you'd have to get inside the orbit of Venus.

Then you have a huge energy cost in keeping your shading object in the correct position relative to Earth. Its natural orbit is not going to work at all.
I don't know if it is common, but that's exactly what my engineering school did : no graphical calculator allowed through all the cursus. They would provide a "basic+ calculator" (a basic calculator with square, square root, and some "advanced" math but not a lot) to each test and you'll have to deal with that.

I hated it while in school, but retrospectively i think it was a pretty good idea actually :)
I upvoted your post of his correction, thanks!
"Hard" is the "hardest" of materials.

"Firm" is not quite hard, but not soft either.

"Soft" is not hard at all.

A good analogy would be cooking steak;

- Hard = well done
- Firm = medium
- Soft = rare

Edit: explaining this was harder than I initially thought...
Because having workers able to achieve a better than middle class outcome is a threat to the ruling class therefore we must teach a new generation so they can fight over the scraps as we import H1B slaves.
Yeah but Microsoft!! I understand that someone needs reinforcement after buying a 40k Mac, but Microsoft?? For god sake...
RDF is apparently heavily used in bio-informatics and life-sciences.
I'm not well versed enough in any of the subjects involved whether a relation DB would not cur it though.

Being able to create cross links between data independent of a predefined schema seems useful for research though. With RDF, you can just define a predicate on your own and link two objects/subjects in completely different, independent triple stores, if I understand correctly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23993259
I think it's worse to force somebody to sell chunks of the house to the bank, just so they can pay taxes on it, until eventually they don't own the property at all anymore. The bank then sells it to somebody else and you have nothing. You'd be better off downsizing and just avoid the tax.
I'm looking forward to your product succeeding, so please don't take this comment antagonistically.

Have you considered how much good press the suspend time got the Pinephone? And how it is one of the key features people talk about - as in, how long the phone will last? And how in these threads people keep asking you about it? And how you could have that good press?

From your comments I worry you are only looking to release such a feature when you've fully implemented every system involving it. I realise this is very easy for me to say from a backseat position, but maybe bump it up the release schedule, and then those that do have librem 5s could at least have a 103 hour tablets that sat in their pockets, not a 5 hour paperweight that sat on their shelves until they wanted to charge it and play with it again. If nothing else, it will completely change the y scale on your bar charts.

I've been very much enjoying the updates around the librem 5 and hope everything goes well for your product.
Good! Andy Ngo is human scum; so are the agents in Portland and so are all conservatives in the broadest sense. I’m excited by where this is going.
If you set UBI as inflation-adjusted, then there is no viable political mechanism to reduce it. "Cut everyone's income!" is a losing political message, forever ever.

Inflation is the pressure release valve that allows quietly cutting real costs. Every employer, business, government relies on this. It's why the Fed targets low but positive inflation.
>It can't adapt if it is killed off by the initial conditions.

No but when it's frozen ;)
Because the point they are making is irrelevant. It doesn't matter to the discussion whether or not Kirkland brand items have other name brands next to them
One of the problems with this idea is, that you can do your due diligience, use state of the art security, and still lose.

Also liability is interesting: According to [1] banks are not liable for contents of lockers. According to [2] banks might be liable for ATM robberies though, if there is not a resonable amount of security (camera, lighting, ...). It's quite an interesting topic.

There are also quite a few followup questions: Does a company that had a databreach have recourse against the software vendors? Are open source developers liable when there was a bug leading to a databreach? (I assume "no liability" licencese might be void in this case?) Is an social engineered or phished employee personally liable?

It might have far reaching consequences, and it's interesting to think about them.

[1] https://www.financialexpress.com/money/bank-locker-theft-rbi...

[2] https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/can-banks-be-held-liable-f...
This is the most excellent introduction to Petri nets that I've seen. It's super thorough but at the same time efficient while covering all the main ideas.

Great job!
I would imagine it using a Shazam-like algorithm, only for downsampled video and not just the audio.

A decade ago there was some hobby implementations of these algorithms that got cease and desist letters form Shazam and that was all over HN.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dj0rekeM7g
Well, nobody dies of COVID or cancer is a much stronger claim than I'm making, which is ultimately statistical.

I think some people do die of COVID, same as they can die of flu. It's just very rare and not equal to the reported death rate.

Re: science and politics. I've linked you to a couple of meta-reviews, done by people who searched the literature. You appear to be working backwards from a desired conclusion: that is, you deem "same or lower than flu" as emotionally appealing and therefore inherently likely to be wrong. But how is that logical? The correctness of an argument isn't based on whether the outcomes are emotionally satisfying or not.

At any rate, I do hope you go and perform your own literature review or research, to find out what's really happening. Because right now you seem to be one of the people covered by the poll, who were significantly over-estimating the true dangers.

Re: N95 masks. You're still making incorrect claims. N95 masks are built from a form of meltblown fiber. The machines that can create this kind of material are very niche and hard to construct. Each one has a fixed production capacity and the sort of manufacturers that make them work on them one at a time, with most stuff done by hand. Demand isn't high enough for them to be mass produced. That places hard limits on how fast material manufacture can be scaled up. People did look at this in February and realised there was no physical way to scale up N95 mask production on any kind of short timescale. The machinery just isn't there.

Rather, take it as a call to start doing the work now so we're prepared in the future.

There is a sad story related to this. The US only really has one mask company. He didn't ramp up production even during the midst of COVID times because in the past he's learned the hard way that governments panic over mild diseases, order lots of masks, so they scale up and hire new workers - then by the time the mask production is scaled up the panic is over and governments stop buying, leaving them nearly bankrupt. So he just didn't do it again.

Fundamentally, governments are too incompetent and panic prone to manage disease. It's been proven over and over. They even burn people who can make medical equipment, such that they don't want to help again.

At any rate, N95 masks are inappropriate for the general population. You can get things like this:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/driver-crash-passed-wearing-n95-ma...

Ah, more offhanded FUD to justify inaction

It's not FUD. Cloth masks can't stop viruses, they're far too small. They only stop liquid droplets, but they also saturate within hours and need to be thrown away. Most people aren't doing that, it's been studied. Again, go do your own research.
Well, the discriminating structures in society are the result of people acting mostly rationally in their own interest, not necessary malice. If we're serious about ending discrimination, we'll have to accept not always getting what we think we deserve.
"Firm" describes a mattress. Sleeping on the ground is hard. Sleeping on a pillow is soft. Sleeping on a mattress is firm.