skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a huge point, people debating UBI are often talking about different numbers. 1000/mo is probably too high, 400/mo is probably a better level and you're right its hard to live on that in a big city, you'd have to move out.
"By late 1983 Tramiel had crushed his enemies, seen them driven before him and heard the lamentations of their dealerships. ".... wait.. isnt this a Conan reference?
I'm all for UBI. However the cash UBI suffers from significant flow, where the surplus is captured by landlords.

That means if everyone gets $1,000/month, then the rents go up by the same amount, which pushes prices of real estate and thus the mortgages. So after some period of adjustment, the money would be lost again.

I have not found an answer, but my gut says that it has something to do with the base of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Meaning that UBI should somehow provide shelter, security and food.

It might be easier that it seems. Most nations already have monopoly on violence (police).

Food is more tricky. We already do subsidize farmers, so maybe this could be extended and basic food could be provided by the government (bread and such) or subsidized in full by it.

Shelter is the trickiest. There are some interesting cases across the World where governments have strong regulation around housing. One idea could be that every new development of multi-family housing or condos has to "donate" 10% of them to the municipality. These are then held by the city, that can "rent" it out to people who need them. They can't sell it. This would push the cost of these developments by 10% but it would essentially wipe out homelessness.

There are some ideas that I thought through over the years. As I said, I unfortunately don't have the answers.
In my opinion, the true antidote is reproducible, and ideally immutable, systems. Maybe this bug would’ve been harder since it’s all the way back to the bootloader, but assuming a more minimal bootloader (perhaps EFIstub directly, or systemd-boot,) you could have something like NixOS where you can, at boot time, jump to a previous configuration with all of the old software.

(Works even better for docker or VM images where you have a supervisor that can move around disk images. Can just construct immutable root images and roll back by booting with an older one.)
There's no difference between this argument and an argument against libraries in general. The argument that libraries are a special case and that qualifying as a library should mean that you abide by a limitation that physical libraries have (owning a physical copy of a book and not loaning it to two different people at the same time) is better.
Good point! Your comment has made me curious about the total lifecycle of the waste products from these processes.
The pandemic is giving e-bikes a boost
> If you need to do some kind of full table scan, what exactly is going to be faster about noSQL?

The real architectural benefit we got from noSQL (remember - "Not Only SQL") was dynamic horizontal scalability. Once you separate Compute and Storage then you can make choices based on your specific workload.

> You are reading from disk, that is your limit.

Separating Compute and Storage works around this. Instead of putting all your logs in a monolithic SQL database, stream them into object storage. When you want to run a query, you can complete it arbitrarily fast by spinning up more compute nodes. Now you're using Massively Parallel Processing and that disk limit stops mattering as much. Lots of systems do this... AWS EMR, Snowflake, Presto, etc etc

So you get a much simpler storage system and faster queries.

You may appear to pay more for storage in this approach, but that's mostly a cloud vs on prem accounting question.
It IS easy to be the landlord. You can borrow the money for the property and charge more than the mortgage and then outsource the actual day to day collection of rent and finding tenants. Compare this with your actual job then compare this to people who have to work multiple physical job instead of your sole intellectual one.
>Poor people aren't poor because they consume too much.

Sometimes that is the case. I would say that if your household income is above $50k/year and you're living paycheck to paycheck, that results from over-consumption.
> systemd-boot does not support, among other things: "BIOS"/MBR boot,

That's a feature :). Unless your firmware doesn't have UEFI support (I'm looking at you, Gen8 Proliants...), you should use UEFI.

> EXT4, XFS, mdraid, LUKS (hidden boot),

It doesn't support ANY filesystem (does it defer to builtin UEFI filesystem drivers?); it loads kernel and initramfs from the EFI partition itself. You can then have whatever you want compiled in.

Grub, on the other hand, has read-only drivers, so it will load your kernel and initramfs from any /boot partion you want (except zfs pool with some features enabled).

> OPAL (aka hardware FDE, self-encrypting drives)

Now this could be a problem, however, normal UEFI has to work somehow.

> mdraid being pretty critical to a lot of server work.

Many servers boot from internal sd-card or usb, and if they have local drives, they are put into use when whatever system from the sd-card or usb boots.
>but I really wish everyone else would copy Mac’s default English keyboard layout & shortcuts. Super+x/c/v for cut, copy, and paste

Isn't this something that benefits mainly developers, at the expense of everyone else? Most people don't use the terminal, so they don't have any use for control-x/c/v. At the same time super-x/c/v is less ergonomic than control, at least for me. With control I can use my pinky + index finger, which is much more comfortable than using super, which requires me to awkardly use my thumb + index.
Show HN: A full Android app built with mongodb stitch (now realm) integration
We have the luxury of having job security and very high salaries, artists and authors by large do not - if IP was abandoned and nobody could make money on software we would all be calling for lawsuits. Just because one medium is easier to pirate doesn’t mean it deserves to be pirated.

> Yet even during a pandemic, when visiting a physical library can literally be life threatening

Nearly all libraries already have digital lending programs that are legal and controlled... IA just distributed pirated copies.
Fintech Startup Remitly Raises $85M
But I maintain that in the illustrated case - where you want to get all the different independent values and then combine them at the end - it's actually less ergonomic to do it the wrong way with .then(...) than it is to do it the right way.
Having some small experience in the compliance space, it looks like the company in question (Or an employee of it) has been flagged via some government database of Dangerous parties. When a company churns you without notice or explanation, it’s usually a good signal they have reason to believe you’re a criminal or a terrorist.

If I were the company in question I’d pay for a KYC AML service and run my own info to see if anything came back up.
Because many consumers don't see chip and pin as an upgrade (though contactless is nice). So it depends on the banks to decide whether it's worth it. With debit cards, the extra security is valuable. But with credit cards it isn't really too important to me because I can just reverse fraudulant charges.

As for the experience of using each, it seems to depend a lot on the machines. I did not like using chip and pin in Europe because it seemed to take longer and required more interactions. With the magstrip I pull the card out, swipe it, put it away. I'm never waiting for anything. Sometimes I'd have to swipe it twice, but that didn't happen too often to me. But it seems like different people have very different experiences with these things.

edit: this mostly applies to credit cards, which are much more common in the US than in Europe. But the lack of significant benefit for credit cards to use this technology could have resulted in momentum that slowed the adoptation of it for debit cards.
Kandi launches cheapest electric cars in the US, starting at $12,999 – Electrek
> how they were able to reach enough people to get to 200% of their goal in so short time?

6 hours later, that $130k is now $437k. And it was up for a bit before GP posted their comment - 30 to 50 minutes, I think, so a good chunk of that 200% may well be from here as well.
Text editing – 2 minutes to change your mind or not
Congratulations Damon. I believe personal vlogging has a bright future. I am excited to see where your project goes.
This is 100% true but I haven't been so unlucky as to encounter firmware that does this under normal operation. This has been the "firmware doesn't understand software raid" solution for ages.
Why would it be more difficult than to extract from ore? You can smelt them, that will burn away the plastic, and then you can separate the metals.
Which speaks to much more dire organizational issues - that nobody can throw up a red flag and say "hold the eff up, we've reached a scale where this is broken and we need to address it."
> People actually want the frills of a lifestyle where they work hard and can as a result afford luxuries in every area of their lives.

Well, yes, sure, and sure, there are different levels of "luxury," e.g., there's getting a BMW 5 series, and there's getting a Honda Insight but springing for the Touring model -- and that's not counting the choice between used and new (what if the person with the BMW 5 series bought it used for about the same as someone else paid for a new Honda Civic). But, particularly at the income levels the average HN reader seems to have based on comments, "build up savings" vs. "afford small luxuries" is often a false dichotomy, which is what I was getting at.
I was hoping to see a full example of how to use your platform, and followed the first example link to what seemed to be a detailed tutorial for how to deploy a web app, with the title "Deploying a Symfony 4/5 Application on AWS Fargate (part 1)".

That page[1] is asking me to create a Medium account to read it. I closed the tab without reading further, and would highly recommend you find a place to host your docs that doesn't require creating an account.

[1]: https://medium.com/revolv2/creating-and-deploying-a-symfony-...
...and if you share the same kind of jokes and values.

Cultural alignment
No less important is the cultural alignment, the “Can I work with you?” question.

This screams all sorts of “isms” to me.
A median is a median... and if you are a married couple very easily. But it is also the case if you have a EU-US dual citizenship. So in fact that's a lot of person. Also it's not that complicated to migrate to Switzerland is you are an American with a EU passport (get an Italian passport if one of your grand-parents was Italian and bingo), and that's the case of a lot of people.

In Switzerland every year between 500-700 people renounce their US citizenship... so at least a few.
Thank you for the feedback.

Any suggestions on messaging and copy?
I think Singapore is really ahead in the affordable housing front. They have nice places where people actually want to live. I am not sure if and how it is possible to replicate this on a larger scale.
So a thermostat is intelligent?
This seems like a really useful project, congrats. What are some features on your future-timeline?
Hey :)!

It's a first alpha release. We're listening to feedback. Billing is not implemented yet.

Pricing is something that we've thinking about for a while.

We also have written a blog post about that: https://medium.com/revolv2/im-building-revolv-to-automate-cl...

What's your opinion? How much are you willing to pay?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23996123.
> As as of the grounds: I have an old coffee tin, one of the big ole "chock fulla nuts" ones, that I put the old grounds in. Eventually they end up in a compost pile outside, with all of my veggie choppings and lawn clippings.

I don't have a yard, so I can't compost. But it should be noted that coffee grounds are one of the most ideal items to compost.

Most people's compost piles are Carbon-heavy, but Coffee Grounds are (just slightly) nitrogen-heavy. So with a mix of some carbon-heavy items (paper, leaves, etc. etc.) you're all set.
You really think Google is the inefficient of those four? Apple runs a hot/spare datacenter strategy. Their overhead has to be ridiculous.
The CommonMark standard [1] is an attempt to solve this problem, although I don't necessarily agree with all their syntax choies.

For instance, I find the redundancy built in to Markdown to be a misfeature--most Markdown editors don't distinguish between _this_ and this, even though the distinction between underlined and italic text is useful. Don't even get me started on all the different ways to create a heading and the headache it creates when parsing!

[1]: https://commonmark.org/
+ 12.5% with Google Network, isn't that ads or am I misreading?
Oscar Health Announced Virtual Primary Care
Ask HN: Is the Grass Greener?
I've been at my company for a couple of years, this has been my first real dev job.

The team has been growing skills as the same pace as I did, the development department was still pretty new when I joined. The company is in good shape and is very flexible, but as tech is pretty new to them, the project management is at least mediocre. I find myself in an awkward position where I'm one of the most experienced in the team, but not experienced and hired up enough to avoid our projects to take the wrong paths. We've been pushing for more and more sophistication in our workflows (testing, CI/CD/, project organization), but are facing the reality that at the end of the day no one cares how the product is being shipped or developed if it works, so "why something that took 1 month to dev 2 years ago now takes at least the double of time". It's tiring.

I've been starting to look for new opportunities, but I'm worried it's everywhere the same story and at least I have the recognition and flexibility where I am. The pay is bad though.

I want to grow my skills working with experienced people, but I'm not clear where to find that (besides FAANG?). How do you find a company where the tech department is mature and work-life balance reasonable?

Is the grass greener elsewhere?
> What happens if you have a field that's supposed to be 0-9, but it's an int field and someone types in 22 on accident? Sure it might be valid for the database, but it's not valid for the application.

This is why database constraints exist.

Any sufficiently long lived database ends up with more than one code base connected to it. Enforcing rules in the database ensures a baseline level of data sanity.
The stablest systems I had the pleasure to manage were two identical rhel6 clusters into different geographical locations for higher availability and fault tolerance. Such systems were installed, turned on and never touched again. Kernel 2.6.32 that managed about six-seven years of uptime up to mid-2019. We operated a lot onto such systems, mounting and unmounting iscsi devices, starting and stopping stuff, turning on and off network interfaces and clustered filesystem (thanks to Veritas cluster manager).

The key move was never updating.

Such systems were literally mission critical, without that cluster the whole company was unable to produce its main products.

Considering how much stuff they ran and how many simultaneous users were connected, I was humbled by their stability (and by rhel's stability).

If you're getting angry at this post: the customer was not in the it field and was completely okay with buying new hardware and doing a full reinstall every X years.
I don't know, but if you don't think secure boot isn't valuable and/or worth the trade-off, you should turn it off on your machine. Anyone who does so will not be affected by this update.

I know there are some environments that don't allow turning off secure boot, but this really isn't the OS vendor's fault.
> the company is now run by a different triumvirate. Besides Mr Pichai it includes Kent Walker, senior vice-president of global affairs, and Ruth Porat, the finance chief

Google leadership in 2001: 2 engineers and an eng manager. In 2020: 1 eng manager, 1 lawyer, 1 banker.

No wonder!
There are other problems with the grub configuration and install, as a result of these changes, it seems. I had a few AWS EC2 instances, running an ubuntu-20.04 AMI, not come back after a reboot this morning, due to this brand new issue:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1889509
I'm not sure you understand what "elephant in the room" means? The fact that Haskell has a GC is not an uncomfortable truth that everyone avoids discussing.
A significant aspect of Urbit is its use of the Ethereum blockchain (called UrbitID), but not to produce any form of cryptocurrency—it's used to produce a form of cryptographic asset that more closely resembles property, since ownership of that asset (called a ship) confers value in the form of an identity within a network. DNS is to ICANN as UrbitID is to Ethereum. The regulatory aspect of who's who is decentralized rather than centralized.

Business models on Urbit don't really have to do with sale of ships though—they're finite and not meant for high-frequency trading. Business models that are emerging are more likely to involve providing services to users of the network, just as domain sales are a small fraction of the "business model" for the internet.
I learned to play the guitar, so I guess that is why I can recognize when my gear makes that horrible grinding sound.

If I hadn't learned the chords to "All along the Watchtower", I'd probably be stranded on the side of the road right now.
It doesn't chain-load as GRUB/MBR does. For UEFI boot loader, other operating systems are just EFI images. UEFI boot loaders do not care what specific OSes these images contain.

This is also used for boot time or boot repair tools. UEFI shell for example is just another EFI image.
In the real world that’s how it is, everyone has their own moral compasses
The entities that most benefit monetarily from OpenSource are companies that sell products and services based on them. Why would they contribute to this? It's an added expense they don't have to pay. In fact a major tenant of OpenSource is that you can choose to make money or give. it away for free, but you generally have to release the source code, which is what the companies want, so again, why would they pay for it? To make a more sustainable ecosystem? Hahaha.

As for individuals funding this, Open Source developers are not cheap, to make it worthwhile (e.g. comparable to a part time contracting gig) we're talking a minimum of tens of thousands of dollars per year per developer. We're not going to get anywhere near these numbers with individuals contributing.

I write this as the guy that tried to help the OpenSource world by assigning CVEs for security issues (several thousand...), I'd have had to charge 1-200$ per CVE to make a living at this while I was doing it. That's not going to be sustained by personal donations. And even though a CVE will easily save companies a few tens to hundreds of dollars (time spent tracking all these issues when they don't have CVEs...) there's no way I'm going to get companies to pay me.

The good news is that this doesn't really matter. We've had many decades of OpenSource, there's enough good people working on this because it's their passion/hobby/day job that it's mostly sustainable on average, but specific bits may be sickly, and that's ok.

Some related listening and reading:

Episode 205 – The State of Open Source Security with Alyssa Miller from Snyk
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2020/07/12/episode-205-the-sta...

Episode 185 – Is it even possible to fix open source security?
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2020/03/02/episode-185-is-it-e...

Episode 182 – Does open source owe us anything?
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2020/02/10/episode-182-does-op...
> To keep hierarchies flat, Mr Brin and Mr Page briefly went so far as to abolish managers altogether, though the experiment had to be dialled back. A compromise was to give managers a minimum of seven direct reports to limit the time they have to loom over each underling.

In my experience, so many direct reports changes a manager’s job from “managing people” to “facilitating people”. It’s the same for engineers and laborers, scientists and shit-scrapers. There is time enough to defend your team from HR terrorism, advocate for your team’s technical perspective, and fight for resources - and that’s it. Except at the big-big overly-titanic conglomerates, who trade behemoth economy of scale for total dysfunction, so as to barely break even. IE, Google’s future.
I remember during tests I'd get stuck at the hardest problems and stubbornly solve them only to run out of time on the easy questions and haphazardly answer them until the "pen up" was announced. At some point a teacher taught us how to maximize our scores resembling the strategy you mention and yes, it did help. We weren't smarter by any means, but had a better strategy to taking tests.
On this topic, if anyone can point me toward a US-based issuer where I can open an account and get a card that supports credit pin (not pin for cash advance on a credit card), I'll happily venmo you a pizza or something. The issuers I have spoken to[1] all tell me it is impossible to get such a card in the US, which seems ridiculous.

[1]: https://wallethub.com/credit-cards/chip-and-pin/ I discussed each of the cards noted here with the issuers, not one is actually chip+pin credit.
Yes, 2 minutes is like a standup update. Our members also think the limit is very helpful to keep them concise. A good way to practice speak in some sense.

The best thing so far is definitely making lots of friends around the world. We can see each other, hear each other. It's the feeling that none of those text-based forums can give.
Or just set a day rate, and limit scope to helping with the specific problem. "It's $1200/day, and scope is limited to helping you understand how to recover from the described problem. All of the work recovery work will be done by you, and my role will be limited to advising."
Was it Learna?

https://github.com/lerna/lerna/pull/1616

https://github.com/jamiebuilds/license

Its proposed license was an extension to MIT which made using it theft for a select list of companies that supported ICE.
Java language resources to get you started
Almost, except for the low end. It would be perfect if it grouped donations and charges, and let you allocate any arbitrarily small amount to any creator. As it is, it charges fees per creator you patronize, and limits donation to being at least $1 per creator. I'd put $30/month there easily if I could spread it over 100-200 creators with fees of $0.30 + 2.9% on the $30, but the current $0.10 + 5% on each $1 donation means a lot less of my money is going to the creator (who also gets charged those fees + 5-12% for Patreon services when cashing out) than I think is useful, and that's even after downsizing the pool of creators I'd like to donate to in order to meet the minimum $1/each.

To be fair, in looking this up, I did find it's a lot better than when I cancelled my Patreon account, since at the time they were proposing $0.30 + something% even for $1 donations. But the bundling of donations was my whole point in using them, and when they clearly said they weren't going that way, that was it for me. That's why I like the Brave/flattr/"sponsor pool" approach so much more. It lets me support creators (especially web comics, bloggers, and video creators) in a much more similar scale to the advertising model, which many were on before, and for which I think we need a popular replacement.
This may change if early screening leads to interventions that can slow the progression.