skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're forgetting that the citizens of the US are people, not robots. When everyone gets the same treatment, you get a feeling of unity and you don't divide society into "leeches" and "providers" based on who gets UBI and who doesn't. The UBI becomes part of what it means to be American.

Furthermore, you can solve the same problem just by increasing taxes on the rich. If you send every rich person $12k, but also tax them $12k more per year, the money spent/saved is exactly the same as not sending it to them in the first place. So this statement you made is false:

> This would make UBI a much cheaper program, so it would be easier to fit into the budget.
You could argue that it's because Goldman destroyed the public trust in the entire industry. How many people who used to just blindly give their money to investment banks are now paying enough attention to their performance relative to index ETFs to find them lacking?
Louis CK bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLkX2VaQs4
Nobody in the world gets to do the “fun” part of their job more than a fraction of their time. I don’t think scientists are uniquely hard done by here. They are enormously more privileged than the vast majority of people, being funded to do something purely speculative, it’s not too much to ask them to publish it so others can benefit from that spending too - which largely comes from taxpayers doing less fulfilling jobs.
> Should I drop my rate?

The only thing people have to do right now is spend all day on the web, so if anything the hourly rate for web developers right now should be higher. Look at Amazon, its growing like crazy. And not just their retail business, but AWS also.
There's relatively little emigration from Northern Europe. Some, but not that much.

You obviously can be a high performer with good life prospects there. You won't accumulate as much wealth as somewhere else, but the culture where you grew up also gives much less value to financial status. Good life, quite enough money, and good standing in the society means little reason to emigrate.
How do those work over there? We have both in the US as well, but I've always refused to use them because signing up for either seems to transfer a significant chunk of the liability for fraudulent transactions away from the bank and on to the consumer.
This implies that people with resources will not do better by and for themselves, which contradicts most of the soft policy that guides eg- lax capital gains, dividends, and estate taxes.

If scarcity was a driving force in creating the competition that capitalism deems necessary, then there would be no point in hoarding or passing down more wealth than could be spent in a lifetime. So, it's an obvious mistruth.

And if the price of all things will increase because some people are no longer starving and able to afford to pay more, perhaps that's a fair trade. We will optimize for more convenience, higher quality, and more novel products, then.

Perhaps this only illuminates how close people who feel they are doing well are to the people that take most of the prejudice for their lack of wealth. Maybe being a small business owner doesn't put you in the same world as Wal-Mart any more than being white and working class makes you basically equals to Elon Musk.

Perhaps it's the tide that lifts all boats and not how many have sunk around you.
Yes, everyone has the same rules. If you generate tens of millions in revenue you get a discount.
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By your logic you could say all goods are being produced for taxpayers, therefore shouldn’t it follow that every company should get a taxpayer funded loan?

I’m not generally a fan of of taxpayer funding for the private sector. This includes most startups. Generally I think these deals are usually really bad for taxpayers.

Kodak is losing money, to the tune of $60M so it’s unclear what their long-term viability is as a company.

The only argument for a startup here is to jettison the structure of a failing company. Again, I think you are overestimating the number of engineers needed to produce some of the things you’re talking about.

My assertion is that if Kodak was really strong here and had a good business case, they would not need taxpayer funded investment.
Building a Quantum Computing Workforce from the Ground Up
Lifespan asymptotically approaches biological limits, i.e. the rate of progress inevitably slows.

> all

I wish people would stop adding such qualifiers to construct strawmen.
> individuals from wealthy families (today we would call them trust fund babies), royalty, clergyman,

None of whom got their money from exorting readers of their books.

What you have there is a argument for basic income, not a argument for copyright.
Google does not have an absolute right to operate at their current scale. If legislation around content moderation or consumer protection made their business untenable at its current scale then so be it. Their business will have to change to adapt to the society in which it is a participant.
Facebook Q2 2020 Earnings Result [pdf]
The entire industry has moved from a presumption of competency to a presumption of profound, remarkable incompetency.

So insightful things get interpreted as incompetent ramblings. So we're left with virtue signaling. It's a terrible culture.
Starship is designed to land 100 tons of equipment, supplies and people on Mars, and to be built fairly cheaply (close to $100M each). If it can meet those performance parameters the first expeditions will include dozens to hundreds of people and thousands of tons of equipment and supplies.

And those folks will produce hundreds of times the scientific value.
But "Play AC/DC" plays them in Apple Music, not your preferred (or currently used) music player app.

There is no way to set that I prefer Spotify, and I've seen a few occasions when CarPlay showed Apple Music when I started a car (might be related to not having Spotify app in the background, but I never digged deeper).
Not sure what you are getting at here. I agree the delivery drivers are in the grocery store. They probably spend half their workday there and have to travel throughout the store many many times, each time navigating a different cohort of shoppers, and then come in contact with deliveree surfaces (doorbell, etc.) as well. The delivery driver has a dangerous job and is highly likely to get covid. When s/he does, so do all the deliverees.
Yes, hopefully some executives whose salaries have been increasing far faster than the janitors' salaries for the past 50 years. That's the point!!
"Library CDL programs were still online and functioning the entire time. Only the physical facilities were closed."

As far as I know, most public libraries' electronic lending programs are using something similar to Rakuten OverDrive and are limited to books published in electronic editions and then leased by the library systems. Do you know of any libraries other than the Internet Archive that make scanned copies of physical books available?

If you find yourself in the position of needing a copy of Charles Ross' biography Edward IV (https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/m8Ojo6VI8KUC?hl=en), as far as I know you're pretty much limited to the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/edwardiv00ross) unless you have an open research library handy. But you'd best make it quick, because the publishers want those copies deleted.
This not kind of direct debit that exists in EU zone.
And if you had the potential to bring in as much business as Amazon, as an individual, you probably get preferential treatment. But those thousands of developers operate under thousands of brands in regards to the App Store, not one brand, like Amazon does. An app like Prime Video brings in millions immediately, enough to guarantee a volume discount, while an individual could just wind up being a drain on Apple’s time and infrastructure for quite some time.
Facebook reports 11% revenue growth even amid pandemic slowdown
I'm incredibly excited for MSFS. I always adored the older versions while younger, even with only a basic flight stick. In the current circumstances it seems a great way to satisfy a bit of wanderlust responsibly, even if I do intend quite early on to attempt a bit of airborne commuting to and from the airfield next to my office.
Eight Go Mad in Arizona: How a Lockdown Experiment Went Horribly Wrong
Some of the Most unsusual Mobile Phones of all times
Standing out is a constant struggle in the mobile phone industry. Sometimes manufacturers develop new features and functions to lure us off our cash. The rush of innovation and desire to differentiate, gave birth to some of the most unusual mobile phones of all times.
Your examples are probably pretty good for explaining the depth of 2 regulated industries (except PG&E is a black eye for regulatory success), but perhaps they were talking about the breadth of all of the industries that Congress chooses to regulate, which is quite extensive. I'd argue that Congress critters and their staff aren't great at finding those "right sources" with enough consistency.
There are only so many numbers, we simply tried them all. It took a really large computer. /s
I think customer interviews are definitely part of the mix, if done right (have you read The Mom Test?), but they don't give you 100% clarity. Perhaps just a more solid hypothesis...
Good point. Glad to see they mentioned the prosocial bit. Didn't catch that.
I don't know about your insurer, but whenever I get an EOB, I see the price the doctor charged and the price the insurance paid. The provider agrees to accept the lower payment, not the price they charged. Individual negotiation is the same! At a 10k foot level, insurance companies are just an outsourcing of that negotiation process.

It feels different, but it's really not. It's perverse that our system's incentives are such that doctors are incentivized to overcharge and that there's an expectation that the price will be negotiated down to the actually-desired price, but that is how it works. It's frustrating, but if you're letting them tell you the sticker price and then pay full sticker price, you're not being lawful good, you're being played for a sucker.
As far as I know, no one, much less the Internet Archive, is currently capable of lending infinite simultaneous copies.
Yes, agree that these are all part of the problem, as far as I see it!
> maybe with client IP addresses

https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...
Not trying to be argue for the sake of arguing, but is there some data to back this claim up? Anecdotally I'm aware of many parents who think music makes their kid well rounded, but I'm not aware of parents that specifically believe learning music makes their kid more intelligent in non-musical areas.
Systemd 246 Released with Many Changes
I imagine going from grade 1 learning system X, then grade 2 learning system Y, that builds on system Z would be very difficult.
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results
Yet the works everyone wants to actually consume aren't the weekendware creative-commons hobby projects, so it's clear to me that copyright (well, IP in general) is responsible for the most compelling content.

Nothing is stopping people from releasing their passion projects to the world without strings attached.
Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2020 Results
I really do appreciate the suggestions.

I have worked really hard to provide as many options as possible for people, but it is hard to anticipate everything people will want or need from it until they use it and tell you so feedback like yours helps.

I have added everything you wrote to my notes from this thread so I will see what I can do to improve them for you.
Wrong.

"Since 1978, and adjusted for inflation, American workers have seen an 11.2 percent increase in compensation. During that same period, CEO’s have seen a 937 percent increase in earnings. That salary growth is even 70 percent faster than the rise in the stock market, according to the Economic Policy Institute."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/22/heres-how-much-ceo-pay-has-i....
I'm interested in if there's a simple design for a ChaCha/Poly1305 accelerating ISA extension for RISC-V (outside the general crypto extension, not sure even as a member of that where it is going).
I feel like it is a lot simpler, if for no other reason than there being effectively a single mode for the ChaCha primitive rather than three or more. The whole operation is composed of bitwise rotations and adders that can be arranged in a static network, and (as far as I know) is more or less not a source of timing sidechannel information one way or another.

Maybe I could try banging my head against the XCrypto repository this weekend.
Americans using European terminals may not have a PIN either, their chips tell the terminal this user doesn't have a PIN, they may be asked to sign something instead.

Or, in the case of unmonitored "kiosks", the American is just left with a failed transaction. This was my experience with train ticket terminals in Italy and unattended petrol stations in the UK. Fortunately, in both cases, my secondary card has a PIN enabled. It was irritating that my primary card didn't offer a PIN, so I cancelled it upon my return to the US.

Edit - this was 5 years ago, may have changed since, not sure as I changed cards to one that explicitly offered chip/pin at the time.
The less happy news is:

- Margins dropped from 24% to 17%. [page 1]

- Diluted EPS dropped from 14.21 to $10.13. [page 1]

- They now have 20,000 more employees to pay out of their reduced income. [page 2]
The consumer market has had plenty of chances to buy into open platforms and choose phones with multiple stores and the ability to side load whatever they wanted. Those options have always been there from before the iPhone even. I was side loading apps on to my Palm Tungsten E.

The fact is the App Store offers the best experience and the best apps. Side loading apps outside stores isn’t a viable business beyond very narrow niches, we’ve seen this happen.

App stores offer a scale alternatives just can’t reach, which brings investment and therefore options in the consumer space that open platforms cannot match. We’ve been running the experiment for over a decade now and the results are in.

App,Stores have crated staggeringly huge markets. That has enormous value for developers take that away, and how are customers and developers going to get connected? We’ve seen how that works out. The resulting markets aren’t 10 time smaller, or a 100 times smaller, they’re thousands of times smaller. I was going to say 30% is peanuts. It’s not, but I do think it’s a reasonable price.
> How will said engineers have an entire day to do an onsite interview loop

Right. This practice is not better than an onsite. It's actually worse. Not only do you have to put in arbitrary amounts of time, you're not able to do any actual assessment of a prospective employer. You have nothing to go on other than a random problem statement which the company could have perfected over hundreds of hours and interviews. It's giving the employer all the leverage while also doing work for them for free.
Computational logic seems to be a more popular research subject in Europe than in the United States.
I suppose you can speak about it in a few different ways. Whether that's Product Market Fit, or No Market Need. I was going on this research - https://www.forbes.com/sites/deniselyohn/2019/05/01/why-star...
Did it need all 20 seconds? If so, the docs were definitely wrong and useless and I see your point.

My suspicion is that it works fine with 5 actual clock seconds (instead of "a short while"), and that they just said 20 so that even the most chronologically challenged would end up holding it for at least 5.
An IBAN by itself is just an account number. A random person obviously can't take money out of another person's account. The fact that this is possible in the US is beyond insane. I wouldn't trust a bank(ing system?) that permitted this as far as I could throw it.

No bank in the SEPA-zone will give anyone unauthorized access based on just an account number.

There are things like SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) which are basicaly mini-contracts between a creditor and a debtor -- with the banks as intermediaries. These can be used, for instance, by your ISP to automagically take your dues out of your account. Either party can cancel just about as easily as well. With most banks, they can be set up in a few clicks. Many banks support limiting the amount (e.g. 50eur/month) on a per-SDD basis.
We aren't talking about "right to rule" here - we're talking about "right to have the basic necessities needed to not die from starvation or exposure"
If you build a language that is based around doing everything with stateless data transformations but doesn't address state and branching, it will eventually be a problem, because the reality is that the vast majority of non trivial software needs to deal with plenty of state and branching, not to mention the state and branching that will go in to managing resources.

There are a lot of domain specific tools that are used for specific tasks where the main software is taking care of architecture, high level decisions and resources. Shaders are one example of this. Trying to write non trivial software like this is problematic because the structure you are using is so disconnected from what the software needs to do.
We have a pair of swifts that return every year and nest under the roof tiles of our house deep in a forest. I can totally sympathize with this author's awe towards the tiny marvels. It feels like a privilege and a blessing to have them come visit, arriving from some southern African country every year.

Happy to have learned something new too: vesper flights.
That is what would be happening if both 30% of the purchase and 30% of the refund were coming from the dev's pocket.
Apple 3Q 2020
This also came up yesterday in the antitrust hearing, wrgt Alexa and Amazon Basics defaulting.
I have a small lib that I wrote to solve a specific problem at work and open sourced it, it's on my personal github profile, with the company copyright. Never made any sort of advertising or publishing on it: it was just there sitting idle on github, and it wasn't even getting commits since it just worked in the only place it was used.

One day I got a random email a person who found it through google: the name of the lib contained the keywords they were typing. I got a "thank you" email and that's it. It's been 10 years. I have no idea who else might be using it.
Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2020 Results [pdf]
Promoting low traffic sites that actually publish content that’s worth while finding out about is admirable. But if your front page is an “open sewage” of the worst of USA and UK tabloids, I don’t think anyone who’s interested in quality content would bother to register or upgrade.
For YouTube moderation, I wonder if they can track bad users for discovering new user created content. Effectively categorize the different sort of content that isn't allowed. When ever content is flagged as being in one of these categories, track the users that viewed it. Keep repeating this until you have users that seem to prefer this sort of rule breaking content.

Then, begin tracking what new content those "bad viewers" view while also identifying new users who follow a similar viewing pattern and categorizing them as bad viewers. Once you get a large enough data set, you can begin to things based on what percentage of bad users view new content. If some new account uploads a few videos and 75%+ of views are from bad users all in the same category of not allowed material, what is the chance the material belongs in that category? And what I'm describing is the version 0.0.0.1 variant. You would also track things like length of view, timing of views, sentiment analysis of any comments made on the video (and potentially of any speech in the video), etc.
Would it be legally safe to work with correlium?
Correlium does iPhone virtualization and it's groundbreaking in terms of automated testing, provided it can be used for that use case. However it got sued by Apple and they have quite limiting terms of use.
Idea Sprout
Enables entrepreneurs to quickly and easily validate their startup idea and obtain an initial following.
To be more specific - at the time the armistice was signed, no Entente soldier had yet a foot on German soil. The front-line was still running through Belgium.

To the average German pundit, it was not at all clear that the war was lost.
I think 11 months is absolutely crazy, and the context for that is that I earn for living by selling my database migration software [1]. They could have used my software to copy up to 16 tables in parallel for a mere $3k. They could have copied a few hundred tables at a time, compare source and target to make sure everything is fine, then drop and compact. As more disk space frees up, they could have moved more and more data in one go. If the data needed to be transformed much, they could have wrote views to pull the data in a proper format and creating tables on the target with that data as they go.
True, spinning drives would kill performance, but my tool is easily reaching 50MB/s on SSDs and spinning drives wouldn't add months.
I mean, when you have off the shelf products doing what you need, spending so much time fighting with custom scripts is and odd choice.
This is really not meant to advertise, I'm just baffled by how much effort was needed for this project.

[1] https://www.spectralcore.com/fullconvert
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As a business owner dealing with credit card fraud, yes this is a real problem that the processors currently don't solve and existing solutions are hit or miss.

That said, I don't see you addressing the key issue, what is the drop-off rate of legitimate purchasers from having to jump through this hoop to get verified? If it negatively affects conversion rate too strongly then the loss outweighs the benefit. It may make more sense in high-value transactions such as with Fetch than in general ecommerce?
Never spend time building something nobody wants to use.
The first thing you learn in data science is that everyone has biases.

I get most of my news from HN, Yahoo, and from what others post. These outlets give me many different sources to choose from. I tend to look for multiple sources, usually from competing outlets with different biases. So maybe I'll see an article that originated from Fox and then look at one from Huffpost. Then I can find what points they agreed on, since those are likely true. Then I can see what info is conflicting, missing, or recieved more emphasis between the two.

At this point I might look up the subject that it talks about so that I can understand the information from a systems-thinking perspective. I might read scholarly articles/blogs/courses. I might look at studies to understand the data and see if the study is being misrepresented, like the gender page gap and BLS study (you may need different sources for these due to biases on polarising subjects like guns).
As much as Obamacare is liked, this is one of the issues I didn't like about it.

Law says insurance must cover 80%+ of the costs of healthcare, insurance company conspires with hospital to raise costs, everyone else gets fucked.
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Yeah no idea, where they got that from. Fermat argued in the 1630s that this was impossible, Euler then proved it in the 18th century.

[Actually, Fermat claimed that a^n+b^n=c^n is impossible for n>2, but the proof for that wasn't discovered until the 1990s. It's Andrew Wiles's famous proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.]
Facebook reports second quarter results
Really, in the age of Amazon you're arguing for Wal-Mart to be broken up?