skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the strongest practical arguments in favor of UBI is that the beurocracy needed to decide who deserves to receive welfare is so cumbersome and inneficient that it's more cost effective to not have any restrictions at all. There is a whole subsystem of the courts dedicated purely to dealing with these conflicts. Resolutions are generally very slow and there's tons of overhead s because you have to pay lawyers. Just give every adult citizen a flat amount and you open up the possibility of reducing the size of government in the process of fighting income inequality. This seems like a compromise that could be feasible in the US, but UBI would have to be robust first.

This is sort of along the same lines of the observation that just providing housing to homeless people is cheaper than incarcerating them, and provides better outcomes. Of course there is something about this that people instinctively don't like, and in practice the general population has shown it would rather spend more money to accomplish less in order to prevent someone else from getting something for free.
In some regions you have active mappers looking more at notes, in other areas less. Also many mappers would want to verify before applying the note ... in the end you mostly have many volunteers with their individual intrinsic motivation.
Hey, this post got more attention than I thought.
Happy to answer your questions and get some feedback on what to improve.

Maybe people are interested in some tech:

My colleague Jakub and me built this site with GatsbyJS and Cloudflare Edge Workers. The 99th percentile of response times from the workers is currently 9.7ms, which is impressive.

The code is fully open source on Github [1].

It is based on submissions by 190 individual contributors so far [2]

We went for an open model and completely depend on Github sponsors for the funding. We are not trying to rapidly grow here, rather build a steady business.

You can read more about the buisness model in our first blog post [3].
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[1]: https://github.com/analysis-tools-dev/website/
[2]: https://github.com/analysis-tools-dev/static-analysis
[3]: https://analysis-tools.dev/blog/static-analysis-is-broken-le...
Interesting to see PWAs being proposed as the ultimate alternative on HN all the time. Questions of quality etc. aside it's essentially Google's platform that they're pushing for via standards that benefit them and their goal of the web as a platform they control. While Apple wants dominance over their walled garden, Google wants total dominance over the web.
I’m not sure that $900M can be called a ‘few million’ as stated in the article.

200 or 300 million is probably the upper limit for a few?
It seems pretty spot on to me. Your rich, this is evil, and now you gotta pay.

Because the middle class is the one asking to increase it with the constant addition of social programs that benefit them and those in lower classes the most? Unless you want to get into some twisted math on how much resources they use by breathing.
This isn't something that's likely to ever be verified conclusively, but we do have evidence that COVID-19 is associated with myocardial injury and myocarditis. Sure, it's not impossible a young, fit and healthy professional athlete was suffering from undiagnosed heart inflammation prior to contracting a novel virus. It's very unlikely to be the case when a bunch of healthy young people are suddenly diagnosed with the condition concurrent to testing positive for COVID-19, though.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/what-e2-80-99s-...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589790X2...
Also, lithium batteries which have a higher total capacity can deliver more consistent current with less strain and voltage sag, so it's advantageous both for performance and longevity to have bigger cells.
CLR, mainframe language environments and now lost tech like some phone VM, do support C and C++ like languages.
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Good compilation, though readability could be better. But great free resoruce
Yes but details can get in the way. While every compiler is a cross compiler to any platform, that doesn’t mean that the platform libraries are available or that there’s a linker. For example, the MSVC target uses link.exe, and that only runs on Windows, so cross compiling to the MSCV target doesn’t work in practice even if it could in theory. You can cross compile to the GNU target for Windows though.
Nvidia datacentre revenues surpasses gaming for first time
And IBM, Red-Hat, Azul, Microsoft, SAP, Alibaba, Twitter, Amazon, PTC, Aicas, Gemalto,....
Just playing devil's advocate here:

That's not Brigade Capital's problem, and that's also not Revlon's problem.

I think it's entirely obvious brigade should return the money. But, playing devil's advocate:

Brigade gets a payment, 'out of nowhere' (it wasn't agreed upon beforehand, nor part of the repayment schedule), from the bank of Revlon, earmarked 'revlon'. Hey, the intent is clear enough, and Brigade sees this as an implicit contract. This transfer can be seen as equivalent to a note from the bank: "I, CitiBank, in my function as the bank of Revlon, hereby prepay some of the debt, and whilst revlon did not personally sign this note, that is okay because I am their bank, you can trust me."

And Revlon, having made no such agreement with citibank, also 'wins' their case and this money isn't scratched out of their accounts.

CitiBank, having made the error, is going to have to eat the 9 digit loss, but is of course allowed to recoup it, according to the normal schedule, and without charging interest (not that this matters much, what with interest being near nil), vs. revlon.

If revlon goes broke before they can, that's a bad day for citibank.

NB: To be clear I think when talking about 9 digits, this is a preposterous interpretation, but it IS one.
There's still darkness without people. Sickness, suffering, etc, exist without humans. Hell, even torture exists. Orcas play with their food as they're killing it. I believe cats do as well.

If you can zoom out from that at see it as some grand, beautiful, process, then you have to apply the same filter to all of the evil stuff humans do as well, IMO.
We hit it in real time for most datasets. A lot of government open data portals are powered by Socrata [0] and we wrote a foreign data wrapper that translates the query into their proprietary query language. If it's a dataset that we host ourselves, there's no problem with the upstream being unavailable.

We have a cache too, but it currently just hashes the query's AST. In the future, we'll be looking at caching actual tables as well -- basically, we'd store some regions of the remote table and selectively pull data from upstream when a query comes in to fill out our view of what the remote table looks like.

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com/docs/ingesting-data/socrata
> Kotlin offer unsigned integers.

As an experimental feature... I had to use it on one of the projects I work on because using signed bytes was driving me crazy, but I had to suppress warnings for experimental features (and will have to pay the price if they change the feature somehow, as they tend to do with experimental features).
Team.Video challenges Zoom with features to fix ‘common meeting frustrations’
I find it hard to believe that Gmail will always serve certain users from the same machines, especially in this day and age, with “cattle, not pets” and ephemeral containers.

I’m sure they have machines that are only used to serve G Suite and Google One customers, and maybe some other VIPs, but regular heavy users? It sounds like an urban legend to me.
How to Install WordPress on Localhost Xampp and Wamp
Installing WordPress on localhost is quite easy. You just have to follow some easy steps.

You can not install WordPress on your local computer directly.
You have to create an environment then install WordPress on localhost.

https://www.auspiciouscluster.com/blog/how-to-install-wordpress-on-localhost
If you're drawing something you can see, I don't see why you would need visual imagination.

Even if you're not drawing from something you can see, you can have a procedural memory of how to draw the thing, and you can see what you've already put on the page, and experiment if necessary using an eraser.

I don't have complete aphantasia, but my visual imagination is pretty weak, and I can still draw.
You know it's possible to have a signed boot loader without locking the owner out of the device.

Moreover, I do mind such freedom being taken away.
Exactly, other than very minimal metrics you can't do much of anything without cookies. It's great that there are now many alternative analytics services available, but I feel like they all just do the exact same thing – stick a two-line script on your website, then get some very minimal data about your website. This is probably good enough for most people, but it becomes very hard to actually do anything with this data if you're running a more "serious" project.

But I'm always amazed at how much popularity these projects seem to gather. I myself made a very simple landing page [1] for a similar service (but one that caters more to the saas based applications), and it's managed to gather some interest even though I've barely done any promotion to it.

[1]: https://tinylens.io
> There are 11 million millionaires in USA, if you take the 1% of their wealth

There’s that word again, “take”
BlockFi Raises $50M Series C After 10xing Revenue in under 10 months
For real. Phpstan and phpcs for life.
The discussion is about Palestinian sovereignty. When your election results in the kind of retaliation I mentioned, why would you work towards another? Such elections aren't proof of democracy.
We have so many hangover "cures" in Korea and I can honestly, but very unscientifically, say they work ridiculously well. There is one I always take when I drink and no matter how much I drink I feel fantastic the next day (it's actually really odd how well they work and I've always wondered why they are not more mainstream).

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbxazm/inside-koreas-boom...
Rust – Getting Started with the Most Loved Programming Language
Interaction of time crystals observed for first time, confirms Josephson effect
I think it would make more sense to vote on tags. Then you could compare multi-language formatters with single language by how many votes they had for that tag.

Iirc imgur had (has?) a system like this in addition to the main up/downvote (but I don't think you need a main up/downvote, since you're creating a list, not a feed).
You may want to have a look at an "MVP" compiler
one of such projects is The Super Tiny Compiler[0]

[0]https://github.com/jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler
Yeah like when the promised not to use any WhatsApp data. And here we are, I give it 1 year before we see commercials and deep integration with FB messenger. Who believes anything they say anymore?
I have a degree in Fine Arts and spent a couple decades as a coder. They are more similar than people might think, but you need to abstract the process out a bit to see it:

If you are starting a new coding project, you don't typically just start writing the final details for one feature, and then finish it and go to the next feature. You set yourself up for features by choosing a tech stack, setting up an IDE, databases, maybe some boilerplate starter code. You get a UI started, at least a blank page rendering that you'll code a feature onto. And then you start writing a feature. You code out the broad strokes of what it will do, and then work down to the details.

Drawing is the same. You choose your media, the surface on which it will go. You think out where it will fit on the page, where each piece of the drawing will land. You literally draw out the broad strokes, and then fill in more detail as you go.

If you approach drawing as a process, just like you code, it becomes much more manageable.
Well if you hadnt payed it back, then the house wouldnt have been payed. And the purchase would be invalid. Also your bank would probably have taken legal action against you.
Outrageous is the entitlement of the current generations for not paying for their tools.

Many of us used to pay for every single piece of software that we had to run on top of our already expensive computer around 2000 euros on today's money.
> Why else do doctors in hospitals wear N95 masks? To avoid getting sick.

I always thought they are meant to protect the patient from doctor coughing directly into an open surgery wound.
"Why wasn't this important to you three days ago when I tried to give the money back?"
No, this is just business. Brigade has a duty to its investors to fight tooth and nail to keep this money, just like a defense lawyer has a duty to use every advantage for the client allowed under the law, acquired intentionally or otherwise.
Look carefully at the inside of the coin slot...

If you left this for a few months, the whole case would fill up with coins, and that arduino certainly isn't going to work so well immersed in coins...
> Agroforestry is an ancient agricultural technique being rediscovered all over the world as limitations of the globe’s highly industrialized agriculture become obvious.

What are the "obvious limitations"? There are many problems with today's industrialized agriculture, but I wouldn't call the limitations obvious. The article says it doesn't work well in Africa for instance, and I believe it, but isn't it just because we don't have the proper GMOs/fertilizers/pesticides for this kind of soil due to a lack of interest? Is there some "obvious limitation" that makes it impossible.

I am not criticizing agroforestry. It is not like I want pesticides, artificial fertilizers and lifeless fields. But they cite 1920 as the starting year for the beginning of modern agriculture. During that time, the world population went from 2 to 7 billion. If we want do bring back ancient techniques, we have to do it in that context.

I often see the forest treated as an example of an efficient for of agriculture, and sure, forests are really dense with life. However, they are like closed systems, everything that is produced by the forest is used by the forest. Now, what we want is a patch of land from which we can pull as much as possible in order to feed our cities. There may be trees, but it won't be like a natural forest.

To make things clear again, I don't view agroforestry as a bad thing. If it allows good yields on previously unexploited land and does it so while preserving biodiversity, what's not to love. I am just skeptical when considered as a substitute for modern industrial agriculture.
>AC Josephson effect between two superfluid time crystals

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-020-0780-y
I think you misread something. The "few million" do not refer to the 900M but instead to the interest on the loan which is actually "a few" (less than 10) million.
Downloaded. Love it.
You suggest that ineptitude magically cancels out theft somehow. It's not clear that this is so. If I leave my wallet at your house by accident, its not your wallet.
It is a pity the article dismisses the whole eco system around LPMuds that much by basically only including them in that screenshot from Bartle's book. They were an interesting middle ground between the Diku-likes (think: precursors to Diablo) and the MOOs, being online programmable in an object-oriented C dialect called LPC which today lives on in e.g. the Pike programming language.
> These clerical errors must be more common than I thought.

They are, but I'm surprised that there seems to be no 4-eyes principle on such high transfers. Having two (or three) employees sign off on any transfer above ten million dollars seems like a cheap precaution against blunders of this scale.
[Linux], no?
It is useful to report problems as map notes on the website. Less useful than fixing it yourself obviously, but many regions have regular mappers that look through the notes from time to time. So it helps if there are regular contributors caring about the area.
I'll chime in.

This is basically the difference between western and eastern philosophies. In the west we tend to view that one person/party's idea is absolutely correct. In the east it is generally viewed that the truth lies somewhere between the two ideas. This mindset can help help avoid picking sides and becoming entrenched is what has typically become a populist dichotomy between two usually flawed ideas (at least that's how I see it in the US more often than not).
JVM is turing complete so it can run any language, the point is efficiency
It depends on the specific country's laws - in Germany you can not write anything you want into a contract and call it valid. In this case, you could still sue Google if according to industry standard definition it actually was an outage.
I think it's pretty cool of the organisation. In first place they place it as a critique. It's shows a bit of the darker side of social media.
> Overall, I think it appeals to the "unix philosophy" - composing two independent tools (tar and gzip) instead of having one integrated solution.

The unix philosophy in this case breaks down when you need to access individual files. One possible "unixy" solution would be .gz.tar as opposed to .tar.gz, but it is not universally supported as .tar.gz is.
As an aphantasiac who programs for a living, I know that I do not think about code in visual metaphors.
Yes but they don't leave it at that. They dig up the roots, stumps everything up and pile it up and grind down and ship it out.

Sustainable forestry would only take out some of the trees, leave the stumps and replant. The forest would still look like a forest but only a little sparser for a while. there are studies proving this leads to greater yields.
>That might be relevant for you if you have a (no doubt) lovingly handcrafted logstash ingestion pipeline and matching dashboards.

I feel attacked, somehow. I have made so many logstash pipelines. Some of them I love. Others I don't.
> BTW you are another of the wannabe rich I guess who drank the billionaires cool aid, the top 1% only pays a marginal amount of the taxes

This is a horrible excuse. Nobody has ever argued they want things to stay this way because one day they’ll be rich. How the liberals got this idea is a great question. The reason why people care is because this is a slippery slope. One side thinks you can’t pay enough taxes, and the other side wants their money to spend on themselves. It’s not “wannabe rich” so quit running around spouting that off out of ignorance. What we want is fairness and we happen to understand the rich people own the businesses. If you keep reaching into their pocket they will leave. Then what? Businesses and money will magically appear? I think it’s time you wake up, unless this is gonna be a typical liberal tantrum where we won’t hear the end of it until we submit to further taxation.
Perhaps one should have proper controls in place?
Except that the "someone else" was employed for the purpose of facilitating the payment from the party that owes you money, back to you.
That you don’t care about.
What if the someone else happens to be the bank of the first person and the transfer is done under the name and reference of the first person?
I wouldn't support Hikvision, but there are a number of good options from Axis, Hanwha, Vivotek, and others. They are all generally 7W or less, so solar compatible in most locations.

Look for cameras rated IP66 or IP67 and you should have something that will stand up in typical outdoor locations.
Why should they have been?

That was wishful thinking from the get go.

No commercial UNIX was ever on open source camp, in fact they are the very reason while GCC was ignored for several years, it got a bunch of helping hands as Sun started the trend of user and development UNIX versions.

Also given NeXTSTEP heritage, UNIX on NeXTSTEP was always a means to have a foot on the DoD UNIX requirements, there was nothing open source about Renderman, Lotus Improv and many other NeXTSTEP based tooling.
If only there was an 'Export as Word' function. There is! and it works fine for documents that aren't too fancy schmancy in terms of formatting.
I hear you about those language pairs that have to be round-tripped through a third language. I completely agree, too, that the big open questions in NLP are all about understanding meaning, semantic content, pragmatics, etc rather than just syntax.

I don't think that "NMT and similar techniques" ignore meaning by design though. What they do do by design, compared to expert systems etc, is avoid having explicitly encoded knowledge (of the kind SHRDLU had). Take word2vec for instance, it's not NMT but fits into the "statistical NLP" description - its purpose is to find encodings of words that carry some semantic content. Now, of course it's very little semantic content compared to what an expert could plausibly encode, but it is some semantic content, and this content improves the (subjective human) evaluation of NMT systems that do use word2vec or something similar.

Also, we should carefully distinguish "prior knowledge" as in "prior common-sense knowledge" and "prior linguistic knowledge". The end-to-end trend eschews "prior linguistic knowledge", while current NLP systems tend to lack "common-sense" knowledge, for rather different reasons.

End-to-end training tends to eschew prior linguistic knowledge because it improves (subjectively evaluated) performance in real-world tasks - I believe this is true for MT as well, but an easier example if you want to look into it is in audio transcription. I don't think there's a consensus about why this happens, but I think it is something like - the previously way people were encoding linguistic knowledge was too fragile / simplified (think about how complicated traditional linguistic grammars are), and if that information can somehow be learned in the end-to-end process, that performs better.

Lacking "common-sense" knowledge - that's more in the realm of AGI, so there's a valid debate about to what extent neural networks can learn such knowledge, but the other side of that debate is that expressing common-sense knowledge in today's formal systems is really hard and expensive, and AIUI this is also something that attempts to generalize SHRDLU run into. But it is definitely incorrect to say that it's ignored by anyone by design...

BTW, the biggest improvements (as subjectively evaluated by me) I've seen in MT on "dissimilar languages" have come from black box neural nets and throwing massive amounts of (monolingual or bilingual) data at it, rather than anything from formal systems. I use deepl.com for Japanese-English translation of some technical CS material, and that language pair used to be really horrible in the pre-deep-learning days (and it's still not that good on google translate for some reason).
From a few years ago? We have used managed ES for a while now and see no issues however I realise its different for everyone.
On Ethics in Software with the Authors of “The Pragmatic Programmer”
Are people really trying to get primary kids to do stuff on Zoom? I mean my nephews had Zoom classes during the lockdown but it was like 1 hour a day, and they got assignments for the next hours. Obviously no one expects kids to sit still behind a laptop for 6 - 8 hours.

Anyone expecting a 5 year old to do virtual education has never met a 5 year old. I'm sure off that.