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I Spain it is fairly common to see appartement building with a hollow center and interior balconies (but they usually have exterior balcony too).

I honestly hated this design because the hollow center was almost never getting any light, but it was getting the moist and the rain, making it look dirty almost all the time. It also act has a good way for sound to propagate. You can hear your neighbours at all time ...

When the hollow center has the size of a court, it is okay, but when it is just a few meters wide, it is truly awful.
> it is easy to accidentally create javascript-heavy sites

It's definitely not easy by any definition. And also not happening accidentally. Almost all frameworks/libraries mention about how small they are in overhead.
Yup, that matches my experience running the example (I also had to put it in $PATH for the command -v in the header to work). I built program.com myself and it seems to be missing the DOS header for some reason, so it just doesn't execute at all…I'd file a bug, but I have no idea if she is interested in supporting it or if I can provide any useful information besides "it doesn't work".
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Wouldn't nationwide UBI just make everything more expensive? Most people who work will continue to work, most people who don't, won't. More money in circulation = higher prices.

If you care about poor people, why not just try to fix welfare with e.g. Negative Income Tax proposed by Milton Friedman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax)?
Awful lot of privileged software engineer types with relatively cushy lockdown-friendly jobs, good income, savings, covered healthcare and good homes that leap to criticize as selfish, greedy, irresponsible and dumb anyone who insists that economic consequences from lockdown are possibly, just maybe, for many, many hundreds of millions of people all around the world something a bit more than just going short of travel and discretionary income for a few months.

Do any of you even know that a much wider and largely poorer world exists outside your highly developed bubble? Do you not fathom that for billions of people all around the world, the money you don't earn by working today means no food tomorrow and possibly no electricity or capability of paying the doctors visit for your kid next week?

Do you not grasp that for most of these billions of people, the work necessary to get this basic income on a daily and weekly basis absolutely depends on the ability to leave home and engage in external economic activity?

The economic losses that have already been caused by attempts at lockdown are NOT just about some lost income. In so many cases, they literally affect the most fundamental aspects of being able to survive without suffering very badly.

The privileged righteousness that ignores this here is way too common, and awfully foolish. Especially when you consider that we're still in the middle of all this and not even the world's best experts can yet concretely say that lockdowns have done much or that they were the better choice vs trying to keep the economy of so many places from falling so far.
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> Not sure how else Apple could proceed here.

Apple could simply have looked at it and said "this mark would never be confused with ours" and then been done with it.
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Aha, things have improved since last century. When in California I did use spanish as well as english, and in Louisiana french as well as english — but back then the concept of "melting pot" was still current, so one of these languages was clearly the prestige dialect.

Looking at the current cabinet, I'm sure if I scrolled enough in @SecElaineChao I could find some chinese. Sorry for my outdated impression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Donald_Trump#Announ...

(For comparison, our excomm may have 4 germanophones, 2 francophones, and 1 italophone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Council_(Switzerland)#...

but we utterly lack any mother-tongue sinophones. And although our current president, @s_sommaruga, has some romanche in her feed, she uses much more english.)
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Cue the inevitable breach.
The greatest gardener and the worst gardener in the world can self-publish equally well on the web, unfortunately proving to others which is which is outside the area of self-publishing and they cannot do this easily. This problem is also a general one for people publishing books or anything else.
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The thing I don't really see accounted for in these experiments is that UBI is not really "universal". It's a group, or a town who or are not isolated from the outside economy, and the participants are usually aware/suspect that this bonus income probably won't last forever, so they know they need to keep working to maintain their careers etc.

I'm not sure there's any way to account for it unfortunately, it is such a compelling idea though I think we kind of all want it to be real.
You'll hear singers and artists often say, "The fans keep me going." It sounds cliche, but it's true.

I've done a lot of projects in my life, and I think the ones that drive me forward are the ones with fans. It doesn't take much; only about 1-2 genuine ones. They're the ones who'll email you giving dumb ideas you ignore, but are flattering. As per the YC handbook, it's better to find something that a few people really love, than something that a lot of people just kinda like.

I'd recommend finding a way to connect with fans as well. One of the best things I did for my furthest running startup is to add a chat. Our users set up a WhatsApp group to stay in touch, and I'd join them and hang out with them. When running a grocery or most kinds of businesses, you see the people paying you money, and they thank you or smile in some way, and that adds a lot to the motivation. Try to find a way to work that into the business, even if it's a subreddit.

Or try to go the other way around this. Find something that someone is annoyed or pissed about. Or if you're working on an idea in your head, find someone who wants to see that idea done. Hack a solution for that; doesn't have to be great, just proof of concept is fine.
That doesn't resolve the concern laid out by the parent commenter at all.
I had a colleague who insisted on quality in every bit of our software and the results were similar perhaps: locally, each thing might take more time and more care, but the global result was everything working better and being done more easily. So perhaps focusing in quality and assuming efficiency will come from global effects is a good strategy?

(Reminds me also of The score takes care of itself business book)
Considering various aspects like anti-vaxers, very remote tribes etc. as true eradication with 7 billions is most probably impossible. Everybody will never get them.

Also, seems like every state will have their own variant with varying effectiveness (and possibly some bad side effects), I don't see things very rosy for next few years.

It will be probably good enough situation eventually, but I presume it will just become one of those ever-present, potentially deadly things that you can get when traveling to exotic places like malaria or chikungunya.

But this time, you can also get it in your grocery shop/kindergarten/work.

The thing is, if everybody really followed all the rules, the virus would die on its own due to R being close to 0. But that's pure fantasy when I look outside, always somebody not wearing mask properly (ie under the nose), skipping wearing it with pretense of drinking.
Yes we have seen that simple integration and A/B test setup is key for our customers.

It is both about integrating with the website as well as integrating with the catalog of existing products, and this is right now easier with us than any other provider since we have built tooling for making this very efficient right now.
Christian Miller is arguing that while we do have phycological character traits and motivations, that persist between situations, how we actually behave is a complex interaction between these and our contexts. Divergence can maybe be explained as much by contexts as by characteristics. If I were to meet someone who works a similar job, has a similar social and familia situation, but divergent motivations, I might have more in common with them than I would have if I met the university student version of myself.
I like living in Berlin but not because of its beauty or pleasantness :)

Although I guess one feature mentioned by OP that is relatively unique (in the German speaking countries) to Berlin how wide so many of the streets/sidewalks are.
It's bad, but it's not universally bad. I'm in Berlin and have 400MB/S at home But our apartment was built in 2011, so that might have something to do with it.
TL;DR: Flawed non-UBI experiment was inconclusive.

Well, hold on, from that link,

"The Finnish experiment was about partial basic income targeting able-bodied people without work, it was not about universal basic income."

And further down,

"However, the Finnish government introduced a new activation policy into the Finnish unemployment system at the beginning of 2018 – that is, during the second year of the experiment – which contaminated the control group."

And,

"It is also important to note that labour markets did not pick up before early 2018. That means there could be more visible effects in 2018, but if that is the case, we cannot really know if that was related to basic income."

Finally,

"Firstly, the experiment did not include a baseline survey. We do not know if people’s subjective assessments changed after they started to receive basic income."

Basically they didn't even do a UBI experiment, their control was messed up, they didn't compare before/after, they had a poor survey response, etc.
My quick test of DeepSpeech, as posted on Facebook back in April:

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I just ran a speech-to-text converter on a very clear clip of former Doctor Who actor Tom Baker talking in an interview.

The DeepSpeech converter uses the very latest AI deep-learning advancements to 'listen' to the audio and output the spoken words as text.

After 3 long minutes of running it on a 30-second clip, it printed out its interpretation:

"hooloomooloo how booboorowie i have a honeymoon"
I would say both of those things are pretty abstract.
Same happened to my father. He was kept for 9 months and tortured because he wouldn't agree to spy for Iran. Among the horrifying things that happened to him whilst there, he mentioned they would take him outside blind-folded, force him on his knees, and hold a gun to his head saying he needs to cooperate with them, or they will end his life right here and then the same will happen to his children.

The depression, anger, and sadness ruins lives. He was never the same.
Why is this never framed as a universal right for food, housing, medical care.

Feel like that has a much bigger chance of going somewhere
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You don't know exactly who is going to die though. If you would go by the risk factors, then just a single one - obesity, would put tens of millions of americans into risk group.

And similar logic can be applied to many other countries struggling with obesity (latino, south east asians and so on).

Now we put in cardiovascular, lung and immunity issues. Add older people. And suddenly its not 1% but much, much larger group.
It will also execute libc.so and libpcre.so from that folder. That's simply how libraries are loaded on both Linux and Windows, nothing specific to python.

It's really far fetched to go for python or jupyter when there are easier options like system DLL. The downloads directory is fundamentally unsafe, that we can agree on. Thankfully browsers don't let website push files unlike what the author may imply.
I don't get how someone can label big tech as anything but an extension of the DNC. Literally every major platform has had employees actively protesting and engaging in workplace campaigns in support of what are clearly DNC ideals. If you think the problem has political roots then there's no avoiding the reality that American tech needs to find a way to become politically agnostic again if the situation is going to improve.
Perhaps “elevation” instead of height:

U.S. Geodesic Elevation Recalibration

https://geodesy.noaa.gov/heightmod/
Not to mention it is terrible for searching.
What's the program being used to go through the machine code in the gif?
Depends which end of society you're on.

My sister's in law are up early and on a train for hours into the city where they work until well after dark and are home at about 11pm.

My wife who lives in my home country on the other hand runs her own business from home, sets her own hours and has a lot more free time and independence.

I feel pretty sorry for the workforce in Japan. It's pretty dystopian if you ask me.

It's amazing for kids, university students, senior citizens and if you ever get a day off.
> Remember this: Markdown is all about HTML. Markdown has serious limitations and is very poorly designed in places, but it works well enough despite being so bad specifically because underneath it’s all HTML, so you can fall down to that when necessary.

Originally, this was the case, but I'd argue that modern MarkDown flavors have been separated from HTML. It's common to compile via other pathways than HTML now (e.g. MarkDown → LaTeX → PDF), and many implementations don't support inline HTML anymore (e.g. many MarkDown-based note-taking apps).

> I find that perfectly normal documents need to write raw HTML regularly, because Markdown is so terribly limited

Out of curiosity, what do you need it for? I write a lot of MarkDown, but haven't felt any need for writing raw HTML. Modern versions of MarkDown (e.g. the Pandoc variant) have native support for things like tables, LaTeX equations, syntax-highlighted code, even bibliography management.
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“but both now and yesterday people with a wide view of the issue were basically ostracized and chased away as if they were flat earther or antivaxxer”

Agreed. I’ve been quite taken aback, seeing HN’s response to Covid threads. I’ve always assumed the community was willing to ask tough questions and entertain alternative points of view that are backed by data, but with Covid there’s a complete unwillingness to think about anything other than “deaths bad, lockdown good”. It’s a shame that more nuanced comments get voted down so hard as they’re important to discuss too.

My theory: There must be something about us tech industry types that makes a ‘germaphobic’ response more likely. For instance, the WHO have said there’s no point wiping down food packaging because it just isn’t a vector for the virus. Yet I’ve seen dozens of HN comments about doing this and/or leaving groceries in quarantine for days. It really isn’t rational or logical and yet it’s this response that gets the support of the community. Very strange.
Because then someone will call it communism and people will lose their god damn minds.
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Seems so. Teletext also supported subtitles (as we called it in Britain), by selecting Teletext page 888.
40% of GDP from tourism. So in a perfect world now it would be time for the government to take that saved tourism money and support their citizens so they survive/stay until the next tourist season. Or borrow money from other nations to do so.

And is it really sane to stay 100% covid free? I mean I would assume that when tourism starts up again it will start a wave of covid infections in these countries.
Thank you for your feedback. I’m not going to vigorously defend PDF, because a lot of the distaste you express is legitimate. It’s a statement of my disappointment in current web/browser trends that I would be willing to accept all of PDF’s hardships to distance myself from the churn.

For what it’s worth though...

That 1MB of PDF still loads nearly instantly on my phone - subjectively no slower than the equivalent much-smaller bare-bones HTML version.

PDF patents are all licensed royalty-free for the normative parts of the PDF 2.0 spec.

PDF tooling sucks, but I’d rather see effort put into improving this situation than into yet another expansion of the web browser.
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It's just a byte string converted to a hex string commonly. Chunk it into quads of hex and you can index into a 65k dictionary (the OED has more than twice that).
I agree. But I still think it's worth it to ditch Gmail, or at least the free version.

People need to own their online identity. The email address should be on your own domain, because Google can change the service and their terms of use on a whim, and if you're tied to a @gmail.com address, your only option for keeping your email address is to go along with it.

If you like Gmail, then at least pay for Google Suite and your own domain.

I have my own domain, it's paid for 10 years in advance, I host my email at Fastmail, but if I get unhappy with Fastmail, I can change the email provider in an hour.
I completely agree with your conclusions starting from these ifs!

However, I would add that another interesting area of study that is essentially not being explored at all is exactly to try to understand more about human cognition at the computational level (whereas neuroscience is working at the biological level). Basically, it seems we have abandoned any work in AI that would try to model human learning or human understanding of language in a human-understandable way, and instead we are aiming for reproducing human behaviors for engineering purposes.
This caused problems when a bridge was being built between Germany (which uses the North Sea) and Switzerland (which uses the Mediterranean) - someone made a mistake including the known height difference between the two seas:

https://www.science20.com/news_articles/what_happens_bridge_...
Considering that Covid can be lethal I’d assume anti-vaxxers would be a self-resolving problem if given enough time.
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Of course it will cause some kinds of inflation. Just as zero interest rates also create inflation (stock market, housing, ...). UBI would certainly create a different kind of inflation.

Negative income tax would probably not work as efficiently. What if it takes a year and a half of administratoin for the negative income tax to reach people living hand to mouth? That's a very slow tool to get money into everyone's hands...
Revlon had not released the funds for Citigroup to pay the amount due and don't have the funds to repay the loan. Revlon's creditors had sued them the day before. Citigroup were just an intermediary and shouldn't have transferred any funds. I don't think a loan is involved in this.
I tested on that exact model of phone and I found that when zoomed to the width of the main column of text, in portrait orientation, the font size was only a little smaller than the size used on Hacker News. In landscape orientation, zoomed in the same way, it’s a little bigger.
Many of us already employ advanced anti-forensic kits, this will just make us step it up and release the tooling as something so simple anyone will be able to stop these sick tactics/agencies in their tracks. Everyday I feel like these agencies are just begging for us to snap and block off all government access to even our names.
Lots of developed countries already have that. But it's not enough because it raises the threshold for being "poor". I live in a poor neighborhood where nobody lacks any of those things but they still go begging for cigarettes in the street because those aren't part of the universal right. People always want more (not judging, just observing).
Did they eventually fix the story around being able to make screenshots and screen recordings? I haven't been following Wayland much because there didn't seem to be much interest in enabling basic functionality like this early on.
Brainstorming here: what about light tunnels every ±5 floors that use mirrors to funnel light from outside the building into the courtyard? In theory, this would work...I think.
I have — in this case Better Call Saul as I’ll probably watch it again in a few years. Since I don’t have to carry around a DVD I don’t have any cost of carrying around a DVD that I will probably lose.

I liked that Amazon reduced the price by almost the amount of the first two videos that I rented.
Do you not grasp that in most countries where lockdowns took place people had government support? Do you not fathom that most countries have publicly accessible healthcare? Do you not understand that not all countries ditch their vulnerable under the bus in such unprecedented times? Is it such an alien concept the fact that us, the high earning developers pay tax precisely to help those in need? What a strange view of the world some of you have in a country pretending to be rich, yet it collapses at first sign of real trouble.
It doesn't sound like you need a better app. It sounds like you need better technique. You've described a lot of things that can be done in Trello, but many of these are doable in similar apps like Pivotal Tracker or Todoist. I use Sublime Text's extension PlainTasks, but that might not meet your 'low cognitive load' requirement. Trello/Kanban seems like a multiplayer checklist.

I'm not sure if it helps but maybe check out The Checklist Manifesto (https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/...)
I find very interesting that this is being downvoted. I mean, is not even a hard negationist opinion.

There is a mix of arguments and opinions in this post, in my view some are totally debatable (ie, very unlikely that everyone in NYC has been in contact with the virus, or the 'flat out wrong' characterization of the initial data), and some are totally agreeable (ie, why the issue, and the discussion of it, is political and should be debated).

But at the end of the day, is a comment that is not insulting or attacking anyone or other political positions, so why the downvotes? If it is because some people dont like any questioning of the goverment's response to the covid-19 pandemic (as vary as it is in the world) then those are just proving the point that some views are "basically ostracized and chased away as if they were flat earther or antivaxxer" which is a very very dangerous path to be in.
Does your comment have anything at all to do with the linked article?
This is what I hear very often about Facebook:

Toxic culture. Poorly designed performance reviews that lead to a competitive environment and people working towards getting a better assessment, not building better products.

Regarding the high trust in Zuck's management, the grape vine suggests you won't last long at Facebook if you do not perceive Zuck as a semi God, so that might well be a self selecting bias.
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Congratulations to the new role!

After two years as a CTO I found that the most important part of my work was to have the right developers for the job. You personally cannot know every technical detail, your 20 developers have to deal with every day. So they have to be experienced to know it mostly by themselves.

In your case I would start with personal interviews with every developer to identify their experience in certain technologies and also to get to know their desires for the next 2-3 years. This will help you to focus on the right candidates in the recruiting process.
And that is the big miss I am completely worried about. We don't need a basic income if one year later vegetables triple in price and our income stays the same.
Funding UBI through "printing" money would cause inflation because that increases the money supply.
But most UBI proponents plan to fund it through new taxes and consolidation of the current "means based" welfare programs.