skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UBI causes "inflation" because that's what it does. When you give poor people like Alice money, they spend it and create demand for consumer goods. Consumer inflation is what happens when demand for consumer goods exceeds supply. However, this is not a bad thing because increased demand also creates new job opportunities. Inflation is only bad when it cannot be balanced by increasing the supply side.

Charlie on the other hand may invest his excess income and therefore generate no demand for consumer goods. In fact it's the opposite, it's entirely possible that his investment is creating excess supply beyond a reasonable point and thereby causing deflation.
Nah. We in the IT have it easy enough already.

Pretty much no other industry obsesses as the IT industry over things like job interview process, salary comparison and compensation.

Also, I take it very cautious when switching jobs. Google says that missing on a good hire is better proceeding with a bad hire. Similarly, I prefer to apply to and interview with a few companies at the time, and do my best at making sure I'm making a good choice. I'd prefer to miss on a good company that to end up in a shitty one.

IT is not body rental, I would actually be suspicious of a company hiring me too fast: why are they so desperate? What did drove them to such desperation? Did the previous people leave? Why? Is that bad technology? Bad management? Company-wide unwillingness to fix long-standing problems?
People who don't use Kali comment on whether move from one shell to another was right for the Kali users. This drive by commenting is sadly omnipresent in the open source world. OpenBSD uses CVS? They should use git. XServer? Why not Wayland? Oh, libsdl is using Mercurial, but they should totally use git. And on, and on.
Author of the article here.

Please take a look at the underlying library here (AWSSSMChaosRunner) - https://github.com/amzn/awsssmchaosrunner
You should look up how the idea of “towers in a park” actually played out when implemented. It’s not a new concept.
We actually need to be aggressively carbon negative in order to remove excess co2 and/or other greenhouse gases so we don't cook in the near future.

Carbon neutral would mean that the heating up will remain at current rate.
Cherry picking jobs that stir emotions doesn't count: these jobs exists purely due to supply and demand... someone wants this shitty thing done so there will be someone available to do it. That won't change.

Utopian societies don't exist but giving people free money that is paid for by the middle class (yes, the middle class will fund this, not the billionaires!) is not the answer.
It depends on the percent of people on UBI; if it is 5-10% it will be injecting money on the market without products and services to match; if it's 80% it will make everything a lot cheaper because the demand-supply will shift to cheaper products that 80% of the buyers are looking for. Think about the 5000 Euro car Renault built and sold in Europe while their other cars were selling for 20-30,000 Euro.
Housing, childcare, textbooks, and food and beverages seem strongly market based, and private college tuition has risen far more than public, challenging your characterisation.

I note textbook prices took a dive about the time book-sharing services became prevalent.
Human readability. You are correct that the existence of the hash shows when the original message was written. But for human readability and understanding, I thought it was useful to have.
There is no shortage of Go users, like myself, that can admit to the downsides of it. That's why there's always the same debates about things like sum types and generics and interface{} and null pointer errors in every Go thread. And even in the recent submission where Go implements provisional generics, we go on to point out the downsides of it, like how you're still stuck with null pointers to represent sum types (like an imagined Result<T> impl). And it's pretty good discussion.

I mean, the throwaway accounts so far aren't exactly raising the bar of discussion here. So far it's extremely elementary. Is this the discussion you think we're missing out on without throwaway accounts? Maybe if we keep prodding you/them for more info, they'll flesh out a novel point? Time to shit or get off the pot.
For what? Usually absolutes are not very useful...
That's an enlightening comment, thank you.
What’s wrong with that? Also there’s has to be a cap somewhere in the process.
This story is about Canadian-Iranian software engineer Behdad Esfahbod and his detention during a visit to Iran [1]:

> Esfahbod claims that he was arrested by Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps intelligence echelon during a 2020 visit to Tehran. He was then moved to Evin prison, where he was psychologically pressured and interrogated for 6 days. Iranian security forces let him go based on his promise to spy on his friends once he was back in United States.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behdad_Esfahbod#Detention_Iran...
Most signifiers of merit, outside of academics (I'd argue even including academics), require a certain amount of privilege. You can't volunteer or take piano lessons or play sports seriously if you have to help out around the house because you're living in a single parent household where the parent has to hold two jobs to make ends meet.
This was already done under socialism in the eastern side of Europe after the Second World War. Jobs had to be created that were unnecessary, or a single job was split between 2-3 people. Keyword is "full employment" if you want to google it, for example:

https://nintil.com/the-soviet-union-achieving-full-employmen...

Resulted in overmanning (a sort-of "hidden unemployment") and lead to work shortages for new projects.
> How was this never tested?

You're describing this like it's supposed to work. Btrfs-raid5 is clearly labelled as a bad idea in pretty much every relevant doc. It's not an issue that the tool is broken for this use case because you're not expected to actually try that configuration. mkfs.btrfs specifically says: "RAID5/6 is still considered experimental and shouldn’t be employed for production use."

It's really not that big of an issue in that context. "How was running with scissors never tested for safety?" - just don't try it in the first place.
It depends on _for what_. The most important part of these discussions often leaves out this important part.

I use go as a python replacement for the most part and it’s brilliant at it. Types, compiled, good collection of external libraries and easy to read. For most of my scripting or mini projects I’m not willing to use C++ and by the same thought, I’m not willing to use rust either.
There's no "only" in the title. Are you even interested in the topic or you're just taking the opportunity to whine?
That's an English p, not a Greek ρ.
The world needs a state of the art and easy to integrate library for providing speech to text so that we don't have to rely on sending all of our voice data to the big tech giants. I imagine this was the motivation behind it.

That being said, I think the current open source options are actually okay and constantly getting better. They're certainly a lot better today than they were 3 years ago.
Default gnome on Ubuntu 20.04. How much free ram do you normally have? If you don't have enough to buffer the whole operation, then it's not a problem.
High Output Management Summary (2020)
Spent the last month writing about the best book on management, High Output Management by Andy Grove.

It's really the canonical guide to management. Fans include Tobi Lutke (Co-founder of Shopify), Drew Houston (Co-founder of Dropbox), Mark Zuckerberg (Founder of Facebook), Marc Andreesen (Co-founder of a16z, Netscape, and Opsware), Ben Horowitz (Co-founder of a16z and Opsware), Brian Chesky (Co-founder of Airbnb), Brian Armstrong (Co-founder of Coinbase), and Ev Williams (Co-founder of Twitter and Medium).
Ask HN: Book Recommendation about Networking
Hi,

I want to understand more about networking, tcp/ip, dns protocol. thing about multi cast, nat traversal, how to implement my own toy network stack and the like, lan segmenting, vlan...

Those concepts come up a lot in my work and I just google the hell out of it and connect the dot here and there to figure them out but I lacked a fundamental/core understanding...

I want to fill that gaps in my knowledge by going to books instead of reading articles/blogs

Any good book out there for this?

Thanks.
Then rape the women and molest the children in the process, then kill them all when you're done; it is as moral as your proposal, just finishing the sentence. "How is this a bad idea again", you say?
1) актуалли портабле екзекутабле

2) αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

What is easier to comprehend?
During the pandemic I can blaze through new additions to the Netflix US catalog with speed, then its time to go find something new to watch for the next few weeks. All of the regional Netflix get movies and shows that the US does not - I was able to watch Star Trek Discovery in its entirety on Netflix Germany for example. Netflix Hong Kong has an amazing catalogue but I could not get that one to work with my VPN. Netflix UK is the most disappointing because it is more or less devoid of UK movies and shows aside from Monty Python and Peppa Pig (both already available in the US anyway).
Same here, it's extremely annoying. Other pet peeves include "grssk" and Beyoncé's documentary's monstrosity that I don't even care to recall.
You need to see when me and my friends start chatting in English written in Cyrillic. It's epic and utterly frustrating for the first hours, then becomes like native ;)
Absolutely nothing would be stopping you from living solely on UBI. You would have very basic accommodation, very basic food, and very little left over for entertainment and leisure.

I'm sure some people would be perfectly content living like that, but the vast majority want more. They want a nicer house/apartment, they want nicer food and snacks, and they want to travel, go to restaurants, go see movies, have parties, and so on.

Because most people generally want more than just the bare minimum basics, they are motivated to work for that extra comfort and ability to do things.

UBI simply provides a safety net for how far towards rock bottom you can fall.
There are various taxes that work that way. Depending on how high they are (and how high the taxes that work in the opposite way are) it works better or worse. The difference between rich and poor is not the same everywhere on the planet.
What difference is it to you how someone chooses to live their life? I don't understand how this is an argument for anything except to prove your own intolerance.
> What would be interesting is to force rich people to invest in social efforts with their money.

Ever heard of tax deductible donations? Also, what makes you think that a private person is better at deciding where to put their money and has less inclination to donate this money to a social cause that has direct positive outcome for them (for example, investing in their already well-financed community and being the 'hero of the town', gaining also political power that way) instead of letting a state, capable of overseeing ALL of its people redistribute the taxed money to the poorest communities or those that need the help the most in some area?

Edit: And I didn't even touch on this point, because it's a whole other discussion but:

> Another way to say it is that the top 10% got there because they use their money to make more money.

Wealthy people are increasing their wealth through financial tools without contributing anything to society. Also, except for a small number of family or solo entrepreneurs, they didn't get rich on their own. They had employees. Most of those people did not benefit like the business owner did, while they actually did the work. So is it really that unjustified to tax this money and redistribute it to the poor and the workers?
Zsh isn’t posix compatible? Citation needed?

Also what can bash do that zsh can’t? Genuinely curious, after using both for years.
Germany seems to do very well with this approach.
People who make more than the median.
Do people learn the basics of economy in schools these days? This matter is well explained there, much better than a HN comment can do it.
It was an old bash 2.x which was still GPLv2. Zsh being MIT licensed posed no licensing issues for inclusion into MacOS. I switched to zsh on Snow Leopard and above and never looked back. Didn't use the fancy stuff much and still use bash on Linux.
We've not yet reached a level of digital literacy necessary for that sort of niche to survive. Ecommerce has reduced profit margins for brick & mortar to levels that are almost unsustainable (hence the well-reported closures), but b&m chains still exist and push a lot of volume, and a lot of people don't trust their internet skills enough to try non-brand shops.

Timing is important. Remember the "New Economy" boom? A lot of those businesses didn't survive just because there weren't enough customers online. I say we're now in a position where there are enough customers to keep large businesses afloat, but not enough to sustain niches big enough to leave them some surplus to invest in algo optimization. I think this will change sometime in the next 30 years. By the time everyone under 65 will have grown up with the internet as a given, I think we'll see the "final form" of the new market.

Also, the necessary algo tech is still not cheap.
I'm not sure exactly what debugger is used, but gdb dashboard can be set up in a similar way.
It's just stepping through instructions and viewing the registers and some memory regions.

https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard

Though any debugger should be able to give the same information (including just plain gdb).
Amazon products are never polished or fully fleshed out. You can spend a few minutes on their flagship site and find weird design choices or basic CSS mistakes.

A shame considering the amount of money they have. You'd expect a bit more, but then again Amazon are in the business of scale, quantity over quality.

At least it keeps them from having a monopoly on literally everything.
> E.g. if I realise while typing that I'm not in the right directory, `git clone<alt-q>cd src<return>`.

With bash I’d just Ctrl+a and type “cd src ;” and then press ctrl+e and continue typing what I was typing.

I got so used to doing it that way, that even after switching to zsh I still do it this way.

The disadvantage of my way of doing it is if you typo the path. But I tab complete pretty much always, so in practice I don’t have the problem of typoing directory names without noticing.

I probably should learn those zsh ways of doing things. Will try to remember to do it the zsh way next time I need to do something like the things you mentioned.
How is it more or less magic than bash’s? It takes more context into account, sure, but it’s easy to understand and reason about.
Key Factors to a Successful and Sustainable Implementation of DevOps
Show HN: I built a collaborative flashcard tool
Creator here. As a University student I was struggling a lot with the huge amount of information I needed to remember for my courses. I started using spaced repetition (Anki) and it worked great! I enthusiastically shared this method with my family but they got overwhelmed by the complexity of the Anki interface and all the options. I wanted to change that. So I built memordo. I focused on creating a minimalist but still productive interface for creating memory cards that supports image, latex, code and clozes. I have also built a sharing feature when users can share their decks and collaborate on building decks together.

I have already received some feedback from the HN community and I would love to hear what you guys think again.

Thanks for reading!
> Will tax payers in the UBI community accept their increased taxes? Will those paying taxes move out of the community, leaving only those on UBI behind (who will then not be able to fund the UBI)? Will we see an influx of unproductive citizens into the community to gain the UBI benefits?

But then you have exactly the same problem -- a small scale experiment doesn't tell you that.

If you did a UBI experiment that applied to a single street in a single neighborhood then of course people would do that, because moving across the street would net you $10,000/year while still effectively living in the same community.

But are they going to move to another state, leave their job, community, business contacts, family, friends and everything they've ever known? Much less likely.

You also need a certain amount of scale to encompass a realistic level of diversity. If I want to disprove your point I could do a UBI experiment in East LA where there are no rich people to move out, or in Newport Beach where the cost of living is too high for someone to be able to afford to move in just to receive the UBI.

The real question is whether it would work at the state level, which you can only tell by actually implementing it at the state level.

And your concerns wouldn't even apply to doing it at the national level because we do have national borders and citizenship.
> OTOH all the standard UI elements (buttons, checkboxes, text controls, date pickers, ...) are native

Well, let's verify that… https://i.imgur.com/uHfjoUs.png No, they're not.

> draggable/dockable tabs/panels […] You can't say they differ from native ones because there is just no native version

That sounds wrong. Why should they not be? Do you have any proof?
LOL some high-end Anglo-Greek right there :-D thanks
What assets are being "diluted dramatically"? The only asset class you mention are stocks and they're mostly up. Here in the Netherlands, housing prices have continued to rise during corona. Eurozone inflation in July was 0.4% annualized. So were is the massive dilution?

The government support you mention is for the most part financed through bonds (at very low or negative interest rates), not by "printing money".
Nowadays, the term is widely used in a positive way to describe 'creative minorities who bring real progress'.

It is confusing to use the old opposing definition of the word 'meritocracy' when everybody else around you is adhering to the original meaning of 'merit'.

Of course, whether or not we're able to accurately evaluate 'merit' is a decent question, but it is better to ask the question using metrics, than to try to answer using personal bias and satire.
Please explain your reasoning for this.
When men do things, "we" did it, or "scientists" did it etc. When women do things "women" did it, or "female scientists" did it etc.
I know the person's intentions are good in putting forth such an idea, but the problem with intentions is that they're always good. But they often ignore the bad side effects of the idea when it comes to putting it into practice.

First, let's not mince words here -- this suggested policy is about lowering the bar for admission to top universities so that some previously unqualified tier of applicants has a better shot at getting in. These lower tier students get a better chance in a lottery, at the expense of people who through better work/aptitude/achievement/(and no small amount of luck, finance, or legacy also) would otherwise usually get in with high likelihood. (Note, those last exceptional categories are a small portion -- something like 10%.)

So what's one of the side effects here? Or let's call it incentives produced by such a system?

Well, perhaps it's that students, who throughout school are taught to study hard, do well, apply themselves, at the end face a selection that tosses that out the window and says, well, everyone is equally good and we're going to do a lottery. We're lowering the bar so that everyone who got above a B average has an equal chance of getting into Harvard.

Is that teaching them the right lesson? Is that incentivizing people to excel and be really good at something? How would you respond at work if at the end of the year, everyone doing a minimum amount of work were given the same salary?

I don't think you'd actually like that (most people reading these forums, at least). Now, I don't dispute that there's a lot of unnecessary pressure on students today. And part of it is a bigger problem that the population has grown while top spots have stayed relatively constant. So people are trying to fix this.

But I disagree with attempts to create artificial equality at the last step. We wouldn't accept this for anything else that matters -- you wouldn't prefer to be treated by a doctor who was just "good enough", or be flown by a pilot who barely passed the flight exam. In the name of lowering their level of stress, or making the doctor / pilot population look a certain way. And by the way, to make a difference in college admissions (according to the function I can imagine the author desires), you really have to lower the bar a lot.

I don't want these kinds of distortions for a system that my kids will be subject to. That's not the lesson I want them to learn. Students in other countries have a far harder and more competitive time than ours. I don't want them to wake up to that reality only when it comes time to apply for their first job and find themselves falling flat.
I mentioned look and feel, and testing out the absence of context menus. This should tell you that I am not judging on a screenshot, but from live applications. I made that screenshot yesterday, and the applications depend on 3.0.4 which is from 2018.

> since you're accusing a very old and widespread project of lying

http://enwp.org/Appeal_to_accomplishment Nice fallacy, don't think you can pull cheap tricks like that on HN.

But anyway, let them defend themselves; veritas liberabit vos. FWIW I don't think malicious or intentional lies are involved, although a mighty good explanation is required to square their claim against the evidence that it is plain to see.
Right - but are we talking the 'merit' of billionaires or the 'merit' of being an engineer who can pass difficult math exams? Totally different things, and conflating them is not helpful.
You are correct, but the point is that this requires conversion of wealth. While I agree with the argument that living rent-free is a form of wealth, it's not the same as a controlled monthly payment.

Also this point only applies to the median family with existing property wealth. Not the poor family that has no inheritance. UBI is designed to serve poor families, not the median or upper class families.
Why can't philosophy knowledge be assessed in a test?
Well, we seem to averaging on one every 20 years or so.

Spanish Flu, 1918-1920
Asian Flu, 1957–58
Cholera pandemic, 1961–1975
Hong Kong Flu, 1968-1969
H1N1, 2009-2010,
Covid-91, 2019-????
"Give me control of a nation's currency print/supply, and I care not who makes its laws" --#Rothschild (b. 1744)
I live in the Netherlands as well and I have had diner for many years. Your comment makes it seem as if there is no fiber in the Netherlands yet.
The ones that bother me more are all the mathematical characters, horribly abused.
We really need to interrogate the concept of meritocracy a lot more:

"Many deride our meritocracy for not really working for the poor, for people of colour, for women; they see structural impediments to these groups as preventing a real meritocracy from flourishing. But I would put it to you a different way: What could be crueler than an actual meritocracy, a meritocracy fulfilled?"

Because once we acknowledge that natural talent exists at all, even if it were a minor factor, the whole moral justification for the edifice of meritocracy falls away. No one chooses who their parents are, no one can determine their own natural academic abilities, and a system that doles out wealth and hardship based on academic ability is inherently and forever a rigged game."

-- Freddie de Boer (from The Cult of Smart, an incredible book btw)