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UK schools don't seem to have textbook standardisation in the way the US does, but the schools seem to function fine.
Not all of us here are Americans.
No, foreigners should be completely free to campaign in elections.
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= A significant shift away from congested cities towards more rural areas
On Linux Firefox gets updated the same way as any other package, which almost always gives you more manual control than this.

I suppose I'm saying this is a complaint about macOS and/or Windows, rather than about Firefox as such ;)
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I wonder if it would be impossible to carve out a set of standards of a browser (e.g. WebRender, HTML, CSS, JS Engine, ...) and then have everything outside of that be a modular plugin you can install. And make building those modules easy.

"Netflix needs a DRM module. Download this official release from <Browser Org>, <Netflix>, <Tom who really likes DRM and encoding alrogithms>".

Or am I just too naive and don't know enough about how browsers work?
As someone who has done a lot of work in XSLT for data transformation in ESB or integration..

Honestly if I actually improved my tools a bit better, I'd almost enjoy using it. But it sucks, so damn much, in the current state.. And now nobody seems to be interested in XSLT ("XML is legacy"), I don't think I'm ever going to be interested in "fixing" it.
This was my approach most recently although I swapped out MVVM for a Redux / Elm style shared architecture and wrote platform specific views.
I think there needs to be real storage plans for radioactive water before terrestrial fission is a major power source but it is certainly telling that in 3 of those cases the radioactive waste was from fracking and not a reactor.
It's just code with comments what code is doing. Can we call them notes?
> I think a major reason for why we ended up here[2] is because browsers did not add these features to HTML and thus devs resorted to AJAX and small JS snippets at first and then kept expanding the use of JS.

That's my hunch as well. If HTML had built-in features such as modals (maybe as an evolution of popups), or partial rendering of server side data (maybe as an evolution of frames/iframes), it would have taken more time to reach the current state.

Btw, your list reminds me of Intercooler.js.
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Every time my browser's Reader Mode works, it's a better experience. Some day it will work often enough that I won't look back.
Negative income tax is an implementation of a basic income!
Ok, and who/what will you tax for the extra UBI money?

Can't tax the corporations and the rich or else they will "move elsewhere and increase unemployment" as we're made to believe so why then do I fear that the middle class worker will be hit yet again?

I'd rather we lower taxes on the workforce than increase them to give away free money.
There's already a crate for that: https://lib.rs/crates/momo
> "As a software developer from the stone ages who’s spent many years in the field of intellectual property (IP), I’m truly curious why Silicon Valley is so down on patents."

Sounds like you've witnessed the rise of the open-source movement.

It seems that software development is much more of a distributed effort now, as many companies build proprietary systems on top of open-source frameworks and libraries.

So, I put the decline of patents down to the rise of open-source technology. Companies can't patent their ideas due to open-source licensing restrictions.

Lastly, there's a lot of horror stories of patent trolls and fraud that discourages a lot of people who probably should patent their ideas, from doing so. Anyway, just my thoughts.
Why the extreme response? Thousands and thousands of folks here in the UK are losing their jobs and therefore their homes. I assume the same thing is happening elsewhere. We have safety nets, but payouts are often nowhere near enough to match income that’s been lost. It’s a real disappointment to me that HN has decided there’s only one right way to talk about the Covid response, and every other point of view is idiotic or evil. Whatever happened to nuance?
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There are 209,128,094 people over 18 in US. Let's assume $1,000/month UBI. It would mean we need to get $209128094000 (~ $210B) a month ($2.5T a year) from somewhere.

Where would we get it from? Are there any extensive papers explaining it? I'm super curious.
> Between November 2017 and October 2018, people on basic income worked an average of 78 days, which was six days more than those on unemployment benefits.

That could be at least partially accounted for by previous under-reporting of working hours, when benefits are means-tested.
Do prices rise when consumers have more money to spend? Is consumer inflation tied to employment rates? Does inflation slow when poverty grows?

Intuitively it kind of makes sense that everything would get more expensive but if you consider millionaires spending on stocks, the stocks don't rise in price when the millionaires get more money, they are kind of independent. I think the same for poor people. Prices shouldn't rise because more people can afford to buy something but it makes sense that some would rise prices as more people will be able to afford the product. I guess the market and competitors is meant to keep prices down.
Yes. Do what Mincome did and randomly assign the incomes to people.
>The problem, however, is that as long as Bourne Shell and Bash are installed everywhere, people will write scripts for it.

This is also an issue of interpreted languages. Often I write bash and very constricted python2/3 compatible code, because I can be fairly sure the target audience has both of these.

You need to have everyone install (and maybe even use) your shell/language for them to be able to use it. Or have them recreate your environment (docker or cxfreeze). With Rust it's easy to distribute a small self contained binary.
Microsoft .NET SDK is violating the GDPR by collecting your MAC address
Yes, but only for the poorest. And I think only they need it.
Are there any major differences between expose and ngrok? Why would I choose one over the other?
I wonder whether once a civilisation reached that point, the game theoretical equations around aggressivity and self preservation change significantly to invalidate the dark forest theory.
This is kinda of sad, because wikipedia has her page titled as Marie Curie too. It is a bit ironic imo, because poles are very proud of her and yet at the time the country failed her, by not giving the possibility of attending university.
Nuance is welcome - I for one am proud of paying the HMRC to help people pay for electricity, food and shelter. The situation is not great in the UK either, thanks to a government that ignored science, but its far better than in the US.
The no rural vs urban divide thing...

I never ever thought about it before but I see _exactly_ what you mean. And I think you're spot on. There isn't this idea/phenomenon of country folks being very different than city folks, rather there is an extremely strong cultural narrative around how a Japanese person behaves and what it means to be Japanese that transcends the settings in which one lives. The cultural machine just continuously markets Japaneseness to it's citizens.

I agree it comes with good and bad, but for sure when it comes to safety and stability it's huge factor.
Interesting the way that this is reported.

"The findings suggest that basic income doesn’t seem to provide a disincentive for people to work."

Meanwhile the BBC reported:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47169549

"Giving jobless people in Finland a basic income for two years did not lead them to find work, researchers said."

Nothing actually different is said, but the way it is spun will likely lead the reader to different conclusions.
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Measles can also be lethal. People are stupid.
Because you cannot have something as a 'right', if it requires someone else to be compelled to provide goods and services for you. Because then your right to food means that someone else does not have the right to the fruits of their labour.

Rights are something that can be enjoyed by everyone simultaneously. For instance, your right to travel does not mean that someone else has to buy you a car or a plane ticket - all it requires from others is non-interference.
The enclosures are in my experience, garbage and unreliable.

- They struggle with fragmentation

- sometimes, the UEFI/Bios just won't see the disk, not sure why, I'm guessing the enclosure doesn't boot fast enough?

- Sometimes the enclosure just wouldn't read the ISO list. Again, no idea why. Fragmentation maybe?
These sorts of scholarships increasingly do exist, and I’m confused that you both acknowledge the problem and insult me for raising it. I also think it’s unbelievably patronising if you think the only benefit of diversity is better movie scripts. I support equal rights for mediocre scriptwriters too.
Thanks. The demo was up, but did (and still does) show only zeroes in the tables. Probably just some display issue in FF, because it gets the actual numbers from the API: https://i.vgy.me/hCOhYS.png
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Yeah we have similar things here in The Netherlands. Vodafone acquired one of the major cable internet providers (Ziggo), and are giving benefits to people who are customers of both; effectively a discount on the bills + a free cable tv package, which includes HBO Go.

The good thing is that it’s not expensive (I’d argue that they are giving a deal that’s cheaper than anything else out there), but they do make it nearly impossible for eg ADSL providers to compete.

I’m not sure how to feel about this. I consider the root problem the monopoly the cable providers have, as its by far the fastest way to driver internet compared to ADSL. As such, I’ve put my hopes on fiber optical arriving soon, which exposes a much larger market on which multiple providers can compete.

Incredibly annoying by the way that HBO Go is not available for Apple TV, so it’s pretty much worthless to me and I just end up torrenting anything of HBO I want to watch. Not sure about the legality about it, but it sure as hell is a better experience.
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Author of the article here.

The AWSSMChaosRunner approach can't be used for Lambda because of what @vasco said.

You can take a look at a different approach here for failure injection in Lambda - https://medium.com/@adhorn/failure-injection-gain-confidence...
Well, at that time we all shared a small office and the screen was pretty recognizable.
It sure makes an easy dirty bomb when stuck on a regular bomb though.
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It's personal data, they collect the MAC address and can search by MAC address.

That's literally an identifier to identity any computer on the planet. That's quite personal and traceable really.
> Prices shouldn't rise because more people can afford to buy something.

Of course they should, and they would. It's really econ 101. More demand = higher prices. Why wouldn't it?

If you were selling apples for $1/kg, and you have it sold daily very rapidly, wouldn't you try to make $1.1/kg? $1.2/kg? $2/kg? Until you can't sell everything you produce, or, more precisely, until you can't make more profit.
That's a funky prompt they're showing there. Since it came by default on macOS, I'm using zsh. But to be honest, my Linux box still remains on bash. The differences, to my usage, are minimal.
Oliver, Anton congrats with a launch. RecSys analyst here.

Correct me if I wrong, but afaiu, you have designed a black-box content-based recommender system for e-commerce domain by scrapping publicly available data.
I love your business model, though I have a couple questions:

1. A/B testing in RecSys is a tricky process in terms of further interpretation. How do you choose the control and test group? I would love to go beyond revenue percentage influx while considering the new model. Btw, do you have your own A/B testing environment?

2. Are you targeting one specific problem, like cold start or checkout recommendation or have a general solution?

3. Are you planning to open-source your model?

4. Do you have any Wordpress/Shopify plugins?

Anyway, I really like your idea and would love to contribute.

Let's stay in touch via twitter: @kidrulit.
What's the definition of wilderness used on this map? The only wilderness area on the map that I've been to is the Okavango delta (which is amazing btw), but in terms of remoteness (lack of people/infrastructure) it's not that different from many of the surrounding areas
Well obviously the people closest definitely should leave. But they eventually cleared out far more area than just the nearest town of people that were given large exposures.
Why would you use twitter for something like this when you could simply create a blockchain DAPP that runs on Ethereum? All you'd need to do is learn the Solidity language, compile it with Mist and purchase some initial startup gas to pay for the executions. Then, the integrity of your predictions would be guaranteed by a globally distributed network of several mining organizations, rather than dependent on one politically-suspect US tech company.

This seems like an ideal use-case for verifiable blockchain-backed applications.
This kind of computer might be just what we need for a Venus rover

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6933
You can do Chaos Engineering quite easily with Ruby, because you can raise an exception in a thread from another thread. Many years ago I built a simple tool which allowed you to specify a series of exceptions, and their frequency. The library would run up an extra thread in your process, and simply drop bombs (i.e. raise exceptions according to the required distribution) across the other threads at random.

It worked a treat for ensuring high availability in IoT systems
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I'm totally fine with bash if it could share history between processes by default. That's pain when I operate in someone's server.
These articles are interesting not by themselves, but for the reactions they stir on HN. It's interesting how aware of cognitive biases and critical minded one suddenly becomes upon encountering a study that challenges one's worldview. It's also interesting to note the shift between two demographics: old-school libertarians/right-wingers who hold that "you should earn your bread in sweat unless you happen to have private means" (Kalecki 1943), and pro-UBI tech workers who rationally see it as a direct subsidy for their industry. Unlike many other viewpoints where one usually dominates I feel this is one of the few where opinion is fairly evenly divided, and the back-and-forth is interesting.
TL;DR The .NET SDK after 2016 comes with telemetry, enabled by default and collecting the MAC address of your computer when running .NET applications.
> Wouldn't nationwide UBI just make everything more expensive?

Not “just” and not “everything”, but yes.

> Most people who work will continue to work, most people who don't, won't.

If UBI replaces or offsets, in whole or part, minimum wage, it probably increases employment immediately. The reduction in labor market friction and perverse incentives of means-tested welfare probably increases it in the long term. So, I wouldn't be confident in that description.

But even in the usual “funded by high end taxes” formulation, it increases velocity of money in the domestic economy and consumption spending, so it should produce some upward price pressure. The basic upshot of this is that the downward redistribution will compress outcomes, but raise the bottom so that less that would be assumed if you took the benefit level and compared it to pre-policy price levels.

> If you care about poor people, why not just try to fix welfare with e.g. Negative Income Tax proposed by Milton Friedman

NIT and UBI funded by progressive income taxes are identical policies.
On Windows, though, there's C# compiler out of the box on every OS since Vista. And C# has a bunch of rarely-used syntax for things like raw pointers, that can work on more or less the same level as C, and even look pretty similar. It might be possible to do something with that.
Our (NZ's) tourist industry is in trouble, but most of the country (except for 1 city for the past 2 weeks due to a new cluster) hasn't been in lockdown for 3 months and people are taking vacations, locally rather than internationally - ski slopes are open - the govt is supporting some tourist stuff that's going into hibernation until after, there will still be bungie jumping and Hobbiton to visit when it's all over.

We've largely beaten the infection (despite what Trump has said recently), except for people coming back from overseas into quarantine, we had no new cases for 3 months, 2 weeks or so ago we had an outbreak in Auckland which is currently locked down (we do lockdown much harder than most other countries), probably until this current weekend. Apart from this the rest of us are out and about, we have some limitations on large crowds, most people are going to work, I went out to a movie on Sat (Tenet), then for a meal at a restaurant. Went to Queenstown for a weekend away a couple of months ago.

Having said that - we expect to have more small outbreaks and associated lockdowns, the quicker we can find them the quicker we can nuke them.
It ends up being functionally the same, with the possible exception of how often the money is dispersed.

A UBI and a negative income tax can end with the exact same amount of net money dispersed to anyone, it just requires tweaking the income brackets and rates.
Your first paragraph is exactly how I would word a defense of a UBI trial that had a bad outcome. Let’s talk about the good things that happened and were measured instead of speculating about the hypothetical bad things that are out of scope for this trial. A successful small trial will lead to larger future trials that might answer your question in a more satisfying way.
Third world countries have first world problems as well. They just have them on top of their third world problems. Something tells me they would rather be hungry rather than both hungry and dying. Palau having open borders wouldn't have stopped the end of tourism, but it would have let the virus in.
Or Nee (Nine Inch Nails: NIИ)
IMHO a better meaning would be "Πραγματικά φορητό εκτελέσιμο", but yours is also pretty close ;-) Having being involved with translation of software into Greek it's the small differences that bring the meaning as close to real usage as possible and not the transliteration that makes a great translation.
Do you know of any articles on what is wrong with Prime UI? I am writing up a proposal to fix a similar service that also has really bad UI - I would like to see if there are intersections between them.
I almost don't think any service will ever get a decent ui. It seems to be against the business model to be able to search easily and keep lists of what you have watched and what you want to watch.

But TBH I would just like to watch one video on prime without it being stretched out of shape. It is probably some weird edge case with my particular STB, but every other streaming service seems to manage it properly.
This feels very much like a false dichotomy. Many millionaires, I assume we mean the extremely wealthy, have the majority of their wealth tied to the extreme growth of stocks based on some extreme economic forces. E.g. bezos with Amazon, Bill gates with Microsoft etc. And so some how comparing that to standard consumerism seems a little off.
There are different rules for drivers. Which is also why it's common and normal for a driver written for an older version of Windows to not work on a new version, but it's rare (and considered a bug) for userspace software.
While there are many metrics of the pandemic's, including health, GDP, and unemployment, it's interesting to note, in light of this comment, that the UK per-capita death rate is currently about 20% higher than the US per-capita death rate from COVID-19.[0]

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
Is there a universal "right" for these things if people can work for them and choose not to?
Fun fact: That's a legacy openstep thing. I was using an x86 version of openstep in a VM just for fun a few months back and it had a 1994 copy of zsh on it. I also remember using it on OS X server 1.0 in around 1999.

I have an actual nextstation in my parents garage. I wonder if it's on that...
How is it that people are both against generational wealth which is a sort of a UBI on a family level (£500k, which is not too far from median household wealth in the UK, means you could roughly draw £15'000/year in perpetuity), and for UBI on a national level?
Privileged software engineers do not set lockdown policies. Go rage at somebody else.
btrfs has made some headlines in the past about its severely broken checksum computation in RAID modes, which rules them out for production use, i.e. https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Btrfs-RAID-5...

The wrong parity and unrecoverable errors has been confirmed by multiple parties. The Btrfs RAID 5/6 code has been called as much as fatally flawed

It would be interesting to know if this has been addressed already.

The big fat red warning on btrfs' own wiki page is not inspiring trust either: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56

For data, it should be safe as long as a scrub is run immediately after any unclean shutdown
Just as an alternative perspective, I fully support lockdowns. But I have noted the opposite response on here compared to your observation; lots of people are arguing against the lockdowns on HN. Maybe we see what we want to see rather than what is actually there? Seems like a typical human bias.
This built-in server has been around since March 2012. If there are any Medium articles to be written, they're probably out there already.
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>Why pay for Dropbox when you can use your very own box with far more storage for far less money?

Managing backups and data integrity is no joke. Almost everyone does a shit job and don't know it until the data is gone.
Really looking forward to that being deployed to my TV.