skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> UBI doesn't manipulate the demand for specific markets

Totally agreed, this a good thing.

> It is more of a monetary policy

Sure

> that has only an indirect impact on demand.

Many disagree.

Obviously the most basic goods aren't going to be consumed that much more (e.g. we might consume better food but not dramatically more calories).

That said, it's a not-fringe view that demand as been statement for ages, due to things like wages not keeping up with productivity growth. UBI is, among other things a way to fix that.
This is letting Twitter off the hook. It is not impossible to protect users personal information, even within a company, to a very limited set of people who actually need it, with audits on when and how they are accessing it, and periodic reviews of everyone's access levels. Mature organizations follow specific standards for this kind of stuff. For a company like Twitter, where the privacy of this information literally can mean life or death, it is unforgiveable to not have a better grip on it (cue some non-technical regional bizdev guy having deep access, as per the article).
You can implement hard real-time scheduling using polling instead of interrupts, which is usually faster anyway. It just changes how you measure your tolerance, since nothing is instantaneous, ever.
Welcome to hardcore porn on every website. Oh look, a Facebook competitor! Oh no! Facebook hired 100,000 people to post furry porn on their site to discredit them.
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Ask HN: How effective is monthly Hire me?
I see Hire Me posted every month here, was curious to know what is the success rate of landing a job. If not getting an offer, how many companies approached you?
There are other things that often get overlooked: 1) sticker price != how much students pay. Pretty much everyone gets a discount. This is designed to get super rich families to pay much more. 2) About half of student debt is incurred from graduate school, and those students are much more capable of handling that load (with some notable exceptions). 3) As was said here, the average debt upon graduation from private universities is $31K, which is very reasonable for most people. That comes out to a little of $7K/year of education. Can you just imagine living out on your own for $7/year, without gaining a degree? That seems like a steal.

The problematic debt is usually held by those who don’t complete their degree, or who attend for-profit institutions. If there’s legislative action that should be done, it should be in those arenas.
> Maybe an extreme solar storm or super nova.

Could be.

I don't know how long it takes to build a Minotaur rocket.

I know most of the traditional launch providers (ULA, ESA, etc.) have pretty long lead times for rocket launches, but some of the newer ones are actually quite quick.

Rocketlabs is making good progress towards making a new rocket in a week (they can already make one in less than a month).

SpaceX probably takes longer to build a complete rocket, but

1. They have a stock of existing first stages since they reuse their rockets

2. They probably have a stock of in production second stages and fairings since they are trying to do a Starlink launches every 2 weeks or so.

I'm not saying you're wrong. Just that we'd need to launch a lot of satellites pretty urgently for that to make sense.
"You should really let go of that folclore because it makes absolutely no sense at all and has absolutely zero connection to the real world."

You mean the 3 decades I dealt with unions?

"Unions are about employee representation and negotiating power."

In theory, they were there to help employees. In practice, they are just as corrupt as any large organization and only hurt companies that have to deal with them.

"They are the only way to create change such as limiting working hours and demand safe working conditions and cut down on arbitrarily firing people for no reason."

The only way? Please. We have federal and state employment laws that protect all works. No unions required.

"Without unions you have zero power. With an underperforming union you have some power. Sounds like even a bad union is progress."

If you are a good employee, you have plenty of power. If you are bad and under performing, you need the protection by the unions.

In countries that have really string unions, it's getting to the point where you won't get hired at all without experience because firing an employee involves a court case and lots of red tape. This resulted in protests/riots in Sweden about 5 or 6 years ago.

It also makes a company less competitive in the international marketplace. Now that the Internet has opened up commerce internationally, companies that pay unskilled workers 4x what they are actually worth don't do so well.

It's difficult for me to change my views on this when I've seen the rampant corruption first-hand and the cancerous like effect unions have on a company over time.
Solid blogpost material there. It's often said that product designers should learn from economics, but competitive games have just as much to offer. Eugene Wei's "Status as a Service" [1] deserves a mention here; it's some very clear-eyed analysis of how social networks function as competitive games. (I must have re-read this post 5 times, in full.)

In a way, your comment highlights my deepest frustration with Facebook's product philosophy! They froze the premise of what Facebook could be at some point in 2012 and haven't expanded on the tools and mechanics. Thinking of social media as a game with rules and an evolving "meta" would not only have helped them innovate out of their current local maximum, it would have kept the experience fresh and fun. As any gamer can tell you, it's just not fun to see the current meta get gamed to its endpoint and stagnate.

1. https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service
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Levels don't scale the same among FAANGs
And to reply to myself, in case anyone else is wondering - there's a Zendesk site for filing reports.

https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
MegaFavNumbers 44,220,464 Chorded Keyboard Sequences
I made a video explaining my chorded keyboard and some development to it that I think it would be fun to try (but may never get around to).
It was for the #MegaFavNumbers event on youtube, so it has a lot of rambling and math and could be kinda boring.
Anyway, if you have any questions or comments I'd be pleased to hear them here or over on youtube.
It was just a channel on the UA entertainment system (audio) where the pilots could choose to make the ATC transmissions audible to the passengers (if desired). It was highly spotty because enough pilots had bad experiences (or believed they would) based on passengers asking them annoying questions or reporting things that didn't need to be reported, or generally causing more trouble than it was worth.
It still works great and provides built-in analyzer support for clang tidy, heaptrack, clazy, and cppcheck. Supports the usual gamut of tooling as well with GDB/LLDB, CMake/Meson, etc.
Hi! The route for log.lunar.fyi just returns 200 now and doesn't do anything. I was just logging the request before but I disabled that in the meantime since I didn't find it useful.

I will disable the request completely in the next update, but if you want to know what's sent or even disable it completely you can take a look at the source code of the sendAnalytics function in AppDelegate.swift: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar
It's fascinating how emotional of a topic this is on HN. A lot of people seem to be taking a staunch binary, black-and-white, us-vs-them approach to this issue.

I've known friends that hate their unions (usually retail), and those that love their unions (electricians, UPS drivers etc.) These are of course just a small group of anecdotes and not representative of a comprehensive dataset so I don't really have a strong opinion one way or another if the question is "are unions horrifically evil or a godsend that's universally necessary."

The framing of this type of debate doesn't seem to foster good faith discussion.

My only personal experience with being in a union was a call center job I had when I was 18. I don't recall dues being much, and everybody got full health coverage (including dental and vision) at 25 hrs/wk, and that ended up being a big draw for a lot of people in the area. So that was pretty cool.

I've also worked at a lot of places that weren't union where the employees were paid well, received benefits and treated fairly. That was also pretty cool.

I guess to me if I were to have an opinion it'd be something along the lines of "If people want to unionize, they have a legal right to do so, and I don't have any particular issue with that. If it works out with a positive outcome, great! If it doesn't, that sucks!"

I'm definitely not in favor of people being bullied or misled to go either way on this issue. It literally just seems like something people should talk about in good faith and make their decision accordingly. It's just a choice.
My Dad bought a JD2130 in the 1970s for ~$17K and sold it in 2007 for $17K.
Glia cells can be seen, sure. But to my knowledge we still don't understand their impact.

Anyway, my point is that even if you are able to recreate the structure you would need to replicate the functionality.

A better analogy would be that even if you have the data on the hard drive you would need a special program that would know how to interpret it. In this case the data also contains a time variant exactly when the data applies which is not captured within the structure unless you go to the molecular level.
To be fair most games run great on any RTX card. What are you playing that would benefit an upgrade?
Basically, after the chips are manufactured, they're not 100% uniform. Some have better performance, some have worse.

In this case, it means they're reserving the best chips for the founders cards. In other cases, there have been instances where a company has two products, a high end and a low end (or medium, etc). In some of those cases, people have investigated and the chips are actually exactly the same, but the lower end product will have a core disabled or similar, depending on the exact product. That'll happen a lot of the time when the company has yield issues where too many of the chips don't have acceptable performance or one part of the chip is just broken. They'll disable the broken portion and boom, the lower end product is born. That's still a net win for them because the alternate is either to throw the entire thing away or spend more time improving the yield.
I love this idea. Quick question for you, is this scene real or rendered? https://imgur.com/a/MpKMo6j

If you think the answer is obvious, then CGI definitely has more work to do. If not ... ??
> More people need to be geared towards trades and manufacturing jobs.

The key is manufacturing jobs - that is what disappeared over the last half century, and most of those jobs are semi-skilled.

But there are no jobs. There never will be - unless the US completely stopped importing from China. They can't - because then people will go to wal-mart and see the price increase, and get mad. And that doesn't take into account automation and technology further squeezing the need for workers.
Amazon's PR would have not allowed that.
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Too bad that story isn't quite right, but a few tweaks and it's still a good anecdote.
Is the stigma not on both sides of sex transactions? In my circles I don't think anyone would boldly profess to being a regular at a brothel. Parent post asked a legitimate question, it's not clear how she intends to remove stigma on sex work.
>You could design assertions in a very sophisticated way to minimize that problem, [...]

This sounds like the exact opposite way you need to design assertions. If code can continue as normal when an assertion fails then why put the assertion in there anyway?
I have several nvidia GPUs of different generations on Linux, and Nvidia drivers + CUDA "just work". They are closed source - that's bad - but I don't get what people are complaining about related to "just working". They DO "just work" (Arch Linux, both package and BLOB install...
> 24 GB of memory is a game changer

a little confused here, I see Dell offering machines with cards up to 48 GB, so 24 GB seems quite nice, but not game changing.
CME has its own microwave network? Got a link?
“Or Louisiana” a few seconds after.
> I don't know many programmers who are jumping to use Haskell for their personal projects.

If you don't use Haskell or are suspicious of it, would you expect to know other programmers who use it?

We have data that can more strongly make the opposite claim that people do use haskell for personal projects:

> The functional language Haskell is the tag most visited outside of the workday;

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/04/19/programming-languages-...
> Monitors with built-in latency measurement.

They should start measuring the time it takes for monitors to recognize the signal when you press the "Source" button.

Even on recent monitors, it's often 5 seconds or more.
>had no sport facilities whatsoever, not even a soccer field. It also had no dormitories, canteens, no fancy library, sport teams etc.

Sports teams and dorms are no where near the top of the ticket of University expenses. Many of the Ivies hardly invest in sports and still come with a 60k ticket.

American private universities are more expensive because American universities hire more administrative faculty and pay them more. That’s largely where the money is going.
> Proficiency in at least one scripting language, such as Python, Scala

What led you to list Scala as a scripting language?
2ndquadrant irritates me. Closing the BDR source has harmed the postgres community. There, I said it.
Do note that a PSU running at max capacity might also cause a noisy hot PSU.

Having some headroom might result in a quieter system
There are two separate issues here. They’re only tangentially related.

1) Unions, good or bad?

2) Is it appropriate for a company like Amazon to spy on their work force to stop them from unionizing, as compared to persuading their work force that unionizing would be bad?
You're right to gently correct here.

That said, "bird distance" is going in my lexicon.
This is great!

But I don't know if it's because of 2020 or I'm just a cynic, but getting gov't or even the private sector to implement solutions that come out of such a think tank is going to be tough. I feel that people in power are becoming very nearsighted
> (and the larger concepts, ethics, systems thinking, etc often come from corporate training just as well)

Ethics? Really? From corporations?

> and bootcamps are proving it for web developers;

And, not surprisingly, web developers make less on average than other software development positions.
Attribution becomes quite difficult, for one.

Stealth satellites are a thing; it's possible that stealth antisatellite satellites are also a thing, or small stealth satellite-killer weapons that detach/separate from known, non-stealth satellites.
I like iostat -x for checking disk IO capacity
Not exactly true. When parents pay your rent and food and University is free some have little incentive to take it seriously.
Is this evolution? I'd say it's just adaptability. Evolution requires generations, I thought.
The coverage of this has been misguided IMO. The headline here should be, "Walmart Plus takes on Amazon Fresh".

The benefits you get are really just delivery of in-store items to your house, it seems your walmart.com experience doesn't change much. Based on what I've seen on Amazon fresh, you'd probably make up your $98 pretty quick if you moved all your grocery shopping from fresh to WM+.
I would define "bad for business" as something that reduces the core business - less sales.

Reducing profits is a different thing. Business can still be booming while profits are not through the roof.
" Higher education for a lot of organizations is just an easy way to cut the application stack down"

This is an easy way to ensure you do not have a diverse workforce, or even the best people for the job
The author's mistake was not buying a Tesla EV

The commenter's mistake was not reading the...part where the author cannot buy a Tesla in their home country.

Nissan Leaf and BMW i3 owners face the same hassles in the US.

What hassles are you referring to? You just outlined how one taps a card and charges at ChargePoint stations, which doesn't seem like a hassle? The only hassle I've encountered in nine years of Leaf ownership is a non-operative charger.
12 years is a lot in the world of tech, but absolutely nothing in the world of banking. Or banking system and its regulatory systems have evolved over centuries. And frankly, I'm not sure what bitcoin has actually proven in those 12 years; it's barely being used for any kind of serious commerce. It's mostly a speculation rollercoaster that goes up and down based on whether people expect it may or may not prove itself eventually.

People constantly losing bitcoin like this, or through exchanges falling over, is terrible for trust in bitcoin. Banking regulation exists exactly to prevent this kind of thing. At the end of the day, people trust their government a lot more than they trust a bunch cowboys. It may be cool, but it's no basis for a financial system.
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Thanks for making this. Light years better than the original app I was using as it lets me change the volume stepper control, though the scroll/swipe motions in settings are bit jarring to use.