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Why isn't the conversation more focused on Universal Basic Services than Universal Basic Income? I feel like it deincentivises inflation due to UBI, and incentivizes governmental optimization (if the goal is to provide everyone with food and housing, then you can optimize it, whereas just giving out money doesn't cause any optimizations to the services they will purchase).

A great book that touches on this distinction is Fully Automated Luxury Communism (https://www.versobooks.com/books/3156-fully-automated-luxury...). Basically it argues that it is more beneficial and less expensive to provide UBS.
https://www.gumbopages.com/food/beverages/index.html
If I join a mailing list, I'm signing up for emails. Not for tracking.

If you actually obtain informed consent about the tracking from everyone you spy on, I'll eat my hat.
The article defined serious injury as

> those requiring days off or job restrictions.

Meanwhile OSHA defined serious injury here: https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/1993-...

Exerpt:

> 1 Impairment of the body in which part of the body is made functionally useless or is substantially reduced in efficiency on or off the job. Such impairment may be permanent or temporary, chronic or acute. Injuries involving such impairment would usually require treatment by a medical doctor. Examples of injuries which constitute such harm include:

a Amputation (loss of all or part of a bodily appendage which includes the loss of bone).

b Concussion.

c Crushing (internal, even through skin surface may be intact).

d Fracture (simple or compound).

e Burns or scald, including electric and chemical burns.

f Cut, laceration, or puncture involving significant bleeding and/or requiring suturing.

The differences in standards (which the article does mention in passing, but in no details) is a potential differentiator.
You can’t do that while also being an employee.
Install Ubuntu ?

As long as Linux can be installed on desktops you technically have a choice.
My wife is a published author (and ghost writer) and my sister-in-law is a VP and acquisitions editor for a small publishing house.

The different between 30% and 75% is mostly historical, and the app market vs. the publishing world run on different models: There is not really an equivalent of advances or physical publishing in the app world. Royalties and app revenue splits are are roughly equivalent, though.

As an author, your leverage on advances and royalties is your personal brand equity. "Becoming" by Michelle Obama is almost an automatic winner due to her brand. If you're not well known, your publishing deal is abysmally standard.

It costs some money to print and distribute a physical book vs. a digital book. This is slowly changing as digital distribution flexes up. But print is still the preferred model for people. [1]

And there are additional layers of writing a book in the traditional model: acquisitions, developmental and copy editing being some of the big ones. And you'd be shocked how many non-fiction books have a ghost writer.

Finally, there's the reality that the publisher is taking a risk: their high percentages are covering all the books they took a loss on.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/19/physical-books-still-outsell...
Exactly: there is no prospect or intent to actually, ever make a Tokamak that produces useful power. Besides the power density problem and the really absolutely enormous expense and already-sunk cost, the necessary neutrons would destroy the most expensive part of the reactor in short order, and make the rest radioactive.

The whole research program gets its funding as what amounts to a jobs program to keep high-neutron-flux physicists employed and available to draw upon for weapons work. That is one reason why any fusion process that does not emit neutrons is not given any of the research funds: weapons work doesn't need high-alpha-flux physicists. (Secondarily, they have papers that purport to show e.g. p-B fusion could never work.)

If we ever do get practical fusion, it won't be in a Tokamak, it probably won't be on the Earth's surface, and it certainly won't help resolve global climate disruption.

The money being spent on Tokamaks, on the other hand, absolutely could help a great deal with global climate disruption. But not while also maintaining the all-important high-neutron-flux population.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4

Here's a video lecture from the MIT Professor (Dennis Whyte) who was leading the research group that provided some of the key designs for the SPARC reactor. As the NYT article explains, that research has been spun out into a startup that raised $200M.

The key breakthrough is the advancement of REBCO tape superconductors which allow you to (1) generate record breaking magnetic field strengths (2) easily disassemble the super conducting loop for fast repairs / refuels / more modular design.

It's a long talk, but it's extremely fascinating. Basically everything becomes much easier once you can increase the magnetic field strength. This talk is fairly accessible to even relative laypeople who have a vague understanding of E&M physics.
This is a massive problem in ham radio. Their main "selling point" is to provide a radio service for emergencies and disasters, but here we've got some of the greatest disasters we've ever seen, and the ham radio scene is crickets. Either there's an ongoing ham response that we're not aware of, or Firstnet and/or standard Two-way radio is really fitting the bill in CA, leaving no need for ham radio.

The only related news is a ham radio connected IP camera detected the start of a fire in Washington [0].

The Calfire-Ham Radio drama [1] is still in recent memory too.

[0] [http://www.arrl.org/news/ham-radio-wireless-network-camera-d...]
[1] https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/cal-fire-severing-ties...
I've tried all the "plant-based alternatives to meat" I could find and they were either passable or almost vomit-inducing, the best ones barely taste as good as the cheapest meat I could get my hands on (frozen supermarket brand burger patties). I'll stick to halloumi burgers and salads/veggies, especially with the dubious nutritional qualities, origin of the raw ingredients and price of these things.
It is not justice. But it is free expression and I'll preserve that easily because I'm not going to stop someone from saying "I will uninstall Firefox unless Brendan Eich is fired". They have that right. And they have the right to say "And you should too". I'll probably say "No thanks, man. I like Firefox" and then they can say "You're a bigot, too" and they have a right to all of these because freedom is more important than protecting your job.

Freedom is fragile. I won't give one inch here because they will shatter it and remake freedom of expression in a stilted image if I give them the chance.

If freedom is used to unjust ends, then the problem lies with the path there not the freedom itself.
> I have come to realize that right wingers are brainwashed or people with mental problems or childhood traumas

As a american center-rightist, I have come to realize that left wingers are brainwashed or people with mental problems or childhood traumas.

Like the millenial kids who grew up without father figure or a stable family.

Like college going students who have been brainwashed by leftists to seek state protection everywhere in terms of safe spaces.

I feel like they are blinded by ideology to believe that there cause is just and their opinions are morally justified and anyone even questioning their beliefs is morally wrong.
Amazon's abysmal safety standards are no secret. There's an expose about them every six months. So far nobody with the power to change anything cares. What would it take to get actual change? Even politicians who hate Amazon don't seem to care about their workers.
I see nothing here that would put me off. What’s the one you were implying to be negative?
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This is the point of Oil -- having a smooth upgrade from bash. The interactive shell ended up being more work than I anticipated. So I'm looking for people who want to run with it either as a separate project or part of Oil.

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/02/recap.html#fish-oil-is-...

Another option is to link Oil as a C++ library into another shell, which is starting to become possible. Oil handles all the difficult language and compatibility issues, and encapsulates them, so it's a great complement to someone who only wants to work on the interactive shell.

Even though it cleans up many legacy warts, Oil runs thousands of lines of real bash programs: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Shell-Programs-That-Run...

Posts on the interactive shell: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/tags.html?tag=interactive-shel...
Many of the comments in this thread refer to the sheer inertia of millions of LOC of bash script in the wild. This seems to be the main reason why Oil shell[1] aims to be "an upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime".[2]

I wish them luck.

[1] https://www.oilshell.org/

[2] https://www.oilshell.org/why.html
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9, the last minor release of RHEL 7 arrives
They are difficult to remember, prone to error in communication and impossible to use with voice?
I think you're fighting activation energy.

I'd find a way to make it cheap for you (in time and energy) to iterate such that the one-off content that you're providing can be used as stepping stones to a paragraph, and then a chapter, and then a book.

As an example, I've written thousands (!) of customer support messages, via email, chat, or reddit, to help my PhotoStructure beta users.

I've found that the second or third time I answer a question, either I need to fix the product so the question doesn't show up again, or I transcribe my response onto a new page on photostructure.com. In my case, it's just `hugo new content/faq/post.md` and then I dump the new content into the new page.

It doesn't have to be an elaborate post. Perhaps a bit more nuance or detail than my customer support reply, but not much more than that. Sometimes it's only 1 paragraph.

I've found that these "humble starts" can then be iterated on fairly easily, as inspiration comes to you.

As an example, according to git, I've made 15 commits to <https://photostructure.com/faq/library/>. The first iteration was just a handful of sentences I wrote as a response to what I meant by "library."
I have started writing in 2014 and done by 8th book in 2019 I guess. It was just a roller coaster ride. I really like the technology I am working on and very interested in writing tutorials. I think that was the main overriding factor of writing books even though it's having a lot of cons. Still planning to write a book, but this time I will go with self-publishing.
We are talking about disabilities, i.e. permanent (or at least long-lasting) and severe damage. Taking a few weeks to recover does not qualify.
The terms that describe those types are Line-interactive and On-line UPS.

E.g., https://blog.tripplite.com/line-interactive-vs-on-line-ups-s...
Mine is literally marked "1" and "2." (In Roman numerals, however.)
> Usually the retailer takes the biggest cut.

Retail markup is usually 35% to 55%, but what a lot of people don't realize is that retailers usually have a method of returning their unsold stock, which the publisher is on the hook to liquidate somehow.
Check out these articles surveying the landscape of reactive UI, from the same author as the linked article:

https://raphlinus.github.io/ui/druid/2019/11/22/reactive-ui....

https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/druid/2020/09/25/principled...
> You probably aren't hired to write books, so what matters most is other things you'll be doing.

This is true, but some employers will allow you to write on company time. As Kleppman notes, value created by books squirts everywhere, only some of it onto the author, which can be distinct from value landing on their employers.

I've been working on Knative in Action for the last year because Pivotal (now VMware) liked the idea that it would happen under their flag.

(Your books are quite excellent, by the way.)
Yeah, that is very strange. My experience echoes yours - I think there's a relatively speaking weak default trust between strangers in China.
This is a very interesting perspective. I'd never considered this before but it makes total sense.
> "...I'm pretty sure both buttons on our toilets do the same thing..."

from what i've seen, that's by design. you push both buttons at the same time to get the double flush.

to me, the water-saving option that makes the most sense is a vacuum toilet along with a greywater system and a biotank for recycling the waste locally (though it is more expensive of course).
>That said, if you want to anchor yourself as an expert in a space, I can't think of a better way to do it than to write a book.

I think this depends on the field and the audience. I'm not sure about other sciences but, when I was working in Biology and Ecology, there was much higher regard placed on people who'd been published in reputable peer reviewed journals than those that published books on topics.

It usually came down to the assumption that if someone published their research in a book rather than submitting it for peer review, it meant the quality of the research wasn't up to standards and likely would have been rejected and information from scientists published only in books is looked at as questionable and not really a good source to use as a primary reference.

That being said, the general public tends to place book published scientists in almost higher regard than many working scientists and will take information published in such form as undeniable fact.
Hey, that's Marcin Wichary! He's the creator of GUIdebook, a really nifty desktop GUI comparison site. It hasn't been updated in almost a decade and a half, but it's still really neat.

https://guidebookgallery.org/
You make friends with only those people who agree with you on every political issue?
Isn't What3words proprietary with required licensing? Perhaps this is more open / patent-free?
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Some videos have multiple different titles, which I guess reduces duplication :) (not that I think duplicating a string a few times in html matters at all. meta tags exist for a reason)

For example, if you go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvzBWFGEz8M, you'll notice the title in the browser tab differs from the title below the video.

Relevant html snippets are:

<title>トーキョーゲットー - Eve MV - YouTube</title>

<meta name="twitter:title" content="Tokyo Ghetto - Eve MV">

The actual title shown below the video is the english one, not japanese, and I think is sourced from javascript data.

I find it fascinating that youtube translates the title in some places users see it, but not all places, and only on a small subset of videos. It's pretty weird.
It's crap like this that made me quit working in the corporate world. I just can't deal with it.
I think where pentile went wrong was prioritizing green/red. I believe red has the lowest spatial resolution and should have prioritized green/blue instead. When using Night Shift I notice a definite subjective reduction in spatial resolution.
What's measured gets solved.

They're measuring flush volume, when they care about water used over time.
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The evidence indicates that Trump is literally inventing fake deductions.
You can do this with Pi-Hole as well, after turning it on for my Samsung TV the number of blocked requests was pretty amazing.
2 - skip to ~2:30 for the speaker, whose mic'd and the sound greatly improves.

Good job recording MIT.
This supports the point.

Incandescents were banned, and CFLs were heavily promoted and subsidized to replace them.

Meanwhile, along came a superior technology, ten times as energy efficient, longer lasting, and with a broader range of light which is at least as good.

So all that heavy-handed regulation produced, was an era of inferior light, a mercury disposal problem, and the inability to acquire incandescents for applications such as heating, which they're excellent for. Sometimes a lot of heat and a bit of light is what you want, and most of those devices have an Edison socket.

To head off one objection: any technically competent person could have taken a look at the trajectory of LED technology and said "hold on, CFLs suck, how about we just hang back and wait five to ten years?". LED bulbs were hardly a black swan.
For some more UK context, Gregg's (a cheap baker on most British high streets) started offering a vegan version of their sausage roll and it was a GIANT success: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200202-how-did-the-ve...
But that would be the case anyway because we’re talking about ways to handle numbers that don’t fit in floats. If your JSON has to be put through a black-box pipeline where you don’t know if it will be reencoded at some point by a lossy parser then the only safe thing to do is pass as a string.
I would add into this mix that the engagement algorithms social media uses to pick which posts show up in peoples timelines, go viral, etc. is very much a cyclic process that reinforces all of the social problems that you speak of.
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The winter is a good point, and it’s true there is a lot of overpromising even given the funding. We’ll see..
Or, people here could admit their privilege rather than try to deny it. I am absolutely privileged on some very very important axes (somewhat the opposite in others). I'm throwing stones in the glass house because the glass house is shitty.
So now you're wasting toilet paper instead of water, which might be better, but still is wasteful and wouldn't have been needed if the toilet were to be flushed manually.
Judge's judge, it's up for the plaintiff to make the case against any long-standing precedence that's contrary to their case.
The goal is to improve animals living conditions. At least for me, that is.
After breaking down plastic it can recycled to make same quality products. Typical heating recycling process can make only low grade plastic.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/huge-step-forward-mu...
Yeah it's interesting how good mil officers handle this, as its true. Usually it's a blend of being a servant leader, yet asserting a form of dominance upwards/downwards that indicates you're a good person, but not to be stepped on. Tricky balance as the servant part is easy enough, dominance part is not.
> NEVER buy a Samsung TV... they're horrible.

NEVER buy a TV. Even better. They are all horrible. I thought that TVs would be a thing of the past like landline phones, but looks like I was wrong. It's incredible that the gullible are swarming to "smart" TVs.
> In essence, some experts say, they are quietly adopting the Swedish approach.

https://archive.is/5uC31

This is great news and honestly the whole Covid19 situation has been the first subject I systematically censured myself because of the amount of downvotes here on HN.

We are all human, this book "Madness of Crowds" gave me most insight last half year.

https://www.amazon.com/Madness-Crowds-Gender-Race-Identity/d...
> very few deep learning people write their own CUDA code.

True, but even once TF/PyTorch support AMD well it's highly possible that an unanticipated CUDA dependency will pop up in one's computational journey. NVidia subsidized CUDA seminars for a decade and now it's all over the place, both in the flagship frameworks and in the nooks and crannies.
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Help on this is more than welcome. It's also not as far off the roadmap as you might think. I know of at least three very talented font designers with disabilities, at least one who uses a wheelchair. It would please me enormously to make a tool suitable for them, and I would push other priorities back for it, just because I consider it so important.

In any case, I haven't done detailed design work on accessibility, but enough poking around to get some sense of what might be involved.

You are right that stable com-rs will help a lot with this kind of integration; there are soundness and other issues with the custom com implementations we've had to do. Fortunately there are good people working on it.
I came to HN for the lisp fanboy culture when it washed out of reddit, and stayed for the great moderation.
We moved into a home that had dual-flush toilets with different sized buttons. I assumed that the big button was for more water, but in reality it didn't make a difference. We were told these were high-end toilets, and they looked fancy, but the dual-flush thing seems to be more for show than anything else.
Perfectly achievable, at the expense of being an end user nightmare.

The reason I'm buying an iPhone is I don't have the time to care about how high the walls should be and to ensure every app I use isn't abusing the SDK to suck up data. The reason I'm paying a premium for Apple is I'm choosing to trust them rather than trust every developer.
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>If that is understood to mean palm prints are less invasive than fingerprints, then it also means palm prints are less good at correctly identifying users.

Not necessarily. Purely guessing here, but I think it is also partially guided by the idea that you leave your full fingerprints on objects quite often, no matter where you go. Touched something? You got a fingerprint left there.

With palm, how often do you press your full palm flat against something? And when you do it, it also gets rid of the natural curving of the palm that those air sensors detect (I assume). I can only think of door handles, but a lot of people don't use the full hand, and I think even out of those that do, they don't make full contact with the entirety of the door handle surface and their palm.

If that was their guiding idea, then it is possible to be just as good at correctly identifying users, while also being less invasive in terms of privacy. Also, with fingerprints, there are already plenty of databases that have it, like, if you ever applied for TSA Precheck or if you had to get those prints taken for immigration paperwork or for passport or whatever. But there is no giant existing database of your palm 3D scans. And, as opposed to face scan, you cannot be identified by someone just looking at that scan and then encountering you on the street.
I think I've been quite polite and civil here but if you want to provide feedback without being subject to voting here, my email is in my profile.

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> The frustrating (and silly) thing is that this argument is used a lot to attack left-leaning folks who _do_ engage with many people whose experience and world view are very different from them... like people who are homeless, immigrants from other countries, people who are racially minoritized, people who are disabled

I think there are a lot more people who think they do this than actually do this. Left-leaning spaces are some of the most homogenous around. I can’t tell you how many left-leaning people I know who were genuinely shocked and surprised that, when it came time to vote, “people of color” didn’t like Elizabeth Warren. Their perception of getting to know “immigrants from other countries” and “people who are racially minoritized” rested entirely on interacting with immigrants and minorities who travel in the same rarified elite circles as themselves and hold the same views. “Center people of color” during the primary became “f--k moderates” after the convention, without a hint of irony.

Of course I’m painting with a very broad brush! Obviously not all left-leaning people are like that. But I do think there is a lack of appreciation for the relationships right-leaning folks have with people who are different from themselves. One of the most racially integrated places I’ve ever been is rural Texas. It’s a function of economics and geography. Left-leaning cities are highly segregated—educated left leaning people generally don’t live and work alongside immigrants and racial minorities.