skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I absolutely don't get your point. The financial structure of the state was reworked for these not-universal payouts (this is not the USA, the annual budget is made from scratch each year), and if the payouts were universal and more than one the country would be in literal ruins right now. There is no possibility of making it sustainable in the not-universal form, so how exactly could it be made sustainable if it was universal?
Hey dochtman, thanks! Long time no see, hope everything is good in Rust-land. Gelukkig nieuwjaar!
I'll start freaking out when radios start appearing in places like this.
Covid shares a lot of symptoms with other diseases. It is impossible to reliably say you already had Covid back in March, it could be a lot different things.
Human-Run Hedge Funds Trounce Quants in Covid Year
I'm currently working on a SaaS like this: https://www.rationalbi.com/

It's meant to be a modern take on BI/Analytics, and sort of a blend between dashboards, scheduled reporting and notebook analytics (like Observable/Jupyter).

You can just drop in data files of any kind, syndicate data from your cloud drives, connect to remote databases, upload via the API, and it has 80k+ open datasets available for analysis and benchmarking.

It also has a full SQL database running in the browser, so if you build dynamic notebooks/dashboards with business logic, you can do really fast SQL without any network latencies.

Disclaimer: I'm the creator/founder of Rational BI.
Internet - source of information, sharing and community. But use to be a totalitarian tool of control by at least one country.

Virus - worry about all these from flu, hiv to these. This also turned out to be used for totalitarian control.

How do libertarians survived this two front war, I wonder.
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'Because of ethics' and 'these rules are there for a reason' are not arguments, they're 'shut up' encoded. Present arguments please.

The progress of the vaccine has been incredible compared to usual, but that doesn't mean more could have been done. Every death is a tragedy.

People are constantly used as guinea pigs... as long as there is informed consent as per the Nuremberg code it's fine. Not suggesting anybody would be forced or ill-informed.

So back to my argument - you can make a reasonable guess at estimating P(death|vaccine) vs. P(death|covid) and set a big margin, then offer people to VOLUNTARILY agree to take it who are most at risk of dying.

The average age of death in the UK is 82 mostly with co-morbidities. I am sure many of these dead would have been happy to take the chance.

And in the case of the mRNA vaccines this not some trivial difference - some were developed within weeks/months, but took nearly a year longer to pass all testing.

It's really obvious that pandemics need different handling than the 'lock down and loads of people die anyway, both from the virus and the consequences of lockdown while ruining the economy + wait 2yrs for a vaccine to be fully distributed' approach we've got.

I hope lessons are learned from covid (I'm actually optimistic they will be, in countries other than the one where the virus emerged anyway).
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Barilla is also one of the more generic and blander pastas; once you switch to the higher end, bronze extruded brands, it gets immeediately clear why they cost more. It's still better than some non-Italians brands that are made in normal wheat flour instead of durum wheat semolina, and look so pale and dull they maks you wonder why you didn't cook rice instead.
Ask HN: Any good resources out there on putting together consulting packages?
I am considering doing some consulting on the side around data management, analytics and business process optimization/automation. I have few contacts I could leverage but I am not sure what to sell exactly. I am concerned with selling time as it puts me into the delivering business requirements area and I would rather work directly on the business problem without some intermediary "translating" it into a list of deliveries. I tend to work better when I can deal directly with management and end users and build a solution from the ground up. One type of consulting package that worked for me was "Current State Assessment" in which I did few interviews, reviewed few systems and then did a write up of the risk areas and the possible next steps to improve. This works as a relationship starter, but I am lost on what comes after. As a further note, I am dealing mostly with big companies using consulting services from deloitte, accenture, etc., most of the writing I have found on consulting is for smaller clients with a completely different purchasing process. Basically in startups and small companies you convince 1 guy and you are mostly done, in big ones your offerings need to make sense to multiple teams and departments and require funding approvals.
I almost can't believe we were laughed and scoffed at for wearing a mask in March. Whether we had a respiratory infection or not. My biggest takeaway from the epidemic is that herd conformity is a ridiculously powerful force. Never underestimate it.
> Whatever people mean when they say inequality, I don't see how a UBI can help.

Because it allows people to take risks that are normally only available to the financially secure, like starting a business.
A typical facebook/google employee defending his company.
Common is it that hard to link whether its same or different people? The people who use same browser, ip , same habit etc can easily be guessed right?
According to https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourn...

the onset judged by "first contact to health care" was much earlier.
The infection fatality rate for those aged 50-69 is NOT 2%. It is 0.5% per https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

As for those who don’t want to be locked in a room - sounds like they want to have it both ways - just the right amount of risk reduction and a sooner path to living their lives freely. But why is their desire for a normal life more important than others’ desire? Why should others have to give up their freedoms and endure an extended lockdown to enable them, instead of living their lives freely now?
> I’ve done the whole google [*] support thing but no response and deaf ears

Seems to be the Google way of doing things: they can't do everything with algorithms!
I'm not sure what country you're referring to - could you specify that?
And cheaper/more flexible than custom digital circuitry too. Even if something is large-scale enough to justify a custom chip, that'll often be some components around a mask-programmed 8051 clone. straight-forward, well-understood, relatively easy to make variations by just changing the program.
Here's an adventure:
https://strava.app.link/EYaQIX7uDcb

Generally, the best way to find bike routes in Japan (or most countries) is to ask Google for car directions and avoid highways and toll roads. But this time, it drove me straight into the radioactive danger zones of the old Fukushima plant. You were only allowed on those roads if you went by car, as a radiation shield. So I got stuck in a dead end, in a literal ghost town, trying to hitchhike. Man, I still remember the frustration and anger. Weird adventure.
I was not aware of this. I've tended to avoid the press other than the BBC due to the overwhelming and relentless negativity of the last 9 months.
Forest Admin, if we're talking about more than dashboards/charts and you need to dig record deep to perform CRUD operations - https://www.forestadmin.com
Coronavirus Variant Is Indeed More Transmissible, New Study Suggests
Has anyone ever put this into code?
You usually cannot "topple" a rogue regime, unlike a civil government.

Dictators almost always have secret police, and domestic espionage agencies in every corner.

This is why I do not subscribe to notion that Western spies are trying to stage revolutions in repressive regimes for a simple reason that they can not.
The real problem I see is when IoT crap starts getting 4/5g modems with their own network plans so they can spy on you even while not connected to wifi
Nurses make really good money in the United States. And it is always in demand.

With the union rules and all the mandatory overtime, they can earn well over six figures.

The salaries are easily comparable to some senior software engineering salaries. And they can reach that level a lot faster than some engineers can. They can also work at multiple hospitals, to further boost their income.

Given all that, it’s reasonable to assume that some men will enter the profession also.
Thanks to dang for adding this to the second-chance pool :D
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This is an interesting POV I hadn't considered before, thanks for sharing. I will share my own view on the matter.

I can see two main reasons for business not distributing source code:

The first is to prevent users from using it without paying. If someone acquires a copy of the source code, they can redistribute at will at no cost.

For some business models this might be fine, internet services being an example. "Normal" users would prefer paying for just using such services, instead of maintaining the necessary infrastructure themselves.

But what about desktop applications or other software that just runs in the user's device? If all the user needs to use the software is a download link, there would be no tangible incentives to pay for it. There are other incentives, such as helping maintain a software that is useful to you, but most users don't grasp the concept of software maintenance and wouldn't see that as a good investment.

The second reason is to prevent low barrier competition. As you said yourself, creation and distribution of software costs money, so consider this:

Software company "A" spends months developing a desktop application which it plans to sell for $30, which will be enough to get initial investment back after selling 1000 copies. Since the product is a desktop application, and the company is using a free software licence, they distribute the source code with the compiled version. In this scenario, what's to prevent software company "B" from taking the source, rebranding/recompiling and launching a competing version with the same features for $10? In a purely ethical world, everyone would do the "right thing" and this scenario wouldn't exist. In our world, incentive-based systems are used to keep chaos from taking over.

Currently I'm an intermediate Linux user and can get by with only free software, but that was not always the case. My first contact with computers happened before I was 10 when my father had brought a 386 and installed MS-DOS and later windows 3.1.

In the early 2000's I began my software development career using Microsoft technologies such as .NET and VBA. Sure Linux existed at the time, but it was much less accessible than it is today (especially to someone who mostly used MS products so far). Eventually I released myself from "Microsoft prison", but I had to use MS products in order to access the internet and acquire the necessary knowledge.

Today I wonder if the free internet would have developed so quickly if it was not proprietary software developed by "unethical" software companies and sold to end users. Free software is more ethical, but initially it was only for the technical elite at universities.

PS: I'm a big fan of your software (been using sr.ht since the start). Keep up the good work!
The Guardian article definitely gives the game away. I made a comment earlier featuring some of the more damning quotes from the architect of the Swedish strategy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25580518
There are much easier methods to hide than a drone. They typically use vulnerable or compromised individuals with no paper trial back to the perputrators to do these sorts of assassinations.
That, or if interactivity is not that much of a concern, Jupyter notebooks (maybe with Voilá) is also a good option.
I note that Debian has lots of non-technical (and less technical) ways to contribute:

https://www.debian.org/intro/help
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Not so fast... fear / gauging safety isn’t strictly based on past experience, it’s also based on past inexperience.

The reason humans range from support of radical change to support of status quo when it comes to the known and unknown is a level of awareness that logic and experience can be defied for a better outcome in some situations.

Our level of scientific understanding during our lifetime may always be as that of those that believed that Earth was generally flat or those that had only just accepted that the Earth revolved around the Sun in what seemed to be a circle; both theories were and still may be held by some as truths, and perhaps to some benefit, but both are widely accepted to be incorrect now.

Fear is the mind-killer, but don’t confuse our innate questioning of what seems best and obvious to some for ignorant lack of acceptance of known truth. We can neither say there is no truth, nor that we know it, until we know it, and the jury is out about who knows it, except for those that believe in it being able to be known by someone.
Gratis stuff down the street is always more appealing than the $1 lemonade stand just in front of the door.
> Some areas of Spain have implemented different forms of basic income for decades now (these usually go by names such as 'renta de gastos esenciales', 'renta de ingresos', etc).

basic income, not Unconditional BI. I would be surprised if those programs were unconditional, which is what makes UBI work - the ability to work while still earning them.
> National debt is for the most part a good thing, since it's a measure of the amount of a national currency is in circulation

Why do you say this as a Scandinavian when all Scandinavian are fiscally responsible and don't take on more debt every year? Taking on debt isn't a good thing, you can have currency without having any debt as a nation, they aren't related at all. People arguing for that are just trying to manipulate you into believing they are on your side.
A tall woman needs as much as a tiny man. Should UBI account for body mass? What should it do with underweight or overweight people then? :)
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Why is it better to compare Sweden against Finland, which is not Scandinavia, than to Denmark, which is?
The most successful story of new businesses starting in the last century has been what, Silicon Valley? Inequality is very high there because the people who started businesses sometimes became filthy rich and hired a bunch of overpaid engineers to help run the new businesses.

Nothing wrong with the argument that UBI gives people opportunities. It may well do that. But if it succeeds at that, it is decent evidence it will increase inequality.
>most people aren’t ripping their own carts, they’re downloading them from somewhere and probably never bought the original game

I’ve never seen a single ROM homebrew or console hacking community that supports piracy. If users are savvy enough to be able to work with ROMs then they likely know how to rip game carts. Piracy draws legal action from big companies that wish to remove rights. As the niche grows ever smaller, behaving well becomes ever more existentially important.
Typically the translator is not working with the author and they're not involved particularly early in the writing/publication process. They often come to the work months or years later. There are certainly exceptions, though.
We are working on a Blockchain SaaS (Zeeve - https://www.zeeve.io) to automate the complete DevOps and SecOps approach. Also to add up integrations with grafana, promethius etc for monitoring and analytic.
To be fair this is unlike the case of leading one to a cliff ... it is in Siberia and even if they are on the main road accident happened. Perhaps if other people passed by it helped but for up to -70c ... they have to prepare for exception.

Google has many faults. But the story is not totally one sided.
There is an actual term for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_cop
Which metrics are you using?
What bothers me, is the prevalence of counterfeit and just plain bad-quality, cheap chips.

These become so low-cost that corporate buyers pretty much have no choice, but to use them.

The result, is things like expensive Bluetooth headsets, crapping out, after a year. I have been through quite a few.

I/O ports see a lot of use (even virtual ones). Those are some of the hardest-working chips in a device. Not a good place for cheap dross; but they are also present in almost every device out there. Lots of money to be made.

To give Apple credit, I think they are fairly serious about keeping the quality of their internals up to snuff.

> cursed looking trampolines

I like that.

BTW: I do think this is an awesome write-up, and things like it, are why I like this place.
When I was writing my masters thesis my idea to split it up into a series of papers really helped me to remove writers block, I wrote many chapters in Bear to avoid distraction and it was a great lever before finally typesetting the whole thing in LaTeX.
That's doing the job you were paid to do. Being hired to translate something properly from scratch and turning in edited Google Translate output is dishonest at a minimum.
I think you're skipping over "for the most part" in my post

Are you talking about private debt or governmental debt? They are, as stated in my first post, two entirely different things
“5% of those who took the vaccine developed covid19 symptoms” is somewhat misleading. Rather, for a vaccine and a placebo group of the same size, the number of people in the vaccine group who developed covid19 symptoms (only 0.037% of that group) was 5% the number of people in the placebo group who developed covid19 symptoms (0.74% of that group).
You can do this sort of thing in Intercom - only send an email if they haven’t accessed X for example.

That’s what we do at Paiger and it’s a fantastic way to ensure people reach the “Aha” moment.
This feels like corp every meeting I've been in hahah

"No I said don't do th.. ah forget it"
I don't know that the STL requires rbtrees for map and set, but you're correct that `std::unordered_map` is the STL's hashmap. The Java version of std::map would be java.util.TreeMap (and std::set => java.util.TreeSet).
It's just fixed amount of money that may or may not cover for your specific needs and preferences.

Variability in those needs are taken care of outside of UBI. You can still have a separate funds for medical equipment and you can still have prices of pads subsidized by goverment to promote hygiene.
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> your opt out will be honored for five years. After five years, you will need to resubmit your card number.

This requirement seems very easy to abuse. Annoying and inconveniencing users into submission already works wonders, people accept all kinds of EULAs, cookie conditions and privacy policies. I wouldn't want expiring user choices to become another tool in this arsenal.
There was a recent case of 3 deaths occuring in a nursing home in the UK after an infected Santa came to visit.
Surely they shouldn't. One of the expected positive outcomes from UBI is people will move out of cities to rural areas where it's cheaper.

Right now that's hard to do because all the economic activity is in cities. But when a baseline of economic activity follows people anywhere it'll help revive less successful areas, where that UBI goes a longer way.
No clue what is the most common routing service, but at least Graphhopper and OSRM picks the correct route

https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_...
Dismissing complex ideas in terms of cliches from popular fiction is not a great way to make policy.

Based on the last year, you can conclude nothing because people, countries, and politicians were just panicking and trying to survive on incidental handouts which don't allow for planning a future. That's not basic income.

Universal basic income would be living in the certainty that no matter what you will always have enough to take care of yourself and your family without obligations to do anything that you don't want to do. This is why libertarians like the idea because they don't agree being told how to live their lives by governments.

UBI leads to different life choices; including maybe not spending your career working double jobs cleaning and flipping burgers in double jobs while still not making enough to cover rent, insurance, or the ability to retire. This kind of poverty exists in some places that are filthy rich (i.e. the US).

But it is kind of an anomaly among other similarly wealthy (and even a lot less wealthy) countries. Elsewhere, it's basically what a lot of us already have except it's still surrounded in rules and morals that dictate that you have to live a "productive" life.

IMHO UBI could just be formalizing that status quo. We're basically taken care of anyway and now we simply take care of everyone unconditionally. It's not that massive of a change once you accept that there's a cost per person in each country for sustaining them that these countries are basically already paying for. But just in a really convoluted way. Making that less convoluted would probably result in some savings and allow some of the poorest people in our society to get a grip on their life or make some different choices. Some people would qualify that as fairness.

It could be as simple as if you don't work you receive X; no questions asked. If you do work, you also receive X and you now urn Y-X, where Y is your total income. If you get unemployed, you get X+benefits from your (optional) unemployment insurance. If you get sick, basic health care is part of your basic income but you can insure for benefits (optional). The hard part is establishing a value for X that is high enough that it matters and low enough that we don't destroy our economies.

It would basically mean labor gets a lot cheaper and simpler for companies. Of course UBI has to come from somewhere. Like for example corporate, income taxes and part of what used to be separate insurances for e.g. unemployment, state pensions, etc. We can still have those insurances except that they would now be about insuring the difference to UBI so the cost would be lower. And we can also make those optional since UBI would be enough, thus making everything extra something you'd opt in for.

For, many countries, this is effectively what they have already except that they tend to have these hugely inefficient bureaucracies to try to get you back to work. Which in the case of e.g. Spain with double digit unemployment numbers tends to be a bit futile. Hence, the discussions on UBI are a bit further there.
That you don't like someone's politics does not make what they say inherently false.

If Rees-Mogg, Dorries, and Hancock are wrong, then demonstrate it.
I've seen this in companies too. You keep reminding them about this thing, and then eventually they come up with this idea themselves. I have the feeling that the idea doesn't reach their mind but their subconscious, and then that one reminds their mind again. It seems they have to ponder on it for a while, maybe hear it multiple times, before it reaches their mind again as their own idea.

It makes you wonder how many of your own ideas were actually that from others.
I don't think UBI should take anything into account, no, but an average man needs more money than an average woman. That some women needs more than some men doesn't really matter, women arguing that they as a group need more money than men is nonsense.