skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crucial bit is that there's a gap. Say financial assistance worth $12,000 is available for people who make <$20,000.

* If you make $20,000 then your effective income is $32,000.

* If you make $32,000 then your effective income is $32,000.

* If you make $25,000 then you're effective income is $25,000.

This creates a terrible incentive structure where you actually don't want to make more then $20,000 unless you're sure you can make more than $32,000. Well actually more because there's really no incentive to move up to $32,000 exactly.

You have to make sure that when a person makes more money they are always better off for having done so. Having a hard cutoff for benefits doesn't work and neither does a back-off system that matches income (e.g. at $25,000 you get $7,000)
TLS, and thus QUIC, doesn't care what the certificate is. It's just an opaque bag of bytes as far as the protocol is concerned. If servers and clients for some particular protocol or service agreed it should be a 16 color GIF of any prime numbered XKCD comic that would work with no changes to QUIC or TLS.

So the reason you want certificates from the Web PKI for public facing servers is only that those are widely trusted for identity, whereas that "XKCD comic" idea is clearly untrustworthy and doesn't identify much of anything.
Godless Europe and proud of it.
It's not a given that increased load is going to be disproportionally dirty. Wind farm output typically peaks at night. Wind is a great match for night time battery energy vehicle charging and it has the lowest life cycle CO2 footprint of any electricity source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emis...

I do like your emphasis on marginal effects. As renewables and BEVs grow it will be a balancing act to pick the most marginally effective resources for emissions abatement. California may soon reach a point where an additional dollar invested in solar doesn't abate as much CO2 as the same dollar invested in transmission, storage, or wind -- even if solar has the lowest instantaneous generation cost.
'Degree inflation': How the four-year degree became required
So there is such a thing as low skill work that would be in high demand! That would mean there is a need to train people to have lower skills then!

There is no guarantee that anybody with any type of skill set will be offered a job aligned with their skills depending on economic issues. Skill is a vague idea.
Legally. I don't believe the path to citizenship is paved if you are working and staying in either of those countries illegally.
Both Australia and Canada are quite picky on whom they let in. It's points based, supposed to be fit to the needs of the country.
For giggles, I took my score for Canada. As a middle-aged individual, I wouldn't be able to get in under the normal program even while nearly topping out most other categories (I speak English and French, have advanced degrees, etc).
Of course, you can buy your way in to almost any country.
What do you mean exactly and how would that work?
I have no idea what this article is actually trying to say. Is it a "nothing actually means anything" sort of thing?
At the end of the day most people don't want to work, but the option to be paid for not working isn't available. We all dislike working to some extent. Otherwise we would do it for free, as a hobby. There are some low paid jobs people choose out of passion or interest.

There are also bottom rung jobs that beginners with no job skills can enter. Think about people with no language skills, don't they deserve a chance to be productive?

Even some of the lowest paid workers take pride in their work. Some of the savoir-esque rhetoric here borders on condescension.
You left out a big one.

3) Politicians who view the poor as a voting bloc, who endlessly promise solutions that they never really deliver.
I’m a very happy Intercom customer and it’s embedded into everything we do from sales to support.

I’ve only got one feature I wish they had and that’s onboarding checklists for new users. We use their product tours, in app messages and email drip campaigns for new users, but a different bit of software for the checklist. I’d love it all in one place.
To wrap my head around this, let's assume the period is the calendar year. Let's assume that I made enough from January to March that I exceed a payout position under a negative income tax system, but COVID-19 saw me lose my job in March and my income dried up since then.

When I report my income as of December 31st, 2020, I still made enough for the year that I won't receive benefits, despite not having an income. That means that I will be unsupported through 2021 and won't see the money until 2022, correct?

If it were UBI and I were paid on January 1st 2020, it would be clawed back on December 31st as I still made enough money, but I would receive another payment on January 1st 2021 to get me through the year where I have no income. Isn't that the intent of UBI and not something afforded through negative income?

You could pay out a UBI-like stipend and then claw it back on the same day (December 31st, 2020), but is it really UBI at that point? That sounds like the negative income tax.
All bubbles pop, all soap becomes a bubble. Your statement is true technically. There is no way to argue with that.

The 1000000-dollar question is “when”.

Zerohedge (banned here) has been forecasting the pop of SPX and Nasdaq for several years now...
I’m not sure that’s entirely true because you are only thinking of solar. I’d like to see daytime vs overnight generation source breakdown.

Remember that hydro power doesn’t care about time of day and wind is often able to generate more overnight than during the day.

Further time of use rates can be tweaked as usage & generation requires. Maybe with a lot of EVs in the future & solar installed we encourage people to charge mid-day at work or sunrise->commute start & commute end->sundown, this doesn’t work great in winter but also electric use is lower in winter so maybe it nets out.
> How were you able to determine this from across the Internet?

Who told you my source is the internet? :) we all live irl and discuss with people. I never heard a low-paid worker throw this argument. It always comes from people who have better jobs and more stable income
Ok, we've deredditized (unreddited?) the title above. Good catch.
> This logic does not square for me.

So what? I imagine the very last concern of people deciding whether to move to another country in hopes of improving their family's life is whether some random internet commenter understands them.

If you actually want to understand it, writing obstreperous and ignorant forum posts isn't going to change anything. Seek out their own voices and actually listen.
You state all this as though their choices were not deliberate. Of course they are acting within the rules, while trying to foster an appearance of all you can eat buffet instant buy/sell, when the market really doesn't work that way. However, users came to expect that convenience. That business model may be inherently untenable in the face of events like this.
If this is legit it is epic.
"Any short sellers who maintained their short positions through the bubble will make back most of what they lost."

Isn't part of the issue not pure short positions, but short dated options? you can only hold those until expiration. If the bubble lasts longer..
That's a terrific film, but a bit misleading in its central message; many of the most infamous terrorists and extremists in the real world (bin Laden an example) seem to have middle-class/privileged backgrounds.
I'm not sure it's even accurate to say that Wayland closes one of the holes when the hole Wayland closes isn't part of the system's security boundaries. It's like installing a deadbolt in a door standing in the middle of a room.
I disagree with this - if I've memorised a tune, I'm not allowed to replay it without paying a fee. But the line between biological and physical memory seems arbitrary to me, and this will become increasingly so.

We can already read basic images from a brain using AI to reconstruct the image[1]. If that device shows an image which is copyrighted, who is liable, the person with the scanner, or the brain that was scanned?

How about if I create a device which helps people who are physically disabled - or locked in - to communicate by projecting sounds from their brains - but not at will? If the person thinks about a tune ("Happy Birthday"), have they "performed" it?

What happens if they think something which is considered enough to have you banned from popular platforms? What about if the technology is forced to remove their services because the thoughts you're creating are unacceptable?

These things don't seem at all unlikely within the next 10-20 years.

1. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/mind-reading-algorit...
Nah, it just looks like microsoft's usual hungarian notation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/stg/coding-st...
Yeah that's a major issue that I bring up everytime UBI is discussed and that for some reason UBI proponents never address.

If UBI isn't high enough to ensure that welfare as we currently know it isn't needed anymore, then why have UBI at all? It just adds complexity to the system for no apparent gain. On the other hand if UBI is high enough to go by without working there's a lot of things that just won't get done anymore.
Thanks!

(Note that this is from the creator of the presentation himself. It sounds like Keynote or PowerPoint should be viable for producing slides like this.)
Some hobbyists use these die shots to reverse engineer older chips, bypassing the need to decap the chips themselves. The craft is explained nicely in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHx-XUA6f9g.
It’s dwarfed by waste heat though, which is an estimated ~70% of all energy produced.
Broadcom Bluetooth: Generating (not so?) random numbers
> relatively small target group

Smaller than you imply as there is no standard Linux desktop for them to target. Not only are there multiple desktops, there are multiple systems for almost everything in Linux. Even seemingly ubiquitous things like .profile and .bashrc aren't everywhere as neither zsh nor fish use those.

TLDR; I think the diversity of the Linux world also helps.
The problem is the books don't really tell you. They're written in this mathematical way that kinda obscures how to actually think about them practically. If you're more into math maybe stochastic calc will be just fine for you.

Here we go anyway:

Hull: Futures, Options, and Other Derivatives

Natenberg. Don't recall the name, but this is maybe the closest to practical.

Paul Wilmott, Quantitative finance.

Taleb, Dynamic Hedging. Got a signed copy :)

Also I think it's smart to read about instruments that aren't options, ie don't just cut to the chase. Time value of money, futures, forwards, bonds, swaps, equities. Then vanilla options on all those things, then exotics.
There is no concussion among economists that "link between the minimum wage and unemployment isn't really a thing."

A lot of research suggests the effect is pretty small when the increase in minimum wage is small compared to the market wages for unskilled labor.

But there isn't a lot of data about a large change in minimum wage that affects a substantial number of people.

If there was no downside, why not $100 an hour?
This is tangential to RH, but never the less related issue: For many years now I was wondering how exectly the ETF work and whether when I buy an ETF I can be 100% sure the issuer can follow through on their obligations?

What mechanism are there in place to insure that ETF will not deviate from the underlying stocks it should represent?

I found it difficult to understand the intricacies related to this question.

Here is one example: Suppose I was holding ETF with GME stock in it, the ETF issuer might have decided he knows better and sell the stock expecting its price to drop in the future. Meanwhile the issue will attempt to "follow" the stock by other means. Ultimately is there a way to be sure the issuer will not fail, if GME beats all anticipated expectation the issue might fail to reflect the new GME price...

What mechanism are there in place to insure that ETF will not deviate from the underlying stock?
Censorship of things I don't like is okay when performed at the level of an actual community that nobody is forced to be a member of.
Not related to HiDPI, but looking at the picture of his monitor setup:

From an ergonomics standpoint (i.e. the health of your neck), the upper edge of your monitor shouldn't be higher than your eye level. Looking straight or looking down is fine.

Thus the monitor on the left is probably not very ergonomic.
The whole meta narrative of an Adam curtis doc is to bring you to awareness of when and where you are being manipulated, presumably to help you become aware of manipulations from less compassionate sources.
It seems like either one could work much the same way in terms of ease of distribution, but I agree UBI sounds simpler and more direct. Maybe just because it's something new and it's straightforward in principle so we can fantasize about it actually working efficiently.

I imagine UBI as a system where every citizen gets a monthly check, no questions asked. It shows up in the mail or gets direct deposited and that's it. And if someone can't receive it that way, say if they're homeless or don't have a bank account, maybe there could even be a place they can show up and collect their money in person. This might still be a pipe dream but it doesn't seem impossible, the hard part is actually figuring out how to pay for a UBI program.

Contrast that to sticking it into the existing income tax system. I imagine that would mean you'd only collect the money annually, and only if you file a tax return. Lots of people without much income don't file tax returns so that's already a blocker. And once the money is gone, a year is a long time to wait for another payment. Of course there's no reason a negative income tax couldn't still be distributed monthly and made more easily acceptable, but there's just a lot of baggage around the thought of dealing with taxes.
And this is why I have a problem with the UN declaration of human rights.If I choose to live on a Sandune in the middle of the Sahara, Who’s obligation is it to ensure these services are provided to me.That said, I would say it’s a reasonable aspiration for society to be structured in a way that this is achievable for people that want to work for it or can’t work for it, but not a right
Saying "the government can technically do XYZ" is pointless when there is no precedent and it has never been challenged in court. What would the reaction be if the government bust into your home and took your wallet because one of the dollar notes in it was used for a robbery 10 years and hundreds of owners ago?
So they are chosen with that in mind. That is good.

What happens to people with narrowed arteries?
Because there may be another security patch after this one. Because otherwise it is easy to lose track of which hosts have the patch. Because it integrates well with configuration management systems. Because you want to keep whatever other patches Red Hat has applied.
It wasn't flagged to death and nobody mobbed anybody. The account that posted it was banned. Posts by banned accounts are killed by default.

You're right that the parent was a good contribution and deserved to be unkilled. That's what vouching is for, and you made an excellent use of it.

Banning on HN isn't punitive, it's preventative. When a banned account has changed its ways and has reliably been sticking to HN's rules for a while now, we're happy to unban it. If people see cases like that, they should email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it. That's a fine way to watch out for a fellow user.

When a banned account hasn't been reliably sticking to HN's rules for long enough, or hasn't posted enough to decide that yet, it stays banned for obvious reasons. In that case their good posts can still be unkilled, just on a comment-by-comment basis. That's why we created vouching and it works well.
The site appears to be down. (504 Gateway Timeout) https://archive.is/ki5Vm
How would I go about building an application for displaying very hi-res images like this? you know, allows to zoom, only load when it needs to, etc.

Is it a big project? I'm really clueless (I'm not a programmer as you can tell though I know my way around Python).
> Divorce must be a painful, punishing process if society is to continue to take marriage seriously.

This might increase unhappy people stuck in a marriage, which likely won’t make the society take marriage seriously; the opposite seems true.
This wasn't "going down", it was active blocking of specific stocks because RH exposed themselves to massive risk by assuming the hedge funds they were pimping their customers out to would never be swiftly bankrupted.

RH was essentially letting their users pay full price for a stock, then lending that stock to hedge funds so they could use it against the actual stock owner by selling it short. Since the borrowed stock has already been resold (the stock the HF didn't own to begin with), now the question is if the HF can even afford to buy them all back. This is why the entire market dropped the other day, because HFs were selling off other positions to come up with the money. Sell offs could get a lot worse considering $GME is still currently shorted over 100%.

If the govt steps in to save the hedge funds at the expense of millions of average Joe's, or if the hedge funds pull some sort of bankruptcy loophole card resulting in the average Joe's holding the bag while they continue on, we could see people revolt against the entire financial system as we know it.
Jevon’s paradox can also lead to virtuous cycles. For example, electric-assist bikes require less user energy per mile, making biking easier, which leads to more time spent biking, resulting in more overall exercise. Similarly, increased transit use can lead to more time spent walking.
There’s some overhead to the charger-battery system to actually generate any sort of a charge. I’ve had the exact same assumption multiple times, and as soon as I do some research with the math breakdown.. its clear why we don’t see these in production yet.

With current efficiency PV systems, the math requires a fairly large surface like the entire flatbed of a Cybertruck to actually generate a meaningful charge.

This also requires the vehicle be parked somewhere its going to get a good amount of sun, excluding parking garages, a lot of urban areas, etc.
If they were just smaller that would be one thing, but the change in what they get paid for is bigger, I think.

A paper supported by the big department store's ads is incentivised to be broad, because the store wants to sell to everyone. Likewise a paper supported classified and by sunday realtor adds -- nobody wants to sell their house exclusively to members of some fringe, they want the widest distribution.

But a paper supported by its most outraged subscribers will cater to them, and importantly, to keeping them outraged.
US law has defined a few protected classes (race, color, religion, sex, age, and disability). Is that a perfect list? Probably not. Is it a reasonable legal and moral framework, I think so. Based on that protected class list, you can probably work out my answers to your questions easily. So it's not that arbitrary.

I could reverse this and ask your the same type of questions. As a business owner, am I not allowed to have any control over who and what business that I do? If I allow posts on my website, I must allow Nazi hate posts? If I allow images, I must allow all images except those that are illegal? If you're being rude to my workers, I can't turn you away, I just have to take it? If you say yes, I'd like how that is fair to me. If you say no, then that is also arbitrary, right?
Justice Department investigates SpaceX after complaint of hiring discrimination
I do think that in many situations dynamic linking doesn't make a whole lot of sense these days (like, say, a JPEG decoding library for instance). But having a central point where you can configure, test and administer networking makes a lot of sense to me.

The idea of every application coming up with its own DNS implementation for instance annoys me greatly. I can already anticipate the amount of time I'm going to lose hunting down the way application X handles DNS because it won't apply my system-wide settings.

I also firmly believe that SSL/TLS should've been handled at the OS level instead of everybody shipping their own custom OpenSSL implementations (complete with various vulnerabilities). I wish I could just use some setsockopt() syscalls to tell the OS I want a secure socket and let it figure out the rest.

Moving stuff to higher layers is, IMO, mainly because Google wants to become the new Microsoft/Apple and moving that stuff up is a way to take the control away from Windows/Mac OS. The browser is the OS. You use web apps instead of apps.

You turn every device out there into a glorified ChromeBook.
This is tangential to RH, but nevertheless I think it's a related issue: For many years now I was wondering how exectly the ETF work and whether when I buy an ETF I can be 100% sure the issuer can follow through on their obligations?

What mechanism are there in place to insure that ETF will not deviate from the underlying stocks it should represent?

I found it difficult to understand the intricacies related to this question.

Here is one example: Suppose I was holding ETF with GME stock in it, the ETF issuer might have decided he knows better and sell the stock expecting its price to drop in the future. Meanwhile the issue will attempt to "follow" the stock by other means. Ultimately is there a way to be sure the issuer will not fail, if GME beats all anticipated expectation the issue might fail to reflect the new GME price...

What mechanism are there in place to insure that ETF will not deviate from the underlying stock?
A friend of mine has used the phrase "activity != productivity" before. I think it fits these kinds of people well.
I guess the thing with these movies is the high level narrative is interesting, and at the low level, all the individual historical events discussed are interesting.

But the stuff in the middle just isn't there. It strongly feels like he's explaining how one point follows from the next, but he isn't.

For instance: in Hypernormalization he tries to make the point that there's some kind of relationship between Western algorithmic social media and terrorism. A lot of people would agree this is plausible.

But he doesn't actually explore this point. Instead he just observes that Judea Pearl is a machine learning researcher, and his son Daniel Pearl was beheaded by al-Qaeda members, with the videos uploaded to YouTube, which also uses machine learning (never mind that it's not the kind Judea Pearl worked on).

It's just a bunch of correspondences without any actual relationship.
Incidentally, this is shortly after Elon Musk criticized Biden for delaying the mission to Mars and stopping trading in GameStop.
I don't know how old you are or how long you've been paying taxes, but they have been an insane labyrinth since long before Trump. My taxes actually got simpler with the increased standard deduction.
Copyright is concerned with the (specific) expression of ideas... by definition if it is in your mind it’s unexpressed. So copyright cannot apply.

I don’t quite follow what you’re worried about...