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I'm motivated to make the world better, not to support any particular policy. If UBI is a good policy, I'm motivated to make it work. If UBI isn't a good policy (e.g. if the expenses or changing incentives would cripple society), I'm not.

I think if you reread your post closely, you would see the circular reasoning. You've assumed that UBI is a policy with positive outcomes, as part of your argument for why folks should support UBI. That's "begging the question" (the classical meaning of it).
A World’s Fair now would be like The Olympics, a ridiculously expensive, corruption-laden affair that would cost many countries more than they could ever recoup, benefiting only a few rich 1st-world countries and/or multi-national companies. While the average person would see “marvels”, they’d be the corporate-approved, mass-market-acceptable marvels that were cleared through legal before being shown to the public.

You can see more innovation in an afternoon spent on blogs than you would ever see in a 6-month long, static display of corporate bullshit.
HN rule: Don't snark or shallow dismissals - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
I was about to buy a netgate router when I read the background of everything here on HN.

Basically, all the opensource claims don't amount to a hill of beans, because you cannot compile pfsense yourself, even for their hardware.

(I'm sure someone could come up with the link)

The firewall should be the ONE place where this would be critical. You have to run their binary.

I also think it phones home.
I've seen highly correlated failures on regular hard-drives too. We had a large array of IBM DeathStars that failed approximately one every couple of weeks until the entire array had been replaced, for example.

But nothing like SSDs.

They absolutely can and do fail near simultaneously, but it doesn't even need to be with identical use. I've had multiple SSDs from the same batch fail the same week despite being in different arrays hosting different data, albeit similar usage patterns. If you're unlucky and get a bad firmware revision, suddenly you may face a cascade of failing drives before you have time to upgrade (I particularly remember a bad time dealing with failing OCZ SSDs...)

It's terrifying. My home NAS has four different brands for that reason. And of course I never trust a single array.

Dealing with storage has done more than anything else to make me worry about hardware risks... I really don't envy you running a storage service...

EDIT: IBM DeathStar refers to this, btw: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar - see particularly the images. It was grim.
Clearly “choice” is a sliding scale here that’s based on prevailing social norms. The US has double percentage of single parent, households compared to Germany, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/12/u-s-childre..., almost five times the rate compared to India, and almost eight times the rate of China.
It works great if the departments don't have a lot of power to stop it. Even if Amazon gets hit with a fine for anti-union behavior, it would be a pittance to their budget, and almost certainly come too late.
Agreed. I worked with a team who was heavily into scala and one of their beliefs was that all the smartest people want to work on scala, thus having the company use scala will filter only the smartest people to want to work for us.
WordPress hands down. Built in CMS, easy to use editor, not to mention the extensible plug-ins system. You could get a site up and running in an hour.
These aren't examples of Apple unilaterally removing GPL'd apps, these were examples where the creator contacted Apple with demands and Apple complied by removing the apps.

The GPL issues are more to do with GPL fans being overly pedantic about the license. The source code can be shared outside the app store, the only thing the app store build/signature is doing is baking in the app store wrappers which aren't adding extra functionality. By this logic, distributing a signed build of a GPL app would violate the license.
Quickly looking up the origin of the term blacklist on wikipedia reveals that there is no historic connotation to race or color of skin in this word (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting#Origins_of_the_te...). Black and white are just colors. These words in themselves have no implicit judgemental meaning.

So by publicly arguing that the term blacklist carries a racial negative connotation one would impose this view onto the one who is using the word blcklist. This is similar to using the term 'the n-word': By saying this one is making me thinking the word 'nigger' in my head. So while the other one is not saying it, it is projected into my head, making me the bad guy. This is nefarious.

I am totally with you with the intention of becoming a better person. Same here. I am ok with people stating that they are personally offended by something I have said. I'll think about it and probably apologize and reconsider my language. I am not ok for someone from an outside group correcting my language and taking the offense for someone else. This person has no say in this.

On top of this I think that there is no right not to be offended. That we as societies should not strive for a language that is totally non-offensive to anyone. a) It i not possible because there is no end to it. It is easy to construct yet another sub division of a group that can take offense in lmost anything. b) because beeing offended is the starting point for societal discourse and negotiations. The discourse itself should be performed respectfully, and this is essential: While my opinion might be offensive to you, we should both have enough mutual respect and interest in each other to sort it out and come to terms.
Veiliggesteld would translate somewhere close to safeguarded or stored securely.

Which is a strange thing to do with an innocent person's data but that is what's reported.
It might be that your image viewer is smoothing the low-pixel images before showing them to you.
And what happened to the other $8.3 million? Isn't the root of the problem then corruption?
Jeff Huber was a Google SVP. Google did buy Youtube. Youtube ran using Flash... Google Video used Java (?). Nuff said.
Because his arguments are against the fundamental structure of iOS rather than against the app store.

A second app store inside of the walled garden still ends up being a walled garden, just one with more of an illusion of choice. That means that the users will have even less reason to leave.
Some manner of pluggable STM protocol to define a standard programming model on top of conflict detection would be pretty nice tho imo.

Features like postgres's serialized transaction isolation -- which as a non expert I think of as basically database implemented STM -- are really flexible -- but most ecosystems programming models don't really expose this capability in a full proof and natural way. You have to work to too hard to take full advantage of the capability ...
American Electric Power Corp found that they could produce renewable hydro power in rural West Virginia for a few pennies per kWh and sell it in Washington D.C. for about twice that. To do this would require 85 miles of high voltage transmission line to transport the electricity from WV to NOVA. Guess how long it took them to build this?

17 Years. Almost all of which was permitting and licenses. Construction took 11 months.

Meanwhile, when China needed to buy greater volumes of natural gas, they set up a purchase agreement to buy it from Turkmenistan and completed a 2900km pipeline project start to finish in just 22 months.

Obviously, we don't want to ignore civil rights, but it really is absurd that to build anything in this country requires you to retain half the state bar association for the inevitable endless NIMBY lawsuits.
Sounds like journalism to me.
Anyone who wants to work, can work.
That's the idea behind platform. There are no restrictions whatsoever.

I can provide personal example, where I couldn't find a work because I had to rely on third payment providers, who Serbian citizens, at the time I was 16 couldn't use. That was around 7 years ago.
My high school was a bunch of trailers on a large tract of unused but school-owned land that would eventually become a full-blown high-school. It sat next to a Tractor museum and a small marsh-type thing the opposite side of its access road. The footprint of the planned construction was only maybe twice the size of the trailers, and didn't stretch across the access road, and the land it occupies now was mostly disused fields of dirt and shrubs.

We were promised that our senior year would be in the new facility. However the school got hit with environmental studies around a specific species of endangered frog that was known to inhabit the area, and construction did not complete until 5 years later
For the same reason I don't want Google to tell me if I can use the polymory dating app.
Not a native speaker and tech community is global, as is HN. Everyone doesn't have to dance in order to satisfy white activists from Silicon Valley and their current social dogmas.
GitLab registry allows anon pulls from public projects.
12-year-old prodigy Alena Wicker set to college, plans to land job at NASA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/23155134@N06/7132776459

Forest Mountains of Zion National Park, Utah
Oracle had no qualms about breaking a metric boatload of code by shutting down the old sun.* APIs. Their justification was "You were not supposed to use these internal tools", but the reality of the matter is that migrating to a new Java version took lots of code rework.

I'm surprised they were so shy to break code by introducing new keywords, after they wreaked havoc on people's codebases with removing sun.misc.BASE64Decoder etc
> That's what the video is arguing, but it won't be the case unless we've fully satisfied all of our desires. If we haven't, there are, by definition, still things to do.

Obviously true, but that doesn't mean the things still left to do can be done by anyone.

In a world where there's not enough food or housing, everyone can be gainfully employed, since just about everyone can learn to plant seeds or cut wood.

In a world where all of our material desires are already met, plenty of people will still want e.g. new AAA-quality video games every year. But what are the people who aren't programmers or artists supposed to do?
Shpario is a little too much doom-and-gloom for me, but I'd be interested in SPECIFIC examples where you see him being openly racist and/or misogynistic. As far as I understand, cases where he has said offensive things, he's apologized/corrected for them later. See: https://www.dailywire.com/news/so-heres-giant-list-all-dumb-...
The problem is is that all the marketing for tire companies and their all season tires has convinced people that snow tires are not necessary. Every all season tire on the market starts to lose performance characteristics when the temperatures drops below 40F. You can not have both "long tread life" and good performance below 40F in the same tire. Even if you don't have snow the performance is worse below 40F for all season tires compared to "snow" tires.
Cursory googling suggests that there’s no single, kind of ‘master’ backup available. What seems to be downloadable are various (apparently thousands of separate) archives from Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/usenet and https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical

It would take a ton of work to combine them for sure, but I absolutely agree it’s important.
Was Walt Disney's EPCOT vision ever part of the world fair?
Elon Musk is offering to sell his tweet as an NFT
Almost certainly the conversation is about total comp rather than base salary; at FAANG the difference is marginal (especially since at Facebook, there's no 1-year cliff; your equity starts vesting immediately every month).

But even putting that aside, most senior (E5) Facebook engineers in the UK make 125-160k base salary in the UK. Even if that's denominated in USD, that still leaves a significant % breaking 100k GBP base.

Source: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-En... (filter for "United Kingdom")
I struggle to see this is a good faith argument.

My income is in the "2%". I also entirely understand that that makes me in "the elite few".

> California houses cost at least 2-3 mil.

You mean "houses in a few select neighborhoods and locations", such as SF, more prestigious areas in LA. Also, they don't. Median SF house price: $1.4M. Sunnyvale, $1.6M.

Not "at least 2-3M". And certainly not in conjunction with this:

> implying that all Californian home owners are part of some elite

The median Californian home price is $700K. So no. But since you seem to imply that California is somehow defined as "places where homes cost $2-3M" then yes, absolutely. If you own a home worth $2M+ you are unequivocally "one of the elite". You may not be buying a new private jet every five years, but you are also entirely capable of a lifestyle that the VERY VAST majority of Americans have no chance of attaining.

For reference, a $3M mortgage with a substantial downpayment results in a mortgage payment of nearly $14,000/month, which with Jumbo loans requires an annual income in the region of $800K/year.

Please don't try to continue an argument that says that someone making just shy of a million dollars a year is somehow neither privileged nor elite.
My personal activism is to avoid purchasing DRM encumbered printers, coffee makers, multimedia streaming. This hasn't caused the world to reverse course, and there are still areas of compromise, like my cellphone, where I haven't been able to afford options that would be DRM free.

If a right to repair law falls through, is there a more effective path of consumer activism besides avoiding DRM-encumbered products?
Yeah I would have to agree. Nog especially, most Mary Sue's don't end up with prosthetics and PTSD.
Did they cite the particular part of the developer agreement that was violated in your case?
Indeed, horses like most humans do not create demand innately, they only do so insofar as their labour must be reproduced, which naturally is more for humans than horses because humans can negotiate wages, but not incredibly so for those at the bottom.

"It might not be recognizable to most people living in modernity today, but in general humans will always trade (by some means, not necessarily with "money") with other humans whenever relative specializations occur between them, which even in small groups is likely to happen naturally."

This is reductive. Yes, humans have always traded. But never before our current economic system has trade been the primary ordinator of people's lives - this is a modern creation, indeed core to property itself.

"After all, it's not the exchange of paper bills or service to capital in particular that makes an economy, and there is always going to be demand of something and some supply of some of those things as long as humans are around and interacting, regardless of how miserable the existence is, or how "inefficient" such a system might be."

This is also reductive in the same sense. Traditionally in human society, demand and supply were not, for the majority of people, the very core of one's life - that is a modern invention. And that was only possible in the framework where labour became service to capital before service to oneself. Outside this set of relations of production, the problem of runaway unemployment isn't possible, because employment itself is not a major productive force. And that's precisely how humans got into a situation like that of workhorses - or rather how workhorses got into the situation of humans!
The 1984 Olympics, considered to be the most financially successful Olympics ever, were ran on the basis of renovating existing infrastructure, not building new stuff in a new city because the previous two Olympics were financial disasters. Also, yes, if you mess up LA the United States will still truck on.

Also Nationalism isn't just flags, hate and hands in the air, it's also an outward expression of ideas and ideals raised on a pedestal to say look how great we are. Such as getting to say "we are all about competition and entertainment" as a story to tell the world as a form of soft power.
“...it's centred around capital”

Well, actually around value - which is different from capital. It just so happens that we use capital to trade a lot (but not all) of what we consider to be valuable.

Even in a world of abundance there would be things that are scarce but we still consider valuable. Social status for example.
As for the actual Forbes article I keep mentioning
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidpetersson/2018/10/27/the-p...
Here's a link to the reply I don't paste another wall of text:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26480945
Being able to have my programs on a hard drive rather than switching between floppy disks was pretty nifty.

Going from a 300 baud modem to 1200 baud modem I guess is technically only a 4x difference, but it definitely felt more at the time.
This essay doesn't address any of the key problems often raised when talking about AI and UBI.

Here is Australia we are already seeing one the effects of very cheap stuff. Skilled labor is significantly more expensive than buying things, so anything that has to have an Australian involved is ridiculously expensive. Calling the Plumber to fix a drain? That's a week of groceries or perhaps a new TV.

At some point soon there is going to be a fairly significant upheaval, not just when AI takes some peoples jobs, but when it's just not worth it to pay somebody $200 an hour to do something for you. I think to some extent, peoples time is linked to the price of products you can buy.

Eventually, Plumbers won't need $200 an hour to buy their own things, they can drop their rates. Wages everywhere might fall.

Taxing land sounds fair enough, but I was under the impression we are already subsidizing a lot of farming anyhow, and since we are racing to the bottom on food pricing, there is not much profit to be made on food anyhow.

Any aren't we supposed to be reclaiming land to turn back into national parks, planting trees, and capturing carbon.
There is a reputation system, so it is possible to see freelancer's history of past jobs and ratings. Also escrow can be used, so you wouldnt need to pay if job wasnt done according to specs. Dispute resolution being smart contract based is more transparent, and it is also great for ppl who prefer using crypto payments
Switching email is the easiest, because service level is similar elsewhere. The migration just take a long time, but keeping the legacy gmail in parallel of the new account is not too bothersome. It's also a great occasion to use your own domain, so a future switch to another hosting is even easier.
Show HN: Building a simple serverless workflow using Docker containers
And you need to have a Mac. Because reasons, I guess.
My Mom Believes in QAnon. I’ve Been Trying to Get Her Out
I'm afraid I can't get any more specific than that. There's still a lot of bad blood, and it might not be over yet.
Assuming you're referring to pfblockerng, you can have DNS blocking and IP blocking in OPNsense without the need for any plugins.
Why should Google get 70B on 100B earnings through an App in the App Store? That makes no sense at all.
I think it's an issue with estimating probabilities.

They probably saw a few failures a year of people using Signal or WhatsApp slopily on old Android phones that were easy to sideload onto with a warrant, had microphones with no hard switch, etc, etc.

They probably saw no failures of Sky ECC (as it sounds like a vendor hardened the phone for them and any convenience over security features are non-existent) right up until the claim that the protocol is broken and everyone is affected.
Speaking from personal experience, I feel like you just pulled those numbers out of thin air.

At my job, we went from overly complex Elasticbeanstalk deployments to pushing out new releases via Helm charts into k8s...deployment time vastly improved as did cognative load on what was actually happening.

I'd never go back.
CBN Gov Emefiele seeks WTO support to move Nigeria away from oil economy
What Does a Database Administrator Do?
How would the card validate you're using a signed driver? The card only sees what the driver sends it, so presumably the input could be spoofed. Also the card is not the root on the system's TPM.

Usually it's the reverse - normally drivers validate that the card's firmware is signed.

As an example, people would hack AMD Polaris card firmware memory timings for better mining performance.

To do so you needed to disable the firmware signature check in the AMD driver, and to do this you needed to disable the driver signature check in Windows.
Yes and no. They don't like kids gather, because kids gathering in their mind equals trouble ( and, well, some summers I did see a swarm of kids jumping over fences and stuff; we actually had to call the cops -- but you know, kids will be kids ).

But I take your point, kids attracted to a library tend to be less likely to cause trouble. Frankly, any non-idle hands activity is better than nothing.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/09/25/sunnyvale-drive-throu...
I think the problem is too much pathos is used in political debate. It's easy for the opposition of emanate domain to point to an old lady being forced out of their home as an example of government overreach. Meanwhile, for every one of those out there, there are a dozen more people stuck in poverty because they have no means of commuting to a better paying job. This doesn't make for as compelling of a story though.
Automated in the sense that there is no company resolving disputes, but are resolved in a decentralized manner by other users who are selected automatically
I always figured it was "gain of function" research that somehow leaked out of the lab, probably due to poor staff training.
Germany FAQ – Temporary suspension of COVID-19 vaccine
AstraZeneca https://www.pei.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/newsroom-en/hp-ne...
What, roughly, was the timeframe for this? I'm presuming within the past 50 years or so?

Morton-Thiokol (I remember the name from the Challenger disaster, I didn't realise it was that Morton until, well, about 20 seconds ago) formed in 1982.

So that'd be 1970s / early 1980s?
For a visualization, A lower frequency but high intensity method can be used to cook meat.

https://youtu.be/LHFhnnTWMgI
The patch, showing the fixes made:

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=74ae3f3e33b810248da1...
Even then...

"60% of Americans could not come up with $400 for an unexpected expense".

Based on that, what proportion of Americans could afford to put even $20k into the stock market, _let alone call it a MODEST $20k_?
Correct, and algorithm shouldn't use a protected class as an input. But at the same time, simply pointing out that a inequitable outcome is produced is not evidence of bias.

Also, dual citizenship is not a protected class last time I checked.
My entire network makes more than that in Dev and Arch roles in that part of the world. None of them have to live in London for them either.

Either you're underpaid, or C++ has been commoditized to the same point as PHP. If you value money over language, I'd switch. But given quite a few in my network are Java developers, I doubt language is the issue here.
Related, export control of key US technologies has been deliberately weakened:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campf...

https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/02/flashback-bill-clinton-co...

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/11/world/clinton-approves-te...