skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if UBI could be marketed politically in this way, e.g. "Finally paying for all the things you've already been using" or "Finally paying for the free labor you've based your life on" etc. type of messaging.

I mean, it should be less guilt-y of course (I'm not in marketing) and somehow capture it's _society_ finally paying for the things generated by free/underpaid labor, not individual citizens, and not imply that people have been selfish etc.
I had some philosophical thoughts on what if scenarios through the technical prism. Assets such as property,money in the bank,or stocks are pretty easy to sort out after death,but what about anything on the tech side? Many of us have Github accounts, encrypted files, all sorts of services with 2FA, etc. Imagine if you are a solo dev running a small,yet successful and revenue generating service and something happens to you. Would your family be able to login to AWS or get Docker to do its work and etc?
> If the goal is to ignore or be actively hostile towards the bottom 80%, I guess a lot of SaaS companies are succeeding.

Yes, that is the goal. When an org decides to target primarily enterprise, the whole business model changes. You go from self serve to sales, from support chat to SLAs, etc.

You literally become unable to support small customers cost effectively and they are not worth your time.

Happens a lot in the B2B SaaS space when companies realize how much easier it is to have 10 users for $10,000 than 1000 users for $10. Some companies decide to keep focusing on small businesses and indies, which is great.

Ultimately there’s room for both business models in the world. But as a business, you have to make sure you work with businesses where you are [still] the target market.
Saying any brand is safer than human driving is a huge lie.
If we exclude DUI and tired drivers but include difficult terrain(not well marked, heavy rain, covered in snow) or streets like in India or Egypt with very few traffic lights at junctions, then the self driving cars will need permanent human intervention or to be stopped period.
Under these circumstances, the human driver will be much less dangerous.

I will be less sceptical about fsd when I see elon musk taking a blind fold amd his kids on the rear seats of a fsd Tesla in snow covered new york heavy duty traffic or an unmarked, slippery and snow covered road in a storm with 20feet visibility taking a 5 hr ride.
Should not be a big deal for someone who announced a coast to coast trip without intervention. What happened to that anyway..?
Brings back memories. My third or fourth -- and my last -- Mac was the Lombard.
This. Friends sometimes don’t understand how one can be a nerd and still not want to AI all the things (or electronic voting, for that matter). We know how the sausage is made, and there’s no way I’m trusting developers at a car manufacturer to do things properly. Even in cases where there is a reasonable definition for “properly”.
Cousin.
Video games are the only kind of software people like enough to regularly pay $60 for and write emulators to run, so I think we should learn to respect how they're made, which is using OO languages but not using all the ideas.

Also I think SQL is pretty popular!
Ask HN: I am running out of ideas/data
I am a health care (Business/Technology) consultant. I am trying to see where in the chain (Provider, Network, PBMs, Insurers) the fat deposit occurs - an am not able to have clear visibility. I would like to do something about it. $2000 USD premium per month per family is really really insane, for insurance. I understand law of large numbers but how to wring the fat out of system? Any thoughts?
If you are used to Java: It's like making a class implementing an additional interface from the outside.

class MyEntity {
RenderingCache cache;
}

now MyEntity implements Drawable {
void draw(Canvas canvas) {
this.cache.draw_cached(canvas ...);
}
}
I think you're right! And the value of doing it this way is that you cannot re-assign these names within the scope: they are const on each iteration of the loop.
May not be exactly what you are looking for but Shells.com offers VMs with pre-installed OSs as well as the option to bring in your own image if you want.
> Public outcries have underlying causes. Justified or not. Separating the outcry from the reason for it isn't an accurate model.

In the Neff question there is no outcry in the first place. The question posits that Neff was fired by his employer as a result of CNN's revelation. That's the whole point; the question reads like "Do you think Neff should have been terminated for his conduct?", not "Do you think Neff should have been terminated due to public pressure?". The former isn't cancel culture, the latter is.

> What you call cancel culture isn't limited to 1 political group.

No, it's not. Conservatives cancelled the Dixie Chicks circa 2003 and Kaepernick just a few years ago. I'm not aware of any cancellations of ordinary people, though I wouldn't be surprised if there were a handful.

> You haven't provided any evidence of ordinary people being terminated because of organize harassment campaigns. And you keep equating self censorship to cancellation.

David Shor and Emmanuel Cafferty spring to mind.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...

> Calling for someone to resign or be fired isn't harassment.

Harassment: aggressive pressure or intimidation.

Call it what you want, but a rose by any other name...
Fuel efficiency standards killed the small truck, sadly. They couldn't stay small without hitting car mileage numbers, so they had to get bigger, because aerodynamics and a pickup bed are hard. Nobody liked biggish small trucks, so now we only have big trucks.
> There's still tons of upside, but you're probably not going to get absurdly rich from it.

There's still about 100x potential upside, which is absurdly rich for people who at this point decide to sell their house for BTC or put all their money in some other way. But sure, it's not the same as people holding since under $10K
Garbage collected languages also offer means to do C like memory allocation, it is matter to use the language features and FFI capabilities, but many just learn their stacks superficially and follow Rewrite in X trendy blog posts instead.
Having autism means that in some situations you will be at the bottom in social status, while in others people will worship you.

So how you weigh these payoffs is what largely determines if autism is good for you.
Surely increased emphasis on actually diagnosing it has to be one of the bigger drivers.
Very noticeable over the past few months. Had almost forgot that spam existed until recently.
Right... That's why the vast majority of people using self hosted open source don't pay for it. It's about the money for most people.

You can export and bounce from airtable too, you know.

Even when the service itself does not provide easy export there's often a free third party tool or browser extension to enable data export.
this!

also japanese work culture: don't go home until the boss leaves, which more or less translates to people being used to working under oversight, and more likely to stop working if the oversight goes away.
I see pickups in the parking lot that literally do not fit in the parking spaces.

Many of these are from nearby farms I'm sure. But wow, they're just freakishly large. At a certain point you've got to wonder if they're basically heavy equipment that don't belong where normal autos belong.

I wonder where that line is. Can I build and drive the Canyonero even if it's two lanes wide?
Was looking for FP talks for beginners and stumbled onto this gem.
I hope you laugh as much as I did.
We Brits have an old saying: Never buy a pig in a poke[1]. This one dates back to the 1500s and refers to conning people out of their hard earned money.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_in_a_poke
Headlines like these reinforce my conviction that it was a mistake to group asperger under autism.
I didn't say that though. I was specifically talking about poorly looked after Windows installs and many of the people who think they are tech savvy do the dumbest things (like turning off parts of th memory management the OS expects in Windows, not keeping things updated etc. etc) because they think they know what they are doing and they don't. It is pure dunning kruger.

So at no point does it make my point moot. Windows does not need any special configuration with the vast-vast-vast majority of games. Many things just work and that does include a lot of older games (btw compatibility with older software has actually improved under 10).

You mis-characterising what I said doesn't negate the fact that many of the things I mentioned are issues in my original comment are real problems that continue to exist (and have existed for many years) and are unlikely in my opinion to be ever be fixed. You and many other pretending they don't exist doesn't make them go away.
Sign of the times, 20 years ago when my kids were in school it was $10 - $15K. :-) And yes, one of the "popular" private schools in the Bay Area is "Harker Academy" which is between $41 and $53K / year depending on age.

The point stands though, someone who is renting and paying of student debt and working in the cube next to you, is probably not thinking (seriously at least) about private school for their kids. But the new multi-millionaire is. One common themes, in my experience, over the years of people who have become wealthy through stock ownership is "now I know my kids are going to be okay." A long time ago I mentioned it as the first tier of 'wealth' which gives people a more fearless attitude at work.
This article fills a gap in my vocabulary for someone who shares some traits associated with ASD but doesn't suffer from any negative effects, i.e. is not in the scope of the medical autistic spectrum. The word is systemizing or being systematic.

Autistic spectrum disorders then manifest in systemizing behaviour, but that doesn't mean only people with autism are systematic.
Read the Bitcoin Standard book. It was created for openly sceptic people as yourself. And you're right, you shouldn't buy Bitcoin until you understand why you would buy it.
That's not quite right. It's not the support. It's the churn metrics. A guy who uses your system episodically can give the appearance of a high churn rate. This is very bad and if you're raising money can imply that your system isn't sticky which lowers your valuations. If you're in the fundraising game that's actually worse than a few extra dollars of revenue.
I logged in just to upvote this comment. Well put.
I wanted to say dupe, but I can't really... my submission got no attention. Is it just matter of timing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26445101
> i'd make sure to make it almost not OO at all.

I think you mean "class oriented"
We haven't even elected a president who was born after racial discrimination was no longer codified into law. And he's claiming that racism is ancient history?
What worries me is that COTS photo equipment increasingly comes with these algorithmic retouches that "over-represent" the data - or, put another way, bake its own interpretation into image, in a way that cannot be distinguished from source data.

It's nice for a casual Instagrammer, but then a lot of science and engineering also gets done using COTS equipment. I worry that at some point, a lot of money will be burned, a lot of time wasted, or even lives lost, because someone didn't notice they've based the conclusions of their scientific experiment/engineering analysis on such "computer best guesses". As a researcher, you'll see a weird pattern on some of the photos and will be left wondering, is that a real phenomenon, or is it just one of the black box, trade secret neural networks in the camera choking on input data it wasn't trained for?
Sell me a no or very limited support plan then (or charge extra for the support when it's needed). At least personally, if your docs are halfway decent and I don't run into any major bugs I will almost never make a support request.
I wish the scroll bar range conformed to the length of the article rather than the length of the article plus comments. SSC/ASC articles are already quite long. I was almost put off reading by the languid progression of the scroll bar marker.
> The government has no incentive to say CPI is rising

Ok, maybe the government has certain incentives, but how exactly do you propose the CPI is manipulated? The guys doing the actual calculation receive a government salary that is fixed, they don't get any bonus linked to the outcome of the measurement. Their bosses don't get a bonus based on how low the CPI comes out either. In fact nobody in the government gives a flying fudge if the deficit goes up or down because the CPI reads this or that. They will receive their salary regardless. Conversely, if one day it turns out they did manipulate the CPI, they may lose their jobs, and even may be dragged in courts for years. All for what? For a government salary? Or are you saying someone is actually bribing them? For someone to bribe them, that someone needs to make a profit. How exactly does that happen?
I don't disagree with you, and I'm not sure why you think I do?
> Google downrez'd all my photos, so the negatives are all I have

Wow, Google ate your one digital copy? That's tragic.

What's the approximate resolution you could get out of a scan from these labs?

I was interested in getting into film cameras at one point, and I was disappointed with how low the scanning resolution is from most labs. For example mpix only advertises 18MB, which they say is good enough for a 12in by 18in print. North Coast Photo (what Ken Rockwell recommends) is even worse! What if you want something to put on the wall?

Granted, if the original film you shoot is perfect you can have a print done from the negatives, but that kind of defeats the point of having a high quality scan as a backup.
There's been recent research on a drug that can help make exposure therapy faster and more effective in just this way, although I can't remember what it's called and wasn't able to find it with a quick search. :-(

Edit: I found it with a less-quick search; it's called D-cycloserine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4081005/

I think there is still other research on using other memory-affecting and/or emotion-affecting medications to facilitate exposure therapy.
The reason it became de-facto was it had bindings to C/C++/Java (what most commercial software was written in from the 90s onwards) and worked on all main platforms (including most Unixes). There wasn't much else which provided that in the 90s, early 2000s.

RLM is a slightly more modern alternative to FlexLM which some software has moved to over the past 10 years from FlexLM.
Given a static type system that constrains the kinds of messages you can send, their arguments, and their response types, how is this meaningfully different from normal method calls? My understanding is that message-passing only starts to have interesting consequences when you do dynamically-typed things.
Timing makes a huge difference in my experience
As a non physicist, this always seemed to be the most logical explanation of the double slit experiment. The particle by default carries out all possible variations weighted by their likelihood of happening, so you get the wavey pattern like a normal distribution. By measuring it at an earlier point, we restrict ourselves to the outcome of only one of its possible pasts.

Measuring something doesn't change its behavior, just the range of possibilities.
It will take decades for Bitcoin to become the global reserve currency. Until then people will speculate on the price and won't use it as a currency. It's a natural process, I cannot imagine another way for Bitcoin to be globally adopted.
I wonder what GPT3 would have to say about this.
It takes time for assets to start functioning as currencies. Bitcoin needs about 10 more years to get adopted by enough people to function as a currency.
I once read a theory that it was caused by different prenatal nutrition and lack of Vitamin D, which of course involves the mother but I wouldn't call blaming her since, as they say, it takes a village.

Not sure if people currently believe this or not.
It certainly is the number one fantasy some people have about autonomous cars. As the parent said, there is just no data to support either position.
How hard is it to make this case based on the stock price in May 2020 vs now? It is currently up over 4x since the tweet.
What is "Success" actually?

financial, intellectual achievements over time?

I think living happy, healthily, in simplicity is success

In that case, I'd agree with the title
If you like this, I can only recommend Will Larson’s (the author of the blog post) book called “An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management” published by Stripe Press. It a collection of very tactical things of how to think about engineering careers and managing others.
The middle-men making the profits have no incentive to disclose this -- my guess it's the for-profit insurers optimizing what they bring in versus actually spending money on healthcare...

It's an interesting problem for sure, but until voters get the will to abolish the current system by voting for changes in laws and regulations, I don't see any of that changing anytime soon. The lobbies will never allow it...
But the math against urban development is brutal. Rule of thumb I've read seems to be if cost of shelter in exurb is 1, then suburb is 2, mid-rise urban is 4, and high-rise urban is 8.

To make that pencil out, people must be willing to trade off outsourcing much of their lives for much smaller living spaces. That outsourcing cost must not exceed their available income. Beyond that, the outsourcing has to rely upon a dependable logistical tail. While industries everywhere in modern commerce are becoming more brittle and fragile due to various incentive structures, this entire premise tower unravels and becomes increasingly tenuous. High-density living is effectively a mass-trust exercise; low-trust societies cannot sustainably maintain high-density cities over centuries, the only timescale where the long-term public and private financials modulate into a reasonable payoff.
If it's just a matter of "trying it out", Adobe's Creative Cloud has a free trial already, is only $10 a month normally (IIRC), and has the advantage of running on Windows.

Edit: the photography bundle, which includes Photoshop, is $10/month, not Creative Cloud as a whole. Thanks to mastazi.
That's strange, even with all my privacy and ad blocking addons, Youtube works perfectly fine in my Firefox configuration. Try a new Firefox profile and see if it still fails, I suppose; I suspect there's something wrong with your install.

The only issue I have with Firefox + Youtube is that there's a memory leak somewhere in my addon setup that causes Firefox to bloat, but I haven't bothered to figure out which addon causes that because the impact has diminished greatly since I've installed another 16GB of RAM for other reasons.
This is good UI advice baserow team.
Horrifying should indeed be the reaction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21895086
Windows Terminal Quake
'PoW which takes less energy' is an oxymoron. The whole point is to demonstrate cryptographically a certain amount of effort (combination of energy and efficiency of hardware implementing a deliberatly inefficient function) has taken place. The network adjusts the difficulty dynamically depending on the amount of effort being put in (basically the rewards are fixed: miners simply compete for a bigger slice of the pie by trying to put in more effort than their competitors). The only limit is when the miners stop making money off of it (and with the price of bitcoin they can buy a lot of energy and still make a profit). This is all by design and the whole point is to make it a lot more profitable to secure the system than to attack it. The only way to really reduce the energy use of coin is to reduce the block rewards or reduce the price. But at a certain point it's more profitable to attack the system than secure it, so it's a difficult balancing act. This one which bitcoin makes no attempt at: the block reward is set to automatically decrease over time at a fixed rate and this hasn't and isn't likely to change. There's no particular reason bitcoin's rewards are either not overkill or sufficient to secure the network against an attacker. Etherium takes a more practical view: because the currency has built-in adjustments which can be made by the foundation, in theory it can adjust the block reward dynamically to the right amount, though there's both political issues in terms of appeasing the miners when you cut their profit and technical issues in actually working out what is good enough.

Likewise 'doing additional useful work' is not something you can actually do in a trustless manner like with proof of work (at least not most useful work: certainly there's no task which you could use for mining which anyone actually needs the kind of energy bitcoin uses throwing at it). You need something which is easily distributable relative the to the amount of computing power needed to do it (and even SETI/Folding @ home are really struggling at this point with modern hardware: computing power has outgrown bandwidth substantially), and easy verifiable that the work has been done. There are cryptocurrencies which try to distribute coins based on contributions to distributed computing, but they rely on a central authority to do so, defeating the whole point of cryptocurrencies.
A computer works with symbols.

A brush works with marks.

The latter is a larger infinity.

It's like the difference between digital and analog. Or raster and vector. Or map and territory.
There are p2p market places where you can exchange regular currency for crypto too (with a huge benefit that you actually own it from day one).
One of the best practices I’ve picked up in interviewing is to ask the candidate their name at the beginning of the interview and then use it a few times during the interview. Usually this is is done with a quick “Before we get started, I want to make sure I’m respectful of you. Is there a preferred name that you’d like me to call you?” While it doesn’t get at the etymology of the name, at least it ensures that you’ve got the pronunciation correct.

I’ve seen some people be at an employer for a couple of years with everyone mispronouncing their name because they didn’t want to correct people.
Well, I guess I did think there is more to MOND than this. As you present it here, it does not seem to advanced to the point of being an evaluable theory, despite being first proposed almost forty years ago.

I'm still confused by your statement of the goal: "The problem then is to come up with a proper theory of gravity that replicates both GR and MOND." Surely the problem is to come up with a theory - any theory - that is a) consistent with observations, and b) makes testable predictions?
> A Tesla Inc. investor sued

This is just a random nobody suing, not the SEC. It's not very noteworthy.
"Your attitude determines your success" = I discriminate against people I don't like.
Spoken like a true white guy.
Don’t remember the study but pretty sure that cross reactivity thesis to common cold eventually didn’t pan out. Believe Derek Lowe wrote about it.
I have mixed feelings about emulating current-gen consoles. I think there's a very strong ethical case for emulating consoles whose games are no longer made (despite Nintendo's best efforts to shut that down too). But emulating something whose games can still be bought new would tend to encourage piracy, I expect.

Edit: "cracking" -> "piracy", for clarity
Do you consider progress bars and loading states "deceit"? It helps to know that something is happening, vs just a frozen UI with no indication of work being done in the background.