skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immersion reading really helped me. Read and listen at the same time. Kindle does it really nicely, but you can diy it as well. Just grab some audiobooks and their pdfs and start your audiobooks at a comfortable speed and slowly try to increase the speed. It is transferable as well. After a couple of books you’ll hopefully notice that you can both listen in higher speeds as well as read a bit faster as well assuming similar material and narrators ofc.
As a taxpayer I think it’s fine for anyone to make the rationale decision to take effectively free money versus getting a job. I don’t blame the individual anymore than that I blame someone for taking a legal tax deduction. They’re acting rationally within the parameters of the law.

But that doesn’t make it sound economic policy for the country as a whole. Far from it.
I fear inflation and I put 99% of my savings in crypto years ago. It's been going insanely well, to put it mildly.
AMS is not a support org. Can you share your support case numbers? I may be able to escalate this to the right people.
Do you police, educate or fight fires on your own dime?
> Many books that were written 30 years ago are still immensely enjoyable today.

That is definitely survivorship bias. Do you have any idea how many books are created in a year, even before eCommerce? The vast majority of them are crap.
I rented the 1.2 this winter. It's kinda soft, but the rendering is beautiful. If you're going to work at f/8, the 1.8 STM or 1.4 are both as good or better.

Wide open in heavy snowfall at night, there's nothing I've experienced like it. Not quite life-changing, but it's real good.

Couldn't justify a purchase, but I may have purchased a used 1.4 a month later..... The focus-falloff, rendering, and out-of-focus elements aren't the same, but it's still wonderful in the dark and inexpensive-enough to be replaced if I kill it. Someday, the stars will align and I'll work with a 1.2 again.

My desert-island lens is a (used) 400 f/5.6. Someday I'll try the 100-400, but worry about the telescoping assembly ingesting moisture and dust in the field.
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So what? The chance of getting severe reactions from the actual virus is much lower for kids. Why would you make your children take something that is riskier than the thing it protects against?
Shall we fix the roads that we drive on with our own dime too? When others benefit from a taxation and government spending system so do you. If workers have more time to meaningfully chose the work they wish to partake in, managers will have less trouble with unmotivated workers etc. It isnt just about 'give me money and taxes are OK', collectivised services are an economy of scale and benefit from these communal systems.
Well, 0.4% of trial participants actually did have life-threatening reactions, so there's that. The risk is small, but not zero.

As far as mild side-effects go, another way of putting it is that at least as many kids will experience side effects from the vaccine as from Covid itself.

...and millions of kids are going to get this vaccine in the coming months.
I also avoid words

I say things like "California is not a market-based economy right now"

instead of saying what non-market-based systems are called. It goes over better with Americans who are more universally triggered by certain words, instead of their definitions.

second example I've had surprising luck with over the past several years is that I tell people that big pharma doesn't want them to know that our body can build immunity by being exposed to weakened and dead versions of viruses. They're like "I knew it, natural remedies all along!", they are just allergic to the word vaccine and not the concept.
Come on, I did it last week but after weeks of hesitancy between mrna and the chinese deactivated alternative (I live in China).

Im a scientific, rational, atheist moderate person, I fight all day long against idiots spouting conspiracy theories, but still.

This vaccine is the first time I get an mrna vaccine, and I just have this one life. I understand why vaccination is important but in a world where people lie and cheat, I have only one shot. Be nice about it. This is new.
Sometimes when we spend tax payer dollars, we get back orders of magnitude returns in indirect benefits.

This may or may not be a 100% return, but I’m happy to invest in my fellow citizens who didn’t have a chair when the music stopped.
Should only those of
means be able to take time to evaluate their life and goals in the midst of a life-changing societal transition without the constant pressure of daily survival bearing down on them?
“It sort of forces everyone into one slow lane,” he said. “The ones who are capable are never going to be able to move fast enough.”
-TFA

We don’t need slow/fast lanes but we need less bs in schools and to push STEM and particularly the Math as much as we did in the cold-war era to complete with China/Russia.

I do empathize with those who had math problems, I did too but had to use EdX and MIT OLL to teach myself Precalc/Calc/Linear Algebra.

There is all the education you need through graduate level math and stats available for free on the internet.

Edit: Khan academy and professor Leonard are also great resources!
Isn't UBI supposed to be funded by taxes and thus not as inflationary as giving new money where it's most likely to be spent?
This story is trending on twitter. Here is the anti-censorship response from the openly gay journalist Glenn Greenwald:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1391859594935296002
It was prescheduled to expire in September, and I haven't seen any major voices argue for extending it.
Seems a trifle tautological. Why don't pleasantries make for good film? Why don't we enjoy that? You haven't said anything.
As a taxpayer myself I would not want to live in a society without safety nets.
But aren't older people vaccinated?
So how does this work? What's the privacy policy? Is there a pricing plan at some point? What's the limit? Send data using a telegram bot to a service? What kind of data can be sent? Is this an alternative to pocket? I don't wish to come off as rude but there's just no information of any sort that i could find.
0.4% had life threatening side effects... more than a headache
I would love something like this. Honestly I think it's the right answer to minimum wage, the whole gig economy independent contractor thing, and if we can just get healthcare removed from the employer/employee relationship we can get a real situation where the only people working these jobs "want" to work them. As in these jobs give enough X where they consider it worth it rather than they need to work to live.
That makes sense... I suppose if I was trying to pick a dozen stories out of 1500, I'd start by looking for people I've published before, and even if their current submission isn't very good it beats wading through the dross. After that it's probably a matter of rolling up your sleeves, throwing out everything that's obviously unhinged or unusable, and slogging through the rest.

I assume editors don't get paid nearly enough.
Let me get this right: you give a parade of short-term contractors access to your production AWS account, presumably without proper permission segmentation, and neglect to do anything _other_ than that?

I assume you revoke access later, but I doubt you audit anything that they may have done (like create keys that outlive their access) in the account or that any of it is version controlled or traceable.

And you’re surprised you’re in this situation?

And fair enough, you pay your contractors to do a specific job. None of them are going to point out that the way you’re managing your infrastructure is pretty slow and inefficient, or that perhaps there’s a better way to do any of what you’re doing on AWS that is cheaper, faster, more secure and that might give you a far quicker iteration time with the added advantage that you won’t fall apart with a surprise bill like this. They, after all, are working on “development”.
I would take a pay-cut to work in games.
...no one has the courage to think differently...

Almost no ordinary company wants to present themselves as wholly bizarre and strange. Many companies want to present themselves as basically normal but with a few interesting quirks and affections. Getting that balance right is hard, so you get the system that the article describes; it lets a variety of organizations appear slightly different in more or less the same way.

People manage "coolness" effectively for upward mobility integrate the unusual into something that's mostly mainstream - have a leather jacket or a quirky haircut or whatever. I'll spend time at industrial music festivals where no one expects to get but that's a decision and not the sort that anyone should expect a business to make.

(also, you'd do well to avoid the multiculturalism issue)
> People are not convinced by facts and science, but by people in their trust networks.

This is something I strongly believe and I wish more people thought about. Do you happen to know if we have a lot of scientific evidence for it?
Given all the ICS security threats of late I wonder has any government gamed out how to take advantage of an impending CME. For example preventing a shutdown of critical CME vulnerable equipment to cause maximum damage. Given the CME is the thing doing the damage it would be a hard one politically to push back on if tracks were covered by the actor.
> if we're already subsidizing low wage jobs with social programs like food stamps

I imagine by not having to pay as much for social programs, like food stamps. We're already paying for social programs indefinitely.
That is basically the plan, yes. "Modern Monetary Theory" is that USD-denominated debt is free because you can print the dollars to pay it back at any time.
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The United States is already at the point where a senatorial candidate campaigned on ‘vote for me and you’ll get that $2,000 check’. You can Google Raphael Warnock’s exact phrasing on the campaign ad but that was basically the pitch in the GA runoffs.

The dole is here to stay.
It's at least worth considering the possibility that, if potential workers are really choosing to stay home for as long as they can rather than go back to these specific high-stress, low-pay and low-benefit jobs, perhaps the temporary expansion in unemployment benefits is not the "problem" we should be taking a closer look at.
There is no labor shortage because of all the debt. Idiots do not realize that the "stimulus checks" are paid by taxpayers in the coming years. Plus, with companies not being able to hire workers shortages of goods is coming. This is a perfect storm coming. The great depression is coming again with vengeance unless people stop the government spending on BS.
Of course, maybe something good will come of this... then again people are giving up their freedoms and rights to be safe from a virus that has a 0.000009 chance of killing them
>The software sent me an email asking me to do something, ostensibly from someone in our advising center, signed by my assistant chair instead, but obviously corporate-sounding and autogenerated. It reeked of fakery.

So did you do the thing? Did it improve a student outcome? The 'fakery' is just a string that could be updated. Telling you what needs to happen and for whom is the critical function. But then again getting faculty to play ball often may as well be cold fusion...
As an early adopter, I pounced on the cell cpu powered 12” MacBook. It was horrible. Still an early adopter and love my m1 MacBook Air. I hope Samsung’s chip is closer to the latter experience and not the former!
Not that I endorse not taking math, but many of my classmates who work in IB/PE/Consulting never really progressed past calculus, and they do seem to be doing all right for themselves. I think schools should be as rigorous as possible, but STEM isn’t the only path to success.
This conflates several different concepts:

* profit margins: profit margins are set by

1) how competitive is the market, and

2) interest rates, which are set by the central bank. The "power" of labor has nothing to do with it.

For 1) this is about monopolies and we are seeing more concentration of market power, not less.

For 2) yes, interest rates are in a secular low period which does give rise to secularly low profit margins. That does not mean that workers earn more, it means investment increases so that marginal return projects are funded and more workers are hired.

* The "balance of power" between labor and capital.

First, there is no battle between labor and capital, the battle is between non-management labor and management labor.

Capital doesn't care and isn't affected by these disputes, which are struggles of the share of the pie given to management versus non-supervisory workers. When you buy a share of stock in company X, you just price the cashflow relative to what you can get from the central bank or another company, including foreign companies. You price it so that the risk adjusted returns are the same in all cases. So companies that earn fewer profits are just priced down to be less valuable and capital is reallocated elsewhere. So for capital, every return is the same.

The real battle is between managers (e.g. CEOs on down to branch managers) and non-supervisory labor.

In that battle, management has a lot of tricks up its sleeves: outsourcing to foreign countries, outsourcing to contract workers, eliminating demand for labor via automation. Non-supervisory workers have at their disposal the power of unionization and trying to get lawmakers to outlaw some of management's techniques.

It's not clear at all who wins and who loses, and this may shake out differently in different industries. There is no global change where one side wins and the other side loses. While most want executive pay reduced -- CEO pay seems especially obscene, so far management has proven itself to be effective at taking a bigger share of the labor bucks. Investors see low returns generally in an low IR environment, and that has been the case for some time, even to the point of many pension funds going bankrupt as the returns just aren't what they had predicted. Yet executives keep seeking and obtaining windfalls.

For example, in the 70s, it was a grim time to hire workers since wages kept rising and unions were powerful. But then again, inflation was high, so those wages were not rising in real terms. Thus labor thought it had "won" something when in reality there was stagnation in living standards.
Govt. debt has been used to pay for high military spending etc. It has happened before many times and can happen again. A better way to solve these problems could be to not just throw money at them but build preventative systems.
Can we please try that experiment for once, letting people decide exactly what they want to do with the the taxed portion of their income, in terms of where they want to allocate it? We won't change or reduce their taxes, we'll let them choose where to direct it.

(hint: military spending to name one thing, would be cut in half; the monsters in DC, the globalists and forever-war advocates that dominate both parties and have us de facto occupying Syria right now, would never allow this)

Now that would be a glorious, worthy experiment. Of course everybody - without exception - knows the outcome ahead of time.
We already have the dole it's known as food stamps, wic, ssi, government subsidies, etc.

Instead of padding the pockets of Walmart or McDonald's by supplementing their labor costs, why don't we give the money straight to the people. Then force these companies to pay the true cost of their discounted labor.
Sure, other poster is not talking about 0.4%.
I don't personally have any expectations. I strongly suspect that there are not any long term affects. I am not familiar with mRNA tech in general, nor am I familiar with the various vaccine vectors. I do have a vivid imagination though.

None of this is real - just "science fiction".
1) the mRNA triggers latent gene expression which causes some form of cancer.
2) the mRNA causes some new slow protein generation which accumulates in the blood like cholesterol and has long term health affects.

is this possible? probably as possible as buying a winning lottery ticket and being struck by lightning at the exact same time!
How are these underrated? They are just basic programming skills.

Actually so obvious that I don't feel the post has useful content.
> Helps with herd immunity.

It's highly probable that it helps but I thought we don't have the data proving it yet?
UBI doesn't say anything directly about where the money comes from. It's whatever plan you want it to be. (Or more charitably, a family of plans with a common feature.)

You can get any redistribution you like depending on how the offsetting taxes work (if any).
It’s called unemployment insurance. The people who collect it have (for the most part, excepting gig workers) paid into it. It’s not “other taxpayers money” it’s their taxpayer money.
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The basic tenet is the "universal basic income" part, the source of funding is not as clear cut. It could be funded by taxes, it could be funded by inflation, it could be funded by something else. Except funding it by inflation long term would probably not be too healthy for the economy as a whole.
Well we’ve had QE and tax cuts for the rich for a good long while now, pendulum swinging the other way feels warranted.

You know what’s crazy? The solution is very simple. Pay workers more. The minimum wage is not a living wage. Heavily fine companies that attempt to run models that cannot support paying a living wage. The uninformed think that this will stop innovation, but it will only slow it, and that’s OK. Innovation is fueled by need or greed, and the VCs who complain about mandated high wages will indeed be greedy enough to fund the next batch of companies, because even if your returns go from 1000x to 100x (when you win), the returns still beat a lot of other investment vehicles.
1. The virus has less of an impact (~0% fatal and very likely to have minimal to no symptoms)

2. We don’t know the long term effects of the vaccine. But we do know the long term effects of corona viruses (not specifically COVID19, but we can infer).

3. The vaccine isn’t 100% effective as it is, so while you mitigate short term risk, long term is likely higher with the vaccine given the estimated short term protection (implying multiple / yearly vaccines necessary) and relative risk of the virus (basically 0%) vs the vaccine (2% risk of severe incident)
The programs needing fixing and supporting filtering are not exclusive options.
Something that also plays a big factor in the general over qualification of FAANG employees is that mistakes can be very very costly. It’s worth paying one engineer that gets things right 99.99% of the time twice the salary of engineer that gets things right only 99.9% of the time.
I suspect that this is not just about paying a bit less salary. Steve Jobs is known to value liberal arts and non-formal education talents which might have become part of the Apple culture.

After all, being MIT or Stanford means that you passed specific type of filter but that filter might not be the silver bullet and even bring monoculture.

Despite the fact that the elite schools have elite opportunities, more often than not, the most impactful things don't come from elite alumni.
Who says it's other tax payers' money? We all go through periods in our lives when we pay into the system and periods when we draw on it. As a child a large amount of money was paid to educate you, to provide you with vaccinations, to try to provide some kind of safety net for you, however dysfunctional it often is. At the end of your life, you will be paid a pension that other people pay into.

If people go from exploitative, miserable jobs to better paying jobs, they are going to pay more taxes. Effectively the later them is paying for the earlier them. An actuary could probably estimate how much support is likely to produce a positive value. Perhaps our society should be giving everyone a sabbatical year ever decade or something like that?

This is also why doing it as a public insurance system is better than via private savings. Private savings can only go one direction in term and are subject to large deviations, the same way health insurance costs are.
This is a preppers fantasy, not reality. Engines and generators would not suddenly stop working. Any electronics inside even a lightly shielded building (or even just a grounded metal case) would survive. It would suck for a short time - but only a short time.
After reading the parent comment, I have a feeling they didn't mean it as "nobody should work overtime for free [even once or ever]", but more like "nobody should work overtime for free [as the norm, on a regular basis]".

If that was indeed what the parent comment truly meant, would you still disagree with it?

Because I am of the same opinion as you that complete outright rejection of overtime, even if it is only once in forever during a critical time period, is not the move. I am absolutely ok with overtime once in forever and for a great reason. But I am absolutely against overtime being the norm or a regular thing.
Particularly when newspapers say XYZ "has been debunked" as if it's an objective claim.

But since I don't have any hope that all debunking be rigorous as you describe, I'd prefer that a context-free, objective "debunked" not every be claimed. Rather they should say "x debunked it, you can see here" sort of thing. It's just an argument like any other. But maybe there was a time when such things really were just about as good as objective?
I like uname -a, maybe it is just me... But either way, I wonder why this post was flagged
See, a normal person would look at this and say the bombing was the important thing, not the minutea.

They could very well have picked a different tweet, it's not like they're forced to pick this and only this tweet.

Both weakman and motte and baileys are old rhetorical tricks, they're not very convincing.
People have been saying automation will make a bunch a people unemployed "soon" for how long now? 10 years? Yet we still reached record low unemployment pre-COVID.

Once automation reaches the level that you describe and there's a labor surplus, then we'll easily have enough resources to support UBI. But don't kid yourself, we're far from that point.
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Theres no reason to not pay for the best. Engineer's provide so much value compared to an individuals cost. I can give an a example of what I'm working on. I'm doing maybe 2-3months of work, the project cut a one time cost in half saving 10million dollars. I make about quarter million in a year. A tiny fraction of the value I provided this year alone. Why penny pinch on pay and risk having employees that might not be as good? 100k is 1 percent of that value.

Now that I type this out I feel like I'm getting ripped off. BRB to demand a raise lol
Absolutely. Children should be working in factories for minimum wage, not getting educated on the government dole.