skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Covid has got me thinking about the government’s role in social welfare.

Providing social welfare through money allows for people to misallocate the money or skim off the top of the money. For the vast majority of people their covid stimulation money did not go into their pockets, it went to their landlord or their mortgage holder resulting in a massive wealth transfer from public funds to banks and those who own land.

I think the government should directly supply the basic needs of its citizens instead of using money as an intermediary for supplying social welfare. Money is only a means to an end for obtaining the basic necessities to live: you cannot eat a dollar bill for nutrition or sleep under a dollar bill for shelter. Government provided housing and food should be available to any citizen — no questions asked. At that point you can get rid of all welfare programs since the government is directly supplying the basic necessities for those in need.

People would still be incentivized to work in order to obtain luxuries which are not supplied by the government: a private house, travelling, a car, etc.

Stories like this further affirm that handing out money is not a good way for the government to provide welfare.
The percentage of a companies stock that is owned by employees is rarely big enough to make this in anyway close to efficient.
I stopped using them around two years ago when I was finally fed up with the increasing amount of dark patterns and gaslighting they did on their site. The reviews also became more and more inflated, I stayed at places with a 8.9 rating that were really shabby and subpar. The straw that broke the camel's back was when I booked a room at a hotel that had great reviews and lovely photographs, only to come to a place that was in the middle of being remodeled, with torn down walls and entry through a construction site. Also, most hotels will actually allow you to book rooms at lower prices and with less severe cancellation policies when calling them directly.
Yeah, that's why a claim of 11-18x really needs bounds to have value as well.
It's weird how the 'infallible invisible hand of the market' folks don't believe in it in practice. All the 'isms' seem like convenient excuses to justify selfish behavior in whatever way suits the argument and not these well thought out concrete theorems like we were lead to believe.
Critical Race Theory or - in other words - anti-white racism is seeping into western culture everywhere. People need to wake up to this.
It offer no solutions only deconstruction.
How is that a kind of colonialism? In addition, what's your definition of colonialism?
> [DreamWorld] wasn't vetted. They apparently had nothing to show on demo day, and they were still allowed through

"It's their money" and all that, but if true I do wonder how often this kind of 'line-skipping' happens. Maybe an elevator pitch and passion is enough for YC sometimes?
My apartment building forced us into Charter/Spectrum "community wifi" and it's obnoxious. The speed is actually decent but they screw around with the traffic.

* Everyone is NATed. There's no option to upgrade to a dedicated IP address if this is a problem. STUN works, but some things don't. Nintendo Switch online play doesn't work and I haven't dug in to figure out why. They know it doesn't work and have said that they won't fix it.

* They intercept all (UDP/53) DNS queries. You can change your DNS servers and it won't make a difference because they will spoof 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 or whatever in response. They'll even spoof root servers, so you can get strange things like a "root server" serving you an A record for pages.github.com.

* Of course there is no IPv6 support.

* Everyone is on the same ESSID with the same PSK. I suspect someone could sniff their neighbors' traffic if they were motivated enough.

It would be nice to have some competition here.
I very much appreciate that this whole thread is suffused with the assumption that interlocutors are making their arguments from stupidity or illiteracy.
With weaker demand rents would have actually fallen a lot more than now. That in turn would have an impact on asset prices in the long term.

Will it be fairer to employees ? I don't know, there will be lot more pain for employees without government intervention.

However with Quantitative Easing or bailouts and COVID loans means the rich are not paying the same price as well, that is why rich are becoming richer, poor suffer either way.
Of course it's a scam; I'm not there.
I have noticed this too during crunchtime projects. At some point you lose your ability to do other things besides working. For me this is a clear signal to take a vacation or work less. I don't really want to sacrifice my life to my corporate overlords.
Poor IBM.

It's as if we had only one efficient oil well for the whole world. It's getting a bit hot.
The company stock actually shot up during the pandemic, from a low of $1400 to over $2200, which was unthinkable before. It’s unlikely to go higher.
No it wasn't. People would work about half to 2/3rds of the year, and about 10 hours a day.
I do think calling this a "scam" is difficult to defend from an intent perspective, but it does not appear like it has any realistic chance of succeeding. At some point projects cross a line from being optimistic to being negligent and deceptive. YC should know better and I think using hyperbolic rhetoric is a legitimate counter to a company that seems to be sleepwalking into failure with other peoples' money.
Oh yeah, totally forgot about that. I guess it's better than purging 80% or whatever they had in mind.
Clearly, mining and math on Friday is not for me lol
If you're trying to drop these "cheap" drones from a Y-20, you need to get the Y-20 within range of the carrier. Good luck with that...
I think that in America most people still use SMS, but in Europe barely anyone I know does, so RCS is basically a non-starter. It's all WhatsApp and Telegram (and some Signal). Like my kids sports teams coordinate everything through WhatsApp so I'm basically forced to use it. Would love to see an alternative, but getting everyone to switch would require a lot.
Please re-read the comment.

> They could temporarily lay off all their staff

So you pay people's salaries while they're furloughed. Together with moratoria (don't know if this is the word) on loans this means companies get “paused” while lockdowns are ongoing and don't shut down.
They are instituted as is and must be regarded from that point forward. Not enacted with intent that any judiciary can interpret simply because they overlooked something that wasn't required or a law at the point. Otherwise, how do you know if you're being moral or ethical if the government can incriminate you for not following an never-made-yet law? This goes down to personal ethics and everyone's is different. Legislating morality as we see with any religious country shows it's just a means of governmental control.
This was version 2. Version 1 was the "great recession", when several investment banks found themselves insolvent after cluelessly underwriting an overvaluation of American homes. It had been their custom to play a sort of musical chairs with overvalued assets, unloading them on clients and other victims, but eventually they forgot how that game typically ends. After a small amount of public discussion, it was decided that a certain favored subgroup of the investment banks would be bailed out by the public but that their debtors would all lose their homes.

This time around, that modicum of public discussion was avoided but we all gave those who can afford teams of lobbyists and lawyers lots of money anyway. For version 3, we can expect automatic deductions from the checking accounts of the bottom half of the income bracket, with automatic credit card transactions against those without checking accounts, to be transferred directly to entertainment allowances for Bezos, Musk, Gates, Buffett, MbL, and various estranged spouses thereof. "Representative government" seems fine until one looks more closely at who is actually represented.
QUIC Version 1 is live on Cloudflare
> Also rich people can sometimes take loans with interest lower than inflation, this is basically free money.

In Canada you can borrow well below 2% and housing prices in hot markets have been going up well over 10% YoY with a lot of predictions of 20%+ this year.

Free money indeed. You just need $1 million+ to play the game.
That would not apply here, since this was not a financial crisis or caused by systemic long term effects of direct government action.
The difference with Theranos is they were promising people tangible medical results. Clearly, if a metaverse startup convinces a bunch of VCs to back them and the venture fails, that risk was known from the beginning.
The conflation between income and wealth in policy papers like this confuses me.

Income is not the rate of change of wealth. Wealth can appreciate significantly without being reflected in taxable income.
I was an admin on a VAX-11/780, the first generation, in the Before Times. Yeah, the basic CPU was 26 or so hex-width Unibus boards about 16"x9". Memory and I/O was extra. A lot more than 230 TTL chips.

They eventually boiled it down to a couple of ASICs so you had a VAX on a single card.

But to be fair, the VAX implemented a vast amount of stuff that you wouldn't if you were designing your own TTL CPU.
> With tmux the leader key (default ^b) followed by '?'

I used to know that, thanks, but you aren't the first person to point that to me and won't be the last. My memory is really bad and by the time I have to use that again I will forget that it exists. For someone like me a command like that has to be visible on the screen at all times, I can't nemorize things no matter how much I try.

To summarize, my problem isn't just that I forget that X action's shortcut, it is that I forget that X can be done and that also prevents me from searching "how to do X with tmux" because I don't even remember X.
I think there’s a separate idiomatic autocomplete flow for what you’re trying to do. Try hitting “New Message”; typing your friend’s name; and selecting the result. The New Message window will transform into the existing-conversation window for that contact.

Not saying having it also work from search wouldn’t be good — but having this flow available is probably why the other issue hasn’t been fixed sooner.
For what it's worth it does support 2x density (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/4966) and there's a design doc about High-DPI: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documenta...
The rating goes from 8 to 10 in practice, so 8.9 is like a 5-7 :)
> The fact that the particular government didn't foresee this outcome is quite astonishing.

Charitable of you to think that this isn't by design.
"Scam" is the problematic part. The article avoids the word in the title because the article itself says:

> "I think we use the word scam as a colloquial term mostly and there's some nuance to this. I don't think either game's developers have the actual intention to not deliver."

So it's not a scam, not to speak of blatant scam.
So we've gone from "Covid definitely didn't come from a lab, and anyone who says it might have is a racist conspiracy theorist" to "There's a reasonable chance Covid did come from a lab, but anyone (else) who says it might have is a racist conspiracy theorist". Progress, I suppose.

But you’re also witnessing the manufacture of uncertainty.

Please. We're witnessing the collapse of the unwarranted certainty that much of the media has been trying to impose from day one.
I would hope that one of the services provided by YC is a reality check to convince startups like this to stop overpromising.
So it is possible there's an indirect link instead of a direct link. Still for practical purposes it might be that the intermediate step (e.g. self-destructive behavior) is extremely hard to get rid of.
Government has been sold on the "Hobbes" vision of society and believes an assertion of authority is necessary in order to prevent civil chaos. They will never give money directly to people until this changes. https://issuepedia.org/Hobbes_vs._Rousseau
“blatant scam” is editorializing beyond “giant fiasco” and is a viewpoint.
If you have Messages set up on a Mac you can access your chat archives under ~/Library/Messages/Archive. Each conversation is stored by date in an .ichat file which can be re-opened in the Messages app.

https://appletoolbox.com/qa-where-are-imessage-files-stored/
why would anyone want to go to work everyday and pay taxes, when things like this can; and happen?
I mean, they're still building enormous mansions. It might be less public now, because now they can afford to buy so much land around the mansions that nobody can see them. Also, since travel is so easy now, it might be more attractive to buy 100 luxury apartments around the world and a few private jets to get between them.
I like the project. Not quite to your point, but during my lifetime it's been advertising that's turned that web into manure; in one way or another it has to be seriously dealt with or it'll just infect whatever else we try to replace it with.
Which is why I suspect the title will be changed, even though it is relevant to the discussion.
Co-founders tried to reduce my equity after company was accepted into YC
The uC I used did not have built in PWM. I implemented it using GPIO with excitingly bad results.
If HN was a pure aggregator and never changed the title I would agree that it should be directed at NYT.

HN also editorializes the content posted here, they do change titles here to reflect some of the values or ethics that this form embodies, so asking for the title changed to better reflect the content is a fair ask.
It took me less than 5m to un-redact the information in this post. I found much more than this post details. Wild.
me I have no job... & you wouldn't believe the actually lost value :D
Because the KKK would kill the owner and burn it down and the police wouldn't investigate.
I read that article and another article about EEBDs [1], and one thing wasn't quite clear to me. Unless I'm really misunderstanding what I read, it sounds as if there could be fewer EEBDs than there are people who might need them in an emergency.

In the section on passenger ships, it says "Where the ship carries more than 36 passengers there must be four EEBD’s in each main fire zone within the accommodation spaces." What if there are more than 4 passengers in a fire zone?

[1] https://www.martek-marine.com/blog/what-is-an-emergency-esca...
Five minutes later you have contracts for 5 dollar bananas and 4 dollar apples in every government…

I like the idea but I much rather trust individuals (some of which will misuse funds) than politicians.
Ditto re. fzf. Fzf works amazingly well and is a recent development, who cares if it's not written in Rust?
Absolutely. Strip the country of assets and flee to a stable jurisdiction.

Wonder where will the American elites flee. Maybe won't need to, guns and all.
AD: I can't see any source code? Did you redact it already?
Colonialism = guys with guns come from somewhere else, land in your backyard, and give you orders. The only difference now is that the guys have money instead.
How is OP describing a filter bubble? OP is describing apolitical things as far as I can tell.
I know it is hard, but I have done it and I am a Revenue Manager in hospitality and a tours company. You have to be strong, it is a long process where you get repeat customers and friends of customers. A small loyalty program, best protection if your customers deals directly. one on one relationship but it works.
The additional value for Apple is that their platform had a billion+ users from the start.
I thought I told you to sit down and read the reports. Why are you so insistent on speculating based on no information instead of actually reading the specific cases described there?

One app is a kiosk that keeps saving people's passwords and autofilling them for the next user. Another app has its own address dropdown but Chrome hides it and keeps autofilling the same address over and over making the app useless. A third app is for admins creating users, and it keeps autofilling the admin's own details so that info keeps accidentally leaking into the user accounts. Another app is for applying for a bank service with very strict requirements, names get autofilled not following the requirement, users think the autofiller is perfect, then they get rejected and need to go to the branch physically to fix it.

Don't be a know-it-all. Go actually learn something.

Having a browser second-guess its own markup after this markup has already been established to work a certain way is really dangerous. We're talking about the web, the most popular platform in the world, and Chrome is the most popular browser. This is irresponsible handling of that burden from Google to make changes like this on a whim.
I thought it was going to be more hardcore than that.

Something like, the fundamental truth that people never really wanted to spend a 1-4 hours driving every day. Or that maybe they actually want to have control over their own working hours.
Lots of us built what you would call a RISC processor out of 74181/Am2901 bit-sliced processors back in the day. Mostly because we didn't have the microcode skills to do what the pros did on things like the VAX or DGs.
I agree it is not a good practice. My experience has been that hiring managers and/or recruiters ask the question, and some people answer it truthfully for one reason or another (probably something psychological, maybe related to upbringing, which may have a gender implication).
I imagine what they're alluding to is that it seems like most of the security bugs are memory-safety related. The number is about 70%, and has been replicated independently at a number of places.

That is of course a very different thing!
Depends on what is meant by "browser". Browsing HTML is not too difficult.

There is no rule that says a "browser" must match Google's in-house Chrome or its outsourced Firefox (all salaries of Firefox developers are currently paid with money from a deal with Google).

Look at how many browsers exist already for Gemini. How many were funded by advertising. Probably zero. The multi-million dollar corporations have a vested interest in keeping the notion of "browser" so complex that independent authors cannot even contemplate it.
Land. Bill Gates owns 242,000 acres of farmland. Jim Bezos owns 420,000 acres, mostly in Texas. John Malone owns 2.2 million acres. None of them made their money in land or farming.
> I kinda wonder how many Gmail users now pay Google for more storage space just to cover their email archive...

Gmail’s storage space has consistently grown over the years to keep up with the average user’s demand.

Google don’t want to do anything — like charging for email storage — that would disincentivize their mass of sensors^H users from feeding them ever more data.

(If you’re an outlier with way more storage than usual, they’ll happily charge you, knowing that the data point you represent is mostly going to get pruned out of their models anyway.)
If I had a magic wand, I'd update the title to be "The Android Reinforcement Learning Environment" because as titled right now, it sounds like a way to learn Android. Maybe that's my fault for not recognizing the deepmind.com domain but still

Separately, I can't figure out why there are "phantom swipes" when the AI is playing 2048: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/A2OTChR2rs-04cp8qfoFR2Iz6J... I thought at first maybe it was swiping in an invalid direction, but one can see it traces almost the same path next time and then it results in tile movement. I don't know what's actually going on there
Actually they did look at the data. Google had to go back and pay MEN more. They did that last year I think.

This is a case that's been dismissed once so whether it had any merit is very tbc...
Hilton does same thing and it is not penalized but Booking.
> It helps people who are in debt

Does it really though? It definitely helps people who used low, fixed rate debt to buy assets that will appreciate with inflation, but does it really help the average person with $100k in student loans that isn't going to see a wage increase that comes anywhere close to the increased cost of living?

IMHO the answer is no.
Same stuff: huge houses, harems of mistresses, private islands, luxury boats, private jets.
Bit by bit indeed! The birthday posts here give a nice overview of how much the system has evolved over its couple years of existence: https://www.serenityos.org/happy/

The monthly progress videos are also nice in that regard.
On a similar note, deleting old photos to save space on iCloud is very hard. I could mass-delete photos older than a certain date in the Mac Photos app (or whatever its called these days) using a smart album, but then that mass deletion would not sync to iCloud. Or, I could log into iCloud via a web page and select a load of photos (but not more than 1000 at a time) and delete them - but then it takes ages - like about 20 minutes. Why does it take so long to delete 1000 photos from the cloud? Its unfathomable. And then after deleting them you have to go and find them in the iCloud bin and delete them again - which also takes ages.

I can only conclude that they have made it deliberately very slow and painful to clear space on iCloud. Because they'd rather you paid for more space ...
Wish this could be done to Facebook Messenger as well. I have some old conversations spanning over five years that would be nice to export.
It is an editorialized title and should be changed.
Yes, yes, you must obey the invariants. The trick is in the consideration of the invariants.

The problem isn't the cost or the "confession", because those are already part of the context. The problem is that in the process it creates new security risks that needn't be there but for the choices made by TLS.

In particular, the lack of separation of concerns between protections from eavesdropping, tampering and forgery proves to be quite problematic for environments where forgery & tampering are a serious concern, but eavesdropping is the nature of the context. It's why you see proposals for ugly hacks of TLS like eTLS; it's doing more harm than good.
> caused by voter incompetence

I laugh every time I think to myself that my vote can make a difference.

I believe democracy works because we can vote out a government we can see is working against our interest. I don’t think democracy is that important for voting in a party for its policies.

I certainly have never experienced that I can vote in a particular policy I believe in.

Occasionally I think I can vote against a party that is pushing a policy I don’t like, but often the policy comes to fruition anyway (maybe delayed until the next change of government).

And I live in a country with MMP where my vote makes more of a difference than a two party system.
But how would you measure it? The most objective way of measuring value when you are exchanging it to something else i.e. transaction, if you have real estate it can appreciate in value but if you sell it, or rent it, then you pay tax based on that transaction.

It would be great if consumption and not income could be taxed though (not easy).
242,000 acres of farmland is very little.
Fizzbuzz is laughable, I don't like Leetcode and now that I'm in charge of hiring, I don't do Leetcode.

But fizzbuzz is truly the lowest of the low bars you can pass. You could even do it in a language you have never ever written before.
Just like brilliant people that gets rejected from prestigious universities and companies, there's bound to be undeserving people that gets in.

Even if there's a vetting accuracy of 99.9% (for the sake of argument), there's still a chance that some lemon will fall through the cracks. So after 1000 seeds, there should be 1 lemon.

Now does that make the program any less prestigious? No, but these things happen.