skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An extra $1000/mo is like adding another working adult's income to a family at/below the Federal Poverty Level.[0] That kind of cushion can keep the power on, food in the fridge and even allow you to save money! by purchasing necessities in bulk.

[0]https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-FP...
> and (I'm not sure why) 24/7 security staff

Are you trying to make some sort of point with a show of feigned ignorance, or do you really not get it? Security is the second rung on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, one of the most basic needs.

You may as well write "and (I'm not sure why) water". Baffling. Any human being should be able to understand this need without having it explained to them.
Lol, brilliant video! The funny part is those "unitaskers" are so crappy that they often fail their only job.
Yep! But notation depends a lot on the author to some extent. You will find people who treat 1U2 as {1}U{2} because it’s less annoying to write.

It’s the same reason languages have an .add method on sets so you don’t have to write.

s = s.union(set(s))
These sort of stories are by the way, why partisan divides on the vaccine became a thing.
Well, in this case good for them and shame on my bayesian filter.

I wish I were an "accredited investor according to Rule 501 under the Securities Act of 1933", because from your links it looks like a kind of good I'd be willing to invest in.
Yet the Model 3 and Y don't even have gauges. So are gauges important to see or not?
The engineers did not pay for the project or their salaries. And certainly they weren't working for free or even under market rate.
That's entirely subjective. Aesthetically, I think it's quite thoughtful and refreshing. Car design has been absolutely boring for 20 years — each generation with more lines, more shapes, more superfluous details.

It also drives like a Ferrari and has the utility of an F150, and of course is fully electric. Why wouldn't people care about that?
I think a big problem with current UBI proponents (and in general in the last ~2-3 years, Democrats) is that they don't understand how supply and demand work. When you see Biden touting the Child Tax Credit as a response to decreased purchasing power from inflation you know something is wrong [1] (increased income at constant supply will only increase prices). Same thing with minimum wage increases - the real purchasing power of minimum wage workers stays the same no matter how much you raise it; you can see this effect played out over the last 5-8 years in the SFBA. I strongly believe if you institute a UBI it will have the same effect and just dilute everyone's purchasing power. UBI experiments that are localized to a few thousand people don't encounter this effect because they aren't big enough to impact the economy.

I am all for UBI once we know that 1) it won't just get sucked up by landlords, since housing is highly inelastic and a de facto local government-granted cartel 2) people won't just fuck off and play video games/watch TV all day.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-25/white-hou...
We have solved those issues for the vast majority of the country! Heck we provide all of that and more. Now we are even giving welfare payments to middle and upper middle income families(in the form of an enhanced child tax credit).
To really succeed in the US they need two things: a slightly larger SUV (the Y really is barely in this category) and some much cheaper cars. Trucks are also popular but maybe not essential. Insofar as they’re devoting resources to the truck line, those resources are coming away from other priorities. They should be in every market to succeed at this point, not to take “fashion” gambles against popular (upcoming) brands like Ford’s F150 Lightning.
No, the price seems to be $5k per _person_ per month: https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/sf-homeless-department...
There's a bunch of complexity in EU law around certain benefits, housing and unemployment benefits among them.

Those who weren't already resident in Finland, Finland doesn't have any responsibility towards.
In my experience, it most definitely is not.
I don't typically agree with Russle on most things, but Safari is in fact bad.
You can easily (!) and efficiently (!) do "programmable money" without crypto[1]/blockchain/consensus (ie whatever Bitcoin and its descendants brought to the table), and guess what, people do.

> Blows my mind that people might spend their day coding, and night playing mmorpgs, and still not understand crypto.

Let's agree that you can lambast cryptocurrencies even despite understanding them, ok?

[1] with good old cryptography, of course, but without "crypto"
Traveling Buddhist monks in Southeast Asia live solely on donations. They don't necessarily have an individual relationship with "parishioners" any more than this particular hippie does (probably less). Whether it's beneficial for anyone for too much of society's resources to be allocated to the practice is a question. If you view spiritual comfort and the pursuit of karma as a kind of social glue, then some amount of tolerance for it might be positive for society.
I was going to mention iCab. I’m also reminded of Apple’s CyberDog[0], which did more than just web browsing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog
You would need to ask S&P Global Ratings that question.
The Victoria man is a radical, he's there to start an interesting conversation, he's succeeding.

> power to compel people to do the dishes... and some type of punishment to mete out.

Moneyed, Adam Smith style capitalist economies still had slaves, colonies, wars of plunder.

It's tough. I see from your other commenters you're rooting for the guy. The mainstream opinion that executives should be paid less, that the lowest wages should rise, these are freebies and could be implemented in an afternoon, with no consequences. All the changes in a person's day to day life would be for the better. Mainstream people advocate against inequality not the elimination of money, but yes, there is a transfer, a "handout," as part of those goals.
Severe flooding seeeps cars away in Belgium
The technological problem (assuming it exists, which I tend to agree it does not) is in logistics, not in production.
Some pipelines have passive devices to slow the content of pipes e.g. if your city water supply is coming from a higher region. A recent trend is placing turbines that generate electricity rather than heat from this process. A double win if the heat was unwanted and lead to energy being used for cooling.
Herbariums digitize three million specimens, now freely available online
Removing the headphone jack was just the method to force users to buy bluethooth buds.

This has turned out great for Apple. Air pods sell incredibly well.
It actually sounds like a great way to lose weight if you can handle it. We need to walk more. I’ve thought about moving to NYC just to walk more.
Grail will have to end-to-end validate any changes to Galleri, especially any change of sequencer. Given that any Illumina competitors based on the same IP wouldn't hit the market until 2024 (extremely optimistic) I'd be surprised if Grail were able to launch a non-illumina Galleri before 2026. A company that is locked into the Illumina platform for the next 5 years is very much dependent on Illumina in my eyes.
FIRE is financial independence. It implies you worked hard, scrimped, and lived frugally to earn an early retirement.

Getting free everything is not FIRE. It’s reliance on the welfare to eliminate any requirement of productivity.

I’m not even saying that’s a bad thing, I’m just stating what it is.
Push to accelerate; pull to decelerate; relax to cruise.

I've had similar ideas for speed control, but with something in the gear/handbrake area. The problem I couldn't solve was choosing an orientation and response curve that didn't make it so acceleration made it hard to brake, and braking didn't make it hard to change the amount of braking, while still feeling cool (i.e. not left/right oriented).
There's only 3500 inhabitants, so "town" is rather generous (even if it may legally be one). So 180 businesses seems about right (even a bit much).
> Or is class something you can buy your way into now?

In America, class has always been something you can buy your way into. Take a trip to Newport some time, and visit the mansions of the robber barons: each is stuffed with mediocre classical and neoclassical mimicry. The purpose of these ostentatious displays was to prove to each's neighbors that they were sufficiently landed, wealthy, and worthy of their class designation.

Edit: But of course note: wealth is neither necessary nor sufficient for class; it only makes it much, much more accessible.
I don't know if putting AngularJS on there is accurate. It was deprecated in favor of Angular, which is a re-write of AngularJS.
I initially hated it but the technical explanation made the "RTX off" design less terrible for me.

The Cybertruck is made of stiff stainless steel and current techniques that make these nice, curvy shapes in today's cars can't be used. Instead, they had to bend sheet metal, which severely limited artistic freedom.

Still not a fan overall, but I respect that choice.
Yeah, the SEC seems to almost always treat the investor as the victim regardless of intent.
I agree, if your grand answer to the torments of society is to just rely on that exact society to sustain you, it's not a sustainable answer.
Even just something as simple as the cigarettes he scavenges, where does he think those are coming from?
Like I'm sure you could grow some sort of nicotiana in BC, but it's not exactly North Carolina, and he's not exactly Thoreau.
It's kind of stunning how close this guy is to Diogenes. Hates the Athens marketplace, never leaves (until captured by pirates).

Tangential, but I tend to feel this way about a segment of van life philosophy, it's sort of the next level. People want to escape the drudgery of conventional society, so try to be a van life influencer, and have your life hinge on a large (van/bus) vehicle running on refined petroleum, probably the avatar of global industrialization. It relies exclusively on people who specifically do what you won't.
A close friend and I were talking about this the other day. We both have well-paid tech jobs and recruiters coming out the wazoo, but our partners are both minimum wage service workers. It's making us both gradually move leftwards in our politics.
Common sense says otherwise. If this were true, Walmart would eventually siphon all of the money out of that town. Have we seen this happen widespread? Many people commute to larger towns/cities for work which may only be a 15-20 minute drive.
No, every other smart phone out there looks roughly like the iPhone. When the iPhone was announced, many people thought the lack of physical buttons and keyboard was a bad idea.
> (blackface/yellowface/white actors playing nonwhite characters is swiftly going out of style)

We now only have to make sure the chess players are impersonated by real FIDE masters and Queen Elizabeth by someone who has at least 1/8th royal blood.
Probably getting sued by Houseparty (Epic Games) for copying their logo.

They might as well beg to them for an acquisition and rebrand to ClubHouseParty.
Unfortunately, one of the superficial and vacuous sides will soon be king, and there's little political will to prevent this.
It’s not like men don’t make errors, even at this level – the entire point is pushing people to their absolute limit. The more interesting lesson for anyone not peddling an agenda is the importance of training exactly as the main event will happen – national teams usually have limited experience together and not having radios meant that the riders were guessing about details they normally know far more precisely.
Intrinsic value is a specific term in finance [0] and it is by definition an estimation/approximation. Saying there's no such thing as intrinsic value because value is subjective is like saying there's no variables that are undefined because undefined variables have a defined value of undefined.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/intrinsicvalue.asp
"Is Guaranteed Basic Income the Solution to Robots Taking Our Jobs?"

https://mises.org/wire/guaranteed-basic-income-solution-robo...

>The UBI advocates are correct that some jobs are replaced when capital goods do the work that was done by labor. Robots are a capital good. If the same amount of output can be produced by a mix of more robots and fewer people, an industry will not offer as much employment as before. Does it follow that when one industry uses fewer workers there is no need for their services anywhere else? How would the advocates of this view explain the enormous growth in the labor force since the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago—a period characterized by increasing capital intensity?
Any 2 humans who are simultaneously good mathematicians and good athletes have much more in common than most pairs of women or most pairs of men have just because they have the same sex.
Video showing someone adding the headphone jack back to an iPhone 7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA

The headphone jack did not make space for the taptic engine; it made space for a piece of plastic.
world/european championship has the same national structure as the olympics, the radios are present in those races, so in that way the olympics is unique.
Being an immigrant you are in a special position. In most countries people do have power to change things, if enough of them want to.

There are some exceptions like China or various regimes.

But even Chinese Communist Party is very scared to allow their population to exchange knowledge freely, for fear they can just coordinate and decide together.
Before he started Amazon, Bezos had already been already an SVP at DE Shaw, so it's not like he would have any trouble finding another quarter million from investors.
UBI has the fundamental problem of not addressing inequality, but further fueling greater inequality. It is essentially a free license for those economically abusing employees and anonymous others to continue unchecked, and, frankly, double down because now their economically captured serfs have their guards down and their employers can push more healthcare expenses their way, and there will be a huge jump in multi-level marketing within UBI communities, and several more eyeball rolling developments.

The answer to all our woes is that unpopular Education Funding issue. No UBI would be needed with a nation of educated self-actualizers, rather than the nation of marginally educated workers with blinders on and kids that need far more attention they they can give. That's the society we have created thus far. If UBI were in a form such as "free room and board and spending money as long as one is in school, thru a PhD if one wants", I might think differently. As it is being formulated now, it is a recipe for Mr. Obvious to say "look, UBI does not work, it created this giant worse than before mess".
Not exactly the same. Money changed a lot of things, much more than just an accounting tool.

The use of money drastically changed the scale in which goods and services could be traded.

Before money people kept track of who owed who a favor amongst the people they dealt with. Family, friends, and others learned who they could trust not to be a mooch.

Money made possible much larger scale projects, enabling the industrial revolution to proceed at breakneck speed, the ability to wage world wars, and a modern global finance system treating everyone and everything as fungible, with credit scores replacing personal bonds of trust, billionaire leveraged buyouts and market manipulations, consumer/debt culture, sanctions, etc.
Language and cultural barrier. Moving between EU countries is a much bigger psychological deal than between US states.

Also, Finland’s weather is a negative if you are homeless.
I use a script for dealing with Windows post-install. It's 120 lines long and still incomplete. My Linux install is around the same ballpark.

Have you ever attempted to install Windows at scale? Windows installation process is not a paragon of just works simplicity. It's a horrendously complex piece of software. Having sane defaults doesn't change things that much.
> $24 million guaranteed income program to give 2,000 poor families $1,000 per month

This is really missing the "U" in "UBI". That aside, how does UBI (combined with a progressive tax system) "lock in structural disparities"?
"FIRE" is more accurately described here as not being a productive member of society, which is fine if you've contributed your fair share for 20 years, but not so fine if you're 22 and just out of college.

Somehow I doubt that these people are going to use their free time to get education. Without the pressure of parents/society to get good grades (i.e., achieve mastery of the content, although I recognize in some schools classes are poorly taught and tests don't reflect mastery) most college students would cruise through their classes - just talk to any student who took classes P/NP this past year.
There is absolutely zero need to reinvent the car UI/UX. Don’t try to fix what’s not broken.

While nobody has yet improved significantly on the traditional control layout of gas/brake/[clutch]/wheel, I still think as a matter of principle that it's really unlikely we are at the global optimum. Thus, experimentation should always be on the table, as long as it's optional.
no, class (in the marxist sense, everything else is meaningless cultural signifiers) is not about "upper" or "lower", it's about either getting paid for wage labor, ie being working class, or getting paid for other people's use of property you own, ie being capitalist class. this is extremely basic and is the fundamental divide under capitalism.
What's the actual percentage of homeless people with severe substance abuse problem (i.e. one where its ~daily and they wouldn't agree to treatment)?

This comment makes it sound like it applies to something like 50% of SF homeless and that can't be right.
All that really needs to happen is for enough people to value other kinds of work to make a market. Once that happens, it will compete with existing ones and that is just fine.

Could happen via government action, literally start paying for work and pay at a rate that seeds a market.

Could happen with individuals too. Think gig work without a company making billions at the top. While that is super attractive for some, it is entirely unnecessary, and in my view, a leaner overall model paying more to labor will prove a worthy device to move these sorts of ideas along. A variation on all this could be collectives. Companies owned by everyone in them, lean at the top, robust otherwise.

As for things, maybe we see a return to longevity in service life being more highly valued. I harbor this value now. Absolutely hate things that I know I cannot use for a decade or more. We can do so much better than the current churn of devices and software. A bit different priority and we could see more things as robust as say, Google maps still able to operate with devices made a long time ago.
Thanks for the reference, pretty much as I would expect things to be. Homelessness doesn't just happen, there's a cause that must be dealt with.
The only difference is, at least in my experience, many hippies don't actually do the things necessary to create change. They are individuals touting a known consensus. It's the reason why green measures generally fail in politics but stupid things like protecting the second amendment are upheld strongly. There is no centralized institution to fight for these beliefs. This is why you see the Freedom From Religion Foundation actively fighting against many religious bills. It has a goal, the ability to garner funds, and a means to support people to achieve them. Most hippies are just getting by and eventually wake up realizing they need a job to survive once the donations wear out because they don't have a stable supply of people believing in their individual cause.
> Some good things come out of having them that do not come out of having another corporate drone.

False dichotomy much?

Name one odd philosopher poet that has brought anything to the table
> In other words, just another example of the paranoia typical of the authoritarianism that is so common in the software industry today

I don't think it's authoritarian, just that the more positives your antivirus detects that others don't, the better you can sell it. Something like Process Hacker should have never been detected as malware, as it can't harm others, but it ups those numbers.
> At the end of the sprint, we spent AN ENTIRE DAY on retro. Before the next sprint started, we spent AN ENTIRE DAY on planning.

I'm getting ill just thinking about this. Two whole days wasted every sprint!
Exactly. My first introduction to Clubhouse was when some startup guy at a Hackathon I was attending in Windsor, ON mentioned that he "bought and carries an iPhone just for clubhouse," and said that we (broke college students) should buy iPhones too so we can "network" on Clubhouse. I promptly lost all interest in the app.
This is an interesting experiment in Minneapolis. I can’t find any earl results yet. What I like is it’s meant to be a transition, not permanent. https://www.freethink.com/social-change/tiny-house-village-f...
Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts
We Are Guardians
FDA revokes authorization for Covid-19 test given to hundreds of thousands in LA
At some heights, in some cars, the wheel blocks the speedometer all the time, so you have to duck and bob to know if you're going too slow or too fast if there's no traffic to blend with.
The areas you're talking about are isolation zones. That's how the US functions, it's huge, sprawled out and heavily bifurcated as a society. The war zone areas of St Louis (60 per 100k murder rate, astronomical, from ~2015-2019) don't directly touch the majority of people that live in or near St Louis and go out of their way to avoid those areas. The same is true of Chicago. They don't buy houses near those areas, they don't drive through those areas, they don't shop in those areas.

That's how you get Baltimore in a country with a GDP per capita of $68,000 - fourth highest in the world, after Switzerland, Ireland and Norway. Consider the context of matching up on per capita economic output to hyper rich tiny nations with 5m-8m people. The US low outcome is very low compared to those nations, it's median is high compared to the EU median, and it's top 1/4 is exceptionally high. The top 10%-15% in the US are far richer than the top 10%-15% in Europe.

Economically the top 10%-15% outcome in Europe is Germany, Britain and France. The top 10%-15% outcome in the US is Switzerland.

People that think of the US as one nation economically, are thinking about it entirely wrong. The US is more like Europe as a whole in both its diversity of outcomes and crime, with a far higher median income and wealth level. The worst parts of Baltimore are as dilapidated as the various ghettos of the eastern EU like Stolipinovo Bulgaria.

When you picture the US top 10% you should picture Switzerland; when you picture the US ~10%-35% bracket you should picture Germany or France. When you picture the bottom 10% in the US, you should picture poverty in poor EU nations, you should not picture the bottom 10% in Switzerland. That will help you get your head around how the US is arranged.
As a middle point, I’ve been living at my house in the Midwest for 4 years now and while we have locks, I didn’t changed them out from the previous owners. I suppose they could have some extra keys but I trust that they don’t and won’t come into my house (and unless they’re playing a really long game, they haven’t, and the previous owners live fairly close as we got some letters from their child’s daycare accidentally sent to us).
What difficulty that doesn't persist in religion (except you choose one specific, but even then it doesn't fully help) is there to define good or bad (apart from the difficulty to define anything like what is a 'sheep' for example).