skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think this just illustrates how expensive these UBI plans really are...

One thing to keep in mind is that this is half of the military budget, which is less than half of discretionary spending, which is much less than half of total federal spending.

The other thing to keep in mind is that most of the UBI money would be immediately recaptured in income tax. Making it Universal keeps the logistics simpler, but a wealthy person should end up with little to negative extra money from a reasonable UBI implementation.

> particularly the ones that flaunt several thousand dollar payments to every tax payer per month.

Who's suggesting that much? And are they suggesting it for normal circumstances where people are able to work?
In real-life you can tell your bandmates to "just play a I V IV in C" and they get it. But we are still not quite at a place where we can tell a computer that exact phrase and get something useful....

You can definitely do this exact thing in Band in a Box, simple as typing in the chord progression as a lead sheet.
For simple enough models of the battlefield, war and generalship probably are solved problems, but having said that, even the game of chess has not been formally solved, and it's certainly possible that an RTS game could have a greater strategic depth than chess.
And if you're under 13, have an Apple ID that says you're under 13 in a family group with your parents, and your parents have enabled that feature.
If the Taliban are smart they won’t do reprisals but instead will offer amnesty in exchange for service.

The dumbest thing we did in Iraq was to do the functional equivalent of the Taliban doing reprisals by disbanding the military, government, and Ba’ath party. It created a mass unemployment problem and swelled the ranks of the opposition with listless now unemployed people.
> Look at Amazon App Store

Also the Huawei AppGallery outside of China since they lost access to Google apps.
I see a lot of suspicion in thread below, which I very much understand.

I'd like to take a minute though to express my frustration with the banks that refuse to supply any sort of limited APIs. How is it 2021 and I still can't give my tax person read only access to a specific year of transactions? Plaid and others trust issue would be so much easier if the banks had any sort of control over sharing aside from none or authorized to do anything.
Or not? Maybe it’s China’s turn to burn trillions in Afghanistan.
What evidence do you have that Afghanistan was due to oil, and not due to the most direct motivations, like Taliban sheltering Al Qaeda (as they still do)? This seems like a conspiracy theory.
Hi,

1) You're only 34, far too early to be thinking about retiring. It's ok to think about switching careers, though.

2) Quit blaming luck for your placement in the financial spectrum. Every generation has opportunities and pitfalls-- maybe yours just haven't shown themselves yet. (Maybe it's crypto? Maybe the next Amazon? Maybe just boring index funds? etc.) If you still feel sorry for yourself, just consider the people who came of age in 1915 or so. A world war, followed by a pandemic, followed by the great depression, followed by WWII!

3) If you truly hate your work, find something else. Maybe work a short while more, to pack away some money, but get out of it.

4) Consider strongly that your mental outlook might be influenced by Covid. Don't make a long-term change unless you have good reason to suspect you'd feel the same in the post-Covid world.

5) Good Luck to you. There's a bright future ahead for someone with your brains. You just have to make the right decisions to navigate towards it.
looks very cool, might switch back to spotify just for this. the speed and feeling of pre-bloated iTunes is still the benchmark to which i hold any music app, and this might be the next best thing.

appreciate the work here.
There's this one:

https://privacy.com

Apple Card does as well (and Apple Pay in general with any other card).
> For example, instead of trying to do advanced font rendering for almost every single language and writing style known to man, why not just limit yourself to ASCII, left to right typing and monospaced bitmap fonts in certain devices? I'd argue that in many cases, such as embedded devices, that's all that's actually worth doing

I'm a firmware dev, so I'll tell you how this goes. Over the next 5-15 years project requirements will change, feature creep will set in, and you'll eventually end up with a full blown font renderer. Except it will be utter garbage, impossible to maintain, and it will infest the entire codebase making it incredibly difficult to replace.

You shouldn't go for the most general solution rather you should select the solution that fits the current and near-term requirements. You had best know what the general solution is though, otherwise you're doomed to reinvent the wheel poorly.
This has been my experience as well: I had to fix a bug in a Go codebase recently, and the fix required me to de-duplicate an unordered collection of elements. It turns out that there's (1) no built-in way to do this, and (2) there isn't even a built-in set structure in Go, so you can't do the obvious solution without explicitly using a map with a chaff value. Stack Overflow has dozens of duplicate questions for this, all with ridiculous O(n^2) or buggy (or both) answers.
Free Monads Yield Extensible Effects
Sounds more like a plain old stop-and-copy/two space GC... Generational would be if they built a chain of directories to represent one (like with an overlay filesystem of some kind) and then periodically GC'd those at different rates, moving the persistent entries into less and less frequently scanned dirs.
Did you happen to catch his press conference last week?

"The drawdown is proceeding in a secure and orderly way"

"I also assured Ghani that U.S. support for the people of Afghanistan will endure"

"I intend to maintain our diplomatic presence in Afghanistan, and we are coordinating closely with our international partners in order to continue to secure the international airport"

"the Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped — as well-equipped as any army in the world — and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable."

"The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy in the — of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...
Fileting someone's argument is not a positive goal. It's an egotistical one. Finding truth is a good goal. That seems to be what is praiseworthy here.
If climate change were being caused by communists or Islamists to attack America we would have converted to post-carbon by now.

Human adversity pushes buttons in our brain stem that natural processes or random threats do not.
Yes and its exactly like this for our slightly less sapient animal siblings. "I'm hungry. You look like food.

"I don't want to be food. I'm running away".

The outcome is boolean. And an order emerges in form of a balance between prey and predator.

I've always wondered if the same pattern isn't also true about human societies. Yielding a spectrum: Aggressive and passive. Powerful and weak. Representative and authoritarian.
Can you provide a source for COVID deaths? Is there a source that gives the number of deaths that were caused by COVID and nothing else? They say that anyone who died and tested positive for the presence of COVID was considered a COVID death even if they got hit by a bus for example. And many elderly people died from it who were on the brink of death and were just as likely to die from some other minor insult. I wonder how many life hours were lost, I think that might be a more accurate metric.

Traffic deaths in USA over 2 years ~80,000. Nobody cares.
> No one "lent" us money.

Obviously you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

BOND. Issued by US government. Is a promise that US will pay back the price of the bond at some predetermined future date and in the meantime it will also be paying interest in regular installments.

Others (including other countries) buy US bonds, which finances US spending. You know, whenever there is this big debate about whether to close US government or not?

So it is kinda stupid to say "no one lent us money", because, you know, they did.
China is likely to gain trillions from their belt and road initiative expanding into Afghanistan and from getting involved with the mining of the $3T in mineral resources identified previously in Afghanistan. China has already recognized the new Taliban government and the Taliban previously welcomed a new relationship with China that would protect Chinese interests, as they put it. China literally met with the incoming Taliban leader earlier this year to forge that friendship.
grep ‘ass WLApplication’ should do it, no?
I think the ultimate cause of this kind of inconsistency is that the panopticon-style correlation of customer data is happening offline in a business intelligence system that has a one-way, stale data feed from various ETLs, while making a return happens in an online system that doesn't get anything back from the analytics system (because the analytics data is too loosely structured and low-quality to feed it back into a line of business system).

This kind of dichotomy exists in just about any organization that gets into BI/data science/whatever you want to call it, and it can be absolutely maddening. The state of ETLs and analytics systems, for example, means that we have basically gone back to "overnight batch processing" and a lot of reporting data only becomes available the day after the transaction, since all the ETLs need to run and then whatever analytics system, data-cube assembly or etc. But since the analytics system exists, it is taken as good enough and no one wants to re-implement the functionality in an online, system-of-record fashion.

Or another way to put it: the GP says "The second you walk into the store based on your face they can pull up your entire purchase history and contact." That's being pretty generous... most of the time they don't know any of that until an hour or a day later, because it comes from multiple disparate systems (and outside vendors) and importing that data into a data warehouse (in batches) and then correlating it later is far easier to implement, and the dominant method used in this kind of analytics.
> ...and ultimately low impact.

A suboptimal metaphor in context.
Did you mean to reply to me? I did not ascribe a single cause. What you say makes sense, but I don't think it's safe to say that only a single cause is present. Although prioritizing the biggest problem first seems reasonable of course, my fear is that we don't prioritize any of it in time...
Probably should have got the civilians out before the military but what do I know...
> There's no end of things you could do around the roads to cause crashes, but they're all illegal and ultimately low impact.

But most of them are easy to spot, at least in the aftermath. If you spayed over a sign, people would notice. If you removed one, a driver would probably not be able to directly notice, but he might notice the situation (i.e. you should not go fast in front of a school, even when the sign is missing) or you could find evidence if an accident happens.

The scary thing about these signs is that they could easily go unnoticed, especially if placed well (for example a crossroad with already sun-bleached signs). Neither a driver (who could possibly intervene) or an investigator would be able to spot this, unless they're specifically looking for it exactly.

Things like this are, in my opinion, also exactly why people put the bar of trust so high for autonomous vehicles: They might fail in ways totally opaque to us. You can at least somewhat estimate what a person might do [0]; for autonomous cars, this is hard or even impossible.

[0] I know someone could be extremely drunk or on drugs and possibly also mistake a stop sign like this, but you'd usually see some warning signs. An autonomous car might go from totally normal to batshit insane without any prior indication or apparent reason.
> And this is entirely separate from the technical side, where Apple's 3rd-party keyboard APIs are - quite frankly - terrible. Since 2014 keyboard APIs have been buggy, inconsistent, ever-changing, and broken - particularly when it comes to accessibility features like Direct Touch.

This actually ties into the foremost reason I don't use an iPhone. I'm a Dvorak user for 20+ years and have no ability to use QWERTY, or any interest in learning. iOS doesn't have a Dvorak option for the first-party keyboard, and every third-party keyboard I've tried with a Dvorak option is glitchy in ways that make them effectively unusable. (e.g. the system QWERTY keyboard will sometimes come up for OS-level events.) So, I use an Android phone.
Elite Dangerous is multiplayer, bit more of a space sim.

X4 is single player and definitely focuses on the empire building.

A long time ago there was the Jumpgate MMO, probably the closest to what you want.
Wow, I just learned so many shocking things. (Not being sarcastic)

Google pays Londoners wayyyy less.

It's impossible to afford a house in London on a six-figure salary.

We live in strange times.
“Medicare for all”, the single payer universal healthcare system in the US, was projected to cost between $16-34T [1] over a decade. I know there are some big questions around the actual cost of US aggression / state terrorism since 9/11 (ie 6.4T vs 2T as per other entries in this thread). A rough 80/20 analysis suggests:

* We could have funded free healthcare to roughly one quarter of the US population for 10 years (see [1])
* We could have funded free medication for all US citizens for 20 years (assuming US spends an average $1100/yr per patient, approx double of other countries [2], viz a biz the estimated spend of $1K USD / yr per US citizen spent over 20 years on aggression since 9-11 mentioned above)
* …

I quite like the following quote by Noam Chomsky on US international terror in Afghanistan (and Nicaragua, Iraq, Sudan and many other places):

“ The U.S. is officially committed to what is called “low–intensity warfare.” That’s the official doctrine. If you read the definition of low–intensity conflict in army manuals and compare it with official definitions of “terrorism” in army manuals, or the U.S. Code, you find they’re almost the same. Terrorism is the use of coercive means aimed at civilian populations in an effort to achieve political, religious, or other aims. That’s what the World Trade Center bombing was, a particularly horrifying terrorist crime. And that’s official doctrine. I mentioned a couple of examples. We could go on and on. It’s simply part of state action, not just the U.S. of course.” [3]

It sums up the meaninglessness quite well.

[1] https://www.crfb.org/blogs/how-much-will-medicare-all-cost
[2] https://data.oecd.org/healthres/pharmaceutical-spending.htm#...
[3] https://monthlyreview.org/2001/11/01/the-united-states-is-a-...
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Show HN: Ain is a terminal API client
For a modern take on this you might like Paul Chiusiano’s work

http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-future-of-software...

And that culminated in

https://www.unisonweb.org/

Essentially all code is pure functional and content addressable, meaning it’s inherently distributable and transferable (including closures). Like Smalltalk but with more use of modern programming language theory.
>Traffic deaths in USA over 2 years ~80,000. Nobody cares.

Many people do care about this and advocate for less car infrastructure, safer streets, better walkability and better public transport. Car centric design was the worst mistake of the last few decades.
It isn't that we can't afford to mitigate climate change. We cannot mitigate climate change, period. In other words, you could throw all the money on the planet at it and it would not make a dent. No purported solution passes the math and physics tests.

It's easy to make a mess. This can be done with very little energy, resources and time. On the other hand, cleaning-up the mess takes far more energy, time and resourced than what went into creating it in the first place.

That's the problem.

We don't have it.

Energy, resources or time.

You are far more likely to kill everything on this planet than to fix climate change.
> And by saying "not mutable" i don't mean that is doesn't change.

This may be semantics, but saying it's "not mutable" literally means it doesn't change.
theyre also likely the same type of folks who fall for marketing like "full self driving" without investigating critically or even reading through the analog and digital shrinkwrap they have to tear through to get to their date or appointment or whatever on time.
Find me a terrorist attack on US soil that wasn't funded and planned by the FBI. Even the local militia movement here is filled with informants.

There was never a true threat of terrorism. Even 9/11 most likely could've been stopped. It is all FUD.
Spouse bought me a copy on steam before understanding that I needed a new system to play it. Being a single player experience, I can wait for it.

I did advise several co-workers to go that route.
And allowing one's ego to not get in the way of accepting the truth, even when it contradicts your original belief.
> it's one of the first things that brought humans from the store age to more modern civilization.

This still has to happen, since we are now entirely in the store age ;-)

(nice typo)
People love SQL because it is truly an incredibly bad language. Poor to no ability to abstract, no composability, a grammar so convoluted it makes C++ look logical, and so on. The relational model is a beautiful thing but its power is obscured by how awful the main gateway to it is.
I backed PA on Kickstarter and enjoyed it for a while. Here's a random game I played while it was still in beta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLPzIodz2VM

One feature I liked was the ability to completely share control, so in this game I took responsibility for the economy / building, and my partner was responsible for controlling our mobile units.

Playing on a spherical map was fun and flavorful, and the potential to do things like plant rockets on a moon map to smash it into the planetary map (or send opposing forces to interfere) was awesome.

When I was active, it didn't seem to develop a large/active enough community to reliably support (evenly-matched) multiplayer games. I don't know if this ever improved because I quit.

As I recall, the company infuriated the community by crowdfunding a new game while there were still nasty bugs / missing features in the original game. Players left in disgust, and that's when I gave up on the multiplayer improving.

This frustrating experience was part of my journey towards refusing to play multiplayer games that weren't free to play (so community would be as large as possible), then quitting computer games entirely.
It wasn't _literally_ nothing. Think of all the companies that made billions in profits from all this.
> But at this point, pricing is set by supply and demand.

If one is sold out and the other not that indicates that this is not completely the case.
GM's Supercruise (which is the actual king of the hill for L2 systems) uses cameras to track the driver's eye position to ensure they are paying attention. It's significantly harder to defeat, is geofenced to prevent use in incompatible situations like surface streets, and has a much more graceful disengagement process. Most of the time autopilot is smooth, but sometimes it just hands control back to the driver without warning.

Teslas can famously be tricked by wedging an orange between the rim and spoke of the steering wheel to produce enough torque on the wheel to satisfy the detection. There are enough videos of it on youtibe that tesla could easily be found negligent for not doing enough to prevent drivers from defeating a safety system given that alternate technology that more directly tracks attention is available and tricking tesla's detection method became common knowledge.
Show HN: Picc.io simple image sharing
https://picc.io image file sharing and hosting
Yes.

They have also invested heavily in their relationship with Pakistan. Pakistan protected Bin Ladin and are deeply involved in Afghanistan. China can lean on Pakistan to compliment its direct relationship with the Taliban.

Not to mention that the Chinese are significantly more motivated to make Afghanistan work.

As a sign of their influence, the Taliban has said that whatever happens in China’s borders is their business. This was in response to questions about the Uighurs, which, you know, if you’re an Islamic regime you might at least pretend to care about.
Posted here because I'd like feedback on it.

The backstory is:
Ain was born out of the frustration of working with many API-endpoints in GUI clients. While pretty, I could't use any shell-scripts or commands such as `uuidgen` as input to the endpoints without copy pasting from a terminal. And I had to copy-paste the resulting output back into the terminal to further slice and dice it.

I had become a human pipe and my ctrl+c, ctrl+v fingers were hurting.

It's done in go and uses curl and or httpie for making the actual calls.
Huh, I remember when this happened, but I hadn't realized it happened in some blog commemts.

For those who are unaware, the comment pointing the flaw in Nelson's proof is Terrance Tao, one of the most extraordinary mathematicians in the world. He's won a good fraction of the field's medals, including the Fields Medal. A nice, down-to-earth guy, too, by all accounts.

I jokingly call this the time he literally saved mathematics.
If you want to protect a webserver inside your home (which seems like a good idea in 2021), you're going to need SSL -- and that requires a domain.

Self signed ssl certs were kinda a solution to this -- and then were largely rejected as being absolutely "insecure" because they, well, were absolutely insecure.
url: https://picc.io
If you want to go there look at the acres of cultivation of opium under Taliban and then under US occupation. Ask where that exponential increase in production was spent.
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Also recommend checking out Fennel https://fennel-lang.org/
>Is it? That's 15 minutes of a customer not spending money, and 15 minutes of a staff person dedicated to giving back money to a customer, rather than generating more revenue.

That would be true if the customer service area was isolated inside an empty boring room, but at Macy's, it's out in the open on the store floor and surrounded by merchandise. Waiting in a boring line means eyes that wander to adjacent displays and stands.
> What does that have to do with covid though?

The argument is that the effort we spent in the war on terror, per motivating death, was massively greater than the effort we've spent fighting covid.

> far beyond having to take our shoes off in airports

That would be a valid comparison in TSA vs. covid response. This is about much more than the TSA!
I still chuckle about Cow Clicker, made by Ian Bogost. It went from Farmville satire to full-blown ironic game because people kept playing it, and even paying microtransactions. It says something about humanity, but I'm not sure what.

http://bogost.com/games/cow_clicker/
I’m this case, if the breach data is true, customers need to buy new phones, get new SSN, (and possibly change name) to have any sense of safety in the future. I wouldn’t use a compromised IMEI phone for 2FA anymore but most people would and it is not clear if the potential losses from the selling of this information have any real limit.
If they can stabilize it without human rights abuses, then good for them.
What? Nobody thinks like this so you must just be trolling at this point. No evidence whatsoever that masking takes any % off your life expectancy.
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