skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that I've always been curious about with UBI is why not aim to self-sufficiency?

In that, say the US pays UBI, which people use to purchase basic goods, which come from non-US manufacturers.

(and I realize this next flies in the face of 200 years of economic theory)

... But if UBI is a bridge to a post-scarcity society, then shouldn't the emphasis be on post-scarcity? Not just redirecting funds? Which is to say, funding highly automated manufacturing of basic, non-customized, functional good to zero?
This is too good to be true. How do they pay 40% anual interest to everyone without a +40% inflation?
There's no ham bands where you're going to build a 50-100 mile range mesh network.

Most of the HF ham bands have kilohertz of bandwidth. These are the bands where you'll get propagation over the horizon. The better ham digital modes get ones of kilobits of data in good conditions. To get that sort of throughput you need good antennas on both ends and a fair amount of output power.

It's enough power to give someone bad RF burns and antennas large enough to require sturdy masts. The antennas alone will violate most HOAs. The output power requires some knowledge to be safe.

None of the equipment required for HF is cheap or easy that some rando can throw some up to participate in a mesh network.

Encryption on amateur bands is a non-starter. There's no practical difference between your fantasy encrypted HF mesh network and RF noise. That means there's no practical difference between you using such a network to chat with your buddies, businesses flooding the air with commercial traffic, and noise.

HF can affect huge areas due to propagation. If a business uses a HF mesh network for commercial traffic in the next town over from you, they can basically shut out you from using it. It also potentially shut me out in the next state over.

HF mesh networking is not very practical to begin with and the tiny slice of HF hams have it's just laughable.
To me it seems like a honest criticism on the inefficiency of government allocation of tax payer's money. There's nothing wrong with voicing your opinions that way.

I feel that people just don't like it if someone disagrees with "taxing the rich", and that's why it was flagged.
Here is one place to start:

https://hamstudy.org/

It is full of ham radio information, how to get licensed, and practice exams.
That's both mildly surprising, given that "shell shock" was coined way back in WW1, and also sort-of not surprising, knowing how CYA institutions tend to be.

It's possible I'm being ignorant here, but I'm convinced that, while modern PTSD and the broad class of phenomena known as "shell shock" do have a lot of overlap, there was also something qualitatively different, something physical, to do with the brute force of pressure waves that hit soldiers in WW1, that, say, Gulf War vets didn't usually experience (though of course, sometimes they did). You can find videos of the poor bastards who came home from WW1; they seemed to suffer not just from a kind of mood and anxiety disorder, but from some kind of full-on nerve- or brain- damage -- Parkinson's type stuff. Like, it was well known (but seldom said out loud) that the pressure waves would destroy men's testicles. That's serious. Now think about what a concussion does to your brain, or the slurred speech of a heavyweight boxer (or the more recent NFL concussion scandals, which seem to have been forgotten). I have a feeling that not all "PTSD" is the same -- that, on the one hand, there's chronic adrenaline overdose, and on the other, there's actual concussive damage. But hopefully I never have to develop any real expertise in this subject.

Sounds like this is the sort of thing your book recommendation would elucidate. Thanks for that.
I had a manager who couldn't let anything happen without her input. She went on vacation and participated in everything via Slack for two weeks. Making her disconnect might have helped more people realize how much she was ... "translating" requirements and work status between her reports and other teams.
It's a good idea to move to a cross-platform password manager, so that your passwords don't result in OS vendor lock-in.

I still run macOS on desktop but use a patched bitwarden_rs to store my passwords. I can also use it from Android and Linux.
Is it a given that no currency can succeed unless it is blessed as "legal tender" in a given country? Honest question.
I guess I don't see the hero worship. Mention "10x Engineer" around here and people become furious.

Unreachably superior? Well, I'll never be as good as these guys I'm thinking of, and probably not even if I doubled down on sharpening my craft. There's lots of factors for that. Maybe they picked up better habits early, maybe I need to drop dumb hobbies. Or maybe, they're just clearer thinkers. Who knows, but I'm OK with it.
"Black lives matter" is a slogan that largely refers to a desire to solve issues related to police brutality and black people. "White lives matter", as it's commonly said and understood, is merely a contrarian pushback against that desire to fix those issues.

Obviously white lives do matter like others, but making a statement of something communicates something other than the literal meaning: it asserts that there's part of the meaning that the receiver isn't demonstrating knowledge of, and it evokes connections to things people have encountered before. If you say "white lives matter", intending it to mean something about suicide statistics, and other people interpret it as racist pushback against solving police brutality, the other people aren't doing something surprising or wrong. You would just be fruitlessly rebelling against how language actually works.

If you want to raise awareness about suicide, go ahead, but don't use a slogan that already has a meaning that will be misinterpreted in your context, and certainly don't do it competitively against people raising awareness for a different issue.
That might be true in some countries, but in the USA it goes to the military, farmers to make GMO soya beans & corn syrup, and other random corporations.
Bullshit.
Who in their right mind considers the US separated like that?
I have seen salary bumps offered when additional PTO is requested, which can be calculated into x days of unpaid leave.
Is standing on a pole for 3 months somewhere a person could have reasonably been?
heh, I was with you until you got to "genetic engineering". What opportunities are out there for a teenager to participate in that?
Your first paragraph is betrayed by the reality in your second of what most kids don’t have.

We’ve never had a meritocracy in the US. It is a lie that is told to enable disequitable. treatment.
Government is the primary enabler of corruption in the first place. Don't know how it is in Ireland, but in the United States I can't really see it serving any other function at the moment. It abdicated all its responsibilities entirely, and for the past several decades it's been working only for its donors, not constituents. I would be surprised if Ireland is any better.
> For those younger than me (43), I imagine that HAM radio has an appeal as a retro technology

Under 43 here as well as someone involved in the retro scene. HAM stuff was never a retro for me, however I have consider looking into it when I developed an interest in RF based computer networks (my interest originated with modern tech). As someone who undereducated as fuck it seems like a decent way to build some of the base knowledge that I don’t have. I just haven’t got around to looking into it much.

> Heck... telephony technologies are now considered retro!

heh my most recent retro deep dive has been into ISDN.

I actually tried to get a landline. Only thing available was a a DOCSIS modem for encapsulating VoIP traffic.
“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”
It always made more sense to me to vaccinate the highest risk group, and let the general population acquire natural immunity.

In this way should a break out occur in the vaccinated, those with natural immunity would buffer it from spreading quickly. Natural immunity is longer lasting and more robust at offering protection from the infection.

I worry right now with a scenario where all the vaccinated start getting a breakthrough variant that targets the vaccinated and all get sick at the same time. Really overwhelming the hospitals, in countries with high vaccination rates and no sub population with natural immunity to buffer the spread.

Imagine two forests.

1) a forest where all of the trees were sprayed with water.

2) a forest where the most at risk trees were sprayed with water. And a control burn allowed in the rest.

The first forest will appear safer at first, but short term while the trees are still wet.

But the second forest will be much more protected from future fires, since there will be large patches of burnt forest that will not readily catch fire for a long time.
Buffering spread.
Ah, but it did work.

It decimated communities of color and set them back economically and socially, increasing the competitive advantage of "the right kind of people".
FAANG interviews are quite game-able.
Work, including who you work for, is an inherently political act.

The set of coworkers you have is a result of their and your political opinions.

He didn't simply ban politics at work, however: he just refused to acknowledge the Black Lives Matter movement. Prior to that Coinbase had Black History Month events they conducted; now they don't.
At a guess, parent is referring to the Polish government pushing the country in a conservative direction.
washington dc spends $22k per student yet has 31% dropout rate.
I always assumed that my role as a ham in an disaster would moslty be doing welfare reports (i.e. "tell my mom in Idaho that I'm ok"), and maybe guiding people to local resources like shelters, medical aid, etc. It might be mundane, but that's the kind of things the real first responders aren't going to have time for.
To have and to hold.
Yes. He had to move to Belgium to remove the obligation to pay tax in france. Should he decide to move to the south of france instead, he would come back under the taxaction of france.
In Australia, I like:

- parks

- museums

- libraries

- free primary and secondary education

- subsidised tertiary/vocational education

- a (relative of course) functioning public transport system

- healthcare

- worker protections

- other stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting

Sure, government is inefficient. All large orgs are. But are you telling me for-profit corporations are going to create a society with all these things for everyone?
Did they ever release that new language they talk about?
Still though where is the balance between anarchy and big brother? Businesses manipulate people and dodge taxes with crypto. Maybe now it will be harder.
Today you've told us to use chrome, trust google, and that spyware is okay if it's "normal in marketing". Do you work for google, or are you full of shit takes today for another reason? You clearly don't get what made people like Firefox in the first place. You are so out of touch, it's painful.
I don't know what is going on in the ham radio space, but it does seem like there are a lot of potentially interesting applications.

Regarding mesh networking, you don't have to have encryption to do that. It could still be very interesting, you just have to know that people can inspect your transmissions. If they didn't allow this restriction, I imagine the system would just be overrun.

I think it would be very popular even with just a clear text internet over ham radio. You would probably even need additional restrictions to keep it from being overrun - like maybe only dedicated "ham radio internet" web sites would be allowed, as opposed to being just access to the (standard) internet.
That's a good point as well, though I'll bet the 'ruinous minority' may not screw everything up along classically ideological lines. More likely bad acting, corruption, general toxicity.
Apple is appealing the Epic ruling it originally called a ‘resounding victory’
From GP:

> if you're in the right industry, you can be the worst manager on the planet and your company can still do okay.

Has Coinbase ever had a culture of success, or were they just in cryptocurrency during the cryptocurrency explosion where everyone made money?
Think about it. A ship needs to include essentially a small apartment (with the weight of a small apartment) for a couple weeks (plus food, heat/cooling, electricity, water/sewer, upkeep for the small apartment) whereas for an airplane you just needs to do that for a chair for a few hours. A cruise ship (yes, I know, includes a bunch of luxury amenities, but still the right order of magnitude) has like 30,000 kg per passenger whereas an airplane weighs about 300 kg per passenger.

So whereas ships are more efficient per ton than airplanes, but the end result is that jet air travel is about 5-10 times as efficient per passenger-mile because it's just a chair instead of an apartment. Plus the capital utilization (renting an aluminum chair for a few hours vs a small steel apartment for a few days) aspect.
I'm a little unclear on whether this just produces programs that leak memory when using the C target.

Are there any samples of what the generated code looks like in various languages?

I would also like to suggest a project name change as soon as possible.
Cryptocurrency mining consumes the same amount of power as Argentina or whatever the figure is, for no benefit.

If wrapping a rainbow flag around it and studiously noting everyone's pronouns made that "ok", it'd frankly be even more perverse.
I did the same when I saw them hiring infosec staff directly out of the military-industrial complex.
There's no call for ad hominems.
This is exactly what I did to all my "friends" a few months ago, but only manually.

The algorithm then went crazy and proposed my country's "Melinda Gates/McKenzie Scott" as a friend.
https://microacquire.com/
Oh my, that is absolutely fiendish. I had to check the image a couple times before I found 'not now' in the corner.
I love how the computer geek community here is so vigorously second-guessing the domain experts on this. (It's fun to do that, I guess.)
https://archive.is/mpoqH
> Choosing to go with a trans persons new name and pronouns when they are early or mid transition is a political choice.

It's not, at least not for me. I think what people do with their bodies is not my business. I think that if people want to be called a certain way, I'm fine with it. All I'm asking is a bit of forgiveness in case I make a mistake, as I'm bad with names. But most of the time it will be not remembering someone's name, not using the one they would prefer me not to use. I don't consider any of this political. My grandmother doesn't like her name, so everyone calls her by her nickname. I was a bit surprised when I saw her full name when I was young, but that's about it. I don't see any difference with trans people. Sure, the stuff behind is very different, the "why" is not the same. But that's not really my business. I think accomodating people, up to a certain degree, shouldn't come with conditions about the "why".

I think people tend to forget that it's normal to accommodate to some degree people that you work with. I have two vegetarian colleagues, so if I bring some food to work, I make something that they can eat. I would try the same if someone was vegan or allergic to nuts. I don't know why they are vegetarian, and I don't need to know why to respect them and try to accommodate them. On the other hand, they've never lectured me about what I eat.

The sibling comment about being overweight is also very true. I am overweight. I've never had any comments about it in the workplace. At my last job, all of my colleagues were very physically active. Sure, sometimes I felt a bit left out, but that's on me. They never made me feel uncomfortable about my weight. I was allowed to exist as a person, and not a fat person. That personally means a lot to me.

I don't have any good answers for the bathrooms. Individual unisex bathrooms would solve that, but not all offices are equipped with that, and adding them may not be possible. You're right that here, it may be a bit harder to accommodate them, depending on who you are. On the other hand, I'm fine with unisex bathrooms, as I'm not comfortable with urinals.

I realize that it's not everyone's cup of tea, and that some people will prefer a workplace where everyone is strongly aligned with them on almost everything. That's fine too.

All of that may be just an expression of privilege/luck/something, as I realize that not all workplaces are like mine. But these places do exists. I'm trying to raise awareness about them, in hope that some people will go look for them, instead of being abused by employers and colleagues that don't deserve them.
This sounds like "other people have it much worse in the world, suck it up or help them instead of trying to do things you think will improve things in your own life".
On the Occasion of Indigenous Peoples' Day: “Natives and Settlers All”
Unless I’m missing something the root comment did not mention BLM. That’s a whole different sentence.

Please, if the only purpose of your comment is derailing, keep it to yourself.
Sadly the link has gone 404.
Yeah horses for courses I guess. I always try to use the cross-platform solution whenever I can but not everyone seems to care about that and are seemingly fine about being locked in.
Another element is that time is the ultimate zero-sum, nonfungible, rivalrous resource.

Time spent on FB is time not spent on another site. And the higher-friction FB can make activities (to the pain point of driving away users), the better for FB.

There's a similar notion in other areas, and one of the most ridiculously malevolent examples I can think of is a brick-and-mortar sales promotion gimmick: a furniture store would run a midsummer sales event on a weekend where every family visiting the store would receive a free gallon of ice cream.

Because if you've just put a gallon of ice cream in your trunk, you can't visit another furniture store, you've got to head home to put it in the freezer. And time not spent in a competitor's furniture store is time not spent assessing and purchasing their products.

(That leverages the sunk cost fallacy as well, among others.)
> or trying to use a bathroom you think matches your gender

If you get in trouble for being in the wrong bathroom at work, you need to go find a company that isn’t full of children. Nobody has time to care where you pee
I'm no expert on hydrogen, but the paragraph before the paywall kicks in doesn't sound great:

> Hydrogen is not a primary source of energy like oil or coal. It is best thought of as an energy carrier, akin to electricity, and as a means of storage, like a battery. It has to be manufactured. Low-carbon energy sources such as renewables and nuclear power can be used to separate water (H2O) into its constituents of oxygen and hydrogen. This is inefficient and expensive, but costs are falling. Hydrogen can also be made from dirty fossil fuels but this emits a lot of pollution unless it is coupled with technologies that capture carbon and sequester it. Hydrogen is flammable and bulky compared with many fuels. The implacable laws of thermodynamics mean that converting primary energy into hydrogen and then hydrogen into usable power leads to waste.

Does it get any better below the fold?
It’s dismal in an environment where the base rate is far higher than 5%. What’s the rate near their HQ? What’s the rate among those with any qualifications locally?
Why? This comment is not about Berlin or Paris, it is mentioning then as examples of non English speaking cities. Is the author supposed to mention every city in Europe?
That is incorrect.

However, I will let distinguished researchers argue with you.

The S1 protein is cytotoxic on its own [1] even without the rest of the virus

The S1 protein can be found in the vaccinated [2]

The S1 protein, on its own, can cross blood-barrier into the brain [3]

Now, I know you want to argue that there is a huge difference between vaccinated Spike protein, and wild Spike. The evidence argues otherwise [4]

[1] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.31890...

[2] https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-00771-8

[4] https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210409/Oxford-AstraZenec...
Sure. https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno...

Particularly part 4, The Continuous Channel. No discrete symbols there!
> What exactly is wrong with open standards?

Nothing, but Blink isn't one.

> Would you say linux creates a hosting monoculture?

Yes, obviously. The GNU/Linux hegemony is a pet peeve of mine, especially because it breeds this absurd "well the most common implementation does X, so screw everyone else" mindset that needlessly hinders alternatives.
This is the big takeaway here. Companies thinking they are a monopoly, crippling their product to extract maximum short-term value (the MBA doctrine), and destroy the business long-term, because they now have an inferior product.

Less and less people are using facebook. Most (worldwide) never did in the first place. But an ugly man compensates for insecurity about his physical appearance by pretending he has more power than he does, despite him in reality having plenty of power to feel secure.

Facebook: you want to do something in an automated way? Enjoy your two day clickfest. Real life: yeah, I'm going to just use something else, and people coming of age will laugh about this legacy antiquated service.

Do you know how you get a fresh start without this process you found tedious? Put in a bunch of fake info into your profile, then just leave the account alone, forever. Then go somewhere else. Facebook has a large userbase. If you're not there for the other users, why in the world would you not use one of the hundred other similar services?

Now, as far as my personal opinion: facebook should lose the lawsuit. This extension is a script run by the user. There might be something that says the user has to click and can't run scripts, that the user agreed to. Facebook then has a case, against the user, and should start suing their users. Facebook has no standing against the people who wrote the script, but are not running it against facebook servers. I am free to write any piece of code, that does anything, as long as I don't have a contract with Facebook saying I won't. This is called freedom of speech, and a government does not have authority to make me stop. And a private company has no enforcement authority, because they're a company, not a government.
Roam co-founder rewrites subreddit rules to retroactively justify ban spree
I think this discussion applies to TikTok, Snapchat and Reddit as well. Facebook (along with Instagram) is probably the worst offender at the moment, but any laws that apply to Facebook would apply to others.

> This idea that you can ban Facebook and Instagram and suddenly the internet is safe for kids is just ridiculous.

Who said that? I don't think they should be banned, but I do think they should be regulated or otherwise held accountable. A big part of it might be being more transparent with their algorithm, and giving tools to users to control it more.

I think where we are is akin to back in the days where people realized that, no, we aren't going to ban buildings, but we are going to have building codes. We aren't going to ban food, but we are going to have an FDA. Etc. The free market doesn't address all problems.
>it’s normal in marketing

There’s a reason NOT to do something if I’ve ever heard one.
An update server for all my tools. I'll probably end up having a CI server build the applications for me and upload the artefacts to my server.

You may ask, why not just check for the latest build artefacts in the tools themselves? Some of the tools are private, so ensuring access to the respective repositories can be a bit of a pain, especially if the application is shared with someone.