skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has to be tied to cost of living in some way. If UBI can't cover essentials then it's not UBI.

There are probably a lot of problems that should be covered before UBI really, or they're just going to siphon off UBI. Predatory lending is a good one, loans based on UBI payments seem like an easy scam to get into.
Losing reserve currency status happened to the Brits beginning in the 1930's and the upheaval it caused was masked in part by the greater hardships and sacrifices of WWII, and the assistance a wealthy (in terms of goods production) America provided GB. It didn't take much for the world to lose confidence in sterling... just the loss of a few colonies to independence & out of control spending. Sound familiar?

A new reserve currency need not be the Yuan or the Euro. There's ample cryptocurrency analogs with the transactional capacity to assume the dollar's reserve/transactional role.

Overconfidence in the dollar is what national security experts might term: "Strategic narcissism".
Yes they are indicated for that.
Both welfare and UBI skirt the fundamental underlying issues of access to capital, voice/control in the workplace, equality of opportunity, concentration of wealth, concentration of power, etc. All of that would just still go on, but people would just probably-not starve.

In fact I wonder if UBI were implemented if many of these things could worsen as political pressure from the working classes in the form of unions and political parties and the like would weaken. If you're able to feed yourself via UBI, why vote for a "left wing" party, or go on strike, or go to a demonstration etc in order to push for more workplace rights, etc.? Hence why I think actually there's plenty of support for UBI from people who would not normally be advocates of extensive social programs.

Many old school Marxists saw welfare programmes as nothing more than an "escape valve" for the excesses of capitalism. Good as a "transitional demand" but harmful in the long run.
I would argue that the conservative economic view is not that poor people are stupid or lazy, rather government subsidy incentives (welfare/UBI) can motivate people to act stupid or lazy which ultimately only promotes the need for more government intervention. An endless cycle which ultimately results in enriching the government bureaucracy itself.
Meth doesn't have to be smoked, you can just eat the crystals orally, but meth abusers uusally don't do that because it's not nearly as fun.

The pills they're referring to, 30 M (https://www.drugs.com/imprints/30-m-8232.html), are oxycodone pills (a powerful opioid), but he's likely actually specifically referring to pressed fent (or fent analogue) pills that are made to look like real oxycodone pills. Or perhaps a mixture of meth and fentanyl, such as what George Floyd was taking the day he died (see https://interactive.kare11.com/pdfs/Autopsy_2020-3700_Floyd.... as well as the other evidence around the case)

There's a big problem where, now that the government has really cracked down on so-called "pill mills" - which like all of the war on drugs was the worst thing they could have done, because now the demand is being filled by fentanyl and fentanyl analogues that are pressed to look like oxy pills, but aren't. Oxy alone can be dangerous, but fent is another beast (particularly illicit).

As one anecdote I just had a friend-of-a-friend (I didn't know them personally) die of an overdose earlier this year. They took "oxys" orally which were actually pure fent analogue, and now they're dead. They are yet another fatality of the war on drugs (and also the war on COVID since the lockdowns were the proximate cause of them picking up their opioid habit again)

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Oh, and to elaborate on the GP's point about overdoses being the result of running out of meth, methamphetamine increases respiration rate, which will theoretically counteract the respiratory depression induced by opioids (which are how opioids always kill, with the one exception that fent and related analogues can possibly kill by an addition mechanism of action known as wooden chest syndrome)
Didn't actually work for most of the people in the Show HN though.
"command -v" isn't reliable because several shells (including Dash) don't obey the POSIX standard. See https://github.com/oilshell/oil/blob/8fbc09bb3254cee944b0450...
If so, it’d definitely be worth coupling it with lasers to kill mosquitoes!
I'm sorry to hear of those troubles. Yes, I'd have said some of the same things minus the direct experience if I were to give my opinions -- just wanted to counter where the GP comment seemed unreasonable.
It is. The poor are often considered lazy, stupid, and paradoxically devious. Case in point: Look at how much control and spying employers place on low wage workers compared to high wage workers.

I've always wondered if this belief about poor people is traced back to puritanical Calvinism.
It is incredibly arrogant to believe you know enough about their lives to judge them.

Further, if other people presumed to stick their nose in your business in the same way to judge you, I'm fairly sure you'd be very offended. And rightly so, because it would be very rude.
It's extra funny, because the same movie has this wonderful scene I refer to often when I'm working as a consultant:

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

TL;DW: "We're professionals, treat me like a professional. If it's not working out, say so, and I'll make it right or we'll shake hands and part ways on good terms". I used to provide clients with a "how to fire me" document because it made them feel comfortable hiring me in the first place. (Tell me, I return materials, pay me outstanding balances, here's the keys you change, here's how we wrap up the contract terms, etc etc)

I've been "fired" a bunch of times, and at times have had those same clients that "fired" me refer me to new clients. It's the same as with most technical work, I find: if you're not failing at least sometimes, you're not pushing the limits of what is possible.
I think we all have much bigger problems to spend our time obsessing over.

Besides, slippery-slope arguments are weak because predictions based on precipitating events rarely pan out to see our worst fears realized. As an extreme example, one could get wrapped around the axle fearing that a child squashing an ant in the garden could end up being the next Hitler.
> What does this mean for implementations that want to have these properties but have internal structures that make this inherently difficult

I'm not sure I can think of an example of such a data structure?

my understanding is that whatever your data structure is, you can keep a "size_t current_size;" private counter which you atomically increment/decrement on every insertion/deletion.
size() is simply:

size_t size() { return current_size; }

In your background clean-up example structure, if the background thread is removing N elements, it must decrease current_size by N. Atomically! (i.e. remove the element and decrease the current_size using a mutex::lock/unlock)
Well, I do realize I might be way over reacting, but:

https://github.com/kuon/WhyILeftGithub

It is a general feeling of putting everything in the same basket.
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Could perhaps be about reducing the cost structure of forming connections in the pathway while increasing in some, and thus more likely that some connections are formed/deformed (ie without the actual presence of agonists/antagonists)?
It's even simpler than that. What about workspaces? What about shopping areas? Entertainment? There are lots of pieces of property that aren't residential that are owned.
I have a Node 202, and I wouldn't put a monitor that weighs more than 10 pounds on it.

In horizontal mode you have a choice of obstructing the CPU or the GPU vent. It comes with feet, but they're not very tall.
What a tragic end to this man’s life. The “personal alarm clock” gets me more than a lot of the other behaviors, as it would be quite alienating and disrespectful to have a friend make such an absurd offer to you.
Thank you for the suggestions. I am looking more for "personal" donation rather than "project" donation. I realize it might be harder to sponsor an individual rather than a project.
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I was actually just today looking at chassis like this for an upcoming build, really good timing! This looks really neat.

However, I'm leaning more towards a horizontal chassi (think like a piece of stereo equipment or something). I think it could be pretty nice to have it lying on a shelf / on top of a AV rack, and then run a Thunderbolt cable to a small desk nearby.

I found the F12C from Streacom [0] which matches my aesthetic bend perfectly (it is available without the hideous optical media slot). But it's a tad to thick.. Thinner by mounting the graphics card rotated with a raiser would be awesome. Any tips greatly appreciated!

https://streacom.com/products/f12c-atx-case/
The term you are looking for is Pareto front.
They intentionally load a blurred image before the real image, as if you are viewing a progressive jpeg (for all their products, not just this chassis). highly annoying. i'll pass on this design aesthetic myself!
From the context I assume he is talking about counterfeit pain pills (a M30 is an oxycodone pill) that are made with fentanyl (often in very high or uneven doses). Though counterfeit Adderall pills made with meth are now starting to show up.
Well, the USA has refused to deal with their bad patent system that has enabled generations of patent trolls to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us due to lobbying(I use the term in the East Texas bribery sense), and now they have got bit.
Live by the sword.....
"tell the doctor you're going off the drug, confirm you went off the drug, the doctor asks if you want to try another drug, you say no, and then you stop talking to the doctor."

This is completely consistent with the patient never telling the doctor that, to their surprise, after waiting months the SSRI side effects never go away.

I feel like you are arguing against my choice of phrase but not the substance of what I had to say.

When a patient terminates treatment doctors do not tell their patients "be sure to make a followup with me in 6 months after going off the drugs in the event you are permenently injured by the drug side effects in a condition that has no cure. I won't be able to help you but please pay me to chat about it."

The article this thread links to indicates there is no cure, so any patient who has done research would know discussing it with a psychiatrist would be useless.

And of course I have no data, you told an anecdote and I responded with a comment along the same lines.

I made a pretty small claim, that your psychiatrist may (not did have, may have) had patients with a condition they didn't discuss with her, that only became known to the patient after treatment had concluded. If you think a minor claim like that requires "surveys" or data, believe what you want, I don't know what to tell you.
For those familiar with CBT culture, this may be a feature.
Mainly find and sed due to muscle memory, but I've been using fd and sd more and more lately.
Third party apps from the App Store, such as VLC, will play MKVs (and other formats) no problem.

I used to re-encode MKVs to MP4s for playback on the AppleTV 3rd gen, but since getting the Apple TV 4K (2nd gen), I simply shuttle over the MKVs to VLC from the web interface.
That is fair, but in the space world that is not so much. I mean even if it is 10x more expensive and 3 years later, changing the approach is still needed sooner rather then later.
How about this?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...

It shows a clear downward trend in number of births as income rises.
This was true for Von Neumann:

Von Neumann did some of his best work in noisy, chaotic environments, and once admonished his wife for preparing a quiet study for him to work in. He never used it, preferring the couple's living room with its television playing loudly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
Thanks - we've put Phenylacetone in the title above.
I would love to see a thread of people describing their own placebo responses, but one difficult part of understanding the response is that few people will admit to it.
I'd never thought about placebo's being a social mechanism.

As a bit of a tangent, one of things I've always wondered is "how much pain do animals feel compared to humans?" The null hypothesis here would be that they feel the same amount, of course. On the other hand, what's an animal going to do with joint pain? Humans are unique in our ability to perform interventions. Suppose two people have cancer, one shows symptoms and one does not. A tumor can be excised before it becomes malignant. One would live and the other would die. Is there a pressure on us to have pain so that we can seek treatment?

To bring this around to your comment. I wonder if we've demonstrated placebo effects on animals. That seems like an awfully hard study to conduct.
This is a nice platform, it seems to be close to what I was thinking.
> ... confirming a number smaller than originally feared but one that still accounts for more than 11% of all benefits paid since the start of the pandemic.

The overwhelming majority not being fraudulent. That's rather the point, isn't it?
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Hiring is hard. We, as an industry, simply cannot interview.

We don't know how to accurately gauge a candidates experience, personality or knowledge. We can only make them perform monkey-see-monkey-do on a whiteboard or through stupid, asinine puzzles and leetcode style exercises.

To make matters worse, we often place our most senior software developers on interview circuits. For better or for worse, engineers trend towards more anti-social traits. It makes the whole process of understanding one's personality, how they think, and whether or not they'll be a fit for the company a complete crap-chute. This is literally the only industry I have been apart of that sucks this bad at a process that is so fundamental to professional life.

I would rather interview at McDonalds or for a call center (having had both of those jobs).
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Poor families also have less access to birth control.
There is no proof that credits incentivize poor people to have kids and plenty of proof that credits help poor. working, middle, and upper-middle class people afford the children that they do have or want. It's the welfare queen mythos repackaged all over again.

Additionally, what is the problem with having more children if the family is able to support them at some baseline with these credits? If a credit allows a family to plan for and have a child that they wanted, what is the harm to society and you caused by this?
I'd reckon the majority of users, you see this all over the internet where there's ability to vote or 'like' something; Twitter, Youtube, Facebook etc - the vote will usually outweigh the comment count.

On HN the culture of 'nothing good to say?; say nothing' is fairly baked in so will create this effect even more so.

Voting allows lurkers a voice, who often are the majority of users (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker citation 11).
Of course it is. A rational person can understand that both the poor and the rich sometimes misuse earmarked government funds (although they generally do so in different contexts), and recognize that both are wrong.
> I'd argue the problem is that they connect to the internet.

My understanding is that those are mostly used in long distance relationship. Get a matching pair so that you and your significant other can still enjoy intercourse several kilometers apart. With that use case, you can't escape the need for an internet connection.
Aren't you a big enough player to have your own recursive DNS, then?

Plus, if you get so much bandwidth from your provider, are they really still messing about with your DNS?
I want to kill myself every second of every day, and it's been that way for 15ish years now.

The only thing, fleeting as it may be, that I find worthy of doing in life is sex, and these ed side effects have kept me from exploring the potential for a world in which I don't to cease to exist or murder in the sake of nihilism.

I'd rather destroy the lives of those around me or others' randomly than live without sex. It's just a function of my utility curve.

Unfortunately and as counter intuitive as it may seem, I'm very cautious of skin to skin diseases such as hsv and hpv, which has kept me from hiring prostitutes, even though the only thing in life I want is exactly that.
Do you think everybody's house is on the market?
The person who made the statement isn't just some random person. He's someone who is in charge of a company that has employees and an HR department. It's a disqualifying statement as a leader.
I have a symmetric opinion: rent is theft.
thats what i would do if i could, i haven't seen my one kid since he was 6 months old due to getting arrested and serving probation. my finances were and still are terrible, i had a terrible alcohol dependency and was hooked on drugs for years. i finally got out of that addiction but i only turned to drugs and alcohol because of undiagnosed depression and add.

i couldn't get out of my funk, i was broke when he was conceived and remained broke because nobody wants to hire someone with a record, so i stayed out of his life in order to hopefully become the father who could one day put him through college. he is 9 now, i still havent seen him and i work all the time, it gets me nowhere, no matter how many self help positive thinking books and actions i take, i am still extremely poor and on the verge of homelessness.

i started to finally catch up, i started a business and it looked like i was gonna finally gonna prove everyone wrong about me, you know, have self respect but the pandemic wiped out my business and delayed the reunification with my son. i not a victim but i don't you know anyone who can give me advice and tell me it's gonna be okay, people see their kids and no matter how hard i try, its like i an pushing a boulder uphill only to have it come rolling back down, each and everyday, i dont watch tv, i dont play games, i dont look at memes all day. i literally work from sun up to sun down and apply for jobs only to have people discredit me based on lack of experience in the field and probably how small my apartment looks on zoom.

side note, i got arrested and thrown in the drunk tank overnight, i was stuck on probation longer because i could not make my payments. and what i got arrested for was punching someone while drunk, so i regret that, tremendously. before that i had no record. but i also lived in one of the worst states when it came to criminal justice. i did ard and my record is clean so i have that going for me at least
The fixation on "abuse" of social systems for the less wealthy is just a bias against the poor by relatively wealthy and powerful people. It's not just for food stamps and medicaid. Consider, for example, the utter fixation in the Bay Area with "fare jumping" on BART, where the compliance with the fare system is over 99%, compared with the complete silence among the public and the press on the topic of compliance with parking meters, which is known to stand at about 40%! People believe that armed police should be deployed to eek out the final 1% of BART fares, but nobody advocates for armed police to taser people who don't pay parking meters.
Stamp collection is one of those things that belongs to an particular period of change where things lined up to make it accessible and exiting at the same time, as the post war economy saw an book in people flying of to exotic destinations and sending postcards back to family and friends as Instagram and Facebook had yet to be invented. That faded as the exotic abroad became less exotic.

Today you don't even need a actual stamp to sent an letter using the actual mail(see https://www.postnord.se/en/sending/letters-and-postcards/por... for example) so the hobby is bound to become more expensive and lets be honest what was the last time you got an postcard or for that matter an letter not sent by an bulk mailing operation containing boring bills or official documents.
How do you edit boot.conf without a keyboard or monitor?
This is anecdotal and I'm not offering it up as proof of anything, but if I don't say this to someone somewhere, I'm going to go mad from the absurdity of it:

My rent actually went down.

I attribute the decrease to the two new complexes built next to where we were. But yeah, I was shocked as shit. I moved earlier this year, but still, it was weird.
Not to mention the sometimes lifelong brain zaps which are truly disturbing and make trying to go to sleep a terrifying experience.
> When in reality the FAA explicitly told SpaceX not to launch BEFORE the launch. And that doing so would be a violation of their launch license.

I'm looking into this, the details I'm finding are not clear enough for my liking.

The FAA said there was too much shockwave risk based on their weather models, and rejected a request to waive that threshold.

SpaceX's own models said the risk was within limits.

> Minutes before liftoff, an FAA safety inspector speaking on an open phone line warned SpaceX’s staff in the launch control room that a launch would violate the company’s launch license. SpaceX staff ignored the warning because they “assumed that the inspector did not have the latest information,” the SpaceX report said.

So that leaves a very important question in my mind. Was that inspector using their authority to directly deny authorization to the flight, or were they advising spacex that their authorization was already gone because of the weather?

The former is a very big issue, but I'd say the latter is only a moderate issue. Also depending on whose weather models were actually right, but it sounds like it must have been pretty borderline.

> The fact that the FAA reviewed the situation and then allowed to continue kind of proves the parents point.

> FAA investigators couldn’t determine whether the SN8 license violation was intentional, according to people involved in and briefed on the investigation, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

That sure doesn't sound like it "proves" spacex got special leniency.
The 'dirty secret' you refer to (1) is mostly wrong because partying with LSD was popular in the early 80s, not meth, and (2) the gay community is and always has been very up front about risky behaviors and how to minimize the risks. Just because you're unaware of something doesn't make it a secret.
I want my Google account to be only protected by my current password and I can't do that. Sometime they even ask me for my old passwords. I wish that they would let you opt-out of 2FA...
The bright (and not stupid ‘gamer’ rgb) colors are worth a premium for me. Show me some non-boring cases!
Awesome! Thanks for the recommendation!
I was typing out a bunch of potential issues but I realized after a few sentences that I would actually like to know what you actually disagree with me on this?

If we had a UBI in addition to all the current levels welfare/safety-nets, is this something you actually disagree with? Why?
You're not even mentioning that NextDNS blocks ads and trackers.

This release claims:

> * Since launching 1.1.1.1, the number one request we have received is to provide a version of the product that automatically filters out bad sites.*

Really? More asked for than ad blocking or tracker blocking?
What are the refule time comparisons?
> a social liberal

"I hate the problems but love the causes"
Yes I could do that, but it is a big hassle. But yeah, it provides discoverability.