skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> actually no reason you couldn't have the reimbursement instantly

Out in the Real Economy there's a thing called cash flow. You can't pay your employees before your customers pay you.

> FYI there's no reason for 'all your transactions to be on the blockchain' - that's just the way it works today but that can change.

You're right. There's no reason.
Wow, how unbelievably antisemitic.
also from personal experience, I find video games a lot more enjoyable when i have good mental health. When I’m depressed or anxious or numb video games don’t feel rewarding at all, they actually feel like work.
the Trans Canada Highway in some parts is an undivided 2-lane road, so it wouldn't be surprising for freight to choose to take something like I-90 instead, though you would have to go through border checks.
Yeah, this is related to Stephen Wolfram's principle of computational equivalence and his re-take on "the weather has a mind of his own". Turing machines occur everywhere in nature, emerge from the simplest rules, Wolfram demonstrates, so maybe consciousness is everywhere too. Where to put the scope of computing processes basically. Searle refutes it saying it's nonsensical to contend that a concrete wall could be conscious. I don't know, who knows.
When many people have few assets, and few people have many, and you cause the value of assets to go up, the nominal gap between two is larger, but the relative amounts are the same. This is basic math. Suppose we have two individuals who experience 25% growth due to QE:

Person A: $1,000 * 25% growth = $1,250

Person B: $1,000,000 * 25% growth = $1,250,000

Originally, the wealth gap between A and B was 1000:1. It remains 1000:1 after the asset appreciation. However, because wage income has long been stagnant, it becomes increasingly difficult for the poorer person to play catch up, because labor income can't scale in the way capital can. Both the proportional change and real change are worth considering when it comes to setting public policy.
Yikes. Perfect example of "this is why we can't have nice things", a la people who ruin it for everyone. When companies reel back on remote work, you know who to thank.
You're conflating the ability to do something with actually doing that something. Also, what's your point with regards to inflation and fiat currency? That seems tangential to the parent comment.
People were NOT dumber in the past.

This is very obviously the case if you take time to read old books.

A lot of the supposedly dumb things that people believed in the past were actually quite well supported and derived theories with the information they could get at the time.

Of course there were a lot of people who believed dumb things on blind faith, but this is just as true today as it was then.
Greenfield is an existing tech buzzword. Does this leverage the same mentality or just a name?
> I'm still yet to understand how a lot of relatively poorly paid work that probably still needs to be done, gets done under UBI.

To flip it around, right now we keep a huge number of people so immerserated they will do all sorts of bullshit for a little wage. Is that a solution?

My personal belief is that there is huge potential technical progress, but it is stuck in the research phase and cannot get to development because with so much weak cheap labor, there is no reason to automate. But with UBI, and people able to say "no, fire me I don't care", that will shift, and suddenly those investments will become valid. I am very excited for that as a programmer.

To restate, Andrew Yang and his ilk have it dead backwards: It's not UBI because unemployment apocalypse, it's unemployment utopia because UBI.

However, say I am dead wrong, and technology doesn't pick up the ball. We might have to cut back on certain luxuries that are no longer affordable. We might also need to "ration" certain un-fun jobs with like a chore rotation --- think civilian 3 years guaranteed service. But this seems good. This is the type of stuff that keeps society honest and fair, and I think will rebuild ties between humans.

Besides these 2 options, the 3rd view is society needs to exploit certain people, hereditary for maximal learned helplessness, to function, and there is no alternative. You can believe that, but you better be honest to yourself if you do.
>People also died in the back woods a lot more than they do now.

That certainly could be true although I suspect a lot of people are also less prepared/careful today because they assume they can just call for help. And then they end up with a dead battery, no cell reception, or conditions are just such that rescue is delayed.

That said, a cell phone probably should be on your "10 things to carry" list these days. And I could certainly be convinced that an inReach-like things should be too if you're regularly off by yourself in areas without a lot of people.
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> While countries are free to associate, there are obvious diplomatic costs to joining a hostile military alliance (and NATO is still explicitly hostile to Russia). The fact that Russia has a single blunt instrument that it chooses to wield in these situations is as much the fault of Russia as it is the fault of people seeking to bring hostile military bases on their borders.

You keep repeating that Russian propaganda line and simultaneously claim that your are not trying to "make any propaganda about that". I repeat my question from another message: Were there any NATO bases being build in Ukraine (or Georgia, as another example) at the time of Russian military incursion?

> But that doesn't mean we should ascribe their actions to pure malice either

Who is doing that? Yes, it is obviously nice to have a buffer from "hostile NATO states", but there are multiple other considerations why Russia would like to control its neighbors (economical, political, ideological, etc.).
Ok, we've replaced the article title with its first sentence, which is clearer.
Yeah it feels a bit weird.

Maybe it’s intended for marketing persons? E.g. when you need a link for use on a poster and stuff like that.
It won't. It's only poorly paid because there's a power imbalance - the tradeoff is "do shit work for shit money, or starve to death".

UBI removes the "or else clause". Which will fundamentally shift how we pay for work - instead of overvaluing rare skills, we will value willingness to do the work that needs to get done.

It doesn't necessarily lead to inflation because UBI doesn't automatically mean all jobs will pay more. There's a likelihood that many BS jobs will go away - i.e. nobody will want to be a bagging clerk in supermarkets, because you couldn't pay enough to make it worth people's effort without exceeding (vastly) the return that having bagging clerks produces.

You'll still have people cleaning sewage lines, because civilization literally rests on that. It'll be a well-paid job suddenly.

That's as intended, as far as I'm concerned.
It is my personal opinion, sorry, I should have mentioned that. When depressed I don't feel like doing anything at all, I lack stamina and feel weak. The refuge/escapism part is when I'm less depressed but still am ruminating on how pointless everything is and that's when escapism does its trick. While it helps at the moment I don't think escaping reality does us any good in the long run though.
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Pluggable battery packs might be a thing for electric planes. It might be even easier than for cars - for example, there is finite, and relatively small number of start and destination points.
Why buy call options? Why not just buy and hold equities?
If you have an interest in O'Neill-type space habitats, bring to front.
You use the is-number package to check if something is a number. JavaScript packages do one thing and do it well.
Shopify: Customers may encounter errors when attempting to check out
There is accidental duplication to beware of. That is when different things looks the same. Then there is real duplication.. Only the later is bad and should be eliminated. Telling the differences is hard
> * Require MFA

Using some kind of OTP authenticator app or device and __NOT__ SMS!
It has an airport, a ferry terminal, and a port with a railroad. I suspect trucks are not the main way supplies are delivered.
Why settle for 20% returns when you can get 500% returns? Only the lower classes are so risk averse. The rich understand that QE essentially strips risk from the markets
I hate acronyms that are not spelled out right at the beginning. Just sayin'
I do think there's an issue with companies like Facebook owning peoples' data. Instead, with Web3, the idea is that people own their own data, can verify who they are (they own their private keys), and can choose to interact with services on the web and share their data as they see fit.

I agree with you though that it's great to be able to download movies or music (even though the trend seems to be moving more and more towards streaming). I don't think Web3 means that everything is arbitrarily limited though, it means that it's more user controlled [1].

[1] https://blog.coinbase.com/understanding-web-3-a-user-control...
If I get $1000 a month from UBI, and I have a minimum wage job, I'm still working. Because now I will have even more money! But I might be more likely to quit my job for factors other than money - e.g. I'm going to be less likely to take shit from a bad manager. Maybe this means bad managers will start to get fired?

People will want to work, but when UBI exists then people can shop around for better jobs. If the jobs disappear, so what. A lot of people talk about fast food jobs, but honestly this disappearing would be a net benefit to society. If UBI means people have to cook for themselves, and can now, why is that bad?

Overall, maybe if we have UBI then a lot of "crappy jobs" can simply become part of the gig economy, which would be far less exploitative if it didn't trap people into being the sole source of income. Imagine if shifts at Walmart, restaurants, etc. had Uber-style apps. Need extra money? Go work a few, or work as many as you want. Don't want to? Fine, stay home or do whatever.
Bingo. There is literally one way to get from Vancouver to Whistler: the Sea to Sky/99. And it’s a highway.

There are no other links, which is why even when you choose “avoid highways”, you still get put on the 99 between Squamish and Whistler, since that’s literally the only road that connects the two. You get put on some alternative backroads between Squamish and Vancouver, which are horrible to use (it was the only option at times while the 99 was being upgraded for the Olympics)
The big issue is that the port in Vancouver is now essentially an island. Rail is impacted by this as well.
Likely related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29243740 (maybe now fixed?)
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29243617, which was posted earlier and is also on the front page.
Maybe related: Google Cloud incident https://status.cloud.google.com/
and back up and running!
Yeah, I always found that...let's say "curious." Programmer/typographer Matthew Butterick summed up my feelings relatively well with "It's just substituting one set of ads for another... for publishers, it's the same old shakedown, but run by Brave instead of Google or Facebook; for users, Brave is still going to collect data about you." That Brendan Eich himself went around crankily responding to anyone who linked to Butterick's article on Twitter added an extra layer of weird.
Discord:

http://aka.ms/winadmins - End user Compute management discussions(Intune/MECM/SCCM/M365/AzureAD)

https://aka.ms/ITOpsTalks-General - Azure administration and operations(More Azure Developer and operations related discussions)
> Imagine if someone like me gets confused by stuff like that. Less-seasoned people wouldn't even manage to understand a UI like that at all.

Part of the problem (their problem, not yours) was that you assumed a lot of reasonable things based on your experience. Someone who is less experienced also has less things to assume and can in turn try more things (a greyed out button isn’t obviously disabled, to them).
this is type coercion at work.

If you have that kind of problem then maybe you should sanitize whatever the input is first, then check with parseFloat and isNaN if the value IS a number.

If you are sending arrays to your modulo check then obliviously your code has a logical error.
I think vedic period had "varna" which is different from "jati" or castes of today.
I dunno about that. Even if you could make consistent gains, most people probably don't have the disposition to trade options long term. It's extraordinarily stressful and definitely a ticket to an early grave. A 200k IT job is a lot easier lol
The overall tone of the thread is about logistics in a port city that is the main port of entry to Canada. Individually, the testing requirements are very disruptive, but it's one less issue that may have impacted supply chains within the BC lower mainland, and an avenue to ship goods out, albeit more expensively.

This isn't (generally speaking) a thread about COVID restrictions, but if you want to sound off about that more, feel free, but it shouldn't be a shock that in a) a global pandemic, and b) a series of natural disasters, that no one really gives a fuck about how inconvenient travel has become for non-essential activities.
What does your family member do that they have one?

Goes on a hike and realizes that a lot of BC doesn't have any cell service?

I haven't used mine for an actual emergency, but it did come in handy in Yukon with an irreparable motorcycle tire. I mostly use it as a backcountry text message device to let the spouse know I'm not dead, or just general chat if I have messages left. Regardless, "long hike in a remote area" defines even a lot of day hikes in WA state, let alone the interior of BC. There probably isn't a month that goes by that I don't grab mine for one remote adventure or another.
Keep in mind that Vancouver is a port city, and the road closures did not affect roads to the US so for the vast majority of the people in the city, the impact is likely minimum. I'd be more worried about disruptions for municipalities like Hope, which are only connected to Vancouver by a handful of roads (the next major hub in the other direction would be Calgary, which is... well, pretty far away).
Ethereum has been moving to proof of stake for the past 4 years. Everytime these threads come up people bring up that ETH is *just about* to move to PoS, but it never happens.
It makes me sad to see the parent comment grey (10:16 AM PST). You're absolutely correct that overconsumption is the root of the problem.
Isn't Vancouver a port city? I imagine there'd be more truck shipments out, eastwards towards the rest of Canada.
Can confirm. https://spotify.com is now working fine.
>downloads and installs crypto browser

OH NO TOO MUCH CRYPTO FOR ME
I don't really know the details of this but for some things it is non-trivial to ship even small changes on other platforms, even those will have to go through full dev-test cycles which takes time and money. About removing things, I don't know, I had a car once that had some really nice cupholders. Really deep and exactly the right size, exactly at the right height for the arm. My current car doesn't have them and I can't find any cars that have that were quite as good as that. They just stopped making them. If that's not "vision" then what is it? I mean somebody has to make the decision of how to make the new cars. There is also the question of, do I value cupholders over everything else in the car? Would I buy a car with terrible steering if it meant the good cupholders? If I could get the good cupholders in any car would I pay an extra $3000 or however much the dealership charges? I think probably not but it really depends. So there's many factors at play here.

Edit: Or say maybe I am a startup founder and I design and build my own car exactly how I want and turn it into a company. It's perfect for me but then someday I get bored of driving my car and I retire. Then I hire someone else to design the cars and pass responsibility on to them and they change some stuff. Well, now the cars are different and everyone pretty much has to accept it because the original designer is gone, and as much as people liked the old one, nobody else can really copy them exactly because it was really their personal vision that made it what it was.

For Wayland, I think all of that is happening already? There is somebody making an implementation in Rust. They did try to make a shared implementation (Weston) but it turned out that people didn't actually want that, they preferred to write their own implementations.
It's even simpler than this. On the "pregnancy test" Doom is actually running on a pc and the scaled video is sent via usb to the replaced microcontroller which drives the replaced display. Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/Foone/status/1302834931421175809
"ZX Spectrum game developer Bernie Drummond has died"

The current title is a bit misleading, as it sounds like he was involved in the development of the spectrum.
I think the issue is less to do with commuters or people who would like to get to Calgary and more the fact that trucks won't be able to move in and out of the city for a while. A messy supply chain just got messier.
Personally, because I do not want a repeat of the great toilet paper escalation of 1984.

I used to buy toilet paper in individual rolls. I'd buy a couple rolls, and when I was on the last roll I'd make a mental not to myself to buy a couple more rolls next time I went grocery shopping.

One day, when I was on my last roll, I ate some bad fast food which left my digestive system in a state that one roll was not sufficient to handle. With much effort I was able to regain sufficient control for a very hasty trip to the convenience store.

From then on, I bought my TP in four packs, and put "get more TP" on my list whenever I had finished two rolls from the current pack.

Alas, another bad fast food experience managed to defeat even that, although I was again able to barely make an emergency trip to the store safely.

So I upped it to buying two 4 packs--but it was too late. I felt nervous even with 8 rolls on hand, so I started making sure I had 12 rolls all the time. Then as soon as I opened a pack I'd get an urge to buy more TP.

Every trip to the store I'd buy some TP.

It took some effort but I managed to realize I had gone off the deep end and bring myself back to more normal TP acquisition habits.

I'm afraid that the if I get a hardware token and a backup token, the first time something happens to the main token I'll end going down that same path I did with TP and end up with a couple dozen tokens.
And Sir Clive Sinclair only two months ago too. Sadly it is only going to get worse, with a lot of the old developers reaching the kinda age where death isn't entirely a surprise.

For me names that I'll miss will be Julian Gollop, Matthew Smith, Jon North, and the Oliver Twins.
Off topic, but for the ultimate dark patterns experience, try clicking manage cookies. Hard to see if you're enabling or disabling something, and you "object" to things that you want to disable (I think!). Did not expect this level of deceptive design from CNN.
Same. It is hilarious that it is more of an index like investment at this point.
Cool, how do I stream the newest Taylor Swift album on that?
congrats! I work in a similar space, and this looks promising. Suggestion for your marketing team - the promo demo is great, but make it HD. The demo recording is pixelated on 4K res. You can do better :) Good luck!
Bluetooth devices are in such a sad state :^(
One old thread:

Forth vs Lisp - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2243877 - Feb 2011 (15 comments)
This has been depressingly true for my small manufacturing business. Manufacturing revenue is respectable and profitable, but our free money from trading with surplus cash has us absolutely swimming in money.

Of course, it’s really easy for us to borrow money at negative cost. We’re basically making stuff because it’s fun.
> The rich get richer.

It depends on if assets appreciate disproportionally more than wages. Remember that poor people have few assets, so they're not getting left behind any more than if there weren't QE. Also remember that the benchmark is actually if there weren't QE. Suppose covid caused a depression because of a lack of Fed intervention. How would people have fared, then?

I have opinion on this either way. My point is that it's complicated and hard to say.
The big three cloud platforms all have this issue of delayed status updates. Why do you think it's just GCP?
That's going to be very task dependent but probably okay for matrix multiplication and streaming kernels which is most of AI.
The author of this article, mzrnsh, responds to comments here, but they are "dead" and can't be viewed without being logged in and activating "showdead" in profile settings, which is unfortunate. I don't have enough karma to vouch for them to be unflagged.
I live in Vancouver and had no idea until a friend in another country saw the news and asked me about it. Not to say people elsewhere in BC weren’t impacted (one town had to evacuate) but the media is not painting an accurate picture.
I believe he's referring to the widely recognized truism where money printer go brrrrr and stonks only go up.
You are still missing the point. With QE, the call options are far less risky than they look. It has been this way for over a decade. People somehow cant get it into their heads, when the fed prints money, assets go up. Capitalists are having an all you can eat buffet while everyone else thinks the only thing they can do is put 3k into the SPY every month. Its a joke
I don't have an explanation; it's entirely empirical/anecdotal. And there are certainly exceptions in both directions, e.g. I have a 1978 textbook on linear algebra that never mentions the relationship between matrix determinants and area.

Overall what I've found is that older textbooks (edit: not just math) are more likely to (1) explain concepts in smaller steps; (2) not bury them in symbols and abstractions; (3) introduce and explain physical intuitions for subjects when they are relevant.
There's no difference between fiscal and monetary today. It's either insiders or outsiders.

You want strong people and humble leadership. You don't want weak people and arrogant leadership. I would rather have leaders with something to loose, and people lean and mean than fat and happy. It would be nice if people knew the basics. Why you don't burn down your own home. Why you don't chase celebrity or gobble up every drug in sight.

They say war with China would be a disaster. Nuking a dozen cities on the west coast would be the greatest act of sobriety in history. 9/11 happen, and it made us a lot richer. And we don't have to win. We just have to keep it contained, and we have an entire hemisphere to do that. I would start by saying "we lost a sub". We know it's not the Iranians or Pakistanis who have it. Your allies. The people who had bin Laden live at Pakistani West Point. If they had it, they would have used it already and killed us all. We're thinking Somali pirates or the drug cartel. You did this. We want to demilitarize. But you and your prehistoric marxism and tyranny keep these horrible weapons around.
I came from a Rails background and it was definitely painful to learn EF since it has a lot of nuances and things you wouldn't know without experience (e.g. How things mutate throughout the object lifecycle, migration funkiness, how tracking works and 'AsNoTracking()' etc.)

Think I'd still prefer ActiveRecord really but after you get used to EF (Core) it's still a good tool.
it was back in a few minutes. But that wasw pretty weird. App Engine was affected.
Thomas Picketty - didn’t he show returns on assets far outgain salary growth ?
The linked article discusses this.