skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I am in favor of assisted suicide so I can't hold that position and also argue for people to be prevented from going to Mars , each person should decide freely the manner in which they want to go.
I'm not sure if we have misaligned expectations of how much income a reasonable UBI is likely to provide, or of how much income you can make contracting.

The range of incomes I've seen from UBI proposals range from 10-20k/yr, with the high end generally applying to people with 2+ children. This is partially constrained by political reality, but politics aren't the only thing putting an implicit ceiling on the amount of UBI (as a reductio ad absurdum, consider why we wouldn't just give everyone $500k a year and all just retire onto our yachts).

Taking the midpoint, $15k pa means $1250/month, which means you'd need to make _$30/hr_ on software contracts to match UBI. You don't think it's plausible to fill the pipe with a 10-hr week of contracts over $30? Bear in mind that this means you'd need 3 hours a week or _12 hours a month_ with a more realistic (yet still quite conservative) income estimate of $100/hr, and that the type of person who's currently maintaining an OSS project is already increasing the quality of the talent/income potential distribution.
> The policy, called net metering, has become a lightning rod of controversy since it was adopted decades ago: solar backers say it has been crucial to supporting the industry's growth in the fight against climate change, while critics contend it amounts to a multi-billion dollar subsidy for wealthy homeowners at the expense of other utility ratepayers.

I don't agree. Isn't it just a matter of buying energy from those homeowners? Or is there more to it?
Perhaps she is into really-subtle-and-really-long-term practical jokes.
Playing fast and loose here with warning definitions.

They had 2 days warning. not 20 minutes.
"A countervailing political force is that some of the people who are moving into Texan, Floridian and Arizonan suburbs from California and the Northeast consider themselves political refugees, fleeing badly-run state and local governments. They may cast votes against Democratic candidates in an attempt to ensure their new locations will not resemble the places they left."

I can't help but wonder whether the people with the means to flee California were partially responsible for its poor state of political affairs, consistently voting for more progressive candidates and policies. They left a mess of their own creation. Just as Mike Tyson famously said, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."
I appreciate the reply. I don't understand what context you believe I was missing? The analogy is incredibly confusing to me too, because humans are more than their DNA: you obviously can't hardlink humans, nor could you replace them with stubs that call some "common" humans, it's not like the obstacle to doing these goes away even with 100% equal DNA vs. 99%.

But with computer code, you very much can (for example) easily replace all the executables with a combined one that gets hardlinked with different names, such that they behave differently depending on argv[0]. They don't even need to be 100% identical for us to be able to do this; it works just as well with 1% identical code—you just end up with bigger combined binaries. This is the Busybox approach (notice it combines executables that have hardly anything in common), and it's in fact exactly what Clang already sometimes does (like on MSYS2); one would think they could take the same approach here. This is also precisely the context of the comment I replied to was saying, right? This is the context I was replying to. It's so confusing to me that you claim I'm missing context when I was in fact addressing the context I saw directly—and it was the other comments that were not.
The funny thing is, Japanese women don't really come off that way, it's just how they talk and they are quite adept at achieving their goals with their "feminine" language. One gets the impression that many of the Western men who learn Japanese from their wives and girlfriends are actually trying to emulate this ability to manipulate their world through softer / more social language and achieve similar levels of success, but it doesn't really work for them and seems sociopathic instead. Hence, the cringe.
Right, but the command-line is intentional: it is intended to make the application aware of potential maintenance and/or security issues, and setAccessible is really a potential maintenance and/or security issue. The only argument against it would be the desire to allow libraries to impose such risks on applications without the application knowing about it. I understand why some library authors would not like their users to know their libraries pose such a risk, but obviously the applications should take precedence.
It was, unfortunately Full Self Driving will probably actually be full self driving before we figure out how to communicate sarcasm across the Internet
That isn't consent under Art. 5 (1) Sentence 1 a GDPR, only acknowledgement of a new Privacy Policy. There needn't be an option to deny it.
I was under the impression that Apple Podcasts was the most popular podcast platform. It absolutely does rely on RSS. I assume most others do, as well.
I never understood how Jung is more unscientific than Freud.

At least: I don’t see this choir of “but it’s antiscientific!!!” cries when Freud is discussed, but still there’s no evidence whatsoever for the tripartition of self which is at the very base of Freud’a theories.

The super-ego is no more scientific than synchronicities!
The false positives at scale problem isn't something that could be solved by an appeals process, because the problem is a step above that: a lack of continuous process improvement.

Why was the false positive generated? Why was the user unable to use the process in place to appeal? And then improve the root process cause.

This is what seems to be broken at Google and Facebook, and is the fundamental difference between a black hole support model (make problems invisible to us, because they never get to us) and one that works at scale. You're always going to have false positives, but I don't think anyone feels like the mega-corps actually have a process in place to monitor and improve the process for dealing with them.
generate a random ID in js when your page starts, set it in the context and send it as a header on every request
Becoming a Religion of the Book: Scripture Before the Bible
I wound be glad to find more about Perl and xml parsing for huge file size.
Since education in the classics is nearly non-existent:

https://youtu.be/kx_G2a2hL6U

"Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves did not cherish learning nor transmit it to other men."
Three Way Switch Wiring
LAHSA's statistics are skewed, since they count someone as local once they've been living in LA for a certain amount of time (I think it's a year), even if they have been homeless their entire time in LA.

In 2018, the LA Times ran a series of articles on the homeless situation, and had reporters accompany county social workers. More than half of the homeless were from out-of-state, with Texas being the largest single source of homeless in LA. More than 3/4 of LA's homeless weren't local to LA.
After asking this question I started reading more about it. The biggest subsidization is about mortgage interest tax deductions. I never thought about that as a subsidy, but I suppose it is. They should end it.
They had 2 days notice, not 20 minutes.
Truly understanding your “Ideal Customer Profile”, or better yet; Understanding the problem that your product solves so well that you can speak to most objections to your product.

I’ve worked for startups that knew they wanted to solve a problem, but the goalposts kept shifting when they couldn’t reduce churn because the goal was never so clearly defined. It was just defined enough to get capital and burn some more cash, but never truly solved anything that stuck with people.

On who to market to, it ties in to deeply knowing your problem space. The best places to understand where the solution is most useful is going to the places where people give valid (and not so valid) complaints, but at least give constructive criticism alongside (showing they have a vested interest in a better solution).

Parachuting into an area outside your depth of knowledge or understanding and saying you have the solution is a sure way to turn off otherwise possible customers/evangelists for your cause.
Chrome on Windows Performance Improvements and Native Window Occlusion
Most septic tanks are not in coastal properties. The water table isn't going to change for a property unless you're right on the water or living on wide low lying march/delta type areas.
Here’s something I’ve been pondering: how did the first window managers visually fail when a program hung or had a fault?

With older Windows version, you got pretty GDI “trails” as you dragged a window around. Now you get blanked out elements.

For some reason, I thought that something like Plan 9 would have been flawlessly written (like their CLI counterparts) and that it would be immune to visual issues like that.
> I really really really wish Googlers could get their act together and start being Google again

Google has always abandoned projects suddenly--even in the era you're describing.
Really? Rails, Python, and co deployment needs a book?! This is a perfect illustration of the sad state of basic skills of developers.

* Super old school. rsync over ssh. ssh to restart the process.

* Old school. "cap production deploy"

* New school. Build a container. Run it.
My wife and I are vaccinated. Any other "vulnerably family member" can get vaccinated, too. Problem solved, right? It _is_ in the land of reason and rationality, but not in bizarro world, where our governor and school administrators seem to live.

Of course, since the beginning of time, our kids could transmit the influenza virus to "vulnerable family members" too, but we were wise enough not to subject them to humiliating practices such as having lunch by sitting in PNW winter-temperatures and barring socializing.
> I assume it's because you can choose their add blocking DNS in the settings. Same thing happened to Nord vpn, they had to remove that feature from the playstore version.

Does anyone have a source on this claim about NordVPN? Sounds very damning of the play store if true.
Even more sad when a Tech journal doesn't have an RSS feed, but posts to Facebook and Twitter instead. For example https://www.thenewatlantis.com/
GDPR only applies to PII. If you're just collecting anonymous session tokens you're fine (it's what comes "out of the box" if you host your webapp on AWS for example, you'll see an AWS correlator ID in the request headers)
How does it compare to the venerable "Space Rocket History" podcast?

https://www.spacerockethistory.com/
The people I know who have pulled their kids from public schools are either homeschooling or enrolling in online charter schools. This allows for a great degree of autonomy, and basically lets kids learn via whatever platform works for them. I've heard about people using informal platforms like Outschool and more formalized courses from Beast Academy or Potter.
The building wasn't tethered down and flew away into space.
If by "we" you mean "the first world as it devolves into wealth inequality", sure, but it's clear there's nearly 8 billion people, so a 2.4 fertility rate not projected to turn til the end of the century probably still leaves us with 9 billion people by 2070 don't you think?

And indeed, it is a massive problem that we face, but do you truly think proposing regulation-free unhampered-by-policy capital-c Capitalism - in an era we are watching abuse against employees rise while wages drop - is the answer? I find that laughably propagandist.
"Stupid people don't exist" is a bold take.
Increase Productivity in Task Management (a.k.a. Boards)
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Love this.

One productivity hack I discovered for myself was to set my background to a solid color I like and to make my windowing experience as "boring" as possible. Id otherwise sit and tweak my UI instead of working.

This sort of project is quite possibly the next step in that optimization for myself.
> this should have been an entirely forseeable outcome

It was. It is. It always will be.

Could you imagine the outrage had the authorities even attempted to prevent Facebook et al?
I sincerely hope you are never put in a situation where you have to consider evacuating versus sheltering in place and potentially taking a direct hit by a tornado, but PLEASE do not take your chances in a car.

Footage from storm chasers is absolutely not representative of what you will almost certainly experience if you try to outrun a tornado in a car. If you're very, very lucky you might be in an area with no trees, a clear and obvious tornado with obvious apparent motion, and knowledge of the local roads which would allow you to quickly pick a single direction to drive in. More likely, though, you (a) won't know where the tornado is in relation to you, (b) won't be able to see it because it's rain-wrapped, and (c) won't be in a place where you can obviously drive quickly in a single, straight line to avoid its path. This doesn't even include other risks like intense winds reasonably far from the tornadic circulation which could roll your vehicle, debris, lightning, hail (especially if you wind up on the wrong side of the storm and core punch), etc.

It isn't often that stormchasers perish in tornadoes, but it can and does happen, even to the best of them [1]. Storm chasers generally go to great lengths using significant knowledge, past experience, and real-time data to carefully position themselves in relation to not only the storm they are targeting, but other storms in the area in order to control their risk and overall safety.

I'm a meteorologist and I grew up in the midwest, and while were absolutely drilled on tornado safety, "evacuations" were never part of that preparation.

Again, I sincerely hope you never have to call upon the information from this post.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Samaras
I have tested it on four different services, over a span of six years. All b2b. Conversion is between 2%-5%, after the demo ended, which is between two and three months. All contacts were cold calls. As I said, your mileage may vary. This is what worked for me.
To that effect, its worth pointing out that in many developing nations, facebook IS the internet. To say that this compounds all of the issues already discussed in this thread is a fairly drastic understatement.
Because producing creative videos is a limited resource than can be cornered?
> HN has a boring design

It has a simple design that doesn't get in the way of its functionality.

And because of that, the entire page for this Ask is 19.4 KB in size at the time I write this reply. It would load instantly even via EDGE or a godamn 56kbaud modem.

Whereas with some website "designs", even a 3-paragraph 200 word nugget of wisdom, may well clock in at several megabytes.

What's also nice about "boring" designs: They render predictably, and well, on all devices. HN works on my laptop, my widescreen, my phone, my older phone, and even my terminal:

links https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29540330`

This works, and the result is even usable.

> Most devs that I know prefer CLI over GUI, even when GUI makes their life easier.

How exactly does a GUI make my life easier?
People have suggested that this can be solved by Big Tech charging money for premium support in some fashion. It's not a perfect solution, but it would weed out the most frivolous and unimportant claims and make supporting the desperate people manageable.
They had 2 days of warning. Not 2.5 hours.
Founders of online businesses should consider a partial exit
> Why is social media singled out in our demands for them to act morally good, instead of just profitable?

It's not. We're so used to being totally unregulated in tech that even minor oversight can be spun as burdensome.
You are right to be suspicious. While the original author of the article isn't from the site - it is very very interesting to see it propagated by Russian sources.

Good catch.
It's pretty obvious when someone has simply been editing to fit the length limit. That's legit.

Editorializing has to do with changing the meaning of a title—for example to put a spin or interpretation on it that the submitter wants to emphasize. On HN, submitters don't get to use the title field as a sort of mini comment box.
Yes, but that is why there are so few places like that in the US. Not many people can afford to constantly eat out and consume entertainment at a sufficient frequency to keep those businesses going. And that was at the labor prices before the pandemic.
> Speaking about solutions - until significant part of Sahara desert and the likes aren't covered by solar panels, i wouldn't believe that anybody (who matters) is taking the climate change seriously

I think it is harder than we think, at least for the goals that Europe wants:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OpM_zKGE4o

The caveat about population control, is different than how we, humans, do with all other wild-life on planet earth, we cannot reduce the available food and habitat to lower the carrying capacity, compensate for the missing predators by killing individuals in the population, or slow the population's ability to reproduce..

We have to come up with a ethic solution. But people cannot put 3-5 kids or more on earth and don't have the means to raise them accordingly.
Was Abu Dhabi’s F1 Finale Racing or Entertainment?
Zero chance Apple gets broken up.

They have too little of marketshare for any market that they participate in.
Sure, and Capitalism devolves into late-stage regulatory-capture wealth-inequality race-to-the-bottom massive globally scaled abuses of both people and the planet. To propose that we just simply have to let "capitalists" fix the solution they have wrought is facile at best, and honestly strikes me as clearly malicious when in the same breath it is implied regulation and policy are the the enemy.
go suffers from this problem. Lack of generics makes it impossible to define an optional<T> type, and *T is annoying to use and requires an extra allocation.

In practice, people use a zero value to indicate that a value is missing, but this only works if the zero value isn't also a valid input.

Hopefully the coming generics will resolve this pain point.
These aren't conflicting beliefs. It's perfectly reasonable to believe that JavaScript has an inadequate standard library and recognize that other ecosystems can have dependency issues.
The joke was maybe a date bug was written for women who calculated their age. The joker said they thought all girls would appreciate it. They said they didn't insult blondes. They said no one was hurt if the list was 100% male. I didn't see anywhere they said it was supposed to be about traditional chivalry. Even people who defended the joke linked it to a current stereotype. What made you think it was about traditional chivalry?
The Fb algorithm favors engagement and controversy to the point that most people may not even see reasonable takes on a given issue. They’re not neutral.
Thanks! SQL Notebook uses .NET 6 and a custom integration with SQLite. SQLite offers a few extension points, mainly virtual tables and custom functions, and SQL Notebook takes advantage of them to provide its added functionality.
Form Interaction Using SVG
Is it a Wayland compositor?

Does it support OpenGL ES?

Is it easy to port a simple C++ GTK app?

If the answer to all 3 of those is "yes" then one should be able to port Solvespace to this UI fairly easy (it's one source file per platform). You know, if you want a CAD program...
Housing First seemed to be working in Utah. They achieved 90% reduction in chronic homelessness.

A remarkably simple and cost-effective answer. Essentially it states “get people housing and then it’s way easier to treat the things making them homeless” plop someone in a home and then it’s easier to get medication to them and they stop showing up in the ER 4x a month. Get people housing and then you know where they are to check in on how dependency treatment is going. Psychiatric condition? Way easier to treat if they have a roof, heat, an address to send medication.
It is actually cheaper than just doing nothing and allowing people to remain homeless.

But then they stopped funding it in 2015.
“Man this remarkable looking approach stopped working!”
“Oh? When?”
“Right after we stopped funding it!”
“Huh, weird.”
On the other side, I find your comment, and all the other comments that originated from yours, very distracting to the point that I didn't care anymore about the book itself but only about writing this (annoying and distracting) comment.
I explored this a bit last year in a project for converting small snippets of RPG, COBOL, and FORTRAN to a punch card like format in https://github.com/barrettotte/punchit

https://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/ is a good tool for getting the basics of the punch card encoding scheme.

There's also a handful of people over at Hackaday that have made hardware for reading punch cards. Example: https://hackaday.com/2015/01/17/arduino-reads-punch-cards/
When HDMI 2.1 isn't HDMI 2.1 – the confusing world of the standard
Sea level rise in itself is a complicated subject. Some regions of the ocean see easily twice the global average of sea level rise, while other regions barely change (currents and winds have a large effect on sea level). On the coast this gets further complicated because the ground itself is also moving up or down (mostly due to settling, or century-long rebound from the loss of glaciers) [1].

I would assume ground water adds another layer of complexity since it also depends on local geography

1: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...
FB shows people what they want to see. They provided the public a channel to tune into what anyone has to say and it turned out that people sought out the village idiot.

Now the public says show me what I want, but prevent everyone else from seeing what they want.
Well, you wrote “a walled garden”, which could reasonably be interpreted as any walled garden in software generally.

But if we are charitable and limit ourselves to web site “walled gardens”, how do YouTube and Facebook, etc. justify their “oops, you clicked on an external link! If might lead anywhere! Are you really, really sure you want to continue?”, if security is not their argument?
Re: threat model

I am sure it is I considered. There was that one shooting at the YouTube, campus caused by precisely this.
> To further your point on the homeless: most of them aren't SF (or even Cali) locals

Yes, they are. SF’s own research on the homeless population identified that 70% lived in SF immediately before becoming homeless, 55% for over 10 years; the 30% who did not live in SF include 22% from elsewhere in CA and 8% from other states.

Migration and dumping from other states happens, but it's not the main source of homelessness.
That looks damn good!
It sounds like of 110 employees, 8 are dead and 8 are missing. That so many survived a direct hit by a massive and powerful tornado is a miracle.

Hitting any nearby trailer parks or houses on slabs would have seen a significantly higher death toll in comparison.

I live in the midwest and dont have a basement- geography and money dictates whether you do or whether you just have a surface level concrete slab.