skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Done right, automation increases the value created per labor hour. Which makes both UBI and humane jobs even more achievable. I'm all for it.
I don't think it'll happen in areas with wide geographic coverage, like the US, anytime soon.

Sure, 5G carriers salespeople will promise you the world, but if you actually bite, you'll see that a lot of it is just promises, at this time.

In the current scheme with relatively limited towers and tower backhaul, it's just not doable.

I think they'll need, at a minimum:

- Far more spectrum

- More microcells

- More backhaul
They have a product people want, unlike cable. This is market forces working as designed.
Some of the most expensive casinos (just the building) to build are:

Venetian Macau – $2.4 billion, Wynn Las Vegas – $2.7 billion, Resorts World Sentosa – $4.53 billion, Marina Bay Sands – $5.36 billion, CityCenter Las Vegas – $9 billion.

That already likely costs more than the combined electricity used by Bitcoin so far, if it doesn't you can easily reach trillions by combining the costs of just Casino buildings. Money roughly translates into resources, so I can't see a way in which the gambling industry hasn't consumed much more than Bitcoin as of right now. Maybe in a century if Bitcoin keeps going really strong it can start to catch up.

0. https://casino.partycasino.com/en/blog/the-most-expensive-ca...
This doesn't work reliably, because TLS gets implemented incorrectly and the trailing dot is not stripped from the SNI host (TLS not HTTP) header.

Curl has gone back and forth; dunno whether that is curl itself or the resolver libs. Firefox used to be broken, and may still be.

Apache used to almost blow chunks when it got one of these, and I filed a bug (https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58007); the chosen fix was to serve some "random" cert. Just tried it with an older version of FFX which I know is borked though and it did the right thing, so presumably something further has occurred since 2017.
> you're simultaneously buying and selling the same product in the same order book.

How's that even possible? Suppose the bid is at $95, the ask is at $105, and you receive a buy order for $100, you can't "simultaneously" sell that and make a profit.
Thanks for your suggestion, I will tackle this next, Thanks.
This sounds like good advice but the writer clearly has a lot more flexibility in their schedule than the average person.
Where does the money come from and how is using that money sustainable?
The answer is often "yesterday."
> Netflix is on the very fast downward slope

I don't think the data is proving this out at all. Streaming will probably be a winner-take-most market and Netflix is on track to remain the leader.

We'll see what total 2021 subscriber growth was on Thursday, but estimates for Q4 are still around a net addition of 8 million subscribers. Compare this with Disney Plus growth in the same period of 2 million subscribers and I think the results are quite favorable.

If you pay attention to the details, such as in earnings calls, executives have reported that average subscriber watch time has only been increasing over the past few quarters. (Also see refs such as: https://backlinko.com/netflix-users#time-spent-with-netflix)

Keeping in mind that Covid has slowed production of content, in 2021 Netflix still managed to create the two most watched movies _ever_ on the platform (Red Notice, Don't Look Up). There are follow-up seasons launching for at least three of their strongest series, including Witcher (released tail end of 2021), Bridgerton, and Stranger Things. Plus the regular spikes of culturally relevant content such as Squid Games, Cheer, etc. which now happen fairly often.

> is destroying the business model that made them so appealing in the first place

I'm not sure how you are inferring that the business model has been destroyed here. It's certainly evolving over time but the promise has always been 'pay us a monthly subscription and we'll give you lots of things to watch'. I don't see how that has changed meaningfully or negatively.

Netflix has had naysayers at every stage of its growth. The landscape is always changing but I believe the critical idea is that Netflix leads in streaming and this has only strengthened over time. Total subscribers, revenue per user, and watch hours per account are all drifting up, and I fail to see how that represents a downward slope.
And that's the beauty of it - it's a perfect filter, both ways.
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Imo, memory of other great figures and greatly influenced by politics. And often very intentionally, people using their names have agendas. That includes the three people you mentioned.
There's a hype cycle right now with the claim that Walmart is going to issue NFTs, or get into cryptocurrencies, or something.[1] Walmart is not saying that. They filed for a trademark for "WALMART" for the trademark class that includes cryptocurrencies. Which means only that WalMart, Inc. spent $400 to protect their brand name from someone creating "WalMartCoin". WalMart, asked for a statement, said they had no immediate plans in that area.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/16/22887011/walmart-metavers...
They don't have to cost a lot of money though. I've heard its getting to the points where its cheaper to shoot practical special effects like miniatures again than it is to contract out CGI work.
One thing fiat currencies have that is underrated: a legal system to handle special cases. Recently, an apparently Bitcoin-rich man named Mircea Propescu died without sharing his private key(s). Now that fortune is gone with no recourse for next of kin. Maybe this is OK and everyone is happy to lose the safety net. But what about fraud? Do you want to have to take up arms to get your money back from someone who stole from you?
The U in UBI stands for universal: everyone gets the same amount, regardless of whether they have a job. Taking a job is additive with UBI, there is no "significantly less money".

Under UBI, a government could do away with minimum wage completely because there is no coercion by necessity. The employer only needs to pay enough to make it worthwhile for the employee to show up.
I would love to know what democracy you live in where nobody is ever upset by democratic decisions.
It's not completely nonsensical. The new whisky even from the same distillery won't taste quite the same, due to variations in climate and so on. The old and increasingly rare one isn't trivially replaceable, so if has a reputation of being especially good it can gain value. Even more so when the original distillery isn't in business anymore.

On top of that, the popularity of good whisky has increased a lot over the past few decades, and the higher age statements haven't been able to keep up.
There’s a certain way in which a cube “feels sharper” or “feels spikier” than a square. Trying to formalize that, you can compare the edge of a 3d box where two faces meet to the point where three faces meet. I’d rather step on the two-face edge than the three-face corner, and there’s definitely a sense in which the cube is spikier.

It seems reasonable to extend that same intuition to n-D sharpness/spikiness in an accurate way. Adding an extra “face” just chops more off making those vertices sharper and sharper, at least relative to the high dimensional space around it.
If you're talking about woolly mammoth DNA [0], that's around 10,000 years old.

This mosquito is around 50 million years old. The DNA in its belly is too degraded. Restoration ain't gonna happen.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2021/09/14/1036884561/dna-resurrection-j...
I used to run a "catch all" e-mail where everything sent to that domain went into my mailbox. I had to stop because I received something like 20 e-mails per second that had to be filtered. There are also a lot of honeypots e-mail addresses and any mail server sending mail there will be put on a spam-list.
sure, 2 USD, bring it on
I really doubt Tesla would survive very long in that state. Stock will crash, public opinion will sour, employees will quit etc. very quickly.
You can persist the Store to local or session storage (in a browser), to a file (where available) or to a remote server. More on the concept of 'Persisters' is in https://tinybase.org/guides/schemas-and-persistence/persisti...

You can see this in action in the TinyDraw demo: https://tinybase.org/demos/tinydraw - make some changes, refresh the page, even open it up in two windows of the same browser at the same time.
Twitter is an endless firehose of new impressions, for the users that want that and RSS just bottoms out, you can mark everything as read and "beg for more". It's too relevant and doesn't add random new stuff. The info-addicted brain (I have some of that, unfortunately) is rewarded by twitter.
What about them? Comparatively enjoyable jobs will pay less, horrible jobs will pay more.

Want to “work” as a golfer? Cool, enjoy living on UBI because no one will be topping up your salary for that. The person who cuts the greens earns wayyyy more than you though. Want to play lots of golf? You’re going to run out of UBI to pay for all those greens fees. Maybe you need to think about taking on a side gig in a comfortable back office worker role (salary $1k/year), or a refuse collector (salary $130k/year).
I personally don't value nfts highly but I'm in a circle with lots of rich crypto early adopters - they absolutely would pay $100k for a bored ape and would consider it a bargain. It's a real status symbol, just in a niche you don't understand.

I feel the same way about $100k Patel Phillipe watches but I don't hear everyone talking about how those are only wash trades

The platforms where these nfts are sold usually charge 1-2% commission which is expensive for a wash trade
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Good point. Inflation will make UBI kind of pointless.
>Sorry, but the first one is not obviously good, it's just what you're used to (the second one is indeed bad).

The first one is good because its what most people are used too - there's little that can be objectively said about notation once you reach a big enough audience. I could invent a word editor that produced documents from top to bottom rather then left to right and I could invent a million reasons what it's better, but that hardly matters.

Personally I don't think Polish notation is all that revolutionary for humans, it's just easier for computers; however just like anything else the human brain is quite malleable, and if you spend a year doing equations in polish notation you will come to prefer it.
Obviously, receiving free money is better than not receiving free money. There's nothing surprising about that. The question is where this money will come from. You can't support universal basic income from casinos or oil wealth, both of which have major negative externalities to boot.
Sadly the feature to filter out apps that have ads or in app purchases does not exist. Probably on purpose.

There are many utility apps with thousand of similar apps, most are garbage filled with ads but then there are a few made without app upselling or ads but until you find those you send a lot of time.
Solve Wordle using the Linux command line
> What is the bull case for $USD? What properties does it have that make it superior to currencies like $BTC in your opinion?

That I can spend USD in just about any shop or for any transaction, legal or not. While crypto "currencies"? I'd say: not so much.
Yes, very good observations.

The network affects are at play here too. Influencers who cover crypto projects begin skewing younger and younger are filling in documentation and awareness far far better than any developer would.
Someone that understands crypto second to none but acts like he does not while delivering incredible content: https://twitter.com/cobie

This guy is a bull market genius who is also a master shitposter. Much, if not all of his content is moronic, but this sort of content is posted ironically but then becomes part of the in-jokes people mistake for talent. Toxic.
Any plans for Latex by any chance?
That is one sentence from that speech. The speech has many more ideas in it.
Detailed map of Europe in 1236 a.d
I think what it would do is balance the power a little toward an employee’s favor instead of a customer. Right now there are people that have no choice but to work these jobs. So a company can institute a “customer is always right” policy because it keeps the customer around and they really don’t have to consider their employees feelings- they are easily replaced. Customers only act like assholes because they can get away with it- abuse the clerk, the manager comes out, customer gets free stuff. But if there was a basic income there might be fewer people willing to put up with abusive customers. If a company has a hard time replacing employees then it might have to reconsider their policy to be more like “accommodate reasonable customers but abusive customers can be kicked out.” This would probably happen over time, not immediately after implementing a basic income but I think it’s a good thing.

But I think the overall idea that companies would have to put a little more effort into their employee’s well being would be borne out if a country could commit to a basic income for long enough for the effects to shake out.

This is good behavior that companies would be forced into, not because of morals like respects and dignity, but because a mass exodus of employees would eventually hurt profits more than keeping unreasonable customers around.
Sure its CW, but my point was that any possible blocking of virus particles would be completely incidental/accidental, and because the mask is not effective at all at stopping those particles due to their size and weave of the cloth, anything incidentally blocked would not necessarily be blocked again but could still pass through even if you were no longer exposed to the initial source.

If you can point me to a peer reviewed study extolling the virtues of cloth masking, I’ll read it. But pretty much all of the positive masking studies with any real statistical benefit of protection seem to be centered around n95 or surgical masks—worn correctly and disposed of after one use.
No one questioned whether data is more important, only the statement regarding "being surprised if there is any useful code older than 20 years".
There’s a PBS made for TV movie about this story too, don’t know if it can still be found on streaming:

https://imdb.com/title/tt0308449/
No ads, so it’s still much better than cable to me.
Graphviz has really helped me in the past with troubleshooting giant CMake projects with lots of dependencies.
I have an idea of how to keep control of interrupts without needing all the complexity of V86 mode: relocate the IVT!

On 286 and above, the interrupt vectors always start at the address in the IDTR (interrupt descriptor table register), even in real mode. Intel did of course not document that :)

If you do this, you can handle any interrupts you want directly, or "reflect" them to the handler installed by the DOS program. A fast technique for doing this takes advantage of segment:offset alias addresses to use the CS register as a pointer to the old interrupt vector:

reflect_int:
; come from our IVT with CS bits 10..2 = interrupt number
; flags, CS and IP on stack and will remain there
sub sp,2 ;reserve space for return segment
push bx ;will become return offset
mov bx,cs
and bh,3 ;clear high bits, BX now offset into IVT
push bp
push ds
xor bp,bp
mov ds,bp ;DS:BX => vector
lds bx,[bx] ;fetch vector
mov bp,sp
mov [bp+6],ds ;store segment
xchg [bp+4],bx ;store offset / load old BX
pop ds
pop bp
retf ;return to actual handler
Good point about the child care.

But I disagree with your comment on the second point. As I said, I'm all for welfare/assistance given generously to those in need, but that's different from funding non-working lifestyle of those who have good working options and simply don't want to work.

Some part of UBI might overlap with the welfare part, but it's going to significantly increase the number of people who don't work just because - and it's not fair to fund that from the money made by those who work, and especially not fair to take it from those who must work because UBI is not enough in their situation.

UBI could be funded from sources like sovereign funds - why not. But let's not take money from people who need it just so a group of people can quit their job. Classic welfare at least says that those who receive it need it more that the person that pays.
A relatively quick way to test that theory might be to pull down a WSL2 image of some sort and run the same thing in there.

Speaking as somebody who mostly codes for *n?x but has some windows users of their libraries, I've run face first into "everything I know about build optimisation is inapplicable on windows" more than once.

('everything' is admittedly slightly hyperbolic but I'm sufficiently bad at windows tooling that it always feels that way)
This is why I focused on ideas, not speeches.
Isn't a casino with no addicts just an arcade? I'm not sure what your point is, though. The addicts are pretty inextricable.
I kind of think the lynchpin might be that a company can make lots of money by selling things in the US? Then they have to decide what to do with the earnings.

Maybe compare with US tech companies that have lots of overseas earnings. They don't necessarily have a better idea about where to invest the money. It's not like there is a plan to earn money in a certain country to achieve some other goal. It's that making money is good and figuring out what to do with it is a nice problem to have.
Ah, so you are saying we shouldn’t offer UBI because then we would have no excuse to keep degrading conditions in the workplace. So people should have to go through with bad experiences (see retail, “menial” jobs) in order to be worthy of their lives. Ok, got it.
Dividends are worthless.

Stocks go down every time they give out dividends so you never really make anything. And you will never beat inflation with dividends.

Dividend investing is stuff of 1980's folklore. These days it's all about modelling and executing on hype. We're entering an era where hype is intrinsic value. I'm not advocating for a world like that, but it's the world we live in now whether we like it or not.
You're not wrong and it's not all bad. There are so very many useful technological advances though that spending. It still reads like an ad to me, which is weird when it's BBC
On one hand, you say that fewer people working reduces the pie. On the other hand, you say we should encourage automation. What situation would enable full automation and enable 100% workforce participation?
Doesn't Denmark have a normal European style "Conditional" welfare system? That has very different dynamics from an UnConditional basic income.

Often the way that welfare is implemented is that if you can't work, you get welfare. This seems like a really obvious, logical, good idea. But there's a trap (a welfare trap!). Because on the other side, when you start working again, you stop getting welfare. And your net income might actually go down.

A rational actor might therefore end up stuck in this local optimum where they stay on welfare and never start working.

One argument for UBI is that it eliminates the drop in income associated with the return to work (because you get it unconditionally: whether you are working or not) . A theoretical prediction might therefore be that more people would work if UBI is available.

In practical tests so far this doesn't seem to have quite panned out. This is due to UBI having multiple effects simultaneously. However, I would be most amused to see if in some situations this does became the dominant effect, and the number of working people went up.
UBI is taxable income. You just adjust tax rates slightly to claw it back from those with higher incomes. No extra bureaucracy required, no means testing needed.
Looks like a European university. Would love to see that same study done on the U.S. population...
These names don't sound real. They are to 'on point' in dutch. Poletiek is one letter off the dutch world for politics. And "de Kwaadsteniet" literrally means "not the worst" or more like "a decent dude".

I get the feeling this is an experiment, though I would expect better of a university like Leiden.
It’s not exactly what you’re asking for, but this Twitter thread from Stephen Troughton-Smith has screenshots of several stock OS X apps as they changed from NeXT/OpenSTEP → Rhapsody/OS X Server → Developer Previews → Public Beta → final release.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1125050952506052609.html
> I see stuff in the GNOME tracker that boil my blood, I become angry even when now, thinking about it.

Here's one affecting me recently, When the app on another workspace is closed and the workspace is switched, it crashes GNOME shell. I found that there have been several bug reports raised regarding issue[1].

The oldest related bug report was opened in upstream Ubuntu launchpad a year ago. Granted this is relatively small period compared to some other bugs.

Yet this bug affects me regularly(I guess it has to do with trackpad) and no workspace until it can be fixed. So I'm planning to create a debugging setup to contribute towards resolving this issue.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4801
Euclidian distance works well in 2D and 3D as special cases. I would say Mahalanobis distance is its generalization (yes, built on top of it), which works better in the multidimensional (multivariate) case.
Do they have extra features? The kind of stuff that used to come on DVDs?
Correct - you know your AWS launch history!
Awesome! Do you support locks/rollback or conflict detection? If not is it planned?
Disclaimer: I've never quit or been laid off (except when the whole thing closed up).

I'd quit if "things turned sour", that depends the mood, the interpersonal relationships, my own sense of feeling good about the situation at work.

I know some people are very worried about "falling behind", and they may be right, I don't know, I explore stuff that interests me, I do that either on my own time, or I find some excuse to do it at work (metaprogramming, refactoring, internal or personal tool building, are examples where you can do whatever you want).
If you are interested in crypto, you should consider to study mathematics instead of CS or software engineering.

I don't know if "smart contract developer" is going to be a thing in the future, but I can guarantee that you'll never have difficulty finding a job if you study maths (or any engineering subject) and are good at programming.
Well it was really just a fancy external drive. It's more because of macOS happily booting from any kind of external device that makes this happen.
If the people who need your help don’t want it, it’s time to leave.

That
There are networks that operate on low budgets. But Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Disney, etc. aren't spending hundreds of millions of shows out of generosity to artists.
> ANY open debate of the past horrors of racism, discrimination, or slavery.

This is not true. The disputed interventions generally prohibit racially divisive ideologies, or claims that racial divisiveness is somehow "natural and inevitable", or that the United States is "inherently founded" as a country on racism or racial divisiveness.

A claim that one cannot "open[ly] debate... the past horrors of racism, discrimination, or slavery" without espousing these ludicrous ideas is simply baseless.
The first time I read it I could not put it down. Incredible book.
All right, fair enough. But I’m not sure this was always the case on traditional Unixes, though.
Maybe that you can buy bread with USD, or a house, or a car, or pay rent, or insurance, or gas, a coke on a vending machine, or stocks, or... well there are a lot of things you can do with USD that you cannot do with BTC right now.
The industrial revolution replaced a smaller number of high (kind of) skilled jobs with a large number of low skilled jobs. This time it seems that it's the other way around.