skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UBI is some entitled bullshit. In practically all developed countries, there are already people that are payed less and that don't get the same social benefits as the rest of us. We have all seen them: legal and illegal immigrants. Those are the folks picking your vegetables, building your houses, butchering your meat and cleaning your airports. Not to mention the folks still in China, Bangladesh and Vietnam producing your clothes and putting together your iPhones...

Will those folks get UBI too?
I'm concerned by #3 "Nothing works the way you would naively think it works (for better and for worse)" which seems to imply that all or most of life sciences is funded by the NIH. What % of life sciences funding comes from the NIH and what are the other big sources?
Then we'll need a new word for "company" as it's meant today

Already ahead of you: a one-person company is called a ZZP'er here in NL. ZZP = zelfstandige zonder personeel == self-employed without employees.
What resources do people here recommend to learn Mac OS development?
Do you mean The Morning Show? The Newsroom was an HBO series that ran for 3 seasons from 2012-2014.
> It seems pretty hard to me to look at charts of inflation, income inequality, and quantitative easing and compare them to stock market values

You should have seen what the altanartive charts looked like.
The documentation you quote directly contradicts my own experience with installing from an untouched ISO, where I had to open Regedit during setup to bypass the TPM check. Maybe they spun new ISOs because of the blowback?
All I ever hear about this Zig is how much harder everything is. What's the point of Zig? What does it do better?
feels like a 'platform' that should be a file format. their github seems to just have a kube cluster and some specializations to binder (jupyter server) and ckeditor (rich text), plus an account management tool called conductor.

fwiw if someone were ever trying to launch a social network on the back of jupyter 2022 would be the time. nascent GAN art movement seems to be a jupyter swap movement at this point.
Glad to see there's more than one of us out there.

> I cannot help feeling like programming languages and idioms have me deal with too much 'mechanism'

Absolutely. Most "best practices" represent a lot of noise that gets in between me and solving my problem. My latest prototypes have been reduced to using static classes/methods in virtually all areas. Getting everything out of the way is so important. When data is king, your code can turn into this ultra-utilitarian apparatus.

I've had partial success writing code generators that can output supporting infrastructure models/code based upon my SQL table definitions. Assuming those generators are well-tested, high-quality code supporting a schema of arbitrary complexity could be produced instantly.
That's basically right for passwords.

Of course, if we impose password complexity requirements (e.g. must have a digit or an uppercase letter), it actually reduces the entropy in the password!
> Comparatively enjoyable jobs will pay less, horrible jobs will pay more.

Why? Golfing is a poor example because you can already lose money trying to be a pro. Or, you could become world famous and make millions. What's more is that you don't need to be "hired" to become a golfer.

When we talk about jobs that firms pay salaries to fill, then I don't see why the supply of those jobs would change, whether they're enjoyable or horrible. Since the supply would still be in the same ratio as before basic income, I'd think that doctors would still make more than the hospital janitors, even though the janitors would make more than before on a nominal basis.
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This is exactly why I both love and hate CI/CD.

Ultimately most CI/CD setups are basically systems administrators with privileged access to everything, network connected and running 24/7. It's pretty dangerous stuff.

I don't have an answer though, expect maybe to keep the CI and CD in separate, isolated instances that require manual intervention to bridge the gap on a case by case basis. That doesn't scale very well though.
A little browsing around wigle.net brings me to a page listing SSIDs and manufacturers: https://wigle.net/stats#ssidstats

xfinitywifi is the top, with 2% of the routers seen having that name; it's followed by XFINITY (.73%), BTWiFi-with-FON (.38%), linksys (.37%), BTWifi-X (.35%), <no ssid> (.31%). The next one is AndroidAP at .28% and that feels like a good place to stop copying data, go look at the page if you wanna see more of the world's generic SSIDs. Basically "manufacturer name" and "internet provider name" dominate.
> In any case, I freely concede that HBO Max probably does have a higher-quality backlog of content overall – my main point is that a simpler interface can actually make up for lack of content in some cases.

I agree with you there. I find the interface for HBO Max really frustrating.

Also, discoverability is a problem. On Netflix if I do a search for something, I can usually feel ahead of time "in my bones" when the search won't return a result. I think this is because Netflix does a decent job of advertising its niche of content. However, on HBO Max I was actually surprised that Tenet was available on there. I still don't have a good sense of exactly how deep their catalog is.
Also, I think we've all seen the reddit threads about someone standing up to a rude customer and not getting fired. Those employers exist and seemingly are operating their businesses at a profit.

Hell, we have professions now that demand respect (cops) and magically, the vast majority of the population seems to be able to grow up and not act like a child when confronted with an undesirable situation.

I don't think anyone in retail is asking for an undo burden by the rest of society when demanding humane treatment in their workplace.
These studies don't tell us much, because participants always know they will get the basic income for a limited time only. So any behavior changes that occur or don't occur are not representative.
"It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart."

--Ulysses Everett McGill
That sounds awesome to me, but if they were going to do that the cost of submitting an Android app (or the % take by Google on sale) would have to sky rocket to make it worth it. As someone who rejoices in small developers, I would hate to see that.

I think it's ok to do automated review for round 1, but I would like to see a human field appeals. Over time I would also think that will help find edge cases and cracks in the automation so that it can be further improved.

Edit: Based on other comments here, it sounds like that may be what Google is starting to do
Hey I think I used that! That's about 10 years late, but thank you!
I run Boinc connected to Science United which allows me to pick/prioritize domain of interest and it handles of the heavy lifting of getting tasks, running and uploading the results. It has been a install and forget experience with currently a small 3300 days of CPU contributed.
UBI however would mostly transfer this cost to high-income earners (if financed through taxation) or capital owners (if financed by debt/printing money). Basically it's just a form of progressive taxation with a large safety need (without a means test) at the bottom, which would function as a mechanism to decrease inequality (which some economists believe negatively affects economic growth). Also another factor (and I'm personally not fully convinced on this) is that it would would actually result in higher overall productivity longterm by giving more people the opportunity to invest their time into gaining new skills etc.
i.e. > just with the quality of the result and with who reaped the rewards.

Maybe we should leave terms like capitalism and socialism out of the discussion because no one can agree on their meanings so they just become fighting words and their usefulness to the conversations are less than meaningless.
I am distracted with the example provided in the post. I am pretty sure that most pandas users will just put course_ids on the columns. I mean the shape of the user_courses dataframe is not suitable for the task.

(user_courses
.set_index(["student_id",
"course_id"])
.unstack()
.apply(lambda x: x+1))
What the actual fuuuck. Tried searching just a dot and I got a fish cutting video, an indian woman being slapped around, and some creepy horror doll shit.
Changing the license would be just as “rebellious” and it wouldn’t have hurt anyone. It also would have drastically increased his chances of getting paid. Given his bomb making activities, I feel that this was more of an excuse to watch the world burn.
Yes, if that's not what you want to be judged on. When you publicly self identify as something, you are signaling to the world that that is the most relevant lens to view you through.
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I didn’t just get you, I dunked on you. If your neighbor says he has more trouble losing weight than other people controlling for calories and exercise, this is very plausible. And it certainly isn’t outside the realm of physical law.
That works, too!
Love this explanation, visualizing corner vs centre is intuitive in a way higher dimensions usually aren't.
I guess it would have to. And that's precisely where the true horror lies in such an idea.
Latest word is that they think that the service is worth more without ads, than with ads.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/22/netflix-is-still-saying-no...
https://extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/html/g1490/buil...
Why would we want to foster a society where the majority are slackers?
This makes me remember working in a grocery store as a kid where people would buy steak with their WIC and food stamps that might fill one or two meals. Could it go much farther by buying different things? Of course, but that wasn't as enjoyable, so consequences fall where they must. My worry with UBI is that unless people's choices are removed through a tangled web of attached strings and reporting, the UBI is going to be spent on non-essentials shortly after funds are made available each period and then the story will turn to needing more money as the first UBI isn't enough. The cynic in me says that UBI will just give more money to people without the capacity for managing their money, which is not going to lead to any improvement in their station, only more consuming. Removing the choices just further destroys a free society, but enables waste on a massive scale. I like a good safety net with job training programs should people fall down, but I have about as much hope in being able to dunk as I do that people will suddenly start making good choices when unearned money appears in their wallets each month.
When not all banks supported Apple Pay here in Australia I would occasionally have people quite interested in paying with their phone after seeing me do it or hearing me talk about not carrying a wallet. I'd direct them to the two neobanks I use and told them they could be paying with their phone in two minutes. All lost interest.
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It was in the middle of the 64bit transition, as well.
I take advantage of the post to ask.

Anyone has a good introduction to trading for engineers/mathematicians/programmers?

Something that goes into the theorics and the math of the thing. Like an MIT open course or something. I'm always a bit lost with these things.
Yes, it was a design choice made in the early 1970's before public key cryptography was even invented. And that's why it's broken and always will be. This is why email needs to go away completely.

But then again, there are still laws on the books saying the only way to securely transmit a document is by fax machine. So even if somebody reinvents a backwards compatible email system tomorrow that solves all the problems, people will be to afraid to use it.
I think the most popular online textbook platform by far is Libgen ;)
> They'll still make plenty of money.

How much is "plenty" and who gets to decide? What if they live in high CoL area? You propose they should sponsor someone else's leisure time instead of buying a house for their family, for example?
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If there was an option in the settings menu to disable this, would you be worried about your mother and father finding it and changing it from the (safe) default?
You make accepting UBI optional, so if the $1,000 per month or existing services is better for your situation then you get to decide - not the government; e.g. maybe you have 6 kids and food stamps etc you get is way better than the $1,000/month. This way there is also a statistics dashboard that we can see who's choosing what and optimize more precisely.

You force corporations to pay, to not be able to avoid taxes - using a VAT that's customizable so things like diapers have say 0% tax vs. buying ads on Facebook has 80% tax. The nuanced ability to lever different goods and services allows tax to be fine-tuned to cover all costs until the floor quality of life is covered/existing for all.

We can supply everything 90%+ of what people need through automation, the remaining 10% or less will be the engineers and system and machine designers and maintainers - while the 90%+ can focus self-improvement/education, family/community and being creative/artistic etc.
It's advocacy, not experimentation. That applies to most of the more in depth studies too, which tend to spend a lot of time and money concluding if you give a cohort extra money for a year or two, they're a bit better off as a result but haven't been able to afford to retire, something the study designers knew from the outset. We have another much larger and long running experiment in guaranteeing people livable incomes for the rest of their life called the pension system, which designers of UBI studies would like you to ignore because it only works by restricting when you're allowed to claim it.
If you own literally all of the stock in Tesla... how could the stock crash? There's no stock being traded for its value to change.

Of note, there are examples in the past of companies going private without falling apart--Dell is the most notable example I can think of off the top of my head.
> Almost all of my home screen in Netflix is foreign language shows because that’s what’s good on Netflix.

Yeah, same here. I've watched an obscene amount of kdramas and they are adding new ones all the time.
> like confidently predicting the end of COVID by April 2020.

I'm guessing you are referring to this Tweet, which indeed was very wrong "Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April": https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960

But other than that, I would say he's been ~90% right about COVID. Much more accurate than our main media organizations.

This hit piece on Forbes lists 5 times he was wrong, but in fact he was right in 4 out of 5 of those, https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/03/13/elon-musks-...
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Do you know how many people stopped working when automation began?
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This is just leaking the names of indexdb databases, right? Like, it's a particularly useful fingerprinting technique. It's not dumping your history or anything?
> Don't accept less than your current salary. But do it.

I've accepted a lower salary a few times to move on from an org to a better work life balance. Usually it involves moving away from NYC companies. Salary shouldn't be the singular reason for not accepting a position if it's competitive.
Haha, we might all die on this tired exploited rock from heat death before that
Where are these people? The benefits ended a couple of months ago.
Depends on the factory and what you're doing there. Last time I worked in a factory I was debugging printer-eating robots, shooting high powered lasers at things, and blowing stuff around with blasts of compressed air. (And I got to program all those things).

You haven't really debugged things until your tests involve forklifts and 10t cranes. O:-)
>But I think someone could make the case that the 80’s have just become the permanent retro decade, and that everything since 2000 has been subsumed into a sort of “infinite present”.

As if we lived in the Matrix.
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> My spouse worked for the state government as part of a benefits/disbursement program. She took phone calls from benefits recipients. Some who are disabled, on unemployment, or generally within the states bar to qualify for tax payer aid.
> The pay was slightly above minimum wage. My spouse quit after about a year, during which my souse constantly suffered from verbal abuse and even callers who didn’t qualify threatening to murder my spouse unless they received cash from the state.

This feels like a particularly unfair anecdote in the context of what we're talking about. Imagine for a second that the tables were turned and your spouse was disabled and unable to work: Everything is harder – they can't leave the house without someone to give them a ride; maybe they have to use a wheelchair, which makes everything twice as difficult. They're in survival mode every day.

Not only do they rely on the state for money to eat, to pay rent, to keep the lights on, but doing anything enjoyable is challenging. They have to navigate a byzantine system that is DESIGNED to make qualifying for support extremely frustrating, and then have to stay on top of getting their benefits regularly. The system has literally trained them to react to any issue with anger because they know that whenever a problem occurs, it could be weeks or months until they get the money they need to survive.

I'm not saying that your spouse's experience was justified in any way – dealing with that requires a hell of a lot more than minimum wage! – but (theoretically) this particular problem would go away with something like basic income, where most of these people would have their basic costs covered. They might still have "disability" to help pay for all the other stuff disabled people have to deal with, but at least they aren't relying on a sclerotic bureaucracy to eat, yunno?
And would we say Saint Francis instead of San Francisco? Holy Cross instead of Santa Cruz? At the Great Hill instead of Massachussetts?
Small businesses want EU to get tough on Google and FB’s invasive advertising
A NASA scientist accidentally invented the Super Soaker
Upvoted for using perf tests
Including the workarounds Go has gone through due to lack of generics, e.g. sync.Map.
If I had a guaranteed income that allowed me to meaningfully exist and only occasionally work so as to earn enough whenever I wanted to make larger expenses, AND society could more or less ensure that, then yeah, I would probably consider working less if someone is going to pay me to live.

Also enhanced unemployment during the COVID-19 pandemic basically proved nationwide that it would create pockets of the economy where people would literally just not work because you would earn more versus going back to work.

Wouldn't you do the same if your unemployment exceeded current market software engineer rates and any rate people offered you in the market? I would. I definitely would. I would work on my own projects while being funded by the state.

Isn't this something you could just ask people?
> 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.

I don't really know if that's worth worrying about. We're not living in a subsistence economy where if someone isn't carrying their weight the whole tribe dies. I think it's perfectly acceptable to have a certain amount of non-participatory portion of the population, we should make sure it doesn't get to the point of unsustainability but trying to police absolutely everyone in society is a recipe for disaster.

> But let's not take money from people who need it just so a group of people can quit their job.

The people who need that money aren't going to bear the majority of the burden - when you get down into the range of poverty wages people are already exempt for non-transactional taxation and end up receiving more money than they pay. I don't think it's fair to paint any new expenditure as "But how will the poor bear this cost" - when, in the end, the middle and upper classes are where we look to for funding.

The 1980s perpetuated the idea of a "welfare queen" that we should all be really mad at - there are folks that take advantage of the system but it's such a small cost that, honestly, whatever. Most people can't enjoy that kind of a lifestyle so if a few people get to live content lives that would otherwise be ground into the dust I'm perfectly happy for them.
Developers only put up with the curated app store because it's the only option. If there was an alternative, major companies would mostly choose to bypass the app store, leaving it a barren wasteland like the Mac app store.

If Apple allowed sideloading but went out of their way to make it obnoxious enough that everything which could be would still go through the app store, you'd just have all of the exact same complaints about how Apple is deliberately making things painful for users.
Uhhh, wrong thread? I think you might be meaning to be over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29965239
Other than pricing and being able to write without an account, what would you say is the biggest difference between this and Notabase?

Has anything with the format changed since the fork that would prevent people from moving data between them?
Take payments in crypto instead of cash.
> I think it's sort of unfair to reduce the whole argument to a one-liner like that.

My answers had a commensurate level of respect to the questions.
I've used the noise cancelling feature on my Airpod Pros on both iPhone and Android, so I'd assume that the processing is handled by the headphones themselves.
> Zig is basically C with a fancy type system, so you should not expect things like special String types,

If I can't have nice strings, what should I be expecting from a fancy type system?
Why does someone need to be a "developer" to be highly-competent at authoring SQL?
I'll take the clunkiness of SQL over the clunkiness of Mongo's json-based query language any day.
The author also has a long history of working at many places that aren't defense contractors, and a great book on working with large legacy systems (read: Cobol, mainframes, et al but relevant to all developers) https://www.amazon.ca/Kill-Fire-Manage-Computer-Systems/dp/1...
Frank Miller's fun. The way a lot of things are fun but I wouldn't go around pretending he's something he's not.

This is one step past taking knock knock jokes seriously.
I work for a company with around 50k machines globally... one time we discovered a machine that was supposed to have been decommissioned five years prior still sitting on the network, just waiting to do its job. We ended up scanning our entire IP space and finding 10-20 other machines in the same state.

We now have a process that routinely scans our entire IP space for machines that somehow get lost from our inventory system.
Last year’s APF dividend was $1100. That’s a figure for the whole year, not monthly. Food stamps pay more than that.
It seems to me what people are complaining about isn't the false positives, its the fact that there aren't proper channels to address the issues - and your basically a hostage till someone at Google decides to take pity and talk to you.