skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the best Frank Miller Story is his Daredevil Born Again story arc. It has a great and very motivational story (I don't wont to tell much) and excellent drawings by D. Mazzucchelli. This story is on my top 2 comics ever along with Alan Moore's Watchmen.
> If my job requires menial labor or involves getting berated by customers (many retail jobs), personally I would absolutely not work.

Having worked in a factory, there's no way I'd do that for free. Heck, even at my current salary, which is multiple times higher, I wouldn't want to do that again.
Yeah and after all, the world's poker chip factories consume the same amount of energy as Argentina so it's an apt comparison.
After the CI system (with network access) pulls down the code, including submodules, this code is then placed into a container with no network access to perform the actual build.
It made an appearance in the 2021 series around the world in 80 days

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_80_Days_...
Rewatching Xfiles on Disney+ to my personal taste the show is so much better than a lot of current shows.
Or maybe Slirp:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slirp
I’m dealing with this infinite loop chatbot with Verizon right now haha. My number port to become a Verizon customer was supposed to take 4-24 hours. Ten days later still nothing. Chatbot asks me for topics to help with, put in my number but it’s not a Verizon number (it’s mid port) so they recommend I register, I try to register and I cannot because my number isn’t a Verizon number, so back to the chatbot about my problem, they need me to login for further help, but I can’t login without a Verizon number… ad infinitum. It’s maddening and have tried several times to get on the phone with a customer service human being, but after 90 minutes on hold several times nothing.

So I’m in this weird limbo that I think could be solved by a customer rep chat in minutes.

Just an example of automated chatbots being only programmed for a couple common situations and not things like, “I’m a pseudo Verizon customer who is receiving bills but has no phone number with Verizon.”
Cold-case investigation names surprise suspect in Anne Frank's betrayal
Good thing there would be UBI then?
We just lived through a basic income experiment in the US during 2021 (American rescue plan, rent moratoriums, ...), and it showed indeed that willingness to work greatly decreased.
> Environment variables are a dangerous place to store secrets - they're global to the process and therefor easy to leak.

The two real problems with environment variables are:

1. Environment variables are traditionally readable by any other process in the system. There are settings you can do on modern kernels to turn this off, but how do you know that you will always run on such a system?

2. Environment variables are inherited to all subprocesses by default, unless you either unset them after you fork() (but before you exec()), or if you take special care to use execve() (or similar) function to provide your own custom-made environment for the new process.
I didn’t suggest there was a global over-abundance. I’m suggesting that distribution logistics and business models don’t mean leftover vaccines end up going to Africa.

Go get vaccinated if you can. For so many reasons that are very well documented.
> It’s really, really weird, this mass hallucination going on.

Honestly, all things considered, it's not that weird.
There’s little use arguing that point with parent, because he was summarizing Stephenson rather than postulating anything.
hmm. it might be a bit more subtle than that - if you were to own all 21 million bitcoin (i.e, nothing can be mined or otherwise created), it’d pose an existential crisis for the currency. miners would have no reason to mine, transactions on the small scale couldn’t happen, etc.

at the very least i expect other coins would pop up with a different genesis block. or maybe some form of hard fork (again, i might add).

owning them all might be problematic. 99% might not be.

that said, i don’t think it can be done for >100 years yet..
> Instead of adding an infinite loop to purposely sabotage other projects, he should have either walked away or changed the license for future versions of faker into a much more restricted one

Then from the context, you can clearly read the comment you responded to did not mention that Makar needed to do anything for him specifically.
That looks pretty amazing on the GBA lol. I played a LOT of Gameboy as it was the only system we could afford as a kid. I would've loved to play a game that looked like this. Most games were just side scrollers.
Speaking as someone who has worked in a factory, you couldn't pay me a six figure salary to go back. And most of the things were automated already, at least as much as reasonably could be.
Turning your example around: if those teens were to receive UBI and McDonalds could hire them for only $3/hour instead of having to pay them full wage, some of the self-service kiosks might not have appeared, and the customers might have encountered better motivated workers?
It may increase their willingness to invest and day-trade so they don't have to work.
Just to be clear (and you might have read it this way) - I meant that people you know, who have you in their contacts, have installed apps on their phones which pulled in all their contacts and that meant the app got your contact info from them. I'm 99% certain that's where the sites I buy my data get theirs. One of the sites won't even let me log in without giving up all my contacts, but I have a $15 phone on Boost with zero contacts on it to use in these kind of scummy scenarios.
They can only do that if they collude, which is illegal. On the other hand, if food and rent are paid for mostly with UBI money, and supply was more elastic than demand, then prices would surely increase.
I really enjoy research like this and I can't put my finger on why. I don't think I'd have the same interest in a study about a particular decision - like whether people are happier or not after they've had children.

There's something about simple studies about long term/life altering decisions that appeals to me. I get the same feeling from reading this and reading 80,000 hours [0].

[0] https://80000hours.org/
Return of the flu: EU faces threat of prolonged 'twindemic'
I've got the opposite problem - I get almost no spam to my inbox but regularly get legitimate emails routed to my spam folder, so I have to treat my spam folder like a second inbox anyway.
No, UBI does not spawn new people to life.
> bouncing increases the chance I'm becoming part of a back-scatter issue

Bouncing doesn't cause backscatter, provided it's a real bounce; that means a bounce that is a rejection by your mailserver, performed during the SMTP transaction. The message commonly known as a "bounce message" is technically known as a delivery status notification. The actual bounce message is composed by the sender's mailserver, and can't cause backscatter.

Basically, a bounce sent after the SMTP server has said "Message accepted for delivery" is a bogus bounce, and causes backscatter. Sending bogus bounces is a reprehensible practice (and quite useless).
All of them were the right choice for their time though. Especially early iPhone and its skeuomorphic design taught (practically) the whole world how to use a touch interface with buttons, lists etc. and it looked great for the time. Similar for old Macs too. Then flat design, IMO, cleaned up the general UI after teaching it.
Weren't eels usually boiled or steamed?
There were many anecdotes from employers complaining about unemployment benefits, but the systematic data collection gave mixed evidence. I concluded the impact varied across industries.
One of the more wild things I learned in the past year came from a reasonable explanation for something I have observed for years: why is Venmo vs Cash App so radically split among racial lines? Because, to some order of approximation, they are, and I would bet many people reading this comment can reconcile this with their own experiences.

The explanation as it was described to me (though I have a difficult time verifying its accuracy): Cash App was very early on the "all-in-one banking" experience, whereas Venmo spent years as a value-addition to a bank (account/routing number) you already had. Socioeconomically disenfranchised portions of the population, which statistically bias toward Black Americans, gravitated toward Cash App because they didn't otherwise have bank accounts. Then, network effects kick in, as they always do.

Again, I'm not 100% sure on the veracity of those claims, but it makes sense; and it mirrors a similar trend across age groups. Older people use Zelle (a fully bank-sponsored product). Millennials (of any race), being the middle child, split the difference, and oftentimes have Zelle, Venmo, Cash App, and some Crypto. But all of these "official" apps still have age restrictions, and as they've matured have been forced into more customer risk mitigation, which primarily serves to do the same thing the banking system has statistically done to the black american population for decades; limit access to financial services (even if its for what we old people would call a "totally valid reason" like "dude you're 12", its still limiting access to financial services).

Capital moves mountains. The crypto markets, in aggregate, represent an absolutely massive amount of capital. Its biased young. Its very difficult to legally liquidate into the traditional financial system; but within the crypto ecosystem, its more liquid than any financial instrument ever invented by mankind. It attracts scams (like any financial product does); it attracts idiots (through virtue of being able to serve: anyone); but even among projects like this one, their idiotic understanding of how their actions could integrate with the traditional system of laws is counterbalanced with rather intelligent understanding of distributed financial systems, corporate governance, data structures, algorithms, and most of all, an undeniable love for a piece of cultural history.

Anytime anyone bashes crypto; the reasons may be legitimate; Check your age. You sound a lot like my parents wondering why my Chase account doesn't appear in their Chase home page, so they can send me money every Christmas by just clicking "transfer money". Your criticism may be totally valid and legitimate: but irrelevant. That's the curse of getting older; inescapable, undeniable, and one day you just don't matter anymore. This world isn't your's; it belongs to our Children.
What if the biggest fool is you? That would be quite the karma.
great article. reminds me of one about Alan Moore ending up hating The Killing Joke and the Watchmen's message https://www.inverse.com/article/14967-alan-moore-now-believe...
Who uses spam filtering in their email client anymore? That's done at the server level.
In my case they didn’t. My former boss and I basically met up for lunch, talked about it, and then a few days later I got a new offer letter. I did have to do another round of background checks just to make sure nothing had come up in the months I was gone. They also hadn’t fully backfilled my role (they had hired a couple of contractors during my absence) so it was still technically an available position.

Another thing to note is that when I left previously I did so on very good terms and gave plenty of notice. I’m sure that played a part in how willing they were to have me come back.
I wonder where people got this idea that UBI proponents are expecting everyone to be paid like rockstars.
currently I'm on welfare. (enough to not have to use money put aside)

If I work (even part time, I will loose all welfare).

If I find a job I will earn only 400-800E more than I earn with welfare.
1) There were some confounding factors, obviously, and 2) Though also polluted by unusual circumstances, didn't we get a bit of a test with this when some states pulled support before others did, and didn't that show little to no effect on employment and job-seeking rates?
Well it is on the unit sphere, but then it's equivalent to the euclidean metric...
Ah, back in the day.

I got X11r3 on tape to build locally on a Sun3 as part of a project. 4MB RAM - huge!

What was the network game? Maze war?
The content is good, but the UI is not. Clicking through to the original pages this stuff was published to in the cases that I've tried has resulted in far better pages.

The purpose of this site is confusing - it seems to divide larger works into smaller units that you have to browse online. The publishers' pages just offer downloads in your preferred format above a toc linked to a web version of each individual section; I don't know how you could ask for more.

Compare: https://workforce.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Food_Production...

to: https://opentextbc.ca/basickitchenandfoodservicemanagement/

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edited to change the opentextbc.ca link to the right book because libretexts.org linked to the wrong one.
Yes, most developed countries have programs for affordable housing and food supplements. UBI helps with that as well.
>I think the idea would be like what happened to Apple: they eventually grew so much, became so successful, accumulated huge piles of cash bigger than they could possibly spend, that they had to start paying a dividend.

Not a great example, Apple paid out a quarterly dividend from 1987 to 1995. They paid out a dividend in those years because they were cashflow positive and that was just the thing you did because the idea of "hypergrowth" wasn't a thing.
Hi, yes. Admin panel in progress with base visualization
Totally possible! I don't have a Windows box to test on, and win does sometimes end up as a second class citizen for stuff like this.
Terrorists who use the internet are less successful
We all fantasize Bezos and Musk should pay for it, but in reality it will be yet another tax on middle class (e.g. run-of-the-mill senior developer from high CoL area, so from Amazon engineer to (would be ex) Amazon warehouse worker).
Are you finding any pain points? How did you manage the 15 minute window in case of large amounts of data running over time?

How do you manage the DAGs on it? For example creating dependencies between tasks and monitoring and rerunning tasks?
>We've done that experiment. The results are self-evident

I think the real experiment is perpetual consumerism and unchecked global free market capitalism.

Some places that could be considered a UBI welfare state would be Scandinavian countries or parts of Canada, hardly examples of self-evident failures.
Glyn Hughes died 11 years ago, aged 76. And even then, he said "was brought up", not "is." He was presumably speaking about people brought up around the time he himself was — in the 1940s.
While obviously Netflix has a lot to loose here, it don’t think it’s “their fault” for dumping AAA content. The reality is that every content producer on the planet knows they’ll make more money selling their own subscription platform. Netflix can’t continue to get Marvel movies, for example, now that Disney has pulled the plug. There’s not any amount of cash Netflix could afford to pay which would be enough for The Mouse to take content off of Disney+.

This is the same for every studio out there — well-loved shows like The Office, Brooklyn 99, Parks & Rec, etc. are getting taken back by their owners. Dozens of new streaming services are appearing.

In reality, there’s not much Netflix can do about it besides double down on original content.

I think an ideal future for consumers would be federated media platforms, where all content is available in any number of media platforms, and the amount you pay is passed back to the content owners based on what you watch. But I doubt that will ever happen under current IP laws.

In capitalism, profit wins. Right now, streaming services are essentially pure profit and make money because content owners have exclusive access to their own content — who would pay for Disney+ if all of their content was available elsewhere?

It really sucks for consumers.
Yes, it is minimal.
Now, combine this with wikibooks + project Gutemberg + new works that will enter public domain + a few decades... makes me hopeful of the future.
My understanding is this is an infusion and would be under part b.
It is "fine" actually, because if your UBI competes favourably with the wages you'd otherwise pay, those tiny wages are in some sense risk mitigation. You bank margin so you can ride out when the work or workers evaporate temporarily, then someone sinks the expense when you eventually need to pay or charge more, and it's probably not them because they can't afford roofs in the first place.

My politics have nothing to do with it. I know roofers, roofing company owners, general contractors, construction workers, and others. I am a contractor, and I'm struggling. It's fine
> Sounds like you should be part or a dictatorship rather than a democracy.

What a weird claim. Decisions in democracies upset some people too. That's the whole point of voting on things, to resolve conflicts.

> If you support this idea then feel free to donate to the cause.

Donate to what?

> Not trying to be an ass but the so what attitude does not tend to further constructive discussion.

"Some people will complain" isn't constructive by itself either.
> "Misuse of the StopNCII platform is something that we (Meta/Facebook) discussed a lot. Once you have confirmed that a piece of content violates your platform’s policy, it’s easier to find other instances and filter out false-po"

Okay, and what was the conclusion then? Can I use the service to take down arbitrary content online that has nothing to do with the subject at hand? Can I just incriminate other devices, users and accounts that store innocent data and get it deleted without anybody's consent?
So do you want to have both UBI and a low effective tax?
but because I need to control my emotion and how I respond.

You discovered one the benefits of meditation.
I wonder when the writeup is from... rne.com was online in 1997 pulling from wayback. So this post must've been earlier than that.

Fifth gen x86 processors were around 1994. So I'd guess earlier than that from the age of the machinery they're using.

But the 486 was seeing use in 1990. So after that but before 1994 would be my guess.

It's possible it was ongoing litigation at the time.
Yeah, they pondered it, decided it wasn't worth it, and went and got a job somewhere else.
Graphviz ships with a tool called dotty that can be used for visual graph editing. It's a bit cumbersome but does work.

https://www.graphviz.org/pdf/dottyguide.pdf

Edit: I don't know of a really good visual tool as I've found text editing .dot files directly with a live visualization pretty nice. I use graphviz pretty regularly.
This study and the discussion here reminds me of https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-... - basically whenever you have a financial or politically motivated topic of study, you'll get numerous serious seeming studies supporting position X, then a thorough debunking of X, then a resounding rebuttal, then more studies taking other positions, those getting debunked & rebutted, meta studies trying to aggregate & tease out who's actually correct, those getting debunked & rebutted, and the fight goes on.

My concern with UBI is more that we're unlikely to be able to fix it if it's actually terrible - once in place, handouts tend to become sacrosanct regardless of efficacy (I'm sure that are exceptions that prove the rule ;) - and it is stupendously expensive.

How about Universal Basic Assistance instead?

We tend to make government assistance be "hard shell, soft center", i.e. hard to qualify for, but once you're in, it's all gravy, unless you do something silly like get back on your feet (see unemployment & disability).

What if we instead switched to a "soft shell, firm center" approach and made it really easy to access assistance funds, but they e.g. got gradually reduced over time as you tap into them? And perhaps you have some skin in the game with a required personal emergency fund? And perhaps you owe some of the assistance $$ back, so that the average person "pays for themselves" over the course of their life?

Just spit-balling. I'm sure there are tons of problems with such an approach as well. But maybe it would still be quite useful for the recipients, and a lot more palatable for the tax payers = more reasonable to actually implement?
Critical question: do we have the right willingness to work right now? Could it be too high?
I personally see multitasking as a tradeoff between "CPU performance" and ability to manage concurrent asynchronous streams of information. It is a decision to throw away throughput for latency, which can have more value.

For example, if you are mostly providing informative responses to things in chat, it makes sense to talk to lots of people at once. Replies come in at a certain rate, and your ability to write messages can serve the demand even if degraded by half.

If you are using the chats to put out orders or requests, you may find that the asynchronicity of communication allows you to receive the results of those requests (e.g. items shipped out) before a cut off time.

Pretty much anything that can be queued, and that "blocks" a lot, imo, is a good candidate for multitasking.

Anecdotally, it does not cost me a particularly large amount of mental overhead to switch between tasks. This is further reduced if I keep a "container" for a small task like an idle conversation, so that it doesn't litter the memory space of my primary task. The performance impact, minus time spent on the other task, is probably <20%, and I'm happy to throw that out if it either makes the task more fun, or decreases latency on something else.
For example, if you are a manager, you may need to keep track of and work on multiple tasks at the same time. so is this wrong?
Since I can't edit my post now: </sarcasm>
This. A lot of comments in here spewing hatred toward crypto seem to come from a psychological defense mechanism. People were wrong and decided not to move to crypto and are now doubling down on that position to feel better about their poor choices.
Documenting Gotchas in AWS's WAF Offerings
Somehow, if those jobs are so bad no one wants to do it but the purpose of the job must still to be done/accomplished then maybe people will try other solutions, some that don't let those kind of behaviors emerge.

Also, if basic income is good enough then their wouldn't be a need for that kind of job :).