skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

Learn from the experience and how you can identify, investigate, address and correct future pivots like theirs. Don't let them become the wrong kind of example for how you do business.
Respectfully, this comment solidifies why iMessage is superior. Try sending a 4K HDR video, or low-quality video, files, or photos with a resolution greater than a Nokia phone from 10 years ago, or a multitude of other things over SMS.

Signal, WhatsApp, etc. don't come close to what iMessage offers seamlessly. For iPhone/macOS/iPadOS users, SMS is garbage. Yes, it's a closed system; but it works without a cell signal or roaming charges anywhere in the world over WiFi for free.

RCS seems like a half-baked attempt at catching up with features that've existed since 2011 on one platform. Even third-party messaging apps fail miserably compared to iMessage.
Just to add:

Fleet seems like a new lighter architecture. Which is fantastic. My hope is they can actually bring the tools from their other platforms into this.

Otherwise... they might as well just sell a IDE plugin architecture for VSCode.
> The fact that in spite of all those assume-no-malice protections for a defendant this lawsuit still found him guilty says a lot about this case specifically, and very little about the risks of merely "saying the wrong thing" (at least under a US legal framework).

Weirdly, it actually doesn't. The court awarded the plaintiff's default judgement on the claims of defamation because Jones refused to hand over a bunch of evidence during discovery. Given the particulars of the case, he'd probably have lost anyway, and in some ways it's even worse that he felt it more important to hide his financials from the court and plaintiffs than to actually attempt to defend himself.

I guess this still does make your point even stronger though: the reason we're here, despite the malice protections, is that Jones didn't even try to defend himself.
This is a discussion that started with notifying people of a possible webcam bug and ended with Russian war crimes. I think we can declare the thread spent.
I caught OG covid in June of 2020. I've had it once more (Feb of this year). Exposed a third time but tested negative (who knows about these tests).
I've had fatigue, tinnitus, and a persistent neck pain since the Feb infection. What I would consider neurological symptoms as well (extremity weakness, vertigo, headaches). I'm pretty young (31). Prior to Feb, I was pretty active. Weight lifting every day, running 2 miles every other. Now, the fatigue and weakness really has gotten the best of me. The neck pain and tinnitus is something I can deal with though. I've had multiple tests (cats and mris)... nothing remarkable.

Probably long covid.
The problem is not the medium, but the payment mechanism -- if disbursing those bonds can be stopped by an Act of Congress, then there remains a chance (maybe a small one) that any UBI program will not be a true UBI program. And that affects how the recipients of UBI treat their money.
With 4G taking over, this will no longer be a differentiator, as on 4G SMS also goes over data (via VoLTE).

At least where I live, 4G got deployed on the low bands freed up by the digital TV switchover and hence has the best reception in remote areas.
Targeted programs end up with a lot of overhead, and the people doing the targeting tend to have quite different backgrounds and experiences from the people most in need of assistance.
Short answer is likely "yes" though I think there's a surprising amount of variation even there.

Longer answer is that I'm not sure the direct comparison ever really happens because in a spirits tasting competition where there would be double blind testings, it's never pitted against the whiskies it's being "marketed against" (e.g. a "real" bourbon or scotch). Sip 2021 puts it in "other whiskies" in which it gets the lowest awarded medal: https://sipawards.com/content/results/sipawards2021results.p... (though interestingly in 2022, Spice, their "scotch" blend, won double gold in the same category: https://sipawards.com/content/results/sipawards2022results.p...).

Obviously you could host your own with a few friends and give it a go (e.g. https://www.keacher.com/1334/scotch/)
> I'll say at least that from where we are now we just had by far the greatest natural experiment we could ever hope for and UBI stands invalidated.

What about the hoards of people who took the opportunity to stop working at soul crushing jobs and who went and learned a new skill that lead to an actual career?

What about the armies of new artists and creators? The pandemic brought about a slew of new, successful, medium sized educational channels on YouTube.

Restaurants can't find employees because a lot of their previous employees took a year or two off and improved themselves and are now making better money at better jobs.

Did some people piss the money away? Sure. But the explosion of artists, creativity, and self improvement, says that the experiment was a success, and it was only a handful of payments.
My wife took three months to recover. I have a friend roughly my age who still hasn't (about four months in). My dad is dead.

And people wonder why I don't blow it off. I've yet to get it, and I don't want to.
Hacked Data Shows Salvadoran Government Took Four MS-13 Leaders Out of Prison
I don't agree with the anarcho-communist ideas but they're ultimately irrelevant. What does this have to do with this person's projects?
Not enough detail.

How long of a period was the vesting cliff?

When did their work start having issues?

When did you first talk to the about it?

When did it get to the point they weren’t doing their job?

If they were still doing their job (even to a minimum standard) by the 2/3rds point, I’d let it slide.

Keep in mind as a the boss you should have been on this from day 1. If you do fire them it shouldn’t be a surprise. If it will be, then let them vest.
SF's city budget is 14 billion USD?.
What exactly do you think the U in UBI stands for?
Nick Berry (DataGenetics) has passed away
Have they done anything that makes them worthy of getting stock or have they always been dead weight?

Just being around a long time isn’t something worth rewarding IMHO. If they did something / a lot of effort early on, but are now going off the edge then that would be a different story.
“I am not an electrician and will not accept liability for any house fires. Having said that, what do you need rewired in your kitchen?”
You could still use those scripts with a shebang, no?
UBI (in its contemporary form) is most famous for being a product of neoliberal economic and political theory, not socialist economics. The only state in the US that has anything resembling UBI is Alaska[1], and you'd be hard-pressed to characterize them as "socialist."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
The article also actually mentions that some people are hired to write content for the blog.

Sure they may just be contractors, but at that point it seems not impressive to have "0 employees".
Agreed with this. Everyone knows when he vests. You will lose the trust of others if you are seen to be doing this only now so that you can avoid giving him some other component of what he has earned.

And despite his performance, he did earn it.
My experience goes further, in that the Django apps I've worked on would have been harder to maintain without Django, even with a "smaller" framework instead.
Any particular sub-reddit you read about this on?
I use the same kit, for oh about 10 years now. Steroid flushes once or twice a day, unfortunately.

I did get COVID, but extremely mild. I can only think of one or two times I've felt sick at all in those 10 years.
I usually just append js to my search and get exactly what I want
Thanks. The point is that it's not at all hard to see how purely compensatory damages can get into the $64M range for two middle class or especially upper middle class people.
Just make sure to use distilled water.
Brain parasites are no fun.
Put together a separation package that works for everyone.

Something like:

* Last day of work is today, all building and system access is revoked.

* Remain employed, on the payroll, full benefits, etc until after vesting (30, 60, etc days).

* Subject to signing an agreement around non-disparagement of the company, not poaching employees, etc, whatever else.

These kinds of things are typical for layoff situations. Trying terminate prior to vesting seems unnecessarily punitive, but you can still get them out of the building immediately.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34922127/
I’ll one up you. I contend people here are simply average even in their domain of expertise, let alone anything outside of it. It’s not a special hideout for geniuses, it’s a generic forum not unlike Reddit. The only reason it appears the way that it does is via selective moderation.
Probably because they haven't recovered from being obese. Obesity is second only to smoking in terms of bad for your health.

73% of Americans are overweight or obese.
If you read the article they are offering better healthcare options in a few states (not the one where the upcoming union vote is) and to pay for their tuition reimbursement in advance rather than as a reimbursement. The Coursera thing is in fact the main new/universal benefit.
Sure, if that's the way you want to interpret it... The way I see it it doesn't make any argument at all, the vaccine wasn't even available for the dates they consider ("starting in April 2020", hence the low vaccinated percentage), and by the time the vaccine was widely available, the virus had mutated into omicron, which is weak whether you are vaccinated or not.
What an interesting person. I don't agree with about half of it but I respect the courage to act on those beliefs. Looks like the software is in public domain, for example.
Individuals being allowed to say / write what they want versus school boards prohibiting certain texts from being taught or distributed as part of their curriculum... maybe they just understand what "free speech" means?
This is the reason UBI was historically popular among (some) libertarians, even though most current proponents in the U.S. probably come from some variety of left-liberalism or market socialism. Milton Friedman supported a version of UBI as a replacement for the welfare state, for example. His view was that if you think it's the role of the state to provide some minimum floor for standard of living, fine. But instead of trying to administer a dozen different programs with complex eligibility requirements and a whole bureaucracy behind them (food stamps, public housing, housing vouchers, Medicaid, etc.), it would be more efficient, less economically distorting, and less invasive into the lives of the recipients, to just pick whatever level of spending you're willing to put towards this goal, and give it out as unrestricted cash.
I can't confirm this but I _may_ have had COVID Jan 2020, and ever since then I get waves of coughs / other symptoms every couple weeks or so that last for at least a week; it never goes away.

Never had anything like this before that one time being sick other than seasonal bronchitis a few years in a row about a decade ago.

Only other thing I can thing of is allergies but I've now lived in multiple places during the past 2 years, visited different areas, and it still recurs.
It's still bash 3 though, right? You're okay with that? I tend to install the newest from brew.
Why would “supply chain issues “ reduce spending? If a company is having supply chain issues, that by definition means that there is more demand than they can supply. Meaning people are willing to spend money. What are companies going to do when they get supply if they lay off workers?

Besides, if you work for any tech company, you should be able to throw your resume in the aid and get another job. Even if you are a blue collar worker, there are plenty of companies looking. I have a friend who works in finance for a major manufacturer. He said the company had to be a lot more lax about firing factory workers because they already had a shortage.
You mean one person getting rich while they could’ve hired employees? Taxation is supposed to fix that, wether or not it does, considering their jurisdiction, is another point, but that’s not their fault.
I disagree. I mean this wasn't a perfect UBI experiment, but there are some core assumptions baked in to the arguments I used to make that are clearly flawed.

In particular it was as close as you're ever going to get to being "universal". For obvious reasons, every other experiment I've ever seen made or proposed was not, and I think that's a pretty significant aspect to the idea.
Nietzsche in Turin
The workers leaving their dream jobs
https://archive.ph/g8aCW

https://web.archive.org/web/20220814082220/https://www.newst...
I've been using this for months and it's generally pretty good. The UX isn't completely polished yet (as mentioned in the docs), but it's great for simple use cases like "I want to send a photo from my phone to a computer."
> Surely to trial this properly people should get the guaranteed income for life.

If you read the article, you will see it states that to be the eligible, one "must currently be enrolled in the General Relief Opportunities for Work, or GROW, program, which provides employment and training services for young adults".

It's not intended to be a lifelong income, so why would they test that with people?
it sounds like your company is still small. i wouldn't decide by committee, but do be transparent with everyone after you make the decision.
Sounds like your friends are simply unmotivated to voluntarily work for a system they believe is corrupt.

Laziness has always been a capitalist codeword for "noncompliant worker."

Also, you have to look at the bigger picture here. We can't just put our blinders on and ignore the conditions of this natural UBI experiment, as you are putting it. There was no sense that with this UBI--it wasn't--they were going to be productive members of some socialist society. No, it was a moment where people felt like it was their turn to exploit a system that has been exploiting them since they were children.

I agree with the sentiment that in this context, under the current conditions created by corporate capitalism, UBI would be a horrible idea. It would be better for the people in the long run if they --we--we're out in the streets than packed away in some small rat hole of an apartment, suckling on the corporate dole.
The correct analogy is if your job is to handle cheques and someone hands you an IOU lacking any account number or signature that wasn't even addressed to them or their electric bill.

A drawing of your property boundary so you can know where to mow the lawn to or find a plot of acreage granny left you isn't an engineering or legal document and shouldn't be treated as one.
And then they wonder where inflation comes from lmao
It's a shame that Ford and other companies are constantly working towards keeping people from modifying the products that they own. They are actually proud of removing customer rights and no doubt the head engineer was smiling the whole time he was talking about this. The disconnect between what users want and what they get is getting worse and worse.
Yes, can confirm. Developers on our projects who typically respond to comments via email have been affected by this. Emails sent back in March are now showing up as comments on the issues with very recent timestamps.
I had the CoCo and it launched my career. Loved the simplicity of these machines.
Of course, he doesn't. Its bogus right wing propaganda. As if inflation can be blamed on an extra couple of thousands of dollars.
Doesn’t Malaysia have fabs? Singapore?
Anecdata: I had what seemed like relatively mild covid in March 2020, but never fully recovered, and I ended up unable to do strenuous or stressful activity without a super fight or flight physical response. I was in my 20's, and originally very active and fit, although I ate a very high sugar/carb diet.

I took a lot of tests and tried a lot of things and made no progress with doctors for about 2 years, until I tried doing a more aggressive version of the paleo diet (even avoiding most fruits), and now I'm making significant progress, slowly ramping up my workouts and the amount of stress my body can take. I'm also taking supplements like Zinc and some Asian herbs that are intended to raise testosterone, which I understand to reduce cortisol/the stress response. I'm also meditating most days and taking a cold shower daily. I think the diet is the biggest factor though -- whenever I accidentally eat a high-GI meal, I feel the symptoms hit immediately.
HN hews to using the source title, which I think the submitter did here (based on the URL, 'l-a-basic-income-program-to-give-young-adults-1-000-a-month'). See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for more.
The article describes its first subject as having been diagnosed with simply "depression", but describes their medication regime as including lithium and lamotrigine which in combination is strongly suggestive of treatment for bipolar depression in particular. Given that the described behavior sounds very much like a manic episode, the article should have explained this connection before attempting to focus the blame on pramipexole.

Most antidepressants, even SSRIs, are medically recognized as potentially triggering mania in bipolar patients. While compulsive gambling and hypersexuality are associated with dopamine agonists, I think it may be misleading for the article to focus so heavily on a possible manic episode without discussing bipolar disorder at all and while implying that this was a unique effect of dopamine agonists.
I had considered this, I'm not sure it's the issue since Niagara Falls is pretty iconic. I'll give it a shot with surrogates in place of Niagara Falls and see what happens. The bigger difficulty it seems is getting a duck to eat a hoagie.

I can get a hoagie at Niagara Falls, I can get a duck at Niagara Falls, I can even get a hoagie and a duck together near some water, I can almost get a duck eating a hoagie (I've gotten the duck near the hoagie with its mouth open), but I can't get a duck eating a hoagie at Niagara Falls.

Update: Stable Diffusion 1.5 is getting there. I have a duck, hoagie, and Niagara Falls all together, and I think this picture might be a success: https://i.ibb.co/Mhrv0sD/1894667935-A-duck-eating-a-hoagie-a...
Have there been any UBI plans designed to avoid warping politics? It seems politically impossible to lower (see Alaska’s challenges [1]) and too attractive for politicians to increase in order to easily win votes.

[1] https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/future-perfect/2019/9/5/208...
> long term support - can expect a new device to get 5-6 years of Apple Updates

It’s actually even better than that. The iPhone 5s is still receiving security updates (albeit to iOS 12) 9 years later.
In most places, such an organization would be given some power by the government to prevent non-members from practicing engineering etc.
So you keep saying, but I am no wiser as to why you think so and I don't care to deepen my acquaintance with Alex Jones.
These are all good questions, looking forward to hearing what you find out!
Same. I keep a bottle of Blue Label that I refill with Green/Gold/Platinum (depending on how generous I'm feeling) that gets served to guests who visit my home bar and ask for Blue Label because they know nothing about scotch except that it's expensive. I actually think those colors are better than Blue, but that's neither here nor there...

My personal trend over the past few years has been to buy from independent bottlers, of which Costco/TJ usually carry (e.g. Alexander Murray). I've also switched to other beverages: armagnac, mezcal, rum; all of which have lower brand recognition and interest here. Overall it means I can get more variety (and value) at a better price, which is a win.
Your example is a poor one, since no reasonable person could confuse those two items.

A reasonable person could confuse the plans produced by the website and legitimate plans produced by a professional surveyor, though.

More to the point, the author of the website seems to disagree with you, since he already includes a disclaimer on the website. The issue raised is that he does not include that same disclaimer on the plans.

GP's phrasing of 'everyone who will ever handle' the plans is the correct phrasing: those are the people that must be considered. That group includes all people whose work and interests require knowing where property boundaries and physical structures are, now, and in the future.

The professional engineering and survey boards have a duty to the protect the public, and a duty to regulate the practice of land surveying and civil engineering. If someone's behavior interferes with that practice, then they have a legitimate cause to prevent that behavior.
> Microsoft sold software for personal computers, made a lot of money doing it, and used that money to fund the development of more software for personal computers. At no point in this early history was there a billion dollar bet.

Xbox?
Tone is a bit harsh
This pretty much sums it up. Narrowing the scope of maintenance is a big deal. Once I'm confident in the quality of a framework, the next question is how likely and how often am I going to need to use escape hatches for this project now and in the medium term. If I expect too many (or too difficult) escape hatches, it's the wrong tool. If I can't find a framework that I'm reasonably confident in that way, only then would I go without. If so, whatever I come up with is by default a framework. It's just probably not going to be as good as an open source one.
Apple has a choice here - they can offer the benefits freely or withhold them to try to extract something else from a negotiation. If offered freely the union could still reject them, and try to extract something else instead at the next negotiation. If the union did that it would at least raise the question of whether the money spent on those benefits might have more utility providing something else for the workforce.
I haven't read it yet, but I've skimmed over a couple parts, but I think System-Design Interview insiders Second Edition is a modern book around lots of concepts talked about on HN over the last 5-10 years.

Others on my list that I think are good books:

* Empowered

* Soft Skills

* Pragmatic Programmer

* Clean Architecture

* Staff Engineer by Will Larson
Congratulations! This will attract beggars not only from the US but from all over the world!
So.... Kdeconnect over the network?

I am already used to zerotier and tailscale with kdeconnect which has a much better use case as it is not only for data sharing but for a lot more.
My sense of smell hasn't returned to normal either, quite annoying but it saves me money on food shopping now :)
> But that's another problem with frameworks - you have to know the whole thing in order to use it well.

This applies to whatever in-house monstrosities get built too, except that without docs or a million eyeballs to judge whether a workflow makes some sense to an outsider.
> I think that is asking too much.

It is not a big ask, and it would not interfere in any way with any of the reasonable uses that are being suggested here.

I suspect there is something of a Chesterton's fence here, dating back to a time when the use of false documents in swindling people were not uncommon. Many comments here are premised on the assumption that the acquirers of such maps should be under no illusion as to their legal status, but that does not necessarily extend to those to whom the acquirers might present these documents. The average HN reader may not be fooled, but they may have elderly relatives who might be.

While I have no reason to believe the person here is in any way abetting any such scheme, a simple disclaimer on the maps themselves might offer a reasonable compromise between disparate concerns.
So none of those people would qualify for ubi. Sounds like they were grifters. Why punish poor people because your circle of friends lack an ethics?