skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This analysis focused on funding only without any thought to incentive structures.

There are a a few ways incentives change with a significant UBI instead of traditional welfare:

1. If you go from not working to working, you don't lose anything.

2. You can voluntarily quit an abusive job and still get the UBI.

3. You can save up 6 months of income without losing benefits.

4. In terms of voting, even people above the poverty line benefit from UBI; the only people who don't are whoever you tax more.

Broadly what I would support as a good option is UBI + negative low income tax + lower minimum wage payed for by increased business taxes + increase income tax + increased property tax. Negative low income tax + lower minimum wage should balance out so the low income worker gets roughly the same pay, but the business pays less per employee. This gives an incentive to always maintain open low income jobs. Landlords and general businesses already exploit the low income workers so extra tax is directly supporting UBI is fair. Making the U in UBI make sense necessitates higher income tax for the wealthy.
To wine's biggest "stakeholder" at the moment(Valve), I'd argue that running modern applications is actually more important - but then again, that is with a focus on games, so apps like Office or Photoshop don't necessarily benefit that much from the improvements that the Codeweavers people work on for them.
Adblock Plus, Firefox Focus, Hush, Ghostery and Malwarebytes on iOS.

Adblock Plus, Ghostery, and Hush on macOS.
> You mean to tell me close to 1/10 of the planet is deaf and speaks ASL and doesn't read a written language?

While the number is clearly far too large even taking into account what I'm about to say, I think someone doesn't have to not read any written language to be excluded. For many ASL speakers, ASL, not English, is their native language. Although I read French passably, I would consider subtitles available only in French, and not in English, to be serving my needs poorly; and I think the same can be said of an ASL speaker asked to "make do" with English-language subtitles.
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They aren't jammers in the "blast out RF noise" sense, but since they are meant to disrupt legitimate communications, the FCC considers them jammers and has repeatedly fined companies that run deauth attacks to "encourage" people to use their paid networks: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/fcc-issues-another-fine-fo...
> 700 million deaf people might find it offensive that you assume they are illiterate

You don't have to be illiterate to prefer subtitles in your native language, which, for many ASL speakers, is ASL, not English.
Nicely done OP! How can I check on the status of bookmark importing? I exported from FF and it said the import began, but I'm not sure how/where to check the progress on that. Do I just refresh until they show up on the main page?
# in this context is shorthand for pounds, which is 453.59 grams (or 448 grams if you’re buying/selling drugs)

The # symbol has a few names: octothorpe, number sign, hashtag, and pound sign, hence the usage of # as abbreviation for pounds of weight.
yes, the problem is the walled garden that these services create.

Just ask them to phone you or use email

i can ask them, but i can't force them. reality is that without facebook i am excluded from a lot activities because i can't demand that everyone accommodate my unwillingness to be on facebook.

the same is true on wechat. there are a lot of groups that simply do not exist outside of facebook or wechat, and a lot of social contacts and activities would simply stop if i were to leave.

having someones phone number or email means i can contact them if there is something important, but it doesn't mean that it will get me invited to activities. that only works for a handful of very close friends and relatives, but not for the wider circle of loose friends and acquaintances.

wechat pay is not as bad actually. i usually avoid using it (if only to test how they react) and in most cases there was no problem to use cash as an alternative. there were a few exceptions where someone at the counter used their own wechat account to pay for me and i gave them cash in private, but i can't remember that i was ever refused service. especially as a foreigner, people are more likely to believe that i really can't pay with wechat.

if we had multiple social network with a significant user base then most interesting groups would be active on all of them and i could choose. it would also be easier to argue that i don't want to be on more than one service instead of giving the impression that i am a luddite that rejects modern technology.
I think the OP is talking about overall gov spending (snap is probably tiny) and it's pretty easy to find numerous enormous examples of fraud and waste.

I'm glad you are happy about the SNAP program but the US gov has spent so many additional trillions recently which is likely now to cause a recession and high inflation.
I'm not who you initially replied to, but I just felt he wasn't being critical of something else, just promoting an idea that is also of good value. I think there's value in creating new things by combining existing ones as well.
We haven't plugged into a phone's "share" functionality yet, great suggestion!
I don't consider skills of networking and promotion to count as 'merit', and that's at least as important as technical skill.

Also I was an employee of the federal government for several years, and at least at the general service level promotions were as close to merit-based as I've seen anywhere.
I don't see any issue with the app store models for macOS (mostly) and windows (could be useful, but not in its current implementation). They act as more curated package managers with a GUI, and an added bonus of taking care of payments (a hard problem!).

App stores allow users a centralized place to both acquire known and verified applications as well as get updates for them. They are a safe place to buy things - Apple is not going to steal your credit card. For developers, they are a convenient place to park your app, without having to manage your own distribution services. And payments is always pain - it's probably the single biggest value add that the app stores cover it for you.

And you can always circumvent it on these platforms. It's just an addition. I'd prefer to get an app on the mac app store if it is there, if it is not then that is fine as well, but will require more digging to verify it's authenticity.
I can appreciate the sentiment, but it seems like if you have the resources and political power to institute a universal program, you could even more easily just fix means-testing.

Also, not all "means-testing" is made alike. They are not all equally bureaucratic. You could easily do a negative income tax that is basically automatic.
Were you using BTRFS in RAID mode by any chance? Have you opened a kernel bug report?
Healthcare and housing costs are some of the biggest stifles to innovation in this country. Imagine all that could be made if everyone was covered under healthcare, and also had a place to live where they could be free to think and tinker. Instead, many people are burning up their able-bodied, sound-minded years doing some job that doesn't help advance any of their own skills, or contribute significantly to anything in society, existing solely to generate steady profit for someone else, just so these workers can afford a place to sleep. All of those stories of SV founders somehow not having a job, yet also having a garage workshop in Palo Alto to build circuitry and focus on their passions seems like ancient mythology now, versus a goal worth aspiring to yourself.

However its done, once the burden of healthcare and housing costs are eliminated from this country, we would seriously bring forth a new age in innovation. What a shame that the limited scope of opinions allowed in mass media are rarely clamoring for this new technological golden age, and are instead only really interested in maintaining their own dole from the profitable status quo that these voices serve to perpetuate.
As a user, I think that's a very unexpected feature. When a file crosses the border from browser to file system, I expect it to remain untouched. This approach feels very unnatural to me.
> "hash" in this context means what other languages would call a hash map

Interesting. The only other time I've seen this term used for a hash map is in the context of Redis hashes [0], which confused me to no end when I first encountered them for the same reason. Given that Redis itself is written in C, I wonder where the term originated.

[0] https://redis.io/docs/data-types/hashes/
I agree with almost everything you say. The area I break with you is that I don't think that fraud would be a major concern that couldn't be addressed with reasonable checks (and a decade or more of jail for intentional fraudsters).
> Are we a result of similar microorganisms?

I'm no biologist, but from what I've read: Probably not. A really important fact about multicellular life is that each cell is genetically identical to any other cell in the organism. Otherwise, different cells will start competing with one another, until the relationship falls apart. In nature, symbiosis only works because each cell has an independent means of reproduction, and that always puts a limit to how close the cooperation can be (nothing close to forming multicellular life).
>> unrealistic scenario

Not attacking, pointing out other perspectives. You saying it is an unrealistic scenario is what I was arguing against in that not only is it realistic, but I have seen it happen.

You've made my point once again with your comment: "Please do some research on the methods of taking and verifying confessions."

Yes, sure, ideally we should all be informed about the law, but if I happen to not be, and I happen to get arrested, there is no way that I can know that my interrogator is lying and that there are ways around that. Yes, I know lawyers are provided, that doesn't mean that people have my best interest in mind, etc. Like I said, speaking from personal experience of SEEING this happen to people.

My point is that you are speaking from a position of "being informed" when not everyone is informed, can get informed, wants to get informed, etc. This is why we have protections, this is why we hire lawyers, because we can't be "informed" about everything. That is besides the fact of my moral disagreement that a professional working for the government should be able to lie to a child so that they confess to a crime and potentially get life in prison (as seen here).

I'll leave it there though. Not trying to attack so if it came across that way, sorry.
The way Usenet clients and traditional email clients work is that unread messages are marked as such (usually by use of bold typeface), and you have keyboard shortcuts to navigate from one message to the next, or to jump to the next unread message.

For example, the Tab key jumps to the next unread message, Space/Backspace scroll up/down within a message, and the Up/Down arrow keys jump to the previous/next message (regardless if unread or not). A message is marked as read automatically when you navigate to it (it gains focus). There’s also a keyboard shortcut to mark a read message as unread again if you w.

The keyboard navigation means that only one message has focus any point in time. You have a threaded view of all messages, where the unread ones are highlighted (e.g. by bold typeface). Then you can decide which ones to navigate to. Usually you just use Tab and Space to jump/scroll through the unread messages. It’s incredibly efficient to use.
Anytime you perform a sequencing experiment you will get _some_ microbial/fungal contamination. Every time. You can even check this yourself today. Analyse any publicly available (unprocessed) whole genome sequencing data. Usually the contamination is <1% but it’s there.

This study hasn’t ruled out contamination as the cause for the results. Given that, it’s very likely to be BS.
We’re the ones who have the most to lose. We should have taken a small hit to avoid catastrophe. But we won’t/didn’t.
Looking forward to the exit scam.
Good idea! It's a bit harder, but totally doable.
That just means you are paying below market rent. There is someone willing to pay twice your rent to live where you do.

Rent control creates a first mover advantage where the incumbents have a good deal and everyone else suffers. Whether this is fair depends on your beliefs, but I would rather have healthy turn over to give more people an opportunity to experience an area.
> The article says "conservative support for UBI rests on an approach that would increase poverty, rather than reduce it", so maybe the problem is the conservative approach and not UBI?

Perhaps this would be a more convincing argument if the article proposed some way to pay for UBI other than handwaving it away through more taxation.

For context: you could take literally every penny doled out to the military industrial complex and throw it into UBI and it would barely put a dent in that overall cost.
> So around 2019 Android added it to the general location permission to use Bluetooth for anything other than audio transmission to/from a paired device if device pairing is handled by the OS, hidden from the app.

Stores don't need your permission or even their own app to be installed on your phone in order to use bluetooth to track people as they move around their stores. If you have bluetooth enabled on your device at all it can be used to track you.

The store just needs to place inexpensive low powered beacons around their store and they will record and log every device that passes within range.
If you're interested in a non-Cloudflare solution, we have developed a service called Gatekeeper, and we'd really like to get your thoughts on whether it might suit your needs: https://www.nettoolkit.com/gatekeeper/about

Essentially, Gatekeeper is a rules-engine with a fancy UI that allows you to craft policies specific to your site and the traffic that is visiting your site. For example, you can say "Allow Googlebot" and "Show CAPTCHA to visitors from AWS on every fifth visit". If you'd like to communicate offline, you can find our email address in my profile.
Thanks for clarifying. IME the analogy comes out too often when someone is implying "stupid economists are overlooking obvious opportunity", yet their bill-on-the-ground is actually some convoluted, borderline scam.
I prefer to ask why the state is entitled to more taxation, rather than asking why its citizens are entitled to keep more.
I’m saying that the old Mac Mini that Apple discontinued support for in 2009 - Microsoft kept “supporting” until 2020. That’s 14 years of life for a computer with 1.5GB RAM, a 60GB spinning hard drive, USB 2, 802.11G. The only saving grace was that it also had Gigabit Ethernet.

My mom kept it because it was useful. But you can buy a $200 Dell (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-15-300...) that would serve the same purpose - a computer to run Chrome - that would run rings around a 16 year old computer. At some point it just becomes nerd pride to keep using. She does have other computers that she uses that are newer. But once it was EOL, she never used it.

Personally, I wouldn’t even think about getting any x86 laptop in 2022. Using an Intel laptop with its horrible battery life, heat and fan noise compared to an ARM Mac is like using a flip phone after the iPhone came out
How? Do you just mean by good oral care practices from an early age? Or something more off the beaten path?
> That's a sign that your resume looks good, but you interview poorly.

Yeah, exactly. If you're 'leaking' at one point, that's what you should focus on.

I just don't think there is much more I can do without feeling I am being fake. I could _probably_ take ADHD meds and zone out a bit but certainly isn't great.

I don't ever disclose any of this even to current employers. I don't think I come across as "talented jerk", I think I come across as probably more of a pushover than I actually am so that I don't veer into people thinking I am a "stuck up bitch" (to be quite blunt about my concern).

I will consider other factors I can tweak that may give a better impression, but I do think I come across more as "eccentric fast talker who lives tech" than "buttoned up white collar" and that may be part of the problem; that I am trying the wrong kind of 'puzzle' and there is a company out there that does want my type.

> But it might be more likely that if many different groups of people have all been interested in you on paper but then you didn't meet expectations

This is likely what it is to be quite honest. It's that constant issue of "need experience to get experience". No one is willing to take a 'risk' on me being a principal or architect because I don't have on paper experience on that title despite doing that level of work.

I have all the hallmarks: mentorship, well-written documentation, talks, open source work. The only really left to consider is:

1) I come across as insane, people see that, I don't, and they choose not to involve themselves.

2) They have pre-conceived notions of what someone of that 'tier' looks / acts / sounds like.

I do understand that at that tier there is a concrete expectation of external communication but the weird part is I already do that anyway.
Your comment about boredom raises an interesting question whether an effective general motivation system is an unalienable necessary part of general intelligence or not.

The way I see it, as soon as you think about it seriously it becomes obvious that all (or at least most) the negative feelings we have are there for a very good practical reason. Boredom is effectively a push to prevent an agent from being stuck in a local optimum, and required to get a more effective explore-vs-exploit tradeoff (for whom we have theoretical grounding for what's good or not based on the analysis of "multi-armed-bandit" problems), and the same applies for satiating pleasure e.g. hedonic treadmill; burnout is required for an agent to be able to "say" "this isn't working, you need to do literally anything else"; fear has obvious benefits for risk management; and anger, hate and vengeance has obvious causes in game theory about optimal strategies in multi-actor games with potential defectors.

So that is an argument that any effective general intelligence is likely to possess at least some of the emotions that we recognize, simply because they are effective for a purpose.

On the other hand, these factors are (or were) required for a specific environment, namely evolution in a social community of peers - so perhaps an agent can be scarily effective without them, especially if their environment is very different.
On distillation of guided diffusion models
Understanding how the larger system would behave is a problem. Especially since many UBI theories assume only first-order effects (no impact on cost of living for those with low incomes). https://unintendedconsequenc.es/universal-basic-income-part-...
What does third order mean here?

Cubed? f°g°h(x) ?
This is a really great summary with a lot of amusing little details. A couple comments:

1. It sounds like there was confusion for a period of time because the developer made a joke. I think there really should be a specification for how to annotate humorous comments made on the web.

2. I loved the section spelling out the principle of "don't break the web." This is important, and as we get more and more legacy web the more valuable this principle becomes. That said, I wonder if a day is coming where the browser is disrupted because browser devs are moving too slowly on account of this.

Please note: #1 is a joke
You should check out this other talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo . It goes into a bunch of details about how many parts there are inside modern SoCs.
That's why everyone can buy sell and own nukes!
Question from an ML-illiterate:

Are there known ways the training for these models could be distributed/decomposed? E.g. SETI-style distribution of a homogenous centrally-defined task, or — much more exciting — recombination of several different models / sets of weights? (I'm just throwing words around here without really understanding them.)

I'm imaging a world in which one group of enthusiasts could work together to train a model on all images on Wikipedia, another group could work on training a model that understands hands really well, and then later yet another group could combine the work of the other two without doing all that training from scratch.

Is that even remotely plausible?
> here’s the kicker — if you overwrite a non-enumerable property, e.g. Array.prototype.sort = whatever, it remains non-enumerable.

One thing I never understood about this problem: Why not change the behavior so that overriding non-enumerable properties makes them enumerable? That seems to be the behavior that library developers (e.g. MooTools) were already expecting anyway.
It seems almost tautological to say that conservatives wouldn't approach it properly, and that any conservative approach would further poverty. Conservativism is interested in keeping the status quo. In general funding UBI in a progressive way and specifically reducing poverty are not compatible with the status quo.
And impossible to link to anything behind the scroll interaction.
Not anymore, UVC LEDs are making it into consumer products like the LARQ water bottle(Which I have), and devices claiming to be 1W leds are in the $5 to $15 range.
500k users rounds to dozens, AFAIU ;) But, source?
Not very surprising, but almost none of these work on Firefox on my phone. I know it's Google, but adding a compatibility matrix before each feature would've been the least they could do.

I wonder how the web contacts thing is going to work on desktop browsers. I don't know anyone who still uses their address book on the desktop. I guess Chrome/Edge/Safari may implement an Gmail/Outlook/iCloud contacts picker?
Again, this is purely anecdotal and at best rational only. Our field is already loaded with rationality, and most of our "this is clearly better" cases fail to reveal any improvements in case studies.

If people are so certain it is better and believe it is important, let them stake money on it and do research. Until then, the cat is both dead and alive.
Gotcha. When thinking of embedded fonts, my mind goes straight to totally embedded with data-uris (which would have worked around OPs issue above).
Hoooly crap who on this planet would pay $100/yr for this?!

Sorry, not the most constructive response, but my goodness everything is a SaaS platform these days...
Unciphered recovered 142 private keys from ethereumwallet.com due to vulnerabilities in their key generation. Ethereumwallet.com was an online service created by the co-founder of Ethereum, Anthony Di Iorio, which ran from 2015-2018.
no lol everything is online
I'm no Windows fan, but this is not an accurate portrayal (d'oh!).

Microsoft has historically put a huge amount of effort in (backwards) compatibility. Here's a famous example: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/windows-95-went-the-....

Related (sub) discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13450160.

It's possible that they changed strategy recently, but there is a very long history of extraordinary (backwards) compatibility.
Looks nice! But as with any 2022 project that publishes user input, please put a section in the README describing counter-abuse and moderation features, even if (especially when!) there is none. Here it seems there is an easily defeated captcha.
For context, it's worth pointing out the PR and some of the actual reactions:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-flatMap/pull/56

https://twitter.com/bterlson/status/971210573818904576

https://twitter.com/BenLesh/status/971462667322839040

https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/971500672620351494

It's probably not worth engaging in these threads, since everyone now knows it was a joke, but Twitter doesn't put old things into read-only model unfortunately.