skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As the UBI goes up the % of people who would make the same or greater incomes by quitting and taking UBI would go up.

That’s not how UBI works. It’s not tied to quitting one’s job. Anyone working earns income from salary/wages in addition to their UBI. Unlike many existing entitlements, there is never a financial incentive to work less.
Basics, Simplicity, Speed, Success
And it makes a lot of sense. As per how control key ANDs the input codes.

A is 1. What's right before A in ASCII? @ is.
Well yes, partner country's corporations intelligence, your intelligence.
188 LOC. Probably highest LOC-to-fun ratio I've seen in ages – IOCCC entries excepted.
Being woken up 1:00 in the morning multiple times a week by the walls of my house shaking from my neighbors vehicles makes me a pansy?

But I did talk to them. Turns out he lives with his mom, and she just bitched me out.
That's not really true any more.

I personally know several Postgres contributors / committers who have a very high amount of control on what projects they work on.
> In these cases, call the insurance company.

I did that once, they told me "we don't know because we don't know what the hospital will bill".

So I decided that I don't know if I'll pay..........
The shockingly low priority hospitals give to patient sleep might be a factor that the authors missed.
Sounds like a privacy nightmare. Who would want to tag all their images with big tech approved metadata? Hoping this doesn't become mandatory in the future to post on platforms
For genealogical research you need something more than just a tree builder, you need a system to record facts based on documents (like birth certificates) and a mechanism to link those records (I think person A mentioned in birth certificate C the same person as person B mentioned in marriage certificate D). The family tree is the accumulation of these the documents and the assumptions you made. It is possible that when you encounter a new document, you have to drop some of your assumptions, because, for example, it does occasionally happen that a person with a same (or similar) name is born on the same date in the same city.
And it's 5% of apples revenue.
Asians do better on IQ, Asians do better in college. What happened wasn't that we stopped caring about IQ or college, instead those who oppose them started treating Asians as white and saying they don't count.

So it seems like the people who change like the wind here aren't those in favor of merits.
No, this has been debunked over and over.

People imagine BEVs need to be charged every evening at some super high power. The reality is they need to be charged about once a week (median US commute is 1/10th of typical BEVs range at city speeds), and can charge overnight, or when parked at work, while using less electricity than your air conditioning unit.

The grid is designed to handle peak demand (see the "duck curve"), and there is a lot of spare capacity outside of the peak hours, especially at noon when there's more solar production than consumption.

BEVs are very flexible with their charging time, and scheduling charging in off-peak hours is a standard feature.
Countach humiliated the Italian blacksmith.
Hummer is arguably a much better name for an EV than an internal combustion vehicle.
This is one reason I like to suggest putting PV onto cars directly, even though normal shaped cars will only get 8-12 miles of extra range per day from this, and even though the surface of a vehicle is one of the worst places for PV cells: 8-12 miles per vehicle per day makes a big difference to the overall infrastructure requirements.
that is why its important for 3rd party tools like bitwarden and 1password to support passkeys..
I don’t remember exactly where I read that, but from mitochondrial DNA it was calculated that at some point we were down to 50 or so individuals.
This is poorly reported. From the article:

* Group A reported a 26% increase in participants staying in housing they rented or owned;

* Group B reported a 35% increase in housing they rented or owned;

* And Group C, which received the smaller sum of money, reported a 20% increase in renting or owning housing.

But these are not actually percentages - these are percentage points!

* Group A went from 8% to 34% - a 4.25x increase

* Group B went from 5% to 40% - an 8x increase

* Group C went from 11% to 30% - a 2.7x increase

Which is a lot more dramatic than saying 20% vs 26% vs 35%.

The study authors might have good reason for reporting it this way, such as many participants dropped out of the study before follow-up, which probably skews toward people with more chaotic lifestyles. So the denominator for each group has changed at follow-up and could at least partially explain why all groups saw improvements.
Yeah - its like say the illiad. Did the trojan war happen exactly like that? Obviously not. Was there some big war that inspired it? Probably.

Like, you shouldn't take the events of the bible literally, but you could probably reasonably infer that the nations demonized in it probably were historical enemies of the people who wrote it, etc
"If the case for digital video consumption was objectively better, Blockbuster would have bought Netflix to profit on both ends"
Individual programmer skill is seen as taboo to discuss despite it having a huge impact on project outcomes.
I might be a bit paranoid, but don't provide some random website on the internet intimate information about your family. Someone might learn about your ancestry at the worst possible moment...
Research leaned how the reader wanted last time I looked. And was confounded by requiring subjects to confess a crime.
Kilauea volcano observatory update – Hazard Notification System (HANS)
Exactly. Most of the Twitter acquisition money was borrowed, and that debt is now sitting on the company's balance sheet as liabilities.
Or a Scottish poet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns
The Jony Ive school of management?
Except without the primary api that makes gaming on WINE viable. Vulkan with DXVK and VKD3D.
Did castles have windows?
Mufflers do not impact emissions.

In the case of gasoline cars, there are mechanisms for controlling intake air, recirculating exhaust gas, and filtering emissions directly out of the exhaust gases. All of these impact carbon emissions.

These defeat devices allow drivers to modify some or all of these attributes in favor of gaining engine performance.
>The fact that they do well at all on tests they haven't seen

Haven't they seen these tests?

We know little to nothing of how these models get trained.
> However, I would discourage you from eating pyramid salt grown with this method regularly. I’m no dietician, and it’s best to look for an expert before adding something new to your diet.
yeah, USDC has the same function

along with GeminiUSD by the Winklevoss twins and PaypalUSD

all the “money in a bank account” stablecoins have a similar structure. It isnt based on any resolved regulatory appeasing, its just what they wanted to do and imagined would be helpful for regulatory compliance, but it also lets them just freeze anything and keep collecting interest on the associated dollars and never needing to have it available for redemption

its a decent business model

here is USDT’s contract code

https://etherscan.io/address/0xdac17f958d2ee523a220620699459...

in the outline you can look is the “addToBlacklist” method, alongside the “destroyBlacklistFunds” method

not only can they freeze your address’ ability to transfer, they can unilaterally subtract your balance

it is a centralized asset that simply settles faster on distributed ledger technology like blockchains

there are a couple decentralized attempts at the same model using overcollateralization and no central issuer or central control or freezing function, DAI is the closest.
Yeah. This is an understatement, and its not a weak statement.
Using the for(;;) loop in Awk, and the C preprocessor, in a project called cppawk, I created a loop facility that has multiple clauses of different types, that can combine in parallel or as Cartesian-product, and are programmer-definable.

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/cppawk/tree/cppawk-iter.1

The above manual page includes an example of how to define an alpha_range clause that iterates over string ranges like alpha_range(var, "000", "999") or alpha_range(var, "AAA", "ZZZ").

There is a conditional clause if(...) which takes a condition and another clause as arguments. The iteration of the other clause is suspended while the condition is false.

At the shell prompt: add the values of the odd integers in the range 1 to 50.

$ cppawk '
> #include <iter.h>
>
> BEGIN {
> loop (range (i, 1, 50),
> if (i % 2 == 1, summing (sum, i)))
> ;
> print sum
> }
> '
625

Though if is an Awk keyword, this isn't a problem because if is a clause, not an ordinary expression. Moreover, though the clause is defined by macros, none of them are called if; they have if embedded in their name.
If this blows your mind, have a look at how many different companies make and sell products under the Philips brand some time :-)
I mean, people enjoyed this piece on HN a bit ago, so I'm sure there's an audience. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30228327
I have to say, I was interested in your analysis, it inspired me to read the article for once. It seems your conclusion is quite the opposite of the one in the article. You're free to draw your own conclusions, but often when you see this there's something being left out.

As and aside, it's fascinating how effective the $50 is. It definitely does look like you get diminished returns quickly, though.

(From TA) "staying in housing they rented or owned"

I suspect there's something not being captured here. I'm wondering if there's somehow an option in between "staying in housing they rented or owned", and homelessness.

Perhaps, they're managing to staying with friends and family for part of it. I could see there being some gray area here. The morality of intentionally staying homeless to save money could be debated in various scenarios.

It's also ignoring a number of other dimensions of wellbeing that did improve only in the higher paid groups. Feeling safe where they slept, welcome in society, and maybe most importantly employment.

It's only if you look really close at one metric, which has moral judgements attached to it, and maybe explainable by living arrangement other than pure homelessness (keep in mind the criteria "pays rent or owns house") that things look so pessimistic.

Seems like the discourse on this topic is not permitted to involve the happiness, security, and likely long term outlook (due to being more employed, not just happy feelings). According to your analysis, we basically disregard the wellness of the homeless, and are only permitted to consider how it impacts us.

This is not an unfair critique, you mention some of these things, but they're handwaved away. I think you got the mental health aspect wrong, but quite frankly the results are confusing and a little mixed. The article itself doesn't do it justice.

It should be noted though that this is also trying to completely turn around someone's life, according to one metric for $6000 in 6-months. They know it's gonna end in 6-months. You can only do so much with this. I know you're using the term in the study, but this says nothing about universal basic income, or long term base assistances.

Also, I can't help but note all participants mental health was shown as decreasing, which is just odd. I double checked and it looks like this is 6 months from enrolment, so this is right after getting booted from the program. This is not a shock. People with mental health problems have issues leaving programs THEY paid for.
I thought about this some more through the day... if this is your app (I'm not sure if it is?), can I offer some unsolicited feedback?

I think there is a lot of value in what you're offering (the ability for product owners/requirement definers/etc. to define what is needed on a screen by screen basis). But that wasn't at all clear to me, as a frontend dev, on seeing your product page. I thought it was some sort of UI mockup tool. But that's not really the point at all, is it? It's more like a really precise checklist with built-in flows and prototyping.

What caught me was -- counter-intuitively, perhaps -- how polished the cards were. They look like UI mockups even though you say they're not really mockups. I thought they were finished modals that I was going to implement. No, they're really more like (or even less than, actually) something like Balsamiq (whose sketched look makes it obvious that they aren't designs, just ideations). In contrast, the polish your app cards had suggested that they were nearly finished UI mockups and actually worked AGAINST the idea that "hey, nevermind the layout or components, we just need screen X with this and that, which leads to screen Y with this and that". In other words, as a dev, I was too distracted by the polished UIs and how to implement them to realize that it was actually just a way to document requirements and flows (which would indeed be very useful vs something like a Jira ticket with a bunch of bullets).

I don't mean this as a criticism, but more like "oh, now that I get what they're going for... I can see the value". I hope that's a helpful datapoint...
In a free market-based economy all options are on the table. An entrepreneur (like Elon Musk) can invest in a technology and market it in such a way to capture some share of the market.

I would encourage these "oil executives" to find creative solutions. Diverse market options drive costs down and promote innovative products. To say one technology is always better than another because "some oil executive" does or doesn't promote it, is FUD. In tech we hear enough FUD we should be immune to it. We are not.

It is a proven fact enough electricity is not produced to handle the charging of enough BEVs to replace the current number of ICE vehicles. We need more options not fewer.
Yes, it is an unfortunate reality. I was very pleased to discover that Valve's newly released Counter Strike 2 did not require the invasive type of anti-cheat software. On the other hand, it also seemed like some players I encountered were making shots that were too accurate for a human player. Maybe CS2 players are just that good...

My wish is that multiplayer games would have the option to play on servers with anti-cheat and servers without anti-cheat. If my memory serves correctly, that is kind of how Microsoft's Halo: Master Chief Collection is, at least when played on the Steam Deck. While I don't like the entire experience (e.g., having to use a MS account), at least optional anti-cheat is a plus.

FWIW I typically choose option 2 - keeping the gaming PC separate from anything important.
They outsource all their tech to big contracting firms. Their apps, website, and everything else technology-wise were a complete clusterfuck during the pandemic and I wouldn't be surprised if they are all still hosed.

Home Depot is the most successful big box hardware store chain in the US. It is a serious WTF trying to use their site.
> "Batteries go bad over a rather short period of time"

Not really. They do gradually lose capacity over a long time, but it's a slow process. The US Government requires EV batteries to have an 8 year / 100,000 mile warranty, and California requires 10 years and 150,000 miles. I expect most batteries will significantly exceed that.

LFP batteries generally have about 3x the longevity of other lithium ion types.

There are some examples of early battery failures, like the Nissan Leaf didn't use liquid cooling; now basically everyone else learned from their example and does it. Chevy Bolts had a battery recall due to bad manufacturing. Basically, if a battery fails early someone somewhere screwed up. Most EV batteries are fine and will continue to be fine for a very long time.

>> "I’m not convinced it ever will be, especially if it’s continued to be made by exotic materials."

Resource constraints are an issue, but there are workarounds. Nickel and cobalt can be avoided simply by using LFP cells. Permanent magnet motors are more efficient than induction, but the permanent magnets don't need to be based on rare-earth elements -- it's just that the non-rare-earth-magnet version would be less powerful and/or bulkier. Similarly you could wind the motors with aluminum instead of copper, and the motor would be less powerful and/or bulkier. But that's fine -- electric motors are already quite a bit smaller and more powerful than they need to be anyways.

Lithium is probably the hardest-to-get-around resource constraint with current technology, but lithium production is ramping up.

Also worth noting that the need for large batteries would be substantially reduced if were to invest heavily into charging infrastructure and even the electrification of roads so that cars don't even need to stop. (There are some projects in Sweden and Germany along those lines.)
IMO, most people don’t want to be working on innovative things, despite what they say. It is brutally hard sometimes, and you have to be okay with being alone to figure things out in your own.
Good point. As a counterpoint but not a rebuttal, places exist with the wealth for single-family homes and pensions to be within reach for almost every citizen - Switzerland, Austria, the nordics. Conditions there are not necessarily replicable in America or my own country. However, a culture of social democracy and investing in the citizenry looks to be a factor, and our countries' prioritisation of minimising tax for the rich and minimising social spend is a pretty good way to prevent this kind of citizen wealth. So fuck us for our short-sightedness.
Ask HN: Examples of SaaS with Pure API/Minimal UI/UX?
Hey HN!

I really like creating tools (you can find some of them on my website in the profile), but I really hate doing UI/UX.

Are there any examples of, relatively, successful SaaS products that have minimal UI/UX?

Share your stories.
AWS S3 'Access Denied' (2021)
Gotta be SharePoint.
Anything that offers a social login/sign up but no option to use a user name/email address + password.

Some physical items that don't come in black (if only because I enjoy asking Does it come in black? ...).
It's good. Vsync adds a small amount but my monitor is 144Hz so it adds less than half what a 60Hz would add (I think?). I've heard of some folks being able to play without Vsync and without crashes, but not me. Not yet at least.
People say this. Then I run into landlords who proudly talk about how their tenants are paying for all of their expenses and more or how they find ways to avoid paying for important amenities.
Could there be categories other than "pays rent or owns home" and "homelessness"?
CS = Customer Support/Care in that regard.
Quick, change it again so I can't know what you're talking about!
My father went through a crazy amount of medical care in a few short years. He checked himself out AMA twice. Once because the provider was an idiot and making him sicker. Another time so he could die at home instead of in the hospital where they couldn't really help him anyway.
Existing gaslines" won't work because hydrogen leaks. It's literally the smallest molecule in the universe. Very different from natural gas.

It works just fine. The British did studies in the early 2000s, injecting h2 into Ng lines, and separating it back out at the other end with mebranes.

Also you need around 55kWh of electricity to get 11kWh of power out of a Toyota Mirai's wheels to the ground. It'd be more efficient just to send that 55kWh to a waiting plugged in EV using existing power lines.

Love how you ignored the power loss in transit, the power loss in charging, especially with fast charging, and didn't mention how inefficient batteries are as a comparison.

As for "slow charge", you're behind on tech. The current Hyundai/Kia platform supports 800V charging, meaning it can take in power at 350kW. It'll take under 10 minutes to fill it from 0 to ~80%.

We'll only need about 100 trillion dollars in new power lines, transfer stations, and on demand power generation, to enable people to charge like that.

Far better to build power plants, and when off peak load, generate h2 and ship through our existing pipelines.
I love that Roy Keane has 5% of these entries. Saipan was nearly the beginning of a civil war in this country!
Creative. Spotify usually just plays ads to keep me from falling asleep.
>I guarantee you if IQ wasn't a measure white people did well at it would have never been adopted as a measure.

Even scientists who say the black-white IQ gap is not in part due to genetic factors agree that it does measure intelligence to some extent: that is, people with higher intelligence do better on average on IQ tests, even if each IQ point is not a numeral unit adding to your intelligence 'score.' All this said, why would you assume that people using this tests only are doing so for biased reasons?
SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) or the equivalent. HTTP is really the wrong layer for things like bonding multiple connections, congestion adjustments, etc.

Unfortunately, most computers only pass TCP and UDP (Windows and middleboxes). So, protocol evolution is a dead end.

Thus you have to piggyback on what computers will let through--so you're stuck with creating an HTTP flavor of TCP.
I agree that it isnt deterministic, but I think there is a very real correlation between wealth and intelligence, however you want to define the latter.

How much disposable income does the illiterate 20% of Americans have, and who is targeting them with their social consciousness marketing
https://xkcd.com/385/

You are describing many people I've met, not one of them would be counted in these diversity reports.
> No first party controller

Why does it matter if Apple makes their own controller? iOS/iPadOS supports other popular controllers and the Apple Store even sells multiple controllers (including the PS5 controller).
On the oft trip to Southwold, I am usually left to my own devices which involves a few pints and a copy of 2000AD from WHSmiths.

A must watch for comic fans not just 2000AD fans is their documentary Future Shock! The story of 2000 AD:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock!_The_Story_of_200...
Pretty much to scratch that itch.
Do we have evidence that ballot reform actually can improve political outcomes?
> What are the odds that someone with a passcode 1234 is 1/ already signed into Google on their phone

...very high? I don't understand how this is unlikely, pretty much every phone owner with a google account is signed into that account on their phone.
Good to hear. The fact that in 2005 you had an app that required seemingly petabytes of memory to operate, and put on machines barely powerful enough to play minesweeper, was in and of itself a series of bad decisions...but the app itself, and it's layout were just maddening. It's like MC Escher was the UX lead.
I'm not buying this at all.

People freak out about EV battery fires now (never mind that this is not actually the problem it is made out to be), can you imagine the hazmat situation from a couple of cars carrying who knows how many KG of Anhydrous Ammonia crashing into each other? I mean, you might make the fuel tanks extremely robust (and heavy) but fuel lines etc will still break. Ammonia in the air at 300 PPM will cause SEVERE injuries to anybody in the area not wearing a respirator.

And how are you supposed to fuel these cars? Have you seen the PPE you have to wear when handling Anhydrous Ammonia?
Seizure prediction would get me to purchase and wear an Apple Watch and/or Earbuds all the time.
IIRC DSSSL influenced XSLT. I personally consider XSLT an abomination.

Separately, your criticism of lisp syntax is pure bikeshedding, and depressing to see it brought up again and again here (and I'm not a lisper). If you can never see below the surface you're always going to be stuck at the shallow end.
You might have to pay him for that secret.
Ask HN: Should I bother asking users to "confirm password"?
That's like saying Mac Pro is an ambiguous name for a computer.