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I Programed the Most Productive macOS Keyboard Setup [video]
That is correct, my bad. The next screen after a test like this would likely be a mammography, and only after that would a biopsy be done if anything suspicious was seen.
Former military here…I only ever did this a few times in very specific circumstances. I wasn’t infantry but when exercising that role I did do this a couple of times when on sentry for a long time or when in an OP (observation post). This was rare and only on exercise, I never needed to do it ‘for real’.

The reason I did it is whilst lying down or in very confined/concealed area it’s easier to turn your wrist to see the time, which passes amazingly slowly in these situations. If you imagine you arm outstretched in front of you it’s a lot easier to see the watch face if it’s on the inside of the wrist as you have to turn your arm much less.

I’m not sure I am explaining it adequately, but it these circumstances it’s definitely easier.

At all other times and in my normal role I never did this.

Regarding light discipline, many brands make military versions that are much harder to accidentally press the backlight or in modern tomes allow you to turn off the heartrate monitor lights. Also, we would generally wear long sleeves which would cover a watch in most situations anyway, even in hot climates. There was a gradual mover to 3/4 length or turned up sleeves during my time, when watches would then often then get covered by tactical gloves or sometimes even dedicated covers made to conceal a watch.
"we need to add this one more feature in 2 weeks so I can get promoted" -everyone at the company

Loop this for 8 years on a single product.
Phalanx's Twilight, Legion's Triump, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
Depends on how much you print, and what happens with supply as you do so. Some countries (eg. Japan) are struggling to increase inflation, so this seems like a straightforward policy. At the same time it can solve the problem of weak consumer demand: productive factories making desirable goods that citizens nonetheless feel too poor to buy, causing those factories to shut down, resulting in the country getting poorer in real terms. After all, "demand" is desirability times spending power: if spending power is low in your target market, then demand is low, even when your products are desirable.

Putting money in the hands of the largest number of people works well with production economies of scale. For the same total quantity of money, having it concentrated in a few hands means your society is incentivized to produce a few yachts and private jets, and too low on the quantity curve for economies of scale to make that production efficient. When that same money is distributed, the incentives are to produce large quantities of vacuum cleaners and washing machines, where mass production is very efficient, so total utility can be higher.
Yeah, many of the quoted examples miss the “universal” part:

> recurring cash relief to low-income residents for 2 years

> Finland launched a program to give €560 ($616) a month to 2,000 unemployed citizens

> doled out monthly unconditional sums of $500 to 125 low-income participants for two years

My contention with UBI is that if you give cash to everybody, it ends up being largely a wealth transfer to the rent seekers in society who can just raise their prices because more cash is now chasing the same amount of supply.
In the UK at least, credit reports largely happen behind the scenes, and potential landlords etc cannot perform a full credit search.
With your permission they can perform a 'soft' search (have you declared bankruptcy or do you have any County Court Judgements) and they may not charge you for doing this.

Further, as of GDPR, you are entitled to all information from the agencies for free. Prior, you could obtain it for a small fee (£2 by post if my memory serves me correctly).

As far as I'm concerned, SCHUFA is basically a scam I am compelled to fall for whenever I want to rent somewhere.
Printing money out of thin air makes existing money worth less. So it is effectively a tax by another name, you are taking the value from the people who have money now, without actually changing the balances in their bank accounts. And it's regressive, since there's no way to limit inflation to any selected demographic.
This part seems like an unfinished thought. I thought they meant to say that being on the inside of the arm would mean that the crown is less exposed towards splashes, debris, and whatnot from the outside.
> I don't think anyone is doubting that giving people money improves their lives.

I think this is actually more controversial than you're giving it credit for. Giving money as opposed to other non-monetary forms of aid is quite a radical concept. Many people believe that giving money to the poor results in bad financial decisions, short term spending, and few long-term effects. This is the main belief that the trials of UBI so far have disproven.

Another example of this is charitable giving. Most charities tackling poverty focus on giving food, water, medicine, etc, whereas studies have shown that giving money is a remarkably efficient way of donating. Give Directly has done very well with this.
The GDP of the USA is about 28 trillion dollars. The US military's budget alone is over eight hundred billion dollars. I think we can manage.
You just make it sound like automatically generating content by digesting previously made content and creating a predictive model inherently leads to bad results. And I agree.
I think I fell in love with emacs when I realized that individual key presses could be scripted. Or possibly when I wrapped my head around macro injection. Hard to say, this thing grew on me from being an absolute space alien of an architecture to the first tool in the toolbox I reach for if I've got a new project to tackle.

My advice to people when editor wars come up is that going deep on something is more important than going deep on the right thing. emacs versus vi? No strong opinion. I happened to learn emacs first and would be repeating a lot of labor to go as deep on vi.

(... But I do tend to give a slight nudge in the direction of something of that ilk because relative to say, VS code... Those editors have already stood the test of time, they aren't beholden to one owner, and while past performance is not proof of future expectations, there's a lot of people heavily invested in keeping both of them alive and thriving).
Also relevant: https://grapheneos.org/
Right. And if they can print it from thin air and just give it to everyone, then it has no actual value. Price discovery will force significant inflation on every class of product and service because that is what people will be buying with it. Its effectiveness drops with scale, which is what they are not testing. It's great that UBI works in a lab, but this experiment has been run at multiple points in history and absolutely thrashed societies every time without significant external input (conquest, exploitation, etc.).

Money by definition derives its value from its scarcity relative to the economy it is representing. There is no free lunch here.
Sounds exciting, any resources you'd recommend for reading more about jails?
Hyperinflation.
If you think Navalny was anything but a Russian nationalist, or that he would have acted differently than Putin on e.g. returning Crimea to Ukraine[0], try learning more about him.

Also, Reuters is really showing its bias here by incessantly referring to Putin as "the former KGB spy". Imagine if an article about Reagan while he was president referred to him constantly as "the former Hollywood actor".

[0] https://crimea.suspilne.media/en/news/942
This isn’t an argument. What do you say to someone who doesn’t think ubi will scale and who is also anti war?
Just use assembly. I'm sure you will get your project done .
It doesn't...
There absolutely is a tradeoff between defense and civilian spending:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model
You’d be surprised. I’ve seen it happen a few times. There’s no silver bullet or a guarantee that happens all the time, but I have had my hands in doubling revenue 2 times by redesigning one page. Different solutions btw for different companies. Or a major major client that, because of the redesign, used the product and endes up spending a lot over the course of 2 years. And no I cant just replicate that on command but in some cases it’s not out of the ordinary.
> Fears that the experiment would engender laziness in participants were not borne out in the project’s findings: “The ‘laziness’ contention is just not supported by our findings,” the chief data analyst of one of the experiments said. “There is not anywhere near the mass defection the prophets of doom predicted.”
minimum wage can be confused with UBI, because it has a disproportionate (positive) effect on the poorest - a significant % boost to their disposable income.

There are a number of effects that boost disposable income in the US: lower tax brackets, tax credits, minimum wage, etc. I don't think anyone is arguing that people need to be poor, just illustrating that it's difficult to really say what the effect will be of increasing disposable income.

Isolated studies of UBI suffer from this same problem. A localized increase in spending power may not tip the wider economy, but if everyone had it? That really might. We just don't know.
> or slashing services somewhere else

Military budget?
I ran many clinical trials during my career as an academic neurosurgical anesthesiologist. "... it seems like it would be so tiresome" is accurate; it's also exhausting in terms of the huge amount of time and effort required to get a study approved by the institutional review board; getting informed consent from prospective patients after an exhaustive explanation repeated over and over to each individual; actually doing the study; organizing the results; doing the statistical analysis required; writing the paper; waiting months to hear back from the journal's reviewers, often receiving a rejection letter; resubmitting the paper to another journal, sometimes several more; after having it accepted, revising the paper per the reviewers' comments before resubmission, sometimes going back and forth for months.

You can find my published papers here:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DdrMc8AAAAJ&hl=en
At work, we were cleaning out a closet which has accumulated stuff for at least 15 years. My boss said "Aww, a Cajun[1]!" and it turns out it was the first switch we used back when he started at the company. Later in the day, I had to ask him what he wanted to do with it and it took some definitely effort for him to say "I guess we can just put it in the recycle pile..." as he had good memories of working with it and building stuff on top of it.

Time marches on, and our great efforts are as nothing once they are replaced by the next big thing.

1. https://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/cajun/docs/p333t24ug.pdf
UBI is sold to us as a pipe dream by people who will fight tooth and nail to prevent the minimum wage from being raised.

It's also not a particularly new idea. The Roman empire had UBI in the form of Cura Annonae.
Thanks for reading!

>where do your advertising dollars go and how do you measure their success?

Sorry, but advertising spend is one of the few things I avoid sharing publicly. Most other things about my strategy, I think our execution is what makes the difference, so I don't care if competitors know. With advertising, it was expensive to figure out a successful strategy, and it's the kind of thing that a competitor can copy perfectly.

I can talk about measuring their success, though. The metric I focus on primarily is revenue on ad spend. Material costs make up about 33% of the revenue from TinyPilot's product sales, so if we get $1.50 for every $1 we spend on ads, we'd end up about breakeven ($1.50 from revenue - $1 for the ad - $0.50 for materials), so I aim to be at 2.25 ROAS or higher on any channel so we have a comfortable margin.
Yes we have? There's an ongoing funding crisis for Ukraine's defense, and there are legions of conservatives who are mad about the trillion + spent blowing up Afghanistan + Iraq.

Taxation in the US came about to fund a war.

Money is in the top-three concerns people have about war; it's right after lives lost and infrastructure destroyed.
It also made it easier to read while taking a pulse.
What a strange response. You think he quickly devised a way - which would work - for a webboard comment?

It sounds more like cynicism and denial of others' internal lives
I often ask non-engineering staff (basically: imposing salesbruhs): "would you want to be treated this way?"

>With GPT 4 the effort is even smaller now.

Thanks to co-pilot, I am building my first website in over two decades. It encourages me in ways that aren't designed to pilfer my heard-earnt dollars with every modification.
Check out Vacheron Constantin Historiques American 1921 watch with it's "twisted" dial to ease reading the time while flying or driving:
https://www.vacheron-constantin.com/us/en/collections/histor...
In an urban subway line, stations may cover ~25% of the line. The platforms are long, while the distances between stations are often short. And while tunnels are standardized and their construction is largely automated, each station is a unique project that needs to be adapted to the specific location.
you forgot one

- people can be dicks

it's as if we forget that part of raising a child is civilizing them, hostility is the default.
You describe a significant minority, but minority nonetheless. This is 50+ generation and they are quickly fading away as their support.
Military is actually a big jobs program itself, both for people directly employed by the military as well as for industrial contractors.
The quality of your comments is so poor it's on a caricature level.

> basic rights such as 10 weeks of paid parental leave
Synthetic cis-regulatory DNA for tracing of cell identities and state changes
This is a good point, although all of the trials I can think of have had some element of reducing the means-testing, or reducing criteria for inclusion, which I think is valuable in testing the UBI concept.
First time I see "_ has died" on the first page on HN without black bar (since it was introduced).
> You wouldn't normally expect an AI chatbot to be authorized to make offers.

I think only software engineers would think this. I don't think it is obvious to a layperson who probably has maybe never even used one before.
Also, I'm curious about the tipping point from local basic income, to universal basic income. How is that not just asking for inflation?
The real problem here is that we expect an individual to operate on the same footing as a firm. The firm can use its army of people to devise new ways to bamboozle the individual, but the individual has only their wits and their free time to use to defend themselves. The only way to protect yourself as an individual is collective action.
Nurses wear inside of wrist to simplify taking heart rate, or at least they used to back when you actually had to count it yourself. Divers wear inside of wrist to avoid having to do an awkward posture change and instead just look down.
yeah, well maybe they should've said that, and they obviously would have if they intended to distinguish between the two of them instead of over inflating their claims in order to raise more money

The simple counter argument is that they're claiming that there is potential for general purpose physical simulation. So please don't play with words. I thought we were supposed to be talking about something concrete instead of whatever you wanted to twist things into to suit your purpose

either that, or they're not qualified to distinguish between the two options you presented, which is obviously not true

right?

the article's bazillion references have nothing to do with physics

nor is there any substance behind the claim of physical simulation

what is actually being simulated is synthesis of any video

it's not that complicated and you and they must know it too

it's double speak easily seen from miles away

scammers have to downvote
Dutch police begin roadside testing to curb illegal ebikes
I didn't think jira was that bad. I did think the access control/authentication that it atlassian puts on top of it is total dogshit though. one unrelated part of our org got their instance setup with saml integration to our azure tenant and it locked us out of our unrelated instance (signed up for with our work emails) for a month while 30+ interactions with their support team got us nowhere.
Not military here, but I did this many times in day to day use --

1. To ensure fancy watches do not get damaged/scuffed while traveling on subways

2. To hide fancy watches when riding on subways where watch might signal me as a robbery target

Now, I just use Apple Watch and everything else sits in a locker. Sad.
Yes, of course giving people money makes their lives better. It especially works when a very small subset of the population receives such treatment, such that their relative income is higher than those outside the experiment.

The issue with UBI is that enacting it at scale has two huge problems:

1. Financing it. These programs are monumentally expensive. You need to get the money from somewhere. The easiest place to take it is via the money printer and the second is from the rich.

If you do it via the money printer, it's a self-own in terms of inflationary impact.

If you do it by taxing the rich, you wind up hobbling and punishing your most productive citizens. Look at China's economic situation right now to see how ultimately unproductive that can be.

2. Diminishing effects. A bit more money is great when everybody else in your local economy didn't get it. But when everybody gets it, things just become more expensive.

The USA did this during the COVID era. We basically implemented UBI. We expanded the M1 money supply from $4T to $18T and largely handed it out in a diffuse way. For the first 6 months it was awesome. And then shortages started spiking and inflation started creeping in. We ultimately had to roll it back.

I don't think these problems are fundamentally solvable.

Instead, we should foster competition, incentivize innovation, and let markets do their thing. This will create lower prices for basic goods and create employment opportunities so people can have what they need for cheap, under the financing of their own effort.
I don't understand how anyone misread that so badly while genuinely attempting to respond.

I suppose we can both say there are things we don't understand.
Any sufficiently large purchase is indistinguishable from a jobs program.
Ask HN: Could we have Substack-style comment collapse lateral bars?
Instead of this minuscule and hard to click dash button..
I disabled my mouse for a week
The folks down-voting you down appear to have no problems with hundreds of billions of dollars spent on War every year - the money for that was printed out of thin air. The current U.S. Biden administration even removed the debt ceiling to do this!
Yeah, I think there are ways we can do it. It's just that with every hoop to jump through and layer of friction, it makes it a little less appealing than other paths to increase revenue, so I end up not doing it.

I think it's very possible that my prices are suboptimal, so I will think more about how I can do some price experiments while minimizing the downsides.
maybe a fun karpathy video here...
We already did the experiment, across the whole country!
This is the same logic children have of "if I have someone steal something and then give it to me I'm fine". I have the feeling that isn't "one weird trick legal systems hate"
Just declare a war on needless bureaucracy or something. No need for actual violence.
By that logic, company cultures that don't punish dumb ideas will remain innovative though.
People on HN (maybe elsewhere too) devote a lot of attention to sample sizes. I don't know the upthread commenter at all, but in general I suspect it's because that is an easy thing to understand about research and statistics, and it's a valid critique they've seen professionals use.

A normal human fallacy is to focus on the thing you understand, that is easy to understand (e.g., easy to quantify), and overlook the difficult issues that are far more important. There is much more, of much more importance going on in most of these studies, and in their statistics and validity, than the sample size.
Considering the price of eggs skyrocketed due to an outbreak of avian flu forcing farmers into mass culling tens of millions of egg laying hens across the US, it's probably not the money supply that caused that.
Yeah, as much as I hate the inefficiency of some wellfare programs in the USA - their inefficiency is a feature in that it provides a kind of scarcity.
It takes me more than a minute just to download CSV transactions from one source. I have 10 sources of data. :)

I'm only using it for tracking, not budgeting, so I do it maybe every 1-2 months.
Matthias Rust?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust
This is not because of the nature of meetings, but because people seem to have lost the skills to have effective meetings.

Start by sharing an agenda. List the very few things you need to discuss and decide up front. Provide review materials for those who actually prep. During the meeting, record notes on the conversation, record decisions made, and record action items, and publish these records.

If you're not prepared to do this, you aren't prepared to meet. You're just having a chat. That can be done ad-hoc. Call it a chat. Have it over Slack or one-on-one. More than one person requires an agenda, and should result, at a minimum, in a document that adds to the organization's knowledge (even if only of decisions or disagreements).
The speech in this article is highly politicized.

"Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time"

Depends on how we define "works" and also on the scope. All of the examples given involve small sample size programs that end rather quickly, programs that are not universal but based on some need, or programs funded by state owned natural resources (oil).

I appreciate the examples and some of them history around them. I don't agree with the title since most of these are small, short programs, and they are usually not universal. These sorts of tests do nothing to explore macroeconomic effects if everyone recieved the same money. They also don't explore longterm sustainable funding solutions.