skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author seems to effectively argue for UBI as a solution to bullshit jobs. People waste a lot of time today in jobs that produce no real value, instead the government should pay people a similar wage to not do those jobs.

> There is no such thing as a UBI trial. There is no such thing as a UBI pilot program. Instead, there are cash transfer experiments being branded as UBI.

More strange to me, the author includes a quote arguing that UBI can't be tested at all, it must be fully implemented to test it. That really starts to sound like snake oil to me, and a huge risk as the argument is then that we should upend the economy based on an untestable hypothesis.

What I never see mentioned in arguments for UBI is also telling though. Namely that the whole idea for UBI is based squarely in Marxism. I'd rather not try out untestable ideas based in the fundamentals of Karl Marx. Read about the man's life at all and you'll really begin to question why anyone listened to such a person.
Not sure but retracting outboard devices out of water?
Just replace property tax with a land tax and most of your concerns will be handled. Any land upgrade (like buildings) should not affect the tax from owning a property.

Also I think that although rental cost may increase (but it's unlikely as individual rentals will be much more down to earth than those operated by a corporation that's driven only by quarterly earnings), the buying should be much more affordable.
The world is increasingly complex making it seem to many people that their work is unproductive (bullshit/make-work jobs). This and lack of agency in many jobs is what leads to massive frustration with work* but it's not actually an incisive observation about the economy as a whole.

it’s not possible to pilot a UBI. Giving cash to a small subset of the population is not UBI. UBI goes to everyone. It changes the economy as a whole

I am in particular very skeptical of anything that cannot be piloted or otherwise effectively tested on a smaller scale. These things usually don't work, not simply because the idea is generally unsound (though they often are) but because there are no effective means to tune/calibrate even a promising idea.

* Work is one of the least frustrating parts of this complexity since at least people see the paycheck at the end. Many consumers have trouble interacting with e-stores, self-service kiosks, credit card issuers, etc. where they pay for the privilege. This is why service jobs are so terrible: employees are soaking up the aggression born out of this frustration.
The numbers are debatable as usual but they're not taken from thin air

> A 2023 survey conducted by Payroll.org highlighted that 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, a 6% increase from the previous year. In other words, more than three-quarters of Americans struggle to save or invest after paying for their monthly expenses.

> Similarly, a 2023 Forbes Advisor survey revealed that nearly 70% of respondents either identified as living paycheck to paycheck (40%) or—even more concerning—reported that their income doesn’t even cover their standard expenses (29%).

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/living-paycheck-to-pa...
Not every version of MacOS. Classic MacOS, System 1-7 and MacOS 8-9, were definitely not crafted with the command line environment as a foundational layer. Using it was like being wrapped in several layers of bubble wrap. You were trapped in the GUI and if you wanted to do something the GUI didn't allow for, you were "using it wrong".
Oscar Zariski  was one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry
RecordIO would be a good choice for this use case

https://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/recordio/
> NTFS is really horrible handling many small files.

To pile onto NTFS, it's performance is so notoriously bad that there are developer teams working on Windows projects that configure their build farm to do cross builds from Linux to Windows just to avoid the performance penalty.
Double Nat on one side is not that universal. Across Europe and Australia I've seen it maybe once on a residential connection. I'm sure it's used, but the comment about the US in the post above just doesn't match my experience.
DDT, the shell for the ITS operating system, was also an assembly-level debugger.
The command line is not a "foundational layer" in macOS, that was my point. It exists on the same layer as the GUI does.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41085856
> What do you think a negative red light source means?

It means that the subject turned a dial to add red light to the color being matched.

Basically, you have an unknown color C, and then an R+G+B color. Sometimes, you can’t match it, so you try matching C+R = G+B. This results in “negative” R, because you’re adding R to the other side of the equation.

The same happens with green and blue, but to a lesser extent.
Can you give some examples?
Which GUIs are you using?
Careful, some people will be along any second pointing out your approach limits your ability to use "grep" and "cat" on your log after recovering it to your pdp-11 running in your basement. Also something about the "Unix philosophy" :p

Seriously though, I think this is a great idea, and would be interested in how easy it is to write sqlite output adaptors for the various logging libraries out there.
In case anyone else believed this was scarcasm, it is not. It is a direct and accurate quote from the article. Bril is not (always) SSA.

Here is a follow-up quote from the article.

> Unfortunately, this aftermarket SSA retrofit has been a huge headache. [...] I think my original design is fundamentally flawed; it was a mistake to treat phi semantically as “just another instruction” [...]. Bril’s SSA form needs a full rework [...]. It has been an interesting lesson for me that SSA comes with subtle design implications that are difficult to retrofit onto an existing mutation-oriented IL.

I don't know enough to know what to make of this and the accompanying bug reports. Perhaps just "stay away from Bril SSA"?
UBI equates to an assumption that the government can predict and control markets completely, effectively destroying markets that resemble anything like a free market.

Even considering an alternative to UBI like forcing all prices lower, i.e. price deflation, requires first taking that assumption as true.

The government never could allow prices to lower anyway though. Price deflation would make our national debt that much worse.
MySQL also supported this a million years ago, I'm not sure if it still does
I've tried the VS Code(ium) Shopify Ruby LSP plugin, and it's just BAD.

Have you tried the 'solargraph' VS Code(ium) plugin? I've found it to be pretty good. If you haven't do give it a try, but do know that you need to build the YARD documentation for installed "gems" for Solargraph to not be dogshit.

As described here [0], you run 'yard gems' to build said documentation. Do note that the method of having this documentation always be generated doesn't seem to work with "gems" installed with Bundler. Very frustrating, that.

[0] <https://solargraph.org/guides/yard>
I found the section on forward declarations at least partially off. I have never needed to use forward declarations for single recursion like the fibonacci example he gave. Mutual recursion does of course require forward declarations.
I'm not sure if I have O'Reilly's System Administration book. I used to get pre-prints back in the early nineties when they were still quite new. In any case, yes, I have read and I have Been Around.

And I still think that we can improve. More over, we ought to improve.
Regarding DNSSEC:

• Blog post: <https://blog.technitium.com/2023/05/for-dnssec-and-why-dane-...>

• As a podcast episode: <https://blog.apnic.net/2023/03/16/podcast-dnssec-the-case-fo...>
Rent controls is universally considered a stupid idea, the only reason why it continues to exist for the benfits of the political class that leverage votes out of it.

Handing out subsidy checks for the same amount accomplishes the same thing without the deadweight loss of people getting locked in aparments that economically prohibitve to keep habitable , or the units stay vacant for the same reason (see NYC).

Even government run HUD aparments end up with the same problem, given the exact same economics.
In unix world, everything is a file, so you can poll the file waiting for something to happen. And there’s the whole signal thing and dbus exists.
MySQL can work off a block device without a file system.
I cannot remember (or find) where I signed up for updates, but I get an email every 6 months (or so) from Lorenzo Stoakes personal email. Probably just send him an e-mail and he'll add you to his list.
Beauty Is in Simplicity – Things Every Programmer Should Know
hes not
Some people have thought of this before. Here is one implementation

https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/logbookd

Although I'm not sure it uses WAL2 mode, but that should be a trivial change.
he made new account in fear of being doxed
The US doesn't have a centrally planned economy, so the government can't lower the prices of everything. UBI is much more feasible to implement than communism.
Minimal 64x4 – DIY computer with 4x the processing power of a C64 or Apple II
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1oECH6rPvs

In-depth video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duPr5kViBVU
Last I checked, FreshRSS[1] can use a SQLite database.

[1] https://freshrss.org
String theory is still the only self consistent theory of quantum physics.... I'd say that's extremely successful.
> Windows by default, un-firewalled, will announce its presence to a network, and in old versions, that could even be the internet at large

By announcements you are referring to broadcasts which are limited to the broadcast domain of whatever IP the ISP has assigned you. Plus those are largely blocked by the ISP beyond that.

So to say that you are broadcasting to the world that you have an SMB share available is not true. An attacker would have to scan for it (i.e. make an active connection to TCP port 445 on your machine).
It can be when you're supporting AD authentication on an intranet site. I did a bunch of these for government type web apps. Not the most fun to be sure.
Network- and location-based security is ultimately unworkable. It’s like if you, in order to work, had to go to a ”virtual office” to even send mail to your colleagues. Mail, and related internet-enabled services, should be accessible from anywhere, and be secured at the end points, not at the network layer. (Most attacks are internal, anyway.)
You can use the -ExecutionPolicy argument to get around that.

It's not a security boundary, just something to stop users accidentally opening an email attachment like they will with bat/vbs.
> Crypto moves fast, every 10 years many protocols are obsoleted. How you will provide E2E connectivity with that?

Negotiation. IPsec using IKEv2 (RFC 4306/7296) started with (e.g.) 3DES when it was initially released, but now allows for AES (RFC 3602, 3686, etc), as well as other algorithms:

* https://www.iana.org/assignments/ikev2-parameters/ikev2-para...

> What IPng team should do, is just take IPv4, extended it to 64bit, call it IPv6 and we are done.

For anyone curious, the technical criteria for choosing the (then-labelled) IPng:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1726

And the evaluation of the available candidates and why the winner was chosen:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1752

One of the IPng candidates, SIPP, indeed did extend addressing from 32-bits to 64-bits (RFC 1710, RFC 1752 § 7.2), but it was deemed that it may not enough and another transition would be even more difficult, so they went with 128-bits (RFC 1752 § 9).

Adding mechanisms for auto-configuration was one of the criteria for IPng; per RFC 1726 § 5.8:

CRITERION
The protocol must permit easy and largely distributed
configuration and operation. Automatic configuration of hosts and
routers is required.

DISCUSSION
People complain that IP is hard to manage. We cannot plug and
play. We must fix that problem.

We do note that fully automated configuration, especially for
large, complex networks, is still a topic of research. Our
concern is mostly for small and medium sized, less complex,
networks; places where the essential knowledge and skills would
not be as readily available.

In dealing with this criterion, address assignment and delegation
procedures and restrictions should be addressed by the proposal.
Furthermore, "ownership" of addresses (e.g., user or service
provider) has recently become a concern and the issue should be
addressed.

We require that a node be able to dynamically obtain all of its
operational, IP-level parameters at boot time via a dynamic
configuration mechanism.
[…]

In a world of IoT, not having to have a BOOTP/DHCP(v4) seems like decent foresight.
But maybe not this[1] non-linear? Fun if real. But perhaps fitting was done within a gamut folks care more about, and model math then induced artifacts at the margins of the full visible gamut? I'd really love to know if that blue tail represents real perception.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Volodymyr-Pyliavskyi/pu... [png] from https://ojs.suitt.edu.ua/index.php/digitech/article/download... [PDF dl] (Curiously, bing image search has this figure, but google doesn't.)
So this explanation is neat and tidy. The problem we learned in COVID payouts is that people would rather watch Netflix and smoke weed all day than do any amount of low skilled work at a job they hate. So they start demanding exorbitant wages, show up late, if at all. This is productive work, and productive work that frees higher skilled resources to be more productive.

Based on the employers explaining this problem, they are asshole bosses. And in our 'normal' system of jobs and no UBI or other payouts, they can get away with treating people poorly. However, low skilled jobs don't have to be bad jobs, people enjoy all sorts of work and even find meaning in them. In this UBI / cash transfer role: employers can't get away with being an asshole(without spending big $$$) and have to connect meaning for the employee to the work they need done.
New mRNA technology turns cells into long-lasting drug factories
Is there a way to mount the sqlite tables as a filesystem?
At some point we have to deal with the limits to growth, indeed.

The economy should serve the people, not the way around.
Yes exactly. Teenage humans frequently do monumentally stupid and destructive stuff because they're bored or want to impress peers. Everything on a continuum from egging and TP'ing houses to keying cars, graffiti/tagging, breaking windows on abandoned buildings, shoplifting, vandalizing public structures, breaking into cars, stealing cars and joyriding, to actual gang murder.
> Well, maybe! In no time we'll board the Axios and just chill.

This was sarcasm. That system would never happen. If birthday card requires no effort it is worse than nothing, literal noise.

> So by spending the same 20 minutes fiddling with some kind of graphics if the outcome becomes 10x better then I see that as an advantage. (That said I haven't tried this.)

Feels like you misunderstood. It is not "10x better" or "advantage" because literally the easier it was for you the less it is valuable.
The DMA does not allow you to install what you want.

It does not apply to consoles.

It does make it possible for companies to keep some more money, but most importantly it allows them to sidestep the protections for my privacy that I pay a premium to Apple for.

A real DMA would force facebook, twitter, etc to open up for alternative clients. That would bring competition in and benefit the end user.

Not that whatever digital slot machnine company is allowed to keep a higher percentage of the diamonds they sell you in their free to pay game.
This is instructive:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
"We don’t know how to prove that a game is fun, we don’t know what that means mathematically"

Sometimes the jokes write themselves :) But seriously, thank goodness for that. I don't want to see the products that come out of the corporations that would be extracting maximum mathematically-proven fun for their widget subscription services.
Retired Astronaut Admits Boeing's Starliner Has Trapped Crew in Space
thanks for your insights.

> The worst part is because Tailscale, Inc got there "first"

never heard of nebula but please clarify where they got first.

i'm sure you are aware that branded/purposebuilt vpn's existed long before the first iphone.
It is a problem if a company makes a lot of money ”solving” the problem, but:

• This does not really solve the problem, since a real solution would be to change the internet to make the problem go away

• A company making a lot of money gets to have an enormous influence on what is considered reasonable to standardize on. See for instance Google’s and Microsoft’s influence on things like the W3C. (Or if Tailscale is allowed to define what ”The New Internet” will be.)
Things are not inherently expensive. They are expensive relative to the other demands on one's finances.

For the average person paper would indeed have been expensive but for those who had disposable income and a reason to use paper it would have felt less so.

But it was certainly more expensive than it is now that 500 sheets of A4 at Tesco cost less than 5 GBP and that is one part in 6 400 of UK median annual household income.

https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/writing-paper-expensi... says that the going rate for a quire of ordinary paper was about 4d.

Even in 1800 annual income for most people was under 20 pounds. So 500 sheets would cost one part in 60 of annual income (20 pounds * 240 pennies per pound/(4d per quire * 20 quires in 500)). That's about a hundred times more expensive in purchasing power terms. Presumably the further back you go the higher the price and the lower the income.

But the poor didn't write so the comparison is far from exact. For the wealthy it would still have been more expensive than now but not importantly so.
Apple reports iCloud Private Relay global outages for some users
> Letting people build things

When the real solution is obvious and the proposals are nowhere near it, the game at play isn't to solve the problem:
Remarket collectivist expropriation with some gen-z friendly word salad and backfill details on how this solves ____.

The paradox, to me, is that the set of people pushing for redistribution is almost entirely disjoint from the set of people responsible for creation of the thigns to-be-redistributed. One would think the skill set needed for the latter would make them exceptionally suited for the former, yet here we are.
I thought this was a typo. In the Chicago area, all the Amoco stations were rebranded BP before the Deepwater Horizon disaster. They remained BP afterwards to the best of my recollection.

ARCO is apparently a gas station brand owned by Marathon but also resells BP in a few west coast states.

Amoco, ARCO… naming things is hard I guess even outside computer science.
Are they? From my experience from databases and some limited from filesystems I would disagree. Sure, there are some similarities but not that much.
Short of a 10' dinghy I can't think of any boat where you can remove the rudder and even if 'fin' means 'centerboard' that's still dinghy stuff. Nobody (bar a once-a-generation daredevil) is dinghying across the Atlantic.
Oh no, companies can't manipulate people as easily and some will go bankrupt, because they can't give people as much FOMO and there will be less trash in the internet
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/06... but for how long
A steel man version of scientism by definition has to be scientism, and I imagine that looks like strict determinisn/reductionism. I imagine it would go along the lines of "we acknowledge that our theories invoke notions of probability and since don't have a better solution we should assert them as universal truths."
My older family photos are too important to me — I scanned each one, individually, on a flatbed scanner.

Having said that though, occasionally if there was a sheet from a photo album where several photos were glued down, I canned the whole page of the photo album itself rather than risk damaging the photos by removing them.

FWIW, if a photo album is in my care, I first go through and photograph each whole page of the photo album, turning each page in order, so as to capture the layout of the photo album, order, and perhaps comments under each photo.

I do then carefully dissect the album so as to scan each individual photo (at 600 DPI as suggested in the article) and then to permanently store the photos in plastic sleeves. Photo sleeves then go into an album that has a storage box for it.

For dead relatives, I clean up the scans, fill out relevant metadata (date, description) and upload them to findagrave.com, ancestry.com, etc. The more places I can share the photos the better they'll both find other interested parties and likely outlive me. (My iCloud of course has a complete set of scans as do hard drives about.)

(Note: use Apple's Image Capture app that is included with MacOS, maybe an Epson scanner, Apple's Photos works well enough for me to retouch, adjust the finished scan ... older versions of Photos had a better retouch tool though so I keep an old High Sierra machine around just for photo retouching.)
Build your own SMTP server in Go
I wonder if that misspelling is some kind of inside joke lost to time.
I think that's a phasing device. You attach an auxiliary antenna specially to pick up the noise. The signal from that is phase shifted and mixed into the signal from the main antenna. The phase shift circuitry has knobs to vary the phase and amplitude. You adjust them so that the noise cancels out.

That can be effective but it's really only useful for cancelling out one noise source. I once used a similar device when there was something bad happening on a power pole down the street. It's no use if you have general noise from multiple directions.
> The benefits of being a superpower are up for debate.

What? Nobody debates this.

American excellency is a real thing. No country even comes close right now. I say this as an American expat.
Possibly. Facebook has strong network effects. It is possible that nobody actually wants to be on Facebook.
I'm sorry,we find the problem, and it is fixed now.
Technically, anything over 26 feet can be a yacht.
Is there a machine-verifiable version ?

I mean ... 800 pages, I'd say the benefit of the doubt applies.
I couldn't from that quote understand Knuths view.

I have however the impression that some distractions of life are more fundamental than others. If the distraction is that you might not have food tomorrow or you fear for your safety, indeed I doubt you can focus on research. However other things like babies crying and "responsibilities" are only a distraction if you let them. My mental model is that "doing research" is somewhere is Maslow's pyramid which is not the bottom, but it's not as high up as most people would expect either. I'd like to hear other people's thoughts.
> Why?

Why any species with the slightest ability to memorize would (counter)attack humans?

One can only wonder.

Humans are not particularly known to treat wildlife that well.
Not particularly, it's so open ended it describes an enormous landscape of possible universes and lacks any specific testable predictions for our universe.

Unless it's been firmed up a great deal in recent times.
Roger Martin was on lenny's podcast yesterday explaining this topic further (many other major business strategists on there too).

Roger is refreshingly honest on the muddy topic of strategy, defining it as an integrated set of choices that compels desired customer action - the one thing you don't have any direct control over in business.

https://podtail.com/en/podcast/lenny-s-podcast-product-growt...