skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> OP specified a UBI that doesn't increase the money supply. Nor would UBI cause a supply crunch

These are assumptions. I’m sceptical of both, but think an experiment at the state or small-country level is worth a try.
Impressive. Mine goes 'sorry, I don't understand', after multiple attempts at 'what month is it'. Google assistant understands.
Is there an actual negative association with the “Selt” pronunciation or something? It is the French version of a word, which was at times applied to the French and the Irish (among others). Maybe it can be used to celebrate their shared heritage of having to deal with English nonsense…
Thanks. This looks like a good book and probably one I'll buy. I have many books on the "Celts" and their history, plus many more on the Iron Age in general. It's a fascinating period unfortunately let down by the lack of many good sources. The Greeks and then the Romans were very confused about these people and that's made it very hard to sort out the reality. As the review states, add a large helping of racism (not necessarily all of the negative sort), nationalism, romanticism and mythology and it can be a recipe for many competing histories. Hopefully we're starting to untangle what we can with help from books like Stewart's.
True but in most of the country even the poorest have to drive.

In Manhattan only 22% of households own a car, and the number is probably a fraction of that in the congestion relief zone.
I wonder if that comment is a result of vibe coding. LLMs often fill their code with comments that restate the literal behavior of a line of code rather than explaining it in a way that adds value.
I don't think that would be possible, as Liberapay is essentially just a UI for accepting donations directly into the developers' Stripe/PayPal accounts.
OP is proposing giving people money to stay in rural areas. I'm suggesting we should encourage them to move.
I just send the liberated epub back to my kindle address (via calibre) and read them as "documents" in the kindle app for iOS. Unless this has recently changed it works fine, and (critically) my last read location syncs with my Kindle.
What makes you think the cab driver is paying congestion fees out of their own pocket? That’s not how it works.
Say what you want about "Nonviolent offender leniency", but occasionally nonviolent offenses are quantitatively and qualitatively more despicable than most violent offenses.

Killed a rival gang member? That's one thing. Improperly sent thousands of children to prison under color of authority, jeopardizing the legitimacy of the justice system in the process? I think that's one of those things that should be a hanging offense.
Sorry don't remember exactly, it was for 17 rather large apartments/semi houses (120-190m2), IIRC to the tune of 200k. Heat pumps would also require additional space to be put in, something we didn't have easily (not without some remodeling of whole area). They would be in the face of everybody's windows, another drawback combined with noise that was unavoidable as per proposition from vendor.

Another issue was that they were not available for a long time (around 6 months delivery time with no guarantee), something not relevant here but it also affected decision of owners.
Totally -- I signed up for the beta/preview when it was announced, and TBH after it was enabled, I couldn't (and still can't!) really tell what's different! If they just had Siri ask Claude or ChatGPT, it'd be way better!
Why would a stock go up 2.7% because of an internal meeting with employees?
> If you have someone that is quiet and does amazing work but doesn't seek out promotions and doesn't actively market their accomplishments then it could happen that they will lag on salary over time.

This is a win from the business's perspective. They are getting greater value for lower cost.

In my more cynical moments, I sometimes suspect that tech companies deliberately target the sort of low self-esteem perfectionist types for which this behavior is common specifically because the company sees an arbitrage opportunity between what the employee is worth and what the employee believes they are worth.
Really? Because the largest, longest running, and most comprehensive study on UBI(from UBI proponents) found less labor participation, not more.
Is there any way to simulate (maybe even interactively) things like focus and zoom? It would be cool to have some way to shift lenses (or lens groups) along the optical axis and visualize how light rays get projected onto the image plane.
I appreciate the information!
Elon Musk's 'truth-seeking' chatbot often disagrees with him
> how would that lead to inflation in the housing market?

If the government buys up all the contractors’ labour, that increases their prices for everyone else. At the same time, if the cash flow consumers once directed to housing is now freed for e.g. whoever is buying 10+ cartons of eggs at Wegman’s, that too drives inflation.

Good policies can be good without dismissing their drawbacks.
There are other ways to fund public transit than congestion fees. E.g. taxing (the rich).
Yep! That's exactly what I was thinking of.

I've been on the side of disclosing a handful of times and it's a gamble each time whether I'm going to get a CFAA threat (both implicit and explicit threats).
good catch, it is not a payment processor.
This is not a discussion about what's possible, it's a discussion about what's best. You can write your own opinion here, and it seems like we're in violent agreement, but that doesn't make our opinion GitHub's opinion.

That page is just one small part of a much larger reference document, and it doesn't seem opinionated at all to me. Plus there are dozens of other examples elsewhere in the same reference that are not simple invocations of one shell script and nowhere are you admonished not to do things that way.
Because Cook is a supply chain mastermind not a software UX and QA guy. You can tell Steve Jobs is missing.
How will this affect tourism?

I can't see people paying thousands of dollars for a US vacation if there is a small chance of them being randomly detained and locked up for days.
If you don't know which table your ID came from you're probably doing something wrong to begin with. (Why hey there you overly normalized schema..)
> This is sort of like saying a c compiler is there to stop you from dereferencing null pointers

I like it! How else could we describe it?

C compilers exist to prevent developers from writing reliable code.

C compilers caught on because they allow geeks to act macho to other geeks.

C compilers exist because programmers on 32-bit systems were nostalgic for the DEC PDP-11.

C compilers exist because the industry worked out that fast code was way more lucrative than reliable code.

Anyone got more?
Does dedrm work with Calibre 8? I've refused to upgrade from 6 because I was afraid that 7 would break it (and dedrm -> epub -> email to kindle is 99% of my use of calibre).
This just is stifling free speech. Even before these stories I have already been holding back expressing any US orientated criticism online as someone who wants to access US customers and investors, I need to be able to travel there. This just confirms that paranoia was justified. The message is clear, zip it or get barred. It’s crazy how individual small stories like this can have such a big impact.
This may be an erroneous and/or too simplistic answer, but I went through a couple rounds of using off-brand LEDs from Amazon in a chandelier, and they flickered badly when dimmed, then I finally ponied up a little more money and bought GE bulbs at Lowe's —- no flickering, ever.
> [...] Be wary of abstractions made for fabricated use cases.

Very well put and I would argue this applies to general software development. This is one of the biggest difference between my freshly-out-of-college self and me right now and something I try to teach engineer I'm trying to grow into "seniors".

Too many time have I seen a lot of wasted efforts on trying to build hyper flexible components ("this can do anything!") to support potential future use cases, which often never come to be. This typically results in components that don't do that much and/or are hard to use.

Design your components as simply as you need them, but no simpler. This typically gives more flexibility to grow rather than accounting for currently-not-needed use cases.
It being FOSS means you can fork and customize it.

Maybe instead use it as a headless automation tool.
So your recommendation is that instead of picking a system that is simple to implement and understand and has been successfully implemented in multiple cities across the world (and now in NYC as well) they should have opted for a novel system that is way more complicated to implement and understand which would even if it worked perfectly have extremely marginal benefits over the tried and tested system.
You're proving my point here - the original comment claimed that the left was merely defending the pre-existing, settled rights that trans people have "always" had against the right's aggression, I'm saying that the left has been actively pushing for change and new rights. I think the left sees trans rights as a continuation of the civil rights movement. This is an empirical question, entirely separate from the question of whether this is a good thing.
Boeing will build the US Air Force's next air superiority fighter
I think this means you're making the opposite argument that most C++ folks do, which is that C with classes is bad, and more prone to security issues than "modern C++" is.
I guess DoD can't give lockmart monopoly over stealth fighters. That said, IIRC Boeing's never designed a stealth plane before. But can't let Boeing military sink. LM gets F35s, NG gets B21s, Boeing gets NGAD.

Looking forward to 20 years of growing pain articles.
From the first hand accounts I’ve heard on this, the rich love not having to share the road with the less rich.

The guy who gets shafted here is the middle to upper middle class with a job that requires driving into NYC.
I tend to be polite when asking the LLMs for things. This is less to do with building a rapport with our future benevolent robot overlords and more to do keeping low the friction of context switches when asking co-workers for help.
$ ts | tee -a notes

Or just ts >>notes
That study looks exclusively at people who chose violence in situations where it had predictably negative consequences for themselves. I don't think studies of people who commit crimes in heavily policed societies and predictably end up in prison can tell us much about times and places where violence often paid off in big ways.
I have a semi-technical friend who's built a whole SaaS with paying customers (currently $x,xxx/mo) using nothing but AI and an occasional bit of hand tuning.

He has some knowledge of the space and technical terminology from managing devs and projects, but was never a developer or engineer himself.

I watched his approach once and it's totally different from mine when I tried AI. He tells the AI what to do and if there's an error, he copy+pastes the error from the dev tools and says "fix this". And he'll keep cycling.

When this happens to me, I think too much about the error and perhaps I'm too specific to the AI on how to fix it. He just lets the AI do it over and over until it gets it right.

He doesn't care how the code looks, what libraries are used, etc.; the only thing that he cares about is "when I click this, does the right thing happen". It's actually kind of insane what he's built solo over a period of 4 months or so.
The Thames Estuary Airport would be a good idea

But what can the UK do about the likelihood of Floods?

The bird migration that constantly fly where the Estuary would be

Or an accident happening at the Grain LNG Natural Gas Storage plant, one of the largest in the world that’s right next to where the airport would be?
But maybe they can negotiate a better deal for their payments?
Most medium-to-long distance trains in Europe have 1st class compartments. These can range from just being quieter because of the increased price, to spacious seats with complimentary food and drink. Italian high speed rail has business class with hireable meeting rooms[0]

[0] https://www.trenitalia.com/it/le_frecce/frecciarossa-per-il-...
never, i try to find as many profane eggcorns as possible and use them specificly in prompts as an eggcornish dialect for AI, it messes it up uncannily
You're free to argue that this isn't "pure" CRDT, but the CRDT algorithm still runs normally, just a bit later than it otherwise would.
Ah yes. I see now that your negation works out to be the same expression.

Sorry about your rug pull experience though.
Tracking America's Egg Crisis
An article/website exploring the economic factors behind the rise in egg prices, including supply chain disruptions, the widespread impact of avian flu, and the market forces driving these changes.
Closed source ICs are currently pretty cheap, reliable, and there's so many of them that if one became unavailable, a module could be redesigned to use another (Losing firmware compatibility if you had to switch to a new MCU, but keeping hardware compatibility).
CARE's Weekly Devlog #6 – Disinfection and Visuals
It's flagged because it's one-sided political activism. I mostly support the first EO that is on that front page. What am I supposed to do? 1) Post here and defend it, then get in a flame war with people who disagree? 2) bite my lip because we're not supposed to support Trump's actions? I'm not allowed to support the elected president because it's not popular?

I'm sure there's a left-leaning tech group you can join where everyone agrees with you. But this post doesn't belong here, and neither do flame wars.
So assuming two rides in each working day that's still $6.42 per day
Exactly. An LLM is not a conventional search engine and shouldn't be prompted as if it were one. The difference between "Rust crate to access Postgres with Arrow support" and "What would a hypothetical Rust crate to access Postgres with Arrow support look like?" isn't that profound from the perspective of a language model. You'll get an answer, but it's entirely possible that you'll get the answer to a question that isn't the one you thought you were asking.

Some people aren't very good at using tools. You can usually identify them without much difficulty, because they're the ones blaming the tools.
> it penalizes the poor

I hate to break it to you, but congestion is primarily caused by "the poor", which is to say, the middle class, because the poor in cities are usually taking public transportation anyway. If a city is 50% poor, 40% middle class, and 10% wealthy (to pick arbitrary numbers), then the wealthy only comprise ~20% of the traffic on the road. You need significant reductions in traffic from the 80% of middle class drivers in order to significantly reduce congestion.

If you reduce the congestion tax to make it easier for the middle class to afford, so that they can get on the road, then you haven't achieved anything.
Can we finish the F-35 before we start another trillion dollar boondoggle? Especially with Boeing.
Like this? https://www.nyc.gov/site/fairfares/index.page

I could even imagine a more program that allows a certain number of free rides per day.
I really want to have something insightful to say, or perhaps something predictably pessimistic about robotics and AI.

But I just can't get over how cute the little fucker is. Little robodog skateboarding around living his best life.
Github's languages analysis says 87.7% Rust, 9.3% C#, 1.3% TypeScript.
Or being gay in Singapore.

Wait, holy shit, it was legalized in 2022. Didn't know. Nice!
> whereas the alphabet order is.

I have news for you.
Lame waste of time.
The underlying question indeed is what should be public goods for wider public and what should be privileges for the well off.
She expected to buy a return flight back to Canada, but was instead imprisoned.
If you take the definition of tilde from tilde.verse {tildes are pubnixes in the spirit of tilde.club, which was created in 2014 by paul ford} then it should be relatively straightforward to see why that address is related.
According to this article [1], GiveDirectly is taking a more targeted approach in the US, because of the results of a study they did during the pandemic:

> During the pandemic, the nonprofit found its $1,000 payments to nearly 200,000 households barely made a dent in the lives of U.S. recipients. There was no measurable difference between the households that received the cash grants and those that did not, GiveDirectly declared in a blog post based on academic studies from the University of Michigan. One reason, according to the study, was that most cash grant recipients also received government assistance, which made it harder to discern the impact of the GiveDirectly money alone.

...

> GiveDirectly has vowed to learn from its mistake. So far, that has meant targeting populations such as pregnant mothers, infants, and families experiencing homelessness for whom regular, modest cash impacts have proven to be life altering.

So, maybe leaving out the "universal" would make sense, since they're not giving money to everyone anymore? GiveDirectly describes what they do as "unconditional cash transfers."

[1] https://www.philanthropy.com/article/can-givedirectly-show-t... https://archive.is/WTypU
That would be cool indeed! Not really a focus of this project - and kinda complex because it's all in python. Only the rendering widget is in JS, but it's only passively displaying the input data it gets as JSON.

Check out this project[1] which kinda does that, although it's 2D only as far as I know. But it's fully interactive, which is super neat.

[1] https://phydemo.app/ray-optics/
Google screwed up so massively in this whole AI race. It blows my mind that they had the technology available internally years before OpenAI released ChatGPT but didn't do anything with it and in fact lost top talent due to their hesitation to release it (as the article states about Noam Shazeer). And now, for basically every non-techie person, ChatGPT is synonymous with AI in the same way that Google was synonymous with search. What a disaster. Quite frankly shocked that their executive team is still in place.
Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting (2022)
In the absence of someone giving you a better answer, my hazy memory says 2015 or early 2016?

Given what we know about Apple's hardware platform direction, on hindsight, it seemed like a good strategy. Note: I am talking about the team merging, not merging macOS and iOS themselves.
I know a good number of people (mostly older) that don't seem to know that they can hold the power button for Siri. They'll hold their phone up to their face, say “hey siri”, wait for the reply, and then start talking.
I was hoping for more from the new Siri, but its just awful for me. Latest example:

My wife and I were watching Jeopardy late at night, and Pol Pot came up. I asked Siri something like "Siri, tell me about Pol Pot" and instead, it heard "Siri, Call Scott", and rang my friend at 1am.
There are plenty of areas of human interest where resources are zero-sum, especially in the short term.

Using that term without nuance is about as helpful as shouting "SuPpLy and DeManD!!" in every economic discussion because you saw an Econ 101 book one time in a library.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/power-moves-how-electric-...

https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/norcal-cities-new-utility/
A "public good" is something like clean air, national defense, or street lighting which is freely available to everyone and where one person's usage doesn't reduce availability for others.

It's unfortunately mutated from the Economics definition to a more loose "good for the public" in public discourse, confusing everyone.

Street space in Manhattan is not a public good, because with enough cars using it, it becomes more and more useless. To fix that you have to make fewer people want to drive there some way. There are other methods than pricing, but they have problems of their own.
You're wrong about the IP bans and accounts. Once dang sees your garbage, you'll be blocked, it's not automatic. SHA1 HMAC has nothing to do with this.
Enshitification is not something that happens to customers. Free software is not free to the advertisers, and as such, the companies will go to great lengths to meet their needs. And this makes sense. Why would a company do anything for you if you aren't paying?

If people preferred a good paid solution over a shitty free one then Kagi would be a trillion dollar company and nobody would ever have heard of Google. But that's not what people want. They want shitty but free. This is the market working as it should. Enshitification is not something done to us. It's something we do to ourselves.
I agree. The arguments for UBI can’t be economic because it isn’t economy. The arguments have to be democratic. This also sustains why it must be federal or perhaps at the state level, versus municipal.
Index is ambiguous. I think "Offset" and "Itemized".
I think deporting someone if they remain for months after their visa is revoked is perfectly acceptable. Ideally the person should be allowed to do it themselves in the few weeks after. By all appearances, she was capable of doing so and simply did not.

Detaining someone indefinitely in inhumane conditions is not acceptable under any circumstances.

It is also true that she could have avoided detention by leaving the country as soon as her visa was revoked. It doesn't matter whether revocation was reasonable at that point, because she is now in a country that is actively hostile toward her.

Her visa was revoked in November. She obviously remained in the US, where she attempted to cross again at the Mexico border, because she was obviously still living and working in California all those months when she should have been back in Canada.

It is not acceptable for the US to detain her; she also could have avoided it by following the rules, and others can avoid it too.

That's my point.
Parking meters in the USA are criminally underpriced.
What prevents them is sane compartmentalization. Even in accounting it's understood that you cannot defend again things like embezzlement if multiple employees cross different functions conspire, but you can defend against individuals by compartmentalizing their functions making every step further from their function more difficult to execute.

Same with tech. In a mature agency, if random dev has the ability to delete the repo and the back ups, you're doing it wrong. That said, your entire department is a threat you can't avoid. That is what a union brings to the table.
Lovely. We're stuck between Lockheed, who brought us the wonderful F-35 budget black hole, and Boeing, who can't seem to make anything airworthy these days in commercial and spaceflight.

What happened to aviation? The US used to be so incredibly good at it, at least ostensibly.
When I had an IC role, I would recommend tech projects and execute them w/ my team (we can solve "problem X" with "tech stack Y"). I also had a lot of agency in creating solutions for tech proposals. When I had the director role, I made sure nobody wasted time. I would qualify deals to chase, recommend strategies and core competencies to pursue (AI and Cloud yes, Blockchain and Quantum no). Now, in my VP role I try to get people good at making these strategy decisions (we should follow shipley for capture, etc.). Also, a LOT more relationship capital building and external COMMs at the VP level.
> I admit as much below

Then why do you ask the question?!

If the argument is trivially refuted, it’s obviously not worth making.
Don’t forget the Touch Bars.
> Influencers in these areas need to have a constant stream of fresh material to stay relevant, so they’re always driving toward something new that they can produce content about

I feel sad to hear that. I thought that the decrease in the VC-money flow would also slow down the number of new FE-related frameworks entering the mainstream, but it seems I was wrong then