skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I flirted with MariaDB Galera Cluster. This was on Amazon EC2. Frequently mariadb would just go down, not the server mind you. Frequently the whole cluster would go down as well. To bring it back up, I'd have to bootstrap the whole cluster.

Essentially, what a pain in the backside to use.

This did not fill me with confidence and thankfully did not go into production and later on went with Postgres/CitusDB.

The difference is day and night!
It lines up though. He visited the US in 1959 and a little while after returning, the Soviets started working on their own arcade games. I guess there's no proof that he really did order Soviet games to be made but it's plausible.
That is a valid objection. It's best to use the right tool to communicate about the problem and solution.
>and when the (very likely) big wave of automation hits it will be time.

No it will be late. Now is a good time.
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Just as a completely rough order-of-magnitude approximation meant to spark discussion of the viability of a universal basic income in the United States:

Wikipedia estimates the total net worth of US households and non-profits at $55 trillion in 2009. Assuming a 1% annual wealth tax on all assets (Norway currently has a 1.1% annual wealth tax, albeit only on fortunes greater than $120,000), we get annual proceeds of $550 billion. Social Security pays out $813 billion in total annual benefits.

Kill off Social Security entirely and institute the tax. Divided by USA's 320 million population, we end up with ~$4250 per citizen per year. So with an annual minimum wage of $15,000, on average no more than every third citizen would have to depend entirely on the basic income. Also, tax revenues or net worth would also not have to decrease once the program was started.

You can tweak the assumptions, add other possible sources of income to the system, approximate the economic surplus of the people who are now supported by UBI, question the viability of living on minimum wage, estimate the economic surplus of getting rid of means-tested welfare programs etc. Plenty of room for discussion!

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States

http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-are-annual-earnings-full...

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/12/federal-spe...
Since we're handing out advice here's one for you - Before YOU comment next time, maybe consider whether you yourself are actually interested in engaging in conversation, or just passing off your own assumptions as fact.
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The past doesn't necessarily predict the future. I really suspect that it might end up being different this time.

My working hypothesis is that software-defined Turing-complete automation is qualitatively different from special-case automation. It permits the rapid reconfiguration of general purpose machines with software, which is cheap and fast to produce in comparison with pretty much any physical system. Combined with simulation it allows for very rapid iteration.

You can in many cases effectively design something and then just hit 'print.' Some human intervention and assembly and some custom work is usually required, but the quantity is far lower and the skill level far higher than in the past. In the end you need a small number of highly skilled employees, not a large number of low-skill ones. The conventional 'worker' is obsolete.

Compare one-off factory tooling set for stamping out one part with a 3d printer, for example. The 3d printer is what the future looks like.

The alternative to a universal basic income here would be something like the world depicted in The Hunger Games series -- tiny super-rich walled totalitarian city-states presiding over a majority that has regressed to 19th century or prior standards of living. I'd personally consider this to be a new dark age.
Yes, I might quibble with some of your numbers a bit (for example I don't think you'll get 20% back in taxes) but I'll agree that you're in the ballpark. I think this is a good demonstration of how massive the changes we're talking about are. Particularly:

* The hit it will mean to many seniors standard of living due to social security cuts.

* The massive tax increases this will be on the middle class (primarily due to changes in tax deductions)

* The massive tax increase this will be on the upper middle class to rich (primarily due to changes on taxation of capital gains and dividends. Changes, by the way, that most economists oppose.)

* The additional massive tax increase that will come from somewhere to close the 2-3% GDP gap you mention.

I can see how some people might be in favor of this plan. I myself am not.
The article you cite used a system that is most definitely not a Basic Income, and not Universal, to make its point against a Basic Income.

You want a way in which the Universal Basic Income would be superior to a Job Guarantee? Administration. With a job guarantee, you will need a massive administration. While I agree wholeheartedly that meaningful work supports dignity. Creating jobs and Universal Basic Income are not opposed to each other.
It's pretty easy to do this sort of thing in Hypothesis. You can also use [the support for stateful testing directly](http://hypothesis.readthedocs.org/en/latest/stateful.html). I find there's still a place for more granular tests that look more like your classic property based tests with a bit more imperative state floating around though.
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But wouldn't you expect most vandalism in general is done by people around 25 and younger?

I would expect most of the mining company executives organizing whole mountaintop removal are well over 25, since most executives are over that age. Goes a little beyond graffiti.
I don't think this is as much of an issue as being portrayed. I've hiked 2 sections of the AT this summer and found no trash in either of them. I could see certain parts like the beginning and ending being worse, which would be expected. Designated camping spots weren't overcrowded. Besides cheeky motivational sayings written over trail markers, everything in both sections were pristine.
A great interview with the creator is here

http://www.retronauts.com/?p=1147

I remember getting a demo floppy with it on it and being absolutely blown away by it. I had played Sierra games before that, and the artwork and interface made those games look and feel absolutely stone aged in comparison.

The excellent writing was icing on the cake.

I must have played through that short demo a hundred times before getting the retail game for a present. It's kind of amazing how much fun fit into such little disk space.
I'm German, so I'm phonetically biased.
He would, yes. That's the point.
I benchmarked Assimulo vs LSODA (the function wrapped by SciPy odeint) and LSODA was significantly faster for bigger problems. Assimulo has a lot more features though, like adjoint sensitivity, etc...
We do not want to be welfare queens; work gives us dignity.

Bourgeois moralist crap. If working gives you dignity, by all means, work. But being forced to work to survive is not dignity, and the result is the bullshit jobs we see everywhere. If people who have free time feel the need for better infrastructure, they'll build it.

"Ne travaillez jamais!"
Yes, perhaps THIS TIME IT'S DIFFERENT. Perhaps.

I'm just saying I'd be surprised.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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No, it's a critical part of determining fact from fiction. This article is absurd.

> It is not the job of theory to verbally reproduce the complexity of the world.

Yes, it is. That's what a theory is -- a verbal/symbolic model meant to account for the complexity of the world. I think this guy just doesn't like rigor and would rather apply blanket statements about the world without having to back them up with actual data.
I think it's already the case, the 90% you're talking about is debatable, we already live in an age where producing food and shelter requires so few people that you can consider those jobs are already automated in some way.

The result is that only the educated and the owners can work and be included in the economy, and unless higher education can include everyone, well you will always have uneducated people who will have no other opportunity jobs than fast food and cleaning houses, which is a problem, in my opinion, for a nation.

The UBI is just a minimum people will get no matter what, so if they get a job it's an added income. Depending on its amount, it's a compromise between inflation and stimulating the economy without having parts of the US not develop. Consumer spending always has been the basis of a healthy capitalism, and the UBI follows that logic.
Slashing the defense budget by 75% would help, too.

May as well clip out a few of the DOJ agencies like the DEA while you're at it. If you want to get get really crazy, cut foreign aid. Maybe even increase taxes on non-UBI income. Close a few corporate/personal tax loopholes...

I think it's physically possible. Politically, probably not.
Instead of generational, maybe it's just something 20-somethings do?
I honestly cannot understand that people (left or right) are still discussing basic income. A simple back of the envelope calculation shows that you have to basically double the tax rate to pay for it. Here are the numbers for Germany, but I'd assume that the situation would be similar for many other countries.

Assume we give each of the 80 Mio germans 10000 Euro per year. That's an expense of 800 Billion per year. Contrast this with a total tax income of ca 600 Billion per year [1]. It's not gonna fly...

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steueraufkommen_(Deutschland)
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Nope, both are completely different.

With BI, for each extra dollar your employer pays you, you get an extra dollar.

With income guarantee, for each extra dollar your employer pays you, you get nothing.
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The budget numbers are readily available and not at all hard to understand.

And yes, you do in fact need to discus what something might cost when making a good argument that the expense is worth it. When choosing what sort of home to live in I'm certainly you inquired about the cost. Unless you still live with your mother? You don't live in your parent's basement do you?
> dog shit

You know the woods are filled with animals that shit in the woods all the time, right? People should be burying it or at least moving it off trail but feces is a purely natural occurrence.

The trash and vandalism I absolutely agree with you.
The Winklevoss twins hired Zuckerberg to help build their social network. Instead Zuckerberg delayed their project while secretly building his own. He stole their market opportunity. It's well documented.
When you know something isn't going to happen it's ok to suggest it. This is particularly useful if later it can be used as example of how your company is not actually an abusive parasitic organization but really cares about meeting people's basic needs.
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A horseshoe could be multi dimensional.
> So rather than try to accommodate all these people, perhaps parts of the trail should be made less accommodating. Rock climbers do this all the time.

This makes perfect sense if the goal of being a hiker is to show that you're more macho, or otherwise more morally worthy, than non-hikers.

It makes no sense at all if your viewpoint is that nature is beautiful and people should be encouraged to experience that.
Yes. The trail is not a natural phenomenon; it has to be maintained.
LOL. You made me chuckle a bit at least. Thanks for that.
"Sounds like there might be some money in that." - Hugh Hefner
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Roughly 19% of the US population is on disability or social security retirement benefits. 23% are under the age of 18. 38% are employed full-time.

Disability/SS is a straight-up income replacement. They go off one program and onto another.

People under the age of 18 are much cheaper to support and would get somewhere between "much less" and zero dollars.

Full-time employees basically get an accounting trick - on average, taxes go up by roughly the amount they receive in benefits.

This makes up a combined ~80% of the population, meaning there's a new benefit for roughly 20% of the population. This is about the same size as the current social security program. Difficulty of going from our current regime to UBI is roughly as difficult as setting up social security in the first place, so it's roughly the size of the New Deal. Difficult, but not impossible - something that you'd expect politicians to accomplish once every generation or three.
I wish these "Call Me Maybe" blog titles would die already...
much wow. haven't got started with a language that fast before
The best part is, the minimum income applies to them, too!

While they're figuring out what to do next with their lives, they won't be left in the lurch, they'll get that sweet, sweet (well, minimal) UBI check just like everyone else.
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By that measure, the "truly honest" progressive politician would say: "we need to drastically raise social program spending and taxes, which will dramatically increase unemployment!"

(Not that there isn't a good case for improving federal social programs; but the reality I never hear uttered in the progressive bubble is that the largest government expenses are social programs like social security, medicare, and medicaid.)
>Just that the meetings he did have (the "right" meetings with the "right" people) were made possible due to lots of chances and random stuff happening first.

Okay then, lets get to specifics. Which meetings are those? Whom did he meet with? What makes you think they were with the "right" people? Who are the "wrong" people to meet with? Also, What makes you think that the meetings were only possible due to chance and would not have happened otherwise?

>if he was born in Alabama from a poor family instead of upper middle class NY family, his chances of having those meetings would be less than half.

How have you calculated the chances? Could you elaborate?

>I'll let you calculate the changes for that happening if he was born black in Nigeria.

I'll gladly do the work if you show me how YOU calculated it in the previous case.

Listen, I'm OK with general arguments and using rhetoric to drive a point. But understand that, your argument consists entirely of your own personal opinion, and people do not have to agree with you on anything. In fact, you then cannot tell someone that their opinion is wrong, if they disagree with you.
That Aeon Magazine example looks like they tried to use radio boxes and couldn't figure out the HTML to do it properly and gave up.

Now, I just made the mistake of looking at Aeon's HTML source and its fine, but definitely some strange bugs (label for not matching input id is one obvious thing where someone failed some basic HTML SAN checks).
Has a similar experience a year ago. The only difference being that I did go into production. Man, what a mistake.
oh god that font choice. Really, Ron? The c64 font in the eyestrain-inducing default blue? Do you really want to wallow in nostalgia for that? And Safari's 'reader' view isn't working.

edits the css manually so she can actually read this
not to mention Seattle survived for the two decades it took Amazon to get into the black.
I have to wonder how many through hikers are actually boozing it up? Booze is heavy, not something that's easy to lug around. Even a bottle of Everclear won't last that long on a hike if you're actually trying to get drunk regularly.

This sounds a lot like "kids are partying in the woods, sometimes near the AT!", which has been true since trails were invented. There is a definite "get off my lawn!" vibe in the article.
It's a series on testing durability claims in distributed computing workloads. It's a good name.
Do you have a point?
Personally I think the first "white collar" casualty of automation will be law.

90+% of law involves things like contract law and analysis of legal documents. All of that can be replaced by natural language processing, machine learning, etc. I envision "contract compilers" that produce contracts based on compact specs and other things in the near term (5-10 years out) followed by total replacement of most lower-level legal work with AI/ML in the 15-30 year time frame.

In the end you will still have lawyers, but only to appear in courtrooms and do very high skill specialized legal analysis that involves a lot of conceptual thought. That will be a much smaller number of people than are employed in law today.

That's a lot of well-paying jobs that are going to vaporize.
I think this "discovery" is less about nuance in general and more about nuance in sociology. But that, again, would require some nuance.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/451/
Yeah, no kidding, ask the people working 3 minimum wage jobs how much dignity the scheduling nightmares and that 4 hours daily on the cross-town bus gives them.
Not sure any of us will see it, but I foresee a day when "employee" will be all but extinct. The reason? I think technology, taken to its logical extreme, will empower individuals to the point they'll be able to run fortune 500 scale businesses out of their garages (with all the automation-as-a-service that I imagine will exist). And board rooms? Who needs 'em when you've got the full power of sentient AI to help you accomplish what you want to accomplish.
If you search back to the comment that started this subthread you'll find it began:

"Try 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 in some other language, then try it in Perl 6."

Do you agree with all of the next sentence or not? Please start with a plain yes or no before getting in to details.

The three individual literal decimal numbers shown above are not integers, they're not binary fractions, they're not floats, they are rational numbers, they are exact numbers, they are easily stored exactly on a computer, and whether or not they are stored exactly on a computer is a choice made by a programming language.
The annual budget of the DEA is approximately 3 billion.
The annual US foreign aid budget is around 16 billion.

These amounts are both very very small rounding errors in the context of this discussion.
this looks great

this is a sort of research version of an effort i am making re: journalism..

shamefully, i call it 'death to the editorial'

the nytimes has the slogan 'all the news that's fit to print'

it frustrates me that this mentality has, for the most part, bled over into digital media as well where the potential strings of 0s and 1s seems permissibly infinite

i think journalism should also embrace the notion:

an article about computational result is advertising,
not scholarship. The actual scholarship is the full
software environment, code and data that produced
the result

state a fact? let me see the source
reference a quote? let me see the source
posit an opinion? let me see the method of discovery

i want more information stead less

if the journalist, or in this case the researcher, is unable or unwilling then i suppose crowdsourcing is a fine alternative
As someone who's very bad at looking for names, I also wanted to thank you :) .

A marketing expert acquaintance recommends one-word names over the two-names approach you advocate there, though.

From your trello: "Even internationally, two English words is usually considered fine. This works for a number of sites, Facebook being one of the most notable examples" (I also thought of SnapChat, InstaGram, etc.)

However, the marketing expert wrote this advice to me "No future company is called (bad two-word names), they're called google, oracle, hulu or oculus. Go clean and easy to remember & pronounce""
The upside is that the engines are up higher, making them less prone to ingest gravel.

The downside (for northern operations) is that they're perfectly positioned to ingest ice coming off the wings. I think there was at least one MD-80 crash caused by that.
Anecdote: A good friend of mine lives with his parents in suburbia. Upper middle class, rich, comfortable massive 2 story home in a nice gated community. He dropped out of art school to work at the grocery store nearby where he's worked full time for the last 10 years or so. Because the store gives him wage increases for every 1000 or so hours he's worked, he's now making about $20/h as a normal cashier/stocker. He spends his free time playing video games, beefing up his home entertainment network, hiking, and hanging out with neighborhood friends. He seemingly has absolutely no financial incentive to continue to work at a grocery store, but ultimately he's been motivated to go back to work for the last decade at a super market.
There is no problem with using a computer for teaching. The problem is the nature of the modern personal computer. It's too usable for things other than programming, which constitute numerous distractions.

Maybe what you need for teaching is a computer with a programming language in the firmware, which gives you that language's REPL (and nothing but that) within a fraction of a second of powering up.
If it were possible to predict the future on the basis of the past, everyone would always make money in the stock market.
According to http://oosmos.com/feedback:

> The core IP of OOSMOS, oosmos.h and oosmos.c, are currently shipped as obfuscated compilable source files. We'd love to speak with open source investors to figure out a business model that allows these files to be open source in order to accelerate the adoption of this novel technology.

I don't think obfuscating code really protects it, but that seems to be the reason.
It feels like everything is getting priced exactly at the point where it feels like I'm barely scraping by.

I make a low six figure income and live in a one bedroom apartment. I don't drive a luxury car, or take vacations, or have many indulgences except eating out one or two nights a week. I also don't have much money left over to save or invest. I don't see home ownership in my future, or much improvement in my standard of living. I'm getting older, but the idea of paying for a wedding, or the cost of raising a child, or the cost of sending them to college scares the hell out of me.

This is probably due, mostly, to living in an area with a high cost of living. There are perks to living in a nice city -- my girlfriend shudders at the thought of moving to the suburbs -- but the city bleeds us dry. It's exciting to live in a technology hub, but the higher salary seems to be mostly an illusion.

My point being, I wonder how quickly everything will adjust to swallow up that basic income? Then again, I guess it's not really aimed at present-day me, but rather at someone with a lower income for whom its utility will be much greater.
The difference between then and now is that there is much more awareness about what is considered right and wrong with regards to our national parks. Not only that, but folks are much more educated now then they were 100 years ago.

You would think that that would translate into fewer of these types issues in our parks.
Is this trying to resemble VHDL processes?
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