skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The phrase I use for this is "cute aggression"
This article author and their parents seem to think that there will be no income other than a UBI. Which is, well, bizarre.

Menial jobs will still be done. But you may not have full-time staff for it. Garbage collection will still be done, you'll just pay better. People will still go to med school, because they'll get prestige (major motivator today) and more money (major motivator today).

The main difference (assuming affordability of a UBI, I'm not addressing that), between a non-UBI and a UBI situation is that people have a guaranteed subsistence income. Not a guaranteed life of leisure. We can't promise $50k/year/person. We can't even reasonably promise $5k/year/person (in the US). I don't know whether a UBI makes any sense (fiscally) or what level to set it at, but dismissing it because "people won't work" or "people won't become doctors" is, frankly, moronic.
>In my view there should be a nationwide malpractice insurance pool and the medical associations should push for better quality standards within their ranks.

It's an interesting idea, but who pays for it? Taxpayers? Have fun with that politically. The doctors? You'll drive out those on the margins of "doctor or other career". We here in Canada already have a massive doctor shortage everywhere but major cities, so that's a problem.
European Central Bank to withdraw €500 note
The EU has been trying to enforce open formats for their own use; it doesn't try to force private individuals or companies to use them among themselves.

(It also failed; as of 2014, .doc was still used more than .odt by orders of magnitude in the major institutions - Commission, Council and Parliament)
The importance of preprocessing in data science and ML
Yeah, my wife would have died the from birth of our first child at the turn of the 20th century, as would my first child. She's short (5' 1.5") and the kid was too big (9lb 11oz). He simply would not have made it out.
I still don't understand why I would want to go through the hassle of doing an onsite interview with TripleByte only to have to go through further onsite interviews at the hiring companies?

If TripleByte's onsite interview allowed me to skip the onsite at the hiring company, then I'd be all for it, but it is like it's just a layer of friction.

For the record, I've had zero problems applying to companies by either emailing them or getting contacted by them via LinkedIn, email, etc. I just don't understand what benefit they bring at this moment. Maybe if the job market tightens and they were exclusive providers for companies, then sure, but all the SV companies have teams of recruiters emailing people all day long. As a hiring candidate there's no reason why I would want to go through their onsite.
I think a better way to put this would be, don't penalize women for not participating in open source. There are a number of societal/cultural factors that preclude or push women out of open source, so have some understanding of that when interviewing women.
There are varying levels of dispatch-ability. You can ensure coal is on. And you can also turn it off. You just can't do it near instantaneously.

It's exists between something like nuclear (which has to just be on for months at a time) and natural gas peaker plants (which turn off and one during the day to meet demand.

You could, for example, run coal plants during the winter (when there is little sun) and not during the summer. Or you could run coal on cloudy days. Or just turn it off on weekends.
Ah, great. That phrase "speedcoding" is exactly what I was looking for; hadn't heard of it before. Thanks!
Talk to your state senator...
Sorry that it's hard to believe. My CEO was previously an activist so the people brought in to talk are definitely outside what you would expect in corporate America.

Unfortunately it's hard to find sources for this except for internal videos.

A quote from one of the trainers that gets at the same idea:

"In sourcing diverse candidates, it is imperative to avoid criteria that are inherently biased, like using school selectivity and previous company as a proxy for performance or as a signal that someone is a strong candidate.

Instead of focusing on previous companies or schools, which limits the talent pool, you should focus on relevant skills. For example, if Google is typically used as a signal that someone is a good candidate, push yourselves and your clients to articulate why that's the case. Is it the experience working at a large company that's useful?"
Exactly; we try to distill everything political in this country into two "teams", but the problem is that the teams are not even remotely homogeneous or agreed on policies. Trump vs. establishment GOP and Bernie vs. establishment DNC show this.
It's not a novel idea. E.g., Dubai produces a lot of aluminum, since importing ore and exporting Al is cheaper than exporting natural gas.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubal
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>>Why is that "the right question?"

Because you need skills to be employed. The ridiculousness of the situation is such a plumber is probably spending their time more valuably than say who studied Norse Mythology. Note I'm talking more in economic terms only. Sure the person who studied Norse Mythology knows more than a plumber, but you need a plumber more often than you need some one who knows Norse Mythology.

>>Why can't you say just the same thing about, say, teaching people to read?

That sets the basic platform for other stuff. You build on top of it.

>>Fifth-grade literacy is probably enough to do many jobs, so maybe we should toss out high school too.

If I was spending $X00,000 on a degree and expect a job in return which some one with fifth-grade literacy can do. I'd be seriously worried about my choices and decision making skills in life.
The transportation fuels example is even more exciting, IMO. Transportation fuels are basically simple hydrocarbons that burn with oxygen to turn into CO2 and H2O. There's only engineering, capital, and energy costs that need to be overcome - then we can run that process in reverse and turning our current transportation infrastructure carbon-neutral.
Any way to verify the claims from the article? I can't find any mention of Rivalta or its sale to Salesforce. Seems more likely the Tesla is leased (business expense) and he spends more time as an UberBlack driver to pay for it.
If garbage men made $50k, and everyone got $50k, the choice would be, do nothing for $50k or make $100k as a garbage man.

Would we get less garbage men? Not necessarily. I don't think people will be any less inclined to do unpleasant jobs per se - they still pay the same.

What we will see however, is a massive change in employment at >underpaid< jobs. "Picking lettuces for $2/hour? Fuck that, I won't starve if I don't, any more. Come back when you have a business model that doesn't involve abuse."

I don't see any problem with that. Industries that rely on making their employees choose between penury and destitution need to go the way of the slave plantations. It's our duty as humans to move forward.
PSD driven development is insane, but way worse is "not my job" driven development.

As stated in the article, their is a lot of task that no one want to do; like determining goals, slicing png, animations, transitions between views...

When you get a PSD with no hover, no "view when no data", no sense of navigation, no specifications whatsoever.... You know your project will be tough and made of thousand of meetings.

Communication helps, good software helps, being agile does help too. But company does not value well how costly it is to be that much "agile".
I'd say this issue gets more severe as the complexity of care delivered increases. The more providers, docs, meds are thrown in the mix the more likely it is that there will be an error. If each of us had realtime records when the doc ordered a medicine we are allergic to their computer system could have a fun little pop up like the Microsoft paperclip guy that said "Hey, looks like you're trying to kill this patient by administering a drug they are allergic to press ok to proceed or X to cancel.
Sounds like a child was picking up on OPs intonation when he asked the questions. That's how children answer. They pick on body language about what the correct answer is and basically tell what the one who asks wants them to tell. This was made especially easy by the binary format of questions. Yes/no answers are very easy to guess based on the way you ask. And people tend to ask extra suggestively when talking with children.
This idea has already been explored, here's one implementation: https://proofofexistence.com/
> Really, the people advocating basic-income are those who think 'if only I had the money so that I had the time, to do what I really want to do!'

No, you're just wrong. There are lots of different reasons people support UBI, and "if only I had the money so that I had the time, to do what I really want to do" isn't particularly high on the list.

E.g., many proponents like UBI because they see it as more efficient than means- and behavior-tested benefit programs that consume lots of resources and make life miserable for potential beneficiaries with high-touch bureaucracies designed to apply the means- and behavior-testing.
Well that makes no sense. To stop
the media from misrepresenting science, government scientists should not be allowed to speak to the media directly but scientists they collaborate with outside of government - perfectly fine to speak with them directly.

And the reason that a scientist cannot speak directly to the media is because the media will always misreport their science. Thats not true. Unfortunately, reporters often misreport science. It is often the case that they do so because the read the abstract of a paper and misunderstand it. Or they may have an agenda. So it's great when they follow up with the scientist directly.

What you are then saying is that all scientists don't know how to communicate clearly with the media. Only someone skilled in the media should do so. What, pray tell, makes a media officer more qualified than the scientist to talk about the complex scientific work that the scientist has been doing?

Now an aside. Firstly, I don't know you. You assume that you know how the media truly works and I do not. You may well have inside information on this. But it seems unlikely.

Secondly, when I say that something sounds like garbage, I'm arguing forcefully that your substantial points are dubious. I probably should have said that, but in your case they really are so ridiculous that I used the word "garbage" because I actually do think what you are arguing has no redeeming qualities. However, I am not trying to censor you, and in fact I am only directly responding to your specific points. I make absolutely no assumptions about your person whatsoever. There is not one comment I have made about your political stance or your view on anything other than what you have said in your post.

You, on the other hand, have now stated that all those who have responded to you are partisan commentators who have "not offered a single fact or counterpoint", "find it impossible to discuss something on [their] partisan talking radar without emotionally gravitating to a side", and who should "grow up".

I'll let that speak for itself.
Can you provide evidence for this claim? I worked in doctors offices as a consultant for 18 months and never noticed doctors spending time "covering up mistakes". They did spend lots of time documenting their analysis and work though.
There is significant variance in how many mistakes different doctors make, though.
>now were at a point where every pregnant woman wants an epidural, a scheduled C-section (!!), inducing labor via medicine.

This is so blatantly factually incorrect that it actually makes me sick to read.

>I simply wanted to correlate that more interventions = more risk.

This is not always true and the maternal death rate shows that. I'll give you an example - I have a friend who had a scheduled C-section recently. She had a medical condition that made giving birth vaginally very risky from a health perspective. She could have been fine but there was a very large chance childbirth also could have triggered disability or death. She had a whole team of doctors coordinate with each other to choose the least risky option and they agreed that a scheduled C-section was best option for both maternal and fetal health. More intervention = much less risk in this case.
Who designs mobile apps by slicing PSD files? Fire the developer who went along with that idea!
> “More like science.

ummm, I hardly see anyone and by anyone I mean even people > 20 years of experience doing empirical research while solving problems. Maybe the _like_ needs more emphasis? We don't really teach science or the design of experiments. This is arguably the most important intellectual tool we have ever developed and it should be the core of all education.

Programming by poking that I see folks doing, isn't science. It is stabbing in the dark until something appears to work. There is more to computational thinking that throwing some APIs together in a blender and making a cool demo.

As a longtime Python programmer, I wish more people would start with Scheme. Most Python is written like some dynamically typed Java; people are using maybe 30% of the power of the language.

I really wish I could have experienced those SICP lectures in 86.
I'd arrived at it by estimating that the average person will end up comparison-shopping for about 100 different products or services during the time that they hold a job, but will have only one job. If you assume 2 years at a job, that's about 1/week, which seems reasonable, counting all the gifts you buy, restaurants you visit, trips you plan, service providers you look up, products you evaluate for work, etc. Wouldn't be surprised if it's even more.

For any given business trying to optimize their website, it's a lot easier than that. Just look at the traffic flows in Google Analytics. If everybody hits the landing page and immediately clicks on "Careers", maybe the focus of your landing page should be on the job opportunities available. If they don't, you're probably right to focus on the product. If a significant number of people visit "Careers" but not enough to move it to the front page, you may want to exclude visitors to it from your remarketing campaign. (A sibling comment indicates that this is trivial for both Google and Facebook ads.)

That more sites don't do this - when it takes all of about 15 seconds to diagnose in Google Analytics and a couple minutes to fix - is probably a good indication that the economic losses from this situation aren't all that significant.
Since the care transferred across state lines can he make a federal case?
Or maybe it was just another case of blindness to exponential growth curves and the law of accelerated returns. Many thought solar is inevitable, even when most were skeptical. Just like many thought the same about EVs (although it's becoming trendier to believe in EVs now, too, especially in light of Model 3's pre-orders, but it wasn't always the case).

Imagine if the founders of Solar City also thought like this guy. Suffice to say they probably wouldn't be owning one of the largest US solar companies in the US right now.
I'm guessing criminals (current and former), drug addicts, and the willfully unemployed wouldn't be eligible. These are the vulnerable, marginalized and (sometimes) disenfranchised groups that America loves to shit on when it comes to social programs and basic rights.
> no one has time to learn everything

Nonsense. The fundamentals don't take a long time to learn. And once you know them, everything else becomes much easier to learn. That's the reason that learning the fundamentals matters: it's a huge lever.

Here's a single, small, very accessible book that takes you all the way from switches to CPUs:

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...

SICP gets you from CPUs to Scheme (well, it goes in the other direction, but the end result is the same). That's two books to get from switches to compilers. Anyone who thinks they don't have time for that needs to learn to manage their time better.
To validate Godwin's Law, you have to apply it properly.

What Godwin's Law refers to is this: either an ad hominem attack occurs in which some debating parties compares their opponent(s) to Nazi's, or else some other sort of non-constructive, inappropriate comparison is made between some subject and the Nazis. ("Those crazy GNU Nazis don't want anyone to get paid for programming." "I'm gonna ignore you topic Nazis and write about whatever I want.")

Simply mentioning Hitler or the Nazi party is not enough; there are valid, constructive ways to do that. For instance, a legitimate thread about WWII history will probably mention Hitler or the Nazis! Also, comparing any violently repressive regime to the Nazis is completely valid.
I think a slightly higher propensity to give c-sections leads to much higher total numbers because if you get one for birth X you are generally going to get another for birth X+1.
Teachers vs. Robots: the future of EdTech in one chart
Interesting. I sat in on a few surgeries years ago when I thinking about going pre-med and I saw many checklists. There were counts of instruments used, rags used, checking and double checking all through the surgery. Maybe it was only these 2 older surgeons who did this, but it seemed pretty useful.

I distinctly remember having a hanging shoe rack like thing where each rag used was put to make counting easy. The count was off at the end of one of the surgeries so they went through it again, and it turned out one of the slots had 2 rags.
Dockerize vs. Containerize. All the things
Provided nobody was hurt, your liability would be limited to the value of the car.
Exactly! A friend recently got their genetic data from 23 & me and used Promethease to analyze it and it was full of scary sounding stuff like this. I had to talk them down and explain exactly what you did above.
I'll just point out that what is the "Nth biggest cause of X" is entirely dependent on what classification scheme you've chosen for causes of X.

The article is better than most in pointing out that it's 9.5% of all deaths in the subheadline.
You are right, I have made a mistake on my part.

But I still think when it comes to this article this should not be up-voted to the front, the main argument in this article is just fundamentally wrong. I feel the author is in a bubble and has no idea what so many people around the world have to go through, and that not everyone is lucky enough to work on things they love.
Meh. The article made some good points, but crossed over into bashing too often to be trustworthy. The last straw for me was the bit at the end about the environmental impact of lithium mining, and how we should look at "greener alternatives". What greener alternatives? What else is going to provide sufficient energy storage for cars, other than liquid fuels - and doesn't also have a negative impact?

Likewise, complaining that EVs use fossil electricity is shortsighted. We are rapidly approaching a point where solar electricity is cheaper than fossil electricity. Once that happens, EVs will be completely clean. Do we wait for a decade of research, experiments, and failures until after we have sufficiently clean electricity?

There are certainly good arguments that Tesla stock is overpriced, and that Tesla won't be able to generate sufficient returns as competition catches up. But right now, competition is not catching up.
Yeah, with cheap enough electricity you can run the chemistry of burning transportation fuels backwards, and wind up making our current cars carbon-neutral.
It's a much better article, too.

This has been on YC before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605993
Which class/university was it? Any chance the materials are online?

I'm actually writing my own shell now; I'd be interested to compare :)

The fork/exec/pipe/dup calls are definitely an unusual and powerful paradigm. I think too many programmers don't know this because we were brainwashed to make "portable" programs, and that's the least portable part of Unix.
"After a year, Android Marshmallow has barely managed to hit 7.5 percent"

Wow, years are a lot shorter than I remember. Android Marshmallow was announced May 28, 2015 and was released with the Nexus 5X and 6P on September 29, 2015. So 11 months since announcement, and 7 months since release.

The author has a point about too few users being on the latest release, but let's get the facts straight.
I first read SICP 10 years into my programming career. I felt like that was a good point to read the book. Any earlier and much of it would have been lost on me. But maybe this is the kind of book that you read and re-read and always find new things.
we should be worried because we are humans - every human endeavor will, at some point, turn bad. It's human nature. Nationalism is good, to point. So are many other things. Blind nationalism with no empathy for anyone other than your own countrymen can be (but not necessarily is) bad.

If you think there is any form of human institution than cannot be subverted to evil acts, you are uninformed.
"Pain and suffering" is only one class of damages, though. What about the cost of medical procedures and lost wages?
Dubai has both oil and solar in abundance. They are bound to continue to be one of the richest countries in the world along with the entire UAE. Political considerations allowing.
The Most Expensive Hyphen in History
My father was a private pilot. Owned a plane (1996(?) Mooney Bravo, it really moved), so we flew around quite a bit. If I got in a small plane, and the guy I was flying with wasn't going through his checklist, I would get out.
That's cargo cult thinking if I've ever heard it.
Of your three possibilities, I don't think either of the first two make sense when you consider that Gavin was using Electrum to verify the signature:

1. electrum's signature verification dialog takes a message, address, and signature and doesn't the hashing for you; there's no option to provide a pre-hashed input so the hashing couldn't have only happened on CSW's machine

2. the electrum download includes the code used to do the hashing, so if the hashing code was corrupted, it implies the electrum download itself was compromised

So that leaves 3. The electrum developer has said that their .sig file wasn't downloaded from a UK IP address on the day the demo took place, so we know Gavin didn't verify that the electrum download was correct. I expect your 3rd possibility is the most likely one.
Interestingly, the more bad (under average) investors move to passive investment, the better the average outcome will get. And the more good (above average) investors move there, the worse it'll become.

All counted, isn't it great when incentives align almost perfectly with the global optimum?
I rewrote Redux to understand it
I think I know what you mean. When I was a kid, I got a feeling of complete emptiness lasting maybe couple of seconds when I was thinking about what if there wouldn't be anything.
Some additional reading, from a friend: https://medium.com/@paulgrewal/is-there-really-no-hope-for-t...
We do take care of them, there is the SS Disability, the only problem is it is never enough $ to live the lifestyle they had prior
Package management in Python 2 or 3 (Linux and Mac) with virtualenv or pyvenv
Hypertext: Educational Experiment in English and CS at Brown University [video]
Awesome! I started in the 5th grade with Perl (lol) and went to a bunch of summer programs but they were more hands-on and programming based. Very cool. I learned about state machines when I was 16 and would draw my own really complicated ones for fun haha.
What are the downvotes for? The questions aren't rhetorical, if that's the issue - I really do want to know what distinction people see between this and suicide, which periodically comes up as a topic here, and people are so much against.