skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> saves them billions (on premature death)

Smokers don't die healthy. The "saving money" bullshit is literal propaganda from the smoking industry.

Here's an actual meta study on the costs: http://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-17-economics/17...

>Third, Collins and Lapsley estimate the net costs of smoking, taking into account both those costs that are made greater and those that are reduced because of current and past tobacco use. For example, smoking increases some health care costs because of the higher prevalence of diseases caused by smoking (in smokers and ex-smokers who are still alive). These are the gross health care costs attributable to smoking. However, certain other health care costs are lower than they otherwise would be because of the premature deaths of many people who smoked over the past 40 years. These people did not live to use health care that they otherwise would have, so Collins and Lapsley subtract the costs that would have been incurred from the gross health care costs attributable to smoking in order to estimate the net cost. Similarly, in terms of labour (production) costs first costs that are made greater by smoking are estimated. For example, the time spent undertaking domestic duties because a home-maker is ill or has died prematurely is costed assuming domestic help will be hired. Then, savings due to reduced consumption—for example, household spending on food and clothing—are subtracted because these costs will be lower when there are fewer people in the household as a result of smokers dying earlier.

>Collins and Lapsley estimated that in 2004–05 the total cost of smoking in Australia was $31.5 billion
Having the option to fuck up isn't the problem.

The problem is that the US system has such incredibly low social mobility that it prevents any alternative to fucking up.

The mythology of personal choice applied to situations over which hardly anyone has actual personal control is perniciously misleading.

The "undeserving poor" - feckless, addicted, irresponsible - is just as much of a cliche as the opposite.

In fact, BI research shows that most people don't waste the money. They use it to improve their lives - sometimes by starting small businesses that wouldn't be possible without BI.
Considering behavior is the only thing in your control, how can you take anything but it seriously?!
But poorer people that receive payments will have a larger share of the overall wealth than they otherwise would have (even while everyone else receives exactly the same payment). BI is essentially about rebalancing wealth distribution.
UBI won't solve poverty for a very simple reason:

Every time government starts to subsidise something the price of subsidised goods goes up. I've seen this in Europe with wind farms, "eco" lightbulbs, farming equipment. etc.

And UBI is equivalent to subsidising all basic goods at the same time. So the only noticeable effect of UBI will be price increase, so that it would take your salary + UBI to purchase goods that now can be purchased by your salary alone.

Net result: increased bureaucracy, increased cash flow for the government (higher taxes), higher profits for corporations (higher prices), no benefit for poor, big hit for middle class (which is most heavily taxed).
Same thoughts as mine. Seems like ML was just thrown in the title to get more hits.
India’s Experiment in Basic Income Grants
I understand the business implications of a higher cost for labor and that the primary intent of the advisory is positive, but yikes, this perspective is so pro-business that it reads like a caricature.
McSweeney's is my favorite place on the internet!
Got a letter from iDNS? Don't be fooled
They seem to have a goal they've completely forgotten to mention. Moving all the settings into a textfile in /boot means you can bring this up from a windows machine (/boot is fat rather than ext2/3/4 due to limitations in the firmware that seek the bootcode).

So on a windows or mac machine (or pretty much any OS that can handle an SD card in the first place), you can write the image, edit the settings on the card, then stick it in the pi & have it up and running. The methods that most of us would use to do this manually, are near impossible to preflight from an OS that doesn't support ext2/3/4.
Just received this via email from 'Myspace Legal'.

Notice of Data Breach

You may have heard reports recently about a security incident involving Myspace. We would like to make sure you have the facts about what happened, what information was involved and the steps we are taking to protect your information.
What Happened?

Shortly before the Memorial Day weekend, we became aware that stolen Myspace user login data was being made available in an online hacker forum. The data stolen included user login data from a portion of accounts that were created prior to June 11, 2013 on the old Myspace platform.

We believe the data breach is attributed to Russian Cyberhacker â€˜Peace.â€™ This same individual is responsible for other recent criminal attacks such as those on LinkedIn and Tumblr, and has claimed on the paid hacker search engine LeakedSource that the data is from a past breach. This is an ongoing investigation, and we will share more information as it becomes available.
What Information Was Involved?

Email addresses, Myspace usernames, and Myspace passwords for the affected Myspace accounts created prior to June 11, 2013 on the old Myspace platform are at risk. As you know, Myspace does not collect, use or store any credit card information or user financial information of any kind. No user financial information was therefore involved in this incident; the only information exposed was usersâ€™ email address and Myspace username and password.
What We Are Doing

In order to protect our users, we have invalidated all user passwords for the affected accounts created prior to June 11, 2013 on the old Myspace platform. These users returning to Myspace will be prompted to authenticate their account and to reset their password by following instructions at https://myspace.com/forgotpassword

Myspace is also using automated tools to attempt to identify and block any suspicious activity that might occur on Myspace accounts.

We have also reported the incident to law enforcement authorities and are cooperating to investigate and pursue this criminal act. As part of the major site re-launch in the summer of 2013, Myspace took significant steps to strengthen account security.Â The compromised data is related to the period before those measures were implemented. We are currently utilizing advanced protocols including double salted hashes (random data that is used as an additional input to a one-way function that "hashes" a password or passphrase) to store passwords.Â Myspace has taken additional security steps in light of the recent report.
What You Can Do

We have several dedicated teams working diligently to ensure that the information our members entrust to Myspace remains secure. Importantly, if you use passwords that are the same or similar to your Myspace password on other online services, we recommend you set new passwords on those accounts immediately.
For More Information

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our Data Security & Protection team at dsp_help@myspace-inc.com or visit our blog at https://myspace.com/pages/blog.
The overhead for something like that would be huge. The goal of BI is to reduce overhead.
She has such a pretty face, and what a personality!
Notional Express proved that that is true, when they "disrupted" public transportation in Britain.
I like how the report talks about political instability and risk as though this is a thing that "just happens". I guess it didn't occur to anyone working on that report, that maybe the piss-poor situation the middle and working classes find themselves in might contribute somewhat to that political instability? I mean, I know people who work in research in finance - they aren't this stupid. I don't know any that work at Credit Suisse, though.

Yeah, of course a more equitable distribution of resources will be better for everyone long term. If you work in research at Credit Suisse and are too stupid to grasp the purely economic case, at least try working out how a Reign of Terror will impact corporate profits, maybe.
So define and ban those things directly, rather than something nebulous.
> We noticed that you're using an ad blocker, which may adversely affect the performance and content on Bloomberg.com. For the best experience, please whitelist the site.

Actually, it speeds up performance and makes the content easier to read by removing distractions. Thanks for your concern though.
Very interesting demo. I am not being critical, but it does not do anaphora resolution (resolving pronouns to noun phrases, etc).
By "being born middle class" you mean that they were taught skills that allow them to be a contributing and self sustaining member of society.

Life isn't fair but those skills can be individually learned.
Sounds like a problem with Chicagoland.
IEEE Milestones Honor Two Historical Breakthroughs at AT&T Laboratories
Actually, they never reached their peak capacity of 2500.
It's not my client. It's you replying with one account so you can still downvote with the other. That "all's fair" attitude seems to exist in more domains than just taxes.
At what point do we stop? Current safety nets aren't enough, so let's try basic income, but some people will mismanage their money, so let's do their shopping for them.
Many Enterprise companies have cloud options, and they still aren't viable because leadership is risk adverse to having their data outside of their ownership. This is especially true regarding laws in various jurisdictions.

I work in Enterprise Software and speak to 100s of C level leadership. People aren't "fed up" with on-premise enterprise. They aren't refusing to switch due to it being difficult.

I mean, this is an interesting conversation we could take in a lot of directions, but I wanted to clarify that I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding here about enterprise software.

Same is true of SaaS, it's not a keyword for these smaller cloud-based software. It's a literal description of your ownership of the service.

You are right that there is less margin in cloud vs. on-premise, but that's true of BigEnterprise's software and offerings as well.

What you're saying fundamentally makes sense as a theory, but in practice I think the reasons and thoughts just have different outcomes.

And this isn't just software, this is also for hosting the hardware as a whole.
Virtual Reality of Nepal – The Land of cultural excellence and natural serenity
If we just abolished taxes and let everyone save their own cash, everyone could create their own trust fund and in one single generation provide enough for their future generations. But then where would the fun be? Elites love to watch their slaves work.
I'll throw in another "Hey, you could do it THIS way!" You could just make a fullscreen Electron app. [1]

I was just messing around with this on a Raspberry Pi 3 this morning and it works really well.

[1] https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start
I would suggest you have not studied human nature enough.
The dogs bark at the tree bark.
I'm pretty sure he was talking about food insecurity and not actual starving to death, though his use of the word in this case is actually quite correct. Starve does not solely imply starvation unto death, Mr. Pedant.

And his point still stands, it's an issue in the US that has yet to be solved.
Releasing the Clarifai API Scala Client
> That is, if my monthly BI payment is $800 I can opt to receive a monthly BI payment of $600 and also be guaranteed to receive enough basic foodstuffs to survive for the month.

This is not necessary. Just distribute the money weekly (or daily) and let people figure out what to spend it on. If they would rather buy cigarettes than food, let them. When they're hungry they'll buy food.
Ask HN: How to get started in the field of VR/AR?
Background: Full Stack Programmer, Hardware Engineer, a Designer, and a Physics and Math enthusiast.

Where do I start?
Yep. I got the email. Double check that your emails are in line with your linkedin account.
The breakthroughs are

- ASCII

- TAT-8, the eighth transatlantic telecommunications cable. The first fiber-optic cable to be laid across an ocean.
I lost 3 fitbits that way! That clasp was mostly useless for anything more active than running.
Wait ... That's actually working? I had heaps of things I shitcanned as not even remotely profitable to do because all common sense told me that this exact tactic would not work.
Coming from a site with an obnoxious auto playing video that's really ironic
Unless someone is literally putting their money under the mattress, the money is in a bank which is loaning most of it out, so the money is almost never actually "hoarded".
> If the pilot goes well, we plan to follow up with the main study. If the pilot doesn’t go well, we’ll consider different approaches.

What does going well or not going well look like to the funders/researchers, how do you recognize it?
They're asking how bad actors will be handled by the system. It's using an analogy to ask a question, not propping up a straw man and knocking it down.
...just no. VAAI snapshot integration with VMWare is only for NAS platforms, not SAN - VMFS doesn't even come into the picture. Not to mention it's intended for View for rapid cloning, and not as a backup feature.
The cost of US healthcare is also what made it possible for the rest of the world to afford cheap healtcare. The US does the vast majority of the R&D and everyone else benefits.
It's not an ad blocker, it's malware protection.
That is actually ONE positive feature of Windows 10.

Once it's activated it's stickiness to the CPU/Mobo means you can just re-install the dang thing on the same system.
I know I had to Greasemonkey the site up to get search parameters I wanted like the ability to retain a large number of results per page (100 is the cap) without having to go through advanced search every time, and doing a large regional search by filtering states I didn't want to move to and blacklisted companies from the results rather than screw around with the limited 100 mile radius.
Straight out of Das Kapital... Only backwards

An old friend used to always point out to me that if you want to know what's really happening in the world, read the 'bourgeois' financial press, not the 'news'. Ideologues can and will lie and distort at will in tabloids and on TV news, but if your customers are businesses looking to make money, you have to tell things closer to the truth, that's what they're paying for.
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Why what? Are you asking why I'd see it that way?

I think it has to do with making a sharp distinction between human and non-human. I feel that there is a strange commonality between animal rights activists and the people who enjoy torturing animals, with both sides seeing the animals as being relatively human, to love or to torture. The animals are being personified, then treated to good or evil. We don't have to personify animals. We can view them more like vegetables. Pretty much nobody sheds a tear when chopping vegetables, onions excepted. Pretty much nobody can sadistically enjoy it either. It's just food.
I am not using an ad blocker but I still got that message... slowing performance and making my experience worse ;-(
It makes it more difficult for the user to leave the service, since they need to continue using Apple Music in order to stream their music, as opposed to simply launching a different music player.
Same, but I imagine it's because I have plugins disabled.
That does make multiple terminals play nice with eachother, but it's still different, as OP's still flushes to HISTFILE after every command. But, then we can do that with

PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a'
There are indeed. You can build with Nodal [1] and deploy without hesitation to Polybit [2]. :)

[1] https://github.com/keithwhor/nodal

[2] https://polybit.com
BI isn't limited to a political party. Libertarians (conservatives) see it as a way of making the government smaller.

Unless they specifically say so, please don't assume it's attributed to a partisanship.
Nicely done. xD
I don't think this article deserves that label. It is about producing entertainment that serves the dual purpose as an advertisement which is incredibly common but seems to be something people aren't paying much attention to.

People don't seem to realize that if you see an article about a product or a company etc. that article was organized by a promotion company being payed by the people who make what the article is about.
> I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about.

I'm 100% sure I don't know what I'm talking about! That's why I couched my opinion in all the weasel words like "probably" and "likely".
If the "pro basic income" people gave 5 mins of their time to charity for every hour they talk about being an online social justice expert, we would have already solved these problems.

BI fixes the symptoms, not the disease. The disease is that people think that they're being charitable by demanding social programs. Wrong. Being charitable means getting your hands dirty, helping people, educating them, physical presence. I dare you instead of typing hacker news comment, Google your local food kitchen, spend $10 on items they need. Show up in the flesh Saturday morning and actually do something besides flap your gums.
How is it possible to sell U.S. Treasuries in secret or in a dark market while still providing an ostensibly transparent market for Treasuries? Those two things seems counter to each other.

Let's consider equities first. A huge amount of invested money is indexed, which basically means not doing active investing but simply tagging along with the price discovery done by more active market participants. That seems to work out pretty well. Not perfect, but good enough.

Why can't treasuries be the same? There's such a thing as a "noncompetitive bid"[1], which means you agree to purchase Treasuries at the same price that the smarter money chose to purchase at.

Right now there are low limits on how much can be bought by noncompetitive bids. But perhaps the Saudi's just get that price for however much they want to buy? The treasury market is huge huge huge. It probably remains reasonably "transparent" regardless of what the Saudis buy.

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/auctfund/work/work.htm
It uses machine learning to parse the sentence, all modern lexical parsers are based on machine learning.
You've proved too much. This same argument could be used to show that we can't decide e.g. which drugs or lifestyle choices make death due to cancer more or less likely, or indeed which behaviors make death due to any long-term illness more or less likely.

Congratulations I guess, but you've just put a bunch of medical researchers out of a job. They had to study a long time to do that job!
iTunes is such a massive cluster of bad design that it's easy for me to believe this is a bug. It's also easy to say "Apple is smarter than doing something dumb like this," but then again, Apple made iTunes, and iTunes is a massive cluster of bad design, so...
So FoxType is just Spacy[0]? I honestly thought this might be something different until I checked out the Spacy page and saw FoxType listed as a customer. Kind of a dick move simply repackaging other people's work and passing. It off as your own. (Yes, this is literally just the "displacy" demo.)

Spacy is a pretty good system. It's fast, way faster thank NLTK and the Stanford stuff and it's pretty accurate. Also it's licensing is pretty flexible. The only knock I have against it is the lack of bindings for languages other than Python, but whatever.

[0] https://spacy.io/
Then they still get the check and can still buy food and pay rent with it, and the other debt gets sent to collections.
> There simply isn't enough wealth in the world to create a good life for the whole worlds population.

That is far from obvious to me. I have no idea if it's true or not.

But analagously, many people are surprised to learn that most countries experiencing 'famine', historically, have been _exporting_ food, and that there is, unquestionably, currently enough food produced on the planet to feed everyone adequately and enjoyably. And yet people starve.

It's not obvious to me that there isn't enough wealth in the world to create a good life for everyone, too. Now, today.
You can. It seems legal (tho IANAL) and it seems to be working in practice.

Thing is, your distribution chain needs to be extremely tight (watermarked data or careful chain of trust) or else content will just get leaked every patch.
I opened the article expecting the music industry to have caught wind of youtube-dl.

I was wrong.
That's right. If you look at the code, the only use of regex is to remove all characters not matching [a-z0-9].
Haha, I've always had to look up rlwinm and its ilk no matter how many times I've looked it up previously in the ISA.

Its crazy how terse PPC's instructions are, the PPC ISA book felt like reading PHD paper where as ARM's ISA manuals felt like a gentle novel.

Here's a wonderful excerpt from the latest 2.07 ISA:

"The following notation is used in the definitions below.
When MMCR0_PMCC = 11, “PMCs” refers to PMCs 1 - 4
and “PMCj” or PMCjCE refers to “PMCj or PMCjCE,
respectively, where j = 2 - 4; otherwise, “PMCs” refers
to PMCs 1 - 6 and “PMCj” or PMCjCE refers to “PMCj
or PMCjCE, respectively, where j = 2 - 6."

Get all of that? Good, now go write code to make use of it.
Some concepts have upsides and downsides such that notice may be required in order that the individual can make an informed decision and if they choose poorly it's on them.

Some ideas like this one are so bad that they shouldn't exist at all on the premise that the idea of spell checking requiring sending all your documents over http is so bad that anyone that runs it must perforce either not know or not understand because understanding would lead any reasonable party not to install it.

Therefore the addon exists only as a trap for the unwary or the stupid and makes the plugin ecosystem worse for existing and thus ought to be deleted.
The dollar-pizza wars hit their beautiful height when I walking down 1st ave between 13th/14th a few years ago. I counted 5 in one block!

What a wonderful gift dollar-pizza has been. I often wonder how many able-bodied men and women they feed every day. It's gotta be hundreds of thousands.
To be fair, you consistently call $2-3 Trillion theft, but I wonder why you use a phrase that anarcho-capitalists use for any amount of taxation? For them it is a matter of principle, not amount.
Why do you feel the need to distinguish between "the bum", and "you", a victim of "automation crashing demand by throwing earners permanently out of the economy."

Can't some portion of current 'bums', or the homeless, be victims of "automation crashing demand by throwing earners permanently out of the economy" too? I would think they are. Hasn't the process already begun, a long time ago, if perhaps speeding up now? Some of the present poor and homeless definitely seem to have been "permanently thrown out of the economy" to me.
While I won't discount your claim about hidden agendas behind much bureaucracy, I don't think you can really apply this to two of my three examples. For ethanol subsidies, sure. But it'll be much more difficult to make the same argument about the War on Drugs or the TSA. In these two cases, how is money being funneled to powerful political stakeholders?
SoftBank Plans to Sell $7.9B of Alibaba Stock
Someone here in a research field related to NLP has to add this to their corpus.
Yes. I mean instead of asking me to do work for free. Why not I provide a small paid sample of my work. A risk both of us can take and live with.

If you don't like the work, we can part ways knowing we are not the right fit.
It got "colorless green ideas sleep furiously," wrong.