skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The idea that you work hard and pay your income taxes, while I live off your enforced kindness, doing nothing by choice, is untenable. If a universal basic income is to be legitimate, it cannot be financed by taxing Jill to pay Jack. That is why it should be funded not from taxation, but from returns on capital.

Capital is savings is unconsumed income.

"Universal dividend" is another name for tax on investment which is another name for tax on income. Whether confiscating income to pay for leisure is "untenable" shouldn't depend on the name you give the act of confiscating income.

In the end, a corporation is a machine that takes investment now and distributes dividends later, and the reason why the investment occurs is the promise of dividends. A corporation has to distribute $100 in dividends to get $75 into the hands of its investors (given a tax on capital gains of 25%), or it has to distribute $100 in dividends to get $75 dollars into the hands of its investors and $25 for the government because the government confiscated 25% of the IPO... what's the difference? I guess in Varoufakis' model people can still buy, like, gold as an investment and enjoy preferential taxation.
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Weird article. Why excavation on Mars would be a problem?
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Pot, meet Kettle.
Elon views Mars colonization not as a way to solve lack of habitation space in Earth, but as an off-premises security backup should something terrible happen on Earth.
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Most amusing comment in this thread, but in all seriousness I think that's quite true.
Agreed, it would make Apple more successful in the home than all of their HomeKit efforts have been so far.
Umm, which standards?

Paris city area has a density (21000/km²) that is twice that of New York City (10800/km²), but is an exception. Many other major European metropolitan cities are less than half of New York's density.

(Berlin 4000/km², London 5500/km², Amsterdam 4900/km², Stockholm 5000/km², Helsinki 1500/km², Madrid 5400/km², Köln 2600/km², Lyon 10000/km², Brussels 7000/km²).
Do you know what "homeless" means? I don't care if you don't, but it's weird that you'd aggressively push a position if you don't understand what you're talking about, which you clearly don't if you don't understand the differences between people who are statutorily homeless and people who are actually homeless.
Human psychology is easily manipulated, and you're seeing that happen right now. Whoever controls the information controls the masses. The Internet is being weaponised by every major large interest in the World - nation states, big oil, climate activists. Progressive folks got here first, but now everyone is using it, and frighteningly enough people like Steve Bannon are really really good at it.

Take a look at Walter Lippmann.
I posit that the offender may have rather large thumbs. Because if you look very very carefully at the standard QWERTY keyboard, you will notice that the letter 't' and the letter 'r' are in fact located precisely adjacent to each other.

In fact, from the sentence structure, I know that he (definitely male, aged in mid thirties, right handed, wears a hand knitted cardigan, keeps a cucumber sandwich in his briefcase) was typing this on an iPhone 4S (still running iOS 8) on the 5:30pm train from Campbeltown and reached the middle of the word just as the train entered the Chuddingsworth tunnel. There is a slight offset in the tracks there that causes the train carriages to lurch to the left a little, thus causing his thumb to slide across just that little bit after he hit the 't' in 'petabyte'. If you need any more info, please do not hesitate to contact me: 222b@holm.es
When Trump is finished with the US you'll understand why people are panicking.
From the title I thought someone had a system that could generate decent paragraph length image descriptions. First I thought 'surely not', then clicked through and saw the authors (Esp. Fei Fei Li) and thought 'oh shit, maybe?', then glanced at the results and realised it is mostly about establishing a baseline system.

We are still 3 years off this, and 5 years wouldn't surprise me. Text is hard.
Never is a long time. We obviously have to somehow mutate our physiology somehow, or make hyper-giant leaps in technology.
Something for near-to-far future generations to think about really.
Skitt's Law!

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/skitt-s-law
He's right tho. Although I do suspect Russian envolvement, there's been no hard evidence so far.

Nothing like the loan given to the National Front in France anyway.
It's curious how people like McLuhan and Lippman and Bernays are hardly ever discussed, even though they hold the keys to understanding what's going on.
probably faster and cheaper to create human like machines In the near term that have none of the problems we have living in harsher environments.
I think we're getting into a region of subtlety where we'd have to actually look at data. I have no idea which countries you're referring to specifically, for example.

On the "hot-potato effect", I found this part of the linked article quite funny:

> Notice that so far these changes can be fully explained using the basic principles of microeconomics. There is no need to resort to “transmission mechanisms” such as interest rates. Just S&D.

Well, how does the author think that the "transmission mechanism" of interest rates is supposed to work? By the basic principles of microeconomics, supply and demand! The price of money is the interest rate.

And yes, so far as banks trade financial assets with each other in exchange for reserves, there can be an effect on asset prices. But asset prices are basically an inverse of the interest rate; in particular, when you look at the bond market, long term bond prices are an inverse of long-term interest rates.

Indeed, when you look at quantitative easing, it did have the effect of pushing the long-term interest rate even further down, which is equivalent to pushing asset prices up.

So yes, the transmission mechanism is the interest rate. The article pretends to disagree with that, but it really doesn't. Instead, it just explains it in more detail, but without being aware of the connection. Of course, there's nothing wrong with explaining things in more detail.

There are two points where I believe the article is wrong. The first is a minor point, namely where it says there can be a (direct) effect on output. Since reserves aren't used for transactions in the real economy, that's not possible.

The second is quite a bit more important. The article starts its analogy with a scenario where new gold deposits are discovered, i.e. the increase in gold is a purely exogenous event.

Base money increases are never purely exogenous events. Of course it might start with a central bank policy decision (although more often than not it starts with a commercial bank decision!), but even in that case, the central bank can only increase the level of base money if it finds a willing commercial bank as a counterparty to a trade. So the "hot-potato effect" is necessarily weaker than in the case of newly found gold deposits. The analogy with gold is not ideal and could be misleading your intuition.
Yes, modifying humans to adapt better to different gravities, air pressures, ambient light levels and color, temperature, day length, etc., could make colonization much more practical.

Realistically, going to other planets/moons will be one way trips anyway, might as well make the most of it.
Mathematics is the study of objective truth in a universe that has certain rules. How could knowing the universe in all its glory be boring? Wish they taught this rather than calculation at school. It's very uninspiring to not realize this and do math.

In fact, natural numbers are the basis for almost all of mathematics. And natural numbers are a manifestation of counting. Information theoretically, to count, one needs two dimensions (or degrees of freedom.) Space for storage of the number. And time to increment the storage medium, again and again, at different points. You could use two dimensions of space instead, and you'd just draw two orthogonal lines..and say the area inside the rectangle is the product.

So if counting is fundamentally related to the relationship between two dimensions, then so is addition since addition is repeated/recursive counting. And multiplication is repeated/recursive addition.

Once you realize this, physics seems less fundamental than mathematics, when it comes to understanding the universe.

Multiplication and addition are related in the way that f(x) and repeat(f(x), y) are related. They distribute over eachother and have certain properties.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(mathematics)

So..the primes, the chaotic relationship between the modularity of addition over multiplication and the modularity of multiplication over addition, is due to the relationship between our universe's dimensions.

Want to study the universe at the most raw level? Mathematics. Want to study it a little higher? Physics. Want to study it at a higher level..maybe closer to the phaneron? Biology/neurochemistry.

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

Want to study it at the thinking level? Zen buddhism.

Choose your pick. The causal chain of human to universe doesn't discriminate. The whole chain could be the "real" reality. Pick your choice. It's all beautiful. It's all mystifying and enigmatic. Just do it.
Honestly why not?

If you start from the premise of domed cities, then the expansion pattern pretty obviously says glassing in the entire moon is the natural end result of that. The lower-gravity drastically reduces your requirements, and the regolith can be fused into glass and moved a 100m up to form the roof.

It also reduces your energy requirements long term because you can use mirrors at the roof-level to reflect sunlight around the entire surface to avoid a 2-week night-time cycle, and adding an atmosphere means you "naturally" can keep it warm.

Since the pressure would be exerted outwards, the entire structure would be mostly self-supporting - requirements would lean towards figuring out how to repair it in the event of meteorite impacts, but self-sealing plastic layers could be developed.
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Don't believe everything you read on the internet, or the newspapers. Nobody has the monopoly on truth.

Healthy scepticism is a life skill. More so now when rumours can spread globally in seconds. The solution is not control but education and discernment. Our prejudices and current knowledge often determine to a large degree what we more easily believe.

The traditional media is not only losing reach but also its power to 'shape and influence events' ie propaganda and in desperation the 'free press' has been reduced to the sorry state of seeking 'official source of truth status'. Sort of like a ministry of truth.
I believe you're spot on wrt. splitting water to provide oxygen for combustion being a non-starter.
The main two reasons we wouldn't settle anything beyond Earth would be:

1. Lack of interest.

2. Lack of time.

#1 is the biggest problem as far as we know right now. #2 is a problem only if we destroy our planet to the point where we can't expend resources or time, or we overpopulate and run out of resources, or a natural disaster sets us back too far or kills us.

We have sufficient resources right now, we're just not focused on the effort enough. If every government said, "You, need to change what you are doing and start helping us get off of this planet," and changed laws and regulations to encourage or enforce this, it would happen. Is that realistic? Not really. That's the reason that Musk and others are focusing so much on space. Because, if they don't do it, then who?
One shower idea that I had is the concept of a clojure version that instead of compiling to JVM bytecode, javascript or CLR, compiled to postgreSQL. I think that would be awesome: you could just run the same functions, seamlessly, from the database, through the web server, to the browser. And, whilst of course you need to know about the limitations of the database, it could be great for pushing code to the database seamlessly.

Unfortunately I don't think I have the skills for that, so posting here in the hopes that someone that can likes the idea :)
Clearly without oxygen you can't burn those hydrocarbons. Where do you get the oxygen from? Its like having a planet full of fuel and nothing to burn with.

Fuel cell technology needs oxygen.
If we were to invest in building a underwater 'Sealab' on the bottom of some ocean floor, say at least 100m water deep, what kind of cataclysmic event could destroy it.

A few dozen of the underwater sea-colonies seams the most practical safety net for humanity that we can do today.

I completely for exploring and colonizing space, but we still haven't mapped our own oceans fully. And sadly, I don't think my generation, or even the next few will be any closer to being able to get ourselves off this rock.

If you are looking to build 'Arks' for humanity, i'd put my money on the ocean floor.
> It may be necessary to achieve Ives (well documented) dream of a screen that covers the entire front edge-to-edge.

Source on this?

I didn't know this is what Ive wants to achieve, but it's something I've assumed every device manufacturer will be racing towards (even if it is on a niche device to test market reaction) and I've wondered why no one seems to be boldly pushing this?
> B. Read the comments

The comments are often worse than the article itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades
For everyone else wondering what the catch is: the number of outgoing mails is limited (100/day for the $4 tier).
It was the marketplace that made fake news possible. Traditional news always had its checks in place and they did a fairly good job upholding those. Even Google News follows quality guidelines[0]. It's no coincidence that fake news websites targeted Facebook because they knew there is no such vetting there.

0: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40787
I don't know how good the service is... but the clean design of the site is appealing.
This is excellent! I did not see any reference to the math. So you are saying, if there was an atmosphere that extended to two moon radii, it will stay with the moon and you will have breathable pressure on the surface?
Seems like a cool solution for guys like me who have about 7 or 8 email domains to keep track of.

Also, thanks for pointing out that GMail also has a daily cap on sending emails out. I've never ever come close to it, but never realised there is a cap on their service.
I only speak for myself when I say it's something I would love to have at my disposal.

Seeing my colleague intuitively reach out to the screen to use the Android Virtual Device when we're discussing something convinced me it was actually a nice thing to have.
So, the argument is let's not go to Mars because we'd have to deal with cosmic rays. Instead, let's go to Titan, which has an atmosphere, but is ridiculously cold and rains methane. Also, we can't go there because it's nearly thirty times the distance. Plus we'd still have to deal with cosmic rays along the way.

I'm not convinced.
I didn't draw and conclusions, I just presented one bullet point of note and linked to the conclusions of experts.

> Cheaper buildings and labor for US companies, which improves their competitiveness against international competition, increased agricultural exports, cheaper services for American citizens.

Illegal immigrants pay no tax, no welfare contributions, are not protected under employment laws, work long hours with no holidays. Slavery increases your international competitiveness and provides cheaper domestic services too.

Our forefathers fought bloody battles against the excessive worker exploitation. Let's not slip back into the dark days. Although I do question the benefit of minimum wage.
It is not a Maoist thing. Why you think the two would have any connection?
> Really, if they wanted to merely transition to USB-C, they could have included 2 new ports, and 2 old ports. No need to eliminate the old USB ports in just one generation.

This. Dropping all the old ports was a step too far, I think. It's forward looking, but it's an inconvenience today.

I'm sure a smoother transition would've been more welcome.
Ask HN: Why are so many great things free?
There seems to be an abundance of really great services that are offered free of charge, or have a free tier that fulfils my needs perfectly and offers no incentive to upgrade. Examples include Surge [0], Netlify [1], and Migadu[2], which I just discovered from the front page of HN. Why do so many services offer a really good product free of charge? Do they benefit at all, or is it about giving to the community?

[0] https://surge.sh/

[1] https://www.netlify.com/

[2] https://www.migadu.com/en/index.html
The Firefox files are SQLite files, and I believe but haven't checked recently that the Chrome files have no newlines (0x0A) in the files. The whole JSON string is on one line, so Git will rewrite the whole file on each change.
Flying a mission to intentionally study a moon is a bit different than accidentally contaminating it while getting no useful data. Titan isn't a likely candidate for contamination anyway and if we ever do find life there it is likely to be distinguishable from Earth life. Enceladus, on the other hand, is one of the likeliest places for Earth-like life in our solar system and much more succeptible to contamination.

Since the orbiter is out of fuel and will eventually crash into something, Saturn makes the most sense.
Which for someone with several hobby domains, but one person is fine... the standard tier isn't a huge expense either.
I understand why you put in the drawbacks section, I know that kind of anti-marketing can work. But it's a little too honest - nobody wants to read that their emails might end up as junk mail. Maybe be a bit more vague. Or if you're not significantly worse than your competitors on that front it's a bit misleading if you're disclaiming it as a drawback.

Also, when you open up a link in the menu as a new tab (via middle mouse button) the current tab becomes unusable due to the loading icon you overlay. Very annoying!

And finally - it'd be good to have a demo of the web client without having to register. Because that's essentially what most people will be paying for since email plumbing is pretty standard across providers.
On the other hand ambient temperature superconductors are possible there :)
Fake news illustrates what people actually want when they share "news" on Facebook/Twitter (and to a lesser degree, sites like Reddit): a headline, not a story. It's really just the ultimate in clickbait.
This is not a dig at the parent - they clearly have commitment and drive, but since they're promoting SuperMemo rather than commenting on the post, let me just say that this:

"I would did it again!!"

or this:

"Of course better english command came also with the course"

(among a choice of several examples) should tell you everything you need to know about the effectiveness of SuperMemo after 10 years of learning.
I've been using these guys now for about a month - fantastic customer service and the ui is stupidly simple. They're doing one thing and doing it well,can't recommend them enough
Both of those are adding a layer over Postgres; they are still "something like Django Rest Framework". Whether it's written in Python, Haskell or Go is not really the point I was making.
This looks pretty slick and well done for having a comprehensive FAQ section and plenty of info which answered most of my questions.

For me, email is the 'master key' for most of my online accounts (because password resets are done via email so if your email account is compromised an attacker can quickly leverage access to other services) and email security is top priority. I didn't see anything about using two-factor authentication with this service - is it available?

Also, your site only supports obsolete HTTPS protocols. TLS 1.0 and SSLv3. You should drop SSL 3 and enable support for TLS 1.2. Here's a test you can run with feedback and resources to learn more about secure configurations: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=migadu.com&s=...
I'm in Nashville as well, and was just talking about this yesterday with people. The past couple of years has seemed to be almost entirely luxury apartment complexes being built, and anecdotally most of the young people I know here can't afford them, or if they can will just buy a house instead.
Yup.

Frankly, if you can solve the cosmic ray problem for the journey to Titan, you also just solved it for colonizing Mars. Martian gravity is also closer to Earth's, so Mars still seems like the better fit in the immediate term.
Actually, work does scale with the diameter. For lower diameter pipe, you can use a smaller, less specialized lay barge with less crew, the welding goes quicker meaning progress is faster, and you can fit more km of pipe on each supply ship.

Also, the cost of permits (called Right-Of-Way, ROW) is a very small fraction of the total cost, as is the planning cost. Materials cost for the pipe, OTOH, can be as much as 60% of total.
If we ever get to fusion or other unlimited energy source, it may be possible someday to thoroughly transform Titan, relocate 100,000 people on it and flung it in to space to another star. Titan can be our "generational spaceship" that goes forever to infinity and beyond. To colonize galaxy, using moons as spaceship would be necessary assuming there is no way to travel faster than speed of light. So all inter-galactic spaceships needs to be generational, completely self-sufficient in every possible way and have enough population that can evolve without too much of inbreeding for thousands of years.
Hackers offer a huge Mirai botnet as a DDoS-for-hire service
Some(most) people just don't need the raw power.

For instance if you are entrepreneur, any computer will have enough power and other things become important. An entrepreneur needs to travel a lot so battery lasting is essential, weight being low is essential, size being small is essential, it just working(software-hardware integration) is essential.

You can't move a desktop easily.

As an entrepreneur and engineer I use Macbooks a lot. Heavyload is done in servers. I used to compile my own gentoos(Linux distros) and built my own desktops and servers from discrete components in the past to get the best bang for the buck. Not anymore.

Macbooks are great computers in overall design, if you are careful enough to avoid first generation designs(that applies to any product from any company). Once they iron all the bugs it just works.
> On Earth, we are shielded from GCRs by water in the atmosphere. But it takes two meters of water to block half of the GCRs present in unprotected space.

Build a double-skinned geodesic dome with a 4 metre gap between the two shells. Fill the space between with water. Your 'sky' now has a water-shielding layer.
I actually have seen Google down once, I might even have a screenshot. An immediate F5 (possibly after the screenshot) showed them back up. I'm not sure if it was my local Google office down (Israel), but the message was in English.
Unless you're automating emails surely that's plenty? Or do multiple recipients on an single email each count towards the limit?

I can't say email limits are ever something I've thought about.
I signed up with them for the reason that they were honest - I'm getting tired of all the marketing talk you see over at sites like product hunt when trying to convince people to sign up
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Git always rewrites the whole file