skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think Amazon doesn't pay well, I think it's a better practice to just mentally add $1 or $2 to the price of what your ordering and call it the tip, rather than stiffing the drivers. If you can't afford it with tip, you can't afford it.
But what about all the other grads who are doing jobs that are nothing to do with their degrees at all? Entrants into grad training in UK big 4 accounting firms can have a degree in anything, it doesn't have to be relevant. In fact students seem to consciously choose humanities as they seem less daunting than Mathematics or Economics... Makes me wonder why we make people do degrees at all?
Let me guess, 319 million, less the number of people who don't use the internet or make phone calls?
So, you've convinced yourselves that humans are conscious (whatever that means).

The point, though, was how do we tell if something else is. You haven't given us much in order to show one way or another if either an animal or a human-created thing is. So I'm saying the concept is so weakly defined as to be essentially meaningless.

Also, you say that because humans have somehow developed the ability to talk about something, it must exist. What exactly have they said? That there is this thing that they can't define objectively but they swear it exists because it seems like it does? And that proves that it exists? Do you not see how circular that is?
Yes! It's very cool to get the back-story of the Shaftoes and Waterhouses. And the enigmatic Enoch Root, who arguably appears as well in The Mongoliad trilogy. Maybe he's even mentioned in Anathem, but I may be stretching for that.
I think you are forgetting the fact that your standard run of the mill xeons and tesla's in a typical server farm are still far slower than custom hardware accelerated circuits with no clock rate specifically designed for cracking a specific encryption system. There isn't really a justifiable commercial reason to need them on that scale at present.
If a news organization does it less frequently but has a much larger reach...where does that stand? If a website is 40% questionable with a low readership, but another is 10% questionable but reaches millions a day...who is more fake? Who is more accountable? NY Times and Washington Post run heavy political bias in their reporting with some questionable articles over the past month. Because of their resources and readership, if 10% of their content is intentionally misleading...is that fake news? Would they be considered a fake news site because they mislead a large segment of the population in 10% of their content? Or have they been socially deemed as "real news"? This is all for example sake..

..what is fake news compared to real news?

Are their really any news outlets that are unbiased, bipartisan, in-regurgitated, real news? My answer would be...what ever sells the most papers, that is what is printed. A news paper seing their shares fall because of a million small small sites acting as regurgitation machines is starting to take its toll, and papers are calling foul and continually running with that story. There is no real news anymore.
Interesting point, I had not considered that.

Either way, I'm curious to see more adoption of UBI - even if it is a small, homogeneous population. Maybe working class beneficiaries of UBI could dedicate a larger portion of their time to volunteering, or re-training.
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Not sure why, but here in Brazil we only see this maneuver in American movies ad TV shows, no here uses it or would even know it has a name or how to perform it.
Why is it not?

How do you know the cat isn't doing something just like that? Because it twitches?

Or are you just saying that because it is "programmatic" that it doesn't count?
An actual UBI (which this isn't) is by definition universal. Everyone gets it regardless of income or whether or not they work.
We're gonna have to JavaScript the shit out of it
> It won't be seen as a safety net to follow their ambition

Well then, a basic income only given to the ambitious wouldn't be a universal basic income, would it?
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He clearly didn't mean sysadmin's automation that is nowadays called "DevOps".
He meant "system administration" gigs.
It's not like that new tax money will pay for a MRAP that'll be blown up in middle east or shelved in Ducksville USA PD.

It will go straight back into the market and into the hands of consumers and most of it into the hands of consumers that spend all of their money.

You tax the companies profits but you use that money to grow the market.

Companies don't grow because they earn more money. They grow when they have more customers with more money to buy their products.
What would be the advantage of Citus over AWS Aurora or AWS RDS?
I got an email with the first course today and was pretty blown away tbh.
What I'm saying is that this statement:

> republicans voted for Donald Trump. He is a true reflection of your principles and priorities arrived upon after careful reflection.

Is a meaningless tautology in the context of the comment it is replying to. Republicans who voted for trump (which doesn't include me btw, you had made an assumption) probably see nothing wrong with him representing their values and principles in the context of the election.

You haven't actually provided an argument about values. Rather you've just said "isn't it obvious" when in fact, it is not to someone who doesn't share your exact views.
Because we wouldn't know if you were lying anyways
> If this is the case, then when someone entered the workforce has absolutely no relevance. What is relevant is staying current. It is absolutely ageist to assume that a 50 yr old is going to have more trouble staying current than a 30 yr old.

I might be wrong, but I got the sense that the comment you're responding to is trying to make the exact same point. It even says that one point that the uncle's age was completely irrelevant to his not learning the newer technologies.
Not sure why you say that. It already exists, anyway: https://download.haiku-os.org/nightly-images/x86_64/
I lived in Albuquerque for nine years (2003-2012). The Catholicism is certainly part of it, but it's more complicated than that.

One gets the feeling that it's a more egalitarian city than other US metro areas. I didn't feel like it was that racist of a city, certainly nothing compared to Pittsburgh, where I now live.

And there are very few establishments that are designed exclusively for the wealthy. The Frontier restaurant near UNM is a great example of what I'm talking about. You would regularly see news anchors, professors, doctors, etc. dining there in the same room as people who were homeless.
I pose the question as a middle manager who feels those above are doing a worse job than I could, what would I do to show I am senior management material. One of those things feels like it should be 'get an MBA'. But as others have said, maybe this is just paying the price for entry to the club. On the other hand, I see plenty of senior managers who have got their positions from 1) being in the job below when the senior left or 2) social connections and have few of the soft skills or technical skills that would make them a decent manager. At least MBA's give the appearance of a meritocracy!
From a first cross-read, this article is bluntly discrediting UBI.

Starting with numbers: about 204M working age population in the US - hence the USD10K to each of them example would just make somewhere what is spend yearly for military and banks - the 8 times numbers cited in the article of what is spent today does not make any sense.

The linked article does not mention any amounts that Finland wants to provide to the 2k people - instead it is referring to Swiss calculations - last numbers I've heard with Finland were on par with current social security / poverty level pays (~EUR600 p/m) - this of course does not enable most of the key effects intended with an UBI (money into spending, freedom of choice for work etc) - it only continues the current system (with some potential savings within the administration).

To get a better understanding we have to at least repeat the Canadian experiments from the 1920s (proven that it is substantially beneficiary for the economy overall) - more money than poverty level, people must gain freedom by the possibility to live.

Given that soon a large proportion of people will not have a chance to find a job that will allow them to survive, we either go back to lords and serfs or actually look into potentially sustainable solutions.
What didn't the README and README.Compiling explain adequately enough for you? (And of course, feel free to pop into Freenode#haiku and ask us questions...)
I don't understand Danish, but using Google translate, this looks like straight up communism.

Also, from the english translation: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&...

"It requires personal energy, commitment and desire for self-management in the community to become Svanholmer. Both people with work "out of town" and people who want to work at home on the estate can participate."

This doesn't sound like they just hand out money, and seems likely (I'm just guessing here), that if you don't work you may get kicked out.

This all in all seems a lot different than UBI.
Your comment is distinctly American.

The rest of the world is perfectly happy with universal healthcare, strong social safety nets, and "handouts" to children.

How do you think Brexit was sold to the British? Do you realize that the Brexiters (and all the European nativists) have been selling their agenda primarily on the basis that it would mean more handouts?

America is different. And we all know what that difference is. Americans are very much unique in rejecting basic social guarantees out of the fear that the "wrong people" will benefit.
Physicists kept doing science, and it got better. Actual proper science has developed to the point where the computer I'm typing this on has a complex network of billions of logic gates which operates correctly billions of times a second. I can reasonably expect the CPU to continue to work for decades.

When managerial "scientists" can achieve anything even remotely comparable to that level of reliability and reproducibility, it will be time to take it seriously as a science. Until then, it just isn't one.
Thanks! I love hearing these things. I hope you enjoy the rest of the course :)
It's just a very hard problem to deal with, and places like CA attract homeless people from other places, because they have good services. The US lacks a comprehensive national plan to deal with homelessness.

Part of the problem is that even when services exist, they're often fragmented and hard to administer. That's what led to ideas like "Housing First", where they've found just providing a home for a year fixes most homelessness problems (particularly when combined with other services). Having a home gives them a base to operate from to organize the rest of the services, finding a job, etc.

Part of the problem is that the US doesnt have a good plan for what to do with crazy people. We had a lot of problems with long-term institutions, but when we shut them down, we didn't actually start a new solution. We just left them on the streets.

Part of it is just social myth that people deserve their caste. If the homeless don't deserve their place in the increasingly vitrified social system, then perhaps the wealthy and powerful don't either, and so a large amount of anti-poor propaganda has been generated in the US by the elite.
I'm not quite sure what you're saying regarding career women being saddled with a heavy load of domestic work as well. You immediately follow that with a statement about American policies in general.

Were you implying that the division of domestic workload between husbands and wives should be treated as a matter of government policy?
I don't see this program going through. The government there (any everywhere) is constantly trying crazy schemes like this with little results to show.

Instead of worrying about what China is doing, those of us in the US should be worried what our own government and private corporations are up to.
I finished the course a few days ago and it was awesome. Of course it is not a fully functional complete clone, but it is an incredible learning resource.

It really starts from the beginning as in "first you have to install the proper tools and prepare your software development environment" beginning. Which is great to teach you things that you wouldnt learn in other free online courses.

I think it is a essential resource that present you the full stack of a web app, acting as the perfect complement to more pure code oriented courses like freecodecamp and codecademy.

And you can really start from zero coding knowledge. I fully recommend it.
Merda. Ho progettato twitter anni prima della sua realizzazione e il mio 'boss' disse che non era una buona idea perché avrebbe avvisato i ladri che non ero in casa in quel momento. Edit: e progettai il wikidizionario, però mi dissero che tutti potevano permettersi un dizionario al giorno d'oggi...
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I feel like someone smarter/less headache-y than my current self would be able to approach that statistic with Jensen's inequality
See, it's hard to articulate.
I think I'd be less annoyed if Amazon wouldn't just fill out the tip field automatically. I ordered a GPU last time for $400 and they wanted me to provide $30 tip. I changed it to $2 or $3.
What is the status of the MOOC? When can we expect additional details?

YC should consider writing the occasional blog post about the projects it's working, it would be interesting to follow and the feedback from HN might be useful.
Gigster (AI meets developers) is looking for a recruiter to help triple the team
The weight actually is a reasonable metrics.

It starts at zero and increases as the big pieces are added. It stops at a well defined number that is specified.
[dozzie@alojzy dozzie]$ uptime
02:29:42 up 53 days, 11:03, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.19, 0.18

[dozzie@wolfram dozzie]$ uptime
02:29:49 up 9 days, 14:20, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.24, 0.26

One is my desktop, the other is my laptop. What was it with this "unusual
usage pattern" thing?
Craig from Citus here, RDS is great if you're data fits and performs well on a single node (if your data stays under ~ 100 GB there is really no reason to think about sharding and distributing your data). Whether you need to scale out depends heavily on your workload, some applications are just fine to scale storage, others need to scale memory and compute. Citus in that sense is a bit different from RDS as well as Aurora as we extend Postgres to distribute your data across multiple nodes. Thus, when you add a node to the cluster you get an increase in storage, memory, and cores that are doing work for you.
What's an open source hardware project, exactly? I'm not being dense, it just has a buzzwordy feel and I'd love some more precise definitions or examples.
I read this as being unfavorable to morning people: they perform about the same wrt accuracy on tasks in the morning, but worse later in the day.

Also, in the bay area at least the "discrimination" you mention is inverted. I rarely see co-workers in office before 9:30 or so, after I've been at work for over two hours, and I'm almost always the odd one out for things like meetings and organizational items (e.g. team lunches, farewell lunches etc.). "Discrimination" isn't the right word, though.
This is what I really support, but would take it a step further. I feel the problem is so many countries have this poverty line unemployment payments as a once size fits all. I think we should break support into 3 categories.

1) for the immediately unemployed that have had a history of paying tax, give them generous payment coverage between jobs for a 3-6 month window type thing. Something like 60% of their pay.

2) after said time window, if no unemployment is found you are given guaranteed 30 hours (or whatever is right) work at minimum wage in areas that are as non competing the the economy as possible. E.g. Beautifying the city or helping seniors etc.

3) if you refuse to take minimum wage work you can get a set amount of food and basic accomodation to keep you from beng homeless/starving.

From point 2, as automation becomes more prevalent and effective the number of hours worked can be reduced to match this progress.
Actually, getting into the "why" opens up all kinds of cans of worms and actively gets in the way of showcasing solutions that have worked in various places! Why? Well, ... call it politics, except it's not just left/right, it's all kinds of crazy.
I used to use Tomato, and I was satisfied with it, but the problem was that typical home router is weak hardware. Once I started hosting things, it just couldn't keep up.

I moved to fanless PCs (like ALIX / Netgate / Soekris) running OpenBSD. A 500 MHz x86 beats the pants off of the neglected MIPS chipsets most home routers are built around.

OpenBSD because pf is just easier to manage than iptables, and having all of the config as text files makes it easy to track changes with source control.
More expensive to discover, but less valuable to discover. It's harder for white hats to find them, so you gotta pay more if it's important, but it's also harder for blackhats to find them, so it's less pressing to find them quickly.
It would have to depend on what language you're trying to transliterate, because the phonetic meaning of the Latin letters is different depending on the language they're used to represent (and for many languages, depending on the particular word). For example, ti- will usually be /tʃi/ in Brazilian Portuguese and /tɪ/ in English. Typically each orthography is specific to a language and a script doesn't encode sounds in a consistent language-independent way, so you have to know something about both the source and target languages to devise a transliteration system.
Chinese have won plenty of Nobel prizes, just not when they were in china.

It just isn't about aptitude, or even capital, but society has to be developed and free enough to let innovation happen. Where all the capital (human and financial) has accumulated (China), this simply isn't the case. We will continue to see young Chinese leaving for the west to realize their full potentials.
Thanks for the awesome recommendation and I'm glad you enjoyed the course!
I'm curious if UBI could have this effect long term. One possibility could be that as people have reduced existential pressures they begin to explore the things that actually interest them and reduce the activities they do to solely generate income. This could have two positive effects. The first is an explosion of long tail creativity and innovation. The second, a correlation of sorts, could be that people reduce their society (environment etc) harming but income generating activities.
A local news paper said it best, I think unintentionally. They said:
"In an effort to remove disturbing or fake news, Facebook is goign to do blabla"

Better remove all those disturbing truths...
It sorta does. It's just we use the packaging tools of the operating system (like apt-get and equivalent tools on other systems). That and pkg-config solves 99% of the problem on Unix-based systems. Windows on the other hand... Good luck.
Isn't carrier phase tracked off the 1 PPS transition?
If you have money available and feel down that's imaginable thing to do. Even if that money doesn't come from savings. For me that doesn't look like a obvious part of some fraudulent masterplan concieved months earlier.
> based on those numbers it seems fair to say that the economy of Venezuela is more dependent on oil revenues than Nigeria or Russia, so even without economic mismanagement they would've probably been hit harder by the price drop.

Sort of a chicken and egg problem. It's only through economic mismanagement (price controls, subsidies on imported goods, subsidies on utilities and commodities, government takeovers of property) that Venezuela is more dependent on oil revenues than Nigeria or Russia.
Yes. Losing eligibility for programs is a big issue. Reminds me of when I had an elderly family member's situation optimized for maximum benefits between medicare, medicaid, subsidized housing (section 8) and other benefits. One of her (well-meaning) neighbors found out she wasn't getting a certain benefit and took her (without advising me) to an agency to sign her up. Unfortunately, that event had cascading effects that caused her to lose other benefits. The situation took me a year to undo.
holy cow that open fire was smoking like hell. No wonder Beijing is a smoggy mess with production like this happening.
It would be circular if it weren't so intimately connected with the very concept of "seems."

How would humans have arrived at the idea of qualia if they didn't experience it? What's your proposed alternate explanation for this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13201926

140+ comments
I think 'business theory' can come across badly to engineers in particular. On the other hand I have worked in a manufacturing company where engineers and scientists had spent whole careers in almost complete isolation from the needs of the business. I remember a particular conversation with the head of a major operation (with an illustrious career in R&D) who couldn't understand the forces applied from head office. "What is their problem with us having too much stock?" he said. Nobody in his long career had ever mentioned the concept of cash. There was a great need in this company for a few generalists, but mainly in mentoring and coaching. Personally I had no time for other generalists there who would not take the time to learn at least what it was that the factory made....so my point if there is one seems to be 'don't generalise about generalists'
Where would I change response_type=code to response_type=token?
> And there are very few establishments that are designed exclusively for the wealthy.

This is an excellent description. Some people still flaunt their wealth, which is true everywhere, but I feel a sense of the city belonging to everyone that lives in it.

Of course, that's my view as a fairly well-off white male who's never experienced anything close to homelessness. People from different circumstances may have different opinions.
On my way home I run in to something like 40 stop signs. Pretty much every intersection has a four way stop for a few miles of my commute.

That just screams "hybrid" to me. Wouldn't a hybrid or EV be the perfect vehicle for that scenario?
The courts have consistently failed to find any objective standard for "obscenity". There's no reason to believe they would do any better for "truth".

One man's art is another man's porn, one man's truth is another man's propaganda.
Unless one is in china, then they should really worry about what the Chinese government is gong to do.

But I digress: the real danger is that other countries will use china as a blue print for their own digital authoritarianism, perhaps even the USA.
It looks like some alternate universe. Stefan Molyneux on the front page of HN.
> People working X hours a week are guaranteed to be spending those X hours producing something useful to society

I recommend you read http://www.occupy.com/article/graeber-phenomenon-bullshit-jo...
In contrast anyone Chinese that are active online effectively has to be capable of understanding both english and Chinese.

I find that hard to believe. I know it's not true for Portuguese native speakers, and China seems to be even more keen on providing native alternatives to foreign sites.
The Chinese government must see the UK's Investigatory Powers Act, the snoopers charter as a great inspiration...
Lurker here. Someone mentioned this the other day here too. Too bad Twitters dying, but you get the idea. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13157254
What is the difference between a 'cipher' and a 'mode of operation'?