skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much of the Greenland ice sheet appears to have melted about a million years ago
This reminded me of the Y Combinator Basic Income project. The last I read about that was this: https://blog.ycombinator.com/moving-forward-on-basic-income/
I wonder what the status is?
Yes! Finally news that got my interest. People should leave Facebook asap.

They are censoring "Freedom of speech" just like Google and Obama.

Facebook ?
- Fakebook should be the name.
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Two significant words from that proposal are missing from this article. The fine is supposed to be up to 500k. Other laws that are worded like that result in much much lower fines in every practical case. The linked DW article is more precise.

It's also not "Germany" that is threatening this fine but a single (though influential) politician. The proposal has sparked quite some debate and nobody can say whether it will result in any new law let alone any details.
It's down for upgrade at the moment. What prevents immutable spam?
Its much better, than in the XP/Vista days. I havent had a virus in the last ~6 years. W10 has a built in antivirus, that works well. I cant tell much about it, since it never had a chance to catch a virus. The only thing I know that its totally hassle free, I've never seen a popup or anything else annoying from it.

Just make sure you dont do dumb things: dont blindly click next on installers, dont run executables from shady sites. Keep your PC and browser up to date (again, they do this totally automatically.)
I'm looking for someeone who call help me build a mitigating plugin.

https://github.com/fredzannarbor/strobefree
Й and ё are in Russian alphabet. In schools it is never highlighted that those are diacritics, so to many it doesn't register.
American election system is a joke from start to finish.
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I don't think that matters much. The idea that it would evolve over time in a population where nobody experiences consciousness doesn't strike me as remotely probable.
I'd be curious to know how the hammer works. The classic invention of the industrial revolution was Nasmyth's steam hammer, but plumbing providing steam at high pressure seems absent from this setup.

Nasmyth's hammer was the first automatic hammer that could come down harder than just the acceleration due to gravity. So I'm very curious to know how that's being achieved here.
>And then when anyone points this out, they're accused of poisoning the debate :)

Because they do.

If you're wrong, you're doing their work for them by sowing discord and mistrust in the community. If you're right, you're doing their work for them by distracting from the subject and making the thread about the threat of the enemy within. The one thing you probably won't accomplish is getting them to stop.

The only way to win the game is not to play by their rules, and to not make it personal. If you really believe someone is a shill, report it to the admins, they claim to take this sort of thing seriously.
Hashes: What about xor'ing together hashes from two or more algos? Even if one just hashed to all-1, it wouldn't matter.
Any time you see an article discrediting China from the Western press, like this one, try this:

Replace the text "China", with "US". What's remarkable is that the story rarely changes. Every undemocratic, evil-doing charge leveled by Western media at China is happening in the West as well.

I'm well aware that it pays to villainize China in the press today. I assume they've made too much of our stuff or something, and now they're trying to be free of Western dominance or some heresy like that.

Ohh! You evil China! Trying to be free of Western dominion!
Merely adjust the quantities to fit the individual in question.
Taxation doesn't distort the economy. This is such a nonsense statement that it's difficult to say it's even "wrong" -- it's simply meaningless. Taxation and the fundamental ability of the sovereign to create demand for its money tokens is the very basis of any modern, capitalized economy. There is a strong argument to be made that taxes drive money and make economic exchange possible [1].

(BTW, Hacker News is simply terrible at discussing economics. This comment is hardly unique.)

> Broken Window Fallacy

The entire thread and discussion is a bit off-putting but it's worth noting that the question is, as always, what to do about unproductive assets. Nobody is advocating that healthy, able-bodied people should all receive free money from the government. That's why the Broken Window Fallacy is stupid. It's a fallacy against a straw man.

And yes, when it comes to unproductive assets there's good reason to believe that the government should step in and act as the "producer of last of resort." There's always work to be done. The government is never going to run out of money. And, in reality, you're going to end up giving these people money anyways (unless you want to see women and children starving the streets) so you might as well try to see some returns. I've never been a fan of basic income but a Job Guarantee[2] makes perfect sense. Finland would be far better off putting these people to work for the government. Basic income in this form (giving people free money while encouraging them to go to work for private producers) can, ironically, depress wages, unfairly subsidize badly managed firms, and ultimately hurt the economy. Unfortunately westerners are terrified by the spectre of communism so you don't get this sort of large scale public production any more.

[1] http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/07/mmp-blog-8-taxes-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_guarantee
Once again, it says a lot about you that you're ok with someone being a sexist asshole but you're not ok with that being challenged.

You people should be ashamed of yourselves with your fake veneer of civility covering up racist and sexist behaviours.
Thank you, it's interesting to hear what my account history looks like.

Please also check xnull, xnull3guest, xnull4guest, etc.

I have another account jwtadvice.

These are all on different computers. I was lazy and created different credentials for all of them.

If you have questions, whatever, let me know.

I understand why people are afraid that other commentators may be intelligence agents. I too suffer from this thought. The truth of the matter is that governments around the world participate in social media propaganda (US, Russia, and China included, don't kid yourself).

Regarding "pro-China" accusations. I'm pro-American. I love American values. And that's why I will criticize America when it does not live up to them.

I am one person. I am an advocate for decentralized systems, including in Russia and in China.

I've given advice to people on HN in these various accounts about where I get information. If you feel that I am well educated, I recommend finding one of those comments and looking into those sources. They include all open source information channels - and many of them are US official outlets (such as State Department press briefings).

Anyway...
>Keep this in mind anytime a leader in a country with a high rate of corruption says he sincerely wants to clean things up, but those lower down are stopping him from doing so. He is just plain telling a lie.

Doesn't this kind of contradict what you said before, though? The leader needs to allow corruption lest he is overthrown (usually by those lower down such as the military, not the public), so in essence those lower down are preventing him from cleaning up.

There really is no winning here - being a leader means pandering to the people below you, because if you don't they can just get rid of you. In a democracy this problem is partly solved by switching leaders often and dividing the power of the underlings over the entire population, but the dynamic still very much exists. And of course, in a country with no democracy it's many times worse (and very difficult to establish a democracy).

Don't automatically assume that dictators always have bad intentions - they are trapped in a system too.

Of course that doesn't mean that China isn't doing a bad thing here, I was just speaking generally.
> For example, Node.js is one the top programming languages being used now

Node.js is not a programming language. It's a framework. I currently develop Node.js for work, and I always SSH into a remote machine to run tests and do development work. Developing Javascript, C, Go, and Java over a ssh connection is doable, one of the best options in the case of C and Javascript.
Just to note, the person who elaborated was not the OP.
Haha, in other words: Hiding search results to fit googles new world order agenda ?

Google, your main priority seems to be censorship and spying for NSA. You advertised "don't be evil" but you are more than evil today.

Google, no thanks!
>"not doing anything"

refers to "not performing a comercial activity", which means the same thing in my native language.

If you read my whole comment you can clearly see that's my point:

>Do they give up? Do they get depressed? Do they create things? Does entrepreneurship increase? Violence rate?
Shinkansen nose cone production

https://youtu.be/cfLEQDuXAO8
It's also sort of easy to tell when he uses terms like "Western media" -> I almost never refer to the media, or myself as "Western". I'm just me.

Only someone who wants to promote an "Us = Chinese vs. Them = Western" viewpoint would use this term. Don't the Russians also use terms like this?
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The question is about flavors, not specific food items.
Not exactly this...
Yes, or eor them together, as I mentioned in another branch.
If it is given to jobless people then its not really universal basic income. Its just removing bureaucracy from the current system.
‘Shadow Brokers’ release details of weaponized exploits
sometimes, an algorithm is so intricate that it can only be understood by reading the paper. in this case, it's much more useful to make the variable names match the paper than to attempt semantic variable names.
Yes, we do! :D
Symmetry breaking just means when I look at an object at a certain range (energy range, size, whatever), it looks identical to another object. But then when I widen my view suddenly it diverges from that other object and act different.

So there is a search for why.

For example an up and down quark look virtually identical, because they are quite similar. But at a certain point something differs in an experiment, and you realize it's because their masses are not identical, and in a certain situation the symmetry is broken and you can see the different masses.
I'm not questioning your rationality. I'm questioning your values.
Warwick and TN still? ;)

I worked at Concurrent (now Concertim) with Ben A/Mark T/Gordon C a while back. Good memories.
Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?
I might link your answer to my manager..
Ok I won't.
But I completely agree that expertise is undervalued, and generalists that don't even realise how bad their work is, is a real problem that I see every day especially in the public sector.
If you haven't yet, read The Baroque Cycle too. It's set in the same universe, approximately 300 years earlier, with an ensemble cast of historical and fictional characters. Very long, very dense at times, and yet a masterful and very rewarding work in my opinion. The audiobooks read by Simon Prebble are also quite good if you don't have the time to read it in print but do have time where you could listen to it.
>But if you did include the number of people who "self-deported"

Obama does not initiate self-deportation though, so it's not really relevant to a discussion on the democrat's immigration policy

>I don't know what these two numbers from DHS reports actually mean and the DHS does not tell me

It tells you at the bottom of that link
Being snarky about the GP's spacing is not argumentatively useful.

Courts deciding whether or not you're allowed to say something is only marginally better than other government officials deciding whether or not you're allowed to say something.

Slippery slope is only a fallacy in the strict Boolean sense. It's a perfectly useful heuristic in Bayesian reasoning. In particular, it speaks to the effects of shifting the Overton Window.
I don't see this guy citing any sources. I listened through some of his arguments and they are very simplistic and only compelling be because he selectively mentions some effects completely ignoring others. Nothing coming out of any research. Just few thing you can pull out of your head after hearing idea fo the first time while drunk.
This is years old and I'm not familiar with it, but generally, the proof is among the simplest and most straightforward, right? If I read it right, it's proof by exhaustion. The trick is that it was previously impractical.
...and what simply is. If you go to wolfram alpha the number of google users / total internet is 42%. No idea why people dont consider this dangerous
Sometimes I feel like that too. It takes me until the afternoon until my brain is at its peak and I stop functioning around 7pm.
Most problems that have hard line solutions, i.e. drugs and crime, have much cheaper alternatives which are usually much less hard line and much more humane. This also includes a lot of hard line management theories about how to get the most work out of workers. Better and more humane treatment of people usually leads to better and cheaper results... and better overall outcomes. These are usually arrived at by idealists and dismissed by rationalists and supposed realists.
> Imagine a Git History that never merges

That is a really excellent analogy. It is also important to understand that there is a reason we don't have "macro merges", and that is because some irreversible process is required to create classical information, which is what we (the entities having this conversation) are actually made of. See:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...
Is there a term I should be using instead when I'm talking about international media coming from Western countries? I use the term Russian media and Chinese media, though I don't talk about them as much (I don't read them as often, though I try).
You may be correct here, but none of that has anything to do with the "fake news" propaganda campaign.
I think that's actually bootload's point? A policy of measured, non-violent responses to perceived aggression -- like China's response here -- is a good way to avoid being tricked into war. (Compared to North Vietnam's response to our encroachment in the Gulf of Tonkin, which many suspect was an attempt to goad them into war.)
DataGrip is pretty awesome. And what is up with SSMS still not having any intellisense?
Great. Let's call a moderator in here.
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This is not true. Back in those days the best known method needed 52 moves (Thistlethwaite).
> jobless

> universal

Doesn't sound very universal. One of the big factors that make it a good idea is that receiving the basic income shouldn't make you disincentivized from doing more and getting a job, etc. Otherwise, how is it different from existing welfare programs and such?
One reason that comes to mind is that it would just allow the rich to become richer by providing a cheap workforce subsidised by the tax payer. Imagine if a company wanted to pay less than minimum wage, hire a bunch more people and have their new workers' pay topped up by a negative income tax. It'd just be getting people to work for the sake of working while tax payers subsidise profits for business owners.
> If it were such a great idea for a country, it would have already occurred at a smaller level.

It has. The Svanholm community in Denmark (http://svanholm.dk) raised taxes to 80% for all its members, but in return you free housing, food and all other essentials. They have been doing this successfully since the 70's.
Because, on one side, we've been able to deduce, in principle, all such interactions (and there are maaaaany) from just two. So it'd be surprising. On the other hand, these two interactions, General Relativity and the Standard Model, talk about the exact same things (the same "statements" in your example). While in many energy ranges the effects of one or the other are too small to be noticed, there definitely is an energy range in which both should have strong effects. Yet they aren't compatible. If we performed experiments in those ranges, the theory that describes what we measure would need to be compatible with both, an extension; the unified theory.
Neal Stephenson's next book is The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., co-written with Nicole Galland, currently to be released June 13, 2017. It seems to be something in a little different vein than his other works, but I'll read it as I do all his books.

https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-D-O-D-O-Novel/dp/0062409166...
The general recommendation is now to start with 5 Back Blows then 5 Abdominal Thrusts (the Heimlich), repeated as necessary.

Mayo Clinic:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/first-aid/first-aid-choking/basics...

European Resuscitation Council:
http://ercguidelines.elsevierresource.com/european-resuscita...

Australia (and New Zealand) Resuscitation Councils:
http://www.nzrc.org.nz/training/ECI/anzcor-guidelines-2016-u...

In the case of Australia/New Zealand the recommendation is to do 5 Back Blows then 5 Chest Thrusts. My understanding is that it's believed to be similarly effective but has less risk of causing internal injuries.
What I find most disturbing about this story is that the "corporate kleptocracy masquerading as a government" paradigm that exists in China and Russia is now headed to the USA with the Trump administration. This type of "political scoring" will follow next. The Trump team has already requested from government departments the names of employees who attended global warming conferences. Welcome to the new America.
>The bills are increasing exponentially faster than 5% a month?

In absolute units of currency? Yes. When you print money like that every unit of currency is worth correspondingly less. It's exponential, which is how you get 480% inflation this year and a projected 1640% next year in Venezuela without a constant dollar increase in spending.

The only way out is a drastic reduction in services.
Exactly but GP comment demonstrates how easy it is to get lead into wrong direction. Most of us will not research deep enough is systems seems to come from authoritative source.
I started noticing this and did a bit if research. These are fairly significant size earthquakes and since measurement there are not very many >8 in magnitude.
A country with very good welfare like Finland is the worst place to test UBI, which is supposed to replace welfare.
You are confused because phase transition is not a good description of symmetry breaking (sorry cohomologo).

You have to understand that there already is a difference between the two things (forces, particles, whatever). It's just in certain temperatures or forces, or size ranges (whatever) that broken symmetry is not visible and the two appear to be identical.

So the search is on to understand why these two things should act so identically in certain ways, and yet not identically in other ways, i.e. what breaks their symmetry.

Finding out what breaks their symmetry tells you a LOT about the particle, it tells you what is identical, and what is different.

For example an up and down quark are identical in all ways - except mass and charge. So in certain experiments they appear identical, in others those things show up - their symmetry is broken.

But noticing that they are identical in certain situations tells you a lot about quarks, and noticing where they differ tells you even more.
This is the relevant quote, from John Erlichmen, the Nixon administration's Domestic Affairs Advisor:

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
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Why would the release of this library have anything to do with Xen vulnerabilities?
> But the big companies are making all of the money" is tautological.

It's likely the commenter is referring to the distribution of total income across all businesses, which is most definitely a real metric that can be evaluated.
And more satellites are good for everyone, at least so long as all these systems remain open for use. It means more accuracy, and some redundancy never hurts, either.
Ooops. I should have referred to the Economies of scale rule instead. Perhaps 10-people could manage 2000 payouts whereas as the population grew to 200,000 or more regional offices and support staff would grow and inefficiencies would become more expensive.
More. Food delivery is a personal service, point to point. Deliveries are done en masse.
"The reason behind the abandonment of Silicon Valley, and even Europe, is due to the supply of talent in Asia."

- sounds like a fancy way of saying "outsourcing".
Biased but this is exactly why we built Capshare (www.capshare.com). Happy to walk you through it if you want to check it out.
Enough to pay for $3 billion in original content spending with amazon's reporting margins?

https://www.google.com/amp/www.techtimes.com/amp/articles/17...

They ought to be subsidizing it with higher prices.
Fair point, but that's not what I meant exactly.

If he "wants to" + "can", then he should.

The argument was against "I can but why should I if companies will", which I think misses the point of contribution. The more the better.
Silicon Valley tech workers are using Stoicism as a life hack
If I were a company owner I would be thrilled if I could drop salaries by 12000 dollars and/or have my customers have additional 12000 dollars of additional disposable income. I'd gladly paid some more tax for that, especially if my competition paid it too and especially if some comapnies that are stealing my customers by driving the prices down thanks to exploiting their employees would go out of business becouse their employees would finally have enough comfort too look for another job.
So I'm not attacking you, but this article, without the sources and methods is basically useless?

It might as well read "Silicon Valley may well be a 7, but Asia is on its way with a couple of 2s and 3s."
It would be a market with decreasing costs. The technology is still in its infancy, so there's a lot of progress to be made. Energy will get cheaper now that solar is on the rise (assuming none of these cars would use fossil fuels) - That leaves a lot of room for prices to move, and for cheaper/more attractive competition to emerge I would say.

No idea how to model this, but I can only imagine that driving prices and profit margins down.
Silicon Valley has two major things going for it. Talent and money. Asians are intelligent and talented, if they were not they would not be pulling huge work loads in American univerisities. At this point they have lots of capital too as a result of the ascension of the economies in their respective countries. Your comparison of so-called elite universities is a false dichotomy, those work on different rules than technology. Technology does not recognize social status and all that other stuff. Technology belongs to no one and can be acquired by anyone with money and talent.
Interesting analysis by @thegrugq:

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/the-great-cyber-game-commentary...
What about the attempts to alter political discourse in Hong Kong, such as the Umbrella Revolution. How about their reaction to 零八宪章 (Charter 08)? Are those things we can criticize China on?