skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also love to hear which employer is paying 250K for an entry level position? This seems like the salary the 1 genius for every 10,000 good graduates would get. And without taking bonus into account, I doubt an engineer is getting paid 900K. You would see that engineer out the door the moment his retirement account was full. No engineer is gonna bust their ass for someone else once they know they are set financially.
Maybe try something like

> At flex we believe that good interfaces should empower users. We try to blur the line between simply using a user-interface and being a programmer. We do this by thinking about new ways to intuitively represent programming concepts, and endeavor to provide tools that have a smooth learning curve that takes you all the way from just being a user to being a programmer.

Unless I'm horribly misunderstanding your goals. Which really I probably am because you're horribly vague.
Not really. Excess fats do not convert to body fat. They just pass through.

Excess glucose (from sugar and carbs) triggers insulin production which causes glucose to be converted to body fat and your muscles to stop consuming fat. (Which also causes your muscles to be nutrient depleted leading to being hungry soon after...)

The insulin flood caused by sugar and bad carbs is your body trying not to die of glucose poisoning.
Service industry is where no goods are produced. Non-live entertainment and software development both produce intangible goods, but still produce goods.

Furthermore when one talks about the movement of low-wage jobs from manufacturing to services, it's assumed we aren't talking about professional services (e.g. lawyers, accountants), but unskilled and low-skill service jobs such as retail, food-services, and child-care.
If this system is so popular, why can't it be introduced as a proposition in California? Take the lobbyist and politicians out of the equation and it should win easily.
You are missing the point here. Even if humans are better it will require fewer and fewer of them as more and more will be dealt with by sub-algorithms.

Also I dont thin you realize little magic there is in imagination. Computers can dream, thats what it requires to imagine. The rest is just about finding proper context that fits humans needs, but even that is learnable by machines.

So the question you should be asking is what mystical human ability is imagination that it can't be done by machines.

But again even if it was always outside of human abilities it wouldn't require more but less developers over time.
This argument is trivially inconsistent. The state must protect liberty by interfering with one's liberty?

State interfence is a direct transgression against an individual's liberty. Thus far the majority has decided that such interfence is a greater evil than the "inequality" that it could reconcile.
Does your cell provider have monitoring software installed at the OS level?
It's true that working on research or activism whose value you doubt may not make for an especially lucrative scam.

On the other hand, probably a lot of activities of questionable value, including some scientific research, were begun in good faith by people who found them interesting, exciting, or enjoyable. After becoming well-connected experts in their communities, they now have established careers and a life situation that particularly qualifies them to continue those careers, and a corresponding incentive to believe and argue that their careers are relevant and important.

I don't think this is the case with climate researchers in particular; I'm just considering the question of why people would have reason to continue working in a field that is unproductive or of dubious value. And a basic set of possible answers is that they're good at it, they like their jobs, and it's what they're used to, not that they got into it because they thought it was a scam.

Thinking about another area that people more commonly suspect of being pathological science, suppose you were very excited about an area of alternative medicine, maybe because you yourself had been treated successfully with it, and you went to the trouble of training in it for several years and getting a credential as a practitioner. Now you start a practice, you enjoy your work, your patients are appreciative, you're apparently getting good outcomes, and you're a respected member of your community. You're aware that critics think that your field is unfounded or that its treatment outcomes are ultimately due to the placebo effect, or maybe to lifestyle changes that you inspire your patients to make, but not directly to the treatments you provide.

Are you going to be excited to investigate whether these critics are right about your specialty? Did you ever set out to scam anybody?

I think this issue, in one form or another, affects large swaths of our society; we all tend to think our professions are useful and worthwhile, and few of us ever spend much time entertaining criticisms of them, or arguments that imply that we may have wasted years of our lives.
Emacs and Auctex and you're done! (Provided you already use Emacs...)
I think it's also akin to the withholding tax. If people had to write a check every year, there would be outrage to the amount people are actually paying. Instead, they are grateful for the government "giving" them a tax refund!
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The US fiscal year ends on September 30, but companies can set their own fiscal year. (Many C corps do end it at specific quarters)
This book looks very promising. I just bought the kindle version on amazon. Thank you.
The article pretty heavily misses a lot of the points that many guests view as a benefit. Had they not been evacauted from splash mountain they would have had a photograph of their exact moment before going down the plume. Similarly certain restaurants know where you're sitting and deliver food based on the magic bands. Recently actually when riding on Haunted mansion it knew we were from California and had a hitch hiking ghost looking to head to California.

It's not to say they're not tracking you, but the tracking especially in such a closed city/community shows some of the positive smooth experiences that can be delivered when you know all those details about a person.
Oh yeah, it works
CalFile morphed from Ready Return. The Tax Franchise Board created CalFile since they did not need permission to do it.
>If you think about the amount of problems to solve there are infinite employment opportunities.

Actually not just finite, but less than the jobs that will be replaced.
a) "San Fran" is not used by most locals.

b) Silicon Valley is 30 miles or so south of San Francisco.
A Retrograde Asteroid Sharing Jupiter’s Orbit
I mean, great, but now you're back to tax brackets... May as well stick with the graduated system.
As in many of these discussions, this hinges very heavily on the notions of "free exchange" and "consent".

How do we account for the effects of power or leverage imbalances on free exchange or consent?

If you consider violent force and the like as just one extreme on the broad spectrum of potential leverage between two parties, then we see that a primary focus of most governments is to limit or prevent leverage of cetain forms or intensity.
You say that like it's a bad thing.[0] If you had a business (assuming you don't for the sake of argument), no competition would be amazing! People could ONLY come to you for your product or service.

[0] The truth is in the middle.
You should start a company, grow it to a multi billion dollar market cap, and give away your generated wealth.
You keep repeating the same mistaken idea that things that can't be automated are somehow going to be more scarce and thus expensive.

I already gave you just one example of something thats not going to be more scarce, human cleaners.

How is something all humans can do, going to be cheaper even if ai never can do it?
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The vast majority of businesses fail, and many businesses go through cycles where they make less money than they spend. How can the average person take on the risk of not getting paid for years? One year of non-profitability would be a death sentence for a co-op if people can't get paid and flee.

A corporation allows the average person to get paid while someone else takes on a risk with their money.
Failure really hurts me on a psychological level. I don't have any interest in half assing stuff. If I can't crush it, I don't want to play.

The cost of the flight & hotel is pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things. By that I mean relative to stuff like going to a place you want to see, the value of spending a vacation day, etc...

I do agree that the meeting smart people is fun... but the full on crash-and-burn on an algorithm + whiteboard interview would really have a massive negative impact on my confidence & self-esteem. Not worth it.
US contract law isn't global obviously. Most US states, minors do not have capacity to contract, with some noted exceptions.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/lack-capacity-to-cont...
So it's not really a flat tax -- it's just a tax system with tax credits and fewer brackets than we have now. I'm sure there will be other popular proposals for tax credits and deductions: EITC? Charitable donations? Investment losses? Mortgage interest?

If we adopt a flat tax, we will eventually turn it back into the same tax system we have now, for the same reasons we ended up with our current system in the first place -- people like all of the credits, deductions, and exclusions they get now, and they would vote to restore them in a heartbeat.
In less time than it took you to type this comment, I clicked on the embedded link in the article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329830-400-brain-dr...

The Richard Lynn they quote, has been published in Nature, amongst many other other publications: http://www.rlynn.co.uk/

The Prof. Woodley they quote, is also a real person: http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/cgi-bin/homepage.cgi?email=michael...

As is Jan te Nijenhuis: http://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/organisation/staff-member...

Sorry, but I don't think your comment added anything to the discussion.
This is a fantastic step forwards for Binary Transparency, which I hope is followed by Linux distros and package managers, so all Free Software gets the benefit.

The one worry that comes to mind, though, is that once a binary transparency log check is made mandatory for any update to a piece of software, there is a risk that a bug in the log checking code makes it impossible to ever upgrade the software again. (This reminds me of the HPKP Suicide attack, but is not quite the same).

Obviously it should be possible, with Firefox at least, to manually download a new copy of the installer and install it from scratch, but I feel there should be a fall-back mechanism where, say, a release signed with a special offline key should be allowed to skip the transparency check (perhaps only if the transparency check has been failing on an offered upgrade for more than a month).
>So why has automation of the loom not displaced all these weavers? There are many factors and one of the big ones is - automation isn't magic. It doesn't self-fix flaws. It doesn't upgrade itself. Master weavers can.

The looms weren't AI -- just automation.
Maybe this is psychologically related to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion#The_endowment_ef...
The terrifying part is someone with a completely un-nuanced understanding of Jeff Bezo's wealth going around saying "Hey! This man committed violence against me! He committed violence against you too!" when the violence was selling them an Amazon echo at a cheap price, or just being richer than them. What happens when they reach a consensus that Bezos committed violence against them? History tells me very clearly (see Russia, China, LatAm, Germany).
> Furthermore, plenty of physicists don't actually grasp the fundamentals of their own field

I once met a professor at a quantum chemistry conference who argued with me that I could not converge on the exact eigenvalues of a helium atom (assuming a simplified Hamiltonian with a few Coulombic terms). He stated the oft repeated mantra that "the Schrödinger equation can't be solved for any element other than hydrogen", so I wrote a program that brute force diagonalized the Hamiltonian to demonstrate otherwise. He was confusing the notion of a closed-form solution (an analytical expression that gives the solution in terms of specified elementary functions) with that of a numerically exact solution (one that converges on the exact solution but can't be expressed in terms of specified elementary functions).

Another professor who was teaching a course on statistical mechanics once said that the single particle wave function is more fundamental than the multi-particle wave function. Nevermind the fact that his research involved density functional theory, which famously fails on those cases where the molecular wave function can't be well approximated using a product of single particle wave functions.
Or browse in blacklist mode. That's what I do and recommend to most... I love uBlock Origin, but I wish it was blacklist mode by default.
Well, he is worth over 80Bn, so even if he gets only 5% return...
Tutorial: Deep Learning for Blood Cell Morphology
Ah, thank you for reminding me about those lol. I hear they're nice!
>Remember that it's not just people in wheelchairs who benefit from accessibility though.

In addition to that, I wager there's value in extending the current infrastructure so as to not ostracize disabled people even further.
I am failing to see how someone who founded a company that hasn't made > $1B in profit over each of the last twenty years can have a fortune of $75B
> 1.1 Switch ISPs (not always practical)

That's the use case. For many Americans there is literally no viable option here.

Take Albuquerque for example: if you want a solid 20mbit connection or better, your only option is Xfinity (Comcast).

Don't even get me started on mobile data.
OK, first, I am not trolling - and I didn't state that this was my belief per-se...

I do find all the Benghazi BS to be super weird - but thats just me without all the facts...

However, it is a documentable fact that Gaddafi may have been the richest documentable person (clearly we are ignoring the Rothschilds etc...) in the world...

He had vast assets and liquid cash all over the place. This is known - so do not accuse me of trolling on facts...

Further, it is known that HRC is a corrupt person (proven via her emails and many many other resources -- if you are unaware of this, then you're simply unaware and I am not trolling)

I said that it is RUMORED to have been financial motivation to go after Gaddafi... did you ever see the list of countries that Clark said the .gov was going to go after? Libya was on that list...

now, I shall admit my ignorance - as I am not entirely familiar with the libyan civil war, but I know my CIA history a fair bit... arab spring was an op. to foment a varied amount of things... civil wars here, uprisings there, extremests wherever... and change all over.

I never said Gaddafi was some benevolent anything -- I said he was sought for his money and executed CIA fashion.

so.. let me ask you: What happened to all the 70+++ billion dollars Gaddafi had? He was killed - what happened to his wealth?

I know that you have no fucking clue. So... what is your speculation?

Where did his funds go?

http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/573aeac75632a39...
It has been a while since google decided to fill my news feed with articles about diversity; I am favorable to diversity but didn't like how it seemed to be a buzzword, a new fashion void of any meaning.

This show that there is a right way and a wrong way to rise diversity and often the right way is to make the work place more functional.
> 1) Campaigning is restricted to a short time period, perhaps 6 months.

You can't do this without limiting Free Speech.

> 2) Every candidate gets a (small) fixed budget, paid for by tax-payers. (This is already the practice in some countries.)

Might be possible.

> 3) Ads are subject to the same laws that govern ads for products: say whatever you want, but you can be sued for lying.

Lying is Free Speech.
I never said he "was amazon". I am talking about his contribution to amazon.

All those "serfs" are not really risking their own personal wealth. They take home their pay win or lose for amazon. They are not serfs. They are getting paid for their work.
What does the value of your work have to do with your salary, though?
> Now you'll have more time to fill that out, instead of doing menial work like manually summing up your monthly payslips to arrive at a yearly total.

There is no manual summing of paystubs. You (already) get an end-of year statement of wages (W-2 for employee wages, 1099 for contracting payments). ReadyReturn saves you nothing here.
There were certainly brands and advertising in the Roman Empire, but I've read books on branding (in the marketing sense) that point to Josiah Wedgwood as more or less the inventor of modern (post-Roman Western) brand identity. I think Meatball Sundae, for example, said this.
I have been to Disney quite a bit and I find the bands amazing. And yes I realize I am being tracked. But there is something magical when you get on the haunted house ride and the ghosts know you...

Super use of the tech for entertainment.
"I'm not sure why you rush to dimiss me like that." Perhaps you should re-read how you dismissed what I put forward and you will understand the favor I returned with supporting evidence and perhaps too much snark.

This comment touches on the ENSO topic you are referencing to and discusses falsifiability: https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php?a=308#101174

I'd be interested to know what you're reading that brought you these arguments as they seem to be targeting them. So it is evident that they are being passed around circles of skeptics (not saying deniers).

There's a big difference between a climate model and a weather model and I believe you're familiar with the differences between long term changes (climate) and short term ones (weather). Just like we can't predict the interaction of every atom in a balloon yet we can predict how they will act as a whole when inflating one.

"In return, here's a bit of mea culpa for my facile attack that the quoted very long life of the CO2 is only the result of a change of definition: while technically I was right, the definition change is one in good faith, and my critique was not."

Thanks, I guess....but you are not technically right. You completely altered the state of my argument. I wasn't talking about the average. 15-40% (depending on the IPCC emissions projection) of CO2 remains in the atmosphere for upwards of 1,000 years. If our projections of climate change are correct we're in very big trouble as we've already locked in a significant amount of warming.

Additionally, you should be looking at AR5's physical science basis files, not AR4's if you want to be following the state of the science 4+ years ago instead of 10+.
Really? I would say we become a lot farther apart. The productivity an elite can have with computer support is far greater than an uneducated worker.
Any tax system will have winners and losers, including no tax system at all, including one where the treasury burned the collected money rather than used it to pay for social programs. Who ever designs the tax system directly chooses the winners and losers--it cannot be avoided.
> The whole point of a democratic government is to protect the interest of the majority of their citizens

Is this the goal we strive for? There are lots of things that we don't want that could be largely couched in the language of "being in the interest of a majority of citizens". For example: Aggressive policing against petty theft, stop and frisk, prohibiting sales of off label unpackaged cigarettes; antiterrorism laws with intrusive cavity searches at every airport; fugitive slave laws...
Sha1 collisions...
The Magic Band is amazing. We spent our anniversary at Disney World and the thing is a payment method, your park tickets, your room keys, and also holds your fast passes.

I had no expectations of privacy in a public theme park and I'm not sure anyone else should either.

They made the visit so much better. Would use again.
Personally, I feel as though modern acceptable standards of near-immediate obsolescence as normal are kind of depressing and abnormal.

Seeing technology become outdated after 3-4 years is kind of amazing in all the wrong ways.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that what we're really seeing is explosive advances, and to think about being stuck where we were 3-4 years ago, frozen in time, without permission to advance is a horrible thought.

But at the same time, I hate not being about to used something I paid thousands of dollars for, less than five years later, because I scratched a CD-ROM, and downloads for compatible upgraded drivers are not supported.
Uh, that's now how feudalism worked. Feudalism worked because an elite class (lords, the Church) owned the land. They had exclusive access to the means of production. Peasants didn't work the land out of a fear of violence. (Like a few dozen guys on horses could threaten a few thousand peasants.) Peasants worked the land because they didn't want to starve.

The modern system is not any different. Jeff Bezos is part of an elite class that has exclusive access to the means of production. But now it's capital, not land. And this is what allows him to create something like the Echo and sell it. This is a feat that most people could never hope to do. At the end of the day because the average citizen doesn't have access to production he has no choice but to exchange his labor for food. He is a peasant.
> the possibility of leaving the EU, temporarily [...], if they voted to leave the UK [was] widely known and understood.

I don't know what you're trying to achieve by mischaracterizing that "temporarily" leaving the EU was an option. Member states can veto new entries, and both Spain and the UK threatened that seceding meant no more EU for Scotland.

You'll only fool yourself by arguing that the threat of being kicked out of the EU wasn't a factor in people's minds. Before Brexit, voting to remain in the UK was the only way to prevent that; after Brexit, voting to secede from the UK is the only way to prevent it. A referendum is what'll provide the evidence of how much those changing circumstances have affected the vote.
> Trying to further social policy via taxation is about the least efficient way to do it.

Works well for controlling a populations smoking and drinking.
So the New York Times can only say good or bad things about elected officials and potential candidates for the six months before an election?

If not, people with money looking to campaign outside your window will just buy media companies.