skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could be as simple as connecting the dots between you logging into your ISP account to pay your bill via the VPN.

This is one specific way in which a VPN is a poor solution to protecting privacy. It means the user has to constantly be on guard to which traffic should go over the VPN and which should not. Even one single slip up could negate all the benefits you think you are getting.

Edit: This reply should have been a couple levels higher, addressing the general tracking discussion rather than NATs specifically.
Not saying that what you are implying is wrong, but empirically speaking working hard/relative merit do not correlate to proportionate monetary rewards in our current system. The idea of a pure meritocracy is an interesting one, I wonder what some of the outcomes would be.
That's also without accounting for inflation. Average USD inflation is something like 2.75% annually.
People want things they can't have. The economy is not driven by humans logically picking just the basic resources they need for survival. It was never like that.
But someone's got to be the hardest working and have the most merit... just like someone has to be the least hardest working and have the least merit.
Perils of capitalism in it's absolute form. We celebrate these people for becoming rich and we will celebrate again for giving back their money like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
It is generally agreed (except, perhaps, by the strongest champions of the decoherence program) that decoherence does not completely solve the measurement problem.

Some good references here: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/295527/decoherenc...

It helps explain the loss of interference, but it does not resolve the question of why and how we see one particular outcome.
I think that's a little hyperbolic. In feudalism the balance of power is enforced by violence, whereas Jeff Bezos got rich because you gave him money in exchange for products. Like,

"Hey, here's this cool electronic device called the Amazon Echo for $50."

is a markedly different from

"Farm here or I'll decapitate you."

The fact that you harbor a resentment as if the former is anything like the latter is slightly terrifying.
"Google Household" sounds too much like "Google Home".
Either the media can talk about politicians, in which case most election outcomes will be determined by press coverage (and your system would be ineffective). Or, the media is forbidden from discussing politicians, which has a chilling effect on free speech and journalism.
Fortunately, titles like "trillionaire" are ignorant of inflation as well.
Progress is being made, however. Stations are currently being retrofitted for step-free acccess at the rate of around 30 stations every 5 years.

OK, it'll be many decades before every station is fully accessible at that rate. But progress is being made. The Tube is infrastructure which will likely still be around for decades or centuries to come, so it's worth doing.

TfL's online status tools and journey planner are also pretty good at keeping track of any lift outages, etc, so it's unlikely anyone will turn up to a station to find a broken lift unexpectedly.
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Member states, indeed, Comissioners are generally put in place by the leaders of the member states, the Council. (I should stop arguing this point, the technicality is not really relevant, it's that they are several steps removed from any vote)

Where did I say I can live with the British system?

It reeks worse than the EU. I'll vote out of Westminster when I get the chance (which will never come for Hampshire, I'm not a fantasist)
evidently they already are... ;)
Would it be possible for a guy like Jeff to sell all his stock and convert his wealth to, let’s say, gold? The motivation for my question is my doubt that the different sources of wealth are comparable. So this ranking is hypothetical. Wouldn’t the stock price drop if someone was to sell so many shares?
Amazon sets mass layoffs at Quidsi products unit after losses
I say it one last time: because you didn't just say what you do, you told other people what to do if they cared about privacy. If someone (not you, or me, this isn't a private chat) took that seriously, and you are wrong, you are at best spreading FUD. Don't expect me (or anyone else) to assume you are right that SNI is a significant threat to privacy based on your super-secret reasons that totally exist but you refuse to share.
It seems to work out ok for these folks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Sustainable_Building
I specifically read "Story of Your Life" a few months back prior to watching Arrival, as some people here claimed they liked the movie Adaptation better. I have to say I agree. It was a fine short story, and had some very good conceptual elements, but I found his explanation of the phenomenon and it's consequences for people subject to it lacking (or perhaps I misunderstood a portion of it). The movie skirted actual explanations with respect to this, but thus wasn't subject to scrutiny that may have shown it to be less solid than was supposed.
How do you get to this data? I would like to see the number of billionaires in my town if at all.
Its pretty amazing that it isn't someone with a surname like Rockfeller or Ford...
You know what would have been even more amazing? If Microsoft had not landed in its monopolistic position it had. Then all that money that landed at bill gates which is even more, could have been spent earlier on philanthropic means.
2016. And yawn. Another post that someone actually made a suggestion in a place which is intended to make suggestions, because it's a suggestion you don't like/don't understand/don't whatever. Just boring.
I'm guessing dates were translated as well.
I'm not sure we'll be free to disregard, but we would be free to pull out, which would be a damn shame.
Love to see code...
The Complacent Class [video]
You are a grammar nazi and a pedant because you have derailed the conversation as a result of your lack of understanding of the differences between formal and natural languages.
When I first went to Latvia I was surprised at how small store signs were. At first I thought this was a an ideological thing. No need to advertise. Then I realized the much bigger signs, in Russian, that had been above the small signs in Latvian, had been taken down.
But Susan still paid 3.5x as much in actual dollars. I guess I just fundamentally disagree with taxing my labor (or investing acumen). I'd be fully on-board with a high consumption tax though.
> Be 18 or older -> Minors can't enter into contracts to buy things.

Totally not true in some (many?) jurisdictions.
The negatives need not be so similar for the two to occupy the same space of vast property ownership concerns - namely that a single person has what many consider to be a troubling amount of wealth and power.

EDIT: sentence structure change
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The problem that I see (as a Canadian) is salaries. I'm not in Toronto but am in Canada, and I see people with 10 years experience making less than new grads in SV (without even factoring in the USD/CAD differential). Until that aligns, I don't think the brain drain will stop.
It's actually 11.4% with dividends, and 12.5% if you reinvested the dividends in more shares when you got them!
We used ShareLatex.com for engineering projects in college, and it eliminated the complexity of having to install LaTeX on everybody's computers. It also allowed us to export the source for safekeeping [1]. I would use it again in the future.

[1] e.g. on Github: https://github.com/philipithomas/SchedulingPaper
Why do you think that money would have necessarily gone to philanthropy?
The Chevy Bolt is GM's all-electric masterpiece
Never mind, it's here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joshbegley...
Wonder why no one talks about it
That is not necessarily true. That money might not have saved lives. You cannot say that for sure.
Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Microsoft OMS, are a few very popular tools that can be used. With any of those you can fully monitor automate many system tasks.
This works well, but the web interface seems like an unnecessary layer on top of what could just be a terminal based tool. I'm trying to resist the urge to fork this, putting another project on my todo list I will never finish
We're seeing so many of these lists that I'm half expecting to read a 'falsehoods programmers believe about other programmers list soon'!
There is also the fact that money (and value) is not a zero sum game.

Bezos making billions doesnt mean that the money was taken from someone else in the sense that that person cannot have it anymore.

The opposite is also true. If he was poor it doesn't mean that I would have more money.

Value creation is a weird but beautiful thing.
Yep. Even worse with the current USD/CAD exchange rate. I do love the homeland, but taking basically a 50% paycut adds a lot of weight to the US end of the scale.

Plus I spend less than $1K USD/month on rent here in Seattle (live with one roommate), so cost of living is pretty much the same - especially with food being more expensive in Canada.
I've heard this also, and it makes sense. Although Amazon is now finally going to charge sales tax everywhere, it undoubtedly helped their growth that they could undercut others in large markets like NY and CA by not charging sales tax. I'm sure this wasn't the only factor, but if it meant a 9% pricing advantage in CA, it could have been a real consideration.
> How do you define a set of name fields for any country?

Perhaps the solution is to provide two options: either (1) the common (Western?) given|surname structure or (2) an Nx2 matrix in which the key is what the name part is called on legal documents in the region and the value is the corresponding name part.

An example…

Full name: "Hajji Halef Omar Ben Hajji Abul Abbas Ibn Hajji Dawud al-Gossarah"

Title: Hajji

Ism: Halef Omar

Nasab: Hajji Abul Abbas

Nasab: Hajji Dawud

Nisbah: al-Gossarah

A database for the keys can be maintained and suggestions can be offered to the user at submission time in order to keep things tidy. Additionally, per-region templates can be maintained in order to make the Nx2 approach less burdensome.

Users submitting names under #2 would be additionally required to select two name parts so that their name can be shoehorned into the Western model.

Continuing with our example…

Given Name: Halef Omar

Surname: al-Gossarah

(Here's a reward for putting up with my absurd example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3V-9Az5FUs)
If you think about the amount of problems to solve there are infinite employment opportunities.

Let alone software, there is an infinite amount of ways how stuff can be better and more efficient. The same goes for engineering, as long as stuff costs more than the materials it takes to produce them. Let alone new fields like material science (graphene) or space exploration.

The demand for those jobs will grow even more to make this robot future happen.

The only thing that needs to change is education in those fields. Why can't work the rest of our population in those areas? Just use tools like capital gains tax (the value those robots produce) and direct those funds into education.
If you say that's impossible, in theory a person with average intelligence can learn those things by himself with a single computer.

Tell me where the big flaw is here?
There's a lot of ways you can look at it.

Feudalism was a hierarchical system. Not all nobles went around hacking off heads - they could farm that out to higher ups who kept order. What's the difference between Amazon's reliance on national governments? The business model only works because the US enforces peace on parts of the world and because the Chinese government allows its workers to be used for pennies on the dollar. Within Amazon's kingdom, good luck getting the authorities to help you if you aren't a big player.

Meanwhile the average worker who isn't any less intelligent or hard working is seen as worth a fraction of a percentage of Bezos. Sounds like feudalism, serfdom, slavery, or whatever you'd like to call it. That we can celebrate such disparities of human value and even worse in some places this kind of rampant greed is seen as something good is what is truly terrifying.
Painfully aware one might say, given how insanely high they are.

They at least usually shield the daylight robbery GST from us. Probably so we can sleep at night.
I think that a major component of Norquist's thinking is that the more painful people find taxes (including the process of calculating them) the more they'll support his agenda of "a government so small you could drown it in a bathtub".
Yay clickbait.

Sure HTTPS might not be sufficient, but a VPN can.
Are you suggesting we shouldn't thank them? Now that's a perilous idea.
Is that factoring in cost of living? There's an enormous difference between Toronto and SV there.
The point is that they are a symptom. The problem is the government and their inability to keep anything simple. And in reference to the original topic, taxes for people with one W2 and no other income are not complicated. You can complete a 1040EZ on paper in 5 or 10 minutes.
I don't think you can fix money in politics without unduly limiting free speech, and even if you do, those who call foul on political spending hold the power.

I think the only practical way to fix this problem is to remove the two party system which allows representatives to vote against the interests of their constituents except on the issues that strongly separate left and right. And the only way to remove the two party system is to remove the first past the post and move into some kind of proportional representation system. And that only takes constitutional changes...
Cool tool. I think what would really be the icing on the cake is if it substitued the actual command into the documentation. Removing that one layer of indirection would make it that much easier to understand.

For example:

foo() { bar }

> This defines a function named "foo".

Also that example fails to parse. Even though :() { :|: };: works so it seems like there is a certian amount of special casing.
I wasn't questioning the methodology. I think this was a good experiment and really interesting result.

I was questioning the shocking surprise at the result as expressed by the article. A spider's brain is not a general purpose computing device. It has specific evolved functions. Performing that function well is necessary for the continuation of the species; both species have continued to survive, so both species probably perform the function well; no surprise.
If you're working on your own work, reading high-quality works can really tell you how to do things.

Among other things, Ted Chiang is excellent at non-linear storytelling, and at communicating complex and nuanced ideas through narrative.

The actual definition of a genre is based on sales demographics ("do people who buy SciFi buy this book?" - why Vonnegut is in Literature, and LeGuin is in fantasy), but if I had to pick...
SciFi is about consequences (what happens when....)
Fantasy is about narrative (a story about a boy....)
Literature is about a message that cannot be communicated any other way than the story that is told.

I have no idea how to tell you what Arrival was about without retelling the story.
Public scrutiny of the internet habits of our elected officials probably isn't a bad idea anyway.
I don't agree that New York has a Great Subway. It is really dirty. The homeless people use it as their home as they don't have any where else to go.
Artificial Intelligence: Past and Future
What does that have to do with automation though? It's like that today. Thats not the discussion that we are having around automation.
The tightening of (or perception of tighter) visas in the US may result in more grad students considering Canada as a potential destination than the US. Industry is likely to follow where the talent goes and this could result in wage equilibrium
There's a Martial epigram (can't find it) that goes something like :

You shave your head to conceal your baldness,
But how will you conceal your impotency?
I think you are confusing flat tax (proportional) with poll tax (constant).
Let's just have a 1% flat tax, and if government needs more, they can use lotteries.
While we're on the subject, I'm glad Costco does this.

I was just shopping for new eyeglasses this week, and the difference between going to an in-network shop and going to Costco (out of network) is beyond insane. For something that will cost me under $100 for both frames and lenses after reimbursement from Costco, I estimated that I would have paid almost $300 out of pocket after in-network coverage.

Costco might not do enough volume to drive market cost down, but I certainly appreciate that they provide a sane alternative to crazy markups on eyeglasses in stores.
With respect to income/material wealth? Factoring in cost of living Toronto is still a poor place to live compared to any reasonable location in the United States.

The currency basically negates any cost of living difference. Toronto is expensive as fuck (as most major cities are now).
Chess instills new dreams in kids from rural Mississippi county
> Models are not inherently scientific, just because something is trying to make predictions doesn't make it scientific.

No, but science is about making predictive models, and you can't criticize a predictive model without criticize the science behind it, if it is a model which purports to be produced by science.

> May I ask, what do you think of economic models? Would you call them scientific?

That...depends. "Economic models" can mean either "models of the economy" or "models produced as part of the science of economics"; the latter are scientific the former may or may not be.

And even among scientific models (in any domain, economics is in no way special in this regard) some are products of different stages of the scientific process; there are speculative models done in the exploratory stage of pre-hypothetical work in science, there are models that are concrete operationalizations of untested (or only loosely tested) hypotheses, and there are models which are themselves tested and represent the best current understanding of the phenomenon they are intended to model; these are all "scientific models", but they have different roles.
For mobile signal, TfL wanted more money and better cooperation than the mobile networks were willing to provide.

The speed of the upgrade programme was reduced by Johnstone, but is progressing. The three disabled people I know, have organized most of their lives around the parts that have already been upgraded or other transport methods (DLR, trams in Croydon) but still very much appreciate the improvements as they are made to the Underground.
Really neat project! The tools are released under CC-0 on Github.

The HN thread [1] on Part 1 went into discussion about how platform differences and the prospect of more rapid iteration meant that several early games were written with VMs. It's amusing that when we resurrect these games today, we are often running a VM that emulates an old architecture that then runs the original game's VM in turn.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13694524
While that may be true for a software engineer the same does not apply to AI talent.

The Vector Institute will offer salaries comparable to top global industrial AI labs. Also the Canadian industry appreciates the value a good data scientist and knows the talent war is global.
> If someone makes $100M by inventing an amazing product, and someone else makes $100M by earning interest on the fortune he earned from his mother, which of those behaviors do we want to encourage?

What's the difference between inventing the product himself and investing in a founder who otherwise would have had to get a regular job? Remember -- he could have spent the principal on yachts, cars, and jets instead; that's the behavior we want to disincentivize.
It's a lot harder to quantify or accurately estimate his wealth. Most of the numbers usually associated with Putin are anecdotal.
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"Merit" could refer to many things, but yes, I think he directly/indirectly added more utility to people's lives than 100,000s of other people.
I believe you are correct. In theory he would be able to turn all his assets into money, but probably he would loose huges amount of it in the process due to the effect you mentioned.

I guess these rankings are just rankings. It's an abstract way to value what someone have (or could potentially have) with no relationship to absolute truth.
Exactly, it's not a dichotomy. But the first point doesn't present it at one - it doesn't claim that VPN is not useful for defense in depth, only that it's not the solution.

The counterpoint is the one that sets it up as a dichotomy of sorts - that you don't need regulations, because the things that you can do on your own are sufficient.
Also see this piece by Steven Weinberg:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/01/19/trouble-with-quan...

"One common answer is that, in a measurement, the spin (or whatever else is measured) is put in an interaction with a macroscopic environment that jitters in an unpredictable way. For example, the environment might be the shower of photons in a beam of light that is used to observe the system, as unpredictable in practice as a shower of raindrops. Such an environment causes the superposition of different states in the wave function to break down, leading to an unpredictable result of the measurement. (This is called decoherence.) It is as if a noisy background somehow unpredictably left only one of the notes of a chord audible. But this begs the question. If the deterministic Schrödinger equation governs the changes through time not only of the spin but also of the measuring apparatus and the physicist using it, then the results of measurement should not in principle be unpredictable. So we still have to ask, how do probabilities get into quantum mechanics?"
Kudos to him, hopefully he will go all in on some crazy idea eventually. I still have this feeling amazon (as in online store) isn't all that big outside of US/english-speaking world.

I do have a question though. When you have that much net worth and you get plastered all over the press about how much you have... What do you do then? What's your life then like? Seems like a nightmare, especially if you have kids and family. Do you become a prisoner of your own wealth then, guarded by people - never be able to just roam about, take a random tourist tour with your spouse, a road trip or whatever? Money is nice to have, but there are things you definitely lose, it seems. Is it worth it to be at that level?
> Yeah but a flat tax would be extremely regressive.

Not really, because everyone who can afford to pay another human being to figure out how to not pay taxes, would now be actually paying N%, reducing the pressure on the rest of us. That they still would have lots of money left over, after paying their taxes, as opposed to most of the rest of us who spend close to every dollar, would not bother me at all.

And if you like: 0% up to N$/year, 10% up to M$/year, 20, 30, 35.
Source on the salaries?