skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to say this, and this is in no way a troll, but I believe the solution for this will eventually be to kill the poor.

Not directly, at least I don't think, but through lack of health care, lack of shelter, lack of education, poor diet, use in waging war, incarceration, and probably once they get desperate and try and get theirs, being labelled terrorists.

People who have money, and therefore power, in the United States are not going to give it up so someone down the economic scale can have a modicum of comfort and dignity and purpose. They will, carefully and covertly, and maybe even inadvertently, remove them.
Facts with references and citations have no place in this thread. Downvote.
Title needs correction: With FOSSILIZED skin and soft tissue.
yeah of course, I'm all for a guaranteed minimum income. I guess you are going to do a kickstarter right? I hope you are not proposing to forcefully steal my money through taxes.
Running a bus to pick up a single person is far less efficient than having that person own a car since the most effective part of a bus is the driver.

Cars scale in smaller increments than most public transit and that is important areas that are not densely populated or during off-peak periods. You can build a nation/culture around public transit, but the path dependencies with the US are pretty deep at this point.

>Car oriented infrastructure simply doesn't scale well as demand increases.

Self-driving cars scale in very different ways than piloted cars. The biggest problems with piloted cars is accidents, congestion and parking. All of these problems fundamentally change with self-driving cars. What Musk is building is self-driving car infrastructure.
UBI (at least in all the circles I've seen) refers to basic income wherein the government gives an unconditional sum of money to citizens. Negative income tax is not unconditional.
Introduction to Ethereum Smart Contract Development with Solidity
You may be thinking of the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Possibly.
In this case, "intact" means that the tissue was preserved in shape long enough for the sample to fossilize. Not that it actually survived in original chemical composition for 100 million years.
Not impossible, just hard.

And the cops can go and track each individual person from that pool if they really care. Even if we are talking about thousands.

Remember the story from a few days ago where to track a possible spy they went through all glasses prescriptions from a city.
> All sane UBI proposals don't create money, they just move money from rich people to poor people

I'm not very educated in this, so correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that while UBI doesn't create money, but it can move money from people with a lower ratio of money-spent to money-made, to people with a higher ratio. If that's the case, the money that's actively being used should increase.
This is fraud for literally every affiliate program.
At least add a link...

http://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.11...

From this article, it would appear that DNA would probably be unreadable at around the 1.5M year mark, well short of the 110M years that would be required to recover DNA from this dinosaur.
No it doesn't. Yet Neanderthal DNA has been sequenced.
well telekom/t-mobile bought itself in (more or less)
Thanks, didn't think about Shazam. Enjoying the artist right now.
Could anyone explain why being submerged in water would lead to particularly good fossilization? I would have thought it would do the exact opposite.
Cont stands for Continuation. A continuation basically represents a 'suspended' computation with an intermediate result of type 'a' and final result of type 'r'

type Cont r a = (a -> r) -> r

Cont is a type constructor that takes two type arguments, r and a. This means that Cont r a can always be substituted by (a -> r) -> r. For example, Cont String Int is equivalent to (Int -> String) -> String

(a -> r) is the type of a function from a to r. For example, Int -> Bool is the type of a function from Int to Bool. (a -> r) -> r is the type of a function that takes a function from (a -> r) as its argument and returns an r. So Cont String Int takes a function from Int to String as its argument and finally returns a String.

http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/12/the-continuation-monad....
https://begriffs.com/posts/2015-06-03-haskell-continuations....
Does Debian still support Woody? Does Red Hat still support whatever OS they were shipping in 2001?
Probably a stupid question: if the average mass density is agreeing perfectly with everything and all that, what is all this 'dark' matter and energy necessary for?
Tip: Don't spend time trying to remove malware and undo its effects. You'll never know if you succeeded; most malware is designed to hide itself, and likely this particular malware is well-written.

Wipe the laptop and reinstall. It's more certain, and probably won't take much longer than trying to remove the malware. If the malware infects firmware or other subsystems below the OS, and thus won't be removed by a reinstall, buy a new laptop if that's an option.
I'm not defending the NSA's poor security of bad strategic choices; the reason I use the gun analogy is that mass -production of weapons is as much the flip side of industrial production as cyber weapons are the flip side of normal software vulnerabilities.

Also, when you're under attack it might be more useful to worry about the identity and source of your attackers than where they stole the weapons from. Weapons facilitate aggression but are not the cause thereof, and we're not the only people who know how or maintain an interest in such weapons.
think of how much top-tier human and financial capital is tied up in recreating photo sharing apps, let alone other banal software pursuits
The best explanations I've heard effectively make the assertion that a country's land is collectively owned by its citizens. Its citizens can then charge rent (via taxation) to individuals or corporations using the land. UBI is the distribution of that rent.
You probably just expressed that imprecisely, but companies can not be found to have acted criminally. Crimes can only be committed by bodies that can be put in prison.

What they can do is assert that some critical part of technology that uber has access to originated at waymo and was brought to uber by whoever brought it there - in an illegal way.

If that's the case, they can be both forced to pay damages and be forced to turn over (essentially delete) the things they are in possession of that are not "theirs". In that case, anything that uber has developed "on top of" what had been stolen, could be assigned to waymo as well. Practically, this is just all settled with money. they won't run back and forth with data and software. Waymo gets however much they are assigned in damages and Uber will be told to not use these things anymore.

That can easily shut the whole Uber self driving car operation down - or cripple it so much that continuing won't be feasible because they would run out of money first/be unfundable.

The guy who actually stole things from Waymo is obviously going to have a bad time because he did (allegedly) commit a crime. In the "innocent until proven guilty" way. I don't know what he has or has not don, but if he did take trade secrets with him, thats going to be a problem.
More accurate to say "Big companies have traditionally been blind sided by new tech..."

I'm not aware of any major example of this since the introduction of the iPhone.
Archaeologists are heroes. They spend years painstakingly restoring things. Many of the digs also take many years of tedious work.
I think the only realistic way for a small player to beat Amazon at selling physical goods is to charge more and convince customers that it's worth it.
> the whole country was demonetized

Some currency notes were declared as "no more legal tender". There was no demonetization. And it makes no sense to say that "the whole country was demonetized". :-)
> Technology shifts however have not resulted in a 'net loss' of employment opportunities when looked at in the full view, ever.

This rebuttal suffers from the same problem, it extrapolates "yesterday" into "tomorrow". A computer isn't the same sort of thing as a steam-powered mill or a printing press. A robot isn't a tractor. When we create machines that are simply better at work than humans both physically and mentally -- there isn't anywhere to go from there.

There will always be jobs for people but we're eliminating jobs at a fast pace and there isn't anything replacing it. We aren't doing new things that require new jobs; we're doing the same things more efficiently with less people. This should lead to the future utopia of old science fiction but we will need to re-define what it means to be a functioning member of society.
There are a handful of Bitcoin exchanges that don't follow anti-money laundering laws and presumably that's how these ransomware guys cash out, as it's been a problem for a while now.
Yes, it actually is.

Life critical systems should be small, fully open stack, fully audited, and mathematically proven to be correct.

Non-critical systems, secondary information reporting, and possibly even remote control interfaces for those systems should follow industry best practices and try to do their best to stay up to date and updated.

Most likely many modern pieces of medical technology have not been designed with this isolation between the core critical components that actually do the job and the commodity junk around them that provide convenience for humans.
IoT: LoRa Push Button
Very interesting and very nicely written! I was thinking about this myself lately (https://medium.com/@yansh/who-do-you-want-to-be-in-life-ca8f...)..

I think the advice to slow down, take a break, refocus is key to figuring things out, however, not everyone can afford to do so. It's a risk, and there is always a trade off. So I wouldn't frame the article as a guide, because it's different for everyone.
I listened to this debate on my podcast subscription. The TL;DR is the audience poll shifted massively toward UBI being a bad idea by the end of the debate.
They definitely want to be able to do so in a fast, cheap way. Another thing is whether they will actually be fair with the updates, but I'm sure that Project Treble will reduce Android's fragmentation.
> We'd also have to reschool 7000 employees on everyday software considering how integrated the office365 platform is here.

I'm confused did you educate them in using office365, or even in using Office 2007 (which was a big change)? I.e. were there courses they all attended? Or did you just update them and them and they had to learn? Similar with the OS, did they go on Windows 8 and windows 8.1 and windows 10 courses or did they just get the update?

I agree that FLOSS lacks a great office suite alternative. I totally disagree with the concept that if there were your users would need to be re-schooled.
> though it's irrelevant to my arguments and generally none of your business.

I don't think it's irrelevant because certain foundations predispose one to certain lines of arguments. Particularly

>> If adults with kids aren't qualified for something more involved or demanding than grocery bagging

Not all adults have had an equal opportunity to obtain a skill-set that would qualify them for a better job and once you are stuck barely scraping by with a livable-wage it's very difficult to alter that situation. Culture and upbringing play a large part; children are easily impressionable, those growing up in troubled families or neighborhoods are less likely to do well in school and less likely to gain a skill-set that they would need to provide more value in the future.

> what is relevant was that earning minimum wage as a teenager helped my blue collar family since I paid for my own clothes, transportation, gas, food, school incidentals, and many other expenses.

I think it's great you were able to do that, but that doesn't mean that this minimum-wage would be sufficient for someone without a family to support them, or trying to acquire a skill-set later in their twenties.
> A method to reliably produce vulnerability-free software is not invented yet.

I beg to differ. We have formal methods, ranging from type systems to full blown verification. This isn't a technical problem, it's an economic one.
I have a friend who believes that Earth is 6000 years old, therefore dinosaurs lived alongside men and went extinct in the Medieval times (by some crazy global-scale dinosaurs hunting).
I am so sad that he won't be able to enjoy this discovery as much as I do, because he'll be focused on debunking the scientific assertion that this fossil is 110 million years old.
This is really cool! I've been toying with a similar idea recently, but using Google's flight API + some fancy scraping bots paired with AirBnB.

A few notes:

1. no hotels are loading for me (tried a few diff locations and tried with ad blocker disabled as well)

2. the results are kind of overwhelming (way too many options--feels like a typical travel site)

How do you plan to monetize this?
I definitely agree wrt intentional exploits ("backdoors") to be added. To me this news highlights the need for fundamentally safe software. Just like we might have safety laws in the automotive or airline industry.
Manufacturing isn’t glamorous – From PCB to boxed product
Thanks a lot man! Most of the design credit should go to React Toolbox: http://react-toolbox.com

The verb data is from: https://github.com/ghidinelli/fred-jehle-spanish-verbs.
I wrote a node script to turn it into a more efficient format.

If you're interested I wrote a little post about making it here: https://andycloke.github.io/Building-Verb-Master/
A chat with Imzy co-founder Jessica Moreno on building a kinder online community
The thief would still be hold accountable if caught. That is what g is saying, that we just gloss over the thief in this case.
Doesn't MySQL distribute in a similar dual-licensed fashion?
Ask HN: List of VC/Accelerators?
Is there a comprehensive list of legitimate VC/Accelerators other than YC?
As I've seen, all real discussion of UBI is essentially a negative income tax. UBI is just the term that stuck.
> The solution to malware is obscurity. Have an OS that no one wants to break into ...

... and you'll have an OS for which neither malware authors nor legitimate software developers want to write applications.

There's a trade-off involved. We could all use pen an paper and be invulnerable to malware, but then how would we post on HN?
Product differentiation is an underestimated evil of our time.
my first experience was with python tools for visual studio 2012. i still use vs2012. its a charm.
Within the site mandate, sure. HN's mandate is the gratification of intellectual curiosity. That requires civil, substantive, non-repetitive discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Yes, they do. Yes, it easier. Yet, it completely undoes the "airgap" thing.
Recently I was feeling very frustrated about my work, about what I do in my life. This was lasting for about 1 month. I've noticed that in such periods I compare myself to others and intentionally think that I'm worse. Like literally the most useless person in the world. Usually I find any particular metric (even meaningless) and compare. This is very self-destructing activity.

What helps me in fight with burnout is realising what my strong sides are. I just try to do what I'm good at, and I stop comparing myself to others because of obvious evidence that I'm not. And of course I get more rest, more sleep and switch to creative hobby activities more often. Like an author, I reevaluate my goals and priorities and become in sync with my life again.
For example: https://github.com/pugjs/pug/issues/2189

Jade had to rename. They picked 'Pug' and needed a logo. christopherdowson asks if anyone can propose a logo and ends up creating the final logo.

Pretty neat thread IMO.
As others said, UBI doesn't necessitate increasing the stock of money, it's a system of redistribution. The types of goods being consumed by the economy as a whole would change, you correctly predict (if they didn't, UBI could hardly be called a success in redistributing money to the poor, could it?). Luckily, one thing capitalism does have going for it if nothing else is that it encourages a rapid response to changing demand. There may be a period of time where the grocery store aisles are leaner than usual, so to speak, but I don't see why we wouldn't see our usual swift return to equilibrium.
I love finally having tmux support on my Windows machines - just wish that we could have that in the PowerShell terminal as well.
How widely is LibreSSL used, compared to OpenSSL?
Main paper:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6336/eaal1641/tab-...

Unfortunately, looks like you have to register ("free"?) and sign-in to download the full text.

Other papers linked in article:

http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(16)00097-0

http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(12)00273-5

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6256/94/tab-pdf
This was really informative. Is there a way to find out how different manufacturers have enabled (or left disabled) such functionality? Would love to know the potential pitfalls before messing around with something like this.

Of course, one thing you could do is have the AutoPi locked down to only reply to a certain IP, VPN connection, etc, but the underlying security issues once connected, remain.
Interesting to see fundraising articles peaking out in 2014, I think we are definitely seeing a bear market.
You are wrong. Sometimes it is possible, sometimes it is not.
With these in-memory DBs, scaling beyond 1TB becomes prohibitively expensive for most companies.
So, Collabora Online[1]

[1] https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
British hospitals, Spanish firms among targets of global 'ransomware' attack
Data labeling isn't hard, it's labor intensive, which is an entirely different resource. If the business goal is valuable enough, then a non-tech manager without any special expertise can organize twenty man-months of grunts to do the labeling, three man-months of cookie-cutter junior dev work for tools of labeling and data management, and a single man-month of an external consultant with proper expertise to write sensible guidelines on how the labeling should be done and supervise the process. All of which will cost something comparable to a the annual cost a single ML developer.

Training models often is tricky, but it's not that hard, my experience shows that decent undergrads learn to train standard models on their own datasets after a single one semester course, and train quite difficult models after two semesters; so teaching/learning basic ML takes comparable time and effort to e.g. teaching/learning basic JS frontend development.

So if some company's IT department has some minimum ML skills, lack of expertise shouldn't be preventing them from training models. And even more so, using your own data (IMHO) is the whole point of adopting ML; if the problem is so generic that you don't need to adapt it to your data, then you shouldn't be learning to use ML but rather buying and integrating a SaaS API run by someone else.
Do you think it would be possible for those services to block or 'embargo' transactions from 'tainted' addresses, such as the ones used for the cyberattacks' ransom?
I meant it in a more general way: a group of horrible people taking over a core function of society and saying "If you don't do x we will do y." And they will actually do y.

As you may have gathered, my original statement is more eloquent.
One thing that might cushion the displacement of workers by automation is if the workers themselves had an ownership interest in the automation technology. Yes, they would lose their jobs, but having an ownership interest would allow them to generate income.

Maybe instead of UBI, we should consider a scheme where we grant an ownership interest in productive property.

One naive way to implement that is to just grant shares in an index fund that tracks the robotics/automation sector, such as the ROBO Global Index (http://www.roboglobal.com).

Obviously, that's not the best way to do it, because if I've just been laid off and have to pay my mortgage, I'm going to turn all my shares into cash.

But there might be some more sophisticated way to grant ownership of productive property that would both generate income and also give influence to the very workers who are most affected by the technology's success.
I agree with that. Once we accept the false premise that "all are the same" we'll let the most intolerant and the most backward win. And accepting the complaints of those "offended" is giving up to the real and destructive backwardness.

Too many people take our current state for granted. It is actually the result of the centuries of the fight against the backwardness (especially religious). If we give up we'll lose what we've already and with a lot of fight achieved.

We have to offend the superstitious and those that want to protect the backwardness, otherwise we're doing it wrong, and we'll lose so much we can't even imagine.

We have what we have today in spite of the religious texts not because of tbem. Otherwise there would still be more burnings at the stake and beheadings. Not to mention the treatment of the women.

We should never forget that, and we should act. It's getting critical again.
Hopefully, it's far from the end. The fight continues [unfortunately only in German]:

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Muenchner-IT-Leiter-...

In short, there are no technical problems whatsoever. It's just a strong lobbying...
Does "UK residents only" mean you're only hiring UK residents, or does it only apply to the "100% remote" part?
So if I lose my gun on the street and someone (18+) picks it up and shoots somebody, the blame belongs to me?

Not saying that the NSA is innocent as a child, but please don't put all on them.

If I would have a zero-day I wouldn't go out and encrypt people computers.
When the question is a cliché of contemptuousness, the burden is on the asker to disambiguate.
You are economically misinformed. You should read "Economism" by James Kwak.
So this is a naive, honest question, but why not just index funds?
Right.

One extreme might be if you had a backdoor where the presence of a particular byte sequence in the input intentionally triggers some kind of malicious activity. The test streams can't detect this because they presumably don't contain that exact byte sequence, whereas something like AFL can find it because it can (potentially, depending on the nature of the test that recognizes the backdoor sequence) deduce what input would trigger coverage of that code path.
The incentive structure in this example is certainly bad, but that is an issue whenever you are planning to give things away for free, with a universal basic income scheme or otherwise. That my example is exceptionally poor in this regard should not matter too much for the point addressed unless you want to hint at a problem with sustainability.

That might or might not be the case depending on the behavior of the people but given that universal basic income proponents argue that people would not get lazy and exploit the system I am happy to make that assumption. In case that turns out to be false, it is certainly possible to tweak the scheme in such a way that there remains an incentive not to become lazy, for example by lowering the 100 % tax rate but still keeping it high.
is a hard fork ever not possible?
Isn't it peculiar that Russia remains the least hit or not even hit at all? It seems like the West was a clear target. Connecting the dots here, it's suffice to say Shadow Brokers serves Russian interests.

We are seeing bullet holes from what seem to have been cyber warfare between the former cold war foes.
LA is low density and poorly planned. It is what it is--you can't rebuild all of LA (or the Bay Area) 50 years after the fact.
Did they then hack into his iPhone?
What was the quality of that fingerprint?