skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a case of "correlation implying causation". If a game is famous ie downloaded a lot from legal sales then it does stand to reason that there will be a huge number of people trying to illegally download it too.
Not true see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15306562
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Why does that return a shell?
I was rear ended by a very tall and heavy truck while driving my VW golf. My car was low to the ground, but had a high trunk. I got some minor whiplash and that was it.

If I was in a miata, which is low to the ground AND has a low trunk, the truck would have killed me.

An SUV, while dangerous in some types of accidents, has plenty of metal between myself and whoever rear ends me.

Thanks for writing :)
My kids still have daily recess and PE.
This is a strawman attack. Everyone knows UBI will require an increase in taxes that's fundamentally how the wealth redistribution will work.
They said without any research backing their statement whatsoever...
Speculating here, but perhaps they had planned some additional testing and wanted to have plenty of time to fix bugs.
Disagree. We all have choices. But it's easy to convince yourself otherwise.

If you're getting less than 1%, you'll get a better ROI working for the bigCo of your choosing. Suggesting otherwise is disingenuous.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4008733
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Why use Electron, and not something like GTK or SDL?
I read the linked wikipedia article, but there was nothing in it that I found to support your assertion the freed slaves were not allowed to own land?
Having to work to survive keeps people engaged with reality and I think this may explain why people in the past and in developing countries today seem to be at least as happy and mentally resilient as modern westerners, maybe more so. In spite of hardship, disease and early death.

Whereas many of us spend our limited freedom chasing pleasurable (and unpleasurable) illusions that lead only to disorder and despair. That said, there are plenty of sane, wealthy people in the West who do important work for the sake of it, because they wish to. How do more of us become like them?

Also, despite apparently comfortable conditions, there are plenty of survival problems which remain. For example, meteor strikes, super-volcanoes, cancers, toxic ideologies/religions. Plus an unlimited number of as yet unidentified problems.

These problems are more abstract than working for a pay packet to buy food but they are nonetheless real. And they are not being sufficiently addressed! Universal Basic Income could turn out to be an important breakthrough in this regard, I think, if we also address the question I posed at the end of paragraph 2 above.
Russia don't exist for 'hundred of years'.

Why you people are repeating the nonsense?
Pinker has explicitly said that is a misinterpretation of his book:

> The upshot is that each of the following two
assertions can be true: (1) the chances of war are lower than they were before, and (2) the damage
caused by the most severe imaginable war is greater than it was before. That makes it meaningless—an
issue of semantics—to speculate about whether the world is “safer” overall; in one sense it may be
safer, in another sense, less safe. That is exactly why Better Angels does not claim, contra Taleb, that the
world is “safer” across the board.

https://stevenpinker.com/files/comments_on_taleb_by_s_pinker...
The article, in particular the heading, paints a very wrong picture. There is no hunger in Germany, neither open nor hidden. "Grundsicherung" (the state provides all essentials for everyone) is guaranteed by the German constitution. It covers all that is needed to lead a life in human dignity ("Menschenwürde"). That includes rent, food, basic clothes, and a surplus that enables the recipients to take part in social life (e.g., to buy a cinema ticket).

So why is the woman portrayed in the article visiting the "Tafel"? The mentioned surplus is really small. For example, if your kid wants to be soccer goal keeper and needs soccer shoes and gloves, that would not be covered by social support. By visiting the "Tafel", the mother can save money otherwise spent for food, and can buy such extras for her kids.

tl;dr: being poor in Germany is very different from being poor in the USA. The CNN article does not understand these differences.
A solid, featureful & performant numerics library seems like a really good match for Go---if it can match numpy but also provide benefits like the safety of types, binary compilation, and better performance in non-numeric code, that's a really exciting case for sliding away from python?
REAMDE - don't take it seriously. The author basically just took a vacation and wrote a mindlessly fun action book. If you read it as such, it's pretty good. It's definitely written from a Western perspective, but it does have some pretty astute insights about East European mentalities and culture (I say this as someone straddling the fence between West and East culturally).

DODO is not pure Stephenson. The personality of the other writer (Nicole Galland) quite clearly changes the atmosphere. It's the first NS book where characters' emotions are actually given some attention, and the first where female characters are described from a first-person perspective (in a way that's convincing).
thank you for the contrarian view. this is helpful in finding truth.

while bitcoin historically was not the main instrument of capital flight, would capital flight not be much easier with bitcoin, especially for the average user?

one example cited elsewhere requires a lawyer to draft a $50M "invoice." it seems like the average chinese citizen would probably not have such connections.

is it possible the government is pre-emptively preventing flight among the masses? one way to disprove this theory would be to analzye the impact the masses could have on capital flight -- perhaps the majority of capital flight actually would occur among the rich and elite, who don't need bitcoin to move capital.
Full text search in JSON & JSONB looks exciting.
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/New_in_postgres_10#Full_Tex...
At an old job my boss was excited to have paid off his RV trailer. By owning it outright he was free to paint it in his favorite camouflage scheme. He said his plan was to go live in the woods "when the bombs drop".

I told him my plan was to go in the flash.

I have no desire to die, certainly not in nuclear holocaust. I also don't think anyone really knows how best to survive or even prepare for such a world. "I'll go in the flash" is really just my way of saying that doesn't enter into my decision to live in a populated area or own an RV.

We don't really know what the world would look like if the bombs did drop so I don't go out of my way to avoid such a world by not surviving the first moments. I would rather avoid it by stabilizing the geopolitical landscape. That's probably going to take more than a Thursday though.

Having said all this just prepare like you would for anything else. We're much more likely to face hurricanes, earthquakes or volcanic eruptions anyway. If we look at those environments the world post-WWIII may not be so bad actually. Sure our iPhones probably wont work and the cancer rate will be high but that doesn't mean it will go full mad-max either. We have human civilization because that's our natural state, I think there is reason to be optimistic even in the face of nuclear annihilation.
Pretty cool work. Thanks for sharing. Articles like this are what makes HN great.
I'd hate to attend a dinner party with your standards of conversation. Sounds terrifying.
> Why wouldn't they leak RF?

Customers might value using bluetooth and wifi. Not all pressures are regulatory!
You could e.g. require a national poll for any change to the BI. Or it would not be introduced nationwide but per state or even communal so individuals have more control over what happens.
The problem is that when you talk about "piracy" it's already a totally forgone conclusion that you are biased.

People compose music. Should they be compensated every time the music is played? There's no clear "yes" answer here--the counterpoint being that otherwise no one would compose music is disproven by hundreds of years of wonderful music still performed today.

People record music and codify this in a big number (a wav file). Should they be paid every time such a number is put in a particular software? Should the number be kept secret so they can be paid by people that want to know it? Of course not, and this is ridiculous. When there were actual (plastic) records, there was an industry whose job was to produce this special plastic. Their business was plastic. They got a license to print special plastic and then sell it. Of course the "designer" of the special plastic wanted a bit of the sale. But now, this industry is only in the business of keeping numbers secret. And this is not a viable business, and we should not support them.

There's an obviously failing business with little to no added value: that of big record companies and rock stars. They were viable propositions when printing records was expensive (high marginal cost business). Now the cost of music distribution is effectively zero (zero marginal cost business). Why should they insist they are allowed to maintain their business model?

If making pizza becomes essentially free, why would we pass laws that prevent people from getting free pizzas? It's absurd.
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wonder how this compares to numpy/scipy in terms of features and performance. Looks pretty comprehensive.
Agoda is a Priceline subsidiary, like Booking.com
I think he was alluding to Multi-Level Marketing as well, which seems like an even more apt comparison.
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I wonder what system they had to keep things lit up. I imagine if you were somewhere down there without lights you'd have a bad time.
Ask HN: Somebody is using my identity for an ICO scam. What should I do?
I just found out that somebody is using my picture, name and links to social networks in what seems to be an ICO scam website. They pretend to be a translation app on top of blockchain technology and listed me as part of the team working on the app which I am not.
I am not sure what to do! Any ideas?
This is like saying "the library sucks, most of their books are totally irrelevant to me"-- on Twitter, you curate your own feed.
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Or maybe they want to do a study to figure out how it all pans out, rather than making wild claims with nothing to back them up.
Having one's email forwarded to another address can also be subject to fraud. Haven't done it in awhile, possibly you now have to go to the counter and show some id, but it used to be far too easy to fill out the little card and hand it to the person behind the counter, no questions asked.

https://www.identityguard.com/news-insights/beware-change-ad...
Perhaps attaching a necessity of transparency to the contracts would help? Like, 'to bid you have to provide a publicly accessible full accounting of the status and progress of the project during its performance'?
I am not arguing against welfare or UBI. I am just saying the long-term effect may be different from what people are thinking. Especially at HN people seem to think all people on UBI will turn into artists or develop software all day. Maybe that will be the case but I have my doubts.

"People who grow up without working role models do have a harder time learning the ropes on the work life, on that we agree. That doesn’t mean they’re doomed to fail completely. "

People certainly can escape their upbringing but from my observation on average most people stay close to their social class. That doesn't mean that some won't do much better or much worse than their family.
I would bet they were all memory corruption related. They were using AFL to manage their test corpus. It is probably a good guess to say they were all memory corruption related. I am pretty sure the definition of bug is "unique crash". Crash means memory corruption. Probably, the only way they knew they had a bug in such a scenario is from an instrumented process crashing in the first place. I doubt they were checking for much else in terms of instrumented process behavior.
I'm not convinced that peppers are as prepared as they think they are. Post-annihilation we need people who build civilization, not that hide in holes. Good luck living in a shipping container surrounded by a few inches of Quickrete from Home Depot while a hungry mob led by the most charismatic survivor looks for a way in.
I once watched this show for 5 minutes with a relative, who replied to my groaning with (paraphrasing) "The pyramids are way too big to have been built by primitive humans way back then. Why not aliens?"
It wouldn't make sense to never go outside, that is correct.

It would make sense, however, to avoid high crime areas, large and violent gatherings of people like riots, etc.

And if you were truly, truly, truly paranoid, you could wear a kevlar helmet around. People might think you are a complete freak, but war journalists do it.

My point here is, when I'm driving a car, I can control my personal risk.

With flying, most of the risk factors are completely out of my hands. I can only control the number of times I fly. And if they were legal, I could wear a parachute.
Hello,

I am interested in contributing to making a Block explorer. You guys have something like this https://blockexplorer.com/ in mind? Is it Ok if I use React? I guess django for the backend.
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This is not installing Peoplesoft with customization. "Off the shelf" implies a simple install would do. Obviously it seems using a default Peoplesoft workflow is not enough.
No offense, but defense spending is exactly the same as what you describe. It's money that goes to hundreds of thousands of workers that spend it in the economy.

Unlike (some) defense spending, UBI doesn't intrinsically create some economic value. Increased stability would indirectly create economic value, but it needs to be more than the face value of the UBI check for it to not lead to gross inflation.
Nah, hotels are now manipulating prices like airlines, with computers responding in near real-time to perceived demand. As demand increases, so does price. Multiple searches show a rise in demand, so the price goes up, even if there really was just one person searching.
> Please. Have you ever lived in poverty?

Yes, yes I have. I grew up in it. And most of my friends are struggling to make ends meet, working at restaurants, nail salons, and cafes. There's no glory in realizing that you can't make rent this month and you need to beg your landlord, or that after rent you have $50 leftover for a month's expenses. I've been there.

> They live out of the projects but stereotypically drive BMWs.

So you're using a stereotype to make your argument? Come on.

> Not to mention that you're essentially setting a demand floor which will "unnaturally" interfere with the economy. Another potential can of worms.

And you're arguing that supply is finite, which is the same fallacy that proponents of command economies often fall into.
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Because in principle free trade is better.
>USSR was never “on the same side” as Hitler.

Really? When they were parading captured Poland or conspiring to divide Europe - they were on different sides?

>Weakened USSR was denied power in Western Europe.

Not weakened, far from it.
And it was denied _capturing_ Western Europe. Basically they were saved from horrors of soviet 'communism'.
I mean, I guess they could have crushed him later. But you can watch the video - he wasn't crushed after standing in front of the tank in the iconic photo.
I find this topic more interesting than whatever Kim Kardashian has been up to ever.
You're right about it not working for webpack dev server, and I agree that it's unfortunate, but I think webpack will evolve to accommodate this.

[EDIT: it looks like this is already supported, here's the documentation explaining how to do it: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/configuration-types/#ex...]

Service Worker already introduced the need (or you could argue possibility) to have multiple configs since SW code has a much different transpiling baseline compared to legacy browser code. And module code just adds one more level to this.

I think webpack dev server will update if this practice becomes popular, but for the moment I think your idea of only building the es2015 build in dev mode is probably the best temporary solution (as long as you make sure to run your test suite in multiple environments and include the legacy build there).
Not a strawman at all. Many UBI proponents claim that it's more efficient, by directly paying for services already provided. Then when called on that, they switch to your strawman that "Everyone knows UBI will require an increase in taxes..."

Again, good luck trying to raise tax revenue 30% without killing the US economy.
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I've done identity verification dozens of times. I know how that works. The questions they asked were more specific and therefore more wrong. More along the lines of "Who owns the mortgage on your house at address 1234 Abcd Rd, Somecity, Somestate, 991234?" and "You made your last college loan payment on <wrongdate>. Which lender was it to?" Because my thought is "House? Where? When?" And when that happens for every question one gets miiighty suspicious.
I think it just depends on the tire. The specific one I'm thinking of is the Dunlop Star Spec.
To maintain a constant in a single dimension (sea level), the rate of water volume increase must be increasing.

Consider by way of analogy a balloon. If the radius of the balloon increases at a constant rate, the volume of the balloon is increasing at a much greater rate (specifically, proportional to the cube of the increase in radius).

By reducing the discussion to merely the sea level, we are ignoring the fact that we must add increasingly large amounts of water to the oceans each year to maintain even a linear rate of growth of sea level.

It should also be noted that since the oceans are not in an arbitrarily deep cylinder, as the oceans rise they will also increase in spread (overtaking what is presently land). If the rate of water going into the oceans were constant, we should expect a sub-linear increase in sea level due to this as well.

EDIT: The only way to have both a constant increase in volume and a constant increase in sea level would be if the oceans stopped at their present boundaries and went straight up sheer walls. I rather doubt this is the case.
>What about Gold / other foreign investments such as US securities?

Certainly, there is not a small industry for people hauling different debentures in and out of the country.
And what should it be then?
I'm being a bit hyperbolic here, but doesn't this point towards Flint administration being directly responsible for the deaths of newborns ? All in order to save a few dollars. I would say this is horrifying, but realistically, how often do we management managing something they have near-zero understanding of?
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Ask HN: an Opensource News Similar to HN?
I've realized that I'm actually looking for something like HN, but with a little more of a community of opensource hackers and a bit less of the entrepreneurs. Is there anything like that already? Maybe some subreddits?
Look at social spending rates by government over time. It's typical that they rise, despite attempts to restrain them. Critics call attempts to slow the growth rate "cuts" and paint the reformers as heartless.
This is a good point and reading it gave me the shivers. Let's not forget that for most of Civilized human existence, China has been the world's foremost economic and cultural power (except perhaps the Roman Empire). Chinese leaders are pretty well aware of that and yearn to put modern China back in its original place. And unlike the US, they don't have to deal with meddlesome democratic system in their march to economic and military supremacy.
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Very cool! I love seeing all the stuff people are building with web audio. It would be great to have a way at some point to use web-based VST's in popular DAWs.

In a similar vein, I made a simple collaborative beat sequencer with some friends for the Node Knockout awhile back.

http://ebb.somethingcoded.com/

It just uses samples for playback since web audio wasn't a thing back then but I'm working on porting it over to doing full synthesis in the browser.

FYI- You need to invite friends to join in with you as each person can only control a single track. Or just join in multiple tabs and play by yourself ;)
As big of a fan of gog as I am and as much as I dislike itunes I think it's pretty disingenuous to compare their movie store to itunes. They have 56 movies on their store and I don't think any of them could be considered mainstream.
> it's the only really single-core processor left

Huh? What about i.MX 8M Solo processor?
You listed zero sources for any of your so-called "facts".
How come SEC only discloses this now? Isn't preventing insider trading a goal of financial regulations? If so, is there a reason SEC didn't disclose it as soon as they gained knowledge of the leak?

I think this goes to show that any data collection is dangerous, even if government thinks they're the good guys (when in fact they're naively collecting data that could be weaponized against them very easily). The EU is on to it as well with MiFID II granular reporting of financial market transactions starting effectively next year.

Though I'm not sure the Brits are going to play along (where the majority of trading happens in Europe); after all, why should they go through the trouble of implementing MiFID/MiFIR when leaving EU anyway?

Edit: preventing insider trading
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Heh. Of course, you'll emerge in a world run either by survivalists or the most well organized churches.
No, I just thought it was interesting that the man in that iconic photo wasn't actually crushed. I hadn't realized until I saw the video.
Our have cheaper production and pretty much everything to be honest. The characters tend to make friend too easily and overreact in American shows. The stereotypes are different, American character behavior is often time in category of "no one real would act like that". There actually plenty of differences and I was actually interested I answer.
Test your production builds, that's the solution. Both with unit tests (in CI) and sanity testing.
Floating point timestamps - the only item which affects my work is also one of the few in this wiki page with no description. These were removed with no breaking compatibility.

For anyone else using them, I just did a bit of reading [1] and it looks like they are inferior to default 8 byte timestamps. FP timestamps have microsecond precision around the year 2000, but it drops off as it moves away from there.

I was using them to be the same as some GPS timing code, but it seems this isn't needed or desirable.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/datatype-datetime...
I'm saying most companies that think they're doing something groundbreaking that requires one-of-a-kind talent are wrong. These are the companies that put out silly job ads about how they're looking for ninjas/rockstars/geniuses and they only hire the best of the best in the field. Then they want candidates to jump through their ridiculous interview hoops.