skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely a big concern.

>Are there any mechanisms that could make basic income a true unconditional guarantee?

Maybe a government backed cryptocurrency? One that distributes the BI through some sort of immutable smart contract? Lots of problems with the approach, but maybe we can solve enough of them.

Now, whether our current governmental or political realities would ever give up control in that manner is another story :(
If influence is so valuable, why haven't the rates been bid up? Are companies price-fixing to keep lobbying costs low? Given that a number of industries are diametrically opposed, why would they collude?

If the price is so low, why are wealthy industries like tech companies so ineffective at buying influence?
Agreement/disagreement are not the only reasons for the voting system. Relevance is important, too.
> Of what? Sneakers?

If trade with China stopped today, how quickly can the United States re-tool up to supply the enormous demand for PCBs, basic electronic components like SMD resistors and capacitors, microcontrollers, transformers, chokes, cables, wifi chips, antennas, power transistors, PLAs, LCD displays, OLED displays, solar modules, and the myriad other goods on which our modern society increasingly relies?

"Sneakers" is a cute little jab, but A GDP predicated on the consumption of televised football and mocha lattes is qualitatively different from one predicated on the production of goods upon which reliance the profligate NFL viewers are blissfully unaware.

At some point, even if that point is measured in centuries, the producers and savers eventually win over the gluttonous consumers. China is playing a long game with a long-term vision, securing rights over natural resources around the world, acquiring critical control over global supply chains, and artificially pegging the Yuan down to fool us into thinking that the value of passively watching Netflix is (as measured by GDP) greater than that of the construction of ever-faster pick-and-place machines.

Meanwhile, we look only to the next quarter and goose our EPS with low-interest stock buybacks, and realistically believe that mindless consumption of pixels is a more solid foundation for an economy than producing the "picks and shovels" used to deliver those pixels.
> If you're doing _groundbreaking_ research

I think research is the key word here. If you are developing fundamentally new ML techniques (like the folks at Google), you'll probably need some serious technical chops.

> Usually it is a rinse-test-repeat kind of job. It needs people with patience and who can interpret data and who can be comfortable with uncertainty and then can make their bosses comfortable with uncertainty on timelines.

That sounds less like research and more like applying established tools (Tensor Flow or Keras or whatever).
I've noticed two pain points: Installing outside of Anaconda can be a real chore, and error messages were extremely unhelpful (as of about 12-18 months ago, hopefully it's better now).
>The issue is that management doesn't care about IT until everything breaks apart. This means IT is seen as cost and not worth the trouble to do well and keep in house.

It won't make any difference if they had an inhouse team.

In order to choose a competent vendor, or to hire a competent employee the management itself needs to be sufficiently tech savvy to differentiate between mediocre and good candidates.
And superset[0]:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset
One party's platform is built on the fear of socialism - they will most definitely oppose this and use it to get votes, but by egging it publicly.
Yes. We are also used in BeagleBone Black Wireless (https://beagleboard.org/black-wireless) and BeagleBone Blue (https://beagleboard.org/blue). A lot of us are ex-TIers and have been working with BeagleBoard.org for a long time. This is one of the vehicles to show of the OSD335x-SM, but we also have our own development board that we just released (https://octavosystems.com/octavo_products/osd3358-sm-red/).

Our company does "System-In-Package" which means we integrate bare die, packaged parts and passives on a substrate and then package it up so that it looks like a single BGA from a design / manufacturing standpoint. We source wafers from TI and package everything ourselves. Please feel free to visit the website and look around and let us know if you have any other questions.
Is there a better way for governments to manage such processes ?
This doesn't assume they'll take a 5 year vacation at all. It's the difference between deciding to become an artist because you know you'll never worry about money, and deciding to study accounting so you can eventually have an accounting job you don't care about that will support your evening art practice.
It's interesting that this isn't one of the three traditional ways to authenticate, but it's obviously effective to some degree. Maybe it suggests a new mode of authenticating: some place where you are.
I wrote to my senator about this solution weeks ago and have yet to receive an actual reply.

I think the problem is figuring out the transition from SSN's to something like key pairs/TOTP. How do we securely establish the "new" identity and pair it to the old SSN? Do we even bother and just start from scratch?
I'm not sure that's a reasonable comparison. If Coke and Krispy Kreme had research 50 years ago that showed the link between their products and diabetes and then funded misinformation and contradictory research for the following decades to convince people otherwise it would seem warranted to sue them?
I feel like the functional code you wrote was written to intentionally obfuscate what is being done. For instance, composing a bunch of methods inline doesn't have any utility for it unless you define what compose(xor, lol, rofl) really means.

Ideally this is how it should be written for maximum readability.

things
|> pluck('bar')
|> map(xor)
|> map(lol)
|> map(rofl)
|> reduce(differenceWith('id')

The code is written equally well without using pipe operator but the proposal to introduce it is in works [1].

Here is it using lodash (not even lodash-fp), and this is going to do a single for loop when executing because this is lazy.

_.chain(things)
.pluck('bar')
.map(_.xor)
.map(_.lol)
.map(_.rofl)
.reduce(_.differenceWith('id'))
.value();

It's no less readable than the code you'd write using using unfolded transformations.

1. https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator
I didn't mean to insinuate anything. It's just fun to talk about, like trying to unravel the dynamics of the stars in ancient times.

Diff the data with http://hnrankings.info/15150237/ and you'll see this one completely disappeared. It wasn't moved by flags -- it was completely erased by them. It's a mystery! Pointless mysteries are fun.
How about having a 5G device?
Isn't that any acqui-hire? The people who do the work are traded like cattle and usually don't get anything out of it. Worse, sometimes they did have equity in the company, but that's now traded for equity in the new company, but with a reset on the vesting time period.
No, not in that case (your hypothetical responsible bureau): it's the criminals who have caused millions of dollars of damage. The insurance proposal creates the right blend of incentives to promote responsible behavior and punish - significantly - incompetence (i.e. denied coverage).

To extend your thinking, consider air travel. Airlines act responsibly, even to the point of having government provide much of their security, yet occasionally terrorists manage to blow up aircraft. In that scenario, you'd have the airline be fully ('strictly') liable because of an external event they did everything to avoid. The harm is greater too - death is worse than ID theft.

Truth is, nothing can be done safely. Not travel, not business. There is always a tradeoff between risk and benefit.

Credit itself is an enabler for the economy. Credit bureaux facilitate comprehensible risk management, which allows for market forces to operate around interest rate setting reasonably effectively. Absent bureaux that same function needs to be performed, but it'll be done in a decentralized, ad hoc fashion by individual lenders which will impinge on their business models and ultimately drive up rates.

So you don't like the bureaux; well, nobody does really. But what is an alternative which allows lenders to compare applicants on a like-for-like basis with some degree of confidence?
Yes. Regulation FD says you have to tell everyone material information at the same time.
Learn programming visually
Lots of discussion about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10631668
For any curious minds wondering about the provenance of the Lena image, here's a short article written in 1996 by the (at the time) editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. The controversy (and both viewpoints) are summed up quite adequately.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/editor.html

To respond to your point - while you might be technically correct in that the Lena image commonly used today is not a "nude" image per se... are you genuinely saying that you don't understand why some people don't like it - or why it's unpleasant and/or degrading to women in the field? Its provenance is well known, and the very association with Playboy (nudity notwithstanding) is likely enough to irritate or upset women in image processing/computer vision circles (I say this having had personal experience of various -- female -- lecturers at my alma mater disagreeing with the use of the Lena image).
Team working skills, business understanding, the ability to communicate from a social constructive point and an openness to working with prototyping in consumer focused project groups are much more important abilities than technical skills in a lot of modern development.

Superstars and best practice masters can be important, but all those enterprise applications we build on all the right practices are being replaced by web-apps, microservices and a range of other things, effectively rendering all the brilliant work useless because no one ever revisited shit.

I get why you'd want a technical superstar for certain things, like developing your long term libraries, but for most tasks a shitty programmer who is business savvy and actually capable of talking to non-it people will deliver a better end project.

Of course a lot of superstar developers do the other things really well, as well.
The real "super star" is the programmer who can put their head down and focus on their code day in day out, for years. It's not about being Albert Einstein for 99.9% of programming, it's about sustained focus and effort.
> board for beginners professionals alike.

might want to notify your customer they have a typo in the first paragraph of their website
McDonald’s Might Try to Sell Amazon Its Old Headquarters Outside of Chicago
> In our case, we want a new hire to be able to act as an independent contributor, i.e. their work doesn’t have to be double-checked. We also focus a lot on craftsmanship since it means that we all are getting better at what we do and at a good pace.

Maybe this varies between cities and job markets but when I read that baseline description he gives in an off-hand manner for the programmers he hires, I think I would probably be calling them "superstars". I don't know if the availability of skilled employees is great in Krakow, but when FizzBuzz type tests are still filtering a large percentage of applicants, it makes it sound like it's from another world.

That's my concern when reading these kinds of hiring articles, it feels very different to how hiring looks when you aren't privileged to have an abundance of skilled candidates available.
What are the primary uses you see for this device? Any interesting projects out there already that you're aware of?
Porting Hyperkernel to the ARM Architecture [pdf]
The State of Quill and 2.0
Gmail now support clickable emails and numbers
Some day laws will be written as s-expressions to solve just this problem. (hat tip: Charlie Stross, _Accelerando_)
What's the deets on the Cortex-M3? Is that accessible to the end user, or is that blackboxed and NDA'd? (Cough cough, IPM... >_>!)

How's this stock up to the BBB as far as power usage goes?

What's the supply chain look like for your silicon? Planning to maintain stock at the distributors?

Any plans for a non/through hole? Exposing the ethernet and MDIO pin headers for another SD card would be awesome. (Props for putting USB on the headers, and keeping the underside empty!)

Edit: Looks like you're planning more on using this as a demo-board for your chip. Does powering the chip from the LiPo handle the RTC, so I can stop dropping a DS1307 onboard? ;)
Agreed....this is not at all what I pictured based on the term "USB-key-fob computer".
Growing up in the high dessert and now living in a more humid, sea level location, I find these conditions do alter my mood - for the better.
> or very few and only for highly talented people

How many people and jobs are we talking about, if these are the jobs expected to support the vast majority of the populace? And on a related note, why would these people not feel resentful that (by necessity) a major chunk of their earnings is directed towards everyone else?

Assuming that humans will behave differently and be driven by different things than they have _for millenia_ is foolish, and why BI will never work.
>Housing prices and rent will assuredly rise proportionally to the basic income amount if this were to be implemented nationally, so wouldn't pumping all this money in basically just have the effect of increasing inequality?

Unlikely. UBI removes the connection between location and income. As a result you can move to somewhere incredibly cheap to live since there's no need to be in an in demand market in order to have a nice job.

Housing is really quite cheap in the US. With Real Estate you pay for the location not the actual land or building.

Of course people won't necessarily want to move away from their "hip" city, but UBI is "basic" and if you want to stay in a high demand area you will have to supplement UBI with work.

As for basic consumables, demand is unlikely to go up for these fundamental goods because people are _already_ consuming them at their basic required levels under the current system (toilet paper, eggs, milk, bread, chicken, beans, rice, birth control, etc).
https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/560.pdf

Notes on the design and analysis of Simon and Speck

Ray Beaulieu Douglas Shors Jason Smith Stefan Treatman-Clark Bryan Weeks Louis Wingers

June 8, 2017

Note. This document was prepared by the designers of Simon and Speck in order to address questions regarding the design rationale and analysis of the algorithms.
"Google Android One Moto X Four". I guess we moving back to the days of names like "Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch".
If you're worried about supporting Facebook, use Wire. Facebook can't read WhatsApp messages, which are E2E encrypted (unlike Telegram's default). But it's a legit concern, and one that Wire addresses nicely.

You should be extremely suspicious of any messaging company that advertises client-server encryption as a privacy feature. It obviously is not.
Seems to sound better in Chrome than Firefox, especially deep sounds like, e.g. the bottom line on the chicken preset. (I'm on a macbook pro if it makes a difference)
To me that only highlights how prohibatively expensive it would be to give BI to people in any amount that would really move the needle
Even $100 CAD/hr sounds way too low.
The batteries are sealed up pretty well.

He did have to dismantle the pack to test which cells where good and bad.

He found a few bad ones, but found good ones too.

The market for OEM Tesla parts is locked down by Tesla, so it has become driven by people dismantling wrecked cars like this. Even questionable parts can command a high price.

He could have bought cells and put them in this car, but he would be paying for someone else's labor to dismantle the pack, and he needed additional parts anyway.

His plan was to acquire another wrecked car and do the work himself.
I disagree that everyone would be depressed. Cityfolk probably but they deserve it because they will be the ones voting in ubi. They will also be the ones starving when us country people start only making enough food for ourselves and spend our days at the river drinking beers and fishing or hunting
Abacus (YC W14) Is Hiring a Product Designer
Can someone please just hook up something like this to a portable monitor and keyboard, put it in a nice sleek chassis, and add a massive battery? Something running at a low clock speed with a modern build good enough to run emacs, ssh, but with the added benefit of being light and having 20+ hours battery.
I too enjoy flying! I don't have any rules other than show up and relax. Regular economy on United and Delta seem to have added a tiny bit more leg room in the last 1-2 years, which has helped a lot.

Most of my flights are longer duration, US->EU and back.
What browser are you using? It's working for me on chrome and safari.
The second part is weird. First he spends a lot of time on describing that world in very little detail but then he rushes through the story without giving much background. And the end just comes out of nowhere without closing the story,
Migrating from NIST cryptoprimitives to LibSodium
How has the term hack or hacker changed over time?
You don't have to close your database every time if you manage it with a ContentProvider.
I've used SQLite on Android like that without many issues, although the boilerplate can be too much using SQLite as is.
You can also create views to avoid including queries in java code.
This gets back to how innovation is often advanced under military/security circumstances -- it's unfortunate that so much money stems to those reasons for research such that the intent of the researchers is always a tiny bit questionable.
If it isn't unconditional and universal, it's just welfare under a different brand name with the same inefficiencies and rent seeking political problems.
Sure, but go tell that to 300 angry users that used that particular useless feature for 20 years
Zcash ceremony and audit [pdf]
Really agree with this. Not everything is about money, if it was we wouldn't have squid, postfix, apache, nodejs, python and the millions of other open source software that I and everyone else here relies on daily. Ask the maintainer of GnuPG if he was ever given $10K by a company (prior to the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative grant).
It did feel like the last part was Stephenson deciding that he had far too many ideas about how this would all turn out in the end to leave it that way, or even with a short epilogue, so he expanded it into an extended epilogue, which is what it feels like in the end. Add in him wanting to throw in what he thinks are some cool technologies, or how weapons would develop when carried through an arc that largely bypasses gunpowder, or when satellites are ubiquitous, and you get the filler segments we ended up with.

I largely enjoyed that part, but not as much as the first two parts. I would have been supremely annoyed if he didn't give some explanation of what happened after the first two parts, since he didn't really resolve humanity's problems as much as trade one problem for another. Some sort of extended epilogue was warranted, and I can see how deciding just the right length for it could be hard to get right when it needs to relay a lot of information to satisfy the readers. What we got was the third act which doled out the history sparingly but consistently over its length, but the story was lacking.
> There are far more food options in both airports you will be in and it will be a lot more comfortable.

Counter-argument: If I eat at the airport, I'm cutting into useful time either at home or at my destination. On the plane, I've got nothing to do but kill time anyway.

In practice, I pad time before my flight to deal with traffic and security hiccups. When things go smoothly, that usually leaves me enough time to eat before the flight, so I do that. Sometimes I'll buy food at the airport and carry it on, though I try to avoid that since my fellow passengers might not appreciate the aroma.

Once I reach my destination, the last thing in the world I want to do is hang out in the airport longer. I'd much rather stop at a restaurant on the drive to wherever I'm going.
I’d argue that it should be a system where any number of companies can compete in the credit reporting industry. Why should it be only 3 companies competing?

The laws need more fleshing out. The current iteration of laws is insufficient.
China has over $20 trillion saved. S&P choose to downgrade its credit rating.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-25/with-21-t...

US has a real debt problem, yet S&P choose to give it a triple-A rating.

This is not credit rating, it is an IQ test.
No extension at all- it's built in. Try visiting about:profile or launching Firefox with the -p flag.
The example does seem somewhat cherry-picked. Undoubtly these case do exist to some extent, however.
But my counter evidence was that these extensions were required to actually build the kernel. Which is also somewhat self-evident.

So my question to you is if you have evidence that those extensions are not required to actually build the kernel? I get that they are the "sticking" point to moving to clang. But are they also required for the kernel to actually do its job?
"Toxic" is vague and imprecise in a way that raises the likelihood that multiple participants in a conversation will have different interpretations without noticing they don't all agree on what it means.

This lack of clarity is unavoidable in all communication. We can't transplant thoughts directly from one brain to another. But I find that words like "toxic" convey an assessment, rather than description, in contexts where that level of abbreviation is not helpful.

If the more-precise descriptor of behavior was used in the first place, the toxicity of that behavior will likely be self-apparent. But if "toxic" alone is used, we either have to circle the conversation back to pick up the better descriptor, or just assume that the speaker is right.

Toxic is a bad word because it's become a go-to choice for poor articulation. Using it conveys an impression that an assessment of "toxicity" has been made off-screen, but is broad and amorphous enough that I can't trust it implies anything more specific than a snap judgment.
I have loved Stephenson's work in the past, up until about Cryptonomicon. Everything I've read since has been a great short read, bundled up in a thousand pages.

Seveneves started off strong, but then turned into a real slog. It could have been a great 200 page book, but at 600 pages I was just glad to be done with it and expect it to be the last thing of his I read. The Baroque Cycle felt similar, even though it contained many of the characters I loved from Cryptonomicon, but I just couldn't make it through it.

I see there are people here who like or love it, which is great. I am not surprised to see others here echoing my feeling that it was quite a slog to get through.

Stopping at Act 2 is probably not a bad idea, though I feel like Act 1 is a lot of setup that pays off in Act 2 so I wonder what the point would be.
Out of curiosity how does one pick out a programmer in an angry mob for lynching?
"That sounds less like research and more like applying established tools (Tensor Flow or Keras or whatever). "

This is what most AI, ML and data science people do from my experience. It's really not that groundbreaking.
And this post was hidden on the second page by the administration.

https://i.imgur.com/tydgqLw.png

Note how the posts above it are older and have less votes. I also saw it disappear from pretty far up on the front page when I reloaded the page.

If you are trying to change people's mind about the tech industry, this isn't helping your case.