skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of R&D for dollar spent, the military is awful compared to fairly parallel state institutions like public universities and NASA. If you want R&D, you shouldn't do it indirectly through researching ways to blow people up and murder - you should just do R&D spending.

A lot of the problems when discussing the military budget are intentions. Nobody is proposing to grow or keep the current scale of the military on the idea its a valuable source of research. It is in the same vein as how you would not fund a basic income for research purposes - surely a lot of valuable R&D would actually come from a UBI by letting more people experiment as a hobby, but you wouldn't use it as an argument for making a UBI because the research per dollar spent ratio would be awful compared to dedicated research institutions.

Funding CERN et al is on the order of magnitudes more bang for your buck if you are spending money to advance science than spending it on a military.

Which relates back to my original point. All government spending needs to be interpreted through one of two lenses - either the government is absorbing an absolutely unavoidable expense and using its scale to lessen the burden (infrastructure maintenance, healthcare, retirement) or it is investing money with the intent for it to improve the country. There is absolutely a lot of overlap, but we are back at intents - when healthcare makes your citizenry healthier more often so they can be more productive that is a nice perk but does not come close to justifying public healthcare spending. Infrastructure can fall into both camps - building last-mile roads is absolutely not in all likelihood going to grow the economy - people would live more densely if not for state subsidies on public housing developments hooking into the public road network. But when they build highways to increase traffic throughput that is almost always with intent to grow the economy.

A UBI falls in both camps, but conservatives should focus on the later benefits. The economic growth potential. On the topic of the military budget, anyone arguing for the current scale of the US military is arguing for a "necessary expense" perspective, not an investment one. Because its investment value is atrocious. And in general people are very skeptical of anything suggested to qualify for the first camp - and we should always be skeptical of those expenses, because they are the legitimate expenses where government spending actually contracts the economy.
There's also experiments like electrino [1] to force more use of platform webviews since all of our platforms have a webview built in anyway, trading some additional testing for bundling Chromium everywhere.

I'm surprised that I haven't yet seen a fork of electron-windows-store [2] that makes use of the UWP webview, as that seems an obvious enhancement to me. The Electron remoting between webviews and Electron code is already setup well enough you should be able to run the Node app as a UWP background app and use UWP remoting.

[1] https://github.com/pojala/electrino
[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-windows-store
If self-replicating automated interstellar probes are possible, then given the size and age of the galaxy, they're inevitable -- and then so is a galaxy that's rife with them.

So where are they? Either self-replicating interstellar probes are impossible, or we're the first or only civilization to approach the ability to launch them.
It makes even more sense. Keeps NRE costs down.
Seems a lot slower and less effective than getting into a basement. I guess it would help if you were somehow being nuked in the wilderness.
RMB is not even convertible. Why would oil producers be happy to hold a currency that can't even be freely traded? Dollars are easy to exchange once obtained, RMB is not.
Our coins will be not more secure with their "vaults"
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It could still be used as an identifier. It’s unique, just not secret.
> Cross-column Statistics

Holy crap I didn't even know this was feasible much less in development! Can't wait to test this out, as significant amount of my data sets have these kinds of relationships.

Parallel query will also be great for certain queries I do regularly. Been looking forward to this!

Thank you Thank you to all the devs that had a part of this!
I wonder how much online job marketplaces are driving this. If talent is fluid then the very top talent will iterate through jobs with increasing higher wages as it’s easy to find that talent. For the rest, hiring managers may see you as replaceable limiting your ability as an employee to demand higher wages.
Largely, the healthcare sector has captured that money. Wages are flat but benefits are up.
> is it possible the government is pre-emptively preventing flight among the masses?

China lets its citizens export up to $50,000 a year [1]. I think the typical bank's receivables financing [2] minimum is about $100,000 to $1 million. Lawyers, invoicers, et cetera might take a further 1 to 10%, so let's say $200,000.

On one hand, we have the argument that people exporting between $50,000 and $200,000 a year is a problem (but people exporting $50 million is not). On the other hand, we have concerns about rampant fraud.

[1] https://www.westernasset.com/us/en/research/whitepapers/q-a-...

[2] http://www.business.hsbc.com.hk/en-gb/import-and-export/rece...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal, not any other kind of advice. Do not launder money.
> The idea that UBI will wipe away the ignorance and cultural dogma that keeps poor people poor is absurd.

No one is saying that.

> How many lottery winners hold on to their winnings?

Not relevant.

> Let's be realistic. If you give the uneducated poor free money, the only thing that will change is how much money they have to spend on junk food and dated electriconics.

That's the point. UBI isn't welfare, it's not meant to rehabilitate people and make them into workers. If most people who get UBI choose to live off it and not work, and remain poor, fucking great, that's the whole point of the program, to reduce the working population down to those who actually want to work as there aren't going to be enough jobs for everyone and many people would choose not to work if they could.

You just really do not understand what UBI is about, not at all.
Are you asking if there's a "black culture" in America that is distinct from "American culture" or "white culture"? Because if so, the answer is yes.
What out of hand dismissal?

I am intersted in hearing actual solutions not wishful thinking based on the idea that humans decide themselves when we obviously don't.

If you want to argue that then I have already asked you how that would happen given the reality we live in.

Gig-work will also be replaced by technology either through digitalization or automation.

95% of jobs created since 2010 are temp jobs i.e. part of the gig-economy, that's obviously not sustainable as there isn't any rise in salaries while as I said the cost of living is rising.

So again unless you believe that technology is not going to take the jobs
I don't think it's about if CTE caused him to commit the murders, it's about if CTE caused him to commit suicide. Since CTA can only be diagnosed posthumously, I can see the argument that he had CTE before 2015 but was not properly diagnosed despite the clear risk of CTE to NFL players.
The employee side contributions seem relevant, too (though neither side exists at all when it comes to lower paging jobs). Those are counted as wages, I'm assuming, so if wages as a proportion has been decreasing and defined-benefit pensions have been lost, so an increasing part of wages goes to retirement savings, that seems like a double-whammy.
I'm not associated with Coinbase so my knowledge extends to that same article you linked. You appear to be correct so far as the text of the article goes.

In the future I imagine crypto wealth will be secured by breaking it into multiple wallets stored in vaults controlled by different organizations. That protects you from total asset loss due to institutional failure. And this type of failure isn't limited to crypto (see Bernie Madoff's hedgefund).
Well until CoinBase is hacked and there is nothing left FOR you to withdraw.

Just as with fiat USD, depositing it into any third party that is not FDIC is silly. Same here, however there is no FDIC like entity to return your money, so the only true secure way is to only hold them yourself.

Of course that makes mass adoption much more difficult...

Until Gov. Treasuries and central banks really jump into the game...
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I'm a little confused by your comments. Bitcoin does not have a trusted party system, unlike Ethereum. Why does the Bitcoin community have to learn about fraud?

I agree that some ICOs are clearly fraudulent in nature. But it's no different than the early days of Kickstarter. Hell, look at Juicero. I think the advent of ICOs as an alternative vehicle for fundraising is making certain entrenched interests very nervous.
Designing for the future is a guaranteed project failure.

If one is starting a new project, hence contemplating what DB to use, starting with an ACID db is a safe bet in most cases(unless of course they are already starting with a huge amount of data).

By the time the outgrow the ACID database they will have a better idea of what exactly they need and more importantly they will have the resources to make the switch.

BTW: riak is hopefully not dead yet, let's see what bet365 can do with it..
Was mildly interested at the headline, but the fact that this works even for static hosting is pretty great. To be honest I was expecting browser sniffing.
That graph is not a refutation, since inflation has also been falling over that period. I'm talking about the process of setting that rate: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12848.htm

> The FOMC noted in its statement that the Committee judges that inflation at the rate of 2 percent [...] is most consistent over the longer run with the Federal Reserve's statutory mandate

> the FOMC's policy decisions must be informed by its members' assessments of the maximum level of employment,
I am 100% in line with mainstream libertarians. I don't think we should keep "corporate" regulations. I think the government should wield its power to prevent one person from infringing on another person's rights, whether they work in government or a corporation. Nothing more, nothing less.

Fun fact: the government and the largest corporations are made up of exactly the same thing - people looking out for their self interests. There is nothing more sinister or more benevolent about either of them (in composition).
Undoubtedly, Russia has worked to advance its interests (through use of misinformation and spin) during the 2016 election. Unfortunately, without an appropriate timeline that displays conditions that breeds opportunity for this behavior, this narrative of election hacking does not do us justice.

The big fish (which should have been included in the article) was the intense internet campaign made during the 2013 Ukraine crisis. Preceding the crisis, the Snowden revelations produced an immediate, immense distrust in our government and institutions, giving way to a wide window of exploitation. There are heaps of ostensive evidence of how the Russian regime took advantage of these events on multiple fronts: bolstering fringe groups in the EU, hijacking public conversations online, intimidating and harassing opposition voices (which I've experienced), and adding pressure to national dialogue through injection of Whataboutism and disingenuous innuendo.

The response from various online communities during this period has been nothing short of courageous. I've personally witnessed a multitude of diligent detection and pushback across the political and intellectual spectrum during the crisis, not only due to organic voices, but also a strong intelligence apparatus that helps to detect, analyze, and disrupt these attacks. These pieces continually avoid citing sources outside of the political spectrum that helps to make clear sense of the issue. I acknowledge that certain forces of good do not want to be in the spotlight, however as time goes on this looks like a missed opportunity to make a bold statement against not only this behavior, but also all malignant and criminal behavior that takes place online.

The confidence lost in our institutions is owed to nothing more than the political climate itself. We chase the ghosts of "collusion" and "influence" and other ambiguous terms. The time for scrutiny and hot takes are over, we should be well underway into a severe, resolute response. Instead we are packed into a clown car, driving around in circles. God help us.
The official line is that inflation is low; but as far as I see the amount of money in the American economy, which I put at, eg, ~7% in the last 12 months of the M1 [1], appears to be growing faster than the inflation rate which is what, ~2-3%?

If this isn't being measured as 'inflation', it makes me ask why inflation is the key measure. The amount of new money is pretty substantial.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
This is definitely controversial, but Julia Bliss Flaherty / Hilary Rodham Clinton
That link is to crash FF? I thought it was to info about the bug.
http://www.thinkmate.com/systems/servers/rax#max-ram:min-6-t...
Do you have a link to the bugzilla report?
So... one big thing I recall from the book is the collective collisions turn the world into an enormous ball of fire for decades. If (according to the simulation) the number of collisions tapers off after a couple years, does that mean the world would be habitable again in short order? I understand that, for the purposes of the book's arc, the planet needed to be rendered a literal hell for as long a time as possible... but perpetual burning seemed a bit far-fetched.
That doesn't explain it at all. If you look closely, corporate profits have been increasing (example compared to 90), but wages haven't. That means that workers have been more productive, but are getting paid less (they increased output/efficiency, but their wages have been stagnant).

That means that corporates have leverage over labour (ie, either importing from cheaper countries, or automation, or guest workers, etc)....
My hunch is the increase of globalism (since the 90s) caused this. Communism fell, more skilled people available in the market, more open borders, etc... which gives global companies more leverage. It is very easy to spot:

https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imageca...
We don't have basements in Texas. Which has always seemed like a bummer to me because they sound useful, even aside from nuclear war.
But why didn't our brain evolve to take the debris out while it s working?
Kissinger, yes. Dude knows his geopolitics. The book is _really_ good, once you account for Kissinger’s well understood biases.
I've also struggled with the definition of Big Data. I typically see "size" as being the line of demarcation people throw around when thinking about Big Data, but I think it's it's actually size + latency that's the real definition.

If I have a 12TB dataset, and I need to be able to find a single record in that dataset, and return the results to a process in less than one second, I don't believe that needs to be considered "big data". The dataset is "large", but the latency / access pattern surrounding that data is low enough that you can solve that with a handful of hard drives and your data sorted on disk.

If I have a 12TB dataset and I need < 10ms latency on random lookups, that is now probably big data. To guarantee those sort of lookup times for random IO, I either need very expensive hardware, or a software based solution to distribute my data to multiple machines.

If I have 10GB of census data, and I need to run an analysis that shows what are the 100 most similar cities (non approximation) to Los Angeles in terms of demographic make up, and I need an answer in less than 1 second, that is also probably big data. The analysis is easily parallelized, but if done serially on a single machine is a "slow" process.

I realize this is a moderately unconventional way of approaching Big Data, but it's how I've started to structure some of my thinking and explanations around why it's not just size, but size + latency (which is inherently a question of what you're trying to do with the data).
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Completely off topic... but did anybody notice how they used partitioning example column names were in Spanish?
I actually sent them an email complaining about their scheduling and excessive alien theory usage around +/- 3 years ago. Also I raised questions about their so-called specialists.
They responded but I was already fed up with their Constant pawn shop hysteria and alien jumbled mess
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They probably used oil lamps. This technology was already well-known when these tunnels were dug, and they certainly had access to olive oil.
The owners of "the capital" captures that.
Adam Smith details that the downfall of feudalism was this very same effect.
Money supply is not the dominant cause of changes in the price level, despite what hard money advocates think.
People with bad communication skills often think they are communicating big estimate, while no one else in the room got it from what they said. It happens. Or they refuse to hear when someone suggests easier solution or change of requirements so that it can be done faster.

Nope, showing the code is not enough to explain to other developers, unless we are talking about something extremely clear, simple and small. And yep, developers tend to have different opinions about what is important. The expectation that they will automatically share your concerns is pretty much how developers with lower social skills fail - and why lack of it slows everyone down. (And then they complain about everyone being stupid while the issue is they did not expressed themselves clearly and did not listened to contraarguments).

And PM IS interested, good one that is. It helps him to argue to customers/his bosses/other departments. It helps him to trust you. It helps him to distinguish between something that can wait and something that need to be done soon (you had him doing all prioritization and you claimed developer does not need such skill). Software estimates are wrong often enough that good PM won't take them as granted. At minimum she needs a sense of risks. It helps him to change the spec so that new one is doable faster.

Have you even consider entry that PM can react to reasons why something take long by changing spec, changing priorities, negotiating more or finding someone more experienced I that are to help you? Good pm do all the above. Which is why they can achieve more if people under them cooperate.

On your last point - given that developers with bad communication skills ask badly phrased questions or don't ask anything at all (just generically complain about bad analysis and insult pm - true story), yep it matters.

You jumped from "bad social skills" to "average" there. The two are not nearly the same thing.
mode switching is very important. The upscaling is always worse than if my TV is trying to handle it.

I have a "niche" device called the Nvidia shield, and it does not support per-app switching either. It is slated for Android Oreo though, but until then I am running the shield on 1080p and just watch 4k netflix on lg smarttv.

Tbh, I would feel better if mode switching wasn't required at all, and Android and apple would invest in truly great upscaling techniques that can rival the native TV capabilities. The problem is, that I can't really as a consumer quantify if the upscaling is up to par, and rather assume that the TV is always better.
It has not been discredited. Ultimately it is unknown what would happen since atmospheric testing was banned over half a century ago. However, I find it hard to believe that a thermonuclear war would not produce a very significant amount of atmospheric particles. The amount of cooling may be over- or under-stated, we really don't know, but there is probably some effect.
" No reason to impute other mechanisms or make things unnecessarily complicated."

Yes there is, because the reason you cited is not the most important cause structural cause of declining wages.

The issue is real wages - i.e. accommodating for inflation.

When we say 'nominal' we mean 'dollar value'.

When we say 'real' - it's an economic term for 'dollars in some present value'.

Issues are far more likely to be causes:

+ Masses of jobs gone overseas. 'High tech' is irrelevant. Here in Montreal, Bombardier employs 66 000 (!) people in jobs - consistent, good paying jobs. That's more than all the startups put together, and those jobs are mostly for the long-haul. So when things like 'Bombardier' shut down, it's a big deal.

+ The other issue is the fact that we may not be measuring inflation correctly. If 'real wages' are down - then why do University students have laptops, cell-phones, can travel, are sometimes even fashionable? I'm not that old and we had nothing. Even 'fast fashion' has changed the nature of clothing as we know it - only 20 years ago ... there was 'the Gap' and everything else was expensive, relatively speaking. Everything is like that: smartphones didn't are exist, and are enormously better now - online services, access to information. The # of people getting access to higher education. Even the quality of cars. Driven an 1980's car lately? The cheapest, crappiest new Honda is like riding in clouds compared to the best Mercedes from 1985.

Even the groceries. My good man - so much choice, so many brands, so much selection. It's amazing compared to 30 years ago.

Inflation is measured against a basket of goods - but those goos also increase in value, i.e. a tomato in 1985 may not be actually the same thing as a tomato in 2017 - if it's riper, nicer, healthier (not saying they are, but could be) - well, that's 'real' improvement, so it's not the same thing.

Very difficult to measure.

Those two things alone: offshoring/outsourcing of jobs - plus - our inability to measure quality of life increases ... would amount to enough that it's a major problem.

Lastly - I would add a financial effect - which is 'low interest rates' - this drives up the value of homes, and expands the disparity between those renting, those in 'starters' those in 'nice homes' and those in 'mansions'. It just exasperates the 'wealth effect' in dollar terms.

Anyhow - those are 'big drivers'.

A 2% inflation target is a really good thing, and it's not just about deflating wages. Nominal wages have kept up with the 2%.
> Bitcoin does not have a trusted party system, unlike Ethereum. Why does the Bitcoin community have to learn about fraud?

It does have a small group of people with disproportionate influence (case in point: the adoption of segwit) and who are incentivized to perpetuate the system. It is in their interest to find a solution to the fraud. The "capital flight" excuse is cute, but it won't convince other countries' regulators. Particularly if nothing is done and a bunch of moms and pops get defrauded on a significant scale by an ICO.
You are correct about the last year or so where productivity growth was actually net negative. However for the time period you suggest where this was "well understood" productivity growth was rising rapidly. In that scenario people really were "worth more" in concrete terms year over year.
Regardless of what dollar prices do, real prices should go up as total production decreases from people exiting the labor force.
Final assembly, they still don't produce many of the components. Even though the iPhone is made in china, not much of it actually is.
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Mine have no daily recess and PE once a week. :(