skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on a great deal of factors, I think.

Even if we guarantee some sort of income floor, there will still be those who, despite that guarantee, need additional assistance. Whether it's because they have more children than the average, are irresponsible with spending, are victim to a drug habit, unexpectedly lose their jobs, or succumb to medical debt, we have to come to grips with the idea that UBI won't be a cure-all.

Even if we acknowledge (and not all will) that most people who are dependent on safety-net assistance are perfectly good and responsible, depending on what the amount is, what their life circumstances are, and a myriad other factors, I don't think we can take it for granted that UBI obviates those specific-purpose programs for the remainder of those who need assistance and for whom UBI is not ideal.

Put bluntly, there are people who will take the entirety of their UBI check and spend it on stupid things, and end up without money for food, or for their childrens' health. What are we to do about them?
I'm pretty new to it, so my rounds are only just above 1 minute. I might just not have the CO2 tolerance yet, but I definitely notice some cognitive effects. My blood oxygen saturation during these generally stays above 90%. I'll try pay more attention to when the issues kick in and measure my blood oxygen then.

I've read that it's around 50% saturation that you're in danger of passing out, and most oximeters are only accurate to 70%. I've gotten no where close to those numbers though, so it's likely just lack of CO2 tolerance.
I agree. All I mean to say is that the reason it's hard to come to a consensus on what we mean by "consciousness" is that we're trying to unambiguously capture this first-person thing in third-person terms. This is bound to fail for effectively the same reason it's impossible to know (with certainty) that anyone other than myself is conscious. I can at best capture evidence for the objective properties about you that make me believe you're conscious.
> "Diversity is a business opportunity"

No it's not, few people care about what skin colour the characters in a work of entertainment have, unless it is fundamental to the plot or an aspect of the source material. At very least, they do not care enough to self-segregate and bear separately the cost of producing an entirely different set of works of entertainment which are of competitive quality.

No untainted mind watches Game of Thrones and thinks "You know, it's weird that this fiction styled after old Europe is full of white people.". Nobody watches Narcos and thinks "You know, it's weird that this fiction set in Colombia is full of Mestizos and white latins". Nobody watches Big Brother Africa and thinks "You know, it's weird that this reality game show set in sub-Saharan Africa is full of sub-Saharan Africans".
I think you overestimate how much the average person prepares for the future. Look at the number of people who have emergency funds. 62% of Americans have <$1k and ~20% have no savings [1]. That number is too high to be explained away by necessary expenses. It is clear that people are just bad at saving. We can even look at the old game of "I'll give you a dollar today or five at the end of the week." Most people take the dollar today.

So with this time frame I believe initial ideas of "I'm going to put this to savings" will quickly disappear. Five years is a pretty long time, especially when considering at how bad humans are at preparing for the future.

What I think will be interesting is to see the different spending trends over time. I would imagine the first and last years are different than the middle three. But that's just a guess.

[1]
I have 12 Mbps at home and have had faster speeds (50-100) when traveling and at work. I generally don't notice any difference when working, browsing the web, or streaming Netflix/Hulu/etc.

We definitely need to have a "broadband" threshold that automatically increases over time, but IMO 10 Mbps is functionally equivalent to 25 in most ways right now.

I run a startup from home and the only time I notice bottlenecks is when I'm uploading 100MB files. This is rare and not worth the extra $10/mo that I'd have to pay to get a higher speed.

I'd be interested to know what others think — are there big benefits out there that I'm missing out on? Has anyone gone from 10 to 25 Mbps and had a big impact on their work/life?

I'd sooner focus on the fact that sales agents at AT&T and Comcast both routinely refer to megabytes per second when they should be saying megabits...
Presumably any UBI system would be limited to citizens only.

In combination with open borders, you do risk having a class system, where the citizens have money and immigrants don't, but at the same time, it solves the issue of certain jobs not being worth the time of someone who gets UBI (and therefore being for immigrants).

It's a tough balance for sure, and one of the main arguments against UBI (accidental creation of a class system).
No adult should get grossed out at a breast pump. Certainly no adult in such a position of responsibility that they're considering funding such a product. I am assuming the investors in question were men, but that's really not all that important to the point I'm making.
> The #1 thing keeping them there in every case is "I need the money".

Basically, this was my situation. But I paid off my student loans and I have some money in the bank now so I have some leverage as I shop around for my next job.
This is really cool :) I nearly worked on such a project myself, out of frustration for simple solutions. I've seen similar things recently with SQL Notebook, Zeppelin, Jupyter, Flyspeed SQL query.. and more complex desktop apps like Tableau, QlikView, etc. I kept thinking to myself... why isn't there just a lighter weight query only tool. It helps people to learn, it's a handy utility, it helps you just use SQL as a utility for quick tasks using a UI - very nice.

A few questions/comments:

- Are you planning to put this in an Electron app? I think the more you can make it feel like an actual desktop app, the more likely you are to get more "regular" users. Just my opinion.

- While I love the simplicity of making this sound like a cloud service, I think that the nature of it being provided through the user's own infrastructure should be emphasized even more. As far as I can tell (and I haven't looked extensively), there is nothing that is actually "cloud oriented" about your service. Is it because people make there own "cloud" out of your bridge adapter? For people who want these tools on-premise and under their own control, you have a solution.
This is called asset price inflation.
I completely agree that there doesn't seem to be any kind of good oversight on the entities, what they do and how they do it. The entire process and chain of information sharing doesn't seem to be in the best interests of consumers.
Tried running it locally and it's one of the most pleasant experiences I've had in recent memory. Extremely short number of steps and no hiccups. I already had something running on port 3000 and it even had a Y/N flag asking me if I wanted to run it on a different port ... I was like wow!

Great job OP and I'll be sure to try this out as we are having lots of difficulties managing data at my workplace.
I watch this guys youtube channel. What he did was awesome. He still has issues with tesla updates. I guess telsa won't update his vehicle because it's a salvage. I think supercharging still works. Best of luck to the guy hope he can make more progress with his vehicle.
No one I know who works with HIPAA would call it a 'good' solution.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/810648
>>Most people on Hacker News are really not any different from anyone else in their country - they're just in a different line of work. The idea that you're a better/more moral person if you get paid more is a fallacy.

People on HN are significantly different and not even close to a representative sample. No one at any point is saying that HN readers are better or more moral, but there are huge, huge differences in technical skill, intelligence, knowledge, college attendance rates, social skills, empathy, and so forth compared to an average sampling of the population of the United States. I'll leave it up to everyone to decide which direction the arrow points in the above fields.
Thanks all for your great comments! For some reason, I cannot answer all your questions as the system blocks me from posting, probably because I did not post the original link here... Therefore, I am going to answer as much as possible in one post :)

I totally understand the feelings of some about "corporate hackathons". While it is valid that companies get probably more from these hackathons than us, I want to stress the following:

- We had the opportunity to work on a challenge with a huge amount of data that I would not otherwise be able to get

- We were able to work with great guys I would not have met otherwise

- We stretched ourselves to see if we could combine AI and AR, which would probably not have happened otherwise

- The implementation of anything built during the weekend would takes months for anyone, even with the code we produced

- This is a learning experience for all parties

The data we used was based on input from a laser scanner. The scanner provides a height map, which would be shown as a colored PNG. We also had point clouds, but only for a few months, so not much use in AI... We used the PNG to generate a bump and normal map to show in AR.

Thanks again and hope that you had fun reading it :)
Might be a lame question. Have common people been aware of Alchemist (as a concept) before Paulo Coelho's best seller in the same name? For me that was the first time I heard this word.
There have been several lawsuits filed against gun companies for making legal weapons. I'm not aware of any actually ending in a judgement against the company, but I know a few have ended in settlements. It was a minor political issue when Congress gave handgun companies immunity against some of those suits when George W. Bush was president.
Who sells DRM free movies?
The US government is already tracking the financials of its citizens. Even foreign financial institutions are required to report financial activities of all US citizens. Otherwise, they will face heavy sanctions and fines. IRS would not become any more invasive if they are also tasked with maintaining credit histories. They are already as invasive as it can get.
This is insane, considering the process before github was "send a patch by email".

Hundreds of thousands of people, including me, have started contributing patches because the Github process has a much lower barrier to entry, is standardised, and effortlessly teaches you how to do it when you browse around a project.
Apple HomeKit devices are suddenly booming
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Ask HN: Are you using UI in deeplearning
Are you using UI to build/analyze neural networks ?
I'm having a difficult time getting used to the new MBP keyboard. Part of the problem is that my work MBP isn't the new one, and the Magic Keyboards aren't the new ones--so I only use it when I'm on the personal MBP away from the desk.

I haven't been able to quantify/qualify my main issue with it; it's probably the similarity to old-school membrane chiclet keyboards but with real keys.
Nothing under control of a government is immutable. This is because governments have a power withheld from civilians: that of legal lethal force.
Note that one of the problems was in Skia. Food for thought for those who claim memory safety is unimportant in graphics code.
Many countries already have a form of age restricted UBI.

The state pension.

I know many pensioners in the UK that work as the state pension does not provide 'enough'.
Most critically, UBI is a two-step system:

- A small amount of free money for everyone

- Rollback the state, welfare programs, etc. to balance out step 1

It's not realistic to reason about the effectiveness of the UBI proposal without considering the effects of the second step.
Do you have proof that the ME does not do any remote communication and has zero attack surface? Be sure to include "internal" attack surfaces that may be accessible from malware in ring 0.
> Let's think about that for a minute. Would you buy stock in a business whose business plan was a giant marketing campaign to promote the value of the stock?

This is a beautiful summary of the ICO ecosphere.
Why Programmers Should Live Like Rockstars
Richard Jesus Fucking Stallman returns with more insight. So I've recently discussed my new brain enhancing ultra hobby here:
https://slashdot.org/submissio...

and after adding 32 new compiler switches to GCC I've had another fucking amazing epiphany I needed to share.

So basically, as a programmer and overlord of GNU, I make a lot of fucking money. You professional programmers know what I'm talking about. Like I could literally afford to buy your child to keep as a fucking footstool if I wanted. Free software is the shit. Note to self: buy child to use as footstool...and maybe matching one for a table.

So I got to thinking you know who're awesome as fuck and also make a lot of money? Rockstars. Then it dawned on me I'm awesome as fuck, stupidly rich and have a snatch soaking beard why the fuck don't I live more like a rockstar?

So I fucking did and it is the shit. I get smashed 24 fucking 7, take copious amounts of drugs and get more pussy than a fucking animal shelter. Literally my life is now fucking awesome and you know why? Cause I said fuck it and started living like a fucking rockstar.

We run the fucking world. We make banks work and put satellites into fucking orbit. We are the shit and I am your God. Live like the fucking rockstars you all are. Reach for the fucking moon, bend her hot ass over and fuck it till it walks funny for a fucking month.

Richard Jesus Stallman
I am fucking awesome
The incident happened in 1 of 6 stations around the world, each creates a shard of the key.

So if the phone compromised the air-gapped machine on the other side of the room (which the article concludes is unlikely) the attacker has 1/6 of the key.

Do you have any evidence, even circumstantial, that the other 5 stations were compromised? Or do you have some other reason to believe the entirety of Zcash is "likely compromised"?
>But until any of these new age apps/platforms support federation and decentralized communication, there's not much use for the masses to look for servers run by specific people.

What's the use case for self hosting ? Since it's supposed to be e2e, does self-hosting buy you anything ?
I see. Is buying an iphone or an ipad a mistake as well? They require proprietary lightning cables to charge.
> Of what? Sneakers?

“FROM today, China has the world’s fastest bullet trains.” 21st Sept 2017
“China on Thursday officially began the world's fastest commercial train service with a top speed of 350 kilometers per hour between Beijing and Shanghai.” Intend to export technology. Numerous articles. http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1067646.shtml

> Good luck securing ROI from ghost cities

One year later, same author. “China's Most Infamous 'Ghost City' Is Rising From The Desert” https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/06/30/ordos-ch...

> And Sri Lankan airports – you mean A Sri Lankan airport

So what? Some infrastructure initiatives don't pan, but many do. http://www.atimes.com/article/western-contempt-china-turns-p...
You're presuming guilt before guilt has been established.

Why do companies make profit? It's because they're offering a product or service that people buy. Why do people buy the product or service? It's because the value they get from the product outweighs the cost. What this really means is that--- all successful companies are doing social good, simply by being in business. If a company is making a big profit, they're probably doing so by providing much more value in their product than what they are charging.
The (probable) end of the front-end profession as you know it
That's still not the same thing. Failing to save is partially because people think jobs are stable. That's unrelated to knowing you will need to get a job in 5 years after your extended basic income vacation.
UBI doesn't need to cover the median cost of living in the US. In fact with just income tax that is an impossible line to hit as it would certainly trigger inflation.

But that doesn't mean that X dollars won't matter. In fact that is the entire purpose of this study "If we give people $1000/month, what happens?". Sure it isn't representative of what would actually happen with BI but if the study is done well and its findings are sound through review, then it would be a great way of answering "would that amount of money matter".
This reminds me a bit of using CGI.pm's "Save" function. I built a pretty decent invoicing app using that and the searches for data in documents saved in that format are pretty fast.

I won't pretend to know the ins-and-outs of that but was told on a Perl mail list that the server created a "B-Tree" index when an initial search was made and used that afterwards.
You loan 1T to the poor one year and get paid back 1T from the rich the next from all those poor spending money on goods the rich sell.

UBI isn't like defense spending. It isn't a black hole you put tax dollars down and get nothing out. It means tremendous goods demand for the necessities of life that is extremely stable and reliable for businesses to profit off.
Other countries don’t have the free/easy relationship to credit that we do.

In many places, if you want to get a small, revolving line of credit it’s considered perfectly normal to spend weeks validating your identity, including one or more in-person visits by a financial official. Can you imagine doing this in modern America? The economy would shrink by whole percentage points overnight.

We’ve made a deal with the devil, and this is how we pay.
The Media Has a Probability Problem
why should someone have to explain that simply because you haven't thought about the existence of a possible other perspective.

the united states has protected trade secrets by law far longer than its been on the transparency train.

there are reasons for that, and the corporate disclosure requirements has had no effect on creating a "fair market"
Really like the idea of basic income. However, after living in the real world as long as I have, I know all it would do is raise rent by exactly that amount, everywhere.
It wasn't so much a wake-up call, just a long-time simmer. When I first took the position, it wasn't in ad-tech, but our team slowly migrated to doing purely FB and Google ad automation.

I felt that not only was I underused technically, but also that my contribution was a net negative for society.
>>Military spending is a black hole of money - you get very little R&D or productive GDP growth yields out of it but it stucks hundreds of billions out of the country every year.

I am no fan of the military and I agree with your premise, but I would strongly, strongly disagree with the "little R&D" portion of this comment. A great deal of technology we take for granted today was first made available due to the military taking on the huge reverse asymptotic cost curves of early adoption and invention of new tech.

The military is an inefficient and potentially immoral R&D department, but it is not one that generates very little. A quick historical look at what has come out of the machinations of war and preparing for it will illustrate the point, and fast.
I would add a second element to the title "You Don't need Superstar Developers: You Need High-Acheivers"

The challenge is really having a mixed team of high talent and minimal talent. While yes, those who are of lower talent will learn more from the super talented, the inverse is not always true.

I have found many lazy (or at least not super motivated) devs who have the required minimum competence level, but are not super driven to crank out high quality work. This then makes me not want to work as hard.

This is a little different in that in general companies should go after high-achievers, rather than a minimum technical competence.
Besides a few monks, everyone I've met that makes under $20k/yr wants more. I've never seen a real area where people are comfortable until the $40k/yr mark. Yeah, I know there are exceptions (there's always outliers in data, but you can still find means and trends). So I am confident you wouldn't see a significant difference in number of workers unless you brought that UBI level up by several times the proposed $1k/mo.
That's a hell of an ODEC.
> So from the outside, there are no imperatives, only requests and questions.

This threw me off a bit as Smalltalk collections have imperative style messages for instance.

> Could be some form of ontology.

This remark helped me find some clarity.

I want the computer to help me do cross ontological reasoning and mapping. For instance, if I want to compute geometry, how do I map the ontology of 'geometry' onto the ontology of 'smalltalk'? I 'think up' the mapping, but it would be great if the computer helps me here too. Mapping 'smalltalk' onto 'physical machines' is another ontological mapping. The 'mapping of ontologies' is itself an ontology.

In large systems there are a lot of ontological 'views' and 'mappings' at play. I want to inspect and tweak each independently using the language on the ontology, and have the computers automatically map my requests to the physical layer in an efficient way. This is not possible in systems today because there an incredible amount of pre-translation that happens so a high level questions cannot be directly answered by the system - I have to track it down manually to a different level.

Maybe the answer is to define the ontologies as object collections and have them talk to each other and figure it out. I want to tweak things after the system is up, of course, so I could send an appropriate message (e.g. 'change the bit representation of integers' or 'change the strategy used in mapping virtual objects to physical') and everything affected would be updated automatically (is this 'extreme late binding'?).
When idealism hits unfettered human nature...
Could not disagree with you more. Google's own Pixel line is more controlled for the benefit of the user, in that the user ends up with a more unified and cohesive experience. OEM's readily make modifications to Android, and you can install a completely custom ROM as well. Finally, you can install applications by consuming third party APK's directly and bypassing the Play store entirely.

So no, your comparison of iOS to Android does not apply 1:1.
The demand is still limited by the number of births. Rentals just make them more available.

Anyway, my question isn't meant to be dismissive, the rough percentage of recent mothers that choose to use a pump is important information in trying to figure out the potential market size.
Maybe for a year. Then people will want meaning in their lives and would seek meaningful productive things to do that they want to do.

The reason people right now love gaming so much and often to an unhealthy degree is because its an escape from a life they don't like living but have no choice in because they are chained to a job to survive.
1. s/self-interest/short-sighted self-interest/

2. still, never thinking about it guarantees that you won't notice anything is wrong, so getting someone to think about it at all is a good thing in any case, for it opens the chance that they do
I also assume it's the backdoor but with this piece of info (there is a "safe" state") the Intel people cannot legally claim they didn't know it was unsafe, so stupidity is ruled out (as in the saying never attribute to malevolence ...)

The last missing piece is now whether ME was actively put there to enable a few agencies to gain unauthorized access.