skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think there are real discussions to be had about basic income. I'm extremely skeptical of it, I don't see how welfare without any means-testing is politically sustainable long-term. So we'll have welfare on top of it, and the cycle repeats.

That said, do you agree the article was written by AI? Try to read it again. It reads like a markov chain of ideas loosely chained together.
It's not that simple.

MPEG adopt a "patent-blind" process. This incentivized the contributors to inject as many frivolous patents as possible into the codecs. The contributors then use vehicles like MPEG-LA to collect on the patents that MPEG let them include.

MPEG and MPEG-LA are two sides of the same coin.
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> The job board is embedded in websites, in the same way, Disqus is embedded, and the jobs will be targeted to the focus of the website.

That sounds like a unique feature to me, at least I haven't seen others like that yet.
This may help: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Rebalancing
Life would continue, but not necessarily with the same head count. How long do you thing NY could sustain it's population numbers with a long power outage?
Eh. Yes, it's a bit sloppy but although "cathedral" has a specific meaning it's also widely applied to large churches/abbeys/etc. that aren't associated with a bishop.
Puerto Ricans are US citizens by birth, it makes it easier to move anywhere in the USA vs another country (just buy a ticket, find a place to live, etc). That's my main guess as to why. I am from Puerto Rico and living in Florida. Chances are he has family in Atlanta (maybe). When we moved from PR to Florida we moved here mostly because we had family here already, makes starting over a little easier.
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I'm not an admin, just a user. However, this is the Czech Republic, so such things aren't the end of the world here. I'm sure the police would investigate child porn in much the same way they would with any other ISP, by investigating the user...
> Mr. Brown, 53, spent four years writing and researching the book. He is nothing if not disciplined. He rises at 4 a.m. each day and prepares a smoothie comprising “blueberries, spinach, banana, coconut water, chia seeds, hemp seeds and … what’s the other kind of seed?” he asked. “Flax seeds, and this sort of weird protein powder made out of peas.” He also makes so-called bulletproof coffee, with butter and coconut oil, which he says changes “the way your brain processes the caffeine” so as to sharpen your mind. His computer is programmed to freeze for 60 seconds each hour, during which time Mr. Brown performs push-ups, situps and anything else he needs to do. Though he stops writing at noon, it’s hard for him to get the stories out of his head. “It’s madness,” he said of his characters. “They talk to you all day.”

From "The Role of Deliberate Practice" https://www.gwern.net/docs/1993-ericsson-deliberatepractice....), Ericsson 1993:

> The best data on sustained intellectual activity comes from financially independent authors. While completing a novel famous authors tend to write only for 4 hr during the morning, leaving the rest of the day for rest and recuperation (Cowley, M. (Ed.). (1959). _Writers at work: The Paris review interviews_.]; [Plimpton, G. (Ed.). (1977). _Writers at work: The Paris review. Interviews, second series_.]. Hence successful authors, who can control their work habits and are motivated to optimize their productivity, limit their most important intellectual activity to a fixed daily amount when working on projects requiring long periods of time to complete...Biographies report that famous scientists such as Charles Darwin, (Erasmus Darwin, 1888), Pavlov (Babkin, 1949), Hans Selye (Selye, 1964), and B.F. Skinner (Skinner, 1983) adhered to a rigid daily schedule where the first major activity of each morning involved writing for a couple of hours. In a large questionnaire study of science and engineering faculty, Kellogg (1986) found that writing on articles occurred most frequently before lunch and that limiting writing sessions to a duration of 1-2 hr was related to higher reported productivity...In this regard, it is particularly interesting to examine the way in which famous authors allocate their time. These authors often retreat when they are ready to write a book and make writing their sole purpose. Almost without exception, they tend to schedule 3-4 hr of writing every morning and to spend the rest of the day on walking, correspondence, napping, and other less demanding activities (Cowley, 1959; Plimpton, 1977).
Replace existing monetary policy (that creates money by buying securities from investment banks) with BI.

The incumbent beneficiaries will fight it tooth and nail, of course.
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If someone is walking into a dangerous swamp, and you offer them a map, and they say "fuck your map" and then perish in a marked peril, I think it's okay to have limited sympathy. The peril isn't more likely to spring because they chose to be ignorant. They're just more likely to blunder because of it.

The SEC's tendency to go ballistic when retail, i.e. unaccredited investors, are harmed is common industry knowledge. This common knowledge was ignored. The ignorance isn't a reason for prosecution. But it increases the chances that prosecutable mistakes will be made.

Securities law is too complicated to blunder through mindlessly. When I saw how many promoters and investors were doing just that, it was natural to conclude they would, relatively quickly, break important laws and conventions. They have, and the regulators are pissed just as they would be with anyone else making the same mistake.
I keep a list of all of the HN clients in public Pinboard bookmarks if you're looking for alternatives to the standard interface.

https://pinboard.in/u:tedmiston/t:hacker-news
Loitering, pickpocketing, begging, etc

But somehow enforcement of the law is "oppression"
But that's deceitful and wrong. There is nothing wrong with paying someone for advertising space.
XNU is a hybrid kernel incorporating large elements of Mach (microkernel) as well as BSD (monolithic kernel).
> “You’re broke even if you have money,” Mr. Jimenez, 40, said.

There are still gullible people who believe those so-called 'banks' actually have their government paper bonds. Yes I purposefully used this term to emphasize that those notes are not cash or money. Money is a commodity, and the paper credit is (should be) a receipt for it. A dollar is 1.505g of gold.
It flies towards the trash can. It could be fast as lightning it would a fast as lightning piece of crap without the couple dozen extensions I had to add to restore the features they removed, remove the unwanted change they made and just to add the basic but missing features.

I've moved to waterfox which offers support for the legacy addons and this move actually fixed a few of the annoying bugs I had with firefox. Among which speed was not one.
I understood it to mean what wikipedia says it means:
"Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying

Look, I'm not on the side of the employers and against the unions. I just find the whole conflict to be "heading no where". Because it doesn't fundamentally change the relationship, it just pushes back against the power disbalance.
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You failed.

A lot of counterfeit gold has insertion of other metals in the center (tungsten for example which has a similar density)

https://static6.businessinsider.com/image/505a1d2eeab8ea8610...
Its currently simpler given that Im a natural citizen. Moving to another country carries an additional amount of work that Im not currently able to complete. Plus I have family and friends in the US.
Smart contracts are not that short, and if you look at entries for the Unhardended Solidty Code contest you'll discover just how easy it is to implement a vulnerability due to the nuances of Solidity and the runtime.

The virtual machine is also not even remotely proven yet.

There is a lot of risk.
Somewhat off topic, but I subscribed to Nautilus (print edition) last year, paid, and only received 2 issues. They do good articles but if you subscribed I'd advise against the physical copy version.
What happened if you sold the default risk as a swap to a 3rd party. Who loses now?
I've tried contacts a few times but they're such an incredible hassle compared to glasses. And with my astigmatism the contacts have to be rotated correctly. When they get nudged off-axis (by blinking) the vision noticibly changes.

I did go in for an assessment for laser eye surgery. Unfortunately there's just not enough cornea for them to fully fix my eyes. Since I do optical astronomy I didn't want to risk night vision rays just so I could wear a slightly smaller pair of glasses.
Make it a part of the famil prank tradition, to boobytrap Alexa and the likes with cusotm code. In oder to get "back" on you- they need to learn this.
Yeah, no.

Arrest quotas are obviously and undeniably real, they've been documented numerous times in various contexts. The most recent major case of many such examples in NYC was the Adrian Schoolcraft case: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft
Well, better is a relative term. I see things generally improving. Doesnt mean that bad things are not happening.
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A lot of criticism for not being a "real" OS from a technical perspective - by "OS" the author likely means this is a graphical windowing system and application platform - the part of the OS that the user sees and interacts with. That it is written in nodejs is irrelevant - if this gains traction it would likely be rewritten and optimized for better efficiency.

Also bear in mind this is a single university students design project, he's not trying to be Linus or stallman just yet - Id love to see more people trying to rethink the desktop/workstation OS.

To the author - well done, this is far more than I would have been able to do in uni!
One reason I avoided LaTeX is that I was unsure just how my macros would conflict with what was in LaTeX.

I'm sure LaTeX has a lot of super tricky stuff that does really good stuff and was too much work for me to implement, but with LaTeX if something went wrong then I'd be stuck-o since I would not be able to debug LaTeX.

So, TeX it is. If there are bugs in my macros, then I fix the bugs.

Yes, I got around to TeX in about 1998 on OS/2. Now on Windows, It's my standard for all more serious word whacking, of course, especially for anything mathematical.

My TeX setup has a converter from TeX's DVI file type to PDF, and my Adobe Acrobat reader can print to FAX, and my computer has a FAX modem card I run my land line phone through. So, net, I can send letters from TeX to Congress!
I think they went a little overboard with the blur effect on the applications.
And webkit did not start from scratch either, it started from KHTML. They had considered using firefox rendering engine gecko but it was too cumbersome and got dropped.
I can already tell you how and why it will be bad:

By living on a basic income provided to you by the government, you become dependent. That dependency is a weakness that gives the government greater power over you. What recourse do you have if the government removes your basic income? If we eliminate all other forms of income, say via automation, so there are no jobs you could turn to - what choice do you have? Go on to a rural agrarian existence, or die?

What delightful power and leverage a basic income gives the government over its population.
Oooh prison. From what I understand, most revolutions usually involve people just dying. Granted, the customary prize is obtaining power for yourself, rather than spreading most of it around by creating a new decentralized Schelling point.

At any rate, don't you think it's a bit useless to tell someone determined to obviate the government to go ask a government agent for advice?
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my outlook on those sorts of filtering activities is that if it doesn’t fit and that’s what’s most important to the company then it might be in your favor anyway.

When your work contribution is secondary to other things, I question a company’s long term resolve.
Also in the article:

"With digitalisation, increasingly precise data is recorded about almost all activities. In other words, our activities are registered and measured in more and more detail. In principle, this opens an entirely new opportunity to tax, for example, work performances and collect payments for the use of different commodities such as roads. Thanks to digitalisation, all exchanges in society can be made transparent and taxed fairly in real time. "

Basic income as the smokescreen for an invasive state panopticon that uses taxes to monitor and control personal behavior will be the result, more or less.
I'll take this chance to mention this since not a lot of people know, and maybe someone can get this information out to friends / family in Puerto Rico who can help: Puerto Rico has a lot of supplies[0] which many cities need, but they're sitting in limbo. The issue is there are not enough actual truck drivers. The Governor of Puerto Rico is calling forth any truck drivers to come to San Juan where they were sitting for days (a week?). The issue is because the grid is down contracting truck drivers becomes harder and almost impossible. I do know some land lines do work in some parts of Puerto Rico, but maybe not all parts. I'm not sure about what people around the USA can do 100% but I heard of a friend from here in Florida who was going to volunteer to drive trucks in Puerto Rico, you need to be licensed as a prerequisite of course.

[0]: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/27/us/puerto-rico-aid-problem/ind...
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I sort of had this problem, my tear ducts work for 20% so I have prescription eye drops. That sort of forces me to wet my eyes. The month lenses are not that good for me, the dirt build up is big, and they don't even last a month most of the time.
Best for me is day lenses.

What I did to test out many lenses, is get a real good optician to measure my eyes. Ordered a set of lenses with them, then used the labels to order different brands online.
It was more expensive to measure my eyes there than at some random optician store who do it for free, but it was so much better.
I concede to your point. I should probably have used different language.
Larry Lessig backs both net neutrality and democracy. See his plan for restoring democracy to the United States: https://youtu.be/PJy8vTu66tE

The main points are:

1) Citizen funded campaigns

2) Equal representation (ie, Proportional Representation)

3) Equal freedom to vote
Some people much prefer short comments, or so they say!
The reality is that if you want to cover everyone's basic needs with $12K, you need to radically reduce the cost of goods and services. How ? That's the conversation we should be having.

But that than becomes a painful and complex conversation, talking about huge changes in the structure and possibly quality of real-estate, healthcare, transportation and roads, universities, etc and maybe some core tenets of capitalism.

But there's no way for this conversation to be fruitful and have really big changes - until we have a real crisis - because that's how democracies work in general.

but here's a starting point, anyway:

1. Transforming real-estate, from a system largely aimed at profits, into a system that is focused on offering decent living conditions as cheaply as possible.

2. Inserting disruptive innovation and real cost reduction into healthcare. And yes, like all disruptive innovation , it probably means lowering quality, at least for some time.
A bicycle is by far the best post apocalyptic transport. Electric is worse than gas; at least the gas powered vehicle is lighter when its empty.
No, statistics is what statistics is called by engineers.

Data science is rudimentary-level statistics, done on a Mac sipping a latte, while pretending that data mining and other disciplines haven't existed for decades already
As inspiring as thought provoking.
Great to see all this work from Mozilla paying off. Never would have thought I'd see momentum like this.
Automatica
Given the injustice of justice, "wrongful" won't do much. "Unreasonable" would be a better standard.

E.g.: have a retrospective sample of cases analyzed and ranked by independent reviewers; punish those deemed unreasonable; reward those deemed reasonable (explicitly regardless of the law at hand).

Better yet, fine lawmakers that voted for laws involved in the convictions. Doesn't have to be a lot.

Good luck with that ;-).
You may want to check with your local laws. A business class I once took made it a point to mention that store issued credit can't last longer than 90 days. Anything longer and it must be backed by a lending institution.

If you look at the bottom of ads, you'll sometimes see the resulting legalese. They get around this by things like layaway and larger chains will actually have their own insured lending institution.

This will vary by jurisdiction, as not all countries are the same. I am going to speculate that Puerto Rico is the same, as it is a US territory, but that's speculation.
I don't know what you're trying to defend here, high ranked people from mozilla admitted themselves they made bad decision and wasted money and time and developers on the wrong things instead of focusing on their core product[1].

They've also been criticized for years for their business model being too dependent on a single income source contrary to their values. They did nothing about it until it became clear that they were losing the game. IMHO this is bad management for years.

[1]: https://andreasgal.com/2017/05/25/chrome-won/
Just ran into this today. I am surprised I had not seen it here before.
> he himself prefers literature that is instructive and, ideally, not wholly invented. “I feel like if I’m going to take time reading, I better be learning,”

The problem is that he chooses his "facts" for more interesting plots. He gaves interesting theories, facts and detailed descriptions, but you don't really know what is accepted knowledge or not. It is like getting your news from Fox, you spent so much time filtering it that it isn't worth.

BTW, I've just read Da Vinci Code for the first time after it was one of the few available books in a island after drowning my Kindle. I was impressed how a so successful book had such a poor narrative. His characters building were primary, and did some narrative tricks to deceive the reader. The conspiracy theory thing was the only interesting thing. No more Dan Brown for me. Better to stay with Humberto Eco.
Why is dynamic typing (with reliance on duck typing) any harder to read, or more complex?
For a long time, they just did source-code dumps whenever they made a binary release (i.e., did what is required by the LGPL). They actively chose to move it to being run as an open-source project, with public history, public bug tracking, and public contributions.
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The Media Really Has Neglected Puerto Rico
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the other part of the equation:

New Orleans: 70% non-white, median household income $37k

Flint: 63% non-white, median household income $44k

Puerto Rico: 98% latino, though most are also classified as white, median household income $19.5k

Houston: 50% non-white, median household income $61.5k

Houston is whiter and richer than New Orleans, Flint and Puerto Rico. I think we're kidding ourselves if we think this doesn't play into why the responses are different from both the government and people in other parts of the country.
Can you outwit a hacker?
> According to Wikipedia [0], it's only not a cathedral because it's not the seat of a bishop.

On one hand, I do agree with your major point; calling it something other than a cathedral would be needlessly distracting. On the other, your comment amounts to "it’s only not a cathedral because it’s not a cathedral." Being the seat of a bishop is what a cathedral is.
Automation fully reduces the power of citizens, by making them economically useless, not BI.

It's probably the thing we need to fight, somehow.
Sorry about the confusion, I was talking about Sweden
That's argument for arguably one of the most interesting new ideas in "democracy" of this century: "liquid democracy"

It allowed for people to choose to vote on individual issues. But when they recognised the complexity of certain issues, or just couldn't be bothered to make up their mind, it allowed to delegate their voting power to someone they trusted. You could delegate single issues, topics, whole fields of politics or even everything, and the recipient could do so again. The result would be a sort of "net of decision making".

Of course the concept's prominence came and went with the rise and fall of the Pirate Party...
Have you looked at double aspheric freeform single vision lenses like Sieko Super MV or Hoya Nulux EP?

https://www.2020mag.com/ce/double-asphericity-a-free-form-D5...

http://www.robertsonoptical.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...
Catalan is a lenguage... because it is. Don' play demagogy around that
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Originally Peter Naur said it was a term synonymous with Computer Science. In 1996 - 2001 it was used in a similar manner today by academics. After the Harvard Business review called it "the sexiest job of the 21st century" it stuck.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science
In the USA, people are used to 5% off the top. Relax already.
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*[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language
Disagreed. I might have 3GB of RAM on this phone, but the browser(s) often get moved out of RAM. It's slower to start than Chrome/Brave. Cold-boot performance matters. I keep Firefox Beta around, and just checked, it's still almost twice as slow as Brave in a adhoc cold start test.
Not rolling the KSK
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The last political detox week occurred at the height of first evidence of social media's influence on the election, and the same week as YC partner Peter Thiel built out his influence on Donald Trump's transition team.

It would be implausibly coincidental for the second attempt to happen at the same time Facebook and Twitter are being directly investigated for their role in electoral propaganda and Thiel is a frontrunner for the PIAB position.
I believe there is some breakthrough yet to be found in the intersection of entropic gravity and computational limits.
Potential costs due to risk are far higher, if your Luck roll vs. Risk comes up short. Nintendo loses money every time you emulate NES and SNES now, so they’ll be especially angry at you for doing so.

Be careful to evaluate whether the risk of encouraging and enabling people to avoid paying Nintendo money is worth it to you. Yeah, it’s free, but only in up front costs.

EDIT: Advocating for everyone to violate Nintendo’s IP will not look good on a resume, either. “Applicant rejected — Willfully encourages IP violation because stingy or impatient — Unlikely to adhere to employee IP agreement”
So much distrust that we keep electing fascists!
When they do that, I say, 'Don't look too closely, I just printed that up this morning.'

Only once has it resulted in them calling a manager over. Every other time, it gets strange looks, a chuckle, a smile of mirth, or a groan. Either way, it's something unusual for them to hear in what is likely a repetitive job.
Easy: because using a webapp to track issues sucks donkey balls, and matrix still has no threading and good terminal client.