skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a one-off? Or most of his predictions bad. Has anyone tracked his recommendations. Speaking of which, is there anyway I can get ratings on predictions for all (popular) analysts?
Improving and Making the Vulnerability Equities Process Transparent
I'm only really familiar with Abu Dhabi but there, idleness is a concern.

It's directly evident in schemes such as paying school children to exercise.

However, it is masked somewhat in the adult population as foreign companies are required to employ natives in senior positions. Anecdotally, the incumbents aren't famous for their work ethic.

But it's hard to argue that it's not overall positive for the local population. Healthcare, education, services etc are all excellent.

That being said, I don't think these are useful comparators. The elephant in the room is who is paying? In the case of Abu Dhabi, it's the buyers of their oil. As such, you don't have an internal tension between the net tax consumers and net tax generators. Nor do you have a significant allocation of resource issue when there is a surfeit of resource.

And I think it's the latter issue that is a critical one for UBI.

Although not equivalent, I think the example of UK child benefit is instructive. It was a universal benefit in the sense that it applied to all children regardless of parental income (it differed by birth order but that's not material to the point). While the economy was doing well, the money flowed. Post crash, the economy tightened and it was an immediate target and became means tested.

It's not clear to me that, even if you managed to get UBI implemented, it would be stable. I would expect that it would need to show tangible, widespread benefit in about one economic cycle. Otherwise, as soon as things started to slow, you'd be seeing stories about the wasters and layabouts. It wouldn't matter if there were many cf the refugee "deluge" or similar triggers.

In other words, I can see UBI lasting only if a number of other, very significant economic (cycles) and societal (selfishness) issues are resolved. Tricky.
Hopefully the author of this didn't quit their day job to write comedy...
> I have seen numerous people with engineering background getting into political science, history, even opera singing! I hardly ever met someone who studied humanities becoming an engineer.

Hi, now you have. I did a double major in political science and econ, currently a machine learning engineer. Humanities is not at all a one-way ticket unless you expect it to lead directly to a job. Humanities education is for you, not for your employer.

> I have seen numerous people with engineering background getting into political science, history, even opera singing! I hardly ever met someone who studied humanities becoming an engineer.

Anecdotally, my experience is the opposite.
Bigcos often tend to name products after their project name/strategic initiative /new business model instead of what they do/ what it means to their customer
I came to the comments to ask exactly that. I got to the end of the article and thought, "no way this is real."
Generally speaking, lower prices are better.

Not an economist, but I believe that statement needs to be indexed to inflation/deflation. Lower prices relative to income, in other words higher purchasing power, is good. But you can't inflate/deflate your way to lower real production costs or higher wages.

prices of computers and electronics are always dropping due to technology improvements

Right, the electronics market is in some senses an example of the behavior of a deflationary market, but it is also different than prices dropping due to financial wizardry.

Would you prefer the alternative, that technology improvements stop

In many parts of the market, improvements have stopped. Continuing improvement is clearly best, but not always an option. A gallon of milk or a shovel isn't getting any better next year. So what then?
At my uni the first programming semester is Pascal, and the second used to be Modula-2. They only introduced C on the third semester. They changed it a couple of years ago, so now they never get to know Modula-2. I see their point in removing it (it's very old fashioned, more than modern Pascal in some ways), but I feel something of value was lost
That would require the government being able to coordinate controlling;

1. Internet access
2. Sales of computers
3. Imports
4. Citizens not revolting against that (including people using and accepting currency, so buy and sell side)

All of which are possible but not trivial. I actually think it becomes orders of magnitude more difficult to do this with a decentralised system like BitCoin than it is with fiat currency issued by a central bank.
> Interpretive dance may not be in demand, but the competencies that liberal arts majors emphasize — writing, synthesis, problem solving — are sought after by employers

This sort of analysis always seems a bit silly. So sought after that they struggle to get hired?

If you reduce what's being learned to an extremely generic term like "problem solving", it stops being meaningful. Every major should be learning "problem solving", so of course any employer is going to check the box on your skills survey to mark it as a desired skill.
> that's why you can't electrocute yourself by putting your fingers on a 9v battery even though it's well over 200mA.

If you break the skin a 9v battery can kill.

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html
> You wouldn't raise an eyebrow, or have any negative reaction to someone making $400k / year bitterly complaining that they have to pay taxes on it? I don't know anyone who wouldn't think that was obnoxious.

Where are these bitter complaints? He commented to say that rising housing prices weren't good for him. He explained why. That isn't a complaint. He didn't say "I deserve this money from my rising house price!". He didn't say "the world is so unfair to me". He just explained why this thing that people thought would be helpful to someone like him, was in fact, not helpful.

> Sort of, in a fairly facile and borderline deceptive manner.

What was facile or deceptive about what he said? He's absolutely correct.
> Then you did not understand the quote.

Perhaps you picked a bad quote then. That quote pretty explicitly contradicts your claim.
Do you remember if there was an issue opened for this on the Atom repo? I haven't heard of this problem.
You are correct, the photos have been debunked. I should have clarified that. I was making a statement based on how many people believe they are real.
> feel as snappy and light as Vi.

this is only true if we're strictly talking editing text wihtout any plugin functionality. As soon as you add code completion features vim shows its age, the Ale extension for async linting for example feels very sluggish on a few only slightly dated laptops I tried out and frequently grills the cpu.
Thanks for the info and thanks for source maps! I wrote the article. I'm updating to clarify that I meant that "version 3 was released in 2011" instead of reading as though the original version of source maps came out in 2011. Also I'm linking back to your comment for an explanation on the whole "google docs" backstory, which is pretty fascinating. Thanks again!
I was wondering why there was a popup about get thehardtimes in your inbox. I was really curios what the author would be sending in the newsletter. Now it makes sense! :)
In the same vein: http://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/friend-skims-html-tutorial...
YouTube Poop feels like it descends spiritually from YTMND to me. YTMND was the best:

https://everything2.com/user/yadrisil/writeups/You%2527re+th...
90th percentile is probably used so that outliers (Bill Gates) don't overly skew the bar charts.

I don't understand your final question though. 90th percentile means that, for the data set, 90 percent earned less and 10 percent earned more. The end of the bar is the 90th percentile mark.
On my phone and the dog one looks identical to me
Incompatibility with Safari, Firefox, and Edge?
Nope. I'm out then having bought desktop licenses from 1.x to 4.x for Windows and OS X.
I just code my game at work
This is one of the biggest things I have found remarkable about the modern Web: how slow everything feels.

Nothing just loads anymore! Instead everything loads in dribs and drabs, as various bits of it stream down to the device, get parsed and get rendered. I waste so much time staring at placeholder graphics and missing clicks because the element I was aiming at skidded across the page after something else popped in. The more front-end technology we throw at the Web, the worse it seems to get.

It's hard to remember that once upon a time Web pages were fast, even though we were viewing them on 1990s-era hardware that even today's budget mobile devices put to shame. We love the Web so much we are strangling it to death.
If you could be mostly uninvolved in the game, sure. Move to the country, grow your own food, etc. But you participate on a daily basis. You're doing it right now.

It's like somebody saying they have nothing to do with engines when they drive a car every day. They may not know how the car works, and they may have low interest in raising the hood since it has always worked for them. But refusing to look at the machinery doesn't mean it isn't there.
I thought it was hilarious.
it would need to be a pretty contrived situation where the cable is frayed in two separate places, the cable is frayed in such a way that the path of least resistance is through your body (and not through the other conductor in the cable), your body is in contact with those two places at the same time, and the contact points allow the current to go through some vital organs.
URL without tracking params: http://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/friend-skims-html-tutorial...
Yeah - I'm surprised there aren't more comments pointing this out.

When you state "their previous model", do you mean per-user pricing vs. per-device?
Work hard and strive towards excellence in your chosen field, and you'll succeed long term. Huh, imagine that.
Thanks - this is really helpful! I appreciate this link, missed it the first time.
Mongoose is the name of the NodeJS ORM for Mongo.
Really scary how it's easy to hide spam. But hey, at least they are Star Wars fans, I guess.
Do you feel the article does a suitable job of describing cryptocurrency mining such that a non-technical reader of injusticetoday.com would be adequately informed of the implications of installing the software?
Using curator to backup and restore indices
You can calculate an estimate of reentry from atmospheric drag. It's not going to be exact but anything you throw up into LEO is going to come down someday and as long as the atmosphere doesn't change too much, it should be fairly close.

http://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Category/Educational/Space%20Weath...
Why are you looking to scrape? Here's a list of some scraper bots: https://www.incapsula.com/blog/web-scraping-bots.html

What about Botscraper: http://www.botscraper.com/
TextMate + RMate works great for editing files on a remote linux box. https://github.com/textmate/rmate
In Rust a panic brings down a single thread (unless you have it set to panic=abort, which is the case in firefox but not elsewhere).

Panics can also be "caught" like exceptions, though this is not something you're supposed to use to implement exception handling. The idea is that if you want to make your application robust you can catch these panics near the top and try to recover.

Often panics bringing down a single thread will bring down other threads that try to read messages from it and have declared that they will panic if that is not possible. (.recv().unwrap() is a common idiom).

So it depends on how you use it.

And "monitoring system" is assuming the context of a server side application.
This may be slightly on a tangent, but how would UBI be distributed to the homeless - esp. people who have no address or documents or identification of any kind?

Is step one everyone needs a national ID in order to receive UBI?
Why the majority will embrace Node.js
> If you want to write an article, you must first send 10 headline ideas and a sample piece of satire to: Ideas@TheHardTimes.net.

I can't imagine how insufferable a job it is checking that mailbox every day.
> > “If generating money out of thin air by using a computer program seems absurd, that’s because it is,”

I'm not really a proponent of cryptocurrency one way or the other, but I'm not sure it's any less absurd than generating money out of paper/textiles and ink. Drawing a picture of a $1 bill on an appropriately sized piece of material doesn't make it money, the supply, demand and efficiency of exchange does (and the demand is often generated by a backing from a government, but doesn't have to be). We had private bank notes long before we had government backed notes.
Typically, when referring to college in the US, people mean university. Universities are made up of colleges (College of Business, College of Arts & Science, College of Fine Arts, etc). Colleges within universities can have their own admission criteria so if, for example, you started majoring in History and failed all of your classes and wanted to study Finance, the College of Business could reject your application to change majors into their college. However, what usually happens is someone starts majoring in X, eventually realizes that they want to major in Y and there is no problem with them switching.
Can western people do math?
Theres a similarity between people who have never been entrepreneurs dropping everything to be entrepreneurs, and people who have never developed video games dropping everything to be game developers. Many chase the romantic notion of "the dream" rather then the dream itself.

Ironically both entrepreneurs and game developers have to learn to be entrepreneurs.
You could use the same argument against pretty much any discipline that's undergoing active research. Of course no-one knows (yet) how to do it properly or else there would be no research going on. Image understanding, robotics, even non-computational disciplines such as medicine... Staying with the latter, take HIV for example: no-one knows how to heal it but I'm sure a lot of people are very grateful for the 80% solutions that prolong lives today.

So, in summary, you point is not wrong. But it's no reason for bashing computational linguistics. It is common across many disciplines to use not-yet-perfect solutions as long as you don't know how to do better.

That said, I don't fully agree with the notion that "hacking a solution" is the suggested way of doing things. Computational linguistics is a pretty wild field with a lot of sub-disciplines. In a lot of those, the state of the art consists of quite sophisticated approaches that are the result of years of research. Take speech recognition, for instance. Currently, deep learning approaches take the cake, but there is also a plethora of insights that have been gained from improving the traditional methods over decades.

I think, a more nuanced point of view is called for here.
In the nightly you need to enable it in about:config. I.e. it ships both Webrender and Gecko engine.
To be completely honest, Jenkins is garbage slow enterprise tier. GitLab CI Runner is a pleasure to work with. Jenkins was hosted on our production box, and it used to freeze up whenever someone pushed.

Marketing folks aren't technical enough to understand CI anyway. This is why marketing folks shouldn't step on us tech folks toes - you'll just look like an idiot and end up embarrassing yourself.
> All of which are possible but not trivial

Isn't China doing #1 - #4 to about 25% of the world's population already?
You're being downvoted because you've fallen into a common but serious logical trap[1]

The validity of racial tensions in silicon valley companies is due consideration completely irrespective of sexual assault or healthcare. Both are problems, but the size of B has no bearing on the size of A.

[1] https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
I don't think they've said that they'd do this, but in the past they bought an island and gave everyone a square foot or so of it. Presumably they'll try to subdivide and distribute this land to turn 1 eminent domain case into tens of thousands.
I am looking for a Patreon-like service where patrons could pledge money to individual pieces of content.

Imagine that I create and maintain a public transport map for each city in the world and I want to let locals to pledge to their local city map. Something like that. Ideally with a donation counter that I could embed into each individual map. Of course, there are thousands of cities so I will need an automated way (API) to create individual wallets. Does such service exist?
And considering the current administration has already started the process for ranches along the border. I can't see how this isn't a waste of time and money.
I'm going to disagree with you there. I remember a time when everything written in print was taken as fact. You were treated like a schizophrenic if you suggested a newspaper printed something that wasn't true. Now people routinely fact check from multiple sources.

Sure there may have been more signal to noise ratio, but robber barons had much more influence. Like Bezos and WaPo but EVERY paper.
I so want this for visual studio code now :)

Really cool stuff !
It's both. My guess is the product offering and pricing changes are part of the same push for recurring revenue
MeetingBurner closing
It's less about printing money and more about falling long-term interest rates (and thus, discount rates). Fundamentally, a house is worth the net present value of its use value. Lower discount rates means that more of that value gets pulled forward into its present valuation.

An equivalent way of thinking of it is that house prices are fixed by mortgages to rents - when mortgage payments are lower than rents, people buy houses and rent them out, pushing house prices up. Falling mortgage interest rates push mortgage payments lower at the same principle amount, which convinces people to buy and push up housing prices.
I doubt, since the liberals run the media.

Also, it is extremely hurtful towards victims to say Hollywood is under attack, like they are the victims. Too many hypocrites there and shady things going on which doesn't mean the situation is dangerous regarding people being innocent and hung publicly.
> You just get your UBI, done

And what about the people that waste their UBI and can't afford to pay the rent or for food? The existing social safety nets can't go away, otherwise people who are irresponsible with their UBI will be left to starve, etc.
You also save that 500,000$ of appreciation when selling the second house. AKA, if house 1 gained 2 million and house 2 gained 2 million your better off than if house 1 gained 4 million.

Now, you can get into cash flow issues etc. But, with home interest being tax deductible and long term capital gains being below normal taxes your almost always better off over time to sell after a bubble than before.

PS: If your investment makes 4% and your mortgage is 5% then you have a net savings after taxes.
Is this really true?? I think if you are selling a home that is not your primary residence then there is some sort of tax but I'm not 100% sure of the details.
That really does sound like a sync/profile issue, especially as it coincided with a failure to restore your previous session. I suspect you encountered some sort of corruption in your profile, and Firefox automatically restored one of the multiple backup copies it keeps to attempt to mitigate data loss. Still, always good to take precautions.

What Firefox release channel(s) are you using? Are you running the same version across all of your sync'd devices? And can you share what change you made before restarting the browser?
A better analogy might be "A piano that's hard or impossible to control with complete accuracy, but often produces beautiful accidents"
“is about to” meaning there might be something to read about in a few weeks. This kind of preview-of-news-that-may-come-soon seems to be getting more and more common. Tick tock as they say.
>start their own cryptocurrency, and outlaw all others?

This would be a waste of resources. If you're not going to be decentralized, it's way less complex to have a mysql DB of everyones bank accounts somewhere, and much easier to hide corruption.
Here's a scenario I'm dealing with that must be fairly common. A mobile app running against an Azure backend, where users can also access the app through a SPA on their desktop. I don't want my analytics data spread out over multiple analytics services, so can this analytics service support SPAs as well? Bonus points for being able to track the same user across mobile + SPA.
Their complaint about this is that it's hard to do that.

Well, that's good. I think that law enforcement SHOULD be hard. It should be hard and complicated and time consuming. One of the worst things I can imagine is idle law enforcement officers. Bored cops will find something to do. Whether it's going from car to car and ticketing anyone who is 12.1 or more inches from the curb or ticketing people for spitting on the sidewalk, no good can come from idle police.

Idle prosecutors are every bit as much of a potential nightmare. We see District Attorneys being used as political weapons now. Just imagine if they had the power to go fishing through the electronic communications of every political rival.

If the work is difficult, they'll only do it when they have reason to believe a serious crime has been or soon will be committed. It's easy to justify overtime for surveillance on a suspected drug kingpin, organized crime figure, rapist or murderer. It's not so easy to justify it to monitor some guy from a TEA Party Group, BLM or Occupy just so find out what they're doing.
Also, another point that this "experiment" doesn't really generalize beyond charity, is that the population of people who get the money, are not the ones supporting the program. The funding for doing this comes from outside donors. Thus, the people who receive money, have no downside of using that money to increase their earning potential.

However, if it were implemented at the government level, people who used their money to increase their earning potential would have to pay increased taxes to support the UBI. The cost/benefit to extra earning changes if you keeping all your extra money, or a significant portion is going towards funding UBI. Once you do that, you may see a lot more people decide that the extra effort is not worth it.

So, this is a great experiment in directly providing money as charity. It does not really address UBI as would be implemented by governments.
It was, but lacking NoScript support triggered a speedy manual downgrade to 56.0.2
I keep one, too. I don't bother with keeping subjects. I thread them - there are references pointing to different page numbers everywhere - just like computers do.
I think it is then easy to settle. I wasn't answering your question, my answer is never about Chinese university anyway.

If u feel being accused of and it is not what u mean, I am sorry. However, your post comes with a fighting spirit, and a trollish account, that seems to designatedly trigger people, if you expect good faith, I would suggest u to improve on the use of language
right, it is well known to the developers what to look for when we see something wrong. it doesnt crash randomly, it cries out loud when it fails so we know what is happening and manage it better.
The borrow checker can't reason about certain scenarios that are (obvious to the human) safe. When that happens it'll error on the side of caution and prevent the safe code from being compiled.

The discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14915539 and the linked previous discussion and ELI5 have a good collection of examples with explanations.