skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why UBI will never become law. Once you start talking about taking away benefits (Social Security, Medicare, SNAP, Food Stamps, HUD Housing Subsidies), people will freak out. The backlash will be very loud.

Look at the tax reform debate now: When they proposed taking away deductibility of mortgage interest or state and local taxes deductions, I started seeing headlines from the New York Times and Washington Post about how this a “Middle Class Tax Hike”...

I would compare UBI to the "second system syndrome" with software developers: If only we can start over with an entirely new platform rather than addressing the technical debt in the current system, all would be well.
"bit-slice" (assuming a mobile OS mis-correction)

If you're interested in that field, this is the book:
https://www.oldcomputerbooks.com/pages/books/K6246/mick-john...
UnitedMasters launch = music and tech and $70M
Exactly what I came here to say. No history of Instagram would be complete without any mention of Hipstamatic. Seems bizarrely absent.
I was giving this matter some thought early today after getting some stupid malware popup on my phone (where the phone vibrates, says it has lots of viruses, etc) while using Chrome. It wasn't even on any kind of dodgy site, but most likely it was part of a banner rotation for an ad network.

There has to be a way for website creators to sandbox content which comes from third parties. I think we have to accept that all of these ad networks and third-party scripts aren't going away, so until everyone uses adblocking, what can be done in the meantime?

It's problematic that including content from elsewhere in your page (like in an iframe) would grant it "first class" behavior with equivalent privileges to one's page. I know it's opening a can of worms, but why not implement a way to show untrusted content?

On the other side of things, I'm using a relatively recent version Chrome. Why is it vulnerable to this dumb sort of popup alert? Why can't I escape from it easily? The back button doesn't work. The UI hangs so I can't close the tab. If I close and re-open my browser it just re-opens my tabs.
It’s Time to Tax Companies for Using Our Personal Data
> let alone critical or hostile to capital, is going to be vanishingly small

This is nowhere near true.
I wouldn't place too many hopes on a device that relies on violating the conservation of momentum to work. Special relativity and Noether's theorem place conservation of momentum on the same footing as conservation of energy and the constancy of the laws of physics itself.
1) It can fund revenue for public goods with little to no deadweight loss
2) It targets "unearned wealth" instead of earned income
3) It grows with the growth of a municipal area, allowing for public finance that scales with the demands of a growing city
4) It can efficiently be used to pay for declining cost industries within a municipality (natural monopolies such as public transit)
5) It naturally is compatible with a UBI, insofar as you're merely distributing value which is considered to be commonly owned to all
Isn't is degrading towards minorities? It's difficult to understand sometimes the American way of thinking, but in my eyes things like that only want to make the negative stereotypes stronger about some groups of people not being intelligent enough.
I think people in this thread are talking past each other. I wanted to clarify the other side of the debate:

Nothing better illustrates the thar mentality better than the fury directed by Islamic militants against Danish and Norwegian cartoons of Mohammed. Sacrilegious art in other cultures can offend and get people angry but the lunatic response of radical Islamists is in a class by itself. It's the shrieking, out of control petulance of a three-year old throwing a tantrum. People infected with this attitude will be utterly incapable of recognizing wrongdoing by their own society, utterly incapable of taking criticism or recognizing the need for correction. This is remarkably close to the image of Hell painted by C. S. Lewis in his books Perelandra and The Screwtape Letters: a paralyzing self-absorption that imprisons the individual in hate and impotent rage while simultaneously blinding him to any possibility of escape.

This doesn't seem like a question of legal systems.
Apparently the designers of Mass Effect did their Sci Fi homework.
I have 20 year old notebooks that are mostly filled with pencil and I refer to them occasionally. They are all perfectly legible still and I used a wide variety of pencils.
agree, if you have batch jobs for spark, Azure Batch Service may not be a bad solution either.
HDInsight includes too much other complexity if all you wanted was spark.
Databricks will be interesting, as they can take away even they mysticism of touching azure beyond initially provisioning them some rights.
It's not that "the mapping" makes "the simulation" make sense. You have moved most of "the simulation" into "the mapping". So if you don't do the mapping, the simulation mostly does not happen, so there is nothing to make sense of.
Because of some crackpot moon cycle theory? How about we back up a bit and start with the assumption of the title that Mars will “perpetuate human race” to begin with, what with the long, dangerous travel and an environment less hospitable than any we know here on Earth. Then maybe we can worry about something something menstrual cycles and moons.

”Given this small orbit time and the fact that life we know does not exist currently in Mars, this could well indicate the conditions will not be conducive for human life on Mars.”

Okay, that’s it, I’m flagging this shit, if only because it’s taking up space on the page that could used for a more useful bit of news.
Maybe you don't know but we are talking about a company that once raised $100k to dig a hole for no reason.

That was last years campaign.... Whatever they do it can't be more wasteful than last years.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/28/cards-aga...

https://holidayhole.com/
I am sickened by CK's actions. However I am equally as sickened that the conversation is focused on louis ck, who certainly deserves to lose his career, but in my opinion indecent exposure is no where near as traumatizing a crime as forcible rape.

It just screams limited hangout where the big wigs make the new money pervert take the fall in order to take the heat off them.
If you can control the traffic in and out a country, you can control both the internet and block off extra-sovereign chains.
> Am I the only one in here who loves their hosted solutions?

No, even though I'm fully-aware that it's ill-advised. You're picking your poison: you can either have absolute security (which should always win, but I am human) or convenience. That being said, I'm not a fan of them forcing people down their hosted route.
Yes, if the government backed CC becomes the new fiat, and I assume only federal participants for mining/computation, then yes, shortcircuit straight to federal Excel spreadsheets!
Remote development is definitely an adjacent use case that we believe could be really compelling. Thanks so much for providing the +1 on the scenario, and stay tuned (i.e. sign up :)) for future updates!
Replace that 'degree in something' with 'degree in an IT field'. There will come a day, where programming and creative arts are the only things not fully automated. Doctors, Surgeons, Lawyers, even Architects will probably be automated by 2040.

Hopefully, that brings hospital care costs down, but I'm betting their still greedy and just make 10x as much on 10x less staff.

I'm anxious for the ai revolution to just get on with already. UBI will be needed eventually, I want us to hurry and get to the breaking point where unemployment is 40% or greater across the globe because of automation so policymakers start to see that without some safety net for people there will be an uprising. I'm optimistic we can come together as a human race and solve poverty someday.

But I'm not naive, it could become a dystopian world where the rich live in lavish cities with closed walls, and everyone else lives outside those walls.
"I feel likes it's a rehash of emacs vs vi debate from 30 years ago. Emacs needed many megabytes more than vi so people wouldn't use it."

The thing is, this was in fact a valid critique of Emacs back in the day, and it cost Emacs users. I know I stopped using it back then partially because of its resource use (and because it was a lot slower than vi and because of its finger-twisting keyboard shortcuts).

If Emacs was as light on resources as vi was back then, it would have more users today.
Why wouldn't they be? How else would you envision indentation working?
> rational self-interest

Isn't assuming this the basic failing of economics as a science? Not trying to be provocative, sincerely asking.
This just reminds me of a disabled game developer who doesn't have a $100k job and is trying to get money together for medical expenses. https://twitter.com/ForgetAmnesia/status/919254493035819008
productive deployment of capital

Right, and the economists argue a deflationary market makes capital scarce

High housing costs are an incredibly unproductive use of capital

Right; it seems desirable for housing costs to keep even pace with the rest of the market, and ideally stay close to depreciated replacement cost

And even when computers were improving significantly every year and prices went down people on average still increased their buying of new computers.

I still buy computers in the deflationary technology market, like everyone else. But because I am putting off purchases and cannot recoup my costs with a sale, I probably buy a lot less computing hardware than I would if, for example, improvements were still just as big but much less frequent. I'm not saying it would be better for the world if computers improved more slowly- but clearly market behavior would change.
Depends on your definition of modern. I don't really care what you call it, the fact of the matter is that it's slow and an inferior product.
This is why the webbrowser was not built for every little thing. We as programmers need to get back to writing applications and use the web more as a data stream. Thus letting the app do all the rendering ahead of time and we are just refreshing the data
A lot. I'm in college, so Stats, Japanese, Communication, and History there. But that's just the surface.

I'm also reading a lot of eBooks (mostly nonfiction books: Deep Work, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Models: Attracting Women through Honesty.) I also want to read Wilson's new translation of The Odyssey.

Finally, I just realized I had feelings for a friend of mine when she started dating someone else. I decided that it'd be healthier for both of us if I wished her the best and moved on. We're on good terms, so that's good. So I'm learning a lot about myself and relationships there.
Not where I live! What word should we use now?
I don't disagree that cryptocurrency is a valid technology, nor its profitability, nor its contribution to society. I do disagree with presenting it to a non-technical audience in such a fashion as to give the appearance of being zero cost.
Awesome leading and managing
The power dynamic is the issue. Can you truly consent to something sexual coming from someone who can end your livelihood?

I understand the rationale behind thinking "oh they should just have just gotten up and walked away" but it makes me sick to my stomach to justify sexual harassment at all PERIOD.
> If torture didn't work, Kiefer Sutherland would never have gotten anywhere. But if everyone were against torture, the show wouldn't have existed.

If you want to see a fictional counterpoint to the "torture works" argument, I'd encourage you to watch Burn Notice. It has a blacklisted CIA operative who fights crime in Miami and one of his mottoes is "Torture doesn't always get you the truth. It gets you the quickest lie that will stop the torture" (he does a voiceover narration). Instead of torture he uses deception, misdirection, and other tradecraft to extract secrets. For example, he kidnaps his target and holds him in a dark warehouse, then has himself beaten up by an associate and put in the warehouse as a "fellow" captive, thus gaining his confidence (it's much better on-screen, I've probably forgotten some details).
What's that work out to in people? And maybe more interestingly, is the percentage of people getting NSOs lower than 25%? I bet you get a lot of frequent fliers, and the ones getting NSOs seem like they'd a big percentage of the platinum fliers in your service.
We do not know which of 1-7 are needed by which people, so giving them to everyone is wasteful.

In addition, providing those basic necessities for free destroys the paid market for those goods and harms economic growth.

> UBI is, in essence, an attempt to create a mixed economic system that is communist at the bottom end and capitalist at the top end.

I think you do not know what "communism" means. There is nothing in UBI about public ownership of the means of production.

> If the subsistence-level of existence is guaranteed, there is no longer any leverage provided to a person with more resources by virtue of the poorer person needing to accept a bad deal in order to live, while the richer person can walk away from the table without meaningful consequence. Workers cannot be as easily exploited if everyone can afford to quit their jobs.

This is exactly why UBI is a good thing. Workers are freed to find the most effective use of their skills (rather than relying on capitalists to do it for them) which will hopefully lead to higher economic efficiency.
Stop being disingenuous. The article this comment thread is over is about someone specifically attempting to organize labor in the US.
You're equating both societies' sense of what an insult is. Sometimes it's just a daughter's choice of boyfriend.
Not sure but maybe because it's not that politicians of all stripes want people to starve but that there is disagreement on how to bring that about. It's a painfully true reality that there are people who when given every opportunity, trust funds, etc, they are still immense drags on their community and economy as a whole with the destruction they leave behind in their wake. How will UBI deal with it's empowerment of such people or such tendencies in people? Until you do, you don't have workable system but an absolutely disaster in the making that will amplify suffering rather than decrease it.
>dispensing cash yearly vs. monthly

Which is not at all similar if you're poor.
No one monetizes your hate better than these guys, the DCCC could learn a thing or two from them.
Bail can serve that purpose. However, in many instances, it's really just an unreasonable tax on the poor.
Same in China.

Same in Australia.
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>Once a user installs the app on their computer, it automatically harnesses a small amount of unused processing power to mine for cryptocurrency
Dumb marketing strategy that is working. Funneling tax payer money into that hands of lawyers. Good work.
You are right that the other way is more prominent, but both phrases appear in the book; for example,

“We now use the phrase "select is broken" as a gentle reminder whenever one of us starts blaming the system for a fault that is likely to be our own.”

That quote appears right above «Tip 26: “select” isn’t broken.»
Yes, you don't get it.
The article and one of the comments mentions that the Hawk Emulator is still in use.

Does anyone know how these would be used now, and why?
There is a segment of your users that still want the original 'on-prem' version that you started out with.

These nerds have money and understand you want a sustainable business model. Just charge these people an annual software maintenance fee and stop neglecting the standalone version. Yes it wont satisfy everyone, but it will stop all the negative PR that comes out whenever you do something that is artificially cloud only.
I have switched away from all apps and mobile devices for anything note-related. I feel like it's not worth trying to adapt my note habits I've had since graduate school just to appease the latest iOS or App idiosyncrasies. I also need to switch between computers and operating systems frequently, so the most reliable device I have is a notebook sitting next to my desk.
Is this an option for Chrome/Linux/ChromeOS users to provide a more streamlined first-use experience? The "a look at the future" and "this is just the beginning" wording in the announcement blog post implies that this is the direction that 1Password is taking as a product, and Chrome support is just the beginning.

As a user who prefers a native implementation, uses local vaults, and uses Firefox, none of these advantages matter much. If it's not "for me", that's totally cool. If this new experience will replace the existing one, 1Password is no longer the solution for me.
Also a pretty cool article on this subject

https://daily.jstor.org/turkish-delight/

I also admit when I first heard read the book when young, Turkish Delight seemed like this otherworldly thing. In reality, its interesting, but nothing I would go out of my way for
A game we played with a friend of mine: the idea is to start with the recommended videos and then continue with all of the random stuff that goes as suggested videos (but never repeating anything you had already watched). We call it "YouTube TV".
The specific instance I was remembering was from interviews Hinton's given about these papers, but this is the section of the arXiv paper that's relevant:

>Now that convolutional neural networks have become the dominant approach to object recognition, it
makes sense to ask whether there are any exponential inefficiencies that may lead to their demise. A
good candidate is the difficulty that convolutional nets have in generalizing to novel viewpoints. The
ability to deal with translation is built in, but for the other dimensions of an affine transformation
we have to chose between replicating feature detectors on a grid that grows exponentially with the
number of dimensions, or increasing the size of the labelled training set in a similarly exponential way.
Capsules (Hinton et al. [2011]) avoid these exponential inefficiencies by converting pixel intensities into vectors of instantiation parameters of recognized fragments and then applying transformation
matrices to the fragments to predict the instantiation parameters of larger fragments. Transformation
matrices that learn to encode the intrinsic spatial relationship between a part and a whole constitute
viewpoint invariant knowledge that automatically generalizes to novel viewpoints. Hinton et al. [2011]
proposed transforming autoencoders to generate the instantiation parameters of the PrimaryCapsule
layer and their system required transformation matrices to be supplied externally. We propose a
complete system that also answers "how larger and more complex visual entities can be recognized
by using agreements of the poses predicted by active, lower-level capsules".

More broadly speaking, the benefit of being able to recognize slightly transformed viewing angles leads to dramatically fewer needed training observations that are still clearly identifiable as the same object.
I've used Riot (https://riot.im , built on Matrix) and it worked very well. Voice chat is still in beta but I haven't had any trouble with it.
"Yes, Emacs stands for "eight megabytes and constantly swapping". How silly this sounds today. I wonder why do those people even care."

Well, because if an application you're using is constantly swapping, it'll slow that application down to a crawl. This was especially true back in the day when disk was slow (and expensive.. as was RAM).

People today are used to being awash in resources. RAM is fast, plentiful, and cheap. Disks are relatively fast and cheap.

You have to imagine what it was like to live in a resource-constrained environment where you actually had to care about how much memory and disk you used, and how you were using it. These decisions had severe, immediately apparent practical consequences.
The piece feels like a first draft. The editor in me is screaming that it needs to go back to the author with a note that says "this is at level 1. What can we do to take it up to level 2?"

(But nobody is willing to pay editors anymore, so everything we read tops out at level 1. Sigh.)
> everyone having extra money

No. UBI redistributes income (slightly differently than welfare). It does not create new money.
are you sure about that? Literature from the South has been one of America's most successful cultural exports. It's the land of Faulkner, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, Cormac McCarthy, Alice Walker and many of the greats.
Unfortunately, the article is not well-researched. There is no effort to explain the social-economic roots of the problem at hand. No historic background or recognition that the problem spans across borders (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krvna_osveta) .
I find the title bombastic and inappropriate; it is simply using the catchword “vendetta” as clickbait.
If you visited Corsica or Sicily and observed/learned of a local custom or phenomenon, would you extrapolate that phenomenon to the rest of the country (respectively France/Italy)?
And what a coincidence that the author is of Serbian / Slavic origin.
If you carefully parse the NVCA's press release, they only approve the change.

https://nvca.org/pressreleases/nvca-cheers-changes-senate-ta...

They don't say anything about the bill as a whole. Yes, the bill is pure unadulterated shite. But the NVCA is a trade group lobbying for changes (from pure unadulterated shite) in the narrow interests of their group.

I get this. But it doesn't mean the NVCA is signing up for ObamaCare repeal. Indeed every VC I've met loathes Trump (I haven't met Thiel.) I was in a startup forum at Berkeley when ObamaCare repeal was broached by a startup tax lawyer. That was met with a resentful utter stone silence from the crowd. Coulda heard a pin drop.

But I get how the NVCA could lobby for this narrow change in an otherwise piece of pure unadulterated shite.
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GMail add-ons framework now available to all developers
More recent books are no slouch in this department; there are vivid descriptions of all kinds of goodies in the Harry Potter series, and the "Redwall" books are so well-known for their evocative culinary imagery that the author has added a companion cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Redwall-Cookbook-Brian-Jacques/dp/039...
It's easy to ban mining in a country when you control the backbone infrastructure. At which point there is no difference between cryptocurrencies and any other foreign currency.
> This is why the webbrowser was not built for every little thing.

Fortunately, software is changeable :)
It's a lot easier for the food cops to find a backyard chicken coop than an indoor beetle-raising operation. And let's be honest with ourselves; in order to enforce 100% veganism, there will have to be "war on meat" food cops.

I'm not going to stop eating meat unless someone literally puts a gun in my face, and then I will start again right after the gun is out of my face, and the gun-pointer is done roasting in my buried Morlock3000(TM) barbecue. It's technically not cannibalism if I feed the unfortunate Eloi to carnivorous insects and then eat the bugs, right?~

You can't force people to stop eating meat, and the veganism ecological argument will never be convincing enough to get 100% acceptance. You get far more traction out of finding ways to make the existing lifestyle status quo less damaging to the ecosystem. So now you're back to reducing the impact of the global beef herd in ways that don't involve reducing it all the way down to zero head of cattle.
Just donate the $ amount you'd have spent on a high end GPU and electricity. Faster, easier, less damage to the environment and doesn't require paying ATI or Nvidia more than you'd likely end up raising for the charity from your paltry mining haul...

Or if you really want to use cryptocurrencies, buy some XMR/BTC/whatever off an exchange and donate that.