skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It offends my sense of fairness to see the disparity between the very small number of very, very rich and the very large number of very, very poor.

It offends my sense of "people should enjoy freedom" to see so, so many people who are very much not free because of the economic system that offers them no way out of poverty.

(And I don't believe that poor people are all choosing poverty. I've been poor, and no one wakes up to that and says "this is what I choose.")

And it offends my sense of language when people use phrases like "build Microsoft" as though it was a doghouse that someone assembled in an afternoon and sold for the cost of materials plus $50 profit. Gates no more "built" microsoft than George Washington built America, or whatever. Lots of people were involved, and even if they were compensated well, maybe they weren't compensated fairly. Profits being the unpaid wages of the working class and all...
Yeah I think this is an interesting idea but I don't actually understand how the great-grandparent comment believes that this could be done. I don't think it works in a strict Bayesian sense. You would have to go out of your way to instruct your model to operate correctively
There are plenty of analogous policies in America. For example, universities are required to spend 10% (or some other percent?) of their total endowment each year in order to keep their tax-free status. This is why Harvard & Co. need to continue fundraising each year despite their massive endowments - they're massively discouraged from just 'saving' as well.

Everything distorts markets. The question is how to distort markets into providing the best outcome.
have you seen Flattr? Sounds like exactly that
> Don’t be so narrow minded

Hey not trying to rain on anybody's parade. :)

But, the fact that you work at one of the big 3, responsible for billions of dollars, means you probably graduated from a top school, live in the Bay area, are in the top 3-4% of intelligence and skills, had some luck, etc.

Most of us here, statistically, are not going to have these same traits.

Take a risk, but don't end up at 40 without something saved up for a rainy day. Start-ups fail more than they succeed, and we're both lucky - you in the right place at the right time (tech bubble, SV, etc) and me having invested during one of the largest bull markets in history.

So we're probably both preaching BS that may not apply going forward.
I'm going through a 4-book science fiction anthology which starts with Gilgamesh, Utopia, City of the Sun and so on. You really don't need to tell me that. My point was that SF surges in times when science achieves major wins. One surge was in XIX, another in 50's because of first men in space and on the Moon, as well as nuclear holocaust scare.
Why is a software VPN so difficult to get right? Why are so many of them so poor, or miss certain protocols, or have so many leaks?

Casting aside actual "vulnerabilities" (like buffer overflows, bad encryption, etc...), why can't a software VPN act just like a hardware VPN? Take every byte of traffic sent to a network device, and tunnel it to another endpoint?

I'm assuming there are several major reasons that I don't know about that makes what seems like a really trivial problem super difficult...
Caveats: GDP is no way to calculate wealth, and comparing the total GDP to any one person's wealth is pretty useless.

Let's say the total GDP over the last 40 years was 300 trillion dollars. Also, let's say Bill Gates's wealth is 100 billion dollars (for ease of calculation).

100B / 300T = 0.003 = .3% of 40 years of GDP

Let's say that the average population of the US during that 40 year period was 170M[0].

170M * 40 years = 6.8B person-years of work (PYoW).

Bill gates contributed 40 PYoW to the GDP, which is 0.000000059% of the GDP.

However, he captured .3% of the GDP as current wealth (not including wealth spent during that 40 years)

That means his wealth capture is 5 million times the "average".

That 'tiny sliver' is anything but.

[0] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LFWA64TTUSM647S
The first secure off-chain hub payment was made
We do tax wealth in a very limited way in the form of real estate property taxes. Though I would note that it hits the middle class and poor more disproportionately than the extremely wealthy. And I'd note that the tax cuts in front of congress propose making that scheme land even harder on the middle class by eliminating or curtailing the state/local tax (including property tax) exemptions from federal taxes.
I remember seeing an article from them arguing that we get rid of white emoji to punish white people for racism written by someone woman with pink hair and half her head shaved. Ever since then I've wondered if they're actually doing journalism, if they're actively trying to sabotage the left, or if they're really just that off their fucking rocker.
Who needs profit when you can sell treasuries to central banks?
Looking at your EULA (https://dramatiq.io/EULA.html), did you have it drafted by lawyer? I think I might need one for my projects but I'm not sure if I should pay a lawyer just yet.
The massive privacy violations Google and Facebook have done all in the name of advertising really piss me off. What's sad is that they are both so entrenched in everyday life, they're very difficult to work without for me. I have their stuff mostly off of my phone at least.
Any of the suggestions above would most likely work. Running an API sidecar or separate service would just be the cost of exposing the REST API.

I could definitely envision people deciding against using your key store when comparing to something like Vault based just on the fact that you limit extensibility with no API.
You are listing problems that are easily avoided by doing normal life activities (i.e. responsible, adult things).

- Don't park illegally (or if you prefer: "stop breaking the law")

- Check your mail regularly

- Track monthly expenses (so you can change things if needed)

- Check the price of something before you buy it.

- Don't entangle yourself with financially irresponsible people (this is good life advice, but difficult to always get right)

- Good point on insurance: medical coverage in the US is broken. However, you should still make sure you are covered.
The field effect transistor was patented in 1926 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-effect_transistor) - practical devices came later.
Losing eight pounds during 3-4 hours run (marathon event) is not unheard of: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3319287
It's basic income branded in a way that's more attractive for economically right-wing people (aka "capitalists").
Anyone who is remotely surprised by this should read "The Secret Team" by L. Fletcher Prouty.

Great book that gives some insight into the crazy stuff the CIA/NSC was doing 50 years ago.
The Guardian on "Correct the record":

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.theguardian.com+%...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/13/wikile...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/15/bernie-sande...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/17/when-is-a-ca...
My only recommendation is to not base your moral code on market forces. Not everything the market allows is good.

And maybe think a little about the people involved in the products you consume.
Polanyi’s Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth
I can't say that's a surprising headline for them anymore
Or... and I know this is crazy... why don't we make these benefits much more valuable by taking the total pool of money an negotiating collective strategies for services every human needs to varying degrees. Like health care, transportation, housing, food, and network connectivity.

What if it was as easy to start a private small business in the US as it was in the UK _for the individual_.
I'd love that too, but I'm not holding my breath
If it does, I hope they use better quality/designed fans. As someone who's had both the PM-G5 and the MP-2010, I wasn't impressed with the acoustics of either of them, even at idle. [Picky? Guilty as charged]

The early to mid year Mac Pros were certainly good value for money though. No chance any new Apple workstation will be keenly priced!
Because a growing share of Americans are beginning to feel trapped by poverty and when masses of people feel trapped instability often follows.

Everyone, from the CEO to the custodian has an interest in people feeling there is some truth to "The American Dream." Which is not that you might get rich but that you can at least get ahead.
The fundamental premise is no longer valid. It was premised not on the state-based popular militia as a counterbalance to government forces, but the government's dependence on the state-based popular militia to meet it's need for significant forces, with the limited standing forces forming a cadre for a wartime/emergency force comprised nearly entirely of mobilized popular militia. The large standing post-WWII force undermined that premise, and the transition to an all-volunteer force demolished it.

While Fourth Amendment law needs some serious reconsideration of the mechanism by which the protections are best given effect given new technologies and social context, that’s a lot smaller issue than addressing the modern realization of the goals of the Second Amendment.
No. Because your cellphone may not have been on your person.

If it isn't clear yet: the cellphone records were used to find the suspected ringleader (the appealing person in the case). They weren't the sole evidence for his conviction by lower courts.
It's a rebranded form of guaranteed basic income.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "CC Style?" You make a lot of sense with this post. Even UBI will not replace the human drive or need to create or feel satisfaction, and people will pursue that in healthier ways in their Survival Mode is taken care of (imho).
>Gawker broke the law. It's great they got ended.

Why do so many people ignore this fact? Yes, Thiel funded a lawsuit that bankrupted them. But he won that lawsuit because Gawker committed a crime. I don't see how what Thiel did is any different than when an organization like the ACLU, NAACP, or EFF gets behind a court case that aligns with their political causes. Either we agree that a third party is allowed to fund a legal case for political reasons or not. Isn't that in and of itself an issue of free speech?
It's encouraging people to make their money be productive instead of stashing it under a mattress. That doesn't sound like a bad thing to me.
Is it possible to apply a dynamic filter graph a la FFMPEG? For instance, ingest two RTMP streams and apply a filter to overlay one on top of the there in a PIP configuration while preserving both audio tracks? That would be very useful
5-6000 Calories is normal for an 8 work hour shift at -10c.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/99/12/E2772/2833739
You know what would be nice: Apple engineers and designers finding this thread and others like it and using it as inspiration to build another lovable Mac Pro.

The coffee can Mac Pro was a swing and a miss: an engineering achievement of sorts and an aesthetic bold move, but not loved by devs or scientists. I want an excellent case I can pack full of RAM, disks and GPUs, not external expansion with $70 cables that glitch and mess up the aesthetic in the process.

I don't know if Apple can make enough money on workstations to keep their attention, so maybe those days are gone.
I sort of get the intention behind this but I'm entirely unclear about the mechanism.

Is Sam proposing that citizens get stock in an actual entity?

If yes, what entity? All public assets are already jointly owned by all citizens so I'm not sure what assets there would be left to distribute.

If no, and it's some kind of virtual entity, how would the proposed dividends be paid? Out of tax money? Why not just adjust the tax laws then (something that has to be done anyway) and make that more fair?
Gawker didn't out Thiel.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/gawker...

Being in or out is kind of like a trade secret. You have to protect the trade secret. You can't tell it to your friends who are cool and have it remain a trade secret. Nor can you be semi out.

Thiel didn't like a story about him. Now if Gawker had invaded his privacy he'd have had legal recourse for that. But Gawker didn't invade his privacy and so he took his revenge elseways. And the article wasn't even critical.

http://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people
Where would this money come from?

You're talking here about distributing amounts starting in the hundred-200 billion dollar range and eventually ramping that up to 4-8 trillion. Is this just going to redistribute wealth from income taxes, or is it going to be an incredibly high corporate tax, or what?
>>I found staff asleep on their feet, exhausted from toiling for up to 55 hours a week.

What's brutal is their salary, £8.2 an hour, but 55 hours in the busiest season is called brutal? Please.
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Taxing consumption is regressive; as your wealth increases, the amount of dollars spent relative to your wealth continues to decrease.
Costco is an interesting case. Their profit is based on membership fees. That's why they're so fixated on customer service and happy employees.

For instance, Wal Mart makes more money if you shop their frequently. They have a vested interest in selling you products.

Costco makes their profits off the membership. So whether you shop there once a year or once a week, they continue to get that membership revenue.

On a side note, I wonder if that's the reason that lines at Costco are so miserable and their hours are so short? Perhaps Costco would prefer that you just stay home? Conversely, my Wal Mart is open 24hrs a day and the checkout process takes a couple minutes.
Take a look at any cap table. The wealthy and founders own the majority of shares.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15418719
Yeah. I respect Sam's ambition. But there's a meaningful difference between him being a good investor in a bull market and the type of people who could really add some insight into these issues.
Great ideas.

A party devoted to reflecting the wishes of all the citizens would be great.

This could be a major plank in a new party, along with many other intelligent goals.
The Guardian was so like the Wikipedia model that Jimmy Wales was a board member of the trust. I would add a link to his wiki entry but it seems a bit recursive
Plus, the difference between "not losing weight" and "losing weight" can be a lot of calories.

If you were gaining weight regularly and start exercising to lose it, you'd have to do a ton of exercise to compensate.

But if you're on the verge of losing weight and start exercising, it would be possible to tip the scales, so to speak. So long as you don't start eating more because of it.

I'm 205 lbs, and the charts say I need to eat between 1500 and 1800 calories per day to lose weight. I can eat 2600 and maintain my weight.

So if I'm just barely maintaining my weight at 2600 calories and I want to lose weight, I'd need 800 calories worth of exercise.

Moderate-pace walking burns 300 calories per hour for me. I'd need almost 3 hours of deliberate walking at a good pace to lose that extra weight, every single day. And I couldn't reward myself with a treat afterwards.

I got the exercise numbers from MyFitnessPal. The food calories I got from a site I found the other day, but I don't remember which.
I just got myself a TCL 43S405 43" as a monitor. It supports Chroma 4:4:4 and I'm really happy with it so far. Target has it on sale for 299 right now: https://www.target.com/p/tcl-43-4k-hdr-120hz-cmi-roku-smart-...
The governments routinely implement plans without reasonable research to back up their claims, so why not try this?

Because it's a huge change to society and it might have unexpected consequences. I feel this way, even being on the pro BI side.
The hobbyist market doesn't need a proprietary exception.
> This idea is basically UBI couched in capitalist terms

"Universal Basic Income" is already a radically capitalist idea. It's often discussed using terminology borrowed from Marxism and socialism, but it couldn't be any more capitalist of a construct. We're just not used to hearing it discussed with that language.
So, because they aren’t the only ones doing it we should consider it a norm and live with it. Shouldn’t we stop putting people in jail for murder then?
Pretty sure we're already doing this today. Take a look at any cap table and note the disproportionate amount of ownership between founders/investors and employees.
Obviously this doesn't work for people who fire and care for guns as a hobby.
A proxy for product (as in GDP) is Income.

The way you get that income into a shareable pot is via Tax.

So the best way to do this is still good old "Income Tax."

Unfortunately those with the most income don't like to have it taxed. And national policy tends to correlate pretty reliably with whatever those people want. Anything akin to what he's suggesting would help even things out, but that is precisely why they won't permit it. The only way for the masses to assert themselves is through their brute numbers.
Indeed, which is why I dislike seeing people who pooh-pooh on the idea that "calories in < calories out" is not a good first step. It's absolutely the correct first step, IMO. There's obviously more in play beyond that, but for a lot of people it's the most basic first step they need to grasp to move further down the scale. After getting eating habits under control, then people can worry more about how the body burns different calorie sources differently and balancing exercise with healthy eating.
So Gawker exercised free speech and he was allowed to tag along in an unrelated lawsuit. That sounds like a big loophole in the system. Say what you will about these "smut peddlers" like Gawker but that is an attack on free speech. I amazed more folks in the comments aren't upset about the constitution being perverted in such a way.
Schizotypal / Schizoid and avoidant are currently much less studied than Asperger's Syndrome (which is becoming glamorous), depression, psychopathy, schizofrenia or bipolar. How do you know ? There are reasons to believe avoidant/schizotypal/schizoid can be related to childhood trauma. More than 0.01% have some kind of childhood trauma, and they mostly go undetected.

Zampano from the movie "La Strada" just screams "Schizotypal", but if you put the two in a search engine - it hasn't occurred to anyone.
"That is not a given. The neural network type of AI, which is so far the most promising avenue, is about as opaque as a human brain. It is far from obvious that even a superintelligent AI could understand what its own brain does, let alone modify it in a way that has positive implications for itself."

What it could do is experiment. It could rewire the network, add or take away nodes, change functions, etc. This could potentially be done and evaluated by it at an incredibly fast rate compared to humans.

Regarding the difficulties of it reading its own source code, even the hypothetical ones you cite are many orders of magnitude smaller than those faced by humans in reading their own, as long as the AI is not itself running on a biological substrate.
Agreed. It would be great if news pieces would constantly steel man "the other side" instead of constantly pushing their readers towards one of the extremes by confirming all of their already held stereotypes.
If he fixes it, the prices will rise, making Amazon less wonderful.
I've seen a few from a distance so I'm not an expert. Which modern airshows feature plans that crash or explode intentionally near the audience?
Or, pay them $25 an hour and no one will complain.
The quickest way to know if people will pay for your product
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Try sweet home 3d. It's free and open source and designed specially for home design cad (really great for figuring out furniture layouts).
The aggie bonfire was only put to an end relatively recently, and we still have burning man.
A network graph would have been more efficient than the bulk of 5k words in the article.

The article goes in depth on the first part (Thiel and Stanford Review) but doesn't go into the _how they built a silicon valley empire_ part.

Main takeaway is Thiel has been politically active since his sophomore years and his involvement in the current administration is in agreement with his past. So for most people who knew Thiel, it may not have come as a surprise.
You could hit the level of physical exercise I'm speaking about in 30-60 per day at home with bodyweight exercises, with a very minimal chance of injury. (To the point my 90 year old grandmother can do the exercises -- she's just slower and does lighter versions.)

That's not a priority for some people, but that's a choice they're making.

It's absolutely not about access or time -- it's about choosing to do it or not. Frankly, given how much more efficient it makes everything else, I think it's harder not to.

Other people feel differently.