skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What they are doing is advancing the politicizing of everything and driving an agenda of divisiveness.

Why is an artist is not allowed to be an artist anymore but needs to be an political activist?

Even worse, because TS doesn't follow the Guardian's absurd logic, they are trying to shame her with their imaginative interpretation.

That's not journalism, that is a 6-year old's fantasy world, who dreams up stories about celebrities and why they are their imaginary friends/enemies.
Without a doubt, a global wealth tax would significantly improve the quality of life for every human on this planet; even those with the large amounts of wealth being taxed.
Look at Oklahoma if you want to see the US version of a petro state. If we're going to do the petro state thing anyways, might was well run an interesting social experiment instead of just enriching a few huge corporations while shuttering our schools.
>> trillions of dollars and thousands of lives expended on middle eastern wars

> Such little assumptions belittle the value of non-american lives

...and american lives as well: I'm always surprised at how in some cultures it's considered acceptable mixing money and human lives in the same sentence as if they were somewhat comparable items.

On top of that, human lives are often listed after money, yet nobody seems to take notice of this.

"oh it's just semantics"...
Dancing, singing and similar ways of expressing emotions are terrifying for schizotypal people. It can be an early warning.

I'm using the opportunity to promote awareness. I've been diagnosed with a very similar disorder. For 30 years I used to think it's perfectly normal to lash out when someone speculates about your romantic relationships, suggests going to a party or dancing. I ended up alone, and not in the "single" sense, but people - often my best friends - gradually stopped contacting me, one by one, for no apparent reason and without saying anything. I thought I just was "shy" or "introverted". But my behaviour qualifies as extreme introversion, and I was just responding with verbal aggression (offense is best defense) because I felt threatened and naked when someone inquired about my emotions.

Schozotypal personality disorder can wreck your life, I know because I am in this situation and it takes a lot of effort and self-discipline to recover. One of most common side effects is severe depression. Schizotypal people fear emotional contact, but at the same time they crave it and close relationships and friendships. Gollum, Groke from Moomins, Zampano from "La Strada".

It doesn't help people see I don't visibly express emotions and conclude I don't feel them. At best they say I'm stoic, at worst - a psychopath.

A personality like that has far-reaching consequences. In Europe, or at least in Poland, it is customary to eat everything clean to show you like it very much and to please your host. In Asia it's the opposite. You're sopposed to leave a token piece of food to show the host has given enough to feed everyone. In both cases, you want to please your host - but you use radically different approach. You can draw opposite conclusions from the same idea. How does it relate to being schizotypal ? If you're very uncomfortable discussing your emotions, family relationships, etc... you don't ask other people about that either, because you assume other people are like you. People judge others by themselves. The result is that people thing you're an egoist because you don't ask others about their emotional well-being. And because you often keep a poker face, your ability to read emotions of others is a bit impaired too.
Walmart is 'secretly' testing self-driving floor scrubbers
It was not such a dumb idea. Between the mid-1890's and the mid 1920's, Joe Connolly (known as Head-On Joe) staged more than 50 similar events with more than 1 million paid admissions and not a single injury ever!
That's an interesting twist. Obviously, it's Basic Income, but with incentives included.

+1
What has become your primary source?
I agree. It is very easy to judge it harshly in retrospect. I find the comments about heat output especially strange. Perhaps they are forgetting some of the hotblooded pentium 4s of the day.
How much damage has Peter Thiel done to free speech? This is what Peter Thiel will be remembered for.
> I would say more correctly the Republican Party was the one chosen by the lobbyist to take the heat for this anti consumer action.

You might say that, but not “more correctly”. While the action is anti-consumer, there are big business lobbyists on both sides, it's not big business lobbyists on one side and consumers on the other. And this is true of most issues with big business lobbying; it's the exception, rather than the rule, that big business has a unified interest.

You can't talk about “the lobbyist” as if there is only one, or many that act in coordination with a single will.

> The DNC and the GOP are just tools of the lobbyist to keep the people distracted , separated, and appeased to think they still have a voice.

I get how it might have seemed that way if you looked at a narrow range of big-picture economic-policy issues at the height of the 1990s neoliberal consensus, but that's not even approximately true.
I used a G5 as the base for my first custom case [0]. It was a royal pain to work with, because Apple flipped and recessed their motherboards.

[0]: https://imgur.com/gallery/WCrF1
Yeah that’s a good idea, I am sure there is a very good business model in sorting out the details, but the pain point has been that you have had to run these things yourself or pay a decent amount to get someone to run it for you. (See BBC outsourcing their technology to Siemens just over 10 years ago for approx $3.6BN)
A war.
Why ? Because you're going to bully me ?
Since you say "child labor moved overseas [once the US adopted child labor laws]" are you prepared to show some data indicating that there was a corresponding increase in child labor outside of the US since that time?

Without that your comment is just hollow market worship.
So who was the mastermind? Wolfowitz?
"4am every day until 1pm the next day" is 37 hours if you take it literally. Mathematically this obviously can't be true. Your interpretation of "4am until 1pm the same day" is only one of many possible ways we could "fix" the sentence to mean something sensible.
Er, yes, you’re quite correct. It would be 150% of the current number, but a 50% increase.
Was there evidence presented that the Las Vegas shooter was motivated by hatred for some group (political or otherwise)? I guess I missed that in the papers.
People need a variety of goods from society, like security, healthcare, education, a way to settle disputes via law as opposed to might; etc. American inequality is not just about money or shares. Racial segregation is enforced by the unique system of local taxes funding local schools an erecting barriers for poor people to both move in and access good education. This was intentionally and purposefully set up as a means of segregation - i.e. deny black people from entering white communities and access the same social goods.

One basic suggestion is to pool all public education dollars at a larger unit, and distribute across all schools in a given state equitably. Eventually all public schools in a given state will have similar quality, and more importantly, the upper middle classes will now put their considerable resources and energy to improving the whole state system instead of their idyllic town, lifting up the standards across the whole state.

Of course people will be upset about their property values - in fact, that's when you begin to see the true proportions of American social division: People have equity built up in segregation. They bought in to the system.

Many countries have roughly comparable public schools across groups of a couple million people. It is not tiny districts with massive disparities across one another.

Another idea is national health care - the US Government already pays for most of the actual costs: Veterans, active-duty military, Children in need, the poor, and the majority of elderly Americans. These constitute most of the actual costs. The government also pays indirectly through healthcare benefits provided to roughly 1/3rd of America employed via various levels of government (state, fed, local) and government-run entities (like subways, school etc.).

So - the gov pays for the sick people, whereas the healthy working age people pay into insurance. So the costs come out of gov, but the $ goes to private.

We also have massive inefficiency maintaining bureaucracies in hospitals, government, and insurance companies to do billing. Europeans are shocked at just how much of the healthcare $ is spent on this staff, that is more than half of all staff. You can fire every single person doing reimbursements and billing if you had a nationalized healthcare system. You can also remove perverse incentives to docs, who make money by treating you unnecessarily. When Doc has college bills to pay for little junior, you're GETTING that stent, need it or not.
So emotions are a problem to be solved and moved past...

I don't want your world. Dystopias suck.
I got 10% (of course). It's powered by https://www.wheelofpopups.com/ and one of the features is you can set the probability of each item.
> On HAProxy this is not as easy as I need to tell both LE and HAP about the new backend.

You only need to tell the certbot container the new domain. The frontend config I gave you actually hits before any host-ACLs which means it will pass all acme-challenge requests on all domains to the certbot container, and certbot will reload haproxy when it's done.
Do you remember the name of the documentary?
React Native at Grofers: Using React Native Components inside Native Views
I remember very clearly going into the original Geek Squad offices on Washington Ave and seeing a bunch of these lining the desks of the agents. I was in complete awe. I asked the guy what they were (I knew they were Apple hardware, but had never seen them before). He just quipped, "New Apple G5's, they're insanely fast and never go down. We love em'."
It may get worse still. Supposedly Intel’s 10nm process is doing very poorly and might actually be worse than 14nm.
The problem is that the labor market has never been "liquid" enough to be truly competitive. There are far too many externalities in play in labor for that ever to be the case. (Location, ability to work, skill levels, are all basic externalities that keep labor markets from being liquid. In the US market because health care, retirement, and other basic are employer-connected, those further externalities prevent liquidity for labor.)

If people had the right not to work, you'd have a more liquid labor market. If people's basic necessities were met before needing to work, you'd have a more liquid labor market.

Until that day, minimum wage are basic hacks to try to present some of those labor externalities as a basic deserved negotiating position.
>Bill Gates' (to name a random American citizen) has a far larger share in the GDP than most other Americans. If you want to solve that raise your taxes on the rich and lift up those that are at the lowest end of the scale.

I don't understand why this is something people believe needs "solved". Did you build Microsoft?
To add to this, it is very hard to argue that QE has not been good for those who are rich and have bought and held financial assets over the last 7 years or so. It is harder to say whether it has been beneficial for average individuals.. on the one hand, they can borrow at much lower rates, but on the other hand, certain asset prices have skyrocketed. We also need to consider the number of companies that have been able to keep employees on the payroll due to being able to finance debt at lower rates when the economy was doing poorly... in general, QE was good for everyone in the short term. The better question is, who does it hurt in the long term.
How can you treat someone unfairly when they are not compelled to interact with you at all?

Every single person who has a job with Amazon is there because they choose to be.
And you know there's a LE conversation happening that goes, "well, if they didn't commit this crime, we have plenty of unsolved ones to compare the data against."
Ask HN: Apple banning In-App Ads?
Do you think Apple will ban In-App ads in the future? Would it be beneficial for users longterm? Would developers flee the platform?
The estate tax is a tax on wealth.
To be fair, although the US is involved in every war and terrorist organisation since the 50s they rarely start them.
That's a weird way to do it, and would tend to subsidize employers for questionable benefits. Tax incentives for employer tuition reimbursement makes more sense.

Instead there should be programs to pay people minimum wage + tuition to attend community college for in-demand-career related degrees.
> but what's to stop us from cloning big chunks of our civilizations... simulating them, but using vastly less power/resources for each simulation? Then writing software to have them pass knowledge among the civilizations? We have just a few hundred countries, what if we had a trillion communicating at the speed of computer circuitry?

The principle of computational irreducibility [1] is what will stop us from "cloning" civilizations. That and chaos theory - any tiny deviation in initial conditions of such a simulation or cloning process could produce unusable results.

"simulating them, but using vastly less power/resources" is a pipe dream.

[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ComputationalIrreducibility.htm...
In your reference frame nothing will be different, so it really depends on whether you want to loose weight for yourself or for others.
In my opinion, that's one of the goals for AWS Media Services.

You could think of them as Lego bricks, combine a couple of them together and you could easily have a "broadcast grade" workflow for your content.

But back to your original question, currently MediaLive does not say it supports RTMP outputs (make sure to request it as a feature!) so using it as a "one-to-many" would require another lego brick to convert UDP to RTMP.

However, once support has been added for RTMP outputs, you could live stream to any platform (Twitch, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram) that supports the RTMP protocol.

The neat thing about MediaLive is that it allows you to use audio, video, or caption tracks. So for example, if you had a single source that had platform-specific tracks, you could create outputs for each platform and use the corresponding track to create curated content.

But, that's just one example of hundreds that is possible with AWS Media Services.
That already happened, though, didn't it? JOBS Act III?
Custom built solutions usually, involving many vendors and technology partners. (Look at state broadcasters streaming solutions for examples of countrywide distribution for an idea)
ever been to an airshow?

yeah..
I'd be fine with a wealth tax on a national level with restrictions on offshoring cash, but I don't want to steal wealth from everyone in the west to distribute it globally. You'd also have a very difficult time getting nations like China to agree to something like this.

Edit: sorry, wasn't aware of the exact definition of this. Having everyone pass this sort of thing is a great idea imo.
Should we go back to the days of mandated government work programs? What is your actual recommendation here?

At some point we have to accept that people should be able to make free choices, and will typically make sub-optimal choices. We can increase the burden on employers but then that means less overall jobs - which then leads to that starvation outcome you mention.
Another Chinese bike-share company appears to have gone bust
Municipalities do, but the federal government does not.
> U.S government does a lot of contingency planning

But Puerto Rican hurricanes aren't on the radar apparently.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. You walked the line between "being okay with Peter Thiel destroying gawker" and "being okay with a billionaire destroying press", so you're probably getting downvoted from both sides. :]

SlateStarCodex had a really good book review on David Friedman's "Legal Systems Very Different From Ours". One of the systems he covered is Iceland, which a court conviction allows you to go take things from the person who wronged you, by force. http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/13/book-review-legal-syste...

But the issue is maybe you're not a great fighter, or you're old. You might not be comfortable taking things from someone by force. That's okay, because medieval iceland allowed you to sell the lawsuit/conviction to another party, and allow them to collect.

It resulted in a system that actually had a most valid lawsuits being pursued, because there were people willing to carry them out themselves. Kinda cool, and it feels similar to how Peter Thiel supported Hulk Hogan. And I'm pretty okay with it!
I feel the same way about depending on, and routing my traffic through third-party services.

I've recently developed a utility[0] to help simplify setting up hidden services w/client auth for this purpose, you might find interesting.

[0] https://github.com/cmars/ormesh
Brutal? Sounds like a regular blue collar job.

I worked as a sparkwatch at a plywood plant in high school. Basically, a welder’s assistant. This is what regular blue collar jobs look like. You work 12 hour shifts. The machinery is hot. There is constant dust in the air. You are on your feet the entire time. It’s 30ºC in the summer. It’s -20ºC in the winter.

People in Sillicon Valley and especially the press are just completely out of touch with how the rest of the world works and live.
Are they worth X though? What if they produce X-1 in value? Would you hire someone who cost more than they produced?

Someone's wage has an absolute ceiling at the level of "this is how much value I produce per hour". No one will hire you for more than that. And currently, there are some people who cannot be hired at minimum wage.

A UBI (and national health insurance) would help a lot with wages though. With less fear of losing their job, employees would have more bargaining power. They'd also have more resources to spend on commuting or time off work for interviews. By expanding the number of potential employers a person has access to, you indirectly allow them to bargain for higher wages, even without explicitly setting a minimum wage.
Yes, you are looking at it from multiple wrong angles.

1. Yes, it is. Government will not take the money (and I don't buy any "omg inflation" arguments, since last crisis has actually in effect reduced inflation everywhere) and even if it does - if you cannot live through bad spell on 100k you have a problem.

2. Sounds like bad reserve managment i.e. missing "money in the bank". I haven't heard anyone recommending to go for mortgage with less than 6months reserve. And you had multiple mortgages with "two or three paycheques" in reserve? Seriously?

3. Money can almost always provide time (to heal, get a job, opportunity to choose less well paid job with more / flexible free time etc.), which can (for most people) be converted to relationships / skills. If you cannot make friends / learn new things given enough time, once again you have a problem.

4.
> but honestly my bills are paid and I don't feel the need to make more money than I do right now. Why take on the stress?

Does not sound like you have money in the bank. Especially considering the tiny reserve (two or three paychecks is really ridiculously small, especially when you have multiple mortgages).
I think question of transferring and/or borrowing against your future basic income (which Sam mentions) is a big one. Note of course that the only practical way to not allow it would be to shield all of the basic income from debt collectors and bankruptcy.

Without rules like that, then all of the safety net programs we have will still need to exist, because people could end up with a net income far below the basic income otherwise.
I'm pioneering a futuristic alternative. The user donates their CPU cycles -> to generate hashes -> to mine crypto currency on behalf of the open source project.

http://opensourcecitizen.org

If you need a way to accept donations worldwide - without a merchant account and without the donor even needing a credit card or bank account - it might be worth a look.
I have been researching VOD infrastructure for a while now. So far, most services are either too expensive, too isolated or too rigid on how they are available to developers. Then there are the wistias, the vimeos, the vidyards which are too user centric and are more focussed on marketing and analytics.

AWS Media services seems exciting other than the cloudflare one that popped up back in September. Can't wait to try both.

Ideally, I would love something like the following:

1. Ability to upload video and transcode for cheap. Most services charge based on per minute of transcoding and get real expensive if you plan to process tons of videos. Not to mention, they charge additional for HD minutes. I have looked at amazon elastic transcoder, zencoder, encoding.com, coconut.co etc. Thinking of building my own using a decent VPS and slapping ffmpeg on top of it. Any suggestions ?

2. Video delivery and player for things such as HLS, Dash etc. So far, I have found shaka player from google to be a good one. There is even a videojs integration for it which seems to work well.

3. Video distribution/CDN. This one is still tricky for me. Some CDNs are not good with videos and some are too generic. Evaluated maxcdn/stackpath, keycdn, fastly and now looking at cdn77

So yea, this is a tough problem. I hope someone does it in a way that it is easy for developers to build their own using the infrastructure. Right now, it is all fragmented.
s/Peter Thiel/Gawker/g;

there, fixed it for you.
The Overlooked Link Between Two of This Year’s Nobel Prizes
Thunderf00t had a great take on this showing why excercise is pretty much useless for weight loss.

You exhale same percentage of CO2 no matter how active you are so to burn more fat you have to make yourself breathe faster. You can do that with excercise which, if it's intense, can triple your rate of breathing. But if you do intensly excercise for an hour each day you just burn 26 hours of fat instead 24.

Not much of a difference. You can do much more with skipping some snacks or soda you ingest daily.
> If you have the same people buying and selling stuff faster, they may still retain the same wealth but the economy will grow even further.

At the expense of future growth. All of the money borrowed must eventually be paid back, which reduces growth by reducing that same money supply (increasing taxes to pay for it reduces the money supply similarly). It only makes sense to borrow when the future rate of return is greater than the interest rate of the debt, i.e. it'll take more than 8 years to see any return on investment from UBI.
Come on, you are really simplifying. That argument was used in London at the beginning of the XIX century. We all know now it is flawed.
There is some really good discussion in this thread about the ergonomics of monitors. As a sysadmin, one thing I've learned is that ergonomics of workspaces, at home and at the office, are far too often overlooked or compromised on, so please, for your own future health, take a moment to review how your workspaces affect you physically. That means monitor setup, keyboard and mouse position, chair height and back support, etc.

For those who have been neglecting these things, a good stretching routine and daily posture work is probably the best starting point.
I think you're asking a rhetorical question where the answer is in the affirmative. But I would actually like to know how much damage Peter Thiel has done to free speech.

Gawker broke the law. It's great they got ended.
Why do you think these companies want your $1k? There's an absurd amount of capital floating around as it is.
It did not. No company I know of seriously implements it. I'm consulting for a startup now. I suggested they implement it and got laughed at.