skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems everybody has different goals for UBI. Getting unemployed people to work is not one I've encountered before I think.

It's one of the most common I've seen cited by both left- and right-leaning UBI proponents.

> I fail to see how giving everybody free money is going to get unemployed people to work. For them, nothing changes.

For the unemployed, two critical things change compared to existing policy in a typical UBI scheme funded primarily by additional taxes on capital income and very high non-citizenship income, with little change in the taxation of income at most lower levels:

(1) Additional income from work is not offset by benefit reductions as in current unemployment/welfare programs.

(2) Minimum wage is eliminated or reduced due to the reliance on UBI to provide all or part of a livable income, increasing potential (re-)entry opportunities to the labor market.
This is why cryptocurrencies exist and are important. Cut the middlemen. Fast.
This is a pretty terrible excuse. It amounts to: we're overcharging you because we're too lazy to change our billing system.

A reasonable change is to make one charge per month for the total you've pledged. The CC charges for $100 would be $3.25.

No one would object to $3.25 per $100.
Mmh, could you "show me your work"? Because I don't see how you end up with these numbers.

2.9% of $1 is $0.029

$1 + $0.029 + $0.35 ~= $1.38

95% of $1.38 is $1.311

Clearly that doesn't make sense.

Or does it mean that Patreon gets 5% from the creator's share and then 2.9% + .35 cents on your side? So if I want to pledge $1 then I have to pay $1.38 and the creator really only receives $.95? If so that seems misleading. Also in this case it would mean that in that case Patreon ends up taking 31% of the actual money spent by the pledger.
Just for funsies (but may answer your question): every (differentiable) function is linear at a small enough time scale. This includes e^x or pretty much every function you listed.
That used to be the case, but it certainly isn't anymore. 95% of gas stations in Los Angeles have a separate, lower, price per gallon for cash.
I use Tab Session Manager as a replacement but it's clearly not the same.

In fact all my extension replacements are inferior to their previous counterpart (not even considering having to edit an obscure CSS to customize the UI).

I still have to restart the browser regularly but now I can't have a restart entry in the file menu. Tip: shift+F2, "restart".

My strategy has been to duplicate everything in Chrome and use both, with pinned tabs running on Chrome, especially for Google apps.

Another tip: For some reasons E10s wouldn't activate anymore with the update to FF57 (check it with about:support) and I had to create a new profile to make it work .
Building Yelp
No, most stock exchanges aren't exposed to the public like bitcoin exchanges are.
>I'd argue that classes with a single field are a worse code smell. A using or typedef would be better

Sometimes, but not in this case, because

- Smart pointers are nullable, which should be opt-in and not opt-out behavior.

- Smart pointers have pointer-like interfaces, which do not read like idiomatic modern C++. A wrapper class `GadgetHandle` can define conversion operators for `Gadget&` and `const Gadget&` so their interface reflects their semantic meaning (a `Gadget`) and hides irrelevant or unsafe implementation details (the operators and methods belonging to the smart pointer class).

- As a corollary to the above, you can create several classes `UniqueGadgetHandle`, `SharedGadgetHandle`, `CustomGadgetHandle` and so forth, which enable you to very easily and transparently intermix or alter allocation strategies (even on the stack or statically) for your `Gadget`s, usually without needing to alter any public APIs or more than one section of your codebase.

- When your heap-allocated data [structures] don't semantically correspond to the containers provided by the STL or your other library dependencies, I find that chances are you have or may add some custom constructor/destructor logic beyond just new and delete.
I think the question is, and the one I have too, is why would such AI have any ability to do anything beyond output a Cure Cancer solution to a terminal? Why does the AI need to be the one to implement its derived solution?

The AI has a good think and comes up with a solution of killing all humans. The researchers read the printed report of the solution and decide against implementing it, tweak parameters, and ask the AI to take another go at it.
Did they really just try to define "amount pledged" as different from "amount the end user actually pays" so they can say "well now you always get 95% of amount pledged" but, of course, not 95% of what the user paid. Seems like a bad experience for the user that wants to pledge X and gets charged X+fees. At least the people who are getting paid are used to Patreon taking a cut.
Maintenance xor DDOS?
I would not call it "lazy" because that's a direct insult to the human beings, but I have not yet seen a reasonable defense of why they appear to be charging more than Stripe charges them, and encourage folks to seek that when asking Patreon questions about this issue.

EDIT: "why they're" -> "why they appear to be"
Agreed - at most of the companies where I've worked the sysadmins / devops have all had degrees.
As others said, its determined by what people will pay for it. If you go to an exchange like GDAX (or any stock exchange), you can look at what is called the "order book". If you are a trader, you can act as either a:

- "Market Maker" - By placing an entry in the order book, which says something like: "I have up to 100 Bitcoin I'm willing to sell at $15,000.01 a piece", or "I'm willing to buy up to 100 bitcoin at 14,999.99 a piece".

- "Market Taker" - You can do this by looking at the book and saying: "I will take that deal". You can also do a "market order", saying: "I want to buy 100 BTC at market price", in which case, the exchange will match you with as many sellers as it takes to fulfill your order of 100 BTC, working from the lowest offered price on up.

The price is determined by either whatever the last trade executed at, or a weighted average of the buy side and sell side of the order book. If you hear someone talking about the spread, that is the difference between the highest buy price offered on the book, and the lowest sell price offered on the book. (2 cents in my above fictitious example).

The exchanges make their money by running the order book, matching makers and takers, and charging a small fee for the transaction. (On GDAX for example, market makers get charged no fee, market takers get charged some fraction of a %). The exchanges make money on the volume of trades going through them.

It can get a bit more complicated, but I hope that gives you an idea!
I've thought about this service and what I could do moving forward for better security. A front door airlock came to mind; front Amazon Keyed door that leads to an alcove that is in front of another locked door. Big enough for packages and maybe a couple adults.
Unsure if the effort would be worth it however. Just a thought game.
Is it a common scheme? It seems super misleading to do it that way, why have a percentage fee on both sides? "I pledge $x, I end up paying more and the creator ends up receiving less".
The concept is similar to the way a corporation given just the goal of increasing shareholder value will shit on developing countries with a Bhopal disaster or Niger Delta oil spills or opium wars and simply leave the country when it tries to enact penalties. Or the way a cigarette company or coal company will use politics, religion, and disinformation to protect its business against people affected by its products.

Incentives have to be very carefully aligned even for human level intelligences to prevent them from causing mass death and misery. Superhuman intelligences will be even better at achieving their goals, so the problem will only get worse.
simplistically, the exchange manages an "order book", which records the amount each person wants to buy or sell, the price at which they are willing to trade, and the time the order is received. if there is enough "buy" volume at a given price to fill a given "sell" volume, then a trade happens. the price of the latest trade is the "market" price. this happens for every order that has a volume and price matched "other side" of the trade.

there are many orders that are above or below the current market price. those wont get cleared until the trades that are closer to market clear, and they may not get cleared at all if the market moves the other direction
Not sure that any of this crap is needed in the suburbs. Just have a smart-locked container and refrigerator outside your front door.
This is true.
It also helps that their is a finite supply, so if demand remains constant, the value theoretically should rise over time.
The arbitration monkey courts are perversely incentivized by money to go with who gives them the most business. Their bias is inescapable. The agreement thus effectively means you hold amazon blameless for their drivers activity, as you'll never get a dime out of mandatory binding arbitration against a large corporation.
Do you recall which rule/law required unbundling of charges?
A TPU isn't specialized hardware in the same way a CPU or GPU are not task specialized. All three are generic execution platforms that are optimized for a particular type of processing, but do so in a generalized fashion that can complete many different types of tasks.
> patron pledges $1, patron pays $1, creator ends up with some amount significantly less than $1, depending on all the fees.

from [1], the "previous" (current) situation the creator would receive 85-93% of the amount. So $0.85 from $1, vs .95 from 1.38? Unless I'm completely flobbing the maths, that's ~69% in the new system?

[1] https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure/
The 10th is a Sunday
Looks like GDAX is back, trading at $17.278 as we speak
It's way off topic.
I get the "market" determines the price but I guess I'm confused with who is agreeing to the value? Is there a small amount of big players that are playing with the price? Or is there a general consensus that the price is $15K. And wouldn't there have to be people that we willing to pay this price? What prevents the exchanges from colluding and raising the price artificially?
Unless the above poster means “due to their [acquired] skin pigmentation” I don’t see how the comment can make any sense. Why would their rates of skin cancer be higher now?
I think it's unclear how much progress has been made on the superhuman AI problem. We haven't pinned down a good definition of intelligence, or figured out what it is that makes monkeys smarter than mice and us smarter than monkeys. We do have a lot of progress in specific domains, like image/speech recognition, but it's hard to tell whether they're on the critical path to superhuman AI because we don't know what the critical path is yet. That makes the timeline unpredictable, but biased a priori towards "far away". It's possible that better hardware will accelerate progress, but with CPU clock speeds flattening out, significantly better hardware is not guaranteed in the future.
Something that's starting to happen in apartment construction is the inclusion of these "airlock" style rooms at the front of the apartment. That way you can get your packages delivered securely and still have your home secure.
It's silly because it ignores all of the mechanisms required for the doomsday scenario. You need some automated killing machine of some sort and if it hasn't been built, then an AGI would have to compel some non-AGI entity to build it or somehow takeover the construction of such a machine.
Ok, yes that's fair. I shouldn't say lazy.. they could have an actual reason. but in 15 years of handling cc charges for my business, I can't think of a single one.
Thermal expansion is a separate issue. Ice melt in and of itself does nothing to raise water level.
Ah! Yeah, you'll need to sign and reinstall after any edits. Not hard, but certainly some friction.

Edit: whoops, obsolete link. Fixed.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Pu...
Providing discounts for cash, as gas stations do, was legal prior to 2013 (and remains legal to this day). In 2013, charging customers a clearly-notified fee for accepting credit cards was authorized for all merchants; most simply choose not to.
There are other tab behvaiors that TabMixPlus offers including going to the last used tab on close, open in foreground tab in the context menu for links, scroll wheel to cycle through tabs, and some other things I take for granted and then get disoriented when I use FF57.

Without those, it's painful. I will stick to the older Firefox (or maybe an alternative like Waterfox) until it becomes impossible to use new sites with it, or if somebody (myself included) reimplements these features in a way compatible with FF57.
This is the sort of thing that makes me a "climate denier." If even basic science gets downvoted, how is the other side scientific?
Then the market loses faith in the currency and that bag is suddenly a lot smaller, perhaps gone.
Exactly no gain if I'm understanding it.
Bitcoin’s Wildest Ride: Up 40% in 40 Hours
Lotus is a subsidiary of a Chinese auto group of course. But the other two make fine British cars!
How is a currency backstopped by nothing going to be superior? Volatility? It won't have the same exposure to the source of volatility to which national currencies are succeptable? Presumably it wouldn't be encumbered by an obligation to provide for the welfare of its constiuents. But in that sense, the burdens of a citizenry also translate into a valuable commodity which can be leveraged in the form of labor.

Just spitballing here. It's a very interesting thought exercise.

No person or entity can affect the money supply so the only governance function would presumably be

This seems very murky. It's utility as a currency of last resort seems uncertain and therefore relatively weak. Considering it would have to serve as a source of stability in a time of volatility which is itself a highly uncertain proposition.

To my mind, seems likely BTC is being used by the super-wealthy (persons and fictitious entities, i.e. corporations) to avoid taxes and to pay bribes.
I would rather buy a box with a lock on it that I can keep outside my front door than let strangers (and Amazon) into my house.
I would also add that one needs to have very specifically lack of
understanding cryptography in general, given how people writing various
blockchain products mistake blockchain for different unrelated things (like
consensus protocol, distributed data store, or voting protocol) and are highly
surprised that centralized document timestamping can work well in place of
decentralized one that blockchain is.
I hadn't, no. That sounds like a good idea.
I am genuinely not sure what you're getting at. What do you find smirky about that sentence?
This sounds like a Black Mirror episode. A large kennel where tens of thousands of dogs are kept with Amazon Cloud Cams streaming their videos to their "families."
Exactly, if you held it for one year or less, it is a considered a short-term gain and is taxed as ordinary income. Depending on your tax bracket for 2017, that could range from a tax rate of 10 percent to 39.6 percent.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/bitcoin-investors-beware-the...
Well, then just don't respond to him, or make this point that the sea ice melt is a problem for other reasons. Otherwise it looks like you are downvoting a scientific fact. To those on the skeptical side, like myself, this adds fuel to the fire.
The article touches on another reason, with house access they can organize services (house cleaning, dog walking etc.) that require access to the house.
> Just need a way to direct deliveries to it without calling huge attention to it.

You'd think you could just fill in a textbox with a description of where the lockbox is when you make your order, and Amazon could forward that information to the delivery company.
Why not just sell a lockbox that you can put on your front porch? Seems like an easier solution.
Only on infinitely small subintervals of x.
Ah, yes, that's true. Finding the melody, tracing it across different instruments and such, could be difficult, and that depends on how the music is structured.

I should've said that a naive version of it would be easy (like a channel-wise, instrument-wise, or track-wise code).
Reminder that Eliezer Yudowsky is a crank https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky
Not in a million years. Now, if the EFF or Mozilla made a remotely accessible digital lock that I could control with interfaces to whomever I want that would be a different story.
It's kinda like a rap battle, just with more incense and meditation.

/s
“order of magnitude” is a pretty useful concept, to be fair.
It's a credit card problem, even if the donation is in crypto, the patrons need to buy that, and unless they're using cash or direct bank transfer its probably going to be by card.

The only way to lower the fixed fees is to convince people to transact larger amounts at a time, eg to load a patreon "balance" with $50 that gets deducted from instead of individual transactions of $1
No, even if their lawyer is on the LN, Steam cannot pay their lawyer via payment channel, unless Steam owns some cryptocurrency on-chain to use as deposit
Considering that it has appreciated by 15% in one hour, not really a good sign
That's the "8 hour keeper". The deputy stands behind the counter, with the cashier, and takes in the money. Checks are written to the county, rather than the store. As one law firm writes "Installing a keeper can be an effective way of opening up settlement dialogue with the debtor. For example, we recently installed a keeper at a tutoring center in Orange County. The business does not collect many payments daily, but the keeper levy was nonetheless very effective because the debtor was forced to explain to its customers why the sheriff was at the business. It caused the debtor to quickly come to the table to discuss resolution."

Only once have I ever seen a sheriff's deputy doing a keeper. They were explaining to each customer that the business had failed to pay its debts and had a court judgment against them, so all payments had to be made to the country to settle the debt. Most business owners will pay up within minutes rather than have a day, or a week, of that. Even if they have to take out a loan.
You can't do that when you're making a critical review for a newspaper. If you criticize someone's product you have to make sure that you gave that product every chance to succeed -- if the system failed and you installed your strike plate your review is subject to the criticism that you botched the install.
We used to run a marketplace for designers and one of the things we learned (too late) was to charge more. Pick a number, double it, and you are still probably not charging enough. You can't run a service on dog food forever.

Sure Patreon raised funds, but those funds can't subsidize them for a lifetime, they gotta get sustainable and do it fast. There is not a chance they will be wasting time to build their own credit-card processing, so Stripe fees are here to stay.

Although contributors are important, Patreon would have nothing without their creators. Creators make the content which people pay for, and creators need to put food on the table to keep doing what they are doing.

If you are a creator making $2,000 a month, for example, then an extra $100 is an extra trip to the grocery store, and that's important. If someone wants to fund a creator, they will, and the extra couple of bucks isn't going to discourage that.

Furthermore, I suspect Patreon has data on how much is being contributed by each user. I doubt, like the top comment suggest, that 1 person on the platform would fund 100 creatives. Probably 1:3 ratio, with a couple of outliers, is most likely.

This is a good change.

p.s. If they don't have it yet, expect Patreon to start partnering with places like Teespring to offer merch by their creators. It just makes sense.
Bitcoin isn't the bubble bro, it's the pin.
You're talking about people who read "Let some random stranger making minimum wage delivering your unnecessary crapulence, enter your home unattended" and their response was "where do I sign?"

I wouldn't trust these people to hold a screwdriver much less try to use it - they'd end up in the emergency room.
Native means it uses the os rendering engine and widgets. Electron is not that. I don't know when web devs decided they could put a website in a box and call it native, but it's not very nice.
> Whilst on the surface it is all about manufacturing cars if you dig a little deeper, particularly into Taiichi Ohno’s work, you soon start to see how these rules can be applied to all kinds of manufacturing and we saw many parallels in what we were reading about the Toyota Production System and the way we delivered our software.

I found this really interesting. I completely agree that the principles behind the Toyota Production System can be applied to many other disciplines than just car manufacturing. I wonder if Toyota itself actually applies its own principles when it comes to software development. When their software got audited as part of the unintended acceleration case [1] it was described as spaghetti code and having generally poor engineering practices.

I'd be interested to know why this seeming discrepancy exists between Toyota's quality in hardware vs software.

[1] http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintende...
>That's eight hours on thousands of parallel TPUs.

But it's not really misleading at all. The ability to produce massive amount of power and product is the pinnacle of our society. The fact is we can make thousand, if not millions or even billions of TPUs if we desired, and it is a relatively easy engineering problem at that. And that these things may solve all kinds of problems mankind has had for millennia in hours should be a wakeup call to a future that will be hard to predict.

Humans take 9 months to gestate, no amount of parallelism will speed that up, after that it takes 18 years for them not to be completely stupid all the time attempting to hammer an education in them. Even after that it takes more years to become a specialist.
I don't disagree but wonder whether the fact that it doesn't have a phyiscal property would militate in its favor over gold. I recently read a story about how a Saudi prince was having a few tonnes of gold driven to a neighboring country every day in order to avoid trade restrictions. Seems like it would be a lot easier and safer to just click a button on his computer. That said I could imagine it easily cutting the other way and saying that golds tangible properties are an advantage. This is a fascinating subject!
Or you sell some at some point before then and diversify the investment.
We've been through this in the past. They just cancel your transactions without apology.
Amazon is way too powerful for a few articles here and there, in the Washington Post or elsewhere, to make much of a difference.
STEM gifts are for Kids (small and Big)
Inverted Yield Curve in 2018 Is Taking Over Wall Street Outlooks
Heh, that reminds of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
no, I'm just going from a fairly hazy memory of some article, so it may not be the case at all.

Could also have been something contractual with the payment processors relating to fraud detection or prohibited item/services, but it seemed like it might threaten their current payment setup.

I'll see if I can find anything, but something in the firefox 56-57->52 ESR downgrade appears to have eaten all of my profile's History, and I'm not sure I can be bothered rummaging through external backups :)
> I'd recommend Hubbard and Hubbard over that as it's a little easier read with the same material.

John Hamal Hubbard, Barbara Burke Hubbard - Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach