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Seriously. Everything Sam says on this topic makes me question whether he actually knows any of the people that UBI supposedly would do the most good for -- the poor, the working class, people whose jobs have been automated away, etc.

Does he have any friends from these walks of life? Drinking buddies down at the local pub maybe? How much of his time has he spent actually listening to them talk, befriending them, earning their trust?

I have many friends and acquaintances who have nothing to do with the tech industry, come from meager means and never rose above those means (economically speaking).

Many of these people just aren't ambitious. They have no interest in unlocking their "maximum potential." And there's nothing wrong with that. They're just not wired the way that tech industry hyperachievers are. Maybe they don't care a lot about money, maybe they're risk averse, maybe they don't understand how business works and find it boring. Some are stuck in a rut, but some have simply carved out a little routine which may seem unfulfilling to you but it works for them.

These people will probably accept UBI if you offer it to them but UBI emphatically will not motivate the majority of them to become the next startup founder. Or anything other than what they are now.

I'm guessing Sam (like many on HN) lives in a bubble of hyperachievers and the people in this bubble have a really hard time understanding that most of the world isn't like them, and doesn't want to be.

YC applicants are nothing like the general population. A lot of people just want to coast. And there's nothing wrong with those people.
There are many ways banks could reduce the fraud, but US banks don't need to since nobody is protesting the fees. In Europe however, where interchange fees are regulated to low levels, they have been quick to adopt/mandate features like chip-and-PIN and 3DSecure that lower fraud.
Based on the information on the internet on topics I was taught at, I only have to say that access does not equal quality.
Can you do subscriptions, how does it work with the compulsory 3D secure rules?
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Definitely approve of the name EntilZha for your GitHub user name.

I was interested to see that coexisting with Pandas is supported, but the documentation seems either scant or unfinished, I can't tell which:

https://github.com/EntilZha/PyFunctional/blob/master/example...
Am I missing something here about point 7?

>It is worth noting, however, that China’s criteria for defining aircraft generations differs from accepted international standards. China defines aircraft generations based upon when an aircraft was integrated into the air force. Per China’s criteria, the J-20 is considered a fourth-generation aircraft.
If it's an accurate way of looking at the world, you've just demolished your own reasons for not having kids.

You don't want kids because it's selfish? That must mean, using objectivist reasoning, that to you not having kids is even more selfish. So your reason for not having kids is no reason at all if you subscribe to that sort of shit.

As for good, in the same way that you reduce a lot of things down to one thing that is objectively true but isn't really useful for everyday life.

Sure, I accept that it's possible to reduce down and argue all behaviours are selfish. Does that provide insights about the world? Nope. Does it explain human behaviour adequately, even if fundamentally accurate? "Why does inequality negatively impact inequality?" Because people are selfish?
In India, almost all major highways have tolls and the toll amount keeps on rising.
Some places have systems you'd like. For instance Denmark has the "dankort" debit payment network where small merchants only play a flat annual fee and no per-transaction costs whatsoever.
Insane administrative salaries, ridiculous sports budgets, new buildings and amenities that no student needs ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/one-schools-f... )
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I recently rejected a job offer at a major university, as a software developer for their IT department.

The position did not pay, what their brochure was promising their computer science majors could expect to be paid, while at the same time, asking these computer science majors to accumulate 5 salary-years' worth of debt, for the honor and distinction of earning this degree. But they don't even pay their own staff that much.
Slide 64: A whole tonne of stuff going on in robotics right now. Just take a look at Boston Dynamics YT channel for some mind bloding research, most of which is driven by ML..

I highly doubt that BD is doing any ML work right now ... Can the author link to specific research that they are doing using ML?
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you're thinking leverage is only way to pose a system risk to economy. it is not. leverage amplifies the risk, but just because there is no leverage that does not mean risk is not exposed to the system. when consumption goes down, business gets affected.
It's also possible that we only make up 5% of patreons?

But that we are very noisy, because tech people on HN/twitter/etc. really want a micro payment solution for the web, to avoid ads.
Not perfectly sure about US tax system, but as far as I understand the basics are similar everywhere. Corporate tax or profit tax is paid, well, on profit and since salaries are sort of "operational expenses" are not subject to corporate taxes. Having profits corporations can effectively do two things (using many different mechanisms): pay dividends or reinvest.

As I see it, dividends are income and should be taxed as such - corporate tax plus capital gains tax should at least equal plain income tax so different means of income are not discriminated. In this light, having profits and dividends taxed separately effectively discounts taxes on reinvested profits.
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A large bank in the uk runs their core software on AS400s emulating a 1401. Their ledger software is almost 60 years old.
> starving/homeless

That assumes that the entrepreneur would have no job skills and no get-up-and-go, and so would be unable to get another job, which seems unlikely.
Information is great, but it would be much more readable in simple text form or pdf. It's strange that senior creative engineer at Google doesn't know presentation making basics.
Aside: I misinterpreted the title as saying "applying game theory to OER textbooks" and imagined a paper discussing the incentives/payouts for creators of educational content like textbooks.

Some possible moves:

- Write for a mainstream publisher (payout: ~5% royalties, reach: medium)
- Self publish commercially (payout: 45%+ royalties from createspace/lulu, reach: small)
- Release for free as OER under public domain / CC0 (no payout, reach: broad)

I'm fascinated by the interplay between the for-money publishing business and the idea of open source content, and would really love to see a paper studying this subject. Some concrete questions:
1. If an author is interested in maximizing total payout, should she write for a mainstream publisher or self-publish?
2. If an author is interested in most educational impact (maximize the number of readers), should she pursue a one of the commercial routes (publish or self-publish) or release the book as public domain?

The answer to 2. is not obvious: some of the best textbooks I know are free (GFDL, CC *, or public domain because old), but somehow they don't get the respect they deserve because people have the perception of "free" as being somehow inferior quality. People think, if the book really was any good, surely you'd have to pay for it?

Even more interesting is to consider the game theoretic aspects of multiple authors/contributors. Why are software projects on githun with hundreds of collaborators the norm, but textbooks project limited to one or few main authors?
No, GPLv3 and v2 have always been incompatible. v2 forbids placing additional restrictions on distribution, whereas v3 adds more requirements (e.g. patent grants). So if you receive code under v2, you can't distribute it under v3, nor can you distribute v3 under v2, nor can you combine them.

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/1778
> They put up with so much more that no previous generation would have even stood for.

This is a rather ungenerous view of the great burdens faced by previous generations. When I grew up there was a draft. When you got out of high school, you faced the real live possibility of being forcibly inducted into the military and sent to an active combat zone--where many US soldiers died, including high-school friends of mine who were killed before they turned 20.

They would happily have swapped going to war for four years of college and the long-term debt attached to it if they had had that option.

You might not like the terms today, but please don't ever say you have it worse than any generation before you.
On the one hand that's an important point, but on the other hand, the formal process of peer review as currently arranged by journals has many flaws, and the reason arXiv is so popular in fields like physics is that they want their results "out there" for others to use as soon as possible - i.e. people start to use it before it's been peer reviewed. In fact, the comments one receives after publishing it in arXiv often make its way into the submitted manuscript.

So yes, peer review is useful, but it also often happens after publication at arXiv, outside of the journal submission.
And here's a great response to that article.

"Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong (or, the lies typographers tell about history)"

http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324
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The email announcement also didn't make the fee increase for 1$ pledges obvious.

On my first read I thought the fee was per transaction and that they would keep aggreting pledges...

It would have take the degenerate example to show that... And only a super honest business would show the edge cases.
The stance you're taking is one that is dangerous. China has a billion people and a lot of really smart ones.

a) The J-20 does fly, but it isn't fully operational. But functioning prototypes do exist and have fired missiles. If you aren't satisfied with pictures and videos I guess you'll just have to join the PLAAF and become a pilot yourself.

b) China may bad at engine construction and lag in stealth, but they are world class at designing weapons and their operational ability. The PL-12 and upcoming PL-15 are extremely advanced and their integrated air defense is seriously good.

c) China has drops live munitions on regular occasion. They do it during training and during weapons development. Just because the US and Russia are dropping bombs in Syria doesn't mean they are getting good practice out of it. China's aerospace development is far beyond their aircraft carrier development. Don't think that just because they can't project power across the globe that they are impotent. The ability to operate carriers and resupply underway is exclusive to the USA. Literally every other country has to stop at a friendly port to resupply. China threatens plenty of countries within its range.

The thing about war with China is that it's asymmetric, so they don't have to be as good as the USA to cause problems. If China attacks Taiwan (a commonly hypothesized scenario) they have a huge home team advantage while the USA has to drag everything halfway across the world. The USA can't rest because as soon as they are close enough to defend Taiwan they are under 24/7 threat from Chinese subs, ships, cruise missiles, and planes. China gets to use 100% of it's military for that fight, and the USA cannot use 100% because of the long logistical tail.
it's already posing a significant threat in smaller economies like South Korea. a lot of people (even here on hacker news) don't seem to understand the consequences of bitcoin & cryptocurrency. i am very concerned.

a lot of bitcoin followers seem to think that decentralization saves us from arbitrary value adjustments. decentralization completely exposes currency to volatility and does not self-stabilize nicely regardless how many people use it, because supply is broken. this false idea that decentralization is good for currency shows lack of understanding in how currency works. a central authority is required to protect the value of currency. that is why central bank prints money and does QE. it is not a conspiracy to enrich some cronies. without central authority, it cannot function as currency.
It's like designing an electric car, but requiring you to use a diesel generator to recharge it.
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Ban these rivers!

Wow, title phrasing.
Google Drive says the videos have exceeded some limit and can no longer be played. Which, to me, suggests that maybe Google Drive is not the best place to host videos.
You're completely correct, thanks for the updated links!

Your final point is probably correct, but I'd add that when it comes to wanting to take publishing out of the hands of the established publishers, having to run software yourself is going to be painful anyway (though hopefully not as painful as OJS, which has quite a history already).
Except the fact that the two spaces before a period far predate the typewriter.
Might be more properly titled "Why this factory in China is 10x better than Tesla's" Factory. As folks have noted, not entirely off base, but not at all an article about the Volvo factory.
Tell that to the FDA...
I think it really pertains to using merkle trees. If you take a deep look into how bitcoin actually is implemented merkle trees are the base with which it is formed around.
I'd imagine it's because that's what the S stands for.
>Many of these people just aren't ambitious. They have no interest in unlocking their "maximum potential."

Most people don't have time to be ambitious because they're too busy subsisting. If the subsistence were taken care of, wouldn't you expect them to do better? Not everyone will suddenly start a billion-dollar endeavor, but they'd have more time for recreation, learning, political engagement, and yes, maybe even economic entrepreneurship - in other words, being their best selves, even if for some individuals that still isn't all that impressive.
This being NatWest the penny probably still hasn’t dropped, and they’re probably trying to get him arrested for “hacking our internet”. I doubt they’ll actually implement a change. The general approach in the UK has been to not blame banks at all for poor security, and to punish anyone who finds a security issue severely.
Someone already pointed out the differences? What kind of optimisations are done to qualify a new spinoff?
They turned all the pictures we have of the prototypes into a 3D model and ran radar simulations on it. They concluded that China has developed an actual stealth plane and not just one that looks pretty.

As opposed to the "stealth" plane that Iran unveiled a few years back that doesn't fly and isn't shaped right. They were just imitating shapes they had seen before and didn't put it together right.
It's still their product? I don't see how price has anything to do with legitimacy of license agreements
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I would not describe CryTek as a great company; they've skipped out paying their employees numerous times.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/crytek-wage-crisis-black-sea-studio
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> He is an industry professional.

He gives talks. His background is webdev and he markets himself well
This does not seem to be the kind of suit where the outcome is likely to be devastating for Cloud Imperium. It could be expensive, but it seems like they should have the resources to settle.
Python should somewhat provide a way of chaining these iterators. Coming from Ruby background, I really miss the ability to chain iterators.

And the backslashes shouldn't be mandatory for wrapping method chains.
Not the person you're responding to, but:

>Would you agree productivity per labor hour must go up under UBI to be successful?

No - the slack could come out of corporate/executive profit/compensation instead.
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I'm reading the EU regulation site regarding cookies on websites in EU.
http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm

The site states that there are certain types of cookies that the site should give the user a notice of. The site itself doesn't warn for cookies but uses multiple cookies themselves.

But how can I be certain that the cookies used on their site (for example) are not keeping data regarding my browser/behaviour/language etc, that I guess would fall under the regulation? Especially if the data is encrypted.
What about the licensing terms of this OS, and the eventual blobs that can possibly come with it?
This might be true for CV and speech recognition and synthesis, but there are huge categories of problems (dare I say, the majority of industry use of ML) that are either working with time series data (which DL hasn’t had great success with) or must be highly explainable and tunable.
What value does this generate?

Ads generate sales that does translate to real world value.

Mining generates distributed consensus on transactions. But why should all computers in the world participate in that?
(Obviously, this is best done by specialized hardware)

Also, do you the imagine a future where people make content for the internet inorder to be miners???
Why not just invest in hardware, rather than content for the web.

Also power requirements would be crazy, most devices are battery powered today.. mining is crazy.
As a software developer, I do have the opportunity to build up alternatives - in fact, I'm hoping for that to be my career.

So that's what I'm doing now [1], and anyone interested can subscribe at [2].

[1] https://medium.com/flockademic/dear-scientists-help-me-help-...
[2] https://tinyletter.com/Flockademic
Go where, though?
You're right, I misread the table. I thought they were claiming that aircraft in the same row had similar capabilities. I can't seem to edit my original comment since it's been too long.
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Charge a fixed amount per weight-distance?
>But we actually reason in time.

I love the way you phrase it. It's a wild hypothesis but I suspect that good (Bayesian style of) thinking requires metabolic energy in our brain that's a magnitude of order or more as compared to intuitive A -> B style of thinking. This is why perhaps our brains avoids the former.
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As usual. If you want a company to change, you have to affect their bottom dollar. Otherwise, you'll only get a "we have learned through this experience and will take it forward with us to prevent [our messed up thing we did] from [ever being noticed by you again]."
The difference is that those scientists are usually senior ones, who also benefit from the status quo, whereas the ones aching for changes are often the early career researchers, who are hardly to blame.

Even when collectives have power, it is always difficult to exercise it. See for example the limited effect of the Elsevier "boycott": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cost_of_Knowledge
There's no alternative because there's no demand. Almost no company wants to hire remotely and pay good wages, and those that do have >10 qualified candidates for each position.
Is it just me or this seems too much like ruby?
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I have really high hopes from this. There is currently no good way for a SaaS startup in India to get money from international customers. I think this is why many are forced to incorporate in the US/Singapore/etc. I am a single founder working on a SaaS project and receiving payments from outside India is one of the biggest challenges for me. I do not want to raise funds but may have to got that route just so that I can incorporate outside India and start receiving payments.

I have three requests for Stripe:

1) I hope that Stripe does not come out with a limited version for India, and that it is possible to charge international customers a variable amount every month, like you can do in the US.

2) I also hope that they come up with a prompt way of issuing FIRCs for every payment received. Without an FIRC there is no way to prove that the transaction was an export and therefore you have to pay GST on it, which is normally 18% for services. This reason alone is pushing me to incorporate in some other country. I stand to lose thousands of dollars this year because I can't get an FIRC for the payments I receive via Paypal/Wire transfer/Transferwise.

Paypal and Transferwise have procedures to get FIRCs, but when you approach their banks they either don't respond or come up with hundred reasons to not issue one. Citibank absolutely sucks at this. I really hope that Stripe just charges me whatever they want and couriers the FIRCs to my address automatically.

3) I hope that Stripe has a legal setup that is compatible with RBI regulations regarding the filling up of SOFTEX forms. There are some restrictions which in my understanding prohibit Indians from using international gateways like fastspring.
Despite mass perceptions and previous assertions long in the past by its creator, bitcoin is not a currency, nor are most people attempting to use it as one. Neither is it digital gold, or an asset management system, or any other easy label. These terms were and are used as analogies to help people grasp blockchain technology, but it is a new and altogether different beast from previous monetary instruments, and not subject to the same constraints.
Interesting point. Could you add more detail to your comment please?
If patrons on average adjusted their pledges under the new fee structure such that they were paying about as much money as they were before, creators would end up with less money on average, because the new de-aggregated fee structure results in higher fees as a percentage of the total amount paid in almost all cases.
That's correct, except the notification back is probably via some queue (think of futures or Go channels) rather than signals.