skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you name an instance where colonialism is a positive force for indigenous peoples?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nauru#Modern-day_Na...

>As its phosphate stores began to run out (by 2006, its reserves were exhausted), the island was reduced to an environmental wasteland. Nauru appealed to the International Court of Justice to compensate for the damage from almost a century of phosphate strip-mining by foreign companies. In 1993, Australia offered Nauru an out-of-court settlement of A$2.5 million annually for 20 years. New Zealand and the UK additionally agreed to pay a one-time settlement of $12 million each. Declining phosphate prices, the high cost of maintaining an international airline, and the government's financial mismanagement combined to make the economy collapse in the late 1990s. By the new millennium, Nauru was virtually bankrupt.

When an economy is optimized for resource extraction and export, all sorts of basic social and infrastructure needs are neglected because it's more profitable for the colonizing power. I'm not sure if you were looking for a direct "phosphate mining = obesity" connection but given every example of colonialism that comes to mind, it's not really that much of a stretch.
Curious which platform you're writing your Python to trade with.
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that's a weird way to summarize the purchase of art and entertainment, but i guess it's technically accurate.
I almost spit my beer out when I read this comment. It’s funny because it’s true.
A nice experiment would be to start with universal health care. This probably needs to be part of UBI anyways. It would already free quite a few people of having to stay in a bad job and would allow people with families or who are older to be more entrepreneurial. Try this and see how the politics work out.

The trend seems to go the other way though: taxes for upper incomes are being lowered, no estate tax and Obamacare is pretty much neglected until it falls apart. I think instead of UBI he should worry more about near term issues.
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Have you thought about copper?

Can be more expensive than stainless and has the same issues with acidic sauces (ie, tomato based), but it heats up really well, and you can get it pretty thick for a little more heft.

Plus, it looks nice (especially if you can find some antique French pieces).
Authority is a bad thing here, since the person who spoke to him is in a shadow of his own tech team authority. Don’t get me wrong, but if there is an objective security/xyz problem, then it doesn’t matter who’s reporting it and what does he make for a living.
It's certainly below cost when you include the externalities of burning coal.
Its not illegal to leave your door unlocked.
Ok this sounds like a terrible question but how do they stop people from "hacking" themselves...
How in the world is listing your corporate domain as a public suffix the most appropriate solution to two of the company's teams not working together?
Would be interesting to know whether this works when a passphrase is set up to encrypt the stored data.
>If you promise everyone money for life, many people won't bother to create wealth.

>A lot of people will do absolutely nothing if they have money for life.

Really? Citation needed.

These seem no more than unsupported assumptions based on your experience, i.e., anecdata.

My anecdata indicate the opposite. A supermajority of those I know would, but for fear of lacking minimal financial security, try to create value through entrepreneurship.

Further, my casual knowledge of basic income experimental results contradicts your assertions. For but one example, the Canadian experiment [1] [2] indicated strongly favorable effects.

Your view may depend on whether you regard people as assets or liabilities until proven otherwise. I favor the former.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome#Results
[2] https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2011/01/11/...
Check the source.
While true, as someone with a number of friends just now "getting into" bitcoin, I find the zero sum aspect of it troubling. Assuming a crash/correction is coming, most of the wealth that accrued to the early adopters will be at the expense of these later, less-informed "investors" who bought in thinking it was a no fail quick buck.
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TIL! Much thanks. Are you sure this (buy at best price in my favor) is how it is implemented commonly (e.g. the limit order is not just rejected for being an invalid liquidity maker order?)? I guess it is the Fill-or-Kill that is key; I suppose you can add an additional factor to that limit order to give yourself a range of acceptable prices (obviously you could program it, but is it a common order type on something like E-Trade?)?
Perfectly safe to ingest. I've done it once, because, well - you know.

Taste? Literally tasteless. But it has the texture of plain oil; I can't really describe it, but you have to have a very good gag reflex control to get it down. Then you have in your mouth this "oiled" feel.

Not pleasant, but I was desperate and in pain, and it was all I had available at the time.
Also, it's about how long the projects take. Sometimes $150/hr for Wordpress might just be done in a couple hours, with a template and an upload.
The same way we fund it currently- by allocating money from the budget. While it may feel good to talk about "this tax pays for this program" it is not a law of nature that a decrease in a specific tax will lead to a corresponding decrease in funding for any particular program. On the contrary, it is commonly expected that an overrun in a particular tax will be spent elsewhere.

When the day comes that the revenue from the fuel tax has dipped low enough that the money needs to be replaced, I am quite sure we can come up with 300 other ways to allocate the tax burden appropriately.
It's almost like everyone agrees capitalism is fucking terrible.
Too big because it is out of touch with its citizens, and a UBI would lead to a national ID. Look at China for what can happen from that. Also too large because the cost of living varies from place to place, so no one amount of UBI can fit every citizen.

At the same time it's too small because Americans are already far better off than most of the world, so if anyone really needs UBI it should be the poorer per capita countries, funded by the richest in the world. In other words UBI for Americans only misses the point.
>I don't know why America thinks gun owners universally support the NRA

The only organization I've ever heard gun owners talk about when also talking about the second amendment is the NRA, and the NRA is the only organization known by the general public that claims to speak on behalf of gun owners.

Americans believe it because the NRA has been very successful at branding itself as the de facto voice of Second Amendment politics, and gun owners haven't put forth any effective opposition to that.
This is essentially the same feedback I left in the form: pro-rate the 2nd payment, and waive it entirely if it's too small to justify the fee. The payment processing confirmation email that Patreon sends out could put an asterisk next to a pro-rated pledge and explain what's going on down below for people who are paying close attention.
Why not blame both?
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Google Slides is really slow. That's why this needs two hours.

Most of the real content is in linked videos.
In the UK (and many other countries) each vehicle has a mandatory yearly inspection.

The MOT test in the UK checks emissions, roadworthiness, basic functionality. No reason why it couldn't also report mileage.

Most modern cars provide an API so you can track mileage. Again, not hard to provide that as a taxable figure.
Maybe. OTOH, this guy's resume says he's a web programmer. I'd think if google were recruiting people interested in machine learning, they'd get one of their machine learning specialists to write this.
Yep. Each forum has its own flavor.

I have found the factor that earns downvotes is a link to your own project - the downvoters don't engage you fairly after that.
Mmm. You still can, if there's no master password enabled. But that's a distinct issue from this. Here, you're going from a state that should be entirely safe ("signed out"), to retrieving all of the secrets that are held.

Because Firefox doesn't have sign-in and sign-out like Chrome does, the principle of least surprise kicks in.
A ridiculous number of times that I've tried to go to xbox.com while previously signed in, the site redirects me around a bit before dropping me onto a blank page. Ugh.
It isn't about no access or unlimited it is about safe appropriate access to the internet. Teaching them to be responsible.
Not bad but toward the end it basically just becomes a big pitch for Google's ML products. It links to 3Blue1Brown's videos which are great!
that's disgusting :-/
You don’t. Those are considered collectible items and actually get taxed at a higher rate than other property.
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This is limited to 30% of your income ("AGI"), however.

(I am not your tax advisor. Please don't take tax advice from random internet people.)
Motorcycles are hyper powered horses. The war tactics of the preindustrialized world still apply.
What banks do this? AFAIK, Wells Fargo doesn't care about case-sensitivity but that's it.
I didn't sell a ton, but I got a call from my bank about the first deposit from Coinbase. They asked how I came about the funds, where my initial investment came from (employment) and that was it.

Though my bank did invest in Coinbase so they are probably pretty ahead of the times.
Because actually I did't understand until I was about to post the comment with just the first question, at which point I thought to myself OP might mean venomous!

There are poisonous animals out there that you really should not eat! But for the most part people aren't afraid of eating poisonous things (it's usually too late to fear).
I got my first typewriter when i was nine, and started programming when i was 10 back in early 80's. But i didn't formally learn how to type until i had a school subject for it when i was 15. It was the best thing i could possibly have done. By the end of the course i could type error free at 65 words a minute. Now i can type faster than i can speak. I can't recommend it enough.
How can Sam Altman realize that YC is itself a potential solution and still do nothing? YC is still the same private club, that brags about funding just 3% of the founders that apply.

If Elon Musk ran YC, he'd raise billions and fund thousands, and then use that success to fund tens of thousands, and then ...
It isn't a purchase of art and entertainment. At least all the Patreons I supported were free content.
The Constanza in me wishes I had been the FLW of dystopian architecture.
They should force users to retype their password for logging out
Yangtze (China)
Indus (India, Pakistan, China)
Yellow (China)
Hai (China)
Nile (Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Eritrea)
Meghna (Bangladesh and I think India?)
Pearl (China, Vietnam)
Amur (Russia, China)
Niger (Guinea, Mali, Niger, Benin, Nigeria)
Mekong (China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam)

So the article states that 8 are in Asia and 2 are in Africa, which isn't really wrong, but of those 8 in Asia, 7 are in China including the top 4 (mind the Indus only starts in Tibet, most of its course is in the Indian subcontinent).

You want to talk about next steps, action plans and remediation? Talk to China, first, India second, Egypt (and maybe Kenya and/or Tanzania for good measure) third and Nigeria fourth.

That leaves the Meghna which is mostly within Bangladesh and the Mekong which while having its headwaters in China, mostly drains the portion of southeast Asia between Vietnam and Thailand and the various countries on that peninsula have established the Mekong River Commission to maintain it.

Good luck.
You're not purchasing anything, Patreon is about patronage, as in donating/supporting with no expectation. Whether you get something is completely up to the creator to do.
Is there something new, or it's just old case from 2000's?
Or, you get charlatans who review for money.
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While I can somewhat sympathize with wanting to use make, it's the dependency management with Java that would be just horrible. Maven-based dependency management saves you a world of misery most of the time. And when you have conflicts to deal with it's 1000 times worse doing it by hand.
Because one is to blame and the other is not.
I think I'd rather risk some money to hacks on an otherwise more secure system than look forward to whatever hellish phone support calls and hoop-jumping I expect I'd have to go through to get charges reversed.
Doesn't moving out of the cities, and as you state, away from jobs exacerbate the number of people who will no longer be employed?

These new UBI based communities won't be able to provide the same economic/educational opportunities or efficiency of services that the cities can.
An insecure page can be MITMed. The landing page is insecure. The links from the landing page to the login page can be redirected by an attacker to go to the attacker's login page. Links on HTTP pages cannot be trusted. NOTHING on HTTP pages can be trusted.
The Gene touches on this a bit (great book in general), but Mendel was actively trying to reach out to researchers and share his findings. They just wouldn’t listen to him and didn’t care.
it is true that they dominate the media...but the tide is turning. we need net neutrality to counter the well-funded and sometimes-anti-2nd-amendment voice of the NRA
Tell me, when grants are awarded on the basis of if you published in high impact journals, when policy is to not publish in open access, when the vast majority of researchers, especially the youngest generation, despise the current arrangement as little more than rent-seeking by the big journals, tell me, is that the researchers' fault too? Because they are, what was it, obssessed with prestige?
There is still at least one break point with a UBI since it is payed for by money gained through taxation. While in theory everyone 'gets' the UBI those that pay more than the UBI in taxes effectively just get taxed that amount less. There is a break point where the money you pay in taxes matches the UBI.
My wife and I have noticed this lately. If seems like they're trying to play a numbers game by setting too many items as prime and too aggressively setting delivery dates.

Just give me a date that you can hit 99% of the time. I don't mind a missed delivery every now and then, but lately 9 out of 10 deliveries are late.
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Seems to me like Patreon partnering with someone like Paypal would be the best bet in the long run.

Have deposits, and transaction fee-less transfers, since everything would happen within Paypal/some bank.
Locking up more people does not reduce crime, but it has a heavy social cost
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You can rephrase this as much as you want, but this is not just "her intention to report on this". This is obstructing humanitarian efforts in a way that leads to loss of life.

You're claiming the motivations here are to protect the lives of migrants by limiting "incentived human trafficking", but the motive is white nationalism.

http://www.dw.com/en/defend-europe-identitarians-charter-a-s...
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> Too many experiences like that I make merge commits a required part of a code review.

How can you do this practically though? In the turnaround time to do the code review and make the changes, a new conflict might have been introduced into the branch being targeted by the merge.

I think merging e.g. the master branch into your branch before code review is a good idea though as when the review is complete there's going to be less or no conflicts merging into master.
If you're on a phone, here's an HTML version of the paper: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1712.03280/
As someone who doesn't know Stripe well, because it hasn't been available in India, is it just a payment gateway, allowing me to put a Buy button in my site or app to charge someone's credit card, debit card, net banking or Paytm?
It's really not "jealousy" but you're free to believe that if you'd like.

Would you feel better if I removed the info in my HN profile?

Note also that blog has been mostly neglected for the last ~5 years.
I think the remark you're replying to was in jest or sarcastic.
Is this valid too if the mugger's family hasn't eaten in 3 days? Because it's easy to talk from a cushy home, with a full belly and a trouble-free upbringing.
>In just the past two years, the percentage of India’s population connected to the internet has more than doubled to 500 million users

This is the statistic that will change the world more than a little bit. This is partly because the richest man in India has spent $25bn on telecom infrastructure and acquisition of new customers.

Here's a related article - https://www.economist.com/news/business/21718495-jios-100m-n...
I'll just note that some of us who might have been most attracted to the profession would be turned off by pinkification, and that we may be harder to recruit into recruiting efforts that we perceive as ghettoizing.

You touched upon something that's critical to the whole issue: the perception of traditionally female stuff as inferior. The feminist movement has come a long way getting women through the door and into traditionally male-dominated fields. What still remains as an enormous challenge is the elevation in status of traditionally female roles and norms.

For as long as we think of silver and black and blue as high status and pink and purple as "ghettoized", we have a problem. Just as we have a problem that nursing and teaching are low status compared to other professions.

For as long as we consider care work to be inferior to business work, women will never be truly free.
> Successful entrepreneurs aren't usually on welfare, they come from great backgrounds (hi Sam, Mark, Bill, Donald...).

Coming from a wealthy enough background that you can fall back on your parents if you fail is a form of welfare as it allows you to take risks without it being a disaster that leaves you homeless.

Welfare serves a similar function.

Its a safety net that allows you to take risks w/o ending up starving/homeless/etc.
I disagree on ditching the current fuel tax for combustion engines. What about keeping the current system for combustion engines and creating the "distance traveled tax" only for electric vehicles. Although the separate systems would be a bit confusing for hybrids.

Only took me a few seconds to figure out how to abuse the distance traveled tax for combustion engines. Physically roll back the odometer if the vehicle is old enough, do it electronically, disconnect the odometer, and/or other ways. I think people that travel around the country a lot would abuse. FYI, messing with the odometer is a felony so don't do it.

My state does not have yearly inspections, so nobody is going to read my odometer.
Most charities are scam. These days people make business of anything. Watsi is frontrunner in charity thugs.
I love that you made good money with a MVP, for people building MVPs :P

Did you get on Product Hunt or something? I'm curious how you made $3k in the first week.
This meme needs to die. You think if bitcoin became a transaction standard there wouldn't be thousands of institutions and companies servicing the use of bitcoin? You don't think Coinbase won't become just like JPMorgan and employ 100k people to provide customer service? Just look at all the startups and people currently employed to figure out blockchain today. So take your assumption of all of modern-day finances's electricity demands and add that to the infinite loop of energy that is required to keep your bitcoins in existence whether you transact or not.
There is a big difference between a tracking pixel image in an email that's only delivered to a single inbox vs the vast environment of the open web with all the various websites and ads that run.
It's important to note that this talk is from 2016. Since then, Swift 4 has been released, that added KVO and key paths to the language.
ML Captchas are more challenging for humans than ML scripts
Ok. Please tell the world how you scam people with fees and eat up charity donation being a middleman.
I wouldn't recommend this with less than $100 though. The margins are really tiny, so you might make a profit of maybe... $3 for your $100. Might as well work minimum wage.

If you had $2000 or so to start with, that's a different story.
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Only took me a few seconds to figure out how to abuse the mileage tax for combustion engines. Physically roll back the odometer if the vehicle is old enough, do it electronically, disconnect the odometer, and/or other ways. I think people that travel around the country a lot would abuse. FYI, messing with the odometer is a felony so don't do it.

My state does not have yearly inspections, so nobody is going to read my odometer.
Thanks, I should have googled before replying.
I have reason to believe that homelessness is such a crisis in California in part because homeless people actively travel there for the weather. I did. I am not the only one.

I suspect that relief in other parts of the country would provide some relief for California.

I am aware that California in specific has serious challenges in this area. But I see the problem of homelessness in the US as a national problem that disproportionately impacts California. So I see improvements in other parts of the nation as benefitting California.
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Stock trading robots won't make much from $100 either.. maybe a trickle of $2/month.
A million times this.

- Do the posts or supports of the signs count as part of the signs?

- What if it's a sign but not a street sign?

- If the camera is looking across a road, but the pavement isn't visible, does that image contain a road? I suspect humans are answering that differently, but it's not as bad as the sign one.

- Storefronts. Sometimes I can't tell what I'm looking at. There's a building with lettering on it, but I can't tell whether it's a store much less a storefront.

Google needs to add a tutorial for humans on how to answer those captchas, because there's not enough context for us to figure out what google really wants.

If they'd dogfood this and require their employees to solve a captcha to login to their workstations, this problem would have been solved yesterday.
its quite a lot older than that!
http://xml.coverpages.org/linuxml-19990226.html is the first one I've heard of, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are predecessors decades older still.

The problem largely still is the effort of rewriting all/enough userspace tools to actually use the type system to make it worthwhile, or the even less appealing approach of maintaining parsers/shims/wrappers for things that allow it to work.
Yes, that will happen when the judge in your civil case becomes convinced that you destroyed evidence during discovery. The legal system has no sense of humor about this; destruction of evidence undermines the whole process after all.
Ha, oops, that's... kind of embarrassing - I do live in Michigan, but somehow I haven't noticed many of their stores outside the Midwest. I guess I've subconsciously given up on creating any sort of mental map of which grocery stores are in which regions (outside of the omnipresent giants like Walmart, Target, Costco, etc).
an example page: https://www.shufflup.org/burn-rate.php
List of KPIs that I'm planning to build: https://www.shufflup.org/