skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't go that far, but I'll go as far as saying that socialism near useless for a single person, and only shows any promise whatsoever for two or more people...
We’ve chosen as a society to go all in on aviation safety due to the freakish and scary nature of aviation accidents.

Meanwhile the US lags the developed world in road safety. Driving in the US is like a mad max situation. Many unnecessary deaths are preventable. Road deaths are double the OECD average.

With high safety investment comes higher costs of flying which pushes more people into driving instead, which kills more people.
While not perfect, Visual C++ makes it a nice experience.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/10/05/faster-c-...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4khtbfyf.aspx
He's saying that women tend not to be libertarians, which is a large enough block of people to where it's very difficult to implement libertarian policies to law. There's no implication that women shouldn't be allowed to vote or women's suffrage was a mistake, it's just a really awkwardly worded statement.
Where is that home? In the US, would it be in SF, CA or Alamo, GA? What kind of vehicle? I don't have a license, does that mean I only get a bicycle instead of a car? What about gas? What's "free utilities" - how much can I consume? Can I trade the clothes for something else if I don't need as many? If so, who decides for what and how much I can trade them for?

I'm not an expert, but I think the results where this has been tried were bureaucracy, waste and black markets.
On the comments: "Intel CPUs were tested with Meltdown/Spectre patches, that's probably the discrepancy you're seeing."
I think Emacs's greatest strength comes from the ability to use a single scripting language throughout the whole editor. I can quickly write up some ELISP statement to do anything, if I like it I can put it in a file and load it. If I want to share it, I put it in an extension.

I've just looked up the official tutorial on making an extension in VS Code. It seemed cumbersome. You need a code generator to lay the foundations, you need to consult the API docs etc.

With Emacs you can learn as you go and the editor itself guides you if you ever get stuck. You can read the source of any part of Emacs you like, change it on the fly, evaluate and try it (except for some core modules written in C). And I think that's the beauty of Emacs. Emacs is easy to tinker with.
Usually the exact string but with a conversion to Olympic swimming pools, London busses, Empire State buildings or other helpful units.
Please note that Australia's use of proportional representation is only in senatorial and state elections. The elections that determine who gets to form a federal government (Australian House of Representatives elections) are held under the non-proportional majority-preferential system (instant-runoff voting).

The US could abolish the electoral college without replacing the first-past-the-post system (assuming by that you mean single-winner plurality voting):
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation

I'd like the US to both abolish the electoral college and adopt a different voting system for presidential elections. Actually, I consider the voting system used for the Australian House of Representatives more suitable for presidential elections than for parliamentary elections.
There are also plenty of retirees and rich people that get money for not working.

I think a good cohort to look at would be trust fund recipients, specifically those who receive between $10-50k/year from their trust. Oftentimes these trusts are first available in young adulthood, so they are a good proxy for UBI. Of course the major confounding variable would be that these recipients are likely to be wealthier, and thus more educated, than the general population
>you can quit your job without fear of losing everything in your life

That sounds like an American problem more than anything else
That's my technique too, but when the cashier asks to look up my number I give them 555-1212. That is what fed into my comment. Most people don't care what number is used, but many also don't know that 555-1212 is the secondary information number. This, of course, depends upon their age and geography. This comes up in the friendly conversations that result upon them looking up the phone number.
Studying a UBI pilot with an end date is not studying UBI at all: It is instead studying a misnamed temporary cash payment. By the nature of pilots, the cohort’s behavior cannot reliably change to depend on UBI’s long term existence. No study yet has guaranteed a cohort money forever, and even if it did it would be difficult for a pilot to study the long term effects, some of which may be generations out. What pilot can tell us answers to questions like: "What is it like for kids to grow up with parents who have never worked?"[1]

Universal Basic Income projects also tend to fail hard at the Universal part. It’s hard to study how society would change if you are not piloting something that is intended to affect all of society.

For the Finland study, the cohort doesn’t even scratch the "U", and somewhat contradicts itself:

> During the experiment, a total of 2,000 unemployed persons between 25 and 58 years of age will receive a monthly payment of €560, unconditionally and without means testing. The experiment will run for two years.

(quoting from: http://www.kela.fi/web/en/experimental-study-on-a-universal-...)

I've written my own long list of objections to UBI, here: https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/after-universal-basic-incom...

I think it's an important problem, but I'm totally flabbergasted at how much simplistic thinking the proponents are willing to gloss over.

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[1] There answer is SSDI but don't look at it if you want to sleep at night. https://web.archive.org/web/20130420171159/http://thelastpsy...
Another counter intuitive probabilistic property that may be relevant here:

- If you make a distribution of the first digit of prices in a webshop you will notice that 1 appears more frequently than other digits.

- If you convert the prices to another currency and redo the distribution, the most frequent first digit will still be 1!

So it's not a given that you can assume the properties of a random bit stream will hold for the calculation in the article.

(As an aside: this weird property explains why you need slightly fewer coins in a currency that has quarters than those with 20 cent coins)
Of course that's not just a basic income, that's a full cushy income. A better example with be Alaska which uses ok revenues to give a subsidy to residents of the state.
True, but maybe such inefficiencies are counteracted by the increased number of people in fun jobs. Maybe it suddenly becomes worth it to do things we're currently not doing.
The last 3 NDAs I've signed were entirely reasonable; I'm not allowed to tell you who our customers were, but that's all it covers.
Same article (but different title, so it got through) as the one in the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16866959 .
I do stand corrected on the King Air 350 (and it's likely that the P180, Dash-8, ATR-42 will also be similar and come with balanced field restrictions). Thank you for that correction.

Accelerate-go calculations do not necessarily mean that engine failures before rotation are to be taken aloft. My 58P has accelerate-go charts published (they're not pretty at heavy weights on high/hot days). Nevertheless, any engine failure with the nosewheel on the ground is an abort/RTO.

The DA-42 I can't find any reference for V1 below Vr and to take an engine failure prior to Vr aloft. That was looking in the QRH and checklists for the aircraft. I see both specified at 75 knots and the checklist response for engine failure on the roll is only the rejected takeoff instructions.
Freedom and democracy are always in a conflict, that's why most democracies have constitutions which put the individuals and their rights first. A total democracy would mean that a majority can override personal freedoms and basic rights of individuals (like, vote about executing your neighbor). Because of that the combination of democracy with a bill of rights has become so commonplace that you don't even notice anymore, and think about someone who mentions that simple fact as a fascist.
Amazon Launches Alexa Blueprints
At my school, we teach Scratch in 5th grade (US, age 10) and I teach Python in 6th grade. I think Scratch and the like are good starts, so I'm glad to see more offerings. Even so, stepping up to Python is a big step from the blocks languages.

Last week I started the 6th graders on MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit. So far it is going well, and I think it will capture some of the aspects of the QBASIC on DOS experience. Today I will show them how to do images on the 5x5 LED matrix, which will be much simpler than trying to do graphics on Windows. Even so, they will still learn about X-Y coordinates and pixel brightness levels.
It's quite nice. Doesn't run pfSense yet, but apparently that's being worked on. There's a version of Arch that runs wonderfully on it though. I bought it a few days ago after reading this[1] guide to try to replace my pfSense router (stupid AES-NI...).

[1]https://blog.tjll.net/building-my-perfect-router/
Fine, then you can personally refuse it :)
It would be hilarious if a future U.S. government enacted even stronger user privacy protections than the GDPR.

What will Facebook do then?
New books to help project managers realize themselves as digital leaders
Multi engined propped aircrafts are notoriously hard to insure because of these characteristics (and not unrelated, why you can pick up a twin-engine Beechcraft Baron for around $60,000 while a single-engine Bonanza will cost you 3-4 times that amount).

It seems so easy: when one engine fails you still have the other left to power the aircraft, right? People often forget that the prop on the stalled engine creates a huge amount of drag, like a stuck paddle on a canoe. You have to compensate for the drag, feather the prop (adjust the angle of the blades to minimize drag) and adjust for that again. When you have sufficient altitude that can be done, but on takeoff or landing you'd have to be a really cool cat to pull it off...

As for pilot error: I think that number is actually a lot closer to 100%. This also rings true for car accidents, and I bet most planes are maintained a lot better than cars...
I also don't think it's a good idea at all. It may be a cultural thing but I'm sure most people in my surroundings will stop working and eventually even fall for substance abuse. I can see myself falling for that. Have you even seen how many NEETs are there? That would go over the roof. I think these UBI discussions are monopolised by people who live in a bubble.
This cycle's app I did in 3 hours. I opened the apply site at 8am, filled it out in order, did not go back and revise, turned on my iphone and talked for 60 seconds, and then submitted. It was the best app I've ever done. (Rejected) The lesson is that if it takes a month to write a pitch, that means I don't understand my business at all and have a long way to go.
COINTELPRO. Learn your history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
I agree but the point was to derogitate the computer simulation, which is literally algorithmic.
The terms space and set are not synonymous. A space is defined on a set.

The collection of all subsets of a set X is called the power set and is typically denoted as P(X).

Replacing something confusing but loosely understandable with something even more confusing isn't an improving anything
Bottoms-Up Build of Large-Scale Computational Lensing Software
Moving language parsing/refactoring/etc into a separate daemon is a step towards unifying tooling around specific protocols for interacting with compilers. Microsoft's effort towards a single language server protocol is worth mentioning: https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol

I'd love to see a future when new languages/compilers can implement this protocol for their external compiling daemons and just get support in all the various text editors/IDEs automatically.
> Instead of giving out money, why not give out the basic necessities directly?

Because needs vary considerably by circumstance, and trying to address that with bureaucratic central planning rather than leveraging the market is brutally inefficient. And because a universal basic home, for instance, is hard to mix with outside income to get the home.you want. Same with universal basic food. Or a universal basic car.

(Though it's interesting if you combine this idea for setting basic benefits with the “why not force people to work a government chosen jov to get basic benefits” alternative to UBI often floated, you've gone a long way to reinventing Leninism.)

That being said, UBI advocates often see certain basic needs as efficient and desirable to provide directly in addition to UBI, most notably universal basic health insurance.
>Pensions

>The currency doesn't inflate uncontrollably

Seeing the costs for pension homes in Germany, I disagree. There is a ton of fraud and abuse (in the billions) and the prices are outrageous. Old people are an easy target and we have a general problem with crime, so that no doubt contributes to it, but overall the example seems to be a bad one if you're in favor of UBI.
But if you run it via a cron job, don't you have to store your login, 2fa etc on the computer you run it on? That's what I was wondering about.
But what kind of libertarianism is non-democratic?

Here's an interesting answer I found when I became curious about this question a few years ago:

http://www.see.org/garcia/e02.htm
Isn’t Saudi Arabia an example where citizens did became lazy, and the government had to introduce incentives to go to college, start businesses, etc? And they still need cheap migrant labor for everything from childcare to construction, so automation has a long way to go.
Yep, I wrote NoScript, but I actually meant script blocking. :)

For some time now, I've used ublock origin, which I find better overall than umatrix.
List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects
>Do you want to live in a crappy apartment with roommates, and not be able to afford to eat at a nice restaurant?

That's how many people I know have lived their entire lives, even if they worked hard. And some of them because they could not find a job. Some are young some are old. You live in a bubble.

Do you really think most people, especially young people, can afford to live in an appartment of their own, or go eat at a nice restaurant? Do you think McDonalds is full of young people because it's better than a nice restaurant?
Tesla is most trusted brand in consumers poll for self-driving cars
It means you are more flexible and will find it easier to explain to your users what kind of data you collect, why you collect them and exactly what do you do with them.
Really? I think JavaScript is the perfect language to learn with. Yes it has its quirks and weird edge case, but from someone with no programming background I think JavaScript is one of the easiest and most practical language to learn.

I think a lot of the "bad stuff" can be seen as an advantage. Like for example:

- Lack of strong typing
- User don't have to bother with the data type at first, they go directly into the logic

- Typecasting when comparing
- faster for quick comparison. E.g. if a user wants to check if the input of the user is equal to a certain number, he doesn't have to cast it as an int/float/whatever before, he just does "10" == 10 and it just works.

And also, its greatest strength I think is the fact that it's the language of the web, and web development has the lowest "barrier to entry", because all you need is a notepad and a browser and you can easily develop and test.

Anyway, as many people have pointed out, I don't think it matters that much what language you start with, because it makes you learn the logic of programming, which is then transferable to all other languages anyway.
Can you give me a brief walk through on how you accomplished this, or a resource you used to guide you? I have been interested in doing streaming security camera for a while but haven't seen a setup i like.
Passing tests and then failing when provisioned is still better than just failing when provisioned. At least you know that it should work (and maybe does, on different variations of the hardware).
In Sweden during 2012, over 99% of professional stone layers where males. This is professionals that install bathrooms, construct kitchen walls and stone floor. Similar, two other profession during same year had over 99% gender segregation and that was dentist nurses and midwifes with females being the dominating gender.

Then there were additional 3-4 professions with exactly 99% gender segregation. Mechanics (male), nurse secretary (female), but I don't remember the names of the other. All those professions existed where for every minority gender there where hundred or hundreds employed of the majority.

Is this proof of systemic sexism, and if so, what conclusion can we draw? Remember that in Sweden the number of employed women and men is only off by less than 1%, and only 12.5% of the population work in a profession where the majority gender is lesser than 150% to the minority. Of those 12.5%, men was that year slightly more likely to work in a gender equal profession.
Odd. Just tried it and it works fine for me.
My experience with coding was using the old BASIC books (like the ones at https://www.atariarchives.org/ ), and stubbornly typing my way to make these games work.

When they didn't, I found it enormously satisfying to find out how to work around the problem being expressed in print; there were enough variations in BASICs for different machines that the listing for a TI 99/4A program wouldn't work in straight AppleSoft BASIC, for example.

But the time between typing all the code and finding out if it worked was grueling. I'm not sure if the students of today would be satisfied with that large a report-back loop.
Do UBI haters intentionally not understand wanting to have a better life?

People will work at a restaurant if they don't have to so they can afford a place without crappy roommates, or in a better part of town. It's really that simple. You work, even at a crappy job, and now you have more money than you get with the UBI alone. Is this really such a hard concept for you?
It’s Time for Data Ethics Conversations at Your Dinner Table
1. If applicants can't pass fizzbuzz then you shouldn't hire them and you can end the interview process right there.

2. Asking them to write fizzbuzz is exactly the same as asking them to write a method that does anything else, unless if they're aware of it and already knew how to do it, but of course you're asking them other questions as well?

3. Agreed, but it's impossible to match a new candidate with everyone in the company. If they're going to be working closely with person X then have that person sit in the interview for 15-30 minutes and see if they can work together on a problem.
Medicare fraud goes well beyond price reporting by manufacturers. Physicians can bill for more expensive procedures, bill phantom patients, etc.

That's a huge part of the multi billion dollar fraud that Medicare has.

I assume being able to identify physicians will outlier billing patterns would be helpful in figuring out where to look closer.
Egotistical tone to this article... good explanation of procedures on an airliner but for background the author of the blog post made a boat load of money on Web 1.0 and fancies himself as a pilot. It's way too easy for a part-timer like him to pretend this was no big deal and he could have done it too.

He writes this article with a tone of jealousy or something that the captain is taking too much credit or didn't really have a hard job or something.

The captain of the SW plane didn't even want to be identified, the press took care of that. The fact that the rest of the crew wasn't identified doesn't mean the captain is taking too much credit or that everyone thinks the rest of the crew didn't do a great job too.

No reason for him to try and take the captain down in his post, a simpler blog post praising the rest of the crew would have been better.

If you were looking for it you could probably claim an element of sexism too since he's acting like the co-pilot isn't getting any credit because he's a man. That probably takes a reader who was predisposed to that viewpoint though.
Thanks for sharing, are you running SAP products or similar software on this infrastructure?
That is interesting. I wonder if a manufacturer has ever released a dualbooted PC before.
Yeah, it's like people getting upset that people get killed in death camps, or when thieves do some thieving, and so on. I mean, it's right in the names!
Is a extremely complex ecosystem. Yes, you can grow coral in captivity. Some species are much more difficult to keep alive than other, but can be done. Is done since years in aquariums. The problem is that this not the same as cloning a entire ecosystem with a net of 10.000 species living together.

You can't do it in the sea otherwise, because there is not a lot of accurate and still free areas. Coral needs a lot of light. Must be shallow. Pirate and lawful fishing, commercial sea routes, tourism (coral reef attracts big predators like sharks), and a net of vested interests will block it.

And you'll need to wait 3000 years to have a coral reef at '3000 years level', of course. Corals are terribly slow and fight with their neighbors all the time. Such project would be extremely expensive.
"FairTax" doesn't work because sales tax is extremely regressive. Rich people don't spend nearly as much of their income as poor people, and they frequently don't even spend it inside the country. Sales tax just ends up hurting the working class the most.
For researchers, yes. At the scale Facebook and Google operate at the lack of CUDA isn't much of a problem. The big difference is that AMD's GPUs only work on vectors whereas Google's TPUs (and NVidia's latest card) can work on matrices directly for a large increase in throughput.
Is TechStars still doing 20k + a convertible note? That is a fundamentally unserious offer
> If I don't have a server in your country, I shouldn't be in your jurisdiction.

Ha! Try telling that to the Americans ;)
I've never seen any evidence to suggest that people paid a living income off state pensions or oil funds are anywhere near as productive as those who aren't (even after controlling for demographics), and not having an enormous drop in productivity is integral to the possibility of UBI being fundable in the foreseeable future.
My main takeaway is that the corporations don't have the funds to waste on this and don't see the ROI (given how many large companies listed in the article stopped using Palantir) whereas the government does. Peter Thiel being a libertarian is clearly aware of the scale of government wastage and decides to go in for the win.
I don't use Facebook to login with anything, so I guess I have nothing to worry about.
If it uses https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy in the background it needs a (huge?) disclaimer that a $20 per year license for commercial use is required.

What is the license on your code?
But you cannot ignore the "less interesting stuff" from UBI. I'm curious in the statistics of long term unemployed who start to do something with their lives that they weren't doing before UBI.
Yeah, but you edited your post to specify "in the article" after I'd posted. At the point of my reply, it was correct.
Reminds me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox