skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The world doesn't come to an end; the people don't all become listless and stop contributing. The currency doesn't inflate uncontrollably; prices don't change at all.

That’s exactly what has happened. Inflation has been masssive. From food to services to education. Everything is expensive, and poor people spend their lives watching Netflix, playing video games. That’s what I see all around me.

Americans are too good pick their own food or perform such labor, and politicians of all varieties are happy expanding the national debt to support this depressed lifestyle while shitting on the people who actually do the work.

No one understands the value of a dollar. The things you can get on the global market for a dollar are huge, but Americans will buy bottled water or Gatorate for two dollars. Then they’ll tell you they’re poor. People put down $2.15 for a tiny cup of guacamole at Chipotle like that’s not completely insane. As if that’s how life intrinsically works.

People say you can’t afford housing like you could in the 1950s but if you showed them the average 1950s new American ranch home they’d think it was a shanty hovel. Everything is fundamentally inflated, the whole developed world is a bubble that shows no respect for humanity, the environment or what is appropriate to have and to want.
Isn't it like more that the state itself can't ask/force you to remove something, but i as a natural person can?
That's why you have 2+ people. Unlikely that 2+ people will make the same mistake.
Unless you're on Asiana or another provider where junior crew are taught to defer to the superior at all times. Which is a problem most of the industry recognized a while back and thus makes sure that the staff is usually around the same level of seniority.
This is horseshit. She had an engine explode and shrapnel ripped apart the fuselage, it’s not remotely a “one engine out simulation”. Was the wing damaged? How badly was the fuselage damaged? Was the plane actually on fire as the indicators showed? She was accounting for a large number of unknowns that the armchair crowd here is not even considering. She was also told that someone was ejected from the plane. Do these not have an impact on the pilot’s mental state? She retired from flying fighter jets only to be shot down by her own poorly maintained engine while carrying 150 other people? This is looking at a good outcome and deciding that it looked easy.

Yeah, the pilot matters.
Right. It's like promising immortality for two years.
You could look up syllabi for masters and PhD programs in nutrition.
Yes, as in the currently observable state because since there's no such thing as evolution, then from the beginning god would have had to create every single relationship that all living and non-living things had, have or will have.
It's good to be skeptical. There are a whole class of problems that are discontinuous, but it's way too tempting to label things that way.

That said, UBI _seems_ a lot more like herd immunity than most policy problems, especially social safety net policy.
Not having read that book, I would say you have to consider the source and why they might have come to those conclusions. Now, it's possible Gore is correct, but then again, why are others incorrect in their assertion, if Gore is right?
Why treat and educate people about their specific problems if they have all the motivation to stay healthy?

If people are doing bad job at keeping themselves and their loved ones well, why not help them with little scientific knowledge?

Why doom them to do only as well as what they learned from their parents allows them to?
I tried building Clangd in trunk but failed to build.
I drove delivery for five years so I know at least one pizza delivery driver who agrees with me.
Indeed.

Wouldn't it be nice if there actually were real Illuminati managing the world? At least someone would have some control over what's happening, hopefully someone with a clue.
... and were completely redesigned starting in the mid-2000s to be good general purpose parallel processors.

Modern GPUs have very little specialized graphics hardware. This doesn't mean there aren't better architectures, but this idea that it's bad cause it's a graphics accelerator is horribly out of date.
With UBI people say you are not discouraged from working because everyone gets the money no matter how much money they make. But where does that money come from?

Once you earn enough surely they will be taxing you more than you receive per month, otherwise the system would not work.
With LSP, you end up with one subpar implementation, and you need to duplicate all refactoring functionality for each language.

While with common IDE plugins, you have one implementation of the refactoring functionality, and each language plugin just exposes an AST.

So LSP actually leads to more duplicated code and worse editors.

VS Code will never be able to match the functionality of IDEA unless each language server reimplements all the functionality slightly differently. What a mess.
There have been a lot of co-processors in the genomics and sequencing world. They have all failed for obvious business reasons. It's not even clear that any genomics problem that exists today can't be solved with conventional hardware. Most genomics programs reach a few percent of the capacity of the hardware, so I think more software tuning and design is the right approach.
Well outcomes are discontinuous where the policies are discontinuous. There's a huge leap in the graph from 'this is temporary' to 'this is permanent.' We can't just write off the effect that has on human behavior.
> residents of Alaska

Probably a bad example to bring up.

The Alaska fund distributions amount to roughly ~$1.5k a year. Not quite the same as a pension or UBI. I'll probably get egg on my face for saying this, but I highly doubt anyone in Alaska lives solely on fund distributions.

Further, as noted [1], the "dividend had no effect on employment, and increased part-time work by 1.8 percentage points (17 percent)... our results suggest that a universal and permanent cash transfer does not significantly decrease aggregate employment."

1: http://www.nber.org/papers/w24312.pdf
How we explored the whole wide world with Google Earth in the past year
Yes, I should have better specified "accessible". If you ship to those customers, and make that publicly known, that appears to satisfy the intent to provide service to that country?

Add on language and currency, basics of accessibility, and you're meeting the definition AFAICT.
Just wanted to say thanks for Dependabot! I'm excited to be trying it out with `friends` (https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends) and I really appreciate the quick turnaround you gave me when I found a small bug the other week.

To others, check out Dependabot!
Why Photographic Services Are Demanding for the Travel and Tourism Industry
I wasn't even thinking about public data. There's a lot of data that law enforcement already collects. What about license plate data, data from IMSI catchers, and leaked data. Add in the publicly available online data and you can supposedly build up quite a profile about them.

What if somebody is arrested and happens to have a very convenient data set on a lot of people, such as data used for marketing purposes. Is it okay if those people are stopped and searched on the basis that somebody else held data about them and the police have supposed that 10% of the clients are suspected of criminality?

Normally there is supposed to be evidence that the crime took place before an investigation can begin.

If law enforcement starts with the evidence and then look for the crime that fits it, that's something different.
Ask HN: What services are you using for sending emails from app?
- Zapier. I have about 30 zaps running that automate mailchimp list management, email processing and other tasks.

- Python/PHP/Geektool. Another 5 or so processes running that automate analysis and reporting of sales, competitor and economic data.

- Google App Scripting. Inbox cleaning & recirculation scripts running.

- Xero API & Python. Internal financial modeling and reporting.

If I had more time I'd automate it all and never step foot into the office again.
I would call food, dwelling, healthcare, communication(internet) the four basic necessities.
So why not providing these for free and for the rest, just tax other sources of income by a fixed rate depending on how much is needed to provide the free ones?
Accessibility section proposal on Stackexchange
Instead of giving out money, why not give out the basic necessities directly? A free home, free utilities, free food, a basic vehicle, free clothes, free healthcare? If you’re happy with these things you’re set, if you want more you work for it and acquire money.

Seems like this would accomplish the same goals of UBI, but with less risks and impact on the economy, and at some point you can benefit from economies of scale to provide these things at even lower cost. People would not need the financial discipline and restraint that comes with managing a basic income.
In Europe, you already have some sort of UBI in most states. While it's often required that you actively look for a job, it isn't hard to get companies not to hire you. And yet, most people are actively looking for work. Because sitting at home all day for years is often worse than doing a menial job.

As a side note, working in a restaurant doesn't have to be a bad job. In the US it's often associated with low pay but there are a lot of people actually enjoying it (I know some).
Amazon employees are literally pissing in bottles because they can't take bathroom breaks without getting fired. Several have been hospitalized or died from heat-related injuries. This isn't merely about pay.
It's not directly proportional. Low lifetime earners get proportionally more back than high lifetime earners. It has the effect of a wealth transfer from high earners to low earners.
This looks true descriptively, but is it true normatively? That is, does it have to be this way? I'd say that a large part of nation-building is precisely the effort to extend people's thinking of "us" to the boundaries of the country including everyone in it. Where divided communities exist they can be bridged, but it takes effort. A discussion of this in the context of Northern Ireland: https://sluggerotoole.com/2018/04/15/i-voted-for-peace-and-a...

Much of the problems of the US are due to people playing up divisions for party advantage. There's only so far that can go before there's blood in the streets.
It's an unlikely scenario - but block your domain, block bank transfers (not for small offenses, though).
"Ask" any EU based payment providers (pretty much all have offices in the EU) to stop servicing you. You can use crypto currencies and the like but the inconvenience is there.

Then probably (or your employees) would not like to visit the countries there, etc.

Technically you should not be selling electronic services in the EU w/o EU VAT, so that already is sort of a breach... but no one chases so small fish.
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Interesting. I'm curious how they compare to Citus and if there are any tight integrations with their over services (managed Kafka or Elasticsearch)
Check the robots.txt and the ToS of the site and should be fine. In case of doubt, you could contact the site administrator.
This is probably my favorite question, and the reason why I like Palantir, but tell everyone not to bother buying it. The most common "low-tech" tools used by analyst's across the board are IBM's I2 Analyst's Notebook, ArcGIS (or something similar), Excel, various external databases, and Microsoft word. To super dumb-it-down: You use external data bases and excel to collect initial data, you use i2 to visualize it, you use ArcGIS to map it, then you use Word to write a report about it. Palantir does all these things on it's own, so in theory you'd only need to buy and utilize one product vs multiple. The problem is that it does each one fairly sub-par as compared to the more common "low-tech" options. You have to deeply invest in Palantir, and have them build in the customization necessary to really make it shine within your department. Unfortunately that ups the price significantly, so many agencies are buying essentially the off-the-shelf version and then complaining that it doesn't do what they need it to do.
I mean, if you want to play that game, capitalism itself exists on the back of a pool of exploited low-wage workers.
I use this on a daily basis and it's pretty good but can't cope with fast speech or poor sound quality. For the price I don't expect more but it's not amazing.
Ask HN: GDPR means what to early-stage startups?
This is the case for every press release office for every research university, I'm afraid. Some just get broader attention.
Because people vary. And while you may need a slightly larger vehicle (because of family size) and are therefore willing to spend a bit less on a home, so live further out, others may make the opposite tradeoff.

UBI gives people the ability to make the tradeoffs that work for them personally, rather than being stuck in a one-size-fits-all situation.
Maybe I wasn't clear in my original message. I meant that with lower block rewards and lower transaction fees (through lightning and other advances), the total reward for mining would go down, removing the incentive for the large number of mining operations.

On the large scale, I don't see mining efficiency affecting total bitcoin power usage, but I do see rewards impacting it. (higher BTC price => higher economic incentive to mine => more investments in mining operations => more power usage)

I think a lower bitcoin Hashrate would actually be a good thing (for power consumption and pollution)
Which state laws affect individuals more than they would n liberal states? Atlanta being such a major city makes GA very pro business. Businesses are doing a lot to keep pressure on the state to keep it from becoming more conservative.
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Why would anyone who is aware of what's going on in the world today want to work for military/intelligence murderers? Deception is the main weapon for these scumbags and that very weapon is regularly used to fleece the rest of the population.

Unless you're going to work from the inside to expose their massive amounts of bullshit, I find it deplorable. Honestly, I think you'd have to be either brain-washed by the cult-like repetition of nationalism and military-hero worship or just a real evil asshole to dedicate your life to helping these people.
Walking is simply not an alternative for moderate distance with a bike. For example, Google Maps's biking time for a common route near me (train station to university) is 6 minutes. Walking time is 26 minutes. The distance is 2km, so that's 20km/hr biking or about 4km/hr walking. I've tested this with longer distances and it seems to hold. In my experience, Google's biking speed is fairly spot on for me, and its walking speed is a bit faster than I walk. So I'd imagine that biking is at least six times faster than walking for me personally.

Also, if I really have somewhere to be, I can bike substantially faster and be OK, but running for half an hour with a heavy backpack and bags is much harder.

I spend a decent amount of time getting around on a bike - an hour and a half yesterday, maybe a half an hour today, so just the last two days alone I'd have spent twelve hours walking! That's totally unacceptable.

Finally, I imagine that biking (although easier) isn't that much less healthy than walking. Still much healthier than driving.
This doesn't contradict your comment, and you might be aware of it already, but red and blue states are to some extent an illusion caused by the voting system:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2016/

To the extent that they're not an illusion, the red and blue states might be the result of a voting system that inhibits third parties and promotes hyper-partisanship.
>there are over a dozen engine-problem incidents within the past week.

Shrapnel flying into the fuselage causing depressurization and major wing damage, on the other hand...

The unique thing about this incident isn't that they blew a blade. It's that engine containment failed catastrophically.
So the problem is programmability
Since you are new here, you should know that the HN guidelines recommend assuming good faith at all times. They also suggest avoiding flame bait, which is what accusing someone of trolling is. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You've mis-read my motives and this situation, perhaps @jaxwerk's suggestion that I was being condescending was enough to convince you it was true, however that comment is making an incorrect assumption. I didn't feel like I was talking to a wall, I asked the same question of a different person, a person who after I asked the first time, suggested that motorcycles tend to lean into a turn when turning. If you've ridden a motorcycle and know how to counter-steer, you'd know that motorcycles tend to right themselves while turning and that you have to keep counter-steering in order to maintain the turn.

My question was honest. I know from experience that the question of whether someone has ridden a motorcycle is very important when discussing counter-steering. Many people who've only ridden bicycles don't believe counter-steering exists at first. The people who understand counter-steering are the people who've taken a motorcycle safety course and/or learned about motorcycle racing and/or experimented while riding. It's much, much easier to feel & understand counter-steering on a motorcycle than a bike, and it's far, far more important.
You bring up a good point. Palantir is not just mining public data, but also organizing data that law enforcement provides to them (like license plate readings). But if law enforcement already has that data, is the problem that Palantir organizes it, or that law enforcement collects it in the first place?
I have really only read comments on UBI so I might be extremely wrong, but I believe the idea is that as we move toward a more "automated" life, the "1%" can make enough to pay for the 99% to have UBI. And since everyone gets the same baseline, even monumentally high tax rates would be tolerable.

This is basically a way of redistributing wealth with the added side benefit that you can quit your job without fear of losing everything in your life.
I imagine that researchers designed the experiment they thought would be accepted rather than the experiment they wanted. Yes, they intended to learn some things and most likely did.
If I don't have a server in your country, I shouldn't be in your jurisdiction.

And as for ANY regulation, progressive enforcement should be the norm. We shouldn't expect the same level of data security from John Buckley's local tool supply that we expect out of Amazon.
I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that all "movements" are theater in a way. They have a position to state, and they get it out there by saying the words and doing the things. If it looks a bit artificial, well, it is. But it's nonetheless well meant. I'm sure some of them eat cheeseburgers sometimes, and that doesn't detract from the message.
No, he isn't saying that.
yeah, just gives you numbers you can look at vs. just guessing.
Widescreen laptops are dumb
How expensive would it be to build a prototype for something like this?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5630775/Viral...

but for audio? Assume I have the legal rights from the actor secured.

How much video data would I need? Could I use something like Google's youtube dataset as a starting point?

Could you build some kind of eigenfaces only for voices? To generate some kind of generic voice and then feed it into some kind of model of an actor to get their voice?
Downvoted for quoting the article. Some serious Palantir fanatics on HN today. Hmm...
Looks decent but some odd things happen.

I don't appear to be able to put more than one formatted section in a paragraph. The first one works and the second doesn't.

Here's an example with two paragraphs, firstly with bold followed by italic and second vice versa.

https://i.imgur.com/QKEz7qM.png

Edit. Also, it appears to add unintended spaces around those formatted words (see `<em> dog</em>`). And I wish HN supported inline code snippets.
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Virtual Reality at the Intersection of Art and Technology
I'm always impressed by the unparalleled professionalism when listening to these cockpit recordings during emergencies. Professionalism by literally everyone involved: the tower, the other surrounding planes that are being delayed and most of all the affected flight crew. It's the epitome of "Keep calm and carry on".

I often think about these when sitting in meetings with people who get far more emotional over issues that are the farthest thing from an emergency.

EDIT: My comment was more a reaction to the recording of the SWA flight in question that's linked in the OPs article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkVTdvcghHc&feature=youtu.be
The large companies allow 10.000 emails/month for free and the base service is pretty much the same. Take your pick of Amazon SES, Mailgun, Mailjet, Postmark, SendinBlue, SendGrid, SparkPost ... (via https://github.com/anymail/django-anymail).
You do not need UBI for that, you just need a few more options or packages for people to choose from, which would be trivial to provide.
Facebook sucks more than my socks
I agree. The problem in genomics isn't how fast alignment is going, it is where to put the gobs and gobs of data.

The bottleneck in speed is how fast you can flip a DNA sequencer, which right now with an illumina Novaseq that bottleneck is a few days per run. That gives plenty of time to process each runs data on an HPC on current software for alignment and snp calling.

However, when each runfolder takes up 30Tb and you're flipping 20 runfolders a week. The scale of storage get large, fast.
We get a lot of mileage out of Butler for Trello (in combination with Zapier, pipes.digital, Trello mail-in to process App Store notification mails, etc).

https://butlerfortrello.com/

No affiliation, just a happy user.
You could also find the beautiful things that you can easily reach. You'll have a better life that way, less filled with longing for the scarce, the disappearing, the already gone.
Intel kills off its smart glasses project
I work for a startup in the EU and will be affected by GDPR. It's a nuisance but not a disaster. In fact, any small company that really can't employ good enough processes to comply is probably doing something very, very wrong.
Oops, it gets cut off if I paste the whole thing. Here’s a [text link](https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/raspberry-pi-microsd-...) instead.
NEC? At it's core anyway...

Comsol? You can use it for all physics.
A closely watched ballot box filled with pen and paper votes is more secure than any online system will ever be.
Like the front page says,

> "This is not a UNIX System! I don't know this!"

I ssh'd in out of curiosity. It's like visiting another planet.

For example:

help
>doc>info>help_system.gi.info (9 lines follow; 47 in info)
12/27/84 Multics help system

Multics provides online help through information segments (info segs)
such as this one. Type the command "help" with the name of a topic
and the system will print the information contained in the info seg
that describes that topic. A topic can be an individual command or
some other feature of the system. For example, to get information
about the print command, type
help print

16 more lines. More help?

Yes. I need more help.
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