skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have horrible spatial awareness but I can easily keep a beat and I've been a drummer when I was younger. As with all these correlations they are probably too simplistic.
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You are missing the point that in the moment one can not even remember what they have planned to do in that situation.
We know who you are, Elon.

Please finish what you started with SpaceX and Tesla before you take on The Boring Company. Yes, it is a great idea, but you really have to get through ramping up manufacturing first.

Also, focus on energy storage after you get through manufacturing.
>I can see how this kind of access to an egalitarian community of worship /

Lol, you can tell you're not a churchgoer ... /jk (but not entirely)
Note that this is exactly why Firefox has resisted shipping with adblock on by default for years now. It's not just about websites deciding not to support Firefox, it's about websites like this one deciding to go out of their way to break on Firefox.
"But what are the distances kids have to travel to school or their friends nowadays vs back then? I mean the school bus was a thing back then too."

This highly depends on the area, at least with schooling. In Indiana, it was around a half mile when I was a child in the 80's. This was where the school wouldn't bus you. Sometimes in high school, it was around a mile. Some folks have to walk a mile and a half.

My sister just spent some time in Connecticut - there were no busses for anyone. Only one of the busy roads had a crossing guard and things for elementary students.

For playing and whatnot, I think this highly depends on area and parents. While I could walk to a friend's house in the same neighborhood in the town I grew up in, my sister often couldn't because the town of 40,000 we lived in was a normal, sprawled, midwestern town and it was often too far to walk. By the time my brother (11 years younger than me) reached some of those ages, they moved to a rural location and distances got further. I had friends with much more freedom than I had, however: My mother was fairly strict.
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WWII Europe had plenty of dictators, and will probably be a caliphate by the end of this century. I’ll keep my freedom and guns.
I'm not sure if I'm understanding this correctly - maybe I'm missing something significant here, but it says they're giving people 75 cents per day per person? How is ~273 buck a year going to provide any kind of valid measurement? Even at poverty levels of income, you're not talking about an amount of money that reasonably effects anyone's social mobility.
I'm having a hard time understanding how this providing even an academically interesting insight into the effects of UBI.
Am I missing something big here?
I think that's how you derive UCB, but optimizing cumulative regret rather than finding the probability distribution directly. Pls correct me if I'm wrong
https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv is a must if you do anything with CSV.
I did a double take and then a triple take on that last sentence. I can't decide if you mean "desert" or "dessert". Either kind of work.
> Any theory of money needs to explain how the US went from subsistence farming in 1800 to superpower in WW1 on the gold standard

No, it doesn't. Especially since the the US was on a bimetallic standard, not the gold standard, for much of that time.

> which more or less means balanced budgets

No, it doesn't. Either in theory or US practice.
2005 Malibu. The side mirrors stripped their gears, the exhaust got a leak and needed complete replacement, the brake rotors got scored in a bizarre way that the shop couldn't understand, the tie rod ends went bad a couple of times, the instrument cluster stopped working spontaneously, then on my next drive started working equally spontaneously, the ABS system would occasionally go on strike for no apparent reason, from time to time it would somehow start badly and end up in a weird low idle state where it ran extremely rough, but the good ol' "turn it off and on again" would usually resolve it....

My Tesla has not been problem-free either, but it hasn't been that bad.
So, step 0 would be having real-world experience building a viable business, which Musk gained from Zip2 and PayPal.
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You're assuming that the native Germans were somehow second rate scientists. Re-check my list :)

Germany not only destroyed its Jewish population willingly, therefore losing some of Germany's best minds but also destroyed its own research facilities, economy and even a good chunk of its native German scientists by shipping them off to war or having them bombed back at home.

Folly of the greatest magnitude, any way you look at it.
From my understand this is going to the poorest of the poor in Kenya, because the median Kenyaian monthly salary is ~800 USD.[1][2] So this UBI experiment does not seem to be for the average population, more as a form of welfare. Still interesting and meaningful research, but not the long term UBI experiment many are waiting for.

[1] http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=111&loct...

[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=80%2C000+KES+in+usd&t=osx&ia=curre...

Edit: Source [1] seems to be unreliable. See below comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17013632. So while the number is wrong, it does seem that this UBI is still targeting the poor.
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> Payday loans are extreme case because it’s the last option for a poor person.

This is a false dilemma. There are many options before succumbing to a payday loan. Depending on where you live, there are a myriad of housing assistance, energy assistance, medical bills assistance, and food assistance programs on the city, county, state, and federal levels. Heck, even bankruptcy can be better in some situations. It really does depend on the situation.

The other problem here is availability of information. Everyone is 100% aware of payday loans and the temporary relief it can provide you (advertising), not everyone is aware of the upwards of 20+ programs someone in need can participate in, and it can be exhausting to apply and follow up on everything. Again, the reason the payday loan industry is so successful is they are preying on human nature to take the quick and easy way, but to say they are some sort of last option is not true at all.
Unless "There are not 98 blue dots" also means "There are not 2 red dots"? Then the process starts and months later all red dots leave.

This requires that everyone know only blue or red eyes are allowed.
I like what you have to say about having the failure stage young, with one caveat: too many heartbreaks and setbacks can kill the spirit. It's good to be tempered, rather than shattered.
The article is unclear. Does contractor mean supplier, or is it an individual working at Tesla site?
The 7% rate quoted is after inflation. The actual historical rate of return was more like 11% over that time period if you ignore inflation.
>> Maybe communism vs freedom?

> That’s a false dichotomy. China is ostensibly commmunist but free market is alive and well (with heavy doses of state directed influence, but so as in other western countries, witness the military industrial complex)

"Freedom" does not mean only the "free market." China is certainly against many things Westerners would consider necessary for freedom:

> Communist Party cadres have filled meeting halls around China to hear a somber, secretive warning issued by senior leaders. Power could escape their grip, they have been told, unless the party eradicates seven subversive currents coursing through Chinese society.

> These seven perils were enumerated in a memo, referred to as Document No. 9, that bears the unmistakable imprimatur of Xi Jinping, China’s new top leader. The first was “Western constitutional democracy”; others included promoting “universal values” of human rights, Western-inspired notions of media independence and civic participation, ardently pro-market “neo-liberalism,” and “nihilist” criticisms of the party’s traumatic past.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lea...

The Chinese communist party literally opposed to constitutional democracy (meaning checks on its power), human rights and accurate, nonpartisan history.
> There weren't obnoxious blinking ads that would move the text around while you were reading it.

No, instead newspapers went for screaming headlines (big text, celebrities in bikinis) and ads went for whatever caught the attention most.

Don't idealize newspapers or newspaper ads, they're in the exact same market and were trying to optimize for maximum exposure and revenue just as much as websites are.
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Yes I would give the distance in time if I was telling someone which suburb I grew up in. Ex. 30 minutes from downtown or about 45 from the airport.

I would do the same referencing smaller cites or states/locations close by. 6 hours from the gulf or 2 hours from this college.
This is a really interesting concept. I'm able to take a look at the layout of a room, then turn off the light and navigate across the room easily without running into obstacles. It's not a perfect skill, but it seems like a very tangible ability to me since I consciously do it. I'm also able to wake myself up most mornings without an alarm within 15 minutes of my intended time despite not having a regular schedule, but since I do that while unconscious, I'm hesitant to believe that it's a real ability and not just good luck. The idea that my brain's ability to count beats in time could be related to my it's ability to track location in space makes me believe it could be a tangible ability after all.
I don't think a 9-paragraph Medium post is appropriate for "Show HN."

Does seem like a neat idea, but you'd probably be more likely to avoid failed builds if (a) the donation was immediate and irreversible; and (b) went to a charity or organization you vehemently disagreed with.
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Based on the people I know, most people going into finance from those schools have humanities degrees.
I'm also a drummer. Rhythm is not the same as the awareness of the passage of time. How are you with the passage of time throughout a day? Do you know when it's morning or afternoon without having to look at a clock? Do you know what day of the month it is without having to look at a calendar? How about month of the year?
Also considering inflation and the weakening of the US dollar and theyre getting even less. There are so many environmental variables as well, especially over such a large time frame. It will definitely be hard to find a strong signal through all that noise. They need to go big or go home with this kind of experiment.
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I took as the point of the article

THERE IS NO HOW-TO GUIDE

You arrive, disoriented, at "real adulthood" and realize you don't have THE answers, and also that no one else does either
> China today is about Gilded Age-type capitalism with a strain of collectivism running through it.

From what I gather, this is unfortunately true.

> The Chinese Communist Party functions the same way Chinese government has functioned for thousands of years. Anyone can join, if he can pass the necessary tests. Passing tests to gain a coveted spot in the government has been a national priority since before Confucius's day, 2.5 millennia ago, and continues to be today.

Nah. I don't think you have to pass any tests. You get into the party if you or your parents have the right connections or are willing to bribe the right people.

> China does not have legally enshrined freedom of speech. But at a societal level, the 'real' freedom of speech is greater than what I've experienced in America. In America, you must very carefully watch your words, lest you offend any of a number of easily offended groups.

China doesn't have "real" freedom of speech because you can voice your personal prejudices with fewer social repercussions. China is literally throwing defense lawyers in jail because they have the temerity to defend their clients against the government prosecutors! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/magazine/the-lonely-crusa... There is no "real" freedom of speech in China in any way.

Try to organize a protest march against Xi Jinping in China and let me know if you still think that "the 'real' freedom of speech is greater in China."
Here's the reality: Most people won't pay for most sites. I get that. I'm the same. I have subscriptions to a handful of high value sites (e.g., NYT), but most sites just don't deliver enough value to make that viable.

I could live with advertising if it were unobtrusive, useful, and didn't try to track me. Very little advertising is like that, so I block it. Yep, that means marginal sites will die. I can live with that.

It is still possible to sell magazines and other media. No one was promised that the web would be a perfect was to sell media. If it's only a good way to exchange information (for free), that is not a bad thing.

I don't think it is a tragedy if sites collapse that cannot find a viable way to serve me. I don't give a rat's ass about serving advertisers.
> ...not a battery.

The paper, linked below (thanks xelxebar) would beg to differ, it says

> we report a rechargeable manganese–hydrogen battery, where the cathode is cycled between soluble Mn2+ and solid MnO2 with a two-electron reaction, and the anode is cycled between H2 gas and H2O through well-known catalytic reactions of hydrogen evolution and oxidation.

They give an equation for the cell operation as,

Mn2+ + 2H2O ↔ MnO2 + 2H+ + H2

Let me try that with _sub_ and ^sup^, does HN support that?

Mn2^+^ + 2H_2_O ↔ MnO_2_ + 2H^+^ + H_2_

Anyway, that double-ended arrow says that you can read it from right to left, i.e. evolved H_2_ gets back into (or stays in?) the solution to react with the O_2_ from the magnesium oxide to make water. Quote,

> During discharge of the battery, the uniform layer of as-deposited MnO2 on the cathode is dissolved back to soluble Mn2+ electrolyte and H2 is oxidized on the anode.

So, I guess it stays in solution...?
One of the awkward things about people is the more they spend on something the more they value it and the better behaved they are to the creators of it.*

This may be why subscriptions are so expensive - because part of the cost of the subscription is customer support, and the less expensive it is the more customer support costs.

*alternate, complementary theory: the less it costs the more poor people have it where they have to do more financial juggling and get into weirder situations. Thoughts, HN?
I got the sense that the comment I was responding to was saying that we might accidentally discover or invent useful things as a byproduct of space travel research.

For example, I believe memory foam was originally invented by NASA (or at least by researchers funded by NASA). Memory foam has improved the quality of life of many people including myself (I'm sitting on it right now!) but I don't believe that this is a good justification for researching space travel. Our money would be better spent by cutting out the middle man and directly researching things that will solve problems we know about on Earth.

That research will also have unforeseen applications much like research into space travel so we will still get those seemingly random benefits like Viagra being used for erectile dysfunction instead of whatever it was originally invented for.

I am simply not a believer that we should be investing money into things like putting humans on other planets. I don't believe that we need to spread out into the universe in case some kind of cosmic event destroys the Earth. I am perfectly okay with humanity going extinct in that case.

Sending rovers, satellites, and probes seems like a much better usage of money because they're a lot cheaper than trying to keep a human alive on Mars or any other planet. I am also okay with things like asteroid mining to get more resources to be used on Earth. That has a clear benefit.
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I've been skateboarding vert ramps most of my life (our ramp is pictured at the top of my site https://vertramp.org/). To avoid getting seriously hurt, (1) religiously wear pads (even wrists guards) and a helmet if you skate bowls or ramps, and (2) don't push yourself too hard beyond your current level. Pushing hard can result in learning more quickly, but it's also a good way to end up hurt, which has serious consequences at our age (I'm 44). I skate all the time with other vert skaters around my age; there's a ton of us (since vert was huge in the 1980s), and it is a very welcoming community. It seems like each year I do deal with one nontrivial injury - for 2017 it was that my knees just started to ache a LOT from my knee pads getting yanked when knee sliding on birch, which was the surface of our ramp before we put skatelite on it. In any case, you have to watch out both for traumatic injuries (where pads help) and more subtle injuries from longterm stress to your body. Skateboarding in your 40s is definitely very doable, especially if you optimize for having fun and getting exercise more than trying to be Bucky Lasek, who is older than both of us and a top pro.

Skateboarding is dangerous, but at least on a ramp or bowl, there aren't cars that can kill you in an instant, and (unlike surfing or snowboarding) where you are riding is mostly predictable and under control.
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The interesting thing about this project is how the incentives align. The premise requires the view that donating to charity is a bad thing. Or conversely, writing build failing code is a good thing. Otherwise --if donating and buildable code are good -- there is no self reinforcing cycle. The system architecture is closed...a finite pie if you will. Successful builds and charitable donations have a reciprocal relationship. An increase in one comes at the expense of the other. A win-win system architecture would have a positive correlation between charitable donations and successful builds. The charities and the developer would both benefit or suffer together. If both successful builds and charitable donations are good, the system architecture encourages the Shirky Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Shirky#Shirky_principle
Work to move Firefox Focus to Gecko is underway. Not sure of the ETA. (Keywords to search for: klar + geckoview.)
Ideas always look best when they are new. After a while the new idea might not look so attractive and that’s where execution and focus come in. It is true that there are examples of people who run multiple companies but I don’t think we know a lot about the details on how they are pulling this off. These people are probably extremely passionate about both of these ideas. It doesn’t sound like your situation.

This reminds me of a quote from Jesus in Matthew 6:24
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.”
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Telegram Desktop works without your phone and also is a much leaner native desktop app (written in C++ with Qt).
Although there is no question that a large part of the religious dogma is straight out false, it seems to me that, knowing how many things we still have no understanding of, it would be just as unproductive to outright dismiss all of it as false.

But, again, my issue is not with the dismissal - I'm completely fine with the idea that people might come to that conclusion and I'm open to the idea myself. My issue is with the cheap jabs that are not even honest expressions of one's feelings.

My criticisms might seem strange and uncalled-for if one only considers this instance in isolation, but it keeps happening, again and again, and throughout many different types of media. Just recently I was reading Sam Harris' book; it's quite small and a fun read at times, yet it quickly became a chore to get through, as it is full of those irrelevant cheap-shots. The thing is, in the right place, in the right context, those remarks could be interesting, however, when misplaced like that, they end up coming off as someone simply having a chip on their shoulder.

I consider it really unfortunate that it seems that the atheist side, whose thoughts I'm most interested in hearing, fallbacks to this strategy quite too often. And thus, instead of a philosophical debate, we end up with a two-person monologue where the beliefs of the atheist are presented no more rationally the those of the religious.
Not knowing who any of those people are, I could use some context. Care to please ellaborate?
"Perfection is attained on the point of collapse"

(I thought I had read that somewhere, but the closest I find now is C.N. Parkinson's formulation, which I did read years ago ...)
earlier discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16991185
grep has to be one of the most useful things i've ever used
It's a common alias in Ubuntu systems I believe.
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My 5yo kid regularly comes home with a phone number scribbled down of their friend's parent's cell # that they got from a playmate from school. I've called and setup several play dates this way. I just drop my kid off to play at their house or have their kid come play at our place. Based on conversations with other parents in my neighborhood, this is the norm.

Sadly, kids in our direct neighborhood don't generally mingle or have unschedule play. Definitely different from the way I grew up (grew up in the 90s: little to no supervision, just wandered the neighborhood.)
I read that consistently until I saw your comment
> The bigger problem is that publishers are loosing control over their advertisers.

I've never understood this. There are a lot of magazines that clearly spend considerable resources making their printed page look exactly how they want. Then when they publish that same content online, they apparently don't care at all about the presentation.

Matthew Butterick's great article Bomb in the Garden makes this point very well. It's from 5 years ago but I think it is more relevant today than ever.
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I love tig https://github.com/jonas/tig
I'd assume that a UBI study like this would start with having people suddenly not being forced to work to survive, or do anything for that matter, while looking at how their lives change over the course of at least a year. Without any kind of guidance I'd expect a fast descent into apathy and lethargy with most people.
I suppose. I've noticed that I often answer questions ostensibly about distance with time units. For instance, I was recently asked by the boss how far do I live from $meeting_place, to which I answered "90 minutes or so". Because what he was really asking for is how difficult it would be for me to get there, for which time is a much better approximation than distance.

Usually people don't care about actual distance. It's not useful for much, unless you're drawing a map. Also, note how new transport options change the perception of the world. 200 years ago, my ancestor would probably not bother with a casual visit to a town 70+ km away. These days, I don't think much of running errands over that distance - it's a 1.5h bus ride away, so I can go there in the morning, do stuff, and come back before dinner (and thanks to the current tech, I can also clock in some work time during commute).
Thanks, somehow I missed that, this makes much more sense but then raises some fundamental questions regarding the potential pigeon holing of UBI as a tool whose efficacy is primarily shaped by the state of the economy in which it is deployed (ie this study is highly dependent on the underlying economy being that of a severely under developed nation state).
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