skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say this as a liberal. So the US government:

1. Incarcerates people for the victimless “crime” of taking drugs

2. Takes away their kids and sticks them in foster homes or worse

3. Enriches drug gangs in Mexico thru criminalizing their competition in the US

4. Catches families trying to escape the gangs by coming to the US for asylum

5. Punishes the kids for yet another victimless crime of crossing the US border

I would like to ask the Christian child-loving, Bible-following voters:

Is America great yet?
It's not so much a less strict attitude but a willingness to co-operate and allow citizens to pass unhindered thanks to the Schengen Agreement. Borders outwith Schengen or on the borders of the EU are policed strictly.
It's one thing to teach people, it's another thing to beat their native language out of them, which is what these schools were designed to do from the beginning. The whole point was to forcibly Christianize them and exterminate their culture.

> The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, founded by the US Army officer Richard Henry Pratt in 1879 at a former military installation, became a model for others established by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Pratt said in a speech in 1892, "A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him and save the man." Pratt professed "assimilation through total immersion." He conducted a "social experiment" on Apache prisoners of war at a fort in Florida. He cut their long hair, put them in uniforms, forced them to learn English, and subjected them to strict military protocols.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_sch...
> It is like patenting 2+2=4 once you discover numbers.

Welcome to software patents.
A few weeks ago someone submitted an entire article to HN that consisted of someone complaining that deep learning wasn't really deep, in the deep & meaningful sense. They clearly misunderstood. Was pretty funny.
Yes please, I'd be interested!
Addicted people—-including food addicts—-never want to hear the truth. And the pro-obesity movement costs society greatly.
> living there and doing well

I 'm sure there are but its not clear a) if they started their businesses there and b) if dubai played an essential role other than being low-tax.
The Benelux Union was really the precursor model to the EU.
My cat is often underfoot or very close by, without the automation I’d be turning the lights on and off manually many times a night. They only come on at 1% brightness.
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No I thought that article was the special report. Apparently it is only available in print?
Hammerspoon (Mac).
'how to solve it' by george-pólya is also on the same lines, and _really_ very good.
A VaT of 5% has been introduced.
I like my vault as well.
I believe it is as cut and dry. Not sure what leads you to think that it isnt. The overwhelming scientific consensus has always been that humans are the only known species with a linguistic capacity. Gorillas are among the less plausible of the potential counterexamples.
Assuming you mean security nor for yourself (as in, to see where you're walking) but for burglars, thinking about this for a bit I'm not sure if this always works as intended. Would be interesting to see stats. But it's definitely not as simple as 'light on = scare away intruders'. Suppose your hallway light goes on every single day, even if you add some randomess to the timing, a burglar which scouts the neighbourhood a couple of days will quickly figure out the light being on doesn't mean anything with respect to you being at home or not. Moreover it would be convenient for him/her once inside the house since there's more visibility. Unless of course that also means the neighbours can then clearly see someone being in the house. Then again, if your neighbours don't know you're not at home that matters less.

edit seems it's indeed a point of discussion https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8956/is-it-safe...
I’m not sure why this has to be brought up every single time a successful middle eastern nation is mentioned. Why not appreciate the positive qualities of a country while recognizing that every country has flaws?

It’s not like all other countries are paragons of human rights. If your country’s justice system puts innocent folk in solitary confinement for three years without trial over a false accusation (Kalief Browder), or if your country’s law enforcement murders innocent people unacceptably often and rarely gets punished for it, then you need to “take the log out of your eye” before accusing others.
Definitely give it a shot and let us know! I'm really curious about this and it really should be possible as long as you can visualize the magnetic field.

For comparison's sake (several orders of magnitude physically larger), apparently it's entirely possible to visually "read" vinyl records: https://www.wired.com/2003/02/press-scan-to-play-old-albums/
The kind of engineering you have to do to make a project successful at a place like NASA is very different than many other places. If it's a larger program, you need to make sure you have participation scattered across congressional districts, or at least certain important ones. This reduces defunding risk, but introduces lots of program management risks.

Once you've successfully become known as a jobs creator, then your job is to spend as much as possible. You can't be looking at the efficiency of getting the program completed - you have to be looking at the efficiency of spending taxpayer money as efficiently as possible in congressional districts. The less work performed per dollar, the more efficient you are in getting the money into the economy. Hiring an engineer at $300/hour instead of $100/hour - why risk getting the cheap guy when there is no benefit to you?

Efficiency in government programs has a very different meaning than in other programs.
Really, it has no appeal to you to live longer?

And yet people get divorced and often stop talking to their family. Are you saying you’d commit suicide in that case? I doubt it.

How do you ultimately figure out what you think would be the best for you?
"Free trade" and "openness" under an absolute monarchy. What about China then, Economist, double standards much?
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Some did, others didn't. Some have built their next company out of Dubai (and are doing well), others have opted to base it somewhere in Europe with the staff being based in Europe (and they commute a few days per week from Dubai).

However, they are all spending their money in Dubai (property, purchases, etc), so generally a net win for the local economy.

A lot of foreign brands (i.e. supermarkets, car manufacturers, certain fashion brands) are concessions that are held by local Emirati families granted to them decades ago by the Sheikh. So those profits mostly flow back to the local Emirati population.
Look up PSD2 regulations.
Except that the study cited didn't take into account confounding factors (cohabitation in earlier decades was associated more strongly with lower socioeconomic status, for example). The study has since been replicated with more recent data, and shows a weakening correlation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000053/
People who paid $38 for his hot dog water would not have bought it if it weren't for the experience he offered them, which to me looked like the opportunity to turn the tables for a minute at a fair and act like hucksters.

I can think of two ways he can scale this offering. He could focus more on the personal aspect, then he'd be turning into an actual product huckster and is moving towards the space occupied by pitchmen like Billy Mays and Vince Offer.

Or he put his hot dog water up on the Internet with some funny copy, putting it in Pet Rock territory.
Sia works without any centralized orchestration, enabling you to safely use financially incentivized hosts without needing to know who they are, and allowing you to know that that only get paid if they store your data as promised. The hosts also can be guaranteed that they get paid even if the renter disappears, and you can't achieve those things without a blockchain.
Ha, cats. Strange I didn't think of that seeing the little buggers sneaking up on me all day long here :)
> hard problem practically (rather than theoretically)

Err...actually, the theory is hard, and that is a practical problem, because the WASM people actually wanted to have a formal semantics for WASM from the get-go.

That's why they're moving slowly, only releasing what they can specify formally.
So basically after years of pulling this with employees, employers are now getting the same treatment.

I also have been ghosted couple of times by prospective employers. Only after they have someone on their payrolls that they will come back with an answer.
Only a complete fool believes that Russia was able to influence the US elections with a few thousand dollars worth of Twitter ads.

The Russian narrative exists to create a distraction in the form of an external enemy for the establishment. It is a completely ridiculous narrative for anyone that has a brain.

Obama interfered with the Brexit vote when he told the Brits that if they voted for Brexit, they would need to go to the back of the queue.
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Yeah, have noticed the same. From my home connection in Tampere, Finland http://www.gcping.com/ shows 34ms to Frankfurt and 64ms to Finland region.
Mac + IntelliJ for large projects, Sublime for one-off files.
To be honest I wouldn't be convinced myself that I would need a personal computer to better index my pieces of text at home.

Searching through un-indexed text would have been a far more powerful argument. I remember reading the memoir of a DGSE analyst (the DGSE is the french equivalent of the CIA). As always, the reality of secret services is far less sexy than its popular image and the book has an entire chapter about the importance of good (pre-computer area) archives about everything, every conversation any analyst had with anyone, any book or article written by any public figure, anytime someone is mentioned in any anecdote, etc. And how the essence of being a good analyst is to know these archives inside out, how to quickly browse through when looking for what we know on someone or a topic. On a personal computer that would have been a simple CTR-F.
That's a valid point, but there are degrees of freedom.

You don't have to be a "paragon of human rights" to do better, or much better, than another country. And Dubai is pretty damn law by all standards.

That said, you do have a point in the hypocrisy of how not only some countries's citizens routinely paint something as uniquely outrageous despite the same or worse things going on in their countries (key word here being "uniquely", as in "look at what those savages do", or "this would never happen here at home").

But also on how some countries are praised by the same pundits (despite their abuses and absolute power) and others are condemned (because of theirs).

It's almost as if the concern is not with the abuses and power dynamics, but with the interests of the nations and the power elites that pay the journalist's salaries.
This is a truly surprising and relevant article (especially as it was written pre-Brexit, as we now seem to have our brexiteers arguing we should become something like Dubai in economic terms)

I am amazed it got published in the Torygraph !
This. I don't live in Dubai, but Dubai is good place to do business, meet Asian business partners, make deals and form holding companies under Dubai's independent English language common law judiciary.

Good things about Dubai: easy to travel, free trade zone, no taxes, and judiciary that meets western standards (for business, the civil law in the Emirate is medieval).
I first built ATTIC, which aggregated and indexed newly available products from local furniture stores in DC, to serve the personal needs of me and my wife. We were trying to furnish a new home using only locally bought goods, ideally vintage ones. I started with 15 or so stores to save us the time of having to go to each website one by one. It was pretty crude at first, but did the job. It saved us time and in some cases actually gave us an edge in seeing pieces that sell out quickly. Our home has come together well and almost entirely sourced from ATTIC. Mission accomplished.

Four years later it's now available in six cities and indexes hundreds of local independent stores.

https://attic.city
https://twitter.com/dibblego/status/419232648674828288?s=19

> It's funny when Java users complain about type erasure, which is the only thing Java got right, while ignoring all the things it got wrong.
Understand. I think Dubai offers a level of luxury due to abundant cheap labor, general safety and an abundance of of supercars, but not sure how it fares as an entrepreneurship center. Or how they are going to fare if other cities with similar "luxury" offerings catch up in asia. IIRC real estate prices are still falling in Dubai, but people keep on building new empty buildings, which sounds unsustainable and goes against the optimistic image painted in the article.

Dubai is also benefiting from the general tax and secrecy crack-down in all of EU and OECD countries like malta, cyprus ireland, switzerland, singapore (Dubai was until very recently non-cooperative jurisdiction) but it's not clear whether this will last forever. It will be interesting to see whether the UK will seek to lower taxes post-brexit.
Leviticus Lewis is a pretty spectacular name for a man tasked with smiting asteroids.
In India there's a new government rule that "no one entity can contribute more than 25 percent to the sales of an e-commerce platform".
Future societies will look at our treatment of animals the same way.
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On a somewhat related note:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/demand-for-batteries-is-shrinki...

I was able to read it via a google search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=duracell+energizer+high+pric...

From the article:

Shoppers are paying more for disposable batteries even though the proliferation of toys and consumer electronics powered by built-in rechargeable batteries has reduced U.S. demand.

That is because the two biggest disposable-battery brands, Duracell and Energizer, control over three-quarters of the market. As both focus on profits, they are no longer offering deep discounts as they did when they were racing for market share.

Batteries on average cost 8.2% more than a year ago, while prices in the overall household-care segment rose only 1.8%, according to Nielsen. At a time when prices are stagnating on everything from toilet paper to diapers, such pricing power for a product that is increasingly obsolete has confounded shoppers.
Uber adjusts prices in Egypt after fuel price increase
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Thanks for posting this concept.

To what extent does mass+social media create collective subgroups of consciousness? What's the decay curve of a subgroup and how do subgroups compete, fork, merge or decay?

How do persistent records (oral memories, written records, national holidays, memorials, digital footprints, media archives, censorship) feed back into subgroups of collective consciousness?

How can collective consciousness be measured, monetized, directed, encouraged, suppressed, or otherwise manipulated for specific purposes, within a specific bounded timeframe of a single
hour or day?

How do time zones affect the "nature/flavor" of consciousness in each hour, as populations sleep and wake and work and rest and ...?
Drug cartels, sure. ISIS I doubt the money for its operation is even a blimp on those banks revenues. More like what a $10 is for Bill Gates.

If they do pass through them when laundered it just because its easier for some reason than some other banks (e.g. not American owned etc), not because anybody at HSBC and co collaborates actively with these people.
This is a idealistic thought experiment, but Europe is still reeling from the the Syrian refugee crisis and that is just one small country. Throwing open boarders when there’s differential welfare systems would be chaos. The world wouldn’t be $78T richer, it would be $78T poorer because it would lead to widespread civil war. Even if the author was right about the economic impacts she is discounting people’s tolerance for change, especially is a country’s conservative faction. For developed nations it would effectively be asking for forfiteture.

The author uses Greece as an example, but Greece has nowhere the poverty of much of the developing world (and that’s a big number).

What incentive is there for the average middle class American to partake in such a grand experiment? Look at what happened when you introduced scarcity to an educated and industrious population after WW1. Mass genocide.

And let’s not forget housing inflation in developed countries. Immigrants are not going to head to Reno, they’re going to go to cities like NY, SF, LA, London—cities that they’ve heard about and where there are already large immigrant communities. Good luck adding another million people to NY over a three year period.
Cant have millions of people leading consoles. That leave the onus of disposal with the owner. In 10 years time Microsoft have a million Xbox to cleanly dispose of.
A lot of projects fail without taking human lives with it. Ares was dropped after one single test flight of a simpler Ares I.

Arguably it shouldn't even have been attempted - the sheer stupidity of the whole idea of having a single large solid rocket propelling you up without the possibility of being throttled down and with the chance of having burning solid fuel raining on your parachute in case you needed to bail out was probably swept under the rug too many times for comfort.

And that clusterfuck was stopped before it'd be able to kill anyone. In the meantime, it produced some knowledge on large solid fuel 1st stages that may someday compete with SpaceX's tech.
Cut social security and payroll taxes, deliver money right back into the hands of the workers. If more people are employed the need for these services is lessened anyway.

With advances in medical care, people can keep working until they are 70 or 80, at a lower rate eg. part time. Work keeps the brain active and prevents degeneration.

Finally reduce the cost of land and rents which is the major cost of life for the majority of workers. Do this by limiting immigration and keeping the country at a stable population, not growing endlessly.

If people truly need welfare or Government services, such a subsidised tuition, healthcare or a cash handout, then tally the paid amounts against their individual tax file, and claim the amounts back by increasing their tax level by single digits. If there is still an unpaid amount at death, then claim it from their estate.

Doing all this you can substantially cut the welfare state and encourage work. The end goal shouldn't be a UBI or negative income, it should be that 20 hours of basic work should be enough to allow you to afford a basic life.
It's a radio interview, so he may be talking to a brick wall in the studio but it's likely a bunch of people listening suddenly "got it" from this interview: computers aren't about manipulating numbers, but are general purpose machines that manipulate symbols.
He probably means Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) [1], AKA G.722.2. There is a common misconception that it is VoLTE only, but actually it works pretty well on 3G too. It is night and day compared to legacy codecs.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_Wideband
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Virtual development environments in LXC and KVM https://github.com/kstenerud/virtual-builders

I can spin up a virtual Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, and access it via virtual desktop, from any linux host running LXD 3.0+ (currently Ubuntu 18.04 server). I can go from a freshly installed server to a fully functional, deterministic dev environment in one git clone and build script run.

I also keep a virtual desktop or two around for any long running tasks that require a GUI environment, or for browser tabs I want to keep open long term.
It always surprises me why people choose Dubai because theres so many better countries you can effectively get this type of tax arrangement in with some basic legal advice. A few that come to mind: Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, England (non-domicile), Monaco and i'm sure there are others not from the top of my head.
I think that issue there is not solving problem when man is turning into bank account and women is turning into child care provider with relationship between them not being treated as important. It sounds like at that moment, each cares about own unhappiness but does not think much about other.

They are not kind and understanding at each other at that time. They are settling into roles without talking about whether they like roles and without talking about how to change their roles so that they are happier.
At the time of her first visit to Palenque, she had a masters degree in Art and was teaching Studio Art at the university, was not yet a professor, and had no formal background in epigraphy. After her pioneering discoveries, she went back to grad school and specialized in Latin American studies.

> Still attending graduate school, Schele founded the Maya Hieroglyphic Workshop in Texas in 1977 which consisted of 21 consecutive seminars concerning Maya hieroglyphic writing and introduced more people intrigued by the Maya field than many other books from that time that were considered "popular".[6] Twenty years later, the workshop expanded into what is known as the Maya Meetings at Texas, and includes a symposium of research papers by major scholars and the Forum on Hieroglyphic Writing.

> By this time in her life, Schele realized her destiny as a Mayanist; she enrolled as a graduate student in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas shortly before resigning from her position at South Alabama.[7] She was awarded a Doctorate in Latin American studies by the University of Texas in 1980. She continued her teaching career there, in the department of Art/Art History. At the time of her death, she was the John D. Murchison Regents Professor of Art in the department.
How about pay your fucking share of taxes?

Is what I would have said on this scum sucking site.
>No marriage is perfect. Every couple fights sometimes, if both people are being real with each other, and if they're not, that's a huge problem in itself.

Buying into this argument that "every couple fight sometimes" is why so many people never eliminate fights from their relationships, because they think it's normal and so never put the effort into bettering themselves and addressing the root causes of problems so that fights don't reoccur. It's much easier to treat fights as inevitable than work on improving one's own self-control, compassion and empathy.
It happens from time to time.

I have threatened to write a Terraform equivalent in Lisp every time Terraform frustrated me, which was often.
Zuckerberg was always the dominating founder of facebook. He programmed it in php and he made it viral in the campus.

Jobs: I heard Wozniak gave up his shares to other co-founder voluntarily. Not sure as I am as apathetic as possible about Apple.
It depends greatly on which part of a company you’re at.

At Microsoft, senior ICs (IC4 and above) make more than managers (typically M3s) in engineering teams but often the tables are reversed in services and sales teams, because managers in customer-facing teams have business targets with direct bearing on their unit/sub revenue.

I’ve been in both kinds of teams, and there is zero correlation between actual management skills and where HR rates them at, so YMMV.
Living in UAE now and considering relocating.

Anyone have recommendations for an American citizen? Preferably a place with good cycling infrastructure and can live cheap and safely?