skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I think it's quite meaningful - it's the amount of money the government would have to raise to pay for this, compared to what they raise now. I bring it up because the revenue side seems like the harder half of the basic income equation, and the one that's more neglected.

It looks like the highest marginal tax rate in the UK is 45%. You could raise that higher, of course - but it's not clear how much, and if doing so would actually raise revenues - where the UK is on the Laffer curve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

(Clearly, if you raised it to 100%, it would lower revenue - you can't tax the rich if you don't have rich people anymore. And if you're at 45%, how much higher can you go?)
For those who don't know, please check out 3blue1brown videos on youtube for a better understanding of concepts like Linear algebra and other things required for machine learning. Thank me later.
By taking control of your phone number or the radio network your phone connects to, or attacking the signaling network itself, to intercept information going to your phone number.

Basically, imagine every conceivable way any human or computer might at any point interact with a plaintext signaling packet designed to be passed around the world by different companies and eventually read by people. Now attack all of them. Something somewhere will give it up.
After I read certain Brandon Sanderson fantasy book every time someone mention "Don't be evil" I starting to think of certain sapient magical item. Item in the book was given command to "Destroy Evil" and it's intelligently follow the command.

Very unfortunately neither this item from fantasy book nor corporation like Google can really provide clear statement on what "evil" is. Depend on whoever is in control Google can do whatever they want without ever going against this principle.
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Can anyone explain the significance of this in a few sentences for the non-expert? I read the article but am struggling to understand.
this is a bit late, but hope this helps:
1 there is a standard argument for free trade, which states it is optimal for all countries to have zero tariffs (given usual conditions for such arguments).

2 there are arguments that, in certain, very special conditions, optimal for a single country to have no tariffs even if others do

3 more generally one cannot say - this is called argument of second best - and adding a tariff may make situation better not worse
I guess we need to define what you mean by "personally panicky". I read you saying that a person shouldn't be personally panicky as "a person should not worry." That's where my annoyance comes from.

The grandparent comment's Fight or Flight instinct should be going off at ALL mentions of AGW. They need to be thinking about the next decades of their life with AGW in mind. If they live in Florida, they should seriously consider not living in Florida. If they have a house that's near a beach they need to leave. If they don't live in the developing world, they need to figure out how to get to the developed world ASAP.

You're right that nobody should be brought into a crippling depression because of global warming, but we're far past being optimistic about it.

Also, your "who is making money off your panic" thread is stupid and you should stop. People panic for a variety of reasons and only a small minority are "because panic was induced by a second party".
Let's talk about ankyloglossia, the condition of being tongue-tied. If left untreated, the child may have moderate speech impediment. Standard procedure is minor surgery to correct the deformity.

Is a society unethical when it decides to fix such problems? Or should the child, as the author suggests, "embrace disabled life"?

I'm honestly not sure.
So logically there is a market. This scheme wasn't opportunistic, it was planned and involved some investment. The perpetrators therefore aren't complete morons; they have surely thought about what they'd do after making their getaway. I would like to know something about this market for stolen unique treasures.
Governments can own property too...in capitalist economy government is just one of many market participants.
If that's what Reddit's security team was thinking by mid-2018, then Reddit security is in bad shape. NIST recommended the deprecation of SMS 2FA two years ago.

When NIST recommends the deprecation of a protocol you know you should've already gotten rid of it five years earlier, not keep it around for another five years.

The sooner more companies start supporting U2F and WebAuthn, the sooner more people will start buying and using hardware security keys.
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Koa is an improvement over Express, but I think it would neat if the JavaScript ecosystem adopted an even more functional middleware style, like Python's WSGI, Ruby's Rack, Clojure's Ring, etc.

Conceptually it's simple: middleware is a function that typically accepts a downstream "app", and returns a new "app" which accepts a "request" and returns a "response":

const middleware = (app) =>
async (request) => {
// do stuff with request
const response = await app(request);
// do stuff with response
return response;
};

I worked on this idea way back in ~2009 (creatively called "JSGI" for the interface spec and "Jack" for an implementation) but promises weren't really a thing in JS, and async/await definitely wasn't a thing, so it was awkward.

More recently Michael Jackson had a project called Mach which was a similar idea, but it's no longer active either: https://github.com/mjackson/mach

As an aside, one of my favorite aspects of this style is having symmetric interfaces for HTTP servers and clients. You could do neat things like use a cache middleware for both a client and server, or write a simple HTTP proxy in a couple lines.

Anyway, with the addition of promises, async/await, and async iterators to JS I'm starting to dust off these old ideas. prototype here https://github.com/tlrobinson/twosixonesix
For that we used Tarski's World in introduction to logic classes.

Prolog classes were actual programming with SWI Prolog.

Additionally there are national competitions between universities in logic programming, with Prolog as the official language.
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These injustices will never cease until those who order and execute them face personal consequences for their illegal conduct.
The dependency injection (DI) system is indeed inspired by Angular's. It has some major differences though:

- Fusion.js DI is token-based rather than string-based, so no naming collisions

- We support statically typing injectables (similar to Angular 2+)

- plugins are the only injectable entity type (whereas Angular is conceptually complex: e.g. modules, services, providers, factories, etc)

- plugins are isomorphic, whereas AngularJS injectables are not

I sorta already expected that people might get mixed feelings when seeing a DI system, but we spent a lot of time designing/tinkering with the plugin architecture to make it truly useful for managing complex library integrations and complex backends. I'd be happy to answer any questions about how we've been using it.
> The solution is simple: legislate so the very wealthy can't avoid it, while remaining in the country.

... then they'll leave the country. I don't think you've thought this through.
Can anyone recommend a framework like Django except for a static language? I tried Django and really liked what I saw, but I can't see myself using Python for a large project.
What bothers me is that Google would be happy using China as the baseline, iow, mass censorship and silo-ing of information.
I found the source for those who like me couldn't understand the article (had to click several links). PDF

http://www.bignam.org/Publications/BIG_Assessment_report_08b...
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A group of scientist and environmental lobbyists worked hard so that by the late 70's everyone knew about the problem of rising CO2 emissions and the impending doom of a changing global climate. The issue required action and limitations on the use and burning of natural resources. That messed with the status quo too much so the people with the power at the time said fuck it. The 'it' being young people, their kids, and their kid's kids.
Posted this because having heard of P2P lending before, I had no idea that it had grown to such a large ( scale and scope ) industry. The most recent exposure I've had to P2P lending or microloans is probably Kiva's more charitable based business model.

But these new companies are certainly not in that space, as some are charging up to 20% on interest!? Who's taking loans at that level, and who's funding it at that level on this type of trust system??

That had me intrigued, so doing more research, this article goes in depth on the various types of lenders, the borrowers as well as their motivations, and the collaterals involved: https://www.accaglobal.com/content/dam/ACCA_Global/Technical...

And some top US based companies at the moment:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliviergarret/2017/01/29/the-4-...

Still haven't read enough to form a solid opinion, but it is an intriguing space. I definitely see the value in providing capital and easier access to capital to people who probably never had the opportunity, but the space seems ripe for fraud, manipulation, high defaults, etc.
Perhaps it is just an oversight? Science fiction writers aren't perfect.
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It’s not just about pay. For instance, I could go into management. There are a lot of reason I don’t want to. But one reason is that managers seem to get “stuck”. It’s not as easy to leave because there aren’t as many jobs for managers and if you are forced to leave, it takes longer to get a job. I can have another C#/Java/NodeJS job within two weeks (if I was qualified).
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>>> Everyone is acting like this project is already a success when it has just launched...Id wait a couple years before calling LeBron a hero.

Although I agree with your general point, I don't see the problem with praising people that is trying hard at changing the lives of others for the better.
One of my first Django projects was to “bastardize” its admin into a Lead/Opportunity management system for a mortgage broker, back in the version 0.96 days. I know that monkey-patching is now frowned upon and reguarded as “the work of the devil” but it really helped me get the job done for that project in a pretty reasonable amount of time. I hope dynamic programming makes a come-back.
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There is also the concern for what kind of welfare programs to implement (or keep) even with UBI - for example, if I blow all of my UBI on gambling/drugs/alcohol/electronics, will society let me starve to death in the street?
Reddit can't contact them because Reddit didn't require an email address to create an account back then.

If they did require an email address, they could restore their database backups to retrieve that information.
still would need to swap sim cards for different providers as you nomad around.
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The US government will just give the AI contract to Raytheon/Northrop instead of Google. What's your point?
To your points, I'm sure communism comes out looking quite incredible in a limited-time trial with a small population. It's just that dang problem with scaling it up.
Everyone knew this day would come the moment they announced the purchase
Unemployment checks usually stop once the person has a new job. UBI does not. It does not create an incentive to stay jobless, or does so to a much lesser degree [1].

If I get $400 in UBI and $500 in salary, the only loss is that I am paying higher taxes on the $500 than I would be in a non-UBI society.

This behaviour also results in the fact that, even though taxes are higher, those in the lower revenue rungs still come out ahead in an UBI society vs a non-UBI scenario.

[1] There is a minor incentive caused by the decreasing utility value of money: The first $100 you earn are much more valuable than the $100 you earn on top of $5000. UBI moves the salary revenue a bit up in this scale, thus making it less valuable.
Well, you're in a combative mood, judging from all the replies you're posting, but I'll risk it.

> It's not a healthy way to live

Oh, agreed. Trust me. I've been neck deep in this one. It'll warp your mind. Doesn't mean it's not true. Just like the Sun blowing up to a red giant in 5 billion years. Gonna happen. Profound, devastating climate change has already begun. Human civilization is remarkably fragile and will teeter and crash in the next 50-200 years.

> I don't think it's one particularly backed by the evidence.

Well, in the same way that the Sun shows no current signs of blowing up into a red giant the size of Earth's orbit, sure. But I get the impression you're not able (or willing) to run a few of the very obvious scenarios forward in your mind. This is reality. It's coming. Maybe you're like me and will be lucky to live out your life in relative luxury before most of the damage comes home to roost. Great. I'm hoping for 40-50 more years of merrymaking, too. But make no mistake, we are totally fucked.

But then you go on to say,

> In terms of threats I think are likely to impact me over the next twenty years, I still rate "governments instituting stupid economic policies"

And that's my thunder button right there. For fuck's sake, you gotta give up this idea that this mythical "economy" and "economical policies" is all there is. Like your entire life is driven by the stock market or your ability to get bananas in January. Look at the Earth. Fuck your bananas in January and your backyard pool. Fuck your manicured lawn. Seriously. 7 billion humans thinking and acting exactly like this is how we get here, and then you have the gall to moan about "stupid economic decisions made because of unjustified panic about environmental issues."

Fuuuuck. This is what so frustrating, because it is just impossible to get through your economic interest to make you see that hey, we are deep shit right now.
The company makes 378 real purchases then mails 378 real products to random addresses scattered throughout the US. This allows them to leave verified reviews.

There's a whole industry around this - The Reply All podcast interviewed people who make these reviews. They talk about the economics of reviews and Amazon's reluctance to admit there is a problem.

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124
You can get the Dell Precision 5530 with a quad-core i5 with hyper-threading and integrated graphics if you are willing to use a usb ethernet dongle. I have the 5520, the previous version and it's great.
Estate auctions kinda fill this gap, if there's enough "stuff". It's not uncommon to see boxes or even pallets of loosely-related possessions sell as a lot, where even they buyer probably doesn't know what all they're getting.

I've acquired a fairly large stash of firearms parts this way. There are a few valuable individual items, but in aggregate it's probably worth at least $15-20k. I probably have $250 invested in all of it, and it all fits in a single (heavy) moving box.

I've also gotten quite a few valuable fountain pens and parts for them the same way. Once I bought a ratty old desk for $50 because the drawers were full of office supplies that I wanted, including a couple of vintage Waterman pens. I dumped them into a box and gave the desk to the other person that was bidding on it so I didn't have to haul it home. She was ecstatic to get the desk for free, and I was happy to get ~$1k worth of vintage pens for almost nothing.
Going by the name of the author (Atha Fromy), I would guess it was written by someone who has English as a second language. This being my assumption I am going to give them a pass on slightly dodgy grammar since I couldn't write an article in any other language.
"Messaging service WhatsApp, which has a user base of roughly 1.5 billion, is set to start showing ads in its Status feature next year"

Well, monetize through ads is something expected in any free platform that does not belong to a non-profit organization. It's just a matter of time and implementation. Here in Mexico WhatsApp is huge, even as a default B2C channel for a lot of small businesses.
What, besides providing extra resources to underpriveleged children so they are not punished for their parents mistakes, can be done?

Unintended consequences. I believe it is generally accepted that the policies in the 70's led to the destruction (dismantling?) of the urban/poor family (yes, predominately African American).

Also, we've seen that this issue has significantly fueled the rise of people like our current POTUS.

It's a hard problem. I don't know what the solution is.
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