skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 99% sure this is just terminology lifted from games. Just means it runs at a constant fast rate.
It might be politically unpopular, but maybe we should just raise taxes and index them for measures of inequality. The GDP per capita of most modern economies can easily handle a basic income sufficient for all but the most expensive cities.
> Business may be a game, Levine realized, but it's not a one-time game. It's more like an infinite game. It's a game in which people have to live with each other, work with each other again, and perhaps, write another big contract.

In technical terms, it can be modeled as an iterated prisoner's dilemma [1]. In a regular one-off prisoner's dilemma, it always makes sense for both players to defect, as does in an iterated PD with a set number of rounds, known to both players. That is the only Nash equilibrium. But in an iterated PD where the number of rounds is unknown in advance, more cooperative strategies can be superior.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#The_itera...
Holy crap,
yeah... "thin" huh. Might want to define your terms lol

But for real, this looks great, I'll poke around it a bit more on the weekend, but it looks pretty darn good as it stands
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I have been using symfony since the 2-3 years because the product is build on symfony. Now i like symfony, because i’m not a big fan of PHP. Anybody knows how Django compares to Symfony. I have glanced through Django documentation few times and it look a little similiar. If somebody has used both frameworks, what are the main advantages of Django over Symfony?
We're not arguing that it doesn't happen, we're arguing that it shouldn't.
I'm not convinced this 'diversity of thought' (aka direct domain expertise) is actually as useful as people love to claim these days. It's an extremely popular narrative that gets pushed with very little questioning or measuring of its utility.

a) is it really accurate that a smart person can't legitimately learn and be sensitive to life experiences from others or b) why can't they hire people to advise them while still managing the project themselves?

This sounds like a solvable problem by promoting being sympathetic and deferential, rather than replacing people outright from the process simply because they aren't 'from' that group. It's just as likely the people with the life experience don't have the other skills for managing or running a project as well.

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.
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If people can't get their shit together enough to make sure their kid has a sandwich everyday they certainly aren't putting their kid into boarding school. Parents found unfit for parenting have their kids placed in the foster system, but that is a lengthy legal process.
Cheapo heuristics: how small business gets by
I feel much the same.

I think the concerns about climate change are wildly overstated for the developed world. There are some more concerns when subsistence farming is the primary way of living, but humans (and humanity) adapt, and we adapt with great alacrity.
Doesn't Instagram count as a well-known product? :)
I find this mostly click bait. We should expect results like this or frankly better. Results from one small African village are not globally applicable. The issue is where does the money come from and is it truly universal. All the experiments to date have been of the "we gave free money with no restrictions to X thousand people for Y months and it was great". This is necessary but not sufficient research. We could have huge savings in the US with simplified welfare programs but we shouldn't forget that most of those savings come from firing some number of thousands who now also need UBI and have diminished pension benefits. All of these systems are inter-related and we will have to keep trying things as the financial divide grows.
They are also making great laptops with the Matebook X Pro. I think we will see a lot of really good tech from them going forward.

All while Apple is putting out laptops that people don't want.
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Actually I think we did. Nim used to be GPLv2 and we changed to MIT. :)
personal callouts.

You've been seen!
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How long did the experiment last?
I don't see how. The amount of information needed to specify the current state of a system (the universe) does not depend on how that state was arrived at.

It takes one bit of information to specify that a coin is tails-up, regardless of whether it was placed that way deliberately or got that way as a result of a random coin toss.
Just a little UX note: I'm trying to register and I get a "Username is invalid" error. I have a special character in it ("-") so I guess that's why, but it would be a good idea to state your validity rules in the error message.
The longer school day and it's structure are, per the article, designed to provide compensation for at-home support that is deficient in the target population; done right—e.g., so it doesn't just look like normal classroom time stretched longer—this may well be the best available mitigation for the social problem it is addressing.
your example doesn't contradict the idea of having a longer school day or school year. as others have said, kids who lack a nurturing home environment can benefit from a nurturing environment at school (if that's what it truly is).

for example, school could open at 6am for parents who work early, but not start until 9am. the intermediary time could be nap time, unstuctured play, or guided exploration (gardening, science experiments, even animal husbandry in rural areas). between structured classroom time, they could have more breaks for more naps, play or exploration. school could end later so parents can pick them up after work, and have shorter and more frequent vacations so kids don't forget so much in-between.

you could even have morning or evening joint learning times, where parents join in to learn how to teach and encourage their kids (such programs seem to help break the cycle of poverty).
I was going to ask the same about Brazil.
> Finland or Germany

Both those countries are also very prosperous and innovative. It seems the people or culture are what makes them do so well not the amount of school hours.

For all we know parents in those countries are far more supportive of their children. And may also be intelligent enough to assist their children with the homework. By intelligent I mean they are able to teach their children well I don't mean to be able to understand what a six year-old is learning (if not there is a far bigger problem!).
“We tend to celebrate talent from the elite class, not the poor.”

We tend to celebrate achievement, not talent.

This may correlate well with elites since they have more opportunities.
>Business may be a game, Levine realized, but it's not a one-time game. It's more like an infinite game. It's a game in which people have to live with each other, work with each other again, and perhaps, write another big contract.

In other words, it's an iterated prisoner's dilemma, not a one-off. Success is determined by your skill at playing the meta-game, the set of all games, moreso than your ability to crush your opponent mercilessly in every individual game. See https://ncase.me/trust/
So to get a BI of £12K, average taxes would have to go up by £8K per person. And since about 2/3 of the adult population are taxpayers, that gives £12K per taxpayer, which balances the payout they'd receive from BI. People with above average incomes would pay into BI, and those with below average incomes would net from BI.
Why is software that can be used by the military to more effectively label drone targets a violation of human rights? Bias: I am in the Air Force.
In my state the magnet schools work exactly the opposite. They put magnet programs in underperforming schools in the hopes that bringing in a bunch of high achievers will be a rising tide or something.

I have no idea what the effectiveness is in my state, whether success is contagious to underperforming students or not. Either way it will be interesting to see how this inverted philosophy of magnet schools performs in comparison.
"Competition makes the participants in any system better."

That's not universally true. There are places where the neighborhood public school is in "competition" with charter schools, however, the charter schools aren't required to play by the same rules (get to select which students attend, don't have to cater to special needs students, etc). The public school receives less funding, and thus is stretched much thinner due to what it has to provide.
It is SOOOO nice to see people with money actually putting good ideas into practice rather than using their money as a platform to spread opinions that mean nothing or to criticise people who try things instead of doing it themselves.
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No, a cheap tablet with Android and install OsmAnd~
I understand and appreciate your perspective on this. However, I'm not certain that those of us who are "haves" or who are privileged in some way can put the majority of the burden on those who are "have-nots" to simply stop what they're doing and wait for change. If the goal of our lives is to protect what we have, then I have a feeling that we're going to die with unfulfilled lives - we just may not know it until it's too late.

[edit]typo: "doing" -> "going"
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They are responsible though. Unless you want to take away decision making power from a person.

This realization does not have to incur any sort of "well you deserve this outcome and sucks to be you" sort of logic, however. It is the parent's fault for creating the situation, but society can choose to bail one out for poor decision making.
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I don’t know anything about the program but it doesn’t sound like it was really UBI at all from this description in the article. If it was a) only available to unemployed and b) only a pilot with 2,000 people then I guess it’s easy to ignore it as a data point. Though maybe that paragraph is poorly worded and it was actually more extensive?

>>> “Finland was considered the first European country to pay a monthly check of $685 to its unemployed between ages 25 and 58. It was considered a pilot program — serving 2,000 randomly selected jobless people — that its founders hoped to expand.”

Edit Additionally Googling for Finland UBI experiment yields countless articles claiming it was neither a failure, nor proper UBI
Winter break is to save money on heating. Which is why it doesn't exist in lower latitudes of the US.
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A lot of things now considered security best practices were not in wide use back in 2007, to put it mildly.
There ought to be a name for a minimal UBI that can allow people who are normally just scraping by to bridge short periods of unemployment, unexpected expenses etc. £4K wouldn't be much for the average Hacker News reader, but for people on minimum wage it could make a real difference. You can't really call this "Basic Income" though, because that term comes with the build in assumption that it's enough for a person to live pretty comfortably. I've been thinking of this as a "Really Basic Basic Income" ("RBBI"?), but nobody seems to be talking about such a thing.
> Even more so are design and development trends.

No, they’re completely not. Trends are not a shared resource such that a few people misusing it harms that resource for everyone. Something being common doesn’t make it a commons. Any website can choose not to do these things - just look at HN. They’re not a necessary shared resource, in the same way that all Baltic countries must fish from the same sea.
It’s so weird to come on HN and read how money isn’t the solution and we’re just throwing money after problems, then go onto my Facebook and see gofundme campaigns from my teacher friends trying to afford supplies for their students.

It really enforces to me that most people don’t let their lack of knowledge or interest in an area stop them from passing judgements.
They probably deleted those backups when they realized how that was bad.
Having one super community is not going to be desirable.

And Im not talking about the internet. Im talking about groups of people in general.

Different people have different interests and it is perfectly fine for them to segregate themselves by choice into like-minded groups.

I would perhaps argue that this is the entire POINT of a community. To pick and choose who you want to interact with.
How would an attacker go about intercepting an SMS?
That still doesn't answer the question of why the Right isn't blamed for not reaching out to the Left. And given that they're the ones in power, it's their responsibility to do the reaching out.
Do you need a value proposition before starting a project?
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sadly the vast majority of new projects these days seem to be done in nodeJS regardless of if javascript is a good choice for the project or not, and if it needs a desktop GUI that means electron.

:(
SMS hijacking? Really?

How is it that Reddit’s security team is continually learning security lessons that have been common knowledge among non-technical people for 5+ years? They seem to treat their production systems more carelessly than the average person treats their Nintendo switch account.
I don't think the commercial aspect of AGPL helps me a lot since my app will use Electron to let people make Electron apps, and there's no way to keep Electron apps closed source. But it does sound like it protects me in the event that I get a source of donations from Patreon, so that contributors can't sue me to get some of the donations since they would have to sign an agreement. That said, I am not opposed to sharing donations with contributors based on contribution percentages, knowing I would be the one writing almost all the code. But I don't understand the legality of all this and I am wondering if they'd be open to suing to get some of the donation money! I try to be business minded like this because even though most of humanity tries to do the right thing, there's always eventually some bad actors who come in and try to take advantage of people.
cat ~/.taskbook/storage/storage.json and you can see it.
Overall a very well documented repo if you ask me
> I think any town not named Sunnydale would notice the dwindling class sizes in the latter case.

Sunnydale noticed it, too.
What's wrong with having UBI for 2 years and then suddenly having it cut off?

Jack London, the famous homeless / hobo writer of "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang", was only able to write his first book because of the support of community libraries and random strangers who gave him a bed occasionally. Eventually, he was able to pull himself out of poverty and become one of the most famous writers ever.

If you can help those homeless people for a few years, that's all that's needed to permanently change some of their lives for the better. It will suck when the program ends, but some-help is better than none at all.

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These programs aren't supposed to be sustainable living forever-and-ever. They are parachutes to help people who are in tough times. They provide a pathway out of poverty.
Given the weird collection of stuff they got (including the ancient database backup) I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the contents of an admin’s home directory.
This breaks the rule at the top which asks you not to reply to job posts to complain about something. We're in no position to adjudicate such complaints, nor are these threads a good place for companies to reply, or for the community to discuss or work anything out.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17663536 and marked it off-topic.
Furthermore, while there is some overhead associated with administration/policing eligibility/etc., a lot of the social safety net people costs are also roles like social workers, etc., the need of which doesn't go away just because you are now just giving everyone a no strings attached check.
"concerns about climate change are wildly overstated for the developed world"

Can I ask you why you think that is the case? Why would industrialized farming and the food supply chain that feeds the developed world do better?
Essentially, convincing a mobile operator to transfer someone’s phone account to a SIM card an attacker controls.
> because they are focused on an older web paradigm

Which usually is faster and easier to use.

> A modern fancy web application using React in 2018

Takes ages to load and melts your CPU.
To paraphrase Paulo Freire: it’s legit to believe you are exactly right. And a requirement to allow others the same.
They made the choice to have the first, second, third, and fourth kid before the fifth one. Each child is a huge lifelong expense: everyone knows this fact. Condoms, birth control, abortions: these are all available tools to give people control over human reproduction.
The trick to avoiding this is to buy laptops with good displays in the first place. The D830 has a 1920x1200 display that is a little bit dimmer but just as readable today. It's not a retina display, but it looks just fine to me.

I was looking at laptops about 3 years ago and it was extremely hard to find ones that didn't use that cursed 1366x768 resolution.