skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The finnish ubi thing was a joke because it's not nation wide and the amount paid is marginal. I don't see how you can glean any relevant info from that. Wonder what the ramifications are going to be if you're going to see stories of failures connected to not-so-good UBI studies and how they're going to be played by politicians or people against UBI?

>Most people have no clue as to what they want out of life. Giving people free money will only make things worse since now they lose the incentive to even try. At least when you have a job you work towards completing someone else's goal. With a basic income, you have no defined goal and you lose the stress of having to find one. [...] it needs to be done in a way that will not destroy people's incentive to help society.

This part seems more legit. What is the goal in life? Enjoyment of sense pleasure? Procreation? Creation of works of art? I don't know if the point of life can be slaving away roughly third of your waking hours to fuel a gigantic machine based on pointless consumption of material goods and the 'latest shit'. Then again, I also don't know why we need 7 or 11 billion humans on this planet doing those things and how it's going to be sustainable if more and more jobs are being automated away and more and more people are still supposedly going to be lifted from real third world poverty into low/middle consumer class. No doubt on balance everyone should try to be a force of goodness in this world, right?

>Imagine a future where everyone has a choice of showing up to work. Some people will always show up, some people will never show up but the vast majority will show up depending on how they feel that day. A recipe for a chaotic society.

I think this is a false comparison. The owner/manager class and employers no doubt are against ubi because it cuts into their power over others. In my opinion the main benefit of UBI is 'strongarming' employers to having to treat workers better because everyone gets paid enough to move on to greener pastures if they find their jobs paying too little compared to how they are treated or how they enjoy their jobs, allowing people from all walks of life no matter their starting position to be more mobile in society.

With UBI you would get paid more the more you worked and that's an incentive enough. Some people no doubt will cut back their hours or drop out of life with a bong in their hand but that's on them.

How does the economy work anyway? Money has purchasing power somehow correlated to the amount of effort people put into work and the cost of items and services usually reflect a value of time and effort? Won't UBI simply shift some of the ginormous cumulative pareto distorted amount the top whatever% get for simply being at the top to the ordinary folks in the form of a safety net? Productivity seems to be increasing throughout the history yet somehow and arguably perhaps rightly they go to the owners and managers.

In a democratic society we can wrestle some of it back because everyone's in this together like it or not and UBI could make for a fairer and less cut throat society.
Are there any at all? If you have exact numbers you can decide in finite time. Always, if I'm not mistaken.

So, unless there is an infinity encoded in the exact problem somehow, you can always solve it by simple brute force enumeration.

Look at the busy beaver, it's completely possible theoretically to simply enumerate all the possible states of a tape for a given N, and play the corresponding Turing machines. Even if calculating this is physically impossible, and proven to be impossible to generalize for any N. (That is the BB functions are uncomputable, but of course not exact values.)
> If you're British, "scarf" and "giraffe" rhyme.
> In American English, they don't.

They don't rhyme in British English either. Maybe in one of the regional dialects - I think that you could probably force it in a scouse (Liverpool) accent.
From what I understand, Web Components and Polymer have a ton of fundamental limitations, starting with how data in a component tree is bound to the DOM as strings, so for anything even mildly complicated you have to roll your own JSON.parse / JSON.stringify handling into every component and have to deal with the DOM parsing exploding if you dump too much data into it.
I think its success was initially was from first to market truly web payment system and then the Ebay acquisition potentially has driven transaction volumes. Almost every Ebay account has a PayPal account.
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Might be even worse, a lot of systems only have some sort of DateTime object that automagically includes a time component (no real way to specify date-only except just using a plain string) and automagically tries to correct it based on some sort of cascade of system settings, configuration variables, application configuration, and user configuration. On a web app, those things probably exist at least on the client, server, and database, each potentially making their own attempt to 'fix' the data.

Working with dates in code is unnecessarily hard so naturally the results tend to be bug-ridden more often than not.
Anarchists will look a this post and shake their head in dispair.
As a non native english speaker, I don't agree that english has relaxed pronunciation rules. People have trouble understanding english coming from, say, spanish, because english has around 20 vowel sounds whereas spanish has 5. So for any spanish speaker starting to learn english, the differences between, say, cut & caught in spoken english are not evident at all. And this is going to happen to any speaker jumping to languages with more vowel sounds.

Furthermore, cantonese is a bad comparison to english because it's a tonal language; i.e. the inflection of the word changes the meaning. So on top of having to learn more or less vowel sounds, students have to struggle with a fundamentally different way to conceptualize language.

> English is everyone else's second language because pronunciation is not a big deal

That is not true. English has become the lingua franca of the day because England & America have dominated the cultural and commercial global market for centuries. The adoption of lingua francas has nothing to do with how easy it is to learn a language (after all, this is incredibly relative) and more with how international trade and history have shaped a region. For example, in the late bronze age the lingua franca was Akkadian, a semitic language that would've been pretty tough to learn for, say, indoeuropean speakers like the greeks.

Having moved to an english-speaking country because my husband is a native english speaker, I find that even with the language immersion is difficult. Unless you have a very particular hobby that allows you to connect to other people, it's difficult making friends because of the cultural differences. And even though at this point I'm so fluent in english I've written and published fiction stories in it, it's still a difference that can be felt - imagine being barely fluent or speaking barely a few words.
React surely has higher level widgets than Win32 (and Cocoa, and TK, and all those decades old stuff), but it is the same State -> View logic. The desktop widgets that are still getting updated, like QT, have widgets with roughly the same level of abstraction as the web frameworks.
I'm a broke entrepreneur who created a service for other broke entrepreneurs
We don’t really have an analogue to this in the West, but Mandarin and Cantonese are very similar in their written forms, yet mutually unintelligible in their spoken forms. There are some differences due to different history and some different vocabulary, but broadly speaking, Chinese characters maintain the same meaning across dialects (and also when they’re used in Japanese), while changing their pronunciations.

Simplified vs traditional is a different issue, and all dialects can be written in either simplified or traditional. Which is more prevalent usually depends on tradition, and relations with the PRC. Singapore and the PRC use simplified, while Taiwan, HK, and Japanese Kanji use traditional.
We cant even do the 3-body problem; it's -trivial- but still not a closed solution.

We seem to be good at coming up with approximations and ways to exert selection pressure.. but when we let our digital approximations go analog/realware, the results are difficult to use... http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50....
We have an even smaller one (still 4 bastions) in my hometown. This one was designed as a bastion fort from day one, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_Spagnolo,_L%27Aquila

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_spagnolo (the Italian wiki has some additional photos)
Yeah, another reason why we like to user serialised representations to talk to each other.
> Guess what language that browser add-on you are using is written in.

The issue is not that the code that websites make your browser execute is written in a bad language, but that websites make your browser execute code.
Right now I work on Tensor diagram notation for deep learning (for project "thinking in tensors, writing in PyTorch").

To read more about it, see: https://medium.com/@pmigdal/in-the-topic-of-diagrams-i-did-w... (obviously, I refer to the post).

And if you want to create some, here is a short demo: https://jsfiddle.net/stared/8huz5gy7/

In general, I want to expand that to tensor structure (e.g. n, channel, x, y) plus, translate it to the Einstein summation convention.
The website seems extremely dodgy.
ID theft is just one thing that comes to mind.
MISP (TISP) 2.4.102 released (aka bug fixes and FOSDEM release)
As another comment pointed out, just try it with a 2-digit year: https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/monthly.html?year=19&mo...
That's $99/year after buying the car from them.
When do you use new JavaScript features vs. old approaches?
> Arguably, the tax increase is zero

You can't really argue that, because that applies to all taxation. It is like answering "Who is going to pay for the army?" by saying "the money is given to soldiers who spend it, and put it back into the economy - so really it costs nothing".

The flaw in that thinking is that, by design, a UBI will involve the consumption of real resources (like how maintaining an army involves lots of sunk resources including people's time) that could have gone into something else that creates more resources. The consumption of resources is going to appear as a cost to someone, because the people and activities consuming them didn't directly create anything.

At the moment we have an economic system that ensures consumption of real resources is matched by creation of real resources, using money as a measuring stick to prove that nobody in the chain of production believes value is being lost (net value, anyway). The cost of short circuiting that, as UBI does, is never going to be 0 and someone will have to pay it.
I agree. In addition to this I think that - since getting clicks is the business model - they will move towards publishing content that gets more people to click, enraging being the most profitable form of engaging. This has resulted in articles that put more value on getting an emotional response from as many people as possible, than putting out an honest, balanced and fact-checked news story.

A good example of this would be the recent slandering of PewDiePie. And he debunked that quite effectively on his channel which has 83 million subscribers. This resulted in many people now looking at Vox, Buzzfeed with suspicion.

Personally I went through a similar process when people I care about asked me what I thought of Jordan Peterson and I started looking into him, which for me ended in changing a lot of my views on the mainstream media. Which I now look at with a very suspicious eye.
Unemployment benefits =/= basic income
How are you pronouncing the words? ji-rarf is a more common pronunciation than ji-raff.
That's a fairly optimistic assumption though.

Finland currently has unemployment at 5.4% and working age economic inactivity (i.e. people who do not pay income tax but are also mostly not eligible for benefits) is closer to 30%.

If the state is paying out the equivalent of a livable income to >5x as many working age people as before that's a big increase in [net] income tax burden on the employed. Given that many of these economically inactive people are not looking for work by choice (probably because they don't need the money), there's a big question over whether that's an income tax burden worth imposing.
You're right Dan, this is a great framework, but the code complexity behind it is insane. Of course a lot of that complexity is due to HTML/browser, we cannot ignore that.

However, part of that complexity is the fault of React. The choice of HOC vs. Component... two ways to do the same thing. There is also FastForm vs. Form. As we move on over time, now we have hooks being added as well. The mental complexity just to put a simple input on a page is overwhelming.

I think what I'm looking for is React to take some ownership and provide guidance out of the box for these core browser features under the React umbrella.
> Maybe a new (or old) language will be more amenable to VLIW compilation than C?

I would say certainly, given Fran Allen's point of view on C compilers.
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I've created a google poll with some questions on that topic. I'm interested in those questions because I'm working on a side project for one year and now I want to get serious. So every answer is heavily appreciated:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3gS3kvSxzFtrCppoQ-V4cZmdhxfsyt2p8TY6qYRerT-Z74g/viewform
The BBC made a show about it as far back as 2011.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ykxg9
The first four paragraphs water down the title's claim to the more comfortably defensible: "Nobody knows how to learn a language... to native fluency without significant effort."
I don't remember the source, so I might be making this up, I kind of remember Bill Gates stating that they would rather hire someone and keep them busy as letting them work for the competition.
I’ve heard so many cities claiming to be the capital of europe’s start up scene. I’ll believe it once one of those city manage to build a competitor to any GAFA.
React sure sounds interesting, what puts me off of it is its license.

edit: disregard that...
I think React is a big deal because we can finally think of UIs as pure functions of data.

However, the entire mentality of the community is moving towards having behavior tied to specific portions of the tree; in essence it's common-practice to have stateful components. With Hooks this is even more the case.

Instead, the nature of UIs is that changing something in a part of a UI might and will effect something in a completely different location: when I click the button, open a dialog, show a spinner and reset the user profile screen.

The problem with writing stateful components is that the behavior (such as the one above) is tied to the UI representation (at which level of the tree should I write this logic so that it effects all the aforementioned components?).

We are essentially going back to tying logic and representation; something that we've been trying to avoid over the past decade or so.

I'm not saying React doesn't allow you to do differently; things like global-state (Redux, MobX, etc.) allow you to separate behavior and representation quite well. I'm more confused about the recent lack of best-practices surrounding this idea of separating logic-and-UI, and instead they're pushing towards: "Yeah now with Hooks you can even more easily bundle logic-and-UI together and have them tightly coupled". Which to me seems really confusing.
Compare an $80,000 Mercedes to an $80,000 BMW and you're not going to find much in the way of objective material differences. At that point your choice will mostly come down to personal preferences about dash layouts, precise seating styles, the sound of the engine, the precise feel of the pedals, etc, which all pretty much fall under "brand".
GPL forces a certain level of contributions back to their authors, Apache and MIT (which Android uses) none at all.

Also, similarly to Apple, GCC just got removed from Android.

Only the kernel is left.
I play on a 44" 4K Visio and it was okay at 30fps with a 1080p, but I was using the "lower quality" input. When I went from input #1 to #5, boom, 60fps and gorgeous.
It's a more posh accent that it rhymes in. Found it in a Julia Donaldson book I was reading for my kids.
So can a cross compiler, no?
RSA is not at all a basic income...
Basic income should be unconditional and would affect every one in our society.

RSA just prevent people from dying too soon.
> I suspect the real reason people find it hard is economics. Contrary to this article, I don't think it's actually particularly valuable.

Yes, most times you don't really need to know a language. In the old times in europe, many village people never left their home village. As long as you can understand everyone in your village, everything is fine. Traders, priests etc had to learn multiple languages and often used latin as lingua franca.

Nowadays, in the western world, knowing english is often enough to communicate with most people you have to do in various areas of your life.

The exception confirms the rule: sometimes, languages are useful for jobs. In the CIA for example, they actually do encourage employees to learn languages. Because knowing the language of the country your work is about is actually helpful.
That ship is back, although in smaller size, because tagged memory is the only way to actually tame C.

Solaris with SPARC ADI, Android with the upcoming ARM Memory Extensions are two examples of it.
But it does have more relaxed pronunciation. Talk to someone from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bristol or Glasgow. They're noticeably different.

Sometime the voices in the BBC are different too now that they've loosened the standard.
Many of those "poor 'holistic' qualities" can be code words for discrimination. "Social skills" for neurotypical, "leadership" for attractive, "athleticism" for not disabled, "disposition" for obedient.

Even if you're right and extremely high SAT and grades are correlated with neurodiversity, physical problems, or rebelliousness, are those qualities colleges should be discriminating against?
Confirmed learning Japanese, and now learning German. Being in a situation where you need it for everyday life causes you to pick it up by osmosis. You get a feel for it after a couple of months, and then it just builds organically, exactly the same as how a child picks it up.

It also helps to get drunk from time to time, because your inhibitions drop and you practice better uninhibited (like a child does).
Fun fact: Today I bought a self-cut sushi roll assortment in the bento area of my local supermarket in Kansai and one of them was with cream cheese in it. They have some special this week.

https://imgur.com/a/ZUMxDQ5

But maybe sushi in local Kansai supermarkets isn't representative of Japanese culture mixing new stuff with traditional cuisine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Because not everyone is writing CLI POSIX apps in C and C++.
As a fair warning - Bohm interpretation (even though as fine as any other interpretation of quantum mechanics), is neither the most popular or the easist to follow (don't be tempted).

(If you already know QM (as in: are able to perform calculations in QM, rather than "listened/read to however many hours of narration"), disregard this warning.)

In general, I strongly advise against starting from classical mechanics to understand quantum mechanics. While is the classical, and historic, way - it gives a lot of paradoxes and confusion.

Just start with a two-state system (ideally polarization of light, but spin-1/2, while harder and less intuitive, is still OK). Then only well after that (including 2-3 particles, entanglement, etc), and provided you learn Fourier transformation beforehand, move to position & momentum stuff.

See http://p.migdal.pl/2016/08/15/quantum-mechanics-for-high-sch... for my longer overview from my experience of teaching quantum mechanics to high-school students (and I link to the books & sources I find the best). And of course the Quantum Game with Photons: http://quantumgame.io/
Which is why back when I did have a Windows partition, I always had a ~/MyDocs folder that worked as my actual "My Documents" folder.
Slacking is what the current system conditions the long-term unemployed to do.

That is, the alternative to UBI here isn't "no income"; we already have basic income in Finland, though it's highly dependent on enduring various activation measures that are mostly useless in providing actual employment (and, in a few instances, have turned out to be sweat shops that use the unemployed for unpaid labour). Accepting a low-income, part-time job tends to result in the automatic loss of several months of basic income, though the pay from such job might be significantly less - so, in a situation where there aren't enough jobs to go around, the rational thing to do is to avoid any actual work and to simply keep jumping the hoops.

The proposed UBI models are aimed specifially at unraveling these "welfare traps" and at reducing the attached bureaucracy.
I don't support the argument here that Fluency == Knowledge of parts of speech.

I don't think of English as a formal structure except for when I'm editing a written document.

Fluency is the ability to carry on an uninterrupted conversation with another fluent speaker.

Immersion (true immersion, where you don't try to cheat) is the best way to become fluent.

You've gotta be Daniel Day Lewis.
Finally we can put to rest this dark matter conspiracy.

It’s funny how many supported the idea. Science by mob rule huh?

Now we have a great example of how scientists are ignorant.

Like blaming climate change for unusual weather. Give it a rest, climate change is a ruse.
This was also the strategy of ep 1 of mad men — lucky strike’s “it’s toasted” slogan — if you say it first, then despite all tobacco being toasted, it looks like everyone else is just copying you.
Perhaps they do in old-style Received Pronunciation, like wot the Queen speaks.

But yep if you go oop North then A's become short and giraffe will rhyme with gaffe (like bath and laugh will).
Sure, tell that to the US State Department
What's wrong with MIT?
One thing that always stayed with me is that they decided to follow up on Windows design for shared libraries and not what other UNIXes were doing.

So Aix was the only UNIX where I was using import libraries and having to explicitly export which symbols should have been public.
It's interesting that it was actually AMD that kept the Intel x86-64 architecture alive.

Intel knew that the x86 architecture was limited in time, and tried to kill it off with the the 64-bit Itanium.

AMD had a different plan, and released 64-bit capable x86 processors, obstructing Intel’s plans to dominate with Itanium. I think this is key to why Itanium never caught on, and why writing software for it is so hard.
The problem with these papers is, that if you want to do practical ML, you can simply fix some upper bounds on various numbers that arise during the analysis of the problem, and thus make it mathematically finite, and trivial. Not easy, of course, but this frees you from the infinite regress that's the problem of induction.

Sure, you can the start to ask what are the good upper bounds. How many epochs to use for training, start to quantify the training set quality, and then ask how good that must be to get a good enough model. Etc. But all of these then can be limited by estimation.