skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention that germany did absolutely fucking nothing against VW when dieselgate happened. Still waiting to see Winterkorn & friends under the guillotine for scamming the entire world.

What happened instead? Normal engineers got blamed instead of executives. Fucking capitalism and fucking CDU, SPD and FDP. The sole reason for their existence is to sack money from lobbyists.

When you have people like Schäuble, a piece of shit that was convicted for corruption in 1999, who was the minister of finance for the past couple of years in germany, it makes sense that germany does nothing against big corporate.
I'm reminded of the KLF's cynical but observant "THE MANUAL: HOW TO HAVE A NUMBER ONE THE EASY WAY": http://freshonthenet.co.uk/the-manual-by-the-klf/

"Firstly, you must be skint and on the dole. Anybody with a proper job or tied up with full time education will not have the time to devote to see it through. Also, being on the dole gives you a clearer perspective on how much of society is run."
Fair enough, but skin color is definitely a factor, particularly where law enforcement is concerned.
Horrible is a matter of taste. I thought it was hilarious.

> “If we just show laundry like all the other advertisements, ours will not stand out.”

He's right. I haven't paid as much attention to a detergent ad since Tide's Superbowl ad.
The problem of complexity is solved neatly in Prolog and Erlang¹, by counting “reductions”.
For simple tasks like in the article,

one function call ≅ one reduction.

Loops? There are no loops in Erlang, they are usually tail-recursive function calls.

¹) in Erlang it plays a very important role because the VM uses that information for scheduling.
This misses the point completely. I would love Cocoa to work the way React does, but it doesn’t. At all. The main point of React is not having to manually manage view updates. You just write a pure fuction from app state to view (State → Html) and the runtime figures out how to update the existing views to match. That way you can completely forget that the view has some state, you just manage the app state and provide a bunch of pure functions that map various state fragments to views.
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Great article, I don't know how I've managed to miss Chris' essay on the issue, but overall a good read. Mirrors a lot of my sentiments as someone who has been doing html since I was 9 but not really any js even in this day and age.
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I find people generally overplay the "all apps must look native on my OS" card as an argument against PWAs. Yet they are often very happy using Google docs for most of their day to day work... I personally like the fact that a web app looks the same across all OSes. I find that is a better type of consistency to aim for, in that if someone changes their OS, they don't need to relearn your app's UI.
> So why we keep allowing insurance companies to make these exclusions?

In general, we don't have to "allow" contracts between two private parties to happen. We can "not allow" (i.e., outlaw) certain contracts, but an insurance company and a private party can (and should!) set up the contract between them however they please. Especially in a case like this, where the contract is huge, and probably had teams of lawyers from both sides going over all its details.
I have two Samsungs (55" and 43"), and the lag is dreadful. Then someone told me to rename the hdmi channel I used to "PC" because that makes the Samsung drop all processing of the image. It actually worked. Still not great, but at least not frustrating now. Result might vary which hdmi port you use too.
>With the exception of Guangdong and Hong Kong, you aren’t going to find many TV stations or newspapers that are carrying content in non-Mandarin Chinese.

Just a quick clarification: Mandarin is a spoken form of Chinese, and therefore cannot be "printed" in a newspaper. In Guangdong, the newspapers are printed in simplified Chinese characters. In Hong Kong, the newspapers are printed in traditional Chinese characters.
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This was the future that 40 years of cyberpunk was trying to warn us about.
I still don't understand how UBI will be paid for. If my calculations are correct, even 560 USD per month would require Finland to increase tax revenue by a third in order to fund it, if the UBI was provided to everyone in the country.

That already seems hard enough. How realistic would it be to give even more?
Not a good precedent as far as "We can't remove this road entirely". Road entirely removed, everyone was happy.
Really? I mean sure has some unsustainable qualities but what if it turned out it worked for long enough to carry into a different phase of the business cycle?
Pretty surprising stuff since here in Spain the unemployed make about 400 euros a month after they have ended their actual unemployment benefits. This last resort income is for two years. They must attend courses on job skills like cook, welder and so on though. All these courses are free.

It's not for life, but it takes out of poverty most people.
I bet that it did not have a benefit. Giving money away without a stated goal leads nowhere. The idea of basic income will only work if the receivers are helped along to define what their goal in life will be. 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.

People are talking about mass unemployment because of AI, something that will cause societal chaos, so I can understand why governments and the elite would want to push for a basic income. But it needs to be done in a way that will not destroy people's incentive to help society.

We don't always see it but the only reason we have and are able to buy what we need is because someone got up and did a day's worth of work. 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 don’t see how that’s relevant. We’re talking about long term subsidies and the often prevailing hope that this would enable new vocations and filling of underpayed but highly socially valuable functions (like family care etc)

I also happen to know many people through world of warcraft who live on their parents money, have no urge to win their own, simply live on little and have been playing for years now. They are not picking up new skills or doing something social.

I rather hope that someday money will be enough of a problem to motivate them to deal with their issues or just do something with their life, than keep things the same and hope for a change.
I’m comparing a a 2018 Moto G to a 2015 iPhone.

The iPhone from 2015 will probably be getting updates longer than the 2018 Moto G.
Doing such a small scale trial prevents any of the impact UBI would have on the job market, so anything learned may not be relevant. Removing 2000 people from the job market doesn't mean much.
"In theory you can enumerate all Turing machines of a given length, or all Python programs of a given length, and find the shortest one that does a given task, but the list grows exponentially with length."

Can it be proven that the shortest program is always the fastest?

This is the problem I had when studying mathematics and still have with mathematics to this day: mathematics when stripped and laid bare is just clever transformations, "pouring from hollow into empty", as the old folks' saying goes. What is or are the practical applications of Kolmogorov complexity, how might I be able to turn this to my advantage?
This is integrated with Gitlab, you can use it in every textbox.
Apple tried it and failed, with a much bigger available budget, but, yeah, maybe if Uber manages to hire the right people from the very beginning they might pull it off.
The problem with Spain is that there literally are no jobs, and those courses are a charade.
I think many proponents of UBI overestimate the ambitiousness of the average person.

Nobody in my family has ever taken even minor risks like say, traveling abroad (for work or fun), starting a small business etc. I'm the first and I am only taking baby steps now.

Point being, we can't expect to give UBI for a few months and suddenly expect people to take big risks or become ambitious or attack huge problems. These things take time. Imagine a person who has seen his parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents etc being only salaried workers all their life, rarely moving out of their comfort zone. It wouldn't be easy for such a person to suddenly change (climb Everest, start a biz, spend a year writing a novel etc), even if their food and lodging is taken care of.

I don't know whether UBI is a good thing or bad. But I think both the for camp and against camp are too quick to jump to conclusions - these are social experiments not Math problems. They will take time and we can only learn by trial and error. And what works in one community might not work in another, even within the same state/country.
Subsidizing low-paying jobs is not a bad thing if you do what you love or you work on your own terms without having to worry too much about profits.
I think for some languages this might be problematic. I am trying to learn some Russian and the word endings changes based on how each word interacts with other words.

For example :

"I know" : Ya znayu

"We know" : My Znayem

"He/She Know" : on znayet/ona znayet

"You know" : Ty Znayesh

"They know" : Oni znayut

etc

Knowing that 'znat' means 'To know' might not be enough to place a word in a sentence

Some suggest that it might be better to memorize sentences or phrases instead
As long as there is a need to be filled (like food) and a way to fulfill needs (like fishing), there are jobs.

There are plenty of jobs to be created, also in Spain.
I just pull GNU releases from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/. One doesn't find HTTPS links in the official pages for some reason, but it exists.
Since we're talking about hypotheticals:

Imagine a lifeform that experiences entanglement directly.

Or one that senses gravity waves. (It would have to be very, very, very big. But even so.)

Or one that is just as good at making maps of social and political configurations as it is at mapping its physical surroundings.

Or one that has evolved with an intuitive understanding of the patterns that define how knowledge is structured, rather than learning low-cost approximations for essentials and off-loading high-cost speculation to external media and low-threat contexts, like humans do.

"There are only so many ways for atoms to do stuff" is true, but that doesn't mean we have the first clue what all of those ways are.
Um. No. Mandarin is a language. Cantonese, which in your example is used in Hong Kong, is grammatically distinct from Mandarin. Changing from simplified to traditional characters or vice versa is not sufficient to translate from one to the other.
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Ah ok I see what you mean. Well yeah, I’m talking about how it’s being used in practice.

drawRect is a primitive but once you start dealing with layout and text measurement I think it can get hairy and at that point you might end up with imperative subview soup again. Somehow people using React don’t fall into that.

drawRect is low level because it only specifies rendering. But UIs usually care about local state and when to destroy or create it. Especially in lists. That’s something I mention in the post which React has a solution for but I don’t think drawRect is sufficient for expressing this generally. See the ShoppingList reordering example.
It might not actually be okay. Quantity has a quality all its own. Whatever learnings produced from a small scale study may not actually apply to a large scale implementation. It’s possible you could “learn” the wrong lessons.

A couple problems with these basic income experiments are that the participants know they are receiving their money for a limited time, which does not allow them to change their economic participation in meaningful ways. There is also the network effects to be considered. When only a tiny subset of the population is receiving basic income, the effects that you would like to study can’t be observed.

I don’t know how those two issues can be controlled for. Basic Income seems like a system where you just have to dive in a cross your fingers.
Retirement plans are already unsustainable, retirement age is raising everywhere in the world. UBI is basically a life-long retirement scheme, requiring at least 10x more resources.
He dislikes usb-c for ruggedness in challenging environments but its on MacBook pro and Lenovo X and t series being chucked into dusty backpacks and dirty cafe tables?

Sure you can get din mounts for a pi but if you want a pi in a rugged environment it has many many more points of weakness like it's bare gpio points and exposure to lots of surface mount parts
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Japan is decidedly not the United States. In some European countries like Germany writing to one's representative damn works, and works well; in Switzerland the situation is even better, the people decide directly and as the consequence the government is afraid of the people, which is as it should be.

Looking at everything through the lens of how things are in the United States is dimwitted, to put it very considerately and politely.
I don't know anyone who buys new softwares from Oracle. Only few large companies are going after Oracle new services and software, mostly because some selfish company executives.
I am still a big fan of this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computation-Information-10th-...

It exists also as a digital version.
It isn’t “impossible.” People have been analyzing assembly language programs and hacking them since the dawn of personal computers. How do you think Google has been able to find exploits in iOS? I have no idea why people think that assembly language is the language of wizards.

Between the binary blob drivers that the OEMs don’t even have access to and Google Play Services, Android is equally hard to audit.
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Finnish here. On top of that 560 people got support for their rent expenses. Depending on the amount of rent one could get more than 1000€ per month. It’s not much but you can get by with it. What went wrong with the experiment was that it included only people who were registered as unemoloyed so we don’t know how it would have affected home moms, entrepreneuers, students etc.
Yup, China built railroads and other infrastructure at a relatively low price in Africa, they have no scruples. Not to mention died dozens of workers in 80s. Some Western companies are plumbing oil in Africa, they are moral heros.

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If I catch anyone at my company doing CVops, there will be hell to pay. Not at the company's expense and certainly not on my watch!
There's a difference between unsustainable and underfunded.
Having worked there myself before and leaving in disgust this is definitely how it goes down.

Further, I always suspected some kind of dodgy dealing at some clients I’d visit since there’d be an army of their employees who’d be negative about Oracle but always a single big-wig that managed to be super passionate about Oracle.

Of course I never found evidence of anything dodgy - just a number of clients where this was a notable pattern.
How do you value usability but then have every other website basically disabled? The net trade-off there surely isn't in the direction of usability, versus simply installing an ad blocker.

If I installed ad blockers on some publicly accessible computer, or a computer for multiple users, I think very few would complain about issues. If I disabled JS on the other hand...
She really doesn't need to spend on anything. All of the good beginner resources are free:

- Hands on programming with R - https://rstudio-education.github.io/hopr/ - Teaches basic programming concepts like working with variables, if-else statements, loops etc in R. If your friend doesn't have a technical background, this is a good place to start.

- R for Data Science - https://r4ds.had.co.nz/ - Teaches you to work with the most commonly used libraries for manipulating and visualising data.

- Introduction to Statistical Learning with R - http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ISLR%20Seventh%20Printing... - A great place to start with some of the theory. If she has a background in statistics, it should be quite accessible.

- Caret package site - http://topepo.github.io/caret/index.html - shows how to use one of the popular packages for machine learning.
First you are assuming that there really are needs to be filled. For example in the case of fishing there are limits to how much you can fish, set by the EU, which maybe we've hit already.

Second, jobs don't exist until they are created; saying that they could be created doesn't help unemployed people. Someone has to take the (sometimes very high) risk.
Google has no incentive to do better. There's some hubris involved, but there's also a lot of sociopathic indifference.

A class action suit might give it the motivation it needs to start behaving responsibly.
I made a thing to audit that you are consistent with your indices [1] as an alternative to explicit named-tensor objects. And found, but have not used, another package in a similar spirit [2].

Although to be honest, simply writing A[n,μ,ν,c] etc. (using different letters for different spaces) makes it pretty easy to visually check that you are getting this right. This is one of the attractions of the notation, even on paper. Unfortunately np.einsum's string notation makes this harder to see, as the indices aren't adjacent to the variable name.

[1] https://github.com/mcabbott/TensorCast.jl#checking (Julia)

[2] https://github.com/ofnote/tsalib (Python)
sr.ht has a broad selection of build bases which is only getting broader, including FreeBSD and soon to have NetBSD and hopefully OpenBSD:

https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md

You don't need to be an Official Important Binutils Person to set up some CI and use it to make bug reports. You should try it out!
I'm not talking about licensing some basic patents. The question is, what will be that high margin thing that's worth optimising the heck out of for years and decades to come?

And who will own the customer? Who will define the software platform that creates all the stickiness and benefits from all the network effects?

If car makers continue down the path they are on now, they will own none of it. Like publishers, they will be reduced to go begging for the help of regulators to impose some form of Google tax.
>based on what my heart says

okay so I can stop reading there, because whatever that is will be informed by the culture surrounding you, which if I had to guess would be center to right american
Fair enough. It is then a tough balancing act between the amount of resources (money especially) available for such experiments and the desired size of them to be actually useful. Finland is very small and very homogeneous, so it reduces the number of variables they need to think about. And they are rich enough to afford such experiments.

Must be fun for those working on the such problems :)
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Hypothetically let's say you raised taxes by a third across the board. Only people who's taxes went up by more than that 560 a month would be paying more than they received in UBI. So it's a little bit deceptive in terms of how much taxes would need to increase by. The tax increase and monthly UBI amount should be tuned together to have the desired redistributive effect.
The idea of having Ada core pro under dual gpl/commercial lisence (not lgpl) is indeed an odd one. But there's also fsf/gnu ada with gcc, that has the usual lpgp (gpl with link exception) licensing.
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guy told them to p* off and then they gave him the £90 public order fine for swearing,” Ms Carlo added. “He was really angry.”

Didn’t realize this was enforced.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/854625...
What if it was more like a negative income tax than UBI?
One part of UBI I still don't understand and have a hard time finding an answer for:

If everyone gets a basic level of income no matter what, won't the base level just be pushed up higher? So instead of a flat costing for instance $500 a month, it will cost $1000 month because everyone can afford the $500 flat.

I can't see a scenario where a government doesn't have to increase the UBI every year.
Thunderbird infamously places the local copy of IMAP mails (i.e. Effectively a cache) into Appdata\Roaming. It's the single largest directory I have there. Everything else is quite reasonable in size.
Lots of people net $0 or a negative amount.

The payments are not contingent on anything, but people earning enough more than the payments are getting less basic income than they are paying in taxes towards basic income.
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The idea of UBI is that you will replace most of current social support methods, reducing the administrative cost.

The disagreements I often see are on how large portion of social support can be replaced by UBI. In your calculations, how much of the 560 per month would be needed to be supported by new taxes?
I think you underestimate how little this experiment gave people.

This did not eliminate risk at all.
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You're right. But there's very good reasons to think that they won't come from levered quant strategies like Renaissance's. They're extremely diversified and tend to be market neutral.
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