skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR: Two unemployed people are shown, each receiving 560€ a month with no strings attached. For comparison, median income in Finland is 2900€.

The woman doesn't seem to have learned any trade (at least it's not mentioned) and has only ever worked briefly at a factory. She took a job as a telemarketer that she liked. As the program ends, her financial situation will be unsustainable.

The man used to be a journalist and has been unemployed for five years. He's still unemployed after the program ends and will now have to "deal with bureaucracy again".
Also would make it easier to backup the program and its data or copy them to a new system.

But it seems because of the idea that some people may want to back up data and config separately, we end up with stuff scattered everywhere, with some even hidden away in the Windows Registry. Makes backups ridiculously complex.
Thanks for sharing! Just tried some UML sequence diagrams and this looks like it’ll be a lot more convenient than other UML tools.

Here’s the syntax guide: https://github.com/mermaidjs/mermaid-gitbook/blob/master/con...

Edit: And here’s a plugin for VS Code that adds a live render pane to the text editor - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vstirbu....
Sure, I'm not saying it's easy, but still out of all other things they'd be up against, it'd be on the easier side...
I'm not sure what you mean with "can be solved", but I would spell it out a bit different:

There are NP-hard problems that are undecidable, that means, there is no algorithm that can decide the question for every input. However, in some instances we are able to solve these problems (even quite easy). For example we know that an algorithm like "while TRUE DO (nothing) END" will never terminate, even though the halting problem is undecidable.

However, if a NP-hard problem is also in NP, than it can be solvend. But it will take exponential time in the worst case. That, too, does not mean that in some instance we are able to solve them in reasonable time.
I’d like to see more case studies.

I could see people taking license to putz around for 2 years, while others try and use the opportunity.

Is humanity mostly lazy or mostly productive?
Historically the German auto industry has held a lot of influence over politicians. They've successfully lobbied against things like a national speed limit and for weakened emissions rules in the past.

More recently, they have blocked and delayed the EU's proposed emissions targets for 2025 and 2030 which would have required 40% fleet-wide CO2 reductions by 2030 and set minimum targets for zero emission vehicles.

(It should be noted Sweden, France, and Spain - who also have significant auto industries - are in favour of the new rules).
> NEVER speak your native language with that person. Only use the language you want to learn with him or her.

You don't have to be quite that strict, it's enough to have dedicated time slots where you won't allow yourself to escape learning by switching languages. The most efficient way is to find someone who wants to learn your language and do tandem learning, so they're motivated to slog through correcting your mistakes over and over. Since I'm not that good at small talk, I had some trouble finding activities where there's actually enough to talk about, and eventually settled on museums.

Another thing that helps is to watch videos in your target language. It doesn't do much to improve your vocabulary unless you pause to write new words down, but it helps with listening and by proxy also improves pronunciation. I've found https://viki.com to have a nice collection of subtitled shows in the languages I'm interested in. (Though by now I've progressed enough to keep subtitles off.)

For quickly learning and actually remembering vocabulary, it's probably unavoidable to use a spaced repetition system like https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Exactly. And let's not forget that car makers are also losing their key powertrain competency to electrification.

If they don't commit to really owning some of the new tech then there will be nothing left of them.

In my view, these traditional car makers are a slow motion train wreck of epic proportion.

How on earth can BWM and Daimler decide to pay more than 5% dividend instead of investing every last cent they earn into surviving the current technological revolution?

Apparently they have decided to die and pay out what's left to shareholders. This may be a legit strategy for a private equity fund, but if I was a German polititician or trade union official I would be horrified.
It's not actually a new notation though, it's literally just deleting a part of the old notation and then getting the reader to fill that part back in. While this is fine for calculations, I would rather that when equations are actually presented, that one extra piece of information is explicitly given.

I guess a similar thing that happens on the programming language side would be leaving out types when the compiler can infer them. This is great, and can make code more concise, but when reading an API I would really like the types written down explicitly, rather than having the play the part of the compiler.
What does the mouse have to do with the start menu? Hit the keyboard button, type first few letters, hit Enter.
> 3d engines render loop foregoes any attempt to skip unnecessary rendering to focus on fast, continuous rendering.

3d engines often go to great lengths to avoid sending unnessesary data to the GPU. Frustum culling or more sophisticated occlusion culling are standard practices.
Coastal regions are 98% Han Chinese. They love to tell you about those 50 ethnic groups, but most of them live in the "wild west". Places, like Tibet that China annexed at some point. Normal Chinese don't have much contact with those groups. They don't work in the same office or date.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/8ojye4/percentage_...
I don't understand why you're taking Japan as a contrasting example. Japan has roughly one tenth of China's population. According to your own numbers they have one tenth of native ethnicities. Thus that metric is not striking me as contrasting.

Perhaps a better metric would be the ratio of the dominant ethnic group to the whole population which Japan is perhaps is the country that has the highest one.
I love how they just didn't really do much and kinda slacked. People who think UBI will include people voluntarily going out to work at jobs that aren't fun... this study is a wrench in the works! I bet the younger generation will play fornite, league of legends, or scroll insta/snapchat all day.

(I would have also liked to see the study actually show it being a sustainable solution , but the ironic outcome is enjoyed nevertheless!)
> 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.

Another problem with this strategy is that it generally requires solving the halting problem: you can only know whether a program "does a given task" when you know whether it halts or not.
Not "in" markdown documents but "from". In the documents the diagram markdown is rendered as itself . When exporting markdown to pdf for example, the diagram markdown is rendered as a diagram.
"In the latest paper, Yehudayoff and his collaborators define learnability as the ability to make predictions about a large data set by sampling a small number of data points. The link with Cantor’s problem is that there are infinitely many ways of choosing the smaller set, but the size of that infinity is unknown."

Reading this got me wondering about more philosophical aspects, such as the relation of this conclusion to to the process of human learning and prediction (which obviously works) and whether it's somehow tied in some way to the problem of induction. Could be nonsense, but I'll be putting some more thought into the meaning of this
Most climate scientists would say that Christy is wrong when he asserts that climate models overestimate warming.

Could someone please show me some legitimate study that would reinforce this assumption?
Burger King 'launches' its own range of Big Macs after EU rejects trademark
The woman seems to become dependent on the program. I thought it was interesting that she leveraged the income to take a lower paying job.

Sort of the exact opposite of the intention I would imagine. The idea would be to give people a leg to stand on so they can take risks, not hide in their confort zone...
Regular soy milks only have ~2/3 the sugar of whole milk; it’s just that sucrose is sweeter than lactose.
I think part of the problem here is that if the only thing running on $MINORITY_PLATFORM is your CI loop, then when it does find an issue it's going to be harder for the devs to fix, and it's never going to get the breadth of coverage that daily use during development will (both from bits the tests don't cover and because the CI system is testing a specific OS version with a fixed set of installed packages, and likely doesn't get updated to new OS versions very promptly.) If users of an OS care about a program then there's no substitute for being involved upstream (and not just putting workaround patches in a local 'ports' system).

QEMU has this issue -- in theory we support Linux, OSX, Windows, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD (and CI on all of those), but Linux support is much better than all the rest because all of the primary developers are using that, and contributions from users of the other platforms are much rarer. It's not a policy decision to treat the others as third-class.
Helping to Build Cloudflare, Part 3: Audacity, Diversity and Change
Often luck plays a significant part, but those that got lucky won't admit it or see it.

Two kinds of luck - dumb luck, like you fat fingered a large trade in AAP instead of APP, just at a lucky time.

Then there is sizing luck, noticing small/unusual things ignored or out of sight by others and acting to capatilise.

The bottom line is for every winning trade, a losing trade occurred and if it was easy, everyone would do it.

Sounds like you are heading to fund someone else's new Tesla via process known as wealth transferrance. Why not just cut the process short and place a series of largest allowed bets on 13 Black, probably better odds and near instant discovery.
This article is the programmers' equivalent of Grover Norquist saying "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

Only with Javascript.

Also, libertarians are statists. Weak statists, but statists nonetheless.
I'm very much interested in the findings. There is probably more to it than this 5 minute video can show.
I don’t think the parent commenter is far off here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China#Ethnic....

Granted, Han Chinese in the modern sense is a bit of a constructed identity (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6e312e/is_th...), but it’s a construction that has held up in China.

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. Yes, when I visit older family in the countryside, they may still speak their local dialect, but that is becoming increasingly rare:
https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/06/on-saving-....

Unlike in the US where African and French influences produced creole, and American pop culture has strong African and Latin influences, I don’t think minority group culture in China has anywhere near the same pull. Yes, they may trot out ethnic minority performers once a year during the CCTV New Year’s Gala, but you will not find “minority” singers charting on best seller lists, or “minority” actors in leading entertainment roles.

A 90%+ majority ethnic group is on par with what we see in Western Europe. Do Europeans see themselves as primarily multi-ethnic states? The self-description of a “melting pot” that is commonly used in the US, Canada, and even Central America don’t seem to be nearly as prevalent in Europe.
Scli is a simple terminal user interface for Signal
My mate spent a year on the dole living rent free at his parents learning how to play the drums.

He's now a highly paid insurance PM consultant.

I have a few other stories like this too, a few people I knew mucked around on the dole for a year, deliberately failing interviews, and decades later are now happy, successful, people.

You shouldn't experiment on long term unemployed as they are the abnormal cases, most people get back to work within 3 months if helped.

There's a simple thought experiment, if every month you get 100 unemployed people and 90 get a job but 10 are bad and don't, within a year you might look at the system and say 'look, it doesn't work, 120 people are bad and don't get a job, and only 90 get a job', where in reality 1080 got a job and 120 didn't.
In other words, we learn absolutely nothing about the question the story is titled by?
IMO, nothing is certain until we arrive at the boundary of universe creation/expansion. This is where all of the real stuff is taking place. Until then, it will be mostly theories and opinions.
>The idea would be to give people a leg to stand on so they can take risks, not hide in their confort zone

I think many proponents of UBI overestimate the ambitiousness of the average person.
It's a shame it still doesn't play well with more than one user on a system trying to install packages.

I have a work user and a personal user on my laptop. Brew won't let me use both at the same time without getting my hands dirty with creating groups, and even then it's not supported behaviour.
I think that to answer the question in the title, looking at two persons only is the wrong approach.
Death-cap mushrooms are native to Europe and first identified on the east coast of North America in 1897, and on the west coast in 1938. They do not appear to be native to North America.

The article is mostly concerned with their spread into British Columbia, probably from the root balls of imported European sweet chestnut trees.

Although we've seen a lot of non-native invasive species above ground--tumbleweeds and starlings come to mind--the article is a fascinating framing of the question (voiced in the article), "What does it mean to move a tree-root mushroom to a distant continent?"
TLDR:
Misleading title, waste of time. "Finland is analyzing the results to see what lessons can be learned." - that's all the substance there is.

It's just a video of two randomly picked persons of this experiment, which doesn't tell anything.
The issue with trying to apply Kolmogorov complexity to extremely small data (4 digits here) is that the universal Turing machine itself might take more than 4 digits to write down. In principle, one could extend it to any sufficiently long pair of n digits, and then the question would be mathematically robust (though still uncomputable).

Also, for what it's worth, for large enough n, probably there are no interesting short answers. C(x|y) - the conditional complexity of any string x given any other string y is close to maximum (approximately the length of x) for most pairs x and y. This means, for most pairs x and y, there will be no simple short equations connecting x to y, regardless of the mathematical operators we take.
My bet, based on what my heart says, is that if everybody could receive UBI, almost all people will do absolutely nothing; levels of depression and mental illness will go over the roof, which could very well end in violence.

Introducing UBI because of robots taking jobs reminds me of that quote, "For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong"
Why? Without a consumer class it's impossible for everyone to be entrepreneurial. I think it makes very good sense to leverage the income and take a lower paying job. Maybe in so doing, she's able to consume stuff made by someone entrepreneurial, something she would absolutely not be able to do if pushing it to the limit to maximize her own income.
> So: Compartmentalizing doesn't work. Unless anonymity is the default for everyone and used for both sensitive and non-sensitive communication, it doesn't actually provide a solution to the problems of surveillance capitalism. And the majority of people are always going to be too dumb not to be tricked into deanonymizing themselves most of the time.

Well, it "provide[s] a solution to the problems of surveillance capitalism" for me. And for anyone else who cares. Everyone else will do what they want, and get what they get. Other than offering helpful suggestions from time to time, it's just not my problem. I used to think that it was, but I was a fool.
Peertube?
Any flashcard system will have shared decks of the most common words.
Tesla drivers caught on camera while sleeping
So does gravity.
And I suspect that it will like result in even more ressentment from people who chose to stay at home on a meagre UBI against people who chose to work and earn a lot more. In other words it could have a politically explosive outcome (populist, socialist parties getting elected, etc).
Type systems, exception handlers, garbage collectors, allocators, etc from different languages are rarely compatible with each other.
Basically all diesel cars in the world use the common rail system that was developed at FIAT, sold to Bosch and licensed to everyone else.

Licensing an electric powertrain technology is not that different, there is a lot more in a car than the powertrain.

Likewise, MacBooks are more than their intel cpu.
> 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.

That works as long as you solve the halting problem first.
I cant't see how this experiment is set up, can give any answers to what effects general basic income has on the society. A selection of only 2000 people seems too small. 560 USD a month is not enough to get by in scandinavia either. If an experiment is going to prove that society wont't get ruined by general basic income, then an experiment has to be done on a much greater scale than this.
Prompts to use Amazon Smile do still appear. It's just that the reminders don't pop up every time you visit a non-smile domain.

Haven't seen any 90-day time limit as the parent comment mentions.
>Even if I trust you I also have to trust the authors of every library your app uses not to pown my computer or use my camera or mic, scan my network, capture my screen, read the clipboard constantly, read and/or upload all my files, etc...

You have to do that with all of the software you run, and the operating system you run it on, anyway.
It's also not how most of us learn the much simpler computer languages, I can pick up a language much quicker by playing with it rather than learning it formally.
They have weekday labels, just click through on Twitter to see the uncropped image
The comment you linked discusses the source of a different project, doesn't it?
That is true, but they gotta start somewhere! Isn't it okay to start small and repeat it a few times, incorporating learnings from the previous round?
Finland is already a welfare state.
People who think UBI will include people voluntarily going out to work at jobs that aren't fun... this study is a wrench in the works! I bet the younger generation will play fornite, league of legends, or scroll insta/snapchat all day

Yes and no. The B in UBI is basic, you won't starve or freeze but if you want nice things such as a new gaming PC, you would still need to earn to pay for that. Maybe in that world you would do just enough work to earn it, then not bother working again until you needed to upgrade - and that's OK.
Berlin is more or less the capital of the continental Europe startup scene too.

I'm pretty sure they'll be fine even if old German industry declines.
In college we had a program where you studied in the country of the language you're trying to learn. What was interesting was the "pledge" where no matter how bad it got, you didn't revert to English. It sucked at the start, but eventually you just pick things up and it just works.

You don't quite get the grammar and native speakers will notice that, but so long as they correct you, eventually you'll just pick up the rules.
I visited Fort George in Scotland recently as I have family in the area and its interesting how little of the fort you can actually see from immediately in front of it - just the very top of the main walls - even though there are a lot of fortifications between those two areas.

You can see this in Google streetview if you go to the car park for visitor access - you can see almost nothing of the enormous fort even though it is only a couple of hundred metres away.
Which he then explicitly pointed out in the following sentence.

> Case in point: did you catch the split infinitive in the previous sentence?
Of course UBI “works”. There are some rich people who enjoy never having to work, and they are quite happy with that.

The problem with it is that it cannot be universally sustainable.
Exactly! I remember the days of proprietary data formats, when people would literally have to print out data from one program to type it back into another. Let's not regress to that.
> "The idea would be to give people a leg to stand on so they can take risks, not hide in their confort zone..."

560€ per month, in Finland, is not enough take people out of their "comfort zone". Check out the rental prices in some of the larger cities: https://www.vuokraovi.com
If you have just one term, then leaving out the summation sign saves little. But in larger expressions, the rule applies sums per term, and then the savings in clutter can be quite large. For example, here v_i is not summed, and the term with z_b has two sums:

A_ia x_a + v_i + x_a y_a ( w_i + B_ib z_b )

You should not need to check the LHS, x_a y_a should always mean the dot product of these two. At least this is the convention among the heavy addicts; among lighter users you will sometimes find other setups.
I don't think the woman slacked, she did get a job, but she was living above her means when it was clear that the program would end at some point.

I also think that this is exactly what this kind of UBI will do: Subsidize low-paying jobs.

The man on the other hand seems to have this outlook that since he used to be a journalist, if he doesn't get another job as a journalist, he'll get to collect unemployment benefits indefinitely.

I wonder if that's him gaming the system or if that's really how the system in Finland works.
Having laws, is not the same thing as having the rule of law.

Rule of law refers to something quite specific. That at the very precipice of organizing principles of society, the people at that precipice, are themselves governed by law.

Rule of law means we don't have to worry about Trump turning America into a dictatorship. If you have to worry about your leaders running away with power, then you don't have rule of law.

The idea that Germany, of all countries, has the rule of law is absolutely laughable. This is the country that started WW2 for lebensraum. Everything Hitler did was totally legal. But he still was an autocrat. This is because Germany did not have the rule of law.

Maybe after WW2 Germany figured out how to make sure their leaders can't seize total political control. I'd have to go look. But there's no way under the sun they had it before.
Agree with your point on focusing on that particular sample. But I also heard and seen stories of people who take long (2-3y) career breaks and struggle to get back in, or do at a significant loss of seniority. It’s not so much an unemployment problem. They ultimately find a job. Rather a “damaged career path” kind of problem.
I think the point made by paulgb is that it won't go unnoticed (it will accumulate records) which is a first step to fight an injustice