skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chimps are one of the most wild apes and they are predators that hunt for sport, apes aren’t domesticated so a chimp will rip your face off just for the heck of it. A Gorilla or an Orangutang can do the same but as they don’t exhibit predatory behavior they would only do it when threatened.

So I would actually say that Chimps are the closest on the mean scale to humans because we are quite dickish and often just for the sake of being a dick since long term planning can make it beneficial in many cases.
How long can these implant last? Do they need replacement? Do they run on batteries?
>Ex post facto law has since the Enlightenment recognized as unjust and even tyrannical. Digging back across generations in search of some offense generations ago and punishing innocent parties today is at best a recipe for chaos.

That's not what's going on here at all. The idea is that property gained through unjust means originally means that the wealth derived from it is still unjustly derived, even if this unjust appropriation happened long ago when it was not deemed unjust then. You would be right if the case were if you were to be punished for the fact your ancestors owned slaves, but the issue is the benefit gained which is currently there.

>income and wealth accumulation being anywhere remotely uniform would be amazing.

Nobody is saying it would be uniform, they're saying that the situation at the moment is not due to the difference in those abilities other than perhaps brute strength in subjugation and plunder. It is difficult to imagine what the world would look like if it hadn't happened, but the distribution of wealth would not be as we see it today in any case.

>By your own reasoning, neither did the state today do anything to deserve the property that they’d seize.

The state may act on behalf of those at a comparative disadvantage, and we have an easier case for arguing they deserve something.
Wikipedia can help you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe

Mostly: formerly Holy Roman and Habsburg Empires.
Exactly, worship of capitalism is a disease where the afflicted can only see the advantages of this "fantastic" system. Despite the widespread evidence that there are many problems in the world that are directly caused by market forces, with the obvious conclusion that there is nothing a priori "benign" about these market forces that are worshiped by so many.
Looked it up and you're right, I remembered it as having more, but those (what was more) where the roles played by each of the repetitions of the 3 basic meanings (noun, verb, relative clause, verb phrase -- "buffalo", "buffaloed" (bullied), "from Buffalo", "to buffalo", "that's a bufallo (bully)", etc)
Doesn't it emit the tone through the TV while your phone listens?
> That would have made the entire experiment worthless,

Welcome to psychology in the 1960s.
>That said, the number of parents working in Silicon Valley who would send their kids to a school that worked like this is very low

I wouldn't be so sure of that. Many people prefer self directed and independent learning. And the reality is that once you're out of college effectively all learning happens that way.
Summit demands an extraordinary amount of personal information about each student and plans to track them through college and beyond,”

If true, then, this info should have been in the first paragraph ...
What does is mean in "indigenous people"? where did the other Japanese people come from?

I think they should definitely be considered a minority, while still continuing with the actions mentioned in the article, like recognizing their culture and trying to help them after suffering discrimination.

But I always find the term "Indigenous" weird, because we all came from somewhere, so will American from Italian descent be considered "Indigenous" (just to Italy and not America)? I feel like that word is always used to describe non western culture, things and customs that are considered "less advanced", less modern, that we need to preserve, when in reality I think it's just another culture that we need to respect and except, and that by calling that group of cultures "Indigenous" there is some racism involved (by all participants)
I'm focusing on Bitcoin and physical gold / silver, as I view stocks and houses overvalued, but I always get downvoted here on HN when I go into details, that's why I prefer if people read a lot for themselves.

I like Mike Maloney's youtube series as a start on macroeconomics.
bird law
The alternative to letting the individual determine what they want is to let someone else choose for them. I’m arguing on fundamental principles because the parent commenter is advocating a reorganization of market-based economies.

I don’t care how complex the system is. If you aren’t letting me, the individual, determine what is best for my life, then you are coming from a place of superiority and belief that you know better than others. And you don’t.
GDP ain't fixed.
I hope they monetize this to continue building a great game.

The switch would be a great platform to sell a port on.
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If you're going long term, the platform doesn't matter at all. With short-term trading quants have a huge advantage (I went through an interview at a hedge fund, I know how smart they are, but their downside is that they have to have high sharp ratio to attract investment). I'm always looking at 5 year+ investments only
Of course that's not the main aim of the person in the thread. The aim is a timeline cross referencing different data sources.
No, as in mind altering drugs: coffee.
8 year olds dude - Wikipedia say they practise in paedophilic behaviour commonly
Started a CNC machining side business. Always had an interest and found a broke down CNC mill for cheap. Fixed it up and have been doing quick prototype and small runs for locals by referal only. Its fun and more than offsets the cost of the machine.
Both Verilog and VHDL are a poor fit for chip design. This is why there are so many projects of higher-level hardware description languages. Chisel[1] looks to me as the best one. What I particularly like - they created an intermediate language FIRRTL[2], which might become an LLVM of hardware design. While the exact syntax might be opinionated and we need different options, the fewer wheels reinvented - the better. So at some point, it is important to create the low-level framework, on top of which many different languages can be built. You can read discussion about this particular idea here[3].

[1] https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/

[2] https://bar.eecs.berkeley.edu/projects/firrtl.html

[3] https://github.com/SymbiFlow/ideas/issues/19
Not a side project per se, nor am I making enough to retire anytime soon but I give bike tours of the city I live in. Its a fun way to explore the city, meet fun people, and learn something new. On a good weekend I can pull in $100 in cash plus a small check from the bike shop I tour out of.
People seem to have filled in what OP is doing based on the headline/first three tweets only...
> How were giant ancient structures like Stonehenge, or the towering Moai heads on Easter Island, assembled at a time when cranes and trucks were still hundreds of years away?

Prehistoric people had ropes and they also had poles. I'm always baffled by this reluctance to admit that they simply used cranes, levers, and similar technology.
If we ever uplifted bonobos, I wonder what their HR departments would be like?
That sounds really interesting. By repairs do you mean mostly board level type stuff? How do you handle all of the encryption and road blocks OEMs like to put on the software? Doesn’t that make it challenging to get a board diagnosed or operating properly again?
Invest in an S&P 500 ETF. This is probably the lowest effort side project you can have which still makes money. Also, if you learn about the stock market, it makes you more confident in how your savings looks, how your retirement will look, how to manage money, etc.
Certainly there are complications, but the question isn’t whether the free market is perfect. The question is whether (and in which cases) it’s worse than a grand social engineering program to decide what everyone’s supposed to want. Probably there are some cases where it is, but it’s hard to see what problems would be prevented by rules about how smart of a refrigerator you should make.
My wife bought your part and it worked perfectly. She was really happy when she found it. Thanks for making this part available.
> When they arrive in a flood, as they have during economic booms since the 19th-century gold rush, including the dotcom surge of the late 1990s and the current tech tsunami, they scour out what was there before. By 2012 the incursion of tech workers had gone from steady stream to deluge, and more and more people and institutions – bookstores, churches, social services, bars, small businesses – began to be evicted.

Flood, scour out, incursion, deluge... it's very rare for a liberal publication such as The Guardian to describe immigration in such negative terms!
> What happens when the population and the economy are in a steady state, where we don't expect things to increase at 2% forever

This is a problem that has been studied by every serious economist that looks beyond the existing structure of capitalism. Although we don't know exact shop of the future, the answer is that capitalism as we know, and specially finance, will stop working and we will need a different economic paradigm to organize our lives.
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Depending on the country you are in, it shouldn't be that hard to become a certified electrician.

Granted, I have a degree in electrical engineering, but certification was not part of that degree. I got the certification at a night school, IIRC it took 2 months with about ~5 hours per week in effort. If you don't have experience with electronics it would obviously take a bit more effort, but it's totally doable.
Makerpad.co - I teach people how to build projects without code. I’m collaborating with companies now to help provide educational content on how to use the tools for a non-technical project or business. Last 4 weeks revenue is around 30k (from memberships and companies paying to be listed and create the content which isn’t released yet). It’s pretty much all profit too as I do it solo with little overhead.

There’s a huge interest growing around building without coding and any technical people are also jumping in too.
Try running a company this way and we’ll see how long it lasts.
I do have money-making side projects, but they are software projects as well.
This makes me so happy as an anthropologist-turned-programmer.
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Betting on politics on PredictIt. I wouldn’t recommend it as an income stream, but having an interest in probability, markets, and international politics, it has taught me to read the news more objectively.
Works fine on Firefox 66.0.3 (64-bit) on Linux.
Uber is migrating away from Buck to Bazel. One major reason is poor support for a variety of languages (Go being one big one, where fixing issues was historically slow due to a need to upstream fixes to Buck core).

I haven't worked with Buck myself, but colleagues who evaluated it for JS have expressed concerns with lack of support/ecosystem there as well. In comparison, there are various Bazel rulesets for JS/Typescript, and I've had some pretty good experience w/ implementing rules myself. The Starlark docs are good.

Another thing going for Bazel is its ability to embed external codebases into a build system. This mechanism allows rules to be shared among repositories in a reusable fashion.
> However the majority of society still does “normal” things like construction, manufacturing, sales, etc.

"Normal" is when you build schools, hospitals, community centers and affordable houses and you produce only several kinds of refrigerator for the whole world, streamlining their production and servicing. Not when you construct factories, warehouses, office skyscrapers and shopping areas where those same goods will be manufactured, stored, marketed and sold, by thousands of competing companies. That competition leads to a lot of wasted resources in exchange for product improvements of a questionable value, like, the availability of fridges in a variety of colours.

> someone needs to maintain our physical infrastructure and keep the lights on

Sure, but the strain on that infrastructure would be far less without the need for commuters to commute 2 hours to their job, in order to market the "best smart fridge" in an office.

Everything is deeply interconnected, and we really need to reevaluate our goals and interests as a society.
Could most people contribute to (solving) big important problems before globalization or automation?
Buck makes you declare every dependency explicitly. A particular target must specify exactly what files it uses, and when it makes a build, it copies those files from the target and all its dependencies into an empty sandbox and builds there. It's wonderful.
How do you measure the value of these systems? The knowledge, technology and connections?
You have basically written datacenter software for a decade that may be a few orders of magnitude slower or more inefficient than it needed to be. pthreads is not fibers.

Context switching between fibers can be extraordinarily fast because the kernel is not involved. I have some experience in the matter.
Thanks! Okay I've created a coupon code THANKSHN for 10% off to make it easier for you to try it out for yourself :)
I think indigenous colloquially means the people who first used the land (e.g. hunting, farming, seasonal migrations, etc). So it’s not based on length of time, but order of arrival.
Not all prehistoric groups had all basic technology. There was no use of the wheel in the America’s for example.
This is really interesting.

It sounds like this is a form of consulting where would-be founders outsource the idea-gen / problem discovery work to you.

How does the problem statement from the client manifest -- is it usually something like "I want you to determine if there's a market for X", or "I want you to explore this demographic of people," or something else?
That's true about Netflix, large networks can apply for boxes with Netflix caches for free (or at least they used to be free, maybe there's a small cost today) if they want to reduce load on their peering/network.
If you're unsatisfied with merely having more, and only care about how much better or worse you're doing relative to everyone else, then you can make anything zero sum. The fact that you can do this with GDP isn't particularly interesting or revealing.
> Any decent grad department will give the grad students a tuition waiver
I'm an Airbnb host in my spare bedrooms.

As a software engineer by day, I find it quite pleasant to be a host and have a more direct human connection with my customers.
Could you elaborate? (Please :)
This makes my day. Full circle to Hacker News. Enjoy your espresso.
Tagmap is something I've been working on for a bit to try to help solve the problem of how difficult it is for people to meet like-minded individuals near them (or just on the Internet in general sometimes). The general concept is that users tag themselves with their communities and interests, and are then placed onto a map for each tag that they selected. Users are also presented with a list of other users that are closest to or most similar to them (based on tags and some other metrics).

For an example of a tagmap that has a lot more users than the hackernews one (linked above) at the time of writing, check out https://tagmap.io/tag/slatestarcodex, which is for readers of a certain blog that many of you might recognize if you browse HN often.

Love any feedback via any medium including here.
I use mutt - but then I also run my own email server on my own domain.
I buy cars, repair them and recondition them to my level of satisfaction, and send them back out the door, typically targeting 55-65 year olds. I focus mostly on entry level luxury crossovers around 7 to 10 years old, though starting to also do hybrids since there’s more profit in it since everyone is seemingly allergic to batteries and pack replacement/rebuilds.

Parts are cheap, I listen to music or a podcast, I do all the “PITA” repairs (replacing wheel bearings, ball joints, tie rods, full brake service) that are really just labor in terms of professional repair cost, perform additional rust prevention, and for sale it goes when I feel a new grandma or grandpa would never give a hesitation to load it up with all their grandkids. They also see a very thorough interior cleaning, and a full exterior detail (including paint correction when required).

It has bought every very nice tool I could ever want, most are 20-30 hours of labor including acquisition, and I’m at the point where I have repeat customers (the put a 2nd alongside the first) and have direct referrals. Now the profit mostly goes towards putting a 2nd interesting car in the garage, and some towards moving up the ladder to try to earn more per vehicle.

Selling cars isn’t bad when you don’t have employees to pay, and it lets you sell really high quality stuff. I keep thinking of how much I couldn’t justify doing, and how much my product standards would suffer if I had to pay help.
Mostly board repairs, but also wiring on the cars itself.

Like I said, I mostly work on older cars, since those are the ones where it makes economic sense to do this kind of repairs. Those cars are usually from the era where ECU's had little to no encryption, or even no software at all (pure electronic based ECU's).

Stuff like early Bosh and Lucas, Porsche CDi.
I have craft cocktail catering business with a couple other cocktail lovers who work technical jobs
Additionally, a low stress non-crunch environment is better at retaining talent, which is significant on the short term but even more so on the long term (in a whole host of ways). Keeping people around longer means more retention of experience, less disruption to the corporate culture over time, more predictability in execution on projects, a more stable work environment (and less stress) for everyone else, etc, etc.
Can you explain why? I’d be interested to learn more.
I had a coworker who literally did a rant, slammed the door of the conference room and quit. He was earning some side money playing online poker then made a go of it full time. His conclusion: This is a lot less fun when it's your sole source of income.
I think you might live in an unusual way if you spend more on relationships than food or housing.
The hard part is finding appliances that need fixing. This is super easy if you happen to own a lot do things that break. If not, it becomes quite boring and tedious to scout out things that are breaking for other people, that you have no personal motivation to fix, to get the broken appliance and then figure out the 3d model for the bad part.
can't you just sideload the APK?
How to build a system to understand yourself
My worry with UBI as a replacement for work is that it relies on the continued altruism of the elite, with no balancing force keeping the status-quo. Despite its problems, properly-functioning capitalism keeps the few accountable to the many. Billionaires can only throw their weight around up to a point, because at the end of the day they rely on regular people to keep their economic engine going. They need us for our economic value, which gives us power. If that became no longer the case, democracy itself could be abolished, with no consequence to those at the top. Capitalism has many problems, and doesn't work on its own, and certainly needs fixing in 2019, but I think it's also the lynchpin maintaining any status quo at all between elites and everyone else.

Now, this also assumes that people become literally useless in the automated future, compared to systems. It's possible - if unlikely - that humans always move on to a higher frontier of uniquely human work once the previous one becomes automated. In that scenario, UBI could be a great way to ride that transition. Also, partial UBI, meant only to give people a platform for growth in a world that still has jobs for them, could be a good way to combat economic inequality.
> 80.2 million Americans (25% of the 325 million total population) suffer from mental illness so severe they take drugs to treat their condition

That's not the same as having "severe mental illness". Doctors in the US hand out psychomeds like candy to anyone who has a mild depression. That's how you get to 25%.

> It is a disproven myth that homeless people are more likely to be mentally ill than the general public.

It isn't. You just took some numbers from one bucket, put them next to numbers from another bucket and then concluded that for some unexplained reason, it's actually the people who become homeless that have on average better mental health than the general population. Non-Sequitur.

Mind you, I never said that the majority of homeless people are mentally ill, but there's a set of hard cases that you will literally not be able to help with any program that is meant to get them off the streets.
Free for all link - https://medium.com/@neilkakkar/how-to-build-a-system-to-unde...
> Game Boys have infinite lives

Unfortunately not if you store one with poor quality batteries that leak and destroy it :(
You must have fixed up cars when you were a kid? How do you handle paint matching?
We had state institutions at one point. They were basically prisons.

Moreover, any kind of forced institutionalization is always "free" -- it's not as if you can get out of it for lack of money.
By this logic, (naive) matrix multiplication is not O(n^3) because it is a function of the precision required. The size of the neural network required to approximate a given function to within some epsilon does not change with the dataset size.
I know. I was dropping my own old reference :)

https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/20/after-15-years-of-whipping...
Tested on 66.0.3 on a fully updated Windows 10 (64bit all around) and it works fine.
Such a great film! I’m embarrassed to admit how much time/money went into making a large JVM deployment support 0 downtime upgrades. Remarkable that these basic things are still not easy to do with most modern tech.
Do you have any before and after shots you can share?
There should be a documentation system that suits the role of each job role, group, and company division. There should be something better than the landfill of data that are wikis or confluence.

Why can't there be a system that summarizes the details of apps based on README files or architecture files? Supporting documentation should be personalized to the user so if you're a developer you'll get API info and sequence diagrams (product managers could get product notes, etc.).

The documentation system should be alive with interactive examples that drive home what the experience is (embedded invision, web pages, swagger docs, etc.).

Documentation should be automatically deprecated as the state of your system and product change. Archives of old stuff could be kept for reference but the actual interactive system should be only live things so they're relevant.

Does this already exist?
The GDP grows over time. Yes, we're still dealing with economics based on scarce resources (relatively speaking). That won't change unless we have a technological singularity, and even if that happens, some things of value like land (preferred locations) or esteemed original art pieces will still be scarce commodities.

What's the alternative model? That the government allocates the scarce resources instead of the market? What makes government better at this for most things (allowing for some exceptions)?
or do you witness the same kind of backlash that anti-vaxxers face?
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