skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you do business with VAT registered company from different country, you do not pay VAT upfront with purchase, but you report it at the end of quarter (monthly if you are big enough). You will actually never pay this VAT if you are VAT registered company as you will report it and ask for refund at the same time.
On the the other hand, if you are doing business with local company you pay VAT with payment for service or goods and ask for refund at the end of quarter. Long term cost is same, but it blocks your resources (paid VAT) and it may be difference for some companies.
I'll give you the Eye of Sauron example. I admit I haven't read the books, and I've seen the films once or maybe twice.

For the other examples you mention:

As ximeng mentioned, "ocean depth" here should refer to sea level. "Sea level" would probably have been a better wording.

Christ the Redeemer is a statue in Rio de Janeiro[1]. W|A can give answers for "length of blue whale", "number of blue whales", and "height of Christ the Redeemer" (but not arm span, which Wikipedia gives as 92 ft.). It's not much of a stretch to combine those to get an estimate of the answer.

The contents of every NYT issue should be available on the internet, and some of the other figures can be found on the internet without too much trouble: the font is 8.7pt Imperial[2], and there are on average 150k words per issue[3]. Of course, these are fairly obscure pieces of data, but W|A prides itself on pulling together lots of disparate data sources. And if you don't consider having a particular obscure piece of data to be intelligence, you could easily shift the question to be, "how might an AI pull this information from the internet using natural language processing?"

For the time zone example, I took it to mean time zone changes from traveling, not just from DST (hence "per day"), and the total duration refers to the amount the watch is changed, not how long it takes to change it. Though whether the question means "sum of absolute values of differences" or just "sum of differences" is unclear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_Redeemer_(statue)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times#Print_newsp...
[3] https://www.quora.com/How-many-words-are-in-an-average-print...
Massive carbon taxes would create a nice environmentally accurate way to account for externalities. If you need some taxes on lithium, cobalt, etc to account for same, I assure you $20/gallon gasoline would still ensure the electric car to come out on top. The difference is relatively minor externalities during manufacture of electric vehicles, and massive (difficult to conceive) externalities of use of fossil fuelled cars
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Electric bicycles and scooters are amazing.

They are the most common form of transport in China as far as I can tell...
s/QT/Qt/ And also it hints that you don't know what are you writing about.

Qt works on mobile, too.
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What do you mean by we will not run out of any rare metals powering the "green" revolution?
Bihouix agrees that we may not run out of it in a geological sense. However he also argues that the extraction will become harder (lower concentrations to deal with) and is one of the fallacies of the "green" revolution
They're not free people if they live on UBI handouts.
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> Parents need to balance their children's potential for overplaying games with a legitimate need to socialise online (and in games).

I doubt that current and upcoming generations of parents will be able to easily address the problems because they're already inside players group, because computer gaming is even more integral part of our entertainment than ever before and adults are first to struggle with the issues including addiction. She seems to be ignoring that and overall, still talking more as the industry member than one who gracefully decided to fight it and show the problems that exist.
I think massive cruise ships are more of a problem for Venice than cheap flights.

Venice airport is comparatively small with 11'000'000 flights a year.
You don't download the entire app every time you change directories like you do navigating between sites in a browser.
I am surprised that this guy hasn't been given job offers at other places. He did good things, is ethical, and is clearly skilled. It's a shame that people like this are not properly 'rewarded' for their good deeds. Exposing the evil of others should always be.
It's not really the fact they're living on government welfare that's the problem, it's the fact they're not living your idea of how people should live. If they were coding all day under the guise of "doing a startup" most HN readers would admire them.

You just want to be able to dictate how other people live; that's fundamentally anti-freedom. It's not a good position to take.
Not really, my power from PG&E in the Bay Area has fewer nines than even the cheapest cloud providers.
If by some flaws you mean the same logic proves barometric pressure does not exist.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2019/p_a_statistical_myth...

> Anyone following Nassim Taleb's dissembling on IQ lately has likely stumbled across an argument, originally created by Cosma Shalizi, which purports to show that the psychometric g is a statistical myth. But I realized that based on this argument, not only is psychometrics a deeply flawed science, but so is thermodynamics!
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If you have a trivial app that just executes a couple queries, then sure use JDBC?

I do not understand your point. Most business apps are not trivial.
> For the rest, there are curtains.

I want to be woken up by the light of the rising sun. Curtains that keep up street lighting also keep out the sun.

IMHO there's far too much street illumination anyway.
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Hey HN,
Recently, I've been learning a lot about chip design, and I was wondering if there are any open source projects around accelerators or even neuromorphic chips.

When it comes to hardware, is open source useful?

Also, are there any big projects in the chip design space?
You can just not vote. It has the same impact on the results of the election.
i’m also pretty happy with my ikea trådfri bulbs and outlets. works with homekit via the trådfri hub (which i got for half price in the as-is section) so i can create scenes and automations easily. it’s still early and limited, and new features are slow to come by, but i’m not trying to do anything fancy yet anyway.
In Europe you can. I've always saved receipts and boxes of lamps (both for inventory and waranty purposes). It's been trivial to return lamps and get free replacements even after the 2 yr default warranty by claiming it broke to soon and giving a quick calculation how with say 4 or 8 hours a day I couldn't have hit the hourly mark at that point in time. Must have gotten at least a dozen free lamps. It is uneconomic neurotic consumerism on my part though. But I sure do hate how old fashioned bulbs were made illegal based on surely false economic lifetime projections of LEDs. On top of that half of the year I'm central heating and I couldn't care less what the source of my heat is.
Wouldn't 1% of the population be huge? 1 out of 100 people would be addicted to games? That's really high if true.
if you could access window dimensions and if a mouse click yielded an action, you could probably back out that click’s coordinates to that button and toss the rest of the cursor data.
Annotations were also used to correct errors in educational videos after the videos were published. The errors are still there, but the corrections are gone. They replaced annotations with "cards" which are 100% spam.
Simple bank is ending bill payments, going back to paper checks
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I haven't seen this interview; you could be right that he's way overselling how Correct(TM) his advice is.

But from what I've seen, I think you're reading too much into it all. You're right that all he offers is conventionality, that's the whole point, the site describes social conventions. That doesn't mean he's saying you're going to die friendless and alone if you ever dare to break the mold. The quote you cite just sounds to me like he's saying here's what people do, and for people who do it really well, it really works.
Original submit, 190+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19509810
> but motivating people to do useful things for society after an UBI would be a concearn.

None of the UBI experiments show people that receive UBI participate in the labor market at lower rates. This is not a data-driven concern. All date points to this not being a problem.
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Is building all the parts for a Tesla, including mining and shipping less environmental impact over 10 years than a gas car getting 35mpg at 10k miles per year considering the additional impact of battery replacements and proper disposal?

How about against natural gas, even considering fracking vs lithium mining?

Also, I never suggested using taxes for either.
Glad you like it. The batch mode together with the docker image and the --jobs parameter was a huge improvement to convert a bunch of audiobooks, even if there is much room for more.
Can you identify which is face is AI made or real?
The timing is a bit odd. Why would you buy the Pixel 3a over a mint Pixel 3, which is about the same price (maybe even cheaper when adding taxes).
> I did miss the tight integration of Google Maps and mail but felt justified for the privacy gains

Hm, if you are still using GMail and GMaps (and possibly also Google Search), what privacy did you gain?
No, the tuple includes source ip and port as well.
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Have you ever used Keras?
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A few more reference links might not hurt, true.

As for who the audience is, perhaps people who were alarmed by the WSJ's scaremongering: https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-new-privacy-tools-to-ma...

Someone leaked the news to the WSJ, which tried to spin this as an anti-competitive move.
This is asinine. So now you need to either need to write paper checks or have a biller just take your cash out of your account. A bank account is not a credit card. I do not want to authorise billers to just take money out of my account.

A bank account should be push and pull not only pull.

FYI, many credit cards companies will punish you if a bill pull payment fails by going to the maximum interest rate even if the failure is a technical issue.
If they choose to make it dependent on an external service then yes, I expect them to keep that service available indefinitely, for free.

Consider it an incentive to avoid dependencies on external services.
The LED lamps I use in my bedroom are serial numbered. When one dies they can see when they sold it and authorise a free replacement if it qualifies. I thought the last one to die had qualified, but when I got as far as pulling out my records I realised the one I'd been thinking of was actually still in its box yet to be installed, so this one lasted almost double its warranted lifetime.
My experience too. Around second week insomnia is away but dreams return... often not in a good way.
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There is a huge difference between the product naturally breaking a while after the warranty expires, and the product deliberately self-destructing as soon as it's no longer the manufacturer's problem.
Agreed. Compare that to the following paragraph,

> A request to drill for lithium near Death Valley National Park has alarmed environmentalists, who say mining the metal is unacceptable, even if it is an essential ingredient in the production of zero-emission electric vehicles.
Why would you pay back shareholders?
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> But that's not addiction! That's just managing time so kids can do a lot of [other] things. The problem with Fortnite and many games is this is where they have their social life. And they meet with friends and they play with friends. They hang out and are creative. It's not like they're mindlessly shooting, they do a lot of other things.

This statement just sounds very wrong. Why are they glorifying virtual platforms as a common social gathering ? Having tried the game myself, I don't see anything creative with it - building scientifically impossible structures to jump/hide from enemies to begin with. Alas, it's indeed "mindless shooting" and showing off expensive in-game virtual purchases.
yeah w bf3 and bf4 even as a novice you were still likely to get 5-10 kills with a death count possibly in the high double digits, but you valued those kills anyway because it was so easy to get back into the game.

I've been playing fortnite fairly regularly over the past year, but that video is making me consider uninstalling. I'm not that good and I do waste way too much time on it...
Chapter detection is one thing that I'm working on. The speech detection thing is promising, there is a log of work to do for this. Especially non-english languages are difficult.

I'm also working on a online platform in my free time to share manually crafted chapter sets via api (like freedb), but I'm not sure that it will ever go online :-) I won't give it up either...
That's a difficult thing to calculate - taxes on the manufacture of different inputs makes that transparent to calculate.

Shipping is almost inconsequential - I bought my $16000 Yaris and it was shipped from Japan to eastern Canada. If the carbon cost of the fuel to ship is included, manufacturers will self-select where to manufacture (or will charge appropriately to deliver)

I fundamentally feel that disposal of lithium ion battery packs from cars should be viewed as a cheap source material, not a cost.

Side note, if you drive 16000km/year... Maybe you don't need a Tesla? That's only 40-50km a day. Get something much cheaper with 100km range, and rent a car the half dozen times you need more.

Edit: responding to your edits: carbon is carbon, does it matter if it comes from natural gas or a different source?
The lack of accessibility sucks, but there's a part of me wondering why we don't have accessibility tools that don't rely on us tagging images and giving us the ability to navigate the layout of a page.

Wouldn't tools that do text and image recognition based on screen selection, arrow keys that move to the center of the nearest shape, etc. be a lot more useful? Like a Google lens for desktop.

Text selection is 100% reliable, but being able to get the text and layout from any arbitrary image and be able to navigate that would help those who struggle with vision a lot more, even if it's only 85% reliable.
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I love Knex, but was missing the type safety, so I created a TypeScript wrapper around it.
If you look at the code, you can see I started out as a C# developer :)
It's being used in production for a few projects, but it would be great if more people started using it.
Feedback is more than welcome!
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There is also "Negative Income Tax" policy that tries to solve the same problem that Universal Basic Income is trying to solve.
Then again, you mentioned "these anti-vaxxers" in response to a remark about unvaccinated people in general, as if your assertions held for all of them.
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I've seen the electric car lifecycle vs ICE car lifecycle trope get rolled out quite often, but neither parties (those for or against) can ever provide sufficient modelling on either side of the argument. I'd be interested to see a study done into it however, if ones been done.

Mostly it seems to be based on perceptions rather than facts.

It can be noted however that the components in an electric vehicle can be more readily recycled than parts in a traditional ICE vehicle.
>Having tried the game myself, I don't see anything creative with it

There's a fairly recent creative mode where players can create their own levels.
Great to see the Flutter dev team jump in here to answer questions. Kudos on that and congrats on release!
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Why should anyone let a Google self-driving car on the road? They will just end support for it whenever "internal politics shift."

Let's ban Google from working on life-saving medical devices, because they will just get bored and stop supporting the software.
One day I switched off turbo while playing Test Drive 3.

Suddenly, I didn't need superhuman reflexes to play, and could drive on curves at speed :-D
The good news is that all of the great games are still around and it's easier than ever to play them on a PC. For the most part awesome immersive games that only charge users once upfront are a relic of the past.
Yes. Those good things included saving scores of peoples' lives. Diesel particulates are very bad for the lungs, and he helped put a stop to so much of it.

He deserved an award, not to be sent "home" after 17 - seventeen - years in the US.
You're confusing self-reported sitting with objectively measured sitting. The paper mentions both, mentions the rather large difference, and the reported correlation with life expectancy is for self-reported sitting.
Eh, you’re right, I was confusing it with trademarks. I’ll dust off that pitchfork, there isn’t any good excuse for them naming the industries they would like to own and barring their customers from competing with them.
Has there ever been a UBI experiment?

My understanding is that all experiments were time-limited and the participants knew that at the end of 5 years they would be on their own. Makes one approach life in the short run very differently.
I happen to have been doing this since Feb 10 this year, as I've been using a USB DVB card to capture/watch the news. Up to 370 GiB so far, just storing the MPEG-TS streams on hard drives.
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My gripe is the design is nowhere near as good. It's like going from an iPhone to a feature phone.

I wish there were an open-source Nest firmware, or at least an open-source backend. Google doesn't need to know when I'm home.
But also I don't know of UBI experiments that don't have an end. The fact that the money will stop after some time is sure to affect people's behavior in a way that convolutes the study greatly, no?
Are you really saying a statistic about wealth inequality shows exaggerated inequality because we have lots of people heavily in debt?
DDG isn't magic. It doesn't bubble you on its own results (or at least it claims not to), but it can't change how external providers behave.
It's not a cheap move. It's like when you get special offers on your car when you buy a new one, like free service. Down the line you are expected to pay for it.
> Isn't Lyft also essentially a bet on autonomous driving?

No. It’s an app-based taxi hailing service.
>? I feel like books are expensive, repetitive, and take forever to get to the point.

The self help genre
I'm curious: what players do people use so that they feel the need to merge an audiobook into a single file? With VLC, the accuracy of my aim on the time bar would become nonexistent. Just two days ago I've finally whipped up a script to split books, and not by chapters but into 10-minute chunks.
It's true what you say about educators wanting to make themselves look good. But that doesn't detract from the program that I have seen. They do things like have the kids make posters about what is important to them in different relationships, and then have the kids talk about their feelings in various situations. It normalizes having conversations about those things. Sure beats anything we had when I was in school where we never discussed feelings or relationships.
FWIW my personal opinion is the the goal should be to deter from unethical and/or (borderline) illegal activity in the future, not only that specific behaviour. Anything else turns into a game of whack-a-mole which is long term damaging to the economy and competitive environment.
Not a lawyer but there was a successful* class action against Sony for removing Linux support.

Customers could get $55 if they could prove* they used it, a low payout with a high burden of proof
It's a lot less fun though
I think the basic premise that propertization schemes (e.g. nox or sox permit markets which are empirically successful or catch permit based fishery management) would keep environmental destruction in check is correct... but we also have an economy where governments stimulate consumption to get good metrics.
> You just want to be able to dictate how other people live.

People can choose to not work, but that also means they choose to not earn money. It's pretty simple. Freedom is about choice. But choices have consequences. You cannot choose one thing, but then still expect to not have the drawback of that choice.

If you like freedom so much, then why do I have to pay for people that don't produce anything for society? You are taking my freedom away from earning the money that I earn.

And if the majority of people would not work, who will make your bread, your computer, your computer games, your electricity, your car, ... ?

Good luck in a world full of consumers, but no producers.
In many European countries gambling is essentially a public monopoly. Gambling away your income is the same as volunteering to pay more taxes.
Self driving right now is a moonshot for many of these companies, and competing with the resources that Google can throw at (both in terms of AI talent as well as sheer money) can be tough. Partnering with GM allows Honda a piece of this, allows for future adoption, and consolidates both of their revenues. If Cruise does become successful, the thought process might be that both Honda and GM obtain the tech therein, and differentiate themselves via other methods. Imagine this to be a new engine type that is too costly for just one manufacturer to research, and so they partner up with the implication that both get usage rights once the engine is done.
In India, it will be available starting 15-May. The price point in India at ₹ 39,000 is quite expensive. Most people in India go for sub ₹ 20,000 phones. I have a Moto G5s+ I bought 2.5 years ago for ₹ 12,000. It's still working fabulously well.
Who knows how it will play out, but you can't blame these people for sticking up for this area. I visited Panamint Dunes earlier this year, and it is just astonishing. That critters and plants live there at all has got to be a fragile situation, because there is not much there. And they do.
The _Why We Sleep_ book that everyone's been recommending lately (and I will also add my recommendation) says exactly this. There is no known evidence that anyone has ever been harmed by too much sleep. Rather it seems that people who sleep for an extra long time could have some health problem or sleep issue which causes their body to need more.
Russians? I think you have already been influenced by news more than you wish :p
At Google, no one wants to work on existing things. You must create new product/feature to get promoted. Then you move on and thing gets shutdown. This is direct consequences of their internal incentive structure.
>Increasing the supply of gasoline will reduce its price

This is not an inevitability. The state can and does tax things, and I am suggesting that they should tax fossil fuels sufficiently to prevent Jevon's paradox from happening. The correct taxation to prevent the market failure of externalities is not any percentage of the production cost, it's the cost of the harm done. If Jevon's paradox would increase the harm done then tax should increase to prevent this.
I assume the "netlify" address means this is all done with client side script + local storage to remember my preference.