skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If history is any indication, the recipients are likely to become just more complacent and detached. I fail to see how people would become “mobilized” and towns revitalized when they have even less incentive to leave the house.

If anything, I see UBI shifting power even more into the hands of the elites, as massive numbers of the lower classes drop out of the workforce and no longer care about anything the politicians or big businesses do, so long as the cash keeps flowing.

This could very well be the intent.

Take a look at any Native American reservation, or any caged animal for that matter. Hardly vibrant.
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Bet 2, 3 are (more or less) bets that VC will continue to overvalue companies in the presence of cheap credit. Bet 1 is what the rest of the market thinks. Altman is a decent VC, so no surprise he'd "win" 2 & 3.
The main difference is that money specifically for something, like tuition, disappears if it is not used. The UBI money can be spent on anything or not spent at all.

For example, imagine a government subsidy for smartphones that gives up to 2k for any phone you buy. The predictable effect of that is all phones would be at least 2k because there is no downside to the customers paying 2k. It would probably be 2k + pre-subsidy prices for many phones, particularly the high priced ones.

But if you just give everyone 2k in money, then why would they all want to spend it on smartphones? Maybe the price goes up a bit since there is more flexibility in spending, but there is not a specific pressure on that category alone. It gets spread out to the entire field of the economy including savings and investments.

Competition is still in place. The amount of the UBI also matters, of course. If everyone got a million dollars, a 1k phone would be a trivial price and could easily be raised in price dramatically. Basically, the spreading across the people would no longer dissipate the upward price pressure effectively. Targeting the level at basic poverty level seems like a reasonable first step to try to end poverty without spiking the prices.

As for healthcare in our current system, this might also address a lot of it. There is, of course, the removal of survival stress conditions and food deserts (by making poor regions not poor) which improves the health of people directly. But the UBI is also money that can be used for both insurance premiums and the max out of pocket levels. Much of the currently uninsured are not the desperate poor (Medicaid covers most of them), but are people in either states that did not expand Medicaid and are too poor to qualify for Obamacare subsidies or are just above the cutoffs and can't afford the full premiums. While directly changing how the subsidies work could fix that, the UBI is another approach that avoids a healthcare legislative debacle. For reference, in my state, an individual without subsidy can get health insurance for somewhere between 3-4k a year.

The other aspect of healthcare costs for consumers is the deductible/out-of-pocket. At least for the plans I see, 6kish is the max for out of pocket costs and that is half the proposed UBI. So this would seem to greatly solve the health insurance problem for US citizens. In summary, someone who needed the UBI for both premiums and out of pocket would be entirely covered with maybe 1-2k left over. Not ideal, but this is a worst case scenario.

Most UBI advocates, including Yang, do not believe that a UBI alone fixes the healthcare industry mess, but I believe it does help plug in the holes in a way that can avoid the healthcare debate dysfunction in our politics.
I would argue that Trump is the worst president in history but can we please leave names like “Cheeto-in-chief” on reddit?
That's pretty cool! Just fooling around with this made me think about replicating it with an Elixir backend.
I agree with you that VAT by itself is regressive, but coupled with UBI it is not even close.

Relative to their wealth, Rich people, effectively, do not even pay income tax. The bulk of income tax is paid by the middle class. Does that seem fair to you?

I agree with you that money is power, but you are not going to stop the existence of Billionaires and Trillionaires. That would need to be a coordinated global effort.
I had a nice experience with Adam Geitgey's Machine Learning is Fun course.

He published a lot of free ML blog posts, in easy-to-understand writing with nice examples, so it never made anything seem out-of-reach. I found that a lot of other material was a little too abstract, so his stuff was great.

The blog posts are here: https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-80ea3ec...

And I also bought his paid course with code samples -- it's affordable and good value.
Unfortunately all of these things are bandages on a sinking ship. They're technically better than nothing, but in reality they simply do not fix the problem. Even worse, it's possible (even probably) that some privacy controls simply do not do the think they say they do. You are essentially trusting a company with a rubbish track record in privacy violations to pinky swear they stop tracking you when you toggle a switch.
I'm actually surprised that he didn't win this bet since it wasn't really based on non-bubble metrics in the first place. A more interesting bet to me would have have involved profitability, P/E ratio, or some other long-term indicator that current high-rolling unicorns are actually sustainable businesses. I think WeWork has demonstrated pretty clearly that billions of dollars of VC money can prop up unsustainable companies for more than 5 years (i.e. the market can remain irrational longer than the term of this bet).
Depending on your situation, the other answers in this thread may help. Assuming they're not viable for you, you could try reframing the situation. You now have something to look forward to on your off time that can be used to help during difficult times at work. Also, working on a project that you like all the time could maybe make it less appealing over time, similar to over-listening to a song. Maybe you haven't realised it but the immersion you have could be because you have breaks in between sessions for work.
> With that background, the morality of "smuggling" these cells is a bit of a gray area.

The grey area here is from lack of foundational knowledge surrounding these cells, and your assumptions aren’t useful (nor are they likely, I suspect, to hold). For example, we have no idea if these cells were originally provided to the lab under an MTA, nor any restrictions placed by the funding source.

> Keeping them is just like me keeping my notebooks when I move, even if I haven't finished solving the equations therein.

This is not a grey area: lab notebooks and lab data are generally speaking the property of the lab. The proper procedure is to request permission to create a copy of them when you move to a new institution. Check your university’s IP policy, it should be the governing rule set.
Sorry for my poor wording. "He" was referring to Sam.
Sam Altman's bet isn't interesting in itself, as it looks today the market was significantly undervalued in 2015. Even Sam Altman's pretty aggressive estimations undervalued it, he just guessed wrong on which players would become big. So it definitely wasn't a bubble.
Mirrorless is a challenge.

You need to have something like <50ms frame lag, generally. I know there's some studies out there about this. It's been a while since I've done this stuff, but there's an "uncanny valley" of lag that needs to be avoided.

Also, you need to present an image that is useful to the photographer.

For example, if you are applying vignette correction, that can be a processor-intensive step, and can be difficult to apply at 24 frames per second on a full HD image (the sensor may be returning considerably higher than that, but the camera back may just have a 1080p display).

If you are doing things like image enhancement/CP (for example smart HDR, selective enhancement, or stochastic NR), then how will they be displayed? Do you show a grainy image in the preview, even though the final will look much better? What about color space conversion? The display is likely to have a limited gamut, but the image may be saved at full Adobe, and you want to have perceptual correction, as opposed to clipped.

This is an exciting time to be looking at this stuff, but the challenges are real.
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How incompetent does a company have to be to first adopt kubernetes and then turn around and run chaos eng on it?

How do these people even get hired?
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Are you working on VC (input: speech of one speaker, output: the same spoken content, but sounds like another speaker) or speaker-adaptive speech synthesis (input: text, output: speech)?

Also check out ParallelWaveGAN, another high-quality and very fast (on CPU) neural vocoder.
Marco is incredibly knowledgeable and also very very funny. One of my top favorites on Youtube.
If you can monetize it and find enough customers, congrats you found yourself a good business idea that might be worthwhile pursuing.

If you can't, congrats you found yourself a hobby you enjoy.
I said "companies delivering profits", not "people making money trading the stock". I'm sure speculation can be profitable on such volatile securities, after all volatility is everything for traders. But there's nothing here (so far) for a fundamentals based long term investor to write home about. Zero.
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I enjoyed reading Gwern and slate star codex's essays. I wonder if you can suggest another one.

https://www.gwern.net/
https://slatestarcodex.com/
https://www.gwern.net/
> None of those companies have earned a single dollar for shareholders.

Is that what shareholders are asking for, right now? Don’t they want fast growth more than they want profits?
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Why did Alexander metaphors flourish in computer science?
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What do you even mean? The average income in this country is ~45k. If that is what he was proposing than maybe we’d have an issue, I guess, but I doubt it. Everyone is so sure that people on UBI would stop working, and there is no evidence to back it up. In the studies that have shown people who stop working it is usually caregivers, which I would argue is a positive thing.
Amazingly bad advice. They don't even mention to set a non-chrome, privacy-focused browser as default (brave, Cliqz, Firefox, etc).
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In the UK the Olympics being home based were a once in a century event, and was a massive cultural moment.

Agreed football is generally more important there and if a home team ever win the world cup again, it will be of decade defining importance.

I'd agree Syria/ISIS etc is appalling and is notable by it's omission from The Guardian list, there have been plenty of books written about it, event/issue or no.

As for your jab at the UK's irrelevance now, that's a significant factor in the discussion about its identity, which you would think a British publication would have acknowledged.
Non-disclosure continues to allow security issues to slide by. Companies need to know security is their absolute #1 priority to the extent that it will damage the business every time one of these issues is exposed. Today they have no incentive to fix issues and prevent future ones as the exposure is minimized.
The most valuable thing you will bring to the world of tech is first hand knowledge of genuine business problems that can be solved.
not 100% related but is there any good information source on the web to learn how to build a good car simulator ? I've looked around and it's not very helpful. Usually I end up with physics courses which always repeating the same things. But not much about about : pneumatic (especially how they influence the overall speed), independent wheel modelling, suspension, mass shift, frame deformation, ...

I've checked the source code of torcs but it seems quite simple (although the results are very convincing).

My goal was to model a (indoor) kart.
There's no UBI for Native Americans in the US.
I suppose, yes, and this is a little scary - the world being in such a state that you can wait 10 years for a company to make profits and it is still considered OK. Cheapening money.

But also how much longer can we wait? Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook were all turning profit before the IPO! Find the old S-1s if you don't believe me. And back in those days IPOs happened much much earlier.
I created a similar (non-free) service for sending emojis via postcards https://www.emojimailer.com/

What service do you use for sending postcards?
Your comment makes it seems as though people don't develop software on Windows.

That's a fairly normal thing that happens quite a great deal, and it's arguably the best software development experience because of Visual Studio.
What’s your 2020 tech or business goals?
I had a diff tl;dr:

> ”Unfortunately, the age spec doesn’t document its threat model or the security goals it is intended to achieve ... Most importantly, the spec should define its security goals.”
No: ozone only makes things worse. Plus, a lot of smoke from burning plants has large particles that can be filtered much better with hepa filters
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This can’t be stressed enough! I like the notion that people need professional help in taking control over their data and privacy online, over the trail they leave behind. Consequently, a profession of privacy consultants should emerge. Or, since it’s a retail (B2C) proposition and ‘consultant’ has too much of a corporate ring to it, I’d rather call them Digital Personal Care professionals. Their products and services are, perhaps, well positioned in a meta-market besides other hygiene and personal care products and services, such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental hygienist, hand wash, pedicure or chiropodist, etc.
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Protect yourself from WiFi skin burns (yes this is a real thing)
This is hilarious. Does no one understand the difference between a position, a worldview and bias any more?

Bias is an unfair or dishonest prejudice, or attempt to distort one way or another. That someone happens not to be agreeing with me, or you, is not bias. Out of interest, among the UK sources, who do you consider unbiased?

The FT has a financial worldview whilst aiming to be free of bias. The Guardian has a left of centre liberal worldview. The Telegraph used to have an honest worldview of the Conservative right. The Times used to be an independent source, with a small c conservative worldview of the establishment, rather than party or left / right. In 1980 I would probably view all of these as unbiased honest reportage, outside opinion columns, whilst they all had a very clear and obvious perspective on the world.

The Guardian pretty much represents what they did 40 years ago. The Telegraph transformed themselves to something unrecognisable 15 years ago when the Barclay brothers bought them and they went from honest right of centre paper to Sunday Sport with multi syllable words, almost overnight. The fall of The Times under Murdoch has been as dramatic, just a little slower.

p.s. Saying they "are free from the usual bias of the major newspapers" is not claiming them perfect, "free of bias" or immune to poor reporting. I know of no source that manages that perfectly.
Just once I'd love to see an article that instead of breathlessly promoting ultra-expensive, risky, and unlikely to scale technologies, emphasizes how inexpensive and straightforward processes and procedures are far more effective for global health increase with reduced costs. While some of the concepts in this article may go on to be successful, they will mostly just increase the total cost of care.
It also reminds me, at least a bit, of what happened to film and cameras when digital imaging took over.
There is a Native American example with UBI (North Carolina, casino-based UBI) and it sounds like it immediately improved outcomes and did not impact working:

https://thecorrespondent.com/4664/why-do-the-poor-make-such-...

Also, would you stop working if you got 12k a year for free? How much do the wealthy make in dividends a year? Do they stop working? Maybe to ensure that the wealthy continue to work, we should prevent any kind of returns on capital investment. Maybe people should only make money through their labor?

But seriously, who wants to do nothing all day long? The UBI money takes away stresses and maybe some will stop working for a boss, but they will find other things to do with their time and, if it is valuable to others, they will profit from it and do it more. So it goes.
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I think diffbot looks complex enough that you might buy a license and a 100 hours of consulting time for your first MVP.

For such products, having a meeting where the product and it’s benefits can be shown, followed by a business case planning session is a reasonable way of selling the service.
No. Once you authenticated your sessions are the target.
I wrote a little about that here: https://ebrandme.biz/2019/12/13/the-art-of-selling-prospecti...

But Hyrum Smith has a book called “What Matters Most: The Power of Living Your Values”... it's something you'll have to sit down and identify for yourself. But I found the book helpful.
Traditionally, this sort of material has been referred to as "Animal 57": http://kibo.com/exegesis/animal_57.shtml
Woof, yeah, bad arithmetic by me. Thanks!
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Logistics win or lose wars. The support is the most important part.

Stormin’ Norman once said that logistics is not the army’s tail, but its spine.

Another thing to consider is that supply lines are a target too; in recent conflicts logistics soldiers have very much been at the sharp end.
I think Amazon is one of the rare examples where it paid off. They were making losses in exchange for extreme growth in many sectors.
The attacker can very easily use your workstation as a vantage point. Even used directly your browser and your SSH sessions.

It's makes it even more difficult to detect and trace.
Interesting. I didn’t write a big app with Redux, but one potential scaling issue I found is this:

You kind of have to think about the structure of your state tree beforehand. If you later discover that you sliced your state in several sub-trees with respective reducers, but the reducer of sub-tree A now needs to get some info from sub-tree B, things can get confusing.

Or put another way: if you think parts of your state are independent from other parts and this later turns out to be wrong, you need to refactor quite a bit or have to live with an improperly separated state.

I guess scalability depends a lot on the nature of changing requirements and how experienced you are to define the state tree. This is actually something where I see the biggest learning curve.

For example: say you pull data from your database. This could be considered the normalized state and everything else is just derived from that state. However, in your UI, it doesn’t make sense to work directly with the original normalized DB state, but some kind of semi-normalized intermediate state.

Furthermore: you could put computed/derived state directly in the state tree, or use something like the Reselect library.

Since there are endless possibilities to design this, it can be tough to learn any of this. Most tutorials also deal with very simplistic state trees.
That’s awesome. I didn’t know about shampoo bars. Going to give them a try!
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This is disappointing. Partially for bikeshed reasons, but also for practical ones. Redux thunk is an anti pattern as far as I'm concerned but you're including it by default? Why? Just because it's the first (bad) decision people make when trying to handle async code doesn't mean it's the one that should be canonized.

The createAction function is unnecessarily verbose and the createReducer function obscures more than it abstracts.
Hah I read this and thought... well consumers are ready, businesses are not ready though.

In all seriousness though, this is going to take a while to shake out, same as GDPR.
99% of the population don't want to essentially make their phone useless and difficult to use. This is the problem.

Also that 99% doesn't care that the government knows they have downloaded Candy crush.
That's a bit misleading. The 12th point did say:

> In order to use a more secure search engine, you need to download an alternative browser [0]. These let you change the default search engine and avoid Google collecting data on your queries.

[0]: https://protonmail.com/blog/best-browser-for-privacy/

The above article lists Brave, Firefox and Tor
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Excellent thread - I have the same goal and currently am working mostly with databases. Thanks for asking this question!
I'd recommend edx's CS50x, "Learn Python the Hard Way", "The Pragmatic Programmer" and "Code Complete".
Wait till the poster of that finds out that there's RADIOACTIVE CARBON-14 IN THEIR BODY RIGHT NOW
There have been several such tools over the years - I regret that off the top of my head I don't recall the names of any of them.

Clang can be used for this but AFAIK you need to annotate functions/methods to indicate whether or not they are intended to be RT-safe. This gets complex if you have code that can be used in an RT context and in a non-RT context. The annotation part would be relatively simple in, say, a small audio player. In a DAW, it would be a substantial and complex task.
You can say nothing about the many other taxes they pay because there aren't any that are more than round-off error. What, they pay sales tax when they buy pencils?
You can say that about any field, discipline or skill.

At the same time, there is a difference whether one starts learning that, and one wants to apply it in a large, production system with social implications (be it advertising, medicine, or anything). Hobby projects, or even small startups, rarely fall in that region.

Moreover, even a profound knowledge of mathematics does not give any edge in ethics, or even - awareness of problems with real data (noise, bias, malicious use, social reception, etc).
That's what Lawrence Lidsky was saying fusion people should work on, in his (in)famous 1983 article "The Trouble with Fusion".

Then his PhD student Todd Rider shot down the very low neutron fuel cycles. D-3He remains possible, but that still produces neutrons, albeit fewer than DT (and requires mining bodies in space to get 3He).
More likely we really are alone: http://aleph.se/andart2/space/seti/dissolving-the-fermi-para...
Ask HN: Where to find enclosures for DIY prototypes?
Lets imagine you did just build a new coffee machine. Or juice box squeezer. You want a nice enclosure for it. Not just a generic cuboid, but a generic "better than a cuboid". Is there an easy to search place to find some plastic casings?

background: just a diy hobby project. If I find some nice casing I might sell a few to my friends, but this is for sure not aimed to be a real business. (read: small budged)

3d print or laser cutting to create an enclosure worked fine to POC but the results just take too long to produce and/or are not looking as nice as I want them.

Thanks for your input. Happy 2020!