skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, FWIW: "These 14 billionaires just promised to give away more than half of their money like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett" https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/14-billionaires-signed-bill-...

Second, "eat the rich" is very different from "Please don't let me starve", eh?

Third, UBI doesn't have to be Zero-Sum. "Let the robots do the work and we'll take their pay."
How to lose a monopoly: Microsoft, IBM and anti-trust
The pretty obvious solution would be for more nominal taxes to be collected. It would also replace a very large fraction of existing government spending. Or you might have a one-time election between receiving the UBI and receiving social security, and a lot of people in or near retirement would choose social security and then not have to be provided with a UBI, and everyone else wouldn't have to be provided with social security.

Doing the accounting in a naive way is also misleading with a UBI, because it's effectively a tax credit. If you paid $15,000 in taxes and received a $12,000 UBI, you're really in the same situation as if you paid $3000 in taxes and had no UBI. The fact that you're nominally paying $12,000 more in taxes doesn't actually affect you because you get all that back.
Bitcoin and Urbit will come to dominate the political, economic and social landscape of the Internet.

Wikipedia will decay and become increasingly difficult to use. It will be supplanted by something built on top of Urbit.

Marvel will take over the reigns of the Star Wars franchise.

Elizabeth Warren will be President.
Here's my list of Feedly subscriptions that update reasonably often I put together. Should all be easy to find on Google.

Shtetls optimised, slate star codex, xkcd, smbc, existential comics, put a num on it, don't worry about the vase, fake nous, overcoming bias, backreaction, preposterous universe, Krebs on security, the old new thing, torrent freak, Matt Levine Bloomberg, random critical analysis, Scott Sumner econlog, the money illusion, stratechery, freakonomics, Greg mankiw blogspot, the grumpy economist, crimestory.com, likelihood of confusion, Fred Wilson AVC
If you're looking for privacy advice for iOS, then check out iVerify from Trail of Bits. It includes automated detection for certain kinds of malware, configuration checks, and privacy guides for all the rest.

Blog: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/11/14/introducing-iverify-...

iOS App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iverify/id1466120520

Article in VICE: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjw474/this-app-will-tell...
Rather than targeting formal music notation, I think it makes a lot more sense to use modern digital audio workstation representation (horizontal bars representing individual tracks). I believe this can represent everything music notation can (for practical purposes) and has the advantage of being easily visually readable by people with little musical training (I've spent the time to learn basic music notation and I find it has a very high cognitive overhead for people who didn't learn it during early childhood).

Here's a lovely representation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2tEVVeGCk0&feature=share

It would seem to be likely that given enough training data (labelled scores) you could make a net that took raw complex music in and generated that out.
Wi-Fi Isn't Magic: Some Tips for Planning a Home Network
3D TV Tells You Everything About This Decade’s Tech
Re: billions of people

being in majority ≠ being right
No. They need to supplement B12 and some other nutrients that are not found in plants.
Not just the desire, but also the ability- the cultural context for an industrial base potentially far more powerful than what we have. That may be extremely difficult to sustain over such timescales.
By calorie, broccoli is a bigger carbon emitter than chicken
I just don't find arguments like "well if you lived in this random address in the City of Austin it probably wouldn't be walkable!" very interesting, sorry. Austin is 271 miles squares and SF is 46. Nobody should throw a dart (in any city) when selecting where to live and then make very location specific claims about the city (or region, state, country) as a whole based on their experience, IMO.

If I go up thread you say "[Texas] cities are designed to grow outwards, rather than upwards" and "even if you removed [NIMBYs] greed from landlords and land value in cities would still be a problem."

I mean... it's illegal to build anything except a single family home in most lots in Austin. NIMBYism is the problem. What else about Austin makes it "designed to grow outward" other than the zoning? How else do you push back against landlords and the high cost of land but via more units per acre? I assume you'll mention public transit, but I don't think any city built out a subway/rail system before it had some level of density. It's a chicken and egg problem and we need density in our urban core before we'll be able to pass more funding for transit, sadly. And we definitely can't afford to have a super great bus or rail system serving low density neighborhoods with low ridership.

Also, I live in Central East Austin and many of my neighbors are poor. I don't buy arguments about central living being only for upper-middle class people (at least in Austin). The fact is most people choose to add miserable car commutes to their lives because they want more space, or they're afraid of living near people different than them (I'm being kind...), or whatever.
In a survey done by a social worker of n somewhere around 80 nearly all people on public assistance programs preferred the cash instead of public assistance.

Arbitrarily set and legislated into oblivion means testing thresholds and the administrative overhead of checking in constantly plus the shame of assistance appears to be a serious problem. Similar happens with EITC which most people eligible for do not claim.

See also how awful state-run TANF has been in Mississippi. UBI nationwide could be thought of as taking back control of programs from states that have dismantled the nets already.

This is a tough issue that has a lot of dimensions of discussion that won’t be covered respectfully in an HN thread exactly for the gravity of the problem
I suspect its because the native ios integration is far superior
Good predictions.

Didn't mention distributed/remote work. Not sure if that's because it's so obvious a trend as to be boring?

I think he's early on the plant-based diet prediction, but correct in 20-30 years. Actually a lot of these seem like trends that might take more than 10 years, but have a high chance of being correct eventually.
Millennials: The Most Unhealthy Generation at Work
Plant based != no meat.
except those aren't automata in the chomsky hierarchy
Someone created something that they thought was cool, and wanted to share it with their online community.

That's awesome, and I'm glad they did! Why give them a hard time for that?

Who's life are you improving with that comment?
A Toast to the Error Detectors
Because they’ve never been to China but simultaneously think they knew a lot about China because the news they were fed. Particularly that Chinese people want democracy like Iraqis under Saddam (note: both are untrue).
I have been a big fan of https://www.thesimplepostcard.com/ which lets you text photos to them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200101163454/https://avc.com/2...
What I've Changed My Mind on over the 2010s
Setting Up Swagger Docs for Golang API
My guess is this:

Capacitors on DRAMs are usually implemented as PN junctions, maybe even parasitic capacitance of a transistor is used. Photons hitting depletion region of PN junction decreasing it hence increasing conductivity.
Vegetarians can eat animal products like milk and cheese, which do contain vitamin B12. "Meat" refers to muscle and other foods derived from animal death, but does not refer to animal products like milk, cheese, and eggs.
Please don't do generational flamewar on HN. It's tedious and such large generalizations don't really say anything.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
First Global 500 Companies Join Intel Neuromorphic Research Community
This is just not true. You're probably thinking of vegans who aren't allowed to have cheese, milk, and eggs. Vegetarians can easily get B12 in their diets.
Rent prices are still governed by supply and demand (modulo some rent control), not by how much money the tenants have.
You can still follow a plant based diet and use supplements derived from non-animal sources.
They're not found in meat either. B12 comes from bacteria out of dirt.
Thanks for crafting this! While i've only used this module for learning/playing around (and not yet for production needs), I'm very appreciative and thankful for people like you!!!
Thanks for the suggestion. Currently I am just running the hosting off of a Backblaze B2 account. It's still super cheap right now, if it ever gets expensive I will definitely look into a VPS or Dedicated Server, but hopefully there will be a pretty solid community around the NodeTube source at that point.
Sorry, but I blocked connections outside main domain to keep it clean.. Started to see trains, moving sprites etc :D
Maybe ask on 'together.jolla.com' about buying from the States? IIRC I read about people buying Sailfish from not officially supported countries. Make sure that the provided bands match what you have available.

Edit: didn't find much about US: https://together.jolla.com/questions/scope:all/sort:age-desc...
Alligators Don't Play Pick Up Sticks to Lure Lunch
Our world in data trends past decade
For the pharma industry, Derek Lowe's blog In the Pipeline:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/
Absolutely, since ActivityPub is becoming a W3C standard it makes sense for as many social sites as possible to support it.
> Another interesting thing is that for training neural networks for image recognition purpose information about location of individual pixels is not necessary at all.

Convolutions use the spatial information. I'm less sure whether attention-based approaches typically use it.
> 1. Google tracked user location even when location history was turned off.

This is disingenuous. If the user uses a Google app that needs location data, of course that location will be sent to Google. This also happens on iOS.

> 3. Similarly (until recently) most people didn't realize that Google was using email info for advertising

That's how Gmail was marketed when it launched. Ads were shown based on the contents of emails. Everybody knew this.

> 5. Until consumer backlash forced them to stop, Google Maps also aggregated user wifi network names

No, Location Services collects WiFi names. Unlike on iOS [1], this is disable-able on Android, and the checkbox to do so is even shown during device setup. If you mean the Street View vans collect WiFi SSIDs, Apple does exactly the same but worse because nobody has any idea if they respect "_nomap" in the SSID (obeyed by both Mozilla and Google), and Apple won't say.

I find Apple to be far more deceptive on privacy. In addition to the location data that, unlike with Android, you cannot stop Apple from collecting, you also have the problem of having to send banking details to Apple to develop apps for your own devices. For an even bigger deception, look at Tim Cook's weasel words in interviews when asked about China's access to iCloud data. He talks about who has the keys for iMessage communications, which has absolutely nothing to do with the problem. [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725216

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43eqpw/tim-cook-insists-c...

Edit for MarioMan: Wifi Services is not the system that collects this data but a user of Location Services. Turning it off won't stop Apple from collecting location data off your device.
I recall seeing that they were experimenting with it. Yep, here's a story from August.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/china-s-p...
Just the other day I was looking for an official docker image that includes the AWS CLI. On top of that, and mainly, I was looking to find more documentation or tooling to better automate the deployment of new AWS projects.

Does anyone here have any experience of (starting from scratch or with no AWS resources) setting up policies/users/resources/configurations via something similar to the Deployment Managers of GCP and Azure?.. preferably something declarative or via templates?

Bash-my-AWS looks like a great step towards the goal I have in mind but I may also just be unaware of other tooling or AWS capabilities.
Transcription to accurate MIDI rather than notation is useful: MIDI that captures portamentos, legatos, vibratos and such details of expression.
The Voynich Manuscript: A New Documentary Takes a Deep Dive Into Its Mysteries
Redux-Saga Style-Guide
Giving people the money directly, for them to use where it's needed in their particular case, is far more efficient than any program could ever possibly be. It's just the math and physics of it. Programs have all sorts of overhead and need to be generalized. They introduce inefficiency by default. And the larger it is, the more inefficient it becomes. That's just how it works with any organization. Even in the private sector (startup vs corporation).

With UBI, are they a citizen and 18+? Send check. Not much overhead there.
Many were alive when the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain fell. That makes such large upheavals believable. The weakness of authoritarian regimes is that by their nature dissention is hidden. Those in charge aren't really aware of how far they're overshooting until it's too late to release some of the pressure. I don't understand Chinese culture or their current situation enough to say whether or not they're in danger but Saudi Arabia certainly seems to have many parallels with other authoritarian regimes that fell to revolution.
Had a quiet evening with my wife watching anime (we're in our 30s). I spent about 30 minutes sending (personalized) texts to people I want to keep in touch with in the future -- wishing them the best wishes for 2020. Went to sleep before 1am. I loved it.
How the Entertainment Industry Solved Piracy, Then Made It Popular Again
I wonder if Godot has a chance of becoming the Blender of game engines. From the way it is growing it's starting to look like a real long-term possibility to me, especially for the smaller game studios.
13. Wait... you think they’re _not_ already doing that?
In case you are serious, vitamin B12 is produced by single celled organisms. It is found in algal (seaweed) and fermented foods, too, not just animal based foods.

Almost every study about responsible plant based diets shows it has healthier than average outcomes. I say "almost" just as a hedge, I don't know of any.

By all means, eat whatever diet you want and don't feel bad about it, but do it for factual reasons and don't invent facts to justify your preferences.
Consider the people of California as a group, not as individuals, seen from the federal perspective. They should not be able to evade federal taxes by spending the money on themselves.

Double taxation and beyond is the norm. You have sales tax, paid to a vendor that pays their own income tax, for goods that were imported with tariffs.

Unless you voted against the California politicians, you should enjoy paying your taxes. Those politicians are why we can't cut expensive government programs at both the state and federal level, and why we must tax heavily to compensate.
I do use LineageOS+microg without play store installed, to avoid any Google software on my phone (yet still being able to use some apps which depend on the google framework)
I love love love MobX. It lets me design my data flow however I want - local or global, functional or imperative, and everything in-between - while basically forgetting about pub/sub entirely until it comes time to do spot optimizations. It's removed an entire layer of mental overhead, without contorting the entire app into a complex and boilerplate-y new paradigm.
Personally I would never implement WebTorrent on production because of that exact issue. If you wanted to have it turned off by default and then have a user opt-in that would be one thing but I would never have it on by default. NodeTube doesn't share your IP publicly it just serves videos from the server itself. Thanks for your input!
Bing Videos already does something similar, where video results from a bunch of different sources are presented in their player, so you can get away with not actually knowing where your video is hosted.
New sci-fi books to check out on your new Kindle
The only way I could see it having any relative application would be improved finite control of magnetic fields around metallocene or porphyrin cores, through engineered photo-reactive protein shells.
Gruntwork has a lot of Open Source tooling around AWS and their new guides are pretty great for some of what you're mentioning

https://gruntwork.io/guides/

I am in no way affiliated with them other than being a customer
NodeTube has a really nice BackBlaze integration so I'm just using it for the purposes of this demo app atm. Even with the high traffic the site is experiencing right now it's incredibly inexpensive to use B2.
There are indeed people who have medical conditions that make their life dangerous with a plant-based diet. For people without such conditions (the majority of people), science on negative effects of plant-based diet seems to focus on certain deficiencies (such as deficiency of zinc and iron, or omega-3 EPA and DHA fatty acids). These deficiencies can be avoided by consuming specific plant-based sources, such as certain seaweeds for EPA and DHA.

For most people plant-based diet is probably completely safe and when debating this issue, the bottom argument of opposition to plant-based diets usually boils down to one thing: the god-given right or even necessity for man to eat other animals (be it because of it being natural to eat other beings in nature, because "plants have feelings too", or because of traditions or humans dying if they don't eat meat). This rests on ignorance of science, self-centered attitude and violence. Industrial-scale animal production for food is an abhorrent machine by any humane moral standards and most people use these counter-arguments because they like how meat or cheese tastes and they want to close their eyes.

Hunting or fishing or growing your own meat is much less evil than the animals-for-food industry but the nature ecosystem could never sustain current amounts of meat consumption. Also it has to be understood that in developing countries masses of people cannot afford to be fancy about what to eat and what not. In developed countries however... I think we should not consider ourselves "developed" if we kill 10x our own human populations amounts of animals each year for food based mostly on the fact that we are used to it and that meat tastes good. As more and more people realize this, the demand for plant-based diets goes up.
PS - Nichijou (anime) is amazing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2li04wn7U4k
The first thing I do when teaching someone Redux is tell them that Action just means Event, and "action creator" just means an event dispatcher, which is to say, any function that dispatches an event. Naming the least-active part of the system Action is really confusing—it doesn't even describe an action, necessarily, nor force any action—and naming a function that happens to emit an event an action creator as if it's creating actions (huh? what does that mean?) is misleading.
Show HN: Create and re-open draft/notes files on the go from the terminal
Sharing the gains in some manner is the right goal, no question. The question is what approach will be most effective. Bernie’s corporate accountability plan is thus the perhaps more direct set of proposals instead of something like the FJG and climate plan. Oddly enough, the CAP is not talked about much yet and there’s already dozens of holes in it. Maybe in 1975 it would work but corporations have moved far beyond what Bernie’s plan could accomplish. Admittedly better than nothing but the administrative overhead of this should be pushed with a massive overhaul of our federal regulatory agencies including improving the career paths of those in federal service.

Yang’s got the dynamic of federal bureaucrats down correctly. It’s the same ones I went through and why I left federal service a decade ago. Bernie’s commitment to service is incredibly inspiring but relying upon other people to be more like Bernie is not a plan, nor is relying upon more executives to be like Yang is not a plan either.

I’m not an either/or kind of person and see Bernie and Yang working together on legislation as a real, material step forward.
I guess what I'm after here is Semantic Web, which was supposed to be able to represent all knowledge, and would be a graph.
Fascist states don't need a revolution to collapse, though; they just need to run out of anger and people to oppress. Consider China's attempts to oppress Hong Kong; like with all prior oppression attempts, China must succeed if they want to continue expanding. Given how precarious their position is in HK, it's not a stretch to imagine that they might not be able to reconquer the South China Sea soon enough to ensure continued growth. China's out of places to expand in the west and south, and so it's South China Sea or bust for them. I don't know how they'll collapse, just that they will.

The Saudis are much more comfortable in their position. MBS can and will dangle individual rights for women, one by one, like red meat for the laity. He will garner applause throughout the next two decades for his progressive attitude towards women, even as he is a bloodthirsty despot.
Ray Kurzweil Predictions for the 2020s
Try a mountain pass in winter. Ontario is flat. Even so, Ontario and BC are each more than 4x the size of the entire UK. Driving between major cities in canada is like driving across multiple countries in Europe.
I love reading Granola Shotgun, it's a blog focused on how to navigate the current macro trends in urban/suburban real estate design but from a very interesting and personal viewpoint.

https://granolashotgun.com/
I really prefer using physical analog light switches that don't require internet access, and don't send my data to big tech cos. Maybe I'm just old fashioned.
Physics not “broken” after all? We’re close to resolving proton radius puzzle
>Saudi Arabia certainly seems to have many parallels with other authoritarian regimes that fell to revolution.

SA has the 12th highest purchasing power parity in the world. what parallels do you see exactly with the soviet union?
http://web.archive.org/web/20200101123154/https://avc.com/20...
Microsoft has been an oppressive troll since the 80s. Forty years.

The fact there are terms of phrase to encapsulate frustration and anger with that isn't some disqualifying marker to someone's opinion.

Unless of course you are partisan in opposition to those views.

Which means you are the ones with the invalid arguments
Thank you very much for creating this. I've missed stumbleupon so much since their disastrous pivot. I found so many random pages back then, really felt like I was truly "surfing" the web. Here's to finding more of that with stumblingon!
Talking about the unemployment rate without mentioning the labor force participation rate is painting an incomplete picture.