skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the user agreed with Google's conditions others who are entering the environment where the device is located might not.

I personally wouldn't feel at ease in a house with a 'smart' device that listens and sees everything all the time.

Those devices are a great way to keep some friends and family away.
The two methods are exactly - exactly - the same. Just different ways of phrasing.
Don't fool yourself.
> Without prices it's not possible to measure the "value" of goods or services. Which is the same thing as saying that without prices there's no "value" generated.

It's really, really not the same. Just because you can't measure something properly, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Just how absurd that thought is becomes obvious when you translate it to a different topic: Magnetic fields did not spontaneously begin to exist when humans started to be able to measure them accurately, for example.

What it does mean is that we don't have as good an understanding of the concept of value as we have of electro-magnetism. That's not surprising, of course, since the inherent complexity of the notion of value is much greater.
Muito bom! This is a fun tool.
I was going to say I was surprised that someone could be so narrowly specialized to not know "online learning" is a common term. On second thought, I'd say it is darn near impossible that the author of the paper never Googled "online learning" and had to scroll past hundreds of results before seeing anything related to machine learning. So, maybe the title was misleading on purpose.
I had intended not to stay up, but after spending all day hacking I found myself watching a movie until after 1am as my brain cooled down.
“the willingness of an editor to redact a public statement simply because he feels the source is no longer on Team Progressive”

This says it all.
Can drinking red wine ever be good for us?
I work with Levven Controls, and what they offer to home builders is smart home controls on every switch and light in the entire home during construction, but for less cost than traditional wiring. There are no wires going to switch boxes, so that labour and material cost savings is enough to offset the cost of smart controls.
7pm? What time do you eat dinner?
Franz Kafka proposes this kind of scenario in "Investigations of a dog."
The term for what you’re talking about is typically referred to as an “income effect”. You could(and people do) make the same argument against the existing social safety net. You can already do no work and simply survive off this net. The threat of death probably wasn’t the big motivator for most people. I could imagine UBI feeling qualitatively the same way once implemented. You still have all the positive motivations for working in place, getting monetary compensation, social status, etc. We don’t really know because it’s never been tried but there’s legitimate reason to believe the positives could outweigh these effects.
I was vehicle physics lead for a couple of games that sold very well, but are not considered racing sims. Happy to answer questions as best I can.

What is missing from Torcs? It looks like a pretty good place to start, it has independent wheel modeling, and suspension, and mass shift of the car (I suspect it can handle mass shift of the driver if that’s what you’re after).

You can probably model frame deformation yourself by building a frame in a physics engine out of flexible parts and/or joints, but I’m skeptical that it’s worth the effort when modeling indoor karts, I’m not sure they flex enough to matter, but it depends on exactly what you’re trying to do.

The car physics my team built was made on top of the Bullet physics engine, so Bullet handled integration and collision dynamics, and we added transmission, braking, suspension, wheels, etc.

It’s definitely worth asking yourself how good you need the simulator to be, and how serious you are about this. It’s a multi-year project to get something “good” and/or better than Torcs. I would tend to agree with their answer to the FAQ question “should I start my own racing sim project?” http://torcs.sourceforge.net/index.php?name=Sections&op=view...
It would make more people move to tax havens.
> "...the other key about UBI is everyone gets it, no matter if wealthy or poor"

Of course if you have anything above poverty level income, it gets snatched right back plus whole lot more though taxes to cover the other UBI recipients who don't. The "everybody gets UBI" rhetoric doesn't really fool anybody; money doesn't come out of thin air.
How can we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Smalltalk?
depending on how much you want to cheat, since indoor kart don't jump (aren't supposed to, at least, been at a bad track that ruined my back once) can use a very simplified 2d model using acceleration to estimate weight transfer to render suspension/tires getting loaded.

this is a good starting model https://github.com/spacejack/carphysics2d

I wrote an extension for it that handles loss of traction, power drifting and mapped terrain friction that I can share, it's all mit licensed after all, but it's in Java, it's simple enough to port it whatever language you want because it's just math primitives
This comment made me take a brief inventory of some of the systems I have internalized to the point where I don't think about them as being memorized: the rules of the road while driving, the conventions of UNIX-style commands, unit conversions, hotkeys in (and across) applications, how street addresses and road navigation works, how to use a search engine, how to compose a sentence in English, and so on.

At some point in my life, all of these seemed needlessly complex and arbitrary to me, but they don't anymore (at least unless I think too hard about them). I don't think about them unless I have to teach them to someone else, at which point I start thinking about how seriously broken they are.

I suppose that if I needed to get the day of the week from any date in history, and used this algorithm often enough, I'd eventually think of it as something I didn't have to memorize either.
I believe it was made with Twine:

https://www.konbini.com/en/techandinnovation/twine-free-tool...

http://twinery.org/
DRM? Wasn't that only with the fingerprint sensor? (Which was wrong anyway). On my iPhone 7 I've repaired the screen, battery and charging port and haven't had one problem at all.
GenX is tiny and has failed to progress forward precisely because it is so small compared to the Boomers and Millennials. Also by the end of the decade parts of GenX will be approaching 60.
Depends on what criteria you care about. In the example of polling, and the data that can leak from said polling, it's only different in the sense that we _know_ Google is evil in this equation.

So if this is a concern of yours you should definitely not use Google, and you should probably not use Apple.
> Of course a city isn't a tree. A city isn't a series of roads either. And yet maps still somehow manage to be useful.

If the thesis of the article had been simply ”A city is not a tree”, I would have agreed with this criticism. It’s easy to find cases where a model is not a 100% fit.

But the purpose of the article isn’t to demonstrate how a tree is a worthless model, rather, it tries to argue how a semilattice is a better model. More than anything, it’s an argument for the importance of picking the best data structure for your problem, because if you make a poor choice, it’s going to constrain your program further down the line.
Why did rust not go with standard c syntax
> [...] and CAFE rules on station wagons skew the market in the USA in favor of light SUVs

I never really thought about that. I rarely see station-wagons anymore these days. Great point.
Streakoid – Complete your news years resolution for once
Yeah I think that it's more of a hobby for a lot of people than something that significantly improves their daily lives.
Welfare programs are horribly inefficient and full of perverse incentives.

But I doubt UBI is any better overall.

In the U.S. native tribes have effectively had UBI for years and years, whether from government settlements, or casino windfalls (granted, sometimes with limitations on mobility...but hopefully this system would work without just giving it to urban landlords).

The economies of many native tribes are notorious troubled.
Why do we celebrate surviving for yet another year without celebrating all the steps we took during the year towards prolonging human lifespans? There should be a global medical/scientific conference to recap or something.
Definitely agree.

Just like how a lion or a chimpanzee wouldn't make a convincing zoo for another lion or chimp, a human could figure out they're in a zoo made by another human.

But when you make a zoo for an animal that isn't on your level, you can figure out what's needed to satisfy it (even if it's really crappy compared to their normal environment).

So if something smarter than us by an order of magnitude or more made a zoo for us, it would be a much more elaborate and convincing zoo, and I'm not sure we'd figure it out.
Straight from "those who have the most experience" to "those who yell the loudest". Can't say I'm looking forward to it.
> Error establishing a database connection

Looks like we're going back to the 00's
The recent development is that it now can happen in your home.
Wilson’s site got the hug of death :)
“Most people need to be doing something to feel satisfied and a potential UBI system addresses this need just as inadequately as disability checks do now. Cue drug epidemics.”

That’s an emotional trigger with unsubstantiated link to the supposition. The emotional content is from the war on drugs. People turn to drugs because they’re in a tight spot without a seeming way out. Like how a cornered animal is most dangerous. Or physiology.

People with a UBI will have the ability to engage in more activities that they find worthwhile but without direct, immediate financial consequences-such as artists and mathematicians.
EVs are only a bit over 10% of vehicles in Norway (though a majority of new vehicles), and most of those were bought in the past few years. The average vehicle in Norway is 10 years old, when EVs were less than 1% of new vehicles.

I don't think that's enough vehicles or a long enough time to see the kind of ubiquity they are talking about. Will be interesting to see in 10 years or so once many of the older ICE vehicles have been taken out of service and electric vehicles are a majority of cars on the road and businesses have had time to adapt to high numbers of EVs.
per week then, the gist of it is that the electric car market is small compared to the gigantic scale that the German car industry works at. And that's going to stay this way for a long time, and there is no reason for industry leaders to panic. They're big companies with comfortable profits who have time to adjust instead of trying to overcorrect.

And that's not just true for German carmakers. In the US there's been a trend again towards trucks as Millenials increasingly move to the Sunbelt and away from the coasts and benefit off the cheap gas prices. The idea that everyone is going to start to drive electric seems increasingly dubious to me to begin with. The big problem of the future of electric vehicles is going to be demand.
Happy new decade! Copied this from my Mastodon post:

Big picture, in the next decade, I would like to see:

1. Federated free software services become the dominant platform for social media and messaging.

2. A more privacy-oriented and cryptographically-literate public, and simple, standard free software tools anyone can leverage for this purpose.

3. Open hardware, especially RISC-V, becoming the dominant approach for new hardware development.

4. Recapturing the mobile market from proprietary walled gardens, instead favoring models which put the user in control of their devices (e.g. pmOS).

5. Average (read: non-SV CEO) technologists becoming more politically engaged, including running for and winning offices, and using political will to reinforce the above and start making a difference outside of tech
Yeah, there are some major confounding factors in Alaska. I know that at least in the case of my tribe, they didn't forget how to live off the land because the government was giving them money. The government started to consider their coast with their winter houses on it someone else's private property (and still does). The government started restricting their fishing once there was a cannery on the river. The government forced them to go to schools where they weren't allowed to speak their language or practice their culture. And yes, the government eventually started giving them money. But they forgot how to live off the land much earlier, when doing so became illegal. (The introduction of hard liquor predated all of that, and coincided with 1/3 the population dying of new diseases. Also not UBI-caused.)
The Hypocrisy Behind Facebook Banning Crypto Ads
> 4/ Countries will create and promote digital/crypto versions of their fiat currencies, led by China who moves first and benefits the most from this move. The US will be hamstrung by regulatory restraints and will be slow to move, allowing other countries and regions to lead the crypto sector. Asian crypto exchanges, unchecked by cumbersome regulatory restraints in Europe and the US and leveraging decentralized finance technologies, will become the dominant capital markets for all types of financial instruments.

People will not start trusting the Chinese government in the next 10 years. If there is a use for crypto here it will be for rich Chinese to evade their government when moving money outside the country as they typically do.
I’m confident that we can all agree that large corporations are efficient at extracting value from the economy (not to suggest that they don’t also add value).

If we were to take the current system, with no changes made to the rules, and send it forward 100 years in a time machine, I’m confident we can also agree that consolidation by large corporations will have increased significantly during this period of time.

If we can increase the velocity of the economy, I’m confident we can agree that this would have a similar effect as the aforementioned time machine scenario.

Indiscriminate injection of capital into an economy necessarily increases the velocity of the economy.

If you’re with me this far, then you have come to the conclusion, for yourself, that UBI will increase the velocity of the economy and further consolidate wealth into the hands of large corporations.

Has it not occurred to you that there could be reasons, other than philanthropy, that many of the proponents of UBI are millionaires/billionaires, large corporations, and both of these in their roles at economic think tanks?
> 2/ Automation will continue to take costs out of operating many of the services and systems that we rely on to live and be productive. The fight for who should have access to this massive consumer surplus will define the politics of the 2020s. We will see capitalism come under increasing scrutiny and experiments to reallocate wealth and income more equitably will produce a new generation of world leaders who ride this wave to popularity.
The standard method and mine give the same result, and I believe that mine is simpler to carry out in your head.

In what way do you believe that I am fooling myself?
Bedrock: Prototype complex web applications and document design systems
Everything I've read about UBI in experiments sounds great. But I've never heard anyone address the idea that when everyone is getting it, my landlord or some other rent seeker also knows this information, and simply raises my rent by however much I'm getting from the government because they know I can pay it and everyone else in the industry has done the same.
I had been using Google Sheets to keep track of some of my daily activities. Google Sheets is a feasible solution but the UI is not optimal for this use case, so I built this web app and released it on the first day of 2020. Hopefully Dayta can be a useful tool for those who are pursuing a mindful life.
Revising the Rio Scale for SETI Detections
ipfs, dat, zeronet I think are good examples of the sparks you are looking for.

These are outside of the blockchain world of compute/storage as a service attempts that got started suring the ico goldrush and seem to be doing quite well for themselves.
Thanks! Best to you and yours also!
I think you’re focusing in on the specific example too much. The general point is to create a system that has the benefits of basic income without creating a dependent underclass.

I don’t think it’s inconceivable to posit that a government could kickstart a program like the one I described, help it grow into a self-sustaining market, and then no longer provide monetary support. Of course this will never happen as the state has zero incentive to deliberately make people independent.
There is already a UBI in place for veterans who suffered one of a number of qualifying disabling conditions during as a result of military service. Veterans can receive nearly $4000/mo if they are 100% service connected. Some veterans have significant disabilities like missing limbs and others qualify for things like arthritis or tinnitus. Many (in my estimation most) of them could work but choose not to once they get this basic income.
I presume this false equivalence is trolling, since only one of the two firms mentioned derives ~90% of its revenue from targeting ads, and the implications should be self-evident.
Honestly, Android is hopelessly so much worse than that. You need to disable/adb uninstall tens of apps because, you have no way to actually remove them. Some of them cannot be disabled (Google Play Services for instance).

Additionally, you cannot have a secured up-to-date WebView (rendering library for Android apps showing web pages) without signing in with a Google account and updating Google Chrome. I found out while trying to remove as much spyware as possible from my Xiaomi A3 Android One phone. As suggested in the blog post, I didn't sign in with a Google Account.

But the WebView [0] is updated via the Play Store which requires an account. So I said I'll just compile Chromium and provide my own WebView. But the system has a whitelist [1] of WebView implementations that excludes everyone but Google to render webviews.

So I'll root my phone and find my way into the whitelist? Well it seems (at that point I'm discouraged to look) that will break future OTA updates because the diffs they send assume the system partition is bit-for-bit unchanged.

So I'll compile Android (AOSP) and flash it? Well, I should have bought another phone, because although my Xiaomi Mi A3 has its kernel on Github, binaries such as the radio firmware aren't available [2].

So I'll just install a precompiled ROM from XDA forums? Well, I'm still reluctant honestly, I'm sure the devs are great but they're still anonymous people on the Internet.

Maybe I should have bought a Sony, AOSP support is better [3], maybe I should have bought something supported by Lineage but then I'd depend on the branch developers.

I should say, it looks like there is some progress (more granular permissions, Android One, Treble, Mainline...) but it's regressing at the same time (removal of the Internet permission, Google Assistant, Play Store distributed system updates in Android 10...).

I remember Larry Page ranting about MS Windows a few years after he started Google. Well, my phone spies on me, is full of uninstallable Google-made bloatware, is locking aftermarket alternatives out with some gotchas and is nowhere close to the freedom I get from a commodity computer (which is far from perfect still). I remember the early Android team promising you can replace every app but a decade later and there are these whitelisting shenanigans.

By the way, I'm open to suggestions if anyone can help.

[0]: Technically, for Android 9, the fallback WebView is updated over the air but Google Chrome is updated with the Play Store

[1]: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/wiki/Installing-SystemWeb...

[2]: Technically, they're already on my phone but I wouldn't get updates anyway.

[3]: https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/#overview-co...
Chew: Server-Side Analytics without selling data to third-parties or targeting
Gen X did just fine. They created most of what we know of as the internet. You probably don't hear much about them because we've (Gen X -- I'm one) been focused on building new things and not complaining about old things. It's a model other generations should look at and emulate quite frankly.
As a security-conscious professional, and home automation enthusiast, I'm profoundly disappointed that HA's ultimate commercial breakthrough was accompanied by proprietary vendor lock-in and insecure "cloud" strings attached (looking square at you, Alexa).
> "Doing nothing may cause an even worse situation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism

Even if it were proven that doing nothing were guaranteed to cause a worse situation, which it isn't, of the myriad of things that could be done, there is no compelling evidence that UBI is the right thing to do.
Hasn’t AWSCLI supported toggling the cmd output to either text, json or csv for quite some time now or have I misunderstood your comment here?
I kind of doubt most of these. My prediction:

1. China will fall to internal strife of some kind. Still may maintain power, but famine and mass executions / disappearances will occur.

2. we will have further centralization of the internet

3. Solar will only account for 10k Gw

4. Agree that nuclear will make a massive resurgence

5. Gas will still be the dominate power source for mobile transportation, but less so. This is because gas prices will fall.

6. Saudi Arabia will have a violent revolution

7. California housing market will collapse due to high electricity prices, lack of electricity and wildfires

10. Meat will be nearly as prevalent today, but wild caught fish will be virtually no more

11. Self driving vehicles will operate in many of the non-heavily effected weather states. Laws will be passed to regulate and exclude some states after fatalities

12. Marijuana will be legal federally

13. Government will start accessing Alexa, Google, Siri recordings and public will be made aware

14. China will start using / building power projection in states it can. Specifically to protect food
Efforts to communicate with extraterrestrials: language, math, and culture
If you're familiar with SSC, you may be familiar with Scott Aaronson: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

The Quantum Mechanics itself is generally over my head, but it's super well-written and interesting nonetheless.
I just bought a used iPhone X and have disabled the face-scanning and use code to unlock instead.
A decentralized internet
will emerge

It already is decentralized. No single authority controls the routing of packets.

led initially by decentralized
infrastructure services like
storage, bandwidth, compute, etc.

Seems like what he means is that more decentralized services will be built on top of the internet. Services, where you don't know who will provide the service you are buying. And where anybody can jump in to provide that service.

A bit like AirBnB, Uber etc. But probably he means that the rules of those new services will be enforced by protocols, rather then by companies. So I guess Bitcoin is the most prominent example of such a service that is already in existence.
"GenX ... has failed to progress forward"?

Did I stop aging at some point and not notice?
It’s lucrative. I work with URC. It’s more about integration and working around bugs/limitations. Programming isn’t so difficult compared to learning quirks of hardware. Knowing what receiver models work with a broken ARC implementation for example is something you learn on the job.
Beachfront: Unified interface to manage domains across multiple registrars
Amazon made very controlled losses, and it was clear the core business was good and they were investing in new ideas. Sort of like alphabet except much bigger.