skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree that I haven’t found Pirsig’s work to be the most life changing. It’s much more life affirming, and ‘hey, that’s what I’ve been thinking, but not quite putting my finger on!’

The same could be said for my recent dive into David Foster Wallace. Absolutely loving reading his writing, but more affirmation of my own thoughts than expansion. I also realize this is probably because I’m reading both decades after publication, which means time has caught up to their ahead of the curve ideas.

The most I’ve gotten out of a book, in terms of altering the way I think about the world and life, is Simone De Beauvoir and the Ethics of Ambiguity. Man, I love me some Simone.
The statistical methods are explained in detail and the article was published in what appears to be a reputable peer-reviewed journal. What kind of validation are you looking for?
3 year long user of DDG, never knew about the feeling lucky (\) option.
Noterday: Letting Go of Yesterday
Make your side project profitable enough to pay your bills.
It's fun! Nice work.
You quoted only part of my argument: it’s the good charging infrastructure and tax incentives that make EVs so attractive in the Netherlands. However, I did not want to fail to mention that the Netherlands is a much smaller and denser country than Germany and this means it is much easier to put that kind of infrastructure in place.
he's not too early. the conditions out there are really bad in the middle of the country. a negative income tax is ultimately regressive at its incentives are likely to keep people in poverty.
Right, I think this is the most underrated consequence of UBI.

I think another is the creative boom it could create. People would have room to create art, music, writing without feeling like they will become homeless without early success. That could create a whole new class of artists that couldn’t be possible otherwise.
It immediately reminded me of the original Grand Theft Auto, that overhead view.
To go from "any" century, you can also memorize "2053", which is the days in a 4-year cycle: 2000 = 2 = tuesday; 2100 = 0 = sunday; 2200 = 5 = friday; 2300 = 3 = wednesday.

For years other than the centuries, we need to add an offset. Given the year CCXX, we have:

(a, b) = divmod(XX, 12)
c = b // 4
offset = a + b + c
doomsday = start + offset

E.g., for 2020 (XX == 20) we get:

start = 2 # from the "2053" rule
(a, b) = divmod(20, 12) # (1, 8)
c = b // 4 # 2
offset = 1 + 8 + 2 = 4 (mod 7)
doomsday = start + offset # 2 + 4 = 6 = saturday
> It is largely due to Republicans that we don't have such a program. Voting matters.

Except I don't get to vote on single issues like this. The US is a republic and I get to vote for leaders who supposedly represent the voting population to which I belong.

Problem is, there is never a viable representative who even somewhat closely matches my views on all issues - especially since the parties have so much influence in elections.

So it's not very helpful to just imply that I should simply vote for someone else.

Voter education is important for issues like this. If an idea becomes popular among a party's voters, the party will start to support that idea, which in turn influences their candidates.
I find the concept of UBI and redistribution of wealth terrible to a free society. If wealth redistribution is what the rich and common both "want", why allow the wealthy to set the rules? It seems easier to string them all up by the neck and take it all so we have fair redistribution of wealth, why half ass it?
I've owned a Surface RT, a Surface Pro 3, and a Surface Book 2 ... but I will never buy a Microsoft Surface again. The RT failed to start one day and both the Pro and Book have suffered from screen cracks with only regular wear and tear. I suspect the body of the Surface devices are too rigid and transfer impact directly to the screens. Although the screens or both still functioned (although the touch failed on the Pro) the Book's keyboard battery pack was trashed, and I had to pay for out of warranty repair.

I've never had any hardware issues with any other laptop.

The Surface devices are beautiful but too fragile in my opinion to be worth the money spent on them.
Payroll taxes are for the most part paid by the employer on behalf of the employee. That's not Amazon's tax bill. Amazon's tax bill is what they would pay over their profits at year end and they do what they can to pay nothing at all, like almost all other multi-nationals.
I’ve been in taxis in Germany. I’d take a tesla over an s class any day.
> With all due respect to the Redux team, I simply don't think Redux scales in large applications.

Very much disagree. Redux, to it's, credit, almost made development boring to me in the sense that we had an unreasonably large application that could scale and scale and scale without any concern whatsoever. I've worked with other patterns and libraries since and nothing compares to how easy it was for our team (of varying degrees of experience) to jump in anywhere and make additions that made sense through time. And like the author of the article mentions, all of our devs grew in general because of what they learned from it's patterns / concepts.
I have to admit, I am lazy and tend to use the Debian packaged software with apt-get, etc. The only drawback is the some packages seem to be quite a bit behind the up to date versions on the project's git repository. Personally I tend to choose the convenience of the Debian packaged software to wrangling with fiddly dependencies during compilation.
I should have been clearer. Since the OP is complaining about RSI, I would strongly suggest looking at keyboards designed for that purpose. I definitely agree that people have a lot of personal choice in the area, but it sounds like the OP needs an ergonomic solution.
Payroll tax, including the nominally “employer” portion, is really a tax on worker pay (the employer portion just makes the rate seem lower; for an honest accounting, it would be counted in both employee pay and employee taxes) as it comes out of what the employer is willing to pay for the work.
What's the difference between discrete and continuous in this instance if they're both being modelled in a computer? Are the continuous entities represented by functions?
"Altman, who favors UBI, said in exchange for a floor, he’d like to see no ceiling on earnings, as some, like presidential hopeful Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, have suggested. And like Friedman, Altman suggested tying the amount of the basic income to a fixed percentage of GDP. “Right now, because people are rightly angry that there's no floor, and that most people have no real chance to be super successful, we sort of say billionaires are inherently evil,” he said. “I think it would be great to say, we as a society will allow trillionaires in exchange for a floor for everyone.”"

The problem with having a handful of people be billionaires and trillionaires is that money is power, and with that amount of money you have nearly unlimited power and influence over everyone and everything. A system that will concentrate that much power will be inherently evil, it will and does serve the needs of that few over the needs of the many.

UBI just doesn't solve that, and it especially doesn't solve that when it's being funded by a highly regressive VAT tax that none of these ultra wealthy people will ever pay as Yang is proposing.

Honestly, this whole Yang project just strikes me as a weird 10x play by wealthy bay area VC types to get out of paying more progressive income taxes by attempting to bamboozle voters into a regressive tax based UBI they will shoulder the burdon on, so we will forget about major structural problems like wealth concentration.

Regardless, no, I don't think trillionaires should exist and I'm pretty confused why anybody thinks that is going to work out well for them, competition, or democracy.
Nice, but I do feel like it's missing a set of tracks from the other set of wheels.
> It seems easier

Setting aside ethical issues as you clearly don't care, it really isn't at all easy. It's not like people haven't tried.
Politicians aren't evil, just self-interested like most people. It just so happens that the nature of their job sometimes means serving others' interests is in their own best interest. Sometimes.

Happy new year.
The chess computing term for this is "contempt," the parameter that determines the worst move the engine assumes its opponent would play. Classical chess engines can allow this parameter to be changed easily. I'm sure the MCTS algorithm for alphazero could be modified to allow this as well, if it doesn't already support it.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/montezuma...

“This is a big success story,” Thompson said. “Our goal was to have up to 10 nesting pairs in Iowa by the year 2000. Now we have at least 300 – maybe even 400.”
Well damn. Guess I need to stop walking and cycling and make sure to drive the car more.
Could you write it up and submit it as a usual bug report/ issue, but take the important bits and encrypt them using the public keys of any active contributing members?
So, I've been working on just this for the last 5 months. It's getting there. I'm still a few % behind what 'onset and frames' (see comment by ekelsen) can do but the gap is shrinking and my stuff is orders of magnitude faster.

That said, I'm not sure yet if I'll be able to close the gap, and it's a hard problem to solve. And yes, like the author correctly identifies: for piano solo, or harpsichord.
Have you made any effort at extracting insights from the models?
Clearly it depends if you're Chinese or not.
I think your facts are debatable https://twitter.com/scottsantens/status/1184499999406776326
It won't be $15 -- but an affordable player that is great with Rockbox is the SanDisk Clip+. It's got a decent screen, really small form factor, microSD.

My main Rockbox'd unit is an iPod Video (5.5) with an iFlash Quad (up to 4x microSD cards) and a 2000mAh battery. Not the most expensive project, but not as cheap as the Clip+.

My guess is that the parent is talking about the Sansa c200 or something similar.
Wow what a great UX and UI on this site. How have I never heard of this?!
One other important point: a cheaper cost of living is essential for UBI to be affordable. Right now most UBI proposals require around $1000 a month per person to enable people to live in a somewhat sustainable manner. Those proposals are simply unaffordable relative to our GDP and tax base. The only way we can make them work is by deceasing the cost of living so that we can decease the UBI. A UBI of $300 a month is much easier to fit in the budget.
Ask HN: Enterprise Web Without a Stack
Is it feasible to build an enterprise web front end like TransferWise without any frameworks? Only native HTML and JS? Thanks.
I don't have any friends and all I do is program so it's pretty good.
Yes, it is. And that 70% you can reach fairly easily, after that it gets really hard to make progress.
> Information on opioid prescriptions comes from Symphony Health’s IDV® (Integrated Dataverse) dataset ... The dataset includes approximately 90% of all prescriptions filled at outpatient pharmacies in the United States between 2011 and 2018 ... Each observation includes the year the prescription was filled, the eleven-digit national drug code (NDC) for the prescription, the total days’ supply for the prescription, the quantity of drugs, an encrypted patient identifier, and an encrypted healthcare provider identifier.

Given what we’ve learned about data re-identification [1], this sounds like a pretty scary dataset. Does anybody know more about it? Do you need to pay for access? Is access restricted to researchers who can be trusted not to attempt re-identification?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_re-identification
I monetized my side project which can now cover about 30-40% of my monthly costs + I went into freelancing so I would now change company / project every 4 to 12 months, so it never gets boring too long (if it starts to get boring and the project doesn't need me, I don't extend the contract and look for a new project).

I think being a contract freelancer also helped me detach emotionally from work; I do work, they pay me, it's a simple transaction. Unless you own a stake in the company, it's the same for employees. My side project works a lot with environmental non governmental organizations, but my freelance work has sent me to e.g. online shop for luxury jewelry, or a big retailer or several agencies working for global Fortune 500 type companies.
I guess you weren't paying attention in 2008 when the economy blew up six months before the election?

They don't always succeed in dancing fast enough, especially when they have driven away all the grownups who understand how anything works, or care.
this is very inflammatory and false. The VAT is not highly regressive. Money is power but poverty stricken people literally have zero money. How are gov't "programs" going to help? democrats love "programs" because it just gives them something to show off. it hardly solves any real problems.

I doubt you've lived through any sort of poverty or have felt like the walls were closing in on your life, but people live that everyday. For those that have been through it, it hardly feels like a "weird 10x play"
> Curious which German made Diesel cars costs 20.000 € or less.

All the VW Polos. And around the 20,000 euro mark you can get the majority of the VW Golf Diesel models and my personal favorite, the Skoda Octavia (made just across the border, in Czechia). The first and second-generation diesel Octavias were built like tanks, there are many example of them reaching the 1 million km mark, and the latest ones are pretty decent, too.
Perhaps make the list horizontal because of the highrises wasting space on the vertical list?
I know they have a veto; I'm Irish.

The conversation is ongoing though, and it will continue for as long as transactions move to online - i.e. for the foreseeable.

The only question is finding an appropriate quid pro quo to change the status quo.
Calendar is like a hard drive
There are pianoroll recordings of Rachmaninoff and also some very precious early recordings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBx-tr1FDvY
Books to Transform Every Area of Your Life
The originial scan of the journal is incredibly beautiful

Part 1 https://www.usmodernist.org/AF/AF-1965-04.pdf

Part 2 https://www.usmodernist.org/AF/AF-1965-05.pdf
I don't understand why there isn't a blanket ban on all Chinese citizens from working at any research laboratories. Let them come here to study but they should be expelled soon after completing their studies and paid their tuition. These Chinese scientists are and will only ever loyal to the CCP. I really can't comprehend why we are actively strengthening our biggest economic competitor who play by NO RULES and are a truly evil regime.
So do I.

Except my wife number, which I should learn. But I know how to say if a month is 30 or 31 days by counting my knuckles.

These are the kind of "hardly important but easy to remember tricks" I like
The example he gave is from special relativity where there's a distinction between coordinate time and proper time.
I think it's smarter to go after automation and consumption than land value tax as of this moment. It's a lot harder to measure the true value of land compared to consumption. Also, the VAT can also be adjusted for non essential goods. Consumption is quite strong in this country. It's wise to target that.
I disagree. The surplus stays in the war chest (not last for times like these when new tax evasion structures have to be set up and lobbied for). The taxes lost on Googles EBIT in the EU per year equals to 2-3 Million working citizens not paying a single Euro in income taxes.
Bringing California’s privacy law to all Firefox users in 2020
Japan is also a country with excellent infrastructure, low crime, clean streets, and great universities.
Hi!

Would you be willing to open an issue in the github repo?
I am not aware of this bug and would be very happy to address it.

I would especially be interested if this happens to be the same bug as: https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich/issues/51

Thanks!
2019 End of Year Summary – Top Ports Targeted by Mirai-Like (DDoS) Botnets
Over the years I have compiled a log of project metadata. Nowadays I use it to forecast and plan each project task.
The key part is having the task to time forecast for your overall environment (people, company culture, country, …) .

Every project starts with a drilldown of requirements to tasks (just name and description), the more detailed the better. For each task I add a subjective complexity. The mapping of complexity to actual time is based on previous projects metadata.

I try to add a task for each time-consuming effort, documentation, HW procurement, HW shipping, cabling, development, validation, acceptance tests, baby-sitting, billing.

The metadata is a living document, it adds more rows as the project progress.

For tracking the metadata, I use a Google Sheet for each project as a tracking project management. TODO file in steroids. There are two levels, one for the task and another for steps in the tasks.

Each of the rows have more or less following information.

* id, name and description

* status

* owner

* area

* initial perceived complexity.

* final perceived complexity

* external perceived pressure

* dependencies

* total involved people

* initial estimated time

* dev starting time

* ending dev time

* real development time

* testing starting time

* test ending time

The tracking is updated daily (last action before going home) or when a new task appears. It doesn’t take much time.

Once the initial per task forecast is done, I have also try to put the high level tasks and its dependencies in a classic Gantt waterfall (using projectlibre). The Gantt gives an initial idea of the time, but it has never been fully accurate, because as project evolves, there are always new and unexpected tasks.

Note that the pressure column in the list above, is one of the principal inputs to forecast, due to Parkinson's law.
> Today, a cafe almost can't stay in business without offering WiFi and laptop chargers. The same may happen with EV charging.

It certainly will. Every fast-food restaurant in the US and most other countries will have EV chargers in the parking lot, with few exceptions. It'll happen extremely quickly as EVs go mainstream. Roughly 20 years from now I think there will be at least one million charging stations at such commercial locations across the US. McDonald's has five or six dozen charging units in Sweden as one example of the chains being eager to seek a competitive advantage. They've said they intend to blanket their locations in the Netherlands next.
>Tesla has not, as yet, either turned a profit

This is false.
https://qz.com/1734436/tesla-turns-a-profit/
That definition of cellular automata would still include all local dynamical systems in physics, e.g., the wave equation, the heat equation, etc.
But Germany appears to rely on Coal more than the USA for power generation.

Coal is the largest source of electricity in Germany. As of 2016, around 40% of the electricity in the country is generated from coal. Germany has been opening new coal power plants until recently, following a 2007 plan to build 26 new coal plants

Compare the energy pie chart for Germany vs USA. (Add brown coal and hard coal percentages)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States
Who would you even sell them to? Sharper Image?
It really depends on the metric you are using to measure fairness. Yes, a flat tax is fair on a purely dollar level, but it is completely unfair from utility standpoint in that the worse off suffer greater reductions in utility. The key thing to remember when thinking about the utility of money is that the utility of money is not linear. Going from $50,000 a year to $25,000 a year very significantly degrades your quality of life while going from $2,000,000 to $1,000,000 will have a much more minor impact.

This is what causes the main issue with flat taxes. The problem is that at the end of the day, flat taxes are simply very inefficient in that they cause much more suffering for less revenue compared to progressive taxes.
I maintain a number of widely used open source projects. A number of years ago I received an email from an ethical hacker who (if memory serves) works for GitHub.

He had identified that my 2FA was off and that my password had been leaked in a hack. He was able to prove to me that he was able to update the source of my projects and publish to npm.

I was initially terrified and massively taken aback. I quickly 2FA-ed all the things and I remain very grateful for the report.

Send the email. The MIA problem is tricky; if there's no maintainer (and you don't want to fork, fix and become a maintainer) then I'm not sure what you can do.
A lot of folks are giving you reasonable flack around “well both of these encode it”, because encode can mean lots of things, but I think the specific feature you are referring to is that the amount of source code used to indicate the fizz buzz cycle is linear in the length of the cycle; basically a unary representation. Is that accurate?
If you're trading more than $20 million a year in stocks, you are in the vast minority that everyone here acknowledges would need to adjust and file your taxes manually.

99.999% of the US population is not trading $20 million a year in stocks, and everyone else here is merely talking about the 95% of the population that has straightforward tax returns.
Dunno about the situation where you are, but I was recently surprised to find a pocket video player in a mall. Now, looking at an online aggregator, I see plenty of music players from 5 to 25 bucks. It seems, though, that more of them integrate video too, since I guess screens are cheap and easy these days.
I think we need the best of both worlds: debian packagers (and packagers from other distros) working on flatpaks and snaps instead of deb/rpms, so that the work can be reused across distributions. Many devs of upstream software refuse anyway to start using these new package systems, so there's an opportunity here.
They buy a lot of stuff on credit that would be paid from savings in the EU.
Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868
This is nice. It would be cool to have an option of rendering the controls under my thumb?
Probably just over-(ab)use of templates. :)
The first step is to delete the social media apps from your phone. The problem isn’t the phone but its usage.

Sent from my iPhone.
> The problem with having a handful of people be billionaires and trillionaires is that money is power, and with that amount of money you have nearly unlimited power and influence over everyone and everything.

Sure, and that's why we need a mechanism to redistribute that wealth... like a UBI.

> a highly regressive VAT tax that none of these ultra wealthy people will ever pay.

Yang proposes to exempt basic goods from the VAT, but more importantly, the central appeal of a VAT is that tax evasion is made more difficult!

A VAT naturally creates an audit trail of both parties in every transaction where value is added. If one party is incentivized to report, for example via a tax credit for the end consumer, then everyone else in the chain of crediting is incentivized to do so also.
But this argument can be trivially extended to all other "social engineering" taxes. Vice taxes make you drink or smoke less? You're reducing state's expenses on healthcare, law enforcement and social services. Tax benefits for installing photovoltaics or buying electric cars? You're helping to improve the quality of life, again saving state on healthcare, and in the future, on various forms of crisis management once the climate issues start taking their toll in full.

(FWIW, I'm generally in favor of this kind of "social engineering" when done by democracies.)
Yes, this must be the source that I got the list from. I have not memorised the more obscure filters and have this list sitting on my desktop for easy access.