skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. That's why we built our Attribution Engine [0]. It's much more advanced that YouTube's Content ID, it's free to all rightsholder, creators and platforms (we make money from taking % of monetized/licensed content) and it's completely transparent.

[0] https://blog.pex.com/introducing-the-attribution-engine-19ec...
Why doesn’t that happen today?
You really think a person so invested in IP threft would be spending enough time to do engineering work?...
No but creditors would be able to seize assets from this. Bankruptcy (most commonly Chapter 7 or Chapter 11) allow for protections of certain personal property, such as one's house. But the rest of your assets will essentially be vaporized by creditors: This is the whole point of bankruptcy protection. You don't have enough to pay so-and-so and you fear you will never have enough, or that the debt load is so great, you will never be able to pay the debt. So you file bankruptcy, give everything you DO have to creditors, and by law will be able to at least retain assets like a primary house, or at least it will buy time to stop foreclosure and repossession by a creditor (like a bank or other lender). But even then, if you still can't later on afford to get current on the home with on-going income, you would eventually lose the house, too.
> see also /r/covid19 for an example of science working they way we expect it to. chapeau bas!

I wish every health issue and tech hurdle (solar, batteries...) would have such a reddit, with the entire world scientists openly collaborating on it.
For a companion post, there was an Ask HN post yesterday [1] asking people why they don't use spaced repetition.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22484060
Yes. And that's why any basic income would need to come with a land value tax.
> Learning what needs to be migrated, deciding on how the configuration should look on the destination end of it ...

Sounds like you've identified an area of risk you should address
I'm not sure that I think that a completely transparent society would be compatible with freedom. It seems to me that it would just result in the dominant culture in an area being able to punish any behavior that they dislike.
If you are guaranteed income, you aren't bound to specific regions or locations. You can move to places with cheaper land and healthcare systems with less overcrowding. You can work less lucrative jobs in those locations and find customers for your work because everyone including the local residents of those rural areas, will have new money to spend. Local regions would see an influx in cash, allowing for small businesses to be reborn in rural areas and spreading the economy out and away from coastal metro areas.
It is possible that people in relevant positions are clueless cowards or calculating psychopaths.

My initial impression leans towards the first option.

Taking measures needs courage. You have to take very disruptive steps in the environment where popular opinion still calls it not worse than flu and before that you have to be smarter than popular opinion.
"Bright colors in these examples are used to distract from lack of complexity" is not nearly the same as "bright colors are always used to distract from complexity".

The subway map is completely off-topic when it comes to content of article. Literally none of it is about visualizing complex structures.

Frankly, one needs to willfully misrepresent the article if one things that subway map is contraexample to any statement in the article. It is not, it is just shifting the topic so that you can claim article is wrong while arguing about something else.
> universal healthcare

That doesn't mean what you think it means. There are many things not covered or not covered practically that you would want to pay for private healthcare. e.g. You can wait years for services, or you can pay a few thousand a month and get it sooner. This is critical for things that necessitate early intervention. Wait too long, and when the government does finally come around to being able to provide services, it's already too late, and because the patient is too old, they are no longer eligible for the services they should have received in the first place. I speak from personal experience.
Point #3 on the Bonds doesn't seem relevant. From the Bloomberg article you linked:

> Funds can only be released from the PEF for non-flu epidemics 12 weeks after the "start of the event," according to a World Bank document. The novel coronavirus strains were first reported on in late December, leaving funds locked up until late March.
I was starting a business importing roasted coffee from Europe to the US a few years ago. I asked my roaster in Paris what machine he recommended. His suggestion was over 1,000 euro.

Smiled, and said my wife won't sacrifice counter space.

He came back with Aeropress and i've never looked back. Near espresso flavor... I do double size - 16 grams fresh ground (using a Porlex) with 6 grams of water:coffee.

Also use the "upside down" hack and permafilters (the finest screen one).
Yet, they write articles that prescribe their operational model on the rest of the world.
It's funny that you criticise the parent for being pretentious, and then go on to explain to them what storytelling really is
Coming from Germany (not Canada, but maybe closer to Canada than the US in terms of spending): Housing absolutely, health care probably not for most people.

But yeah, if you live on full time minimum wage here that's ~1200€ per month, of which probably 500-800 depending on where you live will go to rent. And if it's 800, it would probably be 1800 if everyone got 1000€ per month. So in that sense, he might be right.

On the other hand some people just might actually quit their job with 1000€ per month and live somewhere further away from cities, since they don't have to live there to work. And maybe that would incentivize employers to try to create more work outside cities. Seems almost impossible to really predict the large scale effects here.
I have, at various times in my career, tried to convince others that there is an awful, awful lot of stuff you can get done with a few copies of nginx.

The first “service mesh” I ever did was just nginx as a forward proxy on dev boxes, so we could reroute a few endpoints to new code for debugging purposes. And the first time I ever heard of Consul was in the context of automatically updating nginx upstreams for servers coming and going.

There is someone at work trying to finish up a large raft of work, and if I hadn’t had my wires crossed about a certain feature set being in nginx versus nginx Plus, I probably would have stopped the whole thing and suggested we just use nginx for it.

I think I have said this at work a few times but might have here as well: if nginx or haproxy could natively talk to Consul for upstream data, I’m not sure how much of this other stuff would have ever been necessary. And I kind of feel like Hashicorp missed a big opportunity there. Their DNS solution, while interesting, doesn’t compose well with other things, like putting a cache between your web server and the services.

I think we tried to use that DNS solution a while back and found that the DNS lookups were adding a few milliseconds to each call. Which might not sound like much except we have some endpoints that average 10ms. And with fanout, those milliseconds start to pile up.
The initial page just shows the art, but after a couple seconds it pops up with an explicit credit to Michael Friesen and a link to his twitter:

> Imagined by a GAN (generative adversarial network)
StyleGAN2 (Dec 2019) - Karras et al. and Nvidia
Trained by Michael Friesen on images of Modern Art
I tried this and it even worked within the sqlite3 session I have open, very nice.
TFA starts off a little cheesy, where you might almost think to bounce because the writing is going to just pummel the subject matter beyond recognition.

But then as you continue, you go deeper and deeper through the rabbit hole. Expertly guided through a series of analogies and examples through a complex subject until you arrive at an incredible payoff in perfectly understandable terms.

I won’t spoil the surprise. But it’ll just say I love how this proof works so, so much.

In the end it rests on the logic that if A then B but we know !B therefore !A. It proves that for something to be true, then something else which we know to be false would then have to be true. Therefore that something must not be true. I love it.
If someone posts an article comparing the performance of two Android phones the comments aren’t filled with “what about iPhones?!”. And yet every time gender is mentioned...

Guys, it’s OK for an article to discuss the different levels of unpaid labour performed by women in different countries. You don’t have to perceive it as an attack on men if you don’t want to.
This is very true. Honestly asking: Is it working? I haven't seen lots of data on the topic. I also know the climate and endless day/night issues weigh into this too. I'm curious if academia sees this as a success or not.
Or maybe a meteorite impact?
There are so many broken companies, and trying to fix them just seems intractable. I don’t know the situation but how can you know getting rid of a few bad actors is enough? How’d they get there in the first place, by what means are they still around? Maybe you’d get rid of them only to end up with something just as bad, or even worse.

And letting it bother you after you’ve moved on, why? So you can lay out your case that the company is a bad place to work and the people running it don’t care? Then what? To paraphrase Jay-Z, moral victories are for minor-league coaches.

This is Chinatown. The only move is to move on.
> With basic income, we may just raise the cost of those things.

The problem with this argument is that it proves too much. It's true of anything that causes the poor to have more money. Lower unemployment, higher wages, anything. Heck, it's true of lower healthcare costs, because people would have more money for housing, or vice versa.

Housing costs and healthcare costs are problems, but they're independent problems.

On top of that, you're assuming the UBI actually results in the poor getting more assistance rather than merely different assistance. Right now there are explicit subsidies for housing and healthcare. If they get replaced with a UBI in the same amount, maybe people just use it to buy housing and healthcare anyway -- but maybe some of them don't, and that causes those prices to go down.
I'm not familiar with WME and Google didn't turn anything up. Sounds like you're talking about a moving average.
This is an incredible website thank you the creator!
A typical PHP application that does a bit of database updating per request, gets some new data from the DB and templates it should handle 20 requests per second on a single $20/month VM. And in my experience from the last years, VMs have uptime >99.99% these days.

What made you settle on a multi-machine setup instead? Was it to reach higher uptime or were you processing very heavy computations per request?
That's not basic income, though. It's far too low.
Moving is expensive and disruptive.
And considering Dali's artistic abilities at six [1], it's no wonder he got a big ego.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_Near_Figueras
Because moving itself is expensive, and you can't just move and automatically have a new job. With basic income, you can afford to move, and don't have to worry too much about the time you'll spend looking for a new job.
1. You have no grasp of how bitcoin works - the whole idea is that there is a finite number that cannot be manipulated.

2. No matter how you try to justify it - it is still theft. It is not really surprising that such a weak and crooked "man" as you are has nothing but flawed arguments and ad hominem attacks.

3. Not to mention that your justification is only supported by the Keynsean half of economists which is known not to produce long-term functioning results. Read something by Hayek and von Mieses and if you are clever enough to understand it, you might stop defending and justifying a bunch of useless corrupted crooks.

Yours dear,

Stupid idiot, who considers theft a bad thing

P.S. Your justification of theft reminds me of how convinced those tribal people (not saying muslims in general as it is mostly tribal people who partake, some of whom are not muslim) are that stoning women who commit adultery is a good thing.
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Because there isn't much work if you live there. If you had UBI though, that wouldn't matter, so you could just live in a rural area for cheap.
We think about it when it happens, if it ever happens.

I have seen too many projects burn money with vendor independence abstraction layers that were never relevant in production.
> It's an afternoon worth of research to understand the basic concepts. Then, with the powerful and intuitive tooling you can spin up your own cluster on your computer in minutes and practice deploying containers that.

Source? I’ve never heard of someone going from “what’s kubernetes?” to a bare metal deployment in 4 hours.
> It seems Americans often believe that, but virtually nobody in Western Europe would even think of going to the US for healthcare. I would assume the same for Canadians.

This is not true. It's just ignored because people would rather believe that universal healthcare is infallible. We moved from Canada to the US precisely because of healthcare for our children. In Canada, care was non-existant and the private services were expensive. In the US, it was the complete opposite.
Low gravity is one thing. But the radiation outside the Earth's magnetic field is quite another. People colonizing Mars will need to shield themselves from several types of harmful radiation. Wich means in practice: living underground.
Depends on when you bought. If you bought at 20k, you'd be down quite a bit right now.
I don't think anyone is arguing that you should use k8s for a simple web app. There's definitely some inherent stack complexity threshold before solutions like k8s/mesos/nomad are warranted.

When you start having several services that need to fail and scale independently, some amount of job scheduling, request routing... You're going to appreciate the frameworks put in place.

My best advice is to containerize everything from the start, and then you can start barebones and start looking at orchestration systems when you actually have a need for it.
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Looks cool, nice work. Couple pieces of feedback:

- typically the check mark/ok button is on the right side and the cancel is on the left, in the date picker it’s swapped

- not clear to me what the 2 different cancel buttons do, one a solid x, the other just an x
Wouldn't Land Value Tax solve the housing problem?
The FDA and the CDC Recommend the HPV Vaccine for Everyone Up to Age 45. But
The other version of this is to define or find a problem where the difference is smallest. (we know it's not vanishingly small)
I love this! I make sampled-based beats and it seems like a great way to dig for samples.
Bring it on, I can't wait for my first check!
Who's gonna pay for it? You are, not me!
Handling Dangerous Permissions on Android
Currently it's very difficult to reason about object geometric dimensions / movement from video alone. We (humans) are decent at it and we still make mistakes. "The right ML algorithm" for this is basically a problem as hard as achieving singularity.
It's a pretty dismal failure if you compare it to the alternative approach, which is saving the oil revenue for a rainy day.

Norway has saved up $195,000 per citizen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...

(Alaska's dividend is also a pittance that likely doesn't even start to offset the higher cost of living there. "Basic income", it's not.)
I would prefer PHP
Unfixable vulnerability in Intel chipsets threatens users
This really strikes a chord with me, so many things just feels patronizing these days. Is brutalism a reaction to this trend of infantilization?
This is a Guardian Long Read, it's not a current events article. Many of them are distributed as podcasts as well
It’s illegal to run people over by accident in the US too (if it was feasibly avoidable). The parent’s point was that prosecutors usually exercise their discretion not to charge them.
I hate that phrase because it's completely wrong. The cover (including the title) is absolutely a decent tell of the subject and quality of a book. It's not perfect, but it's the only thing to go by.

Along the same lines, app icons are a fantastic way of judging whether an app is worth downloading from the the play store. Crappy icons pretty much always indicate a crappy app, in my experience, and can immediately be rejected. A polished icon doesn't necessarily mean the app is good though, just that it's worth taking a closer look at.
That really depends on what he and you like. My 3yo likes duplos, blocks, drawing tablet, trains, play kitchen, alphabet tablet, and matchbox/hotwheels car sets.

I don't think you need to worry about anything STEM specific, just find ways for him to practice dexterity and imagination. If you want to push for STEM stuff, he'll be much more capable around 5-6 years old (my 5yo loves Legos, puzzles, math, reading).

In fact, your child is probably more likely to be interested in STEM stuff by watching you than you buying stuff for them. My older son got into Legos because my wife did, he likes video games because I play them (helped me build a RetroPie), and he helps me build/fix stuff around the house to spend time with me. At 3yo, he's probably dextrous enough to want to do cool stuff with you, but clumsy enough to get frustrated, so I think it's more important to build confidence and imagination than to push them in any given direction.
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I work for a large webshop. I was amazed by how many engineers work here. But now, after two years, I understand why we need them. Handling millions of customers, sending millions of parcels, logistics, storage, customer support, etc... requires a lot of systems. It is definitely more complex that you would image at first glance.

All of those systems need each other's information. The shop needs to know if a product is available, and what price it is. Customer Service needs to know how it was sent and the tracking code etc,...

We've built hundreds of microservices to manage this. This is definitely not something that is easy in a monolith. (We came from a monolithic architecture, we're really happy we're now using microservices).

We're now also rolling out Istio on GKE. So who knows, they might be on to something at Hello Fresh.
Has he ever talked about how people would survive on Mars without a magnetosphere?
I wish those stealing would just stop.
Then the world would be on happy path.
I agree, but I also think a comprehensive set of standard benchmarks can be useful to get an overall sense of how language instantiations perform and how things change. It's fairly clear that in general some language implementations are much slower across the board than others, even if for many other comparisons the distinctions are fine or depend on domain.

My overall sense is that there's been a pull back from general benchmarking compared to say, 15 years ago, and it's unfortunate, because it leaves the benchmarking to developers of languages, compilers, and whatnot. This provides an opportunity to show of the best-case scenarios for the languages, but also for them to hide the areas of weakness -- and those hidden areas are often the mine traps for those deciding whether to invest resources in a new language.

Having a standard, comprehensive set of problems helps address this "hiding." I also think there's value in naive benchmark programs as well as "expert" tuned ones: not everyone is going to optimize every single scenario in every language.

The one thing I've never seen implemented well is some measure of "ergonomics" or "high-level" versus "low-level" aspects of a language, which also seems important to me. Some of that is going to be subjective but some of it not.
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I was under the impression that One of the major reason that B&N suffered for was price. Even if being able to “feel and browse” the bookshelf exists in physical store, how does this work when someone uses B&N as a discovery tool?
> If anyone has a solution that is actually simpler and just as easy to set up, I'm very much interested.

Sure. @levelsio runs Nomad List (~100k MRR) all on a single Linode VPS. He uses their automated backups service, but it's a simple setup. No k8s, no Docker, just some PHP running on a Linux server.

As I understand it, he was learning to code as he built his businesses.

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1177562806192730113
This artwork does not exist, and is generally unattractive.
I'd rather have something like a engineering corps that could keep engineers employees during recessions when the private sector can't afford it. Almost like and engineering reserve. I'd rather have the stability than more profit.
> The project worked by recruiting low-income people and couples, offering them a fixed payment with no strings attached that worked out to approximately $17,000 for individuals and $24,000 for couples.

Why discriminate so heavily against couples?

It creates every incentive to lie about your relationship status. Or to avoid sharing a household altogether, creating greater economic inefficiencies and less built in social support of having a partner.
> Purpose is so hard to come by now because we all don't know what we want. When we do know, we're constantly unsure about it.

This statement resonates deeply with me.

Whenever I meet someone new or that I might be interested in dating I ask "What are you doing with your life?" or "What are you striving for?" and I find the extreme majority of people don't have an answer beyond "I just go to a job I don't really like"

It seems very few people are seriously driven and motivated and living a life where they're pushing hard to achieve something great.
Higher uptime and more computation, although this was mostly C# so very efficiently run code. It was an e-commerce site doing +100MM a year.

There was little to no room for error. I once introduced a bug in a commit that, in less than an hour, cost us $40,000. So it wasn't about performance.

Also this was 9 years ago. So adjust for performance characteristics from back then.