skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem with declaring "universal basic X" is that once the "base" level gets set it gets very hard to reduce the baseline.

You say that like it's a bad thing. But the fundamental premise of human progress should be that the baseline for all people gradually goes up over time. If anything, I consider it a feature that it becomes hard to lower a baseline once it's entrenched. That makes it harder for a powerful minority to take over and then deliberately leave the poor behind by taking away services from them.

> For example; universal basic water in Arizona might have the adverse effect of incentivizing greater water consumption.

This is a great example. I consider "basic" to be an important word in the term. The baseline level should be set such that if everyone consumes the resource at that level, then we are OK with that. A universal basic water that gave everyone in Arizona 1,000 gallons per day would probably be a bad choice.

> In countries that provide basic rations, there are absolutely massive problems with people illegally siphoning subsidized food, water, and electricity and reselling in black markets or other countries with unsubsidized goods for profit.

I see that as partly a problem of those countries being woefully deficient in some other critical resource. There must be some resource they need more than food that makes it worth giving up the ration on the black market in order to be able to afford it. Like many systems, a system like universal basic services can't work in isolation. It must be designed in the holistic context of its participants.

Also, of course, any system like this does need to have enforcement. At scale, some fraction of participants will be bad actors and the system has to be designed with that in mind.

(I accept that one of the good things about about UBI versus providing services directly is that money is much more liquid than services, so participants can more easily rebalance as needed to keep the system in harmony.)
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I am trying to rapidly annotate a large data set that I have in CSV format. It is a binary yes/no type of task. But there are about 80 thousand entries that need annotation by humans. This is fairly common for ML tasks that need a development/training set. It seems tedious to do this in a spreadsheet so I was wondering what solutions others have come up with.
I suppose that depends on what device category you place the iPad. To many, it's a particularly hobbled laptop, especially with the advent of 2-in-1s.

>Apple actually provides software updates for devices for years longer than their competitors

This is also debatable. The nature of Apple's sandbox means that it's much harder to find third-party support. A nominal official upgrade that effectively bricks your older device doesn't compare favorably to a PC or phone that can have FOSS replacements installed that actually increase performance.
Np. I forgot to mention that on-prem software usually optimizes for either proprietariness or COSS. If the former, it maybe worthwhile to employ multiple obfuscation and integrity checks in order to protect IP.

A VMware acquisition product I was involved in used a lot of dynamic language code and it seemed like a great idea for rapid development, but not necessarily for maintenance, sustainment, and IP protection. (They were still acquihired for eight figures nonetheless.)

If I were to be involved in a future enterprise startup intended for FNAC and/or acquihire, I would look at Crystal, Go, Haskell, OCaml, or Rust rather than the usual dynamic language suspects.
And yet again, privatized profits, socialized losses.
Interesting as one area they class as `allowed` would be "One-off classroom use"

Which seems odd, as that would mean you can only use a single image once in a classroom to educate students and never ever use that image again for as long as you teach to any other class of students.

That can't be right, is there a one-off definition in education that I'm unaware of?
Thanks !
There are indeed players many new in the data versioning space (DVC and Quilt also probably worth mentioning).

I totally agree that data management problems are not just ML related. But I personally think that there are additional challenges in the space that are not just version control for data.. all the area of data quality management and monitoring for example.
I liked the analogy to devops, source version was super critical problem to solve in software development, but it didn't stop there, with things like CI/CD etc.
I believe we'll see similar evolution in the data space..
I've asked The Information to unlock this article for HN readers (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) but in the meantime the hard paywall means we have to bury it.

Edit: done now. Thanks!
It matters, and is in the public interest, because he runs a surveillance company whose clients include governments. Of course, to you, not supporting eugenics or the extermination of the Jewish race is just a matter of opinion.

Comments like these show that individuals with these horrendous beliefs are everywhere, including all over Hacker News and the tech industry at large. Hacker New's moderators would do well to focus on these bad-faith actors instead of flagging anti-hate content.
And what happens when you require a bailout because the government forcefully shut down the economy? You need to critically think about what you are offering up as a solution.
And now they are on Slack. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/slack-stock-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_development_history#B...
A bulk of those positions are probably sales and marketing and customer service.
It's been a long time since I decided that better parenting was probably the only world issue worth focusing on. I think it would trickle down into everything else. I'm not sure at what point the returns would be worth less than the effort, but given it has a 1.5 - 2.5 generation return rate, it's really hard to tell.
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Well as a resident of Utah, you may not have as much to worry about anymore.

Utah Attorney General suspends state contract with Banjo in light of founder’s KKK past

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/04/28/utah-attorne...
Move literally anywhere other than Silicon Valley and there's still plenty of jobs
Details for Washington:

- The signature on on the envelope, not the ballot. You put your ballot into a privacy sleeve and then into an envelope. You seal the envelope, sign the envelope, and then mail it.

-- The signature has to match (as judged by a human). If it doesn't, they contact you for additional verification.

-- The ballots are separated from the signed envelopes and put in a separate bin before they are counted. The counting process has election observers (just like all states do) so I'm sure this procedure is properly followed.

- Ballots are supposed to arrive 2 weeks before the election. If you don't get your ballot, you fill out a "vote cancellation form" and they invalidate your missing ballot: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/voters/

-- This prevents other people from voting for you, but it does require attention on your part.

- Additionally, ballots are assigned a random ID with a detachable QR code. The ID is specific to the individual paper ballot, not the voter. Once ballots are opened and counted, this ID will published online so that you can make sure the paper ballot you filled out was counted.

-- This doesn't prevent anything, but it does let us know if someone is dumping/replacing ballots. It builds confidence that your vote is actually counted.
Why are we prioritizing businesses before individuals?

Maybe our old system was inefficient and these dying companies should be left to die?

We can't say the same about people. Who are in fact in trouble, and a dying person is far more morally reprehensible than a company having to shut down.
Price's Law is great. I think it provides insight into so much of how the world works.

I am curious to see how Red Hat performs now that it's been swallowed up by IBM.
I vividly remember 35 years my kindergarden having a leaking roof, and the ensuing 'chaos', with all groups together and all toys spread around, led to a sense of freedom and interaction and play I hadn't had otherwise. Similarly I fondly remember many stretches of extended free time during my school years but also times of pressure, boredom and a sense failure at school.

I believe that this sort of exceptional free time does wonder for the psyches of those kids. The sense of "occupying" the public parks that are usually dominiated by grown ups is something kids these days don't often have. Back in the days we still wandered around in groups and had a chance to explore a forest or whatever.
My skepticism of self driving tech is all weather based. Here in LA, I’m confident that a self driving car could do fine; slow traffic (normally), good roads, low precipitation and clear lines make for easy driving.

But back when I lived in Colorado I had multiple times when I had to drive on a highway with completely obscured lines, poor weather, and extremely dangerous consequences for failure. I recall one drive in a blizzard where all the cars driving had to negotiate their own space without any feedback of where the lines were supposed to be. If I recall correctly we all settled on 1 fewer lanes than the road “should” have. I do not believe that self driving tech is capable of doing that yet, especially on mixed human/robot roads.
Is that what they were getting at? It seems to me like you made up that 80% number just now, to prove your point.
Any change deployed by large software firms are checked to make sure that no team wide and company wide metrics are adversely affected. How do you do that if you don't have the metics in the first place?
In this case, we have an existing study. Some countries habitually have a three month gap, with schools closing at the end of spring and opening at the beginning of autumn. Overall, a three month gap in schooling results in sliding back by one month's worth of learning. So, missing three months of school results in being four months behind where students should be.

Source: http://www.ldonline.org/article/8057/
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A list of top learning resources for PHP and Laravel developers and my personal journey of discovering them over the years.
Could you explain what risks there are in trying to isolate attenuated viruses from the human population? What are the ethical issues? Not the use of such an attenuated strain, just the isolation.

Just a small correction on the 69 deletion strains - they are all in gene coding reasons, but they are both frameshift and non-frameshift mutants.
We've been experimenting with Liftbridge at a range of scales and workloads, and clusters that are distributed across a single region perform very well. However, it's not really suitable for operating a cluster distributed across multiple regions because the latency adversely impacts the bandwidth of the Raft protocol that's used for cluster-wide coordination; this impacts the rate at which streams can be created, and the rate at which changes to In-Sync Replica sets (ISRs) can be propagated. As suggested, a federation of clusters, each covering a single region, would be required.
> The final project was changed to a python interpreter in Scheme which I thought was fantastic.

That is fantastic! ;-)
https://archive.md/QC6KH
The towel trick[1] brought a red-ringed 360 of mine back to life for a weekend, but then it died again. :(

[1] https://www.wikihow.com/Do-the-Xbox-360-Towel-Trick
the repetitiveness is the appeal, is all i can say. i hear similar arguments about ambient music. "it's the same chord for 40 minutes", "it's just white noise".
Claiming to have a Jewish mother (and thus being considered Jewish by pretty much everyone else, regardless of how you self-identify) does it for me.

You call yourself a Jew? You're welcome.

There are way more people shunning their Jewish identity, but I've never met someone pretending to be Jewish.
How are they encrypting the telephone connections?
Yeah - a lot of mass gets 'blown away' which really made it even stranger that gravity increased. While I found your explanation illuminating, I still don't see how you can end up with 'more' gravity then you started with? Mass determines gravity right ? not volume ?
I did. Tried their free credit stuff. Was seriously unimpressed. Felt like a beta test

Unless it's way cheaper I don't see the point
> Data pipelines are a real problem though

Can you please elaborate more, thanks.
Hungary fines Booking.com operator 6.1M pounds for unfair practices
My experience with common core has been pretty awesome FWIW. I didn’t see some of the stuff our daughter did in first and second grade till the end of high school and college. No more rote arithmetic applications, it presses for actual comprehension of the material from multiple angles. Challenging, but sometimes even fun for those not mathematically inclined.
> People choose to spend more or less on food, eat different things, etc.

Don't overlook the basic part in the term. The goal is not to provide all the food that everyone wants to eat. It would be to provide basic access to the baseline food needed to be healthy and functioning.

If you want more than that, great. Now you have an incentive to work. That's good, because we must incentivize people to be productive members of society otherwise the whole system collapses.

The intent with providing basic services or income is not to lower the total productive output of a society by removing incentives to work. Its to raise the total productivity by removing the inefficiencies caused when people are too poor, unhealthy, or afraid to work hard or be entrepreneurial.
There was discussion before that Zoom had serious security issues. Have these been fixed in the new version of zoom ? Eg would companies that previously banned zoom now allow zoom 5.0?

Eg some previous issues with zoom
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22736608
The last time I checked, Zoom was a publicly traded company. Of course, this doesn't invalidate your second point due to the existence of large institutional public investors.
My distrust of Amazon started when I had a baby. It felt like about 80% of the stuff I ordered at first was junk. Maybe not fake, I don't know, maybe I was just being too trusting with what I was ordering, but either way it was total junk. So I started reading reviews a lot more carefully. This didn't help, I still just got junk. So then I started only ordering things from brand names I recognized. A couple times I messed up and didn't order from the actual manufacturer, and got fake or refurbished items. Then I realized if I'm just buying brands I recognize, I can just as easily pick them up at Target for the same price. My Amazon purchasing has dropped way down since this experience.

Edit to add: just last week I ordered a potty training seat from Amazon. Great reviews. Supposedly installs into every kind of toilet. It shows up and, predictably, does not work properly with any of our toilets. I wish I would have gotten it from Target or the local consignment store where I could look at it and ask about how it works, and I probably would have if not for the lock-down. So Amazon is getting my business right now, but it's very begrudgingly.
Since this is only temporary one thing to try is what Erik Demaine did as a home schooled kid, his father told to look up whatever he was interested in and pursue it directly in the library which for him was programming games and origami. They're just going to hard reset the school year anyway
I would read it as: if you make a living with your unique voice, imitation to make profit is unlawful.

The fact that they're famous is really just a tautology. Voices that make money are generally more famous than ones nobody recognizes.
> The high-income districts couldn't be more excited

This is a very unfair characterization. I live in a "high income district" and have a strong relationship with several of my kids' teachers.

None of them is "excited" about this, and neither is the district. It's a shitty situation and they're doing the best they can. That it's possible for them to do it is great but even in high income districts, you have kids who can't attend , and the impact of the delivery is weak compared to in-classroom (double for special needs kids).

Everyone is losing out, and some kids in rural or low-income districts are going to greatly suffer education-wise.

Few, other than with a dedicated non-working parent will benefit from this.
> If that is too difficult to comprehend, then consider:

Gee, thanks there, buddy. :/
Well, you kinda have to weigh hard things against each other. A while back there was discussion here about the anti Thirty Meter Telescope protests in Hawaii and someone who lives on the big island gave a really good overview. It pretty much convinced me that that telescope will simply not be built there, period. I could not find the thread, sorry.

Apart from that SpaceX is building comms satellites that can handle gigabit speeds at costs around several hundred thousand dollars per satellite or at most the low-millions. Solar and batteries are far ahead from where they were when the Hubble was first built.

As I mentioned in another comment, the real reason is because Starship and Starlink are still not quite real. These telescope projects take a long time to design, fund, build, etc, so realistically they can only happen once those two have proven themselves, which will hopefully happen this decade.
From my personal experience, I do great when I can sit in a classroom and absorb what's being presented. You put the lecturer behind a screen, live or pre-recorded, and I lose most of my ability to stay on track.
All my markets are fully stocked. PNW doesn’t seem to have any shortages.
Really depends. Don't know about other countries, but French private pilotes (PPL) aren't allowed to fly commercially. Yet, they can and often do split the cost of the flight (fuel) with their passengers, and that is considered to be within the law.

Even though there is an exchange of money ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Would you rather they act as judge and jury about whom to allow payments to and whom not to? Before you answer, remember that somewhere there is someone who finds YOU objectionable!
It's the classic problem. I think when I am much older I will commit a lot of crime to benefit my great grandchildren. Time will ease their culpability and they can use arguments like the above.
Thiel would love to be able to embrace, extend, and extinguish.
What is the difference between the two?
Am I reading this correctly?

A five day old account has a video rocketing past 100k views already?
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Please don't editorialize titles. This is in the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) Cherry-picking the detail you think is most important from an article is editorializing.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, please post it as a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

If it's necessary to change a title, please do that by picking the most neutral and accurate phrase you can find on the actual page which represents what the article is about. More on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22932244

(Submitted title was "Waymo's simulators are doing 100 years of driving per day during WFH")
Because the non-app store version does weird stuff - faking installation, background services, etc. Sandboxed version would hopefully be less malware-like.
I am not blaming them exactly. Its a though situation for all involved and at least my kids teachers are clearly working as hard as they can to make this work and the school district has provided laptops and written materials to the relatively few kids that do not have access to those. Having said that, I do think they could do much better if they accepted that this situation will last indefinitely and their methods must change to rely more on parent supervision and kid autonomy.
Both of the articles you linked to mention local police, in Wuhan and Beijing.
Having known people who worked at Bird, I doubt it. They had a real culture of “hack it up and then move on”, going back and fixing stuff like that isn’t in their culture.
Or MFAAA?
I'm disappointed that the main Volkswagen article doesn't say "Volkswagen is a German car and sausage manufacturer..."
The problem in the meantime is that you have to keep the driver alert the whole time. Deaths involving Teslas almost always are because the driver had Autopilot on and was ignoring the “take control” warning.
>I don't think random people in the public deserve an apology.

They do, because he claims to serve the public by fulfulling government surveillance contracts.
All those services don't encrypt connections if they include PTSN phone calls or other features. Example: https://help.webex.com/en-us/WBX44739/What-Does-End-to-End-E...
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Nintendo confirms that over 160k accounts have been illegally accessed
The multi-value proposal breaks the ability to turn Wasm into expressions easily, and thus makes it even more of a stack machine than it already is. Dup and swap may still be added in the future.

A defining feature of a register machine is that the actual instruction encoding has direct references to source and destination registers in it. Wasm doesn't have those, it has explicit get_local instructions instead.

That said, if you turn off LLVM's WebAssemblyRegStackify pass, all LLVM IR's values will end up in locals, with little to no stack usage. Still no register machine, but a bit more of a grey area :)
I'll release them on The Pirate Bay as CC-BY-SA. Don't worry.
I can't read the story, but I'm living this. And I don't blame folks for finding it too tough.

It's crazy that so many commenters here seem to think that everyone is well equipped to be a teacher with zero training or experience. It's hard.

It's even more crazy that no one seems to realize that most parents are acting as teachers, while trying to maintain full time jobs.

This isn't just "teachers not adapting", or "we need VR". This is fundamental to the fact that most households need two working parents just to survive.
Interactivity is not a crutch.
Haha yes we have exactly 2 choices. "Democratic" elections.
Security. App store has much tighter rules on what a developer can do whereas downloading a dmg from somewhere pretty much leaves you to fend for yourself (and Zoom already has proven itself here).

Edit: clarifications
This is just some real classic house here and sometimes I just spend weeks listening only that. You may need a history yourself in the scene to get it. Music for minorities, music to heal.

And Kerri here is such an engineer, mixing pitch perfect with a complex system, fixing it if needed.

Such a legend.
I wanted to chime in and revel in your company... Something similar (but never as bad as your painful description of AZERTY) happens with Spanish keyboards, and there are even varieties for different Latin American countries. As you mentioned, I finally found ever lasting peace when I switched to an ANSI-US keyboard, and never looked back. Thankfully my current employer defaults to these keyboards; it used to be a chore to provision them some years ago.

So, in short, I hear you brother!
This is why it is a good idea to read the entire post before commenting. The process of checking each candidate strain requires going into the local community where the index case was found and looking for more cases.
That's basically what I keep seeing in the documentaries, but it's still not sinking in. For instance, being denser I could see it making a 'deeper' 'dimple' in the rubber membrane demos they use...but it would also be a much smaller diameter dimple, so only things really close and really small could 'fall' into it ?