skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You do nobody any good by claiming racism where there is none.

There is racist discrimination in banking. This can be demonstrated. The burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that the PPP program is somehow magically immune to that discrimination.
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We should acknowledge it's not a widely studied field, especially as exposing minors to hardcode pornography is not legal in most places. Having any evidence of studied effect is already pretty good in my book.

Outside of this specific question, current pornography landscape is already controversial regarding its effect on society regarding exploitation of the actors, gender bias projection affecting a range of fields including rape trials.

If adults can be ill affected by current porn production, is it a stretch to apply the same conclusion to children ? I'd argue it should at least be vetted as appropriate, the criteria for that being left to the parents.
do you seriously think it makes any sense to make laws that forbid eating nuclear waste or bombs? Thats ridiculous.
3) they forget to curb the asset price inflation in real estate and land values. The basic fact that UBI proponents have been warning about.

Real estate is just a hidden land value price. Look at Japan where the price od buildings are close to zero or even below zero (cost od destruction for new project) after about 30 years even when the total price (building+land) is astronomical.

The way to curb it is through Land Value Covenants or Land Value Tax or Hong-Kong style 99year leases or something to that effect.
And that's exactly the problem. We give them our things
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This is an over simplistic view that applies broad strokes. I hold the view that cash flow is king. Without having significantly more than 'twice the month income' right now I would be unable to pay my rent and bills and be forced to pick up lower income work at the opportunity cost of finding a new job that's in line with my career.
See eg 'Why Land Value Tax and Universal Basic Income Need Each Other' https://www.progress.org/articles/why-land-value-tax-and-uni...
Quibi seems to be trying to convert a users who would normally kill 5-10 minutes on Snapchat or Instagram into killing that same time on their platform. The problem is that this user pool is perfectly content killing thier 5-10 minutes on Snapchat or Instagram and convincing them that they actually need the "Snapchat or Netflix" is going to be very hard, especially when they charge a subscription.

If I am only willing to kill 5-10 minutes on my phone, my investment in whatever it is ill be killing time on is very low. So I suspect it's going to be very difficult to convince these users to pay a monthly fee for a service when Snapchat offers a similar level of gratification for free.
> I would prefer to give people rent checks

And then rents will augment by that exact amount, screwing up those who don’t get the check and nullifying its benefit for those who do. I know from experience as this is implemented in France (it’s called the APL). Lot of rents are higher than they should for students under the pretext this social aid exists.
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If you're looking for a fun project that can be completed in a weekend or less, one of the things I recommend is to write a (baseline) JPEG decoder. The official spec (linked from the article near the top) is quite readable as far as standards go, and even contains helpful flowcharts for basically the whole process. When I did it, it took less than 1kLoC of C, including some minor optimisations like array-based Huffman decoding (although the version in the spec is quite compact, it is slower --- but still not as slow as the "theoretical" bit-by-bit tree-traversal that a lot of other tutorials on Huffman show.)

H.261 (a video format) is roughly of the same if not slightly less complexity, and also makes a good weekend project.
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Smartwatch tracker for the vulnerable can be hacked to send medication alerts
From the point of view of international law, bombing a foreign country is far worse.

The "crime of aggression" is one of the most serious violations of international law that exists. One of the foundational principles of the post-WWII order is that countries cannot go to war against other countries, except in self-defense (very narrowly construed) or with permission from the UN Security Council.

What countries do within their own borders is much more their own business.

> there's a reason the international community reacted one way to Syria and one way to the US invasion of Afghanistan.

The reason is simple. Syria is not a powerful country, but the US is. Everyone recognized that the invasion of Iraq was aggression, and therefore illegal under international law. Nobody was willing to do anything about it, because the US was then the world's sole superpower.
Pssst: 17th.

The 16th is the income tax one.
Your core assumption is that flooding the system with money will cause inflation. However, in many modern cases we do not see that occurring in the traditional sense. Recently CPI-based inflation is non existent in the large economies of the world, but asset inflation is, which exacerbates wealth/income inequality and leaves the potential for a Japanese-style "Lost Decade" (which has been going on for much longer than 10 years at this point).

Asset bubbles, misallocation of capital, and mortgaging the future to support the present are the pressing concerns with easy money that should be addressed.
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Increasing density helps a lot. The US mostly has lost the skills and will to do density. New York mostly stopped building enough to keep up with demand.

Look at Asia to see how to tackle these problems better. Eg Singapore.
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Polygamous men are just alpha males, obviously not all men are alpha, they just have broader visibility.
Does your app make the code blocks readable in the comments? I would buy it just for that on mobile.
Okay, now I understand their point. Strange not to link it though.
But who has that kind of conversion rate? Disney with all its weight managed to convert not much more than that - percentage wise, although much more in absolute terms and article make that point. Are there any data points from Netflix, Hulu, Spotify. Amazon Prime is a bit of a different beast, as it is a bundle.
This repo has four lists that are look extensive but not sure if it's perfect.

https://github.com/confirmedcode/lockdown-ios/blob/master/Lo...

https://github.com/confirmedcode/lockdown-ios/blob/master/Lo...

https://github.com/confirmedcode/lockdown-ios/blob/master/Lo...

https://github.com/confirmedcode/lockdown-ios/blob/master/Lo...
I believe schools are mostly wrong in their computer education approach. The purpose and functions of MS Word (and most word processors for that matter) have not changed significantly in the last couple decades, despite the change of paint. Schools should be focused on teaching people what common applications are for and what they are capable of - not which buttons to press to perform specific tasks.
They've optimized it for the least common denominator, not for specialized use or for power users. Short term this is a positive approach as it's more approachable for people who are just learning or are very lightweight users. But for people who have a lot of experience or use it often, it's a serious regression.
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There is about four(!!!) orders of magnitude difference.

>numbers at guantanamo

Hundreds at any one time, under a hundred currently, well less than a thousand peak[1]

>numbers imprisoned at Xinjiang

On the order of millions[2]

If you want to be disingenuous more effectively I suggest you get better and choosing when to ask for citations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
Thanks, but that could use some documentation. Directory names like "1CO" are completely opaque to me, and almost certainly others
I'm not sure what you are getting at. A model is essentially an unproven hypothesis, it can never be proven and confidence in the model depends on the evidence. With models on the effects of climate change (aka impact models) the confidence is pretty much non existent, there were literal studies done to show that, it's actually a huge and complex ongoing research area. So the predictions of doom is nothing more, but propaganda, that conveniently forgets to say that such predictions are very likely to be wrong.
The similarities with the actions taken against Japan in the late '30s and early '40s are uncanny. Those actions were taken with full understanding that they are most likely to provoke Japan into attacking US territories in the Pacific due to the need to relieve the economic chokehold and as a response to what the Japanese saw as an unprecedented insult (economic sanctions increasing in severity but in particular freezing Japanese assets in the US and assisting Japans biggest enemy, China). Wonder if eventually they will get the same result again.
I've noticed FB crashing as well.
That was my takeaway from the documentary on the McDonald's Monopoly scam. The FBI spent incredible resources (and they were proud of having a whole field office working on it for months right before 911) to arrest and charge a whole bunch of people who didn't even make any money off it. Then in the end, outside of the core couple guys the harshest sentences were probation, frequently plea bargins, made by people who were themselves borderline victims of the whole scam.

I do think the guy doing the ticket swapping should have been stopped, but there were a lot of ways to achieve that, which didn't involve spending tens of millions+ to save McDonalds from giving a couple million away to an insider. Heck just letting mcdonnalds handle the inquiry with their internal security would have been enough to stop it (if all it did was scare the guy from ever trying it again).
While it is technically true, there's still plenty of vertical space. We've simply made it too hard to build new housing in US cities.
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Honestly, when we're incarcerating almost 1% of our nation, it's not at all clear that that's "far short of genocide". Especially when that 1% disproportionately falls on some racial groups, and that impact radiates out to further decimate those communities. And while it's not outright genocide, it contributes to a very high murder rate in those communities -- some of it committed directly by the government.

If forced to draw some sort of moral hierarchy I'd say yes, it's still not quite up to the organized atrocities committed against the Uighurs. But our disorganized, systemic atrocities are vast, and every other first-world nation is horrified.
That's a poor argument. That's like saying you didn't read this page's article, because the malware being discussed wasn't already known to you. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Formally, this is called an argument from ignorance.
8% is not a terrible conversion rate at all, and they’ve only just started. I’m not a Quibi user and have no vested interest in them either way but this is the third different article I’ve seen in the last week or 2 talking about how terrible they’re doing and now they’re about to crash and burn, because of an 8% conversion?

Comparing them to Disney is ridiculous too, it’s Disney! With multiple generations obsessed with their library and people literally counting down the days until their launch, they got a 10% conversion... but 8% is horrible and the end of Quibi?
Extending point 2, it’s essential if you’re running ads on Facebook and want to know if clicks on the ad in Facebook bring the user through to the app - ie so you can be sure you got a real conversion
The biggest (non technical one) is the ability to still be empathetic to devs day after day of them throwing shit over the wall to you
The android/iPhone thing isn’t on purpose, it’s an artifact of the organizational structure at WhatsApp
Certificate transparency should mean that those wrongly-signed certificates make it out into the world though, right?

I am not quite sure how mandatory CT is at the moment though.
Well, depends on what you mean by UBI?

If you just took all the existing taxes and welfare programmes, carefully noted what net payment people are getting at various income levels, and then replaced it with a simpler system of a fixed UBI payment and a tax system to roughly replicated the same net payments; I don't see how that would be any less sustainable than what we currently have?

And current systems have been muddling through in most countries for quite a while so far.

However, if by UBI you mean that everyone is supposed to get some extra magic money out of nowhere, yes, that wouldn't really work.
>But it's not so much an Excel problem as it is a problem with the lack of an obvious next-step ramp for those users

This is something of a general issue that was essentially created by the success of MS Office. With "everyone" using MS Office or something quite similar, there really wasn't a huge market or interest in a different program that was just an incremental step up.

There are exceptions but, for the most part, people tried to push MS Office to do things it wasn't really designed to do because the next step was jumping to some complex and expensive program from Adobe or whoever.
Highly recommended lecture in this age where applied science is preferentially granted, A very interesting view from the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton.
Why does anything need an intellectual basis? Don't we have democracy so that 'popularity' is basis of policy?
> Cut what you can, and adjust as needed. It's not a reason to Refuse To Get Started On The Problem, which is what nitpicky criticism like this gets used for in practice.

Fair, but UBI advocates very often do things like bundle up all existing social payments, divide the total dollar value by the population size, and say "look how efficient it would be if we just gave this money away rather than having a complicated set of bureaucracies charged with disbursing it fairly!"

If the argument for how affordable UBI is hangs on this kind of logic, then yeah, it is pretty relevant to take an upfront look at what proportion of existing program funding (and associated bureaucracy) are actually candidates for being replaced like this. Some are obvious exclusions, like anything to do with mental or physical disabilities, and some are fairly clearly covered under UBI, like unemployment insurance. But a huge pool of them are pretty murky— think especially of things like child/family benefits, or anything to do with education or job retraining.
It's pretty fringe; virtually all economists either Disagree or Strongly Disagree with the theory[1]. When weighted by confidence, 72% of economists strongly disagree.

Also, this works both ways — if we can MMT unlimited money to fund spending, why pay taxes at all? We should, in theory, be able to cut taxes to 0 (or as close to 0 limited by real scarcity) and MMT the entire budget.

[1] http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/modern-monetary-theory/
I think that choices like this come from a weird symbiotic relationship between UI designers and product managers. The UI people need to justify their jobs; if they sit on their hands all day because the UI works well, they can't make that justification. Managers don't want to "see a product stagnate" and to fix that they want a "fresh new look". The users don't enter into this relationship.
My two plus decades in academia have been amazing. I am surrounded by really cool people with interesting backgrounds doing fascinating work. Our students work incredibly hard and really bring a lot of positive energy to campus. The hours can be long, especially when teaching, but there is also a lot of flexibility which was really important when my kids were growing up.
On the other hand, Disney has mountains of cash behind them while Quibi is VC-funded and VCs typically want to see results to decide whether to continue or cut their losses. Disney can get away with a terrible conversion rate forever while a startup can run out of funding very quickly.
Besides, for any malicious interference with updates you will be breaking code-signing on those updates.
I like the clean design of Beamjobs.com. Wish that was more common.
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My biggest observation is the large scale social impact of people not needing to work. In the US many people got unemployment benefits and were unable to work. We also had nationwide protests by both liberals and conservatives for various causes. Some looting in there, aggressive police response and crazy people waving guns.

It seems to me that given UBI people will spend their time championing their causes at the expense of those who are working (blocking areas with protests is just that). Seems a very unstable dynamic as I'd imagine both conservatives and liberals would escalate until mass violence breaks out.
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And Disney+ trials do roll over into subscriptions without user action which is mentioned as a factor elsewhere in this thread.
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While Spotify crashing on launch may be a nuisance, this also affects life-critical apps crashing on launch. Our forensic analysis [1] found that half of the top 21 iOS safety apps send data to Facebook, and last time this happened back in May we spot-checked some of these safety apps and they were all crashing on launch. The SDK is typically included for ad attribution/tracking, not Facebook login, so it wouldn’t even be visible to the end user, and there’s no way to disable it.

[1] https://parachute.live/blog/forensic-investigation-the-shock...
Probably paying off student debt from an MFA.
Even if Project Zero exclusively focused on competitors, they'd still be providing a valuable service. Maybe Microsoft and Apple should have the same sort of project. If they're all competing at who can break each other's code the worst, that'll end up with better products from all of them.
> I don't see how this is an unrealistic scenario. The rehabilitation of George Bush's image happened faster than I ever thought it would.

Trump isn't going to be rehabilitated like Bush. Politics aside, George Bush seems like a genuinely decent guy at a personal level. Trump, on the other hand, is a nasty, selfish bully; he always has been one, and he always will be one. As long as he remains alive, he will constantly remind America if his nature.
You are misunderstanding the negative income tax.

Negative income tax is exactly equivalent to a UBI plus regular income tax.

See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax for an explanation.
A really interesting exploration is Co-dfns [1]. This is indeed a compiler that runs on the GPU, but it's also extremely out of the mainstream.

IMHO this is an area ripe for more exploration. If I were working on it, I might look to linking first before compilation, because the basic link task is more similar to what GPUs are good at (advanced stuff such as LTO is a different story, though).

[1]: https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns
Is that truly an absolute?

“You we’re texting and driving. You could have killed someone!”

And if you genuinely believe people posting selfies are narcissists, does this mean you should ignore and keep quiet?
My shortcut is to look for people who get stuff done. During interviews I don’t ask technical questions or test the candidate but talk about accomplishments.

How many projects have they deployed to production and what problems does it solve?

A lot of developers work just during the development phase of a project and then jump to the next one. As a consequence they have no experience deliverying real life products and support systems in production.

I always look for people who finished things. Anyone can start or work on an ongoing project but just a few go through the whole process and have to maintain their stuff running.

I also talk about what the project does, in details, for the business. A good developer has to understand they are building something that is not just a piece of software but a tool to solve problems.

If they have these 2 things, I think we can work on the rest if needed.
Which one. Quote it and send it on keybase and I will address it when I have time. You can then copy and paste it wherever you want with cryptographic proof that I said it.
This is exactly why I never got further than their login/signup.

Being forced to give them one of my 'most unique identifiers' (my phone number) was an absolute 'no'.
I will be honest. I really don't get it. How come I am working harder, and more hours, and studying more but I don't earn more ? - It should have been a direct correlation. Shouldn't technology and automation and all of this good stuff make us work less but earn more ?
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Hi, my name is Eric La Force, and I have been working on a new product idea with my twin brother Keith. While we think it would be helpful in our own lives, I wanted to post to determine if others can evaluate the concept and weigh in on whether or not there is a market before we invest more time. If there are additional applications for the idea we'd love to hear about it.

In my house, we have a real problem with noise, especially now that I am working from home every day. I wear noise-canceling headphones, but there are times when I can not or do not feel like wearing them. The ambient noise can be distracting while trying to focus. In addition, noise is a problem for my youngest child (1-year-old). The toddlers are constantly waking her up. My wife and I use white noise sound machines, but they have to be turned pretty loud to be effective and even that sometimes does not work.

In order to solve these problems, my brother and I put together a proof of concept to build a noise reduction system for a residential size room combining white noise and active noise cancellation algorithms. We have a working proof of concept, but it definitely needs work before I would call it a prototype, much less an MVP. Before we invest more time in the idea, is this a pain point worth solving? You can see a concept video here: https://www.diminish.ai/ and sign up for a newsletter if you are interested in keeping up with the product. We would appreciate any feedback!
> What do you mean “press delete”?

I mean they would prohibit all vital operations of these companies in China. What would Apple do if China will give them a Huawei treatment?

They wouldn't even be able to move away from China, if their Chinese suppliers would be told to cease doing business with Apple globally.

Pretty much every globally prominent company dealing with light industries, manufacturing, electronics has some things in their products which they cannot reasonably expect to get elsewhere but in/from China.

Second to that: check what you saw in the previous half of the year. A lot of living essentials are made almost solely in China. Would US elites be ready to deal with angry unwashed masses who, with some help, and incitement, would go torch their houses because they can't get not only their new Iphone, but basic medicines, clothing, car parts, basic household goods, widgets for their businesses, and such?

Unless Americans are ready for that, they can't fight China, and the people in Beijing know it very well.
Had to restart my iPhone 7, now waze works again.

Haven’t seen anything like this before.