skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely wrong. Example:

Jeff Bezos, worth $150B, or the same worth of approx. 1M Americans, does not consume nor release carbon 1M times more than an average American.

Proportionally to his wealth, he's much less affected by a carbon tax.

For the same reason, someone below the average wealth and/or income is heavily affected by a carbon tax.
It has to be scaled correctly somehow. For instance some big project uses isEven, which depends on isOdd, which depends on isNumber. All different npm modules. There are some people notoriously making these really small functions, and then creating a huge web by depending on other modules by the same author. Then just hoping one of them will get traction.
It’s not actually tricky. Simple ask foreign manufacturers to voluntarily submit to Western inspectors (so e.g. the US can control their production process same as it would if they were based in the US ... this of course shouldn’t only happen for CO2, but for other environmental & labour standards as well) and slap a 20-50% import fee on all that don’t. The problem solves itself!

That way local manufacturers aren’t being penalized, while foreign manufacturers can still be more competitive because of lower labour costs. Levelling the playing field.
> Whos going to: - clean your hotel/office/home - cook your food - serve your food - fix your household - grab your garbage [...]

People will take these "sucky" jobs, but they will be compensated well enough to justify it (since they will have an option of not working). This raise the prices overall, but not at the same level. For example, meat products prices will grow more than let's say organic vegetables. Note that demand for many of the products and services is pretty elastic (most people don't have to go to restaurants, they can cook something at home). This way at least people will have an option of having UBI and living frugally, instead of doing a crappy job.
But isn't this kinda obvious? Current WH administration is dead set to stop mailin voting. They've found a way to make that happen. I think we're all missing the obvious here.
Is it checking those types or just reporting then?

I’ve seen so many instances where yard doc has the wrong return type or misses a return type that I rarely trust it.
The vast majority of STMs use lock-based transaction management. There are lock-free designs, but these tend to perform worse due to creating a lot of memory bus traffic. Unfortunately lock-free algorithms can easily perform worse than their lock-based counterparts. There are often simpler alternatives to reduce lock contention pitfalls on hot paths (like map reads), while still taking advantage of locking (like map writes).
Maybe not in architecture and thus in perf ceiling, but they actually get good perf, which is generally not the case for the main implementations of other popular scripting languages IMO. Thanks for highlighting the tracing JIT issue.
Agreed this would be nice, though this layer of complexity introduces a bigger attack surface for bad actors. They could try to get their modules listed as dependencies of popular projects to piggyback on their downloads. On the flip side there are some low-level tools (say, the `stylis` CSS autoprefixer) that are almost never used in their "raw form" but are the backbone of several massively popular projects. It's a tricky balance.
They have a pretty good idea of what the orbit would look like to explain the eccentric orbits of TNOs. It's not circular, but it's not that eccentric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine#/media/File:Planet...
Not quite. The tax take would double from a consumption tax.

Total retail sales (https://www.statista.com/statistics/443495/total-us-retail-s...) is c. 6T.

Assuming that most of the 4T comes from taxing the activity represented by retail sales (a very safe bet), you need to get most of 4T from 6T. Ie., you're basically doubling the prices of retail goods -- including food.
Fairness is relative. In Iceland, that minimum wage guarantees that you can live in some comfort. In the US, you can work in a similar job with similar hours, but your shifts are often completely unpredictable (and intentionally kept below 35 hrs/week to avoid paying benefits), you can be fired at any time, and a single unexpected expense like a health problem can see you reduced to homelessness.
Isn't it better to be happy than to be "the best"? Would you really rather draw meaning in life from your country's position in the global economy than from your own happiness? Do you even matter at that point as a human being or are you just a gear in the machine to crank up the economy of your country. You're disposable.
Taking your completely nihilistic view, why is working a useless and pointless job better than creating dance videos on tik tok?
sojs = lol
I am a landlord. My rent prices are based on competition, not how much money my tenants make.
That’s not what’s being argued. Rather, the poor are going to pay less in carbon taxes than they receive in UBI. This is simply a matter of how power laws and averages work.
> While an M⊕ object is too light to be an astrophysical
black hole formed by stellar collapse, PBHs arise from
over densities in the early universe [15, 16] and as a result can be substantially lighter than M .

Normally black holes do have at least the mass of ~1.4 times our sun because they are formed by stellar collapse. That is why here they are considering Primordial Black Holes which a) formed differently and b) radiated some of their mass away
Yeah, anchoring a Mass Relay to a black hole would be too hazardous.
Well, if we don't want to make it permanent, why go for UBI at all, rather than improving unemployment insurance?

IMO, a much better solution would be to segregate subsidized housing between quiet people who are actually trying to study, and the abusers that make such places unlivable.
Newly-released emails reveal how Google hoped to pay $50M for YouTube
My guess is that they wanted it removed since it is more useful communicating outside the field and that printing out that figure would take a lot of ink. Even if the journal doesn’t do much actual printing, I know many researchers that prefer to print out articles before reading them.
Yup this is for sure not all the outputs, but these are all in sequence, so it's able to output this quality consistently. It's just really good at generating human-like output. I posted a link to a Gist with full playground file in one of the other comments here, that included both my seed prompts at the top and then all the OpenAI answers below.

Regardless, maybe I or someone else can create a post with a random set of questions / answers to show a more unbiased view of the GPT-3 outputs.
GPT3 writing code. A compiler from natural language to code
Maybe if you explained your metaphor a bit more it would make sense to me - as it stands I'm not really sure what you're trying to say.
What about B̶r̶i̶l̶l̶o̶,
A̶n̶d̶r̶o̶i̶d̶ ̶T̶h̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ (no news since [1])

Or A̶n̶d̶r̶o̶i̶d̶ ̶W̶e̶a̶r̶,
W̶e̶a̶r̶ ̶O̶S̶ (no news since [2])

[1] - https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/02/an-update-...

[2] - https://blog.google/products/wear-os/investing-wear-os-ecosy...
If you have heuristics fast enough to make kd-trees competitive, it would be interesting to have them added to http://ann-benchmarks.com/
Why is that wrong?

Given you will have progressive taxes. Land lords will be paying for your UBI more than others would will be paying for it.

The idea is here is not to punish the rich. But it's more on the lines of ensuring every one has something to rely on if they don't have a job.
For example Turbo Pascal included a Language Guide book that documented the entire Object Pascal language with railroad diagrams:

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturVersion7.0La...
How many people would rather raise their kids than work one or more jobs? Or has raising kids not been deemed useful because "in general" the market will compensate based on how much others want it?
Personally I'm waiting for this to get added to http://ann-benchmarks.com/ to see how it measures up across datasets.

Edit: Looks like it's already there for some datasets. Interestingly it is primarily strong for the glove-100 dataset. I wonder if there are parts of scann that (accidentally) exploit structure specific to word vectors.
> With inflation, that $100,000 is $870,935 today.

Whenever I see inflation adjusted prices, I feel like I'm getting robbed.
One possibility is to discourage advertising. As the article points out, it's zero-sum. 78% of Americans are spent out. Make advertising no longer a deductible business expense. It's like multilateral disarmament. There are too many products where most of the cost is advertising.

As for universal basic income, someone wrote that the 21st century has been the move from career, to job, to gig, to universal basic income.

How about enforcing an 8 hour day, a 40 hour week, and a good minimum wage? That's a start. And make "time theft" by employers a crime.
Show HN: SelectPlus – Quick actions when selecting text
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C = Copy (Ctrl+C)

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I = Italic (Ctrl+I)

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Control+key shortcuts is a little bit hard to press. Use this way ,you can use only one key to trigger actions that need Ctrl modifier.

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I suspect something unusual is happening too. I've been watching a tiny package I ordered being shipped from San Mateo to Palo Alto via UPS. It has been 7 days, and for the last 4 days its status in San Leandro has been:
"Package departed UPS Mail Innovations facility enroute to USPS for induction"
Can't wait for that dark chocolate cocoa floss!
Kind of depressing to see people see a fascinating new world that has developed for billions of years in the cold made of volatile chemicals, and the first reaction of people reading about it is to cut it up and remake it in our image.
Carbon taxes should be applied to carbon intensive industries not individuals.

Sure, the cost gets passed down, but you can only charge consumers so much. If it turns out that industry can't get costs down enough such that they make profit and consumers can afford it, then that is kind of the point of the tax. They need to "spend" less carbon or die out to businesses that can.
Long-term unemployment is a big thing in Germany, and they are essentially getting a UBI-equivalent (generous housing including utilities, health care, TV etc, cash, ~1000€ a month in total on average). While it's hard to quantify "productive use of their lives", it's certainly not productive in a contributing-to-society kind of way, and there's also no creative explosion happening.

I believe the big misunderstanding is that intrinsically motivated people assume everybody is like them. But most people are not like them at all, so what might work for you will probably not work for them.
I did not read all the posts completely, but I missed one point here. Our system only works because we are wasting resources through unnecessary production.
Just today there was a fitting reddit post about what I mean.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/i04tc1...

UBI is for the last nail in the coffin that justifies our current economic system. It just prolongs the eventual discussion about real changes.

I am not close to understand the current economy. As I see it, the thing that somehow works is FOSS and the path it took to succeed. People believe in free distribution and usage. People devoting their time to produce software for the community and participation in such projects.

Economy experts will always try to convince us that capitalism and the growth problem can be solved, but this only under the assumption that we continue exploiting and wasting resources, both natural and human.

Over last the couple of month I have been reading statements to be not that much productive. The argument is, that if we automate too much, how can the system live on?

By handing out income via UBI? All the unclear points have already been pointed out here and it does not solve my initial statement and that is that we are producing too much and development and with it production cycles are too short. New devices, new products just come with minor changes and those maybe because of the short development time with a shorter lifetime and more problems.

We are used to a certain way of living. It is time to overthink our lifestyle and then start a real discussion on how to solve our problems.
This is how my arch box is setup. I've done it by following some page on the arch wiki [0].

There is only one binary containing the kernel itself, the kernel command line and initrd that is signed and booted directly by the EFI. There's no bootloader in the grub sense.

That being said, I can see how one could argue that that's "not exactly normal", in the same sense that gentoo isn't.

I'm surprised this isn't more widespread, especially since most UEFI PC's I've seen have a very practical way of choosing which OS to boot.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB
> People were sustaining in Kuwait for more than 200 years before they had access to cheap international commercial food.

> If not for a global food supply the only fresh fruit available here would be a single variety of date available during a single 6 week window.

I guess dates are seriously underappreciated as a superfood...
Sorry. I didn't mean to imply a moral judgement on the issue. I was just trying to provide an example that furthers the parent's point on Amazon being very protective of their data.
> “do I toil away for the wealthy class? Or do I took away for myself?”

This is a false dichotomy. You don’t toil for the wealthy, you toil for your fellow citizens to whom you provide a service.

Nobody owes you a living.
> Even the most hardcore anti-capitalists have to give respect to how the combination of capitalism and technology has worked to lift most of the world out poverty and provided us with the security and comfort only kings enjoyed just a few century’s ago.

Except capitalism had nothing to do with it. Technology, sure. But capitalism has only hampered this lifting out of poverty, not helped.

And yes yes, i cant wait for people to go "but what about USSR????", and i fully admit, dictatorships also don't work.
Not sure if you meant it that way but information actually can't be created or destroyed in quantum mechanics. This is known as the no-hiding theorem [1] which has been experimentally proven and which leads to the black hole information paradox. [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hiding_theorem

2. ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
I added a footnote to address this. I admit I hadn't thought this bit out fully.

Basically there needs to be a mechanism by which the set of maintainers divvy up the money.

A pattern I expect will arise (actually it probably already exists): there can be different "contribution tiers", a fixed percentage of the proceeds go to each tier, for each tier the allocated percentage is be distributed evenly.
I was wondering if there’re use cases for this in the real world where relational database doesn’t cut it?
> That the threat of being homeless forces people to work, against their will?

The threat of imprisonment forces people to pay taxes, against their will. Shouldn't we do away with that too?
Seahawks 12th man !!
> Instead of buying a 20-pack of $necessary_product that costs $20 and will last for months, the lower class buy a 2-pack that costs $5 and lasts a couple weeks

Get together with your neighbors and buy a 20-pack?

> the lower class have to buy their own uniforms or tools.

Workers owning their own tools. Isn't it what Karl Marx dreamt of?

> Instead of a 5% interest rate on their loan, they have a 25% interest rate.

Don't use loans. Seriously. You either can afford something, or you can't. Buying a house is probably the only exception.
I know in US culture it sounds almost as crazy as "don't own a car" or "don't watch TV", but that's entirely possible.
Their increase in consumption is not proportional to their increase in net worth.
To extend on that, the US releases about 5.1 billion tons of CO2 in a year. Each gallon of gasoline release roughly 20 pounds of CO2. That means that 1 gallon of gas would be taxed at $7.84 if we pollute at our current rates.
The JL lemma is an essentially an error bound, which reassures us that dimensionality reduction (compress big vectors —> small vectors) is not a lost cause. More specifically, it says that even if you perform a random projection—the most naive DR method—to compress a high-dimensional data matrix to a low-dimensional one (i.e. same number of rows, but many fewer columns), it will only the distort the pairwise Euclidean distances between points (row vectors of the data matrix) by $this_much.

Example: if you crudely crunch MNIST from a [60000 x 784] matrix down to [60000 x 15] matrix (15 is arbitrary here—anything smaller than the original 784 works) using random projection, the JL lemma tells you how badly you mangled the similarity structure of your dataset in the worst case scenario. It turns out it’s not so bad, so we can use DR to compress our data matrix and then confidently do useful things with the vectors it contains (like search for similar ones).

ScaNN is an approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search algorithm. There is an entire zoo of them, but they all have the same goal: given a query vector q and a data matrix X (where q has the same number of elements as a row vector in X), find the k vectors in X that are “most similar” to q, without exhaustively checking all the possible matches. Most similar could be any similarity or distance measure, but in this case it’s the simple inner product.

To do this more quickly, the algorithm uses a type of vector quantization (i.e. sort the high-D vectors into buckets), which is similar to k-means. K-means can also be construed as a dimensionality reduction technique, you are just reducing to a single dimension. That way you’re only looking in buckets where there’s hope of finding close matches.

This works great in real life with socks—if you’re trying to find a match for a stray black dress sock, then 1) make sure you presort your socks so that they are approximately binned by similarity and 2) look in the bin that contains socks most similar to your “query sock” (i.e. don’t look in the colorful athletic sock or plain white dad-sock bins). I’m not actually kidding, if you have a billion unmatched socks in a box, try this and you’ll see.

Anyways...as for this particular algorithm, someone else may be able to explain the details better. But my coarse understanding is that the loss function (which measures how good the bucketing is—how purely you pre-binned your socks) was defined in such a way that accounts for the density of the region in question—a neighbor in NYC means something different than a neighbor in Wyoming, so you need more granular buckets for denser regions. However, I thought this was essentially how almost every ANN algorithm worked, so how this one blows all the others out of the water (faster for a given recall value) is mystifying to me.

[PS—someone please correct me if any aspect of my loosey goosey explanation is inaccurate]
Developer made a tool to schedule Google Assistant commands
Look again, it’s in there.
If we could write tests in .rbs files it would more naturally fit into existing 2 file workflows.

Mind you, if we could write tests in .rbs then I guess .rbs could form the basis of a new ruby syntax without breaking compatibility with old code in .rb files.
it's not more terrifying than a planet or a sun, it's just more dense and invisible to the eye :)
It's near the median. Plenty of corruption, but they are not a command economy in any sense.
> Whos going to: ....

The same people who do those jobs now -- mostly immigrants.

Only citizens would get UBI.

That's why it's really important to have a good minimum wage and protections for those employees, so they don't get abused.
Tech turkeys: Apple and Google dominate the year's menu of failures
You can create a version of grub which requires gpg signatures for everything it loads, including any modules, the initramfs and grub.cfg, then sign that version of grub with a secure boot key. You'll possibly need to then sign your kernel twice (once with sbsigntool and once with gpg).

I don't know if this meets your definition of "actually secure" but it does mitigate the issues around initramfs etc.
Ask HN: Reporting Services, but not Visual Studio-based?
Say I have a pile of customer data and would like to generate PDFs with individual offers based on the data and some logic.

I’ve done this quite swiftly in the past in MS SQL Server Reporting Services, but surely there has to exist a similar product not tied to Visual Studio?
Why does it need to contain an actual ARM processor?
Less scary than most, since the paper predicts it would be somewhere in the range of 5cm diameter. Very difficult to hit, even if you were trying.
>> late-arriving mail will now be left behind by carriers and delivered the next day. Overtime will be eliminated.

This is a pretty negative change, without overtime the whole system will move like molasses.
A person's utility to the market is the best tool we have to measure a person's benefit to society. The measurement is not perfect, market valuation obviously has blind spots, but what's UBI's alternative? Throw it all out, let people choose whatever they want?

I agree that grueling work shouldn't be necessary for survival. And people who can't or won't work for whatever reason shouldn't be left to suffer horribly or just die. But that's why I support welfare. UBI doesn't pressure or even incentivize people to create value for society. Doing no work at all should not be an easy choice.
Not only is what you described as 'tricky' - it's considerably too expensive and unworkable. We have a hard enough time agreeing on basic things, let alone get into the operational details of 'inspectors' from 'foreign countries' waltzing around.

We can't even do with money ie where it really matters. There are no real generally accepted accounting practices in large swaths of the world. And even then - things get tricky and ambiguous.

No - just tax the fuel and that's it. The fuel gets a harmonisation if it's taxed somewhere else and coming into the country and that's that.
At that point it’s just a license to use.

MIT isn’t going to fly anymore if the intention is to make money off of that.
Nice! I’ve been using a similar non-OSS tool called Up Next (https://ellen.li/up-next/). It works great but is not open source.
Well it's got a warm centre for a start and the elements required for RNA according to a documentary I watched the other night, so perhaps not so far-fetched.
While it is more sophisticated than most people think, target famously knowing about a pregnancy, even before a close family member does happen , online will always have lot more data, and it is just not data on the website only .
If life was so simple.

The new Android version might have introduced features that render that old app worthless.

Examples of such changes.

Locking down use of private APIs (abused by some apps), locking down NDK to the official Android native APIs and public shared objects, both cases app gets killed when doing naughty stuff, sandboxed file system (now really enforced in upcoming 11), permissions (now enforced with the Play Store minimum target version), and a couple more.

So if the app happens not to be constantly updated, it might just be rendered worthless with a new Android phone.
That's not what the singularity is.