skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no proof that would actually appease you.

That's not a reason to not even try to offer anything though.

You could start with a trial of these 120 persons (select from all classes of society), give them UBI and double their taxes to make it realistic, because the UBI has to be paid somehow. If plenty of them would have less money during this trial and still find UBI worth it, that would be a strong signal.

Few people would agree to be part of that study though, and one might argue that those that would (i.e. by applying) won't be representative of society at large.

Testing only the spending side of UBI is fun but useless, especially with that setting.
We're still not at the point where weight savings from motor offsets battery. Tesla cars are all extremely heavy for their size
Wow, 1,000 pieces for that is intense. The Mars one we got was tough for similar reasons, but didn't take too long since it is so much smaller.
Isn't that exactly what the article says?
That's kinda the point. We define what a spherical cow is to be able to compare the real world against it. The problem for economists is that lay persons take that spherical cow to be truth and base whole ideological systems on those spherical cow.
The late 3's were tough with our oldest. When our twins turned 6 months she totally had it out for the boy twin and would near constantly try to hurt him. It really didn't matter what we did or threatened. 5 minutes after a timeout, or us taking away something she wanted, she would be back at it again. Oh yes, she didn't like timeouts - she would kick and scream and cry during those timeouts. But it didn't matter.

All we could really do was make sure they were physically separated as much as possible. That helped a lot. But the times they got close, she usually took advantage and did something to hurt him. E.g. if he was near her path to the bathroom, she would step on his hand while walking close to him.

Ultimately, she just grew out of it around 4 years old. But it was a really stressful and unfun time period.

She's 5 now, and the twins are 3. She loves playing with them. Until she doesn't of course, but even still - for the past 1.5 years she doesn't want to do anything without them.
> inodes

Can't you deal with this by using a mounted filesystem?
Apparently my browser(firefox) is unsupported. Seems to work fine when I change user agent to chrome.
Seems like you'd be better off with a ground-based catapult system to get the plane up to speed and in the air where the on-board motors could take over.
BO hasn’t done anything. They’ve demonstrated zero progress. They haven’t even attempted orbit. Their tiny tourist vehicle has gone what, four years in testing, without a single person on board, let alone a customer?

So why the positivity? Because they made videos and a giant plastic lander mockup?

Why the negativity? They tried to patent landing rockets on a ship ten years ago, and still have never done it.
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Very first sentence in TFA:

“First of all, Drupal is not dead. But...”
OK, we've replaced the title with the more narrowly scoped language from the first paragraph.

Another issue here is the phrase "moving to". That's not the same thing as actually doing it, and frequently the processes that articles like this are describing end up outputting to /dev/null.
If only I could have convinced my previous department head of this.
>I created a home-based program (week to week) where we learned everything I could find that would normally be in a regular pre-school curriculum.

>We worked for 3 hours every morning "studying", and he was 4.

>Yes. If parents stop complaining, and get down to work, and make this fun for their kids, and have a positive attitude, even the youngest students can learn from home.

this is so out of touch with reality that it doesn't even begin an argument in good faith.
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I'm missing some context. Why would Sony devkits be sensitive? What exactly do you mean by "devkit"? I though of those development kits with one specific processor you want to get familiar with, plus auxiliary hardware and software to help access it.
I think in the US people see it as an assault on freedom. Concern that what starts as a suggestion will turn into a tax, and then the tax into a ban. Some value freedom over health.

That may seem illogical since you can't have freedom if you're dead, but we ask people to make a similar trade-off (risk life/health for freedom) when joining the military, and many do.
What you did with your child is vastly different than sitting them down in front of a computer screen for hours. You interacted with your child and gave them a social experience and hands on activities. People have to work and can't just take off to be full time teachers for their children. Sure you would have loved Zoom, but I doubt your child would have.
The key metric Sweden is winning at is that they're already at the finish line. They never locked down and their death counts are the lowest they've been since before the pandemic. Single digits and zero in recent days.
Sounds like entoptics?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoptic_phenomenon
> I expect you to be cheering when Iran assassinates Trump

I understand that the HN zeitgeist is not circumspect about topics like Iran and petroleum because there is a strong distaste for anything that seems imperialistic here, but that's not a reason to make uninformed arguments and accuse me of cheering the idea of someone's death. I'm making some fairly informative and historically accurate comments. If you disagree with the substance then please do so without accusing me of being inhumane.

> Governments have responsibilities to their own citizens, not foreign corporations.

Governments ensure citizens' prosperity by protecting economy and trade via foreign-facing agreements. The beneficiaries of smart foreign trade are the citizens themselves. Iran is an example of this; its government's budget has been funded almost entirely by petroleum revenue for decades.
We already have mirror pixels and camera pixels
so your job involved none of the company's IP?
It should be noted that this situation is not all that uncommon at Apple. For pre-1.0 iOS work, e.g., often individual engineers on macOS teams were tapped to do iOS specific changes to their components without their managers having clearance to know about it.

For the Mac Intel switch, the situation was even more curious, as the earlier work was carried out by a larger group of engineers, with little special secrecy, but the final stretch was done by a smaller subset of those engineers in strict secrecy, while the others were led to conclude that the effort had petered out.

The difference in this case was, of course, that the client of the special project was apparently external…
> If we are spending hundreds of times as much mitigating a virus five times as bad as common illnesses

how do you quantify "five times as bad" ? if I run my car into a brick wall at ten miles an hour, vs. 50, one event damages my car the other kills me. is that "five times as bad"?

> are we now going to spend dozens of times more money/effort mitigating the flu every year? If yes then we will see lockdowns like this regularly going forward.

no, why would we? the flu does not overwhelm hospitals [edit: the 2018 flu season comparison is a counterpoint but there is no argument this is anything on the scale what covid has done in places like NYC], cripple the entire medical system such that thousands of patients are left to die in hallways and parking lots, and spread exponentially to kill hundreds of thousands of people within just a few months.

> If no, then the vast majority of the response to COVID is an emotional overreaction, not rational risk mitigation/pricing in externalities.

you have made no argument to support this case.

> I will say in mid-March, when things looked quite different based on our limited knowledge of the virus, that the response wasn't entirely unwarranted.

what exactly "looked quite different" ? the main things that were known in march, e.g. spreads exponentially, r0 is something like 2 or 3 if steps aren't taken, has a 20% hospitalization rate, has a high death rate for those hospitalized which has improved somewaht but that is predicated on the fact that hospitals are availble, are still true.

There were a lot of tweets from people who work in public health about the argument you're making. "If people said we overreacted, then we will know we did our job". That's how it works when you prevent a horrible thing from going out of control. People who for whatever reason don't seem to understand what happened will crow about how unnecessary that was. Can you see how this looks to anyone who is actually trained in this area?
Wow with these comments. You going to the gym is not saving the economy. Yes, we can't shut everything down but you'd think the article was about shutting down grocery stores or the stock market. And by not doing your part, your whole community could be stunted for 2 years. Also congratulations for not caring about a 1 in 200 chance of death (pretty high by the way) because you're healthy and passing on the risk to some vulnerable person (probably your parents or a school teacher) with a 1 in 10 chance of death. You might be helping your personal economy, but you're not helping "the economy".

- give up a few luxuries especially if they involve heavy breathing or eating in close quarters.

- Work from home if you can

- Socially distance

- Wear a mask when you can't socially distance

- Go to work if you need to. Don't go to other people's work if you don't need to

- Support temporary benefits to your fellow citizens as you helpfully avoid going to their place of work.
Yes, this is also what I learned in my drawing studio. Our brains already have a preconception of what, for example, a human face looks like: Eyes, nose, ears, mouth. We think this way because it allows us to quickly recognize what distinguishes a human face from a chair.

But really, as you said, drawing is about SLOWING DOWN and noticing the parts that make up the eyes, nose, ears, mouth. In my own drawing education I've found that the description I'd give of drawing is the "study of shapes", not symbols.
Could who watched it give a review of what it covers?

There's a lot of ethics lectures that follow a formula of 1) show (usually slightly misleading) news stories of bad outcomes from automation / AI like the Target diaper story, 2) say that these things are a problem and we need to think more when designing this software.

I was wondering which of these videos cover more concrete guidance or solutions, so I can focus my viewing.
A lot of landlords accept that their tenants can't pay rent for now.

It's not like there are alternative tenants who can pay around.
It's slightly amusing to me that people are upset kids are "forced to sit still" in zoom as if the didn't have just as much trouble being "forced to sit still" in traditional classroom environments. The big difference is that parents weren't around to see how much suffering this very unnatural forcing of kids to sit still was causing them. A lot of schools have 30 minutes of recess if they're lucky. All kids, especially kinesthetic learners need to be able to move to learn. It's part of the process.
I'm sort of surprised by both the replies to my comment so far, because I think it's the article itself that conflates the two definitions. When the quote is, "Happy couples tend to take a solution-oriented approach to conflict, and this is clear even in the topics that they choose to discuss" that's clearly pointing to the more academic definition of "argument" and not the "upset about opposing points of view" definition. If two people are taking a solution-oriented approach regarding a conflict they are choosing to discuss, would you normally describe them as "arguing" in the emotional sense?

I'd also disagree that one is significantly more common than the other, when the phrase "making an argument" is so commonly understood.
> I expect you to be cheering when Iran assassinates Trump for reneging

Trump pulled a lever that was explicitly listed and offered in the treaty. It was not "reneging" on the deal any more than using a backout clause is reneging on a home purchase. Yes, it is rarely used, and yes, you may piss off the counter party who was really hoping for their payday, but the fact remains that the possibility is explicitly listed in the contract.
COVID-19 has a bit under 800,000 known deaths

Not disputing your overall point, but this is with preventative measures, such as lockdown, quarantine, use of masks, social distancing, etc.

I have seen various estimates with factors such as 35x the number of cases without preventative measures. Right now, there are 5.5 million cases and 172,000 deaths in the USA.

With a more conservative factor, like 15x, a quick ballpark at current ratios of cases/deaths puts that at 82.5 million cases and 2.4 million deaths without preventative measures in the USA, and more considering worldwide cases. Not as bad as WWII, but it is in the range of the Korean War (est 1.5 to 4.5 million deaths) or the Vietnam War (est 2.4 to 4.3 million deaths).
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> minimum wage will lower employment from small business significantly; i.e. small shop owner will get by with one less garcon to pay the other one more.

As a counterpoint, where do we put the threshold then? I could argue that if I could pay employees in breadcrumbs, I could create a new company that would be profitable and I would increase employment!

In this issue, either you're driven by empirical data of the exact effect of minimum wage on social welfare (which is impossible to achieve without actually doing those changes) or you're driven by ideology. Mine is that someone with a full time job should at least be able to live a decent life, specially in our current society where we clearly have the capacity to do so.
This 'ghost kitchen' cooks food for over 100 restaurants
It seems strange to compare getting hit by lightning to dying from COVID-19. That doesn't strike me as a particularly useful comparison. That's also not comparing similar groups. People 25-34 are 1.83 times more likely to die from COVID than all people who are struck by lightning, regardless of age group.
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Electric vehicles have range problems in cold climates because you don't have waste heat.

On a very cold day 60% of that waste heat might be used to warm the cabin. This translates to up to 50% range reduction in electric vehicles.
Three years is more security than basically any normal person has in our society. It's certainly enough time to spend 2.5 years playing computer games and then go job hunting again. It's also enough time to get a serious qualification (not a full degree sadly).

I don't think this is perfect. Proof is hard to come by in social "science". But this seems a lot better than most other ubi "studies" to me...
The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. - Ecclesiastes

Life does not always make sense, sometimes best efforts and best preparation fail. That is okay
Wrong wrong wrong. Wrong.
Apple’s market cap is 15 times bigger than Nike’s. That’s all I meant.
Please don't post like this to HN. It's off topic here.
What do you think about RL learning approaches? Just wondering if that stuff may work in practice. If I'm not wrong Sergey Levine said, that the only problem is sample efficiency. So you would need to simulate the real world, or let your robot brake 1 million time dishes till it learns.
“ If Kuiper succeeds, Amazon can not only offer global satellite broadband access—it can include that access as part of its Amazon Web Services (AWS), which already offers resources for cloud computing, machine learning, data analytics, and more.”

No they can’t. A handful of Kuiper subscribers in Los Angeles can saturate all of available bandwidth in LA. These satellite constellations are only going to be useful for subscribers in relatively remote and less dense areas.
> I see the claims that this won't produce inflation with extreme scepticism.

I haven't seen price drops since many people stopped working and can afford less, so I don't expect the system to work logically in the other direction either.
If these are passenger aircraft, that probably wouldn't fly
You're reminding me of good memories. I made a (pretty bad) rhyming poem generator in middle school. Whimsical coding is a most enjoyable form.
I used to run this on my iPod happily: https://www.rockbox.org
Using traditional film is more or less how radioactivity was discovered in the first place:

https://www2.lbl.gov/abc/wallchart/chapters/03/4.html

Using modern sensors seems like the logical extension of that.
minimum wage in the usa has been largely static or declining since 1968, if you control for inflation (1). Given that, it seems like the thing driving the mcdonalds cashier job losses are not minimum wage laws, but rather technology and probably the economic pressure to maximize shareholder value caused by the stock market.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Sta...)
Reinforces my point. Heavy drinking is essential.
Not really sure what you're saying as this is an example of my point. The growth was caused mostly by the shovel, and partly by the worker learning to use the shovel. Wages have grown to show that.
Russia, China and Iran are rebalancing toward the Euro.
On the face of it the rules are very simple: stores selling essential goods are allowed to stay open, others must close. So taking each of those:

Home Depot - construction industry is essential
Walmart - groceries are essential
Liquor stores -- groceries are essential
Pot shops -- pharmacies are essential
Gyms -- recreation is not essential
Churches -- culture is not essential
Salons -- culture is not essential
Non-chain stores -- don't have groceries, therefore not essential
Political gatherings -- opposed by the opposite side, nothing has changed

Now you can quibble with some of the categories, but the rules aren't inconsistent. They do just happen to benefit the powerful corporations, surprise surprise.

But specifically we went from "avoid overwhelming the health system" to "let's do the things that stops people from continuing to die". And those things involve avoiding human contact unless it is essential, mask wearing, and social distancing. It's not crazy that our government is asking us to do things that make us less likely to die. You know, unless you're a seatbelt truther.
I think this is a difference without a distinction. I was using "leverage" in a non-standard way (I didn't realize it already had a formal economic definition). The parent cited the relative ability for some employers to wait for lower labor prices to be evidence of an unfree market--such a definition of 'free market' seems like it would preclude differences in wealth (and thus runway to await better market prices) between any two players in a market.
Yes it is really individual: I have an ex-colleague who was a linux super-user and awesome sysadmin but moved to Mac for his development laptop. He loved Mac, and couldn't stand the hassle of Linux anymore as far as I understood him.

This confused me a lot as even though I wasn't even close to his level at that time I had no problems living with my Linux machines while my Mac laptop used to drive me crazy every day with some nonsense.

Turns out it is extremely individual. Maybe it is because I'm a keyboard person. When I work efficiently I feel I rarely touch the touchpad. I use fullscreen a lot, I sometimes use virtual desktops a lot etc.
I prefer Power Automate / Logic Apps interface, it would be cool if there was a Power Automate open source imagine the number of plugins for that cloud tool that would come up? It's a valuable tool and part of the O365 ecosystem and could be even greater, more strategy and vision into that product would make O365 and Azure a leader in components and integrations this is the most valuable thing in the end of it all.
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> Haven't you seen parents with multiple kids and those kids have wildly different dispositions?

Agreed - I have three kids. One is going to her school in-person. Another sits on the couch on his laptop for 4 straight hours until he gets his work done, and refuses to take a break. The last one works in 20-30 minutes sessions, doing screen time, then taking a break.

If I were to force any one of them to work like the others, it would go badly. Different people, different ways to work.
If we can start replacing long-haul passenger planes with rockets that soon, I feel that BO can launch the sats or Amazon can pay someone else to launch them. Unless there is something going on edging into magical that is going to put SpaceX that far ahead that there would be people taking rockets for regularly commercial flight, not thrill seeking space tourism, price-competitive with commercial flight and reliable.
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Connect it to your network but block it's network access. Then it's "connected" but the connections fail.

That said, I haven't seen any evidence of smart TV's autonomously connecting to open hot spots without permission.
> We provide free education through a high school diploma and community college in most areas

Can you actually do anything with just an associate's? In my experience, most places that require college degrees require a minimum of a bachelor's.
I would prefer this but my wife and I both work, I didn't want to make my kid re-test into grade level/honors, and they didn't release the "on screen 8am, off screen 2pm" schedule until last week.. oh well I guess we will see how it goes.

I specifically complained that the main benefit of remote learning is the at-your-own-pace aspect of it, which is being tossed out the window. I swear the district was more concerned with the teachers putting in the correct number of working hours than with doing things that might actually work for kids.
I'm amused that the Apple's IPod software team developed on windows machines. (from https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ip... )
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. This is a step in the generic direction, which we don't want on HN, and especially not on flamewar topics:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is not a new problem when people look at technology all day. You are basically saying that you have seen so many birds that there can never be a black swan. Not without complex xy and z factors. This is a perspective problem that can tie you down into some interesting thoughts such as "There is nothing else to be invented new." -or- "The innovation will happen here, in this little corner, where I and others say it will"

An actress basically invented FHSS, and no one understood the applications it would have to future technology until much later on. Just because you cannot think of something new does not mean that no one else can- if you are working in startup funding you need to find the true purple cow. Not the spraypainted one, or the one that only lives for two weeks and has to sustain itself on gold.
... with the added friction of a UBI system. In most Western countries, you'll also have plenty of transfers to other countries, recent immigrants supporting their families, buying properties in "the old country" etc. Being able to do just that is a major incentive for immigration, both within Europe and from outside Europe.

That's development aid with extra steps then. Granted, you might argue that it's more efficient than regular development aid since it's bottoms up, not top down, but still. It's not going to re-circulate in the same economy that it's taxed out of.
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