skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post argues that this back-door form of welfare is inferior in just about every way to just cutting people a check, but that we tend to do it this way exactly because "welfare" has negative connotations:

'With all these advantages of “Simple Check”, what exactly is the “Sneaky Job” condition good for that makes it so popular? As far as I can tell, it is good for fooling people. People do not like paying welfare.'
Pup and lock Fort Greene dog owners pay to stash pooches in sidewalk kennels
> In (1), it clearly hasn't worked then given all of the comments around here. Is it not highly likely that he would have considered this backlash that he received? If I was in his position and wanted to achieve (1), I would make a high profile donation of ~$1 billion (~2% of his worth) to a respectable charity.

Most people think he gave the money to charity. They will notice this isn't the case when the "charity" has amassed 5x its current value and he's donating 10B to someone's political campaign.
Hey, I'm the founder of Streamup, a live entertainment platform w/ 22MM MAU. We're encountering a lot of similar challenges, so we're looking for bright engineers to collaborate with. Tweet me @kyledmichelson and let's talk.
Here's one. https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect
Since work was started on this before Swift's open sourcing/linux support was added I doubt it compiles on linux just yet. I'm sure it'll be added though.
Isn't the onus of proof on you in this instance? That's what Paul Graham just came and told me. (Who are you to say he didn't?)
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There won't be an independent take until someone can try to reproduce the results which, given how simple the experimental setup seems to be, might not take long but hasn't happened yet. I have read the paper, though, and it appears to be a fairly complete study with good detail. It is a slightly surprising result, but I would not characterize it as obviously challenging the laws of physics or anything, it is just a manifestation of structural changes on a nano-scale that yields pretty nice properties.

I also happen to know Jay Narayan's previous work (and have debated him on a few occasions). I would say as a scientist, he is well respected and his results have been verified over a long career, so there is more than likely something here—even if it is more than meets the eye.
I think you've got it backwards. Audio latency on desktop Linux machines is actually lower than on OSX these days, and prior to Panther the audio latency on OSX was much higher.
Well, you need to put the numbers in perspective. In 1789 the population of Paris was around 600-700k. So in relative terms, an amount of people that is equivalent to 6%ish of Paris got executed, and in total a fifth of the equivalent of Paris died. Seems pretty bad to me. Also, all this happened in 3 short years.

Besides, they're both just really horrific. "40k is nothing" is not quite the right attitude here.
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I think the point is that there are already hospitals that have those kind of price differentials.

Most expensive brain MRI is $5,560. Least expensive $218. Both in NYC.

Most people can access out of network providers. If you're paying 10% in-network, the $5,560 MRI is $556. If you're paying 50% out-of-network, the $218 MRI is $109.

The problem is price transparency and aligned incentives to take advantage of different prices.
In case you want to see the original paper: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/118/21/10.1...
How convenient it is that the math was determined in part by septuagenarians, octogenarians, nonagenarians, and centenarians.

I'd very much like the math to work out such that I don't end up spending my whole working life supporting retirees in a socially responsible way, only to get the shaft right before becoming one of them.

It doesn't help that every danged one of us knows at least one way to make the math work [without even pulling a horrendously appalling dick-move on the entire voting workforce], and no one with a speck of the republic's authority over the matter ever even talks about trying one of those ideas.
Can't believe form 83b wasn't even mentioned... Truly the best way for any early stage employee to deal with options from a tax perspective.
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With the advent of high deductible plans, there is a ton of incentive for patients. If your deductible is $5,000, every dollar you save on medical costs is money in your pocket. They are becoming more and more common.
Could a DAG chain be able to solve the latency issue for cross planetary currency with several root "branches" for different planets?
> I thought that was capitalism and I thought we all agreed that that was good.

Hacker != capitalist !
But what does Knowing Why The Network Works mean exactly?

I would say it means: Why do these algorithms seem to be doing "well" despite their well-known theoretical intractability? Is it something about the instances? Or is it simply a matter of scale (so the local optima they are getting stuck in are not as obvious)? Or is there something "deep" we do not understand yet about these algorithms (or the theory)?

Either way, there is something going on here for sure.
For a partial and anonymized story about the initial decline of SRI, read The Network Revolution – confessions of a computer scientist (1982) by Jacques Vallée. Reportedly, they all became entranced with Erhard Seminars Training.
So this is being implemented already from a local fulfillment center level, sans drones.

The actual mechanisms are actually super straightforward -- basically if a widget X sells Y amounts per day with Z variance in an area, get the low, low end of that to that warehouse/area so you only have to do last-mile delivery.

Then do it with operations research (well, linear algebra) on scale. :)
The problem with the old Apple was it was in every single product category, as well as every single product class within the category.

Apple at one point made (developed or rebranded), PDA's, printers, CTI Hardware (computer telephony integration), networking hardware, Modems, Microphones, Speakers, Monitors, a Confusing array of computers, and other stuff. The problem with this strategy, is in very few cases they were market leaders - many of their non-computer products (and arguably even in their computer products) they were an also-ran.

Instead Apple is targeting a much narrower breadth of products and going instead after deep category penetration:

Need an Phone? we've got three sizes and price points.

Need an Tablet? we've got 3 sizes, and four price points.

Need a Laptop? we've got 3 sizes, and four price points.

Need a Desktop? we've got 3 form factors, and eight price points.

Each of these things is just a computer however, not a whole new category like CTI and printers. Apple still sells mostly computers (counted by SKU).

So while they sell networking hardware, and infotainment hardware, IMO, they exist because specifically they offer compelling features not available elsewhere to work with their computers, not like the days of yore where an Apple Printer was often just a rebranded HP or Cannon Inkjet with a Mac serial port on it.
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So Schiller's explanation was really just making explicit the problem described: he more or less states that the goal of each product is to bring into question the necessity of the next. If every product you make, is by design, meant to obsolete another product, then it's going to be a lot of hard choices for the customer: every single thing you want to buy comes with the "but maybe this thing can do this too..." question. This doesnt really justify or bring insight into anything, but rather accurately predicts the confusion such a product line will create.

Once upon a time apple wanted you to walk into an Apple Store and walk out with something useful, now they want you to consider where you side in the "personal vs power" debate.
Perfect, thanks! I looked for a long time before and couldn't find anything that seemed right.
His UI shows an interface where you can select from 3 emoji, so you don't have to use the emoji keyboard. Although insecure, I'm not sure it is user un-friendly
Repugnant” online discussions are not illegal thoughtcrime, court rules
Take any smooth function f and consider the multi-dimensional g(x,y,z...) = f(x) + f(y) + f(z) + ... If f had m local minima, then the n-dimensional version of g has m^n local minima.
Huh, at least in the US, over 50% of the federal budget provides just those things to people that don't have jobs.
> I thought that was capitalism and I thought we all agreed that that was good.

It might be a remnant of capitalism, but capitalism was relatively controversial when it was the dominant economic system of the developed world (it was named as a system by those critical of it!), was displaced everywhere in the developed world by modern mixed economies, and even the degree of capitalism present in those economies remains controversial.

So, no, I don't think "we all agreed" that capitalism was good.
The whole idea makes perfect sense. Quenching has been used to harden other materials since ancient times, what happens is that the quenching causes rapid contraction which in turn creates a density change. So I believe this is real, there is no reason carbon should not exhibit this.
Yeah that's hard to say since nobody has a global view and new companies hang a shingle everyday. The best places tend to know what they're doing, so this makes a good signal for startup quality. Even if it causes you to miss out on a good company it's unlikely you would have had much upside with them anyway. Life's too short, lots of fish in the sea.
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You are putting words in his mouth here, as I read it, as you rely on your belief that obesity can only be the result of overeating.

- The microbiome is a factor, which is only in the past few years being explored.

- thyroid hormone levels are a big factor

- genetics are a factor (note that identical twins raised in different environments tend to end up more alike each other in BMI than like their siblings in the same environment)

- genetic low-response to cardio (check out the recent University of Bath study)

- viruses are a factor (AD-36 being one known one)

- percentage of BAT ("brown fat") is a factor

- systemic inflammation is a factor

etc.
etc.
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That sketch annoys me. Sure, marketing/sales/PM/design guys are idiots, whatever.

Here are 11 things "I can't do it" can mean:

I don't have time

I don't want to

I don't have anyone who knows how to

I want someone else to do it

I don't want to maintain it once built

I want to work on this other thing

Doing it would take away job security for me

I think it is beneath me

You're not going to use it anyway

I don't think it is worth doing

I think it is too expensive

I think it would be easyish to fill out another 10 reasons for what "can't" really means that are more common than "it is flat out impossible regardless of budget/resources".
"People often forget that jobs are an expense, not a benefit. We should celebrate that society can do more with less."

Not until such time that people don't need a job to survive. As is, a job is currently required to pay rent and buy food.

"If someone thinks that jobs need to be created through artificial means to keep people busy and give them some money, then that person has a rather dim view of human potential."

So how do you plan on housing and feeding all of the people who's jobs are displaced through technology?
I'm waiting to see "Mozilla to stop making Firefox mimic Chrome in every way".
This. They don't show up in heap dumps and sometimes CPU profiles.
Would custom clang plugins work?
The real problems begin when machines become competent enough to do most of the jobs which currently humans do. The system of job-to-earn-money-to-live wouldn't work. Either money or jobs wouldn't have any significance for humanity for pure survival. Political systems will then change to accommodate human survival. Star trek's model of post scarcity economy would probably be the norm.
With the latest trend of hiring employees who are already masters of their craft, it really becomes a process of regurgitation. You don't train up new employees, you hire them. Thus no job growth IMO.
> Not until such time that people don't need a job to survive.

People need an income to survive. Most people get incomes through jobs, some get them through capital holdings, a few get them through other means.

> So how do you plan on housing and feeding all of the people who's jobs are displaced through technology?

Jobs being displaced through technology means output is produced more effectively without the job than it would be with the job, and someone is capturing the value of that output.

The issue becomes one of distributing the value of the output.
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The hobbyist community has been switching over to KiCAD, to the point where I believe KiCAD has a significant majority over Eagle in OSHPark orders. A lot of people switched with the new Eagle licensing model, which they put on hold due to backlash.
I'm waiting to see "HN commenters stop trolling on baseless stuff"

But they both have URL bars, copy!
my understanding is that svg in <img> is safe but prevents script execution

svg in iframe + srcdoc + sandbox gives you sortof-inline svg with separate security contexts.

only plain inlined svg should be a security risk.
"We've always been at war with Eastasia"
It's also important to note that these are not quite the same thing. If you name a function, it will be hoisted to the top of the scope where a possible naming conflict could occur.
textElement.getBBox().width and textElement.getBoundingClientRect().width should give you the text width in user and client space.
Not just amount of fiber, but makeup of the fiber (soluble vs insoluble, compatibility with gut bacteria, etc.)
I prefer transmit!
indeed, per capita GDP is increasing, and the proceeds have not flowed proportionately to the workers...so it is a fallacy that we don't have enough goods to distribute, but it's a truth that those goods are relatively scarce/expensive to the workers......sucks.
>Uber says that if you have enough VC funding, you can make lawbreaking and regulatory blindness a central pillar of a billion-dollar company.

Welcome to America.
Hey guys, i launched my game as a public beta yesterday. At the moment it is available on Android, and i have planned an iOS version as well. I built this game using Unity game engine, and have spent close to a year.

Originally i had developed the game in Andengine game engine for Android, and when i found Unity i redid the game in it and have not looked back since.

I have also drawn the art myself for this game, and i have used pixel art mostly.

Please do help me make Tardoria better, and achieve its potential. The trailer and google play link are on the website which i have linked in the title earlier.

looking forward to receive healthy feedback from you here.
if the requirement is just email, seems like it would be quite feasible to set something up so that the MTA on the administrative system tunnels the email to the MTA of something network-connected in a non-tcp/ip kind of way (PTP microwave/laser link, printer-carrier pigeon-scanner combo, ...) that just passes the message over while remaining air-gapped
If you host SVG file on the same domain as the main site, I can give a direct link to the SVG file and your browser will execute arbitrary JavaScript in that context.
This and the android device fragmentation (yes, also for resolutions and pixel density) is what pushed me to start replacing raster images for SVGs in all my web and hybrid mobile apps. I guess being quite good at Illustrator helped me to make the jump.

I don't bother using jpg's, png's of gifs anymore. Whenever I can, I use vector designs exported to SVGs (backgrounds, custom iconfonts, logos, shapes, animations, etc...)
When I was getting two degrees in Chemistry Lavoisier was one of my heroes. Hard to believe how someone in the 1700's had so many modern insights given how he was taught and how primitive all the knowledge was then.
Is "Firefox mimicking Chrome" something you have an issue with for some reason, or what are you after?
Would you?

This is a ludicrous hypothetical in response to a very simple question: do you or do you not believe all people have a right to the basics of survival and some element of dignity?
400 percent mark up, yes, but you have to meet volume targets if you have to break even given rent and other fixed costs. Let's say, you pay $5000 rent, another $200 a month for equipment like espresso machines, around $600 for utilities, another $600 for supplies, then you need to sell, 6400/0.16 = 40,000 cups of coffee. That is around a thousand per day. Let's relax the constraints and say, expenses are between $1000-$6400/month between 200-1000 coffee cups a day. That doesn't seem like a very easy target to achieve.
WebGL and even Canvas are significantly more performant.

It did seem rather unfair of the article to bash Microsoft/IE so much over SVG support, when actually today the performance and sometimes rendering quality in IE is dramatically better than the likes of Chrome and Firefox.

But in any case, you're right, performance is a significant real world concern if you're using SVG for anything beyond very simple diagrams or line art.
I think an inevitable result for some submitters is that disagreeing comments would be filtered out.

Not me, mind you; I mean other people. ;)
I rarely look at function names. I almost exclusively rely on the stack trace's filenames and line numbers to find out where the code is that I need to look at.
Chrome does many things right. I use Firefox and am ecstatic about the new extension architecture, for example.
Whoever dreamed that up was watching minority report.
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You might not think I would say so, but that is a fair point; basing our decisions on the flavor of the times is not actually a way to determine whether something is right.

However, do you think the ethical considerations of eugenics and vaccines are the same? I think that would be a disingenuous claim.
Does that mean they are cutting a few jobs? Isn't advertising a key aspect of the funding?
Do rich people invest in technologies and equipment as a safe haven for their capital?
Never thought I'd see it, but here's the solution to the expert problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7MIJP90biM

Credit to D. Scott Williamson, Expert
What is the "content discovery" thing they are refocusing on?

This doesn't sound like something that belongs in a browser any more than those damn tiles.
Youtube, facebook, twitter, instagram have all created jobs in my organisation. People are hired to create content and maintain the accounts. They have made/forced the organisation to be more customer facing and friendly.
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Elite athletes prefer high carb diets by an overwhelming majority.

Really? Your (modern) data for this is... ?

Elite athletes pay more attention to nutrition now than ever; can you name any with a 60%+ carb intake? The days of the "carb loading for endurance" myth are long past.

Hunter Pence is one famous Paleo eater.
I worked in a toxic environment, developed a mental illness from the stress and it ruined my career.

I was looking for another job to escape the toxic environment but I could not quit because my family needed house payments. So I ended up on disability as a result.
Bombing does work well - for the arms industry though.
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"deprive of" is not a synonym for "not provide"

This distinction falls apart when you include the notion of privately owned land. If you are born into a world where all land is owned by someone else, what choice do you have but to either work for your food or steal it? What if nobody permits you to work for them?
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I think this means that the VS toolchain now has a modern C compiler front-end. The VS C++ compiler has seen good progress as of late, but the VS C compiler was seriously lagging, only supporting bits and pieces of C99(!).
Good spot. Maybe you can convince Amazon to add them after the fact, good chance the person rear ending one of their trucks is an Amazon customer.
Have you tried them though? Now check it out with kerning and/or italics. Do you see overhanging when you draw the rectangular box found via the API? Good example is strings that end with a character like f.

Works in theory. In practice, it does not. That is what I found but again, I'd be happy to be wrong.
Yes, that's it. Thanks. Like 12 Angry Men, the original is a stage play.
I didn't pay much attention. Thanks!
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> We believe that the advertising ecosystem needs to do better – we believe that our work in our advertising experiments has shown that it can be done better.

It's a shame that a lot of people I've talked to aren't aware of the significance of how Mozilla designed the sponsored tiles.

Google and Facebook harvest mine all of your personal data in order to surface ads that are tailored to you. Mozilla, on the other hand, sent no data back to the server - all the decision-making was done client-side, which meant that Mozilla didn't have to collect any information about the user.

I'm not a fan of the advertising model in general for other reasons, but I wish more advertisers accomplished their goal without violating users' privacy and hoarding their data.
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You're partly right. The primary byproduct of bacterial fermentation is short-chain fatty acids. These do in fact stimulate the release of peptide YY, which reduces gastric motility. It is extremely unlikely that the bacteria are the ones "hacking" us though; short chain fatty acid production is the result of fairly ubiquitous, low level pathways whereas modulation of hormone release is a fairly specialized, high level function.
Is there an iOS equivalent to this yet?
Yes, I think that's why inequality is getting worse. The system is broken - It's a winner-takes-it-all system. Even though the person who came second place delivered as much value (if not more) for society (in terms of innovation), the winner might end up with millions but the second place might get nothing at all.

I think society puts too much focus on capturing value and not enough on creating value. Innovation is all about value creation and this is not being rewarded by society. The way things work now is a lottery.