skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flip side of this is abusive workers who will refuse to put in good effort because the cost of getting fired is lower.

Of course, we could argue that workers should be more motivated by the promise of a good reward, but it looks like evidence from behavioral economics suggests that fear of loss is approximately twice as powerful as the hope of gain. So let's not underestimate the power of fear to generate productivity.

By the way, I am generally supportive of the UBI, just wanted to point out a potential cost. Over the long run I think the UBI's benefits would exceed its costs, but I can't deny that there are real costs to an UBI (beyond the simple direct costs).
Depends. Do you still trust them with your laptop and that nothing bad will happen when you plug your data back in? Or do you just travel with your data and rely on using a machine at the other end? In that case, with USB 3 and especially Type C getting more and more traction, is it really absurd to just boot from an external disk/flash stick everywhere so you don't have to rely on the other end's OS? The major problem with that though is MS and Apple aren't especially friendly to the hardware changing underneath them. So the alternative then if you have to use them is probably having your OS in the cloud, and hope your wallet is full and your network good.
Yes, it is getting better. But even then I can't help but feel like it's said in this "See, even the Chinese do better than trump" manner.
Just like 10 years ago the only good news about China was about how well their economy is doing, but not without some "they took our jobs" vibe.
I am consistently impressed by the features Stripe puts out. They always seem well thought-out and implemented. Usually makes me wish I was still running an ecommerce site so I could actually use them!
If you press "9" enough times: http://imgur.com/a/wUvOy
How Riot Games designed their automated support ticket bot
"With the number of survivors declining, in 1996, the 75th anniversary of the riot, a bi-partisan group in the state legislature authorized formation of the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (...) The park [to the 800 dead riot victims] was dedicated in 2010."

No worries then, in 48 years China will acknowledge what happened at Tiananmen, and in 2078 Beijing will get a lovely new park.
Both of those effects exist at a higher income level in the Silicon Valley -- it's called "F you money".
AFAIK it's not illegal to make money off of bitcoin speculation. It's just like selling any other form of property.
I agree that mental fatigue is a real thing. But what I find is that, in response to mental fatigue, I often read stuff on the internet as a form of "rest". But it doesn't work - it leaves me just as tired, if not more so.

You'd think, if I'm so smart, that sooner or later I'd learn to stop doing that. But I keep reaching for it, almost like an addict (seriously).
> The main thing that I disliked about Perl is something I also dislike about C, which is writing arrows

You're in luck. Perl6 dropped the arrows. It's using dots just like everyone else. It also dropped the floating point math, so you can now do precise calculations natively which is a big deal for financial and scientific software.

I can second Mojolicious being one of the best web frameworks. We are using it for our web infrastructure. Basically we did a full rewrite from CGI.pm to Mojolicious. It is however Sinatra inspired, so let's give credit where credit is due.
What kind of scientist doesn't deal with data?
> ...that has counterparts in only a handful of other languages (outside that family)

Obligatory aspect marking is extremely common all around the world. While within the Indo-European family Russian might represent more hassles for the learner than certain other languages, it is not particularly unusual in this respect.

(Within the IE family, incidentally, combined aspect, deixis and path is marked on motion verbs also in Ossetian. I am sure there are some other IE languages that do it too.)
I think what he's saying is that there are a subset of companies that no matter how successful they get, they are not in a market to ever be worth 10 billion.
Tiananmen Square was only less than 30 years ago.
Thanks for the recommendation. Will take a look at KIA.
Back when del.icio.us got sold to Yahoo, I couldn't stand some of the changes they made (e.g. infinite scroll) and I wrote my own minimalist clone (http://www.savecrate.com)

It's basically remained unchanged since, with the exception of removing site previews a bit back for optimization purposes.

Always meant to rewrite & open source it, maybe now's the time...

/shameless-plug
And as has been pointed out to me offline the article compares 'radioactivity release' of an operating nuclear plant to an operating coal plant. Clearly a properly designed nuclear plant emits no radioactivity at all.

On the plus side I offer the following report from the USGS in 2016 : https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html which talks about the levels of uranium and thorium in fly ash (0 - 4 ppm).
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I don't think it's that ambiguous.

"Megaton" isn't really used anywhere except for explosive yields, where it always means TNT. As far as the 'native unit' astrophysicists will tend to use ergs for events like supernovae.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erg
Resist.
If paying taxes were part of morality, it would require to fix the tax rate once and for all. Otherwise, such moral rule would simply hand out a blank cheque to the ruling class, which could ask for whatever taxation amounts. No society could survive like that. Hence, as it stands, in the context of man-made law, taxes cannot be part of morality, and tax dodgers are not doing anything immoral.
What do you call a word that everyone uses in the same wrong way? "Correct".
I think the classic book from Dr LaBerge [0] is quite good (although dated).

Lucid dreaming itself is a researched subject and there are a lot of material on that but the simplest techniques as keeping a dream journal (writing what you dreamt about each morning) so the mind recognizes that it's important to be aware of dreams and testing if you are dreaming. When you are reading this comment do you think you are dreaming? How do you know? Contrary to usual thinking dream world is quite different from "normal" world. For example you can block you nose and mount in a dream and not suffocate. Or turn on a light, in a dream it won't be as fast as in real world.

Usually sleeping during the day also triggers lucid dreams. One way or another it's a skill one can learn given some time and practice.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-World-Dreaming-Stephen-LaBe...
The link under standard library heading leads to a 404.
Trying to shove your brain through a concrete wall for eight hours is arduous. It's just not physically arduous.
Facebook has done wonders to get people creating and consuming content on the internet. However, Facebook has grown to the point where it has no competition and is no longer innovating in ways that benefit us. Facebook should split into Facebook the aggregator and Facebook the content hoster. You could talk about a third piece that is Facebook the content provider, which is for providing things like gifs, templates, memes, emoji, games, and other stuff like that. Because Facebook hasn't completely broken from open web standards those types of content providers already exist today.

Aggregators would be where you go to set up your friend list and see your feed. It could look and feel like Facebook does now. It would have an open standard protocol that content hosters would use if they wanted to be aggregated. This could still be an add driven business, but subscription, self hosted, and DIY solutions could exist too.

Content hosters could either charge a monthly hosting fee, or they could serve up their own adds. Self hosted and DIY solutions could also exist.

The big benefit to this would of course be the competition. Since it's an open standard anyone could be a content host, and anyone could be an aggregator.

To make extra sure there is competition, and this could come in a phase two after the initial splitting up of Facebook, there should be open standards for exporting and importing friends, follows, likes, etc. to and from aggregators, and open standards for importing and exporting content from the hosters.

Speaking of follows and likes, there could also be aggregator aggregators (AAs). People could opt in to publicly and anonymously share their likes and follows and the AAs would consume those and report on trends that cross aggregator boundaries. Anonymity could be much more protected this way while still giving us that interesting information about what is trending.

One tricky part of this is how do I as a content author only allow my friends to see certain posts of mine? It would have to be with encryption. My content provider could keep public keys of my friends and only my friends (well, their aggregators) would be able to decrypt my posts using my friends' private keys. I can see some challenges and holes in this, but it doesn't seem any worse overall than how Facebook protects privacy now. Open implementations and peer review could get us to better-than-Facebook privacy quickly.

Facebook would ideally recognize their stagnation and initiate this split themselves. We as their user base can and should help them understand the importance of this. Hopefully it doesn't have to come down to government enforcement of anti-trust laws, but that could be a useful tool to apply here as well.
As was previously discussed when this was first rumored, this is just begging for an anticompetition lawsuit of gigantic proportions as Google is using their dominant control of web browsers to block their competitors' ads from working.

It is one of the most clear examples that the only way to remediate the differences between Google and a law abiding corporation is to break it up.

EDIT: I think the strong feedback from everyone I've seen when this was first rumored was that this idea was concerning and likely illegal, and yet Google is proceeding anyways. I feel that should dismiss any notion that Google or the industry as a whole has the ability to self-regulate.

To detail, I think Android and Chrome need to both be legally/forcibly detached from Google. Android could easily operate on funding from the OEMs that use the platform and the Play Store, which would go with it, and Chrome could use Mozilla's model, including letting companies like Google and Yahoo bid for the default search. (And obviously, would be prohibited from picking Google Search if it isn't the highest bidder.)

Dominant platforms being tied to dominant services is just too large a conflict of interest.
> Facebook posts being inherently (mostly) simple text is 'killing the web'? I don't buy it.

It's also misleading. If you want something more like a blog, then use notes instead of posts. The notes editing interface is actually better than most blog platforms, and IMO the results look just as pretty too. Then your notes appear in your timeline, searchable (within Facebook), with comments, etc. Is it everything an "open web" activist could want? No, but it's sure not just plain text.

BTW, I can't help but shake my head at people (like Gruber) who say Facebook is evil but also think absolutely everything should be searchable and monetizable by Google. That's just not logically consistent.
I think you can judge success of UBI only over decades and generations of people. People who grew up in a world of UBI will have a totally different view on life than current generations.

I am not saying it's good or bad but I think it will be very difficult to figure out what the eventual outcome of UBI will be in a few decades.
> But isn't the whole point of inheritance in python precisely because the namespaces collide?

I think the point from the original post is that a collision of the private namespaces of the parent and child class is a bad thing. Hence the calling out of underscore in the variable names to indicate the values should be considered private.
Even crazier how china tells its students that Chi a son their Vietnam war, when the PLA lost so many soldiers and failed to achieve their objective of getting Vietnam out of Cambodia.
Kozmos: New Pinboard Competitor
We already are getting desktop apps with HTML based UI [1].

A wasm photoshop would cache the download, use a HTML front end, and be written in a compiled language.

Sure you'll be able to use the tech to do stupid things like running a python interpreter inside a WebAssembler virtual machine. But then your argument is just that if you use the tech to do stupid things you'll get stupid results. Total straw man.

[1] https://electron.atom.io/apps/
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This sounds to me like nothing so much as the setup for a Milgram-esque study of just how willing people are to inflict violence upon one another for engaging in trivial but annoying behaviors like ... posting pictures of food on the internet.

Because, yeah. Caning is totally commensurate with that.
Needs an NPV field and equivalent effective average salary difference per year. :-)
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I hear you, and I'm not trying to be cagey here. I'm in the market for a very specific set of skills. The talent/experience/ability for this position varies wildly from "I know of Hive" to "I implemented the Hive CBO, check out my commits". What would I pay for the later? I'm not actually sure what the upper limit would be. I think for the average "engineer/programmer" job there is a pretty well known salary distribution and I know that we are on the upper end of, which is why I put "very good". For a specific specialist job like this putting a salary seems like a mistake, and not putting a salary seems like you are probably cheap. I might pay you north of $200k, but I if everyone that applies assumes they are going to make >$200k, it would be hard to take a less qualified person and adjust their expectations down, even if they would be a great hire for us. It's lose-lose I guess. Thanks for the feedback.
This is somewhat concerning to me. While I'm all for blocking obtrusive and obnoxious ads, I'm not sure I want Google using it's position as a web giant and browser vendor to push these standards by default via Chrome.

An open web means I can host whatever (legal content) I want on my website and people are free to view it or not view it if they find it undesirable. Current ad blockers play well into this scheme because they protect the end user's right to view content in the way that they want.

This move by Google on the other hand is telling websites that they have to play by Google's content rules or have their website broken by default.

I'm not sure that's the web that I want to live in.
I have used FB since 2004. It became less and less of a place I wanted to spend time in when they started filling the feed with junk. First it was Farmville updates and other social games, then viral videos, then ads, then links to news articles and clickbait that I had no interest in clicking on. I must have blocked hundreds of apps, sites, and clickbait generators shared by friends in the last few years alone.

However, I won't disconnect FB as long as it's the primary way for me to check on/communicate with/share photos with relatives and friends from years ago. But it's hardly an addictive time-suck for me, and also for some of my friends judging by how seldom they post updates.
This is the greatest thing I've read in a while.
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Brainfuck Experiments
So I ran your two programs through SpiderNode just to see how they perform with SpiderMonkey as the engine instead of V8. As expected, the average time is a little higher, but that is especially true of the closure implementation. Running ten trials of both programs and taking the averages, I find that the class implementation takes about 11.65 seconds with an average resident set size of 40,099,430.4 bytes, a heap total of 9,437,184 bytes, a heap used of 6,022,144 bytes. The closure implementation takes 12.76 seconds with rss of 55,508,172.8 bytes, heap total of 16,777,216 bytes, and a heap used of12,836,696 bytes.

In other words, the time and memory differences are much smaller (both are inefficient when using SpiderNode), but the closure technique actually takes longer than the class implementation.
Interesting viewpoint, and not without some truth.

But could you see an alternative that doesn't leave a single entity in control?
This old article seems like it might be a troll by kornish although perhaps not the author. It nearly lost me at referring c++ being niche. I realize I am in a completely different echo chamber being in the embedded world. But c++ is everywhere and spreading. C gets there first but c++ is never far behind. And it is still the default game dev language too. I'm glad I didn't stop reading though. It is a good article. My echo chamber discounts anything with garbage collection as a toy, so it was somewhat of a shock.
I usually post this on HN's Facebook threads, happy to do it again:

https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674
This is in part a way for Trump to pursue his goal of reviving the American coal industry.

Coal is a 19th century technology. At its peak it was used for heating, steel-making, electricity, and transportation with trains and steam boats.

In the 20th century it got replaced by diesel for transportation, greatly reduced for steel-making with the continuous casting process, and gradually replaced in heating by natural gas and electricity. More recently it is getting replaced in electricity generation by natural gas and renewables.

You know, if you want your economy to be strong, you need to keep up with new technologies, instead of trying to hang on as long as possible to old, obsolete ones.
Introducing the Auth0 Security Whitepaper
Really cool! Signed up for the beta, excited to try it.

Although at first glance, it looks quite expensive. Having to pay $10 monthly outright even with no charges feels kinda bad. I'm a huge fan of Amazon's free tiers to experiment with; Stripe's test mode is very nice for the same reason. And on top of this, the pricing being per-charge makes it far more expensive for businesses selling cheaper products ($5 subscriptions vs. $100 subscriptions).

Compare to Baremetrics' pricing plans which scales based on MRR: https://baremetrics.com/pricing -- At $50k MRR with $5 charge avg, Baremetrics costs $100/mo, Sigma costs 2.5x that. For $2.5 avg charge, Sigma costs double, Baremetrics remain the same.

They still sound like very reasonable prices though (and Stripe's fees are unfriendly to lower price points anyway).
Pardon my ignorance! Coming from background of building data pipelines. It seems to me like SQL on backend data. The UI is uber cool. What makes it different from any rdbms system with UI? am I missing something ?
About a year ago I went into my Pocket and Pinboard archives and realized my collection had ballooned to well-over 10,000 items. Yet, I rarely, if ever, went back to dig up old links so I did a mass purging and closed my Pinboard account. I still use Pocket to save links I plan to read within a week, but I no longer archive anything and keep the list to < 10 items.

I'm not sure what the point of this comment was, but lately I've been thinking about physical vs digital hoarding and thought I would share.
What honestly replaces Facebook today with a product and business model that's not dependent on advertisements?

The best thing I can think of is Apple Photos and Messages.
fwiw that's basically what I do. My account pretty much just says "I'm not active here, email me" and I only friend people who I want to show my email address. I actually visit the site every month or three, and that's about it.

But that's under protest. Facebook is super hostile to its users, but doing so makes their metrics go up, so it's gonna keep happening.
I'm not the OP, but I wanted to mention that using Zoho Mail for personal use with your own domain is free, and they're pretty good overall.
> It should be pretty easy to build that

lol. It's not the standard that's hard, it's how every EHR vendor has implemented it.

*ehr employee who's worked with CCDA and FHIR
Why is everyone so dismissive of the bomb threat? I can guarantee everyone involved (airlines, TSA, etc) would just as soon you keep your laptop rather than having to deal with the hassle of scanning, wrapping, loading, and delivering them.
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