skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
buyers competing is OK, though, right? I was under the impression that the justification for UBI was to attack the ability to pay, which some people lack, rather than the outcome of what they pay for.

The "problem" that UBI has vs single payer is that it is not creating a command economy, but leveling the playing field in a capitalist one. If you want a single payer, you don't want a UBI, you want communism. If you want UBI, you are OK with market forces, but are using a single lever to attempt to correct for a market failure in the most "libertarian" way possible.

The only way single payer really succeeds is if you curtail consumer choice in order to achieve efficiency in what you buy - the single payer doesn't understand all the possibilities in the market. This is maybe a reasonable thing to do in sub-markets, like prescription medication, but is not such a great idea if you do it to the entire market.

If all buyers buy the same thing naturally, the price will go up, yes, but in the long run, production should also go up. If you just put a price control on it, there will always be a short supply, and too much unmet demand, even if the price for those who do manage to get the good is a great deal.
Ha, this post provided around 620 unique visitors yesterday. I had 1 visitor (who was probably me) the day before, so that's a nice bump from HN :)

It will be interesting to see how traffic dies/tails off in the coming days.
I was curious about what a "nested" mirror is really. What exactly is nested?

I'd setup a large pool with mirror vdevs, i.e. n sets of 2 disks per mirror.

My half-remembered reasoning was that backups manage the risk you'll lose data. But replacing a disk in a mirror vdev is much easier, and faster, than doing so with RAIDZ.

The risk of RAIDZ is that resilvering impacts multiple vdevs, is much more intensive than a simple mirror resilvering, and thus the probability that additional drives will fail is much higher.

Here's a blog post that I definitely read the last time I was reading up on this:

- [ZFS: You should use mirror vdevs, not RAIDZ. – JRS Systems: the blog](http://jrs-s.net/2015/02/06/zfs-you-should-use-mirror-vdevs-...)
It's easy to say you'd like to "try new things" when you're not the one being experimented on.
My pet hate is folks working from home who can't be contacted in a timely manner during the working day. I've personally no issue with remote working, but if my colleagues do it, I expect to be able to reach them as easily as I might if I could just walk to their desk in the office.
Ted Nelson's Junk Mail Cartons
Yeah, sorry, old-timer here. I loathe "genres" and strip them off my purchased music.

Is R.E.M. "Alternative", "Rock", "College"? Maybe you consider an album like "Reckoning" from R.E.M. "Rock" but then it includes a track like "Rockville" that is perhaps "Country"?

Genre makes sense for "Soundtrack" or perhaps "Classical"? But beyond that it's just mental gymnastics.

And given how fondness for music is qualitative, I've always been suspect of any sort of algorithm that tries to recommend music based on fast-Fourier-transforms. Maybe AI isn't for everything....
I've noticed this with my kids. You can try to teach something, put a lot of effort into it, make slow and unreliable progress, then back off and then a year later they try again and pick it up instantly because their brain is ready. The key is to provide the opportunity at intervals, and don't push if they aren't ready yet.
Suggesting that the website frame it that way in no way suggests individuals should frame it that way. How an individual frames it should be highly context dependent.

As long as they aren't an ongoing threat to anyone, they deserve a job. In fact, having a job will make most of them less of a threat to society. "I need my job" is an excellent reason to behave. "The system has fucked me and it makes no difference what I do, I remain fucked" is an excellent reason to quit bothering to try.
The site as it stands doesn't, as looking at the site currently has plenty of jobs that requires passing a criminal background check. It appears this site is more idea than execution at this point.
Ive only heard of herbicide resistance, aka roundup ready. The bt modification (Cry1Ac protein from Bacillus thuringiensis), afaik, is itself a pesticide, or produces pesticide.

Edit: I suppose "pest" could refer to weeds and insects? I may have been thinking insecticide.
There is no link you could possibly share to make that number make sense.
I always wonder when they say 'Same work' do they mean same output, or same job title? I've seen this argued both ways in the US and have no idea what to believe anymore.
I used Hylang to program an Arduino Yún a few years ago, via cross-compilation. This was a very nice experience, since it allowed me to use the great Python ecosystem without having to be limited by Python the language.
Censorship and criticism of "vulgarities" I honestly think has been around since... well, since art begins. However, the exact nature of what is a vulgarity often differs from culture to culture and from time to time.

In the US, there was no comic code or movie censorship, but there was things like Comstock laws. Would Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" raise many eyebrows today? It did in the 1850s-60s. (http://www.unm.edu/~unmvclib/handouts/bannedboston.pdf)

It is true that Grimm's tales were at first meant to be more of an educational archive of folklore that otherwise would have been lost. (https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/marchapril/feature/how-t...) However, apparently, it was found after publishing that the stories appealed to parents and children. So between the first and seventh edition, apparently the stories were made "more appropriate" for children of that era. (https://books.google.com/books?id=6gX-hNshMJEC&lpg=PR39&dq=M...) In those times, that more meant getting rid of any bawdy humor and any references to sex (violence to a "morally correct" end was okay though).

Culture changes; it seems like nowadays, some degree of bawdy humor is okay in children's entertainment. However, I've seen many articles wondering if the Grimm tales are too scary for kids.
> I'm not a fan of floods of MBAs, but surely the degree serves some purpose other than class signalling. It seems like an exercise in typical engineer hubris to think <other field> is a trivial pursuit <engineer> could learn in a week.

You won't find engineers saying that medical degrees are just BS.

Fact is, business degrees are thin on content. I know this because I studied engineering and went to a business school. Now of course any degree has some kind of content, but business content just has very little that would pass for being academic content. The core stuff like Porter's Five Forces and Taylorism is no different than what you'd "know" if you read some of those airport magazines now and again.

Imagine an engineering class where you just watched a Discovery show about how the Channel Tunnel was made. Yes, it's content, but nobody should be hired to build tunnels based on having seen that video of the French guy shaking hands with the British guy.

But that is how we hire executives. A guy who knows some things about the history of some industry, and can talk about it confidently.

> Suppose you take a veteran engineer heading into management, and send him/her to get an MBA. Will they come back no better for it?

They'll know something about the culture of management, which will be useful for duping someone into promoting him. Well actually I rather like the idea of having technically trained managers, so I'd cheer that on. But not because you'll know how to manage from studying management.
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> Does this mean that if the resilver fails you can't try it again? Is this documented?

It's documented on the status Wiki. RAID 1 is "mostly working". If a mirror drops to having one disk, you can mount it once as a read-write volume (required for resilvering); after that, you have to trash it and start again.
How does she get things like Vitamin D or iron that breast milk is missing?
Even stronger - the majority of people in prison are not there because of violent crime.
No, it isn't. You can run a ZFS VDEV or a Linux mdraid as a single-disk RAID 1 unit until the remaining disk fails. You have an arbitary number of reboots/remounts to fix the problem.
>As soon as you buy/sell something, someone will know your public key.

So make a new key, and tumble the Bitcoins until you feel safe again.
No. That's why wet nurses [0] were -- and in some areas still are -- a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_nurse
Burglaries, armed robberies, stealing cars, dealing drugs. Did it all as a gang member of an East LA gang -- that's where I got started.
Thanks for sharing this thought. I was just thinking something somewhat similar..

I didn't participate (and am still not participating) in the cryptocurrency movement, for no particular reason.

Watching it from the outside, it's fascinating to see how a value system that seems built virtually on the backs of processing power and technology, essentially has ended up mirroring so many challenges and raising so many issues that resemble or relate to the modern finance system.

There's probably enough going on here to last many PhDs many lifetimes!

So much so, that the tinfoil hat part of me almost wonders if Bitcoin was a grand experiment by the creator(s), to both show the fallacy of the financial systems we depend on, while simultaneously showing a new and different alternative.
Someone should dump all y'all in some redneck craphole out in the middle of third-world nowhere for a few years. With that environment you'll find out just how important "perfect scrolling" is when most of the web loads for shit under your spotty 3G connection.
> Sure, but the article isn't about postgres.

Indeed. But your point was:

> Higher isolation levels add read locks that can block concurrent transactions.

Which isn't generally true, given the example of postgres.
Identifiers for the 21st century

[Identifiers for the 21st century](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001414)

How to design, provision, and reuse persistent identifiers
to maximize utility and impact of life science data.

Abstract
In many disciplines, data are highly decentralized across thousands of online databases
(repositories, registries, and knowledgebases). Wringing value from such databases
depends on the discipline of data science and on the humble bricks and mortar that make
integration possible; identifiers are a core component of this integration infrastructure. Draw-
ing on our experience and on work by other groups, we outline 10 lessons we have learned
about the identifier qualities and best practices that facilitate large-scale data integration.
Specifically, we propose actions that identifier practitioners (database providers) should
take in the design, provision and reuse of identifiers. We also outline the important consider-
ations for those referencing identifiers in various circumstances, including by authors and
data generators. While the importance and relevance of each lesson will vary by context,
there is a need for increased awareness about how to avoid and manage common identifier
problems, especially those related to persistence and web-accessibility/resolvability. We
focus strongly on web-based identifiers in the life sciences; however, the principles are
broadly relevant to other disciplines.

Hopefully you can believe all ten lessons learned
But the currency exchange booth in the mall is not the New York Stock Exchange. Coinbase is more the former than the latter.

The blockchain itself is the "exchange" in the sense of being the arbiter of trades; if you want something to support all these actions, it should be implemented somehow into the distributed consensus mechanism of the blockchain itself. Or a... meta-blockchain, I guess. A distributed-consensus DAG+constraint system representing the relationships of various blockchains to one-another, without requiring "centralized" side-chaining in a chain that might be the very one you're trying to fork away from.
I don't know in what Germany you are living. But with the former "Fernabsatzgesetz" (now integrated into our BGB) we have the right to return everything we order online within a period of two weeks.

Never had a problem returning anything ordered online. Ok one should nonetheless read the terms before ordering.
Because it was a direct reply to the individual. If used as an example you should give context, otherwise your comments are directed towards who you reply to.
I love this.

"Be precise." It's something we take for granted as engineers. A lot of people don't understand the importance of exact instructions and algorithms, expecting the other party to intuit the desired meaning of a command. I think this is a clever way to teach kids early on.
You would have a syntax error with a single PRINT form and no DO, too.
Android Bug Swatting with Sanitizers
They are similar to estrogen,but not as biologically active. If they bind to hormone receptors, they are just as likely to block biologically more active estrogens. Whether they make your estrogen levels higher or lower depends on how high activity you had in the first place.
"Fake it until you make it" is commonly accepted strategy in the "start up" community..
Well... what incentive do they have to hand it over?
However, that approach seems rather backwards compared to having an anonymous function primitive which is used as the basis for the lambda one-line-only sugar, as well as named functions (which simply establish a binding between a name and the anonymous thing).
How did you manage to leave the gang life?
What's dishonest (and what's demanded?) about honestly stating that one has no criminal record (since the record was deleted)?
Digicert buys Symantec SSL business
When adjusted for factors such as hiatuses for raising kids, the answer is 'no.'
This. As soon as you have an adversarial relationship between buyer/seller (of any good, not just labor) all the bad behaviors come out.

A prime example of this is the airlines. Southwest and Virgin have somehow convinced staff and passengers to be polite to each other, so boarding and other things go smoothly. The same flight for the same price on United or American is a mess of elbowing and passive agressiveness.
While both have their own personalities, has anyone done a side by side syntax and feature comparison of clojure and Hy ?
And in the meantime a bunch of people get badly burned.
It's a bit like how in the modern era where food access is abundant, it's seen as strange and unhealthy to fast. But somehow humanity survived before this access to food, at times not eating for weeks.
> Although the average woman’s salary in Britain is 29% lower than the average man’s, the bulk of that gap results from differences in rank within companies, firms’ overall compensation rates and the nature of the tasks a job requires.

If Software Engineer II makes less than Software Engineer III, and women of equivalent skill and experience to men have a significantly higher chance of being Software Engineer II than III, then the wage gap exists for "the same work".

This is particularly difficult to measure, but still possible with proper diligence, because rank throughout a career is a compounding advantage.

P.S. disable javascript to get past the paywall
Ask HN: Developer to pitch idea for side project?
Hello HN.

Where are the best places to pitch developers, so that they may take on a side project in their spare time?

I'm looking for an experienced backend webrtc developer, that knows Golang and is well versed in Video and Telecom.

It's probably a few months work and I want to negotiate on payment as well. (to make things a bit more complicated)

Does anyone know of any sites where developers are looking for a challenge?

Rather not use upwork, freelancer.com, etc.

Thanks!
Relevant remark by John Carmack (ignore the poor YouTube title): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzmbW4ueGdg
It depends on what you want to optimize for. micro is good for some things, mono is good for other things. Neither is inherently "better", it just depends on your goal
I suspect whoever is downvoting you is not aware that Brainfuck is a real programming language :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_milk_bank
Square continues its stellar stock market run
Surge pricing is technologically archaic, and really has been since the start. Uber should be running instant automated auctions like stock market and webads do.
When he says the price isn't sustainable I think what he means is that investor money has kept Uber fares below costs, which is not sustainable.
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audio is being superimposed though Braille to voice over on an iOS platform- searching for someone capable of verifying that there is an issue through an analysis of iOS crash reports.
> Elm is a young language that has changed its design patterns significantly in the last year or two

In the past 2 years there was one big change (0.16 -> 0.17) that said "instead of being best practice, the Elm Architecture is now the only way to do it." [0] Every other release has not meaningfully affected design patterns as far as I can remember.

That said, I agree that it's fair to consider "removing alternatives to the best practice" a significant change of design patterns. For for those who had been following different patterns, I know it was a big change.

You're also right that Elm is a young language, and there's inherent risk of change that comes along with that. :)

> perhaps it is unfair to expect it to be as capable and mature as alternative languages.

I don't want to claim Elm is flawless, or for that matter stable and mature—because right now it's none of those things. Sure, it's been battle-tested and proven more than capable, but of course that's not the only factor in choosing a language.

I would note that from what I've heard, among functional altJS languages Elm is second in maturity only to ClojureScript. (I base that on conversations I've had with users of CLJS, PureScript, ReasonML, GHCjs, and ScalaJS.) As far as I can tell, the only other "alternative language" that's more mature than Elm is JavaScript itself—or maybe TypeScript, if you count that as a separate language.

To be clear, what I do want to claim is that Elm is a strong choice for typical web applications. That's true of small ones, medium-sized ones, and especially big ones.

Again, when I make that claim, I'm not saying that everyone should choose Elm for their project. Projects differ, and people have preferences. Elsewhere in this comment thread is someone who preferred ClojureScript, and someone else who preferred PureScript. Great! :D

What I'm saying is that nobody should be concerned about whether Elm applications can scale well. They already have scaled well for plenty of projects. There clearly is not some "abstraction wall" that prevents this from happening, and people having personal preferences for other languages' design choices doesn't imply otherwise. :)

[0] http://elm-lang.org/blog/farewell-to-frp
In general, if some target language entity exists in a named form only, then the corresponding anonymity of those entities in the source language must be simulated via gensyms.

For instance, the branch targets in a while loop are anonymous, right? But in the target language, you must have a named label for the instruction. Solution: machine-generated label.
>intended

Awfully presumptuous.
Racial and national flamewar is not allowed on HN, and we've banned this account.
The key is that part about proving to a court that what you said is true. With that, a persecutor can not make you confess something you didn't do.

May countries have a similar system.
"operator operator fuck fuck fuck" usually works.
The article uses the definition that "same rank" == "same work", which is ridiculous for many reasons, one in particular being that title often corresponds to a pay level for an area of work covered by a ladder of such titles so by definition it will be true that such a gap is insignificant.

> According to data for 8.7m employees worldwide gathered by Korn Ferry, a consultancy, women in Britain make just 1% less than men who have the same function and level at the same employer.
Why don't men take these hiatuses?
It was very tough getting my first job. I been with my current employer for more than 10 years, and will probably retire from here. Many people don't believe that people change. I know for sure that people change -- unfortunately not always for the better.
Bloomberg: Study finds private startup valuations aren’t grounded in reality
I've encountered a few that simply hang up on you if you try that but it does usually work.
Drivers are liquidity providers. If you are willing to wait, you can wait for a lower price.
> Fine for the time dimension of the spectrogram, but rather dubious for the frequency axis.

MFCCs[1] are exactly that, a type of convolution along the frequency axis of a Fourier transform, and are highly apt features for music classification tasks.

It makes sense if you think of timbre as a time-varying relationship between the harmonics of a single pitch; translation invariance along the frequency axis can tell you that you there are partials typical e.g. of a guitar or of a flute, without caring what particular pitch those instruments are playing.
And timbre is a bigger source of variety in popular music than e.g. the particular notes used.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel-frequency_cepstrum
No she hasn't. She just signaled to the world all the VC funds staffed by idiots that think they are the smartest peeps in the room. All the science and life-science funds passed on Theranos b/c they could smell the bullshit from Holmes a mile away.
No one in the life-sciences or science industry was harmed by Holmes lies. The only ones hurt were the patients, un-knowing employees, and the inept vc funds.
>Attitudes are changing quickly

Are they now? Tell me, which political party is planning on decriminalizing drug offenses?
> but the lack of "let" mostly killed it for me

Can you give an example of code that is improved by let significantly? ...and can't be rewritten in a more readable way without it?
> our much more intelligent children will realize total species improvement is a better investment

I view this as a fallacy which is close kin to the "algorithms are neutral" fallacy. Scenario: we, with our incredibly poor understanding of genetics vs. the total impact of those on a fully-developed organism do this:

1. Make more "intelligent" humans, but oops the genetic modification we make reduces empathy. E.g. the "high-functioning autistic" stereotype. Now we have "bright" humans who are less capable of understanding and mirroring emotional impacts on others.

2. Second oops: the empathy reduction above doesn't also reduce instincts governing human tribalism.

3. Coup de grace: now we have a "race" of perfect little fascists, capable of incredible feats of rationalization to cover for their poorly-understood desires, a stronger than ever in-group vs out-group anathema, and with barely a twinge for the others their actions are now crushing.

Society crumbles due to lack of social cohesion and mass genocide. Thanks for playing! Please enter 25￠ to continue.
it can mean a variety of things, including that they don't want to realize a loss on the current valuation.
Oh my god. That's terrible. This shocked me more than I can really say. Definitely like...that could be me. It's actually really frightening when you look at the kinds of software that some regimes consider subversive. You don't actually have to be an activist in some parts of the world to get in trouble for writing software.