skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could've written that piece in high school (and I probably did) about a random popular radio channel, or the billboard top 100. Even if it was big label (and ad) driven instead of algorithm (and ad) driven, I honestly don't see a practical difference.

I always prided myself (this is a remorseful confession, not a boast) in discovering small bands no one had heard of, either later becoming big or not, this going back to the 90s and back. I also took issue with hipsters becoming a term in the mid oughts, because I thought they made me look like a douche (which I saw no irony in).

But to my point: I see absolutely no difference in now and then in the music stage, other than global scope since the rise of the internet. There is of course a lot of stuff that isn't on Spotify, but the barrier of entry to their service seems minimal, as you can regularly discover bandcamp level indie music on there. I can listen to bigger names now on account of being mature enough to acknowledge good music wherever it comes from, but I generally still scavenge blogs, bandcamp and Spotify's discover weekly (which I feel matches what you feed it through play history). I'm inclined to say that Spotify is providing a higher yield than other venues in regards to quality discovery for me.
Same for me!
That's a fair comment.
Perhaps, but that would be exactly valuing the extra free time over the pure amount of cash, which is a counterargument to your "solved by money" idea. I would take "$60,000 and a 3 day week", but "solved by money" suggests you should take "100,000 and a 5 day week".
Please dont let "support" become "influence". The web needs less influence from Comcast and ISPs. Your business practices are cancer of the internet.
Let's be honest here: how many airport waitstaff out there have ever brightened anyone's day?

Slim to none.

I suspect this artist has never actually eaten at an airport restaurant -- the staff, at least at JFK and LAX, are some of the most demotivated, spirit-broken people I've ever encountered.
I did not say this was a widely adopted use case yet. I'm just pointing out that every green energy producer in the world right now currently burns off excess energy as waste heat. If they move to mining bitcoin instead, they'll actually earn money from that waste electricity.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15894896
Agile Software Development: A History
If UBI is sustainable and grows the economy, is there a reason not to implement it at a more local level than federal?
There's plenty of "rather serious professional mistakes" in whatever operating system you happen to run in the first place - it's very rare that something that doesn't affect security in any meaningful way gets the attention this has.
Taxes are too destructive because those who get the money usually handle it more foolishly than those who actually have to pay.

Better would be for energy utilities to be co-operatives which directly subsidize lower-consuming (or net producing) members at the expense of wasteful users.
What would you recommend for someone who already went to college in an unrelated field but is looking at CS/programming as a second career? Is the degree that important, or would an alternative path serve a returning student better?
You made me look it up because I used to work for Alan Greenspan, and he did not say that.

It was John Maynard Keynes.
Microsoft/ProcDump-for-Linux
I wonder if sbux even knows. Im sure theyve outsourced their wifi by now...
4 Techs That Will Shape IT Security
Probably $0 after the backlash, perhaps even net negative.
Spotify releases SDK for web playback
At first I was about to jump in with the standard "most people won't end up with an increase in income due to UBI being counteracted at tax time".

Then you said

> UBI could lead to stagflation because the income allotments and any increases would be according to some formula known ahead of time. This means that producers could anticipate demand and simply raise prices to soak up any income increases.

This is a very interesting point that I have never considered before. Thanks for mentioning it.
And who will do all the QA to be able to support a core component of the system like that? Because that the cost of that freedom
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>You can really only pay more money.

No, the company can also _not_ pay more money and use that constraint as a hiring filter. Example from the article:

>There is one motivation that should raise a red flag, though. “The candidates that I don't usually want to spend much time on are folks who are basically just looking for the next big check.

Another personal related story... In my of my past jobs, the hiring manager said upfront that "We pay a lot but we never pay the most, and we never match other offers. We want candidates to look at our whole package and decide we're the right choice."

I have to admit that when I first heard the manager brazenly admit that they didn't pay the most and that they don't get into bidding wars for talent, it seemed like corporate self-sabotage. However, I later realized it was very creative game theory to hire the specific type of people they wanted. I ended up taking that job because they were at the forefront of data warehousing which I really wanted to get into. It was one of the best jobs I ever had. Although they didn't have the highest starting salaries, they did have the highest raises and bonuses but I didn't know that at the time I took the job.

(I'm not recommending that companies not pay people the most. It's just interesting that one company used a seeming "disadvantage" of lower salary and flipped it around as a advantageous hiring tool. Very interesting reverse-psychology.)
This forum post is the best summary I've seen: https://millcomputing.com/topic/introduction-to-the-mill-cpu...

It links to videos with longer explanations.
Yeah, who needs another iteration of Windows?
I've been thinking for a while about both Itanium and the Mill, both of which I feel are pretty big advancements in the state of the art for computer architectures. Itanium was a complete flop and the Mill is yet to be seen.

Explaining success or failure is always fraught with peril and overly simplified beyond reason, but I can't help but think that Intel massively fucked up one thing and one thing only: they targeted the enterprise market. Not just the commodity data center market, but the enterprise enterprise market, the we-only-buy-IBM hyperconservative and slow to move market. The type that still run COBOL on mainframes (and still call them mainframes) because it works and recompiling isn't even close to an option. Nobody in this market wants a nominal increase in computing power if it comes at the expense of backwards incompatibility.

They couldn't have seen it beforehand because smartphones weren't a thing, but a few years after launch they had their ideal target market right in front of them. Smartphones manufacturers will do anything for an incremental improvement in power efficiency. They'll take that improvement and exploit every ounce of it both upmarket in high end phones and downmarket in android burners for 3rd world countries. And people go through phones like crazy...nobody is running software on their phones that is more than 1-2 years old, and most OSes and apps have been updated at least once in the last 3 months. A recompile and migration to a new architecture for this market isn't even 1% of the hurdle that enterprise software was.

I hope that if the Mill makes it to market, that they get the market right. I'd hate to see another innovation get the shaft because of something as dumb as some marketing decisions.
I guess your time is not valuable.
Why on Earth do you think producers will be unable to raise prices?

> Land has a perfectly inelastic supply, and thus expectations of more income will lead to increases in rent.

It seems like you're talking about housing rather than land, you don't think that more construction happens when there's more demand? Most of the populated world doesn't have the unique constraints present in the Bay area or NYC.
Every now and then, try to have an offline day. To me it has been very beneficial.

e.g: to get into the habit of reading, exercise, etc.

You will naturally end up doing something better than browsing a feed.
The Coinhive script mines Monero: https://coinhive.com/ . It's been a while since JavaScript Bitcoin mining was feasible :)
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Is Bulgaria sitting on $3.5 BILLION worth of Bitcoin seized from criminals?
The Many Benefits of Learning UX Design
Not sure about the ROI, but I do know that Coin-Hive (which is being used in this "trick") mines Monero, not Bitcoin.
> All with near zero effort from a developer perspective

For a very small subset of developers.

The last time I was tethered to a Heroku installation, I spend 60% of my time coding, and 40% of my time working around Heroku's shortcomings.

It doesn't matter how many times you reply to people on HN stating that their position is "provably false," that doesn't make it true.
Yeah, I don't see why we need a defense industry. Obviously the boutique market is handling demand just fine.
IBM Releases 100 Code Samples, Most on GitHub
In many other nations UBI would constitutionally be a federal concern.

And then there's also the whole 'universal' part.
Off the top of my head, this needs:

Table of Contents support with working links; per-user storable bookmarks; font and color control; margin control; multiple methods of page turning; a non-bookshelf library index (I have over a thousand authors, most of whom have more than one book -- any interface needs to be usable by someone with a library of ten thousand books); and probably a partridge in a pear tree.

But it looks like a good core on which to build.
Even if they did this in all Starbucks locations, I can't see it really making any money. Ten seconds on a laptop CPU rounds to zero. Coinhive has just never made any sense to me in practice. Maybe 5+ years ago, but not today. What a mismatch of effort and timing.
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Everyone I know in BTC cashed out months/years ago. Makes them feel sick thinking about what they've missed out on recently. But I keep telling them they made a the same decision any rational actor would
It works with the epub book in the demo, but with the pdf one, it just opens the whole pdf file in my viewer.
That's actually not true at all...

* https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/systemd.html
* https://packages.qa.debian.org/u/upstart.html (it's gone from stretch that's true but still supported in jessie)
* https://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openrc.html
* https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sysvinit.html
Is it good idea to throw an exception in .NET C# constructor?
Vue.Js vs Other Frameworks: Creating a Simple App
Well, when the AIs are inevitably put in charge of a country's defense and another country is wiped out "by mistake" because of it, at least we can say the AI system that did it is a relatable cartoon villain.
IBM Releases 60 Bots in New Code Exchange
> it's fast enough

It's fast enough for people with as good computers and Internet connections as me, who are also employed at the same company as I am, and so do not use anything but the product on their computer at the same time.

> optimize developer time

Saving 1h for a developer for each 30min wasted over the lifetime of the application * number of users. Yeah, that scales right. Electricity is free too.
Definitely a topic I've been watching with interest. A lot of corporate intranet websites run on the Windows stack, and being able to switch them to HTTPS for free would be a huge win for a lot of organizations.
It's an explicit formulation of a process that you, and everyone else, follow all the time.

You might, for example, trust your spouse. You have no problem giving them your car keys, because you believe they are unlikely to steal the car.

Now a stranger asks you to borrow your car. You would probably not give them the keys.

But then you learn that the stranger is a good friend of your spouse. Because you trust your spouse, and they trust their friend, your trust in the stranger just grew, and you would probably consider giving them the car.

Using many such chains, with some discounting as the length increases, you could, for example, create a trust score for a news story.
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>spending all of their time

lmao, what? Do you think poor people do nothing but dream about how to steal money from rich people?

>half that time on building/delivering value to people in the marketplace

So, say they spend an hour a day commenting about UBI. At minimum wage, that's a whole $3.63 every day. Don't spend it all in once place.

>Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

This does a great job of explaining why people work two jobs their entire life and don't make it out of poverty, and why most rich people are descended from rich people.
I am describing what people actually do, not what they should do. I think everybody knows that they shouldn't tailgate, but they just do it anyway, because "F U get out of my way".
Or simply writing programs against the classic Turing machine. I wrote one out by hand 25 years ago, 3 pages I think to add two integers.
Why Linux HDCP isn't the end of the world
Interesting, thanks for the substantive reply. I'm not convinced fully but I think you've highlighted a problem area.

The thing I see is that the coins the rich community got for the food still have value. They can trade them for other resources, workers, and still manufacture things. Let's say this is a bakery. They can still buy flour and eggs and hire bakers (let's say this is a bit bigger than a mom and pop shop).

So people still need to work at some level, but they will have enough money to buy bread and feed themselves always. I'm wondering how that balance works though (aka how much of COL is actually given by the UBI, and what variables change this).

> If there's noone funding the system, then noone can get real stuff out of the system

I don't think this is true. See currencies everywhere that no longer hold to a gold standard, etc. No one is funding the value behind printing money. Why it works is because of confidence and agreed upon value of the currency, which is required here in the same way.

I'm wondering how this could possibly tie in with a deflationary currency used in tandem with it, and an exchange rate between UBICoin and StagantCoin. I'm spitballing here with little economics background though so I'm not claiming there isn't a central flaw there, but I'm curious what results.
>Why on Earth do you think producers will be unable to raise prices?

Because of the law of supply and demand, as it pertains to the outputs of a productive process in a relatively free market context. The prices will generally tend towards the costs (including opportunity costs) in the long run, and demand shocks will only cause temporary rises in price until production can catch up.

With naturally scarce commodities, that is not possible, because there is no production.

>you don't think that more construction happens when there's more demand?

Land supply is perfectly inelastic. Improvements on land are somewhat elastic, although ultimately anchored by lots of factors... and the speculative holding of land is a big one. Furthermore, there's an upper limit to the amount of density that a region can sustain and still be livable.

There's a "standard of comfort" that people have, which ultimately determines a lot of it, though. So, in theory, if we became more comfortable at higher densities, we could live like people in Hong Kong. Yet, that doesn't mean even they can sustain infinite density, and indeed they have high rents in Hong Kong.
"and isn't subject to inflation"

what do you call price of BC going up 16000 fold in 6 years???
the theory was you can buy the same good with the same amount of coin regardless of what dollar is doing, did that happen in practice? no, because no one knows true value of BC because there is no central authority. I am with you on hating the central authority but inflation part didn't work out as it was planned!
React vs Other Frameworks: Creating a Simple App
Wait, this is what we're calling 'UBI' now? Many countries have had this for ages. Australia calls it colloquially "The Dole" and its nothing like UBI.

It's like saying a disability pension is 'limited UBI'.
>isn't subject to inflation?
I've wondered what the ROI would be for me to leave my home office computer mining bitcoin while I'm at work. I know the likelihood of me mining something is tiny, but so is the expected payout when I buy a lotto ticket.

I spent about $20 / year on lotto tickets (basically whenever Powerball gets near a record jackpot). That same amount of money will keep my i5 ThinkPad running for a long time. Am I more likely to mine some Bitcoin or win the lottery?
Then short cryptocurrencies and become a billionaire.
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CPU for services seems legit as long as they give an affirmative checkoff.
Essential skills for UXers in 2018: 10 experts
No but the tobacco craze is not over either. I think the difference is now there are heavy regulations in both industries (advertising to children, warning labels, dietary information) but analogous regulations have not yet been implemented in the eyeballs on screen industry.
I understood it correctly. It's one of those stories we only have about 1/10th of the information needed to make an accurate judgment.... like how did the guy with the gun end up with a black eye exactly?
As the father of a teenager daughter who is entirely too addicted to screens (they're all confiscated, spending the semester in my office), I highly recommend Catherine Steiner-Adair's book, The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age.

It's not just the kids' fault. You taught them to do it by ignoring them when they were little (because they were boring, remember?)

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0062082434/
I have been using Google Books for my reading. And that is just for one reason - all my highlights and notes are stored in Google Docs. You can use the doc to build your summaries or quickly read through all the highlights/notes.

I have yet to find a reader which can do this.
Being more expensive for the sake of reliability / guaranteed response is fine by me. But relatively often the efficiency is so low, that, given the required scale, a low-efficiency solution becomes infeasible, prohibitively expensive.

The expense is not always monetary. While US clinics ask exorbitant amounts of money, clinics in certain countries with universal healthcare ask for large amounts of time. You need a surgery? Please wait 4-6 months. (E.g. https://expathealth.org/healthcare-news/global-patient-wait-...)
Yeah, I hate that too.
Tax Reform Bill 2017: What Does the New Tax Reform Entitle?
I'm increasingly feeling the same frustration with the industry. What do you do nowadays, if I may ask?
Notepad doesn't fit the definition of a keylogger.

This does.
People get lots of different jobs for lots of different reasons, some of which include money. I think your fellow citizens deserve a stronger consideration for their morals, choices, and concerns than that of a faceless, sociopathic megacorp like Facebook.
Convert humanity as fast as possible to electric cars and solar roofs. Not a full solution, particularly not at this time, but will, if successful, take big chunks out of the problem.
I completely agree on financial independence. I have optimized for personal freedom in my career. That's why, for example, I haven't taken (many) consulting jobs, even though I would have made a lot of money in the short term. I ended up running a small software product business that I own 100%, make at least a steady $250k per year, can choose where I live, work maybe 20-30 hours per week, and can take a few weeks off whenever I like (this year I worked maybe 9 months out of 12).
Are you suggesting it'll become part of the click-through license agreement in future?
Tech is a pretty heterogeneous market. A senior dev at a big 5 tech company is going to be paying at least double that, and the quality they get is lightyears above the Senior Developer at Generic Widget Corp in Omaha. And Space X isn't getting Generic Widget Corp's senior devs, they are getting people who are downgrading their salary for a chance to work on something that excites them.
What does it matter if it's "just physics" or "just engineering" or "just math"? Anything you can say about AI, you can say about the atomic bomb. AI involves a quite a bit of engineering as well. This argument is silly.

At the end of the day we are still building a powerful new technology. To assume it will be completely harmless is naive. No technology is completely harmless. But at least our previous inventions didn't sprout minds of their own. And have desires and plans independent of their creators.
I expected some graphics comparing various alternatives, but instead, it's 20 pages of ramblings, poorly edited.
It would be great if we could integrate it with some ereader (kobo, Kindle).

I don't really like reading ebooks on my desktop or mobile
The court will have their own opinion, and probably would not agree with Apple.
Due to sheer volume of books, I have no intention to browse my ebooks at this juncture personally. Search is the only option if you're in the 10k book range, IMHO.

LibreRead supports both metadata search and full-text search. (Though the latter requires a lot more RAM.)
It makes no economic sense at all.

Mining Bitcoin using CPUs is unprofitable. They're basically gaining cents worth of bitcoins using dollars worth of electricity. See https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/41276/in-the-asi...
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It's pretty hard to beat a French press. A $20 version will last forever and make coffee fit for a king.
This is a rediculous argument. You can’t just introduce a radically new technology and currency to the market and expect it to instantly be priced at is true value.

Give it time. Bitcoin is a populist movement. Eventually the market will find it’s correct value and volatility will decline (volatility in bitcoin has actually been declining for some time now).
Seriously everyone, please stop using bitcoin

If only it were so easy. Environmental concerns will not kill Bitcoin even if they should. Most people will not choose against their own immediate interests in favor of the distant future collective.

Bitcoin may fail, but it won’t be stopped.
That could make it worse. What you’ve described are really just derivatives, which brought down the economy
in 2008. An infinite number of bets on a finite amount of resources.

Think about it like going to the horse racetrack. Nothing stopping anyone from betting $40 billion on a few horses. Win or lose, a ton of instability will occur once they either need to come up with $40 billion to cover their losses or have someone pay them $40 billion for their winnings.