skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the antibiotics, that's already the law. Additionally, I have veterinarian friend working for a state government in livestock inspections. She says there are no antibiotics in our meat, and that it hasn't been allowed for years.
Thanks, Julian - that was interesting. The redirecting of the keylog to a webdav destination lets the key logging happen to a remote server, without installing any untrusted software, and with no user UI-level exposure.
Yeah, meat is the biggest reason for climate change, not oil, gas, cfc's. I can't believe what I'm seeing.
Let me be a Certified Finance Asshat to demonstrate that you are externalizing money:

I will give you $35k/year for 40 hours a week total compensation and you get all the other 4.

Why aren't you taking this job? The reason is because you know that it is a laughable salary.

FRC has an agenda. Its agenda is convince naive people to go work for their startups ( and other startups ) for Magic and Unicorns, rather than $$.

P.S. Thanks for downvotes!
It probably isn't. That is only the part the you, personally, pay for it.
Because the only way to create UBI is to take money from other people and redistribute it. Horrible idea. I do not want my hard-earned income and efforts wasted on those who wish to freeload. I'd much rather donate to charities and responsible non-profits, who will do a better job at supporting those who find themselves in tough situations.
https://github.com/etcet/HNES
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You sound a lot like me...I'm a laravel/vue dev if you want to join forces let me know. Email : patrickwcurl@gmail.com

I think if we could get 2-3 devs, a designer, and a marketing person to join the team we could start filling our pipeline and build a pretty cool worker-coop.

My vision would reward first in more, but give everyone coming in - even non-technical people a stake in the company with stock and what not. I think the lowest income in a company should be at least $70k -- that's the current number it takes for someone to feel 'happy'... about their position in life and presumably live comfortable.

I admire companies like Winco where some cashiers who started back in 1990's are worth millions because of ESO plans.

My dream would be helping clients with full biz-dev from idea to validation to mockups to development to SEO/Marketing and growing the user base. It would be cool if we worked in some equity as well, say 5% equity for a lower cost of development, but if we helped build a unicorn all employees would split the windfall.
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Is it just a coincidence that there was an article about this very thing a few days ago here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15869983
There's an argument to be made about the payment structure, though. Let's say I listen to music for five hours a day. Four of those hours I'm working, and it's mindless background music. For the last hour, I'm at home, actively listening, engaged.

The music in the last hour is worth more to me than the other four hours, and in an older model, pricing can reflect that. Easy-listening CDs are cheaper, and I buy new ones less frequently (it doesn't matter if they repeat, because I'm not really listening). But in the streaming model, the last hour of music is worth less. It's a smaller span of time, and I'm more likely to vary what I listen to during it (so no one artist gets as much money).

I don't know if I'd call Spotify responsible for this--it seems like an unintended consequence--but it's certainly unfortunate either way.
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That's not a valid form of reasoning. Just because we didn't know about something before isn't an excuse to make random assumptions.
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Wire has teams functionality now as well.

https://wire.com/en/
>>> We also give them a lot of additional products with side effects, such antibiotics. The effect of the mix of all those on the human health is still unknown

What is known is the effect on human health of eating diseased meat, and the effects on animals that must live infested with parasites. We certainly do pump too many antibiotics into our cattle, but that doesn't mean all drugs are always bad for us or them.
Quite probably. However you can't really have one arm of Government not on the same page as another arm of Government. The purpose of leadership is to have all arms of Government singing from the same hymn sheet.

It doesn't work if you've got one office doing one thing and another doing something else. That's how you end up with the debacle that is U.S. politics, which the rest of the world looks at as a complete and utter disaster.
That's a good idea! We think that the current product offered by Courses@Brown is finalized however, so we're not sure they would be open to changing the software like that.
We have limited UBI ( 'bijstand' ) in The Netherlands for decades and I am sure the results will be a mixed bag.

I know one bar owner in a typical 'bijstand' neighbourhood which was pretty happy. Too bad none of those guys made it past 60.

I know some people in lifelong 'bijstand' too, the exception does something useful for society like cultural events.

Most just piss their life away.
This. They should have used something more towards orange, and a bit less saturated.
The problem isn't the meat itself -- well-raised, well-nourished meat is perfectly good for you. The factory-farmed, antibiotic and hormone pumped, corn-fed animals that flood American supermarkets are pretty nutrient poor.
It's easy enough to set that up (though it's not the recommended use case) using kubeadm.
> Good design is unobtrusive

This one is forgotten too often. A good design brings the content forward, it doesn't hide it.
B-but what about Making The World Better™ ?
That's a good suggestion. We'd have to figure out how to authenticate the users first.
The Unix philosophy isn't "do one thing well". It's "parse text from standard input, files, command line arguments and environment arguments in hacky way, do one thing okay-ishly, then spit out ambiguous text once again".
The bigger concern is here is the clear link between automation and increased worker mental instability.

Will automation lead to more populists revolts ?
I don't know but we need research into more solutions (besides just basic income), the problem is too big to ignore.
I really wonder if people said to lincoln something like:

"Please don't end slavery. The whole economy depends on it. Hell my brother would be out of a job. We would loose half the states in the next vote if you do. Be reasonable mate. There is probably a middle way that can make everyone happy."

Everytime there is an important question raised, it will be hard on the system, on the habits and traditions, and on the ones implementing the new thing.

This can not be a reason not to do it.

Now there could be very good reasons no to do it. Like discovering the whole specie would degenerate if we did.

But "we always have been doing this" should never be a answer in a civilized debate.

Let's talk about this. What are the fact ? What is the price we are paying now from eating that much meat. What would be the benefit and price of stopping ? Is it worth it ?

Otherwise it's just a Facebook talks.
I first thought it's some anti-inflation speak but it can't be since they want inflation in their system too and not all currencies inflate all the time (i.e. Swiss franc, but then again they might not care about Switzerland). Similarly they mention UBI and climate change being absolutely stonewalled which is totally not true in many European countries (EU has strong environmental agenda overall and Finland is experimenting with UBI on its own this year). This leads me to believe that their definition of 'world' is some subset of the first world or even just USA itself.
>the Lightning network looks a lot like the old Gold Standard

There's no fractional reserve with LN.
You're right. Unemployed people still have lots of experience and talent, so they can use it in the service of community. A people-only currency could create a marketplace for services. Most of the needs of a community can actually be provided with internal resources - construction, repair, food preparation, education, health, farming, energy (solar) - we can do all of these and more by ourselves. So instead of UBI, we need to make it possible for people to be self reliant. We'll be benefitting from automation as well, so self reliant communities need not be back breaking jobs. People have been self reliant even at the level of a farm, since forever - we can be self reliant again, with enough hard work and ingenuity.
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Middle-class, middle-aged people are pretty darn set in their ways. There's only so much "education" a middle-aged Republican will take, especially from the government.
Ah yeah that makes sense... sort of. I would have expected specific volume commands to come through from another layer, not for the audio driver itself to be directly listening to the keyboard. But I guess that's why it's just debugging code.
U.S. Bitcoin Futures Launch stokes fears of manipulation, hacks and glitches
As a Comcast customer until ~6 months ago, I brought in a cable box they forced upon me as part of a packaged rate (cheaper than internet alone) once my contract ended.

I had tried calling customer service to see if they'd give me a new bundle but they told me they were only for new customers, so I switched ISPs.

Anyways, when I went in store to return the equipment, the guy I spoke to told me to not bother with phone support but to instead come in store or call him directly (he gave me a business card) since he can get existing customers bundled rates that the phone reps can't.

While I had the choice of ISP many don't, I'd definitely recommend going to a store location where you can talk face to face with someone in your area and see if you can't get a contract at a better rate than you pay month to month.
And they will be forced to learn, the hard way, that this is a bad way to approach algorithms design. The same argument applies to quicksort, and we know how that turned out: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/mdmspe.pdf
Regarding meat-space web of trust, I think solutions like Keybase can help with this (though I'd want to see the principle of it decentralized, rather than only one service as it is now).

With validators, you also largely solve this problem. The vast majority of people are not hermits with no physical connections. I can create an account and go through my apartment building's validator. The apartment office has a vested interest in making sure my account is legit (I'm paying them!), and now I'm connected to a real world entity. Similarly, my employers can create a validator and connect my account during the normal on-boarding of a new hire. They also have a vested interest: a fake account impacts their reputation; they pay into that account and may even be paid from it (suppose I overspent on a business trip and need to reimburse them, they need me to pay back in a currency they trust).

It does still run into problems, don't get me wrong, but this validator concept could mitigate many of the scaling issues of web of trust.
The market has significant liquidity, and unless you're selling hundreds of million in Bitcoin in a single day on one exchange, you'll be able to cash out just fine.
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I didn't say "startup." There are literally hundreds of jobs, trades, and skill-sets that will be valuable for years. Create value in someone's life in some way, exchange that value for money, and you have a business.

I see few millenials seeking employment or learning the HVAC/electrician/construction/plumbing trades, and yet, they can be extremely lucrative... especially after you are skilled enough to start a business.

Robots and AI will not be replacing these trades anytime soon.
It was a quote in Joel Spolsky's blog.

> A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works and thinks at a higher level of abstraction than Microsoft. “Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement,” he said

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/10/17/news-121/
Unit tests run much faster and are more focused - relying too much on integration tests to catch bugs is a massive maintenance smell, as you will waste an enormous amount of time trying to figure out the root cause of a failing test.
Keep in mind the person who wrote this run's a DIY venue in Brooklyn so they're pretty torn up about this. Spotify is pretty terrible for struggling DIY artists who mainly rely on album/merch sales at shows.
This is inflation, (arguably) a positive force in the economy, it's not universal (see Swiss currency for a nice example) and it's also part of their own scheme (using the same justification as real life inflation) so why would they point it out as a problem and then copy it?
> You say you earn $X at your current job in which you are content? How does $X5 sound?"

Sign me up.

See, had an uncomfortable conversation with a wife of fourteen years who went through hell and back and managed to claw from the bottom to a relatively stable plateau*: she's freaking out because we don't have much savings (read: not 7 figures in liquid cash). Probably for no reason considering most of people that she knows won't be able to pull out ten thousand from a bank account. But this is life and her not carrying about finances carries more weight that I would have to color code a spreadsheet.
I think the cancer link is pretty solid but the base rates and relative risks don't paint that dire a picture.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108955/
Have you heard of bitcoin's lightning network? There is a layer they're working on that, as I've heard it, allows 1 million transactions a second for a fraction of the transaction cost. It's not VISA, but it's a huge improvement, and makes Bitcoin much more viable. They've been showcasing successful tests, but are open about it not being 100% ready. Still exciting.
Not sure how you made that classification so narrow with such a strange statement.
The issue is twofold.

Like you say, most people want their easy music and Spotify delivers. The downside of that is the fact that commercially produced music is now targeting Spotify consumption aggressively and using all those fancy analytics Spotify provides. This makes new music more and more alike each other.

Because of this tight feedback loop on Spotify and the producers, I think it's only a matter of time when they cut out the middle man and start producing music with AI algorithms. I'm sure that algorithms can keep the muzak-consuming masses happy. I've already heard some convincing sounding music (sheet music played with synthesizers) and audio (music produced directly as audio waveforms) produced by algorithms.

The second issue is what's described in the comment you quote. Anyone making niche music is suffering. It was never easy for musicians taking this route but the algorithm based recommendations engines is making it harder to be discovered while taking a bigger cut from the small income.

It's not like there is another viable platform out there. Spotify has a near monopoly and they dictate the terms. People aren't buying a second subscription service or buying songs separately let alone buying a physical album.

I find one positive in this all. Because there's no more income from record sales, musicians are performing live more than in decades. I really like live music, so that's nice.
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Depends on application. They're looking at analytical workloads, which presumably means they're focused on batch jobs. For OLTP-type workloads, I care very much about worst-case performance.
Don't spread conspiracies without proof.

Here is, for example, a nice chart showing recycling quotas of >80% for most types of waste: https://www.alba.info/fileadmin/alba/pressemappe/kreislaufwi...

Yeah, that's not the US, which you were probably talking about. But it's proof that it's possible.
I believe you, but I've actually seen it with my own eyes. Quite probably the survivability depends on the type of spider...
Also taxes I believe.
Remember this quote from Greenspan, folks: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"

Edit: oops, sorry, I stand corrected: it was Keynes.
Sure, which is what we do now and generally works well. I'm not advocating for this system, merely addressing the question by pointing to their documentation where they answer it.
Spotify's model is driven by what users consume the most, so it sounds to me like this isn't something Spotify is driving but instead the market is driving.

"Challenging" music is good and necessary to further art, but it's not a kind of music that the majority of Spotify's audience go out of their way to consume.
Can you give more info on that 7-minute deployment time?

Dokku is basically a wrapper around Herokuish which is just a docker image with Heroku buildpacks pre-installed on them to build an image of your app to be dployed to docker instance...

Source: Am a maintainer of Dokku.
Thinking as an employer, though, is it worth an extra $100k to be able to mock you? Hell no. Politeness is free.

Is it worth an extra $100k to be able to employ dirtbags alongside you? Maybe for some jobs that involve ethically dubious actions, but probably not for most.

Is it worth an extra $100k to be able to give you a super junior title? No, titles are free.

Is it worth 2x your normal rate to get you to work overtime? Maybe, but that's pretty expensive. They would be better off if they could get another person to do it at a normal rate.

So, you might be willing to put up with those things for more money, but for the employer it is usually a waste of money pay that. It doesn't make sense for an employer to pay extra for those things unless they are really getting a lot of value out of it.
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Notepad runs in userland under the supervision of the kernel. This is a driver and could be running in kernel mode. It could make a big difference.

Even if it's not malicious, I still think it is a rather serious professional mistake to ship a driver containing potentially dangerous deadcode.
In that case they ISIS are pussies (but are they?). Can't even compare to Palestinian boys throwing rocks.

It seems like the organization could attract Psychopaths from around the world. And they were provided with excellent training and other comforts. Amazing, to say the least.

The IDF could've lent a little help too (if they could annihilate them, like you said, which I am sure they can easily do), since ISIS are a threat to the entire world.
I don't agree with that guy but I don't know what surplus/deficit has to do with it.
This article was already posted a few hours ago.

But the cool thing I discovered thanks to this post is arxiv-vanity : it renders arxiv PDFs as html webpages so you don't have to download the PDF. Previous thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15534580

A great thing would be a browser plugin that redirects arxiv to the arxiv-vanity page.

EDIT : there's a bookmark that redirects to arxiv-vanity, available there https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/
Comparing self selected data on lying to a malicious political count of lies, "misleading" statements, and flip flops?

The basis for this article is weak. It's a shit post masquerading as data science.
Cboe’s contract uses a price determined in a daily auction at Gemini. Gemini data show its daily auction volumes this year have averaged $1.3 million—a drop in the bucket of global bitcoin trading, which runs into the billions of dollars daily. Gemini’s auction process also has failed to produce a price several times in recent months, on lightly traded weekends or holidays.

Gemini says its auction will gain in volume as Cboe’s bitcoin futures contract takes off, and even if the auction is small relative to global trading activity, it offers a useful measure of bitcoin’s price at one point in time each day. “Auction mechanisms are tried and true,” said Gemini President Cameron Winklevoss.

So, using an extremely thin market valued in millions to price an asset worth billions. No way that is going to hurt at some point of time.
Does anyone have a link to a more technical description of this therapy? From what I've found it's a small anti-sense RNA targeting the mutant huntingtin gene. But I don't see a description of a delivery vehicle, or if there even is one. The drug seems to have pretty big implications if it works, but I'll be frankly amazed if all they had to do was inject the bare nucleic acid into the CSF.
Here is a brief summary of the approach.
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/12/paper-summary-case-...

I like it. This is a natural trend: we will see databases and distributed systems become more data-aware to achieve efficiency and performance. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2015/08/new-directions-for-...
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When the FRC backed startups start paying developers $250k a year, we can have that conversation. Alas, the argument is that they should go work for them for $100k because of all those extra perks that in a $$ terms cost about 30k/year.
Interesting idea. It seems like this technique could be applicable to bioinformatics, especially sequence assembly.
In case of interest, Duniter is a similar initiative: https://duniter.org/en/theoretical/
Honestly math is filled with cool stuff like this. In fact sometimes I wish I would have done a math minor or major at University instead of just a Computer Science major and Information Systems minor (I’m finishing my undergrad in the spring.)

Combinatorics is one of my favorite fields I always feel it has a lot of cool gems like that one and the proofs are often really intuitive. Combinatorics is all about counting things like the number of possible poker hands given a single deck or the number of ways you can seat 4 people around a table.

It was already mentioned below but, discrete math is another good one. Discrete math includes combinatorics, graph theory, set theory, logic, and number theory. All of these have really cool little tidbits of information. My Discrete Math course was my favorite class at university so far. One of the first random bits of information I learned in that class was that any number is divisible by 9 if the sum of it’s digits are divisible by 9 this was posed to us in one of our first homeworks to be proven or disproven and we were able to prove it using some algebra.
I'm optimistic because I believe in the future, people are the most important element of productivity.

So as long as that won't change, all country will eventually lean towards democracy if they want to survive in the global competition.

Surveillance or spying devices won't stop that trend.