skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want people to have an option not to work, because I want an option not to work. Maybe I'd like to use that time to drink myself into a stupor and write a terrible novella and pretend I'm Ernest Hemingway in a house full of alley cats. Maybe I'd like to use that time to consider a startup idea that wouldn't be big enough to pay for everything I need like healthcare and retirement, but would be otherwise an interesting project if it didn't have to meet those financial goals out of the gate in its business plan. Maybe I would like to use that time to teach young kids how to program, not as a trade, but as a means to entertainment.

You want to ascribe morality to those options, but I find the freedom to choose more interesting. It's not my job to judge which is more "productive". Maybe that novella in the end turns out to comment deeply on the human spirit, maybe those kids never use those skills "productively", maybe that startup goes bust and I return to the next plan. The moral imperative is that I should have the freedom to choose outside of the strictures of what the current job market finds productive or what government can legislate to be considered productive.

If that means there are a lot more people following the first idea and drinking themselves to a stupor, then that is a market failure. Surely the labor market can stretch to entice people to such "productive" labor if it actually has to compete for their time and energy? We use a "productive morality" to prop up a market that has never had to truly compete in the entirety of its existence. (Which is to say that labor has never been a free market.)

I find it funny, too, that you bring up religion as providing the most convincing moral imperative arguments for UBI, when in my mind it also religion, the Puritanical Zeal, that so colors the debate against UBI. The Puritans believed that men must work to appease God, that Productivity was an end to itself, a way to measure yourself before God. Why does everyone need to work so? You claim it is "society" that demands productivity and wishes to keep score, but many societies have never kept score, and have no need to keep score. It seems to me that the scars of Puritanical Zeal have simply replaced "God" with an uncaring "society" in a lot of the arguments.

(From a purely utilitarian point of view, the more people with an option not to labor under someone else's mandate, and truly choose their own path in life, presumably the greater the well being of those individuals and the overall more well being across the spectrum of that society. Individual financial self-interest is never utilitarian, you can't maximize others' happiness thinking only of your own.)
I like the cheap freeze-dried stuff. Boil the water, put the coffee in the cup, put the water in the cup, done.
I had been thinking this exact same thing -- streaming music has changed my consumption habits, and I noticed that my musical tastes started trending more and more toward the "muzak" spectrum (simple beats, repetitive melodies, minimal vocals). "Chillhop" is basically the muzak of 2010s; I mean it has been for a while but its popularity seems to have surged alongside streaming music.

Or maybe it's just me getting old. :)
>People do stuff like offer lowball offers that aren't livable.

Which is not disputed by anyone in this thread. Why do we keep bringing it up?

>At the end of the day, money matters, and all of the bullshit about "other factors" are just brought into the mix because fringe benefits are cheaper than cash. For me, a good working environment is the ante. If you're an asshole, you don't make the cut. The rest is all about compensation.

You do realize you just admitted there is something you care about more than compensation?
Maybe we can all be so lucky and get a jelly of the month club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QNVe9Hbhwc
Chemex or French press on weekday mornings. On weekends, I like to indulge: sometimes I make a moka pot cubano, at others I'll make the Indian style super strong 'kaapi' in the steel coffee filter.
Chemex. Great flavor.
Not only that: You can upload your own epubs, and it saves your progress across devices and the web.
It is sad. Linux could be better if more people used it. Currently its use for desktop is relatively low. People tend to trust companies more so all they can do now is complain and email company's support department.
I really enjoyed it and played it for a good half hour. But I think that maybe it should be a bit more difficult or go a lot faster.

If you compare it to the original this is much easier, maybe because of additional squares, or maybe because I can move in more directions. Either way the game did not become challenging for me (played until I had 2048 as my largest tile), I frankly got bored before it got difficult.

Maybe you could solve this by increasing the tempo of new tiles. E. g. throw in an 8, or 16 every once in a while. Or maybe add two tiles per movement sometimes.

Also, and this is more of a curiosity, I use the Dvorak keyboard layout and would have been nice if I could have used the same keys as Qwerty, even though I have different mappings. Don't know if it can be done and you really should not spend any time on it :)
First of all, your assumption that producers of goods won't be able to raise prices is unsupported by economic theory - inflation is a real thing, and denying it seems silly. Secondly, if your theory on rent is true that by extension must lead to a rise in prices for goods, as commercial real estate costs go up and directly impact the cost of production.
From Territorial to Functional Sovereignty: The Case of Amazon
I GPU-mined some BTC in 2011 and was a 100% HODLer until yesterday when I sold everything, including the forked BCH.

Now trying to figure out how to invest the proceeds into stocks. Somehow I doubt I will be able to get another 1000000% RoI over 6 years.
Some conditional updates are safe; others require to add concurrency control. Our CISE analyser will tell precisely you which side a specific operation falls into. See https://youtu.be/HJjWqNDh-GA and http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2911151.2911160. Antidote doesn't yet support concurrency control, it's work in progress.
Amazon RDS Under the Hood: Multi-AZ
Expect a meat tax within 5-10 years
Have been thinking about getting a Bunn to replace my aged Mr. Coffee. Have tried many other ways of making coffee and really just prefer the convenience of drip.

In the summer I make a gallon of cold brew at a time in a big jug on the counter.
Not to get off topic (but to support your point), I once read an op-ed that made an argument that the increase in obesity (in the USA) was due to farm subsidies. That is, cheap corn is used to make high-fructose corn syrup, and that low cost sweetener in turn ends up in everything.

And of course, as you mentioned, grains make cows, pigs, etc. cheaper. Again, not ideal for the human body and even less so for Mother Nature.

The free-market might lead to the same, but it certainly seems less likely.
I stand by my percolator. I love it but you can easily 'burn' the coffee.
I know very well what UBI is, and I am too very sympathetic towards the idea.

I just don't think it will work.
Carefully crack a can of Monster open ensuring that none of the factory air escapes in a temperature controlled environment, usually 1:1 ratio. Drink it in about 5 minutes.
My go-to is a pour over.

I actually prefer the richer result of a French press, but I'm lazy and don't want to clean it out afterwards.
Budweiser Sends Cease and Desist and Super Bowl Tickets
Yes. It's called "the blockchain".
Munchee Halts ICO After SEC Raises Registration Concerns
I'm of the opinion that the easiest and most important step one can take to make one's coffee taste better is to grind the beans before brewing. Better quality coffee obviously improves the flavor for sure, but preground gourmet coffee is about as competitive as freshly ground Eight O'Clock Joe.

I usually use drip coffee because I'm lazy, but prefer French press.
I suppose I was a bit hyperbolic, and I'm sure there are some legitimate issues with this. But in my defense when I posted this, this post was over an hour old, and there 10-15 comments on here by people who clearly hadn't even read 10% of the paper. They were just instantly dismissive about it when they didn't even understand the basic concepts the paper was outlining.

I was just hoping to promote some reasonable discussion on it. Why do you hate it?
Oh but that's precisely what I'm saying — Spotify _has_ changed my habits, and it's changed them a lot. Through the Discover Weekly playlist and the related artists sidebar, it was single-handedly responsible for me finding out about a tonne of bands I love.
HomeKit implements all its own security on top of BLE
Oh and if you are here in Seattle, Espresso Vivace 'dolce' fresh beans are the ones to beat.
OMG NOT TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED? OH MA GOD!
electric grinder and mokapot in the morning.

Sometimes a cafetiere
I've tried and loved a lot of different coffee methods over the years, but my daily drink is a knock off keurig with Newmen's Own coffee.

But to me, the most important ingredient in how well the coffee tastes is the water. Tap water with lots of tastes will make the best beans taste like junk. Filtered water can make mediocre beans taste much better. Plus if you use a machine, it means you dont have to descale :)
Paper Summary: The Case for Learned Index Structures
> The proper thing a resolver should do is follow the referral and ask the child name servers.

You're right, I was clearly not paying attention when writing that part down (fixed now in the forum post).

> [...] but I also strongly suspect that QNAME minimization may rest on under-specified or un-specified ideas about what authoritative name servers should do. I'd have it follow referrals if it doesn't already.

AFAIK, that is not the case, QNAME minimisation is well-specified, and the resolver will follow referrals if it gets them. But in this case the resolver is getting an NXDOMAIN where it should be getting either a NODATA response (if there is no zone at ws.fdmg.org), or it should be getting a referral, if there is a zone at ws.fdmg.org, which should then contain a delegation for prod.ws.fdmg.org.

Since it's getting neither, the resolver will stop resolution when it gets the NXDOMAIN. Now it may be the case that this is either broken empty non-terminal behaviour, or there is actually a zone at ws.fdmg.org, but that zone is missing a delegation for prod.ws.fdmg.org. It's hard to tell from the outside, but if the latter is the case it should be easy to fix.
Girls rule(s)
> The band was happy to be included and inspired to see their peers push back against corporate exploitation. “The difference now is that, if you don’t bow down to Spotify, you might as well tell whoever runs the guillotine that’s above your neck to just let her rip,”

The punk thing thing to do would be to release a song called "Fuck $Brand" that outlines all the scandals and abuses the brand has been involved in over the years.

Yeah, it's kind of passive aggressive. But when execs at $Brand find out about it, maybe they'll start a corporate blacklist and put your band at the top of it.
Amazon’s Seattle hiring frenzy slows sharply
Building Not Hotdog with Turi Create and Core ML – in an Afternoon
What's College Good For?
I completely agree it's non-trivial to convince people to adopt this system. However, once adopted, I don't think the 1 to 1 problem highlighted in this chain exists.

If I had to give a very simple argument for why adopt, I think it would have to come from a place of "UBI would work if we all did X and you could still make money that could be exchanged for good and services with a similar inflation rate, so this currency is better than dollars. We should switch to it. Don't believe it will work? Look at Bitcoin!"

In that way, pointing at Bitcoin naively can actually have value to validate the possibility of the coin's success.

The biggest problem is of course not convincing one grocer, but the whole world at once.

> "The question is, who is going to put them in, and for what purpose?"

I fully agree with the question and its importance. I think the answer is everyone at once on the premise of "we're all in this together" and for the reason of "pursuit of a better social system". I don't think this will likely happen, but I think that theoretically, it's possible to function (the concept not this specific coin, which would need quite a lot more study to make this claim with). My hope is that given study and time, this idea has the potential to inspire a final system that could eventually be implemented this way in say 100 years, maybe sooner, maybe later.

PS: Did not downvote, even if I disagree I appreciate the substance and am sad to see the downvote on such a substantive discussion.
There are new improvement - there was a article about monero being tracable > 50% of the time, but it was fixed right around when the article came out to be.

As for the original goals of bitcoin, maybe monero is closer to it. I don't know.
Postgres is likely suitable for 90% (or more) of the crap "engineers" currently fall all over themselves to implement Kafka, Spark, and whatever other bizzword laden "big data" or "machine learning" resume driven development for.

It's not a niche.
I'll stick to Calbre
Project Rosalind (which has mostly been subsumed by the larger Stepik effort I believe?) is fantastic and a much more directed, progressive setup than Project Euler. I enjoyed PR greatly, and each problem led naturally to the next, whereas PE is just random problems and one might be monstrously difficult and on an utterly different topic than the next. A comprehensive mathematics project that grew in complexity the way PR does for bioinformatics would be unbelievably awesome.
>The claim is horse manure which is why it includes no numbers for the threshold.

Attribution of intention is a common step towards the breakdown of dialogue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_bias#Types

>That's ok. I do not need many friends.

OK, perhaps I was too narrow in my statement. Let me rephrase:

Telling people what is important to them and ignoring their own claims on what is important to them will not get you fruitful conversations.

Which is likely why people are downvoting you instead of replying to you. You are giving strong signals of poor communications, and people are not finding it worthwhile to engage with you.
If you get deep enough into the hipster development movement (or anything) you lose sight of everything that's going on around you.
Ask HN: Open and Free Freelancers Market
tl;dr - Is there an open/free job board for software development contractors/freelancers that promotes highest talent at highest pay (where the developer makes the top money not the company)?

- I want to find or create a job board where the top developers/engineers can win.

- I want the system to promote top talent, not cheap talent.

- I want the clients coming to that system to understand that top talent will save them and make them 1000x more value.

- I want developers to get paid 10x-100x more then a junior developer. (Because they can provide this 1000x more value). To be specific $100/hour - $1000/hour should be the norm.

- I want to be one of those developers.

So if this doesn't exist, I want to make it.

Here are some ideas:

- The system is 100% free and 100% open and belongs to the developers.

- Direct communication between client and freelancer would be encouraged.
- Direct payment between client and freelancer would be encouraged.
- Escrow solutions could be provided if needed.
- Peer review processes could be deeply integrated in the system:
- Peers could test and rate each other's skill levels in a mutually beneficial way.
- Peers could promote and improve each other's Profiles (and which would generate a highly polished resume if used for traditional job applications).

I have other ideas about how to create a system that promotes top pay, top talent, and top performance. But I would love to hear feedback from the community here.
> Oh, so you do agree with me now...

Please lay off the strawmen and just argue your point. Thank you.

We don't know the content of the lost texts, but the few poems we have does not indicate anything heretical or immoral to Christian sensibilities. Calling her "a homosexual" is grossly anachronistic since this is 19th century concept. On the other hand, many texts which clearly are counter to Christian morality have been preserved. A vast array of texts from antiquity is lost, even something as highly valued as works by Aristotle. So that texts are lost does not in itself indicate a deliberate act of destruction.
Aren't the fastest indexes are hash/bucket indexes which are O(1)? but for large scale data those require some awareness/tuning. And what is the implication for tree walking operations that B+ supports like... LIKE and range.

I guess this is kind of like an adaptive hashing index... just that the hash algorithm is a lot more obfuscated.
I use my Keurig with its reusable coffee filter. Occasionally I'll buy a bag of beans to grind, but I usually stick to Folgers.
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Your comment doesn't seem very responsive to its parent. Are you saying that did not happen during stagflation or that it will not happen again for some reason?
yes, the customer isn't always right. The customer doesn't understand all the tradeoffs. If you make a car bigger, that comes with lots of compromises: less style, less fuel economy, etc.
DRAM access is always going to be variable by nature, though they reduce the problem somewhat by never reordering loads and stores. Stores will always write back to D$1 cache and only hit DRAM when a line needs to be flushed from the last level cache, so assuming your data and code fits in cache you can theoretically have 100% determinism (although all of the specific latency numbers are model-dependent, so just like a traditional DSP you'll have to tune for each target).
Steve Jobs would not approve of how auto makers do this, even though the article pretends to quote his style. It actually doesn't and falls prey to the one-at-a-time test problem.
>I started doing blackouts on Twitter and Facebook every time some major news event occurs because I just don't want to hear about it.

Thus the apathy of the majority perpetuates the oppression of the minority.
That explains the lack of decent infotainment systems these days, perhaps availability of CarPlay/Android Auto will help moderate this view.
Actually, You Do Want to Know How This Sausage Gets Made
There are no downloads on their website, and judging by the repos on GitHub, this seems to have gone into hibernation about a month ago.

https://github.com/CirclesUBI

Is a technical implementation still being worked on somewhere else?
I'd line to have an high quality TTS engine integrated with the ereader. Google's TTS API would work well for this.
I don't for a second see how the issues we're trying to solve have anything to do with the technology or even social contract of currency.
Aeropress (95C water), ground with a hario conical burr hand grinder.

I like WholeFoods' Mocha Java. It's the best value coffee.
volatility has declined?

are you for real?

bitcoins were at 700 last year. And its 'value' dropped by 3000 just a few days ago, just to go back up. In what way has it dropped?
Homebrew 1.4.0
Why are we talking about this forever? Can't someone just make one of these, demonstrate that they don't work well in practice, and then we can stop wasting time on it?
It's not exactly cured: "Could slow progress". But of course there is a huge difference between having chances to die 10 years after onset of disease and 30 years! Especially since it appears to start in later life
Vision debt: the hidden factor that can kill your product
Fine and dandy. And I want to have the choice not to pay for it.
Currently an organization called "Canada Learning Code".
And you have also missed the point. You are correct that they don't have to be dangerous in that situation, but what you describe relies on everyone around you driving in a perfectly calm, rational, coordinated manner, which is not what happens in reality. Driving with the expectation that everyone around you is a protocol droid is unrealistic and dangerous.

What I described is what actually happens in that scenario, and unfortunately I only have control over my own actions, not those of "everyone behind them".

If you're deliberately ignoring reality and blocking a line of traffic, telling yourself, "these people don't have to be dangerous", the only things you're accomplishing are self-delusion and making the road more dangerous.

Stay to the right except to pass. It's really not that difficult.
I have a 9-cup Moka pot and a burr grinder.

One day when I am rich and not-famous, i will have an espresso machine of the form that gets patched directly into the house water line.
This is not only wrong for most user-facing cases, but it misses the key notion of training 1-N sub-models, which is a gateway to actually measuring the degree of success or failure in the index building step and modifying it as needed.
I have one of these too and it's amazing if you can swing it!
The same will hold for Bitcoin almost surely. The fraction of transactions that are speculation and the fraction of holdings that are speculations are very different things. Most stock market transactions are speculation but they don't hold capital for very long. But most stock holdings are not speculation, they're just boring holdings of assets by pension funds, retail investors, etc.
The "... if everyone holds to the 1 to 1 always. " part is a lot of wishful thinking. As I said, look at the real world examples of currency pegging failures, many of them artificially engineered by large scale market activities.

1) There is an innate difference in practical value, initially even if some coins have just a bit more liquidity i.e. wider range of acceptors as others.

2) If everyone holds to the 1-to-1 agreement forever, then there's no difference between the coins and everyone can freely make the trust deals.

3) If the 1-to-1 does not hold forever, then the people who were betting on the link failing can earn a lot of free coins in this arbitrage, taking them off of people who have made the 1-to-1 trust deals - draining their resources until the assigned trust limits run out.

4) Thus, there's a strong incentive for skilled, resourced people to try to break any 1-to-1 peg between any arbitrary communities, since they can earn a lot of coins if this trust breaks. Especially since it's an automatically enforced 1-to-1 without fees, it's a safe bet - if you fail, then there's no effect, if you succeed, you win a lot. Someone will eventually do so, and the 1-to-1 will break. This system design contains rewards for would-be exploiters of trust, so this design will be exploited.
Nice. This has been on my side project ToDo list for some time. I may need to clear that off now.

Thanks for this.
Single-cup Vietnamese coffee filter (http://www.trung-nguyen-online.com/about-vietnamese-coffee-f...)

Mostly out of convenience (easiest clean-up, second only to turkish coffee where you use no filter at all), and out of nostalgia (lived 1 year in Viet Nam)
The biggest gripe I've had with Postgres (and I mention this elsewhere) is the lack of a decent GUI/IDE.

But as Datagrip matures, the landscape can only get better. Datagrip is not free, but I'm willing to pay for something that works better than pgAdmin.

There are some exciting things happening in the Postgres space. Outside of Citus for scaling out, TimescaleDB has a plugin that makes Postgres a strong contender in the time-series database space. Temporal joins have always been a problem with NoSQL time-series databases; otoh joins are what SQL databases have traditionally been optimized for. It'll be exciting to have a large-scale datastore where you can easily combine and recombine different time-series in a single query.