skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give your model to a reddit bot and let it loose on /r/me_irl.
don't morrowind archers get the 3x and 5x damage bonuses too on sneak attack? I played heavily modded a lot of time ago so I might be mistaken
> you make it sound like most UBI advocates are insisting it be inplemented in one fell swoop

Pardon me, didn't mean to come across that way. The history of social programs informs us to start small and scale carefully. If a program doesn't work in a town, it's unlikely to work nationwide.
How about implementing RSS in the browser?
My ideal implementation would be to click on my special RSS bookmark folder and immediatly see how many new items there are for each site of the folder, something like "kottke.org (5)" <- special mention to a lovely blog
To be fair that is pretty funny. If you are going to spite someone...put some effort into it.
You don't even need to test UBI to see that it won't work. You can tell by our existing system that UBI will promote people to take advantage of the system. If you're poor, you get free grants to go to college, food stamps, and all sorts of free programs. As soon as you start working, you lose all those things. This also contributes to why black families have only one parent, because the government gives more money to broken families than regular families.
WebAssembly is binary packed bytecode and generally takes much less space than UTF-8 JavaScript source files.
This reminds me of the author of SuperMemo[1], which is a software for remembering things using carefully spaced repetition. (Started in 1982 and still maintained).

They pioneered "incremental reading" a technique where an article is split into pieces and ingested by the software and fed back to you in an asynchronous manner at the most appropriate time.

Then the main author apparently started to feed everything, including emails into this system, and so he would consume everything only through this channel. Replying to conversations sometimes month later depending on the algorithm. He describes a bit more the process at the bottom of [2] in the apology paragraph.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/

[2] https://www.supermemo.com/english/company/wozniak.htm
Readers don’t need/want analytics though, so this is a friction between content accessibility and businesses tracking usage
You forgot the links, here they are:

- Official website: https://freshrss.org

- Demo: https://demo.freshrss.org/

- Github: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
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Looks great, thanks!

edit: aaargh, formatting
Alphabet’s Earnings Soar as Sales Continue to Climb
> "Emacs is a great OS, but it lacks a decent text editor."
> Only vi users are allowed to tell that joke with a straight
> face, IMHO.

Emacs users can tell that joke, but they have deliver it with a wry smile. Evil-mode users can tell that joke with a knowing laugh.
> Forgive me if this wasn't your intention, but it seems like you're asserting that poorer people are uniquely unable to determine their needs?

I'm asserting people in general are unable to determine their needs. Every year worldwide consumer debt just keeps going up and up. This would imply either an inability to save or insufficient wages, right? UBI would increase the wages, but it's not clear to me why things wouldn't become more expensive.

> The amount you give people relative to their income in aggregate affects the economy, right? If you gave everyone $12,000 a year, the consequences would be vastly different than if you gave everyone $12,000,000,000,000 a year.

Sure, but regardless of the amount. Why not give them twice as much? Ultimately UBI is fiscally absurd.
The best native apps aren't cross platform. The worst native apps often are (at least from a mac perspective). We are simply moving to the lowest common denominator for all platforms, to the profit of business and the loss of the end-user. We can now develop software that is equally shitty for everyone much cheaper than we could before.

Is that the end of the world? No, of course not. But we aren't building better tools over time--for instance, google docs is distinctly worse than the word I used on macintosh back in the 90s for all the use cases I care about. So is pages! All this software is more complex, and generally for little benefit.
These squabbles are as old as home computing.

Just check out the amount of name calling and whatsnot thats put into those cracktros that can be traced at least back to the C64.
I’m at the same level of experience as you right now. I’m working on an inventory system for my team and Firebase has been a joy to use from the start. Everything, including auth, Firestore, analytics, and Cloud Functions, have been easy to use and well documented.

I just don’t trust myself yet to build a relatively secure backend but still want some custom functionality, and Firebase allows me to do that with minimal setup and low operating costs (at least for ~50 active users)
It sounds like you're referring to welfare cliffs. Practically the entire point of UBI is that there are no cliffs.
Adding a cutting-edge deep learning training technique to the fast.ai library
Alternative headline: 47% of users tightened their privacy settings or deleted Facebook post Cambridge Analytica
There is a difference, and you offer a hypothesis on how it would affect work incentives. And it'd be silly to reject that hypothesis out of hand.

But a hypothesis is just that: a hypothesis, not a fact. There's plenty of existing research on how changing unemployment benefits change work incentives (answer: not too much), but it's also true that longer time horizons might change that answer. That's why experimental tests are needed.
Gerontopoly: Homeownership, wealth, and age
Yes, that's actually where this all started. I had a parody of 0x10c in mind and I originally started posting about this on the 0x10c subreddit.

It's on the backburner at the moment due to work/personal commitments but I hope to get back to it before too long.
What countries and how much money a month? If you can't live off that money then it's worthless
Correct me if I'm wrong but the length of unemployment benefit allowed in the US is six months and the unemployment rate is 4.1%, the length of unemployment benefit in New Zealand is for life and the unemployment rate is 4.6%. So on the surface it appears as though giving free money to unemployed has no impact on unemployment rates.
Thanks for the reply:

1. This is an implementation problem. Hardly inherent to the idea.

2. Sure there are administrative costs. There also costs to giving everyone X amount of money, especially when a large percentage of them don't need it to begin with.

3. Indeed there is fairness. However since everyone receives it everyone's relative position is unchanged. So the question is, if giving everyone money somehow helps everyone, why not give everyone more? To what point does this end?
Noted, and thanks :-)
Hmmm, interesting. Any citation for that number? I've heard numbers like that thrown around, but I don't know where they come from.
Firefox has had that since version 1.0 (2004): https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks
Firefox does pretty much exactly this. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks
The nice thing with the console hacking scene is that the people doing actual useful work and the people causing drama are mostly disjoint sets.
As other people have noted in this discussion, the curve of battery capacity over time does not jive with an overprovisioning strategy.

Both HDDs and SDDs show no almost no degradation until they suddenly have a ton of degradation. (I've owned 3,000 SDDs, 15,000 HDDs, and 1 Model S.)
Shameless recommendation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16876636 (I built this)
I wouldn't call it broken. It's by design. Proof is that most of the "exploits" were carried over Oblivion and then Skyrim. For example, creating very very overpowered potions is possible in all games. It's your choice if you want to spoil the fun or not.
> All you need do is prove citizenship

Isn't this ripe for fraud as well?

Your rebuttals are implementation details. The questions remains, as an abstract idea, is it better to give everyone money or give those who need things the things they need?
Tesla does not use the standard chemistry. It is using a standard form factor.
'We' being society. I think we put too much responsibility onto companies, expecting them to provide health insurance and retirement benefits to employees. Both of those things should not be tied to your job.
Your JS source files typically don't have all the code necessary to re-implement 2D drawing, text handling, i18n code, etc... That's already been downloaded & provided in the form of the browser itself.
Ask HN: Automated music composition algorithm using frequencies instead of notes
Every experiments in neural network music writing I've come across, it seems neural networks only receive inputs as notes and time (through MIDI scores I presume). And from my limited understanding, they base their future generations on their "understanding" of the notation layout.

Has anyone heard about a NN experiment that would use pitch instead, (with natural harmonics included, maybe)?

From my point of view, because perceived harmony and intervals depend on the ratios between two frequencies, if we do not tell the machine "how" notes superposition sounds, the machine won't be able to generate harmony in conscience (and ends up accidentally stacking thirds like it seems to be)
The State of Node.js Security – April, 2018
We're probably in agreement, then. Though, with a caveat: sometimes it can fail in a town but succeed on a wider scale. For instance, a city offering generous, open-access homeless benefits is almost doomed to have all its benefits swamped as it attracts homeless from around the country, but that doesn't give us much information about how the same policies would work if implemented nation-wide.

In the case of the UBI, though, those effects can be worked around by designing the experiment well.
In other words, eignloss says "I just gamed The Loss"

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game) )
> 1. This is an implementation problem. Hardly inherent to the idea.

I wouldn't call it an implementation problem per se. How would you fix this with regards to current welfare, without implementing a UBI-equivalent, for instance?

> 2. Sure there are administrative costs. There also costs to giving everyone X amount of money, especially when a large percentage of them don't need it to begin with.

This is a bit of an empirical question, of course. But I think the argument would be that money spent on administrative costs is pure waste, but money distributed to citizens is not.

> 3. Indeed there is fairness. However since everyone receives it everyone's relative position is unchanged. So the question is, if giving everyone money somehow helps everyone, why not give everyone more? To what point does this end?

Indeed their relative positions are unchanged, but the distribution is squished. Giving a poor person $1000 might increase their wealth 100%. Giving $100 to a rich person might only increase it 0.001%.
We had one linotype man in the shop. Several times yearly I'd be tasked on the back open air dock to melt down the lead type in a cauldron of sorts as his assistant. No ones job in that shop was without low pay occupational hazards... save, by necessity probably, the owners...
IAmA Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic, Northern California's Largest Independent ISP
This isn't a Google app, it's a GSMA standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services) that's been in the works as long as Android itself. Also, I don't get why they're saying it will be available in the future, it's already been available since Android 6, if I'm not mistaken (https://blog.google/topics/rcs/delivering-rcs-messaging-andr...)
Non-scientist to head NASA
> Another problem is how we're supposed to decide what people need. Why not just give people money and let them decide what they need. You'll need some system to handle those who fail to satisfy their basic needs due to problems of mental health (including addiction), but most people are better at deciding what they need for themselves than a bureaucrat is.

Sure. However there are concerns to where this money would come from and how much should be given.
If Tesla has a reserve, the most obvious implementation would have a curve of degradation that would give it away: 100% for a long time, then a significant and steady drop.

Hard disks and SSDs work that way; hard disks have a 20% reserve these days.
> Acknowledging that they aren't currently equipped to adequately cover this in depth is insulting?

Except he doesn't acknowledge ignorance, he plows ahead and puts the entire continent in the same category as Syria and Afganistan. Less than 2% of Africans live in the countries he does deign to mention.

> You also seem to be ignoring the premise that being armed is a key part of these plans.

Good luck singlehandedly fighting off the Venezuelan/Russian/Union/rebel army when they come to appropriate your assets. There's a reason insurgents use hit-and-run tactics, they'd be slaughtered in a pitched battle.
> RSS has no analytics.

Great! Another selling point.
Oh, cool. I haven't heard about the REX. Thanks for sharing.
Maybe. I don't see any reason not to!

Edit: I can't reply to any other comments at the moment due to low karma. In response to wrinkl3 and others, I will likely be sharing more details about the development process and network in the next week or two, probably at eigenloss.party.
in fact the article implies that Finland is more interested in a targeted model instead of the UBI.

I think UBI has a philosophical appeal, but the practicalities and economic viability I think still favors a targeted model
(Disclaimer: I work at Google, though on unrelated things. Opinions my own, yada, yada)

Worked at a privacy obsessed place before (Mozilla) where I worked on building privacy-preserving ad infrastructure.

I think we've more to fear about the other data brokers (so-called DMP's and their sources of data, e.g. your bank) than Google. At the very least, we have some assurance Google is competent with handling the data.

Google is a big well-known target and definitely poses a central point of failure for our data, but this piece could've been more than a dig at Google and rather, could have explored how private information is handled in the Ad industry in general.
Thanks lccarrasco! It does work surprisingly well for such a tiny CNN. Props to the MobileNet team at Google.
So instead of your operator, you want Facebook of all the things ingesting information about your purchases and account balance?
If you start from a place of distrusting your medical professional, now you need a way of uniquely identifying them in a way that can tie back to them for accountability purposes. So we've introduced some kind of notarized identity service.

Furthermore, doctors are only going to read the most recent entry for any given data point: doctors won't read the entire file, especially in emergency situations.
Teslas show 0% when they're actually at 20% -- that's how full discharge is discouraged.
Holy.. didn't knew about that. WTF
Spectrum enforcement does happen. It usually takes a while to identify because there's usually not a large noise source or illegal transmitter. Instead it's usually malfunctioning equipment that's doing stuff it shouldn't.

Usually how enforcement happens is that someone complains that this one spot never gets a signal, or their phone always cuts out. Then the big players start getting involved to determine the problem and either get the fcc involved if needed or otherwise inform the offender to get I fixed.

That's how stories like this happen, https://www.engadget.com/2016/05/25/florida-man-fined-48k-fc...

EDIT: to add there's a lot of unintentional interference sources, neon signs are a typical culprit as they age, http://www.signindustry.com/neon/articles/2004-02-16-RadioFr...
If only consumers were so rational.
Google Street View comes with many advantages: https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/

but they probably might just get it from somebody else's database. this one is pretty broad: https://www.wigle.net
I'm sorry, but what is wrong with the <img> tag?
So basically Squeak, a 25 yr old technology that still runs bitexact across all it's virtual machines.
That's always been a complaint about RSS going back to its original age, the balance between short summaries and full articles; ads/pageviews/analytics versus "content is king".

Have you tried an RSS Reader with an embedded web view for those types of sites?

(I use Newsblur and it has a really neat view where it shows the original blog/page and uses a bit of logic to track your cursor to mark as read articles you read directly on the originating site in a frame inside of Newsblur. It doesn't work for all sites but the ones it does work for can be pretty magic. That said, I'm an old school "river" user and simply have a habit workflow that heavily makes use of keyboard shortcuts to open new tabs and close them quickly.)
I agree, but realistically speaking that is why it’s being fought by content providers whether we the techies like it or not
link to proof of concept?

edit: tried it on chromium 66: doesn't work.

steps to reproduce:

1. open new (non-private) tab, go to http://httpbin.org/cookies/set?k1=v1&k2=v2

2. check http://httpbin.org/cookies/, the two cookies should be there, and if you check the dev console, the expiry date is 1970-01-01 - 1 second. firefox says it's "until end of session".

3. open new private tab, go to http://httpbin.org/cookies

4. cookies from above do not show up.
Kite: Open Hardware Android Smartphone
How do people install their AAA games and Photoshop today? I'd think the majority downloaded them, right?

There are plenty of downsides to having ubiquitous WASM-compiled cross-platform "browser-native" apps, and having basically everything forcefully turned into an experience akin to ChromeOS out of convenience for app developers, but that doesn't feel like one.
How the border patrol faked statistics showing a 73% rise is assaults on agents
Actually, no, that's the lithium deposits that we know can be extracted at the current price. If the price goes up, the reserves rise immediately, because more of what we know becomes extractable.
TensorFlow back end for TensorFlow.js via Node.js
https://passed.pw/ - Mobile-friendly random password generator seeded based on your mouse or touch positions for better randomness.

Just wanted something simple to generate passwords/tokens and ended up building this two years ago.

https://tempd.link/ - Temporary file hosting with immediate automatic deletion when leaving the site.

This was just a weekend project to test out openresty and using redis as an in-memory storage location for uploaded data that will get destroyed without writing to disk. Would be very expensive to scale something like this though.
> Unemployment provisioning in the United States is relatively inexpensive.

UI isn't about identifying very specific needs, it's about identifying a particular easy to assess monetary need and meeting some of it: people whose lifestyle is adapted to the income provided by their job, without it, need an income roughly comparable to the take-home income from their job.

That's pretty much the easiest need assessment in public safety net programs.
With the new tax reform the top 20% of income earners will still pay more than 87% of income taxes.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-20-of-americans-will-pay-87...
The pause is actually a feature, the tab resizing is delayed so that the next tab's close button will be positioned under your cursor.

FWIW Firefox and Edge both do the same thing.
You mean like Opera before v12... What an amazing piece of software it was.
Toronto Van Plows Along Sidewalk, Killing 9 in ‘Pure Carnage’
> This and the fact the when one side or the other comes to draft, a handgun won't stop them.
The subtitle of the piece is literally, "who needs an AR-15 anyway." You're kind of ignoring the point that the idea of being heavily armed is about having more than a single gun for home defense.

> More disturbing is that somehow large swathes of the population have come to hate and fear their democratic institutions so much in the last decades that they prepare to violently topple them.

I recall a series of results recently indicating that democracies tend to have outcomes favored by the elites.[1]
This suggests that the democracy isn't functioning and some degree of skepticism and activism is warrented.

> And while the vast bulk of mankind is bewildered by the US gun culture, they should be very wary that their own people are somehow influenced to hate their democracies too.

I am bewildered by many customs of other cultures, and confused what the decidedly odd US gun culture has to do with the dissatisfaction people have with their system of governance and feelings of powerlessness?

[1] - https://journalistsresource.org/studies/politics/finance-lob...
The fight progresses as the net neutrality deadline approaches
I don't think this is good advice. An amateur investigation of a complex topic is probably worse than trusting an expert who may or may not be trustworthy. You don't know what you don't know. Sure, you grabbed (what you think is) raw data. But what if the trend or timescale was too small? What if you asked the wrong question? What if the data was artificially adjusted, or should have been but wasn't? (As NOAA has been caught doing.) You don't know these things, i.e. what is/isn't important. Now you're certain of your results, which may be completely wrong. To me, this is the SV/nerd version of an uninformed ideologue. ("Research fast and break things!") Maybe it's better to expend that effort identifying whether your go-to experts are really trustworthy, instead.
Thank you for pointing to this, I'd seen it before and was reminded of it.

It's impressive and exciting it can run a full app like KATE. It feels as if you're running a Linux VM inside the browser, but no!
In Finland, all unemployed are guaranteed “free money” even if they choose not to seek employment. The difference from UBI is that this final security net, so to speak, only guarantees a minimum level of income – any earned wages (or existing wealth) directly affect the welfare payments on this level.

edit: the whole system is more complicated than this, of course, but the point here is that this safety net is permanent – you can not lose it even if you are unemployed for a long time (recently, a tiny reduction of welfare payment was introduced for those who do not meet certain criteria for activity; however, you are in any case entitled to certain level of income, and government-paid rent, etc., in any case.)
Well NZ is the one I have the most knowledge about lots more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits

I know a few people who live in some of the most expensive areas of the country and are permanently unemployed, they live fine (although not a lifestyle that I'd want) and spend their time pursuing creative endeavors. They do have to do things like grow their own vegetables and brew their own beer to save money. You get different benefits depending on age, disabilities, if you have children (and if they're yours or if they have disabilities), partners, etc. For the general unemployment benefit you have to be going to job seeker support and looking for work, but some people are just not employable (for instance if they have drug convictions).

It's worth noting that this social welfare system was put in place under a conservative government, when we had a more liberal government we had state support for artists as well with no restrictions.

It's hard to give exact numbers as a monthly income because unemployment benefits are broken up into cash and vouchers and credits. For instance in NZ if you're unemployed or poor the government will pay your rent, give you cash, subsidise a lot of your expenses, give you vouchers to use at the supermarket, etc. The state and city councils also own housing for the poor and unemployed.