skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m still surprised how much a difference in cost 8GB vs. 16B RAM makes: it almost doubles the cost, which suggests that everything else - the hard drive, the network card, the video adapter... even the CPU! Are almost “free”.
"...the tax rate is foremost in entrepreneurs minds when they decide to build a company in CA..."

???

No horse in the California tax race personally, but if taxes are your foremost consideration when launching your startup, you should really rethink your plans. That advice is not specific to California startups. If taxes are the foremost consideration for a prospective startup anywhere in the US, you should sit down with someone to talk through your plan. Just to ensure that it makes sense.

If I heard that from a prospective startup here in Wisconsin? I have to say, just on first blush, something would sound off about that.
I'm solidly in the camp of "change what you can and accept what you can't." I don't want moaning about things that I can't change.
It always amazes me when major companies with oodles of cash (ExxonMobil made $20 billion last year) roll out new marketing initiatives without consulting professionals who help mitigate security and privacy issues for a living. It seems likely that happened in this case because anyone who knows a thing or two about security would strongly advise against instructing customers to visit a parked domain or one that isn’t yet fully under the company’s control.

Why is it amazing? There are no negative consequences, so why bother?
This is a terribly clickbait-y title for HN. Amazon is not tracking people, AWS has a service offered to anyone who wants it which would be useful for large scale surveillance.

Facial recognition services are incredibly close to neutral technologies in my opinion. If we truly want to stop abuse of them, it should be done with legislation. Getting mad and ranty at one of the many offerings (which also includes open source software) because it feels good to beat up a tech giant will have no useful impact.
Three social media stars die after falling 100 feet over waterfall while hiking
That is not the problem.

To me, it seems important to tread with humbleness here because UBI is not a product of modern science. We are not the first to consider it, and it’s never been considered quite an acceptable solution. Why is that?

The problem is, as often with economics, a problem with value and it’s ways of fluctuating across geography, networks, business and social structures in a matter of literally no time at all. Time is merely fuel to the fire.

Social programs are created by a government in the sense of a government that is of the people. Governments are not inherently just rulers of the land. They are ideally institutions built by people for the purpose of maintaining a state of civility and addressing common concern that might undermine that state of civility.

Social programs, or safety nets, serve a very specific purpose: to maintain a floor of minimum dignity (or less) considered acceptible in the sought civil state. If this is defined in terms of money, that level of dignity is then held victim to the precarity of value in a capitalist society; and that is not a floor I would be willing to touch with a ten foot pole; certainly no dignified person would expect another to either.

With commodities necessary to survive, it’s obvious how this can go wrong. We are talking about food and shelter here. Social housing is well-proven and extremely efficient. As it stands, masses of people in the US can’t afford housing at their current wage.

The best argument for UBI is as another economic stimulus, which is absolutely needed to prolong the final crash. The question seems to be who is included in the beneficiaries.
So, like much of this type of thing, if we don’t agree to collectively give a shit about other people in the first place, it’s not worth wasting time over.
You can pretty much put all other applications support on hold. If you get modern web browsing that opens up so many web apps. WebPositive is a joke. Otter isn't quite stable.
No, but Google Plus is, which is where Google Hangouts stores videos. Immensely frustrating during my lunch break
Yeah, the article is stupid nostalgia. What killed the web is very clear: a select cadre of companies conspired and worked very hard to turn the web into an advertising platform. The developments here are obvious:

1. Google Ads monetized linking and gave birth to the SEO "industry."

2. Facebook mandated real names.

3. Apple and Google completely closed off their mobile platforms requiring pre-approval for all applications.

The last piece of this is that the stewards of the web, the W3C, have completely abandoned their charge and sold the web out to these corporations. The W3C has allowed the evolution of the web to be completely captured by Google and other major corporations. Rather than making the web simpler and more accessible we've seen the W3C bless standard after standard that make the web significantly more complicated. Today nobody but extremely wealthy corporations can afford to develop a browser. HTTP2 means nobody but major corporations can write web servers these days. Abandoning a well-structured web (XML, semantic technologies) for the current html5-js-soup means that the knowledge published on the web is wholly inaccessible... unless it gets exposed via proprietary, one-off json-soup APIs.

The complete corporate capture of the web wasn't driven by "blogging" nor was it in any way a democratic process. It was a deliberate and carefully engineered process that created a web and a computing platform (mobile phones) that is absolutely and completely under the control of corporations, moreso than any previous platform.

At this point there's really only two ways forwards: (1) abandon the web and start over or (2) governments will step up and reign in corporations.
I the op missed a "than" in the sentence and what they mean is they only listen and do not do those other things.

i.e: "now rather <than> input"
You’d think so, right? Nope:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Change-from-Facebo...
My real world experience is that, if a person has had to wait for that article to get its lessons, then from lack of those lessons and many more that are much more subtle, they probably got divorced soon after marriage or never got married!!!!
Parrots have evolved a primate-like telencephalic-midbrain-cerebellar circuit
A couple of weeks ago. With the backlash against FB recently, you’d think theyd try reducing the friction of shifting from FB login to email, but apparently not.
Damn, that is one hell of a condensed font. Nigh-illegible on the 72dpi monitor I use at my desk.
The History of Corporations Recruiting Artists to Inspire Their Employees
100 people @ 100 days / 6 hours per day is 6,000 person-hours at best.

30% of that time or more would be spent on consensus building and chatter.

10% on LaCroix & Coffee runs.

5% on bio-breaks.

I'm left with about 60% of the original time, which I would have to spend on the problem of preserving the original allocation.

Certainly some software product would be the result, negating all the ritualized product management activities we hold dear.

It would require ego death for all involved, as well as the willingness to cast aside "reason" for the sake of gain.
This person really tries to absolve him and his family for anything. For one, don’t get how it’s valid to complain that banks were willing to give him loans. It’s his choice whether take them. In addition, this is exactly what people in the past campaigned for: loans for low income people to go to college.

Second he blames society for selling dream that any education was an uncontested pathway to success. Which, once again, is up to him and his parents whether or not they buy that lie
Thanks shoo, that made me chuckle - maybe I'm feeling a bit too angsty this Friday evening.

I love all of the new development, we're going great places, we just need to prescribe the right medicine for the patients so to speak. Cocaine was great in coca-cola before folks realized what it was doing to people. :)
Nothing wrong with letting people find the most optimal mate with which to produce offspring.
Nice pop science/history of stats book. entertaining read. You need to have quite a deep understanding of statistics to really understand it though.
What records? I don't understand what this is supposed to describe. Just writing every plate number some device has seen to the append-only DB? Is that it? What's value in that?
i believe they meant: i listen now, rather than
I was getting "502 Bad Gateway" for 20 minutes when I wrote that.
(Wife wakes up around 5-6, works out, gets ready... out the door by 7...)

7AM "Bye Honey, have a nice day" back to sleep

8AM Finally get up, shower

9AM (Bike 0.5 miles) Drop daughter off at daycare

930AM (Bike 4.5 miles) Arrive at the office. COFFEE

Noon (lunch / typically first food of the day)

4-6PM (weather / wife dependent) Leave work (Bike)

+30min (arrive home) Workout and/or chores til...

630PMish Dinner w/Family

7PMish Daughter bedtime

730-9PM TV/Computer (Work, Grad School HW or Idly surfing) on Couch w/Wife

9PM-11PM (Wife falls asleep on couch) Continue TV/Computer above... 10% chance I can play a video game

Definitely some sub-optimal parts in there, but that's the norm
Hi all ! I am from the farmizen team. Let me answer some of the questions raised so far 1. Crop rotation happens in individual beds - when a user is choosing crops to plant in a particular bed - the app provides recommendations based on what was growing in that bed previously, as well as the season. We do see some consumers override the recommendations, and that affects the yield in most cases. 2. Photos of individual beds are drone images stitched and then sliced up in some cases and farmer clicked in some cases 3. Farmhands may be employed by our partner farmer, not by us. 4. This is actually kinda reverse share-cropping - most of partner farmers are small land holding farmers with a couple of acres - who would otherwise earn about $120 per month per acre. Now they make approx 7x of that. Consumers do pay a premium of about 10-20 percent over organic prices - but given the fact that a majority of consumers don’t trust organic labels in case of fresh produce in India (with good reason) - many are willing to pay the premium.
Did You Hear We Got Osama? (2012)
I've seen about as many companies talking about being happy with it as those retreating from it. Personally, I haven't seen any issues with it that I would consider to be show stoppers.
UBI is stuck in extremes.

Libertarians want to cancel social programs and replace with UBI so individuals determine how to spend their benefits.
Socialists want to guarantee everyone a living wage but also want the safety nets.

Policy needs to be in middle. You need to enable people to self-manage. Must be ready to help them when there is a bad turn events. But you also need to have a humane way to deal with people that are incapable of taking care of themselves, for example mental illness. The way to handle that is guardianship, not other government programs that can also be individually mismanaged. Guardianship will surely be more expensive then UBI but it is the humane thing to do.
why is everyone blaming the government and universities? in what sane universe do people see the student loan crisis we have, and google starting incomes for their degrees and still decide to get massive loans for majors which don’t pay much? do people themselves deserve no blame or is it all someone else’s fault?
I always thought avocado was the Spanish word, and guaca along with guacamole (guaca + mole meaning sauce) was the indigenous word.
Have an upvote. Appreciate the pragmatism :)
Trying to solve something like this always puzzled me: how to make job publishing transactional? There are no simple way to do transaction across redis and, say, postgres. If you wish to make thing reliable, you will have to put job to an sql first and then pull (or subscribe) from database to a worker queue.

Am i right or there are another option?
> Where are they supposed to live?

If zoning allows for building more densely (which in the US, it often does not) existing residents can trade their single-family homes for a condo in the same location + some cash. It comes down to a zoning issue in the end, not some special problem with economically developing an area.
Weekday: I’m usually up between 05:30-06:00

From 6:30-07:45 I eat breakfast, shower, and get my kid dressed and ready to go.

I get to the office around 08:15. I have standup at 10:00 so I usually grab coffee and do some work before then.

10:15-12:00 is usually a mix of work (I do integration and cloud applications development) and meetings. I eat lunch around 12:00, usually with coworkers.

13:00-18:00 is usually about half meetings and half doing actual work.

Usually home around 18:30. I eat dinner with my spouse and kid. Kid goes to bed around 20:30 (which usually means I’m rubbing her back for 15-20 minutes in bed).

Hang out with spouse for the rest of the night. Sometimes I play PS4, play piano, or just do some more work.

Usually in bed around 22:30-23:00

Weekends are usually pretty flexible. The only real commitment is that my kid has ice skating lessons for an hour every Saturday. I spend my free team reading, playing music, and visiting new coffee shops and restaurants with my spouse.
> In Australia and even in Canada teachers earn as much as IT professionals

That is not true in Australia, IT wages are higher.
There’s no stigma in being laid off, it’s a failure of management when a company has over-hired, not of the Worker.
Yes. Espectually given advances in automation this looks like the most reasonable path. This solves both the UBI as well as also stops the accumulation of power in hands of few due to efficiencies and scaling factors.
You have to wonder about people against any taxes where do they think roads, schools, military, police, fire etc. all come from. They just pop into existence?
> I wish it was possible to talk about important and interesting issues like optimal tax levels without everything being an ideological battle. I don't care if you think taxes are too high

Irony meter off the charts.

most people don't understand they are likely tax consumers, not providers. As a thought experiment, it must be true that at some income level a person uses more taxes than they provide. Quantifying the exact number is difficult and locality dependent, but it clearly exists. Who do you think the major tax revenue providers are? Corporations and rich people. I don't understand why anyone thinks they're not paying their fair share when they are almost the only ones paying.

The top 10% of us wage earners account for over 70% of personal income tax revenue, while the bottom 50% (under 40k/year) contribute <3%

https://www.ntu.org/foundation/tax-page/who-pays-income-taxe...
Only one data point but I made my first blog inspired by Slashdot. I wrote a CGI script that read flat text file posts to make the front page, then when you clicked a link, another script wrapped the chosen post text file in a basic HTML template (eg added a header and footer, that's it).

Making that (and clones customised for friends), got me into web development and ended up in a 20 year career.
That's a problem they can work on. Mindfulness meditation and practicing empathy have helped me.

I understand the impulse. It's very tempting. I've certainly fallen into that response many times.

And of course, sometimes the person is receptive to advice, and then it is a great feeling to offer whatever insight you can.
I GREATLY enjoyed Intuitive Biostatistics by Motulsky.

It assumes that you're not going to calculate any test statistic on your own, you're going to use Excel, R, or his own software. Therefore the book contains little to no formulas. Instead, it's plain English going over (biology's) most common tests and attributes, and explains what the test assumes about your data, what you can and cannot infer from the output, and what the pitfalls are. VERY useful if you like me come from a 'push X button no clue why' background.
Probably not the same people.
Australia has points based immigration which looks at your age, education, work ex etc. If you have the points you get the resident visa even if you are outside Australia, you dont even need a job offer.
I really love how Dan McKinley frames this kind of thing in terms of each company having a budget of "innovation tokens".

http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

edit: now it's a club! http://boringtechnology.club/

> Let's say every company gets about three innovation tokens. You can spend these however you want, but the supply is fixed for a long while.

> If you choose to write your website in NodeJS, you just spent one of your innovation tokens. If you choose to use MongoDB, you just spent one of your innovation tokens. If you choose to use service discovery tech that's existed for a year or less, you just spent one of your innovation tokens. If you choose to write your own database, oh god, you're in trouble.

> Any of those choices might be sensible if you're a javascript consultancy, or a database company. But you're probably not. You're probably working for a company that is at least ostensibly rethinking global commerce or reinventing payments on the web or pursuing some other suitably epic mission. In that context, devoting any of your limited attention to innovating ssh is an excellent way to fail.

> There is technology out there that is both boring and bad. You should not use any of that. But there are many choices of technology that are boring and good, or at least good enough. MySQL is boring. Postgres is boring. PHP is boring. Python is boring. Memcached is boring. Squid is boring. Cron is boring.
It almost sounds like you could finance a brief vacation to France on the savings from canceling your local phone contract and buying a couple years worth of french SIM cards.

This suspiciously resembles a opportunity for arbitrage.
Can you clarify: does inflaming one’s intellect require one to NOT understand what 6% of 200,000 is?
Made something similar a while ago. It probably needs some tuning: https://kyledrake.net/adblockbar/
Isn't it hypocritical to annoy people into doing what you want them to do?
CSA models - farmer does everything, focus on the end output.
Community garden/allotment garden - consumer does everything as DIY, focus on the experience.
Farmizen is kind of in the middle - you can do as much as you want, and you have more control over what you want to grow than in the case of CSA. At the same time, you can also just sit on a couch and participate in the experience, unlike in the case of a community garden.
Not a fan of Amazon but this article is directly sponsored by the koch brothers. kind of weird we have transparently political articles like this yet others are banned.
Best definition: there is no such thing as a container. When people say container they usually mean a bunch of kernel features (cgroups, namespaces, apparmor, etc) + an overlay filesystem.

I played with stuff like this since the chroot jail days and knew about containers before they were cool (anyone remember lxc?).
Thank you, fixed it.
Or the "solution" is for people who have issues but don't want help fixing them not to vent to people who don't have the patience for that. Listening to woe -- especially woe stemming from problems with easy solutions -- is emotionally draining.

Like the GP said, it's a two-way street. Understand your friends and loved ones and compromise.
Koreans also eat a ton of ice cream.
Now it becomes a cat/mouse game of for-profit privacy violations as a service, where individuals (like OP) are pitted against super rich companies. A more robust solution is probably required here.
The problem of middleware, other than needing a library per language, is that it moves the concern into the app rather than the host.

I see a service mesh more as extending the network functionality of the host OS and cluster than the app, which arguably makes rolling it out across a large disparate organisation more feasible.
Just to add some weight to your opinion about Redux being cargo-culted take a look at this video

https://youtu.be/S6lwJ6Rixnc?t=6m
I used to feel as you do until I had heirloom tomatoes that had been grown with care unlike the bland and irksome things presented as tomatoes at my local grocery store.
So if i’m despondent and give up searching for a job then doesn’t U-3 unemployment go down and therefore wouldn’t using a definition that included the despondent not be linearly dependent?
So is there any evidence for that hypothesis? Namely that Cambridge Analytica's campaigns resulted in a higher turn out of Trump voters?
But the adblock-blockers requesting/requiring you to unblock are trying to annoy people into doing what they want as well :)
I still maintain my own blog “by hand” with VI, minimal CSS and a handful of CGI scripts written in Perl because I’m too lazy to learn the modern way to do it. Does that count?
I am pretty sure smell would be incredibly useful for advertisement. Not sure I would like it though.

I wait until some algorithm accidentally mismatches a vegetarian with Hard 7 BBQ. That would be an interesting lawsuit.

Regarding the failure, Brain wave input as well as VR are actively developed. Touch/feedback interfaces have been common in consoles for ages. But smell is kind of underrepresented.
There is this though: https://kotaku.com/tecmo-is-making-dead-or-alive-you-can-sme...
The Science paper I linked was meant to show that the twitter graph has properties which spread fake news through its part of the news propagation graph. The people I referenced were meant to show that people on the graph with such a property are talking about the fake news problem as if it is real. Taken together, my response to you was trying to get at the idea that fake news, even if not a thing from the perspective of one node on overall news propagation graph, can seem very real from another position on the graph.

So basically, I disagree with the claim that fake news doesn't exist, in a subtle way.
I've always loved the computer-in-a-keyboard format of 80s home computers.

Are there any PC cases available today for home build PCs where the PC and the keyboard are one unit?
If someone decides against using an ad blocker, they can't mind being annoyed that much.
I don't get why we are making websites that are supposed to be whistle-blowing platforms. It's already been established that numerous corruptible parties can break https (e.g. by hacking a cert).

Depending on the nature of the leak, perhaps it'd be best to get it into a safe public store that won't be disappeared (e.g. the blockchain) in an encrypted fashion, and then release the key to select parties.
I want to add that "actual employment rate" or labor market participation rate is also a grossly misleading figure. For example America had it's highest labor market participation rate in 2000 - during the great recession. Also, Indonesia has a much higher participation rate than America and most Western countries, even though the job market there is likely not as good as Europe or America. Russia is above Germany despite the fact that any reasonable person would choose to job hunt in Germany over Russia. Unemployment does actually seem to be the better metric
ClojureScript: A Great Place for React [video]
From others, obviously.
Another part of the problem with the Linux desktop is that if you have problems with it someone blames your choice of distro and sends you to one of the other 250 so you can encounter whole new problems and have a whole new community dismiss you until someone else blames your choice of distro.
It sounds stupid but I first learned this concept from the movie "White Men Can't Jump" in 1992 when I was just a kid. I don't accept the idea as a hard rule but I do think it's a valuable perspective to understand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajBHZKoKYbU