skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With respect to 1,2,3.

People make some pretty bad decisions. And people like to trick other people into making bad decision. I didn't think this was controversial.

Why is this relevant to UBI? One of the benefits of UBI is that it allows us to get rid of the welfare system. However, if people are tricked into giving away their money OR if they spend all of their money on non-food items, we now have to decide if they just go hungry or if there is a welfare for them. This is more complicated because some of the people going hungry will be children who have irresponsible parents.

To recap. One of the arguments of UBI is that it will be cheaper than it looks because we can get rid of welfare. This argument only works if we're willing to let people who misspend their UBI go hungry. I'm not willing to let people go hungry if I can help if, so I'm only interested in a UBI program if we also find a way to feed irresponsible people. OR I'm not interested in UBI being enacted.
I think the deck pretty much just shows that the best way to raise $66M is to build a successful and growing company.
A few (potential) ways targeted ads may not be advantageous:

Often I see targeted ads for products I looked up and did some research on. I either bought the product or decided not to buy the product. Unless the ads convince me to buy another one or change my mind about whether or not I need a first one, they're not going to do any good.

Targeted ads can also be creepy and offputting. It's weird to look something up and then see ads for that specific version of that specific product everywhere.
App economy expected to be $120B in 2019
Ignoring the multiuser issue, could not some javascript be injected that displays "crash" instructions (or even just closes the tab) in the event the server becomes unresponsive? I'm not a web dev, but this sounds feasible.
That's fine. It just makes the distribution system that much more efficient - the same amount for everyone. Then we could afford a flat tax rate for everyone simplifying taxation as well.
You churn it with a large volume of sea water and then discharge it when the salinity is only acceptably above the natural amount. I believe France limits it to 10% above the natural salinity.

e.g. take 3 gallons of sea water and extract 1 gallon of fresh water. You have 2 gallons of +50% salinity brine. Churn it with 8 gallons of seawater and you're back to +10% salinity. Wash it out into the ocean.
Every time I've sat down to do the actual math the difference between "typical HN wages in a high cost state" (call it $200k/yr) to western europe - the numbers are always within a 10% difference. Everyone likes looking at just the federal tax rate and ignores state income tax, local income tax, SS/Medicare tax (which is massive), and real estate taxes. I do ignore VAT and sales taxes typically since they are so difficult to calculate effectively.

When you add everything up, it really comes out that the US isn't very low cost comparatively. The striking thing for me is how much more progressive US taxes are than in Europe - where even the lower middle class seem to get taxed heavily.
They may have discovered in the interview that he had lied on his resume about his work experience/ education, etc. Getting a free trip by lying would be grounds to cancel any more of the free ride in my opinion.
Thundering Herd Problem
There's a more nuanced debate about the degree to which many personality disorders (particularly Cluster B disorders) don't qualify as a mental illness for another reason. You are considered mentally ill if you have cognitive and behavioral patterns that harm yourself. If your cognitive and behavioral patterns harm other people but leave you relatively unscathed, that's arguably not mental illness.
Bandwidth counting can be accomplished without keeping "logs" per se, and with WireGuard, I think there would be very little reason to attempt to limit connections.
A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent
Visualization in Meteorology: Survey of Techniques/Tools for Data Analysis Tasks
Technically reports are made out of particles, though
Your Guide to January’s Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse
Looks like SERN is moving ahead of schedule.

Be safe.

El Psy Congroo
Actually, success in a capitalistic system is being able to withdraw yourself from the capitalistic system.

Why do you go to work? To make money. So that you, or your children, don't have to go to work, and can pursue personal interests that don't have one whit to do with capitalism.
Even if you don't have a PD, going to a shrink is always a good thing. It's great that we spend so much time looking after our physical health in the modern world, but we should also be taking more care of our mental health.
Building intelligent robotics that humans can digitally transfer our consciousness to, like a host. I see our bodies as just hosts to our minds. I'd love to be a part of the next step in human evolution (Tech, biotech).

But ideally, ultimately, my goal is to manage a firm that ties into this technology, moreso strategy and operations.

So yes, C-level of a Biotechnology company building advanced technology that evolves humanity to the next step so that we can explore and expand our species throughout the galaxy and beyond
Actually you can, but to prevent abuse you'll need an account to do that. I'll try making this more obvious.
It's not fully supported, but there are also experimental builds for reaper:

https://www.reaper.fm/download.php#linux_download
SublimeMerge is also a wonderful tool. Been using that since it came out and has helped tremendously with difficult merges. It's lightning quick as well.

Similar to magit - Sublime Text also has SublimeGit, not as fast as SublimeMerge.

Visual Studio Code built in git functionality is also nice.
How we prepared our systems for our £20 million crowdfunding round
Ask HN: Building an “event” site / vertical social network
I am an Artist first and then an Entrepreneur. I can do a lot of stuff on Wordpress and some on Drupal, but that's just about it.

I have secured a good domain name for Art Openings and I want to put together a site where gallery owners and Museums could post their own events and openings. At first I might have to see it myself and I am OK with it.

Is there a WP theme that I can use? Premium is fine.

Or a plugin? Premium is fine.

Or Drupal?

Or . . a wiki?

Or maybe I could do a vertical social network using NING or Discourse?

Needs not to be perfect, just needs to validate MVP.

Thank you for any and all suggestions.
Too late to edit but I ask this question in earnest.

I have trouble with the notion that we should be immediately skeptical, without reviewing methodology, of any study with industry funding. Some 70% of research funding comes from private entities.[1]

That said, given the current sorry state of "science" (p value abuse, publish or perish, replicability crisis) it wouldn't surprise me if funding related bias really is a common problem.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_of_science
You're not wrong. Cloud Functions Product Manager here. We've been running a private early access preview since we first showed this at GopherCon in August. I'm really happy to see this first step but we have a lot of work ahead of us.
Your rhetorical question is intentionally obtuse, you'll never have a productive conversation on any topic by creating your own strawman and falsehoods to argue with.

As for addiction, addiction to smoking, food, drugs, alcohol, etc it's all the same mechanism.
this is fantastic analogy. but, Steve just got a promotion and likes the BMW 3 series. But, advertising a Tesla 3 can be another worthy option you are trying to advertise. I think behavioral and randomness should go hand in hand.
I don't really follow this conversation, but just by eye-balling Twitter it's astonishing how many people do not understand how marginal tax rates work.
Even though the method can be challenged, I think it is great that people are trying to understand entrepreneurship based on data. Most founder and startup advice is not based on any data. YC could have a great impact here I believe with the vast amount of data they should have
LinkedIn used to recruit Chinese Spy
Tired all the time.
All-new Slack
I wonder if the Airbnb team has ever thought about their profit and its relationship to the externalities you describe

I'm convinced the majority of "unicorns" ignore (or actively dodge) externalities in favor of lucrative profits.
> Wow, seriously? Which countries?

Pretty much any developed country. Research funding is guided by metrics and publishing is a very strong component. As anyone can create their own personal journal, only the leading and established ones count.
“We have to hammer on abusers in every way possible,” Mr. Sackler wrote in an email in 2001, when he was president of the company, Purdue Pharma. “They are the culprits and the problem. They are reckless criminals.”

--but was he incorrect?
After the Shutdown: Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station
I can foresee the day when that version of MongoDB is advertised/discussed as having "AWS Document DB compatibility" (rather than today's converse).
Thermodynamics are false? Show me the evidence!
In our state we have 'Nudgemaster' machines at bars, restaurants, bowling alleys.
Video gambling isn't legal here (except at a casino), and these devices skirt the laws by
accepting cash, and only giving out gift cards or merchandise as prizes.
Another issue apart from addressing is that all the SMS related logic resides in the SMSC and rest of the network sees the traffic as opaque payload.

The article glosses over how the resulting message structure is actually sent over the radio interface and the SS7 network. In all it involves establishing (somewhat TCP-like) connection between your phone and SMSC across the signalling paths. The fact that this process is somewhat involved and consumes significant amount of radio resources is probably at least partially the reason why SMSes aren't particularly cheap.

On the other hand on native LTE sending or receiving SMS could in theory consist of two UDP packets, but I'm not sure how widely is this deployed.
When I switched in 2012 I went from 40 Mbps VDSL down, from which I got maybe 14 Mbps tops in practice to a 100 Mbps down cable connection, which I frequently hit. The shop I worked at similarly got a boost from a 40 Mbps VDSL (really 25) to a real 150 Mbps down around the same time. In 2016 I moved to my current apartment and 40/4 was still the max, while I could get 300/30 from Ziggo. Hence my 5-10x claim.

YMMV depending on the copper quality of your neighborhood and distance to the neighbourhood connection point (I don't know how to translate "wijkkast").

I have little experience with VDSL2, but in my experience xDSL delivers a lot less than the theoretical max and has a lot more variance than DOCSIS.
No it's not a myth, and modern skyscrapers and residential high-rise buildings look pretty awe-inspiring.
I want the notes in git. I never added temporary testing data (or the florist's phone number) to a project unless it was in code.
It's meant to prevent investors from pressuring attorneys to prioritize profit over legal ethics. The thinking is that an attorney has their bar license on the line when making ethical decisions. If everyone's license is on the line they're likely to act in accordance with their ethical obligations. If a non-attorney invests in a law firm they could pressure the attorney to risk their license to generate more profit.

Accounting firms used to have the same rule (though they've relaxed it a bit to allow non-CPAs to own less than 40% or 50% as the accounting firms got more and more into "consulting"). The rationale is explained well here[1]. Large law firms are making a similar, though slower, transition to expanding their consulting services. Particularly with respect to data privacy and cybersecurity. I would expect the rules to relax over time.

The U.K. recently permitted non-lawyers to invest in law firms but it doesn't seem many investors have jumped in head-first. Law firms and accounting firms don't have much by way of "assets" so they can be quite risky. I briefly worked at Deloitte with a former Arthur Anderson partner. He was quick to warn all of the young staff about what a terrible investment his equity had been. One rogue partner can sink the entire ship and leave the rest without much ability to recoup the money they put in.

[1] http://archives.cpajournal.com/old/14469513.htm
Um. No one would farm GM plants if the returns on cost weren't there. Clearly, for the farmer, and therefore the consumer, they are net less expensive, even with that fat profit margin for Roundup. So-called organic farming is more expensive and it shows in consumer prices. The people who are impacted most by higher grocery store prices are the poor.
The amount of unnecessary drama this has created is astonishing. Ian Jackson even deemed it necessary to start a public call for reports on Preining's "misbehaviours", even though nobody seems to have had anything other than pleasant experiences [1].

I have not much hope for Debian as a project anymore, lots of important people seem to be burnt out by crap like this and have decided it's not fun anymore. Also this was all started by Sage Sharp, in the end [2], and revolves around Codes of Conduct. Again. I have never seen an example for a Code Of Conduct working out to something positive in an Open Source project.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019/01/msg00170.htm...
[2] https://www.preining.info/blog/2018/09/sharp-did-it-again/
That's even more interesting because I recently had to use a 2010 MacBook Pro keyboard for a week and felt like those keys were a lot "spongier" than the keys on the new MacBook Pro that I have. I much prefer the newer one.
Change the title to say "Every Afghan Household" like the original article please.
> I remember reading[0] about how one of the most effective ways to determine if someone is a narcissistic is to ask them... "are you a narcissistic?"

So what would a narcissistic person answer to this? Yes?
Not a security complaint but an annoying experience with the system:

Sat down one Saturday to create a database for their Financial Statement and Notes data set https://www.sec.gov/dera/data/financial-statement-and-notes-...

Located documentation, thought okay this shouldn't be too bad. Ended up taking one day to understand the structure and another to implement the system. Finally got everything loaded in my tables and spot checked against the rendered versions on their website only to discover they truncate the most important text field. It's technically in the documentation that the value field is limited to 2048, but it's also in the documentation that the value field is for 'text analysis applications' and their website literally says: 'The information is presented without change from the "as filed" financial reports submitted by each registrant...' so I managed to gloss over this detail until I had already spent and entire weekend working on it.

I just can't wrap my mind around how they got 99% of the way there and then decided, 'hey lets just truncate this field, it's only the entire purpose of this dataset.'
No built-in cameras or mics would be an excellent feature, even for phones. I would have already pre-orded the Librem 5, for the same price, if Purism had offered that.
Researchers crack open notorious Fancy Bear rootkit
1 million MORE households on top of roughly 1/3 of all households that have fiber. :)
And I suspect that corporate buyers tend to get full-fare refundable tickets more often than tourists anyway.
I'm married to someone who has a narcissistic parent. One of the big problems for children is they end up entrapped. They can try to cut them out of their lives completely, but there's immense social pressure to not do that. The result tends to be that the narcissist plays the victim and manipulates situations to turn entire families against them. This results in immense social pressure to keep them in their life. Often narcissists will pick favorites too, so its hard for one child to believe their parent is a narcissist when they're showered with gifts and superficial things to win affection.

The only helpful advise given to my wife was that she needs to put actual physical distance between herself and her mom. To move far enough away so she could limit in person interactions to a couple times a year.
At the risk of sounding condescending, what you did was a crime and potentially makes you liable under the CFAA. Probably, no one in law enforcement would care, but I would not advise doing this in the future.
I'll add my AirBnB anecdote.

We were in Hawaii. We checked into the AirBnB, and the first thing my wife noticed was that there were crumbs of food all along the walls of the kitchen. She murmured something about this not being good and attracting bugs.

We turn off the lights, and a few minutes later she jumped up, claiming there was something on her. We turned on the lights, and saw nothing. I brushed it off. A few minutes later it happened again. Same deal. Then a few minutes later it happened to me. I turned on the lights, and happened to look at the roof, and there were 2 large cockroaches on the roof, right above us! Yikes! Then I stepped out, and on the kitchen floor I saw a few of them scurrying about.

So I called up AirBnB at 2AM. They asked me for photos, video, etc. After a couple of hours of back and forth, they agreed to let us leave. They let us book another place. But then they proceeded to cancel our original reservation, so I could not leave feedback! The host contacted me, and when I told her why we left, pretended as if nothing was wrong about 3-inch long cockroaches running around all over the place. AirBnB never reprimanded her.
That's the case for many engineering teams.

For those who haven't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Worth the wait!
I can relate, because I have had situation where I blew every question and at the end of interview I felt that people were annoyed by me, or my lack of knowledge.

The thing was at that moment I just left shitty job, with 24h phone support for our systems switching with other person on weekly shifts, also I was quite under attack by one of better established guys. I had savings so no problem there. But still I had to find job in something like 3 months before going back to my town.

My self esteem was on the bottom. They got 4 people to question me and senior guy was math phd. After second question it went downhill. Logarithms were not my strong side and then SQL stuff that I was doing day in and out just 'PUFF' went away. (now I am senior, leading team of 5, delivering loads of value, but back then I would not believe I could do that)

I believe that environment and surroundings contribute a lot to what you thing about yourself. I picked wrong fight in wrong time. That guy probably also should work on his basics, or maybe it is just sob story.
Year of cryptocurrencies fluctuation
It's true, you get a phenomenal home that's essentially part of a giant resort for much lower than LA (and you're only 2 hours from LA, 2.5 from San Diego, and 1.5 from Orange County). Yes, the summer is awful, but if you like golf or tennis and can work remotely, you can always leave for the summer. I'd be happy to put you in touch with my dad if you're actually interested (no pressure if you prefer to avoid an agent right now or have someone you already work with though).
The millions. And a lot of "learned to strum some chords" players are playing at professional levels. Being a famous musician doesn't have a great deal to do with ability, much of the time. But even there, Teles probably outnumber Rickenbackers 100:1 in professional hands.

And PRS is pretty common, especially when you throw in the import models. Actual Bigsby guitars (I'm not talking the trem installed on another brand of guitar) haven't been made in decades and are extremely rare.
> In a world of increasing automation (explosive in the last 15 years) there's not much value in training for anything less than medicine or engineering.

Yes and no. I think a lot of of this automation will mean we will be going back to the world of trade schools where repair becomes a lot more important. Same goes with installation of these automated systems. The US loves to push "shovel ready" construction jobs but we should be focusing more on training for installation and repair of automation.

I've found it kind of odd that we've lost a lot of the trade skills being taught in high school. I'm in my mid 30's and I'm the only person my age I know who took classes in Small Gas Engines, Carpentry, Electrical, Plumbing, etc. From that point a lot of kids went right on to get Journeymen certs and many now own their own businesses. If they would bring those classes back and also teach these types of skills to those underemployed I think you could easily transition into any type of related field.
Calling it a "system" is an offense to all other systems.
I was wondering if this would be about how having your laptop open in a meeting is bad form on a few different levels (distracting, signaling, body language)
OpenAPI on Your Ops Side APIdays Paris
How fast you could get banned ? Or shadowed ?
Facebook Algorithms and Personal Data
Also parking spot...

So fun
My semi-educated guess would be that kidneys work best when the volumetric output is average. These are not 100% passive systems like coffee filters, they have some active filtering mechanisms. If you overwhelm them with fluid intake, I would suspect they start to underperform.
Agreed on the TouchBar but I use BetterTouchTool to alleviate the problem with any non-supported apps. BTT really makes the TB super useful in a lot of ways.
What happens when you type Google.com into the browser and press enter
First, man - every time I have replied to you on HN, our discussion has turned into a flame war of one variety or another. I don't have time for that at this moment (nor the inclination for it, ever). Ideally, I'd just like to get along with you. We have many common friends; I'm confident they'll tell you that I'm a pretty relaxed guy and easy to get along with. And I'm pretty careful about refraining from stepping into discussions unless I have a good enough command over the material to avoid making false statements or giving bad advice. So I'm just asking - please just be civil. Let's stop clogging HN with attacks and instead just discuss (and achieve consensus on) best practices. Agreed?

Now: as recently as 5 months ago, when you and I discussed the matter, you replied to a post that expressly suggested `getrandom(..., flags=0)` (what you called the "blocking variant", although it's not that simple) and dismissed it in favor of /dev/urandom (and also strangely referred to security.stackexchange as "the wrong stackoverflow boards"). [0]

This was bad advice. It's good to see that you have come around to the position taken by the Python core team and just about everybody else that using getrandom(..., 0) in a best practice in this situation.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17786496