skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you have to take it so literal and more importantly I think there is a bigger point than printing money.

It's the same point that's made in Fish https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&key... which is that you can turn things that sound really boring into a labour of love and make a profit along the way.

In other words there are opportunities all around us which can be turned into a more interesting business even though they sound really unattractive.

Now apply that to technology (something like Pingdom.com as an example) and you might just have changed your perspective enough to get an idea you didn't have before.

Scrubbing your driveaway for yourself isn't really comparable to supporting yourself financially scrubbing clients floors. 80% of jobs aren't sitting in front of a computer and most of them are not a joy to do for most people either.
In case you're interested: I'm working with eLife and the Center for Open Science on creating something just like that. Having those two organisations as partners has really boosted the profile, leading to others jumping on board.

There's still ways to go, but I think we're on the right track. But you're right: it's really hard, and it took me a year to even get here.
I like the painting analogy and have used it frequently.

Let's say you were commissioned to create a landscape painting. It'll be a big payday if you get it right and its due in 30 days.

Because you know you can make mistakes, you make a photo copy of your work every day and make a stack of them neatly on your desk. This photo copier is really high quality as copies are made at the molecular level.

On day 16, you find yourself working on the mountains in the picture. You sneeze and Oh no! You got paint all over your work. But since you have your copy pile, you just make another copy of day 15 and keep going.

But lets say you think its a lot and want a friend to work on the painting too. Just allow her to copy your latest photocopy and you both are off to the races!

Git seems complex but when you bring it down to a practical, non technical level, beginners pick it up faster :)
But why is the exceptional case the default?

Surely, most of the time when you go to commit, it's all the files you've changed?
> others might make their decisions based on "what's RHEL up to".

Looking at systemd from one angle might lead one to think that, but I viewed it from a different angle. It's obvious from the different distros that have replaced the SysVinit system that they were looking for something it wasn't providing. Systemd apparently provided enough of those capabilities to be viewed favorably by some distros, or they looked at the extra capabilities and decided that even if they didn't like aspects of it, it was important to support them to compete.

I'm sure Redhat did evangelize it, but I doubt it went along the lines of "hey, we're Redhat, you want to be doing what we're doing." Instead I think it was more like "Hey, we built this cool new thing. Let me tell you about all the new things it has to offer, and how it solves these problems you've had."
I got rejected from YC twice. Now it’s two months after Demo Day(2014)
WordPress started requiring a premium package to add a domain. I discovered this during the checkout process when I decided to give them another try. $48/year at a minimum.
Well, first you have to calculate that the company pays 31.42% of your total salary in payroll taxes. This is illegal to print or show in any way or form to the employee from the employer.

Then on most goods there is a 25% tax, additional taxes other categories of goods such as gas, cars, alcohol and so forth.

So if the company pays you 60k SEK, you'll see ~45k on your payroll slip. The 61% percentage is the average total tax burden on a individual from all of these taxes.
I agree, turns me off. What a blinded way to move through life.
Oh, self dealing. Shocking. For what happens when this gets rampant enough, please see DOMO. Wouldn't be surprised if Neumann owned a coffeeshop or fast casual restaurant ala Cubby's and mandated that said eatery cater all locations.
I have thought about both of these. It's weird, before my wife, I was very happy just living in a small place, just me, doing my work. We really do have a lot of fun.

We tried a middle ground to where we each have dedicated time each day for work and goals. However, this never implemented well. She would come in a bother me for the smallest things. I explained I need to focus and she just does it again 5 mins later. So I drop back and punt and hang out with her and the kids. When she needs to work, she gets that dedicated time. I think the main reason she is always on the phone or Skype or Zoom and therefore she is never interruptible.
Bezos didn't build Amazon or AWS, his workers did. He contributed as CEO, but the work was done by thousands of smart, hard-working and talented people around the world, but they don't own the company. Bezos's salary is just $80,000 a year -- his wealth doesn't come from the work he does for Amazon but the fact that he is the one who owns the capital and reaps the profit.
Ideally round rotating ice circle on a lake
You're also not accounting for the chance that someone would end up more dramatically ill than just the odd flu or a broken bone.

[Anecdote from the Canadian socialized healthcare system]

For instance, when my brother was 11 he was diagnosed with an advanced brain tumour the size of an average naval orange. He was admitted to one of the country's leading children's hospitals (McMaster in Hamilton) one day and was in surgery the next. He spent a week in recovery, half of that week in a private room, then shared with two others. He received follow up appointments there for the following year or two. They were able to remove the entire tumour in one session, with no remaining traces, and without the [temporary or permanent] paralysis they supposed could occur (they gave it a 50% chance he would lose all feeling and motor ability on his left side). He was in hospital, and they accomplished this all in inside of 36 hours.

The cost out-of-pocket to my family was the gas to drive there, and the parking in Hamilton over a couple of days.

Oh yeah, and we bought the doctors a Tim Hortons coffee and donuts...

edited to add: The mentioned visits included a large number of MRI and CAT scans, among other tests.

I'd like you to compare that situation with a like American anecdote: https://www.thebillfold.com/2015/06/the-cost-of-things-a-bra...

Nobody lives in a vacuum, my friend. Wouldn't that be nice if we could account for all cases as you have?
Apple Watch is now a decidedly bigger business than the iPod ever was
"Understanding exotic matter" is not a boolean ("understand vs not understand"). We know enough about the world to be sure nothing disastrous can happen. See Standard Model on Wikipedia for more details.
See the link, that post is from last summer. Seems quite up to date.
> The original color of the >1954 Fender Stratocaster was a three-toned sunburst.

Two-tone, surely.

The two-color sunburst finish became a three-color sunburst finish in the first half of 1958 with the addition of an “in between” red hue.[1]

[1] https://www.fender.com/articles/gear/the-history-of-the-fend...
The usual parlance for that is an "overlay journal", and there are quite a few of those now. Many of them use Scholastica [1].

[1] https://scholasticahq.com/
From Spotify: https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/privacy-policy/#s6

"To provide you with features, information, advertising, or other content which is based on your specific location."

You might also be interested in the massive amount of data they store about users that was discovered after GDPR passed. Here's the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17681289
Of course it does. The UK only has to guarantee they won't do anything that means "hard border in Ireland".

They choose not to guarantee that.
I concede the point, but counter with the fact that completely flat gravitational fields are implausible, so you could technically distinguish between linear acceleration (which has the same acceleration everywhere) and acceleration due to gravity (which doesn't, and hence generates a tide).

The effect on a stationary point sized object is equivalent in all three cases. When your object moves then the spinning artificial gravity can be distinguished. When your object is no longer point sized then both gravity and spinning fake gravity can be distinguished from linear acceleration fake gravity.
Bauhaus in pictures: The architects exiled by Nazis
Are you suggesting that in practice under a socialist system corruption doesn't take place, or just in theory?
It’s not clear to me that the journal it was published in is peer reviewed. Not all are.

https://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+scien...

It’s useful to have such places to publish things, but unfortunate that it’s not clear whether it’s peer reviewed.
Google News for the longest time kept showing me updates for the Fremantle Dockers, an Australian football team (I'm Swiss, and never set foot on Australian soil). I wonder why...
Does it offer relationships handling? That's the big downfall of MongoDB for me.
Pretty sad state of affairs if that's the case, you'd think Amazon would do something to exclude repeat purchases after a return. But it's been this way for years.

As it stands, 99% of their product recommendations are saying "I assume what we just sold you was a total piece of shit and you'll probably need another one after you return it. Here are some options!"
In this case yes.

But I think it's very important to remember that companies can have moral standards and follow them. Many companies don't sell-out in crucial ways, and throwing one's hands up and condemning them all is punishing the ones that stay true.

I think moral outrage is a very important and effective market force. It will do things our government never could, like take down facebook. I'm glad we have this tool.
Yeah, they weren't chosen randomly. Also, China and South Korea seem to be taking very different paths. While there are always similarities between any two country's governments, there are a lot of differences there. South Korea has competitive elections, where incumbents are not uncommonly voted out of office, and China does not. South Korea is fundamentally a market economy (with lots of government involvement), and China is much closer to a command economy (with lots of market elements). Neither one is at an extreme on the market-vs-command spectrum, but they are in very different parts of that spectrum.
I had not heard of them yet, thanks for mentioning!
Potential Employer Cancels Return Flight
Backporting fixes (and fixes ONLY, not new features, and new bugs, with new incompatabilities) onto an older version of software that comes in RHEL is not trivial.
The company seems near dead and still headed in the wrong direction. Every feature they have can be replicated by others, as shown by Instagram. Or there is no reason some new upstart for younger people can not replicate it.

Snapchat seems obsessed with those snap glasses too. They were a failure on the first release and they still seem to be pushing it to this day as a big part of their strategy. I don’t think consumers are ready to commit to a wearable like that, at least not yet.
My highschool job was at a smallish mom and pop grocery store. I took care of the floors every night; sweep, mop, buff. There's a real zen to doing this kind of work, I really enjoyed it.
> Most people probably won't do nothing because that's boring.

I think you underestimate the amount of people that are content with not doing anything.
Which also doesn't work on uBlock Origin default settings, but I feel better about allowing things on that site... thanks.
>Once he had enough money he was going to retire to Costa Rica.

Not a bad idea. The US is a terrible place to retire.
Yes - certain filings are confidential while they are 'in process.' They then get released in batches on specific release dates, to the entire world, all at once. In particular, IPO registrations may be done confidentially in early stages. The information that is present in such filings is often valuable.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/business/dealbook/sec-ini...
The point is, that once you have (nearly) caught up, it is less clear what needs to be done next, and command economies are not as good at that.
Who said it - "No conflict, no interest"?

Edit: Fred Wilson attributes it to John Doerr - https://avc.com/2010/04/no-conflict-no-interest/
It's amazing how so many people who no knowledge of online advertising post so confidently in these threads. Since I have a lot of experience with targeted ads, it makes me trust the comments on topics I'm not an expert on less.
I didn't downvote you, but I worked in adtech a couple of years back, and observed the opposite. We saw direct-sold contracts overtake DFP income almost immediately after the team started looking for them. It was a mid-size company (about 1,000 employees).

My reasoning on why this is is that networks like DoubleClick don't care or know any of the qualities that raise the value of a particular publication in the advertiser's mind. All you are to them is a blank square above or below the fold on a domain with X monthly uniques.

Do you have a source for your claim that there's "less money in the overall market"?
I made the switch as well and now only get an AirBnB when traveling with a large group of friends to remote destinations.

For my own travel, I got so sick of the problems with key access. It's just too hard to coordinate with most hosts when you are in a foreign country and don't have cell service or wi-fi.

It's also super annoying when any number of other issues show up: spotty wi-fi, no cable TV, no soap or shampoo, poor quality mattress, etc.

And then hosts often expect you to wash your dishes and put laundry in the washer. Why do I need to do this when I am paying >$100 for a "cleaning fee"???
The profit doesn't come solely from pushing away externalities. It also profits by tapping into more transient supply of accommodation by home-owners. That is, people who happen to own a home but aren't living there at the moment, or who are willing to share the space.

This doesn't apply to people who buy houses with the intent to airbnb them, they are purely about avoiding hotel regulations.
Congrats Drew. I've been rooting for you since your original post.
I've been running it for some time now and it seems that the model started to converge towards generation 35 and then diverged after that. i.e. since you consider the loss to be distance from each particle to the food, then the ants ended up somewhat above the food at 35, and then started overshooting it after that. Is that expected behavior?
Highly recommend her work! I've read Americanah and loved it. My partner read Half of a Yellow Sun and also really enjoyed it.
> Why would a WeWork object to paying Neumann's rent? WeWork is bascially Neumann anyway! Why would Tesla object to buying Musk's other companies? Tesla is basically Musk anyway!

The shareholders do mind, because these actions may violate the CEO's fiduciary duty to act in their best interest. They can sue him for violating said duty.

Less relevant in WeWork's case, but very relevant in Tesla's case, since it's a public company, and in fact Tesla and Musk have been sued for neglecting their duties before:

https://www.reuters.com/article/tesla-musk-lawsuit/tesla-ceo...
Actually, there is a wikipedia page about that natural phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle
I've been seeing comments on HN praising how Apple respects users' privacy etc. Though I have a genuine question: how can we be so confident that Apple follows their claims while their software remain closed-source?

For client-side Google software like Android/Chromium at least we got to fork and remove the evil bits; we have built thriving communities based on that and everyone's got an alternative to Google. In the case of iOS/Safari do we trust Apple-provided binaries solely based on claimed policy / reputation?
ES File Explorer app with over 100M installs is vulnerable to MitM attack
Agree, I think this is sort of like a very simple introductory on what git is about and to me it does the job.
Of course they are basic. Many people live on social security, pensions.

And they're a segment of the population. To study the result of a population receiving a BI, there's plenty of data.
AIY: Do-it-yourself Artificial Intelligence
That's an interesting point. I wonder if ultra granularity ... isn't really the current state...

At one point it was sure that I was female (am not, have never been) too.... to their credit they figured it out after a year or so, but man the ads. But that was at least a limited run of confusion.
How is possible this? Do they use the Postcards? https://designmodo.com/postcards/
Willing to get your hands dirty, wrecking your health, and never having time to socialize because you sleep when others are awake. Nightshift work is associated with all kinds of health problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_working#Health_effects
NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moon Titan
Tried a few, doesn't seem to handle more than one key well. Worried that 1500 submissions would cause a DoS. After a few it stopped giving me results saying computations were queued.
But suggestions are equally effective in terms of outcomes. Both suggestions are equally pointless which is maxxxx’s point.
The author doesn't claim you can't have grievances, but to simply stand by and claim you'll never ever use electron isn't airing a balanced grievance as much as it's a polarized opinion. There's a time and place for all technologies.
Things can get weird at very small sizes because of the huge ratio of surface area to mass. An amount of plastic that is safe to place against your skin as one object, might have more significant chemical interactions as a collection of particles in your digestive system--which specializes in leaching complex chemicals out the materials that pass through it.
Putting this in your readme is a great way to keep me far away from your project.
I'd be hesitant to have surveillance equipment or anything that could be mistaken for surveillance equipment because a review that there is a camera in any of a landlord's properties would mean I'm not renting from them, ever.

I really don't care whether they use whatever is recorded in a bad way or not.
Why would you expect inflation to occur?

As long as UBI is payed for via taxes and not deficit spending than the money supply isn't changing. And as economists say, inflation is a monetary phenomenon.

Supply & demand aren't radically changing either. America's poor eat too much, not too little. And while there are homeless people in America, most sleep in shelters.

If anything, you might expect the price of the cheapest staples and crappiest housing to go down as UBI enables the poor to upgrade their food and housing.
Do you really need to divorce in order to try "working days straight hacking out a rough idea for a project"? Can you just try to live separately for some time before making such a decision?
Using youtube-dl circumvents both the personal data and the marketing. Just convert to audio with ffmpeg, and then you can listen on your own devices with a normal music player.
One aspect that is often overlooked is that it is necessary to balance the books. This is an universal requirement when resources aren't unlimited and it applies to physics, biology, and economics.

Capitalism very clearly and unapologetically forces this, while some people imagine that, somehow, that constraint does not apply in other systems.
In Germany we already have an UBI-like system where people without a job are being paid social security. It's far away from those $30k you mention, and they need to live very frugally, but you are fed, clothed, and won't freeze in winter as you have a place to live.

There are two main differences of this system from true UBI: First, it's only paid to people who don't have any money at all (beyond a couple thousand euros). Any car, flat, house, expensive TV, etc. that you own is subject to that rule and if you possess those, you are required to first sell them.

Second, it's not additional. Once you do make money, your income will only rise if you make more than what you'd have gotten from the social services. This locks in quite many people into this system because even if they would seek employment, maybe what they get in the end is only €100 more than without the social services, but they gotta get up every day at 6 am.
The ecological footprint of the internet and computers isn't nearly as much as all the carbon we pump into the atmosphere so we can drive around alone in 2-ton steel cages just so we can go buy little trinkets at various stores, frequently some distance from where we live.
I concede you have out-pedantic'd me. :)
Pay out of their research budget with your tax dollars
I'm saying a small number of people amassing a large amount of wealth through exploitation of the labor of others for personal gain is not what drives a socialist economy. Corruption and exploitation exists in all societies, but in capitalism it is a necessary element for the function to survive. There is no non-exploitative, fair capitalism.
Mowing lawns; repairing sidewalks; testing car emissions. Many public-mandated jobs can be done during the day.
You're comparing apples and oranges. 61.85% is the top marginal rate in Sweden, not the flat tax rate. On $60K USD pay you pay ~30% in taxes.

If you actually wanted to make a factual argument about high taxes in Sweden the tax you're better off looking at payroll taxes.
I don't see the relevance for the WeWork discussion.

WeWork shareholders are potentially harmed when the CEO gives money from the company to himself.

If I understand the deal, the McDonald's brothers sold back the royalties they got from McDonald's (the company) for $2.7mn. If McDonald's (the company) got access to the money that the McDonald's brothers demanded by being smart with real estate operations, good for them. Everyone got what they wanted.

https://www.marketplace.org/2017/02/09/business/ray-kroc-mcd...

"The brothers did get a percentage of the profits. The original deal was 1.9 percent of a franchisee's profits. It went to the McDonald's Corporation and 0.5 percent of that went to Dick and Mac McDonald. The falsehood in the movie is that Ray screwed the brothers out of that half a percent. Basically what happened was Ray and the brothers were at odds. He went to them and said, look, what is it going to take to make you go away? They said $2.7 million — we want a million dollars each and $700,000 to pay our taxes. That's how practical they were. And they were happy with that. It was 1961 and the problem was that Ray didn't have anywhere close to $2.7 million. It's important to remember that McDonald's was precipitously close to folding at every step of the game once Ray got involved, because he didn't have the right scheme to make McDonald's grow until he met Harry Sonneborn who came along and told him it's not about hamburgers, it's about real estate. So basically Ray couldn't find $2.7 million to pay the brothers off. Harry found the $2.7 million. And if he hadn't, the situation, the agreement would have continued on the way it was in place with the 0.5 percent going and lining the brothers' pockets in a really lovely, passive income. But Harry saved the day. He was able to convince these men, who they later called in McDonald's lore "The 12 apostles," and those guys came up with the cash that allowed him to buy out the McDonald's brothers and make them go away. The movie says that they got screwed, but they didn't."
> interface contract specification language

Sounds a bit like C#'s code contracts. A team I was on tried it some years ago, and I think they were a great substitute for a bulk of the unit tests we wrote. It didn't catch on, unfortunately.
Yeah I've gotten some ultra disconnected bits too.

I'm really curious how those happen.