skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea what the ads on Spotify are like now as I haven't used it in over 3 years but it was pretty annoying where you're listening to heavy metal and then an ad for a pop band comes on.
And are they still doing that crap where a free account can't pick any specific songs?
They really do. The legal tipped minimum wage is different from the standard minimum wage. The requirement that tipped workers make at least standard minimum wage is a backstop protection intended to apply to the (extremely rare) situation that a tipped worker does not actually make more than standard minimum wage.

Going to repeat this again, for emphasis: tipped workers have always had lower base wages than non-tipped workers. The make-good requirement is a late addition to labor law that very rarely applies. The make-good requirement applies so rarely that a server who doesn't make at least standard minimum wage after tips will likely be let go for basic incompetence.
Horizontally maybe, but not vertically.
Sounds like you're having trouble with honest empathy or understanding what other people might be thinking or feeling.

This kind of feeling is EXTREMELY common, especially with engineers. You sound like you're over-indexing on logic and not really trying to understand how other people might think and feel. You might not get this now, but working on these other skills will make a bigger impact on your life and career than being a better programmer.
Yeah, it's really sad: the 70s-80s were the peak of recorded music. There was great stuff earlier in the 60s, but the recording tech was crappy, and later stuff all sucks because of the Loudness Wars, so it's nearly impossible to find good quality mixes no matter how great the music is.
> Local government can't be trusted to allocate public resources in a fair way... so we defer that to a private company?

Public resources in NYC are already allocated by private companies; that's a big part of why local government can't be trusted in the first place. Amazon is just saying that if they build a huge building in NYC, then they want to control public resource allocation in the area of the building in place of whatever private company would already be doing this.

> Where's the guarantee (or even suggestion) that Amazon would use their tax break to improve local infrastructure?

That's literally that the deal is, or at least a substantial portion of it:

https://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2018/11/13/heres-wh...
I don't think it's psychologically healthy to deny that you are incredibly dependent on things outside your control already.
Removing all redundancies would require everyone to speak and formulate perfectly. Otherwise the message is lost.
A lot of misunderstanding would happen.

Redundance in language makes it easier, because it really is some kind of error protection.
I understand why Sprint is doing this but I question how legitimate their claim is. The vast majority of folks don't understand (or care) about the underlying technology beyond "5G is one better, right?"

If there are customers who bought the AT&T service because they thought they were getting authentic 5G then there would be better standing for fraud but I'm sure there's plenty of fine print saying that "5G" as advertised -- even "5GE" -- has nothing to do with the technology called 5G by the ITU (or whomever is certifying what authentic 5G is).
Because minimum wage increases inflate basic goods so much that raising minimum wage is pointless.

For the exact same reasons minimum wage works, UBI works. You raise the floor and things inflate less than the floor is raised.

UBI has an added benefit to mitigate inflation in that long-term universal income becomes an exceedingly stable revenue source. There are thousands of retirement homes across the US that cost social security to live in - the business model is that the income is guaranteed, so the customer base and revenue is maximally reliable, so you can operate on razor margins because of hugely reduced uncertainty.

In that same capacity there would emerge UBI living accommodations meant to provide the "basics" for the whole value of the UBI. Even when not everyone uses them, their existence will act as a price floor on basic necessities to prevent them from inflating out of control - for the basic necessities with market price competition. That wouldn't include land or medicine, which can inflate in perpetuity because they are noncompetitive markets that should be more stringently regulated and socialized.
https://css-tricks.com/the-great-divide/

The OPs article was pointless but the article the author is commenting on is very interesting (coming from someone who lives about as far as you can possibly get away from Front End land).
Preprints are not an option in every field, they're very common in some fields but almost nonexistent in others.

Sci-Hub is not a legal alternative, that is an issue. There are legal ways to get papers without subscription for a reasonable price (inter-library loans), but they take more time and effort.
You can patch the browser to make isTrusted configurable, or to set it unconditionally true.
You have a primary and a backup with a synchronous commit protocol. When a commit request is made on the primary, the primary writes to its transaction log and the backup’s log. If the backup does not acknowledge, the commit fails.

The backup doesn’t need to be in the same exact state as the primary (it’s not meant to service requests), it just needs to have a persistent log of what changes were applied so that it can roll forward when needed.

Most relational DBs do something like this for their DR product offering. Oracle has Active Data Guard. DB2 has HADR.
> This thread is an object lesson in why basically every large service on the Internet is ad-supported. When people aren't willing to pay for 1-2 coffees for a month of unlimited music streaming are you really surprised that companies have no choice to use an advertising revenue model?

Note also that in the case of Spotify, Apple Music, etc., most people will only need to subscribe to one of those services to cover pretty much all of their music streaming needs.

With, say, newspapers and magazines they can try to make the argument that to meet their needs they would need to subscribe to a bunch of different papers and magazines and that would get prohibitively expensive very fast.

You can even try that argument somewhat with video streaming services. There are enough exclusive deals between movie producers and movie streaming services that picking one service only means you likely miss out on a lot of movies you want.

But with music that argument just does not work.
Like the article's #3, I have my own silly rule, but it's a good one.

No books with the author's name written in a larger font than the title.

This eliminates books who's main merit is the author's fame. It's especially good at filtering out crappy New York Times best sellers and it works for fiction too.
Quality assessment is not necessarily the same as popularity, surely.
There's another homepage thread about Spotify doing the same thing and that's received positively. When you deliver value to billions of people who don't want to pay, ads are part of the package. And those ads have helped thousands of companies grow and provide all those other fun jobs.

The amount of hate advertising gets is just silly. It'd be great if we could push personal responsibility with even 1/10th of the effort.
Within current legal standards you are. Ideally the government is supposed to step in and regulate situations like these to remove bad actors and provide consumer protections, since in a monopoly/oligopoly consumers can be forced to go without a service to comply with onerous conditions for that service and the music industry loves their monopolies.

A website is currently absolutely within their rights to decline you service if you refuse to be tracked by Coca-Cola's spyware ridden malware. This is a consequence of living in a society dominated by false cries to adhere to incorrectly stated libertarian ideals - regulation isn't all bad, though anti-competitive regulation tends to be bad (there is a grey area with incidentally introducing barriers to market entries to fulfill a social need... like everything - it's complicated).
Interesting, I never knew type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. I just thought the body just stopped creating insulin because the pancreas is messed up.
But what a waste of effort. Why do they suggest this instead of starting at UBI+$1, at least?
How often do you swallow candy without chewing?
I remember doing this as a CSS copy-protection joke back in 2013. [1] Seems like a similarly petty thing for a company like FB to try and like many have said an extremely low-level arms race.

[1] https://github.com/nbush/headache
15 year old me had basically nothing. Paying $10 per month for pretty much anything was unthinkable.

I still wanted to listen to music though, so I found ways.

I really don’t think that was so terrible, and neither do I think the few million people that block ads are.
Girl Scouts join global push to 'plant a seed' for women in tech
I rather liked the timeline book, but it's juvenalia. I liked his reasoned (if entirely hypothetical) comments about the mistakes we make visualising the past as white, because we see whitewashed walls, when they were probably as polychromatic as they could be in the circumstances. And I liked his characterisation of the poor as probably predating everyone they could, not some robin-hood fantasy of nice people waiting for gifts of food. But the whole quantum foam and nasty scientist at home angle was just trashy. Geniuses like this don't rise to the top of corporations. Oh wait.. hang on...
The land prices in Manhattan have cooled down somewhat in the last couple of years. They are now at the 2015 level (https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/new-york-city-land-p...), so actually down a bit if counting inflation.
A compiler for a Sql dialect with support for heterogeneous structured data
It’s simply not worth the time and money to pay someone to review every app created everywhere. Even with a 6% false positive rate, those app developers will appeal if it’s worthwhile (which will probably be less than the full 6%), and then they can be manually reviewed, and the false positive rate brought down after some more iterations.

6% is 6%. The absolute number is meaningless. It’s just a crappy twitter integration that no one really cares about. It’s not a human life.
Any suggestions? I'm always looking for new background music for work, and I agree that BandCamp is a very nice shopping experience.
> What else would define a standard?

Why would there have to be a standard? My point is exactly that there isn't one that captures how actual people actually speak German. There is one for written German that everyone agrees on, but not for spoken German. And that's completely fine.
The benefit to reviewing is that it's frowned upon to publish in a conference/journal if you don't review for them. So academics are not just motivated by a "sense of duty": if they don't accept to review then it can become harder for them to publish (which has significant career benefits).

So if you don't review for closed-access venues (which I try to do), you are pressured into not publishing there: and not publishing in closed-access venues is difficult as most papers are collaborations, and usually your co-authors do not share your convictions.
Ha ha, downvotes! I'm no more enamored of my observation than are thou, but sometimes the truth stings.
It's important to keep the piracy channel alive. Right now you may feel you have choices and options but there are a handful of players who can sell you everything. 2020 may not be as great.
I think a lot is just the attitude of those who make and master the music. Back in the 80s, CDs sounded great, but they were sold as being the ultimate in sound quality, and the idea really was that you would keep them at home in their jewel cases and play them on a nice stereo system. Car CD players didn't come until later, in the 90s, and MP3s in the late 90s, and music-playing phones in the 00s.

So I think CDs are now made with the idea that the music is going to be converted to MP3 and listed to on mobile devices, not on nice stereo systems, so they mix them with that target listening environment in mind.
Wendy's charging me $1.89 for a junior bacon cheeseburger goes against my desire; I'd rather get it for free. That doesn't mean it's unscrupulous for them to charge me $1.89 for a cheeseburger.
I don't recall enough about Timeline to recall that plot element, though I remember thinking it was a weak novel in general. But I consider Sphere and Andromeda Strain his best novels and neither are about parks.
Clicking on magnet links is just as difficult as clicking on a song in spotify, maybe the websites arent as nicely dressed though.

In the U.S., its $10 a month for your entire life. If you live another 100 years, thats $12k that could have bought top top top of the line speakers or enough cds to fill multiple bookcases. We have so many services like this now that are packaged monthly to hide the real cost of long term use. Its like rent to own all over again, except when you stop renting you do not own.
Check out Kubeless, it can do most of what you ask. Will need to Kubectl patch ... for secrets mounting.

GKE is an easy way to get a k8s cluster, use the nginx ingress, so you don't have to pay for a GCloud load balancer (will need to disable them)
Your sites may have gotten hugged a little too hard...
You know how some countries feel the need to prefix their name with the word "Democratic" and it's basically a guarantee that not much democracy is happening there. I feel the same way about the word "Commonwealth" when applied to US states. It's basically a dead giveaway that the government prioritizes itself above the common interest. I live in one of those states.
Perhaps TheShop.build, the successor to TechShop, might be interested. They want a NYC location. They can use those good Bridgeport mills.
> Cost. $3.8 trillion by many estimates.

$3.8 trillion would be about right if you set the benefit level equal to the poverty line for a single-person household, and then gave it to every many, woman, and child in the country, starting at birth, irrespective of citizenship or immigration status, while...

> That's nearly 20% of America's GDP.

...nearly 20% of GDP would be accurate for the benefit level you suggested, if you instituted it at that level today. Anything phased in over time would be lower even when fully phased in, because GDP growth per capita over the long term is more rapid than inflation.

If instead you took the poverty line for the median household size, divided by the median household size, and assigned that as the per person benefit (and still had no citizenship/immigration status test, and no phase in period, you'd drop the cost to about $2.2 trillion, or about double existing combined state/federal welfare spending.)

Any reasonable UBI will also be restricted to those legally present (and quite likely only LPRs, citizens, and nationals of the United States; maybe only citizens and nationals) and not initially start at a full poverty support level (meaning other programs will phase out rather than be big-bang eliminated.)

> Scope. I am of the opinion that one of the beauties of federalism is that policies can be tested first at the state level before we commit our entire nation. Why would a national government do this?

Because without authority for immigration controls, migration for benefits is a problem.

> Necessity. I don't think we need to be paying anyone who makes over 50k (maybe not the right number, but there should be a cutoff). That just takes money away from those who need it.

Means testing is additional bureaucratic cost to serve the same function that can instead be served by tax allocation, and you already need income-verification bureaucracy and income sensitive formulae on the income tax side, so the choice is between two bureaucracies duplicating function and one serving the function. The latter is clearly more efficient. There's going to be an income level beyond which, considering taxes which fund UBI, people get no net UBI payment; you don't need a cutoff in direct UBI benefits to acheive that.
I tune C++ compilers, just like I tune Java compilers, in both cases I can decide to do it during AOT compilation or at a later moment.

The big question is how properly those big apps were coded.

Go doesn't run Fintech servers, while Java keeps replacing C++ servers. Yes, one needs to code Java with low level tricks like C++, but it is possible and there are many performance experts doing it.

How many Fintech servers are running on Go?
Unfortunately a compromise like that could only be reached through enforcement by a third party (probably the government) and in the current political climate that's not going to happen.
People see the world through eyes blinded by nationalism. You can justify all kind of contradictory policy. If foreigners are all bad then it makes no difference if you support them not. And there is a natural respect for brutal power like you see in Saudi. And there is support for a brutal foreign policy for the same nationalist reason. If you dont like foreigners then why would you care about foreigners?
“I’m working a super cushy job making twice as much as I could most other places, mom!”

“Proud of you!”
> As a non-coder it feels like the learning curve for building a website portfolio is super high - even though I am told by coders that it is not.

It is not high if you don't try to reinvent the wheel. Fortunately, you can build upon generous people's work.
Using frameworks is fine unless you end up using things you don't need.
There is still a learning curve, of course, because you need to learn where to look for answers. But building a portfolio site is indeed not that complicated.

Non-coder here, I started with WordPress, spent a lot of time learning how to code my own theme. Then I ditched it, learned the basics about how Git works, set up a static site using Jekyll, styled it with Tachyons. Then I added a gallery functionality and a few custom tweaks, just looking things up as I went. My site is now way simpler to maintain and faster. What took hours to look up and fix now seems easy.

Putting your portfolio site together yourself is time well spent.
There is a real fear of immersing yourself in an environment where you feel everyone knows more than you and you feel like an absolute idiot for not knowing the simplest things that you think “should know”

I felt like this 10 years ago when I got a job as what we would now call an “Enterprise Developer” working in C# after being stuck in a bubble in the “expert beginner” phase bit twiddling in C and C++ and doing VB6 that was already out of date and I was working with people younger than I was who knew the latest tech and people my age who were already experience led architects.

It happened again two years ago, by then I was the dev lead who knew all of the best practices from a development side but didn’t understand infrastructure, high availability, scalability, dev ops, or modern cloud infrastructure.

I fumbled my way through that project thanks to Hashicorp’s Consul and Nomad, and self demoted to a senior dev at a smaller company where I could get hands on experience.

I’ve filled in a lot of those gaps now, but still I don’t know the $cool_kids back end tech like Docker and Kubernetes or a single modern front end framework.

So yeah, it’s frightening jumping into a new tech stack heads first where you need to be somewhat productive since you convinced the company to pay you slightly above market rate.
> "In addition to addressing the bug that was reported, our team conducted a thorough security audit of the FaceTime service..."

Why would they have not done this in the first place? Apple has more money than they know what to do with, why not have teams of people banging away on this stuff? The actual exploit was incredibly simple.
The fact that Sci-Hub is not a legal alternative is not a reason not to mention them. The existence of Sci-Hub is very relevant to what the article discusses.
Neither amphp or reactphp will let you start running blocking functions in parallel out of the box. They basically just provide syntactic sugar for making single-threaded, cooperative multitasking easier by wrapping php's native ability to read/write to sockets asynchronously (or by using pecl extensions.)

So you can respond to websocket messages or http requests asynchronously but you're not going to be able to implement anything like a parallel merge sort were you offload work to other threads. Things like general purpose file IO are not easy at the moment either.

Amphp might seem a heavy handed because they've taken the monorepo approach. ReactPHP on the other hand has broken everything up into individual components. For example, you can get started with ReactPHP by just pulling in the event loop https://github.com/reactphp/event-loop. All the heavy lifting for the native loop is <200 lines https://github.com/reactphp/event-loop/blob/master/src/Strea... and the API is tiny as well https://github.com/reactphp/event-loop/blob/master/src/LoopI...
This system is an antiferromagnet, so it does not have a net magnetization, so pretty much all the common applications we think of such as hard drives, motors etc are out the window.

I would say this work falls under the category of a curiosity, as its magnetic order exists at low temperatures and I can't imagine why you'd use such an exotic antiferromagnetic material for room temperature operations.

It's nice that the paper is freely available.
I would add #4: books that are at least 10 years old. I feel like knowledge has to pass the test of time. This rule would rule out "Why We Sleep" for instance, but you'll be able to read it in 10 years if the science behind it still stands.
Completely agree. Basically what we use is only drip marketing and chat, however I have seen their price go up x3.5 in our case, without any significant increase in our user base, and no change in features.
You mean a society without a government at all ?
Creating your own chatbot on Slack
Speaking as someone who moved from a company that heavily leaned on an ORM to a company that is using jOOQ (a thin Java wrapper around SQL) for everything, not being able to use an ORM is pretty painful.

I greatly miss the nice, clean ORM experience. It's so much better for developer efficiency.
This is a good article, highlighting what's going on.

I like the show, I've no idea why people are so obsessed with throwing crap at her.
Messenger Lite feels pretty slim.

FB Events is something that could be a spin-off with FB login. But yes, at least people use it.
> A conscious agent believes, desires, wants, feels, etc.

Then, when I just observe how an ant behaves, I can definitely see that he "believes, desires, wants, feels etc."

He sees and/or smells the crumb that I've made while eating a sandwich. He "desires" and "wants" it, runs to it. He "believes" it can lift it and "feels" it can do it. He tries, more than once. Then he has to adjust his belief: the crumb is too heavy. So he gives up trying to lift, now he "believes" he should bite a peace of it. And he does that. Then, he has a new "desire" to carry the bitten-off peace back to the "house" in the hole where other ants are. And he "feels" he can do this, and he will eventually do this. If another ant tries to take the crumb he carries, he will "feel" hat he "has to fight" but he can also "decide" it's "not too interesting" and it's "better to search for another crumb." Now tell me how is that behavior different from a person which is unable to speak, and where you would describe it with "beliefs, desires etc."
You're not going to have servers who are making $20-30/hour get upset and demand they get paid a stable 12$/hour.
Only those that don't know how to bundle the JVM with the application or make use of a commercial AOT compiler to native code.