skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like others have mentioned, you can do #2/3 without the “expose to malware” caveat if you implement responsible ads.
I wonder what he could actually mean by this quote, unless it's an outright fabrication.

NY, home of NYC, struggles to attract 100 person businesses? How am I supposed to interpret that claim?
It did not help that some new aspects found in physics were considered 'ungerman' ('Jewish physics') and discarded, especially Einstein's work and many aspects of quantum mechanics. This alone would probably have proved crippling to any efforts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
It's no stealing, it's not even lying. Show me where in the agreement it says exactly "you must to listen to ads from a third-party if you listen to music". There are things like "we retain the right to...", or "by using this service, you agree to allow us to...". There are no commandments, only stuff that covers their ass so you can't sue them for closing your account, exposing your personal information or letting other people hack your devices.
Several companies have done this and the users still scream about it, sometimes more because now they can't block the ads.

The other hard thing for a company is internally, you see normal ad revenue going down and you have some users you can deliver to via some methods. You have to crank that method up to account for it.

Ads is also interesting with the "how much money is enough money" argument. When do you stop monetizing.
Is there an example of one of these memos online anywhere?
It seems like the assertion (very roughly) is something like: a creature is conscious if it can make a subjective decision about something. It's not a terrible definition, but I feel like I'm missing some nuance.
When Anchor Steam Beer sold to Sapporo during the beer slump they were good enough to look after their landmark Potrero Hill brewery building to make sure it wasn't converted into yet more San Francisco yuppie hutches.
https://www.brewbound.com/news/keith-greggor-explains-sold-a....
'San Francisco’s commercial real estate has been on fire for years, and we have been in Potrero Hill since the late 1970s. The property is worth a lot of money. Their goal is to preserve Potrero Hill and enhance it. They think it is a jewel within the brewing industry. It was not an option for us to have someone buy the brewery, stick it in the desert and then turn the building into condos. That would have destroyed Anchor’s legacy.'
The Japanese seem to take US heritage more seriously than the locals...
>. It’s purpose was not tactical or military. It was a political purpose.

When people debate this issue, I find they tend to resort to a reductionist view of history and the players involved in order to justify their personal views of the US. The degree to which one is opposed to American cultural imperialism and military hegemony, or believes the US to be an evil state, tends to be the degree to which one believes the bombings had a nefarious purpose, or an ulterior motive. The whole thing has become a Rashomon style play of contradictory truths, except no one insisting on the order of events, motives or naming the culprit was actually there.

It seems more likely to me than not that the bombings didn't have only that one explicit purpose to the exclusion of the others, just as it seems unlikely to me that the bombings were either absolutely responsible or absolutely irrelevant to Japan's surrender.
I don't picture a dystopian future. I picture a post-scarcity future.

So I am all for these experiments but judging them based on whether people stay jobless is missing the point of UBI in such a fundamental way it's hard to understate that.
I'm talking about starting with about:blank, which would be the equivalent of writing HTML in an empty notepad/MS Frontpage window in the nostalgia years. Not starting from a heavyweight page.
Poland has an interesting example that could be used as UBI experiement. Recently introduced "500+" program pays 500PLN(~$130/£100) for every child after the first one(or all if the family has no other source of income).

Now, to you westerners $130/month might sound like nothing, but actually, with 3-4 children you are getting a regular salary for effectively doing nothing, without any extra conditions. And apart from the loss of the benefit for the 1st child if you get a job, nothing stops you from working and yet still collecting the benefit. It has improved the living conditions in Poland considerably, and families with children can now afford a lot more than they could previously. I personally know one company that lost a decent chunk of its staff to it - why work for you while I can get similar amount of money and stay at home? Of course the question of whether Poland can afford such a generous program is a different question altogether, but it cannot be denied that for many people this completely unconditional injection of cash is absolutely equivalent to UBI.
Well a web browser has to render it correctly, so yes? A screen reader is just another type of browser at this point.

These techniques work because some blockers only support a limited subset of what a full browser can do (namely block resource locations and specific HTML elements).
> It sounds like they're only suspending free accounts for adblockers.

Unfortunately, it is unclear from both the article and the revised terms whether this is the case.
Just use Laravel and its eco-system, it's just as easy or easier to setup than Flask and easily production ready. This is an old-take on PHP and no longer true in 2019.
What "sketchy tactics" are you referring to? Aside from an eminent domain seizure -- and these are quite rare -- there really isn't anything they can do to just "get" your building.
Please do not use code blocks for quotes. They are very hard to read on mobile.
Not the person you're responding to. That's between the clown and whoever is hosting the party. Not my problem. I'm just avoiding having the clown yell in my face, given that I also know that the clown is malicious and pulls pranks on people sometimes. Sure, I have the option of buying a card that I can show the clown that will make him go away, but I'd rather just leave instead. There are plenty of other parties out there.
Not only his site, but his comment history is also a gold mine too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11

He has helped countless people by giving great advice. I'd really suggest reading his "You Can Probably Stand To Charge More" posts. This should be essential reading for any contractors. This personally helped me double my income.

Read here:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/08/14/you-can-probably-stand-..., https://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/05/01/talking-about-money/, and https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...
Right, I really miss the good ol' days when business was all "Hey guy, I like you, here's some free stuff."
> you don't figure out what team you'd be working with until after you are hired

That sounds like hell. I need to meet the team I'll be working with before accepting an offer. It's the only way to know if they're competent, can communicate, and are not assholes.
ATT's statement:

> 5G Evolution and the 5GE indicator simply let customers know when their device is in an area where speeds up to twice as fast as standard LTE are available.

Ya, but customers don't know that. They think it's 5g. It's not 5g. This wouldn't have been an issue if there was help text/a tooltip in cellular settings with a disclaimer saying what 5ge is.
Spotify's customers could get some anonymous Spotify accounts and verify they are getting the expected number of ads? Or pay someone to do that for them.
I always think of Star Trek. It isn't really explored in depth but there isn't money and people don't have to work, transporter rationing is alluded to though.
I guess in a world where everything can be made in a replicator, 'employment' becomes untenable. You still need some way of rationing scarce resources, and allowing people to 'vote' for what they want more of though.
" I think the only way it can happen is if leadership demands it and is absolutely unrelenting. "

I should add that the leadership should do it themselves and lead by example. When we introduced Agile the developers were the only ones who went to training while management continued as usual so our Agile quickly devolved into micromanagement. Same for code reviews. It's very important that the more experienced devs closely follow agreed-on coding styles.
As long as the disbursal is direct (handled by the FR for example), and cuts out bloated gov. orgs.

As it pertains to other people, I see it as a floor that will hopefully help people unlock their potential by taking some of the pressure off the exchange of time for wages and focusing it on the meaning of work.

If people want to do nothing beyond their UBI income, that's fine - but I don't see this being a widespread phenomenon. It covers the basics, and we have a tendency to yearn for more.
They specifically say that it's not about the product itself but the concept of these on-page assistants.

> It’s mostly about intercom as a concept, rather than a specific implementation.
I think the idea of UBI as it is, makes it an easy target for comments that characterize people as "freeloaders" or trading "something" for "nothing".

The problem is that the UBI seems to be coming from the taxes that other people, which may be a good first iteration to try something out, but it will fail in scale.

I will assume that the aim of these experiments is to find a way to provide for an ever increasing number of people at a time that the number and the quality of jobs is dropping, largely being replaced by automated systems. Last year the governor of bank of England voiced concerns about the automation stripping out jobs which could "lead to a rise of marxism"[1].

I find the idea of a UB Dividend[2], or social dividend[3] instead something which would have more chances to succeed. The main idea behind it is that everyone will be entitled to a dividend which will be funded by private companies. So instead of having the Apples and Googles of the world sitting on a pile of cash, they could put a portion of their earnings in a fund which would then be given back to everyone to allow them to continue to purchase their products and services.

1: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mark-carney-...

2: https://medium.com/dark-mountain/universal-dividend-a988c31c...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_dividend
'How a smartphone saved my mother's life'
You can create a mess of code, open security holes, and/or be hit with ‘gotchas’ in any web framework

Yes, but the holes and gotchas are worse when they are baked into the language. The thing that Golang gets right, is that the developers are willing to eschew features to avoid gotchas. It's like other languages are sports cars with sexy lines and fancy features that everyone wants, but have to spend more time "in the shop." (An analogy for in the debugger.) Golang is more like a base model Toyota Corolla with a manual transmission.

Not sure what PHP is like. Maybe some sort of modder car. Like Perl and Ruby, PHP grew by readily adding features in response to demand. In that way, it's the opposite of Golang.

PHP is much less complex than most.

That depends on what level you're looking at. PHP is one of those languages that has a lot of complexity baked into it in the form of language design warts. In order to make it a nimble language, you have to ignore/eschew parts of it, and stick to some "good parts."
> They would not get as much telemetry, they also want all the data, it's not just the showing of an ad, it'c collecting everything the internet knows about the user and their pc. The problem is the tracking, collecting and resale of personal data. NOT simply viewing an ad! Ya dig?

As a user, I do not care one iota about advertisers who "want all the data." They can all die in an adblock-fueled fire and I won't shed a tear. Their position of "[we] want all [your] data" is a selfish unwillingness to compromise.

However, I'd be willing to compromise with advertisers who agree to live in a sandbox that blocks tracking (but only as long as the page doesn't get too ad-laden).
There has been much better experiments in the US using Alaska Permanent Fund and creating synthetic Alaska elsewhere in the US to compare against.

The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3118343

The study provides some interesting and insightful results:

>... we show suggestive evidence that tradable sectors experience employment reductions, while non-tradable sectors do not. Overall, our results suggest that a universal and permanent cash transfer does not significantly decrease aggregate employment.

It makes sense that jobs that can be moved elsewhere decrease a little, because people have more bargaining power.

It also makes sense, that there is no effect when jobs can't be exported. Employers just pay little more because UBI also creates demand.

People still like to buy stuff with all that UBI money. Someone has to work to make tings to sell. In large economic region–US or EU–the effect of UBI would have no noticeable effect to employment.
It's more correct to say you have experiences of perception. But those experiences are not always true (the tree you dream of seeing is imaginary), and thus it's possible to doubt them, and also create skeptical scenarios where you never truly perceive anything.

Arguably, Neo never actually perceived anything until he took the red pill and woke up.
Basically any multi-hull or deep keel boat should do fine.
mark zuckerberg, is that you?
Generic insulin is available at $25 per vial. Guess what? Nobody wants to use it because the next generation of insulins is better.
If you're looking for a tool that allows you to incorporate legitimate NLP approaches, you should have a look at `odin`. Here's a paper https://doi.org/10.1093/database/bay098 showing its usage in the medical domain.

And the code is open-sourced as part of the `processors` library out of the CLULab at the University of Arizona: https://github.com/clulab/processors

The most detailed (though not completely up-to-date) documentation is probably in the manual here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07513

I'm using it at my current job to build an analysis tool for customer-agent phone calls.

It allows you to build rules that match on different levels of abstraction: tokens, pos-tags, dependency paths. You can even match tokens based on word similarity (as measured by cosine similarity of word vectors).

And these rules can "cascade" (i.e. build off of each other). So you can find an entity or event in rule 1 and then look for how that interacts with another matched entity or event in a later rule.
Besides the job thing, there are a lot of UBI criticisms around the "dignity if work" and how UBI will make them unhappy, so I am glad this exists as a counterargument.
I never liked Spotify anyways!
I just stopped caring and accept that I have to die sometime. I have good A1C control, test regularly, and am very physically active. But thinking about it constantly just drives me nuts so I go about my life and if it's what kills me, so be it. And if in the (hopefully far) future my physical health is compromised to the point that I don't want to deal with it anymore, I'm at peace with that, too.
Amazon has it for cheap.

https://www.amazon.com/Night-Morphine/dp/B000046PUL
Deep learning is already able to find the ads even within video content, so the cat-and-mouse game is still on :)

Of course locking down the computer helps.
FYI that's a geo-restricted link. Here's an open version

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7905466/videoplayer/vi320285749...
This is like saying you cannot mute your TV when a commercial comes on. Actually it’s worse. It’s saying you cannot even look away.

It’s my TV / my phone / my screen. Me. MINE. If someone else emits some information they make freely available, that in no way entails they have any say whatsoever about what I permit to be visible on MY screen.
Turning five old printers to a paper airplane folding machine
You are missing 'political' gain. Parties that win through their activities on FB are very happy with it till they loose.
Are you talking about Messenger? That was a front-end issue, and they created React/flux to fix that.
I completely agree. I've been at jobs where I would be asked to explain a product or initiative and would go with documentation, only to be told that I "write too much" and to condense into slides. This was almost always due to managerial laziness in vetting decisions on the basis of "saving time", instead of doing the hard work of understanding a problem or opportunity as thoroughly as possible.

Then, when problems arise that were highlighted or predicted in the documentation, you can't just tell people "I told you so". But getting people to understand the flimsiness of slide presentations compared to documentation can be a slog.
100% true. Have written PLENTY of scrapers and methods like this are ultimately ineffective.

Even if you absolutely mangled the HTML/selectors/DOM/etc. I feel you could always have it process screenshots of the interfaces to rip text/figure out how to interact etc. If it's human readable, it's bot readable imo. (but in years of botting it's never came to this - I've always been able to figure out how to use the existing DOM/selectors to do my work even with anti-bot measures)
"The needs of the rest?"

You mean the needs of the wealthy whom can afford luxury condos?

The wealthy are not the rest. They are the few.

(The reason why NY, and SF always yack about condos is because the wealthy don't want to build apartments. Heavens forbid some sad sack gets rent-control?)
90% of diabetics are insured. If we stop selling to insurance and try to sell directly to these patients we would end up being more expensive than competitors and lose those customers. I mean you could argue that if they are paying their own insurence they could cancel and perhaps have a net saving on the insulin, but that seem very risky considering potential comorbidities of diabetes, and you’d lose all other coverage.
U6 unemployment numbers include workers who are employed part time but would prefer to be full time, and U6 is near all time lows.
I'm betting that "A lake so salty it makes boat float too much" might have been an interesting enough title
You're missing the key part of the story. Yes, Novo's price went up, but so did their rebates. The price of insulin (net price) has actually be increasing less than inflation.
> and they have far more human resources at their disposal

It was my honest opinion that this worked against India and China historically. More mouths to feed, more people to educate.
Does anyone have Soy Boy’s contact info? Would love to contact him for an interview.
The Peculiar Power of Plane Mechanic Simulator
Has there been any exploration of a version of Basic Income in exchange for community service?

There's a virtually endless amount of unskilled work that could be done to improve the environment and people's lives.
The largest entirely private fortune.

Individuals that are now or have been heads of state may have had opportunities to seize or otherwise employ state-owned property for their personal enrichment. Dictators over petroleum exporting nations are all likely richer than Bezos, in ways that we could never expect Forbes magazine to be able to verify, or even begin to investigate.

People whose wealth came mostly from publicly-traded stocks and real estate in nations with public records of title transfers can be more easily tracked and verified.
Laravel is not what it used to be either -- Laravel 5 is far more capable/usable than Rails or Django. It's ecosystem is vaster, much stronger community, better docs, faster -- pretty much every state it's better than it's competitors.

Not an end-all be-all, but worth noting: https://github.com/topics/framework
Uh huh. Please provide even a single example.

Keep in mind the standard you've gotta match or beat: a President elected in significant part by collaborating with a foreign adversary to undermine our elections, and in significant part by using a media outlet to cover up his scandals.

Said President is accused of using said media outlet to blackmail his enemies, going back at least years if not decades. One of those enemies, the richest man on Earth, also owns one of the most influential news organizations in the country.

While we don't know all the details, it appears that said President and said media company also have extensive relations with yet another country that just murdered a US-resident journalist in their own consulate in a NATO country. Said President and his family worked with this other country on, among other things, instituting a blockade of an allied country that has one of the largest US military bases in the region.

But please, I'm all ears. What have you got, that makes the above so mundane and unsurprising? I look forward to learning.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's true for parts of New York other than NYC. New York is a very high-tax and regulation-heavy state. NYC is a big enough draw to overcome that, but I don't think Buffalo is similarly attractive just because NYC is in the same state.
The experiment was probably staked with an agenda to show that UBI doesn't work, given the parties in the government and the massive bias in selecting the participants.

The sample of 2000 people were chosen from a group of unemployed people. I think the criteria for being randomly chosen was having been paid unemployment benefits during some range of dates.

So it's not representative of a real UBI at all: the point of UBI isn't to necessarily make things better for the unemployed but, rather, the large group of people who make very little money and barely get along.

Cashiers, cleaners, etc who can't live on their earnings, at least in big cities. Or self-employed one-person shops whose income stream is very choppy and who don't make much anyway. Real UBI would be universal so those who are working would get it too -- of course the UBI would increase your income and likely your tax percentage so it would mostly be taxed away from those who do earn a living.

The point of UBI is to cut down on bureucracy by removing various individual case-by-case subsidies (but bureaucrats would never vote for that) and make some base level of income predictable and reliable, mostly for people who make less than the lower middle class.
Insulin efficacy isn't really an issue until you are about 90+ F, anything below 90 and it will take long enough to breakdown the proteins that you would already be due to swap your infusion set (every 3 to 4 days). But being in Texas, you might exceed 90F at which point, yeah it could go bad really fast. Not a big deal though, just get a cooling wallet for your pump; FRIO seems to be the popular choice https://www.frioinsulincoolingcase.com/frio-pump-wallet.html
My parallel is that - horses are an ok way to propel a car - it works, but a gasoline engine is way, way better and convenient. Ads are the horses here

It is just about how you communicate with the buyer. For a mass market good, smarter people simply go to Alibaba.com and press ctrl+f these days, and about anything non-commodity people already know everything from subject matter websites.

Even on Alibaba itself, front page spots, and top line of search results are usually not human curated, and they cost surprisingly cheap.

Most traders there deject them outright. In consumer goods, they don't shy away to simply send few samples to paid reviewers (ones who do that openly) like Linus, NR, etc, and write honest, first hand articles about their own products in tech blogs.
Are you saying it's going to be too unbearably hot in Miami?