skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that was just "pay me for this service/good". Most businesses who ventured into "fuck you" territory would soon be out of business because disgruntled customers opens up opportunities for competition to rise.

Sadly, you don't have that anymore with today's economy-of-scale effects.
you can't raise property taxes for just one property. An appraisal could target a particular property, but fraudulently raising the appraisal value would be illegal.
I didn't mean to suggest that no regulation was the superior option - just that the market isn't efficient because it can't be operated efficiently. The limitations on distribution of spectrum makes it an inherently inefficient market. Unlike with another natural resource like say, tree pulp or oil, I can't just import some cell service if I don't like your prices, that's why I call this a government enforced monopoly. If government decide to distribute an immovable resource in a way unfriendly to competition it results in a broken market.

Patents and copyrights are an intentional breaking of this market to encourage innovation - explicitly with the intention of creating a temporary monopoly. One can hope that government doesn't go out with the goal of creating a monopoly on cell service.
My rule: no index, no sale.

If the author didn't care enough to generate an index, what else did they not care enough about?

A surprising number of books, especially "pop sci" books, don't include an index.
1. Use an alternative like Deezer.
It's different, but not bad once you establish yourself... really helps to have a network. Speaking of which.. if you're nearby come join us and say hello! [link redacted]
>I don't know if the bombings were morally right or wrong and can see the argument both ways. But from at least one drafted soldier's perspective they were a good thing.

Soldiers volunteer to fight a war, civilians don't. If the Japanese had bombed LA, we wouldn't be having this conversation, every American would understand why this was morally wrong.
That is disappointing. Thanks for the link.
I think corporations are going to have to learn a lot from Open Source practises - Agile is probably the first in road that "code" is making into the corporate world despite its mutated appearance

One of them is discussion over email (ie persuasive long form writing, combined with data driven evidence)

The other is of course ... voting
> Infuse the the aggregate market in an area with X dollars

UBI (designed sanely) doesn't involve any net infusion of dollars (which would require government borrowing or printing money to distribute), it is paid for from tax revenues; it's a downstream redistribution, not an infusion.
You're being watched. Some of these tools (in the merchant's UI) have a list of users browsing the website with an option to show in real-time what you're doing, what page you're viewing, typing, and how you're moving your mouse cursor.

They'd probably show your webcam and mic feed, if they could without being obvious, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_th...
How are you calculating that Arms represent 5% of UK exports?
> I don't know a single diabetic who cares about injections and blood sugar tests. You get used to that within the first week of diagnosis.

Tell that to my wife who has had diabetes for 4 years.
I'm not sure I'd call it a "general misunderstanding", because people seem to have very different thoughts on what UBI is or should be for.

I generally align with your view, but I'm not convinced our definition is more "correct" than others. It would be nice to get the terminology straightened out.
Right. And the insulin injections allow them to continue their lifestyle of eating too much and exercising too little. Their body is literally rejecting food and that's the problem insulin solves. It does not solve the root issue.

If you spend a lot of time around diabetics you'll met many people who have lost appendages and continue to live an morbidly unhealthy lifestyle.
Neurons that fire together, wire together… Ok, but how?
Restaurants that try it generally have two characteristics. They're trendy for being politically novel, and they flame out. Let's see how they're doing in five years and if other restaurants are forced to adopt their model to compete for talent.
“irrational actor“

The only irrational actor in economics is “homo economicus” itself.

She is being perfectly rational. She likes the place, and the memories she forged there.

Besides, a few million is a joke. Only a fool would sell cherished memories for mere millions! Millions that aren’t going away if she doesn’t sell.

You sell because you need to. Because you’re moving on. Not to please the NYT wrote an editorial
Sparkling Dialogue: A Masterclass
Zero-Knowledge Proofs and ZCash Simply Explained
It is known that paywalled articles are less read, and less cited, than open-access articles. See e.g. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/home/open-access-papers...

Sadly, this is much less important to researchers than the name of the journal that they publish in.
The Nazis loved blue-sky wonder weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_163_Komet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikabomber
The Tinder algorithm, explained
This is a weird title. The article says that the people on basic income were equally likely to find a job as those who were not receiving it. I was expecting that basic income might make people less motivated to find jobs, and that would have been an issue. But this result seems like a positive outcome for UBI.
This title misrepresents the outcome. A better headline would have been:

> Finland basic income trial improved happiness but not employment

It’s unfortunate the BBC chose that quote, as it misrepresents the outcome of the trial as _creating_ joblessness, rather than failing to _alter_ joblessness.
I bought 15 houses in 2009. Still own them. Have collected more in rents than I paid for the houses.
> You could make more difference for "regular" folks if e.g. you added mixed-income restrictions on the new property, but by default the market doesn't work that way.

Research [1] shows that these types of restrictions lead to the exact opposite: A shrinking supply of affordable housing and rapidly rising property prices.

[1] http://smartgrowth.umd.edu/assets/documents/research/knaapbe...
I think there's a lot of confusion/ignorance with Type 1 and Type 2 and most people just lump them both under the same diabetes umbrella. Diet and exercise will never be enough for Type 1's since the disease is an autoimmune disorder where the pancreas is attacked to the point where it makes little or no insulin (thus the need for external insulin). Type 2, as I understand it, is a progressive disease where the cell's insulin receptors become nonreceptive. I think, in some cases, though, Type 2's can become Type 1's due to their pancreas being overworked to the point where they need insulin. And on the flip side, Type 1's can become Type 2's as a result of eating poorly and overusing insulin. But I wish each disease had it's own name to avoid confusion over how each one should be treated.
Funnily enough, there was a procedural text generation system in Cambridge (Phoenix) back in the day called... RANT.

There was also one called TOAD which was more venerable and popular. Anyone posting word salad was inevitably accused of using TOAD’s output.
If I worked at Facebook and was evil, I'd put some text in that span that caused catastrophic backtracking :)
UBI shouldn't replace Social Security, since SS is not a means-tested benefit program.
So it's a roughly gömböc-shaped capsule, then?
Isn't that true of any medical profession.. and pretty much 90% of all professions? Besides, I think dentists deserve vastly more respect.. especially the ones that check for mouth diseases and precursors to cancer.
Spotify having to raise prices to pay for freeloaders would harm other people, too. This isn’t like copying software where the maker has no direct loss – everyone using Spotify costs them money in bandwidth, servers, and especially playback royalties. That might not be huge but it’s definitely more than zero.
Well build over Central Park or whatever other irrational allocation of land you cherish.
A trick I use to "read" books much faster is to feed them through Google's TTS but set a much higher than normal read speed. I call it robotting a book.

It takes some getting used to and requires more focus but it's very efficient in terms of information dump. I've been able to increase the speed over time. My wife thinks I'm crazy. I use headphones.
This reminds me of an unrelated C program called "rant" from 30+ years ago:

https://grack.com/code/legacy/rant/rant.c
Bandcamp is my favorite service precisely because they include FLAC downloads.
Yeah, I've done a good bit of therapy (which I never found effective) and I'm on a cocktail of meds (which are remarkably effective, but they can only do so much). Anxiety's effect on my life has been drastically reduced over the years, but there are some areas where it's still quite bad; this is one of them.
Does offering to contribute to someone's education sound to anyone else like they're criticising his current level of education? Seems like an insult?

Like 'we'll pay for you to get a better education so next time you'll know how to speak to us correctly.'

Why don't they just give him cash compensation if they want to apologise?
I do think these are some good guidelines that are definitely worth at least considering if you're struggling with choice. One other method I've used to great effect is to read books that I see cited at least 3 times in 3 different places. So if I'm interested in or researching a topic and I see a book or work cited (or recommended) by multiple independent sources, I'll add it to my list. It really helps me find a lot of non-fiction/research-based works with generic titles that I may not come across otherwise.

Obviously, YMMV. This can lead to issues (for example, ideological hegemony in a lot of the fields I'm researching in) and it's by no means the only method I use to pick works. But it has been really helpful for me!
I don't think at all that a two year study with a tiny subset of a populace would be adequate to produce the desired effect, and I don't think framing it as "find jobs" is sensible either.

But a lot of the UBI movement likes to think that if given a long-term guarantee on a society-wide basis after a "vacation" period where people adjust to having the bottom rung of the hierarchy of needs guaranteed they would pursue higher actualization and often greater economic benefit to the society by doing so.

Its the difference between why a lottery winner will splurge it all in excess and vice and wind up bankrupt again while a hereditary millionaire can live a productive managerial life on top of a corporate hierarchy. The former lived without, had fortunes rain upon them, and treated it like evaporating water to be drowned in. The later had from birth, never went without, and thus never had to fear being without. They didn't know the scarcity or struggle and thus didn't overdose on excess since they always had it.

The opposites also happen. Lottery winners sometimes stay responsible with the money. Rich kids blow their family fortunes and end up destitute. But the disparity between them is the divide between the fleeting sensation of plenty and being immersed in it in perpetuity.

So for UBI advocates, the idea is that immersion in a basic standard of living would enable the masses to behave much like how the billionaire playboy philanthropist does on a smaller scale - learn more, expand your horizons, take more risks, and pursue your passions. If you don't feel like you could ever lose the basics, and everyone has them likewise, nobody is in a struggle to survive that breeds animal instinct anti-rational behavior like payday loans or buying lottery tickets. If you are instead struggling for splendor and prestige rather than food and shelter you have a lot more room to grow as a person, and for those that do they will be much more valuable to society as innovators than burger flippers.
It would be ace if there was a way to get older stories. I am resorting to reader view generally.
Ask HN: What are you using for collaborative calls?
What are you using for collaborative calls - audio, video, screen sharing - these days? Anything you're excited about?

I've been paying for Zoom for a while, Google Meet eats up all cores (even when not sharing), Appear.in is OK, let's not talk about Hangouts/GoToMeeting/Skype. Also, I still miss Screenhero :'(.

I was excited about Google Meet because it's quite simplified, allows for calling in for certain situations and for non-technical users. However... it's only available in Google Suite and is borderline unusable if you're sharing your screen while using a beefy app (i.e. Sketch).

Wishlist would be:

* Browser and native clients

* Group calling

* Efficient screen-sharing

* Ability to dial-in or call out

* Graceful support for low-end connections
It would be a sensation if that worked! Just because a guy in a suit says so doesn't make it any truer. Please stop peddling pseudoscience.
I run an old collaborative writing (roleplaying) forum populated mostly by teens that's paid for by a banner ad.

When I read HN comments about ads, I see people who are forgetting what ads have actually gotten us: more people able to create more things that are available to everyone for free.

HNers like to say "well, then adapt your business model," but look at the incredibly friction that exists for getting people to take their wallet out. On the frontpage of HN as we speak, there's an entire thread of people who justify why they won't even pay Spotify $10/mo. Where does that leave the rest of us who offer something much, much less than a ubiquitous, unlimited music-streaming platform?

Let's be more concrete and look at the forum that I run. I grew up on roleplaying MUD servers and forums, and it helped me develop the passion and habit for writing early on in my life. I started a forum as a teen to continue the interest, and eventually it was popular enough for ads to pay my rent through uni while running a community for young writers.

These days, my banner ad barely breaks even with server costs. It now makes less than 1/15th of what it did at the peak of its ad revenue with about the same traffic.

I'm left with a decision: can I afford to run the site as a charity?

How would the HN champion of "adapt or die" address my scenario? Ads are a middle ground between being a charity and paywalling your website, and the vast majority of websites don't fall at either extreme. Suggesting that this massive chunk on the internet doesn't deserve to exist, like my forum that gets teens into writing, seems incredibly extreme.

The writing is on the wall, though. Just seems like a damn shame.
> What's fascinating to me is the length people go to in order to justify freeloading.

I agree. For the past two decades, companies have privatized immense swaths of the digital commons and paid nothing for it, freeloading on the work of the countless public institutions and hobbyists who both created it, and created the culture which attracted billions of "users" to it.

With Spotify it is even worse. They have taken music, a prehistoric participatory artform and characteristic behavior of our species, and are trying to gamify it into a product that is no longer just music and which they own.

For the record I am a musician, and I'm pleasantly well-off so I have a paid Spotify subscription though I rarely use it. I held out until mid-2018, and didn't listen to even a single track on the service before then. Not that there is the slightest moral issue with using an adblocker while consuming broadcasts that contain ads, which I also do.
Sidebar: in the two hours since I posted my comment above, Jayapal has announced her first town hall event of 2019. Seattleites should come and ask her questions about Medicare for All. https://twitter.com/RepJayapal/status/1093942183495905280
quote: Included in the random sampling were all individuals between ages 25 and 58 whom Kela paid labour market subsidy or basic unemployment allowance in November 2016 for some other reason than a temporary layoff. Random sampling means that all who satisfied the requirements for inclusion in the experiment had an equal probability of being selected into the study population.

so the group who received the subsidy was already skewed by a previous selection process.

I don't see any mention of a control group in the experiment web site:

[0] https://www.kela.fi/web/en/basic-income-objectives-and-imple...
That’s why leadership has to lead by example and not just tell people to write well.
Well it worked on me and I'm usually wary of consumer-facing subscription services.

I heard about Spotify through a musically-minded, but not technical, friend. I joined because of their insistence that it was a good service 3+ years ago.

Today, they complain about the desktop client and ads. I no longer use Spotify.
Sure, a massive influx of newly minted money will cause inflation. That's a given. But it's not sustainable and clearly not a sensible way to implement this policy. If we instead took this money from other taxes most likely there'd be some inflation, but not enough to make the money useless. Finally, I know 1m was a hyperbole but basic income doesn't need to guarantee you can live comfortably anywhere without working, only somewhere. Downtown SF? Nope. Most of CA? Still probably too expensive. Midwest? Now we're talking.
Seriously asking. Is it possible to use your basic income to get a loan?

I just envision people buying all sorts of things without understanding what they're signing up for.

And from a U.S. perspective, I don't trust a system filled with rent-to-owns, payday lenders, and car dealer/financers stopping anyone from making bad choices.
Microsoft security chief: IE is not a browser, it's a “compatibility solution”
The material is an antiferromagnet so there's not net magnetic moment and thus you don't have a magnetization to switch. This is not a material that will find applications in hard drives, motors or anything else that requires a magnetization.

The headline is technically correct, as anything with magnetic order is a magnet, but colloquially we understand magnets as something that can stick to some metals, which requires the magnet to be of ferro/ferrimagnetic order.

This system (USb2) is antiferromagnetic at low temperatures too, so it's not the best choice for applications right off the bat. It's a result that will be of interest mostly to theoreticians of magnetism and low temperature physicists, not so much for the engineers and other scientists with an eye for the applied stuff.
Javascript gets begrudging respect from me because of node. I can see the appeal, you can take existing JS developers from 'wherever' that have good fundamentals and crosstrain to be able to do backend and frontend stuff. It's also got a lot of good builtin bits that older languages don't have natively. On top of this you could theoretically go full serverless with S3, API-Gateway, Lambda.

I wouldn't choose to do that greenfield (python backend all the way, webassemblywhen?) but that's usually not my call.

Really, whatever you use, I just care that you can hire for it (sorry Erlang) and that it's not Java (because, as someone who works in Operations and Security land, fuck Java and fuck Oracle).
This looks amazing thanks! Is there any chance of a vs code port happening? Turns out I thought my current solution was nice but is actually a janky experience compared to this
Btw: Sanskrit is originally defined with similar-to-Backus-Naus-form rules.

From "Backus–Naur form" wikipedia:

The idea of describing the structure of language using rewriting rules can be traced back to at least the work of Pāṇini (ancient Indian Sanskrit grammarian and a revered scholar in Hinduism who lived sometime between the 7th and 4th century BCE). His notation to describe Sanskrit word structure notation is equivalent in power to that of Backus and has many similar properties.
Problem: Pufferfish meat is delicious but it can kill you.

Japanese solution: we will employ the finest of artisans who have practiced for five years to exactly remove the poisonous parts of the pufferfish. As these artisans are specially-trained, we will also charge you at a most exquisite price.

Chinese solution: we will just breed out the poison.
Apart from the state/city taxes, there’s little difference in NYC and Seattle any more. My rent has barely moved in the last three years; my friends in Seattle are complaining about ridiculous rent increases. I visited a year ago and did not see a massive difference in prices for every day goods and services. Unsure about housing market though.
No, but when real 5G comes out, they won't care because they think that they've already seen 5G and it's not that good.
Fair enough. I'm in the US, but my tastes are pretty basic.
It's called a subscription and even with that local newspapers were filled with pages of color soaked ads. Dark patterns existed before your generation..
Inconsistency as a feature
Linaria – Zero-Runtime CSS-In-JS Library
It sounded to me like they're offering to contribute to an already-existing college fund or start one.
So a College fund or a Scholarship is an insult?
There are companies with heavy non-native English speaking populations, for whom it be a greater cognitive load to constrain themselves to prose, whereas they might be good at explaining things pictorially interpersed with terse text.

Sometimes distillation and condensation can lead to more precise thinking too.

Western civilization has a bias toward the written, which has helped us produce analytical thinkers ("Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." - Francis Bacon). We tend to value precision in verbal expression and argumentation (disputation) as means of arriving at knowledge.

But I think we need to recognize that other cultures have other preferences that may be just as effective. From what I've observed, Japanese culture has a preference for the pictorial (Kanban is one such example) and it's amazing how much much they've achieved along those lines. I've worked with Japanese folks and their docs and slides tend to be diagram heavy (often beautifully so). Japanese product manuals also reflect their visual culture.
Not contradicting you directly -- but many small businesses also value the personal impressions and trust a lot more, and many of them have been burned by those sweatshops.

I think the tide is gradually turning and many small business owners would prefer to buy you a dinner and have a good chat with you and if they like you then they'll give you business, albeit small (though you can do 10 of these without much trouble if you optimize your own process).

There is a market niche for practical no-BS small website builders these days, IMO.