skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, at a failed onsite I was asked to design some visual component with as few DOM elements as possible.
I've never used this phrase in my entire life but it seems absolutely perfect for the described scenario. Sorry not sorry.

I personally chose not to use Spotify at all, but I'm not going to fault anyone for using it with a thrid-party blocker. Even if Spotify didn't also do advertising the right way (e.g. branded playlists (I believe paying users get those too)), no one is obligated to subject themselves to personal harm, even if someone is dumb enough to expose people to that risk as a subsidy for their service, no matter how useful the service is.
Because they are.

But that doesn't stop making them a service.

Listen, if you could figure out how to charge even 40% yearly interest on a $100 one week loan (i.e. you'll make $0.7 gross) then you should do it and offer a better service.

Restricting people from accessing the service because you read some outrage entertainment (the news) is not good. To be clear, that is what this law did.

It's like lottery. It's basically a tax on the poor. I hate it. But if it was overly regulated, we'd see the numbers racket come up again. And personally, I prefer regulated markets over black markets.

And to be clear; I think lottery should be further regulated by limiting advertising, and even creating an opt out system for problem gamblers. But if a legislation was passed that had those elements WITH elements that would drive the industry underground, I'd 100% be against it.
CDA 230?
Ha! No.

The objectivity of the foresaid practice and diagnoses is missing to begin with.

Junk science does not require objective proof to be unsubstantiated when it’s own lack of objectivity falls short, as evidenced in it’s process.

This is a critique of process.

These results were not substantiated to begin with, but merely institutionalized.

Science is not a game of institutionalizing.
Because they offer it? They are giving public access to music and ads, choosing to only accept their offer of downloading the music (given that the ads are annoying and may contain malware) is only making use of part of what they offer. Their business model is their own business. Mine is making sure my computer stays secure and that I'm not bothered by annoying interruptions.

Not that I have ever used Spotify, but that would be how I would defend it. If I did, I would just move on since my account would soon be suspended.

So how does Spotify defend running potentially malicious ads from 3rd party providers on end-user systems? Do they even vet those ads? Are they even aware of what code will be running on users computers that they are serving via the ad frameworks?
> “The Amazon transaction was probably the greatest economic transaction in 50 years in this state,” Cuomo said in a recent radio interview. “We don’t get a business to come with 25,000 jobs anymore. I spend hours and days trying to get 100 jobs, 200 jobs.”

This sounds like a severe waste of his time.
There's a reason why they have to pay people $300k+. Money talks.
> Contrary to popular belief, ads can be delivered without arbitrary code execution.

What popular belief is this? The ready counterexample is the delivery of an ad to a vaccuum-tube TV in 1950.
I would have written it off as conspiracy theory nonsense myself, were it not for Trumps attack tweets a few weeks ago. While I don't think any US intelligence agencies are involved, it's absolutely possible that some foreign partners are providing "voluntary assistance" in the matter.
I interviewed at FB recently (didn't pass the in-person) and the one question I asked each interviewer was "tell me about the parts of FB I don't see" - because they have an odd hiring process where you don't figure out what team you'd be working with until after you are hired...and I had no interest in pushing Ads, but understood that wouldn't be a great pitch from my side.

Turns out there is a LOT about ads at FB. Not everything, but a lot. Particularly in the Seattle office.

I was surprised I hadn't passed the interview (thought I did well), but in retrospect I'm glad. Whether that's sour grapes on my part, the fact the news has been full of reasons to be glad not to work at FB, or that I was very concerned that anything I did would end up pushing ads is something I can't be 100% certain of.
Got the same effect by unfollowing all of my contacts.
> How is it possible to pull this much money out of the American economy without crashing it?

The money isn't pulled out, though. It is redistributed to people, many of whom will immediately spend it, and others will invest it in various (hopefully efficient) ways.

> Why would a national government do this?

The problem of entry and exit. Say one state like Massachusetts implemented a UBI. Then we could expect many people to move to MA from surrounding states, or do whatever they can to have a legal address there. However I think there are possible solutions to this and a state-by-state implementation is actually possible. For example, Alaska has their dividend program and I think the results from that have been quite good.

> I don't think we need to be paying anyone who makes over 50k

I think I agree which is why I'm more in favor of a negative income tax or other means-tested system than true UBI. But if I were to argue in favor of an "everyone gets the same" program I'd say something like, implementation is somewhat less complicated, or it's easier to explain to the public.
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The spam comment on that post is entertaining.
My message to my younger self re: high school would be to ignore all of the "advanced"/"college-track" classes and take all of the shop, welding, automotive repair, and drafting classes.

There's a host of skills I'd love to have now, don't have the time/energy to learn now, and could have acquired very easily in my rural high school, instead of taking a calculus class I'd already learned on my own the year before, because it was the highest-level math class offered and the one that all the "smart" people were taking.
Depends on what you're trusting them to do.

Here's my personal ranking:

When it comes to "I trust the government not to send a bunch of thugs to kick down my door and shoot my dog for no good reason" I personally rank them local > state > federal

For "I trust the government to spend my money wisely" it goes state > federal > local

For "I trust the government not to pass legislation that makes my life worse" it goes federal > local > state.

My local government is inept, corrupt and burns money like a German housewife in 1923 (A 100ft ladder truck when the tallest building is 3-stories, a boondoggle of a new highschool, a town run pet cemetery for Christ sake!!!) but mostly harmless.

My state government is hell bent on screwing over certain classes of people and passing laws that annoy everyone for political virtue points (and it is a 1-party state so there's no stopping them) but they mostly spend their money wisely.

The feds wrongly harm a lot of people (some violently, some not so violently) and aren't all that great with money but they're too gridlocked to enshrine any real stupidity in law.
One of my first thoughts when I saw this was about screen readers. If searching "Sponsored" in Chrome doesn't match the posts, I'd wager screen readers would just go ahead and try to pronounce all the extra 'S's.
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That sounds exactly like my current job. :(
All right, what if the only way you can get the homeless person to leave is to murder him and then remove the body? Do your real estate rights give you the right to do that? Because, bluntly, that's the way abortion (almost always) works - you kill the fetus and then remove it, or at least kill it in the process of removing it.
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I find the narrative of the article focussing on "how it failed" and only one condition. "Did it increase employement"
Of course this is what some might have expected from it, but the researcher itself not. Which is only included as a very last line.
CNN does a decent job as well:

https://lite.cnn.io/en
A dentist's parents are usually proud of them.

"What are you doing at work these days, kid?"

"I'm inventing new ways to make people see advertising."

"Have you considered doing something positive with your life?"
The only spam in my Twitter feed is “people you follow also follow.” I’ve been doing a lot of blocking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8
Unfortunately, Spotify has reached a point where there's a potential (possibly even real, but I'm not in any position to know) higher return in monetizing existing users over improving the experience in order to gain new users or make sure they keep whatever miniscule number of users who'd otherwise leave over a lack of updates and improvements (or even a gradual loss of 'minor' features). Spotify is good enough for a vast majority, such that they just won't leave. Then there are other factors like network effects and the power of the default that are far more effective (if your friends are on it, you're much more likely to stay) in keeping users captured to their platform.
It can never be time unlimited. Laws can change and will change eventually. Any reasoning about UBI for life is flawed.
I tried this with my office lamps and saw the flickering so I bought the Philips bulbs you linked to. They just arrived and I filmed them but they also show the flickering when filmed on an iPhone in slow-mo mode.

Do I need to buy a specific model of Philips bulbs? Or is my Ikea lamp the culprit now? I paid a ton of money for a certified flicker free monitor so I'm very keen on making sure the lamps are flicker free as well.
This is bad economics.

Jobs are literally necessary for our society to function.

If everyone was jobless but 'happy', they wouldn't be happy when the food runs out. Or houses start to get old. Or iphones stop being built and websites are taken offline.

Economics are more important than a single individuals happiness, its our survival.

EDIT: Don't shoot the messenger. Fun ideas are not reality.
Pick your poison. Although there are many examples of corruption and human rights violations in the US, compared to China US-citizens have significantly more leverage over their government and arguably more power to push back on this kind of surveillance.

A good example of this is Google encrypting network traffic between servers after the Snowden stuff was made public.
https://gmail.googleblog.com/2014/03/staying-at-forefront-of...
> "...especially WordPress deployments."

I've done enough WP to certainly agree with you. However, I don't think it's fair to judge PHP by how WP has abused it.

WP problem is its desire to sacrifice code quality and best practices for market share. That is, many things don't get refactored (into something OOP based) because there might be backwards compatibility issues. Again, this isn't PHP's fault.
I know that the value we place on things varies, but it amazes me that people are willing to have ads play during a family dinner rather than pay $5/month. That single dinner probably cost two to three times that amount.
That would make more sense if we had a more preventative healthcare system. We have a mostly reactive one unfortunately.
> I guess artists could opt out if they thought their licensing slice was too small, but that's effectively career suicide. Just look at Prince.

What do you mean? Prince only took his music off spotify for about a year before he died. Was there a very obvious effect on his career in this time?
can you elaborate? TCP is also a known malware vector.
Quarterly in the UK had to attend twice a month and agree to spend x hours day on job search and apply for y jobs every week.

This is where indeed comes In handy need to prove you have applied for y jobs just us indeed to make up the numbers
Parts of it certainly, but I am not sure about the "disclosed or communicated" part.
Almost absurd literary math puzzle
What is the probability that someone is an only son of an only son of an only son?
> It's a pretty poorly written article to be honest. I don't see how the author clubs in "authoritative" parenting style under "helicopter parenting" because it is pretty much the opposite.

I struggled to follow it. I thought it was just me :-)
Is diabetes curable with gene therapy? I'm surprised we can cure hemophilia with gene therapy but not diabetes. Is it impossible to get your pancreas to create insulin naturally because it's missing something vital?

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-th...
I built my personal website using Google Docs. https://navchatterji.com/. This was a fun weekend experiment where the aim was to build a quick, usable website (in this case a blog) and host it without having to type in a single line of HTML/CSS or terminal command. The instructions on how I made it is near the bottom.
I was expecting to find a reference in the comments to Baba https://github.com/Lokaltog/baba-core#readme and its [in]famous example https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net
Ethics aside, this actually sounds kind of fun to me. It's the kind of clever puzzle solving many of us love about programming - it's basically a cat and mouse game.
I can't disagree with this.

Unless I am inspired, I will not work for free.

I imagine the opposite would be true for myself, and I consider myself a hard worker.
That would be solved by ai/automation, which they reason why basic income is needed in the first place.
Breakthrough like this needs to be designed so that people can afford it. It just becomes burdensome (and depressing) for people who may need it and find the cost out of reach.

On the other hand, given that treating diabetes is more costly to the society in general (although more profitable for the pharma companies), shouldn't there be more research to ensure people don't get into the trap of becoming diabetic? One reason people become Type 2 diabetic is that they are completely unaware that their lifestyle and food they are eating are slowly creeping in to make them suffer with this disease. Healthy people only know about them becoming diabetic because the cycle to get your blood sugar measured (A1C Hemoglobin) is too far in between (annual checkups). If a person is more aware of his/her blood sugar levels at shorter intervals, then a proactive approach can be made so that the person can do changes that will help prevent diabetes.
Probably they did the math and found that that feature wasn't delivering enough value or cost too much to maintain.

In comparison, Release Radar is an easy win; all the ML is already there.
The solution to student loans is to create an account on your site?
> Authorities haven’t done a good job of articulating why privacy is an antitrust issue. Here, the German regulator makes it clear. ‘The FCO’s theory is that Facebook’s dominance is what allows it to impose on users contractual terms that require them to allow Facebook to track them all over,’ Khan says. ‘When there is a lack of competition, users accepting terms of service are often not truly consenting. The consent is a fiction.‘

Huh, a legal theory linking Facebook’s market position to consumer harm.
Do you have a source of these estimates for me to learn?

A lot of people kept saying it is very expensive but they did not factor in that UBI replaces all current social welfare programs we have with a single program. When you compare both, it is not that expensive.

For an example, Social Security alone is ~5% of current GDP and ~4% for Medicare. [1]

> Expressed as a share of GDP, program costs equaled 4.9 percent of GDP in 2017, and the Trustees project these costs will increase to 6.1 percent of GDP by 2038, decline to 5.9 percent of GDP by 2052, and thereafter rise slowly, reaching 6.1 percent by 2092.

> Social Security’s annual cost as a percentage of GDP is projected to increase from 4.9 percent in 2018 to about 6.1 percent by 2038, then decline to 5.9 percent by 2052 before generally rising to 6.1 percent of GDP by 2092. Under the intermediate assumptions, Medicare cost rises from 3.7 percent of GDP in 2018 to 5.6 percent of GDP by 2035 due mainly to the growth in the number of beneficiaries, and then increases further to 6.2 percent by 2092.

[1]:https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/index.html

That's just two walfare programs alone; there are others like SNAP, unemployment, etc.
India's dreaded Angel tax is killing Startups
Indian Tax Authorities are treating angel investments into startups as income under a money laundering provision and are penalising startups.

https://pn.ispirt.in/angel-tax-in-india%E2%80%8A-%E2%80%8Ademystified-and-explained/

This is nothing but tax terrorism at work. Today a startup - Travelkhana had its account seized and money emptied by authorities.

https://inc42.com/features/the-curse-of-angel-tax-travelkhana-left-with-zero-money-after-cbdt-seizes-inr-33-lakh-freezes-accounts/

#shutdownindia is trending on twitter. More than 2000 startups have been served notices under the provision. Startups who are the only hope for job generation in India are reeling under AngelTax.

We request startup community around the world to show solidarity with Indian brethren at this juncture. Say no to Tax Terrorism. Govt needs to act. #SaveStartupIndia
If you don't want to "subject yourself to personal harm" you can either not use the service or pay for the ad-free service.

You don't have a right to use Spotify how you want.

It's an online service, not a piece of personal property.
The did. and the result showed that their employment chances were 'no more likely to do so than a control group of people who weren't given the money.'

What they didn't do (although some wanted them to), is also check the system on already employed people and checked if that changed their likelihood of staying in a bad job/finding a better job or anything like that.

Because that's the real idea behind basic income. not just giving it to the unemployed, but to everyone, with the hope that it would encourage people to find jobs better suited to them, and to allow people to take bigger risks.
> Additionally, it's not really shared ownership that causes problems; it's the fact that references (and pointers) make it possible to violate ownership semantics.

Shared ownership makes it much harder to reason about lifetimes, increasing the chance of mistakes.

> shared ownership via shared_ptr is safer than unique_ptr, from a UAF point of view.

Only if the dereferencing code holds the shared_ptr. It's also common to pass non-owning pointers to objects held by shared_ptr.

> When people use the delete operator manually and mess up, do they usually delete objects too early or too late?

As you pointed out, problems arise if objects are deleted too early or twice. Double free is common in C and can be exploited as well...
Most of these companies aren't ever "tested". It's pure luck that we ever find out they're violating our privacy. There's no transparency in a cloud app.
Machine learning explained on how to perform linear classification with TF
Machine learning explained on fritz hearbeat. A great article to start machine learning with TensorFlow and Dense Neural Networks.
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https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/classification-with-tensorflow-and-dense-neural-networks-8299327a818a
Finland's 'free cash' experiment fails to boost employment
I third the FastClix. My biggest problem is that they charge about 10x the cost of the cheap lancets. I also reuse them to keep the cost down.
This would make an interesting blog post, if you have time to write up the design.
Yes, I didn’t mean to an oscilloscope, I meant to a Homo sapiens.
Best Bet for Tech Stocks in 2019? Secular IaaS
I'm sure the field has its own jargon and that's fine, but for a lay audience it seems like "persuasive" or "rationally supportive" or "educating" would be more clear than "authoritative".
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Spotify-Free...

Literally this service delivered malware in 2016. You are permitting spotify to distribute adverstising malware.
They already do this, there are constant interruptions for 30-second audio ads. Currently, you can turn the audio down, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do something akin to the black mirror episode "fifteen million merits" where you have to look at/listen to the ads for them to go away.

The main gripe is using adsense which can still often be used to deliver malware.
The drums especially are distorted. Bass is non-existent.
At the same same time you are stealing a service if you don’t accept either of their revenue proposals when taking advantage of it. If you don’t want ads, then you need to pay in some form. Spotify is not a charity.
> I do not think the divisions so sharp.

Yeah, I agree and see where they're coming from, just wasn't sure if both RLs and GAs had been generalized into the same framework. Generalized to diff eqs is interesting.
> Its called a life, and work is not the goal of it.

This type of thinking needs to stop.

You don't get to enjoy our lavish society without contributing.

If you want food and a shack, you can already live this lifestyle for less than 5k/yr.

Hanging out with your family, playing sports, and helping animals will not keep an economy moving.
> I don't have any evidence to support it, I just feel like it would be easy to reduce global emissions in a short space of time as we already have the technology.

Unfortunately, none of our feelings are going to be helpful when we pass tipping points that cause the effects to compound on each other. We've already started that process—melting arctic ice means that the ocean there absorbs massive amounts more heat, rather than it reflecting off the surface of the ice.

By the time it's obvious enough that even deniers might believe in it—that is, by the time we have sea levels rising enough to start to drown coastal cities, and formerly fertile places start to become genuine deserts—it will be much, much too late to just "reduce global emissions in a short space of time" or "just change people's habits."

If it were possible to have zero emissions tomorrow, it would still take many years for the climate to return to what we consider "normal"—and some parts might not be able to do so at all, as weather patterns have already begun to change enough that they might not return to a previous equilibrium, but find a new one that shifts moisture or heat from one region to another to the great detriment of both (at least for a few generations).

And zero emissions isn't something we're going to be able to get to this century. Not unless the political situation changes hugely worldwide.

So...we're in trouble. Not "we will be". We are. Now. And it's going to get a lot worse. It is possible to make things better, but it will take massive shifts in patterns of consumption, and probably won't happen until we've seen several parts of the world devastated by famine and war.
I'm willing to bet that your musician friends wouldn't be getting much of a payout if Spotify didn't exist either.

The actually popular artists make great money from Spotify.
Most of the discussion here is making this far too one-sided.

I reserve the right to control how content is delivered to my devices by blocking ads, and spotify reserves the right to block my account for doing so. Both of those practices are completely fair in my opinion. I have no problem with this (also I pay for spotify)
A surprisingly effective tip from an Edward Tufte seminar was using 11x17 paper to create a 4 page "booklet".

Unsurprisingly non existent from Tufte was figuring out how to apply any of this to my current work culture.
Machine learning explained on how to perform linear classification with TF
Or, in Facebook's case, you "move fast and break things," meaning you don't even try to find out whether something is wrong.

Or, as we've learned from lots of internal documents coming out, you just prioritize revenue over everything else.