skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although unlikely in this case, but sometimes 'they' promote urban blight of entire neighbourhoods till it becomes a slum and even poor people move out, then buy the whole block of properties for cheap.
Apparently almost the entire musician-as-a-middle-class has been wiped out since the internet and streaming got big. Jaron Lanier talks about it fairy often: now, almost everything goes to the top earners.
There are 50 Eskimo Words for 'snow'
Sounds like what matters to you most is how many citations you get.

Color me naive, I thought research was about doing cool science, no?
With few exceptions, all societies have Pareto distributions. All societies (of any decent size) are also subject to unrest from relative inequality. All successful societies also managed to engage in some form of distribution of power and some form of redistribution of wealth.

Distribution of power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

Perception of relative wealth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XYHPAwBzE

The redistribution of wealth can only be conducted voluntarily or at least somewhat voluntarily, without inviting inter-group conflict.

I worry that greed is too baked in, and those that have would rather let the world burn before they give the current system up.

Greed is baked in. Sorry, but that's just how people work in groups larger than about 450. However, far seeing elites can preserve the current order by creating works to uplift the common man and create community spaces of pride and joy. [1] This is also borne out in the historical record, as are the consequences when the elites do too little or imprudently do too much.

[1] -- I would say that we in the US have forgotten how to create public spaces of worth, and the trend is to take the activities of the common person and stratify them by class. This is a very bad trend, which speaks against the long term viability of our society.
Well, blocking Spotify's ads directly harms their revenue and not just their feelings. So I would say it is comparable.
right, this is why whenever I drive through any major metropolitan area in the U.S the only thing I ever see is people being gainfully employed. What, this U.S you're talking about - it really is Utopia.
"You don’t have to curtail your physical activity to avoid hypoglycemia because glucose is portable and durable."

Between this and your "humble-brag" on your other post, what I'm led to believe is that you're pretty ignorant on how variable insulin sensitivity and blood sugar management is from individual to individual.

I've maintained an A1C of less than 6.5 for more than a decade so I'm the picture of "perfect" control and I can tell you that physical activity is a pain in the ass. I'm hypersensitive to insulin during physical activity. When I go to the gym I want zero insulin on board because just 10 minutes on the treadmill could drop me from 160+ to 30. Just walking is enough to cause me to have low blood sugars, so I have to reduce or skip insulin with food accordingly. I'm required to elevate my blood sugar to 200 before I can scuba dive and then I can still only dive for a maximum of an hour because there is too much risk I will pass out and drown.

And then you say, "I am dealing with an issue where I think some of my preferred injection sites are becoming less effective". Preferred injection site? WTF dude? Of course it is becoming less effective, that is why they tell you to constantly change the location. Preferred injection sites are a huge no-no.
Do people really want to have all of their support depend on the government? As an American I know people that don't and even reject government paid food stamps and healthcare, although they are poor enough to qualify for them. I don't think it is very psychologically healthy to be so dependent on things out of your control. A better system would be some system where people can earn a large chunk of capital that basically sets themselves up with enough to have their own basic income that they control.

In the old days in America one had the homestead act that would give you 160-640 acres of public land if you could improve it and live on it for 5 years. This program lasted from the 1862 till 1976 if you can believe it. That was a large chunk of capital one could get by working hard at creating wealth. Not sure if a new homestead act could work, but something similar where anyone can volunteer to do some hard and needed work for five years and at the end of it get a good payout that they can use at they see fit. Maybe $250,000. One could start a business, go to college, invest and live off the interest, etc. This I could get behind.
No, but there more and more lawsuits filed every year over website accessibility issues.

https://www.adatitleiii.com/2019/01/number-of-federal-websit...
Seconded. Julia's blog looks nice, has great explanations, and did a LOT for me as a junior developer about feeling confident in all the things that I didn't know at the time but was excited to learn.
I do this with Apple Music.
Shhh... Don't make suggestions.
> UBI replaces all current social welfare programs we have with a single program

This is the conservative argument for UBI - liquidate social security and distribute the proceeds; do more good with the same money because we don't have to pay means testing overhead; smaller, less intrusive government as a bonus.

The reality though is that every single social security program has been put in place as the result of a tough political fight. That politics isn't going to go away with the introduction of UBI. There will be demands to keep or reintroduce each and every social security program that currently exists. Funding can't realistically come from this source.
Perhaps ‘big internet companies’ are not a good thing to have.
Because the final consonant is actually pronounced softly in related forms ("Rad/Räder" vs. "Rat/Räte"), German speakers tend to "hear" a difference, purely by association, that isn't there phonetically.
what's the best Laptop for Pen. Testing?
Would you recommend Dell M15 as a great laptop for Pen. testing?
You aren't paying to get rid of ads, you're paying to get music. Ads pay for the music, or money can. It's only paying to get rid of ads if you view the music as an inevitable outcome, and this change is Spotify asserting that's not the case.
The explanation I've heard is that because Islam is strongly opposed to figurative depiction, there was more investment into abstract ornamental art as a creative outlet.
Spotify, which is on the HN main page now, is based in Sweden. Not at the very top but not a dwarf.
I wouldn't mind. Sounds like a fun problem.
> the world’s most valuable company, led by its richest man

AAPL ($801B) reclaimed this mantle recently; AMZN ($775B) is back to #2.

EDIT: why the downvotes? I'm not saying the sentiment is wrong, but it doesn't look good for a news organization to get something like this wrong, especially when they are owned by the CEO of the company that they are misreporting on. It also tends to corroborate the pro-Amazon reporting bias that others have expressed here.
Fargate is orthogonal to ECS and can be used together. The difference is that instead spinning VMs as hosts and configuring them for ECS and worrying about spinning just right amount of them, you select fargate, which does all of that behind the scenes (kind of like lambda), but the VM instances provided by fargate are a bit more expensive.
That last part is conjecture, and just because they don't care doesn't mean you can't call them out on it.
What's it like being a developer in the Philadelphia area? That's near my hometown but I have a tough time searching around there.
Apple to contribute to U.S. teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug
Depends, are we electing Republicans?
Exactly. My sister is type 1 because she doesn't have a pancreas. So no diet is going to change that.
In addition to that, it helps me to think of the consequences of failure.

For instance, my wife and I recently redid an entire small bathroom. I replaced wallboard, replaced toilet and cabinet and sink, and laid tile. I'd never done any of that before.

It was incredibly scary at first. But I finally said, "What's the worst that can happen?" We paid a plumber for the hard stuff like moving the shutoffs and replacing the cracked flange (my fault!) and did the rest ourselves.

The worst thing that could happen was that we damage something (which happened with the flange!) or that we decide we just can't do it to our satisfaction and have to pay someone.

The alternative was to just pay someone.

In the end, it was still scary, but it was the logical thing to do, and so I tried it.

It went very, very well. Except the flange.
Increased inventory takes pressure off everyone. Also, she could perhaps stipulate restrictions on the new owner, though would probably take a monetary hit to do so.
Agreed, the level of "paperwork" varies depending on what you're actually trying to get done. Proposing a new product? 2-3 pages like the Amazon Press Release technique should probably be the max. Product and engineering manager scoping the implementation? Could total 10 pages, but split into 20 different tickets that go across 5 devs and a designer. Context definitely matters.
Diabetes Lecture by Dr John McDougall
This is on the VPs and Zuckerberg really. I am actually surprised because credit cards companies would likely side with the card holder.. and Facebook had enough money in the bank where growth was their primary concern. It's not like they weren't going to turn on ads at some point, so the premature optimization here for money seems short sighted in hind sight. I remember when developing Facebook apps was all the rage and you could make some serious $$$. That in turn led to the data sharing scandals we see today. Both the game monetization and data sharing strategies will have probably hurt Facebook overall than if they just pursued an ads strategy... especially if Congress and the EU crack down.
Don't worry guys, the elites will save us from the elites.
Wish there was something like this for magit!
Horrible. If this is what all the web primitivists advocate I rather just look at ads.
Show HN: spotifyxgenius – the missing lyrics window for spotify
That's what the ad networks do, and why advertisers accept their numbers. They've been measuring advertising impact for decades and have clear processes that generally include transparency and 3rd party auditing.
Even if FB stops tracking Germans so much (and hopefully all the other EU countries) they'll still be able to sell ads. FB is where people go and where ads are more likely to be seen.

FB might discover that it makes the same amount of money at a lower cost.
Then we would finally have implemented the interactive TV envisioned in old futurism. And the web would be dead.
Paying people in exchange for work is called a job, not UBI.
Is there an article somewhere that shows what a basic or advanced trading algorithm looks like and explains how they work? I'd be curious to see one walked through (even if it wasn't effective at making money and was just a proof of concept/example.)
Give yourself permission to define your own goalposts, however meager or humble. It's not unlike learning a new spoken language: just because you have a massive vocabulary in your native tongue, does not mean it's not an achievement to learn to count to ten in a new one.

It's not enough to "crawl before you walk before you run". It's important to feel good about successfully crawling, even if one is accustomed to running marathons in another context.
> quite an analytical leap I'd think.

Reality can be stranger than fiction. With all the new revelations that come out about all these entities on a regular basis - what is to be believed anymore?
Never-mind the money, I fear that even if we can implement it and pay for it, there will still be a host of social problems that UBI advocates do not want to grapple with. There's still no answer to questions like "what if it starts to entrench a permanent underclass and make inter-generational wealth worse, as people who stop working bear a generation of people who have never worked, and they bear children, etc".

https://medium.com/s/free-money/after-universal-basic-income...
One of my goals is to put the blame in the right place. It isn’t “my phone can’t last all day”, it’s “terrible apps are wasteful and do questionable things”. It isn’t “I need a better data plan for another $10 a month”, it’s “apps are greedy, lazy and, to put it mildly, sub-optimal in their use of data”. And so on. Annoyed developers and ruined sales will NOT affect apps that are already good citizens.
I think this is a great idea. I have also been pitching it in conversations with people who oppose UBI for years and it is generally very well received by them. Unfortunately I am unaware if this has actually been implemented anywhere.
I feel like Ansible generating YAML with Jinja templates is really a sweet-spot, with idempotency and reusability.

I find it pushes me to write plain YAML files for variables and defaults (Ansible), while allowing strong templating of generated files (Jinja) and letting the result be readable (YAML). By readable I mean minimum programming bloat (code spread on many lines just to write a for loop) and minimum extra syntax that clutters the screen (brackets and quotes). It also lets me write very little custom code (aside from variables, obviously).

If I had to use a more "powerful" YAML-like replacement, it would mix all these into files, written differently by people with different styles, and it would have bloat all over the place.

The main issue I have with helm is that values.yml is not templatable by default so you have to generate it if you want reusability.

YAML does one thing and does it well, it's readable and bloat-free. Maybe we need more tools like "kubectl explain" to know the syntax though.
Nothing wrong w/ LDR at all, I was taking issue with Spotify's nudging behaviour like "Hey, millions are listening to these artists, why aren't you?", when my listening history would clearly indicate that I'm not interested in those artists.

Old-school sites like last.fm used user-submitted tags to link my listening history to new artists I'd probably enjoy. You don't need any fancy machine learning for this kind of basic pattern recognition. Spotify could obviously do this, but like Netflix, Amazon etc, they choose to push artists that make them the most money.
This is extremely myopic...

Once you're diabetic, a lot of "bad things" happen. People don't take insulin then just to continue eating...
>I'd say give them all the breaks they want...

Just some friendly advice from a Wisconsinite, you might want to walk that statement back a bit. Because that kind of attitude is how we ended up on the hook for $4 to $5 billion for Foxconn. (And that's for not even HALF the jobs that Amazon is talking about. All of them paying less than the Amazon jobs too.)

People have to start getting rational, and giving out benefits packages that actually make sense. "Give them all the breaks they want!!!", can lead to some really dark places.

On the other hand, misery loves company, so, yeah, I suppose if New Yorkers are that anxious, there's plenty of room down here to join us as the nation's corporate welfare laughing stock.
I'm not the one who suggested it was better, either. Just an option.
> 2. Changing the default business model for internet companies

Got any ideas?
Just a FYI if you buy music from iTunes you get DRM free files that you play pretty much anywhere. It's how I get all my music on my Android phone.
Not necessarily. Ironically, nuclear explosion physics doesn’t use anything from quantum mechanics, nor from relativity. Intellectually, Germans were well-positioned to complete the project; thankfully, they didn’t have the necessary financial and engineering support.
What ROI You Can Expect from an AIOps Solution [video]
>I think that single payer will more efficiently allocate resources than the current system.

I do agree with this.
shrug youtube-dl -x --embed-thumbnail ${url}. Run a normalizer across it. Dump into iTunes. Get on with my life.

Ad agencies are bad actors. Not intentionally but because they have zero incentive to really police what garbage goes out across their systems. I block them on the client. I block them at the DNS level. I block them at the firewall.

I've dealt with the worst case scenario, no thanks. Previously I'd sub to spotify for a month when I was traveling and just deal with the ads that got though my standard setup when I wasn't. Now I just won't bother.
Looks like he's just wrapping the GoodReads RSS feed in his GraphQL server: https://github.com/jefflombard/jefflombard.com-v4/blob/maste...
This just gave me a lot of respect for Bezos. Leader type personalities usually can't (be bothered to) write well and often seem to be more doers than thinkers. Bezos has a very clear and pleasant writing style and obviously understands the usefulness and practicalities of deep thinking.
I'm curious to know what the actual overhead is of doing this. Not that I'm defending the crap Facebook pumps into our computers, but is "5 divs, 9 spans, 30 CSS classes" actually a useful metric in measuring the performance of a page? If it was 4 divs how different would things be?
That's kind of missing the point, if theres 90% unemployment, unless you arrange is so people are in education or retirement for all but circa 5 years of their life, most won't get a chance to use their skills, and no one will have money to buy the things they make anyway.
I get a 403. Weird.
Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books
True. In addition, from an employer's perspective, it unlocks easy employment of people without massive commitment from either side.

Can I do a few hours work for this guy without losing my unemployment? Yes.

Can I employ this person for a few hours without having to pay them while on paternity leave to make sure their kid gets a good start to life? Yes.
Ask HN: How to do webinars with networking? (or, how to network in rural areas)
I'm starting to understand the importance of networking. I live in a rural area, and while I hope to get to some meetups in nearby cities, it'd be useful to do some online.

I'd consider hosting things, too, but how do I do it in a way that is useful? Webinars are a lot like a call-in radio show. There's not a lot of back and forth and no networking possibilities. I'm not sure that something using a multi-person audio chat would be better.

Any suggestions?
Sadly it's easier to staple stomachs than produce lasting behavior change
I've paid for Spotify for a while, so its been some time since I've heard an ad. But from what I remember, if you put the volume below ~30%, the ad pauses.
More likely, as measured how? How do you know this? Spending more time thinking about my condition is a great way to improve blood glucose control, at least in my experience.
Wait, what? So, anyone who wants to have a job must emulate the habits of some of the most impressive people in history? Wow.

Isn't that how a lot of human progress works? The scientific viewpoint was once a pastime of educated elites. Now the world model derived from it is very much mainstream. (Though it isn't 100% universal) Reading, writing, and arithmetic were once elite and esoteric specialist skills, now they are basic requirements.

Mercy, humanitarianism, and individual rights are all fairly recent innovations in human history.

I don’t know if that’s true or hyperbole, but if that’s what workers think, we are in for a scary future.

Or a fantastic one.
Is this another syntax (of the mechanisms written form) vs semantics (of how it actually operates) confusion moment?

If Nevod builds a different textual model and applies what you "say" to it, differently to the regex underlying model, thats about the speedup. how you say what you want in pattern matching, thats just a pure syntactic moment: I like regex from the UNIX philosophy because of the syntax fluidity for saying things. What actually happens when I say a|b|c|d is it builds a DFA and its not that bad, but if I do individual /a/p /b/p /c/p patterns in SED, same engine, but no DFA builder, its slow.

So is Nevod a new syntax and a DSL tied to language, or is it a new syntax and a generalized text matching model with some real semantic shift from regex?
Well, at one job we originally used SVN with Eclipse as our main editor, then moved to Git via GitLab. However, there weren't really any horror stories, since we basically decided that we weren't gonna migrate existing projects for the time being, and merely made sure future ones used the new system. Didn't hear many complaints from the devs either.
The Manhattan Project wasn't focused on developing the atomic bombs just for dropping on the Japanese. The US was afraid of Germany developing a bomb first, and evidence presented here[0], at least, suggests several tactical and strategic reasons for choosing Japan over Germany (such as superior German air support, the perceived greater likelihood of Germany's imminent surrender versus Japan, and fears that Germany might better be able to reverse engineer a dud than the Japanese.)

None of this suggests a primarily racially-motivated rationale. The evidence doesn't seem to support the premise that the US bombed Japan because they were Asians and didn't bomb Germany because they were Caucasians.

Although, racism and xenophobia likely informed American public opinion of the bombings after the fact. There's no way to know how that would have played out had Germany been bombed, or both Germany and Japan.

[0]http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/10/04/atomic-bomb-used-n...
Could they be as bad as NewRelic sales people?
I really like Verdana, Palatino Linotype as far as "default fonts" go. My website uses Cabin for content and Armata for the logo; these are on Google fonts. https://bigcgi.com
The usual definitions of imperative vs functional are that imperative is built from Hoare triples and functional is built from lambda calculus. By those definitions, you cannot have a functional, imperative language.
But I still have right to NOT use service provided by Spotify or and another third-party service, completely or partially.
The New Zero
Not the first time they've done this: At least on AT&T iPhones, 3G+HSDPA is misleadingly indicated as "4G" on the status bar ("true" 4G is indicated as "LTE").
So you'd block all canvas elements if ads are always a <canvas>.

If they turn all their posts into <canvas> then it'd kill any accessibility features and the ability to copy-paste text and such so I doubt they'd go that far.

Even then, a scraper could run OCR on the canvas image to get the text out of it.
NYS != NYC.

I imagine it's hard to get a 100 person business to move to Syracuse or Rochester nowadays.
I didn't use the term "allowed" to imply there is a free speech argument, but to imply that there is an unreasonable expectation on people's behavior. Expecting that customers should "just" stop using service without complaining about the fact that they are doing so is not a reasonable expectation. People should air their grievances in addition to voting with their feet.
Our class markers are a little different, but it works basically the same way. We may not use accents and clothing to designate poshness as often.

But we use stuff like hobbies and interests. Think about the nerd culture markers. We spent a really long time saying good programmers had to like certain video games, board games, books and movies.
"Work and love . . . work and love . . . that's all there is." -Freud
Nice. ungated
Tell HN: Golang GitHub Color Indicator Changes to Gopher Blue
> Otherwise the most vulnerable among us will just get pushed further to the fringes.

The most vulnerable among us? Like the homeless?

Amazon suspended part of its expansion plans in Seattle pending the outcome of a City Council vote on a new tax on large employers that would have funded programs aimed at providing affordable housing and helping the homeless[1].

Under pressure from Amazon, the city repealed the tax[2].

[1]http://fortune.com/2018/05/03/amazon-seattle-building-homele...
[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/12/seatt...