skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several cases of steam locomotives being able to be restored to operation later because someone still came by to oil them even after they were turned into static displays in parks - SP 4449 being a notable example.
Cool. For all those hating on grifters, I don't think anyone's in the moral right or wrong here. Spotify is trying to monetize a free service, some people don't like that. This won't affect Spotify's profits meaningfully, and the grifters will always grift.
> but slap the maximum rate on a stubborn holdout for enough years in a row and that 15% maximum annual reassessment increase (the maximum in my city) can turn even the least valuable property imaginable into an unaffordable anchor around the owners neck within a few years.

Oh yes, the old 'tax them off their land' strategy.

Many old timers who 'owned' land in the gulf islands near Vancouver Island complain about that one.
Lacking any intelligible means to communicate, this is tough to say definitively.
What I said is exactly a consequence of the market method (the first assessment method listed.)
This. I've started actually buying music for the first time ever because it sounds so good from Bandcamp.
> UBI actually injects money into the economy.

Not unless you're printing it; that's the only way to "inject" money.

> Accompanying UBI would be reducing minimum wage to zero

This is not a "standard part" of all UBI proposals. Some agree; some don't.

> managing inflation by increasing income taxes in higher brackets

Any specific numbers on who would pay what? I may not be rich now, but I don't really like the idea of having to pay a bunch of taxes if I do become wealthy some day.

On the managing inflation part, giving more people more money to spend would make money move around more and quite possibly increase inflation. For an example, let's say I own an apartment building and currently rent a unit at $400/mo. If everyone starts getting $800+/mo, I know I can double my rates without anyone complaining too much. I might not do it all at once, but it seems almost inevitable that this will cause a significant amount of inflation by giving a large class of people more to spend.

> reformation of the health care system

That seems like a whole other kettle of fish. We do have one of the most innovative health care systems in the world, and I'd hate to see that stifled. I had some bad stuff I needed treatment for, which I'd rather not detail specifically. I talked to others in countries with government healthcare who had the same problem, and had to travel here to get treatment as it's a rare condition with most of the good treatments on the bleeding edge. A friend of a friend's mother was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer; told to come back later as it wasn't advanced enough to warrant operation.

As someone who's had to rely on treatment not deemed standard by the government, I get twitchy when people mention single-payer etc. Had I been stuck with the treatment prescribed by the gov't, I'd likely be dead.

Lastly, regulating health care prices removes incentives to develop really cool new treatments. They may cost more than your average kidney, but some of the knew cancer biologics are amazing. My parents have friends who have gotten amazing results, though they did have to use a significant chunk of their retirement for said results.
That wouldn't stop them.
> If it's a somewhat technical topic, go straight for the textbook/papers. If you don't understand them, you won't understand them any better from reading the "pop" material. If it's too complex (say, quantum physics), walk back and get acquainted with more basic material.

OK, I've been holding this in and now I finally have an excuse to put it out there:

Trying to talk about quantum physics without math makes it more confusing, not less. You inevitably end up making some weird analogies which aren't analogous, things which an expert might be able to reverse-engineer into the actual concepts but which put a non-expert in a Lewis Carroll Bullshitland, which is like Wonderland only not as amusing and definitely not worth putting in a book, let alone a "physics" book.

At worst, you end up with crap which is actively wrong, like everything Deepak Chopra has ever said in his entire existence.

Meanwhile, you can give people a real understanding of basic quantum mechanics with high-school algebra and a bit of simple logic.

The deep reason behind this is the same damned interpretation problem physicists have failed to solve for nigh-on a century now. We have the math, we know it works, and, miracle of miracles, we can do some real physics with fairly simple mathematical models, but we don't know exactly how the math hooks up with reality. If none of Dirac, Bohm, Feynman, and Pauling could definitively solve this problem, the odds of a pop science author doing so are not worth thinking about.

To drag this back to the topic: A book about quantum physics which includes no math isn't worth reading.
Let's say tomorrow VRBO takes over 50% of the market. How would apartment listings change in price and why?
Whitelisting won't even be a factor because ad blockers won't work against ads delivered along with the main content. At least not without way more processing power, much more complex software, and a lot more volunteers creating filters manually. The current ad delivery methods are what makes the ads so easy to block. So, being unable to block ads, users will either deal with it, pay for ad-free, or leave, and then the real value of the service will be revealed.
I wouldn't consider that a typical example given that the whole "learn to code" thing was a targeted harassment campaign. Not difficult to imagine that in that timeframe Twitter had prioritised investigating and banning users who were participating in it.
I would be more inclined to agree with you. Inciting hard work is a much better idea then giving everyone money regardless.
The Fox in the Time Machine
Granted, I only skimmed the headlines, but it didn’t seem like there was any dirty truths anywhere. This seems to be a puff piece on how great oat milk is, not an article about hidden problems with it.
No comment on your actual question, but your last sentence reminded me of some research I saw an article about in the last few years premised on learning from nature and trying to address both power-delivery and heat-diffusion problems posed by "stacking" by accomplishing both with a fluid. Here's IBM's page for the research: https://www.zurich.ibm.com/st/energy_efficiency/redox_flow.h...

The intro section of one of their recent articles is a little meatier than the research site: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7967719
How do you know that content wasn't deleted when your account got suspended?
Head of the FBI and its predecessor from 1924 till 1972. So, for the US, we had a department "obsessed with finding and collecting dirt on their enemies with the intent to harm or influence them" for at least that time period.
Hmm so better to just overtly state "you didn't read the post."

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> you have to follow them whether or not you personally think that breaking them "isn't so terrible" or not.

That's plain incorrect, many people manage to do things that the state considers illegal.
Amos was such a happy child :-)
I did this. I helped build the Air Installer network. I truly regret it. If you look up that name, all you get is people worried that it installed viruses or malware (guess what... it did) and how to remove it. The other results you'll see include the owners trying to sell its virtues. As though it's anything other than a way to exploit unsuspecting internet users for money.

I was young and naive, and I didn't think we were using it for malicious purposes. It ended up being worse than I imagined in the end. I left on bad terms and felt like a complete fool. These days I hear adtech companies pay well - I didn't even get that. Just a genuine waste of life and career time.

I discourage as many developers as I can from going into adtech. I met the worst types of people in that industry.
Looks great! Looking forward to diving in.

It is strange, I've been in the planning/research stage to build exactly this tool!
Yes. The white Irish in Boston are the stock example of this (speaking as someone who has part of my family from there). I have heard story after story from people who really do live and die reliant on this. I would also say that the poor having many children is somewhat of a problem. Not sure how it's fixable, but it doesn't make since for the people who can afford children least to bear the most. Especially since the burden of said children tends to fall to one parent more often in such cases.
Out in the real world, I know of cases where proprietary CPU or DSP IP was rejected in favor of RISC-V alternatives.

RISC-V may not change everything, but I do believe that it will change on thing in a major way: the financials of CPU IP such as Tensilica, Cortex-M0, ARC etc.

There is very little friction in replacing embedded controllers that are not customer facing. And that's a market were $0.01 in licensing fees can be a big deal.

Edit: in the maker world, the so-called Blue Pill is incredibly popular. It has an STM32F103 SOC with a 72MHz Cortex M3 and tons of digital and analog interfaces. On AliExpress, these boards go for $1.60 a piece!

https://wiki.stm32duino.com/index.php?title=Blue_Pill
> If theres any level of government you as a citizen have influence over its your dang local government.

But Amazon isn't a local citizen. Why would their employees relocate somewhere if there aren't schools and parks for their kids, given that Amazon can't even tell them that they will get built because it's not in their control?

Whatever the downsides of this approach are, asking a corporation to invest billions of dollars moving somewhere without any guarantee from the government that there will be enough infrastructure to support their employees makes even less sense. How could you actually expect anyone to do that?
They should just give him a large bug bounty.
Yes, the target growth rate taught by Y Combinator is 5-7% per week or 20-30% per month (at such high rates it's better to track weekly because otherwise you could fall too far behind before realizing it). http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
> The contract, an other transaction agreement (OTA) awarded through DOD’s Rapid Innovation Fund, will focus on next-generation identity verification by authenticating users “by their behavior, such as how they walk, type, carry their device, or interact with the screen,” TWOSENSE.AI said in a release.

It sounds like a bad idea. I'm reminded that for many, many years; the "locks" on the US's nuclear weapons had the combination set to all zeros, because the Pentagon was worried the complexity of using an actual combination would mean they'd be rendered useless in wartime [1]. It seems like the height of foolishness to tie military effectiveness to a finicky and unreliable "AI/ML" solution. Soldiers will probably behave differently in wartime, and I can large numbers getting locked out of their devices as a result, at least initially.

[1] Since any war they'd be used in would probably last less than an hour.
"Principles have no real force except when one is well fed."

-Mark Twain
Join in on the official chat at [0]
If you run into performance issue or want to try using an external MIDI source to sync, I have those in my fork at [1], waiting for the maintainer to come back from sailing around Japan to merge them :)

[0] https://talk.lurk.org/channel/orca
[1] https://github.com/hamstah/Orca/releases
Given someone always has rare first hand experience and this is true for all stories that would actually mean no news stories are actually true.

Probably an accurate statement really.
There are multiple "green" companies doing things with the ocean and hawking their wears. There was one selling bracelets made from ocean plastic at a huge markup, saying you cleaned n amount of ocean by purchasing. I can't imagine there is much regulation in this space. Printing money.
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I don’t think that’s a fruitful mindset for a thing like this. If you look at some of the tools (and games) by the same developer, they are all unapologetic, highly aesthetic experiences that often hover between profound genius and half finished art experiment.
The Handshake Deal Protocol
That's why you don't use AWS 'auto' scaling. Every application has it's sweet spot and it's simpler to roll your own when you know best.
So honestly, the name... my immediate thought is "does it not back up my Dell?" I presume this isn't actually supposed to suggest it's for backing up Hewlett-Packard PCs, but that's my first go-to thought, and why as a potential customer, I might not even click through the link.

What does "HP" stand for in this context?
Wow, well... maybe it's just my ignorance, these people do this for a living. Just seems like a crazy number to me. I'm sure there's a lot of detail and reasoning behind that number.
I am not sure why this is a show of torture. The squid is quite dead before it reaches the table. It's basically being used as a marionette by chemical signals, but still quite dead---hence calling it a "zombie".
It doesn't work for fiction for the simple reason a reprint is as good as the original, and a publisher reprinting Known Author's Work From Before Their Fame is going to do everything they can to make sure you know this unknown book is by Known Author. It isn't the book's fault, and it isn't the author's fault, and it in no way diminishes either.
I found The Lean Startup relied heavily on anecdotes. The article gives it 5 stars, despite this being one of their main complaints about other books.

To give one example, the book talks about how in their 3d virtual chat game, IMVU, as a shortcut, they initially had the characters teleport around because they didn't have time to implement walking animations. They got some positive feedback from users about the teleporting "feature", and concluded teleporting was a great selling point and they shouldn't implement walking. The book then starts teaching what lessons you should take from this story.

However, around the same time they were making IMVU, Linden Labs made Second Life which did have walking animations and I believe was more successful than IMVU.

It was a common pattern in The Lean Startup to point to a single example that the author thinks worked out well for IMVU and extrapolate advice from it while ignoring any counter-examples.
it boils down further then that.

I have the right to selectively choose what code runs on my computer, including code designed to grab ads and display/present them.

I also have the right to selectively choose what requests and traffic to allow in and out of my network.

Spotify has the right to do the same, including to deny to send me any traffic from their service for any reasons.

I also have a right to not like it if spotify does that, and everybody else has a right to not care if I do or don't.
As I see it, he compares being trapped in domestic servitude (the problem before the economic transition since ~1973) with being
forced to do work in the general market (the problem after.) He's not comparing two freely chosen activities, he's noting one undesirable compulsion was traded for another (less undesirable, but still undesirable and less recognized) compulsion.
My problem is that even with a sold, demonstrable value-prop and 100s of solid references it's not trivial to get paid by clients. Getting customers is Hard Work(tm).

I hate intrusive ads but totally see why some folks "need" that for their revenue, selling is hard, dropping bulshot ads on my site is trivial.

For my own blog/content I've generated more revenue selling consulting labour from prospects finding my blog than from ads.
I am using the 4 star Goodreads rule and it works pretty well alone (without the rest of the nice suggestions in the article).

I also use the 6.5 IMDB rule for movies and the 8.0 IMDB rule for TV shows.
+1 for Crisp. It’s the bit of Intercom most people want, and nothing else. Highly recommend it.
It doesn't need to hit the same perf as high-end x86 to be useful for a lot of uses; observe the sheer number of IoT projects run on Raspberry Pi and the like. Now, of course, I think we all would like to see high-end riscv be a thing so we can ditch x86 in that market segment too.
Experimental compound stops mosquitoes from feeding, by making them feel full
>> high impact

Careful! Even the data on which journals are "high impact" is now proprietary.[0]

No, of course it ought not to be this way.

[0] https://www.scirp.org/journal/Journalcitationdetails.aspx?Jo...
This is one of my favorite jvns post, with How to teach yourself hard things (https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/01/learning-skills-you-can-prac...).

Very inspiring.
I think your reading makes more sense than mine. Agreed!
What if I took your argument, and instead of making it about ads, made it about all human communication? Isn’t all communication intended to influence the thoughts of the listener? I don’t think attempting to influence someone’s behavior to your gain by providing them with information is inherently immoral - we all do it constantly (eg. when messaging a friend to ask them over for a drink, I am manipulating them so I can enjoy their company).

Unlike a lot of communication, advertising is paid, which is certainly relevant. I get it if you’re against commerce as a whole - if you believe that any interaction motivated by money is inherently exploitative, I’m sympathetic.

But if you aren’t willing to go there, advertising is a healthy part of a well-functioning economy. If you’ve invested to develop a good product, one that users would happily pay for, one that has positive value (ie. you can make it for $10, it provides $30 of utility to the user, so you can sell it to the user for $20 and you and the user both gained $10 in utility), what is wrong with paying to inform people about it? Organic word of mouth is slow - if that were the only way we could find out about changes in what is available in the market, much less investment could be profitably made in improved products. Positive investment ROI requires a reliable pathway to tell people that you have something they might want, and advertisement is perfectly suited to fill that role.
FYI, there's also a hack to give yourself immortality, if you want to go there...
Clive K. Lavery, Adobe XDI Member on What Makes an Outstanding UX Portfolio
No. How about, just read the guidelines and find out.
You need an h-bridge for the NXT and EV3 motors too.

Perhaps you're thinking of some of the power functions motors?
> The main incentive to work is to have something meaningful to do with your time.

Not sure about this. Only short-term experiments have been conducted. Who knows what might happen if we have people who are raised on the idea that a living will come to them no matter what?

I think there's also an assumption that everyone loves what they do. Many of us do, so it's easy to think. However, the people who arguably need support the most often have the worst, least-likeable jobs.

> They won't settle for a low satisfaction, low pay job

Somebody has to do the work. Garbagemen will never be worth $15/hr. Many jobs that aren't will simply end up outsourced.

> Universal Basic Income is there to provide for the basics: food & shelter.

Then why would it be administered to everyone, on a national level, regardless of other factors? Food & shelter cost orders of magnitude more in San Francisco, California then in San Francisco, Texas. Why would it make since to give two hypothetical people, one living in each, the same amount of money to cover the "basics"?
HP means HomePage in this context and also is a pun for backuPHP as the tool is written in PHP.

But I really do appreciate that feedback! Maybe different capitalization will help here? So always referring to it as BackuPHP ?
The logic is roughly as follows, for a consumer product with a short sales cycle:

- Iff your market is very large, and

- Iff you have well-known customer acquisition channels that are deep, with well known customer acquisition costs

- THEN you should be able to grow 20% MoM simply by spending 20% more on customer acquisition every month.

To grow 20% MoM means you're grow 9x over the course of a year...and when you think about things things this way it makes sense why a seed round of VC is ~$1MM and a series A is ~$10MM.

So why limit oneself to 20% monthly growth? Well, because it takes time to learn how to deal with the scale.

More realistically, what (should) happen is that you have SOME known channel that will grow you say, 5x, if you spend 20% more on acquisition every month. So the next five months are spent doing two things in parallel: learning how to deal with the new scale, and desperately looking for a new channel. Fail at either and you die. Succeed at both and you've maybe built a very valuable business.
I'm guessing they have some sort of ad revenue sharing model? What type of income did you make?
http://libgen.io/scimag/index.php

I use this Library Genesis search page as portal to Scihub's papers, it's amazing being able to get just about any paper ever, even totally obscure ones from 70 or 100 years ago. I do check Google Scholar first - a lot of recent papers are available online from academic sites, and it's a great way of discovering author home pages.
Can someone explain why you can't just write a rule that filters every post that has "SPONSORED" in all caps?

Heck, I'd be fine with even "Sponsored" regardless of case even if it means I miss a few friends posts.
Its not always being just informed. Its the difference between knowledge and wisdom. You may know all these things up front and make the same decision to take VC because of other factors, prestige, the easy money, thinking you will be the billion dollar company. Then things don't go as planned, the rubber meets the road, and the cool sound of telling people you raised VC wears off. Then you realize why all of these articles are written and write one yourself.
Brain waves to speech translation
https://www.theadvocates.org/

https://www.lp.org

https://mises.org/
What? I considered posting earlier because after reading the piece the one thing it isn't really about is oat milk.

The article is all about a more complex crop rotation to reduce crop nutrient loss and polluting runoff. Apparently an earlier article mentioned a previous crop rotation proposal that argued for adding an additional crop and oats were apparently a desirable option (I did not read the previous article.)
The right to travel without passing through checkpoints seems pretty fundamental to me. You don't have to agree, I'm just saying that being required to submit to inspections on demand feels quite invasive to many. I personally don't have to worry too hard about an inspection turning into an execution, but that's all the more reason for me to protest.

Furthermore, the actual issue we're facing down right here is the inability for people to engage in civil disobedience due to centrally controlled walled gardens. There's a limit to how much the cops can actually persecute people who broadcast or avoid checkpoints, but here they are trying to convince the administrators of most people's computers to prevent that behavior entirely!
What part is Jeff trying to draw attention away from? If anything he's been incredibly open and forthright about the entire "drama", which seems to be the exact opposite of what the blackmailing parties want.