skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonder if this breaks screen readers and if someone could go after facebook for accessibility violations in the EU where public protections are strong.
'Mr. Familia, now the super of 42-44 Bond, uses the shop for maintenance work. Mr. Liang simply likes to come by. “This is my second home,” he said after a cup of tea at his desk. As for what he does now at the shop, Mr. Liang explained, “I take a look at machines.”'

This reminds me of the Anthony Bourdain visit to the Congo. They visit a defunct train station, which even after twenty years has a small band of people coming in every day, trying to keep the trains and machines in good repair, waiting for when there's sufficient government to restart the service. People love their machines...
Why doesn't spotify just stop playing the music if it "detects" ad blocking? It sounds like they don't know how to detect ad blockers and are resorting to fear tactics like this instead.
There are a lot of firms that can get you up and running in a few weeks. They sell generic hedge fund formation packages, which give you all the tech/PB access. It's very rudimentary, but a lot of people do seem to opt for them, especially those that don't know what they're doing.
Yesterday evening, "NTY, Mr. Pecker" was global headline news, blowing up more so this morning. Why is there still nothing on Google News?
That’s also how the uk works. Even there, it’s still possible to go to a completely private hospital for most things but generally not for true emergencies.
They have threatened to do this on Android for a long time[1], unfortunately, this affects alternate clients as well as piracy.

[1] https://www.neowin.net/news/spotify-disables-modified-apps-m...
additional discussion about Jeff Bezos' essay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19109474
Pennywise clever, pound foolish? By that I mean, for me someone who robs blind people with a mechanical contraption [0] is actually less clever than, say, a teenager without major development issues -- who may not know how to build that contraption (yet), but already knows why not to build and use it. Okay, maybe teenagers aren't a good example ^^ but you get the idea.

[0] I'm not calling sponsored posts theft, it's just an example for "bad thing to do". Personally, I think this offends me on the HTML level way more than even on the ad blocking level... "they can do what they want with their site", but it still grosses me out to see stuff like this.
Your point doesn't contradict my point at all...? Are you saying that ~0.5% is "a large part"?
I definitely did hear it as once facet of why UBI could be good. Right now, in some places there are people who will lose benefits (I forget which variety) if their income goes above a certain point, so they are disincentivized to seek a better job -- as it would net them less income. One thing I recall reading about UBI was that it removed that _condition_, and so there would be no incentive not to get a job (other than feeling like UBI was "enough", which IMO is reasonable).
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Are you sure? An ad impression for an insurance contract could have a higher expected value than an impression for, say, a brand of protein bars.
It's sad; I remember that one of the things that was supposed to come out of Servo was a stable embedding interface. Of course, that's cancelled now…

I can't help but wonder from time to time what would be using Gecko now if they were reasonable to embed.
why would twitter do that?
> What made you change the way you think/feel in a profound way...

You may be suffering from a hormonal issue. Peter Attia breaksdown the difference between an how an obese person processes food, and how a normal person does.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiQevGDPgRY
It is my prerogative to decide which media files my browser consumes. It is my right to enforce security protections in my browser instance. All those that say 'good spotify is blocking the freeloaders' -- this is not the point. They are requiring you to consume specific media which you do not wish. Advertising is coercive, and Spotify is applying violence (threats) to enforce their business model. Not my problem. Not that I would pay any of this trash anyway.
Here's a sample of what the UK could do to help (but not definitely) save itself in the event of a no-deal brexit:

1. Set corporation tax lower than any EU country.

2. Create generous startup investment vehicles that are open to EU startups who transfer their HQ to the UK.

3. Sign small limited set trade deals with every country they currently don't have deals with because of the EU - think pareto and don't worry about the small stuff right now.

4. Deregulate the finance industry even more with the caveat that they help with this transitory period.

5. Borrow money and invest massively in infrastructure ONLY creating jobs

6. Subsidise large internationally competitive UK companies in return for staying/playing ball.

7. Speak to the US about dissolving NATO and replacing it with something else that's cheaper and more focused now that the EU has talked about building their own army.

8. Aggressively push commonwealth trade.

9. Throw out lots of laws and regulations around corruption, bribery etc. to increase trade with countries with lots of money and few morals.

10. Deregulate "greenfield" housebuilding investment - the UK has a massive shortage of housing. There's a lot of jobs there and a lot of foreign investors who want to take their dirty money out of their own country.

11. Continue fracking and other dirty industries that make money but make life worse.

12. Change the law around retirement benefits being payable outside of the UK - would be unpopular but all those pensioners in Spain, France, Greece, Portugal etc. would have to move and spend their money in the UK or in Gibraltar.

13. Cut workers rights to make it a better place to hire workers for companies who move to the UK for say a 10-year transition period.

No doubt a lot of these wouldn't be straightforward and without a majority government I fully expect a lot of people to say "not possible" but the general idea is that almost all options (good and bad) are on the table because of a no-deal brexit.
All I can say is that Loaches hate salt in water (as many other scaleless related fishes). Maybe is another species.
Enthusiasts complain about the crappy latency and refresh rates of modern LCD televisions all the time, against people saying "just turn on motion smoothing and most people won't notice." I'm not justifying one or the other, but it happens in both domains.
I don't know if I'll use this much, but that is super cool. Props!
> Sadly the era we're living in is that which blames Trump for every thing that goes wrong with no evidence whatsoever

Before a crime is proven, there's usually speculation. Just like people suspected Nixon of being involved in Watergate before there was actual proof. The truth can come slowly.

I agree that we need to follow due process, but it's just as dangerous to categorize any suspicion of criminal activity as "blaming Trump for everything". You're just on the opposite end of the spectrum as people who thinks he's guilty before we have proof.

Evidence takes time, especially with plea bargains where there's incentive to hold out until the evidence against you is overwhelming.

It's best to be somewhere in the middle where you're equally skeptical and open to whatever news and evidence comes out.
So its faster switching?

What could this be used for other than hard drives?

More efficient/powerful motors and dynamos? Some kind of persistent ram? Anything else?
I always thought the point of basic income was so that you didn’t necessarily need every member of society employed in the traditional sense
Getting started with webpack – Part 3 – Bundling other file types
What you described is more or less covered in the T&C's checkbox you ticked when you created your account.

And even if Spotify had appended their marketing language with the "but we track you, never forget that", would that have somehow made you turn off the adblocker?
I always interpreted 'find jobs' as 'create their own activity without toxic pressure'
I had to explain this story in a non technical way to someone in our office.

I said, Do you remember the "Pen Island" prank that kids used to pull in school? For those that aren't familiar someone gets a sign on their desk that they think reads PEN ISLAND, But its all in block letters without spacing so it looks just as much like PENIS LAND.

This is what Facebook now does to the "Sponsored" text next to ads in order to trick your Ad Blocker.

Well fuck you Facebook.... I am not writing PENIS LAND on my desk. Even if you offer me a bunch of cool new jelly pens to be a part of your club.

And fuck you too Ms. Applebom, for letting me keep that sign on my desk the whole day WHEN YOU KNEW EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANT!!!
heh, I didn't even consider this interpretation of the above; sorry about that. I meant "tools like Docker keep using it", not people. But I still don't know what you're talking about; YAML has an 83 page spec that includes pointers, and uses tons of random confusing symbols. I say "maybe it's just me" in some of these posts, but I know it's not: I've watched many of my coworkers get it wrong the first time for years and then have to be corrected. A quick common example I see in CI config all the time: If I write version: 1.10, that's a number, then I decide to move to latest so I write version: 1.10.x, that's a string. Oops, we were never using version "1.10" we were using "1.1". Everything about it is implicit and bad. Now, it's easy to say "always use quoted strings", and I agree, but then why the hell does it have bare strings in the first place? That seems like an easy enough oversight or typo to make, and it will be made.
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I admire her perseverance and wanting to preserve blue collar work, but why not sell at a premium and then move to a more affordable area and improve her factory with the added capital, maybe expand (jobs and capacity) and modernize her tooling to produce even better tools?
A non-paying customer who doesn't listen to ads has absolutely zero value to Spotify.

I'd challenge this because they can convert to paid users or advertise the service via word of mouth, or probably provide other value as well (user data, listening habits, etc.).

However, even if these users have zero value to Spotify, then why terminate them? Spotify is getting some negative press over it, so it seems like a net loss for them...
That may be the prevailing American ideology, but it certainly isn't the prevailing ideology worldwide. The idea that being bad at capitalism makes you deserving of misery is just awful - our country is too wealthy to act that way.
I disagree. Laravel is much less verbose than Symfony and tries to optimize for developer happiness. Couple that with a kick ass video tutorials site (laracast.com) and that Laravel was started at the fall of CodeIgniter giving it a great boost in users.
These two items do not go together:

happened to use Spotify for a while on a system with adblocking enabled

drive a lot of potential customers

If they're not paying and blocking ads, they're not customers. And if they weren't willing to pay for Spotify, why would they suddenly be willing to pay for Apple Music?

being on a Pi-Hole network

The number of people setting up home filtering devices isn't even a rounding error to a service the size of Spotify. All of those people could disappear and they wouldn't even be noticed.

Ditto for the number of people who might just happen to end up on an ad-restricted network at a friend's house.
No. That's analogous to choosing to leave Spotify after you already listened to some music because you decide you don't like their ads. Which is fine.
Correct. Forgot to multiply by 10^6
Lol did they really declare a laundromat a landmark? I swear the tactics that certain people will do to get their way....
While this article is about an even more special population of UBI recipients I have two general criticisms about UBI studies:

1. They are usually time limited. You can expect different behavior if you get financial security for limited time or for life.

2. Most studies seem to be externally financed (here the whole state vs a small population). The interesting part is if people are willing to pay for this within their community. Are you okay to pay for your slacking neighbor (even if she is the exception and UBI turns out to be overall good)?
You cannot pay for the service, the service is free. You pay for not being forced to watch ads. Not forcing people to watch ads is what decent people simply do, nobody deserves to get paid for that.
What if? What's your point?
> [...]the whole fox news complex? There's no left wing equivalent to that.

CNN and MSNBC easily fit that bill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_iXfbxfwDA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgBxfHdb4OU
You can do that with iTunes as well.
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Slack does.

But I agree with the original point about not fully relying on the whims of a major corporate promoter. Priorities can change within, without clear visibility on the outside.
I'm pretty sure they didn't need it.

My read on BHO is that as a non-white guy super-achieving in a quietly racist political climate (we've subsequently had a refresher course in American racial politics: it never went away) he was at pains to avoid alienating factions that might work against him.

He was also a lawyer: not just any lawyer, but a former editor of the Harvard Law Review (a plum niche reserved for star pupils at the #1 law school in the United States, often an early sign that the individual is on the road to the Supreme Court). Instead of heading for the bench Obama went into politics, but he is above all else a legalist (and a constitutional expert). As such, he worked only within the established legal frameworks, carefully trying to build a platform for incremental adjustments.

The Espionage Age was already a feature of the system before he arrived in the Oval Office: he continued to use it as it was designed. He didn't rock the boat or try to impose a radical agenda on the DoJ. He wouldn't do anything that might give his enemies a lever against him. He was, in fact, a conservative politician: not "conservative" in the sense of Movement Conservativism (which is actually a very radical political platform), but a Burkean conservative.

The spooks didn't need leverage on him: he was theirs from the outset.
In other words, yes.
Hmm, wouldn't Dijkstra's be V E + V^2 log V? I take your point though. I suspect that I was dazzled by the cache locality advantages of dynamic programming and skeptical that messing about with a bunch of heap nodes would be faster, but looking at it now I bet you're right that knocking one of those Vs down to a log V would help. Thanks for the feedback!
You don't even have to go that far. You could let ads still be html iframes with text/image/video/audio content. Just no javascript or cookies. (enforcable via csp sandbox)

And "acceptable ads" policies of blockers could require those properties. They wouldn't even need a fixed whitelist or cooperate with specific companies for that, all they have to do is allow iframes with appropriate CSP rules. I.e. it's a vendor-agnostic approach.
> I always have a really hard time relating to where this incredibly negative sentiment about people comes from.

It comes from your head. The statement itself is neutral, and for whatever reason, you're giving it a negative connotation. Most organisms on this planet evolved so as to expend less energy without necessity, humans as no exception.

That is not negative or positive - that's a normative judgment you give that statement.
I highly recommend Nayuki's site: https://www.nayuki.io/

Lots of content (made mostly for themselves), but the writing style is pretty nice and there's a large variety of projects.
I typically buy at least 1 coffee a day for $7 at starbucks. Without this, I cannot function. I still cannot justify paying for any media. Certainly not $10+/month for Spotify or Netflix. Sorry. I don't care this seems inconsistent, its consistent to my own beliefs.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-finland-basic-income/finl...
In your own citation:

"Rewards kill creativity. Some twenty studies have shown that people do inferior work when they are expecting to get a reward for doing it, as compared with people doing the same task without any expectation of a reward. That effect is most pronounced when creativity is involved in the task."

Would this not suggest that people do their best work when they aren't doing it for the paycheck? In other words, given UBI, anything an individual may do would be his or her own prerogative and therefore represent higher quality output.
I envy that you have a desk that can go lower!
Judging by how fast advertisers left some political outlets, it could be possible to discourage cooperation with aforementioned corporations. For software engineers to work in those may become career-limiting.
You’re not offering the same thing to the publisher and the celebrity. To the publisher, you’re offering your version of certain currently unknown events that they may be interested in publishing. You’ll need to disclose the basic facts first before they will know if they even want to buy. To the celebrity, you’re offering the promise not to disclose even those basic facts to anyone, even to explain what it is you’re offering to other parties.

Whether the medium is a book or a newspaper or a website is legally immaterial. Thinking about the information as news is just useful because no one owns the facts, only their particular descriptions of them.
what the...?
And the original authors' rebuttal to that and other work:
https://www.pnas.org/content/113/27/E3814
Again, those frameworks are written in php. They are not php.

You're trying to apply the problems of a framework/app to a language itself.
You would think so, but the market is dysfunctional because of the regulatory complexity of the US healthcare system: https://health.usnews.com/health-care/for-better/articles/20...
Interesting side discussion in this about the difference between "authoritarian" and "authoritative": it works, but only if you convince kids to go along with it rather than force them into it.

It also argues that the high parental involvement is the result of high percieved inequality; it becomes more important to get your kid higher up the ladder.
Perhaps this is a "peace dividend" of a military project, much like the Hubble Telescope.
If Bees Can Prevent Bad Information from Going Viral, So Can We
There is the small matter that someone else's labor is filling their bellies. Humans try to take advantage of any system, and it's not hard to see where the failure point for UBI is - it's everyone becoming a freeloader, with no one left to do the work necessary to feed, clothe, educate, etc. the people on UBI.
Very true.

There's always the fact that Finland isn't exactly poverty-stricken as a country.

I would like to see this repeated on some real impoverished communities, with a guarantee of income for life, to see if they become more productive as a result.
It's true. I don't often do so at work anymore, either—except for utility pages.

But I am rewriting my personal site/blog in Go as a trial run/learning process. I've been critical of Go in the past so I thought I'd give it a... go.

So far I don't mind the experience. No server framework, either. The standard library is actually pretty good, at least for something simple like that.

The only [external] dependency I'm pulling in so far is `blackfriday` for parsing Markdown files (the posts) upon request— I'm much too lazy to write a Markdown parser myself for this purpose.

It's not finished yet, but it's on its way— https://github.com/robertfairley/rf-19-go
I mostly stopped using it because it's so expensive and we didn't get a lot of benefit out of it. Just people asking questions that can be answered by reading the first line of the page they're on.
It is absolutely relevant.

That money isn't just pulled from the ether. Another citizen worked to produce that value which is distributed through UBI.

One happy person at the expense of someone else is not success.
That's not a great scenario for me, either. I'm currently paying $7.99/mo for GPM because I've been a subscriber since the beta. If I switch to another google account just for GPM, I will end up paying $2/mo more.
This diet with stopping milk products can.
Milk protein with 17 rings similar to beta cells.
Body in an attempt to kill milk protein which escapes into blood without breaking down the ring structure also kills beta cells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4edofibXOiM
watch at 48 mins
It's a tough sell you gotta admit it. That money came from someone making an effort (even if it was in form of large [reluctant]corporate taxes).

Also slacking (I am half a slacker on the way to ~zero) is toxic on the long run.

I always thought of universal income as way to allow me to grow without a burden. Learning, helping, producing (whether art, tools, ...).

It's supposed to help strengthen the social tissue.
Interesting take, but I'd also suggest that the Germany that fought WW2 was very different from modern Germany. There was a madness there. It took the burning shame of such catastrophic failure to put the brains in charge. Again as I said above, I reckon Brexit will do the same for the UK.
That's helpful, thanks, clarifies key differences in design of Cassandra vs FoundationDB. Are you using a lot of FDB in prod? What are your impressions so far?

What are your next steps with this project?
> However, even if these users have zero value to Spotify, then why terminate them?

When I go to a restaurant and eat without paying, why do they kick me out?
The technical challenge of getting something for free, without restriction, without digital restrictions management, able to be shared, in an archival form that will last decades is worth 100x the cost for whatever trash Big Media will sell you.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-drug-companies-keep-insulin...

Looks like a patent issue (every new improvement in production methods has its own patent, so the insulins for which patents have expired are lower-quality in one way or another) plus shipping costs (refrigerated bottled liquids with a shelf life <6 months).