skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of music streaming services at the same level of quality and within the ballpark of paid subscriber base as Spotify. It wouldn’t qualify as a monopoly.

Music streaming isn’t the kind of good that falls under common carrier so I don’t think the analogy of the electric company fits. People can easily go through life not subscribed to one. I for one only have iTunes Match which isn’t the all-you-can-eat style of Spotify/Apple Music/Play Music/Amazon Music/Tidal/etc.
Not necessarily a subset. I could imagine a self reflective consciousness that doesn’t experience a lot of sensory stimulus.
See Tweet by Paul Graham (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1085484183466713088):

"If Newton's Principia were published today, it would have 4 stars on Amazon. There would be one cluster of 5 star reviews by people saying it had revolutionized their thinking, and another cluster of 1 star reviews by people complaining it was pointless and hard to read."

and then someone linking to actual reviews on Amazon (avg. rating 4.1).
Faster remainders when divisor is a constant: beating compilers and libdivide
Have you heard of a book titled "the mating mind"?
This sort of attitude is really nonsensical. It's the sort of extremism that seems to say: you're only self-made if you grew up in a cave, made your own clothes from animals that you yourself hunted, taught yourself language and built your business while working 80 hours a week as a [worst-job-here]. In other words: a dangerous level of holier-than-thou self-righteousness.

The reality is that wealth and "privilege" are a scale: no matter who you are in the world, there are both people above and below you, in terms of advantages.
Universal Basic Income:

Work Hard, Keep Half v. No Work, Free Stuff

https://delvedc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Universal-Bas...
DNS66, same principle.

I suppose I have to whitelist Spotify ad servers. What a shit show.
#bitcoin -- just had to say this.
Only 1 in 5 people with a penicillin allergy actually had penicillin allergy
9-5 absolutely kills me. Is that by choice or because that’s what everyone else does?

When programming I can do my best work with big 10-12 hour sprints when the mood strikes and maybe a couple in a row. Then there are days with meetings or days waiting for QA or other feedback where the right thing is literally to just go home for the day at lunch time.

My best environment is where I’m treated like an adult with responsibilities to deliver software and communicate when I have issues. My worst is one where I’m treated like a child that must show up at certain times and provide constant updates to the adults so they can be sure I’m working.
Swarm helps pinpoint new magnetic north for smartphones
NASA's ten coding commandments
In the 90s it had that, mostly because there was a negative feedback mechanism for poorly thought-out questions. If you posted a question on usenet or IRC that obviously demonstrated you hadn't bothered to invest any effort into reading or trying to solve the problem yourself first, you were flamed.

Over time, as a more general populace joined the Internet, the ethos changed to act more as a support system rather than the more demanding expectations of the past. Presumably that was due to a recognition that newbs did not have the exposure to computing or tech that the prior generations of users had and so the intent was to be more educative so that these new users could learn to solve things for themselves. Alas, that optimism was misplaced as the majority of people are not interested in thinking for themselves but instead just looking to follow a checklist with no understanding.
> And the only things that could crack open these containers, she adds, were the bone-cracking jaws of hyenas or a clever ape wielding a rock.

The authors do mention that. It was written by three professors of evolution and anthropology at Yale, Oxford, and Uni Chicago, but the first comment here is dismissive snark.

>We propose that the regular exploitation of large-animal resources—the “human predatory pattern”—began with an emphasis on percussion-based scavenging of inside-bone nutrients, independent of the emergence of flaked stone tool use. This leads to a series of empirical test implications that differ from previous “meat-eating” origins scenarios.
But are you sure we're going to get things right this time as opposed to all the other times? I have my doubts about that, which means that we could have the law try to promote "healthy food" that actually isn't healthy. The same goes for all kinds of other activities. Would you be alright with the government restricting how many hours a day you can use a computer?
My current one. The company treats people like...well people.
-transparent communication
-soliciting feedback often
-an ethos of "take care of yourself, your family, then the company", manifesting in flexible WFH situations
-lots of investment in personal development / growth
-an emphasis on bridging gaps / empathizing / assuming positive intent in working with others

At pretty much every other company I've ever worked at, I've always felt that if I inconvenienced the company at all, it basically wasn't going to happen unless I brought a strong business case. Company always came first. Conversely here, I feel like it's a balance. If I want to do X, my manager / others will make an effort to find a business need that matches that. There's a very generous (paid) maternity leave policy.

When you like your manager and you feel like your interests are aligned with the company's, and you feel like it's a little more relational, that's when I do my best work. I've been looking for this for a long time, and I'm thrilled to be here.
I've submitted this with the title "Only 1 in 5 people with a penicillin allergy actually had a penicillin allergy". The title in the journal is "Implementation of a pharmacist-led penicillin allergy de-labelling service in a public hospital | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | Oxford Academic".
I think the problem is the middlemen feel compelled to add value somehow, since otherwise people would figure out that their job is pointless.
Why can’t the peer review system itself just evolve to embrace the full power of the internet? The main reasons these fraudulent strategies are at all effective is because (1) the review process is private and slow and (2) studies aren’t independently reproduced as a part of review. The feedback loop is inherently too slow. To speed it up, one must fight the inertia of senior (tenured) faculty and major funding vehicles.

It’s laudible these researchers have invested so much in fighting fraud, but this post shows that the offenders will essentially face no negative consequences for fraud. The researchers worked very hard for hardly any return / justice.

Perhaps it’s worth re-inventing science. Open reviews. A network to connect labs that ensures findings are reproduced. We could even re-do much of basic, academic science in the interest of improving exposition and shedding antiquated formulations of theory.

What if, in the face of this fraud, we simply reject tradition wholesale? The only tradition should be an honest, reproducible study of Nature.
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I'm a software developer, and I barely know nothing about electronics. Where do I start to bootstrap this project ? My current plan is to learn and try to build a prototype, then setup a kickstarter. Any advices welcome! Thanks
>>you're only self-made is you grew up in a cave, made your own clothes from animals that you yourself hunted, and built your business while working 80 hours a week as a [worst-job-here].

Even then someone would say that it was still done from a position of privilege because you had a place to sleep, animals to hunt, and how dare you say you are self made - you at least had a job unlike many people in this fine country!

To me, "self-made" means being able to take the opportunities within the environment that you live in and make the best out of them. Yes, that usually means that you get some opportunities that other people don't get - but equally, there are opportunities that you don't get either. You can be a "self-made" white son of a billionaire. Or a "self-made" immigrant of colour. Alternatively, we can stop using the term "self-made" entirely and pretend that it doesn't exist. That's also a solution.
> Thai

If you include Thailand in countries that have maintained their unique culture free of Western ideas, I think you have to include virtually all countries. I’ve lived around half my life in Thailand, and like any country it has its specialties, but particular resistance to Western ideas is not one of them. It’s a country that has previously prided itself on integration of Western ideals (cf Rama V), and continues to wholeheartedly embrace fusion with certain cultures (Chinese, Western, Japanese) while strongly pushing back on others (Indian, for example).
It is scandalous to anyone not normalized to it - unfortunately masses of people tend to devolve into those sorts of cliques and social clubs for personal advancement.

It pretty much is corruption essentially but you are the 'crazy' one if you point it out because 'things are done that way'.
Last local paper shuts so elderly ring MP for news
What is social media monitoring tools?
Instagram, Facebook... how perform brand promotion via social media marketing campaigns.
Sounds like a very good role model for engineers. Thanks for sharing your story.
Let's pick a random bit of Mein Kampf (I just scrolled to a random page in the middle in a randomly chosen translation). This looks, to me, like something that wouldn't be out of place in any discussion of "Fake News". This is the problem with using bits of Mein Kampf, it feels designed to shock and offend. If I got this text below into an article in a major newspaper, would that make that newspaper fundamentally broken / untrustworthy, because it happens to come, word for word, from Mein Kampf?

Quote begins:

Just in journalistic circles one usually prefers to call the
press a 'great power' of the State. As a matter of fact its
importance is truly enormous. It cannot be overestimated ;
it is indeed actually the continuation of the education of
youth in advanced age.

Thereby one can divide the readers as a whole into three
groups:

First, those who believe everything they read;

Secondly, those who no longer believe anything;

Thirdly, those who critically examine what they have
read and judge accordingly.
Such solutions don’t work if your server is behind a proxy like Cloudflare, since most requests will be served from cache.

And btw, this implies that you’re keeping logs on your visitors for other purposes than security. Under GDPR that’s not OK.

A good analytics solution will anonymize the data. Including Google Analytics if you configure it properly.
It may have been this:

"Adding salt to freshly cut muscle causes it to spasm." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCeA72UFg3Q
Uber is not a very good example because you can easily switch to another taxi app if there are better benefits/the costs are lower etc. Even the VP of Engineering of Uber acknowledged it in a talk a few years ago. Something that accumulates over time and has a social networking effect would be much harder to replace.
Public relations for the proles
The first test revealed problems that need to be addressed. That's what tests are for. The journalists reporting it does not work as wel as intended because a test version revealed issues that are being solved are being quite disingenuous if you ask me.
All of those things are perfectly fine as long as they are optional.
The startup workers as well, I guess. They take tremendous risks.

Though it would be a stretch to say they don't care nor help the users. Of course they need to keep the users hooked/get new users onboard to "grow" and get the investments. And focusing on marketing is not very reasonable since you can say the same about basically every marketing material.

Still, I guess the point is that the customers of such startups must always be prepared of the possibility of the company suddenly shutting down one day and the product ceasing to exist. That's true.
Interesting, I will have to try it out myself when I get some free time. While I don't know Smalltalk very well, from the perspective of an Objective-C developer the way you have designed the project's features is quite fascinating.
I entirely agree that general standards of productive time are not at all productive with many people. But the problem isn't just the time of day people work, it's the compensation they receive for it.

If you're told to build X, you might do it in a day, a week, or a month, many companies or managers wouldn't be able to tell what was appropriate. On the other hand, if you were told that you would receive Y percent of revenue of product X for the next three years, your incentives would totally change. You would be incentivized to work as efficiently as possible. More than just money, you would have an increased level of ownership in your own production, which would build confidence and value over the product you build.
Gagh!
When would you need a real time OS?
It is. There's a lot of money in it!

That's why there's SciHub, e.g.

http://libgen.io/scimag/index.php
EU makes it easier for citizens to access health data securely across borders
Yes, it does.
Just be careful of the international community party :)
I guess they are changing them incrementally. The terms changed for the UK last week (there seemingly was little interest from anyone). Unless there's something special in Danish law I'd expect yours to be updated soon.
It's just degrees of separation. Looks like you're 4th degrees or farther away from him.
The upcoming Librem 5 phone has a hardware killswitch disconnecting the baseband completely. It's not a mInstream device though.

Alternatively airplane mode might work too on regular phones, but personally I wouldn't trust it 100%.
Tesla’s Latest Acquisition Could Make Elon Musk’s Electric Plane Fly
Does it strike anyone else as odd that a person who was so passionate about protecting people's privacy would end up joining Google - a company infamous for invading privacy?
It's dead.
What’s new in JUnit 5.4
I can see why it messes with our intuitions, though. Most of the other animals we eat don't flop around like that unless they're still alive and in distress. Except the occasional headless chicken. Chickens are weird.
My problem is, just the "Full power of the internet" end up looking like Facebook, or Reddit, or Twitter, where the fastest and loudest repliers often end up having the biggest effect?

Also, independently reproducing studies is super-important, but that going to take HUGE amounts of money, which someone is going to have to pay for. It was have to come from the top, most governments want to see new research, not reproductions, and scientists are guided by that direction.
I think the best is a loose structure with high level delivery times. Open office is great for engineers in teams of 5-8 people, which is ideal imo.

Open communication is always key. It should feel like a family. The manager/lead needs to be strong, decisive, and protect their people from all the politics.

Learning should always be an opportunity. Engineers should feel safe taking risks and making mistakes.
Tips about using cats in Scala you might want to know
Legacy banks are fighting back against the Monzo insurrection
If you like to shop for food, buy higher-quality versions of everything. Buy the expensive fair-trade chocolate instead of the plastic bag of chocolate muffins, or the chocolate bar from the vending machine. Or go to a vegetarian restaurant instead of the burger chain.

These measures will reduce your budget for food, especially when your amount of money you can spend in a month is constrained. But you will eat higher quality ingredients and this alone will have a small beneficial impact on your body. Even if you do this to only a certain degree (you still buy junk food once a week, say) it will be beneficial, but more in a subtle way. You might even lose some weight this way, but don't expect too much.

Take a close look at "light" products or "fat reduced" products they are often more expensive and still contain _lower-quality_ ingredients. This also holds for many "vegan" products als well (margarine re-labeled as "vegan butter" for instance)
generally as long as it has solid linux compatibility then anything should be fine so my recommendation is the same as it is for most other tasks a Thinkpad T, X or P series
Brownian motion simulator ClojureScript, re-frame and Highcharts
For those not in the know, you can configure Google Analytics to:

1. not share data with Google for their own purposes

2. anonymize IPs

3. reduce the max age of their tracking cookie or disable it completely

GA is also compliant with GDPR if configured properly. At least one DPA thinks so.

Self-hosting of an open source solution is great, but I trust Google more than I can trust the hosting provided by startups. That's because Google is under constant scrutiny, whereas the startups working on these alternatives are not. Of course, you can make your visitors feel good about not using Google Analytics and get some free publicity, but that's another issue.
Universal income study finds money for nothing won’t make us work less
The points outlined about the law sound like the government has carte blanche.
I don't quite get why the German gov doesn't just roll it's own solution?

Presumably the community would like that. Throw some money at it & start a government backed free one.
> In a presentation video on his YouTube channel that he runs under the nickname Hand Solo, the Andorran said his aim was to show people nothing is impossible and disability cannot stop them.

It annoyed me more than it should that they did not link to his channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSjwgNfrF5oTp1PdBrsptKA
Hello from the UK!

Fingers crossed American English won't have completely taken over the world by the time he's learning to spell!

Actually, being a non-American Anglophone country where American English is a vehicle for lots of technology has had some interesting consequences. For example, we have the word "programme" for "schedule", but "program" for "computer instructions". I think there are other examples.
Rotisserie chicken. Buy one every other day without any sides. Eat half a chicken, dark meat for lunch, white meat for dinner (or vice versa), with a bunch of greens along the way (spinach, broccoli, etc).
When I compare the jobs I’ve had, I would say the first ever job I had as a freelancer was best. It wasn’t for a particularly sexy, high-profile company in the IT sector. It wasn’t a company that used particularly interesting technology. It wasn’t a place with young, high-energy employees. But what I really enjoyed was the opportunity to work independently as the sole programmer on the particular project I was assigned to. I managed my own time, decided how to structure my work and deliverables, and coordinated with domain experts on my own. It wasn’t until I finished that project and moved on to another with a larger (over-staffed) team, a lot of written requirements and a dedicated architect that I realized how I prefer to work. I felt so productive before and ended up in the tar pit. Where I had time before to learn on the job _and_ be productive at the same time, suddenly there wasn’t enough hours in the day for all the meetings, requirements reading and planning.
Journals became more and more obsolete with the rise of Internet and only managed to retain their position in the academic world due to their citation metrics system that is used to judge academic worth and the enormous amount of articles that they've amassed over the last centuries and that academics need access to. I think it will take at least another 30 years until we will be able to stop relying on closed-access journals, possibly longer since there are still countless high-profile articles that only get published in those journals (though some universities and funding agencies changed their policies to demand that results of publicly funded research are freely available).

In Physics and many other fields Arxiv.org has basically replaced journals as the primary way of getting the latest research results. Unfortunately many high-impact-factor journals like Nature forbid you to publish a preprint of your article there (at least that was the case in 2012) so that they can defend their claim of publishing "cutting-edge" results only (which due to their long review processes are often 12 months old by the time they're actually published).

The most ridiculous thing is that the journals today do little more than act as an intermediary between the authors of a paper and the reviewers, which work for free and are colleagues from the same field. That and maybe styling the papers a bit, which is (IMHO) unnecessary in most cases as the source LaTeX version usually provides very good design already.
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Complex front end app, canvas components, spa, stores, reactivity, etc.
J2CL: Java to Closure JavaScript Transpiler (GWT3...)
Apologies: I'm being obtuse.... Which tool?
Disclose, like in the small text that nobody reads?
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Your comment hit me like a brick to face. Nostalgia panic. Your writing style is great, btw.
It came, went, and came again for ARM. On complete mainstream systems, however, the price of the CPU will be a relatively small fraction of the total BOM.
Detect key words and phrases – retext-keywords
First Evaluation of Finland's Basic Income Pilot
Rolling a publication is not expensive and relatively easy. Building a brand and trust in the publication is extremely difficult, takes a long time, and a lot of marketing dollars. If it was easy, it would have been done long ago.
Given the number of downvotes, I'd say I hit a really sore nerve.

Citation-based scientific success is deeply wrong, and you'all know it. The whole "we don't have a choice but to play that game to get funding" doesn't make it any more right.

It also looks like none of the answer stopped for a second to reflect on how broken a system relying on citations controlled by the elsevier of this world is.

The quality of the science should speak for itself. How much research gets cited should be a consequence of that quality period. The feedback loop is counter-productive, and worse, easy to game or take advantage of.
Errai Framework (GWT, RedHat)
As someone who lived in Japan for about 5 years, most of the confusion comes from taking an isolated phenomenon from Japan and assuming it's something common that most Japanese people do every day.

Imagine a "Florida man" news making the buzz in Japan, and them assuming most Americans wrestle a gator every day before breakfast.

Now back to the zombie squid, it certainly exists but I'm sure most Japanese have never eat that dish, probably even never hears about it. Just like most French people have never eaten an ortolan (something I consider much more shocking than the squid video - and I'm French.)
Internal NeXT video (1990)