skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just looked at pigeonly pricing and unlimited postcards is $3 a month. At $0.50 per postcard that ends up being way cheaper if you send more than 6 a month.

That's outside of the actual reason prisons are banning postcards, which is the prevalence of lacing postcards with drugs, which is a safety risk.
I agree, philosophy of science/STS. And Paul Conte once told my father he believed programmers should have a base in cognitive psychology.

I enjoyed my liberal arts electives far more than any engineering, math or other field-related course.

Oh well.
I remember being parked at the gate on a Lufthansa flight. The passenger next to me was on her cell phone finishing up a call. An angry stewardess marched over to yell at her for being on the phone and said "It is against German law!". The passenger, being a New Yorker, she just said "We're not in Germany honey". I thought they were going to drag her off the plane, but the stewardess marched off in a huff. I avoid Lufthansa whenever I can. They are usually overpriced, and they confuse Teutonic efficiency with customer service.
I would have to guess that there's probably some small amount of abuse...but aside from that, i think it is the fact that it is unpaid leave. I think if the leave were paid, there would be tons more abuse. To be sure, there's still risk in trying to go off on your own. Imagine that you hate your current job, have this chance, then take the chance...and then you fail spectacularly...Would you really feel good about going back to your crappy job? Maybe because i'm thinking through the mind of a sad American (sad because we lack many social safety nets such as this program)...but returning to a shitty job after failing big time doesn't sound like the nicest of feelings. Still, as much as America thinks that we're entrepreneurial, i sure wish we had this system.
How so? Radar reports don't garner any payouts, do you mean with other companies?
>However this is not the same as the Nato budget or "contributions" - the NATO countries contribute very little to NATO specifically (a building in Brussels etc). An aircraft carrier belonging to the US Navy still belongs to the US Navy whether it's on NATO exercises or on patrol by Hawaii.

Sure, but that carrier costs a lot of money to operate. If we're doing so in accordance with a NATO treaty/policy/request then it's still an expense.

Of course the US doesn't do this for completely altruistic reasons. We obviously have a vested interest in the stability of western Europe and the safety of our allies. That does not change the fact that the US contributes the vast majority of resources used to defend NATO allies and that things in that region would look quite a bit different if e.g. we decided to massively scale back.

It is complicated however and I don't pretend to have a high level of understanding on all of the details. There's a lot I could learn here.
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I am not sure why you are accusing someone of a crime ("stealing").

Installing an ad blocker is within someone's full legal right.

Why are you making false statements regarding what is or is not a crime?
I highly recommend making writing part of the interview process if it will be important for the job. Some people sound brilliant when talking, but as others have noted, having to write out the details forces you to organize your thoughts.
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Most programming editors rearrange the white space of the files they open. Some do it more, some do it less.

Rearranging white space in a YAML file often destroys information.
This is why.

One of my ex's maternal grandma left her a little over $100K for college. The grandma trusted her daughter and son in law to manage it. The parents divorced and the mother went wild for a while and spend it on drugs, partying, and vacations. My ex ended up taking a bit OSAP.
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How is land ownership different from anything else, say like the Thors hammer I bought on ebay?
I am in this predicament, and every one of these people are making up a blatant lie that they can't afford it. What they really mean is they are stubborn. They don't see money logically and clearly, where if they could they would realise their hidden costs far exceed $10 a month... Things like coffee, gas. They don't realise it racks up $10 $15 and $20 dollars behind the scenes. But theyre happy to pay for that... why? Because they don't have to see it go. They don't have to think about it. That's why people dont like subscriptions. Spotify is extremely affordable, for literally everyone who can afford an internet connection. People are lying about why they don't want to pay for it; I'm young and poor and to tell you the truth even i can afford it, I'm just way too stubborn.
You are spot on.

The temporary reduction or even suspension of insulin depending on my activity are key in preventing lows for me.

The closed loop pumps are the biggest improvement I've seen for living with T1. There's always lots of promises, but this is one of the few things that really improves my life on a day to day basis and it just keeps getting better.
Japan is probably the only country that keeps suprising me and is often (in my eyes) absolutely contradictory - I love many of their animes, some of their movies (e.g. the old samurai classics, "I am a hero", etc) some of their music (I listen from time to time to "J1 radio"), but at the same time e.g. some other animes really go over my thresholds, they have the problem with child prostitution, keep fishing anything that moves, are ultra-protectionist, etc... .

Incredible.

How did it happen that they're sometimes absolutely great/avantgarde/etc... and then sometimes they fall back to the exact opposite?

I often think that on the day when I'll be able to understand japan culture, I'll have no challenges left on this planet => I'll need some kind of extraterrestrial-invasion or faster-then-light-travel to find new interesting stuff to understand :)
Here's two more for the list opening their site on a mobile browser:

On a data connection redirected me to my ISP's game shop that apparently lets me buy crappy games for I don't know what with one click via phone bill.

Multiple redirects to a website that claims my phone is infected while maxing out the CPU and triggering permanent vibration.
Yeah...I dunno maybe the baristas are more accomodating at the one I go to but they're usually pretty happy to make things like that and charge less for it.
Life is too short to read 99% books.
But Facebook has an enormous user base. Also, this is a different kind of scaling, as the value they provide is the same as before. And they had to work hard to change their price point.
I feel like every book is going to be contested both in the long and short terms. Instead of taking a book at face value, it is important to subscribe to the conversation around it that will inevitably follow.
Or one can be true and not the other. I will agree that neither of us know WTF was going on in the Amazon meetings that decided where to go. I will concede that I jumped the gun in speaking in an absolute.

It's entirely possible the tax breaks or lack there of would have affected their decision, but because NYC offers things very few other cities on the planet can offer in regards to both human capital as well as other amenities it's also possible that it was a cherry on top and not the sundae itself.
> If you don't want to "subject yourself to personal harm" you can either not use the service or pay for the ad-free service.

OR, he could install an ad blocker. It is completely legal to use ad blockers. Thats the law. If you don't like the law, then go change it.
Usually war served to reduce that surplus, but with automation in the military as well, this is uncharted territory.
It seemed liked the 90's and early 2000's crypto was based on Ron Rivest - RSA, MD5, RC4

It seems like 2010's and early 2020's crypto will be based on Daniel Bernstein - ChaCha20, Poly1305, Curve25519
> Is authoritarian and authoritative exclusively [...] jargon alone?

I'd say so, doing an internet search for "authoritarian vs authoritative" yields almost exclusively parenting articles.

In general, I think authoritarian is used for "you must do what I tell you" rule (governments, due the vocab word authoritarianism), and authoritative is used for "this is for sure the right way" objects and concepts (papers, sources, statements). The definition I have for authoritarian lines up with the parenting style, but authoritative does not line up so well.

My opinion from the outside is that it is not clear. They share the same root word from which their meanings derive; I'd assume they were talking about the same parenting style if it wasn't directly pointed out. If you applied these adjectives to Software Development or some other field, I would be hard-pressed to determine a clear distinction.
> Science does not support the claim that humans have consciousness! You know that you are conscious, but you have no way to falsify the hypothesis that everyone OTHER than you is a philosophical zombie.

I think this is more of a philosophical thought experiment than a scientific one. It's true that it's hard to define what consciousness even is, but I'm pretty sure the working hypothesis is that whatever it is, both you and I have it. Scientists do not work under the assumption that anyone could be a philosophical zombie, because that's not a productive stance; no science -- as a meaningful social human enterprise -- can be conducted from a position of complete solipsism. Similarly, scientists do not think "well, I cannot prove other people exist outside my mind"; that's an unproductive stance, outside the realm of scientific thought.
The end result will be the same. You will call this a PR stunt.
Patent-pending?

No thanks.
This part of the video makes no sense. (I didn't watch the rest.)

From the video:

> If you observe milk protein (casein) under a microscope it will appears as this - there are 17 links in it.

The video says "links", you say "rings". It's a small but important distinction. Proteins are made by linked aminoacids, so sing "link" is a good approximation, but most of them don't look like "rings".

I can't find where the "17" comes from. After a few google searches I found that casein has approximately 210 aminoacids, the number can vary, but it is not 17.

(Also, you can't see a single casein protein under a normal microscope, nor the parts of it. I guess it's only a metaphor, but it makes me suspicious.)

I don't find the part in the video that says that casein escapes to blood. (I didn't try too hard.)

Casein is split in the stomach by the enzymes IIRC they are the regular enzymes that also split the proteins in meat, and other food, not specialized enzymes.

(There is an specialized enzyme for lactose that is an special sugar in milk, but this is not what the video or you say. But if this were dangerous, we'd have a lot of babies with diabetes. Moreover, only some adults produce the enzyme to digest lactose, so it would be easy to test.)

I didn't find a source that says that beta cells have some proteins that are similar to casein. It is posible, but I doubt.

And IIRC most autoinmune diseases, where the body get confused and start to attack some part of it don't go away after you remove the initial agent that causes the reaction. So stopping drinking milk won't stop the reaction.
VPNs do literally nothing to protect your privacy.

if anything they make it _more_ obvious who is using your internet connection. Yes, your ISP will be less able to snoop, but you are now exchanging your ISP's complete oversight, with a VPN provider's.

Now, if you VPN is based in the EU, then you have GDPR to help you. However the burden of proof is still on you.

So what can you practically do?

1) container tabs

Each service you _have_ to sign into has its own container. This stops each service like google, facebook, ebay et al form a complete picture of you.

2) check your unique browser ID, https://panopticlick.eff.org/

3) trash your browser's profile every month.

4) on your phone, keep in private mode
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> Land in these places can be something like $500/acre. That's not zero

...and thus economically scarce...

> but compared to the land prices people are more familiar with, it's as close as makes no difference in practice.

It's very cheap. But very cheap things are still scarce. Something that isn't scarce has no price and everyone (even the poorest of the poor) who wants any quantity of it will have as much as they want without sacrificing anything.

Land in the places you describe is cheap. The price may even seem negligible to people in the upper middle class in the developed world. It's very much still scarce.

The difference between scarce and not scarce is not a matter of price, it's a fundamental difference of kind.
We are in a period of transition. Moving from info scarcity to info overload didn't come with a migration booklet.

It doesn't help that everyone's attention is being hacked simultaneously. Nor does it help that the internet allows you to reach everyone on the planet, whether you are worthy of that reach or whether they are worthy of your words.

All I know is in such an environment in flux pointing out hypocrisy is a waste of time. Let it play out. Give it another 10 years.
There's a math inequality here.

Mike the Millennial is strapped for cash, and so won't pay for content directly. Alice the Advertiser wants to convince Mike to buy her products, so she places ads with Nick the Newspaper. Nick gets money from Alice, to provide Mike with content for no cost.

But doesn't Alice expect a return on that advertising spend? Doesn't Mike ultimately pay Alice more than he would have if he had just paid Nick directly?

I know it's a hell of a lot more complicated than this, but aggregated over all advertising industry revenue, and aggregated over all content subscription revenue, it seems that the ultimate price of advertising (once it percolates down to the consumer) will always be greater than an equivalent cost of subscriptions.
Yes, I fully agree. The liberal arts are of utmost importantce to our culture and society as a whole. I cringe everytime I hear people say that access to these studies should be limited because they aren’t economicly viable.

We don’t just need resources to live, we also need a reason.
>I think you are suggesting ... consciousness is not testable

Yes, that's right. (Edit: I mean, we don't know how to test it yet.)

Re: your experiment: In principle, I could design a dumb machine that you can plug your EEG machine up to, and my machine will play recordings of human brain readings to it. I'll even make my machine detect when sedatives are injected into it, and respond by tapering off transmitting those recordings for awhile, eventually resuming them after awhile, just like a human. Surely you're not going to propose that this bizarre contraption I've just described is conscious :)

Here's a way to think of it: you want to design a new Captcha based on EEGs. Now, every computer comes with EEG sensors for use on the new Captchas. How will you prevent spammers from attaching the sensors to a device that produces pre-recorded EEGs.
"Ad blocker" is #1 thing that should be installed first on every single browser, everywhere, to block third party ads. Then we browse. Heck, that browser Brendan Eich is working on comes pre-installed with one. So this isn't some fringe position I hold. It's basic web hygiene.

> When people aren't willing to pay for 1-2 coffees for a month of unlimited music streaming are you really surprised that companies have no choice to use an advertising revenue model?

No. But I get the sense you're trying to express moral indignation at such users, and I don't see the logic behind that. "I like $site_owner therefore I whitelist $arbirary_third_parties whose behavior cannot be controlled nor even really measured by $site_owner" isn't a workable/scalable lesson to try to teach users.

To be clear, I also don't see any reasonable argument to be morally indignant about Spotify blocking the blockers. This is the web as it currently exists.
> Yes, I can buy individual insurance, but moving off and on new plans is incredibly time consuming, and if you have a certain prescription that you are on or have something that is covered by an employer plan but may not be covered by an individual on then it's highly risky to leave.

As someone who spent time doing contract work, and working on my own business, this is what made me seek out work as an employee.

I cannot, and will not, play the game of paying for individual insurance. Employers can negotiate for better rates and better plans than you, as an individual, will ever be able to.

If you have a health condition or injury, the chances of which will increase each day that you're alive, the individual health insurance market is a disaster.
We use Olark for years and it's free and it also has an JS interface where your website code can interface with it (populate user info if logged-in, etc.). It is far from perfect but it gets the job done when you want the customer to quickly contact you.

I see now they put some more "unlock to get" things on their website but still their free offering is good enough. The only limit is after 20 live chats you get emails instead.

For us we use it mostly for getting the initial question (in offline mode) and then we take it further via email.
This is the real issue here. If you can afford to be on hackernews, you can afford $10 a month. People just have cheapness deeply ingrained into their psyche as a pleasure response.
Any amount of money you owe on a loan (whether it be a fixed amount, like 1 cent per 10,000 usd or a percentage) is usury. It is bad because it exploits people in need, and people with money get more money doing basically nothing. Do not distinguish between the two based on how much interest gets charged, it's all the same. As far as I'm aware, what are known as Abrahamic religions made no distinction between the two. It's a modern invention.

Most inflation today is artificial, banks print more money to stimulate people spending more money. This is one summary I came across: https://www.quora.com/What-is-artificial-inflation
UBI doesn't prevent you from looking for work on top of it - that's what "unconditional" means here.
My interest is piqued. Can you point us to some examples of high quality business writing?
Suppose you had a car dealership. Cars were flying off the lot. No discounts or rebates needed. Google comes in and buys 10, Facebook takes another 10. Amazon then comes in and asks for 25 and wants a $5000 rebate for each car. You give it to them. That rebate was still in the margin of what you were making, but now all your other loyal customers that had no problem buying your product for the quality of what you sell now want concessions too. Yes you still "made money" but you devalued a premium product that was selling well for no good reason. The better move business wise would be to tell the person that wants a discount to go to someone willing to offer it. Amazon needs NYC as well.
I believe I have the right to choose whenever possible which resources my computer downloads and what code my computer executes. That includes selecting which parts of a specific website or application I download and execute.

If Spotify wants to refuse to fulfill requests for one resource (e.g. songs) separate from requests for another resource (e.g. ads), I have absolutely no problem with that. But if Spotify chooses (as appears to be the case, at least before this account suspension policy) to fulfill both requests independent of one another, I believe I have the right to make either request, both requests, or neither request.

In other words, I have absolutely no qualms with users using ad blocking software, just like I have no problem with users using firewalls, antivirus software, or content restriction software. And I also have no problem with Spotify attempting to prevent this activity, either by making ad blocking technically infeasible (radio figured this out over 100 years ago), or by suspending accounts that violate their terms (especially free accounts, since the customer would have no case that Spotify owes them a refund or compensation).
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iTunes Match combined with Apple Music gives me everything.

Family sub for $14 month and $25 year for match to keep all my music even dodgy mp3s safe from bitrot is well worth it.

I move dozens of times a year, I no longer have to haul books and cds, I for one welcome my digital overlord.
I believe it's only on mobile
You don't decide at all that your leg will move. It simply moves. You can't even avoid it.
Freestyle Libre isn't strictly a CGM, but it doesn't need calibration.
Very interesting. Your byline on Medium says "I have a games site called Kongregate". Are you still involved with the company? Is Emily still involved? If so what led you leave and her to stay? What got you to leave EA to start Kongregate?
Pretty cool tool, the NLP focus is surprising but I'm not sure if it is a marketing ploy or fundamental to the technology. The nice syntax is also an improvement over things like LPeg, which seem to obscure the grammar by forcing it to be written in Lua. Seems like it could overlap in functionality with Rebol/RED parse, which I believe has been posted on here before, LPeg, or just PEGs and Packrat parsing in general.

https://www.red-lang.org/2013/11/041-introducing-parse.html

The parse engine is implemented with a PEG, so it is probably a lot slower, but also supports pattern matching over whole words. Also, the database aspect of Nevod seems interesting and offers potentially a huge speed. But as far as I can tell, the syntax looks like a PEG with some implicit rules that separate words. As far as speed goes, I definitely believe that Nevod could be very fast but I haven't seen any numbers.

Shameless plug, I've implemented something similar with PEGs for Janet, a lisp I have been working on for a while. I make no claims to it's speed, but the peg interpreter is written in tight C so it shouldn't be too slow. The peg module in Janet works with a DSL that looks like a lispy EBNF and results in a recursive parser compiled to bytecode for the interpreter.

https://janet-lang.org/peg.html

You can also mess with the language in a browser on the home page.

https://janet-lang.org/
What if he turns out to be the next Hitler?
Yeah, sorry, blood glucose.
Indeed. People who want to achieve something - they will be quite happy about it. But seeing retired parents not knowing what to do about their lives (because they dedicated whole life to getting their children ahead and working their ass off to do that, and now they done with it - what next?) - suggests that there is more to it, than just covering basic needs.
> My point is simply that Perl doesn't give you any guarantee except "we will try to parse it".

Perl 6 gives you pretty good control over where to use backtracking and where not. It parses regular languages with a NFA or DFA, and can switch to a backtracking engine.

More details in https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484232279 (sorry for the plug, wrote it myself).
Yes, I am in research to do cool science. I write the papers because I want to do cool science. But then I have to decide where to submit those papers. At this point, the choice has nothing to do with science, so I am careful to pick journals where my papers get the most visibility in the hope that this will increase my chances of remaining funded