skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works fine.

Screen readers obey CSS, this uses CSS to hide all of the additional elements (display: none). Screen readers are also designed to work when text is broken up by other inline elements e.g.:

He<b>llo</b> world

In this case it reads out both the words Sponsored and Public.

> If searching "Sponsored" in Chrome doesn't match the posts

That also worked perfectly fine in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Did you scroll enough to render any Sponsored posts?
Of course some forms of greed are more valuable than others. If one person's greed is "I want to make ten million dollars so I can create some jobs" and another's is "I want to make ten million dollars so I can put it in the bank and feel accomplished," all other things being equal, just about everyone from Reagan to Bernie to Jesus is going to say that the first person's greed is more worthwhile.
the way you have your environment set up, a simple if statement works and it would be more successful!
>given UBI, anything an individual may do would be his or her own prerogative and therefore represent higher quality output.

But having fun making art means little to an economy.

Having less fun designing a robot to pick potatoes will transform an economy.

Creativity is nice, but it doesn't directly correlate with additional value.
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For anyone curious, Saudi Arabia has been on the list but has effectively managed to dodge most of the requirements through complex corporate & trust structures. It's not that the U.K. suddenly opposes KSA being on the list but that recent regulatory changes will now require financial institutions to obtain "additional information regarding the transaction as well as the natural and legal persons involved" for entities owned or controlled by persons from those high-risk countries.

Before the EU's 5th AML Directive the transactions could be attributed to shell corps and trusts. So long as KSA is on the high-risk jurisdiction list the transactions will now need to be attributed to both the entity (corporation/trust/etc.) and the natural person directing the transaction on behalf of the entity (trustee/corporate director/etc.) and the ultimate beneficial owner (beneficiary of a trust/majority shareholder of a corp/etc.). This would understandably make it much easier to track the flow of Saudi funds and much more difficult for Saudi Arabia to avoid.
interesting, seems like it was patched quite quickly. what proportion of ad-blocking users are security-conscious engineers vs people who are simply trying to avoid ads?
Here's some of my favorites, pulled from this list of 12: https://www.thevectorimpact.com/personal-brand-examples/

- https://jackmcdade.com/

- http://rog.ie/

- http://sarahcpr.com/

- http://laurenholliday.com (Mine)
https://eu.usatoday.com/ contains images, but it's also super-fast
React can do SSR. You can use JSX on the backend for rendering pages just like on PHP.
There is absolutely nothing to justify here. Running ad-blockers is perfectly fine in any context whatsoever.

Everybody has the right to control what is displayed on their computer when they browse the Net, and Spotify has the right to cancel free accounts for whatever reason they want to. There is nothing wrong with running adblockers and anti-anti-adblocking scripts, etc., and there is nothing wrong with canceling free Spotify accounts. There is also no cognitive dissonance with running and ad-blocker and being angry when Spotify cancels your free account because of it, it's a perfectly reasonable and consistent attitude.
BigPharma is a business and has no incentive to prevent or cure disease but to make sure the patient remains a customer
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No. Click the about mathscientist link.
Agree. Was going to say the same. My wife was a teacher. The good parent sat down and helped their child with homework. The helicopter parent yelled at my wife about how she shouldn’t count that homework because it was too hard and their child needed a “chill day”.
A conclusion I've been reaching as I've grown older is that motivation is one of the most difficult and important things for any individual to learn. Once you have a clear objective, achieving things isn't so problematic -- having clear, realistic, well thought out things you want to achieve is much harder. Even failure is much more tolerable to me when I've failed knowing I were pursuing the right thing; failing when you don't even know what you want is much more painful. That's why taste is probably one of the best skills to develop in your child, letting him make decisions for himself and assessing the consequence of those for himself (instead of mandating anything -- although every now and then kids need stimuli or being slightly forced to try new things).

So high-involvement parenting to me is only good insofar as it helps those things, not if it sets everything you must do and how to do it.

Taste is not something you can't teach either, imo. There isn't anything necessarily more right or wrong about your tastes than the tastes children would pick up from friends and teachers. But I think you should make sure to clarify and expose your tastes instead of mandating (or even hiding) them; and understand your child is unique and your tastes may not fit her in every way.

All this of course lines up pretty well with the definition of "authoritative parenting" in the article, which is valuing 'adaptability, problem-solving and independence'.

"He who has a why can bear almost any how"...
It's tough... people feel like the US median standard of living has stagnated (the economic evidence is mixed on this subject) and therefore it is tempting to think there must be some shortcuts we can take to leverage our high GPD into a raised standard of living through direct cash transfers.

However, I personally feel that these ideas will lead to counterproductive results, that these sorts of transfers can lead to severe inflation and will lead to a higher unemployment rates, thereby dragging down the very GDP they are dependent on.

Unfortunately, both sides of this argument have little direct evidence to support their position... aside from tiny, partial studies such as the one in this article, which cannot give any meaningful insights into the complex macroeconomic effects of a larger UBI rollout, which will likely be singificant.

Everyone is at an impasse on this question.
If you don't like NIMBYism, you certainly shouldn't be supporting this.
Some of them were relieved but some of them weren't. There was Gerlach's reaction described later in the document.

"7. HAHN and HEISENBERG discussed the matter alone together. HAHN explained to HEISENBERG that he was himself very upset about the whole thing. He said he could not really understand why GERLACH had taken it so badly. HEISENBERG said he could understand it because GERLACH was the only one of them who had really wanted a German victory, because although he realized the crimes of the Nazis and disapproved of them, he could not get away from the fact that he was working for GERMANY. HAHN replied that he too loved his country and that, strange as it might appear, it was for this reason that he had hoped for her defeat. ..."

Then there was also this bit:

"... BAGGE: That's not true. You were there yourself at that conference in Berlin. I think it was on 8 September that everyone was asked – GEIGER, BOTHE and you, HARTECK, were there too– and everyone said that it must be done at once. Someone said 'Of course it is an open question whether one ought to do a thing like that.' Thereupon BOTHE got up and said 'Gentlemen, it must be done.' Then GEIGER got up and said 'If there is the slightest chance that it is possible – it must be done.' That was on 8 September '39.

WEIZSÄCKER: I don't know how you can say that. 50% of the people were against it.

HARTECK: All the scientists who understood nothing about it, all spoke against it, and of those who did understand it, one third spoke against it. ..."
It's a general misunderstanding that Basic Income is some sort of job program, it's not. It's a job replacement program for a society where there aren't enough jobs for everyone because technology have taken over most.

Basic Income should provide fundamental living cost support in a society that has no jobs so there is no "but" in there.

Edit: Keep in mind we already have Basic Income it's just conditional. UBI is different.
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How does this justify extortion? Serious question.
That's a nice thought, but it comes with its own problems. For example, XMPP uses a sane subset of XML, which is nice, except that people throw full XML parsers at it (because why wouldn't you? Your XML library parses XML and limiting that is more work for the developer to do) and then end up with vulnerabilities they don't know about like entity expansion DOS's or system directive stuff (and YAML has lots of tricky behavior that can be abused too like pointers).

Using a subset creates more work for the developer, so many just won't bother (if they even know that it's using a subset and they have to do more work at all), which leads to issues.
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I'm not all out against PHP. I've used, and still do, on occasion for simple things and prototyping.

That said, I'll never go out of my way to use it for much else—let alone serving and routing something public-facing ever again.
To the contrary, clear writing make it much easier for the audience to assemble complex ideas.

Poor writing definitely makes it harder, and it turns out that the vast majority of people are poor writers, mainly because they don't practice. You might not have experienced high-quality business writing because it's so rare.

Powerpoint does have its uses; I've written and delivered lots of talks using powerpoint. But informing an audience about to make a high-stakes decision is not among them.
x2go is perfect for this. I used to run an instance on AWS, but I just keep one at home now. It pipes everything through a PIA vpn.
Lol, it’s pretty easy to game a 6 page document. When you work in an industry rife with buzzwords and jargon everything turns into bullshit. Jeff Bezos turned exploiting workers into its competitive advantage, full stop. Please cease the great man worship. It is so cliche, dull, shallow, embarrassing.
At a previous job in the not-too-distant past, we needed to support IE7 for contractual reasons. I'd unironically floated the idea of launching a VM on the server running Firefox, and starting a VNC session, streamed over frames of a GIF. Clicks and keypresses would be transmitted with AJAX calls.

In a later project, we played with the idea of using an asm.js-compiled Webkit to render SVG (with embedded HTML) into a canvas due to mixed browser support.

Long story short, it's not inconceivable.
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if(ad_dollars > fines) { do_evil(); }
Has to be soul crushing to be in a team working on those products.

Coworker 1: There is a brutal video ad out there undermining our product.

Coworker 2: Which of our competitors did this?

Coworker 1: Err, we did it to ourselves.
>That would be solved by ai/automation

Lots of these topics have different outcomes when you start to assume sci-fi tech. I won't argue about what life should be like when we build fusion reactors or figure out nuclear 3D printing.
That's not what's surprising: if anyone was "paid not to work" in this experiment, it was the control group who stayed on traditional unemployment benefits - and yet they found jobs just as much as the UBI group did!
More like "We sent a free pizza to their home. How dare they not eat the pineapple toppings!?"
No, the key difference was that you could also earn money from other work without losing the government money.

This means that you can take on part time jobs without freaking out that you will lose unemployment.

This also means (for local business owners) that you can hire people for part time / spec work without being concerned about long term effects. This is a big deal for small businesses.
Er - I'm not a proponent of UBI, but there's an important, but subtle distinction here.

UBI is not "paying people not to work." That's more like typical unemployment - when people find jobs, the benefit goes away, creating a disincentive. With UBI, the benefit remains, (theoretically) encouraging risk taking.
Also a T1D here. I once had my test meter go bad on an international trip; by the time I realized it wasn't working I was on a deserted island that was an about a 4-hour boat ride away from the nearest pharmacy, which was closed.

Talk about stress levels going through the roof!
They may be borrowing these terms from educational psychology where they are indeed used exactly this way.
But then again, one or two large gulps of water may kill you.
I understand the concern but it does not bother me much. You are much more likely to have you data logged and used against you by visiting a small website than twitter or Facebook. CIA/FBI agents are known to hack websites and install trackers. The Firefox tor JavaScript exploit comes to mind.
I can't even try and take an article like this seriously. I understand it says in the article that Jeff Bezos owns the WaPo, but the way it's written sounds like Amazon trying to make a threat. Just look at the way the article starts off.

> Amazon.com is reconsidering its plan to bring 25,000 jobs to a new campus in New York City following a wave of opposition from local politicians, according to two people familiar with the company's thinking.

Amazon isn't considering bringing 25,000 jobs to NYC out of the goodness in their heart. It's a business play where they are doing what they think is most profitable for them. They want to be in NYC because it's the largest market in the US. I think their plan all along was to come to NYC. They just thought they could stage this elaborate "pick my city" nonsense and get a bunch of tax breaks. This article just sounds like them whining that people caught on.
"They [Huawei] are a prime example of blatant intellectual property theft and backdoor spying for the Chinese intelligence apparatus." Can you cite evidence for this. Do you have direct personal evidence for this statement?
Unfortunately, this isn't practical. For any of my own tools I will never use YAML, but I don't just use my own tools, and reinventing the wheel just to not use YAML has its own problems which are (in some cases) worse.
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Man, I would delete my ad blockers right now and never use them again if everyone just served inert images, text, or even video without tracking affordances. I mainly block ads so I can cling to my last tiny shred of privacy and security
Is this technically feasible? It seems like the data would have had to seep through countless barriers to travel from FBI/CIA/NSA/HSA to reach the inquirer.
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Because they are fighting the people that absolutely do not want to see advertisements whatsoever (most normal people I know do not have ad-blockers), which already makes them the least likely to be attracted by advertisements. If anything, those brands are souring their reputation anytime they are seen by those kind of people in a medium that those consumers find obnoxious.

You can make a similar argument that the RIAA/MPAA going after piracy is a waste of time. Again, focus on delivering value to actual customers.

If Facebook spent more time on making a friendly ecosystem / community I would be more open to signing back up again. Instead, it seems they are hyper-focused on advertisements at the expense of everything else.
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> I can't mix my paid-for (ripped) CDs and paid-for MP3s/AACs with streams in one app

It's not an optimal solution, but iTunes can import songs from CDs, and you can add other mp3s to your library, but it doesn't cloud sync across devices.

Another solution is Google Play Music, which can import your iTunes library (and CDs indirectly from iTunes) and does do cloud sync.
Obligatory blackmail scene from the Dark Knight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z6o1GIEsQE
Does it matter? What is important is that users are not getting their PC's ransomwared. If a desire to not look at ads also results in less ransomwared PCs, Win Win!
"we know hiroshima and nagasaki had no bearing on the japanese decision to surrender."

That may well be the case but it is not remotely clear that the people making that decision knew it for a fact which is what actually has bearing on the morality.

Also - why focus so much on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The bombing of Tokyo, Dresden, Hamburg, London, Coventry, etc. were all attacks on civilians. We tend to judge atomic bombing as being special because of the thermonuclear age that followed but if it wasn't for that, we'd think of them as "strategic" bombing of population centres exactly the same as all the other such bombing done by all sides in WW2.
> Facebook employees could better use their time on developing actual features that bring value.

The problem here of course is that circumventing the ad blocking is the most direct way Facebook can find value.
This is one of the best examples I've seen on "fighting for the users", the rule that every developer should follow.
> there aren't enough jobs for everyone because technology have taken over most.

And yet the US has full employment.

Could it be that Finland lacks jobs for some reason other than technology?
A nice variation of this is plus addressing. The advantage it has over a catchall/wildcard is not attracting or being susceptible to random spam (i.e. when a spammer just sends emails to a domain using common names like david@ or mike@ etc.).

If you don't run your own mail server, Fastmail offer it (and have a nice fallback for the occasions where a badly coded site doesn't accept email addresses in the form of username+blah@domain.tld ...I'm looking at you microsoft!): https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html
This is the real story. Full on clickbate, normalized. This is the end.
I wouldn't consider it humiliating. And there's a dimension this doesn't talk about: false positives. Twitter has to make an actual decision to ban an account. When they get this wrong, they have unhappy users and I'm sure articles would appear here about the terrible work they are doing. These researchers pay none of those costs about false positives. Perhaps they have a 7% false positive rate and consider that pretty good. That amounts to about 12,000 legitimate users banned.
There was a Chinese mobile browser that essentially did this if I recall. And didn't Amazon have something like this for one of their earlier Kindles?
To your list of issues I'd add extraction by rentiers.

My (perhaps naive) understanding is that rents tend to rise to a market equilibrium. Infuse the the aggregate market in an area with X dollars, and rents will rise to consume X.

I'd be curious to hear counterarguments to that point.
> Name your variable in a way that makes as clear as possible what the variable is used for.

This is my consideration as well. It's like "documentation for free" or "commenting without comments".

When I get hit by a bus tomorrow, you will be able to look at my variables and have an easy, viable clue about what is going on. Reading my mind will be that much easier when figuring my code.
Yeah, but like any medical field, people come to you in extreme pain and leave without it. If you can’t find meaning in that you probably can’t find meaning in anything.
I'm finding that although golang offers type safety it introduces a new kind of error class to applications typically not encountered in web apps of the python/php/ruby/node class.

Deadlocks and race conditions.

For node, the entire app is a single thread so this just doesn't happen. For python/php/ruby concurrency is abstracted away and handled above the framework layer so the programmer never has to deal with it. You can launch threads in a route handler for these languages but it's not often done and you have nothing like a context object that is basically this abstraction leak that explicitly forces the programmer to constantly be aware of concurrency issues.
I'm sure there were a lot of interesting challenges creating the V2 rocket that terrorized London...
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I'm not sure I'd agree as to what is the main feature there; certainly most people prefer writing using something resembling a pen / pencil, but I'd argue that is mostly to do with the carry over from a previously learned skill (which is nontrivial and schools spend years drilling into us as kids). Re: pressure, I coincidentally I recently spent a fair bit of time researching graphics tablets for art purposes, and generally the main point every professional artist agreed on was "don't waste your money on a tablet that doesn't have pressure sensitivity, you need it". It tends to also also correctly simulate what they are already used to, which is the previous point.

The main thing though is that as much as you are probably irked by people generalising overly much, I'm similarly irked when people go the opposite direction and generalise too little. It tends to come up on many levels, a silly example being /r/fitness's popular opinion about pushups which goes along the lines of "doing a lot of pushups won't make you generally stronger in the least, it just makes you able to do more pushups", which I'd argue is a needless.

Again, I think you have an interesting point which can be considered further. E.g, why are joysticks and yokes more popular (or thought to be superior) for the controls of real planes or sims?. I suspect the fine control, and being able to separate the axes / operate them more independently likely play a big role. Hence, it's likely down to the task, or rather, groupings of similar tasks.
Someone working an hour a week counts as employed.
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Ask HN: Free software for UK digital taxation?
The UK Gov't have a project to overhaul the taxation system here, called Making Tax Digital (MTD) [0]. At some point this year the plan is to implement the new system for VAT [1], followed by expanding to the rest of the system by 2020.

Gov.UK has a long list of companies [2] providing the software required under the new system, be it a bespoke accounting program or just a specially-formatted Excel spreadsheet or piece of 'bridging software'.

Does anyone know of any free software options available for complying with this new system?

This thread on GnuCash [3] suggests it may not be possible due to the use of per-application secrets, but maybe something can be done with LibreOffice? The use of one non-free spreadsheet would be more palatable than an entire piece of software.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Tax_Digital
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/making-tax-digital-for-vat
[2] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/software-for-sending-income-tax-updates
[3] http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/UK-specific-MTD-Making-Tax-Digital-tp4691090p4691095.html
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Increasingly I feel like all my philosophical problems with UBI are irrelevant in the face of the fact that apparently UBI is too expensive to even do a proper small-scale trial. If we can't afford that, we even moreso can't afford simply leaping to full scale.

(And one thing these trial do seem to show is that giving it out, and then removing it, is at least modestly disruptive.)
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Hot take: the Fediverse won’t catch on unless it gets a killer app of its own. Every federated project I’ve seen is a clone of something else.
The money (tax) will be pulled regardless. It's the cost of doing business. You should be producing value because producing value make you happier. Basic income enable both type people to be happy.