skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question I've always wondered about UBI type programs (and I've been a fan) is what happens when people don't spend the money wisely? Take homelessness for example, what happens when you give homeless people $1,000/month and they spend it on drugs and are still homeless and hungry? In the end it seems like we will be left paying for UBI and social programs like public housing, food stamps and drug addiction programs. UBI will simply not be a replacement for most social programs as it is often advertised, which in my mind means we probably can't afford it.
Nary a study cited indicating that music benefits concentration. I wonder why? The research by and large shows silence is golden when it comes to staying focused and on task.
There's a bunch of suggestions in the threads around here, but the key word to search for is generally "salmiak" [1]. You can order just about anything on Amazon these days, but if you wanted to check for local stores, try for specialty candy shops, especially those with a traditional nordic background or an adjacency to a major shipping wharf.

(I learned about it myself during a photo scavenger hunt in Seattle in college. I'm still amused by the photo from that where the rest of my scavenger hunt team was dying from taste, and I'm the only one enjoying it. There was a well known wharf candy shop we were directed to as the easiest place to buy it and get that photo op [and they were used to and amused by college kids making the stop].)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salty_liquorice
I thought that too, but just looked talked with a user of an email marketing program and she is getting read notifications from her own Gmail account right after she opens it when testing (and lots in production). I think what Gmail does is they load the images from their server the first time you open the email and cache then for later views.
It's free, but they have some additional hardware they sell. Founder's dad is a palm oil billionaire from Malaysia, maybe that's how they can keep it free? Dunno. It's a great product, I really like it.
Building interactive maps with statically generated vector tiles
> you can be sure no one in the U.S. is going to touch it.

That hasn't been true historically.
I agree, this was to show the difference between Apple and Epic.
One reference mentions a nurturing bias in girls. No reference brings up a hunting-versus-nurturing instinct. It appears it is the unnamed author's own invention.
Frequent in-person discussions between people with different opinions tends to make people compromise and find nuance more easily. However if one side of the discussion is self-censoring, then both sides will tend to develop extreme opinions without any means to tamper them. As such, what you are describing is actually evidence to support the self-censorship hypothesis, not refute it.
Cloudflare is a business, and businesses exist to make money. So anything they do ultimately has an ulterior motive of getting more business. Even if it is a loss leader type of service.

However, could it possibly be that there is a company that has decided that they could give back to the community they make money from to push back against the hoovering of all data just because? I currently use no Cloudflare service(s), but small things like this get my attention.
I’ve been a programmer at a fortune 100 company for nearly 20 years (did a few years at a smaller company before that). In college I studied history, linguistics, and educational psychology.
The "interpretation" in this case is just a few skeptical comments made in a hearing by the judge. And her comments mostly seem to address Epic's (dis)honesty in describing its motivation, they are not some deep statement on the foundation of antitrust law. The case is going to a jury trial.
They 100% sell your transaction information, as does Visa and MasterCard. Google buys that, as do Amazon and Facebook and many other companies.
It is pretty ironic, although XHR does predate JSON.
Just FYI Influenza is not a coronavirus. They can both be grouped (along with many other diseases) under the term ARI (Airborne Respitory Infection).

It's so important to be precise and specific when taking about Covid19; it's not flu.

The 1919 pandemic didn't just "disappear" it killed many of its hosts, and people used social distancing, additional hygiene measures, and mask wearing to help reduce the infection rates. AIUI it was more rapid in producing symptoms and more deadly - leading to less infections and perhaps less deaths than a Covid19-like virus might (at that point in history).
This may sound ridiculous (I first saw the headline on r/NotTheOnion) but it’s actually quite nefarious: qualified immunity protects police from anything that wasn’t explicitly verboten thanks to exactly identical previous court rulings. It doesn’t matter how insane or outrageous, if it wasn’t previously adjudicated, then qualified immunity kicks in. Any deviations from precedent basically nullify the precedent and allow QI to apply: a cop was previously found guilty for battering a person with a baton but the cop today used the butt of a rifle? Qualified immunity.

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/3/21277104/qualified-immunity-cop...
Or, the model is right, but the system is being gamed in a way that isn't clear to us in the public. Then when we find out what the game is it'll be too late.
How many people do you see saying those crazy things? Hundreds? Thousands? What about the hundreds or millions or billions of others who don't post anything at all for fear (consciously or not) of backlash, either from the crazies or the not-crazies?
If people can't respect you for having a different opinion, they're not adults, and they're certainly not "friends," Facebook or otherwise.

What if your opinion is proven to be wrong but you are just not respecting the fact. Does it make sense to respect someone's opinion just because it is an opinion in such a case?
Wait, is email really dead?
Even to many Americans.
Predictions for 2030 Future
Why Coinbase Got It Wrong and Tech Leaders Need to Speak Out
And yet they're OK to lie through their teeth during interviews.
People carry a lot of hidden emotional baggage with them these days

Not any more than in days past. People just don't deal with it well anymore.

Possibly because they missed out on three formerly common phrases when they were growing up: "Too bad," "Who Cares?" and "Get over it."
An ad company calling something a "pixel" (as in "tracking pixel") ought to give you an idea of what it does.
There is this person who had two genetically different COVID-19 strains (but presumably the same serotype, there's only one serotype of COVID-19 known) for the first and second infection, confirmed by whole genome sequencing: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1275
I think if you're a senior software engineer at LinkedIn in silicon valley for a couple of years and then don't have enough to sustain yourself without additional income for a year after that then your lifestyle must be quite extravagant.
> People censoring themselves is the problem?

Yes. For example, very few people in SV can openly say they are going to vote for Trump.

> the larger the audience and concurrency of engagement, the less people censor the them selves

Yes, people don't censor themselves when they are in majority. For example, those who live in SV, and support gay marriage and BLM, they can throw insults without repercussions.
Can't help but be reminded of Justine Sacco’s infamous tweet. The joke a frankly terrible attempt at irony, but my read was that she had intended to poke fun at racists. Sacco not only lost her job over it but had to endure weeks of death threats and threats of rape. People of course moved on but I do recall one journalist describing what he saw when he interviewed her for his book on public shaming. A sad shell of a human being with emotional scarring she'll have to endure for the rest of her life. Data is only one part of the problem.
It doesn't take millions, it just takes a willingness to hold down the accelerator as an override.
> saying crazy things, insults, conspiracy theories, hate

Sadly, I think this is par for the course, and often those "crazy" things are accepted by a large enough part of society that the cooling effect is very low.
> Hindus being a global minority need to be cautious and are worried about such conversion activities.

Globally, I believe every religious group is a minority group, with Christians (~30%) followed by Muslims (~25%) followed by Hindus (~15%).

Nationally, I was definitely under the impression that Hindus were a supermajority in India (~80%).
Consider this:

JavaScript actually has a formal specification. Ruby and Python have no formal specification. I can tell you (with reference to the specification) exactly what a JavaScript program does. JavaScript may seem wacky on the surface, but actually it's all worked out. Nobody can tell you what a Ruby or Python program does.

And you think JavaScript is the footgun?
Sure, but how is it ironic? That is what I'm trying to figure out.
For me it was sort of the other way around, I had paid for a SuperDuper license years ago, and I went and looked at both it and CCC and saw that SD would work for backing up my new machine (which has Catalina on it out of the box). I agree that ShirtPocket's aesthetic is old skool for sure, but I have no complaints about the actual scheduled backups (well, actually one, which may not be their fault, I have it scheduled to dupe my SSD once a week in the middle of the night, and I notice that my machine won't sleep after that is completed).
I'm going to ask a question that I fear will have me labelled as naively privileged almost beyond any hope of my eventually redemption.

Are we as individuals hopelessly trapped in a social fabric that leads to the kinds of bad outcomes based on abuse of data that the author describes?

Assuming we can escape, is our only way out of this fabric to shred it from within? What of the benefits that we shred in our zeal? Is it mistaken to even claim their are benefits to be weighed against the drawbacks, because the drawbacks are so bad?

Perhaps it is a naive question. Is there a way we can reduce the bad outcomes by making those that cause them irrelevant, rather than counter-engaging them directly?
That's nice and must have been updated. A year or two ago when playing with wireguard that wasn't in there.
Surely that doesn't work if it's 'just' some self-published book the interviewers haven't heard of?

I don't mean any disrespect to yours at all (since I've never read any book on React, so I can say with certainty not your (unshared name) book on React) but anyone can write a bad book and start selling (or rather, 'offering for sale') PDFs/ePubs on their website (I've thought about doing it!) that shouldn't make them an automatic authority on the titular topic though.
This looks brilliant, thank you!
it help fill the customer acquisition funnel, which drives revenue for other products. The product is effectively marketing expense.
> Have you ever hesitated to click on a link because you thought your visit might be logged, and it could look bad?

Hah, I remember when people were passing around an href that was a google query stuffed with things like "how do I make a bomb" and "best ways to steal uranium." The idea was to negate the NSA or whoever's ability to get useful information from spying on obvious searches like that because suddenly everyone is on that list.

Another fun game, if you hear a friend say "hey siri," "ok google," or "alexa," immediately shout "how do I hide a body?!"
You can categorize people into careful and not careful. Posting goes down for the careful, but stays high for the not careful.

The total amount of posting doesn't go to zero because not everybody is in the careful category.
SQLite Database in Go
Craigslist usually has a bunch of dumb TVs for dirt cheap or free
While it shouldn't even be a thing on a TV (ads) since I've paid for the TV, but Pi-hole kills this dead in its tracks.
Immunity is complex. Every article tries to reduce it to antibodies, but antibodies are just one aspect of "memory."

Our immune systems have an inane immune system, an adaptive immune system, a Complement Protein system[0], with hundreds of thousands of proteins that have evolved over millions of years to change shape and form to grab onto and destroy all kinds of bacteria and viruses in the most random/crazy ways possible (It's a lot like microservices, except random monkeys throwing code at a wall and eventually making things work over millions of years), and many many other pieces.

Every vaccine we have today is either based off an inactivated virus or an attenuated virus (a virus moved though hosts to be less lethal to humans). The first vaccine used HorsePox/CowPox to create immune memory for SmallPox by Jenner, 185 years ago.

A lot of these newer vaccines like mNRA vaccines, are not vaccines at all. They attempt to generate antibodies specifically. But there could be hundreds of other interactions that occur when a virus enters your system, that can help build immunity. There's a lot we simply do not know about.

Attempts at SARS1/MERS vaccines led to Imunopathic responses and Immune Enhancement Syndrome. Vaccines are some carefully engineered, invention of science. They came about due to horrific diseases, where doctors tested and experimented on human beings because thousands were going blind, getting paralyzed or dying.

The rush to create a vaccine, with methods that have never successfully created a vaccine before, should be of great concern to everyone.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSypUV6QUNw
Your book titles?
France has a mixture of jus soli and jus sanguinis, like most countries. Pure jus soli, as in the American case, is in fact quite rare.
That would still rely on

A) some kind of secret that only the server knows that the client can verify in order to ensure it's not trading nonces with the MITM.

B) A way for the client to ensure that the nonce isn't being passed through a second tcpcrypt session between the MITM and the server with the connection being in cleartext between the 2 tcpcrypt streams.

Currently the best supported method of implementing both A and B is certificates, which means you may as well use TLS.
Ask HN: Biggest life lessons for new-comers before entering into corporate world
I am asking this because I was working in a fin-tech startup having 800,000 active investors using the platform. No shortage of money and work. The work culture and work was really good , no office politics. I also worked on many feature and recently they launched a new product in which I was one of the core developer working on front-end. Everyone is happy with the product. The product manager, CEO, VP engineering, other company's team with which they have partnered with.
And suddenly the CTO told me that we can't continue with you. I asked why? He says you have worked good in this project but 8 months ago you are not working as per company's expectation so we gave you overall rating on 2.5/5, so we decided we can't continue with you. But don't worry we'll try to search jobs for you.

I told that I was a fresher back then and this is my first company and this project is my first project in which I've worked as a team.
He said there was no lack in your effort, learning new things, attitude towards the issue, and your coding skills, you will be a very good developer in 1 or 2 years. But we can't continue with you. Yes, you had came to me for reviews about your work. It was my mistake that I was not giving you proper review. Still we can't continue with you.

The lesson I've learned here is you can be fired at any time even after doing good work and improving yourself. It's good that I have learned this lesson quite early in my career(One year exp.)
I want to know all other life lessons and suggestions from from more experienced folks
"Everyone one wants to have written, but no one wants to sit down and do the work to write." Is how I heard it.
Roku has this as well, at least with their Android app
For sure, but my shelf space isn't.
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Okay, so now I have to pick between dealing with excessive heat during the day, or cold at night because our infrastructure can't fulfill energy demand.
Erlang has very good support for binary protocols because that is one of the use cases it was built for.
This site seems oriented toward stimulating a response from one subpopulation but also seems to predict consequences based on that subpopulation being the population. Many people like to live "out loud", are proud of the lives they lead, and appreciate feeling "seen".

Are the problems that decisions are getting made and actions taken on the basis of what we do or that unjust decisions are being made?

Do you see the genie being put back in the bottle? The information exists and the challenge is finding the right ways to use the data justly rather than try to suppress it. We have been doing this in meat space for time immemorial.
I mean, if you define "whatever Ruby and Python do" to be intuitive, then, sure, every other language is going to have "a long list of weird footguns".

JS has many quirks, but I like that the numeric representation is extremely simple and explicit (even compared to Python).
TCL Roku models will do this. They have some kind of content matching running on the display signal.
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Technically, the police are correct! ;-)
Thanks! I'm thinking of a way to format YAML anh also draw indentation lines in the ouput. Will be helpful when working with really long k8s yml files.
Yeah, or something like Drop.com for those interested as well.
These days, google analytics provides very unreliable data due to the usage of ad-blockers that happen to also block tracking scripts.
Even more so when the audience is tech-literate.
The article is predictably coy about the fact that music is, well, bad for concentration. Studies tend to find that people work better in a quiet environment. [0]

The article is rather scattershot, with much of it having nothing to do with music.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/docs/music-distraction/2012-shih.pdf
The algorithm is designed to provide maximally engaging content. Of your Facebook friends, you will see posts from the most outspoken ones, which isn't everybody.
This in spades.

As a very real example, my family was not very well off growing up. My parents could typically only afford used Chrysler cars. The result was invariably getting stuck with vehicles that quite frankly were at least as expensive as the competition after repair costs and extra insurance.

And, speaking as someone who thankfully doesn't have to worry nearly as much about such things thanks to the sacrifices my parents made...

The DIFFERENCE in quality of life changes too. Its not just the cost of buying the cheap stuff every time, it is also that frustration of watching it break over and over.

Also, dare I say. One of the biggest silent accelerators of our class divide (financially) is this dilemma.

In the 40s-60s stuff was built to last. Lower income families could save and buy an expensive appliance but know it would last or at least be repairable. A fridge was a real investment. A set of silverware had the extra couple mm of thickness or even a square handle so it wouldn't bend at the first sign of trouble.

Now? Its all disposable, so those who have money to keep up with planned obsolescence will pull ahead. Consumers save 5-10$ on a 100$ tool, but now it lasts 3-5 years instead of 30-50
A "flowchart" has very specific meaning in programming contexts [1]. This tool is for wireframing [2]. It's also really just for the flow between pages, as the pages themselves are all pre-baked. There don't seem to be any tools to connect elements of the pages to one another, although some of the example diagrams have that feature and completely different toolbars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart
[2] https://www.experienceux.co.uk/faqs/what-is-wireframing/
I sometimes think 'I really prefer physical books, if only they had Ctrl-F' - but actually, in reality, it's often so much easier to leaf through and find something (from rough memory of where it was, skimming, jumping around, ..) than it is to search digitally (get the search term right, see results with little context, find it's impossible to search for part of an equation or the text in a diagram, or oh damn it was rendered as an image).
When Apple has to pay transaction costs and country specific tax for you, deal with the tax admin, while also managing the app store, if 30% for this is unreasonable, what's a reasonable amount and why?

Many countries have VAT at around 20% on each sale for example so wouldn't Apple be losing money if they went down close to even 20%?
Only anecdotally. I've definitely run in to that in the wild.
Honestly I have no idea, sorry. I would love to think they were donated but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be. All guessing.
Painting by Numbers – Nolan Bushnell and Ed Catmull (1981)
I wrote two books this year, Beautiful Spark being the more popular of the two: https://leanpub.com/beautiful-spark

My book writing experience was much different:

* just took a few weeks of part time work, mainly just organizing blog posts

* Leanpub pays much higher royalties (80%)

Books are a great way to learn more about the topic and help others. It makes training and employee onboarding a lot easier. You can tell folks to read a chapter and then review.

Books aren't a great way to make money, but they're fun to write and a great way to give back to the programming community.
This was addressed above, in the bit talking about people failing to put the same effort into empathising and understanding people who historically receive little to no empathy or understanding whatsoever. Ignore our personal feelings on the matter for a moment: do we honestly believe JK Rowling has made an effort to converse with, understand, and empathize with trans women?
seriously? Someone who's generally considered to have been very racist is your reference for what people think today? Not exactly a good argument for why you should be taken seriously.
And also, no one is reporting the number of test iterations that are being used for each positive result. There are people with very low viral loads, who are not contagious, that test positive.

If you run a RT-PCT enough times, you can generate a match in many cases where someone has never had the virus. The inventor of the PCR (who passed away years ago) took great issue with the way PCR was being using incorrectly with HIV testing. Even today with HIV, PCR is often reported with a viral load number, so doctors can tell what amount of antiviral drugs are needed for patients, and to help identify long-term non-progressives (rare) who may not need drugs at all.
Math is a language for modelling things. It can be intrinsically correct, as in consistent, but that doesn't say anything about the model's actually validity.

Every choice we make is a moral choice. Once we're done modelling and use that model then we make a moral choice.

For example, If you believe that lowering the debt default rates is more important than the fairness to an individual.

Then you make a moral choice. Of you believe it is OK to not give loans to Blacks because there's a largish amount of Blacks defaulting on their loans thats a moral choice.

Further more, Enscribnng truth to models is just an age old human fallacy. The truth can somewhat fit plenty of models. None of the models are truth.
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