skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some sodas have medicinal effects. I have a genetic disorder, so my diet is absolutely not the root cause of my health issues. I was diagnosed late in life. That empowered me to finally start getting healthier. With getting healthier, I consume less diet coke.

A couple of excerpts from my food blog:

I basically live on diet coke. Coca cola products contain extract from the coca plant. This has medicinal benefits. No other cola products have this. Other cola products tend to be mostly sugar water -- though I do sometimes drink ginger ale because ginger helps with nausea.

http://miceats.blogspot.com/2016/09/diet-coke.html

Plain water has been gradually creeping into my diet here lately. This is noteworthy because I rarely drank plain water for quite a few years.

http://miceats.blogspot.com/2017/01/plain-water.html
Show HN: How to get 100% of your apartment's energy from a Personal Power Plant
It's neat, but the story is so silly.
What about the other benefits of UBI, like increasing the bargaining power of labor?

Do you believe that basic income wouldn't be able to give workers a greater ability to say no to low-quality jobs and wages, forcing (1) automation or (2) an increase in both to attract workers?
Also: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/world/plane-engine-explod...
Good luck! I just skimmed over your resume and I don't think you'll have any problem finding opportunity in Atlanta.
The search is based on the filters set in the top, its not actually suggestions its just subreddits sorted by subscribers.
I'd rather be dependent on someone I can talk to, and whose personal wealth is a function of my ability to produce than the State who I have basically no influence over. Both ultimately have their own interests at heart, but the first situation is more likely to turn out better for me if I do good work.
The Design of Financial Exchanges
For what a failing fan disk can do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232
Octopus: A High-Level Fast 3D Animation Language
Ask HN: Dissolve Corporation
Long story short, have a corporation that did maybe ~$50k USD in revenue but hasn't filed taxes the last two years, and isn't in good standing with Delaware for not filing franchise fees.

Basically, a startup that failed.

Looking for service that will handle A -> Z getting this all sorted out and finally put to rest.
What is your review of djangoCMS?
Criticalcss generation 10x faster via chrome headless in Penthouse 1.0
I study, moreso. Explaining things (or trying to do so) is a check on my own understanding, both directly ("does this make sense?") and through responses ("no, actually, in X the truth is ...").

But the general case of such events is one element I've reflected on.
I disagree. Americans are very familiar with the concept of welfare. UBI fits into that paradigm must better than Universal Healthcare.

Also...

> Most people in the U.S. don't want lower income people to have access to Universal Healthcare

This sentence is leaving me speechless. What a terrible interpretation.
You are a hacker. Hack the controls to match your keyboard.
Is there a compromise where we just increase the number of highly-paid and highly-skilled representatives?
$8M still seems high for a scale.
This is fascinating. I have had eye floaters and tinnitus for many years. Both problems have been frustratingly intermittent for me. But over time, I have gotten them under control. The answer for me was food. If I had a burst of eye floaters or tinnitus I would ask myself “what have I eaten recently” and make note of it. Soon patterns emerged, for example, beer caused really bad eye floaters and candy would set off my tinnitus. So I ate less of anything correlated with my symptoms. Not a sexy solution(especially if you like beer), but has worked wonders for me in the long run. Good luck.
Wow. Raccoons solved a puzzle that nobody since ancient times have solved?

Click link

Oh. Click baited.
Yes it is cultural, but it's complicated. There are some aspects of colour that are cultural, but there are also biological asymmetries so to speak, we don't actually distinguish red/green/blue equally well, the colour receptors we have are more like red-yellow/yellow-green/blue for example.

It's also something of a linguistic constant that red is most basic "chromatic" colour to distinguish, after making the the distinction between white and black. Perhaps because blood is red?

The science of colour and colour perception is an incredibly fascinating subject, that even Goethe had a hand in shaping. I really recommend you to read at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision
The theme for the competition was "lost" - programmers are perhaps not the most creative at naming things.
What about "social security for all"?
They are a non-profit organization owning a for profit corporation making tens to hundred millions dollars a year selling users data to search engine.

Notably this non-profit organization had provisioned $15 millions anticipating that the IRS might get into how a non-profit was actually for profit, it eventually happened and the foundation ended up getting a $1.5 million fine for their google income before setting up the for profit corporation scheme[1].

[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/18/google_still_mozill...

The non-profit organization foundation
Double pendulum simulation
I know all discussions about blockchains must include the obligatory mention of mankinds utopian future as a result of it, but damn did it feel jarring here. The article was such a rare and excellent technical explanation behind the concept of blockchains. It was all meat and no hype. And then it ends with "Blockchains will rapidly change the way we think about economies, governments and record-keeping.". Seems like a pretty amazing linked list, would love just a bit more explanation why you were lead to that conclusion.
UBI will always make it worthwhile to take a job because you wouldn't have to give any money back.
I'm doubting the twitter link's claims that:
(1) The White House had no report on Puerto Rico during a conference call with FEMA Sep 25
(2) Therefore WH "had no plans to make any moves in PR". I don't see this being reported elsewhere. The parent thought this was important enough though to back up his argument that the Trump administration is not enough doing, and I'm skeptical of both the source and the broader message.

From what I can tell, there was a major disaster and many people are struggling right now. It was made worse than it needed to be by unpreparedness and poor infrastructure. Now relief efforts are underway but they aren't happening as quickly as Houston or Florida because it's harder to reach Puerto Rico, so politicians and activists with other grievances are using this opportunity to criticize the White House. Is that incorrect?
100 000 for the scale, 7 900 000 for knowing where to put the scale.
> - getting a clear status of you repo so you know where you are and what you do;

Me repository?

What's missing from `git status' and `git show-branch'?

> - figure out which one of the various method of undo you need for this specific screw up;

It's not hard. The hard part is to acknowledge that you actually need to
understand git's internal data structure. All the rest is very easy, up to and
including `git reset --hard'.

> - find a practical way to compare this particular version of a snippet with another particular version of a snippet, and work on the result;

I didn't understand what you mean.

> - merge the terrible mess you coworker rush-pushed to avoid to be the one to have to merge;

Me coworker?

And I again didn't quite get what you mean. You'll have to merge anyway. And
it's not specific to git, it was the case for any and all version control
systems.

> - rediscover the arcanes required to save only what you want. Maybe I should branch and commit. Or stash. Or reset and add. Or do an interactive thingy ?

What arcanes? It's quite simple thing, especially if you learned how git
works.

> - survive a rebase with squashing;

`git tag my-old-head' and work until you're satisfied? What's difficult in
that? (Apart from the fact that you need to understand how git works)

> - use the history, trying to look for clues of what the heck is going on with the current version of your code.

How is it specific to git? It was the same for any and all version control
systems.

> - setting up those damn editors, viewers, differs, etc.

I didn't set anything up, apart from colours used. Or maybe you're talking
about $EDITOR/$VISUAL, which you need for many other console tools anyway?

> [...] every time I go back to give a Git training session, [...] I also have to provide such a long cheat sheet it's not even funny. And it's useless before each student perfectly understand what's going on anyway.

Maybe because you're teaching them the wrong thing? Git's data structure is
a quite simple thing, it should take half an hour to teach. And with
understanding this structure, it's impossible to get yourself into such
a mess that you couldn't dig yourself out.
I get the feel that something like that was the plot of a short story i read ages ago.
Not sure how this 2015 figure is relevant as according to Andreas Gal who started the boot to gecko project, the shift back to firefox browser and away from firefox OS happened in 2014.

2011 to 2014, that's 4 years. Enough for firefox OS to gobble hundred millions of dollars.
> but now Catalan in Catalonia is the only language used in schools(...), the official buildings, hospital papers, and so on. Is this what you would call repression or not-democracy?

Isn't this the point of autonomy? You decide what languages to teach/use in your institutions. We can discuss whether this is a good idea or not. Or whether what you say is true in reality or not. But it's the Catalans' decision, that's what autonomy is for.

> So Spain is even more democratic than Italy and France in that issue, but people are complaining in Catalonia because of the adoctrination, and millions of euros spent by the Catalan government.

Comparisons are meaningless in this situations. Maybe Spain is more "democratic" (if you say so) than France(which is not hard to beat honestly, considering the status of non-French languages in France). But one could also say that Spain is less democratic than Switzerland wrt languages, and that would be equally meaningless.

The question is whether the autonomy Catalonia receives is enough for the Catalans. That's for the Catalans to decide.

> Do you really thing this chaos is not premeditated?

Are you saying that all the Catalan citizens collaborating and organizing together have been manipulated by the elites for all these years? When did the manipulation start exactly? Would you mind sharing sources that support this?
Ha yeah, that was the one I was thinking of. Excellent.
Yeah, but that guy rather wants you replaced with a robot.
> inspired by the apple website

My first thoughts when loading the website were "Is this an Apple project?"

It's uncanny how similar the design is to Apple's website. It's crazy how much a brand can monopolise a market just from an aesthetics point of view.
See, if they would have spent $10Mil and also had a swivel arm that pushes the box off and restarts the machine, Bart would never have had to selfishly innovate and you'd have the architecture at most companies.
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I said depression is narcissistic, not those with depression. That's a damn big distinction.

In fact I am diagnosed with depression myself, have had suicidal ideation, and still relapse.

When I look back at my darkest times I think volunteering kept me alive. I don't know whats harmful about suggesting that. The big D saps the life out of you, working with others who have their struggles too gives a closed-off negative feedback looped mind just a hint of perspective.

Everyone's depression is different, which is why I ended my comment with the fact that some people's condition doesn't allow them the luxury to get out of bed.
Related discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002160

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146677
The A380 has two hydraulic systems. If the priamry fails, the aircraft is still fully flyable. Some extra things like slats don't work anymore but those aren't critical for flight and landing. If the secondary hydraulics fail, there are still extra electric actuators to move the control surfaces.

Source: http://www.roger-wilco.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Untitl...
The problem with tree editors has always been the lack of standardization, not any kind of conceptual or UI problem. Generally authors take one of two roots:

1) Provide a tree based editing UI layer on top of text files since text still rules. In my opinion this is almost like the worst of both worlds, though it can be successful. Paredit is probably the best example of this (and many lispers swear by it).

2) Create a Grand Integrated Vision of How to Fix Every Programming Problem Ever Created. This can make a nice demo, but of course never turns into a practical product any time soon.

Until we have a standardized tree or graph interchange format that is designed to satisfy the common denominator of the full range of languages, protocols, etc., as text does today, all structured editors will be fighting an uphill battle.
We are medieval creatures, we long for a purpose, no matter how small, no matter how trivial. If the machines take the purpose, all the fruit-baskets in the world wont fill that hole.
Automation certainly can benefit society (the majority of whom are workers), but in the way in which it is used at the moment does not benefit them in the fullest sense; they can take advantage of lower prices, but they can't take advantage of having much more free time to pursue creative hobbies, science, education and entertainment.

There are at least two possible solutions offered; the first is UBI in which everyone gets sufficient money to live off. Where exactly this money comes from and from what profits is up for question, and raises interesting questions about profitability in industries where there is higher organic composition of capital. The second option is one in which automation isn't used for profit at all, it is used simply to reduce working hours via ceasing commodity production and instead only the manufacture of use-values. In my opinion this second option (frequently called Socialism, endorsed by the likes of George Orwell, Einstein, Oscar Wilde, Marx and Engels) leads the way to an even greater emancipation and heightened productive capacity of society, given that there would no longer be any need to ensure high employment (high employment across industries is necessary for workers to buy back the products that they make, which generates profit). The second option also deals quite well with the psychological issues of living in a commodity-producing society brought up by the likes of Marcuse and Adorno.

Although the UBI solution to the problem of rising automation has rightfully earned the interest of many, I do not believe it goes far enough to ensure a more free, equitable and democratic society for all.

Edit: Regarding UBI, what is the incentive to stop companies from "offloading" the duty to pay a fair wage onto the state? I'm not really up to scratch on UBI details, so a response would be appreciated.
I just can not see how the windows app store is a good thing.

Firstly, it adds a 30% surcharge to every application.
Secondly, it is a walled garden, and everything is fine until microsoft decides they don't want your app there, or it conflicts with a product they want to sell.

I fully support the developer right to monetize his application but, I think once there is a large ecosystem of profitable applications on their store, I look for Microsoft to update their TOS, to require exclusive distribution rights on application. By then, it's lose your largest revenue stream, or lose your donation based customers.

I think most developers will stick with the store, and that's a shame.
Also archive fo https://archive.fo/05CkQ https://archive.fo/YtM2b edit sorry not working might need to archive it again later
That gets to the point of how is it specifically that disruptive events manage to disrupt.

Sometimes it's physical disruption or damage. Very often though it's interference with energy cycles or communications and control. See various neurotoxins or the effects of cyanide (it blocks ATP cycling in mitochondria -- directly affecting the cellular energy cycle).

EMP is an energy signal that causes direct physical damage to long-length or fragile conductors, disabling both energy transmission and processing equipment, and communications systems.

Optical comms systems are unaffected, however. And systems based on microwave repeaters don't have the long-length conductors that telegraph systems did in the case of Carrington.
The point is I think: Problem is somebody invests in the automation (algorithms and hardware) and then own all the results from the automation.

You seem to assume that the proceeds from automation would be evenly distributed. Why would it? The reason most people today can eat is because they (or people close to them) are needed as a workforce.

In the past once things got too bad then people went on strike etc. and taxes were raised and wages improved. But if the basic need of the robot-owners are met without any humans working for them, strikes fail to be efficient. One can only trust in the benevolence of the people owning the capital and the inertia in the current laws and the democractic system to keep things somewhat stable...
HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (2015)
This screams of poor servicing.
Even if this story was true, neither solution is good as they still have wasted, empty boxes. The solution would be to figure out how the empty ones are produced and fix that (root cause analysis) The scale would be part of the solution to verify the fix (continuous integration)
It started as a secret code that meant "statistician that can program." There's a long debate in stats regarding whether what we do is science.
The underlying problem we're talking about is that people are seeing these unrealistic images of what a body should be, and are comparing themselves to that. I would argue that given what we know about how anchoring works, even if you tell someone that the image they're seeing is fake, the damage has already been done. Consider the Barbie doll; everyone knows that Barbie is a plastic doll and not a real person, yet there was a generation which grew up with that body being the goal.
I have very limited experience with Telegram. I was comparing Signal for iOS vs Signal for Android. Sorry for the confusion.
Pure functions in elisp
It seems like the health care system has been gamed in the USA so that health insurance companies and big pharmaceutical companies get a huge profit. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this is the case anywhere in Western Europe/Canada or most other countries that have a functional health care.
The other 3 graphs in the article go up to the 24th or the 25th.
The main reason for chrome eating up market is google pocket depth and heavy marekting push through all mean avialable.
There's a similar anecdote out there, also involving toothpaste. In this one the toothpaste company spends millions on a new marketing campaign to sell more toothpaste and then someone suggests that they make the hole in the tube bigger so people use more.
One has the right not to vote, but not the right to stop others from voting. - Heard somewhere (?)
Is "machines taking all the purpose" a logical conclusion? I don't see a future where machines will create all of the popular culture in the world. I choose to support human-powered culture now, and increasing automation would not change my mind on that.

A UBI would enable humans to do more work that society either can't or won't automate. Care of other humans is an example. Yes, machines may be able to take on some of that role, but never all of it.
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I think Tarsius already did this and called the result Magit. For bonus points he made it perfectly interoperable with git

Edit: Kickstarter campaign going on with 23h left https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1681258897/its-magit-th...
It's a parable.
e.DO – People Make Robotics
The Last Question - http://multivax.com/last_question.html ?
Reversible computing still requires energy (or rather neg-entropy). It's used to perform error correction. Otherwise the computer won't last very long.
This is a bit of a silly conversation. UBI would obviously have to come with a restructuring of the tax levels, so UBI and Negative Income Tax are mostly the same in terms of outcomes. The difference is in presentation.

By the way, negative income tax is not the same as a tax credit. That's quite different, since a tax credit can only be offset against taxes you owe, and is therefore very regressive, since the poor already pay little income taxes.
Yes, that certainly could be the case. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much (if any) understanding of what is different about those illnesses, and in particular no practical test that can distinguish between them to help identify the proper treatment.

By contrast, it is now very well recognized that there is no single disease called "cancer". There are many subtypes, not just based on tissue (e.g., breast cancer vs. lung cancer) but also on the molecular etiology (i.e., which mutations are present in the tumor and therefore which pathways of oncogenesis are involved). Because of this, it is in some cases possible to determine based on DNA sequencing which is the appropriate drug to use to treat a particular cancer. Depression is not anywhere near as well understood.
There actually is a small movement in the EU called Quantitative Easing for People which wants exactly that: Why not give central bank money directly to people instead of as loans to businesses?

I love the idea but I am afraid the EU is much too conservative, anxious and in general not an institution serving its people to do something like that.

But what a marvellous world that would be to live in.
a centralized system of credit that’s built on trust and uses no cryptography? You’ve just described the nightmare scenario of the HN crowd!
Sooner or later your "good work" will be automated. The choice will be not "work or don't work", but "govern or be governed".

So, pretty much same as now, only you will have more freedom if you're OK with being governed.
Mmh, seems that the first level of Prepping is keeping some cash around.
To me this whole thing translates as "zero work-life balance" and spun as if that's a good thing.
Agreed on your last point, far more than UBI is needed to achieve a "more free, equitable, and democratic society for all".
That line of reasoning is what cost them 8M in the first place. If it looks stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.
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