skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not legal in Canada.

Then again there's few ticks in Canada's north, so Canadian hikers should just explore the northern part of their provinces.
This is totally reasonable, and I get why Warren should stay away from 'investments' in BTC. It's extremely wise to stay away from investments you don't understand, especially when you're a target like Buffett.

But what I can't get behind is his active and vocal bearishness. If he has a well-reasoned argument to make, then he should make it. If not, lay off.
Ethereum has had exactly one hard fork to undo something. All the rest were protocol upgrades.
Based on my (limited) experience in a few media companies, the problem is not malice, but just a complete lack of understanding of 'digital'. I've worked on multiple projects that were really fun and good right up until we had to add various tracking tools and ads. They rendered the end product borderline unusable (which of course none of us or our leaders were bothered by because of adblockers).

And the problem of all this wasn't just that the end product was ruined. It also played a significant role in the exodus of multiple skilled developers that were sick of toiling away at stuff that would end up ad- and tracker-riddled monstrosities. Just that struck me as reason enough to stop blindly doing all that.
Isbell's course in person was great. And if the exams for the online version are anything like the in person ones, it really does test your understanding of foundational concepts.
The more educated the populace in general, the more they can recognize being hoodwinked into supporting things that are detrimental to their interests instead of being lead around by emotional pandering. Education is not a monolith, though. Such insight requires a specific form of education that challenges, inspires original thought, and isn't just a fancy vocational school or daycare with busy work.
While I'm sure most profits/margin come from first/business class, I think that's only viable because the large number of economic class passengers help marginalize the cost per passenger. To give a concrete example, suppose the airline is flying 20 business seats per flight. The cost of those seats to the airline if it had no economy class, and it were forced to allocate an entire plane for them would be immense -- marginal the cost per seat would be (illustration) ~Airplane_Cost/20+Accomodation_Cost. Now suppose a current airline will carry perhaps 200 economy class passengers where it makes 0 profit. The marginal cost of the business class seats to the airline now will be much lower, something like ~Airplane Cost/(200+20)+Accomodation_Cost.

So the airline don't need economy class to make profit, they need them to create economies of scale that bring down their cost for the high margin customers.
A large portion of US workforce works for cash.
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Wouldn't you always compile and test locally before uploading to CI? I understand that CI can provide some confidence about working in a standard hermetic environment, vs. potentially only on one developer's laptop, in a team environment. But why would a CI build ever fail for a personal project?
And higher risk to play outdoors all the time unprotected, and different methabolism.
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"Don't tell me what you think, show me what's in your portfolio."
His argument is that debit cards aren't cash or something...

The laughter is justified not only for the illogic of this, but the fact that this is somehow a good reason to buy Bitcoin.
I don't see where I made that assumption.

Kick out a few key faculty members and the rest of the good ones will follow, Jew or not, because they are good and have the choice to leave. You don't need all your faculty to be Jewish in order to lose all your good ones by kicking out a single Jewish faculty member.

If you lose 4/16 of your academics but all 4 of those were the Giants, then you haven't decimated your department, but you have lost what made it good in the first place.

Even before the war reached the borders, German mathematics was decimated. Sometimes by numbers, but always by the numbers that mattered. Because anyone good knew someone effected, and everyone good had the option to leave.
I wonder what size a community needs to be for UBI to function in a self-sustaining way. I'd like to see some game theoretical research into it too if anyone has pointers?
The pipe viewer pv: https://ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

Great way to give you a progress bar on a long-running process from the command line.

entr is useful for doing stuff on file change:

http://www.entrproject.org/

GNU parallel is like xargs, but in parallel:

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
HN formatting capabilities are not great, but you can use Unicode sub-/superscripts:

Mn₂⁺ + 2H₂O ⇌ MnO₂ + 2H⁺ + H₂

(Shameless plug: I generated the above with https://github.com/jwilk/chemiscripts .)
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As one of the likely cheerleaders, without the tax credit, it’s not UBI. (In my humble opinion)
This is pure charity.
Cheap. fast. good.

A constant.

Pick two.
Combine with "abcde" for ripping CDs.
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> If you're a company that people have heard of paying the kind of wages companies people have heard of pay, you could absolutely achieve 50/50 gender balance without compromising on quality.

I already acknowledged this possibility, but pointed out that it leads to skewed incentives, fast turnover and unqualified hires.

You'd have to start hiring candidates for reasons other than qualifications, or offering pay significantly above market rate for only that gender. This strategy would also make poaching women attractive, thus driving fast turnover and further wage inflation. This demand/wage inflation would then attract plenty of far less qualified women, thus diluting the talent pool, but the skewed incentives simply can't filter out these candidates. I don't see how this would be sustainable if gender parity were viewed as desirable in and of itself, without regard for the overall economics of the business.

Practically, do you really think achieving gender parity would yield such a huge competitive advantage that these factors can be completely ignored? I think we'd have seen something like that by now, but women's pay is still roughly on par with men's in STEM, so clearly gender parity isn't economically viewed as the huge advantage you portray it to be.
In some countries, rising automation means there are no jobs to be had, or that skilled persons fall down the ladder until they're working unskilled jobs. We pretend its 98% employment, but folks with degrees are working food service.

A 'jobs program' in this environment is doing no good. There are already 30M people in service jobs (The lowest paid), and they're being automated away right now. We can't retrain them all to be engineers; we don't even need 30M more engineers. What are we to do? The solution won't be 'do what we did before' because, we've never been in this situation before.

Oh, wait, in England they were in this situation when weavers were replaced by textile mills. Their solution: let the weavers starve and die. Maybe not the answer we want today.
Can't speak for OP but I too attend my wife's church pretty frequently. I'm probably more agnostic than an atheist but have found her UU (Unitarian Universalist) church pretty welcoming and found a ton of like minded folks there. I wouldn't call it an atheist church but lots of self described atheist attend.

The basic tenants or '6 principles' that the church holds are all things I subscribe to in my personal beliefs anyway (basically respect other people) and most of the sermons are fairy interesting and cover lots of different religions, philosophies, and ideas (bonus: the whole thing wraps up in under an hour!). There are tons of smaller groups that meet outside of regular services to discuss everything from Christianity to Hinduism as well as more general philosophy and social work. As well as things such as neighborhood groups, parenting groups, gardening groups.
Isn't this old news or am I missing something ?
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I used to work in the marketing department for a big news site in Switzerland some years ago. I wasn't involved much in normal ads, but building interactive campaigns, contests and such.

What you say is being done. Mostly in form of "native advertising" these days. But those articles tend to be written with virality in mind, not necessarily usefulness.

In my opinion, most of the worst ads come from remnant space advertisement. A middle to upper management person discovers some unused white space while browsing the site and asks the marketing department to fill with something that makes money. Repeat until the site is completely plastered.

But because those ads bring in so little in isolation, it is not worth it to have your own sales people trying to sell them. That is why they get outsourced. The publishers I met back then, did not like Google/Facebook, because it their opinion they took to big a cut. But it is either that, or not monetizing the space at all.

Another big problem is, the advertisement agencies developers who build the things to be included in websites, tend to be junior/intern level under massive time pressure. Practically no QA and little to no thought put into consequences by any of the involved parties.
How many currencies are backed by gold? Certainly not the USD.
> Can you back this up?

The money supply setup for Bitcoin is meant to make the currency deflationary by design. Whether that is successful or not remains to be determined.
CSS classes and IDs match certain criteria, like being prefixed with "ad" or suffixed with "banner" and having a rendered size that matches an ad box (eg: 600px by 100px).
'Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Monday said buyers of bitcoin, which he has characterized as “rat poison squared,” thrive on the hope they’ll find other people who will pay more for it.'

isn't this in a nutshell stock market form 'normal person' perspective? Or antiques market, or any other from thousands 'buy cheap - sell for more' types of market?
If you ever studied economics, you'd know that scarcity is not intrinsically valluable. It might be a useful feature, but intrinsic value means having a minimum value. Gold can't be created, but it had real usefulness in manufacturing. Besides, you could make a new buttcoin tomorrow, but you can't make a new kind of Atom.

Stop proving that Bitcoin enthusiasts don't understand economics.
Agreed but I think the opposite is much too prevalent. People with absolutely no experience using crypto currencies write articles bashing them without ever using them first hand. Im not advocating for them but I think to actually assess their use/value they must be tried.
Yes, but Lake Huron has some of the best dunes and freshwater beaches in Canada. It'd be hard to give that up.
This is really where I've been waiting for .NET to reach. There's been a huge amount of fragmentation in the .NET space, and until Core was able to handle existing Windows applications, it wasn't really done.

I'd still really like a desktop UI flavor of some sort to make it into cross-platform .NET, mind you. Let me run my desktop apps on a Linux machine.
Doesn’t seem that big, if you open a RAR from a shaddy source, I would expect to get malwares anyway.
Yeah but they lack hammocks!
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As someone who is friends who two different social workers and related to someone in family court diversions (think: parents getting their kids taken away and want them back) I can tell you that UBI isn't going to solve much of anything. These people have money to buy alcohol and cigarettes, and yet their kids go hungry and rely on school lunch programs, etc.

Also, I had a brother in law who was a raging alcoholic and stole money from his grade-school kids' piggy banks. He always had money for beer. Asshole. He did the world a favor and hung himself.

For all of them, their personal issues overwhelm their ability to be functional adults. They don't clean their houses, they don't mind their kids, they are addicted to various substances and lie about treatment, recovery, and lie about anything anytime it suits their needs in the moment. It's all lie, lie, lie.

There is nothing a UBI or anything else is going to accomplish for these people and it is a myth to believe that payments without oversight or qualifications will lead to positive outcomes. One would think the US's 50 year experiment with welfare would already provide more than enough data to prove that if you subsidize a behavior you get more of it.

Let people face death, then see how they act. Take their kids away, first, though. It's not the kids' fault their parents are deadbeats.
I too often feel fatigued but wonder what part of that is just lifestyle / age etc vs any lasting effects.

The levels of exhaustion before I knew what I had and was treated, were insane. Often asked myself how I could be so tired.
I think you're missing some context. We're talking about what it might look like to provide financial or other aid to people who need it (like Outreachy does), but without discriminating based on group membership.
It seems to work intermittently for me at best. Bloomberg is a notable (notably annoying) example that not only autoplays (though at least without sound) but highjacks your first click on the video (usually trying to pause it) and enables sound instead.
There's no documented proof that Indian system was descended from another system. The Fountainhead was India. Hence, purely of Indian creation.

It's also a well-known fact that Al-Jabr took some mathematical aspects from India and spread them across the Arabic countries. From there they eventually reached the west. That's how Algebra got its name.
I don’t get his metaphor. Rat poison is not necessarily a negative thing as it helps people keep vermin under control.
That is not a viable option for many people working in nature. Farmers, sheperds, folks working in a Zoo, etc. They not have to take antibiotics constantly.

The fact that there are no good vaccines really makes me mad, especially as a hiker.
Running an agency
That's a good question. By the same token: is there a maximum community size that can support UBI?
There is Nexus and other forms of skilling the TSA lines, and if you use Uber or Taxies from the airport, you skip those parking lines as well.
I keep trying other editors but spend most of the time just trying to get them working like ST.
The argument is that the subscription price is prohibitive. Bloomberg is charging $35/month which is considerably more than the advertising they are replacing. I don't have Cable, I can watch news free OTA and my cell phone bill is $170/month for 4 lines.

Problem is I don't use most of these services daily. Had Bloomberg decided $10-$15/month was the right range, I'd pay it happily. You can't charge $35/month for something that was previously free with zero value add and expect people to pay it.
Nth 9 minute snooze costing Nk^a (k>=1, a>1, probably 1.5-2) would fix that easily.
literally none of that meaningfully indicates that "most [american] poor people actually have high incomes".

minimum wage means nothing without considering cost of living which outpaces a 40 hour work week at 7.25 (or even the potentially higher state minimum wage) basically everywhere in the country [1]

as per your article, a) car ownership is dropping, b) a household having a car can mean sharing it with a number of other people c) 90% of households having a car is not relevant to a discussion only about those in poverty and d) in most non-urban environments, having a car is a necessity, not a luxury, if you want to be able to, y'know, get to work and the grocery store [2][3]

sure, some cities are more affordable than others. what percentage of the country lives in those cities? do you expect everyone to move there? if so, do you think those affordable rents will stay affordable? additionally, please explain, in detail, your full plan for moving when you have no savings, and for mitigating the effects of leaving your job, the place you know, as well as all your friends and family who provide a vital safety net in case of emergency.

i literally do not know what you're trying to say with the malnutrition deaths note- do you think that having access to a social safety network in the form of foodstamps means you're not poor or something? lol

[1] https://www.citylab.com/life/2015/09/mapping-the-difference-...
[2] https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2018/march/distance-to-...
[3] https://nhts.ornl.gov/briefs/PovertyBrief.pdf
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Is life about happiness or is life about pursuing a meaning (you define) and as a by product, happiness is attained sometimes?
I think the most egregious example is latter seasons of The Big Bang Theory clocking in at 16 minutes. That's ~50% ads.
I don't understand, is the "ego" just an illusion?

Not the one who downvoted you btw. I did read somewhere that Buddhism doesn't have the concept of ego, which genuinely confuses me as there seems to be a very real process occurring in our brains that labels and categorizes information, which introduces distortion and the "ignorance" that leads to delusion and suffering (in the Buddhist view).
Yes, however, people a long long time ago have used variations of the term. Why do
you think deteriorated forms of Buddhism nowadays have attached themselves to the term ego? The term has got a certain characteristic which those who propagate deteriorated truth need to use. They talk about losing your ego for a reason. So, I wonder if you've done this exercise before... have you ever tried to come up with as concrete and rigorous a statement of the definition of the term ego as you can? It doesn't have to be so profound nor complicated. When people lose their ego and don't gain a true ego in replacement it means in real life they lose themselves and die forever. (Buddha taught people to save their own self, remain themselves, and live forever.) Therefore people's usage of the term must be understood to be imprecise and subtextually cover too wide a range. You never hear of a mathematician being fairly called egotistical for insisting it's incorrect to state 1+1 = 1 or 3. Buildings and bridges made by those who believe it can be so will collapse. Then why do we accept this lack of rigor in subjects so important as our mental and spiritual health? Only because we've been compromised by something already. However, many influential people still aren't willing to admit this.
This is like two old investors in buggy whips talking scaring people off of internal combustion engines. They have no idea what they're looking at but they'll make pronouncements anyway.

Bitcoin etc are currencies native to the network environment just as cash is native to the meatspace. Both have their advantages and shortcomings.

Wisdom is found in using things if they serve you and leaving them alone if they don't. Cash serves its purpose in the meatspace, cryptos serve their purpose on the network. Use them as they're useful.

I don't find it wise for anyone, Buffett or otherwise, to expound on things they don't know anything about. It's even less wise to take advice from those who speak from ignorance.
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As an example, if you forget a file before pushing; all local tests will pass and abject failure remotely. You can do local checks for that sort of thing, but it's ~impossible or at least impractical to catch every case through automation even when developer does due diligence.
"Most importantly it can't be created/destroyed at will by a central government."

This is not cut and dry as to whether it is a benefit or not. Many people, myself included, don't consider it a benefit. Not having control over your currency makes it that much harder to respond in times of recession. Greece was hit quite hard by the Great Recession, and one of the reasons why is because they didn't have control over their currency, and so they couldn't lower the value of it. The Euro was still valued high due to the use by Germany and France.

"Huge sums can be transferred globally at the speed of light with very low fees."

Currently that's not true of Bitcoin, either. Transactions are slow, and fees are not low.

"The electricity it takes to maintain it is nothing compared to the rest of the banking system."

Is it? It takes a crazy amount of power, for what seems to be something that only a small amount of people are using, with a very anemic transaction throughput.
There are planes with hammocks? Sign me up
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> There’s no government at all without politics.

That's a pretty loaded statement that I disagree with because it presupposes that man has only being organizing his affairs for centuries when we both know that mankind has existed for thousands of years.

Anyway, there's a real risk of talking past each other, so I'll be upfront by saying that government can be totally independent of politics -- politics is merely a means to an end and that end is governance.

How did mankind manage its affairs prior to politicking and modern-day electoral contests (democracy)?

Monarchies [0]. What I believe you are arguing for via politicking is representative leadership [1], which only became a thing in the 17th century.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_history_of_the_world

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
I don’t think that’s what “intrinsic” means. Would Bitcoin have any value if no one else were using it?
"I don't find it wise for anyone, Buffett or otherwise, to expound on things they don't know anything about."

He's talking about investment vehicles. I would say he knows more about those than most of us here on this board.
But then we get to hire policemen and prison wardens!
"In some countries, rising automation means there are no jobs to be had"

Source on this claim? Interested in the topic and would like to read more.
Like... finance, economics and investments?
> How many transactions per minute can AWS do?

How many transactions can the bitcoin network do if Amazon goes out of business or cancels AWS? (hypotheticals seem relevant here, to make the point)

How many transactions can your business perform if AWS blocks you, or your transaction type?
Lithography had much more low-hanging fruit for optimization than jet fuel. Even that is improvement is coming to an end nowadays.
Almost certainly not yet. The compression method seems to be pretty advanced, borrowing ideas from h.264 etc. and is almost certainly incompatible with any currently existing format.

If we're lucky, Bellard might eventually post an image compressor program on his website at https://bellard.org/.
I feel like I've been promoted when they stop asking for my ID to buy beer at the grocery store.
what if they made a flying hotel and it timed it's flight for you arrive at a convenient time? that way it could be very slow and carry a lot of passengers.