skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know. `Int -> a` is definitely a container in my mind. Imagine a list. What does it contain? Well, it contains the contents of the list, of course! What is it? We don't know until we look inside. What does `Int -> a` contain? It contains an `a`. Which `a` does it contain? We don't know until we look inside (by passing it an `Int`). The only real difference is that in a list I put the value in first and look at it later. With a function, I look at the value first and put the value in later ;-) I'm being silly, but I really do find that treating it as a container makes it much, much easier for me to reason about it.

However, I completely agree that the word "functor" is useful for exactly the reason you imply. It's a kind of special container. It doesn't work exactly the way you imagine containers should work initially. So I guess it's 6 of 1 half a dozen of the other. I just wanted to speak out because I know there are others like me that find reasoning about functors as if they are containers very useful.
> It effectively raises the price the company has to pay and thus lowers profits.

Just like any other tax on employee income does, yes; unlike taxes on company profits, and like other taxes on employee income, it's effect on the company can be minimized by finding (or developing) and adopting less labor-cost intensive business methods even if they are higher (before tax) total cost.
These Android topics are always full of complete fabrications about how Android actually works (usually from Apple users, which don't know a lot about the OS).

Let's see if this time is any better or we'll see Apple marketing people come out of the woods again :)
I dunno, I find Android more obvious than iOS, but it seems pretty obvious it's because I've used one more than the other.
In the short run you have a bunch of angry out of work voters who can throw a monkey wrench into things.

Government and industry need to work together to provide a humane transition for workers and regions dependent on the old way of doing things.
Honestly, knowing how much taxes you pay is important (and as i said in a comment above, problematic, if people don't know).

But this can be solved by autofiling taxes, and then sending a yearly report: you earned X, paid Y taxes, out of those, Z goes to this, Q to that, W to that other thing, you've used these government services this year, that cost that much money, etc.
It isn't an either-or situation. Everybody should pay their taxes and we (government) should spend the money carefully.
Penis is pretty popular :D
If everyone downloads once and serves twice, then you can reach every human in about 30 iterations.

If you want to prevent client storage because you want to create a repeated controllable attention resource, then you will have a scaling problem.

(It's too bad you can distribute everything as a torrent and give people an easy way to pay for the movie they just downloaded, even if it was just "on their honor".)
There are plenty of places in the US with rents in the $100s and you could start a business whether that business is a hotdog stand or a software business.
how exactly is a ubi not solving rampant poverty? Maybe someone's implementation is flawed but to make an extraordinary claim like UBI can't solve poverty will require extraordinary proof.

Likewise, how is ubi regressive? What would a progressive solution to poverty be?
Networked spirograph simulator :)
Because that's all I've got and I haven't really given it much more thought than my initial gut reaction. It just seems infinitely bizarre not to have a weekday, and writing about it now seems like it would make synchronizing and automation hell with a day like that.
Consider that we have, ourselves, gotten far harder to detect over the last fifty years. Energy spent accidentally sending signals into space is wasted. And we are making much greater use of cryptography and compression schemes, which would make signals look like pure noise.

So, question: how strong does an undirected, random signal need to be to be reasonably detected at 10 light years away?
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I loved the series, but the physics was horrendous, and I don't agree it made a strong argument for the Dark Forest theory. It made an enjoyable, interesting read about the Dark Forest theory, but the schemes the author used didn't make sense and wouldn't result in the universe as described in the books.
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The loopholes and complexity you mention are completely orthogonal to the tax progression, though.

The tax progression is pretty much the simplest part of any tax code anywhere in the world already, so targeting that as the thing to simplify is either stupid or hypocritical.

The loopholes and complexity lies in the fact that, in order to account for people who are self-employed, you typically want to allow subtracting certain kinds of expenses from people's incomes for the purpose of tax computations. That's where the mess starts because then people start playing games with how those expenses are classified and structured, and wealthier people can afford to employ expert players of those games, making the whole game unfair from the very beginning. That in itself should be justification for a progressive tax code.

It'd be awesome if we could remove those subtractions from the tax code, because that would be the way to really simplify things. Unfortunately, it's also a really bad idea because it would severely punish low-margin activities, and from a societal point of view, we actually want most economic activity to be low-margin (because that provides the highest value to the end-user/consumer).

So we're stuck in a world where we'd like to simplify the tax code, but doing so requires diving deep into the nitty-gritty details of how it all works. And for people who have that knowledge, it's more profitable to play the game by selling their knowledge to the aforementioned rich people so most of them end up doing that instead of taking up the thankless political work of actually simplifying things. At least, that's how the incentives are playing out today.
Yeah, essentially all these DIY fixes to surveillance involve majorly inconveniencing yourself and being a technical expert to maybe achieve what they're suggesting.
ALL the colonies regress? And stay regressed? Forever?

How is that supposed to work?
The models attempt to encapsulate this issue through the variable of how long a civilization lasts. As easy as it is to imagine civilizations similar to us, it’s equally easy to imagine others where other variables prevent the intense egoism we evolved as a species. Or worlds where competition is less fierce perhaps. Etc..

Either way I find it fascinating that we could be living in what is essentially the rural area of the galaxy.
Haha, true :D
But it is already a fantasy for >99% of those trying. Competition is too tough and most people are absolutely unprepared and can't be prepared - it means competition with mega corporation and the insane amounts of data and brains they have to optimize themselves. Will be even more of a fantasy if new tens of millions will join.
oh thanks, just googled it, I had not heard of it.
The dark forest theory works wonderfully as a plot device in the book. That trilogy is the best sci-fi I've read after Banks, Clarke and Asimov, hands down.

But, if you stop and think about it, in the real universe it has two gaping problems:

First, The Dark Forest theory depends on the capability and willingness to develop world destroying devices.

Second, it depends on the likelihood that the species you detect has not yet spread to other systems. If it has, congratulations, you have started a shooting war with an enemy whose threat level you have no gauge of. Some with an inclination of game theory might want to figure this out through better, though.
They theory already is shown on Earth. Look how long it take humans to get to where we are, compared to how long it would have taken if a God had carefully guided us away from castrophes like the meteors, plagues, famines, and wars.
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Here’s socket server source btw:
https://github.com/pakastin/car-ws
I expected this story to end with you selling your tools to other accountants or businesses. Seems like an easy business opportunity. Did you have any thoughts about that?
They should’ve added a point #0 advising people to get a flagship device or an Android One device from vendors who have a track record of selling a phone with the latest Android release and also getting updates to the devices quicker.

Every other point in the article pales in comparison if the new device you bought is running a release more than a year old and you’re guaranteed never to get another update (or may get an update for a year). The point about keeping the software up to date is moot for most Android users.
I like the idea. It is one step above copying and pasting my own "standard" starting yaml I have come up with over the years. For example, labeling, resource requests/limits, standard mounts for config, common environment variables, etc. This would reduce copy-paste errors for sure.
> we will lose a lot of employment in the car industry

This only increases the importance of hanging onto as many as possible of the shrunken pool of jobs that will be left.
Not sure, since you’d need multi to multi connection, not only single to single..
Huge react app veteran lead syatem designer here.

Ended up not using redux after our previous project failing to scale development-wise (it gets harder to put feature in it). Using unstated, it freed developers from god object paradigm introduced by redux's single global connect() function.

Then we did the same, breaking apart states and putting them in the proper scope.

Also, we also removed state from inter-component operations which doesn't really need state, the ones developer usually workaround using global redux states. We replaced it with custom made event sourcing / message passing library.

Think of it as using rabbitMQ but it is running inside your javascript app.

Things get so much simpler after that. Features can be put it a lot faster. Combined with io-ts, it also support almost 100% TypeScript type checks both on compile-time and run-time.

No blank page issue ever since even without a single React ErrorBoundary and minimum unit-test.
Time is finite, and people choose what they are interested in learning. One is not a "Luddite" for not understanding how one's car works if one has a mechanic for that.

So too with software and networks. The internet would never have gotten so big and useful if we demanded every user understand all its subsystems.
How are you accounting for the increased economic velocity of a sustained cash injection across the entire country?
It may be lighter fare, but some of the game engine packages available for purchase are pretty advanced. Check out Edy’s vehicle physics for example.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/edy-s-ve...
Yeah, the book was about allegories and situations. The plot devices were intended to drive certain plot elements, not to be in the Clarkean way the first principle driving rationale for the work.

The trilogy is very enjoyable!
Android is a nightmare (both for privacy and for the artificial limitations imposed by Google)... the only solution appears to be a pure Linux phone like this: https://store.pine64.org/?product=pinephone-braveheart-limit...

I don't sign-in to my google account on my phone but I'm pretty sure that they do shadow profiles like Facebook does
I can also recommend tinctures over edibles, but be sure to use a highly concentrated one, so you don't swallow any (this is actually quite difficult if you hold any more than a tiny amount of liquid under you tongue or between your gums and teeth!

For at least the first few times using edibles, I'd also advise the GP to be extremely cautious, and especially so if you don't have a precise source; the effects of vaping/smoking are 1-2 hours, but can be 5-7 with edibles - if you have too much, you're in for something akin to a bad trip (it's not the same, but the closest I can describe it), feeling nauseous, anxious and paranoid. It really is absolutely horrible
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"while rigging building codes so the only method of construction that's feasible is two by fours and drywall, instead of letting innovators and entrepreneurs figure out cheaper and more durable methods of construction for homes."

It turns out that 2x4 construction on a slab is one of the cheapest and most durable methods of construction around. Building codes are built from lives lost, and are not trivial to replace or improve on (similar to lessons learned in aircraft design).

Building codes are purchased in lives. It would of course be cheaper to build favelas.
Do you agree that Electric Cars will be obsolete?
> negative human rights

did you make that up? I know positive and negative discrimination is a thing, and there was even a fourfold distinction something I don't quite recall about positive/negative punishment/encouragement, sometging about how we learn. So, thanks for the downvotes, I mean, the attention.

"Negative right" is a paradox. You cannot at the fundamental level forbid to forbid.
I like the idea of freeing people to be able to quit and get a new job any time, where quitting today means a real threat of losing one's home, transportation, or ability to eat (never mind fueling the cycle of debt that keeps so many down). I think it would be a net benefit if people could tell oppressive employers to fuck off without fear.

However, a welfare state is a real thing to be worried about. My sister works up in Alaska. Tribal members up there have exactly what UBI promises: a baseline check every month. This has not stirred people to innovation. It has led to a gluttony of drug and alcohol addition and a forgetting of the ways to live off the land. There are a few elders who would like to teach the young how to do so, but they are not interested. Nobody wants to do better and there is high resentment towards the federal government.

I've seen it in other places. When you are outside the balance of exchange with someone (or some organization), resentment breeds. I can see UBI causing more resentment on both sides, the receivers and the payers.

Economically, we would have to produce enough "extra" that a full, regular distribution of that wealth could continue to work with producers continuing to produce, and a growing collection of people who would lose all interest in contributing. We would have to have a way to deal with a dramatic rise in apathetic people. We would have to have a way to deal with producers just leaving the country.

In The Expanse, Earth has a UBI like thing. The whole planet. You get subsistence living, and if you want to be a producer, you start by doing menial work for a period of time to prove you are willing to work hard. It is also sci-fi for a reason :).

Again, I would love to free people from tyrannical employers and the fear and stress of not knowing what next month brings due to finances (I've lived that the majority of my life). I don't see how UBI can work.
Thank you! I was confused.
My theory is that any advanced civilisation reaches a point at which a vast amount of destructive power becomes accessible to individuals. At this point it becomes only matter of time until that civilisation is destroyed.

The analogy I use is to imagine that every adult human on Earth woke up tomorrow morning with a button on their wrist that could destroy the Earth. How long do you think we would last?

We haven't reached a stage where an individual can create a nuclear bomb, a new kind of super-virus or some other doomsday weapon but I imagine its not an implausible scenario in the future. I think this is kind of a wall that all advanced civilisation may hit at some point.
With a sample size of 1, there is no way to estimate the possibility of a species fundamentally unlike us becoming spacefaring.

We can count stars pretty well, but we can only barely estimate the probability of an earth-like planet existing around a star and forming cellular life.
yeah, and if you are lucky, you'll only have to work 40 hours a week for 50 years to acquire them.
Thank you for pure-store, I'm surprised it hasn't attracted more attention!

The API is perfectly small and straight-forward, it's close to the ideal I imagine.

For a few years I've been using a similarly tiny library I wrote to reduce Redux's verbosity, but I may migrate to pure-store as it's even smaller and gets to the essence of state management.

Seeing the popularity of React hooks and Redux+friends, I know I'm in the minority of people who lament the direction they're going. I'm secretly hoping for a "destructuring" of the React ecosystem into more generic concepts/libraries/modules that work with or without React, carrying on the lessons learned but implemented as simple and independent as possible.

To me, pure-store (and immer for sure) is one of those libraries that point the way to a better future.
Yes, that's another example of tuning the parameter-space for a possible answer, just an unlikely one. Yes, maybe the Milky Way is just chock full of highly advanced technological species who have all made themselves very hard to detect and none of whom have any interest in communications with other intelligent life.

But a simpler explanation that has many more paths to being true is "there's nothing out there."

To be clear, I don't think the evidence suggests near-certainty here. I wouldn't say that there's a 99% chance that we're alone in the galaxy. But it's also not a wide open field. There is some evidence, and so far that evidence suggests that we're likely alone.
DiffBot - sounds like it alerts me when a page changes.
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You're using backblaze as a storage medium?

ex: https://f000.backblazeb2.com/file/fred12/anthony/PgIOufN.mp4
Tribal UBI has had mixed outcomes. Payments that are below practical livability seem to help as an augmentation to income and for reducing poverty. In tribes where work is not necessary or limited to a couple months per year to live comfortably (the latter case common for tribes with a large resource extraction business) you see much more evidence of rampant social pathology rather than mere poverty.

Anecdotally, having grown up in and around various tribal communities, people will consistently replace work as a source of purpose with some other purpose of their own devising. Unfortunately, most of the time people will choose a purpose that is socially destructive in the absence of a default purpose that is socially beneficial. A consideration for designing a constructive UBI system is institutionalizing new sources of socially beneficial purpose that can be easily adopted by people that lose work as a purpose. Insufficient thought is put into this latter problem, I have seen little evidence that this will happen organically.
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What do you mean? How is running out of time different from a Fermi gate?
Without a gate, why would time run out? The only natural limits are the time limit to colonize another planet, then another solar system, before our earth and sun lose their ability to sustain life.
Thank you for your comment @tug0fwar, I just bought Mindfulness in plain English by Henepola Gunaratana.

Are there any exercises that helped you?
Technological civilizations are fragile - it's more likely that they collapse than remain and progress exponentially forever.
> Why haven't some of them noticed us?

Maybe they have?

We don't "contact" every pack of deer that we notice.
I really liked “Problem Solving With Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python”.

https://runestone.academy/runestone/books/published/pythonds...
Yang does have an interesting idea for campaign finance reform too. 100$ a year for any citizen to spend on political campaigns. In some ways I think this is bigger than the UBI. If everybody spent this voucher it would be ~23B, almost 4x what was spent on federal races in 2016.

I think it will be more likely that our elected officials make better policy for normal people if their campaign funding also comes from them. In federal budget terms, 23B is cheap to increase political participation / trust.

While it’s entirely possible that corporations / billionaires increase their expenditures to match, having “enough” money is more important than having more money in political campaigns (or so I was taught in school.)
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I think it probably happens gradually a lot. And I think many companies will go by team or by function like e.g. support, dev

Companies that want to hire remote or offer it should publish numbers on percent working remotely. Good marketing and helpful for the industry if you think remote work is net good.
For example, turning off "location history" didn't prevent Google from tracking your location history. You had to also disable "web and app activity".
No. They are not the same. How is it worthless to replace the king with a president? I don't understand your logic.
Or they die off. Which (having grown up there) is infinitely more likely.

Their smart kids leave. The one thing they do that's smart is put all their resources into their 'smart' kids (which may not actually be the smartest ones) and then push them into an environment that encourages them to make something of themselves. The main side effect being that they're no longer satisfied by nothing and leave.
You should change what people are around you, if possible.
What are the alternatives? The iphone is prohibitively expensive for most people, and it's unacceptable that privacy should only be available to the wealthy.

There's basically an Android/iOS "duopoly" out there, and it's only getting worse. There are now bank accounts that are unusable without a smart phone app, and guess which platforms are supported...Google Play and Apple App Store. And don't even think about sideloading onto a rooted device, it won't work "for security reasons". Such bank accounts, and services like Apple Pay, are effectively enabling vendor lock-in for very important services.
Any time such a huge change is introduced into a complex system, it is extremely hard to see all the unintended consequences.

I like the idea of UBI, too. Taking that leap worries me, though, we might be in for a worse time because of it.
I wonder if this kind of behaviour is illegal under GDPR. At least it should be in my opinion.
I don't understand why ufological data is systematically ignored. This leads to biased reasoning.
We know how to detect laser / radio transmissions pointed at us.

You can't see a laser transmission off-axis if there aren't any stray photons reaching your detector - that's just physics.

You can't detect a radio signal below the noise floor without some a priori knowledge about the statistics of the signal.

These aren't justifications, these are simply facts about the current limits of our ability to detect far-away signals. These limits suggest that millions of far-away worlds could be extremely chatty between themselves, but unless they decided to point a transmitter at us, we would be none the wiser.

You shouldn't use a measurement that looks identical for case A and case B to decide which one is more likely.
I had the same exact experience, however no one really cared when I explained my spreadsheet automation (I’m partially to blame there), so I quit my road to nowhere finance job to move to Australia and also change careers with a boot camp. 1000% changed my life for the best.
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