skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For math/programming, it's better to keep it short in my experience. But for other things, like knowledge from books, I use both methods, here are some examples:

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What happen to slaves in Africa after the slave trade was abolished by the America/UK in the early + mid 1800s?

simply led to a redeployment of the slaves, who were now used within Africa rather than in the Americas

“So the abolition of the slave trade, rather than making slavery in Africa wither away, simply led to a redeployment of the slaves, who were now used within Africa rather than in the Americas. Moreover, many of the political institutions the slave trade had wrought in the previous two centuries were unaltered and patterns of behavior persisted. For example, in Nigeria in the 1820s and ’30s the once-great Oyo Kingdom collapsed. It was undermined by civil wars and the rise of the Yoruba city-states, such as Illorin and Ibadan, that were directly involved in the slave trade, to its south. In the 1830s, the capital of Oyo was sacked, and after that the Yoruba cities contested power with Dahomey for regional dominance. They fought an almost continuous series of wars in the first half of the century, which generated a massive supply of slaves. Along with this went the normal rounds of kidnapping and condemnation by oracles and smaller-scale raiding. Kidnapping was such a problem in some parts of Nigeria that parents would not let their children play outside for fear they would be taken and sold into slavery.”

Excerpt From: Daron Acemoglu. “Why Nations Fail.” iBooks.

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What are two reasons why large scale wars no longer occur ?

1. Price of war has gone up because of Atomic weapons.
2. Weath is no longer is physical goods (gold,etc) but in the minds of the citizen (Silicon Valley).

Scholars have sought to explain this happy development in more books and articles than you would ever want to read yourself, and they have identified several contributing factors. First and foremost, the price of war has gone up dramatically. The Nobel Peace Prize to end all peace prizes should have been given to Robert Oppenheimer and his fellow architects of the atomic bomb. Nuclear weapons have turned war between superpowers into collective suicide, and made it impossible to seek world domination by force of arms.

Secondly, while the price of war soared, its profits declined. For most of history, polities could enrich themselves by looting or annexing enemy territories. Most wealth consisted of material things like fields, cattle, slaves and gold, so it was easy to loot it or occupy it. Today, wealth consists mainly of human capital and organizational know-how. Consequently it is difficult to carry it off or conquer it by military force.

Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens (p. 372). Harper. Kindle Edition.

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Basically, I create cards with short answers but provide the context (usually the paragraph I found it in). This method works extremely well for remember everything you read. I could write a more technical blog post on this if people actually care and find this interesting.
Seconding brake cleaner it annihilates anything you spray it at. What a godly substance.
This is an actual HTML tag, not a github thing

https://jsbin.com/timafew/edit?html,output
Or to not work and not contribute to society.

I’m not opposed to ubi per se, but your enumeration was incomplete.
This reminds me of when Instagram moved to their new logo and everyone mocked it for the same reasons. Someone made a parody video implying that some kid hacked it together in a few seconds in Photoshop, but I can't find that video anymore, all the links that point to it are dead and won't come up on web.archive.org. They used this kid though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz3PbpPR6DY

Edit: Here's something close, which is someone showing how to make the logo in Photoshop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU9zpCZFPJQ
ah, the good old "left is right, and right is wrong" to ponder about on a 19-hour drive to Ladakh...
I agree that we all have so much stuff that we don't need, but in such an incredibly consumerist society we can't really seperate what we want from what we need without a massive cultural revolution. On top of that our current capitalist society only works because people buy lots of things that they don't need.
https://www.xkcd.com/491/
I disagree. Have you tried learning a new language?
So you decide to eat egress costs in perpetuity, which will scale as you go, but a one time increase of $70 per month is enough to make you go back? What are you even trying to optimize for?
Until need to debug an issue and you're way over your head due to all the moving pieces.
The Meteor framework development tool belt, evolved
It is inaccurate: For Mexico 1980 it actually showed "La Union" band which is actually Spanish.
The 1973 Pepsi colors are really similar to the BMW Motorsport ("M") color scheme, with a light blue, dark blue/purple, and red.

https://www.schemecolor.com/bmw-m.php
I'd happily take some peanuts if you have any to spare
This would further disincentivize work.
But we need the counterfactual. When the labor they "optimized" would have done the same or better without their interference, we cannot tell. We just take the estimates from the manager themselves as the baseline. And of course, they would lie about that.
Anything similar for Gitlab?
That's a great analogy; also, the older a car, the more gauges are on the dashboard: new cars have speed, fuel, engine oil temp, maybe RPM; my oldest car had a battery level indicator and what I think was cooling water temperature. Perhaps this is the way the cars are already going: only show a measure when outside the normal box.
you're missing the point. what they do is incredible but it is not explained simply their website to the common visitor.
In Maine (US) last fall there was;

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PUMPKIN SPICE DRINKERS
USE YOUR BLINKERS

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this is during the time tourists drive around
looking at the fall foliage

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_peeping
Ill check these out. Thanks!
Putting the "BMW" lettering on whatever color happens to be behind it creates a strenge dependency that didn't exist before. I'd say that part of the criticism is valid. But the rest of the logo adheres to BMW logo heritage, as the article admits. "Flattening" the central part of the logo, meant to evoke a whirling propeller, is an improvement.

My bet is the logo does not make it past concept car use. It has to be terribly finicky to get a logo with so many separate parts right. Or there's a clear plastic part that won't age as well as the metal parts.
I typically hide the Konami code in there anyway. Enter it an "A winner is you." prints to the JS console.
Hopefully you all don’t mind me tagging on (again) with a link to my project — similar space, but with Fauvist art:

http://gregorywieber.com/art/a-walk-through-latent-space-mak...
No one seems to address the idea that coercion is necessary to force people to pay for this, something i do not wish to do, and many people feel the same. It has already been shown this disincentives work, Those of us that do work and are taxed to pay for the already massively wasteful welfare state resent being enslaved even further to pay for the errors of socialist re-distributive schemes.
Are there implementations that actually do this?

I would think the page level granularity of virtual memory makes it not that useful for this purpose, since the used and unused parts of the two pages would have to line up nicely and larger objects tend to cause less fragmentation.
It doesn’t seem silly at all to have a stock of hand sanitizer. Quite the opposite - now that we know that hand sanitizer can easily run out, it seems rational to keep an emergency supply, if you have enough storage space and extra income to keep an emergency supply of things. I am going to add some to my emergency preparedness stash, once the current situation dies down and I can actually get some cheaply on amazon.
^ this is what I mean, yeah. Isn't that the expected behavior?
Well, there's a big difference between minimalism and something that just doesn't even remotely looks finished. I'm cringing at the idea of what this "redesign" must have cost ...
The fallacy in that argument is that you're equating "dropping out of the labour market" with doing absolutely nothing of any value.

For life.

The other side of the fallacy is that any occupation based on investment or speculation is essentially parasitic, unless it includes a rare commitment to stick with an enterprise until it's a net benefit to all stakeholders. (Not just shareholders and the board.)

The latter occupations are "in the labour market" but still making a net negative contribution.

Essentially you're attempting to frame this as if UBI encourages freeloading. In fact the most influential freeloading is mostly at the other end - and the fact that it's considered a heroic and noble kind of sanctioned freeloading doesn't change its basic nature.

So unless you're sure that everyone who is temporarily out of the labour market does nothing of value to anyone, ever, and also that their negative influence is worse than that of speculators and rent-seekers, it's hard to be convinced that this is a serious problem.

The other issue - social capital - is a complete different problem. People who are in work don't necessarily have access to social capital either. But as a rule it's easier to start a business with a safety net than without one.

UBI could always be associated with opportunities for extended education. Money alone is rarely the issue, and there aren't many downsides to extended adult ed.
How do you think a person distinguishes something on a TV screen and the real thing? We don’t have any kind of 3D perception like Lidar.
>Everybody is going crazy about going digital...

This Logo design change is so out of left field too, since the craze about "going digital" feels almost a decade old at this point.
Or a second-hand computer: I do not wish to carry previous owner's use history into my usage, and neither should anyone else. Do not conflate "unusual" with "therefore hiding stuff", and don't even try "hiding stuff, therefore bad".

There are legitimate reasons for wiping data...can't believe we're having this discussion, here of all places.
I love and hate slack all at the same time.

We had a defects channel at one time and the problem is it becomes noise and starts getting ignored and issues just get dropped/hidden for a lack of proper documentation. So we forced all defects into a tracking system (zendesk in our case), which really cleaned up slack and made it more usable. We then had an engineering channel in case anyone needed a question answered that wasn't necessarily a support issue etc. That was working great until someone put in a bot for every zendesk ticket to get dropped into the engineering channel which now means that channel became a useless space for engineering. Essentially the channel is used by customer service and ops people at this point and it has nothing to do with engineering and we ignore it for the most part unless we are tagged personally. I really need to rename it because it has become not what it was intended.

The only slack "defects" type channels I like personally are the software/systems we run sending in predictive notices that an engineer needs to deal with quickly. For example, a production system that is about to run out of space, a production system that is running at 90% capacity for X time or whatever. Having a devops type channel like that is super helpful because it lets you be proactive vs reactive on things, and it prevents a lot of support tickets from ever being created. I also like new services that get deployed to drop daily/weekly stats in a slack channel for a time period while we get all the kinks worked out. That can be helpful to track things down timely, but it is a channel we create for that purpose and then gets deleted later.
Yes. I do want the per capita and total GDP to be lower if that means raising the minimum of the distribution and reducing its variance.
Left pinky for ctrl (capslock) and right ring finger for L. Works incredibly well for my hands (a quality keyboard helps too). The capslock mapping is obviously meant for vim but works great for many shortcuts like this (ideally there would be a second ctrl/esc and other modifiers to operate with right pinky comfortably, starting my first custom build soon...).
Macro Economist Raoul Pal Calls for an Impending Depression
If you're not worrying about scalability like the OP said, static configs. Add a new service? Roll out config changes. Server goes down? Let the redundancy handle it, roll out config changes in the morning.
Article fails to focus on the profound power of Talent Stacks (https://personalexcellence.co/blog/talent-stack/). It is the combination of skills that are uniquely powerful. Understand that every successful politician will have a slew of talents that revolve around Persuasion.
> its the fact that GitHub styles it in that way

GitHub hardly styles it at all. It applies a margin-top on top of what normalize.css does. It's 99% your browser's default style sheet at work.
Related to Pepsi, have you seen their 2008 rebranding document?

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

I'm still not convinced it isn't satire as it has some truly breathtaking BS. Some quick highlights:

The new logo incorporates 5000 years of design (including Vastu Sastra, Golden Ratio, Feng Shui, Vitruvian Principle, and the Mobius Strip)

The Pepsi Ratio is created by two simple circles, that are in a set ratio to each other: The Golden Ratio. The Pepsi Ratio is aesthetic geometry.

Incorporates "The Earth’s Geodynamo" and "Magnetic Dynamics" to create the "The Pepsi Globe Dynamics"

Edit: A few articles about it still exist:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pepsis-nonsensical-logo-redesig...
https://gawker.com/5150582/breathtaking-document-reveals-pep...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/459...

Glad it hasn't completely disappeared yet.
Do these studies account for people who drop out of the workforce to pursue education or training? It seems like that would be one of the benefits: allowing someone who is under skilled and working a low skill job to quit and focus on acquiring the skills they need to get a higher paying job.
The definition of "not poor" is not supposed to amount to "barely surviving" but to "living and being productive members of society".

> many people have a vested interest in conflating the two.

Just like you are conflating being poor and being a bad person:

> your core needs are met, and you have a path to thrive on - up to you to do you now.

This implicitly suggests that you are only poor because you were too lazy/stupid/<insult> to follow that path. Maybe there are people like that, but many people are poor because being poor is expensive.
Market efficiency is precisely about public wellbeing. Concretely, what are you suggesting? In face of limited supply, there's only 2 choices: keep the prices low or raise the prices. The former accelerates supply depletion; the latter helps maintain supply availability. You're asking for the government to come in and pull a third choice out of their sleeve, but I don't see such a choice. If you're the government, concretely, what would you do?

EDIT: Now, if you suspect price gouging, that's different. wtfrmyinitials was referring to a genuine shortage, though.
EDIT: disregard the comment and see btrettel's reply below.

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> Who builds a pipe gun out of a plastic pipe? It would just blow up in your hands.

Someone who's aware that when a metal pipe bursts, you get shrapnel.

The potato guns I've seen tend to be made from plastic pipes for that reason. PVC is surprisingly strong for these applications. As a teenager, I've built some solid rocket motors with a friend, and we've been using plastic pipes for the same reason.
I can see where it would be valuable, but it may cause more traffic (and therefore traffic jams). If it is cheaper and easier to drive and people can live further away from work with no penalty, it will lead to lots more cars on the road. It will lead to more sprawl, less walking and biking so more obesity, and massive damage to the environment.
> Two people each living in their own one bedroom apartment will pay more in total than two people living in a two bedroom apartment. The gap is even larger if the couple lives together in a one bedroom apartment. Healthcare, food, and many other expenses will tend to double but not all will.

Exactly, so you are incentivizing people to be less frugal in order to get a bigger check.
That's very surprising to me! As an employee at multiple startups in multiple countries, I've never seen cloud costs anywhere near payroll.
> At the Target near me, every single bottle of it is gone

It's probably a local shortage. A few days ago, I had to fly to Washington DC and stopped at the Walgreens in downtown Chicago. They had tons of hand sanitizer in many container sizes; it wall all on sale - buy 1 get 1 for 50% off.
The same works:

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Given we're pretty much all going to catch it anyway, whats the point? I'd be happy to get it over with soon.
This 100%.

But you don't need to go to Siberia for Earth to be extremely difficult to survive in.
Wherever you are, if you lack technology your chance of surviving is very low. Without clothing, housing, fire, tools it's very, very hard to survive anywhere on Earth.

The only reason life is so safe and pleasant right now on this planet is because we changed our environment to make it so.

If we were to survive on Mars, we would have to do the same. The advantage with Mars is that we wouldn't have to start from scratch.
loa_in_ just answered that question for you
> BMW builds _cars_, not Apps. They pride themselves in craftsmanship

Do they? You're commenting on a thread about their logo change which suggests they don't.

BMW has for very long time been primarily a brand. Take away the brand and they simply wouldn't compete in the market. They build real machines, but not very good ones. Look at Honda if you want an example of a company that is about the machines.
This is a spectacular gamble, however Musk has a track record and I think Superheavy/Starship will pay off with unpredictable dividends.

But the elephant in the room that Musk appears to be ignoring is the life sciences side of things. Only 12 humans have sortied outside the Van Allen belts (which protect us from the deep space radiation environment). Nobody has spent more than 18 consecutive months in space or reduced gravity, and we know there are biological changes that affect astronauts. The same goes triple for the plants and bacteria and fungi (never mind animals) we depend on for agriculture, and a closed-loop agricultural system and air plant is implicit in Musk's goal of a self-sufficient colony on Mars. We haven't even repeated the (failed) Biosphere 2 experiment.

We need the giant payload capacity before we can test the life sciences problems in a realistic manner (small and ferociously expensive lab experiments on the ISS are useful but fail Musk's iteration test because the lead time for running one is measured in years if not decades).

So we won't know if a Mars colony is even possible until some time after Musk builds the ships to put one there.
Right, so punish people for making better economic choices.
Former UAW President charged with conspiring to embezzle union funds
Companies fret as costs soar for software subscriptions (2019)
In your criticism you are missing some crucial details surrounding this report.

This is essentially scrounging to make the most out of what was a single, but fully budgeted, study on BI with the intention of running more studies.

The study was cancelled by the incoming government out of spite. All people who set up plans, knowing the full length of the study beforehand were suddenly tossed out of the program and it was just down, including any study occurring.

They're trying to gather what and any information they can from the program that wasn't even given the chance to run to completion.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/basic-income-pilot-project-fo...
i missed that and i now agree.
I haven't heard a compelling reason as to why the basic reality you point out wouldn't be true with UBI. It applies more to housing than to healthcare (we'd be delighted to build more hospitals and hire more nurses, but we can't make Manhattan bigger).

Georgism at work.

Places with lower building regulations and higher property taxes would likely fare better with UBI than places with locked housing supply and extreme building regulation, such as San Francisco.

If it was possible to build more housing, then I'd expect more housing to get built with UBI and rents to not go crazy. Otherwise, we're just pumping more steam into a turbine...
I learned the side stroke, from my mother, and it saved my life. I was swimming too far in a lake, tried to back-float, but the waves kept going into my mouth. I got very tired and frightened, then attempted to side stroke to keep the waves from going into my mouth. It worked and I barely managed to make it back. It took longer to get back because I had to swim at an angle against the waves, but at least I could breathe.
It hasn’t even been decided if anything was stolen in the first place. It’s still in court. Only a civil trial has been settled.
Interesting (I'll study further), but still fixated on "inequality". I don't care that Elon Musk has billion$ and I don't, I care that I have a "tiny house" bare minimum of nutrition, environment (heat/cool/humidity), waste disposal, energy, mundane medical care, and living space - with which I can be reasonably expected to live an optimal lifespan (within a standard deviation), processing raw resources at minimal cost.
I do not follow your argument, and I don't appreciate your appeal to my mental state.

I'm making a dramatic argument against large scale efforts to inhabit other planets, while ours is in a dire state.
True, but I think the question should be if the company is worse off without the baggage management, not if they are more productive or have better financial results.
The BMW logo always looked like a wheel to me: a blue-white rim, and a black tire.

Although I would understand if they depict a low-profile tire in their logo, instead removing the tire altogether appears bit off to me.

Hence, it seems like they really found a logo for prototype cars that can't run.
The technology developed for Mars will improve life on Earth, in ways we can't even imagine.

Human effort isn't completely fungible. There is no guarantee that all of the people working incredibly hard at SpaceX would switch to work on whatever problem you want them to.
What’s really cool is this even works with JavaScript disabled. It’s all html5!