skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You put your finger at an important point there. When applied to a single policy, labels can indeed get in the way of reasoned discussion of the policy. I think the labels are more useful as applied to the entirety of someone's political outlook.

But if we were to apply labels to UBI, I imagine that the left would mostly be in favour, and the right would mostly be against it. Ideally, everyone should consider the notion on its merits. It's just that what way you're leaning, will inevitably influence your thinking to some extent.

Edited to add: To be more concrete, consider two possible effects of UBI: (1) Raising the quality of life of poor people, and (2) Discouraging people from seeking work. I imagine that a right-wing thinker will weigh (2) more heavily than (1), while a left-wing thinker will do the opposite. Each may even say that the other outcome is not even going to happen, or only negligibly so.
> Compare that to the Steam or Origin pain when I need to spent hours trying to install all that stuff and having my computer full of spyware afterwards, yuck!

Yeah, double clicking on a game and having it automatically downloaded and executed... hours of work and hundreds of viruses! You have obviously never used steam and origin.
It's about React Cosmos specifically.

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/600354123372965888
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How does this handle dependencies, for example if I'm working on a python project and I need to run a pip install. I will give you money if you can automate getting those python dependencies up into a lambda function.

If you can do this reliably, and pass corporate venting, you easily have a product worth millions.

On the other hand, if this gets popular Amazon can easily just clone the product and integrate it directly. You'll know it's a good idea then.

Edit : MIT ! Awesome, thanks for the donation to The Open source community. If I ever use this in a real project I'll go ahead and donate a few bucks.
Ahh I remember sweating bullets, trying to diffuse assembly bombs for labs in college. I love how looking at GDB starts out like literally staring at heiroglyphics but by the end of the semester, you get such an intuitive sense for things.

Haven't really 'used' that knowledge directly, and I don't think I will. But it taught me a ton about how computers work, which probably helps me somehow!
Or even better, print it out in a book, wrap it in acid-free tissue paper, and put it on a shelf, somewhere dry.
Its easy. You deliver the feature and then optimize its performance.

What they dont say is that there is never an end to set of feature requests you will get. No matter how many crappy, unusable features you throw in, there will always be a request to tweak this , tweak that.....
I would argue that there was a grimmer meaning behind similar promises from every socialist leader, except those where there was no meaning at all other than cynical pursuit of power (like Stalin).

Despite that, the Nazis did gain support from many socialists, and ultimately, like so many other governments that rose to power with socialist promises, failed to live up to those promises.

But I don't think Hitler himself was a socialist, and I agree that Hitler was using the socialists just as he used everyone else who supported him. I just think people should acknowledge the role that socialists played in helping him rise to power.
Here's another good one (30 min read): Bitcoin is Venice

https://allenfarrington.medium.com/bitcoin-is-venice-8414dda...
The purpose of this regulation is to provide cheap rent for the poor. Not to enable "the rich" to acquire new real estate which they then proceed to not rent out at all ... Increasing the number of homeless.

Now of course this legislation "prevented that", by refusing owners do this while tenants are in the apartments. Except the net result seems to be when tenants do leave, the apartments are taken out of the housing market altogether, exacerbating the already pretty critical problems.

And in the German press you will find accounts of pressure tactics (such as schemes to force tenants into default, "using" things like a divorce to kick people out (man signed contract, woman stays in apartment, gets kicked out when man refuses to pay but woman is not allowed to sign contract in her own name), creating critical maintenance problems ...) to create that situation.

So no, that is a very, very bad thing.
And so?

Surely you don't expect it for free, right?

That is real, basic skill that you seek guidance from. A skill you do not yet have too. (Along with many people)
> you have no idea what invariant or structure is required for the task

I often write the program in TypeScript types/interfaces first because it forces me to think about the data flow both in and out. In my opinion, data, not code, is the most important thing about a program.
> Is there a better method for building a model of the world?

One of the questions should be: Why should we build a model for the world? Is that really possible/doable? And if the real answer is "no", why should we apply that failed model to the real world, affecting (potentially in a negative way) the lives of millions of people?
Panotools/Hugin is pretty good at calibrating lenses when building a panorama. I'm sure its model is much simpler than this, but I can generally create a large panorama with double or triple digit number of constituent images, and it will work out the field of view and distortion parameters, along with the distortion centre. It's good enough that the error in position of objects between overlapping images is no more than a single pixel. It will also calibrate the vignetting and the colour response of the camera sensor.
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A few comments on the post:

- I would have liked to see a plug for gemini in the small-web space.

- I'm not sure on lobste.rs. I like the content, but then Drew DeVault was banned so I wonder if the moderation is a little too arbitrary leading to an echo chamber?

- I'm not sure I agree on Ansible. First not a fan of YAML, but willing to accept maybe that's personal preference. Beyond that though there's a lot of Ansible to keep in your head. If you don't use it day-to-day I don't find it a tool you can easily set up .
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These seem like the main added-values.
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Disclaimer : I am not supporting any kind of police state with state controlled production

Everybody you met had probably left because of so called "socialism", so you have quite a bias in your data. Have you heard of "Ostalagia"? There is still a not so small "communist" party in Russia by the way.
If the bread price explodes, poor people will starve and the rest of the population ends up paying a boatload of money to the lucky few bakers. If the bread price remains stationary, people will starve randomly.

People are going to starve either way, why not skip the whole "make the bakers filthy rich" part?
>labels facilitate reasoning

this is the claim, what is your supporting reasoning?

>we need a language to talk about parties' politics in broad terms

Why? Why should we strive to generalize something so inherently complex and impactful as policy.

>once fronts harden and the tribal impulse sets in

I'm not understanding how simplistic labels can contribute to anything other than this outcome.
No need to feel sorry for me ;-) Personally, I am used to that, I've been in IT for too long. But I can indeed imagine that some people experienced some anguish over this.

I agree that storage cost is completely marginal and I am quite sure they had a sustainable ratio of paying to free users (otherwise they'd have made completely different decisions or shut the service down). In my experience, LastPass had one of the best brand reputations among password managers, and LogMeIn can do "good software" (but not sell it sensibly to anyone but enterprise audiences it seems). That's down the drain now of course, which certainly is a shame.

7 trackers and the purposeful deterioration of the free tier can only be explained by greed, I think. (Unfortunately, we'll likely never know the true decision-making process that went into this but come on, it's a game of probabilities).
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That's why most people don't notice any performance issues with Google Stadia / Geforce Now. They are conditioned to endure 100+ ms of latency for everything, so an additional 9ms of internet transmission delay from the datacenter into your house is barely noticeable.
I actually liked LastPass and have been a long time paying customer. I just deleted my account. Trackers on a Password Manager -- what the fuck were they thinking ?

I deleted my account to send a message to the Pointy headed bosses running LastPass that you can only squeeze a customer so much. Also -- aren't the people who use LastPass are by default privacy and security conscious and actually paying for added security and convenience? And the morons decided to violate our trust.
I think this article is getting the interpretation of the facts all wrong.

They point to the predictable drop in supply in the regulated market as if it was a bad thing, but they ignore where that supply is coming from. Those are not newly-built apartments, because the price controls don't apply for new construction.

When an old apartment becomes available, it's because the previous occupant moved out, e.g. because they could no longer make rent. So making rents more affordable leads to fewer people having to move for financial reasons, which I think is a good thing.

Disclaimer: I live in a regulated apartment and don't intend to move, so it's probably not surprising that I like this policy.
> obviously false assertion

Maybe you need to spend time outside of your gated community and get your data from multiple sources. The BLS numbers are not handed down from God and can be wrong.

This survey below, for example, (which they do every year and remains consistent) shows that around 60% of Americans would not be able to pay an unexpected $1,000 expense:

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/financial-security-...
I've been a Compass client for several yrs and have generated ~$100m of the "Gross Transaction Value" they crow about in their S-1 (bs metric to focus on, since Compass only earns commissions of 3~5% of that). Most of the tech they promised in their initial pitch either doesn't exist or is outsourced to third-parties. Even basic services such as marketing/SEO in our market is handled by 3Ps. From a client POV, nothing differentiates them from other major brokerages. At the end of the day, RE is a people biz; I've stuck with them because I like the agents we work with. If these agents were to jump ship, I'd leave as well.
Transgender issues are political when the government forces you to use made up terms like Xe/Xim or they/their instead of him/her to appease the mentally ill at the risk of being fined or jailed.
> 9 years is a very aggressive deadline

They've got no choice - governments are banning them in Y-9. It's adapt or go out of business at this late stage.
No keys were revoked (nor does Element have the power to do so). What happened was that existing user login sessions were destroyed and users had to log in again.

If you had either backed up your keys locally or had an encrypted copy of your keys stored on the server-side as a backup, no access was lost.
Everyone is limited by models, and scientists certainly are too. If you've ever taken a physics class and drawn a free body diagram, you've made a model. It's a good first order approximation, and an excellent pedagogical tool, but it's also a model that is limited in many ways. Is it too limited? Depends on what you want to do with it.
Maybe read an economics textbook before opining on economics?
One of the biggest downside is that the startup time for python is significantly slower than the shell. With just one script this isn't really noticeable, but if you're composing a lot of small scripts together, python becomes noticeably less responsive for interactive commands than bash.

Along similar lines bash's syntax is incredibly streamlined for composing standalone scripts and programs through pipes. A simple bash one-liner like the below would be much more awkward to write in python:

> diff <(netcat $server | grep town | sed 's/street/St' | cut -f 3 | head -n 5) <(cat ./$(psql $query).dat)
I think there's an issue that sometimes the dynamics of scientific progress that Kuhn described are misinterpreted as basically meaning that, oh look, scientists are just human like the rest of us, so scientific thought isn't somehow privileged over any other point of view.

However, Kuhn's dynamics are ultimately a consequence of reasoning in the face of uncertainty. Simply applying logic to experimental results is not what scientists actually do, instead, they have to develop a sort of taste in reasoning, in order to apply appropriate prior beliefs in the Bayesian sense and in order to apply appropriate weights when new evidence becomes available.

This can lead to scientific thinking getting stuck in local optima of sorts, until evidence comes along (at the right time, potentially) that shakes people up sufficiently to force a new approach.

Still, that isn't equally true for every subfield; some subfields will have proven their worth to greater degrees than others by consistently making good predictions or consistently offering elegant explanations for phenomena.

I guess the difficulty in science communication comes to a large degree from the difficulty in communicating that last point, particularly since scientists themselves may disagree about how mature a given subfield really is.
Trivia: The term "dismal science" was coined when economists argued for abolishing slavery:

> Carlyle attacked Mill, not for supporting Malthus’s predictions about the dire consequences of population growth, but for supporting the emancipation of slaves. It was this fact–that economics assumed that people were basically all the same, and thus all entitled to liberty–that led Carlyle to label economics “the dismal science.”

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/07/the_origins_of_1.ht...
Then what will they do about Huckleberry Finn?
Sometimes it is, then it would be thinking in this context. Other times it's pattern matching which isn't analytical thinking.
HN guidelines: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

I agree, and I vote accordingly.
In the short term. At some point you annoy your customers so much they get a Mac and never buy your software again. Compared to PCs, Macs are highly polished and just work (even if that's not entirely true today). Apple's success is a testament to the PC's lack of polish, the point being polish does matter.
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SCIENCE! Except for gender DNA.
I think you're arguing my point for me here! If we don't immediately try to label something with simplistic labels people would be forced to reason about the policy based on merits rather than labels (or just not consider it at all, which I contend is entirely better than making decisions based on tribal labels)
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Actually prominent republicans who have left the party over Trump are talking about it https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2AB07P
The box office cares. The celebs that have signed multi-movie or multi-year contracts care. A leaked video clip will mean they are dropped from a project, costing them and the production millions. Hate and debate "cancel culture" all you want, the reality is that it exists. Any footage of extreme misogynistic activity will derail a celeb's career.

The biggest movies are worth hundreds of millions of dollars and are filmed at locations all over the world. Evidence of illegal activity (ie drug use/possession) could seriously impede a celeb's ability or willingness to travel. And good luck being signed to any such production if you have a past history of drug use. If a your movie is shooting in Vancouver would you risk a celeb with a cocaine problem crossing that boarder ten times a year?
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We'll be looking at Python in the coming weeks, currently it's JS and TS only.

But the way this works locally (for Node) is that you do an npm install just as you would and it executes your application locally. The packaging part comes into play when deploying these functions to AWS. And I agree that portion even for Node isn't bullet proof. It's something we want to do a better job of.
SCIENCE!!! Except for Gender DNA, Macroeconomics, Voter
Fraud Detection, etc...
Here is one part where the problem comes from:

- Traditionalism: Driving society according to the word of the elders,

- Modernity: Driving society using science.

Leaders understood that. So there are extremely high stakes in fabricating or twisting science, because once you have science on your side, all modern societies will help you.

Example with feminism: It is literally illegal in some countries (ex: France, law for true equality 2014, followed by multiple decrees since Macron) to communicate information that unflatters women (it’s considered demeaning), so even though some figures are extremely false (girls aren’t better at math, it’s only when we put a female name on exams that the sheet has 6% higher mark, this science is considered demeaning towards women therefore illegal to publish – same goes for the wage gap, women work less and less intensively per hour worked, but it is illegal to point it out), everyone still believes wrong things.

And just like this, laws pass. Same goes for immigration or all other science-backed laws where one side is forbidden to speak.

Science works... assuming equal analysis of both sides of each hypothesis. That’s why it only works in democratic cultures, but that assumes the media is balanced.
With an emission of 1 per second forever, Grin is more like time (I make the case for uncapped supply in [1]).

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
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I don't know that I have a lot to say about it, other than I've been listening to it and find it wonderful.
Thank you! Glad to hear that it's been working well.
The problem of US-based or ally-based technology companies that fall behind competitively or economically and then are allowed to fail inescapably ensures US dependence for essential/secure tech supplies on others, some with motives contrary to our well-being. This chink in our commercial, military, and security armor should wake the US government to the necessity of underwriting some essential industries, products, or services -- as China famously does.

The US gov't has underwritten a few niche industries for decades such as supercomputing (e.g. Cray and TMC) and crypto. But for some reason they've been reluctant to do this more broadly for other essential industries like microelectronics, telecom, battery tech, and more. Clearly the potential repercussions of such oversights should compel this laissez-faire policy to be reconsidered.
Are you referencing some specific event? Never heard of controversies linked to food pyramid
I think that there really is a need for the general public to know what science IS. How it came about, how it works.

Unfortunately, for that to happen at the level it needs, there needs to be a change in how Education works everywhere.

We are still using a 19th century tool designed for a very different context.

Maria Montessori tried to bring the tool into the 20th century about 100 years ago but who is trying to do the same for the 21st century?

The way I found it explained best was in an Alan Kay presentation where he spoke about the insight Francis Bacon got into the fact that the brain works in a faulty way and what to do about it.

Scientific thinking is how we get around the very well documented [1] array of cognitive biases. Learning about those biases in ways that a) makes them obvious, b) provides ways to compensate might make a person able to detect them early and to approach them in the proper way.

Another wonderful tool I found is Chris Argyris's Ladder of Inference. Trouble is that this kind of tools need to be inculcated at a very early age so they get used and become second nature to the person. Learning them later in life is a heck lot more difficult, especially when they conflict with fundamental aspects of one's identity.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Cognitiv...
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I plan to publish my game on Steam soon. The 30% seems steep until you realise they're handling distribution, payment processing, forums and marketing if the initial traction is good. There are many great quality of life features in Steamworks that enhance my game greatly, and I do not need any server infrastructure. That being said, I would not enjoy having to pay a publisher as well.
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Elm and other ML-family languages have type inference, it does not ask a major part of human annoation of types while catches errors in compile time nonethelessly
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The graphs seem misleading or at least raises additional questions.

Yes, compared to the next 13 largest cities there seems to be a difference. However, the difference in graphs existed even before the policy proposal+enactment. The margin is also relatively small and only for a small timespan.

There should also be comparison to more comparable big cities like Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, or Frankfurt. Other cities are substantially smaller or have no (or even negative) population growth.
Of cause the rent in those cities grows differently compared to Berlin. Thereby shifting the average.
Debugging Lambda is a pain, your site is amazing, so clear and easy to follow.
Governments have a stake in these fields as well.
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You're right, and that is an abuse of technology.

Still waiting for an example of someone being charged and convicted for peaceful protest.
I don't know... maybe because you need an apartment for yourself, and you now can afford to actually buy the lot because you do not have to compete with investors expecting a dividend of 20% on their investment?