skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have had over a year of fear mongering over a disease that has a worldwide mortality rate of around 0.5%.
There are plenty of adverse reactions to the vaccine, and it seems very related to age whether the vaccine is lower risk than coronavirus - under 30 seems to be more risk from the vaccine. And that is without any mid to long term side effects being known about.

It seems very suspicious how hard the experimental vaccine is being pushed, especially considering ivermection and other treatments seem to be effective and have been used for decades.
I appreciate the moonshot thinking, but I don’t think this is a realistic framework for human civilization. We already live in a society in which not everyone contributes (rich and poor), and it’s problematic. Inequality and resentment are inevitable when some contribute (or feel like they contribute) more than others. I think humans are generally not evil, but we are also quite fickle. I think you’re describing the dystopia of The Hunger Games from the perspective of a Capitol resident. :)
Let's analyze my phrase again. Its structure is "euphemism A equates B and C". For some reason you picked B and decided that it's treated unfairly, despite B and C are on equal standing in my phrase. I could even swap B and C without changing the meaning and subtext of my phrase.
I have done a job that was 80% dull work. I can guarantee you I have never been more exhausted when I came home from work. Don't ask me how it works, but doing 'nothing' can be extremely tiring. And this was a desk job.
What do you mean "product"? Like...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e...
> If basic income isn’t enough to survive on, then you’ll still need some other services and so you’ll still have the funding cliff. But if it is enough to survive on, then too many people who are capable of working will choose to instead just survive on it indefinitely.

If it maxes out approximately where current means-tested welfare does, then it will be at a place where you wouldn’t need additional programs to acheive the same level of living possible for those with no outside income under current means-tested welfare. If, as UBI rather than means tested welfare, it also didn’t face the strong disincentive to additional income posed by the current “funding-cliff” effect of means-tested welfare, the obvious effect would be more people working who would under the current system be welfare-dependent, not less.

Your analysis seems to be comparing it to a no-welfare position, but that’s not the system it is replacing.
I have not had the need to do it. I have written two large programs, with variables as a[i,j] or as a_{ij} and in both cases Mathematica treats the whole thing as a single symbol.

You can also put Greek symbols in superscripts or subscripts and that works just fine.

Do you think the Symbolize (or the Notation package) are useful? I don't see any examples in the docs, so hard to tell.
I only have a cursory knowledge on LMDB (listening to a podcast while biking). Anyway, LMDB has no transaction log nor write ahead log. There's no overwrite during update. Data page update is copy-on-write and b+tree index update is append only. The update on the b+tree pages is performed from the bottom of the tree to the root, linking newly appended pages to higher level pages. The transaction is committed when the new root page is appended. When there's a crash, the incomplete appended index pages have not been linked up to the root page yet and are not reachable from the previous valid root page. They can be just thrown away. Recovery just means searching for the last valid root index page. There's no need for a WAL and undo/redo of the transaction log.

Deleted pages and obsolete pages are actively put back into a free list (tracked by another b+tree), which will be reused for new page allocation. This avoids the long garbage collection phase to walk all the live pages for compaction (no vacuum is needed).
I had a great-grandmother that kept very, very busy after retiring until dementia took over: The other great grandmother complained at 95+ that her knees wouldn't work well enough to keep busy. And this is how folks that feel fairly healthy tend to be, as long as they have enough money. Don't get me wrong: Pretty much everyone slows down when they age, and a lot of mundane tasks can easily get more difficult or take more time - but folks are still busy with a full life.

And then you start hitting a sliding scale, and poor health, poverty, lack of transportation and/or wheelchair access, and a slew of other things makes it really easy to wind up being the person that sits at home. The other unfortunate reality is that some of the folks are sitting because they are dying. I've not yet died, but I suspect it tires you.

I also don't think this is a trend that will stay: I'm 42, and I have a completely different relationship to television than my mother. Unlike her, I rarely sit down and simply watch a show - and I know lots of folks like this. Games and hobbies and communication with others and all this other stuff is going on. And assuming we can still use our fingers and wrists well enough, I think this will stay.
Regular people usually buy something like a Western Digital NAS from the shopping mall on the neighbourhood.
Thanks! Its because I have such great examples and mentors!
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The post about the TV?
In the past century, glass chalkboards and reverse writing were actually used in the military, mainly in air defense. Specially trained writers were putting objects scanned by radars on the board with coordinates and related info, while officers were reading them from the other side.
If I was unmarried and in my 20's I definitely pick Type 2. Now I am married, live in a nice house, picking Type 1 is a no-brainer.

Coupled with the fact that in 2019 I was working in an office sat next to someone I absolutely detested, and realising that I was spending more waking hours with this hateful person then I was with my own family I will never want to go back to an office.

I imagine my career won't be as fruitful, but then again I get to take my daughter to school.
> Why do I phrase it this way? Because the only market mechanism is a sale, you either buy or you don't.

That's not always true. When a rail network gets privatized, the argument is that the market will make sure it's a good service still. But they are usually paid by the government, not the patrons. The commuters vote becomes negligible, and the rail network has every incentive to optimize for a minimum viable network that meets their government set targets while the service gets worse and worse in all other metrics. Seats are shittier, service is less clean, graffiti stacks up, railstock gets rickety etc.
No large scale experiment exists for UBI.
Sounds like a spiritual successor of MAPS.ME.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27543012
> there’s plenty of unfilled jobs in the US, so UBI doesn’t make sense here.

The point of UBI is to make it easier to fill productive jobs by (1) reducing the marginal disincentive to work posed by the funding structure of means-tested welfare, and (2) putting a bunch of people back into looking for productive jobs who are currently working in government welfare bureaucracy doing jobs that duplicate functions performed in the tax bureaucracy and/or serve the nonproductive purpose of maximizing the disincentive to additional work by welfare recipients.
On of the use-cases for this is for Peer-to-Peer matrix: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix
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This seems to happen a lot in these sorts of circles. My dad has a classic car and if you want a certain refurbished part, you basically have to order it from this one dude in Australia who doesn't answer email, rarely answers the phone and has a delivery time of 2 weeks - 6 month.

However everybody who has successfully ordered from him agree that his refurbishment jobs are the best you'll get, so everybody kind of puts up with it.
discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559748
> I think it would be amazing if most people didn’t have to work for a living.

Who doesn't? But we are not in a post-scarcity economy.
I decided that they are all content creators of equal standing if they are in the action of creating content, I don't find that to be a euphemism or your meta interpretation to be anywhere near accurate

Lets start ”why do you think its a euphemism” and work up from there

if creating content

content creator = true

its not necessary for me or you to consider that a “less harsh” substitute word for anything else, the definition of euphamism
> Western principles such as truth, innocence and self-reliance aren't foundational here

Then what is?
best intro is still this paper:
"How to explain zero-knowledge Protocols to your Children";

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221355016_How_to_Ex...
Well I guess they could move to the Moon, or Mars perhaps. It's also very American to be cavalier about displacing people.
Lots of info here: https://lightboard.info/

Also lots of places to buy them. Here's one:
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Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in its warehouses every year
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> “negative income tax” which is identical to a UBI

Some consider those distinct as they state the UBI would not decrease with additional earned income.
I've seen this turn out the other way on a road contract near my house. (rural Ireland)

Some Italian construction company underbid, and slightly later went bankrupt after finishing some of the work. They just about missed the contract milestones for payment too, and got nothing out of it.
Then, the contract went to someone else who bid, with expected costs adjusted. Think there was an 8-ish month delay.
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Yes. But the question is not whether people in Shenzen are better off with those manufacturing jobs, but whether it people in _the US_ would be better off if the manufacturing came back.

So then either you have to 'force' people to take Shenzen-laborer level wages in the US, or the costs of manufacturing in the US will be higher than in Shenzen.
What's keeping a plugged in unremovable battery charging on power 24/7 like
This is an amazing feature. It really shows how much we are stuck on our little blue pixels heap and how even getting to even Mars is an exploit.
> I’m a fan of UBI, but I don’t think this cliff phenomenon is an argument for it

Yes it is. In fact, its the central argument advanced by advocates on both the left and right who have advocated UBI (or the equivalent-policy-under-a-different-name of "negative income tax".)

> it’s an argument for gradual phase-outs instead of cliffs.

Gradual phase-out (through the effect of income taxes, at the marginal tax rate set by the earned income) instead of cliffs (through traditional means-tested funding mechanism) is the central point of UBI.

If you are a “fan of UBI” and you don’t understands UBIs central function and motivation, what is it exactly you are a fan of?
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Achieving the product-market fit is a challenging process, we need to have feedback from real customers. The culture, and behavior of users are very different, and we looking to attract users with a lot of diversity.
It’s fun, it’s like solving a puzzle. You get to play detective.

For me getting in to genealogy was a two week thing, I found all relatives 4-5 generations back. After that I got bored. Sometimes it’s fun when 23andme finds someone that I am related to and I get to figure out in which way.
Hong Kong is still a more free society. So probably its not a good suggestion to make it worse than what it is already due to heavy handed approach to national security. Please check report in Hong Kong (52 points) [1] and Singapore (49 points) [2] on freedom.

In Hong Kong one can go for protest if its not breaking the National Security Law, in Singapore no one can protest unless approved by Police, recent case highlights it when a student send a tweet to protest when Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison visited Singapore [3].

Hong Kong is still very good when it comes to internet and freedom of expression. Also it follows common law jurisdictions and judges are able to give judgements against the government in many instances. Also Singapore has POFMA [4], which is worse than rules in Hong Kong.

In Hong Kong anyone can form a company and manage it without having a local permanent resident or citizen as Director. In Singapore one cannot form a limited liability company easily unless has a local permanent resident or citizen as Director (for others need a special conditions and permission).

[1] https://freedomhouse.org/country/hong-kong/freedom-world/202...

[2] https://freedomhouse.org/country/singapore/freedom-world/202...

[3] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/spf-tweet-pro...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_from_Online_Falseho...
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If you're trying to onboard a remote talent team for your project, you may want to be on guard so that you don't end up reaching out to the wrong vendors.
There are a lot of people very interested by science but from what I read academia does not seem to be a good place to be in. That might help explaining why we can see 'amateur scientists' coming up with interesting results.
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There is also a WebExtension that works with WSJ:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/
Using a Precursor [1] seems like it might be useful here, since you can compile and verify your own CPU on an FPGA. But then it comes down to whether the FPGA software can understand and intercept what you're compiling, I suppose.

[1]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
Even without that limitation, it wouldn't really be Turing complete since images need to have a finite dimension, which makes the halting problem trivial (everything halts when all finitely many pixels are decoded).

Then again, no real computer is Turing complete because they all have finite memory so they're strictly speaking only big finite state machines (though we do typically consider them Turing complete anyway).

I think the main point here is that the context/prediction model of JPEG XL's modular mode is expressive enough to consider it a kind of mini-programming language which is 'Turing-complete' (with some asterisks like requiring infinite images).

It's not a security risk though: the decode computation per pixel is still bounded, so there is no way to make the decoder go into an infinite loop or anything like that. In that respect it's (intentionally) not Turing complete, unlike some other image formats like PostScript and SVG that do have actual programming languages in them that can cause a decoder/interpreter to go into an infinite loop (safe handling of such files does require sandboxing and time-outs).
Totally agree, that google is the most annoying. Recently I realized that the news tab in my TV's YouTube application started to show news in local language. I remember I was able to override the location setting only to realize that the setting still exists but now get's automatically reset by the YouTube application on every start, which makes this setting completely useless. Almost as if the person who is responsible for this setting doesn't talk to the person who does geolocation stuff.
> This is basic compiler design stuff that surely the WG14 heads are capable of.

What I don’t understand is why WG14, specifically, should be doing this. In my mind it seems obvious that WG14 just shouldn’t care about fixing deep issues with C—issues that would require high amounts of engineering effort to adopt. A new array type certainly falls in this category. C99 introduced VLAs—not even really a new array type—and these were so poorly adopted that VLAs were made optional in the next revision. You might also consider Annex K, which is also quite poorly adopted.

If you want to use Microsoft’s checked C, you can use it. If you want to use MISRA, you can use that. If you want to use formal methods, there are various subsets of C that you can tackle with formal methods. If you want to use asan, tsan, valgrind, or switch to Zig or Java or Rust, all of those options are available.

The problems with adding a new array type to the language are that:

1. If WG14 makes a change like you suggest, it will be poorly adopted, meaning that it's a poor fit for the standard, (just based on the history of the adoption of things like VLAs and Annex K, this is the most likely outcome).

2. You can just use a different language for new projects, or extensions / tooling for existing projects.

In other words, it’s a low value change with a high cost.

> I really don't get your "maintain compatibility with existing code" hot discussion.

It’s because your original comment was so short and vague. Feel free to ignore the responses, since you’ve since clarified.
> were as bleak as Nevada

You do know that’s the natural state of that region, right? It’s like complaining about the bleakness of the Sahara or Antarctica.

Maybe you meant Las Vegas? Because otherwise your post loses its point. Are you complaining about city layouts or the fact that deserts exist?
Because We are knowledge workers, Not manual labourers!

/s
> From my experience visiting, there were lots of jobs that were "nice to have". Like the man making sure people don't fall in the hole, or the person standing by the carpark exit making sure the way is clear. You could probably do without them, but it's a nice thing to have.

How would liability play out for the construction company in a Japanese court? It's already a low margin competitive industry so passing risk management costs onto customers (the cost of the people monitoring the holes) is likely more practical than risking all profits evaporating and years of litigation, especially if insurance has anything to say about it.
To me choosing a specialized hardware was motivated by these two factors:

- power management

- semi-closed source applications

On power management, I don't use the NAS box continuously, and there can be long gaps between accesses. Having the box "sleep" for 95% of the day, and wake up the disks only for one or two bursts of activity is interesting to me.

I tried doing that with DIY solutions, including Raspberry Pi+SATA disk type of arrangements. Overall it didn't work great and was a PITA.

On the semi-proprietary apps, I am thinking about Synology's apps. I could totally live without them, but it's a nice addition to the package, they're easy to install, seem to be well maintained and work decently well.
The best rule is that location != language.

Just like in UX a flag != language.

Sites should honor the 'accept-language' header with the one exemption below.

In various regions users do have their devices set to some version of English (localization not be available in their language or of poor quality etc.) so 'accept-language' will likely be set to English. In those cases (likely language for country != English), I think it's fine to _ask_ if they want to change to the expected local language.

But in the end, if a users selects a language preference at any time, it should be saved to localStorage or in a cookie and respected even if other conditions change.
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One way out of the Rebol situation is to implement a minimal interpreter/compiler for the self-hosted language using another language, build the language using that and then rebuild the language using itself. The Bootstrappable Builds folks are working on that for a few things, for eg Scala:

https://framagit.org/tyreunom/scabo/
Toyota knows it competitive edge is its culture. Culture to change, to be retrospective, to improve. Lean, JIT, Kanban etc were derived from a culture of striving for perfection and to develop the optimal processes for a specific company is something that takes decades and is never ending, not something that can be read in a book, taught on a course in a short period of time.
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Fair dos. I do run my own mailserver and although I have had problems I haven't found it impossible. The complexity in running a mailserver has for sure increased since 2008 but it hasn't seen the same level of complexity expansion that, for example, making a web site has.

I do use SPF but I don't use DKIM or DMARC. On the inbound side, I do use greylisting and anti-spam. I don't tend to change my config between releases of debian stable.
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There are also other insects beside bees. A world only with bees is also a dead world.
What are some examples of bloated websites with ridiculous page sizes that take too long to load on mobile.
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I genuinely believe to spend resources on issues where ROI is positive.

So far exploits on FOSS kind of prove the point not everyone is using Gentoo, reading every line of code on their emerged packakges, let alone similar computing models.

Now if we are speaking about driving the whole industry to where security bugs, caused by using languages like C that cannot save us from code reviews unless done by ISO C language lawyers and compiler experts in UB optimizations, are heavily punished like construction companies are for a fallen bridge, then that would be interesting.
API design concerns for public availability (just to name a few):

- security
- preventing abuse
- API Anti-Corruption Layer
- sanitizing inputs and outputs
- i.e. not exposing DB IDs/PKs, or pagination cursors directly
- versioning, backward- and forward- compatibility, deprecation strategy
- usability, DX, Documentation
- reducing bandwidth use:
- caching
- eliminate over-fetching
- efficient wire format
I don't know the answer to that sorry, you're right to point it out though. Perhaps there is actually some prior court case that defined a liability to make those individuals necessary to be compliant.

In Australia we certainly don't have those people, construction companies just use a few signs, some cones and barricades and that's all that is required to be compliant. If someone falls in the hole they shouldn't have walked past the cones!