skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What got me out of depression was studying the mind and realizing that we suffer because we polarize thoughts. We associate emotional tones/value to thoughts and if we believe these thoughts are ours, then they become our inner reality and we keep fueling the mind with more polarized thoughts. A vicious cycle.

Associating emotional energy to thoughts amplify them. It is acting like a generative energy.

Removing all polarization from thoughts cured my depression. Now when something unpleasant happens, I watch for the negative thoughts and simply observe them with detachment. I don't engage in mental scenarios and don't give them energy. Soon, they vanish, unable to take hold.
The conflict becomes being even more extreme than you peers. That's why the far left and far right both become crazier over time.
These ideas always start out targeting the “rich”, then end up falling squarely on the middle class who can’t afford tax advisors.
This is all just computational statistics. Why in the world would you invoke ill-defined anthropocentric terminology like "intelligence"? Of course a statistics program isn't "using intelligence".

But it's also not exactly just a database. It contains contextual relationships as seen with things like GPT that are beyond what a typical database implementation would be capable of.
You don't need to ridicule. Can you explain why such a policy doesn't work? I must have skipped that day at school.
Just looks the same as a broad overview to me.

Yuk yuk yuk
Yeah, it is possible to do long haul (5000km or more) electric aircraft. Difficult, but possible. 500 miles wouldn’t even be a big challenge. And “number of passengers” doesn’t even appear on the Breguet Range Equation (modified for electric flight).
Reading the main site, or the Spanish one:

https://rentabasicaincondicional.eu/

Can't find a decent, detailed description of the proposal. They have an intro video, a translation of the same one in the main page:

https://rentabasicaincondicional.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/...

which is mostly gross oversimplifications, I suspect, to trigger emotional responses. Around 2:00 they mention funding. Basically, more and higher taxes, and the critical point, IMHO: replacing current subsidies and other public services with UBI. The devil is in the details, though, and wording is critical: they seem to say, but don't clearly state, that they're getting rid of everything else, and thus saving all that money to spend on UBI.

E.g. for countries with a public healthcare system: does UBI mean all public healthcare becomes private, and you spend UBI on your provider of choice? Does this mean people/enterprises no longer need to pay healthcare taxes?

E.g. for countries with unemployment insurance: does this mean it fully goes away, so people/enterprises no longer need to pay the unemployment tax?

E.g. what about pensions? Does UBI become your pension, thus no more taxes paid for your retirement? We all know what you need to live when you're 20 is a fraction of what you need at 70.

I'm extremely skeptical of any of these initiatives because they tend to be scarce in basic details. Which is likely done on purpose.
Asked not to is different from forbidden though, no? I’m not a legal expert but I doubt this clause is one they wanted to put in and is probably driven by some legal counsel with an eye on international law.
The EU doesn't have that particular dysfunction.
> We believe concerns are due largely to unclear phrasing in the Privacy Policy

This is gaslighting. It's not the wording people have an issue with, it's the nonconsensual spyware.
IIRC hotel and hospital have the same roots, which makes the term "hospitality" much less confusing.
I think they mean on the platforms meant for the far right. Though the major platforms that I know of are image boards that don't issue bans.
Don't you think that our world would be way more relaxed and flourishing place if lawers kept their noses out of software like they are keeping them out of math?
Everything you need to know to understand 4chan, the Internet’s own bogeyman
In short: garbage in, garbage out
They are not deciding how you use your money. They are deciding which third parties they are willing to send your money to on your behalf.

They're happy to send you your money. They just don't want to have any relationship with Binance.
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Where do I sign against this?

This is just FIRE without the money. Did you read the actual proposal? They explicitly want to give a middle class life to everyone, with zero obligation from the individual.

This is complete insanity.

Kids will make zero plans to use school to make themselves useful. Kids are idiots (past me included), and if they knew they had the option to do nothing productive, then that's what a very significant proportion would do: nothing.

So you'll have a population that is incapable of doing anything useful, demanding a middle class lifestyle, for free.

You know what, why NOT be a teenage parent and never do anything productive? There's no downside.

Or if you're one of the ones being productive, when you hit 30 and get a child, suddenly why bother going back to work ever?

Do you know how many people would be "artists" or "authors" if they could? They really believe in themselves, and write poems their whole life, publish books, paint stuff. But it's all shit. Literally nobody wanted what 99% of them did. But they had no obligation to produce anything anybody else wanted.

I'm for a strong social safety net and reducing inequality, but UBI is insanity until we actually have achieved Star Trek level of abundance.

UBI assumes that everything that people want that gives them fulfilment is actually useful to anybody else.

Neil Breen is funny because there's only one of him. Europe has what, 800M people? There would easily be 5M Neil Breens, but even missing the mark on unintentionally funny.

And NONE of them would be forced to "get their life together". Their life IS together, they're "film makers".

So we would have like 25% otherwise productive people dropping out completely, and another 50% switching to something that makes them fulfilled, but contributes nothing.

And we can't keep the world running on the backs of the 25%.

Another problem is that UBI becomes a level of power. People start planning their life after not needing it, and then politicians decide to not make it grow by inflation. Or they bump it up and make future generations pay for it. C.f. pension systems, medicare, and BBC funding for some unintended political side effects.

UBI is absolutely bananas.
"This is often the case for simply using the OSS software. The user has no obligations whatsoever."

This is a category error when it comes to copyleft licenses like the GPL. It has nothing to say about usage.

"If, on the other hand, the licensor and licensee both have some obligations (in OSS, this is usually when you modify or redistribute the source or compiled product), then it's basically a contract, no matter what RMS claims."

No it's not. There are no pre-agreed terms, penalties for violation, expected compensation for services provided or anything like that. GPLed software is copyrighted. Copyright law says you have no rights to copy it or make derivative works of it whatsoever. The license permits you to do so.

"Why would you trust what he says about contract law, a field where he has no professional training whatsoever?"

Because, surprise surprise, he has advice from people who ARE trained in the law.
Nearly 80% of households in Lebanon don't have food or money to buy food
Awesome, for some reason I couldn't think of the workaround of committing to a temporary branch.

> Hour-long test suite runs are a problem in and of themselves.

I'm not sure I agree. Let's say I have a data integration system that has 70 modules. Each module have some integration tests and some baseline benchmarks.

At the time of development I'm only concerned with the 1 or 2 modules I change whose tests can finish in < 5m easily.

But when I push the change I want to be sure nothing else broke. Maybe because the change was in a base module used as a library by some other modules. Maybe I forgot to run tests on 2 of the dependent modules. So running the entire suite on merges (and optionally on PRs if required) is a necessity in my opinion.

Thanks for the link though - I'll take a look.

> You either need multiple levels of testing so you get some feedback quickly, or you need some sort

> of parallel build system that breaks the tests up so that the whole set completes in a reasonable

> amount of time. Without that, you're going to have people either sitting around waiting on test

> runners or skipping the tests entirely.

100% agreed. With most of these points you can now ignore my previous paragraph. By a 1 hour test suite I mean the wall-clock time of a single build-test cycle on CI runners. i.e. to run ~130 test suites in parallel against various containerised databases and some DBaaS (like maybe Redshift, BigQuery etc.) takes 1 hour where each individual module takes 5 to 10 mins. Some may take longer depending on the depth of things you are testing.

> Effort and resources spent on a massively parallel CD buildbot sounds like a good

> way to get things done to me. Computers are cheap; developer time is expensive.

100% agreed there again. In my opinion the organisations that treat CI improvements as technical debt and not as first class citizens of the software development flow are doomed to move slowly and have a hard time getting things done.
I would really like to see a real world UBI experiment. For example, implement UBI on two small communities. To counter act the impacts of potential inflation the experiment would need to occur for about 5 years because inflation follows changes to cash flow with a tail of about 9 to 12 months. You would need two communities to test whether isolation has an effect such that one community is geographically isolated from other population centers and the other is a suburb of a major metropolitan area.

I suspect there are all kinds of interesting pros and cons worth study, but without trials everything is just a wild guess.
Past related threads:

Music for Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448249 - June 2021 (1 comment)

Music for Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22184183 - Jan 2020 (1 comment)

Music for Programming (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771600 - Dec 2019 (261 comments)

Why black metal is great music for programming (but doom metal isn’t) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20152923 - June 2019 (1 comment)

Function musicForProgramming(task) {} - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17573053 - July 2018 (5 comments)

Music for Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12844434 - Nov 2016 (427 comments)

Ask HN: Ultimate Music Playlists for Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12761453 - Oct 2016 (5 comments)

Music for programming :) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037320 - July 2016 (1 comment)

Show HN: I've made a music [remix] to help me concentrate while programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8767695 - Dec 2014 (8 comments)

Incredibox - Background music for programming. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900711 - April 2012 (167 comments)

MusicForProgramming(); - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605957 - Feb 2012 (95 comments)

MusicForProgramming(); - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547694 - Feb 2012 (180 comments)

Music for Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024117 - Dec 2010 (1 comment)
What's a GOAT?
This reminds me of the Soupault (https://soupault.app/) philosophy for building static sites. You write it in any language you want like, pass it trough Pandoc or AsciiDoctor as preprocessor, and postprocess with Lua and CSS selectors.
So... now I'm wondering whether this actually should be a thing. That sounds pretty slick.
Boycott them close your accounts. In fact close all bank accounts we don't need them anymore:

#liteCASH $CASH
https://www.lite-cash.com
> (Of course, for the combined feed this would be problematic.)

Not so; unlike the HTML <base> element which applies to a document, the xml:base attribute is applied to an element and its descendants. The typical pattern (as shown in the RFC 4287 example) is to put it on each entry’s <content>. In your markup, you’ll end up with each entry having its URL in three places:

<id>http://example.com/item</id>
<link href="http://example.com/item"/>
<content type="html" xml:base="http://example.com/item">…</content>
Recycling is not the same as reselling.

> a recovered Russian or Chinese hard drive

Bit by bit with an operator and an electron microscope, how long will it take to recover a 1 terabyte drive?
If the choice is between driving a truck (even with the bottle) and the "Maduro diet" in Venezuela, a lot of us would probably pick the truck and the bottle. The failure mode of socialism is really unpleasant. "Wage slavery" doesn't come close.

The argument you should be making is why Europe's UBI proposal won't wind up at Venezuela. Calling capitalism "wage slavery" isn't how you do that.
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I haven't heard of any programs anywhere where people who suffer from addiction or mental health issues and subsequently lose their job are somehow taken care of. People fall through the cracks all the time, every day. Here in BC, 851 people died of toxic drugs so far in 2021[1].

This is a huge issue and one that UBI might make easier to address. The person suffering from addiction or mental health issues would not be dependent on the job which could help prevent homelessness and further degradation of their state. Friends and family being able to temporarily leave the workforce to care for each other could help get that person the help they need.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-toxic-dru...
Some people have really nice toilets at home, that will wash their behind. Not many offices have ones that do that. So you end up sitting in your own excrement for 8 hours.
The life style bump up from that, is worth it.
> In the US, higher taxes are a very controversial topic, even if they would benefit the majority of the people.

I don't think it's certain that it would benefit the majority of people. In fact, I think it's unlikely.

One of the tremendous advantages of the US (and why we're so rich compared to almost all EU countries) is that our cultural programming includes the implicit understanding that higher taxes introduce deadweight loss and other higher-order losses of efficiency. Taxes aren't as simple as "taking from A and giving to B" except in the very short term. Over time, it results in less efficient resource allocation, capital resources leaving to less distorted markets, etc.

This happens on both a personal and institutional level. The gamble you're taking when you raise taxes is that "stickiness" (social ties, pre-existing legal and technical infrastructure, procedural momentum, etc.) won't just cause your tax base to leave. However, stickiness only slows the process down, rather than stopping it entirely.

This is encoded in American culture's sense of economic fairness, which precludes aggressively shafting people with more stuff just because you want their stuff.
Many of the 1B+ people out there aren’t in it for the cash but the B comes from valuation of things that they own, those things usually being big chunks of corporations, and what they own isn’t stuff but power and influence in that entity.

You do away with those people and that power leaving gl everything else the same, what you are doing is giving more power to the other existing social structures and ensuring no single person outside them can check their power.

So? More outsized government official power and more power to faceless corporations no longer under individual control but an entity up for its own best interests at the whim of a complex social structure bound by law to do the best for that entity which often ends up very bad for the interests of individual freedom.

You want to take away multibillionaires you have to start with structural changes to prevent mergers and pseudomonopolies, you need ten companies fighting for what two or three have now.

If you don’t you end up further encouraging next quarter profitability targets and megacorp best interests.

in other words there is probably something to fix, but you can’t just target a few of the symptoms or trying to make things better you drive us further into dystopia
Binary tree insertion with the help of binary numbers
When did they say that?

Google says they were the first UK bank to complete the process in 2018.
> Well, in fairness it could if the timestep could be made arbitrarily small. But in practice, yes, this obviously wouldn't work.

I agree. This would essentially be pulse width modulation or control. You need sufficient inertia though, and damping that the vibration does not have any adverse effect.

> Does datacenter load have analogous properties? Absolutely not. That's my point: it's a bad usecase for PID.

I am not knowledgeable about that but I would presume there would be inertia like effects, delays. Bringing lots of servers up simultaneously may choke a contended shared resource leading to damping. In such cases one cant boot up too many servers too fast. Jerks might be better tolerated, except perhaps in high frequency trading scenario.
Dude has been on O1 visa for 7 years and never considered filing for Green Card. For anyone qualifying for O-1 visa, self-filing as EB-1 or EB-2 is absolutely possible, why didn't he? The US immigration system is broken and capricious, as permanent resident it's much less painful. Let's just call his present predicament a self-inflicted wound.
The socioeconomic drivers of US cryptocurrency investments [pdf]
Math, maybe, despite your very valuable readings and insight. By "maybe I mean "inside some axiomatic system (like ZFC, or lambda calculus) math is absolute".

Science definitely isn't absolute. It's based on observation, hypothesis, experiment and verification. A new observation can be made at any time. Most theories have some things that don't fit, like Mercury's orbit didn't fit Newtonian mechanics. Right now we've got observations of galaxy-sized objects that don't quite fit Einsteinian Relativity. There's probably other things that we know that just don't fit. So, no absolutes there.
It is, though I think he mentions advisers specifically in a different essay.

“Playing house” is something everyone interested in or already working on a startup should familiarize themselves with, be able to point out a teammate And seek to avoid.

Playing House activities are a hallmark of the rookie entrepreneur. I made these mistakes myself when I founded Gliph.

One reason to be particularly careful about this is there’s an entire class of professionals who do nothing but look for people playing house and offer the services for equity or cash that are not relevant to what make startups go.

They often hang around local non-valley startup incubators or angel groups. They are semi-retired people or in-between work themselves.

Lawyers love this type of “entrepreneur.” Because the meetings and attention drive billable hours and there’s always tax and legal work That can be found to be done.

None of these people have no idea what your users want. You’re supposed to figure that out.

If they have some gateway into your initial user base, they probably should be on the team and committed. Otherwise you should work on a different problem.

There are other ancillary activities to playing house that will disrupt your startup’s ability to succeed.

Listen to the podcast episode with Michael Seibel on the ycombinator podcast series. These problems often Are created by non-technical founders more often. Early stage, premoney, f&f or angel funded are the most vulnerable.
My biggest surprise around 35 was losing interest in almost all goals i had.

Partially it’s a life crisis im going to overcome, but in big extent it’s intellectual maturity.

You just see how silly and worthless most of the goals people fight for.

And most of the meaningful things in life, like family, health etc. are not really goals, but rather a process or part of life itself, part of you who liked to set goals in the first place.
Nice, but it's essentially scraping? Scraping is brittle.

Some design changes and the whole thing breaks. Maintenance nightmare.
Where do people access those numbers through most frequently?

>The media.

Who has been caught having issues with cherry-picking narratives and having issues with the truth lately?

>The media.

Who is generating those numbers?

>Scientists and for profit businesses.

Who has had a track record of poor reproducibility in research, publish or perish paper mills and citation rings, and pushing treatments that harm patients in the long run to fill the coffers (opioids)?

>Scientists and for-profit businesses.

Ya know, in a way, all the arguments I've had with people over radiocarbon dating has finally taught me something precious about science, and the cutting edge.

It's too important to leave locked behind private entities. All the hyperadvamced analysis and techniques doesn't do squat to keep you credible with the masses. You have to make it something people can actually get close enough to see and absorb/experience for themselves.

Without trust, not for all the good faith in Christendom will anyone get anything out of or over me. -apologies to J.P. Morgan

I can't really argue over the conclusions common sense leads to. I don't personally buy it, but I can unfortunately understand it. A lot of uncommon sense, unfortunately, tends to find it's way to making people who rely on common sense miserable.

This is why we can't have nice things.
Agreed. It's useful either way to have some sort of "smoke-test" version of the entire test suite so that you can have reasonable confidence that things are working and if needed you can still run the full in-depth suite.

Thanks.
What Elon Musk actually realizes and what his fan base thinks he realizes might as well be two disjoint sets.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but I do appreciate your response.

Sure, as metaphors and origin stories and cultural touchstones, they're worth knowing more about. But thinking these tales as literal truth is... not helpful to address existential angst. Not to someone like me, anyway. Not one among those stories explicitly says "Yes, the Universe might indeed have no meaning. That observation is valid, rational and sane. Given that, here's how to handle it..." They are all, to the last, have faith, my child, accept this {patent absurdity}, and that will save you from {other patent absurdity}

I'm not really convinced of the Jungian framework, but I do get a kick out of it. It's a hell of a lot of fun.