skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most extant forms of welfare exist because at the time of their creation they allowed some group of politicans to buy the votes of some subset of the population. In order to reliably capture those votes, the welfare system has to represent a substantive transfer of wealth from whoever is getting screwed to whoever is selling their vote.

From this angle, the problem with UBI is it doesn't really represent a clear win for a sufficiently narrow group of people. You're basically taking wealth from the top X of society and transferring it to the bottom 1-X, where X is probably somewhere in the range of 30-70%. This is too wide for the strategy to work effectively. Either no one really feels like they're winning that much, or the cost to the losers is so high that they're going to fight tooth and nail to stop it.

That's just the implementation challenge I see from the political angle. I also think there are a ton of problems with UBI and it would probably be very economically and socially destructive, but that's a separate argument from the fact that it's going to be very difficult to implement in a democracy.
How would it be meaningful when the rent you need to pay in Munich is several times what you need to live in eastern Poland?
Conversely, your response to my initial comment was internet ordinary.
> After the revolution, the state planned this trade and set fixed prices for food so industrial workers could afford it.

So the problem stemmed from central planning? Sounds like a good example for my point.

> ...some amount of centralisation is useful for optimisation...

See, my point is that this is not the case, and beyond that, that planning cannot accomplish more optimal distribution of resources that markets, and I'm using analogous network topology to demonstrate how this can be proven to be true.
Alternatively, none of those authors is like the others!

1. Independent researcher (USA)
2. Public health researcher with a few odd publications (Turkey)
3. A university-associated physician in internal medicine, who's only publications are with this group. (USA)
4. A university professor with expertise in immunology and vaccinations.

The urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought some rather unusual partnerships, so while in a normal world it would be weird and surprising, it's also not entirely weird and surprising given other alliances brought together by COVID.
Interesting idea. I sometimes find that when I’ve been concentrating really hard, ‘in the zone’ (whether that’s programming or other cognitive work) I can come out it feeling quite stressed and drained.

So maybe experimenting with the opposite would be valuable for me: pick the tempo up when I’m slow, and then calm me down when I get too into it!
Ask HN: How has your life goals change post 30?
For many people, as they age and mature, they life goals tend to change. You wouldn't really expect a 40 year old to have the same life goals as a 20 year old. So what has changed for you? How surprised are you by this change?
Which is ... proof of stake. Literally vote allocation by wealth.
The appropriate way is to use the xml:base attribute, as demonstrated in the example at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4287#page-4.
That seems a bit too simplistic and extreme.

More likely, it's because the EU feels too removed from the people. There are plenty of reasons for that, and we're stuck in the pessimum place where democratic reform of the EU which would help bring it more in line with what people want is prevented because too many people don't like the EU.

This is basically what happened with the Treaty of Maastricht, and three decades later the situation has if anything gotten worse.
> Copilot has the ability to produce Quake's source code nearly by itself.

Was it fed the Quake source code while training? Then it's not producing that code, it's just reproducing it, like a fancy (but imperfect) copy machine.

I'm not sure it's accurate to say that the training source code is "compressed" in the parameters of the model, but certainly some approximation of the training source code is stored in the parameters.
Freedom of movement in the EU is conditional on you contributing to the economy; if you move just for the benefits, you will be kicked out (in theory)
The more the merrier! :) And always nice to see more in the RSS space.

Feed Creator is in PHP and unlike yours doesn't produce a static file. The CSS selectors, URL and other parameters are all embedded in the URL, e.g.

https://createfeed.fivefilters.org/extract.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjohnpilger.com%2Farticles&item=.entry&item_desc=.intro&item_date=.entry-date

The biggest issue I've found is people struggling to work out which CSS selectors to use. I wrote a blog post not that long ago to help people use the browser's developer tools to do that. Might help too with anyone trying to use this (although perhaps most of the HN audience doesn't need help here): https://www.fivefilters.org/2021/how-to-turn-a-webpage-into-...
> What does the OS version string contain (e.g. on Linux specifically)? Some custom kernel version strings could possibly identify someone.

I actually didn't think of this, I compile my own kernels and add my own text to the kernel name.
With PR, the effects of a failed test can take down a company (or, the existing c-suite at least). That's why people tend to stick to a "tried and true" playbook.
"We model data according to rigorous frameworks like Kimball or Inmon because we must regularly construct OLAP cubes for our analyses."

Actually, no. We model our data this way so it can be used for business decisions. It doesn't take long for any entity of any scale to discover that the logging and eventing done for heartbeat status, debugging, and scaling is just different than what you need to make a variety of business decisions.

You can solve with more events at different scales (button clicks nested in screen views) or pick events or event rolkups that appear to be clean business stages ("completed checkout") but still, your finance team, marketing group, all have different needs.

So, you decide to have some core shared metrics, derived and defined, and make them usable by everyone. Folks agree on the defns, and due to ease and trust, you see more data supporting more decisions.

You discover that some folks are doing 10 table joins to get an answer; it's fast but difficult to extend for new questions. You decide to build a view that solves some of these pains, and refactoring to allow a better time dimension. Your version links with the metrics you created, and the resulting queries shed tons of CTEs while becoming readable to the average user.

And now, you have some ELT pipelines, some event transforms that result in counts and filters that map nicely to your business needs but still allow you to get atomic raws, and you and your teams start to trust in consistent results. Your metrics are mostly clearly summable, and ones that aren't are in table views that precalc the "daily uniques" or other metrics that may need a bit special handling.

You've started modeling your data.

No, we don't need olap cubes. But we do need some type of rigor around analytic data. Otherwise, why go to all the trouble to collect it, count it, and predict from it if it may be wrong with no measure of that uncertainty?

And yeah, Kimball et al are from a world where olap was the answr, but it turns out they solved a broader set of sql problems. So, worth learning the good, toss the dated, and see what good data modeling can do for your analysis and predictions.
This seems like it could be used to build a simple scraper as well.
What Is the Custom Keto Diet?
The Keto diet is currently a popular trend that most people are doing. However, there are a lot of risks to a person’s health when the diet is not tailored for you

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Custom Keto Diet helps you understand the different types of food to eat to really help you lose weight and eliminate the fat in the stubborn areas of your body.

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Custom Keto Diet also considers your lifestyle, how often you work out, how stressed you are, and unlike other keto diets, it considers your taste buds and your food preferences to ensure that you are enjoying each meal you are eating.

Dieting is not an easy thing to do, and it can be ineffective and unhealthy for the body.

This is why people who want to lose weight should be careful about what to follow, especially when this is just random information you see on the internet.

Diets should be based on your body type and lifestyle. Sometimes, it isn’t enjoyable, especially when you restrict yourself from delicious foods.

But the creator of Custom Keto Diet, Rachel Roberts, wants individuals to really enjoy their diet and achieve successful results.

Custom Keto Diet can be very helpful because it allows you to fully commit to the meal plans because these are actually engineered based on your food preferences.

You don’t have to say goodbye to the foods that you love while following this Custom Keto Diet program.
Wow. Isn't that a bit extreme? I don't think you fully appreciate how "normal life" depends on having a third party being obliged to do something for you.

Your libertarian success is predicated on a functioning society, with a certain level of peace and mutual trust etc.

History of civilization shows various ways to achieving various degrees of internal peace and mutual trust required for free enterprise to flourish, and all had some form of "obligation" baked in (religious or secular rule)
My understanding is the if the spike mutates, the virus can no longer get into your cells.
https://github.com/brainflow-dev/brainflow/blob/4.3.2/java-p... fails to close that InputStream, which leaks file handles every time that method is invoked. Even the javadoc shows the correct usage of wrapping the InputStream in a try-with-resources block https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/nio/file/File...

The line right above that one fails to check the return type for file.delete() as that is a _request_ to delete the file and may not succeed for any number of reasons that might interest the code. If the file fails to delete, it can be retried, or one can use file.renameTo to try and move the _name_ out of the way, even if the on-disk allocation still remains. Of course, one should similarly check the result of file.renameTo as it is also a request

Swallowing exceptions is a pet peeve of mine https://github.com/brainflow-dev/brainflow/blob/4.3.2/java-p... because (among other things) it doesn't even acknowledge that an exception occurred in the error message right below it, meaning if one wished to debug _why_ that error occurred, now one must either use a debugger or recompile to include that information. The method similarly does not disclose that the result may be null, and NullPointerExceptions are my other pet peeve since unless running on a bleeding edge JVM, the error message is always "NullPointerException: null" meaning it says absolutely nothing about what it was trying to do when it fell over

Kind of related to that, the javadoc for some of the further down methods say "throws WhateverError" but not _why_ or what influence the caller has over that outcome

That's as far as I looked before closing the tab and wondering if I should mention the file handle leak, since if you only found the repo, then telling you wouldn't accomplish anything. But if it was your repo, then raising your awareness might be helpful

Then, yes, of course I agree with the sibling comments that the code style is very, very distracting, but there's no way I would have bothered to comment in HN about code style since to each his/her own so long as I don't have to work in it :-)
Still no. 8 hours of sleep a day leaves you 16 hours a day, so 112 hours a week. 40 hours is 36% of 112. And, yeah, you could throw in commute time and get a higher percentage. It still wouldn't get you 71%, though.

What skersten did is 5/7 = 71%, as if any day you work on is totally lost to you for any other purpose.
I don't believe Music really aids concentration. Maybe it encourages the worker to stay in the office and work, because it makes the environment more enjoyable overall, and at the cost of less concentration - in my opinion. It is like adding sugar to swallow a bitter medicine

I love Music and art, while I realize it doesn't contribute anything practical to my life. Rather, it is the very thing I live for.
In those cases, possession is prohibited. You’re probably not allowed to manufacture explosives or own people either.
How to sell your startup – Q&A with CEO of MicroAcquire
> If it were not possible to prohibit the use and modification of software code by means of copyright, then there would be no need for licences that prevent developers from making use of those prohibition rights (of course, free software licenses would still fulfil the important function of contractually requiring the publication of modified source code).

The parenthetical backpedaling here is the entire point of copyleft. If it wasn't, copyleft wouldn't exist -- people would just release their software as public domain.

The opposite of "copyleft" isn't "copyright".

The opposite of "copyleft" is "never published", in which case, copyright is irrelevant.

There is plenty of commercial closed-source software based on software released under permissive licenses like BSD, MIT or Apache, because they are not copyleft.
I think there's a misunderstanding: Tantacrul, the developer with a pretty active Youtube channel, works for the Muse Group, which acquired Audacity. This has nothing to do with him. A company acquired Audacity, not him, and he's not in charge of the Muse Group. Your portraying of the whole thing is inaccurate.

People didn't lose their collective minds.

The Muse Group acquired Audacity, then introduced:

- a CLA (which, between other things, allows them to make closed source versions of Audacity)

- telemetry

- a very controversial privacy policy

People aren't losing their minds. And please, do not spread misinformation.
That's because the other 7+ billion were not smart enough to compete with him for nearly a year, despite it being made public at the time Satoshi began mining.

The "pre" in premine means "before," as in, they mine themselves the coins before they publicly release the knowledge required to begin mining. Satoshi didn't do this. There was no premining of bitcoin.
> googlebot doesn't do javascript

But it does.

Primary source: I experienced it on my own site.

Secondary source: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/fix-search-...
What's crumbling (and this wasn't hard to predict half a decade ago) is the silly idea that cryptos are a financial asset which could replace fiat currencies.

But the promise of their use for permissionless transactions is still there. Perhaps you won't buy 1 BTC for $33K and sit on it until it hits $100K and McAffee is no longer with us to eat his dick on TV, but you'll still want to buy some crypto and use it for permissionless apps.
I’m glad to see that you’re using Atom rather than RSS, but you’re still calling it RSS. Can I convince you to stop calling it that? It’s factually inaccurate, and keeps RSS, the inferior format, more popular by virtue of mindshare. Just call them feeds, the proper generic term.
I am a fan of Gaming Ambience’s YouTube playlists for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided.

DX:HR ambience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n61C7mwY_6Y&list=PLYFEK0EdxB...

DX:HR music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdqbW6MXzsI&list=PLYFEK0EdxB...

DX:MD ambience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSALBeJY8sA&list=PLYFEK0EdxB...

DX:MD music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsbvLb58j8&list=PLYFEK0EdxB...
This would probably be implement as a Directive (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_(European_Union)), meaning individual EU countries need to devise their own laws on how to reach the goal of an UBI.

The amount of UBI will most likely depend on how much money an individual needs to buy food, pay rent and pay basic utilities, in a given country.
He is not banned. He cannot get an appointment at the embassy in the near term and obviously assumes that this situation will persist.

"I now can’t get an embassy appt until 2022! citing being ‘understaffed’

It turns out, during COVID the embassy operated a week on, week off schedule so now they’re over a year behind on appointments.

They will give emergency appointments, but I’ve tried and I apparently don’t qualify - though there’s no guidance on what does qualify either."
You've got to be kidding. Change.org has only ever influenced minor, inconsequential issues. Signing online petitions allows people to feel good about themselves without actually doing anything.
> You must do something drastic like git reset --hard to revert that rebase

This betrays a deep failure to understand git; `git reset --hard` is one of the least "drastic" things you can do to a repository. It's certainly a lot less drastic than `git commit`, because it does a subset of the things `git commit` does. All `git reset --hard` does (to the repo, I mean; it also has working tree effects in yet another example of bad git UX) is point a branch to a different commit. `git checkout -B` is another way to accomplish the same thing, as is `git branch -f` (did I mention the bad UX?).
It's a cliché but it's true.
Someone can be Welsh by adoption or migration.

Even if they were born in Belize, South Africa, or Trivandrum.
I have no idea if you are right or not, but it is a pretty wild political science theory that a policy can benefit too large of a majority of the population and therefore would be unpopular.
Ransomware Attack Affecting Likely Thousands of Targets Drags On
I wish everyone Medium author would just buy a .com and publish there. I'm not signing in to read text, sorry.
If you work from home that means you are free to move anywhere you want, like a more affordable place that meets your needs.

Once you are living in a place with enough space, working from home is much healthier experience than going to an office, provided that you invest in your home office and keep your home clean.

If you take all the money that you spent yearly on transportation to the office and invest it in a home setup, you'll have a pretty neat home office in no time. There are many YouTube videos with ideas for home office decorations.
The money comes from taxing citizens, assets, and corporations, colloquially known as “productivity and wealth”. I’m not European, so it would be rude of me to speak authoritatively on the quality of life Europeans want for each other, but I’ll take a crack at it. A UBI should be an inflation indexed amount that allows for enough food, clothing, and shelter for a dignified life. Not extravagant, but not USSR communist quality. Americans might think of it as a “LeanFIRE” quality of life, or how the elderly live on Social Security.

If we encounter any entitlements susceptible to inflation or supply constraints, we use automation and technology to solve for that (medicine, energy come to mind).

Sam Altman proposed something similar to a UBI with American Equity [1], so I don’t think it’s too crazy of an idea to move towards implementation and experimentation. If you’re a central bank, buying up securities and distribute the dividends into citizen deposit accounts also held at the central bank is another path.

[1] https://blog.samaltman.com/american-equity
> How would it be meaningful when the rent you need to pay in Munich is several times what you need to live in eastern Poland?

Not advocating for this. But the assumption would be if you can’t afford Munich, move.
Analog computers can't easily be mutliplexed and the integration density of memory + other compute is nowhere near as high as current SRAM/DRAM. This might change with memristive crossbars, but that still doesn't solve the structural part of the problem, since most deep learning workloads are nowadays structurally very far from a feed-forward perceptron and dynamic execution etc. are absent from analog approaches.
The principle is the same, just find music in languages your brain doesn't understand.
There is no inherent right to live in Munich, whilst there is a natural right to life and a decent subsistence even for those who cannot immediately secure gainful employment. UBI is about securing the latter, not the former - and doing it at the lowest possible cost.
The problem with labelling it a premine is that it is, intentionally or not, a loaded FUD term commonly used to describe scam coins and to enrich "founders".

Bitcoin was not premined in any sense of the word and Satoshi was quite verbose and open about his reasoning and launch date as well as supplying working mining code publicly.
But you would get to live in a higher cost area, at no cost to you.
Is Math/Science Absolute?
I was reading in my free-time for the past couple months about the history of Mathematical Logic and how Euclid's attempt to axiomatize Geometry turned out to be just a way of interpreting objects and by changing the fifth axiom we get a completely different type of Geometry which yield their very different interpretations.

And then after, Hilbert attempted to axiomatize Euclid's geometry by proposing 20 axioms and he took it a bit further by constructing an analogue of his geometry within the Cartesian coordinates which has elevated the problem to that of arithmetic itself.

Kurt Gödel then showed that this was impossible and the number system needs to be inconsistent for it to be complete.

This made me think as if most sciences are statements in their own formal language in which stuff is modeled after, and is true with respect to that formal language.

What are your thoughts?
>UBI, just another socialist way to subjugate people.

Seems preferable to endless wage slavery at the behest of unaccountable corporations run by billionaire oligarchs.

If the choice is between driving a delivery truck and having to piss in a bottle versus a UBI and upsetting libertarians, I know which one I'd choose.

>When a right requires an obligation to do something by a third party through the use of force by the state, then it is not a right, it's a priviledge.

What "privilege" are you referring to here?

>How are you going to pay for the UBI? through taxes and inflation, which is the worst kind of tax.

Part of the allure of a UBI is that society could do away with separate welfare programs and such, which is probably more efficient from a reduction of bureaucracy standpoint, since you no longer have to have that silo in your government.
Deep learning is here, today. Not really vapourware.
There was no opt-out. Minors were asked not to use the app.

Here is the link towards the Privacy notice on the 2nd of July.
https://archive.fo/d3LBR#selection-673.0-673.129
> without any benefit to original authors

I don't really expect any benefit when writing some pieces of code. These days I just make certain types of code I make public domain, because if it's MIT then BigCorp inc. will just make my name one in a really long list of contributors, and I won't get any benefit either.
To be fair, there is sort of a qualitative difference between the two: the spirals of spiral galaxies are density waves moving independently from the orbiting stars themselves.

When it comes to fractals, there is a much deeper and fundamendal distinction that can be made, though: the difference between connected and disconnected sets. The Mandelbrot set is connected (and indeed simply connected), no matter how much some of its regions might look like made of disjoint components. There can always be found "tendrils" connecting everything to the main bulb. On the other hand, Julia sets are either connected (precisely those that correspond to points in the Mandelbrot set) or disconnected (in which case they are "dust" made of uncountably infinite disjoint points).