skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have not heard of a society that has succeeded to incentive people on a large scale without the possibility of profit.

Well first, we usually don't hear about alternative models because they're mostly erased from dominant narratives (or defaced to the point they make no sense). Famous examples include witch hunting during the renaissance and the abolition of community life (in favor of State/Church control), the Cronstadt and Ukrainian revolts in the USSR... see also "Popular history" as a research field.

Now, whether an alternative model is possible is up to debate. You use "on a large scale" as a premise, so primitivist/individualist approaches will not cut it (although they're valid ways of life for smaller communities). Have you considered the anarcho-syndicalist model? It has strong roots/history in Spain (especially in the colonized region of Catalonia) and was the heart of the popular (armed) uprising against Franco's fascist coup d'État. That is a well-documented historical experience of a large-scale agrarian/industrial (mixed) society operating on a large scale without a capitalist understanding of "profit" involved. Although to be fair it did not last long, as the revolution was eaten from within by Stalin's authoritarian clique (who had smaller numbers but considerably more weapons and resources imported from USSR, and started massacring anyone who disagreed).

We'll probably find common ground in that everyone needs to be valued for their contributions to society, which could be called "profit" in some variants of that concept. However, i would argue that not all activities need to be "profited" from (eg. arts), and that money and private property (in their capitalist interpretations, at the very least) are very bad implementations of that concept, in which a lot of people who are very useful to society are not being remunerated accordingly, while a bunch of parasite who contribute very little to society earn all the benefits.
I highly recommend https://twitter.com/andrejbauer/status/1428471658088738818 and follow ups.

Yes, this stuff is fishy, and yes we can blame ZFC which is a bad formalization in comparison to what we've developed since. But the real scandal is why does our definition of geometry "leak" the underlying set theory it's built atop so much? Surely it's bad to have such a leaky abstraction in pure math!

The series goes on to show that by abandoning "points" — which pull all the funny set theory stuff into geometry/topology/whatever is the topic at hand, one can still have a classical foundation — e.g. with the axiom of choice and law of excluded middle — that makes mathematicians feel at ease, but also purge this Banach–Tarski gobbledygook.
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So wear partial gloves with a silicone vein pattern on them ... after all, all you need is one picture of someone’s hands too.
> "True interactive development is also about programming in such a way that your program never crashes. Instead, whenever an unhandled condition is raised, the program starts an interactive debugger."

That's great until someone else tries to use your program.

I'll take the compile-time safety checks, thanks.
Just in case some additional decision-making functionality would be useful, we're working on a Lua mod for that. https://gitlab.com/medlabboulder/modpol
I’m reminded of a programmer who would add click on the PC speaker inside function calls so he could listen to the timing of them being called.
This isn’t the same thing, and I think you know that.
adapting the Sunday variation of boyer-moore algorithm to search backwards from point
I’m not clear if your customers process payments through your Stripe account, but if this is the case (it sounds like it) you need to work with a network that serves “high-risk” customers.

There are brokers that can place you with the right network if you have a hard time finding one yourself. You will have to get transparency on the industries of your customers, though, and may have to focus on a couple of them, as otherwise, underwriting you gets very complex.

With CBD customers, Stripe is not the right solution for you, no matter what, as they don’t serve “high risk” industries with higher rates of chargebacks and other payment default permutations. Stripe’s way of managing that risk is to kick you out when your chargebacks hit a certain threshold (in exchange for your not having to get fully underwritten as you would if you got your own merchant account).

Or you cease being “high-risk”, for example by cutting your own high-risk customers. It sounds like this is what you’ve started doing already. In that, you’ll have to replicate some of what a network would have to do during underwriting, ie look at the industry of your customers and hope that the industry risk will adequately reflect their future chargebacks.

That way, you can also filter out the geographic compliance issue at least during signup. In addition, I don’t know how challenging it would be for you to add a lookup table to your data model, but if you’ll continue serving CBD customers that may sell in different states, I’d say that’ll come in handy.

Still, if a customer of yours switched to selling high risk stuff all of a sudden, then you’d still have to deal with a fair amount of legal trouble. I would make sure that that kind of scenario is addressed in your customer agreements (eg by having customers agree to needing your approval before adding new product lines from a list of high risk products or disallowing these products right away).

I don’t know much about the payment network industry or whether the above address some of your (past) issues, but hopefully some of this is somewhat helpful. I hope you can keep your business going. Good luck!
Agreed. Before admitting it in court, it should reach a confidence of disproving someone’s identity before being believed to prove* another identity.

Edit: (*) beyond a reasonable doubt, as expressed in the law.
The crazy anti-piracy protection layers in “Spyro: Year of the Dragon”
There is still the occasional time delay - when you say something isn't right.
Not really. War is definitely the context there as it is said that it was spoken during the war itself, but it lays out what to do at what time. It isn't ambiguous enough so that anyone can interpret it in any way. It lays out the scenarios and just states what is right to do in that scenario.
If the date is 2021 and it says 2020, I can at least tell that if it's automatic it doesn't work.
> when that student starts generating income then a small percentage from that income is auto-deducted and distributed to everyone who was involved in that student's education.

Your idea, if implemented well, may end up being a net positive for society, but I can't help imagining a future where every child, from the moment they are born, has a biometric ID connecting them to a consortium of companies which provide their education, health care, housing, energy, internet connectivity, transport, media access, and so on.

It would be like living in a company town, being paid in company scrip, except you wouldn't notice the restrictions (as long as you kept earning). If you ever increased your income, your consortium might let you choose whether you want to upgrade your housing or your health care plan, but if you lost your job, they'd force you to take one of their choosing and downgrade your plans if it had a lower salary.

In this dystopia, all consumables from food to toilet paper would presumably be sold by Amazon, and other items like furniture and electronics would be provided as a service so that you rent them from your consortium. The only question is why people wouldn't try to undo this system through the political process, but then we might ask that about the current system.
The catch here is that not all type errors are errors. I'm not arguing here against a typesystem, just against overly strict typesystems.
I second this question.
Some background information would help. I won’t sign up without knowing what this platform is.
Don’t get me wrong, the idea is cool, but just a little, not even to much details, can convince me
Lots of very different strawman situations are being described. Sure if you've built expertise and experience in an area of effort (athlete; scholar) then you have to balance that against the cost of starting over somewhere else.

But if you have only spent time and money, and have nothing to show for it? Then 'sunk cost' is indeed a fallacy.

Nothing to see here folks; move along.
Although it was just analogy, are you familiar with the Ford Pinto?

The Ford Pinto had a serious safety issue where rear-ending it would lock the doors and explode. They knew about the issue but did not recall it because the cost-benefit analysis told them not-recalling was the most profitable move

So, car manufacturers weren't exactly indemnified, but the costs of doing wrong continue not to be great enough to matter.
Best trick I've learned (and I have more than twice as many kids as the average citizen here :-) is to:

1. make sure they don't fall asleep with something they cannot keep all night (i.e. while you are singing to them, rocking them, sitting next to them or when they are drinking a bottle of milk etc)

2. make sure they understand that even if you leave the room it is just temporarily. Small kids are - for good reasons - very afraid of being forgotten or left alone.

2.1 Using a timer to remember to visit the room regularly and often as they learn to sleep alone can help a lot

2.2. Increase the interval each day. I increased it by two minutes each day.

2.3 If the kids are happy in their bed, continue to visit their room at the scheduled time: you don't want them to think that you forget them if they don't cry.

Using this method I've got my last few kids to enjoy going to bed and sleep better in less than a week fo each of them.
Because it's a lisp, code is a data structure
This is such a weird comment to make on an article which describes a very specific situation (a video recording of somebody's hands) that really has very little to do with the exact crime in question.
>It is built on top of XP.css, which is an extension of 98.CSS.

Just like Windows itself. Even Windows 11, despite the new coat of paint, still has code from -at least- the Windows 3.1 days.
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My only issue with a paper-only drop box is there's no redundancy. I would think with having poll watchers from multiple affiliations and multiple shifts per day to ensure you have many eyes on the box it wouldn't be a concern. But, if someone or some group managed to figure out a way to "stuff the box," you'd have no proof it happened.

I really like the system we have in DFW now. We have a global voter roll so you can vote in any location in your county. You submit your vote on a machine, which keeps a local machine-level tally and prints out a paper ballot. You verify the contents of the paper ballot, then drop it into a vote counting box, which scans, tallies, and displays your vote for you to confirm. If at any time anything looks wrong, you notify a poll worker to resolve it. At the end of each day, they verify the counts on the machines and ballot box match, then the ballot counter/box is locked along with the memory cards of each individual machine, so you have day-by-day results.

When the election ends, the ballot boxes are delivered to a central county counting system where they are put into another large-scale counting machine to verify that the counts there match the local counter/box. If at any point there's too many discrepancies, they'll do hand counts of the paper ballots. They can also unlock the voting machine memory cards if necessary. All of this process is done under the supervision of poll watchers.

In theory, you get near instantaneous results as each voting location can simply total the ballot box results and report them. You also have 4 separate systems (voting machine, local counter/ballot box, central counter, paper backups) that would need to be compromised to successfully tamper with the results.

I'm sure it wouldn't make a conspiracy theorist satisfied, but to me, it's a system that balances speed and convenience with the simplicity and security(?) of a paper ballot, without unnecessarily obfuscating the process behind electronic-only voting.
> But, I figured that’s OK, because I’ve got enough old MSDN Library CDs to create a tower that would rival any Jenga structure, and surely these articles would be on one of those.

Seems like someone with more of an archival mindset should rip those and create a database of all the Knowledgbase articles (including any variations).

At least with these MS produced a physical artifact that someone do such a project with.
During the analysis phase multiple tools such as pylint, cppcheck, bandit or PMD are used, along with Microsoft AppInspector and much more. We calculate a brunch of metrics that be used to determine certain aspects of software quality.

In scientific literature quality is usually measured depending on the project priorities, that's why on the ranking there are three different options.

On your custom projects you can weight every item depending on your requirements.
The brain you describe is not the brain I possess.

Starting is easy.
> Peters was among those who have been spreading baseless conspiracies about the election, but despite being accused of helping leak official election data to a QAnon promoter, she still appears to have a large support base in Mesa County. The Daily Sentinel reported Wednesday that “a large group of Mesa County residents asked the county commissioners to condemn Griswold for her investigation and to stand behind Peters, saying the clerk is a hero for trying to uncover cracks in the state’s election system.” And this Saturday, supporters will hold a “patriot rally” for Peters.
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The problem is incredibly ill defined. Do they want the sum of the temperatures calculated above? (Nonsensical) The temperature that the galaxy would have if you mixed everything together? (Insufficient information on star size and material composition) The average of the stars temperatures? (ALSO nonsensical!)
You missed my point entirely. The fact that a "breach" could happen and is something that is dangerous means the conspiracy theorists are correct. They feel about the Secretary of State like you feel about the Mesa County Clerk. If the situation was reversed and the Mesa County Clerk was the Secretary of State, would you feel confident about the elections? Who is getting access to the voting machines and what are they doing?

If having access to the machines means that you can affect the results of the elections, and the public cannot safely audit that, then these machines are unusable at all times.

You trust the Secretary of State. You think everyone in the state and country should trust the CO Secretary of State. Fine. But eventually an untrustworthy person gets to that seat of power, it's naive to think corrupt people wouldn't try and succeed. And from that point on they decide election results, and only other corrupt, complicit people run the government. The only real skill they need is to appear trustworthy, as grifters are already good at doing.

The conspiracy theorists just think this has already happened.

We should have a voting system that you would feel comfortable to be overseen by your ideological adversaries.
Does the power usage scale with resolution? Do games have "run at 1080p vs 4K but cooler/less power" option?
Classic way to misunderstand the problem.

When “the private business” is a group so large and dominant in their field that they can stop threats by absorbing them, lawsuits, or other tactics, they aren’t just “a private company” anymore.

Your comment reeks of someone who doesn’t think it will ever be themselves that will be censored.
Yes the phrasing threw me off too. It's like saying there's a room in a "nearby house" when you mean your own house.
They did, but those mostly hid as macros inside of Microsoft Word documents. Easy enough to deal with.
Could you list 10 things to eat here and their preparation?
It was actually worse than that. A lot of hair-based evidence wasn't even based on DNA, as there was no technology to sequence it at the time. It was from "experts" looking at hairs under microscope, comparing the "types" and "features", and seeing if they "match", according to their expert understanding. Suffice to say, their accuracy had zero nines at the front.
After 4 years of taking classes outside my areas of interest in HS, there was little benefit to doing so for another 4 years in college.

Pedigree is exactly the same type of empty credential as a college degree, though, and employers like it for the same reason. It allows the person who makes the inevitable bad hire to deflect blame when the "why did you hire this person?" question gets asked. Hire someone from Podunk State University, or Another Failed Startup and it will look like you have bad judgment. Hire someone from Harvard / Google, then it just gets chalked up to bad luck.
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The actual link to the blog post describing my ideas is https://miraclestar.info/uncategorized/the-present-and-the-f...
That's a decent example, but I don't see why one-star vs five-star would make any difference. It's also depends if continuing to sink time/money into the meal (by having desert, say) would make you feel more sick or not. Unless you feel like vomiting, maybe you want to stay for that tasty desert anyways!

You'd only be committing the "sunken cost" mistake if you continued with the meal without having some good forwards-looking (social, perhaps) reason to do so.
When you go 100% remote, you have a massive potential workforce, orders of magnitude more potential employees than those that happen to live within commuting distance to the office. The reason you go 100% wfh is because then all of the systems and relationships are tuned to remote work, which when done right is far superior to the daily office grind, middle management hell, “how was your weekend” small talk, documentation via dropping by someone’s desk…

Wfh will ultimately win here because it’s far better suited to information work than being ever present physically in a pseudo-factory.
I read Bhagavad Gita for a philosophy course. It made me very interested in religion and philosophy. Highly recommend it for anyone, it's a relatively chill read as well.
I just answered lewis, if you need more information, let me know. However, you can inspect and analyze open source projects by adding them to the ranking without needing to sign up.
Sorry to be picky but the atheists I know would call that agnostic. On the other hand I think many atheists would be better called anti-theists.
Don't they mean, "to catch a molester?"

It should be at least theoretically possible for someone to be a paedophile and not a molester, the same way one can be a heterosexual without being a rapist.
Change for the sake of change isn't necessarily a good thing, but rarely is a change in UI/UX objectively bad, which includes the shift from skeuomorphism over to flat design. The article you've linked has been fairly criticized for it essentially removing controls from their methodology by things like using lower contrast buttons for the 'flatter' designs, which is not essential to the design paradigm.

Ultimately, I'm still going to argue that this is a matter of subjectivity and as we age the less accepting we are to change, so those who fully embraced a particular UX paradigm will find it harder and harder to adapt to shifts in UX unless it cycles back to what they're comfortable with (just like fashion).

To quote Abe Simpson,

> "I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"
I haven't seen the source. But I am guessing the anger is temperature is a number that doesn't make since to blindly add. Example: 2 boiling pots are not 200 degrees C. Or more technically temperature is the mean molecular kinetic energy, an average not a total.
Only if you want to think about models of computation that allow performing infinite operations in finite amounts of time, which I don't think are that interesting.
Seeing such passion rekindles my faith in the world.
Just because something is unanswerable does not mean that your can't make good predictions. I am not 100% sure that there isn't a tiger under my bed. But I am sure enough.

I can be 99.9% sure that God doesn't exist and that is enough. And even if the 0.01% is true I have no reason to believe that religious doctrine would have useful expertise on the nature of God.

Religion was a good explanation for people living 2000 years ago. People didn't just have "faith" they knew that God had a profound impact on their day to day lives. Slowly but surely science has provided better explanations for all the big questions. Until all religion has left are things that cant be proven to be false. Science won.
Being a parent does not magically make you a more empathetic person, nor does it teach you “unknowable” things. Perhaps you lacked empathy before having a child, but it is unfair and just plain wrong to project that onto all childless people.
Is Ginkgo’s synthetic-biology story worth $15B?
But there are reductionist predictions you can make actionable I find. For instance, if you stop thinking people are rational you may allow yourself to at least accept the rise of religion-driven crazy long bubbles followed by short/long wobbles back down. I m sure there's a model we could make to accurately predict the next bitcoin or gamestop.

Humans may all have histories, they also are synchronized: they grow up together raised by the same LED screen whispering in their ears.

I m sure you re right it'd be hard to explain and simulate the human economic interactions with less energy than required to just run it with real humans, but you can probably make a lot of easy short sub models now that we are all that synchronized.

And look at me writing to you in good enough English from Hong Kong while I was raised in France. I really feel we can be reduced more to patterns simply because we have to adapt a lot more to a common denominator. I had to internalize a lot of american concepts just to be understood when I express myself in English and therefore must surely be more sensitive to American stimuli than my personal history from the countryside of Normandy would suggest.
Individual candidates have differing policies, but their overall platform is cut from the same cloth - benefiting their corporate sponsors. The main backdrop of agreement is massive money printing to prop up ever growing market bubbles, to the detriment of individuals' finances. The main differentiation comes in how they spin the fallout from corporate welfare - the Democrats want to use some printed money for individual welfare, whereas the Republicans market fake austerity.

Having said that, individual candidates do differ and the Republican party is going down a dark path dressed up as libertarianism that almost made me reflexively downvote "uniparty" above.
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You sound like a wonderful person!

What progress have you made in your work on either front? What sort of work do you do to solve these problems?