skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure if I can hear binaural beats. I tried a few of them in the past and always found them… mm what that word… like “metal rubbing on other metal” sounds which I don’t like and felt randomized. They don’t work for me. I am not sure if my hearing aids have something to do with it. Hearing aids does modify the sounds from the microphone and amplifies & output various range to get closer to “normal hearing level” to the ear. So, I don’t know if my hearing aids is outputting the binaural sounds correctly as it is intended to.

It is hard to find sound generators that would produce rhythmic beats rather than randomizing few beats here and there. Something like “beeee boop beeee boop beeee boop” or “swish bah swish bah swish bah” beats is what I prefer. My partner always looks at me funny everything I dance when my top-loader washing machine is on because it always produces simple rhythmic beats. Same for my dishwasher sounds.
Accepting fraud encourages fraud and demoralizes people who are playing by the rules just to watch fraudsters pass them by in life.
Yes, Newfoundland has it's very own timezone, 2.5 hours off from Central time.
Bitcoin is not a unitary rational actor, exhibiting thought or action.
I like the thought. The article is not very coherent, you're right... But it did fool me.
I think that was confirmed in the Ontario UBI study. There was a small but significant minority of people whose lives worsened on UBI. Although a majority reported being better off a significant percentage of people were the same or worse.

The study also showed that it basically did not change people's employment status or job training. That was a benefit touted for UBI. If people had income coming in that didn't depend on working they would seek job training and improve their careers. However, that did not appear to be the case generally.

It took a lot of effort to find this. It was buried beneath news spam in search results where things were cherry picked out of it.

Study is here: https://labourstudies.mcmaster.ca/documents/southern-ontario...
Why is that nice? Shouldn't we want to encourage the rich to finance large projects of cultural benefit?
I think it's pretty unlikely UBI will ever replace other welfare programs. At least in the US, the Rs and Ds are currently locked in a battle to drastically increase welfare. Even though the Ds nominally control congress, they aren't able to just ram it through. While I can see things moving further toward the D / increase welfare side in the future I can't see the Rs ever getting a strong enough majority that they would be able to eliminate other welfare programs in favor of UBI. (Which would be consistent with their platform, in the sense that a true UBI -- send $N per month to literally everyone -- would be able to eliminate a huge amount of government bureaucracy that is currently dedicated to administering all these programs.)

In practice, none of the "UBI trials" I've heard about are anything close to UBI, even for a small community. In fact, UBI seems to be getting rebranded as "guaranteed basic income" (GBI), meaning not universal, but "guaranteed for the people we feel like giving it to". All these trials I have heard of still have an income means test, and some are even limited to particular racial groups.
Yea its maybe partly those damn rurals faults but there can be multiple aggravating causes to our problems. In reality the more obvious issue is that there are medical personnel shortages caused by this mass firing of probably immune staff.
Here's how zsh 5.8 behaves on macOS:

$ which {which,type,command,vi}
which: shell built-in command
type: shell built-in command
command: shell built-in command
/usr/bin/vi

$ type {which,type,command,vi}
which is a shell builtin
type is a shell builtin
command is a shell builtin
vi is /usr/bin/vi

$ command -v {which,type,command,vi}
which
type
command
/usr/bin/vi

Which is quite different from how bash 5.1 behaves:

bash-5.1$ which {which,type,command,vi}
/usr/bin/which
/usr/bin/type
/usr/bin/command
/usr/bin/vi

bash-5.1$ type {which,type,command,vi}
which is hashed (/usr/bin/which)
type is a shell builtin
command is a shell builtin
vi is /usr/bin/vi

bash-5.1$ command -v {which,type,command,vi}
/usr/bin/which
type
command
/usr/bin/vi

I wouldn't want to be the one responsible for making this change, that's for sure.

command -v does seem like the most reasonable choice in both circumstances, though.

/usr/bin/type and /usr/bin/command are indeed just the same shell scripts.

file /usr/bin/{which,type,command}
/usr/bin/which: Mach-O universal binary [...]
/usr/bin/type: POSIX shell script text executable, ASCII text
/usr/bin/command: POSIX shell script text executable, ASCII text

cat /usr/bin/command
#!/bin/sh
# $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/alias/generic.sh,v 1.2 2005/10/24 22:32:19 cperciva Exp $
# This file is in the public domain.
builtin `echo ${0##*/} | tr \[:upper:] \[:lower:]` ${1+"$@"}
Good question. If you were to go by relative effects on consciousness, alcohol is a far harder drug than cannabis. Lots of illegal drugs are, alcohol is much worse than we believe.
Gobi desert doesn't have 1/3 earth gravity.
I've had a very positive experience with SSRIs as well (Sertraline).
> So what? You realize the top 1% have stolen >$10T from us overdecades of tax evasion, and you want to punish a few mentally ill people who don't spend money in the "right way" that you've personally determined to gatekeep?

That's actually not what I said at all, did you finish reading my post? I made it clear that I want continued welfare programs, I just don't want UBI to replace them. I would be much happier if UBI were added.
Yes, you're right. I think it's fine to depend on the existing which behavior for the current use cases. I just disagree that the behavior is really more useful than `command -v` for any sort of build or scripting purposes. It's definitely more useful as a user-facing utility to have a very recognizable name, like `which`. I'm one of the people who had never heard of `command -v` before now, and I'd used `which` for scripting, because I assumed it was standardized. I just don't see much use case for a shell command that finds a command in the path while specifically ignoring all aliases, functions, and built-ins over something like `command -v`.

> In this case, Debian is changing it's behavior away from how it's been for 28 years

In this case, Debian has voted to keep it the same: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994275
I own one. It's amazing. Don't knock it till you try it! It's a $700 toy, not a radio. It works well in their ecosystem if you have other TE stuff, It's hours of enjoyment playing with it. It's well worth the money for the fun (I even used it to get off alcohol, every time I wanted to drink I was usually bored so I played with it every time I wanted to drink), unfortunately the build quality is awful.
I gotta believe Mr Corbet's impetus for writing this story was for the season-appropriate pun. But as always, he still produced an insightful story on important Linux infrastructure.
Famously, Von Neumann did a lot of his work in front of the TV
> I see a lot of I think statements in your post, and no empirical data.

That's totally fair; this is observational anecdata.

Something a bit more objective would be to look at lottery winners [1], a case where someone gets literally millions of dollars injected into their bank account. Despite this a majority of lottery winners end up broke relatively quickly.

Of course, this is going to be a selection bias; typically financially responsible people are not playing the lottery since it's generally regarded as a bad financial investment, but the fact that the lottery exists proves that there's a large enough audience to justify its existence.

> What specific issues are you suggesting result from giving cash over food stamps?

I think there's a risk of an increase in the aforementioned lottery tickets,

> Are you familiar with the absolutely byzantine rules imposed by many states on food stamp recipients on what they can purchase?
> It was recently discussed in an article here I believe. It goes down to specifying which specific types of cheddar cheese are permissible.

Yep! I actually looked into the process of applying for them when I was really broke in 2016 [2], and you will get zero arguments from me that it's a draconian system that needs revision. There are a bunch of arbitrary rules about how they can be redeemed and I am somewhat against those, but that doesn't mean that we get rid of food stamps entirely.

[1] https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/64958/lottery-winners-...
[2] I actually didn't end up getting them due to an extreme bit of good luck finding a job just in time.
Flutter Firebase Phone Authentication and Firebase Database Example
I'd argue the problem is that they connect to the internet. Not everything needs an internet connection to work. Just because we can put a networked computer into something does not mean we should. Its a lazy, bruteforce kind of product development that shares a lot of parallels with modern web design.
Pretty Sugar Mummy Wants Your WhatsApp Number – She's Rich – Sugar Mummy Free
It's a classic example of, "do the means justify the ends?" - that's what you were asking. It's a slippery slope from "make a cute story on changing container storage policy" to something more nefarious. So think: how many times have you've been manipulated like this? Are you OK with it? Where do you draw the line?
What’s up with the conflicting info on carbohydrates? Should I skip the bowl of oatmeal every morning?
I'm not sure that is still the case. I have an OP-Z and lurking forums for that device reveals tons of posts about build / hardware issues. Luckily my secondhand unit only has SOME broken components but it's pretty widely known as an incredibly fragile device with many design flaws
Are you overweight & do you exercise ? What are your test & free-test levels ? Did you try any other meds ? Maybe you don't hit the side effects bingo on other similar meds.
I would say musicians but don't most people use Macs anyway? I guess someone must be using Linux Renoise besides me...
Oh yeah - negative numbers exist, doh!
one thing not mentioned:

new accounts are heavily penalized when posting.
Good.

Force vaccination is violence. Plain and simple. Especially if the "vaccine" doesn't prevent transmission nor does it prevent infection.

Fake virus. Fake pandemic. Fake politicians. Fake mandates. One of these days all these people pushing this are going to find themselves in a C-5 at 30k feet over the ocean and the bay door is going to open.
I've always had a hard time understanding consistent hashing, and find rendezvous hashing [1] to be much more understandable. It provides better load-balancing properties and uses less memory than consistent hashing, but requires more computation.

It seems like consistent hashing is much more popular though, which definitely makes it worthwhile to learn.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_hashing
This article seems to be fundamentally mistaken/misrepresenting Sam Quinones's Theory. P2P Meth started after Ephedrine was banned in Mexico in 2008 not 2017.

> He suggests that new meth might be chemically different in a way that caused people to go crazy, starting around 2017

2017 is not a significant year, it's just the year of one of his anecdotes. A small town in West Virginia didn't have a meth problem and then in 2017 it had a meth problem and a mental health problem.

"Southwest Virginia hadn’t seen much meth for almost a decade when suddenly, in about 2017, “we started to see people go into the state mental-hospital system who were just grossly psychotic” [1]

He has other anecdotes from much earlier.

"Susan Partovi has been a physician for homeless people in Los Angeles since 2003. She noticed increasing mental illness—schizophrenia, bipolar disorder—at her clinics around the city starting in about 2012" [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
Calling it on any positive int causes signed integer overflow, which is UB.
Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but it's not specifically the presence of 'undefined behavior' that allows the compiler optimization. Instead, it's the language specification. The C spec says that integers cannot be relied upon to overflow. The result of this is that compilers are then free to assume that the program they are compiling has NO undefined behavior in it, and so the optimization is possible.

EDIT: To make it clearer, you could imagine an alternate version of C that aborted the program if an integer overflowed. Then there would be no undefined behavior at all - but the optimization is still possible. It's not the UB that helps us here, it's the language spec telling us what behavior is reliable and what is not.
They don't cost anything when you shoot them in the head in empty fields.
Conversely, I get kind of frustrated when people take "Elon time" as an argument that SpaceX can't deliver on what it promised. It does deliver. Just a year or three late. Given the amount of transformation they're causing, compared to previous 30 years of developments in space industry, these kinds of delays are irrelevant. It's like considering a million dollar software project a failure just because a couple sprints run a week late.
Interesting design! But I have to wonder how well it works in places with hairy animals in them, or places that have more dust than general (older buildings, exposed "hipster" walls and on so on). Cleaning the inside of the PC once a year would probably not be enough anymore.
I had no idea that the form was supposed to be adapted, based on the nature of the relationship.

You can have a fairly good command of a foreign language, but still fail at communicating. You also need to understand cultural conventions and customs, and for that there's no substitute for living there.

I've never written a formal letter in French. I don't know why they sent me to school at all, really.

/me went to a French school, in France, for two years. When I was 4. I know French nursery rhymes.
I really don't see how much my post disputes anything you're saying. I said I don't want people to replace current benefits with UBI, not that I'm against people getting no-questions-asked benefits.
I'm not your economics teacher. Research it yourself. You can start here:

- The need to find buyer's for your country's debt at rates that don't greatly exacerbate the problem.

- The surprising frequency with which countries were forced to default on their debt & the implications for social order.

- How government debt impacts corporate & personal debt appetites & rates.

- What uncontrolled debt & spending does to your currency and the cost of necessary imports.
"Accepting fraud encourages fraud" is a sensible argument if you live in a society that is breeding fraudsters. I don't think the existence of an opportunity for fraud creates fraudsters. I think it's more a consequence of a society that is failing to equip its people with the education, skills, safety nets, and opportunities necessary to live a moral life.

This line of thinking creates a feedback loop, bolstered by systemic racism and poverty bigotry: the riffraff will abuse these systems so we won't offer them, or we'll make them all but impossible to utilize. And then those individuals struggle and are left with little choice when they're drowning.
In a script, there will almost never be any aliases defined, because noninteractive shells don’t load ~/.bashrc.

$ sh -c "which ls; command -v ls"
/bin/ls
/bin/ls

If the script is #!bash rather than #!sh, it’s not even possible to define an alias.

$ bash -c "alias ls='ls --color=auto'; which ls; command -v ls"
/bin/ls
/bin/ls
Thousands of bodies washing up on Ocean Beach.
Oh? https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/... "California has paid at least $20 billion in fraudulent unemployment benefits since the start of the pandemic."
Why is it society's job to prevent poor people from vices, whereas rich people generally get to do whatever they want?

No one talks about CEO pay increases in terms of 'if we give them more money, they'll just spend it on drugs, emitting carbon, and other nefarious things'
The same thing that's been protecting privacy since the 90s.

https://www.amazon.com/Reynolds-Wrap-Aluminum-Foil-Square/dp...
I've seen this happen as a workaround for the following bug in Dash: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874264

If Dash was POSIX compliant, this wouldn't be necessary, but it isn't, so hacky text parsing is sadly necessary.
Turkish I unification, at least, wasn't a decision the Unicode people made, they inherited the mistake from earlier encodings. Given that those already existed, the alternative to having broken casefolding was, essentially, break all mixed Turkish documents transcoded from cp857 containing both "I" and "i" in non-Turkish functional directives, i.e. you'd necessarily break things like HTML documents without consistent tag casing.
signed integer overflow for positive N
The Pi doesn't support 4K Netflix, 4K Amazon or full fat Airplay.
It's a mistake to assume the marginal cost scales linearly with payload. Fuel will (ish), but many other costs are fixed per launch.

I'd argue your estimate is not aggressive. SpaceX continues to claim an eventual marginal cost in the high 7 to low 8 figures per launch. I'm inclined to believe that deep analysis over a back-of-the-comment Fermi estimate.
For #1, maybe these can be good substitutes:

https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV-category1category73.htm...
At this price point... it's made for fans. Fans of Teenage Engineering.
ncase can fit a much larger card -- it looks like this can only hold a 180mm dual slot.
The phenomenon you're describing psychological flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

Where time perception starts to skip as the brain becomes hyper focused on a task. One of the things I've noticed (having ADD) is that it's easy to enter into flow and accomplish much, but can be difficult to master what you enter flow with.
Sorry, two different lines of thought.

The first was the non-transitive Grime dice, the second was the board game/Go First dice.

My last comment was only in regards to the second set of dice, that I thought they asked about.
Why is the analogy of citizen debt false?
Doesn't support Amazon 4K from that list.
>HN’s anti-voting-ring software is now so strict that the main thing we have to do is turn it off when a submission is good enough

A chilling effect of this can be that moderators have a much more direct hand in choosing what kinds of content is successful if their criteria for "good enough" is not the same thing as "was not actually a vote ring". There are a few other sources of bias introduced by the human/automation moderation relationship.

Another issue is that HN's flagging system is routinely abused by small groups of users to remove content which does not actually run afoul of the guidelines. It's effectively a super downvote: it removes content entirely, works for posts and comments, has a much lower minimum karma threshold, and it's very hard to rescue a flagged post, and you can't "vouch" before a post gets flagged - only after.
this is true.

OTOH the birth rate is below replacement rate, sometimes much below, in quite a lot of developed countries. increased immigration will lead to social unrest; not increasing the birth rate leads to demography of Japan (now) and China (in 20-30 years).

children should be a pressing political issue no matter which way you look at the problem. if you add environmental impact of every child, even more so...
"woke media" is heavily favored talking point for a particular ideological group. There's a good chance that group overlaps with the "many" you are referring to.
They only missed the golden days of LAN parties by about 20-25 years.
If there's enough there to enshrine legal principles, sure. That's not going to ever stop consumers from having to be wary of what they buy. Society has to live with an evil for long enough to become aware of the downsides.
Nope, sovereign immunity insulates federal government from patent or copyright claims.

> states enjoy unfettered sovereign immunity with respect to copyright, trademark, and patent infringement claims in federal court

https://www.vorys.com/publications-2574.html
Haven’t you answered your own question? Because they don’t want to build the widget you want them to build. They want to replace your whole engineering team.

What about hiring them to replace the whole engineering team, saving on salaries? Then you’re fucked when that person gets bored and leaves.

Hyper passionate individuals don’t make good hires. They might make good founders though.
the mobo is the itx premium tax, sff PSUs aren't so bad, bit more. itx mobos seem to start at double matx.
I don't know about the specifics of where you live, but in most places I know the poor are the most taxed.

The entire supply chain is taxed throughout, from labour taxes, to service taxes, VAT, property taxes, etc. and all of this ends up in the final price of anything that's purchased. Since the poor usually spend all or most of their income, these things are a much bigger burden for them than for the rich who save most of their income.

Even if you take away the entire supply chain, people are still paying VAT or similar taxes on anything they buy to eat, wear, use, etc.
There is so much to unpack about your biases in that first sentence.
> I'm not a chemist, but would we expect both isomers to break down under heat the same way? Or is the l-meth potentially being converted to something different than d-meth when smoked?

Methamphetamine is very, very stable. It stays as methamphetamine when it's vaporized, regardless of whether we're talking d-meth or l-meth.

> There doesn't seem to be debate that P2P processes create l-meth and d-meth, and that l-meth was less common in earlier versions.

Not quite. p2p done naively creates racemic meth, yes, but the modern methods, which have been used for years, purify that to enantiopure d-methamphetamine. They do this by bubbling d-tartaric acid through the racemic mixture, which separates the two enantiomers thus yielding the desired pure d-meth.

Furthermore, historically racemic meth was much more common. AFAIK the infamous "shake and bake" technique creates racemic meth. I do know that there is a pseudofed route that yields d-meth, but I think it's different than shake and bake. So don't quote me on this paragraph, but at a minimum we know that in the last several years, almost all meth seized in the US is highly pure/potent d-methamphetamine. There is less l-meth than ever.

> I just don't think the evidence is so weak that we can discard the potential that l-meth is involved.

On the contrary, the evidence is so weak that we literally can discard that l-meth is involved. First of all l-meth is better studied than you say. I would bet to approve the l-methamphetamine-based vics vapo inhaler they had to at least do animal models with large amounts of pure l-meth.

Second of all, and this is what blows the giant hole in your argument, there is no surge of l-meth. There is less l-meth than there has ever been in the history of methamphetamine.

Thirdly - this ties into the second point - you seem to thikn that getting racemic methamphetamine is something particular to the p2p method. It's not. As a general rule, synthesis of any compound yields the racemic version (if we're talking a compound with two enantiomers). This is definitely true for meth, where almost every method yields racemic meth. AFAIK there's a pseudoephedrine route that yields straight d-meth, but like I mentioned above the current state of the art is just to do a big p2p synth route and then separate out the d enantiomer specifically.
Yes AoA and it's relation to the wing generating lift is just a technical term for "a wing generates lift in relation to the relative airflow over it".