skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> arxiv was about distribution. It didn't replace peer review - articles were still submitted to journals and published there too.

I'm surprised that they no longer use the term "preprint" at all, at least it's nowhere to be found on the homepage or "about" section.

The consequences of this amnesia are hilarious: https://twitter.com/gustavnilsonne/status/138948729731431219...

> Why do we call it "preprints"? The term seems to imply that work is preliminary or unfinished. As far as I can tell, the term introduced by
@arxiv
, the first online repository for scientific manuscripts, is "e-print". Is "preprint" a marketing device invented by publishers?
I don't understand. If you want to be "an artist", why not work at a regular job doing part-time, and doing your artist stuff part time? Lots of people in STEM have creative aspirations that they pursue in their free time, why should the people that didn't pay attention to how to organize your life be the one that get help?
But do you want to work on projects that you already expect to fail? Money isn't everything, seeing your work in action and how it improved the organization or the life of others is much more rewarding imo.
You are spreading misinformation, that link makes no reference to recovered individuals.
Probably to restrict secondary markets, not to stop piracy.
Is the welfare trap real though? I suspect it may be for tiny minority, but imo most people would prefer to actually do something than sit on their ass and collect money for nothing. Again I may be grossly naïve in this area.
No. I'm not. Your thoughts to vulnerate bodily autonomy for an alleged greater good are egregious. Authoritarian and ignoring the Nuremberg Code.

Your hospital bed propaganda is just that. Part of the push to blame sectors of the population who don't comply with the lockdowns, masks, vaccine mandates, you name it. An honest strategy was never assessed.

Your country, Australia, just banned Novak for his thoughts. Not for any rule breaking. Not for any health reason. Australia and much of its population are being absolutely discriminatory and ready to commit crimes against the humanity of others under the pretense of "the greater good".

You overplay the dangers of covid, lie about transmission and beds, prevent early treatment, deny human rights, prevent discussion of science, ignore or censor side effects.

And then you call people stupid and selfish for not making the same decision you did?

You're a horrible person. A truly disgusting one, like so many. I'm not surprised considering the country you live in, but it's your fault if you fall for hateful propaganda.

You're not for truth. You're for harming people who don't follow your politics.
If you want to give money to artists, why don't you, er, pay them for doing their thing? Like, enlarge art schools, support exhibitions or festivals, whatever.

Of course just raining money on (some of) them requires way less effort, but it makes it seem like art is just a money sink and cannot create tangible value (spoiler: it can).
Very true. It doesn't matter how interesting and varied the work could be if there isn't any work.
Would you say that this approach to management, blame-culture, is unavoidable as a consultant?

I’ve had a previous engagement for about 1.5y with this type of culture, and it made me miserable.
This reminded me of a recent experience on WeChat. I hadn't used it for a few years and recently tried to log in.

I was told, that my account had been deactivate due to inactivity and that it was against my agreement with Tencent not to use WeChat regularly. After that I had to check a checkbox promising to log in regularly.

Luckily I haven't paid for WeChat, and I don't need it anymore to keep in contact with friends, so I was far enough removed from the situation to laugh at it.
Don’t overlook the probability of a fire or burglary or flood causing the loss of everything in the closet. RAID and file system redundancy won’t help in that case. You need multi-site backup anyway, and then file system failures are also covered.
Title shamelessly stolen from the Phoronix article also discussing it: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Digit...

Why? I have no originality... -_-

Primarily, I needed a title that fit within the character limit.
Ask HN: How to gauge salaries in a different country?
If you're moving to Germany, and you have never been there before, how can you know what salary to ask for, and what standard of living it will afford?

What sort of data, information or visualisations would help you make a decision?

I am asking this because I help people move to Germany, and compensation is an important aspect of it.

This would be my current approach:

1. Look at the minimum wage, median income, or household income distribution [0].

2. Use the Office of Statistics tool [1] to find average salaries for your job. It's really good.

3. Put your expected salary in a tax calculator [2] to know how much you actually keep, after all contributions.

4. Get an idea of the cost of living in your area. Rent could be harder to measure.

5. Build a rough budget based on this.

I was thinking of combining most of this into a simplified income tax calculator: enter your salary, get a report. Drag the salary slider left and right to see what happens. Add more details about your situation to improve the accuracy.

How would you approach this?

[0] https://www.iwkoeln.de/fileadmin/user_upload/HTML/2019/einkommensverteilung/index.html

[1] https://service.destatis.de/DE/gehaltsvergleich/beruf.html

[2] https://www.arbeitnow.com/de/tools/salary-calculator/germany
Exactly what coryrc said in his comment, for a PassivHaus you recover very slowly the cost of the heatpump and if it brakes once in 10-15 years while it takes to recover the investition... you will never recover it.
> mislabeling it (because of course it is not actually universal) as “UBI” could be strategic

Note that the Irish government, which already has a bunch of other artists' grants and supports, is _not_ calling it "universal". That's a (mostly foreign) media thing.
It's through WSL and it's still not native or seamless.

You can't ask a regular Windows user to have it set up as a dependency.

I can't just go "wsl.exe" and have a very clean and seamless integration into Windows and pretend that "wsl.exe" is just another shell like cmd.exe or powershell.exe, WSL is it's own box off in a corner.
How is it misinformation? I am talking in general terms, not recovered.
Ah nice, I'll check it out!
Need to boost that MAU number
Hey thanks! That's good to hear :)
> What is your system for backing up family photos and videos to stand the test of time?

In addition to the other good answers, a box full a printed photos will stand the test of time.
If crypto replaces fiat can you really say it is voluntary still if you need to pay your taxes in bitcoin or whatever currency your government wants to collect to pay for things?
We have to keep this stuff in our brain and history. The way how many leaders acted in the beginning of all this drastically changed the way we see some politics and countries.

It seems that these horrible stupid decisions and lies are fading into irrelevance already
> 2. If you're a one-person band, you're not just a consultant, you're sales+marketing+accountancy+delivery.

That's the boat I'm in! Multiple hats — all of equal importance. No sales and marketing? Say bye to generating any revenue. No accounting? Say bye to collecting payment. And delivery — at the end of the day, your delivery more or less dictates whether that customer returns.
Once you've started an engagement, you probably shouldn't up and quit because you disagree with a decision. As a consultant there's only so much you can do.
We need more stem education, but not as much arts or political science
Why is it disturbing? It makes perfect sense. People quote art because the quote encapsulates something they want to express in a nice package.

Those people already have the concept of what they want to express in their head but sometimes it is not fully formed. It is nebulous and it would take an entire rant to express.

Artists spent time polishing the form, tweaking and retweaking. A preposition here, a synonym there. That polishing results in some very sticky quotes. And sometimes those quotes are close enough to what people want to express and so the quote sticks.

I dare you to find a nicer way to express the meaning behind "With great power comes great responsibility". It's a dumb quote we all know, yet it is perfect.
Employees usually stick around longer than 6-18 months (that was my typical engagement length range when I was consulting.)
Yes, this is extremely easily solved. We have unlimited holiday, but you must take off at least 28 days (the statutory minimum in the UK).
There are no other taxes capable of pulling in trillions of dollars annually. So it'll have to be at least partially on income tax.

(I hate saying trillions of taxes when talking about UBI. Since most of the effect of the increased taxes is just a clawback, on net the tax is only in the hundreds of billions).

Morally, there's also a good case for taxing income for UBI -- it's a fair claw back for those that don't need UBI.

But there's a solid base to your argument -- we definitely should be increasing other taxes and decreasing income taxes in general.
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I work on energy systems modelling and how domestic thermal performance interfaces with that - the UK has not just "one of the oldest in Europe" it actually has the oldest in the world. Many European countries had a lot more post WWII construction so at least have cavity walls (even if in many cases not filled until later).
Not outsourced in the sense that the jobs are done by people elsewhere.

> when Thomas started looking at the paperwork for his new job [for Just Eat], the company on the contract was not Just Eat, but a Dutch staffing agency called Randstad.

They work with an intermediary now.
Every year I do a photo book. Used to use apple but they discontinued the service so now it’s snapfish. It’s a lot of work to create but worth it
TLDR suffering builds character?
You used to be able to configure, make and then install software from source quite easily. Maybe you were missing devel a lib or two so you installed them. Now it's grown into a dependency hell that's so bad we now employ a myriad of package managers and container platforms to manage the disaster. I blame the package manager fetish.
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I am working on a fully decentralized application to solve this problem. The application is a cross-OS Nodejs app that provides an OS like GUI in the browser to display the file system of the local machine and other trusted machines. Network file copy is currently broken pending completion of a major refactor.

https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/tree/master...
Passing a flat tax in a major democracy is difficult because it's a tax designed to be heavily regressive whilst sounding vaguely fair if you dont pay too much attention.

It's equally hard if not harder to pass a well run progressive tax (e.g. a land value tax).

Instead we get a hodgepodge of progressive and regressive combined to reflect the power struggle between oligarchy and democracy that makes up most western power centers.

Also we get mollified with political pipe dreams designed to be easy to murder in their sleep (e.g. UBI) to take the heat off more "dangerous to profit" policies like minimum wage hikes.
Setting culture is a large part of leadership. Most likely one of two things happened: a) the leadership was complicit in the culture, b) the leadership was too weak to prevent a toxic culture from festering.

In either case, the leadership is not fit for, ahem, leadership.
Many big wine producing nations actually do have a range of grants and tax exemptions for this sort of thing.
Two things.

- Yes, you are right that many theists equate "does not believe in God" with "would perform the most perverse and tortuous murder if given the chance." That would agitate anyone, and is not what I'm critiquing. But beyond this, do keep in mind that theists are like any other segment of the general population. If you let the beliefs and actions of some color your vision of all before you've met them, you very literally have a bias against a legally-protected class. This doesn't mean you're acting on it, but it is there. Some people like to know it is there, some don't care.

- Secondly, you're speaking contradictions. When you say that you want to understand why some people think such and such about you, and someone else gives you some insight into their thinking (and this wasn't me), and your reaction is to defend yourself, your actions show you aren't attempting to understand, you're attempting to CORRECT. But you can't correct what you don't understand. You also can't correct epistemological and psychological concerns by shouting from the top level that all they understand about you is wrong. I mean, you CAN. But you won't like the results.
> It benefits the user AND the developer

Notably it benefits good faith developers. I.e., the developers we actually want making games. The developers that lose under this model are the ones that make poor quality games.

Though I admit it does not solve every dark pattern.
Nationwide staffed beds are down 6-7% yet you blame an individual? What about the policies firing people with near guaranteed natural immunity for lack of compliance? How are those policy's not to blame? A single person doesn't break capacity, losing half a million healthcare workers to absurd policy does make a huge difference though.

Keep in mind the nation has had two years to increase capacity and done the opposite.
> it was the school that cost me the position

Can you elaborate on this?
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This is such an amazing technology for the many tech people who are having to deal with hand/finger/elbow issues after extensive usage for years on their keyboards.

I was looking for this type of tech for at least 2 years and I am glad it now exists.

FOSS is amazing!
I think it's because the publisher retains copyright. There is a limit on how "done" the manuscript can be and still be shared for free online. Some universities have started to fight back against this by limiting the scope of copyright restrictions that publishers can impose.
A colleague of mine and I used to work loooong hours as software developers. I met him a few years after he'd left for greener pastures.He was looking fit and bouncing around in an Hawaiian shirt. I asked him the secret of his happiness.

He said "I love consulting. Documents don't crash"!

That phrase still rings in my head when I'm swearing at the next obscure bug!
If you raise taxes and prices a lot, UBI will become basically useless, because it's effects will be eaten up by inflation.

Hell, why wouldn't I increase rent to the UBI amount?
Some of the sentiment of your last sentence is embodied in open reviews.

https://openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.cc/2022/Conference&refe...
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Rescuing free-will from the jaws of spacetime would be cool!

Free will does not exist. It is logically inconsistent. Either your choice is some function of your current state and the environment you are in, then the choice is not free, or it is independent of your current state and the environment you are in, then it is not your choice in any meaningful way, it is just the result of a coin flip.

You can do some mental gymnastics, define free will as being able to do what you want, define it as being free of various kinds of constraints, call it free if the choice is not computable in advance, if you can not measure all necessary variables, in practice or in theory, ... If you are happy with any of those definitions, fine, then you might have this kind of free will, but I would not consider any of those particularly interesting.
> They want it so much they are even willing to forego hostilities to the 'other' group of unvaccinated people

I find it interesting you use the word 'other' here, as usually this is said when trying to frame a dehumanisation argument, where the 'other' is a suppressed minority of sorts

As someone that holds this opinion (sod the unvaccinated) and has done since the start of people doing this, I'm not surprised other people are now starting to go 'you made your bed' with this one

The thing is, being unvaccinated is a choice and if you want to make that choice then go for it

However, that choice has contributed to the deaths of people I know and extending the general disruption of the world for months on end for no other reason that unsubstantiated scepticism

You can make that choice but as the article says, do NOT expect the rest of the world to respect it when it's blindingly obvious it's a really dumb choice to make for absolutely no gain to you or anyone around you

When you see your mates grandmas dying and people are actively refusing the vaccine, I quite frankly do not care what happens to them, as they didn't care what happened to the people I know who have died
It irks me when people confuse news headlines for news. Ireland is not launching a UBI for artists, it is launching BI for artists. The only place you could find "universal" mentioned is this article.
Also interested in this, but hijacking to ask what folks scanning solution is. My dad has tons of slides, and prints. He’s hesitant to send them off, but we have analysis paralysis on scanners etc.
It reduces the probability of disease. It isn’t binary.
Nextcloud on ZFS + rsync.net with rclone and crypto.
But notably, it’s being manufactured by TSMC...
You may be right, but you cannot actually conclude that, because the country is 92% vaccinated and half of ICU are unvaccinated, the vaccines work. You need to stratify at least by age, but also by comorbidities and so on. For example, it could be (not saying it is the case) that most of the ICU patients were considered too frail to be given the vaccine on medical grounds, and thus count as unvaccinated.

Too many politicians make "X is true therefore Y is true" statements that cannot actually be made based on the data being cited. One thing that's been clear from the beginning is the need for nuance and consideration of the details, not just blind jumps. There are health statisticians and mathematicians that do this sort of study for a living and I wish more politicians would cite their work.
Plenty of studies suggest natural immunity is more robust, so yeah different probability in favor of natural immunity.
Playing Different Games (On Tiger Global)
China is locking down but with pinpoint sophistication and people are getting vaccinated.
Secretary Blinken’s Travel to Ukraine and Germany
Nietzsche specifically chose to name his character Zarathustra because he (Nietzsche) viewed him as being the first person to introduce the concept of Good and Evil. Thus he should be the one to transcend it, according to Nietzsche.

In other words, he chose the name because it represented exactly the mentality he wanted to overcome.
the last one is the toughest, and really comes down to how strong your stomach is and how your business model is structured - e.g. it can't be hourly & net 60, more like flat-fee, 50% upfront.
Emacs is the best editor with kakoune keybinds, but I'm not letting you play Cunningham's law on me.
> "The more you move in space, the less you move in time."

Isn't that missing a bit at the end? The less you appear to move in time from a different frame of reference?

We all move through time at exactly 1 second per second, don't we?

For reference: Here's Sean Carrol saying exactly that (but in reply to a different question)

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/12/15/ama-...

"...it always goes by one second per second. That’s the only speed at which time can possibly go by, and that’s true whether you’re speeding or staying still or in a gravitational field or not. There’s no such thing as the speed with which we move through space-time, the idea of a speed is the amount of distance we travel as a function of time, that’s what speed is. So it just doesn’t apply to going through space-time, it’s a different kind of thing."
Cool, going to try it out. Wondering if the cache layering still works with it
Can you recommend some pad controller for looping?
I really like the idea of an annual photo book. Might steal this.
The solution I've used for the last 2-3 years:

1. a cronjob on my android phone (via termux) does an rsync to a VPS

2. the VPS has a cronjob to sync everything with S3

3. the frontoffice tool for people to access those photos is my open source Dropbox like frontend that is bring your own backend: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash My wife and I got an account and family members can access it through shared links.

The S3 bill goes to a shared account so that If I die, the VPS will probably be quickly removed but S3 should stay in there with my wife paying for it.
That’s unvaccinated, not recovered from an infection.

Also, got a journal article to reference? The UK data is pretty good for Delta. That is a quote by the health authority with no references given.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

Vaccination reduces the risk of delta variant infection and accelerates viral clearance. Nonetheless, fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated contacts.
Off topic but for those curious: the blog is named after a chess tactic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwischenzug (Also called an intermezzo or an intermediate/in between move.)

As a chess nerd, I perked up after reading the domain. I figured it was maybe something about being a super GM’s second or something along those lines but nope.
Regular distributions of printed photos by mail.
This is marketing for the artforum. I couldn't find anywhere else that talks about this as UBI, certainly not the government.
As much as I find sovereign citizens ridiculous, I do have to admit that it feels wrong that simply by being born in a place we're automatically forced to obey countless rules and laws we had no say in. None of us were consulted or gave our consent before being made subject to it all. If I decide the system I was born into violates my freedoms or that participation in it would be immoral I don't have much choice. I can't even leave my country and move somewhere with rules and laws that I find more agreeable without first clearing it with the government (They control the borders, we need passports which cost money and the application for one can be rejected for many reasons).

It's strange to think about society in those terms. Being trapped here, being forced to obey under threat of some very inhumane punishments. It does seem fundamentally unfair. While I think most of us just come to terms with it (especially since nobody has come up with a better option for a successful and functional society) I can get why some folks would feel a desire to assert their independence and freedoms. Sadly, the sovereign citizen crowd has decided to come up with some pretty insane ways to cope with the situation. I can still laugh at them, but not without also acknowledging that one injustice I and everyone I've ever met are stuck living with.

I'll happily just keep with society and deal with the indignities it forces on me, but for those who can't or won't it'd be nice if there were a lot more unowned and empty places on the planet people could go to on their own if they really wanted to "opt out" and not play by anyone else's rules. Maybe once we have space travel...
On avearge That's mainly because among them are those who never had the virus / had it early. Viral load seems to correlate with time since prior immunization, be it recovery or vaccination. Regulations often ignore that and are only built around vaccination status.