skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Significant whitespace: I mean....how? Yes it has whitespace-based blocks, but...it's not actually MORE whitespace than a {}-based language... What does "significant" mean here...?

I believe that the author means that the white space itself is significant as a part of the syntax... which it shouldn't be.
Just for the record, I developed TinyBase on a 12" 2016 1.1GHz MacBook! Constraints are good :) - and it keeps me honest with respect to performance, size, and toolchain.
Once I had my app rejected from Google Play, because they decided it was plagiarizing another application... which was actually the very same application posted by me somewhere else. Took some effort to convince them that I'm me, even despite of my Google account being registered on a domain that's prominently displayed as the first thing after launching the app.

Another time, they suddenly decided that "No information is gathered from users whatsoever." is not a valid privacy policy for a Free Software application that does not gather any information (it was a simple game that couldn't even store highscores locally).
UBI would probably end up disproportionately filtering out non-troublesome workers. Non-troublesome workers are more rational than troublesome workers and would take a small reduction in pay in exchange for less headache. The troublesome workers that actually enjoy conflict would stay in the workforce because they can't find the same opportunities for conflict elsewhere.
I love this in other countries. I don’t always speak the local language well enough but I can tap on pictures and wait for my number to come up.
MAC address filtering isn't a first step towards 802.1x, precisely because of the reason you mentioned. It's damn near pointless for all but the most basic security scenarios.
Not exactly romance but I guess IT comes close enough

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8697402-scott-pilgrim-th...
Totally agree, Python for data/ML is mostly finding way to get around it’s speed limitation and going to C through library.

It create a barrier to innovation because your main language is not the one doing the heavy lifting.

There was an effort to use Swift to create the next ML language with Swift4TensorFlow but it was shelved in february 2021.
Democracy is not the same as time-limited dictatorship. A well-working democracy has constitutional safeguards against policies that are hostile against parts of the population.

If you're living in a country where 50.1% of the population can impose their will on the other 49.9% unopposed, you're not living in a healthy democracy. Regardless of what the media says.

(And yes, the Brexit referendum is a good example of that. All the issues the British government now has in living up to the results of that binary decision are problems of their own making -- on the other hand, one might say that these current problems show that the British democracy is in a healthier state than that referendum made it out to be)
The fact that "karens" have become a meme is largely due to this. Working retail has always been filled with absolutely terrible customers but in this day and age we're actually shaming them instead of feeding bad behavior with passive silence.
Just to add, Obsidian had a recent update that introduced a WYSIWYG editor.
WYSIWYG markdown editor is such a rarity.

How do I run it locally/on my server?

Is it possible to make some of my notes public but RO?
Noted! :)
The Beat of a Different DRM
Indeed, you are correct. A lot of these lessons came hard-earned from doing it the wrong way first.

I thought I was being such a good little programmer by normalizing my data as soon as possible. All it did was provide me job security (at the cost of headaches) every time the schema changed.
As with many psych studies: false conclusions based on contrived experiments that don’t measure what they claim.

Actual basic income experiment: the large amount of money given to Americans during the pandemic and subsequent labor shortage.
I don't know, but I definitely still see more "closed today due to lack of staffing" signs today than I've ever seen in my life before the lockdowns. And even places that are open still have noticeably fewer workers.
Yep, that's the myth of "universal" basic income: It would actually be taxed away for most of the population.

You may get $2,000/month for "free", but most people reading this would see their taxes go up by $30-40K/year to pay for the program. The money has to come from somewhere.

But that doesn't change the fact that if we pump money into a certain demographic, the assets they're buying will go up in price. In this case, it's the lowest cost housing that will go up in price.
That’s fair, but I found it grating in any app I looked at for a decent length of time, like web browsers. I think brushed metal with stricter usage guidelines (followed by Apple) that wasn’t per App but per Window-type could have stuck around. Having some way to distinguish Apps and window types in Exposé isn’t that worst thing in the world and was about the only redeeming aspect of Apple’s Lion theming choices.

Anyway, I used Firefox and Camino around that time.
A WeWork Future: Perpetual Hybrid Work
Share buybacks also create value and have been on the rise.
> People who want to study earthquakes will keep a distance and model and measure remotely.

Hee hee, I completely missed that implication of the analogy.

There really should be an "earthquake chasers" reality show if there isn't already. Like, they get a signal from that early warning system in the U.S., the countdown starts and then reaches zero by the time they jump in their van.

The rest of the episode would be counting the seconds as they hurry toward their destination, only to arrive upset that yet again they missed it by only a few tens of thousands of seconds.
Many years ago I worked as a solderer/assembler. One day I said to a supervisor "You mean there isn't a machine that can do this job? Seems easy to automate." Their response was "There is a machine...but it costs more than you do."

From that moment on it was very clear to me what my value to the company was. Combine that with the long hours, low pay and constant watching over my clock in times made it very easy to just "walk" from that job with no notice.

The worst part was knowing that there were people who had been there 20 years and had (seemingly) no upward mobility during the entire time. After 6mos I was moved up to QA (with an insignificant pay increase) and I realized that I was as high in the company as I was going to get without someone dying.

I have no issue working...but if I am going to be poor while working 56hr weeks...why do it?
> There is a tremendous amount of overhead involved in current welfare programs

Take the salaries of the people involved, and divide that over the entire country. Will that suffice? I don't think so, because it isn't as if 25% of the population is involved in distributing welfare.

> If UBI could be implemented in around the same cost as the welfare programs it replaces, it would have a net zero effect on inflation.

Not necessarily. If the government gave everybody a minimum wage extra, landlords could raise their prices further, shops, restaurants, construction firms, etc. would have to increase salaries to maintain lowly paid staff and raise prices, etc. There's a distinct risk of inflation involved in handing out money.
The vast majority of life sciences is funded by NIH. This is one reason why the nonstop "revelations" of crazy projects funded by gasp Anthony Fauci are really meaningless. NIH doles out an enormous bucket of cash year after year for all sorts of research.
How would UBI be funded?

We have trouble paying for existing budget items.

Would an existing budget item be cut or would new taxes be needed?
Ah, the old Captain Pugwash urban legend! I think I used to believe that a long time ago.

I can understand why he got upset though if you rained on his parade in front of other people. It was probably a pet story he enjoyed telling. Something I have also been guilty of!
(Because it apparently wasn't obvious, OP is not actually a 15 year old purveyor of young adult romance fiction. His post is mimicking the writing style of the article ("I'm 20 and a creative writing major...").)

BTW, there's a GoodReads list entitled "Nerdy Guys Are Hot" containing 114 books. And that list is obviously incomplete. For example, Harry Potter -- the most popular youth fiction series ever -- has a nerdy main character and plenty of romance subplots.
Does your thinking here work if including automation into the equation?

Why didn't society then collapse when automation began - like textile/garment/fabric manufacturing, etc?

You also seem to be ignoring the other side of productivity - if it drops it's arguably, in part at least, that less people are buying - so there's no funds/fuel for the local system. If UBI had to be spent locally and only on "local" goods - within the ststem - then there's no leak, and instead of fueling China and letting the tank run dry locally - you force fuel to be spent locally. This is why major, credible think tanks estimate an immediate 13%+ increase in GDP with implementing a $1,000/month UBI.
What does "significant" mean here

Meaning that there is significance to whitespace, as opposed to C where you could cram it all onto one line if you wanted. To put it another way, C doesn't care how you indent, if you even do it at all. Python cares, and will not run your program if you get the whitespace wrong.

Whereas I think you read it as "there's lots of whitespace in Python", which is not what was intended.
MIPS was also like that, if I remember correctly, division and multiplication were assembler macros.
Amazing to be able to interact with those who were actually there. Thank you for the story!
Australia has decided to let Covid rip
Beijing Says International Mail Is Possible Culprit in First Omicron Case
> By plebe I meant the insufferable working class dudes I grew up with who are anti intellectual and tend towards bullying those around them with their muscle mass.

I know the kind of guy who you're talking about, but I've never heard the term pleb used to describe them. In my experience, the term pleb is used by the well-connected, upper-class jerks (and those who want to be like them) to deride anyone in the middle class or lower. It doesn't describe behavior, only social class.

I did see that you said you had come from the working class, but the use of the word "plebe", combined with posting on HN, signaled to me that you now earn enough money to no longer be considered part of the working class, and now saw yourself above them, or were fabricating your background.

If you did not mean to deride the working class with that comment, then I apologize for the misunderstanding.
> inflation is a highly regressive tax

Is it? I think a takeaway from Piketty's book was that inflation was one of the rare factors that slowed down or reversed wealth inequality. Intuitively it would make sense that people drowning in debt benefit from (moderate) inflation, especially if low wages get bumped in the process.
But this is the point. To show the world that he died for racism. America wants him to be a hero, but an American hero, not a socialist hero.
I wonder what opiniob had Dulles about him.
Nah, people are allowed to critique literature. If you enjoy it without wanting to think about it, that's your right; her right is to think about it and write about what she's thinking.
This sounds like it would quickly devolve into a very socially unstable state.

For every legitimate complainant, there’d be a hundred entitled moochies with nothing better to do than work the bureaucracy to their own benefit, entirely at the cost of the few remaining people actually doing any work.
The closest analogue to true UBI goes on in the oil-rich Gulf nations. Citizens are basically guarenteed a job where they don't even need to show up, which is basically an inefficient form of UBI. Some, like Saudi Arabia are transitioning to true UBI.
The result of this is that these nations are completely reliant on foreign labor. Both skilled on unskilled work is dominated by foreigners. The latter have enough leverage to live comfortably. Unfortunately for unskilled workers, they're kept in slavery-like conditions and even have their passports taken away because otherwise, the cost of living would be too high for citizens to live off state income.
Right - even more potential for abuse.
Reminds me of HackMD (https://hackmd.io/)
It is expected, just disappointing. "I got mine, fuck you" is not exactly the kind of thinking we wish our fellow citizens engaged in.

And for the record, I would appear to be in the group bankrolling it rather than receiving from it, and I'm completely cool with it.
This doesn't work. If you have 100 different accounts, there is no way you can memorize around 5000 bits of entropy in a reasonable amount of time.
Your “buy low sell high” take is pretty short-sighted. For many, it’s a change in currency from fiat to digital. You on-ramp in but you don’t back out into fiat.

You're speaking about a subset of crypto traders that go right back to fiat.
Coronavirus: Game Over
Occasionally this happens, see Epic Games, and then the $HUGER_CORP has their security teams look for spurious "vulnerabilities" and then uses their PR team to have them dragged through the mud, etc.
I'm sort of in the same boat with Frank Miller. I really liked The Dark Knight Returns because I thought it was a great deconstruction that showed the dark side of vigilantism and power fantasies visual references to Birth of a Nation and all that.

I was pretty of disappointed when I found out that Miller actually wasn't ironic. Thankfully there's plenty other comic writers I still enjoy.
> Users are consistently choosing locked down Apple ecosystem over more open Android. How are you going to explain this?

Anecdata, but of the couple dozen people I know well, 18 or so choose Apple, 1 does so because her husband is an iOS dev and it's the only thing she knows, and only 1 does so (at least he claims) because he likes the locked down nature of it. I usually point out that he doesn't really, because he uses his developer to account to sideload apps onto his device, but for some reason that argument gets nowhere with him. 6 or so of the others do so because that's what their company gave them (either now or in the past). Nearly all of them stay with Apple because they have a big investment now in apps and purchases that they lose if they move. And of course iOS is what they know, and most people stick with the devil you know over the devil you don't know.

But how do I explain this? I think it's a multi variable equation. No doubt Apple is known for quality and deserves this reputation (although the last few years they've been losing this on the software side). There's also no doubt a lot of people who view it as a status symbol. My son wants an iPhone so bad because he doesn't want to be a "green bubble" anymore. He's never even used one, it's purely social pressure. I doubt adults are immune to this stuff either. There's also a pool of people that truly prefer to be powerless over what they run on their device. I guess they are afraid that if sideloading is an option, they will decide to sideload apps from sketchy sources and get themselves infected with malware.
Correct.

It’s clearly a not great bug, but historically (by design) you could get more information via CSS. The only increase is trackability is extracting the google id because I guess google includes that in the db name??
>Even in Cherokee country, where the additional income is quite sizable, the payments are not enough to live on

>The Alaska Permanent Fund has been giving $1,000 to $2,000 a year to its citizens for decades

Neither of these are amounts to not work on. Many people quit working after reaching a specific "UBI". Either through social security or retirement/investment accounts. This is also the goal for many folks such as FIRE.
> but it can't get out of it quickly for some reason

As overclockers are aware, to achieve higher frequencies but keep CPU stable, one gonna need higher CPU voltage. Works other way too, lowing frequency allows to lower voltage, and that’s what mostly delivers the power saving from these low-power states.

These chips can’t adjust voltage instantly because wires inside them are rather thin, and there’s non-trivial capacity everywhere. This means CPUs can drop frequency instantly, then decrease the voltage over time. However, if they raise frequency instantly without first raising the voltage, the chip will glitch.

That’s AFAIK the main reason why increasing the clock frequency takes time. The chips first raise the voltage which takes time because capacity, and only then they can raise the frequency which is instant.
Note that pandemic financial aid has often been conditional on hardship and has been intermittent. This makes it not a great model for basic income.

I think it's likely a universal basic income (small at first --- not a "living wage" yet, but enough to provide everyone with more security and to eliminate some conditional benefits programs, EITC, etc) would be a good thing. But it's really fairly unprecedented, despite efforts at research.

A big question to answer is about paternalism in benefits-- what's the right amount?

We have a big contingent of people angry when other people buy luxury goods or candy with SNAP. We're also worried that if we don't provide housing or food assistance to the poor-- putting strings on the money ensuring it's used for those purposes-- they wouldn't eat. We end up with this wacky system where there's restrictions on the money that are ineffective at preventing abuse but also strikingly effective at preventing poor people from using it to systematically improve their situation. We also incur massive costs for these administrative controls compared to just giving money out, and create benefits "cliffs" where improving your income reduces your net resources.
We found that we were not watching much on Netflix. We dumped it, replaced with Discovery+, and have been happy with that for the past 12 months.
Who said taking on the burden of hauling so much cargo was going to be easy?

If they're taking on the responsibility, they must pass the security costs on and do the job properly.

We're talking about one of the most mature industries in the nation, having longstanding established legal exceptions to empower their success and stability. The violin appropriate here is so small I seem to have lost it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/us/complaints-rise-agains...
The solution here seems like nim
That is so true it is not even funny.

But the essay(s) don't mention ADHD at all. Is that intentional ?

May be some dopomine deprived people don't even have a choice other than to embrace the monkey :-(
Currency exchange rates are bidirectional. You are arguing for people to produce less, so export plummets, which will bring down the value of the $, which means it is harder to import stuff you need.
Most of what you’ve written is valid. The main issue I have is that you’re implying that software developers and engineers are “underpaid”. That doesn’t reflect reality. We are one of the highest paid professions in the US due to several factors. There is also a lot of career mobility ie If you’re not happy, change companies. The other issue is assuming that Marak is rational. I do not believe he is at the moment since he was involved with manufacturing homemade bombs at his apartment.
> Some mild office competition didn't help.

Does that mean that someone at his office had better luck and should be writing the success article? Or something else?
An older relative (must be in his 80s now) had Hancock's Half Hour on cassette tape, and I listened to them while visiting.

The funniest one I remember is "The Blood Doner", which turns out was a TV episode (most were just radio).

"The Radio Ham" is also good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Donor / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEUvyaNu0uw

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Radio_Ham
> What is this...kindergarten level morality.

It could be because I didn't make that claim of keeping it because someone else might take it. I only pointed out that someone will likely want it absent a US presence due to its strategic location.
I had a pretty good time setting up Katex (https://katex.org/) on my personal blog. It’s fairly straightforward and supports most of the set of LaTeX people use in shorthand notes/blog posts. Having all the rendering happen on the client is a big win too.
What is the reference to Island and Archipelago? I'm not familiar and my DDG skills aren't helping.
It would reduce mine, if it came with health insurance. I only work for the insurance.
Wayne Brady: "How come there's no one who looks like me on Friends??" (audience: "awww")

Colin Mochrie: "How come there's no one who looks like me on Friends??" (audience goes wild with laughter)
The problem with these social experiments is that these payments are not guaranteed for life. Being out of work is bad for your career, but if you receive passive income for rest of your life, I think that would change the calculus.
> Do you know how many people stopped working when automation began?

What do you mean? Labor force participation has been trending upward over the last 100 years, not downward.

For an extreme example, fewer than 10% of married women were in the workforce around 1900. Now it's closer to 3 out of 4 married women in the workforce.
Well, did Jesus tell his follows that they should not be hypocrites who wash their hands because they blindly follow traditions and that they should instead wash their hands because it is good for their health? No, he simply taught them not to bother washing hands before eating.

Moreover, Jesus is recorded elsewhere as having taught his disciples a practice of ritual foot washing (involving washing another person's feet), which remains a practice among some Christians to this very day. He even went on to explicitly indicate that foot washing is spiritually important. Jesus also taught his followers to practice a form of ritual bathing, clearly given spiritual significance and clearly a variation of Jewish ritual bathing, that remains widely practiced by Christians today: baptism. So, if we accept the account of the gospels, it would seem that Jesus was not really opposed to washing rituals in general, nor to treating ritualized washing as a matter of spiritual significance, he just had a different concept than the mainstream Rabbinic tradition.
Python was very good in the 2000 with the included batteries but I don’t think they are up to the task anymore 20 years later.

Python became the glue language for ML, but that was never it’s intended target and I think that we see more and more than we need something else to go forward.
I think it is a C++ replacement that is _closer_ to C. It has generics, traits, RAII, etc, which are C++, not C, features but the way that Rust implements them _feels_ closer to C. I don't know if this quite makes sense but as an external observer this is my impression.
WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller
maybe can utilize the HashTag?
The key is whether or not your violation impacts revenue. Almost any other issue will not get you the full wrath of Google and Apple. Cut them out of their 30% and they'll act harshly.
I don't see why they shouldn't be free to. Yet, weirdly, we don't see a lot of people renouncing their rich-socialist-nation citizenship to run off to some other libertarian paradise.