skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Art is a public good. It's not something that gets produced and then consumed. It gets produced, and that production costs time and resources. But it is not comsumed like cheesecake or natural gas.

Taxes should be spent in a manner that serves society and its people. The sharing of art benefits everyone. Even art you don't like benefits you, because there is a good chance an artist you like will be influenced by it. If you want a thriving art scene you need people making art. Much of it might get thrown away and never reach an audience, but gems will emerge from it.

Even if one takes a completely selfish approach to art (ie, only art that I like is good art), there is benefit in having more artists making more art. As someone who does not live in Ireland I enjoy some art made in Ireland. So even I benefit from Ireland supporting its artists.
Don't launch it for general public, the people on dole are already ruining every day life for normal working folks
Mutual aid is decentralized charity, the aid comes from the community instead of a NGO.
For example, yes.
After our hand-me-down Bosch machine from the 1980s gave up the ghost, we decided to get another Bosch, but not because of brand loyalty. I think the mid-level machines are the best compromise between high cost brands like Miele and Maytag, and low-cost brands like Gorenje and Beko.

However, as with many things, there has been a lot of consolidation in the space, and many brands are actually owned by holding companies, leading to some unlikely bedfellows. At the same time, planned obsolescence means that the machines are engineered to fail at some point between 2 and 5 years. Long enough to get out of warranty, and long enough that the consumer doesn't feel cheated when the machine fails the day after warranty expires, but not as long as you would expect from technology that has remained unchanged since the 50s except the addition of some sensors and PCBs.

White goods are unique in terms of our expectations for their lifetime, because they are labor-intensive and/or expensive to replace, and a catastrophic failure with a water leak can be very expensive.

I still find it somewhat funny though, that we easily give out between $200-1500 for our phones every couple of years and hem and haw when spending that much for white goods.
Fortunately, this is a testable prediction. If you can nail it down a bit, maybe you could register it somewhere like https://predictionbook.com/ ? After all, if you're right, having a track record to point to would increase your credibility.
Tencent is limiting kids' access to its gaming platform
It's funny because they are two organisations that you shouldn't donate to anyway.

Donations to Mozilla don't go to Firefox, and Wikipedia is swimming in money.
It is a matter of time someone puts a dictation mode together. Given the design of Emacs key combinations you will be able (required) to use also rythm and tone.
> plasterboard already bonded to PIR

As you point out they are normally ~25mm or so of EPS/XPS. which doesn't do _much_, especially compared to 600mm of stone. Plus XPS is pretty flammable, so with electricity cables sandwiched between it, its not a great thing to have inside the house.
I mean, OK, but one could also argue that the reason a given artist is struggling is because their work is not highly valued in the first place.

Maybe the artist is making under-appreciated contributions, or maybe their work is just not good. It's subjective, which means criticism is subjective too, but it seems a poor place to start with any UBI scheme executed in good faith.

I would think it would have more value as an experiment to start with some of the poorest people in a society and then measure their quality of life and economic contribution throughout and after the programme. If you could show a net-positive economic contribution during the programme, and a net-negative contribution before and after (as unlikely as I suspect that is to achieve) it would make it substantially easier to get popular support for UBI.
>>No, it's not. That's a superficial and biased interpretation.

Your characterization is absolute nonsense, and I've already explained exactly why.

>>especially since your credibility is already very low because of your union conspiracy ramblings.

I've addressed this disingenuous criticism before:

Your pithy response to my argument that unionized news staff have an economic interest in promoting left wing political ideas - when I've elaborated at length as to why I believe this is the case - suggests you're approaching this issue very emotionally, and not in a good faith attempt to open-mindedly explore what I'm saying to see if it's true.

You realize that name-calling and sophistry is not debate, right? You can't just bully people into adopting your interpretation of the world.

Asserting that a claim is "a superficial and biased interpretation" or "conspiracy ramblings", is not evidence. It's just a baseless opinion, and in terms of substance, the equivalent of name-calling - an attempt to appeal to people's emotions to manipulate them into believing something, instead of convincing them by presenting a logical argument.

>>we can dive deeper into other possible causes to an increased social spending without that being "an embrace of social democracy".

We can dive deeper in your mental gymnastics, as you try to maintain "neoliberalism" has been ascendant, whilst the economy has become more social democratically structured? It's undeniable that the West has massively moved toward a more social democratic economic model.
> Things like TikTok wouldn't exist without the abundant bandwidth offered by LTE.

And this is valuable? If you dig a big hole in a public space people will fill it with garbage before long.

Technology should be driven by need. Building bigger pipes, bigger roads and bigger holes is just asking for more garbage to fill it with. Let's start with problems that are worth solving.
Big companies need big judgments to care. The point isn't simply to make the one victim whole, but to make the consequences so fearsome that the company decides that a second time must not happen and changes its internal practices.

Otherwise you have the famous Fight Club recall formula.
Helix is my daily driver and it's got such nice defaults I haven't even bothered configuring it.

For modern code editing it's just faster. Everything's built in natively.
I've never really looked too closely at the idea of UBI, although I like the concept. I always assumed that any money you earn would then be deducted from future payments. With completely arbitrary numbers, let's say UBI was 1000€/month and I earned 500€ in a particular month, then next month my UBI payment would be reduced by that amount. If I earned 1500€ my next UBI payment would be zero, but the excess 500€ would not be rolled over. I may have completely misunderstood how UBI is supposed to work though.
> The fish rots at the head.

This isn’t a fish.

And as a kid living on the water, saw plenty of dead fish — usually the head is the last identifiable part to go (middle goes first).
"Mechanical ventilation with energy recovery may be far superior, but if that means constant noise it will be an issue - to some, a radical issue."
I've installed this in my house, it is virtually silent. This is for ~200m3 of clean air/hour. If I turn it on higher you can hear it a little.
I’ve been positively surprised by how leading newspapers have been, notably in open-sourcing their software. It’s far from perfect but some teams internally see the value of what they do, and a handful of managers get that by commoditising certain aspects, like software or hopefully basic facts, they can highlight their unique contribution.
Unfortunately, since 2018, New Zealand has a similar law in place [0].

[0]: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2018/0004/latest/...
Twitter threads are in general a very sad successor of the blogosphere.
My point was not that there is no value in it, my point was that there is already a considerable oversupply of it, so why buy more of it?

Those people who have already managed to turn it into a fulltime job are more than sufficient to ensure that arts and culture exist. What exactly do you expect to see when more f/time practitioners are added to the existing mix?
VPNLab takedown: Authorities dismantle secure communication tool favored by
Be super careful internally insulating an old house. This can cause _a lot_ of humidity problems if not done _exactly_ right. Very often, there is no way to do it exactly right!

I would recommend you to consider breathable internal insulation materials, combined with breathable finish layers of course! Some hints.

Roof (or attic floor) insulation is the most important. I imagine those have been done properly already.

Walls. There's industrial products for walls, like Xella Multipor. You may also want to have a look at eco products, especially if working on the place yourself. Hempcrete is a fairly forgiving material that works rather well for this purpose. Rather expensive to have it installed, but easy to do yourself.

Ground floors. Have a look at foam glass [0] insulation. It both stabilises and insulates, is moisture and fire proof, not horribly expensive and saves you from having to put in a layer of concrete. Not super well known yet, but growing in popularity. A wonderful material and super easy and forgiving to work with. A no-brainer really in many cases...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam_glass
Art produces huge positive externalities. This is the reason artists are the pioneers of gentrified neighbourhoods. They arrive when rent is low (all they can afford) and their product increases the desirability of the area. The artists themselves capture none of this value and often have to leave when rents go up.
I'm starting to think you're even more confused than I had assumed. You were literally given a reasonable possible answer to your question multiple times (MAP_ANONYMOUS). And if there wasn't a big confusion you wouldn't be asking these questions in the first place because you could just make up your own answer.

I'm also left uncertain if you're assuming Linux and not talking about it. At least your objections to general statements are weirdly specific, while you never clarify the context (e.g. what OS you're talking about), and you seem to assume that there couldn't be other ways of achieving stuff. There seems to be a weird lack of understanding of the basics in your comments.

At the core, everything you need to share memory is that the participating processes agree about the (physical) address range of that memory (e.g. a 64-bit starting address and a 64-bit size). You could literally hardcode a physical address range, map this range to arbitrary (and possibly different) virtual address ranges in each of the processes, and start communicating through that shared memory. Note that the mappings are stored in the RAM and CPU, it has nothing at all to do with any files or filepaths.

And this whole discussion is completely pointless anyway because it started of YOU misunderstanding what I meant by "file-backed memory", which is not my fault at all. The term is completely unambiguous, it means (as opposed to POSIX SHM / MAP_ANONYMOUS / whatever) page cache memory that gets synced to an underlying file on a filesystem.

Please stop questioning and start experimenting and understanding what we're saying. We know what we're talking about. You don't.
The Prime Minister of my country in the 1990s stumbled over some easy math in an interview. It is still a meme today ("é só fazer as contas"), even as he's currently Secretary-General of the UN.

>It's a fairly well documented fact at this point

I don't know how an opinion can be a well documented fact.
A Guardian article quoting her party colleague isn't exactly an unbaised or even evidential source. Dianne Abbott is clearly capable in many areas, but the examples that follow her around persist precisely for that reason. She should have known better.
Why workstations model of computing failed because of PC
Well, the "Malibu surfer" is a recurrent theme. E.g. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-37908-... or https://www.jstor.org/stable/2265291. Van Parijs (author of the last text) is very well known in the field of UBI (some sources even list him as the founder of the idea). The haiku theme often arises in discussions, but I cannot find a source. Anyway, is the same idea: being paid for doing whatever you want or nothing at all.

What you talk about is not UBI, but other schema of basic income conditioned (thus not fulfilling the U).
I wish for the cynics and for the literary connoisseurs that the next James Joyce comes out of this programme.

Norway has had a stipend programme for writers for some time.

Interesting question: how does not "prove" to be an artist, and a needy one at that? At the moment it's a lottery.
> Martin emphasized the importance of aiding artists in continuing their work. “The minister is conscious of the value that this sector brings to all Irish citizens,”

What about the work of health workers, delivery people, drivers, employees in supermarkets, cleaners, constructions workers, etc.?
Hi HN!

Sharing with you my first side-project that actually made it to MVP. Would love to hear feedback from the community.

Like some of you, I am invested in some markets. Sometimes when I get down time I like to grab a cup of coffee and popping open Youtube to watch videos covering stocks and cryptos I am invested in. For me its a more entertaining and casual way to stay updated on the latest market than reading text-based content. While at first I was skeptical of the quality of information, with time I've found the community effective in rising solid content creators with great content to the top.

Over the holidays I did a thought experience on how to improve this user experience and noted down a few user experience problems that I encounter:

- friction - manual nature of searching for videos of interest.
- clutter - relevant video content amidst irrelevant noise.
- opacity - lack of scan-ability of longer form videos makes watching videos like trying to find chapters in a book without a table of contents.

So the intent of this mobile site is to give casual investors like us a better experience that minimizes friction, clutter, and opacity while bringing us closer to the snippets of video content we actually want to watch.

Website: https://trend24.app
I purchased a SpeedQueen washer and dryer combo set this October and was delivered towards the end of December. They’re a US-based manufacturer based out of Wisconsin. It is still early for me to post a final review, but so far I love it. You can tell the units are built solidly and they do a great job cleaning cloths. These units were quite a bit more expensive than typical units you will find at Home Depot, but I am happy with my purchase. Supposedly, these units can last 20-25 years.
Simpler to use ublock and delete the parts of the page you don't want to see.

Example to clean up the homepage:

! 2021-11-26 https://www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com##.ytd-button-renderer.style-scope.yt-simple-endpoint > .size-small.style-suggestive.ytd-button-renderer.style-scope
At least you can compare longs and index them. That's not too bad. But I prefer to just use the native date type; it allows you to use the built-in date functions.
The English have been building homes with virtually no heating since forever
> How is the code still allowing new construction with windows having U of 2 (such as double glazing)

its complex. but as I'm retrofitting the rules are different. The standards are here: https://great-home.co.uk/building-regulations-current-u-valu...

But the real kicker is that glazing should have bleeder vents in them, in some circumstances. Which is a pain in the arse. Most of my windows don't have them, but the two in the loft extension do.
That's why poor (and for simplicity everybody) should be subsidized to counteract the effect of taxing carbon.

Then this tax will only influence economy making ways of doing things that don't emit carbon insanely competitive.
There is more than a whiff of racism in the wanton attacks she faced.

She received more death and rape threats than any other female MP, for example.

Somehow there were more memes for fluffing her figures in one interview than the future leader got for hiding from a journalist in a fridge a week or so later.
> number of days between first immunization and COVID diagnosis

Survivorship bias. People end up in this graph because they got a COVID diagnosis after the first immunization, but before getting the second immunization. That's only a very short time window on most vaccination schedules (3-6 weeks), so the only surprise here is that there is a long trail of people who got the first shot and then held off on the second shot for a long time.

I can understand why they took down that graph. It's very misleading when taken out of context.
They probably do not have as strong a lobby.
I haven't been yet either, but it's in a neat location at the very least: on W. River Pkwy by the falls, in an old building that was rebuilt.

https://goo.gl/maps/id2R9byxQcm57uK7A
PR makes it possible.

I have personally identified more than a handful of employees who'd use their work computers for... let's say "access to inappropriate content". All of them where invited by HR & legal and let go with a more then decent deal.

Absolutely everything was done to prevent the company being associated with anything nasty.
Just anecdotally, Ive had a paper rejected once from arxiv. I am glad they did... it was not a very good one. Every other time thought has been fine
If you’re looking for that reliability and simplicity, you may want to take a look at SpeedQueen. They’re a bit more expensive, but built like tanks.
Yes, he introduced it near the bottom - instead of using speeds (which are like slopes), you use "rapidities" which are the angles of the hyperbolic rotations.
A couple small past threads:

Remembrance Agent: A continuously running information retrieval system (1996) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8731217 - Dec 2014 (2 comments)

The Remembrance Agent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4246330 - July 2012 (4 comments)
Sorry, I willfully risked Poe's law, and the results were to be expected.

Have you considered that the people that design, develop, transport and operate autonomous robots on other planets in order to perform science have not "forgotten" to include a microscope?

Whenever you think you've got a great idea, try asking your question to Google. For example, when you type "microscope mars rover", the first link is what I sent. The third link is a StackOverflow thread explaining why there is not a better resolution:

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/39525/why-is-there-no-microscope-on-the-mars-2020-rover

The reason suggested? For high magnification you get shallow depth-of-field. Hence, samples must be prepared, and that's not easy.

Like any engineering issue it could be done in theory. But there are constraints and budgets, and choices have to be made, based on science priorities and the likelyhood of mission success. I'm not a rocket scientist, but that's the likely reason that there is not a high-power microscope on rovers.

I've got good news for you though. The second result on Google says that the current Mars mission will test for microbial life by using chemical analysis. Not in-situ, but using a sample return.
Twitter threads don’t bother me. The brain quickly adapts to skipping the irrelevant parts (username, like buttons, etc) and to expecting the cadency of tweets.

I believe it is harder to write (due to the character limit of each text block), but, far from “unreadable”, I can read it fairly easily.
i just read his essay "in praise of idleness"[1] (1932) and what sticks out is how nothing has changed wrt how capitalism works:

"Suppose that at a given moment a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins as before. But the world does not need twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world everybody concerned in the manufacture of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?"

[1]https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
I believe most implementations do not do that. That could lead to a disincentive for work, since you would need to make the entire amount of the ubi payment before your labor is benefiting you.

It is usually a flat rate for everyone, no matter the income. If you want more money, you sell your labor like normal
Iceland has had this for quite some time. It's usually a hot topic in the media every year.
I think it was started in 2009 after the 2008 financial crisis which hit Iceland particularly hard
https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listamannalaun
> Now you are shifting the goal posts.

I don't know that I am; you were the one to bring up the implicit “light travels in straight lines” assumption with your claim about ants on a flat table. Obviously if I think the earth is flat, I don't believe that.

> Light does not - besides a tiny bit of diffraction - bend into the shadow area behind obstacles.

It depends how much distance you give the light. Shadows are noticeably blurry if your hand is close to the light source.

> You obviously have to perform your experiments under control conditions, so pick a time and place with negligible variation in index of refraction of the atmosphere.

You're never going to get a situation where the air temperature is consistent enough for this; it varies by height (as does pressure). And, again, unless you can show me that “index of refraction” is a thing that applies to air, I'm not going to believe something as ludicrous as Snell's Law. (After all, isn't the speed of light a constant? The whole derivation rests on the assumption that it varies depending on the medium!)
> Any research towards basic income tells us that people continue working close to as much as before

I am curious about the research in this field. Living in Israel I see the Ultra-Orthodox being payed for studying the scriptures and they work much less than their secular peers. Knowing corrupt countries, I know of tons of people employed by the state and local authorities just to give them jobs - it is a sign of malfunctioning and corruption usually - and they often do nothing in their job.

What those examples have in common is that they create a class of people dependent on a party or on some politician to eat their meal. This entrenches tribalism and corruption.

Also there is a very big difference between "universal basic income" - which would be an extension of human rights accorded to all, and paying some "artists" money. The former may be the evolution of the latter but there is no way to be certain. I am not familiar with Ireland but I suspect it is a trick of some party to secure thousands of certain votes, and probably even to use them for propaganda (I want to see those artists expose critical views of the party that gives them money..).
Please do not cross into personal attack in HN comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html