skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the total absorption could be referred to as one of dhyānas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhy%C4%81na_in_Buddhism

Experiencing dhyāna is possible without achieving samadhi, but it is very unstable

Csikszentmihalyi flow state implies that one is involved in some activity, but in dhyānas you don't need to do anything.
The latest design elements feel straight from iPad OS imo. They also have had a focus on allowing iOS installs onto MacOS. This is from BigSur onward.

I was mostly describing my feelings and guesses of it.
>They simulated the reward structure of different forms of social security in an experiment. ‘We got people to do a task on a computer,’ says De Kwaadsteniet. ‘In multiple rounds, which represented the months they had to work, they did a boring task in which they had to put points on a bar. The more of these they did, the more money they earned.’

"short term experiments done in a lab" seems to be psychology's equivalent of "in vitro" (aka. in a test tube). I'm not really sure how you can draw any conclusions about someone's lifetime behavior, using a experiment that looks at the behavior of people sitting at a few hours at a computer.
> I wouldn't write them off yet. Disney, Apple and Amazon seem the only real competitors as this is a game of scale.

Their play here might just be waiting for Paramount+ and Peacock to throw in the towel and license their catalogs.
I've used Graphviz for many years and my main gripe with it is the lack of customization. Yes, there's "some" customization, but there's a point (not too far from the initial style) where, if you don't like the output, you're out of luck and might as well redraw it using draw.io or some other WYSIWYG editor.
I have a friend in a similar position. Nice, friendly team, but stack based on 10 year old tech. He was telling me how he upgraded a dependency that hadn't been touched since 2013. If it works, don't fix it I guess. If you're bored, not learning anything good, move on.
Exploiting code monkeys. So easy, yet so profitable.
Please stop taking HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

You did it repeatedly in this thread - that's not cool. Please don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29935954.
There have already been real world basic income experiments with similar outcomes
So every other software project for every business ever? Got it, still anecdotal data
That question seems absurd. Of course they'll just get a Mastercard if they don't already have one. The U.K. is full of neobanks that will give you one on your phone in 5 minutes.
I once paid for Hulu and my reward was less ads. WTF. Immediate unsubscribe. Will never pay/watch Hulu ever again.
I'd argue there's no right or wrong at all when it comes to this. There's only bigger and smaller, stronger and weaker, early and late. We draw an arbitrary line somewhere and say that people on one side cannot trade on information they have and the people on the other side can. And we trust that the people on the former side will never try to find a cheat or workaround.

The market is completely made up. It's driven by inequality in access to information. You're only going to make money if you're:

A. Lucky

B. Ahead of the game in some shape or form
For me it was when they said "Get vaccinated or GTFO."

"Ok, I quit."
You can only remember a limited number of passwords regardless of whether it's a sequence of words or a sequence of random characters. The main flaw in all these schemes is that you have to remember them. The only viable option is to use a password manager.
Multiple studies of where basic income was tried in the real world found it to reduce work.

For example, "Manitoba, Canada experimented with Mincome, a basic guaranteed income, in the 1970s. In the town of Dauphin, Manitoba, labor only decreased by 13%, much less than expected" [1]. There are plenty of others.

I expect a targeted need use of scarce resources (tax money) is a much better use for helping those who need it, instead of ham handedly giving it regardless of need, thereby shorting those who need it at the benefit of many who do not.

And the current inflation (and previous events where govts gave out decent sums of cash to help short term other econ issues) shows what happens when people get money for free - prices rise to absorb it. The reason being if person X is willing to put in pain Y for product Z, this does not change if you rescale the meaning of money.

Product Z simply rises to cause person to put in the same pain to obtain it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income
Seems like you’re advising that OP quit his job simply because that’s what his intuition is saying.

Our intuition often misguides us when problems are complex.
Whether or not this is the type of problem that you should follow your intuition on depends on how multi-faceted the criteria are for a successful work relationship. The more multi-faceted the criteria, the more we should use our rational brain to decide.
It will not reduce the willingness to work but certainly will reduce the willingness of workers to suck it up for low pay, shoddy benefits, lack of holidays, no job security and importantly, the lack of dignity.

The most recent American cash handout is the closest we have come to a large scale UBI and it does exactly what we expect humans to do - follow Maslow's pyramid.
Want to stop people making fun of hipsters? Prevent the discussion from happening. Relentlessly sealion people about the label. Deny it has a referent. Assert it's a bogeyman. Want to stop people criticizing SJWs? Prevent the discussion from happening. Relentlessly sealion people about the label. Deny it has a referent. Assert it's a bogeyman. Oops! "SJW" has been eliminated, but "wokist" got traction! Relentlessly sealion people about the label. Deny it has a referent. Assert it's a bogeyman.
This article doesn't have details on the experiment and how much money "social security" was, also it's incredibly easy to generate an experiment which shows no effect if it's underpowered or the effect is minor.

I used to believe this, based on the last 2 years I no longer do. I hope we get to a basic income state so that we change what motivates people to work (from push to pull) but I still maintain a large number of people will choose not to work if they can achieve their personal level of comfort with a basic income.
We did a type of UBI experiment in the United States with the universal Covid payments. Low income workers got 80% of the salary. Many chose not to work. Why work 40 hours to make 20% more money than the dole? I’m acquaintances with two local business owners, a roofer and a general contractor, and they told me plainly that they were understaffed because their workers were taking a vacation until the Covid payments ended.

Seems like a more valid experiment to me.
Is that a typo? You just said you'll be working, then said you won't be working
Maybe it's the lack of audio and video recordings of Washington's speeches?
HBO is known for hugely popular shows with critical acclaim. Just last year, HBO had Succession, Mare of Easttown, and The White Lotus in several top-10 lists. It's hard to compare the mostly-okay offerings from Apple TV to either the current HBO shows or its back catalog full of hits.
Ever think those might not be the same people?
Trains in the US don’t just stay parked for no reason. The route that this article discusses goes to a train yard in LA, due to the logistics of __very long train__ and limited amounts of rail bandwidth, trains move very slow / stop at times when entering these facilities. It would be impossible for the train to be running full speed here.
>we still practice the same kinds of oppression we did in the 60s, we just do it under a different banner. It's because of drugs, or gangs, or welfare queens, or 'everyone must vote in person with state ID issued at our vanishingly few DMVs and only during working hours'.

This is intentional.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa...

>The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves:

>You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
Yep. Meaningless. Yet the paper will be blasted from one end of the earth to the other by people who care more about their agenda than the universe's frequently unhappy truths.

Probably the same people who said that increasing the money supply wouldn't cause inflation because MMT or some other tendentious garbage.
1. You've stopped learning things there

2. Some of the team is lousy but no one seems to be working on coaching/firing them

3. Management won't spend a dollar to save a dollar
For a time I worked a Pacific TMZ job while based in Central. At first it was requested my local team be available from 10 AM Central to 7 PM Central to align to the rest of the business. It wasn’t the worst thing ever but with young kids who went to bed at 7 PM, it wasn’t ideal.

After a few months my boss said we didn’t have to work the shifted schedule and we went to a more normal 8-5 schedule and all was well—from that perspective—however, when you’re putting in 18 hour days, what’s the difference if your schedule is 8-5, 10-7 or whatever?

Take the job you feel is best for you; you may find out the hours may not need to align.
Crypto Watchwords:= seemingly slang, but conveys only group membership. Group membership revoked if you try to define any of those watchwords at a first principles level (which is precisely why a group of young people raised on NFT's doesn't understand the possession/copyright ownership split)
Alternative Title: "Web3 feels like a scam, it probably is one"
A Stackoverflow Error Parser written in Python
do your higher ups notice you produce less bugs? is this something you communicate to others or let your actions speak themselves?

thanks :)
The key question is: would it reduce people's willingness to work on things that provide objective monetary value?
People who study earthquakes also get paid peanuts.
A short while back, I quit my job - nice folks, terrible stack. I went to a company that works 100% in AWS, everything gitops, everything pipeline automated. It was shiny and textbook perfect. I got like an 8% raise, but added 5% state income taxes (NH guy working in MA for the first time)

Anyways after five months of textbook perfect gitops, I'd had my third conversation with a human being at this company (Manager didn't do 1-1s, team didn't talk, there was no 'watercooler' chat. And this was in a physical office!). They said that if everyone was doing their jobs perfectly, that no one would really need to communicate outside of code commits.

Of course, this was extreme and I just picked the wrong place because I got strung up on a shiny tech stack. Something in the middle would have been better. I went back to my original job after five months, even with the crummy tech stack, because the people are social and it seems like they benefit from my presence.

I'm glad I did it - I learned a lot, at the cost of suffering some extreme loneliness, doubt, and then self-humiliation to get back to where I was before I started. I recommend anyone try it to at least get it out of their systems.

My job is the same, but it seems less bad. Is that a win?
I was also gonna mention Shiki. While it is JS, you can SSR/SSG, and:

- it uses VSCode grammars and themes, which is awesome.

- it’s got some really cool extensions like Shiki Twoslash[1], allowing VSCode-like type hovers and type error demos. I’ve heard this can work without client-side JS but haven’t had the opportunity to check that out just yet.

- with some effort, you can extract the inline styles to a stylesheet and support pure CSS dark mode (note to self: clean up and open source my implementation of this).

1: https://shikijs.github.io/twoslash/
What's stopping spammers from just having a GMail account they can use to test if the message made it through?

I mean; I have to assume the engineers in charge of this @ Google are making the right call, but the cynic in me can't help but worry they are making the call in a way that benefits them at the cost of a healthier SMTP ecosystem. (ie, "Lets make email just unreliable enough that folks switch to Google Email 100%, or use some other Google Product for messaging ...")

You can reject the message anytime after TO/FROM/DATA w/o signaling which of those 3 caused it the message to be rejected.
I never thought about this until now, but I guess it's actually super weird that ArrayList doesn't expose a getter-by-index and an iterator and instead expects you to use .items.
If you have good people, sane management, and decent pay, think well before you leave. There are a lot of positions where you have either toxic coworkers, management that is disconnected from reality, and/or crummy pay. Would you trade that for a better stack?

And the problem is, you don't get told in the interview, "Yeah, our management is insane". You usually find that out later. Same with toxic coworkers. So, is the tech stack bad enough to be worth rolling the dice?
You're ignoring the fact that they chose not to work during a pandemic, at jobs that almost universally had very poor protection for employees - little to no PPE, in some cases not even hand sanitizer and/or soap (i.e. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/18/amazon-wh..., though I can't remember which warehouse had no soap). That is not applicable to UBI.

Also keep in mind that during this time period many schools were closed, so some of these people were staying home to monitor their children, not just "deciding not to work". Parenting is labor.
Blog author here! I read the source quite a few times.

Almost every language has a dynamic array of some sort. They all do the same thing. They all have slightly different names. push / push_back / add / append. size / length / len / count. If you don't already know the name of a function then finding it is in a sea of text is very difficult and not fun.

Zig ArrayList: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/array_lis...
C++ Vector: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector
Rust Vec: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/vec/struct.Vec.html

Sometimes I just want to see a list of functions. I can skim a list of 40 functions in seconds. Scrolling 800 lines of code and trying to pick out every single function takes much longer and is much more error prone.
Bullshit work?
The spheres are symmetric around the line because the line goes through the center points of the spheres.
Hey, I love siuba. Haven't had a chance to use it much but it scratches an itch for me. For years I've grumbled about how Python isn't flexible enough to accommodate tidyverse style libraries, as it lacks pipes and lazy evaluation (or macros), but siuba has managed to be very nice to use.

Maybe someday Python'll get a macro system ...
So poor people are lazy and the rich aren't?

Maybe all these people don't want to work these kinda of jobs and are moving into other sectors.

Maybe working conditions and pay need to be drastically improved in those jobs.
I don't disagree with you. But the "I have a dream" speech will live forever as one of the greatest political speeches, if not THE greatest political speech, both in rhetorics, impact, and content. I remember reading that speech in English class (I'm German), and it left me deeply impressed. The only other speech I read that came close to this was Richard von Weizsäcker's speech commemorating the 40th anniversary of Germany's surrender, ending World War II.

MLK was one of those very, very rare figures where the power of their ideas (and ethics!) was matched by the power of their voices. I'd really love to know what the world would look like today if he had not been murdered.
I didn’t think Linux ran on an SX. Thought it required the mmu in the DX for 32-bit protected mode. Might be misremembering though.
Many critiques I've seen were based the premise that FDA approval would force (public and private) insurers to cover Aduhelm. This decision by CMS indicates that such concerns may have been misguided: it's possible to have FDA accelerated approval without forcing taxpayers to cover the treatment cost.

To be clear, it's possible that the blowback around the FDA decision led to CMS's decision, so I'm not critiquing the critiques. Just keeping in mind that this seems like a pretty ideal outcome.
You can argue by symmetry that if the central sphere touches one of the corner spheres, it must touch them all. And it must touch one because otherwise you would increase it's radius until it did.
Hmm...I remember this same logic being used before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNqozQ8uaV8

Just because someone else would steel it, does not mean it belongs to you. What is this...kindergarten level morality.
If you look at some polls MLK was seemingly hated more universally in his time than BLM is today.

Many of the attacks are the same, but today there's an odd rhetoric that attacks what BLM does with an imaginary myth that protests during MLK's time were wholly peaceful (they weren't, and were also derided due to violence at the time).
> Imagine different websites for whites and blacks.

They exist. Try going on a public platform, such as a gaming platform, and identifying yourself as black. Look at all the most popular people on TikTok, Twitch, etc.
I'd love to see Netflix make knockoffs of popular back catalog shows that are just different enough to get away with it. 3-camera sitcoms with no-name actors should be pretty cheap to produce, and one of the shows could end up being ironically good, and one might be genuinely good.
I think it's well past time to make reverse-osmosis filters standard equipment for every residential kitchen sink. Water pollution is bad and we should still try to prevent it, but, given the actual rates of water pollution observed, the cost-benefit is completely overwhelming.
You’re mixing cause and effect. They became billionaires in large part because of their work ethic.
The horror of someone getting a worse life because they improperly evaluated downside risk.
Come play my version of the popular Wordle word game
Well we can calculate the touch point for one sphere, and we know that it would overlap that sphere if it was radius sqrt(D).

And all the other spheres are simple symmetrical mirrors, so how could it not touch all of them at the same time it touches one? That should scale to an arbitrary number of dimensions, right?
Although MLK is typically taught today as a Great Orator, his gifts as an organizer, social critic, and leader were probably more important to the long-term trajectory of the civil rights movement. Which is saying something, since he was an exceptionally effective orator.

If you're curious, the first portion of his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" is essentially a case study in organizing and guiding a disparate social movement.
For example:

The Mahalanobis distance is a measure of the distance between a point P and a distribution D, introduced by P. C. Mahalanobis in 1936. It is a multi-dimensional generalization of the idea of measuring how many standard deviations away P is from the mean of D. This distance is zero for P at the mean of D and grows as P moves away from the mean along each principal component axis. If each of these axes is re-scaled to have unit variance, then the Mahalanobis distance corresponds to standard Euclidean distance in the transformed space. The Mahalanobis distance is thus unitless, scale-invariant, and takes into account the correlations of the data set.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalanobis_distance
Anecdotally it reduced my willingness to work. I just watch youtube, use blender, program random things, play video games, etc with all of my free time. There are plenty of fun ways I can spend my time.
Google promotes engineers into leadership though. If you look through the board of Google, especially people who have titles like "Head of Customer Success"[1], you usually see they came up from engineering jobs. Google is not a company full of MBAs and pointy-haired bosses. These are decisions made by engineers (or at least former engineers I guess).

Also, it's decidedly unreasonable to assume the leadership at Google are clueless idiots ordering helpless engineers around. There are many layers of management and engineering, and all of them have to come together to get stuff done. At any point people at every level of the org could influence the direction of things like customer success around simple things like an error page. We're not talking about the long term strategy of the whole business that's decided at a board level here.

[1] Slightly unfair to link to someone, but here's an example: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/markpidgeon
To me the biggest difference between Rust and Zig in practical terms is that Zig does not offer statically safe resource management like Rust does, and as far as I know they have no intentions of doing so in the future because they think it’s less important than all this stuff about control flow. There are a lot of interesting ideas in the language but my disagreement with them on this issue is so fundamental that I don’t feel compelled to investigate it further.

Nonetheless I had gotten the impression from many posts on here before that Zig was a lot closer to finished than it really is, it seems like they’re not quite half way to something as polished as Rust 1.0. It is probably unfair to judge the language against Rust in its current state. Hopefully in a few years they will have figured out the memory safety problems and the stdlib documentation will stabilize more.
> I thought the author had lost his mind

Quite possible. This was a journey! https://tripleodeon.com/2022/01/software-without-compromise/

When I first started thinking about this project, classes still meant a bunch of transpilation overhead (which dates the origin story!). I persuaded myself that plain old objects with TypeScript interfaces would strike a better balance between performance, size, and developer experience.

So I ended up with a pattern like:

const longMethod1 = () => {...};
const longMethod2 = () => {...};
return {longMethod1, longMethod2};

These 'methods' can still call each other by name, and it minifies like a champ.
He'd be in what capitalists like to call a "quantitative supercommission."
Do dimensions even really exist?
Avoiding a particular job is not the same as sitting around doing nothing. It's quite possible for you to get basic income, yet channel your energy to other productive things.
> We got people to do a task on a computer,’ says De Kwaadsteniet. ‘In multiple rounds, which represented the months they had to work, they did a boring task in which they had to put points on a bar. The more of these they did, the more money they earned.

I find it hilarious that they think they can reach the conclusion they did based on that description of the experiment.
You need to set your UI language to get access to more subtitles in Netflix. My wife is Thai and Thai subtitles only show when the UI is set to Thai.

Prime is worse. I actually watched the movie The Courier with English subtitles on and the subtitles disappeared for all of the Russian dialogue.
Scott Forstall was fired for the Apple Maps mess up. He championed good designs like this. When he left it was a race to the bottom at Apple for their UI/UX.
Cool! My new year resolution is to not buy more games while I have other uncompleted or not started ones but I have bookmarked that game for when I start buying games again.
To be fair, it was in response to an assertion with no evidence.