skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is you can gain employment as a:

health workers, delivery people, drivers, employees in supermarkets, cleaners, constructions workers

But you can't really get employed or have a regular income as an artist (well you can but it's quite difficult).

I think a good comparison might be home carers or stay at home parents. Very hard to have a regular income from these also
I think this is perfectly fine for TSMC if they invest into these moonshot projects. They certainly have the means!
It's the game industry way. Diversity this, inclusiveness that, but when you want to go on holiday for Orthodox Easter instead of Catholic Easter, we have a problem. And you realize it's all pandering and saving face in front of the public.
What does ESL mean in this context? Google isn't particularly helpful on this one.
How often does a new James Joyce arise out of government subsidies?

We spend much more money on art than in 1920, yet the art quality does not seem to have improved proportionately, indeed it possibly went down. That might or might not be causal (possibly talented people do not choose to be artists anymore), but it is still worrying.

There is a lot of gatekeeping around art and professionals tend to declare opinions of amateurs for null and void, but as a reader I still miss a new Oscar Wilde.
If their skills aren't marketable in free market, why should other people subsidise them? I would much rather the money to be spend on something actually productive or physical. And not wasted entirely on art...
> Official UK data shows approximately equal rates of death between vaccinated and unvaccinated.

No, the UK data does not show this.
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Downvoted because you know OP meant "no _affordable_ manual car washes", so why did you have to make a bad faith interpretation?
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The Unbearable Lightness of Java - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20063945 - May 2019 (6 comments)

Jodd – The Unbearable Lightness of Java - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9278704 - March 2015 (108 comments)

Java lightweight framework - jodd - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4084498 - June 2012 (33 comments)
That makes sense. I followed the emulator scene for a while and had never heard of this one until a recent article somewhere. Or maybe I just forgot about it?

Either way, bsnes meets all of my needs. I have no nostalgia towards an emulator that I have never used previously, and I can count SNESticle among the emulators that I have never used.
Why artists and not open source developers? Arguably FOSS devs create far more value for society than some dingus painting stuff with his butt cheeks.
There's also a lot of gymnastics involved in order to count all these covid deaths, and a constant withholding of actual absolute death counts.

Most serious illnesses will compromise the immune system. A compromised immune system will make you more vulnerable to any infection. So the most common and most spread infection will then also naturally be the most common one to trigger death.

If someone has aids, which is a decease that compromises the immune system, and then dies from pneumonia. Did they die from pneumonia or aids?
Is it right to call this UBI? In Norway we have supported artists economically since at least the mid 1800s. Playwrights like Henrik Ibsen got paid by the government after decisions by the Parliament.

This is payment for contributing specifically to the cultural enrichment of the country while UBI as a system has no strings attached.
That part wasn't really obvious, even with context!

Though I'd say that a big reason for that is because very few companies even had a backend 20 years ago compared to today. The ones which did are likely not really consumer oriented, but if you ask medical companies (EMRs), governments, and insurance companies, I'm sure it's not too uncommon to use applications which have codebases that are from before 2002.

Also, 10-20 years from now, I'm sure it will be quite common for companies to have backend services code which are 20 years old. There are still a lot of companies having Java 7 and earlier in production, and that's 11+ years now.

But I agree with what you're saying, it's much easier to get rid of code vs. data, and data is also a lot more valuable!
Combining a timer wither a calendar sounds like an interesting idea! For almost ten years, I've been using my own app for a similar purpose (tracking work productivity and video games), basically a to do list with timer, plus basic filtration to analyze the data. The app is here: https://github.com/Klaster1/timer-5 .
I was part of the Flat Earthers' group in my previous job and used to participate in Flat Earth internet forums.

99.99% of Flat Earthers are internet trolls that succeeded in creating a moral panic similar to Momo or the Blue Whale Challenge. The rest are legitimately insane people that don't normally participate in society.

The thing that worries me about society is the amount of people that believe Flat Earthers are real.
That's shocking to me. Ctrl-D in visual studio code and alt-J in jetbrains are some of my most used key combinations. Even alt-click in visual studio code is sometimes extremely useful. It's like the ability to record and play back a macro multiple times, except you do it interactively and can see / fix / add things as you go.
Yeah having different rules for retrofitting is understandable (Although it would be good if those who retrofit were at least required to improve the status quo of the building, if not required to bring up to the standard of new building).

But what blocks the code from saying e.g. U=1.2 for new construction which is a normal (and honestly pretty cheap) triple glass window?
Hong Kong will cull thousands of hamsters after Covid cases in a pet shop
Heh, small world. I met Markus Deserno when I was visiting MPI-P for a few weeks some, uh oh, 15(?) years ago, working on coarse grained molecular dynamics for polymer physics. Nice chap.
Probably because there are loved relatives who would be upset if OP didn't go.
"a basic income pilot program that would award SELECTED arts workers €10.50 ($11.90) per hour."

Selected is the key word. I imagine it would be only a handful that are paid to be full time artists, while the remainder might get funding for specific projects or periods of time.
There already are many cryptocurrencies that dont use proof of work. Its first generation, obsolete tech.

Cardano, for example, is 1000 times more energy efficient than Bitcoin

https://adan.eu/en/article/blockchain-protocol-energy-footpr...

And the idea that proof of work can be ok because its done with renewable energy is stupid to me.
That renewable energy could be powering something far more useful.
Half of global cyber defence investment has been in Israel
2,000 hours at 40 hours/week is 50 weeks. As a European, that sounds really really high.

I believe around 1,700 is the real average for all of EU, for instance. That is not enough of course to change the result much (at 1,700 hours they would need €107 or just above four times the earmarked amount), I just wanted to point it out.
Except any mention of her in the right-wing press and online is always designed to make her look entirely incapable. The meme is "she's stupid", not "she's great and capable, but got some maths wrong."

I digress though. The mention of her here perpetuates a lazy stereotype about a politician in a different country. It adds nothing to the discussion and seeks to make a politician of a different country appear stupid.
That was one joke that was blown out of proportion by the media.

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/boston-celtics/kyrie-irving...
The problem with 3D reconstruction being difficult has nothing to do with wether devices are regulated ornot.

Also,noone is stopping you from making a DIY ultrasound and selling it to enthusiasts.
That you can't lie to potential employers?
This is the correct answer. Doing a PhD is about learning how to do solid research, and become a person who can do good research independently.

If you're doing it for any other reason then you're likely going to have a bad time or be disappointed
That’s why I like effective altruism: there’s a lot to be criticised on a purely utilitarian view of help, metrics are often wrong and all that, but any form of self-criticism is such a step-up from the usual white-saviour complex. "We stop this unless we reach that goal" feels horrifying to people on the ground who can’t accept why beneficiaries would be punished, until they realise that, no: you are taking away an unhelpful service. Potentially better options now have a budget. It’s messy and goes in circles but at least it doesn’t stay someone ineffective.
I added an option for that.
> @SpringBootTest

Oh what do you know, yet another annotation...

I'm literally looking at the docs for @SpringBootTest

```
@SpringBootTest
public class SmokeTest {

@Autowired
private HomeController controller;

@Test
public void contextLoads() throws Exception {
...
}

}
```

This is case in point of what I'm saying - I highly doubt this actually spins up a full fledged app.

+ where is the controller coming from? It's not instantiated anywhere. What about it's dependencies? If I add one, this test will still compile, when in reality, the tests will all fail. (or at least, you would imagine most would) This field autoinjection approach encourages adding arbitrary dependencies with zero thought to anything - who cares, everything will just compile anyway. Meanwhile, a sane framework would force you to send in dependencies, forcing you to be smart about how to structure things and not compiling if you add a dependency to a controller but not to its test.

Also, what does @SpringBootTest actually do? How does it work? What if I need to do <anything that doesn't align with the simplest use case that the Spring devs cater to>? Who knows! "Just add the annotation, it's easy!" (but not simple - it's extremely, and extremely needlessly, complex)

> You can use whichever

Yes, and that is wrong. Even Spring devs themselves are now trying to put the field injection cat into the bag in favor of the correct constructor injection approach. They're not succeeding.

> Not at all

You say it's not wrong not to use Spring and... go on to say it's wrong to use anything but Spring. Classic Spring dev mentality, and completely disingenuously portraying things as if other frameworks like eg DropWizard isn't constituted of well maintained, well documented components. In reality, unlike Spring, frameworks like DropWizard are a collection of some of the best tools for each job, and it's both simple and easy, whereas Spring is just Spring, Spring and more Spring, and while it's easy, it's not simple- there's a lot of magic.

Anyway, we're not going to agree, and as I said, very close to 100% of Java devs and Java shops are 100% committed to Spring, so you win.

I'm just glad throughout my career I've found a few orgs who have been through the Spring grinder and realized the emperor really does have no clothes and have been open minded enough to look outside of the Spring bubble and try something else.
Thanks to your post, I just discovered that something I always requested my grandmother to make was called "frybread".

Here in Argentina we call it "tortas fritas", and it's been consumed since forever here and in Chile, where it's known as "sopaipillas". I don't know about countries to the north, but if it's on the other hemisphere, it would make sense it's known throughout the entire American continent.
I was afraid of this, governments will get rid of U in UBI to use it as a controller.
yeah, simply put "repeat after me" is no comparison to talking to a learned elder...

Fed up of most of the problems in the west having been preventable had we actually invested in the education and public health systems about 30 years ago and didn't let certain groups become so disenfranchised as to become pointlessly political.
(I understand why schools did, they thought they'd get treated better by a left-wing political parties, but in reality other than platitudes they're not really any better off)
I'm moving to Ireland and becoming an artist
You are right, I am being a bit emotional about this topic recently. I am reading that Postgres is a most popular database today and I can't beleive it is so immature in critical points.

I see a recommendation of using pgbouncer almost on every tutorial and how-to and feel it is really a vital point. As a newbie user I want to be on a safe side with that. Also, heavily concurrent app architecture, even with connection pooling, may easily produce tens of connections with moderate load and jump to hundreds during peaks. I know from the experience that API users tend not to think about load they create on the other side, just hacking together series of wrapped calls.

Can you elaborate on "countless postmortems", please? On my work we recently had a 12 hours downtime on one of our 20 Mongo databases, but it was caused by a mistake during recovery from storage overflow. I will give a credit to Postgres here, by the way: on disk with 0 bytes free it still works in read-only mode.
Weird that you got downvotes by saying what's widely know in the field of UBI. Almost any UBI proposal includes the slash of all other programs.

The main strenght of the UBI is that it simplifies the bureaucracy: in theory, you just give everyone an income that should cover health insurance, education when needed, food, housing... so if anyone prefers to spend the money on drugs and hookers is up to him: the society already provided with everything he needed. The key is that you can live with the UBI, and if you want recreational drugs you have to find a job for the extra money or sacrifice some of the basics.

UBI + lots of other welfare programs makes little sense.
That's a terrible way to implement UBI. It causes the dreaded welfare trap where people are incentivized to do nothing. UBI should be unconditional. This makes it much easier to implement, removes the stigma, and most importantly avoids the welfare trap. You want people who rely on welfare to be encouraged to become self sufficient, not trap them in dependence.
Earth's interior may be cooling down faster than we thought
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances [...] They're too common to be interesting."

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes and no, for example Morrowind on the Xbox used a trick where it would silently reboot your console at loading screens to free up memory, and the console would boot directly into the game. https://kotaku.com/morrowind-completely-rebooted-your-xbox-d...

You could certainly still say that the 'game ran under the OS' in this case since the kernel and drivers were underneath it, but I think it's fair to consider that a different beast from more modern consoles that have a full OS available underneath that you can summon with the home button and does things in the background like maintain a persistent network connection, do background downloads, etc.
No, it was Townsend's, the one cited in OP too https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/qvl4xd/bobby_kotick_ac... She later left / was made to left the company
If the vessel was started at day, the earth was also pushed away from the sun
Probably because of all the crypto Jews.
Because if the only culture you have is the marketable one it will be McDonalds, Disney and Marvel
You might be interested in the concept of "duality" often used in e.g. theoretical physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality_(mathematics)

If you want to be even more general, check out a field of mathematics called category theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory). Its' central idea is to describe mathematical structures in terms of "objects" and their relationship with each other (called morphisms). I'm not extremely knowledgeful in this subject, but I believe mostly everything you get out of categorical theoretical treatment is too generic to be useful, but has resulted in some real results in e.g. algebraic geometry.
People doesn't give the massive importance the isolation has. Some years ago we remodelled our home and added XPS (Extruded Polystyrene) to insulate the roof of the house. After that we use the AC only three or four days in the year, and before that we had to use it at least a complete summer month. That house is in the south-interior of Spain, so heat is no joke here.

If somebody are constructing or remodelling any house I recommend it to add any insulation they can in any shape, in less than five years you'll recover what you spend, and if you add PV panels for electricity or a thermosiphonic system to heat water, you'll recover the investment in about 10 years, with a healthy amount of available health in the devices to continue saving money with a proper maintenance.
So, we have degrading social nets, public education and public health. But we should fund people for "doing what they love" because it has "positive externalities" (left undefined).

I am a doctor and I hate it. Please fund my passion, so I can stop doing that and bring positive externalities to society.
I’m not sure it’s that innovative but thank you!
Haven't tried it yet, but this looks pretty spot on: https://github.com/gpotter2/sketchviz
Why does the city/country not invest that money in affordable housing first?

Handing out a few bucks to artists will not fix the main issues of why artists and all low wage workers can't survive anymore in today's cities, namely, unaffordable housing.

Europe's biggest cultural centers (London, Paris, Amsterdam, etc.) have turned into the playground of foreign billionaires, real estate speculators and >six-figure income law-, management-consulting-, finance- and tech- bros, with rents skyrocketing, so how are artists or anyone else low on funds supposed to survive in these environments?

This artist-grant money will not fix the core issue as it's like trying to stop a flood with a paper tissue.
> Instead, it’s going to look like traditional ingredients prepared with modern American and occasionally modern Mexican cooking techniques. Without knowledge of the history, that seems like it’s “inauthentic” or “westernized”, but really it’s all we’ve got.

mixing up and confusing south-of-the-border indigenous culture with 'hispanic' and north-of-the-border indigenous culture as 'native american' probably doesn't help this much, dishes aside
> ...but your point is weirdly defensive of anti-vax beliefs as well...

If this is accepted as an appropriate way of dealing with no-vaxers then the entire intellectual edifice of state-sponsored healthcare is at risk. You'll probably see some superficially surprising positions where (1) anti-vaccers are human scum willingly endangering us all and (2) it is necessary that we offer them high quality medical treatment. Note that it is a reasonable and consistent worldview, although probably not the intuitive one to someone who doesn't hold it.

I'm all for the idea, personally. People should pay their own medical costs. But it isn't a universally tolerable solution for how to handle the vaccine resistant (especially in the medical community, I assume).
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I think this is a similar dialogue to when twitter was up and coming. TikTok has also already raised their length limit a la twitter. Once VR/AR becomes popular we will probably have a corresponding short form viral media platform. And so forth and so on.
Tonga could be cut off for weeks amid efforts to repair undersea comms cable
Welfare traps are a policy feature for company owners who employ a lot of people. It's a strong disincentive for employees who are trapped to ask for a raise.

Nonetheless when they appear their presence is typically (naively) chalked up to simple incompetence.
> 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.

Many artists that are highly valued today weren't in their times, with many dying destitute or never selling anything of note. Current valuation isn't a predictor on later appreciation.
I didn't quite understand this part: "The committee’s top recommendation was the creation of a basic income pilot program that would award selected arts workers €10.50 ($11.90) per hour." They will be payed €10.50 on top of very hour that they work or will they get that money for every hour that they don't work? Do they count artists to work 40 hours per week?
I cannot help but add a reference to a conformal geometric algebra here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_geometric_algebra

Why? Because it describes movement as rotation from the infinitely far away point (a special basis vector there). And "coordinates" there are somewhat self-normalizing, because there is a special basis vector that keeps coordinates' squares.

And, of course, it is investigated as a tool to think about relativistic coordinates, linking my comment to a tweet part that says "wrong tools can obscure things".
FAANG needs to die as an acronym.
>Because if the only culture you have is the marketable one it will be McDonalds, Disney and Marvel

And giving a couple of bucks to individual artist will somehow make them able to go toe-to-toe with the Disney juggernaut how exactly?

If marketability is what's missing, then why not give free airtime to all artists on national radio/TV broadcasters instead, this way the whole county can hear/see them, and then the audience will decide if they like them or not.

You can apply your argument to european SW companies. Because local companies lacked "marketability" we are now all dependent on US tech for everything despite having some local alternatives. However, the governments giving free money to local tech companies (which many received through various EU grants) wouldn't have improved the outcome much as the customers voted with their wallets (or with their private data) to use those US tech products and not local alternatives (like how many now use iPhones and not Nokias, Blackberrys or Ericssons).

I feel it's the same with art. Consumers will vote with their wallet or their attention and consume content that they enjoy or gives them dopamine hits regardless of its origin or financial backing. So if no consumers and no patrons like your art, why should the government just give you free money except for reasons of national pride and sovereignty maybe?