skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We call this "systemic financing" and Slovenia has had it since it's independence from Yugoslavia in the 90s.

It's a stupendously bad idea. There are already hints of this:

> Currently at issue are eligibility and the process by which recipients will be selected.

If you allow politics to finance the arts, then soon the only art you have is the one preferred by the ruling politicians.

If your political option is ruling at the moment, this may not seem that bad - as happened in Slovenia, where the "left-ish" options rule for the most part.

The problem is when "the others" take over the government, as has happened in Slovenia. Then, suddenly, everyone looses their funding while it's being redirected to the groups preferred by the new government.
And the longer since the last change, the more dependent everyone is on the "government handout" and the bigger the effect.

> The ministry has said there will be no means test and that the process will be noncompetitive. If the number of applicants exceeds the number of income awards available, selection will be randomized.

You may say, "but the system that they propose solves this problem". Yeah, sure. For now. Soon after implementation, the policitcal debate about "real artist" and "fake artists stealing money" will start, just like the one we have here. Rules will be amended to "stop people from stealing money with fake art" and BAM, you have politically set standards for what constitutes "art".

Don't get me wrong - I'm in the very small minority in Slovenia who does not support the system we have. But this may, or may not, have something to do with the fact that the only financing for arts (and NGOs!) are government grants, so those who do not agree with the system (and the people enforcing it) never even have a chance to get started. The fact that we've not known a different system for generations (since Yugoslavia, being a communist dictatorship, also had "systemic financing") does not help.

Just to add regarding the NGOs I mentioned: officially, 0.6% of the population is employed in the NGO sector. European average is ~6%. But our number includes ALL government established and funded art and science institutions (like museums and the like). We have no NGO sector. Which, by extension, also means we do not have non-establishment politics.

In short: don't do government guided systemic financing. Does not mean it's not a good idea in any form, but please do in a way that the population (via tax credits, tokens etc.) decides who to award the majority of the money to, not the politicians.
That Rumble You Heard Was CF Acquisition Corp. VI Soaring 10% in December
I would restrict the top list to UN member states + a few places that aren't covered by the UN. Scotland and Wales are covered by the UN via the UK, so they shouldn't be listed. Ideally I would have them as separate pages within the UK.
Cool way to fix the global warming problem. Just push the sun away.
I would have thought that creating/adapting a colour scheme is a onetime activity when you start using the editor for your language. Do you update the colour scheme regularly?
Lightspeed has infinite rapidity, so when you add on the rapidity of a bullet you just get lightspeed again
This article is just an example of someone that encountered a problem and didn't do their due diligence of finding the best solution for their use case.

The discussion of building fully static go binaries for docker has been rehashed a million times on the internet, the modernc.org/sqlite is at version 3+, so nothing in this should be new information for anyone that has an interest in the topic.

I strongly dislike this type of content that just repacks basic existing information and uses it as an excuse to click bait people on to a spammy blog.
Corporate lobbying undermined the EU’s push to ban surveillance ads
It’s important that the “angle” isn’t directly the fraction of c, but tanh^-1(v/c). This number is also called “rapidity”, and goes to infinity as v -> c. Yes, hyperbolic angles aren’t limited to [0, 2 pi).

You can’t rotate all the way to lightspeed, that would be rotation by an infinite angle. For any finite angle (i.e. speed below c), you can always add the angle of the bullet to get a new (finite) angle.
There’s an independent appliance store near my house that sells speed queen. I always drool over those!
My experience is that it's not only the usage of annotations, but the way Spring handles/implements those annotations which is confusing.

As an example, Micronaut[1] also uses annotations a lot, but their implementation is a lot easier to reason about, because there is less indirection with proxy objects and other weird stuff that Spring uses.

Micronaut does not implement nearly as many annotations as Spring though, which basically means less functionality pre-built. I'm not sure that's a bad thing, but it could be.

[1] https://micronaut.io/
and the software has 1/10th the capabilities of it's desktop equivalent, and the experience is terrible. HN people commenting here live in a fantasy world
I make it a point to go to the one in DC @ the National Museum of the American Indian every year when I play tourist for a day. Another great resource that I've found on post Eastern Agricultural Complex foodways is Buffalo Bird Woman's book written in 1917, "Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indian". It explains the growing, harvesting, preparation, and storage techniques of their main crops. Very interesting book & I would highly recommend it: https://archive.org/details/agricultureofhid02wils/page/n9/m...
There are some things which are hard to do outside a PhD. I knew that I would be better off working in industry after graduating (though I'm in a country where I earn no where near a FAANG salary) but I still cherish the time I spent doing physics research. The cadence, experience and sense of achievement that a PhD can give are hard to find outside of Academia. That said it's always a bit of luck, I know brilliant people that just had bad luck with their research subject or their advisors, so as always there's no guarantee.

I'm not sure about the $1 Million opportunity cost, do you really need that much money? If you can earn that much in a couple of years you will be extremely well off regardless of whether you do a PhD or not. Certain things in life can be bought with money, but time spent can't be bought back with money. Personally I wouldn't trade my PhD time for money even retroactively. The PhD gave me a chance to live abroad, meet many interesting people and mostly set my own agenda.
Projective geometry should allow for homomorphisms to the euclidean plane, see moebius transform. This creates the literal edge case, but then I don't need to take satelites for an analogy to see that. If I had reason to be afraid of falling of the edge, surely I could reason about circumnavigation as well. I really doubt that this is what flat earthers are worried about.
I don't get this answer.

Publishing your docker image to some open or private store still needs to happen. Then the host needs to be updated. This is not really that much simpler than "scp your binaries to the server". And has many more moving parts that can fail.

Now, there are better ways to distribute go projects than scp, for example heroku style or by just abusing its builtin git support.
This. Go for tethered capture on a pair of old dSLRs and use something like an rPi or just bloody long cables to pull the images to an always-on linux box. Have a look at this to get started -- https://entangle-photo.org/ -- which works with many canon/nikon bodies. There are a few "lithium to power" hacks (e.g. "ONsite Relay A Camera Power System") but they are expensive and often many of the bodies can power themselves over USB. A bigger problem you'll have is condensation and generic detritus if you want to leave it outside unattended.
Yes. To suggest otherwise is to insist that cuisine (or any other tradition) must be somehow frozen at a specific point in history in order to be "authentic".

Even if that is an acceptable assertion, what would be that specific point? Does a British recipe have to predate the Romans to be traditional?
my car might want to connect to traffic signals to get an idea of when they'll be turning green or communicate with the car next to me to let them know I'm changing lanes in front of them
I have been a life long procrastinator, but I did not link it to ADD until recently. When I started hearing more about ADD the symptoms matched up. In the past procrastination was identified only as a moral failing that could be fixed by identifying the correct process. Now it is looked at as a probable symptom of a disorder, which can be helped with behavioral therapy and/or medication.
That entire reply is totally devoid of any substance whatsoever. I assume you're not planning to provide any reputable source, just keep repeating your own authoritative assertion like your last sentence?

> It's undeniable that the West has massively moved toward a more social democratic economic model.

If it's undeniable, you shouldn't be the only one claiming this. Not even conservatives (in Europe at least) are saying this, even though it would be mana from heaven for them if it was true.
You can look up ground temperature for your location here - https://weatherdownloader.oikolab.com/downloader.

Layer 4 is between 1m to 3m depth beneath the surface.
Leaving the strategic timing of identity politics out of this, do you in principle agree that this type of backlash is a sign of the need for some form of "woke activism" so the idea of gender equality, trans right, minority rights etc isn't met with what are effectively temper tantrums (without meaning this dismissively if you can believe it, simply as a coding of "emotionally driven, self destructive acts")? Because I'm inclined to put at least some of the responsibility for getting Trump elected on those who vote for Trump when faced with a view they don't like. Last sentence emphasis: this is not about the strategic timing of when and how, just about the acknowledgement that "you should stop asking for these political goals otherwise I'll vote for trump again" is not something a respected person for whom identity politics isn't required would be facing
If only we didn't have a prime minister trying the same thing...
Do you live in a tree?
In a First, an ‘Atomic Fountain’ Has Measured the Curvature of Spacetime
Dr. King's Error (1967)
And push back against ugly cultural practices otherwise prescribed like circumcision.
This would be more fun in a blog post. Twitter is a fucking horrible format for a complex analysis of special relativity.

That aside, my favourite quirk from relativity is this:

"The more you move in space, the less you move in time."

Like relativity in general, it sounds simple enough, but it's consequences are profoundly shocking. (That is, if you take the time to understand it, and don't leap to the conclusion that you know relativity better than Einstein or Penrose ;)

Take the case of two people on Earth, one stationary and one travelling past in a car. They each have a different reference frame, and a different set events which make up their present. Now imagine that there is an alien government in Andromeda debating a possible invasion of Earth. In the reference frame of the person on Earth who is moving, the debate is still going on. But, in the reference frame of the stationary person, it is a day or so later in Andromeda, and the invasion fleet is already on it's way! In nature there is no absolute reference frame we can call base reality, and both observers reference frames are equally valid. Then the outcome of the invasion debate is a foregone conclusion. How can there be any room for free will in the deliberations of the alien government? This is the crux of the Andromeda Paradox and the Reitdijk-Putnam-Penrose argument.

BTW:

"Notice that neither observer can actually "see" what is happening in Andromeda, because light from Andromeda (and the hypothetical alien fleet) will take 2.5 million years to reach Earth. The argument is not about what can be "seen"; it is purely about what events different observers consider to occur in the present moment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietdijk%E2%80%93Putnam_argume...

More info
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity

Edit: If you know of any serious alternatives to the 4D spacetime/ block universe theory then I would love to read it. Rescuing free-will from the jaws of spacetime would be cool!
Several of those groups have much stronger lobbies in Ireland than artists do, I would argue.

Live music and theatres in particular have been almost totally shut down here since March 2020. I'm struggling to think of any other sector that has been so badly hit during the pandemic.
I think this is actually a natural market cycle you see across all industries.

New entrant offers incredible product or service, customers rejoice.

Competing products, pale. De facto monopoly is established.

Time passed, maybe a new board and CEO, maybe not.

The now monopoly starts exploiting their dominant position by charging more for worse quality. For some time the monopoly will act as a moat for this behavior.

Customers no longer like the incumbent and a gap is opened that other companies and startups can attempt to shoot through.

Once one succeeds the cycle starts over.

Since someone pointed out this pattern to me I've tried to notice companies that don't follow it. It seems pretty common. Overall though, products and services in the market are still often good. You just have to be careful to buy them from the company that is still rising rather than the declining monopoly.
Another thing is that people defending a believe don't necessary hold it true deep inside. But it's part of their identity, so they play their role, and defend it.

Once you pick it up, you'll start to notice it for a lot of things: racism/sexism, welcoming immigrants, climate change is a hoax, I'm a busy person, my boss is terrible, I just love to do < hard thing >, capitalism is bad, I'm concerned by the planet...

E.G:

I have a friend who keeps insisting she prefers women, has a lesbian dominated social circle, but mostly have sex with males. She is joining protests for all things hurting migrants, but one was sleeping in a car in our street, and after getting her bike stolen, she decided with no proof he was the culprit and called the cops on him and got him deported.

I know a vegetarian that eats meat when he travels, because nobody can see him.

I had a flatmate who was writing her memoir on the way women were badly treated in India. She eventually dated our Indian other flatmate, and took great care of cleaning his _disgusting_ bedroom and doing his laundry without any reciprocity, for the entire relationship.

I know 2 guys that, if asked, will declare they are for peace and think war lords are a bad thing. I mean, who doesn't ? Both considered working for weapon dealers, one actually accepted, and the main clients are the Emirates.

All those persons are people I love very much: humans are weird creatures, full of contradictions, doing plenty of bad things. I'm sure those flat earthers can be good friends too, maybe even great citizens for some things I'm terrible at.

I'm certainly an asshole competing in several categories, believing idiotic things, pretending to believe others.

I think people who see themselves differently have huge blind spots which help them go on the hate train.

We all suck. Even when taught critical thinking, which I manage to abuse regularly for terrible results.

True, we are not all at the same level on the Gaussian idiocy curve. At least according to ourselves.

Yet, in my experience, education works only if freed from contempt.

So let's have compassion for "stupid people in large numbers."

There are 7 billions of them.
There's also this:

https://www.superhibasicincome.com/

Super hi basic income 1,000 US dollars per month apply by January 21st 2022
The Silent, Vacinated, Impatient Majority
Mainly agree
You must be watching too much Republic TV for that level of delusion.
Didn't Microsoft team up with Ubuntu to offer this to Windows users?

I'm out of the loop and haven't touched windows seriously in years (other than to fix WiFi or printer issues for family. Sigh), so I probably misunderstood this Ubuntu in Windows completely.
What about versioning/historical data?
Would be interesting as well and with daily checks this should be possible in a fine grained way
We need to prepare to fight the Net Zero culture war
I used to love reading the Fake Steve Jobs blog back in 2009/2010. He was mercilessly funny when discussing the OLPC project: https://www.fakesteve.net/tag/olpc
You need to be careful with this though. I don't fully understand the reasons, but you have to consider bending of the light. See the wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Level_experiment

I haven't done the experiment, but this brings it back to trusting scientists (light bends just above the water, but doesn't 4m above the water). I would need to do additional experiments to understand the refraction.
First I buy a brand with a good reputation. Then I fire all the designers and keep a bare bones staff, including marketing and social media/PR. Then I coast on slowing degrading quality through shrinkage and part swapping. This can last years or decades while I take in the profit from not having staff.

I worked for an enterprise software company that got bought by private equity and did this. 15 years later the company is still running and has been profitable for a long time.
Biomimicry engineering perhaps?
>hot-pluggable PCI-E devices

How is this possible? Hot plug connectors have uneven edge connectors so ground pins contact before signal pins or, at the very least, initialize links with in a high-Z state or have protection diodes. Did PCIe add any of these features?
It’s not all 5g, just a new band. They can figure out the technical issues without putting airliners at risk.
How did you get Kakoune to segfault?
I'm sure you know this already, but sqlite and postgresql are not equivalent, neither in what they offer a user nor in what is required to set them up.
Hey billconan, I'm the author of that post. DVC pipelines are a definition of stages (e.g. extract data, clean, fit, evaluate and so on...), their inputs, outputs and dependencies. So, not similar to Git hooks, I'm afraid.

DVC provides a command `dvc repro` to actually execute the pipeline definition and doesn't dictate where it's run; so you can decide to run it in your CI environment or pipeline orchestration tool or on GPU-powered hardware.
Here are some of their earlier tweets which explains a bit more what's going on:

> URGENT HELP! @PIRegistry is about to delete our guerrillamail(.)org domain. This is due to a false-positive SURBL listing. The domain does not send any email and is not used in any marketing, ever! It simply receives email and redirects web traffic to our main domain.

https://twitter.com/GuerrillaMail/status/1476564690595889155...

> This is not the first time. We have been going through this a few times this year. We get a threat from @Namecheap's legal department for deletion, we submit a SURBL request to remove.

> However, this time SURBL doesn't even look at our ticket.

https://twitter.com/GuerrillaMail/status/1476564692714004486...

> We really do not want to lose this domain. It's been with us since 2006.

> (We really do not have anything against @namecheap since they are only following procedure. Perhaps somebody with a more direct line with @PIRegistry or somebody at SURBL could look in to this matter?)

https://twitter.com/GuerrillaMail/status/1476564906690646016...
I might be out of the loop, but what is indicating that, this is what actually happened?
> Is that a failure of peer-review though?

It raises questions around using peer-review as a mark of scientific quality. If it is, why does peer reviewed science time and time again turn out to have enormous glaring quality problems?
I was talking about "Gehmu Sentah", aka Game Centers being horrible.

Pachinko is Pachinko, not an arcade. I'd appreciate a less patronising tonality, especially because you are wrong in saying that in Japan, Pachinko and Arcades are seen as even closely related.

May I ask what is your alleged expertise on Japan based on? I lived in the country for several years.
>Welfare traps are a policy feature for company owners who employ a lot of people.

It's simpler than that. There's not even a need to speculate about outside meddling.

No bureaucrat or appointee ever got a promotion or got more resources at their disposal for getting people off of government services and shrinking the relevance of the program. If you start with the program serving 10k people budget negotiations, getting those job reqs, etc, etc. will be harder if the program is so good that next year there's only 9k people on it. There's a massive incentive to just not give a shit about giving people a bridge to actually get off of welfare because why would any organization actively give a shit about creating a pathway toward making itself less relevant.
What I don't like about this argument is that it assumes the sun is very far away, which I've heard flat-earthers claim it isn't.
Austr as in East Rome, I imagine, which is all much closer to the cradle of Christianity than, say, x-mas, as I understand it
Maybe an artist’s output might be tainted and diminished by having to worry about money, and someone in a secure financial situation may produce qualitatively different art? Pure speculation, obviously.
I would want UBI combined with a marginal tax rate that is much more constant as a function of income.

Current welfare systems, if you plot the effective marginal tax rate as a function of gross income (i.e. if you earn one more dollar, what percentage of that dollar does your net income increase including all government systems), have by far the highest marginal rates for the lower incomes. With the marginal tax-rate actually generally decreasing as your income increases. Notably in some broken systems (like the Dutch one) there can be cases where your marginal tax rate is above 100%.

Note that the tax burden ratio [(gross income - net income) / gross income] as well as the actual tax burden [gross income - net income] still increases with as gross income increases. If you graph the tax burden as a function of gross income, then the marginal tax rate is essentially the slope of this plot.

Importantly, it is the marginal tax-rate that affects a rational actor looking to weigh whether it is worth it work harder to earn more money. Hence very high marginal tax rates are very discouraging to working more / harder / trying to become more productive.
> the consistent dearth of electrical outlets

In France, it was the case in old houses.

On new constructions, a minimum number of outlets is required (3 per bedroom, 5 to 7 in the living room, 4 in the kitchen, 1 in every other room). This is in addition to dedicated circuits (washing machine, oven, dishwasher, heating, lighting...) which may have their own outlets. RJ-45 networking is also required (1 per room) but unfortunately, it is often designed poorly and barely usable except for a phone landline.

These are minimums. And it is typically what you get in standard apartment buildings. But you can have more. I have about double. A friend of mine has an outlet every 50cm!
> universal basic income for artists

How can something that only a single occupation receives, at random, be called "universal"? Do words even mean anything anymore?

We know what it means. Ireland will suddenly have a lot of "artists".

Also, who is going to decide what is and what is not art?

> selection will be randomized

Now I'm confused, do you mean artists should be counting on luck to be paid? Isn't that what they have already been doing?

How is something that depends on luck called basic?

Do words even mean anything anymore?

While you are at it, can you buy lotto tickets for the homeless? Because that will solve the problem.

Ireland, you are doing it wrong...
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