skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we could quibble over details such as that people in some of the studies did quit their jobs, or whether UBI is actually a very conservative and capitalist concept, and so forth... but ...

Since HN discussions tend to be short and fleeting; I think the point to focus down on would be "free time". Just because you take (some of the) money out of the picture, doesn't mean that there still isn't a lot of work to be done. And it doesn't mean that all the other motivators to do that work aren't still present.

Instead of or in addition to money: people work for power, prestige, recognition; but also for love, honor, duty, "FOR SCIENCE", beauty, tradition, for personal satisfaction&improvement, and many other reasons.

With all these different reasons to want to work, and all kinds of different people and professions, (eg. politicians, artists, homemakers, soldiers, police officers, doctors, nurses, scientists, students, artists ), you might imagine that taking money off the table might not actually have such an influence on these people's desire to work.

If you think back, surely you'll recognize these motivations showing up everywhere; including in stories, newspapers, citations, history books, holy books, and surely even scientific studies. They're all part of the human condition, after all.

The examples you give of farming, construction, hospitality and retail are often mixed motivation. Some people (like you?) only work in those jobs because they need the money. And without further motivation, then surely one won't like the work.

But many people who work in these sectors actually do so because they believe in their job, because they want to build something, and/or because they see it is valued and helps the community. When they are down and demotivated, this is where they draw their strength to carry on.

This is especially true in SME's, which is where I've had a lot of my experiences.
Lots of focus on the step count while IMT/IMST breathing muscle training seems much more convincing (for the young and healthy as well as for the frail):

"5-minute breathing exercise lowers blood pressure better than working out, medication"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27747943

"Thanks HN: For Me, Breathing exercise for High Blood Pressure is Working"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27980060
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I've been using this typeface lately, and it's fantastic. Well done!

https://jetbrains.com/mono
I wonder if Trilium Notes and the journal functionality would address your needs. You can use tags and backlink to other related notes if you wanted to. You can view notes in a standard hierarchy structure or view a note map.

You can take it a step further if that doesn't completely address your needs by customizing it. The journal button is just a note with a script (with a specific tag). It's highly customizable.

You can export your notes (all, or get granular with some or a single note) as HTML or Markdown or OPML.
DynamoDB is like S3 but with query features. It is not a relational db. It is a document storage. So you need to use it for what it is.

Our entire solution is basically based on top of lambda and dynamodb tables and it works really as long as you don't threat the tables like SQL.
I would imagine such aggressive measures would occur first in a certain other countries before it happens in the West - if it ever does.

I would also not be surprised if the West would implicitly chooses to implode first before sacrificing an iota of "freedom and individuality". As the saying goes, "give me liberty or give me death", or that famous Benjamin Franklin quote about trading freedom for security.
I agree man, the lame banality of pop music is deafening. Songs are produced the same way, use the same build and drop structure and sound the same. Triplets and shitty bass.

Forget complexity or originality, just use the same patterns as the last 10 years.

Modern production can be good some people pull it off, but not without singers who sing in a similar cadence and timbre. People who want to sound like someone else rather than being influenced by other people's sounds.

Out with the new back to tye new-old?
Will highlight from your comments that alcohol consumption appeared to be more of a scourge before the internet. Before the world of personal leisure opened up, and after the creation of disconnected suburbia, I would guess drinking at the bar with workmates was a common extracurricular.
According to Wikipedia, modern industrial production is actually mainly by bacterial fermentation (perhaps because the earlier method produced hydrogen chloride), and it sounds probably doable:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jgam1955/3/3/3_3_193/_p...

Hard if you want to optimise yield (as you would industrially), but seems not so hard to happen across a yeast strain that will produce some glutamate.
> It’s arriving to some sort of truth about something, an event or experience without using any type of analytic reasoning

Intuition is analytic reasoning (and inductive as well) on steroids, but also done subconsciously, that's why it seems mysterious for some. A simple example is the moment of every episode of House M.D. when the actual answer comes: it's not magic, it's the brain continually re-examining information (analytic) and building models (mostly inductive) in the background.

Also, that site is two articles away from claiming the Earth is actually flat.
Those that don't trust the tool move their mail themselves I guess.

Things will probably get better as more providers have support for OAUTH2.

But still you allow someone else to see your mail.

Best case is that the destination provider have support for the migration such that you can import directly in your new mail.

Or IMAP support inside the browser!
This is me with a carefully curated set of RSS feeds and podcasts. It's not all monocles and self-described thinkers, but it does trend toward more contemplation and less scrollbait. I found I got more out of people who read the books and thought about them than from reading the books myself.
If you want to limit yourself to the polar vortex phenomenon, then you really just need to look at historical weather data. To claim that it is happening more frequently, you don't have to completely understand it, just observe the occurrence.

In the central US, winter temperature is highly dependent on wind direction and strength. We've been measuring that for a very long time. The polar vortex is very distinct. Strong winds from the north cause a temperature drop of 30+ degrees basically overnight. It stays like that for a few days to a week, and then goes away. The day/night temperature differential is much smaller.

Anecdotally, people in the upper midwest will tell you this happens more frequently than it used to. Perhaps 3 out of every 5 years, maybe? Honestly, do we need to get more scientific than that? No, seriously - do we?

This is why it matters: here in the northern parts of the US, we can handle it pretty well. It's within the operating range of our infrastructure. We have modern clothing. We have modern forecasting. When it happens, it doesn't last that long, and we move on.

What doesn't seem to get talked about is this: if you consider distance from the arctic circle, the polar vortex that froze Texas only went a few percent further south than the ones now happen almost every year. A few percent. To my dear friends in Texas: just spend the money to winterize and then get on with your lives. It's not that much money - you can afford it.

Honestly, this just reminds me of the mindset differences between the chemical companies and gas companies in Texas. All those chemical plants that surround Houston are giant rats nests of pipes because the chemical companies won't waste a drop of anything they can sell. They pull in chemical engineers from all over the country to come find ways to turn a waste product into a revenue stream. The gas companies, however, have their heads so far up their rear ends that they'd rather flare off their waste from gas pumps than bring an outsider in to help make money off it. You practically need to have been born into a gas family to work in that industry. Whatever, what I really mean is that winterization has a positive ROI, but good luck getting a gas person to see that.
Your comment was a shallow dismissal. Please don't post those.
While we regularly discuss this as a team, it was not documented. You are right that it should be so I opened an MR (which also links back to and quotes your comment): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_request...

Thanks for the great feedback.
Tesla does not market their software as "full self-driving". They are saying that the software will be FSD in the future.

The words from Elon's mouth make a clear separation between Autopilot as a driver assist system, and FSD as autonomy.

Furthermore, Autopilot constantly reminds you while driving. There is zero confusion.
But is this actually a new distro?
Take a look at their product page: https://www.suse.com/products/suse-liberty-linux/
Besides the name, it reads like a support offering paired with patching/automation tooling. Also, doesn't this offering prove there isn't vendor lock-in? Sounds like marketing FUD.
> their idea that they are entitled to not pay Sonos for their technology

Might want to research that one. Sonos “technology” here is the idea that multiple speakers can be adjusted by one knob… but the knob happens to be software.
It's still a marriage.
I hope it is never worthwhile to automate a blackstart. Some parts of it maybe, but this should be a rare event that isn't worth the cost.

I'm not sure how you would test your automation even if you tried.
Except the purchase page clearly state that autonomous features are not avaiable today, and the car itself constantly reminds you to be in control.

Also, Autopilot on Wikipedia: "An autopilot is a system used to control the path of an aircraft, car, marine craft or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator. Autopilots do not replace human operators. Instead, the autopilot assists the operator's control of the vehicle, allowing the operator to focus on broader aspects of operations (for example, monitoring the trajectory, weather and on-board systems)."

Again: "Autopilots do not replace human operators. Instead, the autopilot assists the operator's control of the vehicle"
Uninterrupted silence is the biggest obstacle for many of us.
This is the root of the problem. They saw Harrison Bergeron as a roadmap, not as a cautionary tale
What do you do when you have to pee?
Out of interest where do you put your hands if not on the wheel? There's always going to be latency if you need to take evasive action and your body isn't immediately ready to react.
(2007) and images aren't loading for me (probably because of [1]), but still ...

[1]: https://norman.walsh.name/
It's frustrating, the number of recruiters who don't provide the job description and compensation - even when directly asked for them.

I keep "Can you please send me the job description and pay rate, so I can let you know if I'm interested?" in a text file, so I can easily copy-paste it.

I also created a web page, to send a link to the most annoying recruiters (https://hellotechrecruiters.com/), but haven't used it - yet.
OT: mango is another good topping.
> If we can identify those success factors

I don't have complete answers, but my capstone project in college involved interviewing a handful of people who volunteered in their communities to see if we could come up with some hypotheses about hooks to get more people to engage with their local communities.

My takeaway from the interviews was that people's reasons for volunteering were essentially intrinsic, not extrinsic. One guy had benefited from books donated to his prison so felt he should pay it forward after he was out. A mom volunteered in activities her kids were engaging in. Someone else volunteered as a way of staying socially active. There _were_ clear motivations, but not something you'd likely have much luck leveraging en masse without knowing someone's history and what they personally cared about.

However, you can maybe approach the problem preemptively by creating an environment that creates the sorts of people who will give back to their community (maybe being a good foster parent to a kid who decides it's important to be a good faster parent to someone else). It's not fool proof - even good parents can see their kids go bad - but it's a start.
Do we really want a return of drinking at the bar after work?

I think a lot of social validation once came easy by mere virtue that we lived so closely to one another, and suburbia flipped that on it's head. Once it was the case that social activity required a) transport, b) money, c) time, it has become increasingly devoid from weeknights. We could remedy this by changing physical structures, but we won't.
I have often thought of the western anti-nuclear movement being supported/amplified by Russian/Soviet influence campaigns.
> it just seemed that they are perfectly capable of speaking english but they just don't want to

Due to the similarity of German and English, German speakers can superficially appear far more competent in English than they actually are. (This goes both ways.) Speakers of both languages come to the other with about half of the grammar (including hard bits that usually betray non-natives like irregular verbs by vowel umlaut) and a large collection of basic Germanic roots.

I'm always amused when watching a German film how entire sentences sometimes are decoded by my brain as English, when they're German.

But this completely breaks down once you go beyond "Ich habe all das Bier getrunken". German never got all the French-Latin vocabulary. Most technical and literary terms are completely different. They may feel quite ill-at-ease in English even though they sound reasonably fluent with the basics.
>Intelligence is a precisely defined thing that you can't just attach new dimensions to.

I mean everyone is always arguing about what intelligence is or even means, especially on here, so I find this a very strange thing for you say.
I think advising infection over vaccination to immune naive person is not what should be done, I bet we agree there. Is that your main concern, that this will be twisted to advise immune naive people away from vaccine?

I really just don't see the problem with the comparison because people with vaccine have better rights than those with prior infection and yet here we see its meritless to accuse these people of not pulling their weight (reducing spread and staying out of hospital).

Interestingly there is a comparison of recovered to recovered+vaxxed and the additon of vaxxed really doesn't seem to be improving these important metrics meaningfully. Whether someone may or may not have long covid should have no bearing on their rights.
The “lab leak” theory, “gain-of-function” and “manufactured virus” theory were deliberately conflated by mainstream media to suppress the former two.
There are a lot of good points here, but I think the most important reason is being overlooked: not grokking the needs of the users. In my Fortune 150, all of the internal software is developed by teams of outsourced developers. Whether it's over the wall, or halfway around the world, the effect is the same: the developers don't truly understand how the users will use the software. So it winds up being crap, regardless of how carefully some middle manager -- who also will not use the software -- writes the specs.

I've made a career out of being a mechanical engineer who writes software for other engineers, while being embedded in the group, and not spirited away in some dusty development group in another building or another continent. As an engineer, I understand precisely how the other engineers will be trying to use my software, and it makes for a better overall product. Of course, I'm biased, but I think my software has had much more success than competing projects, because of this. If I had the time, I could name at least 2 large, direct examples where this has proven true, and several more smaller ones.

TL;DR: Programmers need domain-specific understanding of the problem they are trying to solve with the software.
Since our apartment has a weird u-shaped topology I have unmanaged gigabit switches and four Airport Extremes for Wi-Fi (which I got off eBay for standardization, since they’re not being built anymore). Fiber comes into the house and the ISP router gives me 4x1Gb ports where I plug in my “spoke”switches.

2 IPTV set top boxes, a handful of Macs, too many Raspberry Pi’s and ARM dev boards, a NAS, my two Windows work machines, everything hanging off Gigabit or 802.11n.

Zero Wi-Fi meshing, zero remote management, zero hassles.

In fact, I’m starting to worry what I’ll replace this with, since I can’t really find Wi-Fi gear that doesn’t try to provide “added value” by forcing me to use some kind of cloud service.
The driver is still constantly reminded to stay in control, and you even have to agree this to before enabling Autopilot.

Tesla never said Autopilot is autonomous.
The place I went supplied little floating pillows for just this reason. For people that haven't done this, the issue is that you have to tip your head farther back then is comfortable before the water starts supporting it.
I thought this is going to be about dependent types or the `infer` keyword(or any other badly documented feature like the latter).

There are features of the type system you should definitely avoid unless you're writing a library. Enums aren't it.
The TypeScript documentation even states "In modern TypeScript, you may not need an enum when an object with as const could suffice ... The biggest argument in favour of this format over TypeScript’s enum is that it keeps your codebase aligned with the state of JavaScript, and when/if enums are added to JavaScript then you can move to the additional syntax" https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/enums.html#obje...
These are good questions.

The first example I think is same in a Tesla or a Toyota. Still interesting to ponder, I think there is still some ethical questions left.

The second example requires a bit of nuance, I trust the driver to operate a vehicle, not necessarily the vehicle itself. Does my trust extend to their decision whether or not to turn on autopilot? You might argue yes, but you also might not be informed enough to make that decision as a passenger.

The last example assumes the passenger has knowledge of the car and FSD which they may not.
The Trump administration was the best at reducing old laws in a very long time.
when you're finished with your digital media, why hold onto it?

Have you heard of this little site called Spotify? It streams music instead of selling it. It’s pretty obscure, but it’s got a few competitors. Something with the even more absurd name of Youtube Music? They run on a subscription basis, or just throw ads at you if you don’t wanna pay.

There’s a few sites like that for movies and TV shows, too.
As is emacs without the menu, the toolbar, and the scrollbar!
as they are introducing moisture into a loud in theory they could impact where the cloud releases its precipitation. This could be used for great economic gain to increase growing seasons by expanding wet season of an area. But this would be at the cost of surrounding areas that would get that rain instead. For many areas of Australia that get wildfires it might not be initially apparent if altering where it rains but then could have a delayed impact of years before true consequences known so while they should proceed with the research they should be mindful of the side effects.
The roles that I get approached for that pay 200k+ are mostly in Finance (quelle surprise) or DeFi.
I regularly see golang and c++ roles paying 175k+ outside of Finance too though.
Some tech roles typically fall between 120-150k with the odd outlier.
And yet other roles come in at 60-80k.

I'm pretty sure the distribution of salaries are multimodal, even when you discount finance.

Salary aside, IMO the higher paying jobs are also the more attractive ones when it comes to remote work, holiday allowance, and (I suspect) technical maturity.
Is it not just another name for subconscious decision-making?
"The vast majority of fact checking exists to call out stuff that's demonstrably false,"

Prove it, and prove that the underpaid non-specialist moderator who labelled it as such was justified even if they were right.

Facebook is not and can not be an arbiter of truth in the abstract, and in the concrete the specific people doing the work certainly are not. Where are Facebook getting these experts who know so much about all the hot issues of the day? Are they calling Harvard PhDs in to look at this specific post? Are they getting people with decades of experience in the fields to debate and come to consensus about whether or not this post is in the gray area or shading to the white?

Or are the "fact checkers" random shmoes being paid a pittance to do even less due diligence on what is being posted than the person writing the original post, just checking things off a list that probably fits on a handful of sheets of paper? Assuming it even gets that far, of course, because it's probably also largely just an AI.

Fact checking is a marketing term scam. There is no such thing, or at the very least, Facebook moderators staring at things for a few seconds and clicking based on official Facebook dogma isn't it. Facebook moderators are no different than any other random poster on Facebook, they've just got a particular party line to enforce and a special megaphone nobody else gets. That's all it is, a corporation's enforced opinion, not "facts" or "truth". Why should you trust a corporation's official enforced opinion any more just because the corporation found out they can call it a "fact check" and it slips past people's fully-justified cynicism about official corporation enforced opinion?
We have found the vim user...
Or test software that has known vulnerabilities and see if it actually prevents them.
I recently helped with a data recovery effort at our company, where he found(stashed in a warehouse) CDs with the source code to some of our earliest games. Dates on the CDs were around 1994-1998 era. And you know what? Those gold discs are all useless, completely unreadable. You know what still works? Those verbatim blue AZO discs, all of them read just fine 20+ years later. Of course treat it just as an anecdote, who knows what condition those discs were stored in over the last 20+ years, but yeah, all the gold ones we found were dead.
I'm not the person you replied to, but here's an analogy: it's easier to learn how to drive a car with an automatic transmission than a manual one, even though the latter is "more expressive".
Pastries Collapse and Custom Software Projects Fail
The politics around allowing immigration are complex and controversial though. Som e people will fight tooth and nail to prevent more of the "others" from coming into their country. I'm not just referring to the US and Europe.

Look at Japan for example. Immigration has been touted by Western think tanks and pundits as a solution to their demographic problems, but instead they've chosen to go all in on automation and robots to attempt to solve it.

I expect Korea to follow the same path. Probably China too. A lot of East Asian countries that are at the bleeding edge of the demographic bomb place extremely high value on population and cultural homogeneity. The West would probably label that as racism.
Look over here and watch me wave my hand while I say 'platform' over and over.
The amount of dairy and refined dairy products people consume today, like meat, is orders of magnitude bigger than back in the day.
Elizabeth Warren Claps Back at Elon Musk
This meme is so popular because the overwhelming majority of people thinks pineapple on pizza is a disgusting abomination. I empathize with you, it's tough being the contrarian sometimes. I say that as someone who likes the Star Wars prequels :P