skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't get it. If rich people own land with value X, and you tax it and produce Y amount that gets distributed to everyone, doesn't that Y directly increase the cost of food and shelter or any other thing that the poor people would want to buy?

Moreover, what's to stop rich people from selling their land? Or abandoning it and moving to another country?

UBI doesn't make any sense to me as CONCEPT. Sure you can find some creative ways to raise some money this year and give it to the poor (or everyone), but how do you create a such a system that continues to function over years and decades?

Money that is given to someone just for existing inherently has no value, so it cannot possibly have much purchasing power. The only things it can buy are things that are subsidized by the government anyway and exists already, such as low income housing and food-stamp-eligible food. What I don't understand is that people seem to think UBI would somehow result in a higher standard of living for people who are already in low income housing and on food stamps, and I just can't think of a mechanism for that.
I can assure you that most people do use phone contact lists for their intended purpose. I’m not sure what your comment is trying to get at other than being argumentative for whatever reason.
Yes, you are right in many respects which are already familiar to me and my own long-held feelings about cannabis. Indeed I spent much of my life feeling like its relative benevolence was a reality that I needed to make more people aware of, if only to help destroy my (USA) culture's characterization which is widely employed as an pretext to jail people. At this point there is nothing external that has a strong influence on me either way. I simply am tired of it, and at the same time disturbed by the fact that I seem to have such a hard time controlling the habit.

I do also get 'brain fog' to an extent, but in my case it is far less of an impediment to thinking through abstract problems in depth, it's more that I simply get slower to come to a decision about anything, even simple matters. A compounding effect with ADD perhaps. As with many aspects of my cannabis use (and I suspect it goes this way with many drugs and many people) it seems to naturally enhance some of my specific strengths and also to equally naturally reinforce some of my weaknesses. I was known as a bright but inattentive child from very early on and none of my childhood friends were ever surprised that I grew to love cannabis.

Thank you!
If you presume that hundreds of millions of people have a monolithic "will" i.e. they agree on pretty much every policy decision:

1) you might not need government at all

and

2) you are living in a fantasy world
In what ways is this different and better than DeSo?
Small nitpick but this is a pet peeve of mine :) . The stock market is not zero sum. It grows over time, and there are many situations where people all succeed together. GME specifically is now hanging out at $100 compared to a very flat $5 two years ago.
Frontier bids $2.9B for rival budget airline Spirit
Yeah that's why I threw in "maybe sooner". $25m is a bit arbitrary but is also somewhere around the point at which I'd have to start trying to waste money before I'd risk touching principal. That's "never think about money again, even a little" territory, for me (but then I don't want a yacht or any of that), so at the top end of the range in which I could see myself deciding never to work again.

Also, $7.5m is still low enough to be threatened by healthcare costs and end-of-life care and such (x2 for a couple, plus if a kid gets very sick before they're out, or even after but you don't want them to be ruined by it, et c). Not enough to wipe it out, probably, but enough to diminish it substantially if you get a bad roll of the dice. I wouldn't even need that much to stop having any motivation to try to make more, if I lived somewhere with decent universal healthcare where having your savings eaten by the healthcare/hospice-care industry is practically unheard of.
Hmmm. No. In a "marketplace of ideas," each idea has a price. Some are held dear and others are viewed as worthless. Regardless, each idea is available to you, and to future generations, for consideration. What we see here is not a functioning "marketplace of ideas." Rather, it is the illiberalism of puritan times and other dark ages where certain thoughts and attitudes could not be considered because a faction explicitly removed them from the marketplace.

When reading books like "The Scarlet Letter" way back in my younger days, I always thought of them as being so irrelevant. Unfortunately, I didn't understand they were actually sci-fi novels. My only consolation now is that perhaps a new crop of Americans eventually emerges that views the moral panics of today with as much exasperation and disdain as I viewed the moral panics of the 1600s.
> blacklisted by thousands of country radio stations

I don't think it's the same. DJ's make decisions what to put on air like editors; they express their personal musical and political views, and so does the radio station as a whole. They don't advertise to the listener as if they played all the possible music in the world, but Spotify does. It has curated playlists, of course, but all of it's messaging to the user has an implicit assumption that user will be able to find whatever she wants there, and it won't be expression of Spotify's musical or political views.
Been enjoying The Mad Ned Memo from Ned Utzig lately
Super proud of the AbstractOps team for making entrepreneurship more approachable

OS for Scaling Companies is a ridiculously ambitious vision. If you are an engineer who loves solving complex problems to create a big impact; would love to chat

https://work.abstractops.com/eng
Idk from listening to other people who know him personally, and from listening to 100s of episodes of his podcast, he seems like a great person. Says a lot of stupid shit and has fuck ups, but who doesn't. I don't really think that anyone does or doesn't deserve to have an audience. Also I find the idea that someone "should not have a platform" whatever the fuck that means, because they say stupid shit, to be a very short-sighted approach to the problem of people believing stupid things.

If I were a person who was vaccine-hesitant or straight up didn't want the COVID vaccine for whatever reason, all this talk would just make further entrenched in my beliefs. Which is clearly what is happening.

I also am also very much against calling for people's jobs/livelihoods what have you. Regardless of if I agree/disagree with their positions. I do wish Rogan would have just stayed independent, especially because I listen to far fewer of his podcasts because Spotify is a shit platform. But honestly, who would turn down a multihundred million dollar deal. So whatever, I don't blame him. But clearly he is seeing the repercussions of that.
But the 18-20+ group are still nodes in a complex system that includes others who aren’t so healthy. Our friend teaches an intro to sociology course at university. She also has a child with a chronic disease and an elderly parent whom she cares for. Walking into a lecture hall packed with unvaccinated 18+ students is unnerving, not because of their risk which is negligible but because of the downstream risks that they impose on the system. It’s not unreasonable to consider the risk of others with whom one interacts in reasoning through the decision to get vaccinated or not. Now I have no idea what exactly Rogan said but a categorical “No” is not the response I’d expect from someone who has really thought about the issues. But then again the blurring lines between entertainment and information has its risks.
I think it is safe to assume that Von Braun was never under any illusions as to on what planet his rockets were going to come down and what was going to be the result of that.

So even if Tom Lehrer took some artistic license I think he's on the money.
> To me the quests seem to have some credentials

Like Jordan Peterson rambling about climate change?

> I for one have been curious since the begining why Ivermectine was just banned fast with a smear campaign instead of doing actual trials and showing it doesn't work against Covid.

I you actually cared about that, then you'd know that trials were conducted and the data did not warrant a recommendation. For example, early results where discussed here in April 2020: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172803/

Sorry but, by insinuating a smear campaign you are now the one who's spreading bullshit.
Moonshot Brands (YC W21) Is Hiring
Unworthy JavaScript Monkey?
All that is cool, but I don't want Signal to advertise my presence to anybody that has my phone number when I first log in after a fresh install.

I have only a handful of people that know and we negotiated that face to face prior, Signal breaks that trust
Washing your hands implies rubbing them together under running water. Definitely not just letting water run over them. So you're going to need some friction to get the area clean. You could just wet some TP and wipe with that, to me that's just as hygienic as a bidet with no wiping, but what do I know.
Seems similar to the incoherent material in doodling, role playing, or dreaming. Humans do a lot of that.
You absolutely can separate the two, and it has nothing to do with colonialism. The reason you can is because in a society where freedom of expression is curtailed, there is (and always will be) a difference between what an authoritarian government declares and the opinions of its people, even if many people agree with the authoritarian government. Only the people that agree will reasonably feel comfortable expressing their opinions.

Where does the idea that "criticism of a government is criticism of its people because a government is made up of its people" logically follow? Is criticism of the American government (which I do regularly) criticism of my own American people? What about North Korea?
What percentage of people do you think are oppressed, censored, and forced then?

The choices of the CCP are their choices by your own admission it can't be all the people.

The people defending the CCP are either:

1) delusional

2) 50 cent shills
What constitutes as an adequate justification for use of an operational definition within a model is subjective indeed. However there is usually a point in the life of a theory where the gathered evidence are sufficient enough that a scientific consensus starts to form that the operational definition is justified. I’m not aware that that has happened in the 40-odd year history of the Big 5 personality theory.

The 5 personality traits may be overarching within the field of psychometrics and they may indeed be useful to describe behavior, however you still need to justify that said behavior is not easier described using different models, and this is where personality psychologists usually fails in justifying their operands.

Works criticizing the model range from using totally different constructs (such as priming, positive reinforcement, universal grammar, brain dopamine level socio-economic status etc.)—which don’t rely on psychometrics at all—to claiming that the behavior psychometricians are predicting are actually not that useful (e.g. predicting ‘high confidence’ is not that useful if ‘high confidence’ does not result in a significant behavior which isn’t better predicted without made up operands).

If you were an early astronomer and you constructed the notion of ‘epicycles’ to simplify your model of planetary motion. You may use these ‘epicycles’ to justify your prediction, however you may not use a successful prediction to justify the existence of epicycles. Your epicycles may be useful until someone comes along and deems them unnecessary since planetary motion is better described by using elliptical orbits.

Of course this could go the other way as is the case with particle physics and the atom. However given the amount of research, success of rival theories, the failure of psychometricians from making useful predictions outside of their narrow field that isn’t better explained with alternative theories, I have high doubts that the Big-5 personality traits (and any theory of personality using psychometrics for that matter) is anything but pseudoscience.
This isn't an instant gratification issue, the details which pad this article just aren't very relevant to the point or the title. The life story and mundane details of this man's life don't, or barely, support the main point of the article which is how he debunked and got retracted a well-known paper in a field which wasn't originally his. I might want to read a biography of Albert Einstein, but the biography of this guy just isn't remarkable.

It's the same issue with SEO recipe articles where before the actual recipe there's an inane story about going to the beach with the family dog and finding a starfish before finally getting to the point about fish tacos, or whatever. If the article had been fine details about a few of the ingredients or sourcing them or preparation techniques down to specifics, sure, that would make sense; but if I ask you what time it is and you start telling me about how your grandfather served in WWII I'll probably be a little annoyed.
Uninstalling doesn't send a notification to signal.org, I've previously messaged a few people without getting a response, later realizing they never got it because they switched phones and stopped using Signal without pressing the "Delete Account" button in Signal settings. The workaround is to have the user install+register again, then press delete.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007061192-De...

> Signal must be actively working on your phone to make changes to the account. Register to see these options for your number. Deletion requests are not accepted outside of the registered app because there is no way to accurately verify whether or not a number is truly associated with the requester.
I don't get how Spotify is less about music just because they now have a podcst section.

Only hints about podcasts is the "Own Episodes" button on left and then I have to scroll down 6 screens until I see "Your recommended episodes".

How is the music experience gotten any worse after they added podcasts?
From my recollection, it's a mix of interesting work (some of it actually done by him, lots not but not clearly attributed), semi-academic wankery, a pretty good demonstration of what happens when you don't have a good editor....
This is a really refreshing point.
I bought a Lightform unit early on, and frankly I was underwhelmed with the overall deal. In particular, for some reason, I had the impression that I could use the camera/scanning features interactively, but unfortunately no, the scanning/detection features were purely for scene set up, and then its running a video file from there. It seemed like there was only nominal benefit compared to just setting up a projector and manually cutting up the desired scene. Moving the projector or moving new props into the scene requires a complete rescan of the scene. Lightform saved time for sure, but it didn't seem to take any leaps in terms of possibilities or 'magic'.

On top of that, once the scene is scanned and the program is set up to run, I assumed I could keep that video file / program running on a raspberry pi or something and move the Lightform on to the next project... nope. Had to keep the unit tethered to the scene.

The few times I set it up for demos for people, the consensus was, "huh thats kinda neat, is that all it does?"

Its possible some features got updated and more interesting stuff is possible. For now, my Lightform is sitting in the closet and Im sorta surprised they survived this long to be honest.
"I am not a number! I'm a free man!"
Tried Gnucash specifically, it's not nearly as intuitive, I'm actually considering it for accounting for my numerous ventures, but for personal finances - not so much...
Why we’re introducing subscriptions at Transit (2021)
It feels like the policy doesn't make sense because people only notice the cases they don't like. The cases where it works just fine, which are the vast majority, go unnoticed. That's by design, because it keeps things relatively smooth and happy, but it has this weird side effect that the annoyance cases build up like mercury in the 'policy' corner of the brain.

Worst yet, the title edits that would annoy people if HN had a different policy (and they would be legion) go uncounted because we don't allow them to happen in the first place. Such a regime would be much less smooth, because for each title edit you (i.e. anyone) happened to agree with, there would be a lot more rubbing you the wrong way.

The fundamental principle here is that on HN, being the one to submit an article confers no special right to interpret or frame it for others. We want the articles to speak for themselves, and we want the front page to be as accurate and neutral as possible ('bookish', to use PG's old word for this). Misleading titles and clickbait titles get in the way of that, so the HN guidelines ask submitters to change those. Otherwise not.

Threads are so sensitive to initial conditions that the power to rewrite a title is literally the power to reframe the entire discussion, and therefore control it. On HN, we want the author of the article (or creator of a project) to have that power, not the submitter. That really is fundamental—it's the reason why HN's front page is the way it is, and therefore the reason why HN is the way it is. To change it would be to mess with the DNA of this place and would soon lead to a completely different forum. Maybe a good forum, but not the kind that HN is trying to be.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
What's not clear though is if you're allowed to extract the ROM to be used in another emulator. While copying the ROM for "backup purposes" is likely legal, any other kind of copying is grey, at least as grey as downloading a ROM for a game you own on physical media.
They can be the same AI, cross-modal training is working very well.
This is a long shot but hoping someone might be able to help... Almost a decade back I stumbled across an excellent blog which had extremely long and detailed in-depth articles related to performance. Every article had a "hare/rabbit" mascot section similar to the "cool bear" section from this blog https://fasterthanli.me/articles/why-is-my-rust-build-so-slo...

Does someone else remember that blog? If yes, please share the link!
Not really sure what you mean, it seems like 75+ % of the current top 100 songs are minorities.

https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/
Ha, indeed could vs. would is a great point and you are probably correct that if a country is already willing not to spend the money on citizens directly for non-vanity projects, it's quite possible that even without the olympics they would do the same with something else but also without the olympics they don't get to use that veneer of shiny international credibility and attention to get internal stakeholder buy-in for the project which feels like it probably makes some difference although how much probably depends on the society in question.
I should have said "no longer support" or "won't admit to supporting" in the first sentence and "initially" in the second.
That's neither "legal" nor "buying".
Yes!

I am trying to popularize the term "Locality of Behavior" (LoB) to describe this property in software:

https://htmx.org/essays/locality-of-behaviour/
Also being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30246395
Is the idea this will soon yield a VST/emulator?
> Nobody in "polite countries" wants these events anymore.

When the USOC and IOC selected Boston as the host of the 2024 Olympics, enough citizens of Boston opposed the selection that they moved the games to Los Angeles.
I do front- and back-end web development, I have done that almost exclusively for years. It's not that skills degrade, it's that the tools evolve and change quickly, and teams move from one shiny thing to the next much faster in the front-end domain than in other areas.

Without meaning to come off as condescending or rude, if you call yourself a professional programmer and you need to put in a lot of effort to adapt to the next version of React, you aren't senior. Adapting to rapid change is part of the career, and the only difference with front-end work is the mostly self-inflicted churn. HTML, CSS, Javascript are not changing month-to-month. Web sites I wrote in PHP and jQuery ten years ago still work.

The key to keeping up with change in the software business (and it's the same, maybe worse, in the system admin domain) is to understand the core technologies and principles, which haven't changed dramatically in decades. It's far more important to understand HTTP (relatively unchanged for more than two decades) and how web browsers render (which changes very slowly) than it is to memorize every detail of how React hooks work this month. Excessive focus on languages and tools and always adopting the latest new thing is a sign of poor management and lack of focus -- and especially not focusing on delivering a product and adding business value. That can happen anywhere from the CEO on down but in my experience it mainly happens at the programmer team level, because playing with the latest dot release of Ruby or React is more fun than addressing business requirements.

As I'm by now fond of saying, no company ever had the requirement "We need 2,000 more lines of Javascript code by next month." Nor does any company have the requirement "We need to move to the version of React released last week." If that's what you're concentrating on you don't understand business requirements.
For the uninitiated, what happens in this scenario? Does the deal fall through, do the other investors need to cover for the missing party,...?
Please provide more background.. If you are recruited for the CEO of one of the FAANG, 1 million salary seems too low.
The difference I see is that before, when they had to use practical effects, they had a more earnest appreciation of their limitations. The toy planes and ships in old movies appeared only for a few seconds since they knew they didn't fool anybody. On the first days of CGI they used to do the same, keeping the effects short. Then... somehow someone lost perspective and though scenes like this one didn't look like a joke[1].

What's worse, the abuse of retouching is making real things look fake. I remember watching the ending of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull at the cinema and thinking "why did they chose to make the top of the pyramid CGI? It's so cheap." Later I discovered it was a practical effect, color "corrected" to the point of removing any resemblance with reality.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxzyARI2lPQ
A lot of AI/ML work is sloppy but well known methods work reliably, textbook descriptions make sense. That there's a long tail of shitty student papers doesn't invalidate the field. Year after year methods genuinely get better. Whatever process produces this progress, it produces this progress.
I'm not sure it qualifies as "great", but I am a programmer!

https://xavd.id/blog

I write about all sorts of things, some of which are technical. Here's a favorite Python article: https://xavd.id/blog/post/python-dataclasses-from-scratch/
Didn't the Roman empire ultimately fall because of slavery? The article seems like it's trying to teach something about modern management through it though.

I'm also getting a real sarcastic vibe from the tone of the writing, so I can't tell if it's maybe meant to be satirical? Like what's up with this ending quote: Everyone knew where they stood then – even if, sometimes, that was in the line for crucifixion.