skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most 'serious' UBI implementations I've read about have a mechanism for clawing back some to all of UBI from higher earners via raised income tax on those people. I guess that is what is being hinted at.
I've been trying to figure this out too.

My insights actually started from a post made here, where someone talked about post 'weirdness'. There are so many posts that we skim all of the time. If there is a post that is weird, we skip it. If there is a thread that is weird, we collapse it. What I realized however, if that weirdness is coming from the people who are here all the time, at the top of the karma charts, and people see their name all of the time and respect their opinions, that you can become more weird. And so as the community grows and as you communicate with more people, as you see the same person less and less often, the ability to be weird drops. The larger a community, the less it can move as a cohesive unit, the less it can find new ideas.

So what we're really looking at is how Metcalfe's law clashes with the Overton window. That's why Dunbar's number is a thing. As we communicate we subtly change our opinions, and when a group becomes to large, the communication scaling at a factorial rate eventually meets its limit. You end up with a group that believes different ideas, and therefore the best thing to do is split. We don't see the splits in existing social media because even though the Overton Window is smaller and smaller with larger and larger numbers, more and more people are being pulled into it, and exponentially more people are tossed aside.
Thank you for discussing the actual research (on one side at least). My understanding is that Graeber and Wengrow are saying that the "band" grouping is inaccurate nonsense, that "band" relations can extend to several thousand people without "tribal society" necessarily emerging

>The “Personal Social Group” = 150 people (bands of common lineage — what Dunbar believed to be the biggest group of people one person can have close relationships with). The “Clan” = 450-500 people (cohesive sub tribal unit). The “Tribal Group” = 1500 — 2000 people (tribe).

Many people use Dunbar's number to justify why larger societies of humans must necessarily require bureaucracy, coercion under threat of violence, etc. to scale beyond a couple hundred people and that any alternative to the power structures we have today is unrealistic fantasy. It's one key to capitalist realism
> it really defined what a smartphone is

What a smartphone should do was pretty solidified by then. I used a Sony Ericsson one back then and we had Palm and Windows CE devices as well. What the iPhone has shown was a UX that didn't try to mimic a computer - it was its own thing, with animated transitions and multi-touch. This made all other smartphones look clunky in comparison. The second revolution Apple introduced (later) was the app store. It extended the zero-pain experience of iTunes to applications - no more downloading .prc files and opening them with a custom tool. With the iPhone it was easy.

Also, the integration with OSX apps didn't hurt either - it made the Mac and the iPhone a mostly seamless continuum.
I dunno if that will help. I know Dia lets you store the uncompressed XML, but I have seen it sometimes have a 100% diff due to the serialiser moving *everything* around when all that happened was that I rearranged half the blocks on the diagram.
So is this the famous mid-life crisis everyone talks about?
I never assumed this was it because I don't explicitly think about mortality all that much. I don't particularly mind that I'm going to die.

I also haven't bought a Harley or have the will to do anything of the sorts.

Guess I just have to figure out how to come out of it. It's been a slog and right now I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel, hehe.
> There is actually, its called Hindustani - the mix (pidgin?) of the dialects that is actually spoken by people rather than any pure single dialect.

Every single assertion in that sentence is wrong.

Hindustani is only spoken by ~60% of the population and a even lower percentage speak it as a first language. It is not a pan-Indian language. Hindustani is not a pidgin. Hindi and Urdu are both standardized registers of Hindustani. And Telugu and Tamil are not even in the same language family as Hindustani.

So, no. There is no singular Indian language.
Things like this: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-def...

Maybe that is a good idea to remove bloat from windows computers
> That's a nearly 400 mile trip done in under 6 hours. This is simply not possible in a tesla (or any EV, let's be fair).

The Lucid Air can get 500 miles of range at 70 miles per hour. The Lucid does it through both better efficiency and a big battery:

https://insideevs.com/reviews/562511/lucid-air-range-test-re...

The Aptera claims 1,000 miles of range in the biggest battery spec. It's very aerodynamic. It will be interesting to see a real world test:

https://aptera.us/vehicle/
This is perfect for my use case, thank you! The .fodt file is 150K, vs 117K for the .odt file. But after changing a word less than 20 of the 1983 lines in the file have changed.

$ ls -hl todo.fodt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dotancohen dotancohen 150K Apr 7 16:41 todo.fodt
$ ls -hl todo.odt
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dotancohen dotancohen 117K Apr 6 12:01 todo.odt
$ wc -l todo.fodt
1983 todo.fodt
$ cp todo.fodt todo-edit-one-line.fodt
$ libreoffice todo-edit-one-line.fodt
$ diff todo.fodt todo-2.fodt | grep "+ " | wc -l
19
Maybe. I have mixed feelings about your statement.

Growing up the messages to me were quite the opposite (without going into details), and now here I am, fully grown adult, full of doubt, uncertainties, fears, full of Anxieties that prevent me from achieving my full potential.

I guess your overall principal is correct, we all know people that fit your statement; at the same time individual experiences and reactions to those experience are also big contributors to outcomes.
databases, anyone dealing with high-performance template rendering, web-crawling, etc.
Show HN: Flowbite – open-source component library for Tailwind CSS [MIT License]
I use it, but not very often. I do appreciate that it's still possible. Spotify probably wouldn't even understand the feature request.
‘Printing’ money leads to inflation. I view the world situation as a control problem: how do political and financial elites control the population and keep most of their privileges.

While I don’t agree with their objectives (usually) I am a digital member of the World Economic Forum because I think that reading their material is a valid signal for what may happen in the future.

I am not sure how it will happen, but I think most common people will be “liberated” from owning property and assets via media enhanced drama like wars, pandemics, dollar crashing, etc. a combination of absolute control of news media and taking advantage of crisis as they occur either naturally or planned will be sufficient for elites to hold on to most of their power while keeping society functioning.
Subscribing through Google Play should allow easy cancelation.
> let’s all be honest here and recognize that we’ve reached the “Is it GPT-3 or is it Stephen Wolfram?” singularity.

Damn, that's such a great way of putting it!
In fact, if you're using Linux on your workstation you'll use the same skills locally as you do on the VPS/bare metal (depending on your scale.) Arguably "cloud" services need more sysadmin skills, not less.
I wouldn't put much faith in brazilian recruiters, if any. I presume they wouldn't lift a finger to consider you.

Unless there is a ongoing relationship, in which case you wouldn't be asking.

Maybe he could try monitoring and keeping up some important system, remotely. A night job, but a different timezone could work to his advantage. Assuming he knows english, of course.

Another area would be a test engineer, and try to break things.
The main advantage for C/C++ for embedded applications, as I understand it, is its ability to compile down to an executable that is measured in kilobytes rather than megabytes or larger. For embedded applications where you can use a "larger footprint" language or framework, how likely is it to only have enough room for Go but not NodeJS, Java, .NET, or even Elixir? A secondary question is how easy will it be to find examples of embedded programming code in something other than C/C++ or NodeJS? I am not challenging Go as an option: I'm asking these questions out of ignorance and thinking management would likely lean toward a language where we can easily find and study examples others have done rather than blaze our own trail and absorb all of the slings and arrows that go with it.
> CDC (I believe) was claiming that N95 masks won't help as much as other masks.

I would wager that is something no one from the CDC ever said, wrote, or implied.

They told people they would not benefit from using N95 masks, which was damaging enough.
Just to inform our non-French friends here, here is what you should know about the strong political bias in the French press.

- Le Monde is a left-wing media, and most articles are heavily slanted towards socialist themes and PoV,

- The equivalent right-wing media (which Le Monde readers obviously call "fascists", the woke sensor is not very precise these days) is called Le Figaro https://lefigaro.fr

Some of the comments praise Le Monde Diplomatique, but this one is full speed communist and anti-capitalist. Its far right equivalent is Valeurs Actuelles.

Happy reading!
https://www.puntofisso.net

It's fundamentally a pointer to my other social presence and a list of "cool projects" (mostly side gigs) that I've done over the years.
Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi Pico Team Up for Robot Lawnmower Project
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) uses it to define the maximum size of a their organizational units (Release Trains as they are called). Everything else in the framework is geared towards helping the units work together more effectively.

Been rolled out with great success at much larger organizations too.
People do say the exact same thing about string theory. They challenge it to show that it’s science. There may be some experiments in the not too distant future; we’ll see what happens. At least string theory makes some predictions and is relativistically correct.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that the C developers know how to use restrict, when in practice they don't, so it hasn't made the argument fell apart.

In fact, only C++ is able to confortably beat Fortran, despite not having official support for restrict, because of the stronger type system and compile type metaprogramming that offer optimization opportunities out of reach to C compilers.

Usually HPC places like CERN and Fermilab don't migrate their aginging Fortran code to C, rather C++.
> eventually evolved in the AS/400 or IBM I as they call it now

I have to note that the AS/400 was so much ahead of its time it's still, in many aspects, ahead of our time.
I don't mind a source having biases in the sense of a lean, everyone has biases. What winds me up is when they knowingly and intentionally skew their reporting not just to reflect that bias but to promote it and radicalise their viewership.

Take the BBC for example, they're as close as I can get to a neutral source but even they have a somewhat left wing bias. It's pretty mild though and they do have some somewhat right wing voices. As a moderate right winger I find it absolutely fine and easy to take into account. The Economist is great, and even the Guardian is worth reading from time to time. It's good to know what people with different opinions are thinking and why.

I cannot stomach Fox News though. Those people are deranged, it's practically RT for America. The Daily Mail here in the UK is almost as bad, they knowingly and regularly distort climate science data to misrepresent it for example. I'm a climate optimist, but the DM blatantly falsifies results. I still go to their web sites to check out how they are reporting things from time to time, but they're not just right leaning, they're constructing an all out ultraconservative fantasy reality.

Maybe I should try the Express or Telegraph, they might reflect my political views better but I can't be bothered. I find a close echo chamber for my own opinions rather boring. The nearest thing I consume to how I think is the Economist but they always keep it interesting with thoughtful analysis of current events and even post mortems when they get things wrong. They also sometimes give air time to opposing views.

Maintaining my views while constantly being pulled leftward by at least some of the media I consume to be a constructive dynamic. I don't always agree with them, but at lest I'm well informed on why. For some reason left media tends to be much more centrist these days than right media which is ultra radicalised. Back in my youth it was the other way around. Left media used to be so bonkers it was hilarious, now right media is so bonkers it's terrifying.
I would greatly doubt much hopes for this "relaunch" if they will continue their conformist tune.

People need to get it crystal clear, the last of "independent" Russian media were only allowed to be because they were the most compliant, and collaborationist ones vs. ones which were confrontational, and making actual difference.

Best Russian journalists were killed, or exiled many years before.

The only meaningful further press coverage of Russian politics must be about regime change, and not empty hopes for "reform," and "dialog" with the system which showed itself not amendable to anything of that for 23 years.
Welcome to distributed systems. The answer is "you can't, you can only increase the chance of the correct thing happening".

It boils down to choosing between:

- possibility of sending 0-1 emails
- possibility of sending 1+ emails (in reality is 0+,your service could still go down permanently)
When they pull the Facebook apps for doing this then I'll know Google is serious and not just pretending to care.
Topaz – the first subsea cable to connect Canada and Asia
Pointing out character flaws is not an ad hominem in itself. Stop calling everything an ad hominem, folks.
Not exactly. Most western economies followed similar policies which increased inflation in their local economies. The part you're missing is that these economies are all linked through both trade and competition over resources.
Totally. Meanwhile China throws caution to the wind and innovates like we used to.

The most important line of this article doesn't even pertain to aviation directly:

> Some perspective: In 1957, the U.S. hadn’t even launched a satellite. Twelve years later, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. So unleaded avgas is a harder problem than a lunar landing? Perhaps you can enlighten me in the comments section.

It's happening everywhere, all industries. This infatuation with impeding progress in the name of organizational justification, budget numbers, or whatever - it'll be the death of us if we don't get it under control.
I had never really thought about it in that sense. This is a very interesting take that honestly made me a bit emotional.

Thank you for this.
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Between this and "Picard", I think it's safe to say that the Star Trek I watched on weekends as a kid is face down, floating in the water...
Maybe, but working around tech people in the US it seems to be cultural. Pre COVID it was so common to see "Oh I'm not contagious", etc while hacking at their desk.
I wouldn’t give PM Boris Johnson too much credit here. He regularly skipped crucial meetings at the start of the pandemic, and as PM he is ultimately accountable for his choice of advisors.

Moreover, a year later his government had the gall to pretend that herd immunity through infection had never been the strategy. It's a post-truth government.
I personally hate having everyone working from home - how many times have you been on a zoom call with a team, someone gets asked a question, and the inevitable response 'sorry, I was multi-tasking can you repeat the question? (i.e. they were doing something else unrelated to the meeting) - it happens over and over on a daily basis on calls I am on.

If these people were all in the same room, they wouldn't get away with it for long - but somehow it has become acceptable.

That said, I am a big believer in WFH for people that cam manage their time and dedication just as well as if they were onsite - but so far, in my experience, that is about 20% of people.
Probably true.

I'd argue, though, in my experience working at a large tech company, the impact of a particular decision on the company's overall bottom line rarely comes into play for a decision like this. Instead, it's a mid-level manager who has been given a goal to increase a particular number, and will be rewarded based on quarterly performance against said arbitrary number.

Which manager put in their OKRs for the year to grow usage of Apple's Music Library using a primary metric of total storage consumed? Now, they didn't necessarily cause the insertion of blank space into the files, but they'll be damned if they let some engineer make a change that makes it significantly harder to hit their growth goal for the year.

Organizations don't cause things to be the way what they are: the dynamics between people inside of organizations cause things to be the way that they are.
Hacker Dictionary: RS-485 Will Go the Distance
> I could try to focus on my hobbies, but you realize very quickly that to get good at anything, you need hundreds/thousands of hours.

The point of hobbies is not "getting good at them". It's enjoying them for their own sake. Otherwise they turn into ... work.

> I'm just a blip in the universe and when I'm gone it will be unchanged, the same as if I had never existed.

Yes. The Universe doesn't expect or have any special plans for you.

But hey, that is not that bad. Consider the opposite. The Whole universe having a plan for you. The whole infinite Cosmos. Just thinking about you and having a plan for you.

I don't know about you. But it would give me a panic attack.

It's ok that the Universe doesn't have a plan for you. This frees you to assign your life whatever meaning you want - and to change it at any point! You can also feel gratified about fulfilling your self-assigned potential or feel extremely disapointed if you did not. Or, change them again. Some hold that the secret to happiness is having the right expectations about oneself.

> And now what?

Therapy worked for me.
>There's inflation everywhere in the western world, so pointing at a specific Canadian policy for the inflation there is logically flawed.

There is inflation everywhere there was basic income. The USA: https://www.investopedia.com/government-stimulus-efforts-to-...

Switzerland is constitutionally obligated to balance their budget.

Where 77% of voters rejected basic income: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36454060

They went into some painful deflation during covid and is only at 2.4% inflation and their interest rate is -0.75%. I wish I were able to speak one of the official languages of Switzerland.

Just look at that beautiful 2.5% unemployment rate. If you want to say, 'oh they just have lots of people who are off welfare benefits and not participating in the labour market. 84% participation rate! 3rd best in the world. Switzerland is doing great.

How about Australia? They traditionally do a great job; In 2009 they had no government debt. They seem to have their inflation under control around 3.5% with just 0.1% interest rate?

https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/central-bank-balance-...

Ouch, they did move over to the pool of printing money.

They called it the 'Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment', just looked it up.

No wonder their inflation is a bit high. Seems they didn't do as much as Canada or USA.
Yes, I encountered similar opinions during the years I lived in the USA, and it seems to be a very American cultural idiosyncrasy (you seem to have a very deep distrust of governments and experts).

All I can offer is my observation, having lived in many countries, that the American security apparatus, while not the absolute best (compared to, say, Israel), is still pretty damn good and effective overall. Certainly in the top 10%, and certainly good enough to ensure that the USA maintains its prosperity, position, and reserve currency status for the next couple of decades at least.

What's going to ruin your country within 50 years is the runaway inequality, unless it's addressed in a very serious (i.e. painful redistribution of wealth) way.
Striving to Make Sense of the Ukraine War
Probably my favourite game. For anyone interested in something similar I would recommend “The Outer Wilds” and “Return of the Obra Dinn”.
I liked the engine, and the graphics.

What drove me to eventually give up on it, was the monotony of the puzzles.
I totally agree. The iPhone was cool, but not really as useful as a Blackberry at the time. It took two-hands to use the iphone (kinda still does unless you use voice, which is noisy). The Blackberry thumb-wheel was ridiculously effective at getting around on the phone.

In fact, iPhones weren't even used by many large businesses until later.

The cool factor won, though. When it came out it reminded me of the first LED watches; it you had to push a button on the watch (so now it took two hands to tell time). The red LEDS glowed for a few seconds then vanished. I first saw one in a James Bond movie.
Thank you. This should be understood by more.
I think EU regulations require that cancellation must be accessible in the same way as the subscription. So online subscriptions must have an online cancellation.
https://qubyte.codes

I blog about things which interest me (mostly JS and creative code related), but also take Japanese language notes as I learn. Also part of the 250KB club!

It's built with my own hand-rolled static site generator, and I'm pretty proud of it's capabilities now. I've got a bunch of indieweb features integrated into it. I have no sense of style though!

Source: https://github.com/qubyte/qubyte-codes
Firefox ESR on Linux PC.
BND Intercepts Radio Traffic Discussing the Murder of Civilians in Bucha
Continuing to emit lead is completely outrageous. I was completely unaware it was happening.

I would urge anyone on this thread who is mad and to write a letter to the address at the bottom of the post.

It will be a heck of a lot more effective than just commenting here even if it feels like a mere drop in the bucket.
>> Oh wow. Reminds me of Wall Street Journal where you’d have to change your address to somewhere in California to gain the ability to cancel online. Otherwise you have to call, because only California has laws against such behavior.

> I think you mean the New York Times, where one indeed has to play that game.

All kinds subscription of businesses do this exact same thing or worse, so the answer is probably "both." IIRC, the (large, chain) gym nearby required cancellation either in person or by registered mail. When I complained, their sales guy unbelievably justified it because "they've had problems with people canceling other's memberships."

That said, I actually did cancel the New York Times a few years ago, and I don't remember the process being too onerous. Though I'm not allergic to speaking to someone on the phone.
I wonder if this is a limited scope recycling of the Libra cryptocurrency with a new name.