skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UBI is probably not the antidote. UBI would not cover rent in many places and the existence of UBI would likely be yet another bullshit excuse for not addressing our housing issues.

Address basics like our housing issues and universal healthcare and the need for bullshit jobs would go way down.
> Whenever I talk to video game programmers, they scoff at the idea that UI is a difficult problem to solve. And they're right.

You have no idea what you're talking about.
It'll keep accumulating and won't stay at 20%.

Just so it's clear, dust is a problem regardless of whether it's in a desert or an urban area.

> Moreover there are probably solutions to remove the dust when it becomes too thick, like to rotate the panels to let it drop off.

Too much complexity. Moving parts that can fail for whatever reason. Sand can get into the rotation mechanism and clog the whole thing. Too many things that can go wrong. Costs will be high.

I know that in some non-desert places they use water to clean the panels at regular intervals, but that's probably a bad idea in deserts because water and sand might mix to form mud. And where are you going to get water from? Like, you might have to spend a significant fraction of the generated power to pump water... You see where this is going, right? Too much hassles.
Because at runtime you find out about the bug only when it occurs. A compile type check fails to compile the buggy code.
Fair enough. Anyway, thanks for the app. It's really good, maybe you can write articles about your thought process and etc?
Here's a bit of a discussion:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/04/randy-wray-the-job-g...
Mathematical models are that, models—a simplified version of a particular phenomenon. Economic models are no different, in particular they presuppose, among other things, that economic agents behave rationally [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus
nice, i personally do not have a use for age restricted youtube videos often but sometimes i do but by then i just am too lazy to sign up for a youtube account/google.( dont have a google account btw) so this might be helpful.

one question, does it only query age restricted videos to the proxy or all videos when its installed?

second, i assume the userscript is less resource hungry?
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This isn't really reporting a death rate, it's reporting the distribution of heights given you died falling from a height.

I'd guess falls from higher heights are more deadly, but less likely (you're more likely to use fall protection on a 8 story roof than a 1 story roof, I'd guess; and there's also a lot more 1 story roofs than 8 story roofs)
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That's the percentage of fall deaths caused from each height, not the mortality rate of a fall from a given height.
Let it record a mockingbird and it'll identify the mockingbird and the birds they are imitating. Really cool stuff!

Sometimes the mockingbird fools the AI and it thinks it's the bird itself.
> It's there to let you share ownership.

And ownership - shared or otherwise - is a great way to eliminate the use-after-free bugs that would otherwise be caused by naively attempting to create a non-owning, borrowing reference to something else. It is in fact the primary use of refcounted pointers in many C++ codebases I've worked with - perhaps with a single std::shared_ptr and several std::weak_ptr s, meaning you're not really sharing ownership per se despite the refcounted nature - or perhaps with multiple std::shared_ptr s out of sheer laziness.

I've had my share of C++ code reviews dinged for perfectly valid code containing non-owning references, simply because such code could be fragile and prone to use-after-free heisenbugs in the face of refactoring, and my reviewers were right to do so. Things are safer in Rust - you can play fast and loose with storing &str s and rely on the borrow checker to catch your mistakes - but playing fast and loose with storing std::string_view s will lead to slipped release dates as you chase 11th hour heisenbugs. Store a std::string or std::shared_ptr<std::string> instead, even if it's "unnecessary".

> there isn't (or at least shouldn't be?) a huge market of people out there using an axe in the kitchen who could've just used a knife instead

Some of us are out camping in the wilderness that is C++ gamedev, and want to make kindling. Do I need to pack a whole axe, or would a knife I need for other reasons anyways make do and lighten my backpack?

And even if that's a small market, it's still entirely a reasonable market, and for advertizing to that audience - however niche - comparing said tools would be an entirely justifyable approach to selling the product.

I also think you underestimate the size of said market.
Agreed. Maybe... Short sighted vs. far sighted vs. ignorance is bliss?
You haven't even used a statically typed language yet. Saying you will be able to learn Rust in a weekend is ridiculous. There will be so many new concepts for you.
The ZVA is an vector network analyzer, not an oscilloscope.
Don't get me wrong, the ZVA is still an extremely impressive piece of engineering, but not even close to what Keysight had achieved with the UXR.
> target got painted where the arrow landed.

Commenting mainly to say that I like this phrase very very much. Creative, Witty and at the same time so descriptive.

On the win32 point, it is adressed in the article:

> I also realized that there are two distinct senses of the word "narrow":

> - In terms of architectural connection (topology).
For example, applications and physical networks are decoupled by the the Internet's narrow waist. They don't interface directly with each other.

> - In terms of the size of the concept. <snip>
But the web is a large set of concepts (HTTP, HTML, SVG, etc.).
We've discussed this before.

In [1], dang has a list of over a dozen past discussions for it [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23749722

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23750755
How Good Is DALL-E Mini at Origami?
We're not in a financial crisis.
Sure. When I see a scene from Seinfeld now, I can't help but think that I'm now older than the protagonists, while they are stored in my memory as older people.

It's less striking with videos like this, which I hadn't seen until a few years ago, when The Algorithm started pushing it.
Golgafrinchans, maybe telephone sanitisers are more useful than you
think.
if it has a decent TreeView I'd be interested
My impression is that Android implements animations by reducing the animation frames but not the frame per second rate.

So if an animation is a long rotation (like a loading indicator) it turns into a high frequency strobe light
(Most loading animations are replaced by a static image, but not all)
It would be more satisfying if the checkbox was embedded at the end of your article
> The IB demo has him building an interface without touching code. He goes on to demo a simple app without code. This was in 1989, I'm still waiting for Linux to get close to that.

Close to what? Building an interface without touching code? You could do it for over a decade, at least.
> Descartes was attempting to "prove" logically that the world exists [...].

Was he? I thought he wanted to prove that god exists. Pretty early in his meditations he gets the physical world out of the way.
I completely agree. This is the writing of someone who is surrounded by people who just agree with everything he says.

"The computations associated with the swirling patterns are ultimately just as sophisticated as the ones we achieve with our brains and our technology here on Earth."

Who cares? Intelligence is not the same as computational complexity. This article is supposedly about Alien Intelligence but is only focused on computational complexity. Just because some processes are computationally complex does not make them intelligent.

I can also find "equivalence" between several internet essays which are all exactly 7,247 words in length. This does not make the essays remotely equivalent in their intelligence. One of them may be self-promoting drivel and of no real value.
This professor has a nice theory (hydrogen will never work in air planes), which is trivially falsified by simply pointing at planes that fly that use hydrogen as a fuel. That seems to have already happened. There are multiple companies that have flying prototypes.

Hydrogen planes are now an engineering and logistics challenge. The science is ancient history.
Overpriced relative to the COGS of the hardware, and yet a bargain compared to what you get from any other test equipment company for the same money. The magic is in the software, and I’d much rather pay for that excellent software via expensive hardware than go back to a pre-Saleae world.
Even before going into the details of why ubi would not work, ubi on itself is a very dangerous proposition as it ties the survival of the lower classes to the whims and magnanimity of the ruling class.

I think the perception window having shifted so hard that this is now acceptable is extremely dangerous to the survival of democracies, which were supposed to serve people.
I would go further and say every time I try to learn a new language, I discover multiple things that I believed to be absolute truths are, in fact, actually lies.

I am a Senior as well and I personally am never happy with my programming ability - until you're Carmack (or insert one of your favourite programmers), there's something to learn.

I predominantly have written TypeScript over the last several years and Rust taught me that as great as TypeScript is, it has coddled me completely and actually deprived me of much knowledge.

Like, how exceptionally bad 90% of programmers are at dealing with errors because they are garbage in most languages. You can only learn how to do that properly once you see it done, well, properly.
This is really interesting. but the roles of commercial banks and central banks are very different (intermediating credit and can go bust vs controlling money supply and can't go bust[1]), and to exclude the former from your model means you are missing a key component of any economy.

[1] Caveats apply!
Why would they? There are no planes to fuel yet.
Oh for Pete's sake go back to your mom's basement you troll. Have you looked through your comments on this thread and others? You aren't adding to the dialog here, you are just being a jerk. No, I don't find the opinions of these writers challenging rather I get tired of having to go find sources that show just how munch bunk gets published. My beef is that I expect better from what are supposed to be journalistic leaders.
Vale compares its safety to Rust's on a few occasions[0][1] and the exact opposite claim is made, i.e. Vale is safer than Rust.

[0] https://verdagon.dev/blog/hybrid-generational-memory#afterwo...

[1] https://vale.dev/comparisons#safe
> The potential to create ultrathin sound absorbing panels has huge implications in building acoustics. As cities get louder, the need for efficient non-intrusive sound mitigation solutions grows. Equally, these lightweight sound absorbing panels could have huge impacts on the travel industry, with any weight saving in planes, cars and trains increasing efficiency in these modes of transport and reducing fuel use and CO2 emissions.

I predict it would become a moral hazard i.e. that people will live less quietly because they reason that the soundproofing means they can be noisy, and the extra noise will slip through, a form of Jevons paradox. I also see the extra efficiency they bring up will also be eaten up by increased use. Again, Jevons paradox rears its head.

I do wonder, however, if it would lead to completely new products, not just better versions of what we have, things we could only imagine at this point.
Agreed that Go trades off some performance and safety. I’m not sure what “easy” means exactly, but IMO Go has the shortest learning curves of any language whether “time to productivity” or “time to mastery” and it also has the fastest developer velocity IMO (and I’m coming from Python, which has that reputation as well). It seems like Go is at the boundary for anything worth calling “easy”.
Is also recommend Bloomberg to go with the Economist subscription.
It has all the right ingredients to keep you on top of all worthwhile news.
Just try to use one of the minimal frameworks (which are usually also immature, buggy and poorly documented, especially in the Go GUI ecosystem, but that’s beside the point). Unless you’re developing something trivial or you’re the type who love to implement widgets from scratch and don’t give a crap about OS-level consistency, ten minutes in you’ll wish you have access to some standard OS widget that’s not implemented, and thirty minutes in you’ll wish you have one of the more complex widgets in Qt at your disposal. Most of us just want to make a damn app, not a widget library from scratch.
Why are semicolons mandatory? Wouldn't be cleaner without this restriction, like in Kotlin?
Russia’s Oil Revenue Jumps to $20B in May, IEA Says
It's a B2B order management system for restaurants:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.waiter.andr...

Nothing nefarious and no crypto anywhere as you probably were wondering! :D
Fluidic analogue computer simulating the UK economy
Wow, you totally devastated that straw man. He’ll think twice before showing his face around here again.
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> it ties the survival of the lower classes to the whims and magnanimity of the ruling class.

How exactly is this any different from the current status quo?
But you don't see dust accumulating indefinitely on roofs, do you? Why would it on solar panels? (granted you install them with a slope and at some height on a pole).

As for maintenance of a mechanism, we do not shy away very large off-shore wind turbine fields (or also in-shore, if you want to reply that there is little sand at sea), so I don't really see it as a compelling argument.
In the case of SpaceX that person is probably actually Gwynne Shotwell.
"Accordingly, over time, the prosperity extracted from technological advances has been reinvested into industry and consumer growth for its own sake rather than the purchase of additional leisure time from work."

This is what annoy me most, and why I don't want to go back to working in an office.
I'm on my way
> one question, does it only query age restricted videos to the proxy or all videos when its installed?

I have used it and it only kicks in when the video is actually age-restricted (which makes sense when you are thinking about bandwidth and peering, especially if you want to watch 4K videos!) It seems though that the default proxy is a bit slow.

Edit: I just checked and it seems that the only proxied parts are the authentication and video URLs, the videos are being streamed directly from YouTube.
The app has been reinstated:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.waiter.andr...

Given I didn't posted the name of my app this is not related to this post.

The downtime was around 2 days. Still all this trouble/downtime/stress could be all avoided by simply warning of upcoming removals.
A few weeks ago I read a series of tweets from someone who used a game engine (I think godot) to write a cross platform tool with a GUI with great success.
In normal use of the term, a function's shape is its type signature; at the very least its in and out arity, and usually even more specific.
I seems like i need an @readyset.io address to join your slack. Do you confirm ?
It's a secular/religious divide. (As it says in the post.)

Though it's possible the people who think a theoretical future AI will turn the planet into paperclips have merely forgotten that perpetual motion machines aren't possible.
Very correct. Financial failure of a participant must be an intrinsic part of financial systems and currently only the anarcho capitalist plane of cryptocurrencies has that.

While I do not subscribe to the ideals of anarcho capitalism at all this is one feature of crypto culture that I think they got right.
No you aren't eating a credit card's worth of plastic every week
I used to think corporations strive to reduce costs and therefore keep their workforce to the minimum necessary. Now my theory is that managers in a company try to maximize their influence and standing and this is mostly done by making sure they have as many people below them as possible. Therefore they hire consitantly for their teams and create new sub-hierarchies below them.

If this is the case, the obvious side effect is the emergence of bullshit jobs as the purpose of hiring is not primarely to finish work but to increase power of managers in corporations.
This is a fantastic comment. And it perfectly answers why the idea of "having nothing to hide" is so dangerous. Everyone will one day have something worth hiding, and probably not something illegal at all.
I would prefer raw footage with parts highlighted and/or marked instead of these stylized edits which do come across political.

I do see the importance of showing the timeline but there are more optimal ways IMO.

What I would like to see is a 3d map with every video placed according to its position as well as a calculation where everyone was when exactly. With all this footage something like this should be doable. Of course not by hand. You could then navigate this "world" like in a game and do your phorensic.

Google once had this thing in maps where you could watch videos taken at places from certain perspectives. I am not sure what happened to it. Maybe it was too creepy?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31778505
> The community can be built using an invitation based model, where a user shares the responsibility for moderating the other accounts they invited to the service. The moderation actions are kept public and presented in an anonymized layout.

This is an interesting idea, I wonder how it would work out.
Yep that hover animation alters user perception of it's fundamental state, from a button to link. Not saying experimentation is bad, but in general that kind of incongruence is a big no-no for production UX.
Very nice example of texture animation driven by css transitions. I'm a game dev. After Unity began to support css transitions, I found myself doing more and more flipbook stuff to really give existing UI elements that extra punch. A recent example: https://vimeo.com/718225603
Got all excited to try this and then found out it was iOS only... Any plans to bring it to android?
Correlation or causation?

E.g. there's a big correlation between tech stocks and cryptocurrencies, but it could just be that investors consider them both in a single category (risky assets) and thus buy / sell at the same time.
AWS SimpleDB is in Erlang :p
I dont have extensive hitchhiking experience—I missed that era when it was more common (b. 1998)—but all of those experiences have been out of necessity rather than pleasure. Thumbing for rides has been an extremely useful tool to fall back on when I find myself in tough situations, but it’s hard to imagine relying on hitchhiking in the US for anything other than a last resort.

That said, all of my experiences with drivers have been positive so far. It helps that I always have an easily comprehendible problem to relate to the drivers; I don’t have to explain why I am thumbing for a ride beyond that.

The first time I dabbled was when my car broke down on a rural interstate highway around 2016. I was a newly-licensed driver, and at the time I didn’t have a cell phone. I thumbed for a short while on the shoulder, and a truck driver gave me a lift to the next town where I was able to sort things out.

I was highly conscious of the whole spectacle, and yeah, given the combo of single teenage white girl and car in disrepair it did not take long for someone to stop. I was really fearful of predators, but I couldn’t see any way of resolving that situation that didn’t involve getting into the car of a stranger.

I’ve since hitchhiked in other situations where I didn’t have car issues, but always out of necessity. I feel much safer when I’m not alone on the road, of course. I’d like to try hitchhiking for pleasure at some point, but it seems the US is just not the place to do that.
Flutter tries to be declarative -

And also tries to not be opionated;
See for example their approach to navigation.

Further from a user perspective you can get very quickly complex UIs setup; faster than in any other cross platform framework that i have seen so far.

flutter doesnt seem to be overly complex to what it needs to do. It provides quite some value.
"There is a real problem where as humans we are really only looking for 'alien intelligence' that we can interact with."

I don't think so. There could be some intelligent race of fruit loops that communicate with each other by creating waves through the milk in a giant cereal bowl, but eventually if they are really intelligent they will discover radio, and we would detect the signal. But we haven't.
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You're right in pointing this out. If it's not obvious that there is bias involved in the article, then criticism of it should include the other option of the journalist simply being incompetenct.
"Everyone complaining about Windows changes are Windows-hating Linuxers" is only the second most insane take here after the dude upthread claiming everyone who complains about no thumbnails in Gnome's file picker is a Nazi.
I think it's very unlikely to be profitable. 11B/1M incarcerated (from the article) means a gross product of 11k per person. I would argue that while that might be enough to sustain one prisoner's marginal cost to the system, it doea not look high enough to sustain fixed costs of the prison system.
At one point during the AOL/Yahoo/Verizon/etc shitshow they enabled AOL mail for the mcom.com domain.
I love the idea of “fidgetability”. iOS has a lot of it and execution is master class. Dragging down the shortcuts panel from the top or the application switcher from the bottom of the screen has so many effects going on at the same time. There is blur, size changes, movements, bouncing, all in perfect harmony with the motion of your finger but still with different velocity and hysteresis thresholds for opening vs closing to not make it feel like everything is rigidly attached to your finger. What’s best is there’s no added delay to action from the animations, as opposed to the checkbox from OP, it still looks and feels gorgeous, satisfying and unambiguous.
> Crypto in general contains a lot less uncollateralized debt, surprising chains of counterparty risk, and so on than traditional finance.

I don't think that's obvious at all when you have entities like Tether with unclear off-chain financials. Only the on-chain stuff is transparent and works as you explained.
Basically, you want to be able to control the quantity of money, because it's a key element of monetary policy. Monetary policy is a tool that governments use to counter boom and bust cycles, so economic cycles are smoother, and to maintain price stability. Under a metallic standard, monetary policy is much more limited. As far as I know, a central bank can still sterilise inflows of money that result from a trade surplus with the rest of the world, and release its reserves, as a way to influence the quantity of money, but it's a lot harder.
I have a high voted comment from 2018 on this subject, which I wont repost here, as I don't need the karma, but if you are interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17875314
So, physics is a dead-end? Given that Scott is running his own research lab, a year is a very long time and him working out of his field is an indication that physics is in a big trouble.
That's pretty weird position.

Eg I can fly to Hong Kong. Not today, because I haven't booked a flight and it's getting late, but probably in the next few days, if I really wanted to. You'd say that I "can't"?
https://archive.ph/W2nN9
Time of day is a major factor in my experience, when the americans are mostly asleep (like now) it works way more reliable :D