skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the Corn Sweats.

https://www.foxweather.com/learn/corn-sweat-midwest-most-opp...
Right, that’s totally legible to most users.
If you can't fail safely, you better review your entire architecture.

Software fails, you can make failures rarer, but you can't make they go away. You have to deal with it, it's not an option.
Let’s flip it. How do localities have the authority to prevent property owners to put solar on their own property? Why do local bullies have authority to remove freedom, but the state or feds don’t have the authority to protect freedom?

Nonsensical.
That's not how it works. The increase in income in the lower quintile outpaces inflation.

Well, it wouldn't outpace inflation right now, shit is crazy. But usually, yes.
Breaks are "easy" to find, the problem would be buckles where the track is still "connected" but it is one rail is no longer equidistant from the other rail.
I'm currently playing with 2 NDIR co2 sensors connected to a pi (scd30 and MH-Z14), graphing the data using grafana.

Curious what sensor the aranet4 uses.

Edit: just found this teardown - https://kaspars.net/blog/aranet4-teardown
> What about not and just make life better for everyone?

Well, that would cost thousands to millions of times more.

I know that's a gauche point to make in contemporary America, where we don't have any concept of the difference between a program costing a million dollars and a quadrillion dollars, but I think it might be relevant here?
I haven’t looked in a while, what’s the status of Bun macros? For quite some time I’ve wanted a fast and ergonomic way to override built in runtime behavior for object/array literals. E.g. for an efficient implementation of the records/tuples proposal, for which I’ve thought Bun macros could be well suited. I think they’d be equally well suited to a specialized struct factory, which could bypass at least some of the overhead of JS runtime construction.
I agree. how much money should it be. 100k/year that should be enough for most areas or only expensive areas. but would this be for all math or physics degrees or just by IQ?
I am mostly brainwashed to read python, bash, and jquery.

Yes, I am a PB&J programmer.
Oddlly enough, private clinics mandate signing over data to be shared with "parners" on a regular basis in non-negotiable patient service "agreements".
A lot of discussion here about the limitations of Scratch as a programming language.

But the magic of Scratch is the community. My daughter learned Scratch, and she joined multiple teams of 10-year olds making all kind of interactive stories and games. And virtually every interaction she had was positive, uplifting, and helped her construct her identity as a programmer.

She now teaches Scratch for kids and programs in Java and Python. But making those friends and doing those team projects was invaluable - and nearly unreplicable in another language/ environment.
I think parent is arguing that everyone should be better off and everyone should get equal treatment. And may even be implying resources should be distributed equally....

To put it in mildly simple term, you are likely not in the same political spectrum as parent.
> So, demand for lamb spikes around Easter every year. But, lamb prices actually drop around Easter (at least for consumers)

So, you don't think everyone involved in the chain of getting that lamb to you, anticipating the shift in the demand curve that occurs very predictably, don't ensure that they have the highest possible supply during that time?

You forgot the "keeping everything else constant" and changes in quantity demanded in response to just the price of the good versus changes in the shape and location of the market demand and supply curves.
And, the point of writing is to spread ideas and change people's minds. Lobbying for the future state of what people think, effectively.

There is also a difference between something being absurd and something we are just not used to yet.
What nonsense. The negative effects are due to Facebook, not because Firefox took defensive actions.
if you set up any work area for glass, over time, there will be glass dust and shards.. this is brutally dangerous to the eyes, nostrils and other .. cleaning the glass shreds is possible with a strong vacuum, but really a sealed work box works best or extraordinary shop habits. Glass is rewarding when its done, but you know.. you have been warned.
I can't speak highly enough of the GI Bill providing this little bit of extra resource to those motivated enough to use it. Like the gentleman in the article you linked, I was applying for electrician jobs as my enlistment neared an end. The fact that the Post 9/11 GI Bill covered tuition plus enough allowance that my wife and I could pay rent means I'm now enjoying a career in engineering and passing that love of learning on to my children. Truly a Godsend in my opinion.
> It is basic supply-and-demand principle. When people have more money, demand goes up, while supply remains constant

Again, "demand" here means paying off credit card debit they needed to rack up to keep food on their tables and paying their rent to keep a literal roof over their heads. People who need the stimulus money aren't the problem.

Companies are blaming stimulus money for their hiring problems along with everything else they can think of besides their own abusive behavior and terrible pay/benefits. Why wouldn't they?

Covid made it crystal clear to people that companies don't care about them, or their safety. Can we blame people for not rushing back to them to be underpaid and treated like garbage?

> A federal program that paid $600 a week in unemployment benefits for part of 2020 meant that two-thirds of people collecting benefits made more than they had when they were employed

If you make so little money working that $600 is more than you'd earn after working 40 hours (including benefits like health insurance) you should stay home. That's not a problem with too much help for people, it's a problem with terrible terrible wages. When workers refuse to get a job for less than they need to survive that's supply and demand working too. We're just starting to see wages go up because of it. The wake up call of Covid has also helped pushed calls for unions.
You'll find plenty of violation of personal boundaries within citizens, voters, and at least one of the two principle national political parties.

No need to stoop to maligning foreigners.
> How does a supermarket knowing my personal shopping habits negatively impact me, in concrete terms?

Target notifies teen girl's father that she is pregnant: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

Man falsely accused of arson in part because his shopping history included fire starters: https://michaelzimmer.org/2005/02/19/safeway-shopper-card-le...

Man claims that supermarket threatened to use this purchase history to call him an alcoholic when he sued them for injury: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-11-fi-7017-...

Man's purchases of expensive wine used to increase his alimony payments in divorce court: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=17...

Some random third party rents a list of General Nutrition Centers Gold Card members and then puts their information up for sale: https://www.post-gazette.com/business/businessnews/2003/06/1...
It makes it worst by letting businesses write off pollution. Entire industries are becoming carbon neutral, on paper at least. Ever wondered how building 10 billion electric cars will save the planet?

You can't put a dent on climate change until you find a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That's what matters. Trees have to last a 100 years to be effective carbon stores.
For most people working a career as a programmer, how much of their time in that career is going to be spent as an inexperienced beginner programmer?

I agree that Rust is a professional tool, designed for professional use. It's designed for professional use, instead of being optimized for inexperienced beginners like Python is.

I just don't really see "inexperienced beginners can easily contribute productively to this code base" as something that would have been valuable for any of the professional work I've done over the past couple of decades of my career.

If you're an amateur, or if you're programming recreationally, or if you're writing some low-reliability low-impact throwaway code, sure, it's great to use happy-path-oriented languages. When you want to write something that people actually rely on to run a business, you should use professional-grade tools instead.
Fun fact...my mother-in-law's cousin and her husband moved to Florida in the 50's to start a new business. Installing air conditioning. Needless to say, they are a pretty wealthy family now.
My education is in automation robotics so many of my peers / friends work within the AI or Quantum Computing fields and I'm always bending their ears on this topic.I say that as a preface because I always stress to people that automation robotics engineer sounds a whole lot fancier then it really is. I'll also state that I do not consider LaMDA being sentient possible.

It's ironic that she describes how a person builds knowledge and can access that learned information based on things like current topic, points being made, and mixing it all together to make for creative thought based on those factors and produce a conversation with another person. But if an AI system does the exact same thing it is simply using pieces of it's database to try to best answer your point/question as best as it can as it relates to being understood and concise. I'm not a renowned child development psychologist as the author of the article is but learning is learning to me. It's ironic that she used that stance to try to differentiate the two since all those neural network systems are literally designed to use the same tools that a child would in building that knowledge of vocabulary and interaction.

That said, she's not wrong. She's just not right as it relates to her main point. AI systems won't rival the human brain until we can give it access to a major upgrade in computational power, which is why I follow quantum computing lock step with AI news. That would give it more "brain power" then a person could ever hope to have and will give us AGI. Once AGI is reached and it can help with further processing technology ASI is soon to follow (I'm one of the, "It's far more a difficult journey from ANI to AGI, then it is from AGI to ASI")
CRDT Optimizations
> Those sweet economists. (I’ve got my MSc in Economics ;)

> Giffen and Veblen goods?

Let me know when you find one. Grazing grounds for the perpetually counter-example starved.

> I’m all for the theoretical models

Nothing theoretical about what I said: Simple logic.

Your claim is that Dutch butchers would prefer to leave free money on the table?
What's your price to sabotage development?

Asking ... for a friend.
Ha, as if people in America don't hate the intelligent enough already. Forget it!

The tech is there for basic income for all. The resources are there. They've been there for a long time.

What's holding us back is that the powerful LIKE US SCRAPING BY. Billionaires pay millionaires to convince the dumbest of us not to help people too much.

"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody." - Bucky Fuller

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career." - Einstein

Buckminster Fuller was a certified genius. So was Einstein. MLK, James Connolly, Helen Keller, Bertrand Russell, and many others said similar things - not that you'd hear much about that side of them in school. They supported the idea that we ought to make things better for HUMANS, for the planet, for all beings.

To try and sum up - I don't think any genius worth the title would want to be part of an elite class, while their so-called less worthy brethren can't afford school lunches, or are getting bombed by genius-made weapons.

Basic income - yes, let's do it. Basic income only for people who will feed the beast - fuck off.
it's a good option, there are more radical options and it seems a bit capitalist realist to promote regulation as the only option available
140+ IQs are way more common than grants. The odds among geniuses of being accepted are low.

that's the problem. high IQs are not that rare.

Also, we're talking enough money to live comfortably off of
"Equally bad" is objectively subjective. The reality is, especially on a long timeline, corrupt is corrupt and a degree of corruption is largely irrelevant. Instead we use the perceived degree of less corruption to justify nationalism and other things, and it's largely a matter of perspective. You probably wouldn't believe me but you ask the average Chinese person and they think the American government is just as corrupt as the Chinese. You may differ in your opinion. Who's right? Who knows? But I know one thing for sure, and it's that it doesn't matter who is less or more corrupt.
I suppose it is in fact possible to say "Super Genius" without prefacing it with "Wile E. Coyote..."
The public schools are getting rid of their gifted programs because they are unfair. How would a genius basic income fare?
Common Table Expression support added “out-of-the-box” in Rails
That's not it, otherwise you'd make the little ones play with a Turing machine.
Why doesn't society prioritize geniuses though?

And does society really have a say in this decision process? Because it is pretty obvious that the ones deciding society-wide investment priorities are, for a lack of better word, the elites.

As fellow HNer noticed in today's thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32120063 elites are very much used to having precise control over their environment, and known&unknown unknowns irritate them.

From this POV natural geniuses are just such an instance of a hard to control variable, and so it's obvious that prioritization of geniuses would pose a problem to the elites. Who knows when a popular genius will decide to amass the political power and change the power balance?

It seems that the current packaging of the brightest into the ivory tower of the academia is a compromise, where one side gets a certain amount of income and freedom, in return for giving away broader ambition.

And at least to me, this is disappointing.
I got the Forth C64 cartridge[0], but my fascination with programming languages was, alas, at that age not yet equal to my — whoa is that a party?

Now that I’m less easily distracted I often feel a vast nostalgia for those early-ish days of personal computing, specifically for how nobody knew which paradigm, if any, would gain traction.

I still peruse the Byte classifieds in a few old keeper issues whenever I visit $HOME.

[0]: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/64_Forth
And the FreeBSD boot loader uses forth scripting: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?loader(8)

(lua support was recently added as well)
Assuming that the skill, creativity, & genius that this world ought to be supporting lines up at all with the same things that would make someone successful at a hedge fund seems wildly off target to me.
the problem with tenure is:

it requires a spot be open, very competitive, requires a lot of published research, may require having to move, may have teaching obligations
ZScaler has coopted the term Zero Trust for marketing purposes. Their SSL interception tool is branded as part of their Zero Trust but is antithetical to the principles of zero trust ... in fact, IMHO anybody who deploys it is further away from achieving Zero Trust than before they started - instead of users authenticating using individually secured transactions to every TLS endpoint they connect to, it is all centralized in ZScaler which is ubiquitously trusted across the organisation. This is a centralizing of the trust model that is the opposite of the intent of Zero Trust.

I hope ZScaler gets shamed into modifying or removing some of this branding (or alternatively sued when one of their customers gets attacked or fails an audit after believing it ...)
He’s also relatively active as u/jeffgerickson on r/UIUC. One of the best instructors I’ve had in my lifetime
I use this daily on one of my devices and I am a huge fan. I experience better battery life, better app speed, and obviously appreciate the decreased telemetry and more cautious memory allocator, among many other beneficial changes.

For those who are considering it though, its worth noting that the community has a very... Confrontational style of correcting others though.

Not a dealbreaker, but a nuisance. It can feel like being back in grade 8 again with the class know it all.
I'll think about how to make it clearer to you two
Do the people on the receiving end of America's military factor into these effusions?
It is precisely because of this self-defeating trend such programs are needed.
The native binary produced by ocamlopt is 917KB, the bytecode produced by ocamlc is 156KB.

I must admit I didn't expect such "big" files.

Out of curiosity I tested to compile a completely empty OCaml program: the native binary is 365KB and the bytecode is 21KB.
I used Scratch in middle school, my first exposure to programming. Graduated two years ago and I'm a full time Software Engineer now.
maybe Pharo or Squeak would be better alternatives as a follow up to Scratch?

I think python is also a great candidate.
The hedge fund is what you would be doing instead of the work that would make them a field medalist.

So really they would love someone who could be a field medalist, to give that up, make them a few billion, and pay them a few million.
Yes. My education benefits all of humanity.
Maybe I'm unusual, but when I hear about horse-meat eating, I don't think "Gross, I'm eating a pet" as much as I think "Gross, I'm eating a car".
Did you ever consider listening to the reasons they were slagging you off? Was it true, did you make changes
buy & mine as much bitcoin as possible in 2010-2012, but that seems too obvious
The Chinese gov't can have that (at some level) without doing a giant rescue of everyone. If they want it to keep growing, sure they can do that, but the problem is they let it keep growing too much already.
the best TLDR I've seen of this philosophy is - if you find yourself writing all over your codebase

try {
...
} catch (e) {
console.log(e)
}

then you should probably just "let it fail" since you can't actually handle the error
You might try it as Nim is really easy to pickup. In some ways it's even easier than JS!
We could use that as a defense against Canada. ;)
This is right, therefore, in most cases, a library should throw a checked exception, and the caller should decide whether it is an expected error and either handle it or rethrow it, or it is unexpected and rethrow a RuntimeException.
I have four of these units going on 6 years:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000065DK8
The US uses submarines to threaten attacks on far away countries, not for defence.
> I doubt the $12k that was billed was paid by insurance company. Typically, the provider bills a ludicrous amount, and then they apply a ridiculous “adjustment” for being a subscriber to the insurance plan, and then you pay per your deductible/coinsurance/out of pocket maximum situation.

That doesn't make the fact that they bill such a ridiculous amount in the first place any less unacceptable.
Because the terms will inevitably communicate to the users one way of the other.

It confuses even engineers who don't focus on security.
If you can stomach kubernetes, you get this for free for all languages. Just panic!() or die(), and you'll get a fresh pod in a few seconds.

Outside of k8s I try to use the lang's preferred tool. Python -> supervisord, Node -> pm2, etc.
I wonder at how proving a legal path to ending life for anyone (with a lengthy waiting period and multiple psych sessions) would reduce the instances of impromptu suicide.

My suspicion is that the availability of a legitimized path to the same result, but with a far less traumatizing method for both the individual and their loved ones, might allow for transitioning people into getting help when that's not the outcome they really want and provide a respectful and humane exit for those that clinically and chronically find living unbearable.

I'm not sure that the most ethical approach to life is forcing people to continue with it against their will, it is clearly not working, and by pushing the pursuit of death underground we're likely missing tens of thousands of people each year who would turn away from that downward spiral through treatment.

The people I knew that eventually committed suicide due to chronic depression spent many years thinking about it - a year waiting list for a state authorized humane option I'm sure would have been fine with any of them. But the ones that committed suicide in response to temporary circumstances didn't have any outlet other than admitting the intent to commit a crime and facing the social and economic consequences of that being outed.

Even the number of stories I've heard from survivors about the regret as soon as it was too late to take back is harrowing.

I'd have to wonder how many push the button for the nitrogen chamber (the likely method for state authorized suicide) only to regret it in the last moment where someone could successfully abort the procedure to save them. The low level of repeat attempts would be promising for the availability of "suicide with emergency break" alone.

The religious puritanism surrounding suicide has doomed us to adopt policies and attitudes towards it as a society that probably do more harm than good.
There’s about 330,000 people in the US with an IQ above 145.
> We know they have near slave labor and high suicide rates in Foxconn.

It’s actually nothing like slavery at all. The workers can leave at any time, and demand for those jobs is extremely high.
No. Float all boats. This is stupid.
It is quite a narrow discussion, all focused around this notion of letting them live anywhere.

But to me it is simple. The genius probably doesn't want to live in London per-se. They want to mingle with other geniuses. So they want to be near the best universities so they are contunially interacting with the best when they want to. But also having private spaces to think.

Really they just need a decent serviced appartment on university grounds, or in housing nearby.

Which is something the government will probably already own or could build.
The GI Bill had problems with racism [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill#Racial_discriminatio...
There's a lot of "redneck pride", but I don't think anybody has "white trash pride".
There is little wrong with it, but it's an uncontroversial fact that human intelligence peaks around 22 and what remains after it is a slow decline, ameliorated by amassing more crystallized knowledge.

Hardest fields require this extreme raw intelligence, thus even capable people have only their 20s to produce their most groundbreaking work.

It would be cool if human aging weren't structured like this, but if this is a problem with a solution at all, a solution still needs someone extremely talented in their 20s to work on it for a few years.

Compared to the upside, I think that providing UBI to such people should be a non-issue.
what if it was 40,000?