skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with much of anything you're saying. At the same time, I don't see UBI as a decent cure.

The market is imperfect (as we see it's attracting outsized talent to selling crass ads) and on the other hand, central planning/state enterprises (Soviet-style) also has shortcomings which are even worse --though they do well in developing talent for where it's needed (however they are bad at figuring out 'needs') and suffers from gross mismanagement in operations.

So, given the above, it would seem there is a place for a middle-ground somewhere, I just don't see the magic in UBI necessary to achieve that.

One option is what kind of exists in certain underattracted/underserved areas where the government underwrites someone's education in return for service. So there are grants one can receive in exchange for service commitment after graduation. Obviously you can't "play around" and try to figure out if you like something and then something else... You have to know what you want.
calculus is full
of ambiguity. Not in a mathematical sense, but as someone who has recently TA'd a calculus class, I can confidently assert that no mathematics happens there. Mathematics is only unambiguous insofar as you can check your own work. None of those students would have been capable of that. They're just memorizing rules with many unintuitive caveats that are unintuitive either out of an absurd desire to restrict the curriculum, or because they are natural in the context of their proofs, but students are basically forbidden from seeing those.

Universities have decided that making calculus as capricious as possible serves their interests of having a weeder class.
International Space Station Archaeological Project
> all AI art is confined to digital medium (at least for now, 3D printing might change that). You can't see the brushstrokes like in a real life, physical painting.

For now. There's no technical reason why we can't have CNC painting machines - there's plenty of existing tech in manufacturing that has the required precision and range of motion. I think we don't see such machines because there is no business need for them - or at least, there wasn't.

To date, the kind of digital images you'd want to reproduce using a CNC painter would be drawn by actual artists, using their hands and - most likely - tools like pens and drawing tablets. The work of an artist is similar enough to actual painting that, if there's a need for the 3D texture, they can just... use real brush on real canvas. There technically is a market for cheap reproductions, but AFAIK this one is covered by "painter farms" - warehouses full of low-paid painters mass-producing paintings, in countries with cheap labor costs.

Now, if you could get the ML model produce "original" work, encoded as a time series of brush strokes (either straight from the model, or by another model turning JPEGs into painting instructions), then this just might provide an incentive for CNC painters. It might even start as a hobby thing - there's lots of people who would build such machine, the way they build 3D printers now, so they could produce their own paintings at home. Those same people will be unlikely to pay a far-away painter farm instead.

> Dancing is one that will be very hard to copy, because you need actual humans for it.

AFAIR that was already done, to a passable level, by Boston Dynamics, a few years ago. Sure, that was a one-off carefully choreographed stunt, but it demonstrated that 1) robotics can handle dancing just fine, and 2) the result is actually enjoyable to watch. The missing bit is software, but given the ML work being done in recent years, in particular all those video editing/generating models that start by parsing human movement from input videos, I think it won't be hard for someone to start generating dance moves.
I don't think we're going to solve the lazy people problem before we solve the system-that-encourages-people-to-be-lazy problem. We cannot change behavior without changing incentives. Of course everyone is going to try to make a profit doing as little work as possible - we've built a system for incentivizing precisely that mode of work.
> But if they do, share your profits fairly.

How do you determine how much profit an employed CTO makes versus a customer service rep? What's fair there? My estimated guess: you have no idea.
> I've found with Linux distributions that aren't rolling releases, things tend to break in annoying and insidious ways, such that you generally need to, or at least it is strongly advisable to, fresh install each time.

Debian has historically been good for in-place upgrades. I first encountered the 'fresh install' recommendation on Ubuntu, which was a shame since Ubuntu is based on Debian :(
My job is art and AI art is super depressing.
I’d heard that most entrepreneurs were children of wealthy individuals who have at least $20M, and the only good reason to not have extremely high estate taxes. I’m skeptical that a UBI will have the same effect. The entrepreneurs need to have resources to start a company without risk, not just resources to survive.
DF source is only open in that museum where it’s on display. And it appeared a very long time ago. This comment is so almost wrong it seems like GPT
This will be a huge hit to Karafun’s subscriber base. I’ve paid for a couple of months before. Having this as part of my Apple Music or One subscription would give me no reason to ever subscribe to it again, assuming feature and library parity.
Doesn't the "automation" usually mean hordes of low-paid people in India and elsewhere doing it?
How would that stoke the egos of all godless psycopaths?
There was corruption at the height of organized crime. The average Teamster is doing a lot better than than average non-unionized trucker
This isn't really as simple as a linear decrease in immunity though - certain tools that your immune system uses like antibodies decrease over time but other tools like T-cell responses are long lasting. Thinking of it in terms of an acute response where you're very strongly protected and a persistent response where you have a slower but still effective protection is a better model.
Audi Urban Purifier's turns autos into Roombas. Neat.

Also, I'm wondering about tires which pollute less. Both in their production and usage.

To reduce particulates during use, I'm guessing tires will need to be tougher, less grippy. So might require better active suspension and braking systems to maintain current comfort and safety standards.
This is awesome. I am sure my child will love it. I would have when I was a kid.
The iPhone app does have a pretty accurate Tag-finding feature. So disabling the speaker doesn't preclude a victim being notified of tracking and finding the device.

But, that's on Apple. There's only a very limited [official Apple] app available on Android - it lacks automatic notification of being tracked - victim has to manually scan for Tags. I don't know how well it can precisely locate the Tags.

EDIT - added "official Apple" in brackets above.
Do they really have to give a name to every new hardware and software feature they come up with? Especially when the feature in question is just karaoke.
Does android warn if you're being tracked by a AirTag?
One important thing to know, is knowledge sharing actually creates value. But yes, a company will increase its value internally if it has culture of sharing.
The only thing cyberpunk novels got wrong was using paper readouts and floppy disquettes/cartridges.
Why? Wouldn't it be a good thing if intelligent, level-headed, and moral people join the team and improve it?
> The Empire. Evil all the way

Well at least the hours are good. And the uniforms are snappy. Red,
black. lots of leather. And the shouting. Fuckit, sign me up.
I would argue that The Big Five personality traits is just as reproducible but with a much higher construct validity than IQ. It measures a similar thing in a similar way, in that it's an abstract concept about human psychology (personality and intelligence) that is measured with questionnaires.

There's good science in Psychology, even if the field as a whole is suffering the replication crisis. Some parts of cognitive psychology such as studies in reaction times, memory, and perception are very reproducible. Classic conditioning is a standard in animal training.

Psychology as a whole has a bed reputation, and it has received solid criticism. I think a lot of it has to do with a few high profile frauds, bad translational science (theory to application), perverse publication incentives in academia, and the tendency for non-scientist to use questionable findings to justify their opinions.
Confused this with taiga ui (https://github.com/Tinkoff/taiga-ui) :P
This is specific to startups. If you can define a business model that is somewhat unique and successful, you can scale really quickly and hopefully exit before your expenses catch up to you, like Instagram and WhatsApp did.

Expenses eventually catch up with you, because business is adversarial. Any technology available cheaply to you to scale your business is also available cheaply to your competitors. Once other smart people start going after your market share, you will need to spend more to defend it and continue to grow.

Expensive things: invention, sales, marketing, customer service, compliance, content moderation, etc. These all have to be done by humans. A lot of companies who scaled their revenue rapidly with low head count, have then had to scale their headcount to maintain their business. (Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc)

The founder with no employees is for sure an attractive fantasy. It's basically the core of the superhero myth: a person who has a big effect on society without depending on anyone else. Superman doesn't need help because he is invulnerable and strong. Even superheroes who ostensibly depend on large teams, like Batman or Iron Man, are never shown that way. If you go back to the beginning of the MCU, Tony Stark is alway shown alone with his technology. It's the bad guys who bark at subordinates and run around in groups.
Please, there's been "deep" games with random world generation since the beginning of gaming... The whole roguelike genre is called that because of the original, Rogue. Civilization games also fit the bill. And while Minecraft and Roblox have been hits, other genres are still doing just fine.

Also I think you're confused as to what open-source means...
I think they just mean indie rather than open source.
Wow! They really improved the UI. I find really nice that now you not need to use DwarfTerapist to handle it.

And the new game that I just begin (it's yet early summer) and I got a siege of zombie elfs. and I don't have any defense... funny times!
I have a whole rant about how consumer software and software for serious things (ie: people can die) need to be treated differently just like civil engineering and building a shed in your back yard should be treated differently. There is no room for agile code in a finished product where lives are on the line. Its fine for non life or death things and its a great way to prototype ideas. But the control system on your car should be developed with more rigor than that.
Yeah same here, but I guess it beats daily dozen articles about Twitter.
People making minimum wage typically have to work well above 40 hours, and even then often find their earnings difficult to live off of. See also: all the calls for paying low-level employees a "living wage".
It's been a while since I played around with that, but I remember the results not being super clean.

Is that still the case?

I am assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that Apple has access to multitrack versions of some songs and that for these tracks it will be able to remove the vocals in a pristine way.
Suggesting we calibrate our reaction based off other examples of animal suffering isn’t an objective take. Some people don’t want any animals to suffer by human hands. Some people are opposed to animal trials in their entirety. Some people might oppose their use in this particular instance. Some people might just have a hard cut off at three dead mice. Whether or not this number is industry standard can be beside the point for someone else, and it doesn’t mean they’re being “preyed upon” or manipulated for reading and responding to a fact using a different moral framework.
> There's not much reason to think this is the case based on the opinions of other experts in the field.

There is however good reason to think this is the case by looking at the history of many other developments, such as planes (so many crashes and deaths in the 1900s) and rockets (many SpaceX booms).
Imagine using the same tech to make deaf speech properly intelligible.
My team tested Taiga on a small project. It did not work for us, with a half dozen users of mixed sophistication. Those of us who know our way around these kinds of tools could make it work, but also felt the problems that newer users could not resolve.

- The "Save" icon is tiny and hard to find in some layouts (right hand gutter, near the top and far away from your linear text entry flow). It's a floppy disk! Navigating away does not warn you that you have unsaved edits.

- Issues can be converted to Stories after review. Great. But there is no indication that the Issue has been converted, and reporters can continue to edit Issues, and the changes are not synced to the new Story item. This was very confusing for some people, and created way more friction than could be reasoned away.

- Information density was OK with a small quantity of items/comments/etc, but too sparse for a confident view with large quantities.

We moved this project over to test GitHub Projects, which is an improvement but also lacking in some important (different) areas.

...

All of these tools have always sucked on some or several dimensions. It's probably impossible to not suck.

JIRA can be made to work, though I will never do so again.

Pivotal Tracker is solid but overwhelming for reporters/casual users, and requires custom code to integrate with GitHub (but API is decent).

Sometimes I miss Trac and Redmine, if only because anything that bothered me enough could be fixed in our self-hosted instance.
What's exchanged on chain is an option agreement. When the option is exercised, the SPV which actually owns the land transfers the title on the national register.

There's a liability framework in place to make sure they do, and stamp duty etc. are paid when the NFT is transferred: that's where the interest is transferred.
They get what they negotiate for, no? I worked for startups before and I would press for more equity, but I wasn't under any delusion that if there were 4 employees and I was just joining that I'd get 20% equity. They were there first, had to take on the risk, etc.
50% of code written today is AI assisted? I find that very hard to believe.
My impression is that it's not amazing anywhere, but I've heard Burnaby (for example) is a bit more development friendly than Vancouver.

I'm interested to see what happens in the next couple of years — Ken Sim (Vancouver's new mayor) had significantly improving permitting speeds and decisions as a key plank in his platform. I'm curious to see how he and his party are planning to follow through on that.
Then the question is why? What is dysfunctional about their lives that makes it impossible?
Lens is one of my favorite libraries, but I can understand why optics, in general, is a divisive topic. Like many things in Haskell, you won't appreciate optics without suffering through a steep learning curve.

Optics don't just save you a few keystrokes. Instead, they make tedious code that you would never write trivial. And more importantly, they're composable. So it's impossible to appreciate their effectiveness without using them on a real-world app. For example, I've worked in an app with three layers, each with its record types, and without the lens library, the pain of converting between records would have been insufferable. Instead, most developers would couple the three layers together to avoid the problem, which makes the codebase brittle.
ChatGPT says:

The best plan of action for the university is to use the 90 questionnaires that were submitted as the final sample. This is because the sample of 120 students was randomly selected, which means that the 90 students who did respond to the questionnaire are representative of the entire population of students in this year's freshman class. By using the responses from these 90 students, the university will be able to obtain accurate and reliable results from the questionnaire.
I'd like to eat healthy food and buy ethically sourced things, even though I can't, and have no capacity, to tell the difference.
Works fine w/ steam and "Proton Experimental" under "Linux 5.10.154-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 10 20:51:28 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux". I had to install the package "sdl_ttf" though; without it, the game just hung at the inital screen that says "Loading".
> There is a reason everyone is excited about it.

For the time being, it's just another item added to the average tech grifter's inventory.
Just looked it up and over 23 million animals are killed every single day just in the US.

This is just for land animals. Including seaside brings it somewhere around 150 million a day.

To think that now all of a sudden 1,500 animals over months or years matters is laughable. Anyone criticizing musk needs to either stop and reflect on how their society is causing all this animal murder, or at the very least realize how irrational they look getting worked up over this.
> The blockchain is now at a stage in its development equivalent to where the internet was in or around 1995.

You might be able to get away to comapring it to p2p file sharing services like napster but not the internet
Just as we're facing an energy crunch and massive inflation, caused in part by high energy prices, we could dramatically expand our production, crash prices, and bankrupt dangerous despots in the process. But no, we just can't have nice things, and our quality of life must deteriorate.
Now just think if we could leverage this technology to make children's videos!!!

r/elsagate
Wow. I feel like an idiot. Despite mentioning "GPS" several times in their copy, it does seem that Bluetooth is the only way to "find" a device. I still don't understand how the "GPS" part of their trackers work. Anyone have details?

I'm going to remove them and attach to "household" items instead.
I love the story of Faraday and Maxwell precisely for this reason. Maxwell was a bonafide genius, but Faraday was just really good at note-taking and doing experiments. Because of those talents, Faraday was able to document a lifetime of experiments with electricity. Maxwell read the entire record of those experiments and was able to derive the mathematical model of what was happening. It seems that it takes more than just "genius" for progress to occur: creativity, hard work, diligence, and passion are also required, as well as a society that supports the people engaging in such endeavors.
Consider also : https://sendie.com
The geniuses bombed the entire planet for generations with their COVID response ideas. I shudder when I hear them talk about "dimming the sun" next. Could use a little less "genius" for awhile.
Everything I see online about Neuralink reminds me so much of Theranos.

- Megalomaniac founder who only cares about their grand end goal, not the realities of the science needed to get there.

- Flashy demos and overhyped press coverage, no real world results.

- "Move fast and break things" operating mantra, regardless of consequences.

- No public research, published papers, peer reviews.

- Adversarial relationship with FDA and other regulators.

- Legion of fans defending their every move, right up to the bitter end.
That's a good insight. I upvoted you. You may be right, I may be wrong and the timing was merely coincidental.
Who is gatekeeping? I'm merely pointing out the hypocrisy. And if you're definition of gatekeeping includes merely pointing at that contributing to the subjugation of animals in our food system is in fact unnecessary suffering, then I think 1.) your definition of gatekeeping is useless, and 2.) we should be doing more of that "gatekeeping".

Also, have you considered being vegan rather than vegetarian? After all, the dairy industry is the meat industry, so what effect does being a vegetarian actually have for the victims?
i dunno, they can google it pretty easily
Not really. 1500 is fine for a chance at helping people with paralysis, would have to be magnitudes higher for me to care.

The potential good outweighs the cost significantly
> I guess.

You guess what? That potential parents should be prepared to take care of their children for their entire life? I think that's reasonable. Things happen all the time, too, where tragedies happen and people suffer medical issues that require lifetime care.

Being a parent is committing to that.

And if your thought is "I'm going to gamble that it doesn't happen to me" is really telling.

Regardless, being informed is important. Maybe you got lucky in your ignorance, but not everyone will be so lucky.
> One thing I noticed...was that the interview processes are very slow

We're thick into the holiday season. I wouldn't expect anything to speed up until January, regardless of market conditions.
This is not a zero sum game. Minecraft has lots of merchandising (including other video games) and has launched many youtube careers. It has created a big marketing cohort and businesses loves those.

Now dwarf fortress is a more interesting beast to me. It belongs to a niche where the ratio of players to developers is very small. Those games are in perpetual betas. The biggest ones are financed by patreon and by side jobs. The meat of those games is found in the complex systems that the players can interact with. The graphics are often dry and unappealing to the mainstream audience.

I recommend the grid sage games blog as an example of the dedication that those people put in their craft: www.gridsagegames.com/blog/

I don't think the big publishers are interested in this niche. Mostly designers will look at those game to study their innovations and try to replicate that in more polished games.
Is it just me or no one seems to get the point of a Universal Basic Income.

Universal, everyone has it, same amount, no condition. Be a genius or an idiot, active or retired, poor or billionaire, hero or criminal, no exception, except maybe for minors.

Making it universal has the added bonus of simplifying welfare programs. Subsidized housing and transport, food stamps, unemployment benefits, etc... no need, it is all UBI now. No more fraud because there is no need to: you always qualify, and as a result, no need to fight it. No more rewarding optimization since there is nothing to optimize.

In my view, UBI is not generous, there will be losers, and a lot of jobs related to welfare will be made pointless. It may be a problem for those who have trouble managing a budget too: what if you overspend you UBI and have nothing left to eat? I think it won't work not because people will stop working, but because it is too big a change and some people will find themselves literally starving, at least during the transition. It is like many solutions to complex problems: clear, simple and wrong.
Yeah, but crypto exchanges subsume the roles of broker dealers, clearing houses, depositories and shadow banks.
I recently had the need to propose a build tool. Naturally make came to my mind then I looked into something more modern. I didn't dive deep but I was left with impression that CMake and many others support a certain set of programming languages?

PS: I know that make has many shortcuts to compile a C/C++ codebase but in essence its targets as file system time stamps.