skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And giving someone a wage subsidy for low-paid work hasn't worked either.

Ask any person whether they deserve to earn more? Your point is completely devoid of any attempt to reason objectively. We have a minimum income system already (UC was designed to be a taper like NIT or UBI). People are quite happy to accept free food if it is being offered, but look at how much we spend on welfare...it is staggering (if you look at stats on food bank usage, you will also see that usage is highest amongst groups i.e. single people who don't receive the really valuable UC benefits i.e. CTCs...food bank usage is generally terribly uninformative though because if you give free food, people will take it).

Yes there is evidence of a hidden army of unemployed, that is why I mentioned repeatedly that people often don't understand.

If you are familiar with DWP stats, you would know that unemployment benefit is now being phased out totally. But some people on UC who do not work are not recorded as unemployed (this numbers 3.9m). And there is evidence that a lot of the people on ESA are claiming because they are also unable to work (at least, 500k iirc). And, of course, the point of UC was to get people back into work...but it has led to people earning £15k/year working min wage for 10 hours/week, that gap is money that would have been unemployment twenty years ago but isn't now. So we have swapped paying unemployment for a wage subsidy...again, you don't appear to understand this, the point was: we will pay people to work rather than sit on the dole (through offering a subsidy that lifts low wage), this should have led to more output...it didn't.

Btw, this is all obvious without having detailed knowledge of DWP statistics...you are saying how desperately poor everyone is...unemployment is the lowest it has been for five decades, how does that make sense to you? Wage growth is 4% below inflation, how does that make sense to you? Just saying lol, increase productivity...okay, that is what UC was for...this has been tried before, the problem is that there far too many people in the UK and not enough work (it is zero-sum because population growth is so far in excess of productivity growth).
Now _that_ was some good sci-fi. Hard hitting, fascinating, and damn does it make its point. Thanks for sharing.
Shopify and Github being run on Rails sorta put it to bed a long time ago.
2021:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-...

2019:

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/260738/why-a...
Before we worry about communicating with civilization far away in space but coexisting with us in time, we should work at communicating with civilizations coexisting with us in space but far away in time.

One of my favorite "out there" theories is that it's possible (and I mean conspiracy theory possible) that the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum[0] was caused by an industrial civilization facing the same global warming problem we are today right here on Earth, wiping itself and several other species at the time out, but otherwise leaving the planet fine and recovering in short geological time.

The interesting part of this "theory" is that because PETM happened 50 million years ago, even if there was a civilization as complex and large as ours today, very little (essential none) evidence of it would survive.

My last bit of techno optimism is that if we do find ourselves unquestionably headed towards climate catastrophe, we should start investing research into figuring out how we might send some kind of message to a future civilization that emerges 50-100 million years after us. Something along the lines of "human were here! watch out for those hydro carbons!"

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...
you guys are both right, kinda.

no, landlords do not willingly operate at a loss. in a really bad market (housing glut) they may be forced to. that's not the situation right now, at least in highly populated areas.

rents are usually going to be at least 20-30% higher than mortgage + expenses, or else the landlords will start selling or go bankrupt.

however, that's the mortgage payment and interest rate from the time it was bought, not necessarily today. so if the landlord bought that investment property 5 years ago, his costs are probably less than 1/2 of what it would cost you today. even if the market rent goes lower than that, he can still be profitable. so, right now, temporarily, it can be slightly cheaper month-to-month to rent in a lot of markets in the us.

the fact that's what the markets are doing says some things about the current and future home sale prices.
It would suck up rocks, dust, and debris from the track and spit it out to the driver behind. There are interviews with drivers complaining about it from the very start.
Only people who buy a blue tick will believe the polls actually drive the strategy anyway.
Nobody ever really has to do anything as my mom told me long ago.
At the backend side, it makes easy to build websites. However, the UI layer is a bit complex to integrate with common framework libraries like Vue and React.

Although, I still use it in some projects :)
I love this template as well, and wholeheartedly recommend it. There are a couple things you probably don't need (click and nox, for instance, seem only useful if you're really building a couple specific things) but the gestalt of it is really strong. The [article series](https://medium.com/@cjolowicz/hypermodern-python-d44485d9d76...) that spawned the template is worth reading in full.

I would go so far as to say that the hypermodern template, nomenclature aside, is strictly better than the recommendations that the OP put forward both here and in the previous essay on dependency management. Poetry and ruff, for instance, are both very good tools — and I can understand _not_ recommending them for one reason or another but to not even mention them strikes me as worrisome.
> So what do you propose, we ban letting people make lists of words?

Amazingly, the strawmen keep coming. You think this is a bad list because it has bad entries in it? You must be against the very concept of lists!
I don't think music production has ever been the market for the mac pro.
It's funny and annoying, which is Maciej's schtick. The cooly ironic lets-not-take-it-too-seriously approach to customer service.
Wonder how much overlap the changes will have with those required as part of the Digital Markets Act. Many large sites are going to change until May 2023.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act

[2] https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/european-commission-digital-m...
But conditions suitable for life's evolution as we know, is matter of pride for sure.
I prefer the Dark Forest interpretation of the Fermi Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis
> the belief that we should strive to treat people without regard to race in our personal lives and in our public policy.

I found this line very interesting. Under what circumstances would I treat someone differently in my private life because of their race? I literally can’t think of any, but if I could, I’d think that was a significant flaw on my part.

If I think I shouldn’t do that in private life, what would have to be true in order for me to think it was okay to do that same thing by government or institutional policy?
It's in a completely different product space, so there's that to differentiate them as a start.
I don’t think more listening time is the objective. Spotify is like a gym. They want you to subscribe but then never show up, or only show up for promoted content
Until SETI locates something like a pulsar braking and accelerating to signal prime numbers we're really really really unlikely to stumble onto more life. Space is just too big.
i never said that we don't have capitalism now "despite the lack of ideological purity." again, you're misrepresenting my argument to fit your own argument. it's very clear this is the system that we have in america.

"We've literally had over a hundred years of political experiments with socialism." again, you're cherry picking failure to fit your bias and you are also ignoring history (aka, in your own words, you have a weak argument). we've had almost a hundred years of success of socialism in finnish countries, particularly norway. i already know that you're gonna argue that BuT nOrWaY iS cAPiTaLIsM!!, but that's not true. go look at norway's nearly 80% of wealth that is held in public ownership when you don't count housing...that is a very clear success in history. so, you're right, "What we’ve seen in the 20th century is socialism in reality." we've seen it work in reality and we've seen it fail in reality. in the same way that we've seen capitalism work in reality, and we've seen it fail in reality.

and again, cherry picking with the "i believe it barely worked with a packaging company" ignores the many, many countless examples where that organization model has worked and has proven to be more resilient than a capitalist enterprise. very weak argument, especially because you say "i believe" but you aren't sure because that it is a fact, you just offhandedly heard that or something? i would share more examples with you but you clearly have no desire to learn and just want to win an argument.

"Corruption doesn't disappear when you switch to socialism." you're right, but you're ignoring the fact that socialism, in it's right form, is a democratic system. maybe i'm too optimistic, but that knowledge is a lousy reason to not setup a system of democratic to safeguard against this truth. the ability to hack democracy is one of those questions that keep me up at night, and i see it as a challenge and problem to solve rather than something to cede to (which should get the HN crowd excited). clearly this truth of corruption is abused in capitalism and it's exacerbated since we don't have the safeguard of a democratic process to prevent these abuses. at least with socialism, there's democracy.

EDIT: also, based on your argument style, i think that you might say, "but you said that socialism is a cooperative model and not norway. GOTCHA!" if that's the case, then LOL because you're missing the point and proving that you're only trying to win an argument.
A lot of notes apps seem to be adding some type of visual note-taking (is that the right term?)

Logseq now has a whiteboard feature that is similarly powerful.
> What's the general vibe on RoR nowadays?

Most people that use it are fine and productive.

Because of lazy evaluation, type issues persist though. Plenty of instances of trying to call string methods on integers, and array methods on nil, and Rails devs in denial that that's a big problem as the app continues to grow.
Indeed, a 286 would cause some breakage and some OS-level APIs would need more complicated code, and some programs would be difficult to port due to HGA, VGA, and SVGA graphics being very different from Amiga modes (although somewhat superior).

Still, would be fun to have a 386 version of the Amiga OS.
I didn't say it was....
My new year resolution is to move from Notion to Obsidian. I found Notion unreliable in some situations and tbh, I'm not using the mobile application at all.
I would recommend a card with higher RAM, may be a 3090ti coupled with an AMD Ryzen 9 processor. Recently, I got one for around 2000 USD. https://store.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/store/gpu/?page=1&lim...
Not every intelligent life form out there will have the same homicidal baggage in their genes as the homo sapiens
The .canvas files are a JSON-based file format that we open-sourced under MIT license. Just like everything else in Obsidian, it's still all local files on your device.

You can see the spec for .canvas here:
https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api/blob/master/canva...
They can't get a visa. They come as dependents of someone who has a visa. You just need to read the news, the govt is producing legislation to stop this.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/albania...

I think you just need to read the news more my friend.
Disparate large groups of people will always create friction, and I'm pretty sure you can't force or legislate civility. HN seems a civil place, and succeeds at this with the idea of unlocking functions as a person learns to adapt to the culture and only offer things that the hierarchy agrees with. This is the only real solution, I think; disallowing disagreeable people until they choose to come around to the preferred ideology.
How would they ever find out in the first place?
I think main goal is to avoid big deadly accidents. Drivers dying is not good out look for a sport from marketing standpoint. As such lot of thought is put in making the races slower and removing failure points that can lead uncontrollable 300km/h rockets. Like fan failing at end of straight and car becoming uncontrollable then crashing to concrete barrier. Very nasty for driver and possibly the audience and people next to track.
Why are you asking instead of just doing it? Nobody else knows what is the exact workload you intent to put there.
You could look at getting out of the hosting game by providing a "bring your own hosting option". Then everyone is happy. If you have a good tool that doesn't resonate with individuals, you then have the option to pivot to providing a premium version for bigger businesses that is hosting-agnostic.
> Outdated, now-offensive terms like "hermaphrodite"

As far as I know, it describes a real state of things; for instance snails are hermaphrodite, and I don't think anyone ought to feel insulted by this banal fact.

The dumbest series of the list are those words containing "white" or "black" (from "blackballed" and "black hat" to "white-space") which supposedly now carry racial undertones (hint: they don't, and never did).

It looks almost like a plot by rich, progressive people to build a culture war with rich, right-wing people to prevent any serious debate on environmental collapse, class exploitation, plutocracy, etc. You could nearly believe that all those supposedly warring high-ranking people play a clever game together to actually keep the power structure as is, and make minuscule problems obfuscate real ones. Almost.
So upvotes = you resign? I'm a little unclear about this...
> For example, you basically never care whether something is exactly of type list, you care about things like whether you can iterate over it or index into it.

Terrible advice not to use type hints and this reason makes no sense. There's already pretty good support for Sequence and Iterable and so on, and if you run into a place where you really can't write down the types (e.g. kwargs, which a lot of Python programmers abuse), then you can use Any.

Blows my mind how allergic Python programmers are to static typing despite the huge and obvious benefits.

It's true that Python's static typing does suck balls compared to most languages, but they're still a gazillion times better than nothing, and most of the reason they suck so much is that so many Python developers don't use them!
What's hard to comprehend is how there could be a possible way to preserve our consciousness through a hibernation state. Like, our cells might not die, and we might be technically revived, but we'd still be brain-dead.

And if we figure it out, does the original "experiencer of consciousness" in that body return to life? Or is it a new consciousness, with the same memories, but the original person who went to sleep would never experience waking up again? And how would we be able to test that?

If we asked the "new experiencer of consciousness" if they are the original, they would say yes, as they'd have all the same memories as the experiencer who initially went under. Kind of like the color blind problem, but much harder to objectively test, if not impossible.

Consciousness, behind a unified theory of everything, is one thing I hope is answered in my life time. Probably won't be. But it's such a mystery.
Yet humans endure.
Oskar Stålberg has famously used WFC in Bad North and Townscaper.

Here's a nice presentation from him explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bcZb-SsnrA
If you have some time, this is worth a read:

https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon

It’s a nice, short metaphorical story for our acceptance of death.
> some people might not want to use it because of the naming, while it was set aside for them. Some people will be more aggressive towards user of this space if they feel they don't deserve it (not visibly handicapped enough) etc.

I'll accept this premise for the sake of discussion. How does replacing the word 'handicapped' fix any of these issues? Lets say we re-print all the signs to say 'accessible parking' and all the hangtags to say 'requires accessible parking'.

People still may potentially get upset that a seemingly able-bodied person used the special parking spot. People who require the special parking spot may still potentially feel bad about it and choose a regular spot.

Playing games with the labels does nothing to help people, and serves only to satisfy the self-righteous people writing the new labels.
"You'll own nothing and be happy"

They just can't stop themselves from saying the quiet part out loud.
Build a network. Contribute to things. Cultivate friendships. Help people. Do that for a few years and then people might listen to your ideas.
They’re building up to these features from plain text.

Similarly, right now they’re discussing how to contain a node-based database in human-readable markdown comments.
An old NTSC video signal has a clear periodic structure. Simply counting lines is going to reveal a lot about the structure and if anyone gets the idea of plotting lines they will figure out how to decode it.

An efficient digital signal is going to maximize the use of bandwidth if it looks like white noise. That said, a signal like that needs a carefully calibrated receiver, so part of the signal in time-frequency space is going to be allocated for something that is easy to acquire and will tell to how to decode the main signal. You might see a periodic structure: if you want to run a "signal frequency network" with multiple transmitters with the same signal, have to deal with a lot of reflected signals, or listen from a mobile terminal that suffers from the Doppler Effect you will probably turn off the signal for part of the cycle so that reflections can die down and you can reset your echo cancellation algorithms.

Thus digital signals aren't going to be invisible but they are going to spend maybe 5% of the energy in a way that is easy to interpret as opposed to all of it.
I'm also fond of "[obdurate|inveterate] pedant"
If they'd sent us the same message we wouldn't have listened.
Govern by lowest common denominator, what could possibly go wrong?
The point is that solar systems have tiny amounts of resources when compared against the idea of colonizing an entire galaxy, whereas the concept of a von Neumann probe swarm would have resources proportional to the task.

Now, whether that is actually possible in any serious sense is very much in doubt.
The best example of how all of this is just a huge virtue signaling effort. I don't want to be called latinx and it's not a bunch of yankees feeling guilty of their government who's going to choose what to call us. It's the most colonial term I've seen from these types and it's unpronounceable in either Spanish or Portuguese. A juice of wokism.
> There is nothing preventing governments from seizing all that excessive wealth gain and redistributing it, or to limit corporate hoarding of cash and asset

Wealth and consumption are different things, though. And CPI inflation is mostly driven by consumption, not assets.

As it is, the wealthiest people still do not make up a very large part of total consumption. In fact, this is a core reason why they're accumulating so much wealth.

My point is that by taxing assets then, sure, we can transfer wealth from the rich to either governments or poor people. But this will not necessarily make it possible for "regular people" to consume more. Once people try to buy more in aggregate than what is produced by the economy, inflation will instantly bring prices up to a level where consumption is brought down to the production capacity.

Also, this idea leaves out a core mechanism. A lot of people that gain nominal wealth tend to want to use that wealth to buy more spare time. They work less, retire early, etc. Increased taxes on wealth tends to only make such choices more rational.

And when people work less, less is produced in aggregate and so less can be consumed. This effect can easily be much greater than the reduction in consumption (private jets etc) within the billionaire class. In other words, the wealth transfer may actually lead to the contraintuitive effect that the ability of "normal people" to consume actually goes down.

In countries that take this kind of wealth transfer to the extreme (Venezuela, for instance) this is exactly what happens. At first, it seems nice, but pretty soon aggregate production goes down so much that everyone (except the corrupt leaders) become poor.

Now I'm not arguing for the other extreme, either. Too little demand in an economy with excess production capacity is not much better, and that's why the Ford-era stimulus approaches work in such economies (either through wages, Ford style, or government spending, Keynes style).

But the reality is that most western countries are already close to a perfect balance between the supply and demand sides (for the purpose of maximizing consumption ability). This is why the extra liquidity that has been provided recently has been leading to so much inflation, world wide.

In practice, though, if you want to transfer consumption ability to poor people, you have to transfer it from demographics that actually contribute to a large part of total consumption, which basically means the upper middle class. This is how it's done in Scandinavia (where I happen to live), and it actually does work for minimizing the Gini coefficients.

Venezuela actually has an income-gini-coefficient not very different from the USA, even if they're a lot poorer, while the only countries with total wealth close to the US while still having low inequality are social democracies in Europe.
Curious about the name veonid? Seems like a linktree competitor and the name there makes a lot of sense, but veonid doesn't mean or sound like anything familiar to me. Care to elaborate on the choice?
Also it does not seem to account for overseas territories/d'outre-mer, but that's understandable.
Every single classification was invented to accommodate the fact that things are in fact discernibly different.
This is why lists like this exist. I’m aware of the term and it’s derogatory use. I can see how when used in a professional context it could be harmful. But many people might not be aware, so this list helps build awareness.
It could also mean to expect more radical changes if the vote goes in favor of him staying.

It's a common political tactic to make statements that can be interpreted one way or another. On average, people will read it the way they want to, and yet the statement will never be wrong.
I feel violated by your embracement of thought policing.

This is not a "change in culture" or describing people voluntarily changing their views. This is fascism in new clothes - "Kauft nicht bei Juden!".

The reason for authoring documents like the discussed is not to better yourself, it's to ostracise those who do not abide. Get them fired from their jobs, burn down their homes and cars, slander them so they may never ever dare to call someone obviously male "Mister". This is getting completely out of hand, and it will end bloody I presume.

I rename every git main back to master in my projects, I use blacklists, I will not give one foot to the batshit insane.
museapp.com works like that. Also heptabase.com and many others https://infinitecanvas.tools/
> You could continue the bug bounty approach, which leads into vuln selling (with the attendant morality questions)

Can you elaborate on this?