skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think postdocs would be the best population to trial a basic income program. That might mean taking money from every one else. Oddly, I used to have the opinion that science should be a positive sum endeavour.

Non-disclosure: If there were such a program, I might have considered becoming a postdoc.
I think ultimately, the idea is some sort of freemium model where the TUI is free, but usage as a web UI is will cost extra(?)
So it is impossible until it is possible? Gotta prove it physically instead of engineering a system that is known to work.

> Also the world is about 82% fossil and biofuel.

Primary energy usage, so an utterly irrelevant metric. With a completely electrified society, the primary energy use decreases heavily. As we all know, heat engines throw away 65-80% of the incoming energy as heat leading to that number.
Not common in new builds, but because of their durability and repairability, they’re still around.
all(c == str[0] for c in str)
On the other hand, 100g/m² is too low for “simply unroll it on a roof”. A carpet so light will blow away in a storm, worst-case taking (part of) the roof with it (roofs often are fairly weak when pulled upwards or sidewards. That’s why solar panels on roofs sometimes are weighed down: it keeps the net force on the roof more or less downwards, even if the wind exerts an upwards force)

What would you use to attach these, and what would that weigh?

I see these end up on cars, sailing boats, etc, where I think weight and flexibility matter more, before ending up in high-volume applications.

On the plus side, the article doesn’t mention it, but I would guess recyclability for these would be higher because they don’t glue cells to glass.
There's always the next trick. What if that corporation is also saddled with a bunch of debt, such that its net holdings is roughly zero? What if it bought those houses for very little money (from some other friendly corporation) so that, on paper, their value is very low? etc.
Have you ever tried recording NTSC video to audio cassettes? I tried it once around the end of the CRT era and it's just good enough to keep a fuzzy mostly in sync picture.
Go is not a C/C++ replacement. Rust is.
I'm all for straight up queries and understanding... even some more complex sprocs... I'm not a fan of too much logic in the dbms, since it's pretty much a lock-in for a single vendor, limits breaking pieces out for scale and makes things generally much harder to find/understand in practice. I'm a proponent of what I like to call discoverable code structures, sprocs/functions don't lend themselves to that.
My favourite novel things about x264 are probably the tuning preset called "touhou", literally for better encoding things that look like a bullet hell game, and that the highest quality preset is called "placebo".
In its time, China had to resort to executing drug dealers and labor camps for the users (which constituted ~20% of the popilation) to kick its opium habit. A heavy price to say the least.

By all accounts, fentanyl is more addictive and potent drug than opium. The conclusion is obvious: the price for America to kick its fentanyl habit will be even higher. It's a matter of time. :(
It's not quite ready yet, but I'm writing something similar for Rust [0]. It's much more similar to React (with respect to components, and hooks), and the DSL is inspired by SwiftUI.

Disclaimer: Version 0.6.x has a pretty severe flaw where the constraints around hook order are way too strict, and this also prevents conditional renders [1]. I'm working on a full rewrite which will be released as version 0.7.0, which exists on github as a branch right now [2]. Docs also exist for an alpha version of 0.7.0 [3].

[0]: https://docs.rs/intuitive/latest/intuitive/

[1]: https://github.com/enricozb/intuitive/issues/4

[2]: https://github.com/enricozb/intuitive/tree/0.7.0

[3]: https://docs.rs/intuitive/0.7.0-alpha.0/intuitive/index.html
The limit is 3500 kg, if you’re at 3300 kg stock then you only have 200kg to play with when retrofitting.

Also it’s 200W/m2 but camper roofs are a lot more than 1 square meter so you just cover a larger percentage of the roof with solar.
> The terminal still has and always will have great potential as the glue that holds all computing together. Users refine their skill in a few, interoperable and flexible standard tools, and any command that turns out to be useful can immediately be part of a script that automates and simplifies this task forever.

But the topic here is exactly the sort of framework whose apps are not particularly easily scriptable and integratable in typical shell-driven workflows.
Grad student unions strike deal with University of California
> $16 an hour

I was in Vegas last month and they were advertising something like $12-13/hr for hotel cleaning jobs. In Vegas! Bonkers.
There is a fairly simple way to tax wealth: inflation.

There are downsides to inflation of course, lower economic growth is a big one. But we are entering a higher inflation, higher interest rate environment whether we like it or not, and that will result in lower wealth inequality. Money will have less direct purchasing power, and assets like housing or company equity will decline in value due to higher borrowing costs.

There are many people who will retort that 'inflation hurts the poor'. Yes, it hurts everyone, but it disproportionately hurts the rich. It is no coincidence that wealth inequality increased dramatically during the low inflation, low interest rate period we have experienced over the last two decades.
Or maybe just align income tax on capital gain taxes?
My initial reaction when reading the title:
"Wow, we can Rust use to write GUI-based Android apps. Bye bye Java/Kotlin/Flutter etc"

My actual reaction:
"Day 4.... Android CLI app. OK no GUI yet...."

:D
Using Mass Storage Devices on Simh PDP-11/RT-11: Paper Tape, Diskette, Dectape
There a thing called the Laffer Curve. It’s not as though politicians, whose job it is to spend money, and whom can easily get more popular votes by spending ever larger sums of money rather than budgeting in such a way that defers immediate gratification, have never thought of just taxing more (read history).
This is great work
Impressive work! I am not trying to diminish the awesome work done here but I think all of this is already possible in Emacs, right? And Emacs an be made to run in Terminal if the user wants it to, right?

Now I am not someone who would ask creators not to build something new because something like it already exists. By all means build new stuff and create new tools. It providers options and choice for user. So I fully support work like this.

But I also ponder about user behavior. New users who flock to the modern terminal tools need to learn new keybindings, new shortcuts, new workflows. Yet they are willing to invest that time in learning these modern terminal tools. But many of the same users are averse to investing that time in Emacs. Why is that? What explains this?

EDIT: Downvoters, care to explain what about this comment violates this site's guidelines? My comment is an honest question. You can post comments and explain if you disagree with my premise. But downvoting isn't helping me learn anything.
You are right, but these are political reasons that have to do with the fear of nuclear power in people, not an inherent problem with nuclear power.

The Fukushima plant was one of the oldest plants in the world, and not up to modern standards. If this is what can happen in the worst case scenario.... Then it's our problem that we can't accept it.

https://rchoetzlein.com/theory/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ra...
That sort of course was very much par for undergrad courses at CMU when I was taking CS classes there 25 years ago. The OS course was very intense. I wasn’t a major and didn’t have time to take it, but my networks course was of similar rigor (i.e., implement a toy TCP/IP stack).
Came in to say pretty much the same thing. Discoverability is a huge issue... and even if you do things in a way that lends itself to that, it gets really clunky really quickly.
>Before Kennedy it was 91%.

To which the common retort is "but nobody actually paid that because prior to the tax code simplifications of the 70s you could trivially reduce your burden in all sorts of ways"
Coach. Winning for yourself is obviously unfulfilling. It takes winning to realize that there's nothing special beyond the finish line and that's depressing. Now that you've crossed it, go back and help others get there. And I don't mean broadly host seminars. I mean go find an individual and individually uplift them. Show them how you did it and help them to do it. Repeat. Repeat.
Couldn't your wind blower get clogged with dust? I'm not a dust expert.
Because you pay a percentage of your total wealth in annual taxes every year (in addition to your usual income taxes).

It differs between cantons (states, kinda) and has progressive banding. Someone with 100k in wealth will pay maybe 100-200 or so. If you have 100 million CHF, in Geneva you would pay around 1 million per year in taxes on that wealth.

As the OP stated, it is global assets and wealth, so foreign/offshored investments still attract the tax. Plenty of people choose to be resident in Switzerland even with these taxes.
Weather conditions across the U.S. mean bomb cyclones are possible
Those are called opaque rates in the business, but not comparable to being able to reserve a hotel room directly via a website for less than the hotel’s own website.
“You know what Pasteur said: Chance favors the prepared mind. Take one of the chanciest things in the world, like war. Both Kitchener and Frederick the Great, when they were considering a general's qualifications, would always ask, 'Is he considered lucky?' It was a perfectly legitimate question, because if he was considered lucky, it meant he was prepared to take advantage of chance.”

- Eric Hoffer
At some point next year, we will be working on a web service that puts Textual apps online. Completely opt-in, but it will allow you to serve Textual apps on the fly. There are various add-on services, like authentication, we can charge for. Plus a generous free tier.
It’s not tautological. It’s a subjective fuzzy classification. We have a good approximate definition of what it means to be “kind” but you cannot perform a hard test or definition of it. This one just happens to be a central part of one’s identity. We have a good approximate idea of male and female gender in our society.

You’ve largely just avoided answering the question too. If you were magically transformed into a woman… what, you would just roll with it? You have no particular identification with being a dude? If you had the ability to transform back you wouldn’t do so because you’re a woman now and women aren’t men?
This time SBF just kinda dumped a huge bag full of evidence on the Justice department's doorstep like it was an early christmas present. The trial is going to be hilarious.
The aversion to SQL by younger devs is pretty amazing. Yes it has a weird cognitive model and a learning curve but it's a cornerstone of web dev. Instead they resort to convoluted and technically inferior solutions like Prisma just because of a superficial DX advantage.

I'm certain Mongo only became popular because of this even though for many years it was crap.

That said I do think we need a better SQL. It's still not there but EdgeDB looks very promising.
The argument about north america having natural gas is flawed, on several fundamental levels. Gas is traded internationally and north americans are generally not insulated from global prices. The reserves being in north america has almost zero bearing on this.

Second, natural gas is a finite resource and the vast reserves are vast… for now.

What north america also has are vast tracts of land. The ideal place for nuclear reactors since large bodies of water are often close by. Same argument for wind turbines.
I've looked a tiny bit into Ada and I like the language. I particularly like the pascal-like syntax and the ranges feature.

However I love rusts cargo and build system better than Alire. As Alire seems to bolted ontop of gprbuild. I also find it unfun to go back to forward declaration and definition (ads) files.

It also seems to me the rust ecosystem has more libraries in things I'm interested in and better support for the platforms I'm interested in.
While I’m not sure I’m following you 100%, luck takes a bigger part the higher the wealth. For example, existing billionaires have a way higher chance of having inherited a huge sum than the average population. If you take sound financial decisions you might get up to a million or a few, and above that it will be always more luck than skills. 100000x that is a huge lot of luck.
It’s in the title so it gets capitalized.
I could see tax brackets working by how your income compares to the area you live in.

"If your income is 30% above the average income for this area or the national average (whichever is lower), that >30% is taxed at this rate..."

So then you can't have rich folks disappearing to less-taxed areas. It could make rich people communities where they all stick together.

looking forward to the future where currency is time (the movie In Time), and we can tax rich people to death.
My impression when working with people using Simulink is that 'safety' is much weaker that for people working on formal methods, and certification limited a lot the kind of programs that they would write. It made totally sense for their domain, but -- as a general practice to write software -- it didn't impress me at all. I may be wrong.
I don't see how it's possible for 99% of people.

I stepped away from the professional world and am working retail for 15/hr while I get my shit sorted out. This only works due to the following factors:

1.) I have zero commute expenses. I live a five minute walk from work.

2.) I have state provided healthcare independent of my employment, which most Americans can't get. I'm only eligible because I have a severe disability.

3.) I live in a LCOL area. We're still under 1k for a two bedroom apartment and houses can be had for ~100-150k.

4.) I have some professional contacts/a network with higher incomes that can help me out if I need it and don't abuse the relationships.

We're still struggling a lot. If you're going to be homeless with or without a job, why bother with a job?
I really enjoy using Mentorcuise.com, both as a mentor and as mentee. It's great to have mentors outside your own organization.
> We tax property without realizing a gain.

Not only do we do that which dis-proportionally hurts the less wealthy more, but property taxes are assessed upon assessed valuations of which the homeowner who does not sell or gets loans upon that valuation obtains zero benefit from. So the insurance company (which also uses the valuation) and the property tax jurisdiction(s) obtain yield from the valuations that year, and do not endure a clawback when the valuations ever decline.
I'm frankly surprised that some of the larger MS based data sets aren't more standard for learning. MS SQL Server isn't generally my first choice (preferring PostgreSQL for standards and portability), but it's got some pretty great example data out there.
A friend of mine built a small model vehicle that implemented dual gyroscopes as an energy storage medium for an electric vehicle as part of his PhD.

One of the gyros seized and the whole thing flipped and slammed into the ground with tremendous force.
For the majority of the time there has been a Federal Income Tax, there have been top brackets in the 70% range. This was a burden begrudgingly borne by the wealthy for many generations. It funded the US leaving an agrarian lifestyle and becoming a superpower.

Did a 70% top-tax bracket force any of the uber-high earners to stop earning money because they didn't want to give 70% to Uncle Sam? No, the super rich will always want more money/property/dividends/etc no matter how burdensome the tax bracket they fall in might be.
And pierce the supposedly waterproof roof (the entire point of a roof). And mounted at whatever angle the roof is built, instead of an optimal angle. And are in the most difficult place for maintenance and cleaning, so those things will be neglected.

And you need to replace the roof? Now what?
Clipping in the digital domain like this introduces an extremely hard corner, effectively corresponding to a set of signals near the sampling frequency and its harmonics that are required to perform the shaping. That's where the "interesting distortion" comes from.

Real diodes are not quite as sharp, because there's an exponential region between forward voltages of 0V and the forward voltage of the junction (~0.7V for P-N diodes, ~0.3 for Schottky).

And vaccum tubes are softer still, with a considerable rolloff region.
Well, they could try not to leave the road. Just like humans the software can and will have errors. Then you still have the issue of who to charge for breaking the leaving the road law.
The submitter can go back and correct this by clicking "edit". The software changes capitalization only on the initial submission, not subsequent edits.

(Overall, I actually like this feature. You WOULDN'T BELIEVE the CRAZY Headlines We'd See Otherwise!)
Take a sine wave below your system's Nyquist frequency. Chop off the top. Take the continuous Fourier transform. You will notice that there are now frequency components above the Nyquist limit of your system. Those will now be aliased down to lower frequencies.

One trick for doing nonlinear waveshaping without introducing too much aliasing is to perform the wave shaping at a higher sample rate than the rest of your system and then downsampling with a low pass filter. Thankfully, the high frequency components introduced by nonlinearity tend to decrease in magnitude reasonably quickly.
Grid stability is the real bad investment. In a free market we should have events where demand exceeds supply and when, and if the state didn't pump large amount of subsidies into grid stability we would see regular power outages. Those that would be hurt most by power outages would then invest into backup generators.

Grid stability cost money and power companies do not want to carry that cost. It is a much better investment for them to let society carry those costs and simply produce as much energy when its most cost effective to do so.
Somehow France manages to get most of its electricity from nuclear reactors.
Yes this. And it is hard for quality to compete with brand equity.
HN is still my favorite social media site. All the best online communities I've kept up with since the 90's have been community-driven BBS derivatives attached to a centralized entity where the community discussion is only tangenially related to the hosting organization. A lot of them attracted people who didn't even engage with the host's content much at all. The hosting organization just acted more like a host at a good party, attracting the right kinds of people to connect with each other.

I think there's some kind of a Goldilocks zone that happens when the organization that hosts the social media site engages in good content moderation but doesn't try to heavy-handedly control the conversation according to its own goals, allowing the community to direct itself in a balanced way. This type of attitude could help the fediverse grow too.
Yeah so does a sustainable fertility rate but…
Taxing businesses which own residential property at the same rate as second homes stops that particular wheeze entirely. If you wish to exempt certain types of business you believe have valid reasons to own residential property at low/no property tax rates then that becomes an exemption they have to demonstrate eligibility for, not the default.

Second homes being misclassified as non-residential property might be trickier to deal with, but a lot of jurisdictions already have laws around what is and isn't residential...
Eh, this would discourage investment. Investment is important.
> Some nerdy person just piping their /dev/urandom into your visual cortex.

I swear fully half the really useful/interesting things I've learned have started with someone just infodumping on me IRL at some event.
> we need to store enough energy to power the whole country for at least 2 weeks before we can get rid of fossil fuels.

Maybe this is self-obvious, but "get rid of" seems to be carrying a lot of weight in that statement. I personally am not offended or concerned by keeping natural gas generators around for decades, even, as insurance for catastrophic disasters, if in practice they're unused 99% of the time because storage infrastructure has reached 24 hour capacity. We reach diminishing returns on increased storage.
No.

Money is better at making money. The system is designed to do this.

If you're making money with your labor, you are at a gigantic disadvantage compared to those who are making their money by investing capital.
If you own land, shares, companies, then inflation will not affect you.
Most people don’t want to hear this. It’s an interesting ideology, but most normies don’t care.

I’m not on one side or another. That’s just what I’ve noticed for most people outside the upper class tech bubble.
"less is more"
I think you are not understanding introverts. Social interaction is extremely draining for us, so we carefully manage that energy for interactions that also offer a lot of value in return, e.g. friends and colleagues. If we can reduce unnecessary interactions, this leaves more for being social where it’s valuable, making it possible for us to be pro social.

I love parties, deep conversations, etc. but as an introverted person, a day of excessive unnecessary interaction makes those interactions I do enjoy no longer enjoyable, and just a chore. By managing my social energy I am able to be a warm, friendly, and outgoing social person. If you met me at a party you probably would not guess that I’m introverted, because I am not antisocial. Yet, I would be willing to pay a lot more for a hotel room where I don’t have to make small talk at a front desk while checking in.
When I'm installing package from the repository, it's signed with GPG. Hopefully in a more secure place than WWW server. May be even at offline server with HSM (one can hope!). When I'm running code downloaded from HTTPS, all it takes is compromising this WWW server (or AWS Cloufront for this particular sh.rustup.rs example). HTTPS adds additional attack surface.
Again, extremely narrow definition of advantage.
We were! I figured if we don't do it somebody else will. But there is already a project to bundle a Textual app with a working browser. So you can distribute Textual apps as a binary.
I guess it's not about mere numbers (unless you're selling some kind of commodity, where volume matters most), but - given the audience - more likely a chance to connect with the right people at the right moment.
There are others, Pleroma was explicitly designed to be lightweight for small nodes, written in Elixir and thus running on the battle tested Earlang ecosystem BEAM VM. Also have heard and run across a few instances of Misskey which runs on node.js. Both use Postgres and I see from the install instructions the latter also uses Redis. Have heard of others as well but have no idea at all about them, a search on the above two backends will find you more.

You've also got some choices in front ends, I know Pleroma supports several. I strongly recommend not using Soapbox for a variety of reasons unless you really like its UI.
> Corporations and the super rich have bought out democracy, and what is crazy is that they are supported by the very groups they intrinsically hate and hurt through their policies.

Oh yes, the "they don't know what's good for them" argument.
agreed. the human nature argument is a lazy one against something like anarchism or any other alternative system. if we can be socialized to seek money (it starts with the piggy bank when we're like 4 years old), we can be socialized to not seek those things and instead seek something else. replace "money" or "greed" with any negative way that humans behave, like power or domination.