skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely agree the experiments are flawed. But I'd like to raise that there also are positive effects that are not accounted for. You mentioned the impact on market prices, I think the impact on prices would be net positive, because the market would become more inclined to provide products and services for people with lower incomes, where every marginal spent dollar has a much higher impact on overall well being than in higher income brackets. Market economies are more efficient when purchasing power is close to evenly distributed in the population.
I started this research after YouTube suggested me that video. I knew about the sites, but I had missed the Reuters articles that gave the 7 starting points.
We had a hydrogen gas station nearby. It exploded. Now there’s an EV charging station there instead.

Hydrogen might be viable for trucks, ferries and ships with limited dedicated infrastructure. But it’s a lost cause for personal cars.
Typically in the USA, there's 3-4 houses per transformer, but depending on the layout of houses, it can be from 1-6. Still a lot less than a big apt. complex. I know X-10 can pass up and down through a shared transformer. Luckily, the customers, two sisters, wanted that.
For every complex solution, there is a simpler solution that works better.
https://chat.openai.com/share/f107a2c2-94da-4ae8-87f2-5994ce...
HAPS: High-Altitude Platform Station
US moves to choke China's role in electric vehicle supply chain
Bending Spoons laid off the entirety of Filmic
I hear you, I want my CI to be boring and just work, and using something old and and a little cooky is fine but...

omg switching away from jenkins (in our case to gitlab CI) was a revalation. SO much easier to use. There were a ton of things we were avoiding doing in CI (or at all) that we started doing (easily) once we switched.

> it must work properly, and I don't expect it to be pretty

Too often it really _didn't_ work properly, or the gap between where we were and "working properly" was a mysterious foggy ocean with no clear path.

To be fair, we drove it pretty hard, we had some jobs that ran thousands of tests on big clusters of nodes to validate and deploy huge ETL pipelines, but man it was nice to have that work smoothly with a nice UI that made sense with super-well-documented pipline commands. It did _basically_ work with jenkins, but the experience of troubleshooting problems and adding new features was a constant pain point that really dragged out a lot of work.
Maybe the astrophysicists will even be able to get our timeline back on track after the LHC screwed everything up.

To fix the timeline, we just need to build a bigger accelerator.

Sincerely,

Your friends at Fermilab^WGoogle
You might laugh at him now, but in five years, Buzzsaw-Hand-Legs-Arm is going to put all the carpenters and serial killers out of work.
Clarification: this still has dependencies. For example, it requires one of "OpenSSL (versions 1.0.2, 1.1.1 and 3.0.x), LibreSSL, BoringSSL, AWS-LC, and the Apple Common Crypto framework to perform the underlying cryptographic operations"
No version numbers in the Gemfile? That's brave.
Concourse CI is great, it felt like it would be easier to write Concourse resources for the custom things we needed rather than fighting Jenkins anymore.
Well, you have the UBI increasing incomes at the lower end of the economy, which does apply upward pressure on lower-cost rents. But on the other side, you'd be decreasing the income/wealth at the top, which applies downward pressure at the high end of the market. The ultimate effect is not a straightforward calculation. I think the total size of the money supply is probably the most significant factor, and that wouldn't change if the UBI is funded by taxes.
Store, cafe, bar, gym owners will try to raise their prices, and they’ll succeed (obviously not everyone independently by the $UBI amount).

But then ya know what will happen? The store, cafe, bar, and gyms’ landlords will raise their rent accordingly and eat approximately all of the gains that came from their price increases.

Why on earth do you think rent is so expensive near high-productivity? The buildings aren’t better. The land itself isn’t higher quality. The landlords aren’t better. It’s more expensive because it can be due to the market’s productivity, and corollary ability to pay high prices.
Basically a dumb pipe in the “dumb pipe, smart endpoint“ dynamic.

Drive shaft is a good analogy though because its not simply moving data (unless we’re getting really abstract).
I used to feel the same way until I called a Waymo and it picked me up and dropped me off in SF, with no driver.
The landlords will still be in competition, anyone who breaks with the conventional wisdom will have an easier time getting tenants. It would probably raise prices, but the laws of supply and demand don’t just go away.
As I read the original quote, the questioner wants to know the identity of the person doing the asking (the subject), not the identity of the person or thing being asked (the object).

Or to look at it another way, a valid answer to the question would be "I am asking," or "she is asking," or "they are asking," all of which are subjects. It would be incorrect to answer "her is asking." He/she/they/who are a group, and Him/her/them/whom are a group.
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The deeper you go, the higher the order. It's what attention does at each layer, makes information circulate.
This is useful feedback, thank you! I will try to clear up the Python specific docs (that part of Polylith is on me).
How to admit? Why use the verb admit in the first place, it is telling of a defeatist attitude.

This is still a matter of communication, you need to explain to them your situation and your wishes. You already did it in writing here, and quite well. You could prepare written notes and have them with you during the meeting.
Just need more Superchargers near those adventure destinations
But then you’re talking about the effects of a high marginal tax rate, not UBI.
I'm sorry this has happened to you. Thank you for posting.

I've mentioned this before, but teachers and managers are some of the most important people we have in this world. And when they don't want to do their job, the people they support suffer.

But with engineering and software engineering, so many of the senior roles have leadership responsibilities. So marking yourself as unavailable hurts your ability to get a job.

For most engineers this probably won't matter.

I don't have a good solution. I hope you're not afraid of confronting the issue head on if you really don't want to be a manager. Talk with some friends or colleagues I guess.

Good luck. I hope you don't have to give up profressional engineering if you love it.
Doesn’t mater if it work flawlessly - right wing politicians pretty much refuse it on an ideological basis alone.

I’ve never seen a right-leaning politician, anywhere in the world, give even an ounce of support for UBI projects. It is always met with the knee jerk “people can’t just get money for doing nothing, that’s laziness!”

There is no sin worse than so-called laziness, to these people.
This is the closest thing to 'flat earth' that I've seen on HN--surprised by the strong and unsubstantiated viewpoints. At least I now have a mnemonic for remembering the "strongtowns" movement name. nvm, overthinking it: rhymes with wrongtowns.
That is meaningless, the culture of corruption' in US congress does not extend to everyone in the US.
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There are about 250 million adults in the US. If we give each of them $1000 a month, that's 3 trillion dollars per year. For comparison, the US government collected 2.6 trillion dollars in federal income tax in 2022.
We had a basic income experiment. Entire countries were given thousands a month for not working.

The wealthy used it to buy a nicer car. The poor shopped around on jobs but ultimately ended up in the same place.

Inflation completely destroyed the global economy and people pumped the excess money into high risk investments like pyramid schemes.
It can, it just doesn’t by default. Which is what the person you’re replying to is saying.
Very cool Ben! I love the idea and seeing the results collected is fun for finding some books I missed this year.

I haven’t heard too much about Demon Copperhead. Adding that one to my list.
Does Jenkins let you test workflows locally?

That's the thing I hate that about CircleCI, Github Actions, etc... having to "commit, upload, wait" to test every minor change =/
managing time, and ensuring every bit of work is showcased on a single platform, rather than scattered across many public and proprietary venues
Sold Energy Systems have been shipping batteries for good while now. But mainly to niche applications.

Mercedes has a bus with sold state batteries if I remember correctly. But it needs to be heated up to a high operating temperature so it’s not suitable for cars.
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I was not using it it that context.
Would be less of a ghost town if they allowed sign ups rather than via invitation only.

Appreciate that's kinda the point of the site, but if it's a ghost town then it's clearly petered out.
I like the project, but, I have to say that the budget specified by the author (30$) is unrealistic: only for the electronic board and microphone capsule the expense is 60+E, I just calculate it with a major electronic supplier I'm regular customer. Then you have to spend roughly
the same in brass, associated hardware, etc and around 20-30E for the USB interface. So we are talking about 150+E ( shipment costs excluded ) and saying that you don't need tools, consumables, etc
>lorsbepraised

is not "lord be praised"
That your comment is neither flagged or downvoted, while some supporting Ukraine are downvoted or both, shows whose side HN is on. Very sad.
Someone in the HN comments called out that J is the proof that Iverson's "Notation as a Tool of Thought" is a failed idea. Even Iverson himself, the inventor of "Iverson Notation" (proto-APL) as a better math notation, the inventor of APL, who used it to design the IBM 360's processor and then turned it into a programming language, abandoned it for ugly ASCII scribble (J) because that was more convenient.

I guess the ideas, not the notation, turned out to be the important part after all.

"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." - It's Advent of Code[1] (AoC) season again; take a moment to look at the answers people put in the big Reddit answers threads e.g.[2]. The comments are all a beautiful/awful zoo of languages - wildly varying in programmer experience level, familiarity with the language, choice of approach and algorithm, runtime, focus on a tidy solution or a quick answer. I wish we could see how much time people put into their solutions - I suspect this famous quote applies and it takes longer whether you polish a plain language or write directly in a terse language. I think the hurried or inexperienced answers tend to be long and garbled, the experienced and polished answers tend to be clean and clear. The racing leaderboard entries that I've seen - people seeing the problem and getting an answer ASAP - tend to be Python, and tend to be short and clear. They're almost never (APL, J, K, Q, R, uiua, Haskell). Does that say anything of value about the ability to quickly and clearly express ideas in a language?

I feel like there's enough of these answers now after years of AoC for someone to analyse and compare the languages. My gut feeling is that non-golfed Python still comes out the most easily writable and easily readable, the nicest balance between density and verbosity.

[1] https://adventofcode.com/ - daily puzzles through December, solved with code using whatever language you like, however you like, the site only checks your answer not your working.

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/1883ibu/2023_...
interesting. I can see how this differs from D1 and kv store, but what usecase for doing it this way? was there something kv store and D1 was not enough for?
Why would going to war solve anything? We'd have to print more money to support war, which would put us in greater debt.
S2N is great, clean, actively maintained, and even has experimental support for post-quantum key exchange (compatible with BoringSSL and the Zig standard library).

Other very nice TLS implementations in C/C++:

- Facebook Fizz: https://github.com/facebookincubator/fizz

- PicoTLS: https://github.com/h2o/picotls
Interesting, the side snipe about Docker

> One of the mostly-false promises of Docker, as it was sold to me by the true believers who introduced me to it, was that, if you do it right, you can run the same docker image, and therefore have basically the same environment in production, in CI, and on your local development machine.

I literally have never worked anywhere that hasn't used the same container in dev/test/prod.

People who have had to deal with processes that rebuilt images for each environment, can you tell me what was different in each image?
You could start a e-community for would-be contributors to the next edition. If you give them a way to participate, they may identify themselves with your book and recommend it to others.
Thanks, I assumed that was the case, but they didn't make that explicit. Then the question is, is the world simulation running at the highest order attention layer or is it an emergent property of the interaction cycle between the attention layers.
It's part of an API client I made for Resy so there are some guarantees on what characters will be in configID which is why I don't escape everything. I actually have a separate pool but I used bytebufferpool.Get instead of client.pool.Get when writing it here so the intent was clearer. But the code has gotten me Friday 7 PM reservations at Tatiana so it works though it's probably overkill because network latency is by far the biggest cost in terms of time. I probably should just have a JSON encoder write to the buffer.
> Space is hostile to life.

Space is hostile to most Earth-style life... but so are hot springs, undersea vents, and mile-deep mines, all of which we've unexpectedly found life in. Tardigrades can survive a complete vacuum and temperatures from -450 to 300 Fahrenheit, plus significant radiation.

Slow-growing life hopping around in the Oort clouds and taking million-year interstellar hibernations on rogue planets might be common, who knows?

> in the habitable zone

Same mistake here. We define "habitable zone" very, very narrowly based on our own circumstances; it's potentially a massive misnomer.
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Not to counter your point, but because your said to try to find some, searching 'wired noise cancelling headphones'in Google immediately found options[1], although it was annoying to find the actually wired ones in the results, that do seem to exist.

[1] e.g. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sony-noise-canceling-wired-on-e...
Gitlab CI is still the best CI in the game IMO, but GitHub Actions gives it an incredible run for it's money because of how easy action re-use is.

I meant to make a blog post about this, but here's a good a place as any: GitLab absolutely innovated many hard parts of CI/CD as a platform-native piece, but it feels like they lose slightly to GitHub on what GitHub does best -- social virality for developers. The problem with losing slightly there is that the advantage compounds; if developers find it easy to make and share, then they make and share which makes more people make and share and generates tons of value for a platform.

It may not be safe, but being able to:

- uses: some-developer/some-repo@some-branch

Is absolutely amazing. Everything else (generally) GitLab has, and (likely) did first, but the social viral stuff GitHub just gets right in a different way than GitLab does.

No one would accuse GitLab of being a "copy" in recent memory like they did in the bad old days, but IMHO they need to just copy the shit out of when GitHub gets social things (like this) right.
The US already has a negative income tax in EITC. In fact, the implementation of the EITC is the biggest argument against it; it had so many conditions as to be less effective.
I feel versions in Gemfile tend to make things harder to update and often end up accidentally retaining some old version. You won't get a random version bump unless you do `bundle update` anyway, since you have a lock file.

Unless you really need a specific version, let those gems be free :)
Been using git hooks with in-repo Makefiles and small bash scripts to good effect for some years now.

It's fast, simple and took a couple hours to set up. Rarely ever needs attention. It just works.
The only correct solution here is to recognize cocaine is a commodity that people want, and legalizing it and funding support systems etc etc with the taxes is a great way to go.
'perplexity'?
I'm only about half-way through, but if you skip to 30:50 he makes a big point.
And frankly the lead up to that point was necessary, which necessity is also part of the message he is delivering.
Classic misunderstanding of programming languages. The only thing stopping cobol from being "known" is these companies paying for it.
If you’re getting £1000 extra a month and I say your rent is now £1000 extra a month, you can’t and won’t say no. If you say no, I’ll just get someone else in who will give me their free money.

As you’re competing with them for the same goods, you’ll have no choice but to pay the same. Meaning it’s made no difference for you as the primary costs in your life are limited by supply.

For someone who owns their own house and makes £10,000 a month, it’s meaningless. Their inflexible goods are already covered. So they’re free to spend it in holidays and working less.
the worst think about Java (in general, Jenkins is Java) is that it solves a real problem that companies have.

I put, however, that only companies have the problem, not programmers, and not even regular (sized) engineering teams; except when they have a fast employee turnover speed.

I do not have a very clear idea, but roughly speaking I'm saying that java does really well in the "too many engineers are working on the same code but not at the same time" problem space
Consider that some resources are naturally or artificially constrained (housing, medical care, good schools).

If everyone has more money, those things have almost limitless capacity to absorb the extra money in the form of higher rent, higher health costs, higher college fees.

UBI can help somewhat to decrease inequality (same as welfare targeted only at the poor) but if the government prints and gives everyone a million dollars, that would obviously cause inflation to the point that a million isn't that much money.

Reducing inequality will generally mean that well off people (which most software engineers are) will ultimately have less spending power.

On the other hand removing artificial constraints could make those resources cheaper for everyone. Relax zoning to build more housing. Increase residency spots to train more doctors and allow foreign licensed doctors to practice in the US more easily. Etc.
A minimum income should probably not be a fixed amount, there should be a true minimum at zero other income and the payment should decrease with increasing income but at a slower rate than the income increase. I guess that is essentially what a negative income tax is.
Just lots and lots and lots and lots of vectors.

So Black Magic!
If there are no special clauses in OpenAI Global LLC charter, Microsoft can sue if OpenAI Inc if they decline to do something profitable for e.g. moral reasons.

51% ownership doesn't mean you can do anything you want with the company. It's sort of a main point of a LLC.
From what I gather, the author isn't re-licensing the code but is selling their copyright and brand (trademark?) to Zipo, who in turn will probably try to re-license it (without permission from other contributors) or will simply choose to violate the license.
Tried something similar here: https://github.com/shayonj/branch_base

Lmk what you think :)
That's where the Land Value Tax comes in... In my Georgist dreams, at least.
Man I wish Microsoft (Apple too!) would just say screw it to new features and spend time really polishing their operating systems. I'm sitting on Windows 10 as long as I can.
> The market for presentation remote controls

What I don't get is why Google slides (or powerpoint online) doesn't have the ability to use your phone as a remote. It would seem like it should be something already built in but maybe i'm missing it or something.
Why do they need CIA funding? Is it a honeypot?
It still seems about the same as it has been for years from an outside perspective

<20 comments (votes, even) on most posts

It's pretty ghostly for a site that's been around since 2012
Quantity may have a quality all its own in warfare but for comments having the invite tree and accountability is pretty nice!

I'd rather have (2) really insightful comments than 300 trying to promote themselves.
Any time somebody makes a claim that their passionate judgment about a subjective topic is objectively true, that’s a bit-flip moment for me. Doesn’t mean I will ignore them, but we are now having a different conversation. They are a “fan” and discussions with fans are often not that interesting.

And fwiw, Paco De Lucia is technically skilled to a fault, but does very little for me.
Except for this man: Professor Robert Ghrist

https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfGhristMath

This person is amazing.
How did they manage to decrypt the messages, I thought it's very expensive to decrypt a correctly encrypted piece of data?

"About a billion messages were intercepted, about half of which had been decrypted by April 2021—further avenues of inquiry were expected to open as decryption progressed"
That fragment isn't any poem I know of. Google shows one result for an exact search of the opening, which is this post.
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I don't care how many people die, I feel no guilt, no remorse and no pity

Legalize drugs and the violence will end
> (as far as human interrogators can tell),

And there's the problem again.

The "Test" isn't evaluating a machine. It evaluates an interrogators response to that machine.

The core problem of answering the question "can machines think" isn't evaluated by Turings method. The "Test" doesn't test what it is supposed to test.

And that has nothing to do with "what philosophy of mind you subscribe to", that is simply a fundamental flaw in the tests design, and the reason why it's pretty much pointless; it defines "thinking" as "the ability to trick humans". Well, there are optical illusions that can trick people into seeing things that don't exist.
Plenty of folks know COBOL - the problem is you need to entice someone YOUNG to learn it, which basically means overpaying them. If I'm an 18-year-old why would I focus on learning a programming language that puts me in a job with 0 chance of advancement? Sure I'm irreplaceable to the company, but I've also only got a handful of other places I could go if they treat me poorly or sunset their mainframe.
Fort Tryon Park during the day on a weekday used to be pretty quiet. I would sit and see maybe two people in 30 mins or even fewer sometimes. Not sure what it's like post-covid though..
I keep hinting, to the various TLAs* watching the internet, that I'm willing to sign disclosures, and help fix things / reverse engineer them, if they need me to. But nobody shows up at my door, telling me I need to help my country. ;-)

I'm hoping Barry-1[1] works, and pushes into a higher orbit (increasing the Semi-Major Axis on the graph), without propellant. If it works, it shows our "laws" of physics are wrong, and forces us to refine our understanding.

For me, that marks a turning point, and a start down the road to being an Interstellar species.

* Three Letter Agency, i.e. NSA, NRO, DOE, etc.

[1] https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/graph-orbit-data.php?CA...