skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone is doubting that giving people money improves their lives. That seems to be the conclusion of these studies. However what is seemingly _never_ studied is how to finance such an operation. The money has to come out of the system somewhere. Is it with new taxation on XYZ, or slashing services somewhere else etc.
Sheer brilliance, like everything else Adams says.

But ultimately a pat argument. Why? Because it is simply isn't so. The "old world" contains plenty of stupid inefficiencies and annoyances -- we've just rightfully forgotten about them. Everything from tape-based answering machines, to all those tattered paper maps bursting out of your glove compartment (itself an anachronism as few people wear gloves these day), etc.

Survivorship bias, as another commenter mentioned. There's a grain of truth in what he's saying, but not enough to carry the day.

This is why, after all his books were placed in the humor section of your local bookstore (back when people still read physical books, and knew what a bookstore was).
Communication with someone who claims to be in the know. It seems reasonable, but I don't have a source and I welcome someone who cares more to go more in depth.
I did try that for a while and still have a couple of affiliates, but it wasn't that successful. It could be that I just didn't invest in it enough for it to work.

One of the biggest obstacles was that I hated all of the affiliate apps on Shopify. They all require all your customer data (email, names, shipping addresses), and most of them have privacy policies that grant themselves very broad permissions with user data.

I refused to give up our customer data like that, and so we rolled our own by hand, but it's very manual, so the only way for affiliates to find out their earnings is when I manually run a script and pay them once a month.
Sure sounds funny but here's a few things:

* Lukashenko is president since the post was created, his position is quite solid and will be useful when Putin's time is over.
* just two years into his presidency he signed a Union treaty with Russia, then still ruled by Yeltsin. Russia always understood that treaty as Belarus becoming part of Russia, something Putin is very keen on, extending Russia by force has happened more than once since 2000 but Belarus joining peacefully would push Putin's popularity. Lukashenko again and again promised things like introducing a common currency by 2004, 2005, 2006 and "maybe" 2007. Didn't happen. For Lukashenko it's a carrot he dangles in front of Putin.
* Belarus didn't join the war against Ukraine, and Lukashenko profited a lot when he got Wagner to stop their rebellion.
Yes. I run on a Mac 99% of the time and it’s frustrating because pretty much every day people message me and they just sit there.

The best work around I’ve found is to have my phone nearby and use it for notifications.

Seems pretty silly for a messaging app to work so poorly.
"drama du jour," your talents do not go unnoticed
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The operators have been paying into a fund since the 80s which is meant for decommissioning and spent fuel storage.

Basically it is a legal requirement (some small fraction of a cent for every kWh produiced)

This is really the only sane way to do it.

Also we got lucky with the ground under Olkiluoto being good spot for nuclear waste storage so not much NIMBY stuff for that as it is already the site for the biggest nuclear power plant in the country. It is also small town so a huge % of the population there work at the plant or its sub contractors.
I don't really disagree. It's a naive analysis, but ignoring the opportunity cost of the time the owners put into a business, which I was replying to, is even more naive, and yet an extremely common mistake small business people make.
> France published a list of equipment they sent to Ukraine, about an hour ago [1]

Which is something new, until yesterday I was in with OP.

> No idea how important / relevant it is. Just posting

Here's some background: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-germany-macron-scholz...
Yes. And now he is dead and will be forgotten in a week.

As I mentioned earlier - does anyone remember the guy who flew over Belarus and had his plane redirected to the capital, and he was seized there. He also was a protester, now forgotten. I do not even remember his name and never heard of him since then.
I don’t see a calculated decision to not intervene would demonstrate lack of critical thinking.
> Is there any examples in history of appeasement leading to less bloodshed?

Generally you avoid conflict by being scary, not agreeable.
Have you noticed how you don't argue any of my points? All you do is resort to calling me a useful idiot, building strawman arguments (like accusing me of accepting Putins claim of denazification, while I myself have mentioned it's all about Crimea, always was) or claiming I'm spreading Russian propaganda. I make a point of only sticking to what is verifiable in mainstream sources to avoid these kinds of useless accusations.

You have a very condescending and unnecessary tone, but make very few points yourself. Why is that?

You claim since you are in Ukraine (I call bullshit but whatever) you have better sources than me, I doubt it. Any source that would put Kiev in a bad light is regarded as traitors and jailed. Like that blogger was recently for example. So honest reporting from within Ukraine forget about it. Even western media has stopped trying to paint the beautiful picture Zelensky is. How many more Ukrainians are you willing to let die for NATOs cause? Are you fighting? To the last Ukrainian like Zelensky wants? For who? Why?

Your comment here doesn't make me unsee the civilians being killed between 2014-2022. This is not demoralization, you should've realized the west are vile scum from the get go and should've never trusted us. We use our puppets as long as they're useful, then we stage a coup or oust them ourselves. I've said I've wanted NATO to enter openly even after Euromaidan, before 2022. Because even then it was obvious what this was all about.

> What disgusts me the most is that you seem to be unable to cede on the point that what russia did is wrong. You even mention that brutalities are okay because apparently, somebody else did them in the past. Russia invading is okay because trump/saddam/elites in the west/euromaidan/crimean fleet/azov battalion/whatever other shit you gobbled up on the internet. But hey, you are a pacifist.

Why are you lying about my claims? Never said anything even close to that. Is there a problem with your reading comprehension? A language barrier? How can I be clearer than I've been in the last 15 comments? It's getting exhausting to repeat myself.

This could've been stopped anytime in the last 20-30 years. Ukraine wasn't even a country back when this all started. You're reacting now that Russia finally bites back, but all the pushing for half a century you ignore. That doesn't mean it's right, but it's expected and logical. We played and keep playing a part. How come only our side is allowed to be afraid, to expand and play power games? A leads to B leads to C. Simple logic.

Is there some kind of natural law that says we always have to be at war with the east? How about we take the first step and try something else for once?
> long term trust the article talks about

Yes this goes beyond ordinary sharp practices. A larger, more
dangerous phenomenon nibbles at our way of life.

A couple of buzzwords/concepts rattling around my circles are
"epistemic trust" and "systemic abuse" [0], the former is an effect of
the latter. To cultivate it, in old-fashioned psyops talk, is
"sapping". Epistemic mistrust changes the way we process all future
information and is long lasting.

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/202012/...
Maybe because GPT3.5 is closer to what Gemini 1.0 was... GPT4 and Gemini 1.5 are similarly sparse in their "how we did it and what we used" when it comes to papers
Pro-nuclear doesn't make one anti-renewables. They're complementary technologies, the rivalry is entirely one-sided. Not to mention incredibly aggravating to those of us who would like power to be reliable, with no emissions.
I've rediscovered cryptpad last year. I thought it was (and was looking for) a client-side encrypted etherpad, but was surprised to see they had added spreadsheets, folders, forms, and everything. It's working towards a full office suite

I wouldn't say it's quite there yet, my mom probably should wait a little to try it out, but if you're a bit geeky and looking for open source, live multiplayer spreadsheets or documents to use with other tech-savvy people, this would be the first thing to check out. With Nextcloud or LibreOffice cloud or whatnot, the server can always access your things. That's almost always fine, but if this exists, why not the privacy by default? I love the idea
What about Proce Anderson liability cap? Potential trillion dollar incidents reduced to $10 billion cap.
> The money has to come out of the system somewhere.

Governments have the ability to print money out of thin air.

What I'd like to see is how UBI impacts inflation and economic growth.
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I know that album inside and out. What is the Saturn reference and how does it relate?
You are asking what if this guy has "web crawl data" that google does not have?

And what if he says no, he does not have permission.
Thanks!

I wasn't trying to claim that they're equivalently easy: just that they both have the same capabilities, there's nothing special that one can do that the other cannot.
Get counselling/therapy
I'd imagine some sort of hyperbolic discounting on importance, plus the perception that you can still do something about it. Great question to ponder.
Or how increasing the money supply affects the price of eggs...
Their tinypilot kvm works. It's in the category of boring infrastructure - I leave it plugged into whatever machine is currently in need of attention and `https://tinypilot/` connects to it. Little box hanging off the PoE switch, much less bother than plugging a keyboard and monitor in. Especially so when I'm away from the office.

Recommended. Saved me a lot of hassle. Thanks for the product!

I'd like to be able to power cycle the attached machine but that seems inherently messy to implement.
I would like to counter with first hand observed real world evidence.

Raising the minimum wage near where I live (Seattle area) has raised the prices of everything. Rent seeking land owners raise their rents, which passes through to everything and absorbs the water trying to sate the parched desert.

IMO either directly supplying what UBI is supposed to provide, or encouraging local supply to match the market need, thus driving down cost with competition as demand is finally met are how consumer welfare / buying power can be increased.
When has UBI actually every been tried? I don't think any trials really qualify as "Universal".

IMO the universal part is the hard part and changes it drastically. Compared to a small limited trial of giving people money, where does it all come from when it's actually universal? And what are the effects on the overall economy when it's universal?
Shockingly, when you give people who chronically lack resources those resources, they use them to better their circumstances. Who knew.
> Cities should not be so brittle that having two lanes on a single road go down for a cut would make a dent.

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell the way democracies fund major construction projects is to first wait until the existing infrastructure becomes completely unbearably overloaded, and only then to kick off a process that will solve the problem in 10 years time.
It's RAG and a method that identifies citations from the context.
Money isn't zero sum. We've never let such concerns interfere with funding wars.
The author paints with too broad a brush. There is significant differences in markets that drive these decisions. Cut-and-cover is standard in my state, but the land cost, density, and regulatory environment allow this. Directional drilling and jack-and-bore is very common for small diameter excavation, though.
I’ve seen proponents suggest we take the money from other welfare programs, as paradoxically the means-testing overhead costs so much that we can afford to pay everyone $X instead of thousands of workers to process thousands of welfare applications. I haven’t seen specific numbers about this though.

Edit: I'm failing to find numbers to support this now.
That's hilarious, I didn't even realize it was a clickable link! Well, file formats aside, props to the team for including an audio recording of how to pronounce it.
Currency yes. But not value.
Google "hyperinflation." Printing money out of thin air causes the existing money to be worth about as much as toilet paper.
In the US, we gave money to people during the pandemic. Worker shortages in low-skill labor resulted and inflation hit 10%. I think that's the major flaw - young, childless people without responsibility see no reason to work, when they can watch Netflix all day, either paying their mom some token rent or sharing a flop house with a bunch of friends.
Both statements are true. Governments can "print money", but printing money comes with many caveats.
I'd like to make food stamps automatic for everyone. It makes pretty good sense to me. Everyone who has a driver's license or is enrolled in school or is registered to vote gets food stamps. The most hateful southern baptists in my family who are still screaming about Obama's death panels can still agree that donating to food banks is a good idea. I can understand people who say "I don't want to pay higher taxes to support other people." I think that's a shitty philosophy, but I can understand where they're coming from. But if we make food stamps universal, then those people get the benefit they're paying taxes for and some of them will stop complaining. It ensure a basic level of public health and removes the stigma from receiving and using food stamps.

After we take care of that and instill the idea in everyone's mind that automating the basic necessities is good for everyone, we can work on housing, healthcare, and higher education.
I didn't realize it was a military thing. And in fact, I don't believe it is.

I have seen people wear their watch "upside down", including made up women in fashionable attire that would be the polar opposite of the rough style the article is portraying. On the contrary, I looked at a few random pictures of soldiers and in most of them the watch worn the standard way, with the face on the outside of the wrist. In fact, I find the "upside down" way more "girly" than "manly", simply because I think I saw more girls do it than men.

For practical reasons, I guess there are advantages to both. But the "protect the watch" argument, I don't really buy it. It is situational. If you have your watch inside your wrist, you bang it when you have your hands on a table, when you pick heavy stuff, it may come in contact with stuff you have on your belt (tools, gun, ...), etc...

I suspect the article is just an ad. They want to sell a watch for "tough guys" and came up with that story.
Current guidance is that AI-generated works are not copyrightable:

'If a work’s traditional elements of authorship were produced by a machine, the work lacks human authorship and the Office will not register it 26 For example, when an AI technology receives solely a prompt 27 from a human and produces complex written, visual, or musical works in response, the “traditional elements of authorship” are determined and executed by the technology—not the human user. Based on the Office’s understanding of the generative AI technologies currently available, users do not exercise ultimate creative control over how such systems interpret prompts and generate material.'

https://copyright.gov/ai/ai_policy_guidance.pdf

There is some nuance to the document, but prompt-only works seem pretty clear.
Minimum wage and ubi are totally different, though? Why would you expect them to have the same effect?
Or are you arguing that people need to be poor?
> what are the effects on the overall economy when it's universal?

Inflation.
Not enough alliteration: "A profusion of psuedoprofound pontification"?
Being at CERN helped, it wasn't individuals, but it took about three months, and several attempts.
Yes. I do not want the Global Social Computer in the Cloud to exist. I think it makes humans worse at being human.
Compliant being the keyword there. Are you saying all of the crappy cheap low-end USB-C cables you find on Amazon are fully compliant? You have to put an effort to find brands that are actually legitimate, and pay more for that. Hence the vast majority of people probably won’t successfully do so. Standards compliance is theoretical in the real world that involves cheap crap from Amazon.

Anyway the GP post is referring to a USB A to C cable and an old-fashioned USB A wall charger, many of which barely output a single watt. My family members have had similar problems due to similar confusion.
During a time of general inflation, it's difficult to tease out the effects.
Such wide covert mass surveillance activity from the 90's was unable to catch glimpse of 9/11 before the fact. Doesn't make sense.
Scheduled maintenance. Refueling, replacing worn-out components, that sort of thing. One nine of uptime is pretty good in the "continuously running power plants" business.

Emphasis on scheduled. Wind operators get no choice at all in when they're generating power, and this is true of solar as well, although the fluctuation is easier to predict, especially in very sunny climates.

A fleet of nuclear reactors can be taken offline on a schedule, with advance notice, so they alternate being out of commission. This makes it easier to supply reliable baseline power.
If AI images have no copyright then you can train a model only on AI generated images and you can claim that the model was not trained on any copyrighted material, easy exploit.
The reason most people have even heard of Navalny is because he went back to Russia. That move is what caused the western media to pick up the story and run it on the news for months on end. The imagery it produced, videos of him leaving the plane, saying goodbye to his wife, getting arrested, standing trial, were what catapulted the wests exposure to the opposition movement in Russia. It was an incredibly well played calculated move that unfortunately did not pay off because that coward Putin has his finger on the mobile oppression palace 24/7.
Maybe, but he only mentioned disagreements on security policies. Doesn't sound very convincing as a last straw, especially from a marketing standpoint when trying to gain more traction for his fork.
> Is it with new taxation on XYZ

Bring back the 70% corporate tax rate that was considered normal when Reagan was elected. That should give us a solid start. After that take all the money from every billionaire. You can have up to $999,999,999.99 in your bank + assets, and everything after that goes to healthcare and UBI. If you get to a billion, we'll name a dog park after you and you get a little trophy that says you won capitalism.

More importantly though, why is it that the funding of vast government expenditure is only a problem when it stands to benefit the working class? We always have heaps of money for tax cuts for the wealthy, blowing shit up overseas, and buying this year's crop of tanks to replace the ones we're about to shove into a field to rust. How many millions in PPI loans were forgiven, when most people got maybe $2,400 total over COVID when the economy damn near imploded?
"young, childless people without responsibility see no reason to work" doesn't seem supported by data. If their workplaces shut down where are they supposed to work?
Funny that you blame landlords off the bat as opposed to the fact that everyone who employs folks at minimum wage is forced to raise prices in order not to go out of business.
Odd, I'll check that logic. It should be linking you to https://plans.erogen.ai, but generally the site guides the user journey to create an account first to get access to more free messages. I probably messed up a boolean, thanks for leaving a comment!
Not to nitpick, but trump could singlehandedly destroy the United states in an afternoon. The presidency has absolute control over the use of the nuclear arsenal. One strike on China, in a conflict over Taiwan and the country will be blown to pieces. I don't think that's likely - but one cannot deny it is possible.
I've never worked with someone who ever stated "How long is a piece of string?" and wasn't a total pain to work with. Doesn't even matter which side I was on, it's painful to hear it even if you're part of the team that made that statement.

It's always a bad faith response. If the requirements are hazy, state that. If the task requires investigation and there's a high degree of exploratory work, state that (and state how long you'd be willing to explore before pivoting). If there's multiple outcomes or options that can lead to wildly different time estimates, disclose that.

Every time I've seen it uttered it meant "you're too dumb to understand what I'm doing and you should just shut up, give me money/time and leave me alone". And it's usually also people who overvalue their own abilities that say it too.
One thing I like about rubber/cloth bands is that they don't make noise or do risk doing damage when I'm typing at my computer. Wearing a watch on the inside is a non-starter for me for this reason.

I also like being able to glance down at my wrist and see the time. My wrist is rarely in the proper orientation for this to be possible if I were wearing my watch on the inside.

Lastly, I wonder if "raise to wake" would work in this orientation? It seems not to on my Garmin.
All the help is great, but these numbers are tiny compared to what Russia is fielding. Thousands of shells sounds nice until you realize Russia fires tens of thousands per day, and is able to manufacture hundreds of thousands per month. 30 cannons is nice until you realize Russia has thousands. The West can not solve this problem by dusting off whatever is left in the forgotten corner in the storage and sending it out and forgetting about it. In fact, they can't even solve it with fully mobilizing their capacity - which is still not happening - because while Russia (and USSR for decades before that) has been maniacally arming and stockpiling, the West has been reducing their capacities and relaxing under the impression that the Cold War is over, wars are thing of the past, and whoever thinks Russia is a threat is to be laughed at and needs their head checked. Now some are waking up, but from waking up to gaining back all the lost capacity and getting even to parity is a long way, and one that will be very expensive - which I am not convinced the West is willing to do, especially when it's for benefit of some ex-Soviet country that's not even in the EU. Maybe Putin will take it and then just stop, because this is always how it worked with aggressive fascist dictators in the past.
My grandmother was a nurse and wore her watch on her inner wrist. I think it was common and protected it from getting snagged during her rounds. Now I don’t think nurses are usually allowed to wear watches in most hospitals.
Sadly I think you’re right about NATO expansion. I think a hot war with Russia was always on the table with NATO expansion. You either have to be willing to fight it to defend the expansion or you’re going to cede something to Russia when they push back.
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