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We don't have to wonder. DAO, FTX, Genesis, Three Arrows, BlockFi, Celsius, etc.

I found it incredibly hard to turn when I wanted to. Not sure if it is key detection or if I needed to have more precise timing.

Imagine if a state had gone from 0 to 1 pedestrian deaths. An infinity percent increase. Walking anywhere would be a death sentence.

I agree with everything you said.

My original comment was in response to a comment that claimed that UBI does not suffer from the same incentives as needs-based programs and doesn't punish people for increasing their income.

My point was that this is not true. As your income increases, your relative tax burden from UBI also increases. In other words, as your income increases, "UBI income minus UBI taxes" decreases. Thus creating some of the same incentives as needs based programs. This is common to all progressive tax systems (which I support), and UBI isn't a magical exception.

It isn't a transfer though. See reply to sibling comment.

If UBI means that I get a check for $500 but at the same time my taxes go up by $500, I would have a hard time thinking that my income went up by $500.

Think of a world with two people. One rich one poor. Both get checks for $500, but the rich persons taxes go up by $1000 to pay for the program. The net effect is different for the two people.

Now in a more realistic setting with a range of incomes, the tax burden of UBI increases in a persons wealth. When you take the net of UBI income minus UBI taxes you get a progressive tax scheme. This means it is not a transfer in the way economists talk about transfers. You still have an effect where people get "punished" with higher taxes as their income goes up.

Nothing can actually be a guaranteed income program though, at least in the spirit that people talk about it.

Someone eventually has to pay for it. Even if "everyone qualifies" and you give every person $xxx, some people will get their taxes raised by more than $xxx.

Or if you tax entities other than individuals, eventually the taxes get passed on to individuals in the form of higher prices, lower wages, etc.

I'm sure you know this, but for others curious about stick chairs, Chris Schwarz has brought about a dramatic increase in people's awareness of them and how to construct them. Lost Art Press has several books and videos about their history and construction.

https://lostartpress.com

Maybe play around with PICO-8? (https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php)

The highlighted programs are mostly games, but people have made all sorts of fun things like 3D CAD, music synthesis, text editors, etc.

It is certainly a break from complexity. And it is easy to export your program as a webpage.

But that's also not how copyright works. At least in the Unites States, the protections offered by copyright center around reproduction, performance, and derivative works[1].

If the AI models are reproducing copyrighted works, then that's a problem. And it does look like there are some examples where that might be happening beyond notions of fair use. But slupring up copyrighted content to train a model seems to fall under allowed use.

[1] https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/

I completely agree. One fun thing about HN though, is that every once in a while an expert from an obscure domain drops in with an extraordinary comment. It is rare, but delightful when it happens.

I also wonder how much of it is a perception among the blog authors that they have to make their recipes long winded for SEO reasons. They see everyone else doing it, there's an information cascade, and they believe (perhaps incorrectly) that they also must do it.

I'd like to agree, but my experience has been different. Basically...

1. invest a lot of time in learning nix (nixos in my case)

2. set up a system that works great

3. a year or two go by

4. need to make a change, modification, or set up another system

5. relearn everything from step 1

That said, I really do like the system. Just wish it were more user friendly and better documented.

We can feed prompts into chatGPT ourselves if that's what we want to read.

> It's always felt like engineers thinking they're outsmarting a much more mature legal system with humans built-in to slap away foolish gotchas.

And then the engineers, unsatisfied with the messy world of human intervention, create a system without humans, where the "code is the contract" (ethereum). Then rapidly abandon that tenet at the first inconvenience and return to human discretion (DAO fork).

I'm not sure if this was sarcastic? But in case not, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Asia

I think you're getting downvoted by people not realizing that you're actually the head of pinboard.

Either way, a flippant post is kind of insulting to your customers.

Clearly you haven't seen HN's reaction to any article about economics or psychology.

What, your mom buy you a puter for Christmas?

Also turns out that "decentralized" in practice means "centralized"

The author clearly knows a lot about photography, so I don't think this is a mistake in the article... When did "depth of field" begin meaning the opposite of what it traditionally meant in photography?

For example: A nice side benefit of a larger sensor is a bit more depth of field. At a 13mm full-frame equivalent, you really can’t expect too much subject separation, but this shot shows some nice blurry figures in the background.

For as long as I can remember, depth of field referred to the range of distance that is in focus. So more depth of field would mean more things in focus and less subject separation. And "distance to subject" and "field of view" equal, a larger sensor results in less depth of field.

But in the article it is clearly the opposite. This isn't the only place I've noticed the change in meaning either.

Yes! That was my homepage for years. Such a great density of customizable information.

Cool project and kudos to the developers, however projects such as these often fall into an uncanny valley for me.

The overall look matches that of MacOS (or Windows, etc), but the details are off. Fonts are wrong, padding and spacing are wrong, UI controls are a little off. The attention to detail just never matches that of the real thing.

Thank you for clearly and concisely conveying what the author was unable to do in an entire blog post that includes diagrams.

I don't know how that article is written without mentioning utility theory in economics and the concept of diminishing marginal utility of money and the risk aversion it implies. No need to even bring in behavioral economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_aversion

In my search for more works like the Baroque Cycle, I was led to Thomas Pynchon, who's writing far surpass that of Stephenson (in my opinion). In particular, Against the Day, Gravity's Rainbow, and Mason & Dixon. They are all historical fiction of sorts, with long detailed excursions into well researched nooks and crannies of history. Pynchon's writing is sublime once you get used to it.

Speaking of non-standard controls, it does seem that in the last ten years car designers have just plain forgotten long-standing conventions. It used to be that the fuel gauge would appear on the same side of the instrument cluster as the gas cap for refueling the car. Now it seems to be random. It makes it very frustrating with rental cars.

> Like all workers under capitalism, they’re also alienated from each other.

> In the capitalist epoch, however, our labour as workers isn’t meant for us.

> ...it’s not labour per se that induces feelings of dread on a Sunday evening or the desire to escape, cognitively or otherwise, at the end of a week: it’s the alienated form of labour under capitalism.

What world is the author living in? What system of political economy is better, Soviet style communism? Funnily enough, I found the themes and aesthetics of the show more closely connected to communism than capitalism.

>In summary: in order to display HTML emails using Mutt, the author developed a system to automatically pipe them to a tool that parses plaintext multipart MIME messages and converts them to an HTML file, which gets displayed in an auto-reloading Firefox tab.

The article has nothing to do with reading HTML emails using mutt which is actually quite easy to do, as pointed out by another commenter. The article is about sending multi-part text+HTML emails in a nice way that handles attachments, inline images, etc.

That is awesome, congratulations on a remarkable turnaround!

Funnily, I'm kind of the opposite story -- mid-40s and fairly athletic. I run around 14 miles every other day at sub 7 pace, play other sports, and am generally in good shape and have been my whole life. My diet is mostly vegetarian without much alcohol. Trying to do everything right to live a healthy lifestyle, but my cholesterol was terrible... LDL around 240.

My doctor chalked it up to bad luck with genes. After a few months on a statin it was at 90. Since I didn't have much room to change lifestyle, I'm very thankful for drugs!