skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with basic income, but most analyses of it are backwards.

For most of history, governments addressed unemployment by starting wars. By shipping off to war, the unemployed temporarily get a job. They either come back dead or ready to take a new job in an economy revitalized by the stimulus of government war spending.

John Maynard Keynes noticed this pattern, especially during the Great Depression and WW2, and made a brilliant suggestion: continue with these government interventions, but keep the government spending and drop the war part. We call it "Keynesian economics", but really, what Keynes invented was capitalist peace. And guess what, since then, no two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's. [1]

We need a Keynesian boost today, not because of technological progress, but rather the contrary: the rapid technological progress of the 20th century that brought tremendous economic prosperity to humanity has finally come to a grinding halt. Let's stop denying this. The stream of lifechanging breakthrough inventions of the 20th century, from A (antibiotics) to Z (zippers), have ended. As a result, we now suffer from secular stagnation, something Keynes understood very well back then, and Larry Summers understands in the present. [2]

It's especially absurd to claim that automation is the cause of this. Automation has already upended society: it was called the Industrial Revolution and happened 200 years ago. The upheaval caused then to human lives and employment was far more dramatic than anything happening today.

And basic income is simply the most fair way to apply Keynesian policy. It is more fair to split the money up and distribute it equally to every individual than it is for the government to buy things on their behalf. Highly distributed spending will also avoid creating market distortions and liquidity traps. [3] And the resulting economic boost will lead to increased tax revenues and, who knows, maybe more jobs -- this time not subject to labor market distortions caused by people being desperate for work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree
[2] http://larrysummers.com/2016/02/17/the-age-of-secular-stagna...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap
That's so interesting. I have most definitely flipped from night to morning over the years. Work may have had some steadying influence on that.
Exactly. Its bad because it is reported as a UBI test but is pretty much the opposite because it does not change the one thing UBI changes which is that you continue to receive the money even when you get a job.
If you are still printing money and increasing the supply of money in the economy you will still have hyperinflation. Your plan is kind of assuming that every month they destroy all the existing money before printing more money, which is not something that you can do.
Well, there needs to be an actor that has enough influence and power to actually make it all work. UBI isn't going to work if it's ultimately a volunteer based system. We already have lots of voluntary donations ($ and time) in our present day.
I suspect Amazon may be overloading their capacity to actually fulfill their promised delivery timeframe (the hotel industry does this a lot with overselling rooms) for the simple reason that most people won't complain or can be placated easily. In the past year or so I've noticed a big change with Amazon Prime in particular to that end. I still get the items ordered after 1-2 days in shipping, but it's increasingly common to not ship for a day or two after the order is placed.
How is this different from Zapier, IFTTT, or Microsoft's Flow?
It's possible that leadership cannot be taught, but it can be observed and learnt.
>"That doesn't hold that much water. Nigeria and Russia are both dependent on petroleum dollars as well, and neither of them are convulsing the way Venezuela is. They're not doing well, but they're not running out of food either."

To some extent I agree with you. I accept that the Venezuelan government has mismanaged their economy, and the idea that they can keep using wildly different exchange rates for the same currency seems baffling to me. However, regarding the impact of oil revenues...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela

"Revenue from petroleum exports accounts for more than 50% of [Venezuela's] GDP and roughly 95% of total exports."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Nigeri...

"As of 2014, Nigeria's petroleum industry contributes about 14% to its economy. Therefore, though the petroleum sector is important, it remains in fact a small part of the country's overall diversified economy."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia

>"As of 2012 the oil-and-gas sector accounted for 16% of [Russia's] GDP, 52% of federal budget revenues and over 70% of total exports."

...based on those numbers it seems fair to say that the economy of Venezuela is more dependent on oil revenues than Nigeria or Russia, so even without economic mismanagement they would've probably been hit harder by the price drop.
From the comments section:

http://andrewgelman.com/2016/10/09/heimlich/#comment-325017

> Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is stranger than truth. Andrew’s next-to-last sentence links to:

> “(The Heimlich manoeuvre) has never been used in Australia. Despite the claims of the extremely charismatic Dr. Heimlich, Australian resuscitation experts believe that there isn’t enough scientific evidence to support its use. So how does a medical procedure become so widely adopted without any serious scientific evidence? — The Heimlich manoeuvre by Aviva Ziegler, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, July 27, 2009”

I'm on mobile so am not able to look it up easily, but I'm assuming there are some experiments to verify beyond anecdotes whether the maneuver works, right?

Also, what do Australians use in lieu of it?
The SQL Server running in a VM is precisely the part you no longer have to worry about. Drive by contributors aren't going to do this when offering ORM patches. But if they have an easy way to test on Linux it becomes a lot more viable. Going back to Django, we provide a vagrant image with most databases preinstalled. Adding sqlserver to this setup will now make sense.

Also Microsoft are deprecating the old bindings and are creating new ones I believe will be open source. I might be off slightly.
> What you really need to be blaming is the concepts of professional management and job hopping.

Then why can't I blame MBAs and MBA-producing business schools? The core theory of the MBA is that professional management can be taught divorced from the actual details of the industry. And the value of a credential is to permit job hopping. People who work their way up in a company don't need a credential to prove their worth.

> Most of the time, they actually do correlate, which is why this system continues to be used and why it makes profits go up.

In the short term, anyhow. They generally encourage long-term destruction, though, because that lets you juice the quarterly KPIs. That in turn fuels job hopping in that a) somebody gets to claim that they improved KPIs drastically, and b) there's a real incentive to get out before the bill comes due.
OneNote files are stored in the OneDrive file sync service by default (and I assume has the same data hiarangees), but you can save them locally if you'd like.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your elderly parents' health?
Hi HN:

My parents are in their 80s, living in a different country, and it's hard for me to make sure they're doing OK.

When I talk to them on the phone they always say "everything's alright, don't worry about us". But I'd like to know objectively how they're doing.

Has anyone else had this problem? What have you done about it?

Thanks
The EU did, and the US threatened to just shoot down the EU satellites unless they get the ability to turn off GALILEO.
I'm an American. I grew up in the New England area and I now live on the West Coast. I'm in Computer Security.

I do not know how to address a challenge like this?

How can I - without providing something absurd like my driver's license - prove that I am an American and of American decent?

Note that I was talking the other day about the situation in Cyprus, where I used the terminology 'aggressive' to describe Turkish behavior. I was accused of being a Greek.

Anyway, I fully reject the accusation that I am 50 Cent Party member or paid by any government, including my home country the United States.
> obviously such measures will be abused or have side effects of being used to silence dissenters

What makes you think that would be a side effect? As far as I can tell, that is the primary intended effect.
Perhaps, but if so that should be solved directly, by creating laws limiting the leeching behaviour, not by generally disincentivising work.
I was puzzled by that too. I've used the SQLite amalgamation and thought it was a very clever way of avoiding the complexities of libraries. I took inspiration from it in my chess program and amalgamated all my chess primitives into a single file to avoid the pain of a library dependency. It's an inspired idea and deserves better than "come on".
What coordination problems? Just form a kickstarter. Get all applicants who want to sign up and support each other to sign a 5 year contract, done.
The EU does have a coast and border guard, though, which is a paneuropean military entity.
According to Wikipedia:

In some areas, such as Australia, authorities believe that there is not enough scientific evidence to support the use of abdominal thrusts and their use is not recommended in first aid. Instead, chest thrusts are recommended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_thrusts
It took me a while to go through his entire 12 pages but here is a brief list of the apps/accessories he speaks about:

*Note: there are duplicate apps for similar situations (i.e. three writing apps) but that's because he was switching between them for different uses.

- Readdle’s Document app - ‘best file manager’

- workflow app - like IFFTT

- iA Writer - writing app ($3.99, short writing)

- Working Copy Enterprise ($14.99) - collab writing

- Twelve South’s ParcSlope ($49.99 on Amazon)

- Razer Keyboard Case for iPad Pro ($169.99 on amazon)

- Anker PowerCore 20000 Battery ($45 on amazon)

- Apple 29W USB-C Charger

- Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 Wireless (headphones)

- SteelSeries Nimbus Controller

- Tom Bihn Daylight Briefcase

- Spotify and Apple Music

- Synology NAS - DS214play (for home server/media center)

- DS Get, DS File, DS Video

- QuickConnect feature with Synology (allows access to home server, in non-home settings)

- Infuse Pro 5 ($12.99, for not needing to convert media files)

- Plex (free - video streaming)

- Provenance (github - old games emulator for iOS)

- https://github.com/jasarien/Provenance/wiki/Building-Provenance

- PlayMira ($9.99 - ps4 game streaming)

- Timepage for iPad (6.99 - calendar)

- Airmail ($4.99 - mail account)

- Sanebox ($ - email management assist)

- Pixelmator ($4.99 - edit images)

- Launcher with Notication Center Widges by Cromulent Labs (free - url automation)

- https://www.macstories.net/reviews/with-launcher-2-0-im-rethinking-my-notification-center-widgets/

- Inoreader (free - rss feed reader)

- Fiery Feeds Premium (9.99 - rss feed reader)

- Copied (free - clipboard manager)

- Bear ($4.99 - notes replacement)

- https://www.macstories.net/stories/why-im-considering-bear-as-a-notes-app-replacement/

- Ulysses ($24.99 - text document writing, zen app, short writing)

- Pinnacle Studio Pro ($12.99 - video editing)

- VideoGrade ($5.99 - color editor of videos)

- DEVONthink To Go ($14.99 - doc and info management, search function is high value)

- iThoughts ($11.99 - mindmap)

- Scrivener - ($19.99 - writing, long form writing)

- Ferrite Recording Studio (free, voice memo with editing)

- SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive (SDIX30C-064G-GN6NN) (64 gb = $49.99)

- Annotable (free, image annotation)

He writes about a lot of apps. Here is a list of it all (warning all of his stuff is affiliate links) https://www.macstories.net/stories/one-year-of-ipad-pro/12/#...
If there are conditions, it's not universal. The distinguishing feature of universal basic income in comparison to traditional welfare was that it doesn't have the disincentives to work caused by means testing. If you add means testing back in, you've defeated the purpose.
Why not community owned laptops?
How can you say nobody is getting shunned for gender pronouns?

Did read the link I posted about people getting in trouble for the word "Niggardly?" The fact is, plainly that there are SOME people who use the guise of political correctness as a power game. Sorry if you don't want to believe that, but the evidence is pretty clear.

Now this doesn't invalidate all of political correctness, because the world isn't black and white. The fact is, there are bad people out there, and they are on both sides (and this is true for almost any issue), and if you cannot admit this then your tribalism is actually part of the problem.
And Oracle sued over that. Still is suing over that. The suit threatens all of software by declaring APIs exempt from fair use.
If the author had said the same thing about <insert any language> that would have been wrong too...
Actually, that (EDIT: "an earlier chronotype shift" to be clear) is a normal part of aging.
>Before you return to your station on the digital assembly line, can you help me figure out how to check my voicemail? The red light on my VOIP phone -- do you know what VOIP stands for? -- has been on for a month

Your "story" sounds like it has a cliche MBA as well as a cliche IT guy, the latter of whom believes they're oh-so-smart for having technical knowledge that others don't. Both are jerks.
It's relevant when the discussion touches on the question of whether a massive, powerful central government can ever really have its citizenry's interests at heart.
I wonder why they thought this article was newsworthy. It's news to no one that most business books are empty of thought. The same goes for many MBA programs. So yes, we should ignore management theory, but for the reasons given in this article, we should ignore the Economist.

It's not even clear that the four ideas cited in the magazine are actually prevalent in management theory. The piece itself did almost nothing to substantiate that.

One of the best books on management theory is War and Peace. The central idea in war is simply that good lieutenants are more useful and more rare than the sycophants and adjutants who circle the chiefs of staff.

One of the second best ideas about management is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership

The main job of managers is to make the lives and tasks of competent individual contributors go more smoothly.
Please don't accuse people of commenting in bad faith. It only poisons the well of discussion and breeds paranoia and suspicion, and political threads are too toxic around here as it is.

Attack the message, not the messenger.
I don't, sorry, maybe try Google?
I'm bootstrapping a couple of side-projects by training up an intern, and starting in January I will be paying him a monthly retainer against hours worked. The coming tasks will include:

- Stripe payment integration
- Marketing automation

This has been a great experience for both of us, and we will be self-publishing a PDF book on this process.
This jarred loose a memory... You and I discussed this here once, years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227579

The experiential difference of seeing the contextualization you put in the top-level post here, and just seeing a list of links (like you used to do) is huge. This way feels friendly like being invited into a larger conversation. A "sterile" list of previous discussion feels a little too much like "OMG repost".

I can't speak for others - but I think you hit the sweet spot of how to do the cross-connecting.
Yes, thanks for clarifying the origin of human rights. It makes the west even better. Imagine, we came up with the concept.

I also think you are agreeing with me, but for some reason you find my statements hard to accept.

Sometimes challenge and analysis is good, sometimes it's a waste of time. I think this is a case of the latter.
Precisely what is the goal of a breeding program?

To avoid disease, no?

Precisely what are the psychological ramifications of eugenics?

Is there a benefit from being thought of as more desirable as a 'breeding' partner, or does that belief conflict with psychological health?

Is there anything good to be derived from isolating those deemed less worthy of bearing children?

Is there a single example of stratification in society that demonstrates plausible soundness of reason when separating people by what are intrinsically arbitrary metrics?

If medicine has proven anything, it's that we are far more complex and diverse than we purport to be. Precluding someone via a bus eugenic practice is nothing but exclusionary ignorance based on limited data.

It literally makes me sick that there are people who believe this practice is sound.

Let's move on to a more cosmopolitan vantage point, shall we?
Ask HN: I sold my company. I want a job. What now?
On an alias for this one.

tl;dr: sold my successful company, want something else, don't want to spend months burning out on typical interviews. Recruiter, events, what?

I sold my company, which is in a niche space. I'm a software type, i.e., an in-the-weeds CTO/VP Eng/FSD. I built the initial product myself, end-to-end, before hiring and expanding.

I want to do something else. I want to get involved in something operational on the technology side.

My network is good, but it's mostly in a space where I really don't want to operate anymore because I don't really like it and I don't want to get into some litigious restrictive covenant dispute.

I know HN generally dislikes recruiters, and I typically do to, but it's been so long since I've been involved with them that I'm wondering if anyone has any good experiences to report from recent years.

I've also had some experience with alternatives. I did TripleByte early on and I really disliked that. Maybe they've improved since they've been around for a while.

Now: I could start something brand new, but I've been thinking about it for the past year, and I'm really looking to help grow an existing company.

Essentially, I don't want to burn cycles doing countless algorithms quizzes, homework, blind challenges, etc. That makes me want to just retire right now...

I'd love to hear from founders who've had similar experiences.
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Interesting sets of comments here and on the various videos.

"hammer forging" is an old an well understood technique, its basically taking a blacksmith's workflow and scaling it up with hydraulics and mechanical lift assist :-). That said, once the initial shape is good, they chuck it up in a pretty good sized lathe to bring it into final tolerance. This saves a lot of wasted steel since you don't spend tool time cutting away a ton or more of excess material.

Forging also makes the steel harder but a bit more less tough (sometimes a part will be annealed in a large oven after forging to release stresses).

While I'm sure these guys all know a guy who is missing a hand or foot or died while doing this, all of the ironworkers I've met and talked with seemed to really enjoy their work. My guess is that its cathartic pounding some really amazing material into shape. A blacksmith at Plumas Eureka state park remarked that the amazing thing about the blacksmiths of the 1890's when the mine was operating was that their handy work was around for all to see and admire some 125 years later, and it still serves its intended purpose. Not something I can say about software I've written or hardware I've designed.
If he can donate to this, he can donate to everything. The "if can, should" principle would have him exhausted of money on much more worthwhile charities long before he'd get round to linux.

What he's saying is that linux is part of a sustainable economic system from which companies profile, so that (now) it does not require individual charitable contributions.
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> why is it that you condemn describing what the Chinese government is doing wrong, but think it is good to do so for the US?

I condemn the Chinese for all of their civil rights infractions, watch: China has a serious problem with gross human and civil rights violations.

Anyway. People tend to react to accusation that the United States government commits serious human rights attrocities with a knee jerk - accusing the other person of being employed by other governments, etc.

This is not the case.

Let me put this out there, because I think it's important to understand.

China has been drastically improving in the field of human rights over time. It's trajectory is UP.

America has been drastically devolving in the field of human rights over time. It's trajectory is DOWN.

Is that concerning? Why do Americans feel that China is even a metric for comparison?

No government gives their people rights. Rights are inalienable.

The United States government has been taking away their people's rights.

Articles such as the above make China seem like the problem, or the most important problem.

If you are an American and you are concerned with human and civil rights, you won't win them by fighting the Chinese. You will win them by fighting your own government.

I take the allegation that I am a paid Chinese propagandist seriously. I reject this accusation fully.
Sitting might be a requirement for you, and it's fine, but should also be willing to pay the price for it, i.e. live in a suburb that can accommodate your preferences. You cannot live in a dense city rich in amenities and expect to be sitting all the time, it just doesn't work geometrically. In many cities (granted, not San Francisco), people happily stand in public transit for the dozens of minutes they have to spend there, and have satisfied with their experience. Go to Zürich for instance, you'll see bankers riding the S-Bahn when they could afford a car.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13198960

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13196431
It's extremely justified, and I'd expect any country that cares for its sovereignty to do the same.
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I hate being "that guy" but am I the only one who expects this particular brand of communism to not be any better than previous attempts?

Somebody's going to have to pay for this...
Speaking to some folks from Microsoft at RubyConf last year, I know they are actively bringing in developers for the various adapters to try to improve this story. I believe this is a matter of the frameworks choosing first-class support rather than Microsoft. (been running a Rails app backed by a large "legacy" SQL Server for 3-4 years)
At some point before 1985, an algorithm was found that could solve it in 21 "twists". (Just checked in my old copy of Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas.)
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