skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why is Basic Income (in the US) preferable to a Great Depression-style Works Progress Administration?

Unemployment peaked in 1933 at about 25%. Currently, it is close to 15%, but if we drop the outlier of a virus -- assuming things will return to normal -- it was just recently around 3.5% and has been dropping drastically since 2010[0]. Yet, I think many will say that things haven't really gotten better since then, right? I think we'd say the problem has been growing.

So we have to conclude that a lack of jobs isn't the answer. Conversely, underemployment is fairly high at 12-13%[1]. It is higher for young people and even rising[2]. The lack of good jobs seems to be at least part of the issue. So I don't understand how WPA solves the issue. If people are paid market wages, sure, we can tackle that 3.5%, but is that even what we want? Fed says that the current rate is pretty normal and too low can cause inflation [3].

I'm not saying we don't have a crumbling infrastructure that needs to be fixed. I'm happy to support projects and make this country better. But I'm not sure how a jobs program fixes the problem. Because the problem doesn't seem to be a lack of jobs or unemployment (again, we're ignoring the current crisis on the premise of this being temporary). The problem is that productivity has increased[4] and wages are stagnant for most Americans[5].

I'm not sure UBI is the answer either, but I'm not convinced that WPA is either. Frankly, this isn't the Great Depression.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/205240/us-underemploymen...

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/payout/2017/07/21/the-underempl...

[3] https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/economy_14424.html

[4] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/productivity

[5] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
If you just want to scratch the gaming itch a bit, hop on the 2 month trial of google's stadia. GTA is not part of it but enough other fun games. I'm playing through serious sam in split-screen.
People also get useful skills, a sense of pride, belonging and accomplishment from it.

Although I don't see the problem of providing a combination of UBI and a Guaranteed Work program; with the UBI being a thing an GWP would have to offer actual progression and hope beyond just surviving.
For every stock sold there’s always a corresponding buyer at the market price.
There are a number of tasks like rebuilding infrastructure that most people agree is necessary. There is some set P of people that would be willing to do this in exchange for a $24k salary. There is also a subset S of people (of set P) who would be willing to volunteer to do these tasks (for "free") assuming they receive $24k a year from UBI. If the subset S is almost equal to P, the government should be able to start a large scale volunteer program that would be structured like the WPA. If the subset S is much smaller than P, the government cannot do this. Do we know what the size of S is compared to P?
I wrote a multi-player idle text game for playing on IRC: https://pink-dragon.surge.sh It had been running for about three weeks now. Not too many players unfortunately, but still three ascensions which are automatically broadcast on Mastodon: https://botsin.space/@pink_dragon
More importantly, UBI creates incentives for soul-sucking jobs to become better or even desirable.

Society should not rely on it's ability to coherce the less fortunate to sacrifice their lives performing horrible jobs just because it suits the fancy of a minority.
Yup. The title sounds like "The train is my new bicycle".

I mean, both get you places and have wheels.
Wasn’t that the basis of Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign though?

Right - you have to have a better product, but Lightroom isn’t Photoshop (i.e. it isn’t impossible to compete with) and Aperture’s codebase already exists. Apple could divert the profits from a single day’s worth of iPhone sales into an endowment for Aperture to keep a halo-effect on their Mac hardware.
> if we didn’t had the ONS data already there are virtually no additional reported deaths for that age group above what PHE reports:

You've neglected to account for the data lag. From your link:

> he information used to produce these statistics is based on details collected when certified deaths are registered with the local registration office. In England and Wales, deaths should be registered within five days of the death occurring, but there are some situations that result in the registration of the death being delayed. For example, when a death needs to be investigated by a coroner. Therefore, there may be some deaths involving COVID-19 that occurred in March and April but are yet to be registered, meaning they will not be included in this analysis.

I'm talking about deaths of young people living in care and nursing homes. All of these deaths need to be investigated by the coroner.
You are disappointed the comment is about the subject of the book from someone who read it and didn’t find it a compelling read? I didn’t like the book because it continued a trend in mia-selling DynamoDB and my comment reflects that frustration. Sorry but not every review is going to be glowing, and I’m certainly not going to make personal comments about the author.
Unikernels are typically statically linked. Using copyleft code means the whole resulting binary is subject to copyleft.

Free software is great, but not everyone is in the position where they can release all of their code all the time.

For a unikernel to be viable it can't have copyleft code in it.
I just use ESLint + auto fix on save and I've never had to worry about semicolons for years, and even if i did it's not an error in JS.
Free markets are pretty close to democracy, except instead of voting with ballots people vote with their money.
Expanding the original quote for more context:

Jack: This exchange was nice to read. But why couldn't it have been initiated and had via the official channels? After a couple back and forwards with the automated responses the system should hook in a developer advocate like yourself instead of the dev having to go beg on twitter...

Simeon: I'm literally the only one for extensions. Generally speaking [Developer Advocates] aren't a super populated role
Well... I'm creating a pet/toy game engine inspired on DIV Games Studio, with D. And I resuscitate two D packages. A simple VFS and a fluent assertation library.
Is it inconceivable to you there are people who are ok with doing cleaning jobs?

Those jobs do have some benefits: the specification doesn’t really ever change, you can see the outcomes of your work fairly immediate, the societal benefits are self-evident, and when you go home at the end of your work day there isn’t a lot to take home with you.
UBI benefits are quickly nullified because prices start to go up. Inflation effects everyone - not just people with cash reserves. It just radically increases government spending and debt which eventually leads to crash of currency value.
My source is simply reading history :) It has been reported that during time of Omar ibn Abdul-Aziz, there were no poor people left to take Zakah, since everyone paid their dues.

The difference between Zakah and wealth tax as proposed in the links you mentioned, is that the former applies to almost everyone (except the poor/needy obviously) in lieu of income and sales tax, not just to people with > $500k (or whatever) in their accounts. It may not be as straight forward to calculate compared to income tax, but the goal here is to solve a problem, not to just implement a mediocre solution that has been shown not to work.

I came across this article that gives a high level summary[0].

[0] https://nzf.org.uk/when-islam-eradicated-poverty-umar-b-abdu...
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Don't know where you live but in Europe nobody is forced to clean streets, on the contrary, that work is so well paid by our high taxes and is not very physically demanding since you're provided with all the machines and equipment you need to not strain yourself that you actually need to have quite good connections to get such a gig. Same with garbage men, they earn a pretty penny and the companies they work for make a mint.
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the more I think about this the more I like its potential to actually "fix the internet":

not just adding protocol support to gemini:// but have FF check first if the content can be fetched via gemini:// and if yes then default to using it instead.

reader-view is great but you can't switch to it until all the crap has been already loaded. supporting gemini would increase privacy, and let the users decide if they prefer content with ads and bloat and malware or rather just read without distraction.
other than the threat of copyright strikes, why should anyone allow their bandwidth to be used for this cache?

And if you want to view a deleted video, how would you go about finding it on this distributed cache? If you can search people's caches, this is the same as announcing that you have seen such and such video - which may be an invasion of privacy too.'

If the original author of the video wanted it to be unremovable, they need to put this up on their own infrastructure they control imho.
Great counterpoint. However I believe when UBI is prevalent, we will have to rethink whether big-centralized-expedited projects are even desirable. Maybe myriad mini-hyrdros as opposed to one big dam, or myriad space startups as opposed to one space agency.
I took a shot at it:

https://monokai.nl/lab/hacker-news/hn-dark1.png

https://monokai.nl/lab/hacker-news/hn-dark2.png

https://monokai.nl/lab/hacker-news/hn-dark3.png

The principles I followed:

- Alligator energy. No need to redo the layout or apply the latest design trends. HN is fine as is.

- Respect the original design. The dark version uses the same color hierarchy as the elements in the original design.

- No-nonsense. All colors are pure grayscale.

- Simple. Only minimally adjusted the CSS ( https://monokai.nl/lab/hacker-news/news.css ). This can be easily implemented in the current CSS using some media queries. I only added one thing in the HTML which is a span around the karma points at the top.

- Keep the orange. This was a puzzle. I think the original bar is too jarring on a dark background. But, HN is not HN without a touch of orange. I decided to style the top links only. This keeps the soul of HN.

- Readability. You should be comfortable reading this dark mode in low light. Too much contrast doesn't read nicely, but the original HN text has a lot of contrast with its #000 on an off-white background. My dark background is off-black and the text is turned down a notch from pure white. If you need less contrast, you can turn down the brightness of your display.

- The upvote triangles are unicode now inserted via CSS. Saves a request and doesn't render pixelated on Retina.

- Best thing. All comments are placed on a big slab of #2a2a2a. That's triple the answer to you know what.
In consumer goods maybe. The real inflation is in stocks and real estate. For a decade at least.
> There has been a resurgence of research sys-tems exploring the idea of the libraryOS, ora unikernel,a model where target application is linked with a special-ized kernel and deployed directly on hardware, virtual orphysical

Third paragraph

> The unikernel is a cloud-era handle for the classic systemstechnique of linking an application with a library of oper-ating system components (including memory management,scheduler, network stack and device drivers) into a singleflat address space, creating standalone binary image that isbootable directly on (virtual) hardware [22]. The advantageof this approach is that kernel functionality can be special-ized to fit the needs of the target application to increasethe performance of the application or to support it within ahighly restricted execution domain.

And second chapter.
Which problem are you trying to solve? Fixing infrastructure or wages? Sure, they can complement one another, but it isn't a necessary condition. So your question appears, to me, rather confusing and off topic when we're talking about wage issues and you're asking "but what about the problem of bridges?"
> The big idea to UBI is that by giving money to everyone it takes out the complexity. Check if citizen, send check. There's no means basis that has to be analyzed. No formula. No background checks. Just simple.

Human nature is not that simple. How do you think we ended up with the welfare system we have today? One example: pretty much everyone thinks single mothers are more worthy of welfare dollars than convicted felons. Guess who gets more welfare money?

Explain how our moral intuitions are going to magically change overnight.

If we pass a truly "universal" basic income law we will end up adding exceptions upon exceptions to it until we end up with something that looks a lot like the welfare system we have today. People just don't believe that everyone deserves the same amount of help from the government. Singling out certain groups as more or less deserving is a great way for politicians to get elected. That's where "tough on crime" comes from.
It reminded me of Brad Pitt's character in "Ad Astra", when he talks about "compartmentalization". As a human, you become part of a machine that is society / the military. You become part of "an effective team".
AMP breaks down some fundmental things about the internet. Obviously tracking tokens could be changed over time, but there's a blacklist in the popular Privacy Badger extension. Firefox's privacy protection features have varying levels of opt-in-ness, so I don't see why if pulling in Disconnects blacklist for one thing is okay, but tokens not. I'm fine with an extension too, but right now only one extension is whitelisted for the new Firefox on Android.
I dont think the majority of physicists or bankers are struggling to survive. There is more to life than survival. I think the need for struggle is better described as a need for burden, rather than survival. It opens up many behaviours that prioritize ideas above biological need to survive and reproduce.

Your opinion cant be removed, everything in life can be reduced down to biology if you accept to lose out on certain axioms.
There's an argument that can be had that lockdown measures will be much more deadly than COVID in the long run. Increased suicides due to disemployment, poverty, more cancers and other illnesses gone untreated because of health service mis-prioritization. There's a compound effect where businesses going bust can have a domino effect on others. Hospitals could go bankrupt. Everyone is going to be paying more for basic goods due to inevitable price inflation.

If it saves one life, it's worth ending the lockdown, right?

Why is there nobody running computer models estimating how many people are going to die as a result of the lockdown?

Because it contradicts the narrative. COVID is unknown and the government is as clueless as you are. They're in hysteria and are not thinking rationally.

What people need is the freedom to make their own choices. If people are scared of the virus and think staying couped up in a confined home is going to keep them from getting sick - I have nothing wrong with them doing that. Please stop forcing everyone else to live that way.
"Also known as rump kernels a name inspired by the infamous purge of royalists from Parliament following the English Civil War this process involves creating a fork of an existing kernel codebase and manually purging it of the components deemed unnecessary to the target unikernel."

That appears to come from the FAQ on Github for "rumprun" dated 2015.

Rump kernels were introduced in NetBSD in 2009. It was an described then as an acronym for runnable userspace meta programs.

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/runnable_userspace_meta_pr...

I have not used rumprun for Linux but I still use the rump utilities included with NetBSD.
I have read pretty much all the comments. Many European countries have some form of basic income. I don't think Americans commenting here realizes how unsustainable that is. You can't mix high growth that US enjoys (look at disposable income and strength of USD) with UBI.

If the choice is low/no growth where population sustain itself than UBI is the way.

But what happens if for e.g. a country A moves to UBI but country B remains high growth? Country B will continue to invent new things and country A will be forced to inflate and moan and sacrifice its children and grandchildren to debt. That's pretty much what will happen.
Depends what you're using it for. If you're just running it as a server then (non-A) GPL code is fine since you're not distributing the program.
Thank you, it looks good

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I have given up on the off the shelf boots. Best off the shelf boots I’ve found are some heavy leather Asolos you can get at REI (I hate those soft “hiking shoes” as they don’t provide the support you need with a heavy pack or for fording a river when you can’t see where you are stepping, etc). I had a cobbler disassemble them and put a plastic half-pipe-with-plate in the vertical portion behind my ankle/Achilles which gave greater stability. They were great boots — very comfortable, quite good performance — but after less than thousand miles or so the sole fell apart. Had the cobbler try to repair them but they weren’t the same — they weren’t designed to be resoled. Now I have my boots made by a guy in W.A. who does nothing else. They are solid and fit like a glove. Eminently repairable. You don’t want to spend this kind of money unless you expect to travel more than 750 miles a year in them though.

Older boots can be repurposed as jungle boots with a few careful stabs of your knife if you like long canoe trips. Regular hiking boots adjusted like this are better even than the Cabella jungle boots IMHO if you have rigorous portages.

I have done short (3-4 day) trips in places like Desolation Wilderness wearing Chaco sandals...but you couldn’t hike Mt Whitney and even in the lower sierras you need feet like leather. No ankle support so ultralight only.

For winter backpacking I have some off the shelf Columbia boots for snowshoeing. They are pretty warm. Those conditions are much less demanding on your feet and footgear than summer conditions. Don’t buy the crappy Bass winter boots: those are for standing briefly by your truck, not for long distance travel. OTOH if it’s really cold, and you’ll be on the ice, Traveling with dogs, go for mukluks.

My dog wears ruff ware vibram sole boots in summer and winter (they sell snow boots but I’ve not had good luck). Vibram soles, but last only about 5-600 miles. Wear with tennis socks and in winter, gaiters I made for him for the deep snow (he’s a large dog and weighs about the same as me).
You’re presenting a potentially flawed argument as well, IMO. No offense - it’s an interesting discussion with many facets.

I’m however positive, in the case of essential infrastructure, enough people - engineers, technicians and the like will happily work together despite being provided UBI.

Same with health care and other essential professions.

They’ll do it no matter governmental or ”private” initiatives.

A lot of us would probably direct our effort more in unison to creating a better world once the basics are of no concern.

In the end all we need to do is to cooperate. It’s what we’ve evolved to do. UBI is kind of the final step here - realize it’s not a zero sum game.

Can you not see a lot of cooperatives and interesting governmental initiatives arising due to UBI? I certainly can.
I don’t understand this idea that cleaning jobs are somehow inherently horrible.
Full article text:

http://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/3317550.3321445

Maybe link the top-level post there?
What is c10-archive test?
This. People need to take convexity of risk into account. Taleb has elaborated on this over and over again, its really straightforward.
As I've always understood it, it's not just performance but also security: there's a lot less code running with your code which cuts the surface area for bugs and thus security holes.
Overdosing D can be dangerous as it takes a long time to leave your body.
> Several sample maps are also included with the release alongside the “entire set of Half-Life: Alyx maps…as editable source for reference – this includes a large collection of interactive objects and prefabs.”

Holy cow! This seems huge.
Also, not only should "dark mode" be the responsibility of the browser, it already is. There's plenty of plugins that do this and people that want it should use them.

(http://i.9ol.es/dark.png)
I'd say swift is currently probably the best languages out there. Language features, standard library, performance, memory management.
The writer of the piece was not the "kid" in my comment. People who, by my understanding, would allow the work to remain not done because it was boring to do it, are. There's more clarification about the comment in the replies.
Put an exercise bike in everyone's house hooked up to a generator. Pay people to produce electricity.
With JavaScript disabled, it doesn't do anything.
Malware authors can register a dozen or thousand throwaway accounts (probably not super easy but not hard either).

It's the honest developers that get their meaningful accounts banned.
> The original topic here is that a disease that causes 0.024% IFR

You misread the report because it puts the ifr at 0.63% (and that's going to be higher because they omit some deaths).
The problem is the almost complete lack of documentation and all around knowledge. They have thrown out the baby with the bathwater even when there was no need to do so.

Example: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22systemd.timer%22 vs https://www.google.com/search?q=%22crontab%22&

Or https://www.google.com/search?q=%22systemd-networkd%22

All of this is fundamental stuff and decades of practice has been thrown away and it's not clear at all whether keeping backwards compatibility would've been so impossible.
You might want to look into order books to get a better understanding of the price determination mechanism of stocks/assets: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_book_(trading)
my favorite version of this is "man lsmod". About 70 words and supposedly maintained by multiple people.
I'm not being a luddite. Luddites are against technology. Technology frees people from work, instead of making them work as cashiers, fast food, uber, etc.

I'll address your argument with a simple essay, "In Praise of Idleness" by Bertrand Russell.

> adding to the national gain

> wealth of a nation

> to generate more wealth

Those notions cannot survive because infinite growth is not possible. Think about climate change. The earth is finite.

> There is taking money, often from productive people who make use of that money

Money is not a resource. People are not only the ones being productive if they're helped by machines and technology. You only answer is about finance and money. UBI goes beyond that.

Also, the notion that work is a necessary evil, in the modern world, is a flawed notion. Work should not be mandatory.

I'm tired of arguing those points, again and again.
So the GB on the AWS sites are actually bytes?
It's the most lightweight, nonintrusive form of it. It doesn't require any but the most trivial exercise of judgement on the government's part to administrate.
From the article:

Our findings have important implications for the appropriate policy response to a pandemic
by suggesting that most of the reduction in economic activity is caused by the pandemic itself
and occurs regardless of whether governments shut down sectors with high social proximity.

So it is indeed the virus that kills the economy, not government.
Because GS has never been about having a "brain trust". It is about proximity to power.

That peaked in 1998 when Time magazine ran the "Committee to Save the World" cover, featuring Bob Rubin, Larry Summers, and Alan Greenspan. To this day, people talk about that cover.
I don't like the size of it, but it is a comfort zone and a dependency of bootstrap.