skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the inflation is rising

Inflation has been low for years and has historically gone done during recessions. The inflation hawk concerns so far have been utterly unfounded.

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-i...
I think the 2nd/3rd+ order effects of UBI needs to be understood better. Most arguments for or against UBI look no further than first order effects, and get most of the 1st order effects wrong because they don't take into account the cascading ripples of the more indirect unknowns.

A collection of second order effect questions that people don't really have a strong cohesive argument for or against:

1) What are the impacts of UBI on cost of labor, and how will businesses react or adapt? (will UBI ultimately lower cost of labor for businesses or will it raise it? Will it cause businesses to seek out investment into AI instead to replace manpower? etc)

2) Are there any situations where UBI's cost will spiral out of control? (Do we have smart enough people modeling out long term costs of UBI in a comprehensive, risk accounting way so it doesn't become another social security)

3) What is the change in percentage of people who will couch potato with UBI? How about percent change in entrepreneurial activity with UBI? (at the very least, is it in the single digits, double digits? A fraction of 1%?)

3rd order effects:

1) What will the economy look like 20 years from now with UBI? How will the structure of society change?

2) How will UBI change how the majority of people grow up and what they end up pursuing?

3) How will UBI impact the global economic climate? (My sci-fi dystopian vision of UBI's butterfly effects, not that globalization hasn't already done this: UBI will spur one country to develop so much AI due to lack of people in the workforce, and that AI is so good that it gets exported to all countries over the world, centralizing most of the money in the world to that one country, making that one country able to afford UBI while the rest of the world is jobless and has no money to take care of their own people.)

I'm just scratching the surface of the complexity of the topic.
How is UBI not resource allocation by the government ?
One study suggested that progesterone was a factor in reducing viral levels.
What is a unikernel and why it's good?
State of Loom
Article is behind paywall. Does it explain how to pay for UBI in a sustainable way?

Taking the USA as an example, UBI costs trillions per year. How will this get paid for, even taking into account that some of the money gets taxed?
https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/05/10/why-we-at-famous-compa... :P
Yes of course, and sending them UBI checks isn’t a good look for the program either.
I have to admit, the title does sound misleading in this regard, and (to me) even more so the tweets advertising the paper as per the submission.
Working Through Uncertain Times
Children are young, innocent and widely appealing. School uniforms invoke a sense of nostalgia and make people living in Japan's harsh working culture think of their much happier high school days. Plus, much of a child's life will be spent wearing one so if you're depicting a child it's a realistic choice of clothing.

As for why girls over boys, I think it's that cute and innocent things are appealling and more people find girls cute and innocent than find boys cute and innocent, even the artists themselves, regardless of gender. Many artists have mentioned that they find girls easier to draw than boys as well.

There's also the sexual aspect but though I think such media is more common in Japan than elsewhere, I don't believe it's anywhere near mainstream.
this is possible! you can use a thin foil made from e.g. mylar, for example taken from a cracked-open old large foil capacitor and superglue one layer on the rim of the diode's metal case. It can then point through a hole into the outside of the tin box if not held into direct sunlight (some additional foam ring can be used to help block more light). Using one of the sturdy aluminum die-cast cases I've listed in the schematic should be favored in a mobile scenario. Much less affected by vibrations/microphonic effect.
Has there been a public review of the last incarnation of Mozilla's funding of non-Mozilla projects, Mozilla Labs and Mozilla WebFWD? I feel like an honest and open discussion around what went well and did not go well with the last time this was done from Mozilla should be a prerequisite to doing this again or the same mistakes could be made.

https://www.mozillalabs.com/

https://www.mozillalabs.com/webfwd/
I am far more supportive of this idea than UBI. Employ anybody that wants a job.

The world needs to plant billions of trees to capture carbon. Lets start with that!

We then need alternate energy sources.

We also need heaps more fresh water so that farmers don't have to take it out of the environment. Lets build desalination plants everywhere!

So many great infrastructure ideas staring us right in the face, and now we have lots of people sitting at home and need something to do!
> Wouldn't society benefit more from training and hiring people to clean streets, rebuild infrastructure, beautify urban areas, etc. than simply sending everyone a check?

Society benefits from having cleaned streets, but it does not benefit from forcing people to waste away their life working as street cleaners.
One possible interpretation:

Both could work (and in fact aren't mutually exclusive).

The WPA is a little more like a 'stick' - here is the offer of work, if you want employment and remuneration.

UBI (if working correctly) would be more like a 'carrot' - here is some remuneration to keep you going; please choose the projects, pastimes and infrastructure that you would like to work on.

Both can conceivably lead to improvements in any area. Either way it's about creating the underlying incentives for people to want to do the work.
Within one of the Everett worlds you’ll likely have eternal inflation with many pocket universes that effectively have different constants.

There are even some papers that suggest the worlds of eternal inflation and MWI are the same.
You are confusing two very different concepts here: search engine/indexing and assistant.

The behavour you're describing is an assistant's behaviour. When I'm using a search engine I'm _searching_ for content rather than asking for assistance.

Google seems to "solve" this difference with optional syntax like quotes but there's no fuzzy searching so you're stuck with either an assistant or explicit matching.
I use coffeescript in 2020. It's a great language of choice especially if you come with a background of good programming languages like Ruby, Python, Elixir, Etc.

Coffeescript makes code more succinct, readable and javascript tolerable. I tried typescript, but, it's not my cup of tea and it has it's own quirks.
I work with large scale media companies and never has coffeescript been in my way. If anything, it has made javascript bearable. These days, my choice is to avoid Javascript if I can and use something like Phoenix LiveView if I can get away with it.

I wish the coffeescript developers can ignore all the hipster noise and continue to support the project for their effort has saved so much valuable developer time.
> has been historically shown to work.

Can you source this? Because I understand the exact opposite to be true.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/26/698057356/if-a...

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/01/699261950/why-a-wealth-tax-di...

https://www.businessinsider.com/4-european-countries-wealth-...

https://taxfoundation.org/elizabeth-warren-wealth-tax-oecd/

tldr: European countries dumped them because it is hard to calculate value of assets, especially for the ultra rich.
This is kind of strange thought isn't it? At that rate even if people were inclined to pay its affordable to what 10% of the US or a fraction of 1% of the world.

Why would it even cost that much? You could literally use the actual chrome store for curation and make a white list of the top 100 extensions that aren't skeevy or run by skeevy people and pull in updates periodically after checking that it hadn't become obvious malware or been sold.

If you imagine that such a list would consume meager resources per person using it a million people paying 1 dollar would probably pay more than it would cost to run it. It would be easier to convince a million people to pay a dollar than it would be to convince anyone to pay a thousand per year for chrome extensions while they are using computers and OS which cost them less combined.
When I take a month off work, towards the end I feel the need to be productive again, more than anything, even if the travels I'm doing are very exciting and satisfying.

Maybe the timeframes would differ for people, but I doubt many people would enjoy not working on _something_, whatever that may be.
I think that statement is pretty much to set expectations.

The people who "require perfection" are weeded out because they might have to live with something imperfect.

I've known some people like that. The sort who will drive over somewhere and complain because their $7 thing isn't what they expected.

That said, I think the pinephone being only $199 is selling themselves short. Having an open-source phone is really a special thing and they could charge $399 because they don't have any competition.

I think they're in it for other reasons than profit. good for them.
The Homie Slatt “Pain”
In this specific case, going outside would help reduce exposure to aerosolized saliva.

Imagine people at a bar. The smokers would stand outside in the cold, smoking, while the non-smokers inside are warmer but at higher risk of catching an infection.
I'm personally really excited for this! I wonder just how much slower complication is versus Go. Would it be enough to matter with a large project?
I agree that MongoDB marketing oversells the product.

The stock market demands that the product have all the same stickers on as everybody else. But nobody is obliged to believe them. It may take quite a lot before anybody does, again.

The people working on the product are very smart and hard-working, but the problem they have set themselves is extremely complex, and possibly not solvable; or, even if ever solved, maybe not demonstrably so.

And, anyway, it is not what the customers actually want, although they might often need to convince their own management that they are getting it.
The government can just make heaps of jobs in a huge variety of areas. People can still choose what they want to do.
One reason a UBI might be preferable is because it distorts the labor market less. Also a job guarantee program has issues like what to do for people who are generally toxic and negative to any work environment (these people do exist) and people who are disabled or mentally handicapped or otherwise find it hard to participate in infrastructure projects. A UBI also allows people to collect it while doing things like educating themselves, or doing unpaid work like taking care of aging relatives.

There is an argument to be made for job guarantee programs on the basis that they're cheaper, since you get some useful labor out of people who might otherwise be unemployed. But in my view that doesn't outweigh the disadvantages.
I wonder whether GraalVM native image will play a bigger role in desktop apps in the future.

Kotlin + TornadoFX + native-image (if it is supported) sounds like a pretty comfortable to use UI stack.
These are not mutually exclusive, though.

It would be easier to present a WPA to a government of the people, if the people's basic needs are satisfied and they are not having to constantly argue that more resources need to be put towards their basic needs.
"Good luck with that in court" only means something if the courts haven't been stuffed full of incompetent and dangerously unqualified judges.
Didn't read the article but this is the worst possible idea ever. With UBI you reduce the number of working people and shift all the responsibility to an even smaller group of individuals.
Based on human nature, with UBI one would have an even larger lazy population who would end up just sitting around, doing nothing within the first 20 years of this wonderful idea.
Now back to the reduced group of responsibility bearing individuals; these are the entrepreneurs, motivated workers, the ones that can't just sit around and do nothing, the ones who get bored on a hotel vacation. These are the people who would profit the most from UBI, since they are usually the ones capable of strategic thinking. They would end up with all the surplus generated from UBI because most people are just mindless consumers spending money as quickly as they get hands on it. How i see it, this would lead to massive inflation in value of products and in the end the government would have to raise UBI which soon would get into an endless loop.

Also, there are so many downsides, that it's not even worth digging into the few upsides.
Since time is our enemy at this point, perhaps a better idea is to suspend all rents and mortgages and put landlords and banks on a modest subsidy, for the duration of the lockdown. That would give a lot of financial room to a lot of people (also companies like restaurants), while I bet that the costs are overseeable.
I grew up in a very poor family and the other poster is right... many people living the degenerate lifestyle have entirely bizarre understandings of reality, acceptable social behavior, mortality and ethics, quality and efficiency... We're creatures of habit and keeping your mind in the gutter long enough will soak it full of crud that can't be reversed simply by dishing out cash.

It's my opinion that these people would be most helped if they were given work. Work gives incentive, teaches values, gives opportunity, creates a foundation of something to be proud of, gives a platform to build a resume from...
Maybe because the school period is the highlight of their lifes
The majority of Desktop browsers support extensions that provide support for dark mode. On mobile I know Android Chrome (via chrome://flags) and Firefox (via extensions) support dark mode. Don't know about Safari and other mobile browsers but I feel that overall there are plenty of options for dark mode on HN without a separate site specific implementation.

I also have noticed that I never use the site specific Dark mode implementations as it is a lot more convenient to globally enable dark mode (at night) rather than playing around with toggles for every website that supports it.
Ransomware gang asks $42m from NY law firm, threatens to leak dirt on Trump
> No average user wants that.

That's a bit ignorant. There are many search terms that are literally impossible to search for in google because it iterprets it as something else.
Yep, you can't of course rely on OpenCL support, you have to provide a fallback. But are there any issues with including the SDK supplied OpenCL ICDs with the APK, for use with validated GPUs?
He is a political activist now.
Only reading the abstract, are you saying a different branch/fork of Linux could be maintained to be a unikernel?
The Forgotten Depression of 1920
But the cutoff happens much later in the curve. With classic welfare handouts the marginal tax curve is very steep at the beginning
> Society benefits from having cleaned streets, but it does not benefit from forcing people to waste away their life working as street cleaners.

Then how do the streets get cleaned?
Not saying that the state is a good thing. It's slightly better than a corporation though, because it's under some sort of democratic control.

Ideally though, all concentrations of power should be dismantled.
On the other hand, all school teachers pay attention to check that their students are focusing. They use neural networks for that (their own neural networks) that are very well trained in detecting lack of focus from body movements, facial expressions, chatter, etc. A device that actually allows more easily to detect focus is scary if it's used improperly, that is, if focus is required all the time. But if used in a balanced way allowing for prolonged periods of relax and "mind wandering" it might actually be helpful.
>and a lot of countries (Australia, Japan for instance) have in fact a successful policy of allowing only a bunch of them

I don't know about Japan, but Australia allows in large numbers of immigrants.
Celebrities’ Bookcases
"If you don't make stuff, there's no stuff." = Supply-Side Economics

"If people want stuff and you don't make it, someone else will." = Demand-Side Economics.
The evidence to back it up is there though. The majority (in fact 66%) of new COVID-19 hospitalizations in New York state recently have been people who have been staying inside their home. Based on data from a sample of 1,000 patients at 100 hospitals.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/ny-gov-cuomo-says-its-shocki...
To be eligible to basic income you need to first work for 5 years, then you will experience how its like to be stuck in the hamster wheel, if you're lucky you will also save up a buffer and enough to buy your own living quarter, and will have enough experience so that it will be easier to come back to the workforce, and be more likely to succeed if you do your own venture.
Macropy: Syntactic Macros for Python
I think with UBI it would mean that you CAN work something and get more than before. UBI won't go away as soon as you start to earn extra. But this is the case with German "Sozialhilfe". So it is not really comparable because it gives the wrong incentives.
Project-based learning for self-taught developers
This is so vacuous. Does it imply that UBI money is coming from thin air? That's obviously false.

Also the article says a type of UBI is being used to stimulate job creation and work for industries that are rapidly losing in these areas. This is literally on par with what Elon said, how could it be a counter argument?

This is the rare Elon quote where I don't even have to attack his behaviour to discredit. It's just not applicable in this context as a counterpoint.
The purpose is survival itself. Following someone's instructions is just one means to that end. Just like your purpose in prehistoric times wasn't just to hunt down and kill a specific wild pig.

This will probably be a very unpopular opinion but I definitely feel that men innately need this struggle.
UBI is making Bitcoin Look Better

This is not UBI though. UBI is forever, this is exceptional, and people are aware that they 'll lose their jobs if they quit. The premise behind this article is false, hard to believe it came from exceptionally intelligent people.

Tell hospital workers that they 're guaranteed UBI for 5 years if they quit and watch what happens.
I get emails all the time from Google about DMCA notices and pages from my site being removed from search. They'll just give me a list of 100s of pages that have been removed. The requests make absolutely no sense. For example, it'll be a URL for a comment permalink, which redirects to a comment that says, "Great!". The vast majority of the requests are because someone mentions the name of a TV show or movie. Some company that represents them just issues a DMCA removal for any page that uses their name, claiming it infringes on their copyright. So, I've had thousands of pages removed from Google during the past year. I don't have time to make counterclaims for each of them. Most of them are old pages that receive little to no traffic. Still, it's a shame for anyone trying to search for them.
As a counter example: a UBI proposal in my country was linked to taxation on consumption (VAT). That makes more sense at first glance.
I'm eagerly awaiting getting back an extension that let me strip the tracking tokens from social media sites, along with redirecting away from AMP. You'd think these would be baked into the browser's tracking protection.
I will find swift interesting only once you can build apps without having a Mac
This seems like a really big deal, so I'm going to second the request for a source on it.
Speaking as a civil engineer, I don't understand what point you're trying to convey. I love what I do and it's very rewarding to look back and see the outcome of your work. It really doesn't matter if there are inspectors or clients or bosses telling you what to do. When that bridge is up, that's your work that will be there for future generations.

Perhaps that's hard to understand to software people, but working on something can be and often is rewarding.
A managed DB is any database that is provided as a service rather than one that runs directly on a VM you are responsible for. You typically pay a bit more for managed databases than VMs, but in exchange you get a highly optimized environment and curated experience so that you have minimal operational overhead to keep it online consistently. Managed database services typically take care of:
- minor version patching
- automated failover and backup options
- some level of security
Heroku Postgres is a popular option, as are services from all major cloud providers and database companies.

For reference, a T3.micro VM is $0.0104 / hr vs T3.micro RDS at $0.017 / hr or $7.50 vs $12.25 /mo. Its a high margin service for cloud providers, but also gives a lot of peace of mind around the data's integrity and availability.

Spin one up running your favorite database. You can run any version of most popular databases for the past 7-10 years, including MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL, Oracle, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and more. Spin it up, load up some data, make some queries, and throw it away a couple hours later and you'll be out a few pennies. You can also throw down $25 and get an hour with a 128 cpu, 4TB RAM, 25 Gbps monster. In any case, have fun and don't forget to terminate your instances!
I've got to try this. Although in Gmail you can set indicators for when emails are too you directly, I think this solution is way better!
There’s very little the government does that isn’t resource allocation.
I've been exposed as someone who comments on links he hasn't read.
Fun fact: The court order doesn't use the word essential even once, it was introduced by Amazon lawyers and PR. The court order was solely about repeated safety violations and Amazons refusal to reduce operations to a safe level. The court order also gave an explicit whitelist of Amazons own categories for the reduction, not a generic "essential" or "food" classification that Amazon would have to interpret itself.

> People need "non-essential" Amazon deliveries and drivers need jobs now more than ever.

Which is why Amazon quite clearly made the right choice by shutting down the warehouses completely, right?
Well, that's basically because these days the editor often runs the same compiler, just without codegen instead of having a completely separate syntax checker that may or may not highlight the same issues.
(Not the author) No, the paper describes a small patch to Linux (~20 lines) + modifications to glibc that enable using Linux as a unikernel. Their goal is to have the modifications upstreamed so that Unikernel linux could be a GCC target etc.
This surprisingly works well. One thing, the background of body is still white for me on desktop this is what I have (combine with someone else who commented about the brightness):

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
body {
background: #222222;
filter:invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) brightness(0.9)
}
}

Edit, also works on hn.algolia.com
Scott pointed some very good reasons why it might not be a good idea:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic...
I added by own implementation of hacker news and it's got darkmode. https://hacker-news.garthtoland.com
> I agree, we need better evidence on all the vitamin D claims.

Not really. We should be blasting "get your Vitamin D supplements" from the rooftops, because maybe that's a significant factor in COVID-19 and it's safe and people should get them anyway. There's no downside.

If in a few years it then turns out that Vitamin D had nothing to do with it, it doesn't matter. If it turns out that Vitamin D really was a big factor, we'll be sorry for being hesitant with a safe and cheap intervention.