skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTA: Water.

Whether its the Bush family in Central and/or S America, Harvard with California vineyards, or the Walton family in Colorado, everyone with money (read: with advisors/paid insight) is buying land with water rights.

Fury Road.
I'm not really sure how you arrived at this interpretation of my comment, as it seems totally unrelated to what I wrote.

My point is that large infrastructure projects require top-down organization, unlike open-source software, for example, which can be constructed through the individual, separate actions of large numbers of people. Ergo the disparate actions of individual people will not add up to a bridge.
How do these studies handle the issue that participants will know it is only temporary?
That’s not as crazy an idea as you make it sound. Furlough those who can’t and hire those who were let go and can. The government could help support costs.
Why People Refuse to Practice Social Distancing
In China, they did this. They could do it for a while because they had a lot of infrastructure to build, but eventually they had people pretending to do work because there wasn't enough to do.

En masse for the US, it is a bad solution because we don't have that much work to do. We could probably double or triple our funding for infrastructure projects, but 2-3 trillion into it per year would be way overkill.

edit: (budget for department of transport is $70b. another $50b could be useful, but its not at the same scale as UBI)
Also, has everyone forgotten that, until relatively recently, half the population stayed at home to raise children, cook, and clean the house? Going from one-paycheck homes to two-paycheck homes and letting daycare raise our children hasn't made us wealthier, happier, smarter, or healthier.

We should allow UBI to take us back to the way things were before but without the gender discrimination. We should be encouraging fathers and mothers to spend more time looking after their children, not telling people their labor has no value unless they're contributing to GDP.
I agree, that level of white usually gives me eye strain after several minutes, even in a well lit room. The readability mode of Firefox for example uses #eeeeee for the text and #333333 for the background [1], I'd suggest using the same tones which are still very high contrast but don't cause nearly as much strain.

[1]: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/10/firefox_68_arrives_...
Yeah I’m kind of amazed they don’t start out with explaining this. Usually there is at least a one-line explanation.

From Wikipedia:

“A unikernel is a specialised, single address space machine image constructed by using library operating systems. A developer selects, from a modular stack, the minimal set of libraries which correspond to the OS constructs required for their application to run. These libraries are then compiled with the application and configuration code to build sealed, fixed-purpose images (unikernels) which run directly on a hypervisor or hardware without an intervening OS such as Linux or Windows.”
Reading this, I was intending to say that Jeremy Ashkenas should be publicly lauded for efforts in driving JavaScript forward. Then I saw your username.

Not to gush, but the profound difference Backbone, Underscore, and CoffeeScript have made to modern JavaScript development cannot be understated.

Thanks for all your efforts. They were exciting times indeed.
Quite a lot of societies decide it's not that much of a priority.
I am not sure about whether UBI would work or not. I am mostly against the idea of just giving people free money without having to work for it. But leaving my political views out of this:

1) Do we all absolutely get it? That would be fine, unless it starts like that and then it is decided that only some people should get it. I see this as a strong possibility: the rich already have enough, why give them more? This then falls under the usual debate about whether the rich should pay for everyone else.

2) I would be more open to it if it was run as a one year experiment. A problem with a policy like this is that once approved, it is very hard to take it back if it does not work at scale or unforeseen problems arise. What politician in his right mind would tell the population that they are cancelling the $500 check everyone gets once a month?

3) It takes away the need for work. I don't but the "flipping burgers at McDonalds is no better" argument. If UBI solves this problem, then there won't be any more people flipping burgers at McDonalds? That is bad because a lot of businesses will go under. For fast food restaurants to work, someone has to be willing to do that work. The idea that now everyone will be "free to explore more meaningful work" seems far-fetched to me. If everyone gets money, then prices will increase accordingly.
The Magnetic North Pole Is Rapidly Moving Because of Some Blobs
My taste for minimalism isn’t the extreme ultralight position (that’s often another gear odyssey) but rather: can I take something I already own, or use something I’ve already packed?

But admittedly I don’t carry a gps or spot or anything like that, just topos and compass, so i have a dose of the pretentious minimalism as well.
It is controversial, as infrastructure is not neutral and largely influences the design of cities and therefore impacts who benefits and who suffers.
E.g. build streets for cars or public transportation? Build more airports or research for alternative transportation means?
A minimal implementation of the fault-tolerant job scheduler
Agreed.

>Maybe we shouldn't be presupposing that governments are better at resource allocation than their citizens

A. allocate resources via new deal work programs
B. allocate resources via UBI

The choice between 1930's work programs and UBI is a false dichotomy.

(C.) None of the above

The great depression was exacerbated by gov. spending and the new deal. Rarely mentioned is the crisis of 1920 which was resolved relatively quickly by cutting spending.
Having the last line of a function always be returned was one of the stepping stones to functional programming for me as it was now finally concise to write pure functions compared to pre-ES2015. Still post ES2015, if the arrow function body isn't a one-liner, you have to put back your curly braces and return keyword.

After a brief time in LiveScript, I've since mostly written in the ML families (Elm & PureScript) where this is the default behavior.

And I still like/use CSON over YAML in some cases.
Is it only me who worries that UBI is a precursor to a dystopian slavery?
Basic income goes back into the local economy, most likely on housing, utilities, and food. So if an area needs a power generation station they won't have less money post UBI.
Much of the infrastructure in the US is crumbling

That's because America built more than it can afford to maintain. No point in repeating that mistake twice.
Let's say you have a for loop that is supposed to run once, but some "programmer" calls it a hundred times. The program still works, but it's a lot slower.

Input lag on devices has doubled or tripled from the 1980s while clock speeds have increased drastically. Reddit and Hackernews do essentially the same task, yet Hackernews' load times are almost instant while Reddit takes more than a second to load at times.

It's true that you can't fake a minimum viable product, but it seems to me there is a long way from that to actually making something good.
We come to different results because all my Bs were indeed bits, not bytes. I would love to be confirmed that B2 calculates download costs in bytes and not bits, but I assume that the reference dimension is bits since that would match the AWS numbers. So that $10/TB could actually be $80/TByte.

Some time ago I asked about cheapest rates: [1]

>I'm starting an ISP again, we will charge around $0,25 per TB

The cheapest regularly available rate of which I am aware is hetzner.de at $1.20 (or rather euro) [4].

Amazon is at $0.09 per GB ($0.05 after 150TB). That's $90 per TB [2],[3].
You have to use Cloudfront to further reduce that cost, much like with Backblaze. But Cloudfront doesn't allow you to stream videos or serve pictures.

In both cases I assume that it is TBit since it is network traffic. I haven't found any further clarification so I assume that they quote the more expensive option.

That 80MByte video would be 640MBit. That's not too far off the 1GBit.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22760447

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

[3] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

[4] Some providers offer a rate-limited interface, e.g. 100Mbit, with unlimited traffic. This could lead to 32TByte per month for something like $10. However, like Cloudfront, I assume that the provider has the option to end the contract, otherwise there would be plenty of cheap image hosters.
Worst thing about UBI is that when you introduce it, the rents will just go up by its amount and all the money will end up in pocket of landlords not the poor people you were intending to support.

You'd have to shake up real estate market too for example by introducing progressive real estate tax to counter that.
A couple of centuries ago, cotton-picking was done primarily by slave labour. Just because cotton is nice it doesn't mean slavery benefits society.
Hey, Epic, Make Sure You Can Handle Demand
It takes more people selling shares (or being forced to sell shares) than there are buyers.

Maybe I have some shares I bought for $10; the price dropped and now I can only sell them for $8. There is a solar farm off to one side selling bonds at some unreasonably high yield.

I could be stubborn and hold the shares until the price comes back - but that would lose me money in the big picture. Instead I sell for whatever I can get and put the money where it will be generating a good return.

If a bunch of people behave like that, sellers quickly overwhelm buyers (potential buyers are flocking to the new opportunity too) and the price corrects to something reasonably fair.
You mean widely envied.
Sounds to me like a fashist's wet dream.
> I think there might be something deeper to it. A lot of manga and anime take place in school as well, and I'd be surprised if it's just because all the artists know how to draw is schoolchildren.

That's for the simple reason that this is their main target-group. Anime is for kids, because adults don't have time to waste for them. Adults read manga, on train or break-time. And many manga have mature characters and topics.

Of course are there are also manga aiming for kids and anime targeting adults, and in the last decades things have changed, because technology as also society changing. Also today there are strong tropes, sophisticates nerds, etc.
Is choosing the correct butt to kiss NP-Complete?
Or a retiree living off a state pension.
Tarim Mummies
UBI is for everybody, without asking for anything in return.

Harz4 on the other hand is not universal, seen as a stigma (people who have to rely on it are called "Harzer") and forces you to jump through all kind of hoops, be present at dates in the job offices etc.

I happened to study at art school in Germany and never had to apply for it, but many of my friends did and it is quite frankly state organized humiliation. And everybody involved is cynical. If you go there as a young academic and seriously try to find a job, they laugh at you.
As long as many people are willing to be bribed with a sliver of their future productivity brought forward to be spent today, these sorts statements usually get dismissed as being solvable within the bounds that helped enable the situation we find ourselves with today.

Moral hazards will be ignored until they no longer cannot, and not a moment sooner.
Ask HN: Do you still use jQuery?
JS-land has typically been moving from one framework to the next. However, are any of you still using jQuery? If so what issues do you face and what are the advantages?
That sounds like a bad idea - how would the browser know the tracking token is a tracking token and not just a token? And wouldn't redirecting away from AMP be taking away control from the user?

As extensions those are fine, as core browser features, they sound a bit iffy.
So you're in favor of eliminating inheritance? Obviously it is unfair how we're depriving rich kids of this struggle they innately need.
Then come to a democratic solution, like literally every other problem in a democracy?
Weird opinion to see on HN. People who forsee and can execute on building a nuclear power startup can get outside investment. Fusion research is moving to the small and cheap entrepreneurial projects.

You prefer to have nuclear physicists digging ditches like parent poster..?
MIT Sloan School Strategy Case Studies
*edit: all numbers are indeed Bit, not Bytes. Aren't all network rates quoted in bits?

In case those rates are in bytes: Streaming a 3min video at 2.5Mbitps leads to about 60Mbyte of traffic. At $1.20 per TByte, that's $0.000072 per view, or 0.0072 cents.

Or the other way round: $1.20 allows you to serve 16,667 videos.
> Which I guess is a subsidiary of the US-based company BrainCo located in Massachusetts.

Why am I not surprised. A U.S. company designs a device that likely does not work but can be used to control people who think it works.

No orders come in, so let's donate it to a Chinese school for a pilot project in the hope that the CCP bites.
If affluenza is real and silver spoons create unproductive people, shouldn't we be wary of spreading a version of it to a much larger chunk of the population?
I'm not sure. It would need to be funded so I would assume that for the average person the income would be offset by taxes. There would be no extra money to inflate housing costs.
There's nothing particular that is required in the diet to synthesize Vitamin D3 from the sun.

Without sun exposure, you'd have to be eating several pounds of fatty fish every day to get to "healthy" levels from diet alone. You need a supplement.

Keep in mind, non-severe Vitamin D deficiency doesn't cause any significant evolutionary pressure, so migrating humans just rolled with it - to this day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel

Whether it's good depends on what you're doing. UKL will[1] allow you to link a regular server application to Linux and then run that single binary on baremetal or in a hypervisor, and give you a decent performance boost over running the application on top of a normal kernel. How much of a performance boost depends a great deal on the program, almost everything will be a few percent faster, and some applications a lot more.

[1] I'm using the future tense here because although we do run real programs with it today there's still a bunch of development work to do before it works smoothly. The code is: https://github.com/unikernelLinux
What is the usecase for this?
A Functional Busy Beaver
Free YouTube Downloader API on RapidAPI. Check It Out
My gut instinct is always that using traditional kernels in a unikernel way is a bit suboptimal because it doesn’t become a “library operating system” in the same way that Mirage does.
> Except machines make a lot of stuff. Technology makes low skilled labor obsolete, and it becomes difficult to fight unemployment with unskilled labor. It becomes a servant economy.

Ludditism has been proven wrong multiple times. New industries replace the old - more jobs are created. There can be short term pains when people are laid off due to automation, but social security programs can alleviate some of this. The kind that already exist. UBI does not seem like it will provide the incentives for people to learn new skills and get new jobs if they're guaranteed a living wage anyway.

> There is little risk to giving free money to 20% of the poorest people.

There's no "free money." There is taking money, often from productive people who make use of that money to generate wealth, and allocating it it, often to unproductive people who merely consume. Obviously not true in every case, but you get the idea. If we want to increase the wealth of a nation, the money is more effectively utilized by those who are effective at turning it around to generate more wealth.

> Define "make stuff".

I'd call it, adding to the national gain. If you're not performing productive work which leads to export of goods, but are continuing to import goods, then you'll build up a deficit, which at some point needs paying off, or those luxuries you've been importing aren't going to be available anymore.
Lessons from Scandinavian Policy Responses to Covid-19
I also don't get it. "Linux as a unikernel" does not make sense. The entire point of a unikernel is to not have the OS in every container/VM.
https://vitamindwiki.com/ is a useful aggregate site for papers (peer-reviewed and others) on vitamin D. The latter is cholecalciferol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholecalciferol).

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessiona... (excellent series for all vitamins)

Different manufacturers = varieties? It's the same stuff or should be.
The point is find something useful for them to do. The WPA built the all the stonework retaining walls and stairs at my high school (est 1897). The record keeping wasn't great I bet they built more of it actually.
> Would you agree that there's an element of voyeurism there?

Definitely.
Then plant trees, construct desalinization plants, build parks in inner cities, repair old water pipes, add more public transit, etc. I have a hard time believing that "things we can do to improve civilization" is a short list. Decide what these things are via a democratic process.
The changes to Linux are fairly small and the aim is to get them upstream. There's also a forked glibc and the changes there are a bit larger, although also hopefully upstreamable.
This is a really great idea from the security and privacy point for small teams and offices. And for sharing stuff in a house! Would this work through a VPN?

you could also introduce differnt channels, so different groups of ppl can chat . And you should add text chat through the data channel
It's like the episode of Mad Men where the kids are playing spaceman: https://youtu.be/2XbCWmY0eqY
> My point is that large infrastructure projects require top-down organization, unlike open-source software,

FLOSS still requires top-down organization, just like any engineering process. You may be used to work at projects where a single person can parachute into a code base and rewrite everything from scratch, but there are also contractors who can build an entire house single-handedly.

Once you add enough complexity to a project, you start to require hierarchies.

> for example, which can be constructed through the individual, separate actions of large numbers of people.

It's the exact same thing in civil engineering. You get contracts that are entirely independent of other tasks. The guy putting up utility poles on a bridge deck doesn't care if the drainage has been finished yet.
> Don’t you find it strange that a Republican administration is going after a company for anti-trust?

Nope. If anything, there is past precedence from the 2001 Antitrust case against Microsoft [1]. Note in that case, it wasn't about whether consumers were directly harmed, but whether Microsoft was abusing its market power to prevent other entrants into the browser space. Arguably this is very analogous to what Google and Facebook are currently being accused of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
The textiness of the site likely scares off a lot of new/non-techy users. Reddit switched from being a text site to a modern UI a few years ago, in doing so they managed to gain a lot of new users. Which in turn ruins the sites community and discussion when users are focused on making cheap jokes and memes for upvotes.
Street cleaning could continue to be an employable, paid task - and for people to choose to do it, it would have to be paid competitively (or be enjoyable enough for the person) relative to passive base-level UBI.

A community desiring clean streets could allocate some of their UBI funds towards that goal. A community that doesn't could use those funds elsewhere.

The goal would be for communities to acquire what they need and desire, rather than to try to employ everyone in society even if their assigned roles would involve useless work.
Not sure why 1998 is relevant to a stake Berkshire bought in 2008.
> We come to different results because all my Bs were bits, not bytes.

Such Bs are usually bs, e.g. 'Mbps' vs. 'MB/s'.
3 progressive reforms of the modern century that need to be passed in tandem:

1) progressive real estate tax

2) moving tax revenue from income tax to VAT

3) UBI
Are you sure you received genuine product?
These days, I’m very careful what gets downloaded on my computer for just that reason. Dropbox for the Mac is a security nightmare and Zoom was doing shady crap before like installing a web server to redownload itself if you uninstalled it.

On the other hand, I download all sorts of random crap on my iPad because the security model won’t let apps do anything to shady without you giving it permission.
So is downloading amp pages in the background and bloating your phone by default though (chrome). I think something like that should be turned on by default but toggleable. It's a sensible option for a privacy focused browser.
Many shell autocompleters would read the makefile to complete target names though, suggesting it is not useless.

Anyway, one could always have a 'help' target that prints a short documentation. This also avoid listing internal targets.
Maybe some did. Many also moved because finally they could use a decent statically typed language on the client.
Only the bits of Linux which are used are linked in, same as when you link together any program. The big advantage of using Linux is driver support - you can run a UKL application on baremetal, linking to the drivers needed to run on the target hardware.
How about at the end of every month?

So, people who start working on something new at the beginning of the month are ready to talk about their projects
I really don't think you're understanding my point. It is not a complex idea.

- Some things can be created in sum, by individual people acting according to their own individual desires.

- Other things can only be created with larger amounts of resources and organization. No amount of individual action will get them made.

To use a different example: the Manhattan Project would not have developed a nuclear bomb if it simply gave every physicist in the country a stipend to live and said "work on nuclear physics." Massive amounts of coordination and resources were necessary.
What of the people who had modest incomes, but lived within their means and saved their money? Why punish them and push their dreams of home ownership further out of reach? Why reward the those who were irresponsible?
Ohh.... One of these things that on Europe we aren't allowed to do by regulations.

Is a thing that I would like to do, on the future, with my 90's Nissan Micra.
You realise in this case the money is coming from existing taxes being used on stuff like military anyway? These are also incredibly rich nations with reserves of money that were produced sometimes centuries ago. No one thinks it's coming from thin air.
... after a long time of uncertainty and community complains, yes. That's what our parent said.

The 9 month old issue you linked is not evidence of an early commitment to extension support.

Here's a comment from myself on HN from 11 months ago where I highlighted that their extension commitment was - at that point - vague at best.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20138655

Notice that there's someone from Mozilla reassuring me that there won't be a update from Fennec to Fenix prior to feature parity.

That's false by now. Apparently they changed their minds and absolutely will update from Fennec to Fenix without feature parity.

The play store beta is already restricted, an update removed all non-approved extensions.

Even now we don't know whether non-store extension support will ever come back.