skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
cool but what will we do for next month?
I actually liked the changes I saw when Ron Johnson was hired on. It was the first time I consistently stopped at a department store since my mom dragged me as a kid. It was the only department store that got rid of the "regular price $99, this shelf 40% off, yellow tags $30 off" nonsense. From what I heard, their customers liked the price gamification.

I'm not one for name-brands, but the quality and style seemed a step up from basics at other stores and the straightforward prices seemed reasonable.

I do buy the story that they were losing their old clientele much faster than they could attract a new clientele--maybe that new clientele was never coming in a sustainable way. But when he was swapped out I immediately saw those things change back and stopped going.

All of the department stores seem to be in the same boat. Sears had two silly logo redesigns in the past 15 years, but didn't seem to even try to pursue new customers.
I worry its a crutch for an upcoming period of hardship. The longer it takes to get manufacturing off the ground and self sufficiency in place for most people, the more likely any shocks to the system will need more and more UBI.
The way I understood it, D3 is the easiest one to absorb. Both D2 and D3 do the same thing, but their efficiency is different.
If it's true that Vitamin D is such a large factor in reducing the lethality of respiratory disease -- perhaps it's better to loosen lockdown rules to ensure the wider population can get more sun before they inevitably catch the virus.

It may explain why heavily indoors NYC had so many lethal cases, even as most infected were already keeping themselves indoors.
The same thing as everyone who's replied so far: that he deserves at least some of the credit for achieving what he set out to do.
Oh! That’s very cool
It seems you either are having a hard time understanding simple concepts or you're not able to see the forest for the trees.

For starters, a basic income does not stop anyone from working in structured projects. I have no idea where you came up with that nonsense. You gave construction work as an example and I explained to you why your belief made no sense, and still you don't follow. Let's be perfectly clear: people do enjoy what they do for a living, and don't do it because they are paid to do it. Self-fulfillment is real.

Secondly, people do enjoy working in structured environments, specially if they are working on a lofty goal. Academia is largely an example of that. You talk about the Manhattan project? How many physicists do you believe were working on that project because they wanted to get rich or were compelled to pay the bills? Once you satisfy your basic needs, you focus on other aspects of your life. See Maslow's pyramid.

Thirdly, people do cooperate and collaborate for the greater good, regardless of income. See volunteer work.

And finally, please refrain from trying to belittle fellow readers, specially if you do that while demonstrating some slowness grasping simple concepts or ideas.
Perhaps the tax preference should be shifted from capital gains to dividends.
> But vast majority of population does not have cash saved up, they do not care about money losing its value as long as they are able to get more money today and buy the stuff they need.

Of course they care. Those that care most are the lowest income earners. For a simple reason: their wage does not increase with the inflation. They are either losing purchasing power or it is stagnated and they are not able to better their economic position. The silly minimum wage laws lag the price inflation, so people are in fact, no better off when they finally get their raise.
It often is a good thing for touch screens, but for desktops it's often a bit less practical. It's important to find a good balance between the two.
I think this is an interesting and definitely laudable project, but I think the PeerTube-exclusivity clause is a large mistep. I understand the motivations, but I think it's flawed for two reasons:

1, it increases the risk for creators. While an equipment grant is extremely useful, the biggest investment (having made a couple educational videos myself) is time. Having to then limit yourself to a platform with very low user adoption is a huge risk, and harmful to creator morale if the videos struggle for an audience due to the platform.

2, and this ties into the first problem, it's not good for marketing. If you look at how another Youtube competitor, Nebula, is handling this, they have creators cross-post most of their content to Youtube. Creators then advertise Nebula in their sponsorship timeslot, extolling its virtues for creator sustainability etc -- which PeerTube would greatly benefit from as many people aren't aware of the benefit of a distributed system, or what that even means. Additionally, they upload some sort of exclusive -- either longer videos with content that wouldn't fit on YT (LegalEagle is a good example of a channel that does this), or special long-form projects (Wendover Productions uses this model). Either way, this lets Nebula hijack Youtube's recommendation algorithm and built in audience as essentially free advertising, as the content being uploaded to YT is being posted to Nebula anyways. Obviously many people just watch on YT and ignore Nebula as it requires a subscription, but PeerTube doesn't and Nebula is succeeding despite that -- anecdotally, me and my fiance bought a subscription because of this strategy.

With that out of the way, I do love this idea and hope it gets traction regardless!
Unpoly [1] is another one in that camp. Made good experiences with to smoothen page transitions in a server-side rendered app [2]. I find this model much more approachable for backend devs than going all-in on SPA. It doesn't help of course with more fine-grained interactions like say in-place editing in a table.

[1] https://unpoly.com/
[2] https://www.morling.dev/blog/quarkus-qute-test-ride/
I don't think this is evidence for a move to cross plattform UI apps, but I hope it's a move to make Swift more useful on the server side.

As I've understood it, Foundation support is pretty good these days? But it would be cool if Apple ported even more frameworks that could be useful for server side applications. Recently I would have loved to have had AVFoundation available when doing some HLS parsing server side, for example.
You would see tons of research going on if there was more money to be made with Vitamin D.
There won't be for the average person, but there will be for the average person with below-average income.
Show HN: Feature Monkey – The feedback tracker for building better features
I build a lot of products in the past, all of them failed. I realised that we didn't listen to our users enough, Maybe not at all. Then thought why not something like HN, where people can post their feature requests and upvote. Did a bit of research and found a couple of product in the market. But all were ridiculously expensive for a feature tracker. I didn't want to take a loan to use a feature tracker

Then last year I build a product using no code to track the feedback of customers and it helped a lot. (It won Product Hunt makers festival tools for teams). Later talking to other founders we found this as a common mistake. Hence we build this ground up a platform to collect feedback from customers. Please give it a try.

Anyone who signs up gets the product for free please copy-paste into your browser. https://www.featuremonkey.com/
I recently migrated a personal project to a newer version of a library it is using and that version dropped its jQuery requirement. In that process I also rewrote my own code using jQuery and moved to vanilla JavaScript.

A lot, that required or semi-required jQuery before can now be done with vanilla JavaScript, however jQuery is still going strong with invoking code on sets of elements as well as cascading calls.

jQuery has been a fantastic library and deserves all the praise, however a lot of its functionality has made it by now into the language itself.

To answer your direct questions, I couldnt think of any "issues", at worst you download an additional 30 kilobytes (gzipped) but with today's mentality of megabytes and megabytes for websites, that really shouldnt matter much. As for advantages, as mentioned, JavaScript did take over a lot of functionality, but as direct advantages I'd consider aforementioned features. Additionally, there certainly is also still a lot of libraries/plugins which depend on jQuery.
Good idea. Government healthcare should cover mental health patients as well during this crisis. Structurally, at least in the US, too much of one's identity is tied to career and this is the same existential issue society will be facing in the coming age of automation.

Now if you think your 'right' to put your own body at risk, you've failed to understand how contagious the virus is and how much you put others at risk by thinking you matter more. This will only prolong the quarantine, and this is why everyone is super concerned about the second wave and pandemic history repeating itself because some people are so arrogant and don't see their privilege compared to the at risk.
Rclone is complex and technical. Also it has other limitations when scaling to handle big data transfers in the TBs. It also can’t do simple things such as convert Google file types or support team migrations...
In the end my time is expensive and paying a little bit for these guys to do it is worth it for me.

I just moved my team of designers from Google Drive to Dropbox and it was pretty darn simple.
> The lack of good jobs seems to be at least part of the issue. So I don't understand how WPA solves the issue.

A WPA-like programme would presumably offer good jobs - that is, jobs with stable hours and scheduling, decent healthcare, and no fear of arbitrary layoffs. Its mere existence would push aside precarious zero-hours contracts and solve the underemployment problem.
With 3) society is basically admitting that it is built on top of "slave labor". If no one wants to do the "dirty jobs" because they have UBI, then wages for those jobs will rise. Prices will indeed rise but is that such a bad thing? Few people complain that they want more child labor to be used in Bangladesh so that they can have cheaper t-shirts.
In a time of plague, with a healthcare system not designed to treat everyone who needs it during the best of times, bloomberg publishes an article about the benefits of ubi.
OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2
But US government is adding 3+ trillion dollars debt to pay for it.

If anything, the current way of implementing UBI is not sustainable.
There was a story my undergraduate advisor told me about a guy who built a particle accelerator at his home. Got him a job at Fermi.

There's plenty of people doing stuff at home, even on crazy projects. Zhang solved the twin prime conjecture while he worked at subway because he couldn't get an academic job[0]. I think many also know Grigori Perelman[1] turning down the Fields Medal. There's the nuclear boy scout. Michio Kaku built an accelerator as a teenager. How many SV startups came out of garages? It is so weird to hear the GP comment on a site where we glorify those that rose from shoestring budgets. In fact, what is more American than that kind of story? Maybe the dream died, but maybe it shouldn't have.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/a-former-subway-worker-made-a-breakthrou...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
The old adage applies here: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Just checking my notes...and the answer is no.
The Crypto Price-Innovation Cycle
Going down the rabbit-hole led me to this within a few clicks, and made me giggle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Studio_Services#...
Wouldn't a crash or other problem in your program potentially corrupt e.g. the kernel tcp stack?
There is also trying to get laid I suppose. Which motivates younger men at least to seek status.

But I rather like your "need for burden" theory as well.
Why are websites having to individually implement dark mode? It should be done heuristicly by the browser.

It would take me weeks to redo my website to support dark mode. Better to wait and let browser technology catch up.
Of course not, we'll harvest it from money trees, which is where money comes from.
A simple disk format, the unikernel.
I loved CoffeeScript... I just loved types more. If CoffeeScript had a type system akin to TS or Flow, I'd be in heaven.
It’s all about balance. You can get good gear and bad gear anywhere. The Bass stuff is cheaper and won’t last as long but so what (we’re talking camping gear and clothes; dunno about guns, boats, fishing gear as that stuff isn’t my thing). And at bass you can pick up matches, an MSR stove (though not the full range) and Good useful gear. So that’s their target. And frankly who cares if your summer tent doesn’t work? Half the time I leave it at home anyway. Actually I’m wearing a bass shirt right now — “red bird” or whatever their house brand is. Super comfortable, but I wouldn’t wear it in the back country.

But an expedition tent: I care a lot, and they don’t carry that.
Reading the full paper, the population surveyed was people registered for at least one year with General Practice doctors using SystmOne software. That covers 40% of the English population.
It is probably safe to assume that almost everyone in England is registered with a GP. There is variance in the GP use of the specific SystmOne software - the paper mentions on page 13 that only 17% of London GP practices use it.
Doesn't work without JS.
No. The whole point of UBI is to remove the cliffs and high marginal tax rates that the working poor face; people in low-income jobs would benefit the most, approximately doubling their income (someone on minimum wage would instead get the equivalent of minimum wage + unemployment). Also it becomes more practical to ease into work, since if you work e.g. 5 hours/week you get full pay for those 5 hours rather than losing more in lost benefits than you gain. Of course this has to be balanced by higher earners paying more tax.
Spark 3.0: Nvidia and Databricks announce GPU acceleration
That's an idea I had for a few years now. I started some motions [0], but progress was slow, because of life. I wanted to start with going through the Common Crawl [1] data at first for testing purposes and to calculate a rough percentage of sites being uBlock-Origin clean.

I think that such sites would be in ballpark of a few ‰. That would enable me to offer the contentless index for download. With delta updates and torrent for distribution it could be not that expensive, but that's a thing that I could charge for.

My intention is to use AdBlock rules like easylist to check whether or not indeed the page.

My initial code is fine in Go, but I lost enthusiasm for Go lately and careerwise it's not a good fit for me (I don't have much time to learn something not as useful for me professionally). So I started to rewrite it in Rust, while learning it, you can laugh now (Rust Evangelism Strike Force el oh el). It has an advantage with ready to use rules parser from Brave [2] and presumably high quality tokenizer from html5ever [3].

I want to use a tokenizer instead of a full parser to be able to do stream processing bringing costs down.

Common Crawl data lays on S3 so the processing must be done initially on EC2 to keep it low cost.

[0] Current Go code: https://github.com/hadrianw/abracabra

[1] https://commoncrawl.org/

[2] https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust

[3] https://docs.rs/html5ever/0.25.1/html5ever/tokenizer/index.h...

EDIT:

Also for the search part I want to use something more stand alone than Elasticsearch to offer desktop search with downloaded index. When I started with Go I wanted to use Bleve [4], now I'm not sure, but I think that Bleve is getting mature enough. I will worry when I will have some data to search through.

One of the challenges with this whole enterprise is a small need of JavaScript parsing. There is a common pattern, that for example Google Analytics uses, that uses a snippet of JavaScript to insert a proper script tag. But those snippets are very short so I think they may not need a full JS VM, maybe even a tokenizer would be good enough. Browser AdBlockers base on the site executing JavaScript already.

[4] https://blevesearch.com/
However, it is also the best predictor of "absence" the scientific method has to offer.
That's only if you ignore the unseen, i.e. the broken window fallacy.

It becomes a tax on everyone else who is holding cash when we assume that the money supply will be inflated, which is the default scenario. Otherwise actual taxes will have to be levied to fund UBI.

If we accept that society has witnessed massive increases in productivity over the last hundred years, what happened to the 5 cent hamburgers? How does this price inflation help the impoverished?

When we create a monetary spigot and allocate resources via gov. intervention, those who specialize in currying favor with gov. will always benefit disproportionately. Ironically, proponents of further gov. intervention use this wealth inequality to rationalize further gov. allocation of resources.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Will%20iOS%2014%20Lessen%20AR%...
And what do we do when those jobs are done? Do we need to constantly be upgrading everything? Do we build buildings to house no one, in cities that no one is moving to? Roads to nowhere?
Agreed, that was my point. Which infrastructure to build and maintain, and how, can be complex questions that affect different people in different ways. Hence it is not a thing that could just be done uncontroversially.
This is cool! Gathering feedback is the key
Reading this makes me thing I should divest.

I feel ashamed owning shares in a company that thinks 20 hours unpaid time off a quarter is reasonable.
A tangential point, but I don't think a WPA style program would be feasible today. Most modern infrastructure projects are complex enough that they require experienced contractors. Additionally, job training programs can be problematic. Most industries, including construction, are suffering from high unemployment right now. Training a bunch of people to be construction workers would probably piss off those that are currently struggling to find work.

For a modern take on the WPA, take a look at the 2009 Recovery Act[1]. It earmarked money for infrastructure and energy projects. Any new infrastructure/jobs initiative will likely look similar.

And to answer your question, UBI and jobs programs are not mutually exclusive. We can have both. But jobs programs don't really cover the same use case as UBI. There are a lot of people who are unable to work. UBI also helps when someone is in between jobs. And on a per-capita basis, job programs are more expensive. Most UBI proposals recommend $1k/month. Paying people $15/hr to clean streets would cost around $2500/month, and that doesn't count any benefits and overhead (managers, equipment, facilities, etc...). And how many people would really benefit from such basic work experience? To have a real impact, we would likely want to train them for more high skilled work, but that would cost a lot more. And as alluded to above, if you train people in high skilled work, you risk flooding the market, making things worse for existing employees. The nice thing about UBI is that it is simple and cheap.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvest...
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=VR%20in%20a%20Pandemic%3A%20Go...
Why limit your snark to rich kids? Just rob everyone blind whether they earned it or not.

Either way though, it might impact motivation negatively.
You are interpreting my comments in a very strange way, so I don't really know how to respond. I was just making a simple point to the parent comment about project organization, not going on an attack against the idea that people enjoy their work, or trying to belittle someone. You are reading way more into my comments than is there.
The goal of UBI is not to invest in works, but to invest in people. From this altered framing, putting any conditions on payouts will only disenfranchise people.
PHP 8 in 8 code blocks
> It is not very useful to compare them with flu because people are much more likely to have flu than to have covid.

What data is this based on?
Thanks, I was not aware. I found a reference where someone says that at least in those wards they complied with safety measures and the infection was anyway spread already. But this is definitely not a good idea!
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-silent-coronavirus-covid...
well ive never made a GUI in anything other than autohotkey so i wouldnt know what it is like in other languages, but it is indeed fast. ive been using autohotkey for maybe 4 years now so when i want to make a new GUI i usually just copy bits from previous GUIs that i have made.

otherwise there is AutoGUI that makes it really fast since you just have to drag and drop the elements you want

> the resulting script can be bundled into an .exe file

thats another thing that i dont see mentioned enough about autohotkey. being able to make scripts for other people and giving them just one file to run is so underrated!
Basically you replace the system calls into the kernel with library calls. So you end up with a single binary that contains both the application as well as the operating system functionality.

This can lead to some rather spectacular performance benefits. One thing is that you remove the syscall overhead, but more importantly you can do a lot more optimizations at the compiler/linking steps.

You can remove complex code that tries to dynamically model the world with rather plain code that does just what it is supposed to. With IncludeOS (C++17 unikernel) we did make a firewall implementation that instead of using complex data structures relied on preprocessing the rule set and translate it into C++ code. The code to do this was quite simple and resulted in pretty amazing figures wrt number of rules per packet per second. Metaprogramming can sometimes deliver amazing results.

Similar things can be done in a traditional kernel as well and we've seen eBPF firewall implementations that are able to get similar numbers. On the flip side eBPF and it's firewall implementation is order of magnitude more complex. However, you can push eBPF code onto the networking card which can be a huge benefit. And ofc you could make a kernel module that implements a specific firewall ruleset and get similar performance without eBPF.

I like unikernels because I feel I can understand them better. You can reason about them and they are easier to optimize for very specific workloads.

So why aren't we using them? Likely because we know Linux so well and we've invested a lot in it. It runs everywhere and is extremely well supported. Bringing a new operating system to market is challenging, bringing a new operating system with a entirely different architecture is even harder. Even if it, on a purely technical level, could yield better results.
If prices will go up, some of the UBI receivers might want to capture that price increase by launching new businesses.

I think more serious threat comes from existence of global market. It means, the local supply does not need to react to local increase in demand but people elsewhere can capture that demand by shipping cheaper goods.

To make UBI work you possibly need to become an island or already have huge exports to offset whatever your population might be interested in buying from other countries.

This is not a fact/experiment based, it's merely a hypothesis.
I saw this on my twitter feed this morning. They don't include the Giphy SDK. They act as a proxy and (ab)use range requests so they don't even see the size of the returned GIF. It's a really interesting read.

And that blog post is from 2017 so those measures have been in place for 2.5 years already.