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UBI is not socialism. In fact, it is more of a libertarian policy where choices are made by individuals.

Keeping people from falling off economic cliffs is likely to be more productive than letting them become homeless for the rest of their lives. That productivity offsets inflation risks. Technology and automation increases offset inflation, because they make us all more productive.
I've begun using Swift for Linux to build sites on Publish (https://github.com/JohnSundell/Publish) on my CI.
Sounds like the welfare system in the US. Same obvious result, obviously. Fixing that would be a concrete step towards UBI.
Now for most people they have somebody who tells them what is useful to work on. This “purpose” is externally imposed and often people don’t really fully believe in the work they’re doing already. Better to have people educated and having time to think and set their own direction than the current system. In an automated society people’s purpose will change whether they want it to or not.
Do note hacking typically takes place in higher ranks since that's where the cheaters typically end up. The vast majority of players that play in the lower ranks only encounter the cheaters as they climb the ranks which presumably happens rather quick compared to non-cheaters.
Maybe we shouldn't be presupposing that governments are better at resource allocation than their citizens. People will still work with UBI, but they are much better positioned to choose the kind of work they personally do best.
What kind of bloat are you talking about here? Binary and/or runtime cost? In the case of Java/JVM (and I believe C#/.NET) the JIT is almost trivially able to inline monomorphic calls, meaning that effectively, these interface calls are free.

Secondly, you don't even need to use interfaces with one-off implementations if you don't want. You can inject your concrete implementation class instances directly. Using interfaces just makes it easier to swap implementations as needed. The unit testability argument is completely orthogonal (and also in the case of the JVM, you can mock classes as they're open by default, so again, you don't even need to use one-off interfaces).

And I don't see how this issue is limited to OOP. At the end of the day, you're going to have to hook up your components and object graph anyway, either manually or using some kind of DI, so the complexity is always there. Even if you don't write interfaces with single implementors, non-trivial programs quickly become extremely verbose to implement. Maybe something like Scala's `implicit` can be of help here.

> Debugging these applications is one of the most infuriating things I've ever done as a programmer.

Again, Dagger and Micronaut do DI at compile time using codegen, so nothing to debug at runtime.
I agree, that was mental. Looks like concern for people's health goes out the window as soon as big industry profits are threatened and the people you sacrifice are not your own.
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That's a bit too idealistic. Maybe some of the stuff was started this way but by and large all hobby projects that are now widely used depend on paid people working on it full time/a lot. The Linux kernel is a great example.

But I agree with your overall point. Software has a good chance of "leading the way" mostly because of the lack of required starting capital to get first traction for an idea (a person and a laptop) and the theoretical high mobility of the workforce (a lot can be written basically everywhere, local is only required for customer contact).
I didn't see this in the comments but Walmart bought Moosejaw a few years ago.
We can argue that those small checks that can keep people from becoming homeless because they live on an economic cliff would be a net increase in productivity...you keep them working, rather than bumming on the street without a home.
He's right, if not for working at McDonalds to pay rent, what purpose would people have to live?
Does a rich kid living off an inheritance and not working count as a freeloader?
When I read things like this, my first though is that we will live in climate controlled buildings, like they do in desert countries or near the arctic circle.

I think about humanity surviving and being more uncomfortable.

But the thing is, this kind of thing will decimate birds and fish and insects and crops and more, and it might not come back.
You need somebody to decide what “improve civilisation” means, and nobody agrees on this.
Apache Poi and Poi does look similar, but what do you mean by one of the largest? Isn't Apache Poi just an excel reader/writer library?
I tried various of dark mode plugins in Firefox and none of them seem to be able to do their job without obvious shortcomings. For example most of them don't check the original color of the website and just invert colors of dark pages as well. Or in some cases it doesn't invert all text colors, making hyperlinks hard to read.

None of the extensions I've tested can match the dead simple CSS override I used in qutebrowser.
Whilst touching the CSS. Could it be considered to fix the code overflow on mobile?

It is the effect of having a line which is longer than the viewport - so we end up having to scroll that specific line. Some might say it is better not to wrap code but I more often see this as part of a quote. I you really do not like to wrap the lines then I would prefer a scrollbar on the whole section. (I hope this line demos the issues).

I am not asking for mobile CSS. It is just on mobile it is most obvious.

My CSS knowledge is severely limited but I was thinking something along the lines of

pre {
overflow-x: auto;
white-space: pre-wrap;
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;
white-space: -pre-wrap;
white-space: -o-pre-wrap;
word-wrap: break-word;
}

Others might have better ideas. Please chime in.

I salute the credo of moving slowly. And I hate to be a cry baby. I even hate the feature creep. But here I am :-}
This is such a cold take. There's a on-going international health crisis so don't understate it. You can't have workers either if everyone is sick... Or dead. People need to both stay home AND put food on the table and this is precisely where UBI, even temporarily, helps.
I wonder if there will be some sort of feedback where they discover the conditions under which kids ACTUALLY learn and thrive.

Like they figure out the successful ones slept in every day, had sex early, went to parties and drank from time to time.
> especially given how hard it has been

It has been hard mostly for political reasons, not logistic. 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.

As to it being hard right now, well do note that we, the US, is in one of the most divisive times in its history (clearly not the most, but it is up there). It is easy to convince people that it isn't fair. Just as it is easy to convince people that it is the most fair. But it is hard to realize that raising the foundation raises the whole building. If a few bricks come from the top, without destroying the building, can bring up the floor, everyone gets lifted. Even those where the bricks were taken from. Maybe UBI does this, maybe it doesn't. But we should find out, shouldn't we?
> As a side note — and I write this without bitterness — I do find it a bit strange that extremely well-resourced companies like Dropbox, GitHub, CircleCI, Trello, Airbnb (and many, many more) would write so many hundreds and hundreds of thousands of lines of CoffeeScript without ever attempting to contribute changes or fix the issues that they wanted to fix. It’s open source! They probably would have been able to quickly and cheaply make most of the changes they wanted.

This is the heart of a really important issue in OSS that affects everything good and bad about the scene.

There are companies that pretty much waste millions on poorly managed projects but won't donate the few thousand needed to make a lot of OSS projects succeed while still using the software.

It doesn't help that a lot of the culture just accepts fragile dependencies (who cares if this semi-crucial dependency is managed by the equivalent of newman from jurrasic park), and that a lot of the biggest OSS projects are usually made by people working at some big company. Maybe copyleft licenses would've prevented some of these issues, but I am not sure individual users like those restrictions even if, in some ways, it would benefit the community as a whole.

Its absolutely disgraceful how little financial support some really commonly used libraries get.
I must have some condition (other than old age) but I cannot look at dark-themes for more than a few seconds before my eyes start hurting. I switch it to a light theme wherever possible.

Yet, I know of the popularity of dark themes. But I wonder if I'm the only one or whether there are more people that experience the same effect?

I think it gets worse when I have to switch between mostly-dark content to mostly-light content. Thus, since most pages on the web have (near-) white background, I imagine I would really suffer when switching to and from HN a lot if it were in dark mode.

But hey, maybe that would be a good thing for my productivity ;-)
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"copperfish will hunt bivalve mollusks"

This does not sound at all good...
Yeah, the headbands appear similar to Scientology's "E-meter", which is a fake tech device used to control the victims.
As far as I understand, most UBI-proposals would essentially be the same. If you work, you pay more taxes on your income to fund the UBI. You'll still get the UBI, but you'll pay significantly more taxes which will leave you pretty much even.
I think this is doable today. Just disable tabs completely on Firefox and chrome, and use a window manager that allows you to group windows into tabs (like i3)
That’s because we call them trust fund babies instead and they are widely mocked and ridiculed.
I'm one of the authors on this paper, so ask away if you have questions.
How does this:

> they are much better positioned to choose the kind of work they personally do best.

...lead to any sort of large-scale work getting done? Bridges and roads aren't open-source software and don't build themselves merely through the individual disparate actions of large numbers of people. I.e., thousands of people individually deciding that they want to improve their city's infrastructure doesn't result it in being improved; you still need an overarching leadership structure to organize it.
I love these types of projects. It is not rocket science, nor anyhow complicated to solve and from security standpoint way better than any off the shelf solution. Think about it: you grant access to a random company, with people working there you do not know, security standards out of your control, and if they decide to change the product you simply have to deal with it.

I did a similar solution a while ago, documented all the steps to replicate such setup: https://www.sascha-curth.de/projekte/004_Garagentor.html

I wrote it in german, but chrome/google translate is tested for English, Spanish and Portuguese. And comments/remarks are welcome via github issues.
Not drag and drop, but free and supports many more storage options.

https://rclone.org/

I imagine it wouldn't be all that hard to put a web interface over it.
Here is the css that i use with Springles [1]

https://gist.github.com/kirkegaard/0d7e96bf0ebbce5ddad98e59f...

This is what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/KsLnoC4

[1] https://getsprinkles.app
This opinion is pretty flawed. When will aggregations of individuals making $24k per year get together and build a hydroelectric dam or nuclear power plant, or assemble themselves to form a genomics research institute or space agency?

There are things that individuals, left to their own preferences and entrepreneurial habits, will never create.
Sure, but the claim here wasn't (as I read it) that this is unusual, but that it's unjust.

If prosecutors are selecting the highest ROI targets based on some calculation of which cases they can win and which cases have the biggest consumer or market impact (or are most egregious), that doesn't seem especially problematic. If they're selecting targets for prosecution based on who has political connections and who does not, however, that's very different.

Taken to the extreme, it's "whataboutism" to ask about racial disparities in criminal prosecutions; if a defendant is guilty, who cares if some other accused perpetrator of a different race wasn't prosecuted for a similar offense?

The impartial application of law--at least with respect to considerations like race or political connectedness--can certainly conflict with the pragmatic considerations of prosecutorial strategy, and I don't think it's simply "whataboutism" to question that tension.
General question from a foreigner who has lived in Germany, does it seem to you like those income boundaries for benefits are designed to discourage class mobility? Do most benefits seem designed with hard on/off boundaries, or are most designed with a gradual decline as income increases?

In my very limited experience talking with Germans, it always seemed like those social benefits were a boolean choice that kept people from wanting to move up.

That could have just been my interpretation of the culture though, where it seemed many Germans simply seem to accept that retiring as a cashier is an acceptable level of ambition. That level of ambition is definitely not the same world-wide, and can come off as "lazy" to non-Germans who may not understand what it's like to simply accept one's lot in life.
It is also important to incorporate chatbots
For most intents and purposes, it is. Yes, it's not "100% cash, do whatever you want", and it theoretically contains the requirement for anyone getting benefits to be looking for work. Practically, it's not enforced. There are sanctions that can reduce the cash-component of social benefits, but you'll generally have to try hard to get to that point. If you glide along, you wont face them and you can stay on benefits indefinitely.
Amazon is handing out 'Thank you' t-shirts to warehouse workers as it cuts pay
I tried it on firefox and chromium without another extension, it doesn't seem to work and only shows the message meeasuring skewing...
Like the rest of the budget, there's no realistic plan to 'pay' for it. UBI and MMT are birds of a feather. QE to infinity, unlimited plunge protection and stock buybacks. Cui bono?

Just like every other power grab, those who question the narrative will be painted as lacking compassion for the underclasses, "think of the children", "the robots are coming", ad nasuem. Rationality will be dismissed with appeals to emotion. We've seen it all before. There's nothing new under the sun.

Identity politics and class warfare enters stage left, "If you don't like this, you hate group X. If you are part of group X and you don't like it, then you don't know what is good for you!". Benevolent and condescending feel good guilt culture abounds. I read it in comments here regularly. I don't argue, I don't bother to disagree. I hedge accordingly.
You can sometimes use overloads to make it better:

function transform(a: number): number
function transform(a: string): false
function transform(""): ""

Depending on how predictable the output is from the types, of course. But for many things it works better than just using union types everywhere.
An issue on WebExtension support was added to the Fenix tracker as early as September 2019:

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/5315
The css doesn't need to be inlined in the page, so unless you disable caching it's not served for every request at all.
I know a bunch of engineers who have worked at the giants. IMO they've all lost their luster. They grew too big. You can only fight regression to the mean for so long. Law of large numbers or whatever.

The best teams I worked with were small. When you only have 7 engineers its easy to make sure they're brilliant. You get to 100 and its nearly impossible. X hires his buddy Y because they're friends. One of them gets to management. Suddenly you have a whole team of mediocre engineers. Nobody wants to fire a whole team just because they're not superstars. Soon everything regresses to the mean. IMO, every big company has average engineers.

People hire others like themselves, but you get enough people and the personalities (and skill) blur into the whole spectrum

They pay a lot so you won't leave, spill their secrets and compete with their monopolies. Not because they're hot shit
Government and advertising bodied have free reign over our transaction data - why not the public?
If the stock market is wrong, what will force it to correct?

Does it take a lot of companies going bankrupt?

Is it enough for lots of companies to report big revenue drops? Or is that priced in the minds of most investors?
The hardest working man on earth is probably one of the worst paid ones and you fucking cunt in your fucking privileged position is talking about over-taxing. At least read a coffee table book about social and economic justice you absolute piece of shit.
There's no reason to make your theory of "civilization improvement" too complex or comprehensive. Most people would probably agree that basic repairing of infrastructure, removal of litter and trash, adding parks, etc. improves civilization. This seems relatively uncontroversial.
Almost all submits for this site are self- submits.
European central banks have announced they target higher inflation rate, for example
Isn't it like dead cat bounce, where once demand goes down producers stop producing then supply is reduced even below demand levels, creating hyper inflation?

Usually when production decreases, cost of production increases - operation becomes less profitable and investor might pull their money and take it elsewhere. In some industries, margin might be so thin that once they lose economies of scale which comes with higher production, they simply may go bust or choose to stop, citing higher cost of inputs. This is what pushes the supply below demand level.

Also demand is usually established at some specific price, if cost of production increases, producer might have to increase the price and this might also put downward pressure on demand.
Yes. He may not be living at the expense of social security but he's consuming resources without producing anything back.
Nicotine must have some evolutionary benefit to the tobacco plant, perhaps it helps it resist the Tobacco mosaic virus.
We don't all have to agree, that's why we have democracy. We vote a government in and they make decisions about what "improve civilization means. If they get it wrong we vote new people in and they try again.
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> Unsurprisingly there's no direct clinical evidence.

"We searched for trials and didn't find any"

Unsurprisingly, there haven't been any (completed) trials on this particular combination of novel disease and possible prevention/treatment yet.

I'm concerned that people conflate "no evidence for efficacy" with "it doesn't work" instead of "we don't know if it works". You always start out with "no evidence".

There are studies that put serum Vitamin D levels against COVID-19 outcomes and they show a highly significant correlation. That's not "causal evidence", but it should put you on alert, you shouldn't be waiting for 2021 for possible Vitamin-D trials to complete.

As the authors of that review are saying, you should be supplementing anyway, whether there is a causal relationship or not.
>Bengio, Hinton, and Lecun were pariahs for decades

But not as much as Schmidhuber.
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How do you get all that money so that you can pay people UBI?

Either you have to raise taxes sky high or you start printing money like never before. Both are poor options.
A few fixes have been released to make it more mobile friendly thxs for the feedback!
>The more government is injecting money to businesses, society and people, the more expensive everything is getting.

It only matters to people who have lot of cash saved up. Value of their money might decrease.

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.
> The headbands were handled via a partnership with Zhejiang Brainco Technology Co Ltd

Which I guess is a subsidiary of the US-based company BrainCo located in Massachusetts. The article describes the provisioning of the headbands as a donation, which I guess makes sense if you're a startup and you want to test a pilot program in a market that might be receptive to your product.

The fact that Chinese parents protest on social media and with the authorities (on ethical grounds, it appears from the Quartz article) and the authorities banned the device on privacy concerns, sounds a lot like what would happen in the West.

As an aside, every time I read an article about the Chinese society I discover a much more nuanced picture than "it's a dictatorship with no free press and human rights". It's not a democracy for sure, but the idea it's a totalitarian state where all dissent is banned seems very far from the truth.
Please read the comment I originally answered to.
what's wrong using plugins to customize the website you visit often?
I'm strong supporter of UBI in my home country (Finland) and I think it would work in in Nordics and likely in EU too. I don't think it would work in the US because it's sold in completely different premise. US has the least developed welfare system and the plan seems to be just replace it with small sum of money.

In Nordics UBI would be in addition to free healthcare, education etc. and funding it would not be a problem. Unemployed already get benefits. Even small housing allowance would probably remain to discourage segregation due to income differences. It's the combination of welfare that low income workers get that creates high effective marginal tax rate that UBI neatly solves. It would create incentives for working and reduce bureaucracy.
Plus the risk of screw-ups in implementation - although in theory UBI is an improvement in practice who knows what stupidity might creep in during the political process.
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Is it just me or does a 217mb download for a word processor with "save to network drive" seem like an awful lot?
Slovenia calls an official end to its coronavirus epidemic
due to HN's simplicity it's already pretty mobile friendly, they just need to make some of the links bigger.
It'd be like iOS giving us emojis back then when it instead needed innovation. Having said that HN can use some formatting.
I have a beginner's question about sensors and chips, for the experts out there:

When chip hardware gets faster, or you read about such developments as cramming more and more functionality onto the sensor, does that mean the package could draw less and less power and do the same functions as previously for less energy?

Suppose this chip's function were (as in the article) to image a scene and decide whether to send the image over wireless to a central monitoring station.

As the chips get more capable, does that mean less power is used compared to before, to do the same function? Or are there overheads that dominate the power consumption for such under-utilization of a chip? Is there a rapid falloff in benefit of the "advanced-ness" of a chip for such applications where you really don't need such sophistication, and rather have energy-conserving, simple design? Will this really lead to months more lifetime for a remote sensor powered by battery?

(sorry if some of my nomenclature is imprecise, but hopefully you get the idea of the question)