skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So both patch versions and minor versions signal the possibility of introduction of new bugs - is there a point to separating them?
No, of course not, but I’m suggesting that “our company is going remote” will be used to functionally offshore jobs. Offshoring to X is socially unpopular, while We have an international remote team is cool and hip.
Donating Profits of the Podcasting Book
From one of those links it seems it's surprisingly decent at comedy (for a machine): https://arr.am/2020/07/22/why-gpt-3-is-good-for-comedy-or-re...
I've been working remotely full-time since 2014, and now I run a company and employ people (mostly programmers) around the world. We've been remote since day zero.

Any valuable knowledge I have about remote work would be eclipsed by the Remote book written by the Basecamp guys, so that's what I'd recommend people read. What I'm reacting to here is the hubris of some people (especially on my LinkedIn feed) to not just share experience but actually give advice on a topic they're completely new to.
Why do you think skills is what prevents people from producing?
When I started using Linux, nano was often the default, and it had the tendency of corrupting configuration files because of its automatic hard line wrapping unless called as "nano -w". To prevent that kind of accidental corruption, I always remove nano from every system I administer.
I was (and still am) averse to long term WFH but, my child was born in December so, as you expect, WFH has been a temporary godsend for me.

I guess it's also forcing me to learn how to WFH by minimizing the costs many here have pointed out.

Ps. although all other restrictions and societal impacts of strict lockdown is making this a bittersweet moment.
If most landlords have a few properties, that's a no go. If they have 1000s and all are under demand, that's a no go as well.

Only if there are empty houses because people can't afford them will that scenario be able to play...
If you only have UBI anyway you might not be as tied down by your current job
Isn't this about user-initiated chargebacks through the CC provider rather than developer-initiated refunds? Or am I reading this wrong?

> any notice or claim from a payment provider that an End-User has obtained a refund
Rethinking the Science of Skin
What was the saying...embrace extend extinguish
> Solution: radically reduce public funding for scientific research and for university education as a whole

Wouldn't that make many scientists (both good and bad) move to other countries where funding is easier to get?
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Vim tells you in the center of the screen how to quit when you start it up.
Downvotes should cost the user their own points.

People are bizarrely attached to their magical internet points and such consequences would perhaps have most think twice before flippantly greying out a comment they only read the first sentence of.

With the rampant vote inflation I think the limits should be at least quadrupled.
Then they should revise their designs maybe.
They don’t think someone would have taken the data before handing in their notice?

Feels a bit silly to me.
This is a great point on how the world seems to have developed a deep sense of biases on just about everything and now we're left incapable of passing the "would only a cartoon villain do this" test. How is it ever possible to fix this, because we're quickly moving to a point where the most ridiculous of claims, that happen to fit with our biases, are instantly accepted as true and unshakable facts.
After a while there's not. You need some urban planning, not just random accumulation of new housing...
lol.... doubtful on the conquest of the universal baker.
At least in Andrew Yang's version of UBI, Social Security retirement benefits would stack on top of UBI and not be replaced.

https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/

I don't think anyone has seriously suggested replacing Medicare with UBI, as replacement health insurance premiums for people 65+ would almost certainly be a multiple of $1K/mo.
Notwithstanding how Apple actually behaves, it seems the legal situation over this clause was at the very least ambiguous, with some parties interpreting it as you do, more than a decade ago:

https://techcrunch.com/2009/03/25/apples-iphone-app-refund-p...
>I'm surprise that so many people couldn't figure this out without being forced to try it against their will.

Oh they could, but they knew they'd lose the political games that come with offices and which are a favourite of middle management.
I am a big fan and user of keyboard shortcuts, and web apps make
using those either weird and inconsistent with what you'd
expect, or simply impossible. A user interface without support
for keyboard shortcuts is not viable for productive use imho.

Web apps built with modern frameworks often can't even be used
by Vim plugins in the browser, either because scrolling doesn't
work, or the frameworks and scripts do so much black magic in
the background that not a single button in the GUI is recognised
as clickable element by the Vim plugin. Broken by design.

Not to mention all the performance issues and productivity
blockers thanks to tracking, no support for right
click(and its context menus) etc., instead we get animations
which also add input lag to everything because it looks fancy.
> I wish we could instead figure out a system for taxing scale or subordination levels. So that having a couple of owner-operated grocery stores in every neighborhood would become a viable alternative to centrally managed Walmart with armies of corporate zombies miserable at their jobs. Of course, it would reduce the overall efficiency, but I would happily pay an extra dollar to live in a society where people are putting their energy into producing objects of value and making others happy, than see endless infighting about who deserves that extra chunk off someone else's table more.

I think one solution is to end private land ownership. Put land ownership in the hand of local communities and let them lease out land (maybe based on money, idk, no reason for there not to be somewhat of a market). Let the communities create rules for land use, but one major rule should be that land can only be used by people within the community. No Walmarts coming in and using land.

Maybe an even better rule is that land can only be leased to the people who work it - and this means all people who work it. Meaning that you can only open a business on that land if all the workers will own a chunk of that business.
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What is in the terms? That part says they can keep the commission if they want to. But the question is do they actually keep it.
Sure, but capital isn't geographically limited. I live a lot further away from the US than Croatia and I have multiple friends here who've raised from the US.

Something smells wrong here.
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Work hours positively linked to commercial market integration (2019)
The “law” of supply and demand doesn’t even work across all categories of the economy, so it’s not at all like the law of gravity.

https://www.businessinsider.com/supply-and-demand-model-of-l...
I’m glad I read the comments. Thanks for the information/links to other repository and abandonware sources.
==That's the entire problem with UBI: it will just result in widespread inflation, in housing and every other market.==

Do you have any evidence to support this type of absolute claim? People have been screaming about inflation since the Fed massively expanded their balance sheet in 2007. The only things we’ve really seen inflate are assets (buying housing, stocks, etc.) we haven’t seen much inflation in non-assets (renting, commodities, consumer staples).
You’ll See Two Figures for GDP Decline: Big, and Huge
Says this...

Type :qa! and press <Enter> to abandon all changes and exit Vim

Maybe not quite what the user was looking for. But I guess it does get you out of Vim.

ETA: Also, that answer on Stack Overflow at one time was the answer with the most traffic on the site. Reading must be a common problem for trapped Vim users.
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> I have some friend who have been working at a company who went remote-first and after 5 years they do not feel identified with the company anymore. It's just a job. You could work for someone else and you wouldn't even notice.

You are the poster child of everything that's wrong with late-stage capitalism. You not only want to force people to produce profit for you. You want to indoctrinate them. You want them to have a small mcdonalds/apple/google logo in place of their heart, otherwise they will lose identity.

How dare people not to be happy about those companies values! How dare they!!!
Only if you you're not opening an existing file.
You can just say that you were terminated because your manager at Amazon was insecure and didn’t trust you to not fuck things up?
If you think funding from industry makes academics' results more robust, you might want to look into tobacco-industry-funded research on cancer, oil-industry-funded research on global warming, and ridesharing-industry-funded research on drivers' working conditions.
One change that would help and easy to implement is reporting, for a researcher/paper, citations excluding self-citations.

This doesn't take care of citation rings, but does move the needle towards reporting the actual value of a paper/researcher.
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Monthly and quaterly figures are bound to show the largest drop.

For annual figures, a first approximation is that a month is worth 1/12th of the annual output so I would expect a 8.3% drop for every month that the economy is completely stopped.

34% contraction for a quarter means that the economy essentially stopped for a whole month, and would lead to a 8% contraction for 2020, everything else being equal. But we're not through yet...
This comes from mentality of a given country I believe.

In my own east european country, we have a stable Roma population (about 10%), of which cca 98% never work. They already rely completely on welfare system, to the point of making enough children to have large support payments (families with 10 kids are common, 15 is not unheard of, although kids are sometimes running around bare naked in the snow).

I can imagine quite a few countries would literally stop if given the option to just now work
Bacteria dug up from beneath the seabed may be 100M years old
I generally agree, though I'd say donated money should go to every sponsored individual/party equally by default, with donors able to set weights to recipients in their preferences.

Weighting videos on watch time, or GitHub sponsorship amounts based on number of repos, creates perverse incentives. High quality tutorial videos that get to the point and communicate ideas efficiently get less money than those with a minute-and-a-half intro and two minutes talking up a sponsorship at the end. Similarly, GitHub projects that are broken up into many repos, even needlessly, get more money. Same as the microservices hell that many software companies have faced when they drink too much of that koolaid.
This is getting into scary territory given that the US also spent 3.5 trillion to prop up the economy.

Some more "fun facts":

- this is the biggest drop on record for GDP: 32.9%.

That far surpasses the previous historical contraction of 10% in 1958.

- 19th reporting period where initial jobless claims came in above 1,000,000 that is stunning

- Personal consumption: -34.6%

- Government spending: +2.7%

- 2Q GDP Price Index Falls at A 1.8% Annual Rate

- Domestic investment: -49%

- 2Q Core PCE Price Index Falls at A 1.1% Annual Rate

- 17 million people collecting money from teh government

- 2Q Personal Consumption Falls at 34.6% Annual Rate

and the kicker

When you compare the last three years of Obama’s Presidency vs. Trump’s first three years, Trump’s deficits will be almost $1 trillion greater at $2.47 trillion to $1.51 trillion for Obama. It doesn’t look like Trump’s tax cuts will pay for themselves.

The US under Trump will add about the same amount to the nation debt in 4 years as Obama did in 8 and Obama inherited the "great recession"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/budget...

For those of you who like to dive into the numbers

https://www.bea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-07/tech2q20_adv...

From Bloomberg:

- Some categories actually added to GDP: consumer spending on cars, recreational goods, housing and utilities (as people worked from home and ran air conditioners longer?), and financial services and insurance.

- Other categories in positive territory: information processing equipment at companies (all other categories detracted from GDP), net exports, and government spending.

- China has only bought about 23% of its promised purchases for the year from the phase 1 trade deal so we probably can't look to China to buy the US out of its depression
A finger is comparable size to a torch. Not much light goes around a finger despite the non-zero size of the light source making the rays both non-parallel and originating from different places.

Sol has a diameter of ~100 times the Earth. A shade near Earth would have to be similar size to Earth to block most of the light, and likewise similar size to Sol if it was near Sol.
No it's not, unless it's funded by willing volunteers.

What if I don't want to pay the UBI tax? Are you going to send the government in unmarked mini vans to kidnap me or kneel on my kneck?
Yes, absolutely a win and thanks for explaining how you found it.
Just charge karma points for down voting. That will make people think twice
Shameless plug: this is exactly why we built Roboflow.

We’re trying to eliminate the one-off python scripts between labeling and training that everyone currently has to reinvent for themselves: https://roboflow.ai
Theoretically maybe. In practice, no one to a first approximation is going to have an issue with you spending an hour helping a prior employer with some cleanup related to your prior job. Employment agreements tend to use words like outside employment/consulting/etc. They don't (and it would probably be unenforceable if they did) generally forbid you from talking to a former employer.
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News organizations are trying something new: Peace and quiet
Police unions aren't “unions” in the traditional sense
Really cool! How do you determine the topics for an article?

I also see some topics on the full list that probably shouldn't be there - a gmail address and a random string of numbers.
I haven't read manuals ever, but last month I bought bluetooth headphones so to pair them I first tried without reading, and failed.

I opened the manual to find it was many pages of legal text and just one phrase of instructions: "hold button for 5 seconds until light is blue" and that failed too.

I mailed support and the instructions then came back as "hold for 20 seconds, until light first becomes white, then blue", I simply mistaked the white led as very light blue.

This is why people don't read manuals!
I think that the only way to get an app (or a refund), is via some payment gateway, so I assume that Apple is indicating that this is the "official" way they are notified of a refund. It may be that they don't consider the refund "complete," until ack'ed by the gateway.
Are you suggesting that increasing the supply of something doesn't push the price down?

That would be contrary to about 300 years of economic theory, so if you can prove it there's probably a Nobel Prize in it for you.
I am not a lawyer, so interpret this with lots of salt. The paragraph describes two scenarios, then says 'In such cases'. I would interpret that to mean that Apple requires that you allow them to retain their right to the commission in both scenarios.
So, why buy this v. s. building a pwnagatchi? Am I just missing the use case. difference?
I'm not entirely convinced by UBI yet either, however I think there are arguments that could made against your headline cost calculation.

It could eliminate/save other huge portions of the budget. It would also probably have to be adjusted based on location, or as you said it wouldn't do much good in expensive cities, which might reduce that cost further. And a huge chunk of that money is going to people who will immediately spend it on taxable goods/services which could be a big revenue/jobs boost.

It's still a huge cost though, and while I like the idea from a philosophical standpoint and some of the small scale tests have some promising results. It's still seems like a bit of a blue sky idea that could have some really bad consequences at scale.
China has built a 1100 kV line for 12 GW with losses of only 1.5% per 1000 km.

source: http://en.people.cn/n3/2018/0622/c90000-9474097.html
I was thinking of building a website that simply asks people permission to share a snapshot of their YouTube or other social media recommendations to keep the feed authentic. It would seem to be easy enough to collect and categorize different people's feeds, if I could somehow convince the right people to open up that part of their lives.
> increase our free time, empower workers, and ensure everyone has food and a roof over their head.

All these things are terrible for capitalism, because it would increase expenses...

Capitalism 2.0 is just shedding any pretense toward any common good coming out of it, and accepting being ruled by concentrated capital protected by the state, with little to no social mobility.
> When everybody has more money,

Which is not the case. Hence, rent will obviously not change, as will prices of products and services.

> the money won't magically spawn on the table

Exactly!
However, scheme relative URLs (i.e. //example.com/thing.jpg) are useful in edge cases where you want to request assets using the same protocol as the document, are they not?
>An open market will always favour the landlord,

Why don't you try being a landlord if it so easy? Not only do you have to capitalize to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars (or get leveraged to that level), between costs and taxes, your profit rate is going to be pretty tepid. It's not easy money, trust me.

>We've been trying these approaches for centuries now, and they always end the same way. There has never been a "free" market which hasn't vastly increased inequality of opportunity across the population as a whole. Why is it so hard for proponents of "free" markets to accept this fact?

Because that's not true. The free market has been the primary and pretty much the only driver of prosperity. And you cannot legislate prosperity. There is no magic combination of minimum wage, rent control and welfare that will increase jobs, income and wealth of the individuals.

> limits to advertising that promotes selfish greed and consumption, regulation of the press to eliminate the deliberate dissemination of obvious fake news, good public healthcare, higher taxation for giant monopolies and their owners, improved regulation to end the financialisation of everything, much improved public infrastructure, stronger unionisation and other forms of collaborative politics, and easier and cheaper access to capital for small business of all kinds.

Every communist nation thought it could 'educate away' human nature and brainwash to population into good communist automatons, and every time they tried it led to a humanitarian crisis. It's seems to be a core property of communist thought that human nature is completely flexible and can be shaped in anyway to make communism actually possible.
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URL's were supposed to be universal, not limited to any particular media format. The ampersand have to be escaped as &amp; in SGML/HTML/XML. Other formats will need other escapes - no characters are "safe" in all formats.
That's not what Wells Fargo did given that it was a massively net unprofitable venture. A tiny minority of the new accounts opened were fee paying ones, the vast majority were fraudulent, free accounts opened so employees could collect bonuses.

It's amazing to me that a fraud perpetrated upon Wells Fargo by its own employees is spun as an act of malice by WF itself.
One of the benefit of UBI—indeed, for some people, one of the explicit purposes of UBI—is that it drastically reduces the need to fear that moving will be too expensive for you.

It is, of course, possible to implement a UBI that is too low to make it practical to move, but I would argue that in that case, it is missing the "Basic" part, because it does not provide enough to meet real people's Basic needs.
Supposed by whom?
"nano -w" is a great editor. "nano" without -w should be banned like "rm -rf /" and require some long DWIM switch to even start.
We know that most heavy elements in the solar system come from a supernova explosion. I have always thought that the 9th "planet" was the remnant of this explosion and that this dead was the ancient binary companion of sun.

But yeah. Just fanciful thoughts here and no evidence, or even, good arguments to back it up. :)
Anti-climate action statements get more visibility in news coverage, study finds
I understood your point, I'm just rejecting it. If your measure of success is scaling and making massive amounts of money, then sure, all the successful website are boring. But there are plenty of interesting websites still out there. There are still PHPBB forums which "look like dog shit" but host vibrant communities. I'm not sure on what basis you would consider these communities to have "fizzled out".
What's the story behind the R25 stack?

Roadmap says DFM was last month, so hazarding a guess that this won't find its way into v3 release?
> I would expect 8.3% drop for every month that the economy is completely stopped

Yeah. Everyone knew this was going to be bad, which is why the experts were saying we need to get it under control quickly and figure out how to safely operate while the pandemic is in effect. But 2016 happened, so instead we get months and months of lockdown and the accompanying economic devastation.
Why couldn't they be serious? NoSQL got big somehow. There was obviously a big push and support for it when it became big. How would HN be immune to this when it can't even spot an obviously fake story about Apple acting like cartoon villains?
Thanks for the data. To me, that sounds like the end result is within a whisker of $1000/mo after deducting the VAT “rebate” to the German government when that 1000€/mo is consumed almost immediately on a mix of 7% and 19% items.
> Desires to hit people you hate and fuck people you find attractive are built into our minds and bodies by millions of years of evolution yet most people find not running around assaulting and raping to be pretty easy.

You're equating assault and rape with leaving money for your kids.

I think it's obvious why not doing the first 2 is pretty easy and not doing the last is pretty hard.
"quality focused discussion"

If you go against the grain of HN on Elon Musk, Tesla, India or the US (and many other topics) then your comment, like this one, is tanking. Which also shows as many regulars from 5 years ago have left, I seldom see someones comments I recognize.

So I do object your argument.

Comments are good to get some opinions on a topic if you dont know about the topic of the linked post. I still read topics therefor.
Modular programming: Beyond the spaghetti mess
Stockmarket fine though. What a joke.
I know it's not the point you were answering too, but this is exactly why I don't think I will be comfortable in nano, ever. I already know vim, and I don't really bother to remember another set of shortcut just for nano.

When vi/vim aren't available, I usually just end up using sed.
This is amazing. Thank you. Now to find a few of my favourite old games!
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