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Not only do I totally agree, but the words you used were almost verbatim what I was composing in my head while waiting for this page to load. It was a bit crazy to see my exact thought already as a comment.

But yeah, editors are just a preference, especially when every single one of them works in 90% of cases. I actually forked nano a long time ago (back in college) just to implement some niche multi-cursor hack because one guy said it was one thing vim could do that nano couldn't. I know there's plenty that <any editor> can do that <some other editor> can't, but nano's always Just Worked and occupied a very special, reliable, spot in my heart.
If anyone reading this has not played Secret of Mana try it out, you are in for a treat. IMO the best game on SNES with a good story, playable for three players at the same time and AMAZING music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3oxjanw72w

If you don't have time to play but love music check out the soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFN0GLAMJ3k&list=PL30CA55009... according to wikipedia it has "inspired several orchestral concerts"

The sequel Seiken Densetsu III is great too, got playable for non japanese through fan translations. You can choose your party of three from six characters. Found a nice video intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSTwjVnlNss

The Sountrack contains some gems too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hymtc5BBPQ8&list=PL4649F0DBF...

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Originals are rereleased in Collection of Mana:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnhkGt09NQI
Both have been remade for the Switch, have not played them.
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(Disclaimer: just a fan)
Let’s say rent is 1000$ right now and UBI gives everyone 2000$ a month.

What do you think every landlord will do next year?
Naw, that's just his byline. The Microsoft engineeer is Madhavan T. Venkataraman.
> I guess many of us put more trust on the community rather than our gut feeling.

Another word for this is groupthink.
Firmware is usually used for something that's software like, but lower level.

For example, the designs we build usually involve electronics, an FPGA, and a 'normal' processor. It's not formal terminology, but we usually refer to them as hardware (electronics), firmware (FPGA code) and software (C/Python/etc code).
The claim is that UBI eliminates people’s need for jobs or cities’ need for service workers?

“UBI lets all the poor people leave” is not convincing at all.
1. We have always had that but it isn't the poor at the mercy of the rich it is the poor always at the mercy of exploitation by the politicians. Government gives with one hand then takes back through fees, penalties, and taxes.

2. The primary predator are relatives and common thugs usually wrapped up into a gang environment.

3. We cannot always protect people from being stupid. The idea we can is a no win situation. All you can do is try.

America can handle a UBI but the two political parties cannot. To them it will be a means of control and a weapon. Unless #1 is solved, where the government buries people under fees, penalties, and taxes, UBI will only become a transfer of money from the right hand of government to the left hand.

UBI will require rewriting the whole structure of how the government collects money. UBI must include providing all services for individuals for free or heavily discounted.
You can't possibly be serious.

There is no hype for NoSQL or MongoDB on HN. In fact it is the complete opposite with every one trying to push SQL and PostgreSQL for every use case under the sun.
My opinion is that UBI would need to be established as a quasi-right at a minimum, similar to how we talk about Social Security (third rail of politics, etc).

It is much easier to get locked out of the market for jobs that pay a living wage than you realize. If you have a bad credit report or a criminal record, those un-centralized instances start to behave like a single point of failure. And you definitely don't have any recourse.
FWIW I think the argument isn't that the net change isn't beneficial for the poor, but that the tax is effectively regressive in proportion to income in that e.g. Jeff Bezos could fly a private jet to and from work every day and still pay less for carbon in proportion to his income than someone poor driving to and from work every day.

So while it is a tax that benefits the poor, the poor are also paying a higher portion of their income to support it while the Jeff Bezoses of the world remain largely unaffected, can use this disparity to further widen the wealth gap and—for any carbon tax rate that the poorest half of the population could at all afford—continue eating their beef and heating their houses for an infinitesimally small portion of their income.

Meanwhile, the Jeff Bezoses of the world probably have the best means available to lower their carbon emissions. Their wealth could be used to provide public transportation and green energy developments, so I believe that there are more efficient ways to reduce carbon emissions than consumption proportional carbon taxation. Progressively factor income and profit into it instead, and lower other income and profit based taxes to simultaneously reward successful businesses/people with small carbon footprints and make those that benefit the most from poor people driving to and from work pay for it.
I watched the recent antitrust congressional hearing involving Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple.
From it, it's clear that many small businesses have fallen prey to anti-competitive behavior at the hands of these corporations.
But the problem seems to be that these corporations are so large that they are not even capable to stop their own employees from engaging in these anti-competitive behaviors even if they had the will for it and even if they had policies in place to try to prevent it.
In other words, these companies are not able to regulate themselves.

We don't let people get away with transgressions, why do we allow corporations to get away with them?
If corporations are to be treated like persons under the law, they ought to be held to the same level of accountability as persons too.

If a person committed minor transgressions against millions of people, they would be held accountable. Why don't we do the same for corporations??

As it stands today, corporations have more rights than people. To change this, it's crucial that we put power back into the hands of people and the best way to do this is by giving people money.
> It still baffles me that none of them can do sideways scrolling correctly

Ironically the original version of Google Sheets could do sideways scrolling correctly. At some point (maybe around 2010?) to be more like Excel.
This is not a vue app is it? As far as I can see this classic JavaScript with jquery.
To send someone money I'd have to know their address (not viable). If they only accept money through GitHub sponsorship, then I'm prevented from donating in any other way.

Which option do we (content creators) endorse? We definitely need to transition to better funding model. Seeking out donations and sponsorships is frustrating and that time could be better spent. GitHub Sponsors managed to solve most problems on technical level, but I'd like to see other options.
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> From: "Madhavan T. Venkataraman" <madvenka@linux.microsoft.com>

https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/28/640
Community moderation has been a problem for a long time. There's a paper on Lucasarts "Habitat" MMO from the mid-80s! (can't find it at the moment). There's also JC Hertz's somewhat sensationalised anthropology of online culture from the 90s, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2284572.Surfing_on_the_I...

A number of experiments were made and abandoned; Slashdot's different types of up/down vote that users could weight themselves, Advogato's trust network, and so on.
Some years ago, HN had a reputation for loving everything Apple. That has clearly turned around.
What is the gross amount paid monthly in Germany? If spent entirely, what amount of that is VAT taxed back to the state?
As moderated online spaces continue to displace traditional media, forum moderation itself has a growing influence on modern democracy.
Because you need some autonomy to take more autonomy.
The comment isn't at -12, the poster's overall karma (visible on the user's profile) is.
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It's not enormously different from other programs like Social Security. No one I know of lives in fear of the Social Security Administration. Do they have some power and need to be watched? Sure, but it's not some distopian nightmare.
They don’t go to 90% because people will opt to buy or move.

Will the same happen when everyone makes x more? Only if house ownership costs remain flat. I don’t think that will happen - cost and demand.
It's a little complicated... Hawking radiation establishes the minimum size of stable black hole in our universe. If the temperature of the event horizon is higher than the temperature of the CMB, than a black hole will lose mass by Hawking radiation, which raises is temperature further and so on. Using a knowledge of expansion of the universe (and thus the cooling of the CMB) plus the basic math of hawking radiation, you can pretty easilly calculate the minimum size of a black hole that you should see.
Supply is not just limited, it is fixed. When you pay rent you are making two distinct payments wrapped up in one. First is for the actual accommodation/building/apartment and it’s maintenance. The second is for the mere footprint of the building. Sometimes these two payments actually go to two different people.

There is a problem with limited supply of units, yes, but in reality the majority of cost of living comes from the second type of payment: the fee for the ground rent. The ground is in fixed supply.

With perfect development policy, prices would still go up, ground rent would continue to be seized by people who had nothing to do with its generated value.

The schools, employers, and natural appeal of SF makes its ground rent high. Landlords did none of that.
> This gets less true every year.

Society must produce at least to feed itself, and people working is the way we produce. No country in the world has fully automated its food supply, no one is even trying! and the US has outsourced a lot of its food supply to third world countries. That is why you think people need to work less and less every year, because the US imports more and more every year. The minute the US stops working is the minute the rest of the world stops sending in food.
This is just the same old keynesian fallacy. You can only consume if you produce. If we produce nothing it doesn't matter how much money we have. There is nothing to consume.
Does this article answer your question, or would you want to know something more?
https://blog.typingdna.com/what-if-your-typing-pattern-chang...
> when he was correct.

How do you know he was correct?

This whole "cancel culture" thing is a 2020 thing, while HN has operated like this since when? 2005? HN has been "cancelling" comments since forever, and it's suddenly a problem? It's part of the rules of the game here :-) You play or you don't.
You are ignoring how those choices come about. It is a complex issue.

The relevant analogy is people telling those struggling with depression and anxiety to just stop being depressed and anxious. It doesn't work that way. There are other problems and barriers in the chemical imbalances in the brain that lead to these disorders. Yes, people with these conditions can have mindsets and make decisions, caused by both the disorders and potentially their natural psychology, that are not conducive to getting out or that got them in in the first place, but those are not the cause. The thinking and mindset is more of a multiplier or a catalyst to the underlying cause of chemical imbalances.

The same thing goes for those in poverty and in the lower class. Yes, mindset and decisions can lead to worse off poverty or a situation where you can't climb out of it. But those are not the primary causes in the general case. (Of course there are always exceptions and edge cases.) What are the causes? In my opinion, it's rampant consumerism (buyers don't just make the choices independent of other influences, they are heavily influenced and emotionally hacked to make the choices they do), a poor educational system, a poor support structure such as the problems with health insurance, racism and many other -isms, general socioeconomic inequalities and segregation, monopolies, capitalism, the credit system, city infrastructure and the requirement to own cars, the movement of jobs into cities, etc. And all of these have secondary effects that all feed into each other. It isn't clear how UBI solves these and doesn't just shift things around. I get the idea of UBI, but it seems to place all the blame on poor people.

So like I said, the situation is complex and can't be summarized by "poor people are poor because of their mindset and lifestyle choices".
> In other countries without this, such as Germany, you can find older people still having to work well into their 70s to get by.

If they weren't getting any pension (aka not having worked their entire life), they'd get welfare, which is about 1000€/month. They'd only have to work if they wanted e.g. a larger flat, or more luxuries. I assume the same is true in the Netherlands: if you get AOW and you want two cars, they don't double your pension but you're free to work and earn money to afford those cars.

The trouble of course is in expanding those programs unconditionally to everyone. If you can get by well enough with 1200€ in the Netherlands, why would a 20yo not opt to live off of the expanded AOW instead of working?
This architecture (i.e. application and databases hosted by different companies) is quite common in cloud-based setups where, for example one uses AWS RDS for databases and Heroku for running the code. However,

However the main issue here is not the "ownership" (i.e. company A vs B) but the network access (i.e. network of company A vs B) and liabilities (who has to manage what).

In the previous example, although the DB runs directly on-top of AWS (company A), and the code runs on-top of Heroku (company B) which in turn runs on-top of AWS (again company A), most likely all these VM / servers are in the same data-center, and any queries don't pass through the internet.

So in the end, if you do want to implement that setup, you have to be extremely careful to the network level, and perhaps employ VPN's and firewalls.
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I think the world is/will be automated enough so everyone has their most basic needs met. So if a company makes robots that make robots to do the work, that company will not be making trillions, due to high enough taxes to support everyone.

The time will come so even Google-like companies will be taxed to the wazoo
Yeah, I've only had it remove the actual files once, when I had to use the recovery USB thing to fix a broken update. Unfortunately, my motherboard is from the very early days of UEFI and doesn't allow me to select files or even manage keys so I have to keep a microSD card with a bunch of bootloaders handy in case this happens (I still haven't gotten around to learning UEFI shell in order to manually boot).
I consider the things you mentioned basics, but YMMV. I reckon that the majority of people would like to have more in their life than that, and would be willing to work to that effect, at least I would be.
This is an awesome post! I'll be rereading this a couple of times ;-)

> Several ways of connecting to an RDF triplestore

There is another way to connect to an RDF triple store [1]. It's done by a company called Triply.

Triply made a product that is basically a GUI that allows you to host RDF data and use SPARQL to query it. You can also query other public datasets [2]. Currently, it's a B2B offering only, but there is a consumer version in the works. I wouldn't know when it comes out.

For now, you can try out the SPARQL querying feature on public datasets [2].

Disclaimer: I work there recently, this post is my own opinion, not of Triply.

[1] That uses Virtuoso or Jena under the hood.

[2] This example uses DBPedia: https://triplydb.com/wikimedia/dbpedia/sparql/dbpedia
Yes, in the same way that saying wealthy people are wealthy because of their mindset and lifestyle choices is mistaken.
The point is a serious one and really shouldn't be downvoted.
On balance, I disagree, but social bubbles are a systemic risk in our online communities, and the way downvote buttons are often used can promote a groupthink tendency,
Who are these people with no access to IPv4?
definition of overreacting
I started using Nano because of the Digital Ocean blogs. I still use it 4 years later, everywhere from side projects to firefighting in production. It's so simple and easy to use and I'm looking forward to 5.0 changes!
oh I bet the WTO would love that, unilateral levies from the country of destination based on capricious bureaucracy
I thought the main objection to UBI is that everybody will stop working and the system will collapse. You seem to have just confirmed that point.
Restrictive planning is one, but another reason you’d not build is speculation. LVT eliminates speculation.
> Alan Kay put it "Programming is a Pop Culture".

Do you have a reference for the original of this? I can find people quoting him on it but not the original. I'm also wondering: compared to what? What would it mean for programming not to be a pop culture?
It's often mentioned that open source has '1000 eyes' to correct and improve things.

The web has many more than that, I'm sure he can be forgiven for not anticipating every scrutiny about URIs/HTTP/HTML.

Seems like a small nitpick, sites that don't optimise their images or compress text content over the wire puts the space savings from no // into the shade
Nice version 2.0 soon (tm). It should have been fixed with universal basic income long ago.
I see a critical difference: social security is not paid to a majority of eligible voters and the funding is being taken from a majority of workers. That combination provides critical controls against the benefit levels rising (or being promised to rise) without check.

The AARP is a wildly powerful lobby, well out of proportion to the number of their members. People don’t live in fear of the AARP, I agree, but you might ask where does that power originate?
I'm cognizant that I'm replying to someone named CaptArmchair. Based on your handle, I say: well-named.

Look, I'm sure you remember the heartbleed scenario a few years back... the moment when we all realized that the human behind one of the most critical pieces of our infrastructure stack was a slave to his sense of responsibility, but he lacked charisma and hustle and social presence such that he wasn't able to keep it together. His mental and emotional health were sorely suffering. Once people realized what was happening, the plate got passed around and from what I understand, things are a lot better now, for that one guy on that one project. Maybe it's wrong to over-focus on one guy, but his example is top of mind as I say the following:

You could not write the above if you weren't in a position of being privileged to do so. You can wax poetic about how writing free software is an expression of the divine all you want, but meanwhile the entire world is reconfiguring itself around software and a lot of those folks are going to need a source of income even if you're already doing well enough that you don't care to push the issue.

Essentially: you are not factoring in the way the world is changing. Most people building software and publishing it on Github, by numbers, are people who are using their Github profile as a resume. It's not been about RMS and ESR for a long time.

It's cool if you don't need to pay the bills, but don't demonize people who are hoping all of this energy invested in learning to code need to eat.
I had the same thought as you and started working on something that can be described as "AirTable meets Webflow". It's basically a no-code database with drag-and-drop page builder: tables are created and linked together (like in AirTable) and interactive pages are designed to work with that data (like in WebFlow). So in other words users don't directly use a spreadsheet-like UI to work with the data. Instead they use custom-designed pages - it is both much more powerful (e.g. fully scriptable, multiple pages can be linked to form more complex workflows, which wouldn't be even possible with spreadsheets) and yet easier to use. Oh, and it's self-hosted. Judging by the response from users it does seem like something like this is really needed.

I put some pretty crude demos online about a year ago [0] ... back then the idea was to create a more general purpose no-code web app builder, but since then I decided to focus specifically on database applications.

[0] https://www.formbeaver.com
Being the target of racism sure as hell will impact demographics when the population in a group is voluntary.

How many african-americans join the KKK?
Ubuntu ships with nano by default? And every district Ubuntu I’ve used is defaulted to nano?
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At first I scoffed at your question as typical nay-saying, but the rough math puts the price tag at $6T ($30k/y * 210mm adults). Where would we come up with the money to do this? Well, just getting rid of all government services both Federally and State would only generate $4T (can't get rid of defence, so this is a non-starter)

How about getting rid of all taxes and just taxing transactions--like VAT, but more, so anytime money changes hands? 2019 was $21T, if you put a transaction tax of 30% in place, you would cover the cost of UBI.

I am normally against flat taxes because they hurt poor people, but if you're giving them UBI would this the negative impact of a non-progressive tax? You'd simplify so much but getting rid of most accountants and the IRS, drop in the bucket but nice to see. They would certainly kick and scream. You'd also collapse real estate prices because cities would lose their need, but would kickstart rural economies like woah. This would help alleviate the rural/urban friction we're currently seeing.

I'm just arm chairing, I have zero background in economics.
Attempts at micromanaging welfare aren't a problem exclusive to the US. And they always end bad. Receiving a minimal sum to not starve or be forced to beg or steal shouldn't be more complicated than taxing a bigger income, it should be less complicated.
It goes up by how much? Why? Doesn’t seem simple to me, but I prefer sound theory to just so stories.
Thank you for the thoughtful response that was partially responsive to my question “are some percentage of the poor that way as an avoidable result of their choices?”

I’m not saying all or even a majority, but I believe it’s a substantial subset and understanding the likely effects of UBI on a substantial subset of the targeted population seems wise.
It's not obvious that UBI would increase the amount that landlords can get.

If people are less beholden to their current situation and more able to move freely, isn't it just as likely that rents will go down?

(Aside from the fact that plenty of places use mechanisms to control rents, if this is a real problem)
It is basically CYA.

If the employee should later indeed be found to have taken IP or other assets during their last weeks at work, it would reflect poorly on whomever decided they should work during the resignation period.

Hence, you let them go immediately, so you can shrug and say 'well, we did what we could' in case of problems down the road.
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