skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how you think producing less food will get more of it on peoples tables.

You can argue that overproduction has other problems, certainly the environmental issues are valid, but it is undeniable that producing excessive quantities of food reduces the price.

As for why we would produce more than we need, we like options. Maybe I want a salad tonight, maybe a steak, maybe a sandwich. In buying excess, I have all options open to me and I'll simply throw out whatever I don't choose. If that wasted food could magically teleport into the hands of a starving person, then it would be stupid to let it go to waste. But in reality, if I don't buy it then it will just get thrown out by the grocery store, and if they don't buy it then it won't be grown. Yes it costs resources to grow and transport this excess food, but that's what I'm paying for when I buy it. If the farmer isn't using the money I'm ultimately paying him to replenish the local aquifer, it doesn't matter whether the food he produces gets eaten or buried or turned into weird sex toys.

As for food insecurity being high in developed nations, when you look at how people actually live and how food insecurity is defined, it makes perfect sense. To not be food insecure, you need to buy (not be given) nutritious, high quality (ie more expensive) food. You can survive, however, without paying for nutritious high quality food. A 30 dollar bag of rice will feed an adult for a month; it might not be pleasant but it will suffice. A regular, food secure diet might cost 10 times that much. It's a luxury most of us can afford, but it's still a luxury. Now consider the costs most people have: rent, transportation, healthcare, food. If you have an unexpected expense, you can't pay less rent, or pay less transportation, or stop taking your necessary medication. On the other hand you have a lot of control over the amount you spend on food. If you need 200 extra bucks, eating peanut butter sandwiches for a few days doesn't seem that bad. Most people aren't food insecure for long periods of time, but briefly tighten their belts (literally) during rough patches. If you want people to not be food insecure, you need to solve the problem of them needing more money to get by, which means either getting them more excess income (getting them out of poverty) or reducing unexpected expenses (more social welfare). But unless you make high quality, nutritious food as cheap as low quality food, there will always be some people who forego the luxury.

Hunger is a real issue, overproduction might be an issue, but solving one has no effect on the other.
I was afraid of that myself -working somewhere in a middle-ground country. That my job would soon be offshored to a cheaper country in a race-to-bottom way. But then I started looking for a remote job and I was either ignored or turned down for people that were:
1. native speakers
2. remote but within reach
3. strong OS committers
etc

I don't think that companies can offshore anything but the trivial tasks which you wouldn't want to do anyway. They're definitely after it and would love to but in my experience I don't see it happening. On the other hand you find yourself competing with very high quality devs from all English-speaking countries in the world.

Dunno. I guess we'll see how it plays out. Either way COVID seems to be driving things now and for foreseable future. Not much you can do.
> Congress has approved trillions of dollars in stimulus to help U.S. households and businesses get through the pandemic, and another package is now being negotiated on Capitol Hill. One key component—an extra $600 in weekly jobless benefits—is due to expire at the end of July, but lawmakers are still discussing whether and how to extend the aid.

This is the part that isn't getting enough attention. That "stimulus" came in the form of treasury bonds. Those bonds need to be bought by... someone.

Foreign central banks stopped net buying US treasuries a few years ago. At the same time, gold holdings by central banks have climbed. The world outside the US is thumbing its nose at US federal debt as a reserve asset.

Without deep-pocket buyers, the interest rate on US debt will rise, and continue rising until a suitably-high interest rate can be found to justify the risk of loss.

So the Fed has stepped into the void and bought the treasuries in unprecedented quantities:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

It turns out even this isn't enough to soak up all the debt being issued. Regulations have been relaxed so that banks can claim treasury holdings as reserves. The Fed has deputized banks as holders of US debt.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcre...

This sets up a situation in which US treasury yields simply can't be allowed to spike because if that happened:

1. banks would suffer capital losses

2. the US government would become unable to sustain interest payments on new debt. That means forced cuts to entitlements and even the military.

Clearly, this would spell disaster. So it's not going to happen. The Fed will keep buying and buying and buying. If need be, regulations will be changed to allow the Fed to buy things it has never been able to buy before. Like US stocks.

The party can never, ever end. The balance sheet expansion will continue until some factor emerges that causes more pain as the balance sheet expands. I'm not sure what that factor could be, but it would come as a very big shock.

For clues regarding the limit of Fed money printing, look to the enormous asset bubble that's developing in US stocks. The more the balance sheet expands, the bigger this bubble gets. And for the foreseeable future, the Fed can't stop printing.

What breaks first?
You will always find someone somewhere picking up a language / framework and thinking it's production ready, from my experience Crystal is not ready and in the example you gave there is absolutly no reason to no use Rust. They needed C binding, and the fact that they started using Crystal years ago when the state was even worse is very worrisom.
Demand is a no one-dimensional entity though unlike what you'll see in a macroeconomics report. The demand for smartphones in 1900 was precisely 0, for example. What happens is that our consumption will spread out and decrease in other areas, which puts some pressure on those industries to compete. Americans spend less and less on food now both because other things take up more of the monthly budget as well as cheap food options being available. Yet Belgians spend many times more / month on food and less on rent compared to Americans. Consumption also is dampened by taxation (pretty consistent in MMT and is probably closer to how things work under a reserve currency country).
I'm bothered by the UI design of this webpage.
Now we wait for all the justifications.
I really enjoy HN but there is a large number of politically indignant ready to punish who they disagree with rather than allow debate.
The author seems to assume that people make the most efficient decisions under capitalism, and idea that is provably false. There is simply too much information for a consumer to make the "right" purchase in markets where capitalism has failed, e.g. healthcare.
Do you not see that the very thing that made GH a social hub for something that was previously totally disconnected is exactly what is required to push something like this anywhere close to a critical mass?

What other service is going to provide a consistent, trusted interface with payment details already stored that is so close to the projects that you're using?

Maybe the npm registry... oh wait. :P

Seriously, if what you want was going to happen, it would have happened by now. There isn't another force on the planet today that could make even a small dent.
No. Goes to show how misleading the headline is (particularly the HN headline - was there no space for the important clarification "annual rate"?)

@Dang? add "annualised" or "annual rate"?
What was the political claim?
What happens when everyone’s work environment is the same across a given company? Doesn’t this level the playing field? Evergreen communication seems to specifically serve the goal of reducing or even eliminating the need to be “close to the flagpole”, as you called it.
Exactly... it makes no sense to report an annualized number on this case.
https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

SC-IM - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal
Maybe, just maybe, could it be because of his tone which masked the point he was trying to get across?
Amazing launch, congratz to Pavel and the team!

I really like that it's extensible, has a battery and contains so much features for a compact device. Great multi-tool for me as a maker / hardware/software developer.
>seem like incredibly mundane examples.

They are. The contrived part is your characterization of succeeding in Flint vs New York.

>So the food truck would fail not because it is in a community mired in poverty, but because it didn't make good business choices ...

Which is the case today!! There are businesses succeeding in low income communities. There is no level of income low enough that a market cannot operate in. UBI does not improve that. What business needs is a stable climate and business friendly policies. If a low-income community has issues with crime (or war, or civil strife) or the government is hostile to private business, that's a bigger factor than the fact it is a low-income community.

>The core of your thesis seems to be that if given the freedom, people would turn naturally to behavior that destroys themselves and others

Not 'freedom'. If the people's ability to work and provide themselves is taken away, then yes, it will lead to major societal issues. UBI does not solve that. There is something that changes when you go from providing for yourself, to have some other entity provide for you.
Prudent point. I'm sure my personal experience isn't an isolated case—I've had many opportunities to move to SV, LA, or Seattle areas for positions that paid 2-4x what I make where I am now but it would mean leaving everyone I know and love far behind, including my partner who has their own career.

So, even beyond being fortunate is the weight of what matters to oneself more.
All the flare ups across all of Europe across all of the pandemic so far hardly match a day of new cases in America.
"It depends" isn't a cop-out when it's true. Some situations benefit a lot from remote work. There's a reason why a lot of startups were going remote work first before COVID was even a thing.

The issue is that IT is one of the few fields where a large portion of the work can be remotely created and evaluated, and a large percentage of the people on HN/Twitter/Tech Blogs happen to work in or around this industry. Programming, at least, is like writing with much better pay.

You can't remote work restaurants. Or any job where you have be somewhere to do something, or where interpersonal relationships are a key success factor. Remote work is even a challenge in IT, where it's theoretically easier to evaluate and promote talent and where there are proven ways to properly implement telecommuting.
People already get preyed on every second of every day.
I don't think there would be the surge of losses you imagine.
You can asked for refund via Apple Support. I've done this several times. The refund have to go through payment gateway in any case, but when a refund request comes from payment gateway (or notified by, in the TOS' wording), it is a chargeback and there's a fee associated with it.

From the customer side of things, calling their credit card company to have a refund and calling the merchant to have a refund may have the same result, however in the merchant side of things they are completely different with the former result in a penalty for the merchant (chargeback ratio).
Donald Trump calls for delay to 2020 US election
Rather sadly the Premier League now has a mandated standard pitch size, and there are only a few outliers remaining (basically older stadia where the architecture precludes conformance). So any new stadium has to conform to the standard dimensions, e.g. the new White Hart Lane (whereas the old White Hart Lane had a smallish pitch, which was often touted as conveying some advantage to Tottenham, especially most recently when playing an energetic pressing style under Pochettino)
> “Journalists seem to feel that they always have to include opposing voices when they report on climate change,” Wetts said. “But sometimes they give those opposing voices so much weight, they lead readers to believe that climate denial is more than a fringe stance.”

Interesting. I agree that false equivalency should be avoided. But in all honesty, humans love novelty, so disproportionately covering things like this makes sense, even if wrong
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UBI is given in replacement for government services.
No it didn’t. Here’s NYT’s headline:

U.S. economic output fell 9.5 percent in the second quarter, the biggest drop on record. That translates to a 32.9 percent annual rate of decline.
Most offices are filled with people who will do nothing for your career.

Sure, when you work with good people, youre right. But these aren't the majority.

I'd guess, that the best what can happen to the average employee is more time for their loved ones and less time with at best boring and worst toxic people.
Not bad, the market was pricing in expectations of a 34.7% contraction.
Time, perhaps? You can find a handful of customers to "validate" a product relatively easily (at least enough to justify it in an early Powerpoint deck.) This doesn't mean there's enough customer demand for a real business.
Outrun SDK – C/C++ SDK for the Outrun arcade machine
On the anecdotal other hand, I've moved eighteen times in my life. Some of us not only don't mind, but given the opportunity, enjoy new places and new situations.
Thanks, didn't know that - they often respond so promptly that I actually thought the invocation of the name or "mods" triggered some sort of notification..
Show HN: Arkade (0.5.1) – one-stop CLI for Kubernetes
Depends on how many points. It should scale with the amount of points the user has. A percentage based scheme seems fine to me. 0.1% your points for every downvote.
There's no (edit to add: good} evidence for that.
the US is very large and very mobile. Everyone staying inside devastates pretty much everything. Only a tiny sliver of jobs are wfh possible.
So what is each person's UBI amount?

I see people here saying $1k or even $2k a month. How should you calculate that amount and why? Will it be adjusted year to year? How so?

One practical problem right _now_, some conservatives are going bonkers that we're basically paying some part of workforce to NOT work as they're making more now not working. Pretty sure you're not going to convince them to vote for UBI.
You also test a lot more and your death rate is below most of Europe and especially the UK. Much of the media likes to suggest the opposite though - go figure?
The only way to find out is to try
> And yet the company was sold at 1 Billion USD, which seemed like short change.

That was 2009 though, was 1B USD small compared to the average corporate acquisitions at the time?

Instagram was also sold for 1B if I recall correctly.
Here's a pretty good explanation of how the figures are reported (and why it can be misleading): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/business/economy/us-gdp-r....
It is 6am pt..
If only there were a region of the world with experience suppressing pandemics while maintaining economic continuity.

Perhaps somewhere we could take lessons from with regards to public health policy.

Unfortunately, no country had ever dealt with anything like this. /s
> The associated DM halo however extends to the stripping radius ∼8AU, this would imply a DM halo which extends roughly the distance from Earth to Saturn (both in real life and relative to the image).

Well, how can the article authors know we're reading this on Earth and not some other planet?
Another way I just came up with to describe is like you are in a subway and you have to get somewhere, but you need to switch multiple trains in a complex maze of trains that expand your entire city. You're trying to catch the right train and worried you may take the wrong train or direction and end up at the wrong place, it's stressful experience but then you realize hey no matter what train you take all trains stop here eventually more or less in the same amount of time and suddenly you feel you don't have to worry about if you are going in the right direction, now you can chill and enjoy the ride instead of worrying if you're going in the right direction; or worry about doing things perfectly.
US drop was also in that range, around 9.5%. (The crucial "annual rate" is missing in the headline.)
You're probably comparing Q2 numbers of 6-13% to the annualized rate from the headline (which is based on a 9.5% contraction in Q2)?
From the page:

Flipper was inspired by the pwnagotchi project. However, unlike all the other DIY boards for hackers, it's designed with the convenience of everyday usage in mind. Flipper has a robust case, handy buttons and shape, and none of these dirty PCBs and scratchy pins.
Which are the best site to buy handmade gifts?
UBI would force them to move away from cities. UBI would inflate housing costs, but more in urban areas and much less in suburban and rural areas. This would allow us to use land more efficiently. Right now poor people have to crowd into cities in hopes of work. It should not be "cost of living" adjusted. We want it to cause a massive re-organization of our society.
Wouldn't a HVDC cable be much more efficient? The distance isn't that big, definitely shorter than Australia to Singapore.
This is an interesting argument. I would like to see this broken down from a economic perspective.

My concerns:

1. Inflation - A UBI would touch into an increased money supply and higher wages which I think could push us towards demand-pull inflation. Possibly completely negating or at least partially negating the money earned through the program.

2. Funds - How would a successful UBI be funded? Would taxes increase? Maybe we just tax captial markets and use those funds? Could this somehow be a new role of the fed?

3. Social Programs - Currently, there are many unemployed making more then those working part-time and at minimum wage full time work. (This having to do specifically with the COVID relief added on top of original amount for unemployment). How would this effect incentive to work? Could it potentially impact GDP growth? (and by no means am I arguing that this is the only metric that matters. I am interested in the long term effects this could have. Obviously, "What are the long term affects of not having a home, to be able to afford education and food?" is the relevant counter question.)
I despise vim, not sure how they thought that such a design was reasonable for an editor (e.g. the fact that typing doesn't insert text at the cursor position unless you press Insert first).

Nano, on the other hand, works properly as an editor.
GDP is a flow statistic, though we often discuss it as a stock. (Cash in the bank is a stock statistic. Cash inflows is a flow. Amount of stuff versus delta.)

It's difficult to compare this quarter to those in 1918, given the dramatic differences in the composition of the economies and statistical methods. But a ~10% reduction in flows doesn't strike me as that bad to the country's long-term potential.

The assets are mostly still there. And nobody is forgetting how to do their job in 3 to 6 months, though productivity in some sectors will take a hit from the changes.
It's not that difficult to do in Scala, which is probably the language that comes most close to a mainstream language that has a typesystem powerful enough to express this.

There are better languages for expressing this more natural (such as Idris) but in the end, the fallacy seems to lie in your claim that this would be "safe and easy to do with dynamic typing". That's what you think until you find out that your solution works in 99% of the cases, except in some special cases, because the compiler didn't have your back.

Examples are the standard sort functions in Java and python, which were bugged for a very long time.

Btw, here is the executable code in Scala: https://scalafiddle.io/sf/UrDu12b/1

Posting it for reference in case Scalafiddle is down:

import shapeless._, ops.function._

def multiMap[InputTypes <: HList, MapF, HListF, MapResult] (inputs: List[InputTypes])(mapF: MapF)
(implicit fn: FnToProduct.Aux[MapF, InputTypes => MapResult]) = inputs.map(fn(mapF))

val testList2Elems = List(
3 :: "hi" :: HNil,
5 :: "yes" :: HNil
)

multiMap(testList2Elems){ (num: Int, str: String) =>
s"$num times $str is ${List.fill(num)(str).mkString}"
}.foreach(println)

val testList3Elems = List(
3 :: "hi" :: 3 :: HNil,
5 :: "yes" :: 2 :: HNil,
2 :: "easy" :: 1 :: HNil
)

multiMap(testList3Elems){ (num: Int, str: String, mult: Int) =>
s"$num * $mult times $str is ${List.fill(num*mult)(str).mkString}"
}.foreach(println)

// As expected, the compiler has our back and the following does not compile

val testListWrongElems = List(
3 :: "hi" :: HNil,
5 :: "yes" :: "ups?" :: HNil
)

/*
* Whoops, does not compile, list shape not good for multiMap :)
*
multiMap(testListWrongElems){ (num: Int, str: String) =>
s"$num times $str is ${List.fill(num)(str).mkString}"
}.foreach(println)
*/

/*
* Whoops, does not compile, 2-sequences vs 3 argument function :)
*
multiMap(testList2Elems){ (num: Int, str: String, mult: Int) =>
s"$num * $mult times $str is ${List.fill(num*mult)(str).mkString}"
}.foreach(println)
*/
When I was in high school and used my first Linux machine (a Raspberry Pi), Nano was always the recommended editor when I had to edit config files while not knowing what I was actually doing. Nano is great for those use cases for sure.

But as I've spent more and more time with Unix systems, Vim was become by go to choice. The customizability and power of Vim is great, but there is a steep learning curve if you've never used a Unix machine before and you're just trying to get WiFi working.

With that said, use what you like, all text editors do the same job in the end: edit text.
I was sold on:

> Flipper is made by makers who got tired of all these rough PCBs and bulky external modules.
Not OP here, but my issue with the recommendations are that they've pretty accurately listed a whole bunch of mostly structural problems with academia, but all of the suggestions boil down to "we all just need to try harder". You can say something like: "journals need to demand higher standards" but what incentive do they actually have to do so? Then you can counter with "scientists could vote with their feet", but what incentives do they have to do that?? You're asking people to consider seriously damaging their career for some nebulous quality metric.

Frankly, having worked in academia long enough to see at least a couple shifts in culture, the only thing I can see that comes out of this is a couple more things get added on to the ever growing checklist of publishing a paper/submitting a grant application.

I think we need to get away from the sort of thinking where large structural problems can be solved by tiny incremental improvements. If you really want to solve the problem, one or more of [Granting Agencies|Journals|Universities] has to be completely torn down and built back up.
I could imagine that Microsoft has dealt with similar issues, which would give the proposal extra credibility to me.

But the article is lazy and doesn't mention why it's important, so we're all going to infer something different about it.
I guess that [0] would emphasize unsupervised models?

[0] https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/2005/01/20/study-guide...
It has a cheat sheet at the bottom, including how to exit, though? Like maybe there’s some way to disable it with a switch but I’ve never seen nano without it.