skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A comment goes near-invisible at -3 or -4, so most individuals won't read it or downvote further.

A motivated brigade can still keep downvoting, e.g. more than 20 downvotes on a single comment.

Brigade downvoting could incentivize future self-censorship. But it's also a strong signal for the Streisand effect, which can be surfaced by a bot and reposted elsewhere.
I've used it as my terminal editor for a few years and it's been good for me.
I understand the sentiment, but some of your points are simply not true. Ctrl+C works fine last time I tested GDocs (inc sheets). It also have offline support, and supports right clicking? Input lag is very dependant on the actual application and how it's made AFAIK, albeit it might be more difficult to do it right using web tech. That leaves two arguments (basically privacy arguments). That is not it related to web tech. For example, Adobe CC more or less requires the same login and authentication requirements as other web applications. Some web applications does not require login (pixlr for example). Many desktop applications phone home as well and gather even more information about you and your computer.

Web tech is not the problem in itself - it's how it's used and deployed that can be a problem (like the ads/data "freemium" business model some use BFF which a _few_ users dislike).

I thought we were better than arguing with false arguments and pointing fingers at the wrong problem - well, I guess "hoped" (in a naive sense) is actually more accurate...
https://www.plivo.com/
Universal Basic Income is never going to work, we all live in a universe where everyone wants to build or create something. The average person isn't going to build or create a damn thing, they aren't going to do anything productive for society they are going to tear the whole country down or sit on their asses watching Netflix all day long. Every time I see someone mentioning universal basic income I start to wonder how much contact they've had with the outside world.
ongoing comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23981563
Thanks for sharing @jamalx31. Something like this has been on my open source todo list for a while. Great work - looks sharp.

Bonus points for the easy heroku deployment.

Curious - any reason behind using mongo vs a relational db? Was that more aligned with the apollo stack (I haven't kept up with it)?
So you think it might be a resource thing? If they had more time/money/runway they would possibly do a better job?

Agreed that it's easy to think you've validated by getting a handful of people to nod enthusiastically at a Powerpoint!
That hasn't been a huge problem as minimum wages have been raised.

In theory, yeah, sure, that is the textbook phrasing.

But the lowest tier jobs that are going to be affected is this scenario aren;t remotely close to the largest percentage of total wages, so I can't see any huge shift being induced.

UBI affects the cashflow of those making more than just subsistence money less and less, and I think that diminishing percentage is an aspect of this that gets lost in the battle of philosphicals.
The problem is exactly that I don't know what I mean. That's why I think yet another Excel clone - whether it's free or works on the web or not - is not interesting.

Your talk was interesting, thanks.
I never stopped. The whole idea had a couple smells to it:

* Maybe increases sodium intake is linked to poor health outcomes because highly processed foods are linked to poor health outcomes. We know that sodium content increases significantly during food processing and that most highly processed foods are really unhealthy.

* Maybe people in early stages of renal failure are more likely to progress to a noticeable state if they consume lots of salt. Then it would stand to reason that people with healthy kidneys have nothing to worry about.
Are you surprised? The HN crowd instinctively upvotes any headline that makes big tech look bad and is always quick to jump on the bandwagons in the comment thread without hesitation. We're no better than reddit.
It's awesome, but I'd also call it a reality check if you believe that the future of space exploration is unmanned. Curiosity landed landed 8 years ago and has covered the equivalent of a day's hike (23km) for a human. It's got to stop and drill, take photos, etc, but it still probably represents only several days worth of tasks for a human.

Perseverance has better instruments, but is the same platform and weight because there's no rockets capable of putting anything larger on Mars. It's also not going to be doing anything faster than Curiosity did. The rate of improvement of these robots is really slow.

I'm really hoping the next generation of reusable/refillable rockets changes things.
That looks really interesting. I hadn't run across it yet. Thanks.
>"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

And yet most people accept climate change as fact, even though the claim itself is so extraordinary that we as a species are not capable of producing enough evidence for it.

You can't predict accurately within 1 degree celcius the temperature 7 days from now, but you want me to believe you when you try to do it for 50 years from now.
If budget was not an issue is there a reason that we don't launch multiple rovers during the mars window?

Would one rover team be able to manage multiple rovers?
Would the initial 1000$ UBI be paid by the state or by the employer? Assuming that the employee is above threshold.

What about the person currently working part-time for $500? It seems like it wouldn't make any material change for them as it would be swallowed by UBI.
Austria already has unlimited unemployment insurance, and is rated as one of the happiest countries. Why is UBI any better?
nah what would happen is payday lending style companies would give a one time cash payout in return for permanent collection of the UBI income stream.

the real problem is that 50% of the population has a below average IQ. No matter what you do 15% will end up in financial trouble
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Free basic food + government housing + free schooling should be better.

And more importantly how do you promote equal opportunity to the kids? Still have to make sure that somehow kids from poor cities/districts get proper education.
This seems like a genuinely bad idea. We've got no laws and no process for doing this. It would be chaos.
Please don't be fake. Please don't be fake.

Deciding between 1, 2, or 3... Really it depends if I can use these with the new garage door openers made in the past 5 years.
What is it about Haskell that makes it a hot candidate for use in cryptocurrency applications? Can someone here shed some light? Read the article but it mostly seems to be a diatribe against crypto on philosophical grounds. I wish it were meatier on the technical reasons for this alleged relationship between Haskell and crypto industry.
The meta-problem is that early identification only matters if we have an effective therapy which can seriously slow or halt disease progression.

we do not.
Individual shopping data from the consumer to the retailer. That should be PII and treated like any other sensitive data.

Aggregate data on what consumers bought from the retailer. This is the retailer's data.

Individual sales data from sellers of the retailer's platform. This should be PII and treated like any other sensitive data.

Aggregate data on what consumers bought from all sellers on the retailer's platform. This is the retailer's data.

Individual data on consumer actions on the retailer's platform prior to purchasing an item. This can / should be PII. This includes search history, shopping cart, listings visited, etc.

Aggregate data on consumer actions on the retailer's platform prior to purchasing an item. This is the retailer's data.

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My position is it's unreasonable to ask retailers to limit their use of aggregated, anonymized data. And unless you limit that use, it doesn't materially change the current situation. The major difference between Walmart, Costco and Amazon is Amazon has a lot more aggregate data.
It's easier for poor people to move than rich, because when you have nothing, all you need to do is buy a bus ticket.

Poor people don't have functional families or communities of support in a lot of cases, that's why they're poor.
To someone not familiar with Haskell funding, can anybody explain the quote below?

"For a while it has been a public secret the Haskell ecosystem has become increasingly entangled with an unsavoury variety in the cryptocurrency sector as one of primary mechanisms for funding development."

I mean, what exactly is this "unsavoury variety in the cryptocurrency sector" and how is Haskell tied to it?
Weird. I tried searching ginger and had no problem finding recipes that included it as an ingredient.
Not to mention that Chromium is massive and complex and unwanted parts of the code have been found and removed long after they were added https://archive.is/4VijY.
We use it to organize data within our Hackerspace and love it. It's both hacker-friendly and usable for the regular users and has a couple nice features, e.g. presentation mode. The only two issues I can think of are:

1. It's easy to get lost in the index view if you have a lot of notes,

2. It crashed once when we shared a lot of images.

Anyway, overall it's an amazing tool!
Managing Non-Feature Work: Part 3–Suggested Approach
Microsoft actually helped me put Krita in the Windows Store. The revenue from that meant that I not only didn't have to find another day job, but that I could hire two other people to work on Krita. Of course, we're cheapskates, and we don't give ourselves a lot of money, but it's still very nice not to have to work on very security-sensitive C++ code in a place an hour by train from where I live for 45k euros a year without pension plan, health insurance or travel reimbursement.
An Open Version of WordNet
Wordnet is like a dictionary in that it contains definitions and synonyms of words. It goes beyond a dictionary in that it also records relationships like hypernym (broader) and hyponym (narrower), which can be useful for "understanding" (what ever that means) text. It is a graph, that connects different senses (called synsets), and also senses to words. It used to be released under some close license and poorly maintained, now there's a fork of it on github to which all can contribute.
Really excited about this one. It’s a sample cacher, so is the beginning of the sample return effort. It also has an in situ resource utilization demonstration involving capturing CO2 from the Martian atmosphere and splitting it into oxygen (and carbon monoxide fuel) using a solid oxide electrolysis cell. That kind of tech is critical for human missions.

And, of course, the helicopter!
I agree with all of that, except for making it a reasonable rate. Go up to the edge of reasonable, then bump it up by $15/h.
Nearly one in three children have dangerous amounts of lead in bloodstream
This doesn't fix the problem. If it's a newbie, they should be given Nano. They probably just want to get the job done, whatever it may be. It shouldn't be assumed that now is the time for them to learn Vim (which is no small thing). Neither should it be assumed that quitting Vim solves the problem. They might not know how to reconfigure the default editor that some other program is using, for instance.
This thing is basically JC Denton's multikey mixed with his electric multitool thing.

Yes, I am channelling my inner Sheldon Cooper for needless pop culture references but this device is totally sweet and a perfect tool to assert dominance over you co-workers as "king nerd".

I really like it's Y2k aesthetic and this thing is totally feature packed! You've got yourself a backer @zhovner!
Well I think this will be my first kickstarter participation. The novelty of changing channels on a public set is alone worth the price for entry.
I always read manuals and they are pretty often crap.
A coronavirus vaccine could split America
I carefully worded what I said above precisely because I knew this irritatingly misleading statistic would pop up. It always does.

54% of Americans owning at least one share isn't especially meaningful. Giving the stock market a boost doesn't help people with one share. It helps people who have the majority of their net worth tied up in it. Those people are deliberately left out of that statistic.

A stock market crash doesn't affect the median citizen the worst. The median citizen has more % of their wealth in housing than the stock market (what they do have, which isn't an awful lot) .

In percentage terms its the ultra wealthy who get fucked. And it's them who got bailed out. And it's them who love that 54% statistic.

Moreover the stock market is inversely correlated with wages as a % of GDP (money that doesn't go into wages goes into profits, which pushes up stock prices) . If wages go up and the stock market goes down that DEFINITELY helps the median citizen.
It's amazing that the MLB has the smallest home field advantage, despite the fact that baseball fields are actually pretty different from each other.

I would've thought stuff like being used to the visual backdrop behind a pitcher's arm would let you see a pitch better or knowing where to stand to best play a ball caroming off the outfield wall would give more of an advantage.
MIT algorithm finds subtle connections between art pieces
Sound great, from a utilitarian pov.
Physical exercise as a tool to help the immune system against Covid-19
It matters for digging into that, doesn't it?
Does anyone ever answer this question truthfully? I generally assume not. The only way to verify this is through a back channel (AIUI corps generally won't disclose the reason due to libel liability), unless the employee really screwed up and didn't sign a separation agreement, which (again AIUI) you'd only decline if you plan on pursuing legal action against your employer.

And if you're already on a back channel, then you don't care about playing fair.
1. Its a private equity raise not a VC round. This usually comes with secondary stock sale for liquidity to founding team .

2. The multiple is low due to low gross margins which is in the early twenties to mid twenties.
I edited the word "radicalized" out of my original comment to make it more concise, but that's exactly how I feel. I had medical issue while I was in a foreign country that cost me $35 to see a doctor and get medicine. When I returned to America, in between jobs and in between health care providers, the same medicine cost me $500, and that's only because I was able to have a doctor-friend phone in the prescription so I didn't have to pay for a doctor's visit too. This was the same winter I learned about toner-pirates, and I found my contact lens prescription were held from me unless I paid for another eye exam. I'm tired of protecting myself from this predatory system.
Argos axes 'book of dreams' catalogue after 48 years
If you write Haskell and want a job, most of the positions available are with crypto related companies.
For 20% of the cloud spend as the price , would expect a far more detailed view of what features to expect from the subscription. While it is a interesting concept , not sure if the features would entice anyone to part with 20% of the clod spend for what can be setup initially.
They really are, i want a self-hosted airtable so bad...

I just found out you can sponsor them: https://github.com/sponsors/bram2w
Syndicated at:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-vaccine-could-spl...
And not a single picture of the Rover can be seen in the article.

For the curious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseverance_(rover)
Is Working in Tech Sustainable?
A post on twitter from someone isn't much evidence, a post that got upvoted a lot seems more credible ("wisdom of the crowds" kind of thing).

I fell for it too, because it's not a far stretch to imagine Apple doing thing sort of thing.

Just yesterday I read that Audible credits expire, and the reason Audible provides is clearly just a veneer of PR over greed.
They could absolutely spend it all / get an addiction etc. The beauty of a UBI though is that next month they get it again and can start over. There is always the ability to start again, every month is a renewal. These setbacks that currently force people into the streets and doom them for a lifetime would now have the potential to only be setbacks. Of course there will still be homeless people and addicts, but at least every month they will have money for food magically appear in their bank accounts.

The current system results in widespread homelessness, despair and inequality. To say we are going to stick with what we have instead of giving everyone the basics to live a decent life makes no sense. We are sticking with a known flawed system that punishes the poor because a few people may not play by the rules in the new one.

Why would charity drop off, if someone is charitable, now they have more to donate. People are also easier to help because they are starting from a solid base instead of nothing.

As far as being at the mercy of the rich, we are already there. If everyone had an income, they could actually band together if they wanted and use it on projects causes that are important to them instead of just the constant struggle to survive.
Just in terms of the UK budget (as in my example above), the welfare and pensions budget accounts for about £220 billion a year:

https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/year_spending_2018UKbt_17...

Let's be generous and round it up to £250 billion, as some other savings might possibly be made in other areas.

The total government spending each year is £842 billion, and the cost of the UBI above (£1,000 a month) is £636 billion.

We're still about £380 billion short ... not far off half the current government budget.

Your point about cities is a good one, but I think this would actually increase the cost. It would be pretty difficult to live on £1,000 a month anywhere, but it would be impossible in some cities (definitely London!).

And while your point on revenue from other sources is valid, as VAT is about 20% here, I imagine the extra returns would be marginal.

Infact, when you consider reduced income taxes through some choosing to cut back on work/not-work, you might see these gains completely negated.

I'm not necessarily saying a UBI is a bad idea in and of itself, but it just seems impossible to implement a decent UBI due to budgetary constraints (it seems unfeasible to me).

You could feasibly pay out a UBI of something like £400 a month if you just replaced the current welfare budget with a UBI, but £400 a month isn't much, and this also ignores the fact that this would massively disadvantage people who were previously reliant on the welfare system for all of their income (perhaps due to inability to work).
Of course, Perserverance has an in situ resource utilization demo for making oxygen (and carbon monoxide fuel) from the atmosphere, enabling refuelable Mars rockets. Super cool.
I'd assume the RAX register is more imporant, and in more widespread use than the YMM0 register.
More like your garbage post got downvoted for good reason and you're defending it with "how ironic". It's actually not at all ironic and no one cares you sent this to a mod
> We are in the post-truth era indeed.

Indeed we are, it's also the interesting thing about confirmation bias in communities. In any community, they seem to always believe any news that is immediately negative about the subject that they haven't researched about or want they don't like as the real truth.

It's up to us to do our own research with actual evidence rather than sources such as: 'X suggested', 'sources say', 'my friend who works at ABCXYZ' or because it has 1000+ retweets, upvotes, etc.

Generally, a healthy dose of skepticism is needed on social media content like FB, Twitter, HN, etc.
That's not how you say it.
I don't know if this is a US thing. Here in Europe, and as an avid reader of the news and various reporting, I can assure you that climate change activism is as mainstream as it can be (also because it easily inserted itself over a generic green, new age-ish movement that was there much before climate change became the focus of attention).

And I don't know how niche HN is (not much, I'd say, although it's certainly not a generalist forum either) but also here you can see that any comment that can be construed as the vaguest criticism of climate change action is promptly downvoted.
Easy. Legislate away the possibility of UBI being used to pay debts: In case of personal bankruptcy, UBI is unforfeitable towards debt payment. Lenders will quickly shy away from lending against a noncollectable "asset".
People are saying stuff about tone here.

I have learned, as most of us have, that communication technique has everything to do with how well information is received.

But IMO we need to stop acting like that’s a good thing. It’s an unfortunate reality.

Niceness in not a virtue. We should be careful not to elevate it to such.

Truth is more important that how something makes you feel. Honestly is more primary than politeness.

The problem with believing people based on how well they communicate should be obvious: if someone can communicate well, it might alter the chances towards more expertise, but it is not a guarantee.

At a certain point we start fetishizing polite communication.

This isn’t wholly different from liking people more because they are good looking.

It’s inevitable that people act that way, but we shouldn’t celebrate it, should try to resist it.
> Do you remember which distro you were using? Sounds like it included a weird /etc/nanorc file.

It was a long time ago, back in the 90s; it probably was either Debian or Slackware or Conectiva.

Edit: it probably was Debian, I found contemporary bug reports complaining of that, for instance https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=127634 and according to https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/n/nan... the default /etc/nanorc was changed to disable wrapping only many years later in 2.0.9-2; even then, you're still depending on nobody commenting that line on /etc/nanorc. Removing the whole package is much safer.
>Bit pedantic but you should use they instead of he/she. People can have other pronouns.

One of those other pronouns is literally "they", so you're still risking using the wrong pronoun by using "they" for someone who prefers to be referred to as "he".

Was anyone else taught the rule that when writing about a third-party whose gender is unknown, use your own pronouns?
But you also appear to have had the means to do so easily (or you wouldn't have moved 18 times) without UBI.
> Not wrapping should be the default for every editor. AFAICT, it is not the default for any editor.

It appears to be the default with emacs — at least, hard-wrap off appears to be the default. Soft-wrap is on, but … I can't imagine that you dislike soft-wrap, do you?
The customer is the real boss