skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why It Is Not a Good Idea to Sue the Media for Defamation
I'll try and reframe your argument using slightly less incendiary verbiage.

UBI will continue to funnel money from the hands of consumers to the existing producers. Even with UBI, the existing producers would sit on more wealth than the entire consumer-class combined.

That producers are the ones that become billionaires is a feature of our society, not a bug. That anyone who is not a producer is at risk of starving to death is a bug of our society, and it's the bug that a UBI aims to solve.

Also these groups aren't static. Even today, who is in the top 1% changes every ~10 years. With a UBI, the mobility within those groups may be even more dynamic. A net-consumer that has the time and space to improve their skills that also doesn't need to worry about starving to death has a much higher likelihood of eventually becoming a net-producer than the same individual today.

> UBI doesn't guarantee housing, UBI doesn't guarantee healthcare, UBI doesn't guarantee college

You're right about this, and a UBI is useless unless it's also accompanied with reforms to address the rising cost of all of those things.
In my opinion, they showed that it didn't become Pirate Bay, but rather reasonably and responsibly took over, during a period of emergency, on the duty of their physical counterparts (closed to the public). It rather strengthened its mission.
If you do a branch per minor version, with cherry picks on top of the minor version branch as bugs are fixed
I'd say this is an interesting new phenomenon, unless you can point to a prior U.S. president suggesting that an election should be postponed because he's losing.
I would like offer a counter-point.

People assume that Trump wants to delay the election to delay the end of his presidency. ...but pushing the date of the election back, say one month, would not alter the last day of him being President.

Given that this is a speculative political fear post, I don't really think it belongs on HN.

If another President had suggested changing the vote date because of a national pandemic, I'm not sure it would be meaningful news.
Our government is by-and-large unwilling to enforce what our current president can and can't do. It really doesn't matter what the laws are if nobody enforces them.

The current president has built a surprisingly large federal police force that arrive in unmarked vehicles, display no insignia, and attack law-abiding citizens based on the president's orders. Federal police have been deployed in DC, Portland, Chicago, and Seattle.

This isn't a partisan issue, and it isn't fear-mongering. We keep being surprised every time the president follows through on his statements, because he says such absurd things.

I don't know what the way out is for us - but don't make the mistake of assuming that laws will keep the president in check.
This is common with many white label products and not at all unique to Costco. For example, I know which craft brewery white labels one of Trader Joe's brand beers (each type of beer might be made by a different brewery). Same production line, just different bottles.
curiosity had to deal with many firsts, like the sharp rocks puncturing its wheels at a higher than predicted rates

you want to have many of these 'firsts' moments before launching humans, as long as there's 'firsts' it's going to involve too much risk, even if you plan not returning the humans, getting some there requires a couple order magnitude infrastructure as a rover, so you don't want to lose your investment day 2 from some unforeseen accident.

of course you can't predict everything. but the fact that we're still discovering this many issues about the environment is a good indication we haven't discovered enough to get risk to a manageable level
Simulating quantum 'time travel' disproves butterfly effect in quantum realm
Education is priced based on what rich international students can pay, then most domestic students get massive subsidies. I don't think it's a reasonable comparison.
With infinite scrolling, you can also just set the container to be absolutely huge, and use the scroll position to index. This works especially well for computed layouts like tables, where culling rows and columns is a simple scan over run lengths of row and column sizes.

Likewise if you know things will be inserted at the top of a scroll view, you can pre-allocate above the “top”.

The one thing that is hard to do well (but less hard now with new CSS features I think) is scrolling that feels good but always ends with the border of a cell being aligned to an edge of the scroll view (the Excel behaviour).
A bit late but this aggravates me. I dont mind being unable to down vote in the least, in fact I think if downvoting had a timer it may help people cool down.

But for replies, I feel as though refreshing a page to see if anyone has replied to me, just feels narcissistic. As such I rarely if ever get to reply to something, since I almost never re-read comments on an article, much less my own for the infinitesimally small chance of a reply.

I think an option to have notifications to direct replies (not nested, but could be an option as well), would be pretty cool, as I've spoken before here about the drive-by commenting HN seems to cultivate (but I mean it works, right?).
They will be less at the mercy of the less rich (e.g. 'petitbourgeois') who cannot impact the broader system, and more at the mercy of the super-rich (e.g. 'oligarchs') who will be able to influence the monolithic/all encompassing UBI structure.

this is pretty much an axiomatic property of the power concentration required to implement broad-scope social programs enforced by the state.
this is a question from me to people who are rich (or at least richer than the poor people this article alludes to):

what advice do you give to poor people who don’t want to be poor? is it out of their control? is there anything they can do?
A lot of content on StackOverflow is trivially verifiable - just put it in your IDE and see if it runs. You'll notice that the more subjective questions on StackOverflow almost always 1) get closed immediately or 2) are filled with bad answers.

(You'd think getting a refund is trivially verifiable, too, but who's going to go to all that work?)
I built a similar kind of engine with lunr.js:

https://github.com/rlingineni/Lambda-Serverless-Search

It loads the entire index into memory, and pushes articles to S3 and builds the index over time. You can see how performance gets hurt over time. It also just returns the id of an article, not the entire article. I think this approach with a precompiled index might be genius.

I attached the performance charts, and logs in the readme. At 18000 records, the slowest part is pulling the index from S3.
Not ridiculous at all. He has been sentenced to jail, not to be infected with Covid. Whether in jail he has a higher risk of getting is a very legit defense strategy. Covid can be a life-or-death virus. Nothing is harmed by having him report to jail next year for example.
This is the hope, but I think it's more realistic to say we all went to sleep around the same time, but since we slept so long, many of us will never wake up, and those who do will wake up very slowly, not all at the same time, and most of us will lie in bed longer than usual before trying to stand up on shaky legs.

We want this to be a "V-shaped" recovery, but I don't think the recovery is going to be nearly as abrupt as the shutdown.
I posted earlier how HN is highly susceptible to both groupthink as well as confirmation bias [1]. Check yourself and ask yourself if what is posted is actually true or is rather something you WISH was true, and also if what is posted is something that you would prefer to go with the herd than to try to run against the stampede. But humans are humans.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23846631
>I think new accounts can't even downvote

You need 501 karma for downvoting, that exact number is undocumented on the FAQ page.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

For anyone else that curious about undocumented stuff, here are some previous discussions with that github link.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16437973 (Feb 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19212822 (Feb 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20292361 (June 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439437 (June 2020)
https://youtu.be/S6HEH23W_bM

what are your thoughts on this video?
"Let users help you decdie" <--- typo.

Looks like a nice tool - congrats :)
Thanks @jack
Yes I'm planning to do that. any tips or suggestions would be much appreciated
How would either of those situations (which are pretty much the same) cost Apple _financially_? If 10,000 people buy an app for 1$ each, the creator gets 7000$ and Apple gets 3000$. When they all get refunds. The creator refunds the 7000$ and Apple refunds the 3000$...
How do you gain existing team's confidence so as to persuade them to make some changes instead of sounding bossy?

A new hire lacks the contextual knowledge to hold an informed opinion about the way things ought to be done. The phrase "introduce standards" is insulting to the existing team.
Belgium is fairly unique in that respect. If I remember correctly, it also takes into account the evolution of salaries in neighboring countries (France, Germany) when deciding collective salary increases.
> It's actually very specific about when the term ends.

And then what?
From an individual perspective yes it makes sense, but from a societal one it seems harmful. It means that anyone who makes less than $100k/year - a lot of money - has financial incentive to either not have kids or to drop out of the work force. And given the wage gap, the people who drop out will disproportionately be women.

It also means that couples making more than that each end up with an even bigger advantage, since they can stay in the workforce and continue to grow their careers.
The average HN user is not intelligent. If you've been reading this forum for any significant amount of time and still think "wow, these guys are smart," that does not reflect well on you.

HN, like most internet forums, consists primarily of the lowest rung of society. It's a natural consequence of the fact that people without jobs have more free time and less money to spend on hobbies.

For example, read any thread about UBI or the tech interview process (there are multiple posted every week). The large majority of HN commenters support UBI and hate the FAANG interview process. Why is this? Because they are not smart enough to pass the FAANG interviews and are struggling financially as a consequence.
> those folks still may produce value to those other than themselves.

They may, but my point here is that the reason a corporate SWE's code is so valuable isn't because of the code itself. It's because of the ecosystem that the SWE and corp are a part of. That ecosystem serves to multiply a meaningless block of code into a couple million dollars that can be split nicely with all the non-coders who made it useful. Without that ecosystem, an open source project can never hope to monetize to the same level. That big open source projects have substantial funding is an effect of being so imminently usable in those million dollar ecosystems that the forgotten scraps of the corporations are enough to sustain them.
Also funny (worrisome?) in retrospect is people that believed the Tweet, thought Apple was behaving fairly, and argued that it simply wasn't a big deal.
> suggesting that an election should be postponed because he's losing

That's not what he suggested. He suggested changing the voting date because of a pandemic.

We can guess that he's lying, and I'm not saying he's honest (obviously), but at the core, this is still just another fearmongering political post since he has no authority to change anything anyway.
> “What’s been challenging in adapting to the new environment is trying to replicate some of the informal communication that happened around the office. It’s an area I’m particularly interested in right now.”

We've been using Discord to simulate an office environment, both from the perspectives of talking to people without scheduling a meeting, and from gathering as a group for discussions as needed. Hanging out in Discord is entirely optional. We use Slack to notify people if we need to talk to them, kind of like a shoulder tap in real life if you need to ask somebody a question at their desk.

This has been working pretty well for us. I especially like Discord's Push to Talk feature using a keyboard shortcut.
The rush to clear Apple's name, and the inflated indignation surrounding this mistake is embarrassing. Tesla is the only other brand where I see this behavior. I don't understand the evangelism of brands by people with seemingly no direct connection. The dude was wrong (Edit: turns out technically he wasn't wrong, Apple just "chooses" to not enforce it), get over it, Apple doesn't need your help - they have an army of attorneys who can squash any legitimate threat to their empire.
I probably should have mentioned that. Yeah, you have to click on posts (so the link isn't just visible in the normal discussion) in order to vouch or flag them. I think that that's a reasonable thing, it requires a moment's thought to do (even a brief one) so it can't be someone's reflex like downvoting.

I do appreciate that you can undo most of these actions now. There was a time when downvoting (and upvoting) were instantaneous and permanent. It was very frustrating when scrolling on my phone and accidentally downvoting someone because I used the wrong kind of press in the wrong place.
This looks awesome! Just backed - very excited for February!
But you don't know that unless you read the article, right?
"There are no laws saying that I can't change the calendar. The liberal elites in the colleges and universities are saying that I can't change the calendar, the Europeans are saying I can't change the calendar, the fake news media says I can't change it. Why not? There's no laws."
I wonder how many of the upvoters of this post similarly didn't bother fact checking the correction. Not commenting on its veracity, however I think the truth is somewhere in between (Apple has the right to hold onto the 30% commission, but hasn't invoked that in practice yet).

I, for one, upvoted both threads on the basis that this is playing out as a peculiar display of groupthink; a microcosmic martyrdom of truth tellers in the wave of internet points.
Sure, and I conceded that in my initial post. What I'm looking for is published work that indicates that changes in consumer prices equals the increase in income due to unrestricted cash grants/UBI.

I've looked, but all I see is conjecture. Nothing academic. The academic articles I do find tend to assert the opposite - that any changes in consumer prices are smaller than increases in income, granting the recipient more buying power.
Is there a way to change people's base level of income without it being Capitalism 2.0?
Also what was your functions memory limit? There’s also a helper function here if it’s interesting to test how the performance scales with more records:

https://github.com/rlingineni/Lambda-Serverless-Search/blob/...

It’ll tell you the time to upload a record, and then the time to query it as it pushes more and more records. Not sure if you had plans to make it dynamic. Maybe with GitHub actions. Pretty cool nonetheless.
Must depend on the org and how you do it. My personal experience is that if you are open and up-front with going to a competitor, they'll cut your access and pay you for the remaining time left on your resignation letter/month.

If you go to a competitor and aren't open about it? You might find yourself terminated with no additional pay.

And it makes sense. At Amazon, most people have varying levels of customer data and/or confidential company data. Amazon has to protect itself from data exfiltration/data theft.
I suspect the intention was to create a small barrier to entry for the "heavier" features, to reduce petty usage. It only takes a little exploration to find (no offense, I didn't know about them for a while either).
9.5% x 4 = 38%

How exactly annualization works?
> Regardless of the type of payment you received, the full amount that the client paid will be refunded to the client by clicking on the refund button at the bottom right-hand corner of the transaction details.

That doesn't say anything about what the merchant gets charged. Stripe and PayPal also send the full amount to the card holder, so that blurb would apply to them too. The question is whether the merchant ends up with zero or minus the original processing fees after the refund.
Fixed :)
Thanks!
I should have been more clear. My point isn't that the salary comparison was off but that €30k/y is peanuts for a large organization. I would expect to see some higher sponsor levels.
This is even worse IMO.
Herman Cain Dies from Coronavirus
Teaching someone about perfect software can only be done in lisp, grasshopper. :)
Diversity in Open Source and Gaming: Does It Matter?
> but severely hampered by government regulations and media fear

Activity is down 9.5%. That means over 90% of the economy is working fine. “Severely hampered” is in the 9.5%.

Most of the economy simply does not require people to be running around and congregating anymore. It’s automated or knowledge based. The 1950s view of our economy is part of the reason we’re seeing more damage than other countries.
Like Minecraft, but with much higher resolution.
In terms of risk, it is better to believe that it is true, because it could become true at any time.
I know. The cheat sheet gets me out of it. But I think my problem is that the keys that I press intuitively are the wrong ones and it keeps asking me to press more keys to get out of it :-)
Note the word "probably." This is not a hard and fast rule and there is always room for exceptions, by design. As others have stated, we live in unprecedented times and interesting new phenomena are occurring in the political sphere every day. You are also free to ignore any posts that are too political for your tastes.
So pie in the sky theorizing is better than looking at the data where this has failed/is failing. "not real UBI" is now "not real socialism".

even the Stockton experiment has been propped up by private money. Its essentially a charity at this point.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-02/stockton-...

Furthermore, the entire benefit of UBI "is so that people don't have to work and get sick". It is incentivizing not working.

It is incentivizing the dependency on the state.
Let's be realistic - the election happens regardless of what the President wants.

For obvious reasons, he does not control the election.

...but for the sake of argument, if a comet hit the Earth and cancelled the election, then the terms of both the President and the Vice President would end, and the Leader of the Senate would become the President.
Strange no one mentioned invokedynamic and how it enabled (or improved) dynamic languages such as Groovy and Clojure on top of the JVM
I don’t think it is fair to compare a book with a piece of software written for a specific platform.
Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis
When you first open nano, it tells you at the bottom of the screen that you can press "Ctrl+G" for help. The second paragraph of the help text explains the '^' notation, and the help further explains that you could have accessed the help page by pressing F1, which has been a common key for accessing the help feature of whatever program you're using for decades.
> Approximately 14% of press releases opposing climate action or denying the science behind climate change received major national news coverage, she found, compared to about 7% of press releases with pro-climate action messages.

There might be a very simple explanation: there are significantly more pro-climate change press releases, than anti. Comparing percentages without correcting for that seems to be dishonest.
> ...and scratchy pins.

mmmm, scratchy pins... Though there's nothing like a DIP-16 chip biting into your heel...

Maybe that's why I prefer QFN chips nowadays ))
I've worked in a lot of offices, and I've spent almost 10 years working remotely. I would give the advantage to remote work in terms of social interaction because I can hold several conversations at once over chat.

Then again, my remote work was designed that way, not some half-assed thrown-together-at-a-moment's-notice poor-man's copy of a centralized office system. If you don't plan to succeed you're probably not going to succeed. That does not make the goal unworthy, but it does makes your effort unworthy.
They have been working well for them though... from bankruptcy to #1 company in sales in 23 years based on such designs...
I think abandon-changes is probably the best suggestion for most people in that situation. If you don't know how to exit you've probably made some accidental changes.
Apple is beholden to "payment providers"? Thanks for the laugh.
Support for Remote Debugging a .NET Core Linux App in WSL2 from Visual Studio
>there will probably be some people who scoop up these shops for a steal

Yes, the ultra rich. This pandemic has resulted in the greatest upward transfer of wealth in history.
APL: Expanding Bits in Shrinking Time (2018)
>> One of the other big names he's enlisted is Yves Béhar, a name you might recognize from a variety of tech projects like One Laptop per Child. He and his company Fuzeproject designed the futuristic-looking station.

Um ... wasn't that the premise behind an Archer episode? Sea Tunt? The rich Tunt brother had backed both the sea base and one laptop per child. Is this the tail wagging the dog or at some personal level is there a link to the show?
1-.095 = .905

.905^4 = .671

1-.671 = .329 = 32.9%
Free freelancer tools you could find useful
If you are an emacs person but need something like nano for quick edits on remote machines, try "mg".

I think it's the default editor on some BSDs.
I used this when it was HackMD, absolutely loved it. It powered all of distributed discussions and this was from a bunch of stalwarts that wanted to blog with finger, chat with irc and communicate with mail.
> I seldom see someones comments I recognize.

I was not around for the early days of HN, and I recognize certain posters by their usernames. Here's a few off the top of my head (I am able to give a short description of each, but that's more work than I want to put into this comment). Also note I may misspell since this is from memory: Bytecode-dev, DoreenMichelle, ChrisMarshallNyc, Arathorn. This tends to happen when the person focuses on one topic in their posts, like bytecode-dev and python (and I hope at some point, myself and funding FLOSS, but maybe I comment too widely for that). There's more people; the point is not necessarily that I can regurgitate their names, but that I'd recognize them if I saw them (for example, I'm blanking right now on Drew from SourceHut's username, but I'd absolutely recognize it on sight.
> global demand for oil (bought and sold in dollars)

Oil trading is a negligible component of dollar demand [1]. The petrodollar hypothesis is a debunked myth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_recycling
Multiple pilots have been run in real-world circumstances. They aren’t true UBI (because they’re a tested cross-section of people, not everyone in a society), but the results have been positive for the recipients in every single pilot…and employment has gone _up_ in every single pilot (mostly because people are able to go back and get education that increases their employability).
You left out “in the traditional sense”. Police unions are in fact unions, they’re just unlike the other unions, was what I perceived the argument to be, and it feels like you’re digging into a straw man by taking it intentionally very literally
Completely pointless comment. It is already happening in many ways.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/6/15/1579620...