skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "what economists call non-productive assets"

That's not a technical term nor a "term of art" in economics. Google Scholar returns results from management and accounting journals, as well as some pseudo-economics ("heterodox") pamphlets.
Imagine it if the available sources were few, and they were all repeating the same false claim.
'World first'... Perhaps for the size.

Certainly not world's first electric delivery truck.
After being a member here for years I recently got the ability to down vote after making a well timed post. I've only used this power a little bit, and I think only on way off topic comments or jokes. I hope over the years I've up voted a lot more, and mostly on things I found insightful, even when I disagree, because that's the community I want to be a part of. Voting to agree or disagree is not really the best way to foster effective exchange of ideas. I hope that is what HN is still for. I've learned a lot here over the years thanks to the insightful and differing viewpoints one can find here.

I think I've also used this power to down vote completely incorrect information a few times.

But I usually read when not signed in and then I can't vote at all. And honestly, I think it was a pg comment that talking about voting and karma is boring. Either the post is valuable or it's not.
Lmao! Some guy “thought” Apple doesn’t refund the commission and HN and Twitter and reddit had complete meltdown!

As some of the comments point out here, people who tried to correct the claim with data from their experience or cite directly or indirectly Apple, they were downvoted to oblivion.

If HN isn’t guarded against fake info, I guess no one should be expected to.
He wouldn't be the first President to make the mistake of assuming the Supreme Court would be his lapdogs just because he appointed a Justice to it.

Of course, this would never make it anywhere near the Supreme Court to begin with, because there's no ambiguity to the matter whatsoever, and nothing to be decided. Instead what happens if Trump refuses to leave is that some burly gentlemen escort his ass to the curb.
I fail to see how freedom of speech applies to academia.
This is similar to what I've found, in that writing documentation for a product before I've written any code actually makes the product turn out better. When in design / development mode, I tend to think of all kinds of "cool" features to put in, but since using them requires knowledge of my state of mind at the time I designed them, it gets very difficult to document these features.

So I end up writing the end-user documentation, then build a specification from there (functional requirements), then work on the technical design while prototyping various elements. Stringing together the prototypes often then ends up in a finished product.
Ask HN: Who do you recommend for AWS Penetration Testing?
I need a company to perform a penetration test on our AWS stack. Have you used any companies that you would recommend (or NOT recommend)?

Thanks for any input.
Just saying “inflation” is both condescending and lazy. Billions of people have been lifted out of abject poverty over the past few decades while also dealing with inflation. We know it’s a concept and it has relevance to the discussion, so merely saying the word brings literally nothing to the table.
the relationship between the two figures is that $2000/month is roughly the safe withdrawal rate for diverse $500k portfolio (ie, the most you can spend without risking that you use up the principal over several decades). if you use the almost all the returns from the nation's capital to pay out $2000/month, there isn't much growth to speak of. of course, it's sort of a naive analysis to treat a nation's wealth like a retirement account, but the idea clearly doesn't pass the "back of the napkin" test. there would have to be some powerful knock-on effects to make it halfway viable.
> Read the finnish experiment.

From your own link:

> Targeted basic income instead of a universal one

> The Finnish experiment was about partial basic income targeting able-bodied people without work, it was not about universal basic income. That has been a source of major confusion around the experiment and a source of critique of it.

It’s hardly fair to take as definitive one limited experiment in one country when it doesn’t even properly employ what they’re testing.

> All that happened is that people relxed and chilled on other's people money. They had no incentive to be productive so they weren't.

From what I recall from previous conversations on the topic, people in these experiments tended to take the time to invest in their own educations instead, so they could have better jobs and a better standard of leaving upon returning to the workforce. That’s far from “relax and chill”, and makes it a smart move when you know the money will stop coming in because it’s not really UBI.

We can extract good and bad things from the study and give emphasis to whatever narrative we want to pursue. Your own link mentions several caveats and shortcomings from the study; pretending it provides conclusive evidence of the failure or success of UBI would be disingenuous.
You need to back up your hard drive too.

The point is that you always need to back up. Sure, if you pay Google you can probably rely on them. But it is still best to backup anyways.
> I'm not so sure... just, like, maybe put one single thought into organizing it?

Most documentation definitely needs more attention towards organization.

But in my experience, organization is extremely difficult, especially because a documentation author may think of the system very differently than a new user might
You lose the one huge opportunity in adult life for making new relationships - and that's at work, in the office.

Eh, I met my wife at a running club. My longest-term friends were made prior to work. My current friends are mostly from cycling and camping. I'm not social with any of my co-workers.

they do not feel identified with the company anymore. It's just a job.

I felt this way when I was at the office, and I feel this way now that I'm WFH. My job funds the rest of my life. That's it. Why should I get attached to a job? It's a fickle thing - the owners can fire me on a whim. It's a not a social relationship, it's a purely monetary one - in trade for cold hard cash, I do some work. There's no long-term contract there. There's no expectation that this will last indefinitely. I get paid, I do work, and hopefully the owner gets her new Tesla (or boat or whatever)
Registering an account through a VPN is an automatic shadowban without warning. How is a new user supposed to know this?

Hacker News is a lot less hospitable in reality than it seems to an outsider. If you just register a lurker account and enable showdead and look around it's a veritable zombietown in here.
Exactly this. The article is not about the Haskell language itself -- i.e. not a rant about technical issues -- but about its community and consulting companies getting (allegedly) entangled with crypto businesses. "Making a deal with the devil".

That's why the author rants about crypto and not about Haskell itself.
Obviously capsules still have grounds in them, they have to be washed before recycling first. And filters are usually made out of waxed paper which decomposes quickly.
more deceptive apologia from socialists

of course police unions are unions. unions have always been self interested to the needs of the members of that union even if its add odds of health and well being of people dependent on those workers.

this is the whole anarcho-syndicalist fantasy in a nutshell. collective bargaining will inevitably put you at odds with other groups and their needs. its just collective selfishness instead of individual selfishness. nd usually its not even the whole group its the influential and charismatic leaders of the union who drag everyone in a certain direction. little stalins.
When does it happen that two branches share random commits? I never had that happen in my use cases.
This ignores the terrible way Amazon treats its warehouse workers. And Amazon's anti-competitive behavior for things like books.

I do agree with you about the positive things they've done; I just think we also have to look at the negative ones too.

Plus, IMHO something is wrong when the head of a company like Amazon is a multi-billionaire (and the world's richest person) runs a company where the folks working in his warehouses get punished for pee breaks.
Create a component and fetch GitHub user details with Vue.js and Semantic UI
I don't see many people admitting that they downvote opinions they disagree with, but I will. It's a simple way for me to assert "I disagree," even if the act will have no visible impact (unless many others do the same). It also lets me track which comments I've downvoted (via the "undown" tag) vs. those that I have upvoted.

Sometimes it's difficult to decide whether I should upvote or downvote a comment. Opinions are often nuanced, and there are many cases where I may disagree with some points but agree with others, or recognize that even though I disagree with the commenter, that person has put forward a strong or well-articulated argument.
I am pretty frustrated with downvotes, it seems a lot of users downvote for very different reasons that I do and so here are some reasons I downvote:

- blatant misinformation,

- posts that I feel are way off HN standards (for example just throwing expletives, writing "fr1st", generally wasting vertical space with no content),

- focusing on HN voting mechanics and generally complaining about downvotes (no, I don't want to hear why you think your post is being downvoted, if you can't take downvotes as what it is -- voice of multitude of people that may be right or wrong, stop posting)

- extremist claims with no proofs -- the truth is almost always somewhere between extremes. Claiming the truth is an extreme of universe of possibilities should be taken with huge caution and usually just means the person is blind and deaf. In my personal experience, people who really do know the topic will usually start their answers with "that depends" or "it is complicated", and there is very good reason for it. The world is complicated and here on HN we try to understand it a little bit better with all its gory details and not create groupthink closing asymptotically to extreme views.
I'd rather not the take political risks that come with that. Most of Europe and the countries Sahara is part of don't exactly have shared values.
touche ;)
Or stuff straight against the guidelines. Like shallow dismissals, or comments that try and pull people into arguments.
Cancer just kills you, Alzheimer's kills everyone around you as they realize all the memories they had with you are gone.
we don't have 1984, we have a brave new world.
It’s a crushing feeling.
At one point my kids walked in the door and I was confused as to who they were.
Thankfully it was something else, and was cured.
But it was a couple years of despair.
This is an example of a comment that should be downvoted.
> we explicitly don't want people using it to express dislike

I was led to believe that the opposite was true:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
Credential cycling without cycling containers
That's a good point, but these guys just wanted me to help them unfuck what they fucked up.
Shouldn’t this technically be “(2005)”?
I just see contortion to avoid admitting that it's both possible and reasonable for generally pro-union people to disagree with any specific union. That's ground he doesn't want to cede to people that might be less positive on unions overall.

But it's a crazy stance to take. For any goal it's possible for a group or organization to work towards, there is going to be a non-zero number of perfectly-typical groups doing it that people don't like.

There's a pizza shop downtown that I think makes retched pizza, but I also know people who think they're the best in town. Doesn't mean I go around saying they're "not a traditional pizza shop" because I'm afraid of looking anti-pizza when I say I'm not joining you for lunch if that's where you're going.
Thanks, that's actually a good point.

I knew there was an option to vouch for comments but just assumed I did not have enough Karma to do so. But another comment in this discussion mentioned the "hidden" flag button, which you only see if you click the comments timestamp.

And sure enough, the vouch button is just there. So the problem may just be that you have to know where to find it. Which I now do. And hopefully everyone who didn't and reads this now as well.
I make all of my coffee in a mokka pot, every morning - so it boils exactly as much water as fits in my mug, nothing more. And it doesn't consume any materials, the whole thing is stainless steel with a rubber gasket which I just rinse under the tap after every use.
Curiously, stackoverflow uses upvotes and downvotes too. How does that work?
A good story, and I find myself in a similar position (the one who writes the docs). I think a lot about this topic, because as our company grows it becomes more and more important, and more and more difficult to impart all of the scattered knowledge on new hires.

I really enjoyed this read. I think it contains actionable suggestions that I will incorporate into my job. Consultable documentation, all in a single location sounds like an improvement over what I have now.

The focus of my approach has been a bit different so far: since I know that nobody reads the manual, I strive to make the manual short: "Run this one command and it will do everything for you." My thinking is also that it lowers the bar of skill for new hires. There are some unfortunate consequences of this:

1. Maybe we don't want to lower the bar of skill after all (maybe we do - good workers are hard to come by where we are).

2. I am something of a single point of failure. If I go, I'm sure things will still get done, but it won't be done well (very subjective of course).

Anyway, I'm excited to try and improve my processes to make it easier to grow.
Show HN: Tarxzf – unpack a .tgz when you don't have any other proper tool
Trump response: We are pausing the calendar because of the pandemic. The date will remain Oct 31st until the emergency is over.

And now you get to argue about whether or not he has the authority to pause time!
What? It’s just as important here. Let’s say we’re looking for a vaccine for a pandemic disease. Do you want people to censor what’s allowed to be published before we know what works and doesn’t?
This just seems like a very skewed take.

> Front-line workers' unions like teachers and nurses strike to improve conditions for the people they care for; police unions' main cause is reducing oversight and accountability, waging a decades-long war on civilian oversight boards.

Teachers also wage war on accountability. They resist every attempt to measure their performance (for example through standardized tests), never suggesting alternative approaches where they see a flaw in methodology. Most recently teacher unions have started mixing demands for safer reopening plans with a mix of other wholly unrelated demands - asking for charter schools/parental choice to be abolished, asking for police defunding, asking for Medicare for all, etc (https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/l-a-teachers-union-say...). These have nothing to do with safer reopening plans. The teacher unions want protection from accountability by squashing competition (charter schools) and they are bundling this ask with an ask for safer reopening plans and police defunding to garner public support. But make no mistake these are political games.

In Seattle earlier this year, nurses in one hospital system went on strike (https://apnews.com/106ced24f239ea09b709e8959c385e45). They marketed the strike as pushing for better nurse to patient ratios but it really was about pay. The hospital had offered a generous pay increase out of the gate that was better than what another medical group had recently offered its own workers, who accepted the new package. The increased pay at this other hospital was the motivation for these other nurses to strike, but the striking nurses rejected that generous offer and demanded double the increase. The strike resulted in numerous patients having procedures delayed by months (waiting for openings in schedule) and expecting mothers scrambling to deliver elsewhere and so forth. I don’t see how their strike served patients at all.

The reality is that all unions bring with them dynamics of power that they use to serve their own member’s interests. They often market benefits to the public or other parties to present their demands in a less offensive way, but their core purpose is to serve their own member’s interests. The lack of competition can cause many negative behaviors - that happens across the board whether we are taking about police or teachers or nurses. Cory Doctorow’s
Twitter defense, trying to separate out police unions from all other unions, makes no sense and just seems biased.
pg says you can downvote if you disagree.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314

This was brought to my attention by the mods (dang) and they agree with it and enforce it yet they haven't documented it anywhere such as the guidelines. strange
Thanks, twitter.
how far can you go? I've been on the lookout for a friendly vim like editor. at the same time I really like a IDE features
I didn't assess the study itself, but it focuses on the wrong metric. Even if a single coffee pod were to be more CO2-efficient than an espresso from an espresso machine, the popularity and consumerist approach makes it so that you will have more coffee (rebound effect). Without a nespresso machine in the office or at home, would you walk out to the coffee shop for a coffee 3 times a day?

Coffee is made from an exotic plant and should be treated as a special treat, not a "brain enhancing" commodity like it is today. If people had this mindset, it wouldn't matter how you brew your coffee.
The problem is that real life is already stranger than fiction. The NSA actually tapped American phones and intercepted inter-datacenter links. Multiple major companies now have voice assistants that have been shown to send voice recordings to employees for review. Apple has used legal action to shut down repair shops. Real life is left incapable of passing the "would only a cartoon villain do this" test.
I agree with your premise, but nobody is finding basic flaws in climate science that challenge our understanding of it.
> If producers are able to totally game a commodity market and control prices so completely than you have bigger problems than just poverty.

Game is probably more strongly worded than what actually happens : a shift in the demand curve. It's not that a cabal of producers are colluding to raise prices. Its more that, in aggregate, producers will decide to independently raise prices when consumer demand increases [0].

[0] https://www.economicsdiscussion.net/demand/shifts-in-demand-...
An important part of the article's argument is that giving money to the people directly is best, because they know best how to allocate resources over a top down approach...

I'm sadly not convinced this is the case right now in the U.S. People do stupid things with money, especially 'the house's money'.

For UBI to be a palatable choice to me, it would have to come with a mandatory financial education.
I'm not sure where you are - but that's not true in London (source: been working here a long time, plus have been hiring for Haskell recently)
While my argument surely had some simplification, it holds approximately.

Whereas for your argument, I’m not sure how you come to the conclusion that inflation will cancel out all benefits. There is no reason to assume that.
They did that with Spirit and Opportunity, which did cost a lot less. If money really were not an issue, I'm sure they'd like to send twin rovers again, and also pay for two rover teams, and for extra telecommunications capacity in the form of a dedicated orbiter[1] or two, and so on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Telecommunications_Orbite...
Some people think the price of going to college has gone up because so much money has been made available to students through financial aid. I don’t know if that’s been proven but it sounds plausible.
There are alternative views and there are disingenuous views. Do you include the ones you believe to be disingenuous as well?
Super cool!
I have a rule for tools in my lab - only open source hardware. Will you consider releasing schematics?
Feels like an odd pricing model to me but I'm not the target audience so not sure what would be expected. I don't want my cost to Revolv to be so unpredictable. If my AWS costs go up Revolv just keeps charging me more?
There are some intricacies about when to reset the scroll position, if ever.

Here's one way: https://codepen.io/xorgy/pen/yYdVoY
I think this is a crass way of looking at it. Just because Trump is looking to subvert long held values as well as explicit law doesn’t mean everyone in power will be complicit in the subversion.
Apparently there's "right wing" people in Haskell now. This is such a paper thin threat on unspecified persons who must know they're being targeted.

Seriously, I don't think the readership of HN is in any disagreement about how new cryptocurrencies are "short long con" jobs, but the author teases that the influx of this money is toxic to the Haskell community because... right wing people?
I'm a maker and I DO love rough PCBs and bulky modules. And tangled wires and etc.

But I ordered (backed) a flipper on kickstarter instantly. Godspeed, guys!

Edit: the reason for me was a nice design and not spending time researching which chips to buy and reading through all the manuals. It is interesting to build it yourself, but once in a while I just want everything sorted out for me.
"Calendars don't work that way, Mr. President."
>> And, of course, the helicopter!

It is cool, but is being falsely reported as the "first extraterrestrial aircraft", which it certainly is not. The Russian Vega mission had aircraft (balloons are aircraft) flying on Venus back in the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program#Balloon
LOL, The annelida part killed me
Manga community ran this way for many years.
Issue would release in Japan. And an hours that would be perfectly re-drawn and translated into English.

With a lot better quality than the official publishers will do months later.

Now they’re officially free online quickly. You pay if you want older ones.
Yes SEPA transfers are free in the Eurozone, which as you know is a subset of “Europe,” but there is the tricky issue of VAT — which might be due on your donations.
Thanks!

We'll add more details.

The price part is something we’ve been thinking about for a while.

There are many possibilities:

- Taking a fee as a percentage of your cloud provider bill for each architecture

- A free plan for the architectures created without the user-friendly features and a premium one?

- A monthly subscription? Per developer? Per architecture?

What do you think?
Strange Contrails in the Sky
Thank you for pointing this out. My gut reaction was "glad they're getting downvoted for this" when I saw their comment.
Let's say they reported 9.5% . Would it still not be the biggest drop in history? Isn't that the important bit here?
Yes, resource constraints, and overly optimistic, often delusional, thinking. (The idea is so great, it doesn't need validation... etc.)
Sure, if UBI is implemented without a matching increase in government revenue, or reallocation of existing government revenue. Every serious proposal for UBI does one, the other, or both of those.

There is plenty of literature that contradicts your assertion. Here are a few links...

https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-...

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/03/18/understandin...

https://ubi.earth/basic-income-doesnt-cause-inflation
Stop watching ABC/NBC/CNN/FOX/NPR and Democracy Now?
Really nice to hear a good news story in these desperate times, welcome back. :-)
Tim Cook’s App Store Testimony