skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your second link mentions "universal basic services", I always supported that idea but didn't know it had a name. It's better than UBI because it sidesteps the problem of cost disease (landlords raising rents in response, etc).
I can understand this. Portsmouth at home is pretty loud and vocal. After watching Pompey fail in the play offs, it might have helped, but then again that's probably because Kenny Jacket football style is horrible. #JacketOut
UBI is interesting and may very well play some kind of a role in the future, but I can't help but think:

Everybody gets equal UBI in the game Monopoly, and that never works out well.
> At least now vim shows you how to quit it if you attempt to ctrl+c it.

This has been the case for at least ten years. I started using Linux in 2009 and the first time I opened vim, I tried using ctrl-c to quit and saw that message.
I would be more surprised if tech companies stick to remote work first. Remote work has been doable in tech for a long time. However, it comes with the same issues as off-shoring - in particular, how do you know that the person you hired is competent, committed, and honest?

Yes, there are ways to answer all three of these questions, but I'm not sure if there's a way that's simple, non-invasive, and scalable in organizations dealing with lowest-common-denominator challenges. Many startups and smaller IT companies were already doing remote work before COVID - but, let's face it, many of these companies also had a small enough footprint in terms of head count and job diversity that it was possible for them to manage 10-100 remote employees without running into major issues.

How do you do the same with 5K-10K employees? Yes, FAANG is taking a shot at it, but they also have the benefit of hiring their pick of top-level, motivated talent. Google and Facebook, at least, also have revenue streams that are resilient enough to survive massive mistakes purely through inertia.

This is an interesting natural experiment. I'm glad that it's forcing companies to reassess how they do business. However, I don't know if remote work first is going to persist after the pandemic.
Or, you know, just build more solar and wind in Europe. Plenty of low hanging fruits, no need for intercontinental mega projects.
== For annual figures, a first approximation is that a month is worth 1/12th of the annual output so I would expect 8.3% drop for every month that the economy is completely stopped.==

It’s not that easy as the US economy was never “completely stopped”. Public services did not stop, grocery stores did not stop, etc. Even today the states have various levels of openness and movement.
That is how you kill a site. It should be easier to remove bad content than to create more crap. The table is already tilted towards those creating misinformation and spam, making it more costly to prune this is an incredibly bad idea.
Critically though, a correction is at #1 top spot today. That's about as good as it gets.

Corrections in newspapers don't run the same as headlines, nobody upvotes corrections to reddit or Instagram etc...

I'd suggest that as far as iterating in the direction of finding the truth, this is a best in class example of how to do it.
I think a lot of scientists would actually do "boring research". (a) they actually know such work is useful (b) some know that they don't produce work as good as the best in the field, but are happy to do more grunt work at lower stress level, rather than endlessly chasing "high impact" publications.

Unfortunately, there is no funding for such research. Which is find really sad. Private grants might need to show "impact" but State run grants don't have that many constraints, and they could conceivably offer such grants.
One thing will have to change if we ever can travel at relativistic speeds or have function cryogenics (or anything similar) will be markets and investments, just think of putting even a relatively small amount into a yielding investment even an index fund and going to “sleep” for 200 years not only would you get immediately to benefit from 200 years of advancement but you’ll also get to benefit form 200 years of what effectively is compound interest.

I really wonder what will the societal implications of such a path being possible are going to be.

There are plenty of people that will be willing to push a pause button right now to be able to wake up in a world where you could buy a ticket to mars, add to that the quite likely possibility of becoming a millionaire if not a billionaire if you put enough money into any inflation beating investment and you get quite the incentives package.

Sure you might never wake up because the world is going to end in a nuclear holocaust or your icebox will experience a kernel panic 17 years into your suspended animation but overall this quite likely be a much lower possibility than dying prematurely today.
Perhaps nothing, his tenants will likely move to apartments in better neighborhoods, or, buy their own homes. He'll need to keep rents the same to continue to attract replacement tenants.
Capitalism only works with entropy. There is only dead trees: coal, oil and gas! Scarcity is about to change things in ways most people don't understand, because they don't want to understand it!
Show HN: A Slack Clone Using Postgres Row Level Security
Thanks for that link! I seem to remember the kvetching about that, back then.
For me, nano was the text editor that I immediately knew how to use. No need to learn, you just read the bottom of the screen, and you can do the basics. For writing a commit message, it's more than enough.

Compare that to Vim: it's a great tool for coding, very powerful, you can easily customize it, optimize it to your needs, but you actually need to spend time learning to use it, and then tweaking it to your work.
https://supabase-slack-clone.vercel.app/

This is a real-time Slack clone built with Postgres' Row Level Security. It's a simple POC, and you can deploy your own, which takes a few minutes. The database, auth, real-time, and APIs are handled by Supabase, which is an open source Firebase alternative (disclaimer: I work at Supabase). The front end is built with Next.js, deployed on Vercel.

Supabase just released Auth. We use Netlify's GoTrue[1] for authentication. When you spin up a Postgres database on our platform we populate it with an auth schema, turn on the relevant extensions, and add some helper functions - signup, login, etc. When a user signs up to your app, they are assigned a UUID and issued a JWT, which contains the role `authenticated` and their UUID. We can use these details to provide fine-grained authorization for each user using Postgres' Row Level Security.

RLS is a bit confusing at first, so the next month's work will be improving our Auth system to make it extremely simple to use. And documentation :)

[1] https://github.com/supabase/gotrue
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IIRC holding the left and right buttons and pressing the power(?) button did put it in a special test mode.
But without the double slash, how do you differentiate between:

proto:relative_to/current_dir

proto:/relative_to/root_of_current_host

proto://otherhost/some/resource

I admit it is hard to grok in the beginning, but all you need to tell non technical people is "you can leave out the http and www" and "hyphen and slash are different symbols".
My allowance I give myself is spent, but if this comes to market I will definitely be buying when I get my allowance back haha
Going to be the devil's advocate on this one. The current policy creates an incentive for unnecessary overtime. That can distort the real demand for labor. Eliminating the incentive could allow the USPS to find out the actual demand, and hire the right number of workers to get the mail out on time.
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"people in Germany being prosecuted for 'liking' a violent crime"

Do you have a link for this?
Even if the cost of moving/visiting family were offset by the rent savings - which very possibly would not be - it would kind of defeat the purpose of the UBI if people had to spend it on mitigating the consequences of people taking advantage of them receiving UBI
Glad to be corrected! That would have been a bonkers policy.

Someone quoted an Apple contract that appeared to indicate this was a real Apple's policy, which I also found sourced on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2009/03/25/apples-iphone-app-refund-p...

> In the event that Apple refunds any such price to an end-user, You shall reimburse, or grant Apple a credit for, an amount equal to the price for that Licensed Application. Apple will have the right to retain its commission on the sale of that Licensed Application, notwithstanding the refund of the price to the end.

But I'm unable to find that on Apple's current site, so hopefully it's been removed. TechCrunch's link to the referenced document is on "docstoc.com" and no longer exists.
I'm curious: what kind of quantum logic are you working on?

Can you elaborate on what grounds did your advisor disadvise you to follow academic schooling?
> "haich tee tee pee colon slash slash double-u double-u double-u dot contoso dot com"

"WWW" is one of rare acronyms where it's easier to pronounce the full phrase. :)
No, it is the coal they burn in Australia -- currently >2/3 of electricity generation --, it's just also the coal other people burn elsewhere.
It's not that simple. There's no uniform definition of strong. You're right strong typing is often used to refer to absence of (or restrictions to) implicit type conversions, but it has also since the beginning been used to reference languages that does not prevent obscuring the identity of the type of an object.

E.g. Liskov and Zilles [1] defined it this way for example:

"whenever an object is passed from a calling function to a called function, its type must be compatible with the type declared in the called function."

Under this definition C and C++ fails hard, since you can statically cast a pointer to an object and pass it to a function expecting a totally incompatible type.

Note that the system described relied at least partly on dynamic/runtime type checks (in case it reads as if the quote above suggests they used "strong" to refer to static typing):

"It is desirable to do compile-time type checking, since type errors are detected as early as possible. Because of the freedom with which types can be used in the language, however, it is not clear how complete the compile time type checking can be. Therefore, the design of the language is based on a runtime type checking mechanism which is augmented by as much compile-time checking as is possible. "

[1] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13...
The stockmarket is denominated in US dollars... Investors see two possible futures:

1. Economy is fine, their stocks end up growing in $$$ terms. Hence high price.

2. Economy tanks, US prints new dollars to pay off loans, US dollar loses lots of its value, but because the company stocks are denominated in dollars, the stocks are still worth a lot of dollars.
Iirc, some fake data papers have been identified because the random errors on the data were not correct.

Besides reporting is good because others can do alternate analysis on the data.
> When you compare the last three years of Obama’s Presidency vs. Trump’s first three years

If you remove the pointless politicking, this is a very informative comment. Thanks for putting all that data together. It seems strange to lay out the completely unprecedented context, then proceed to ignore it in order to make a political claim though.
> - jobs where wages must be subsidized by government programs (eg. WalMart encourages their lowest paid workers to sign up for SNAP)

UBI would obviate the need for SNAP.
> It’s not that easy as the US economy was never “completely stopped”

Yes, 8.3% is obviously the upper bound and in practice it will always be less per month since the economy will never completely stop. The figure is to provide a ballpark estimate of what to expect and also to estimate how much the economy was impacted.
> the ONLY way this ever takes off is if Github does it.

I disagree. What this need is a popular, well known and trustable organisation with enough money to invest into this. Github could be this organisation, but other could do that to, like Mozilla for example, or the FSF, Patreon, Facebook, Apple, maybe even google if they can sell a vision of them not shutting it down 6 monts later.

What is needed is awarness of such an option. Which would work better of course when integrated into the platform. But patreon seems to have proofen that it's also possible to do this with external services.

Also a trustable institution to handle the money

And finally a decent interface to manage your sponsorings, which also means someone doing the work in the background to figure out whether a project accepts donations and how. Would be easy if the platform supports it somewhat automatically, but could also be done manually for projects on other platforms.

I would even go a step further and not limit this to open source projects, but the whole web. Add a simple button into the browser to allow sponsoring for the actual visited url. With some background-service which is smart enough to figure out whether the visited url is a project on github/gitlab/sourceforge, or a blog, a podcast, some content-company , a streamer, or some dude on twitter with something you wanna support.

And if nothing can found to support, an issue is created and the humans in the background will figure out how to support what you consider as supportable, and will inform you if something was found. And with time some schemas and APIs will grow so platforms will allow automation fof this.
Thank you for speaking for the rest of us.
I think the OPs main point is that salary is as much a function of location as it is talent. Not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to move to Silicon Valley.
In fairness if you take what you find here and applied it to the real world. Everyone would be using rust/go. Meanwhile everyone is still using php.
> is that it drastically reduces the need to fear that moving will be too expensive for you

Sure, that would definitely be one area where UBI would assist with but as I mentioned in another comment - it would kind of defeat the purpose of the UBI if people had to spend it on mitigating the consequences of people taking advantage of them receiving UBI
What you are describing here are SEPA direct debits. Many countries including the USA have a similar instrument. While it is free for the consumer from whom money is being collected, it is generally not free for the business that is collecting the money. So in that way, it is the same as credit cards, but the fee is a lot less.
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Show HN: BAT Price – An app to display the current Basic Attention Token price
You listed personal consumption down as 34.6%, but also 34.6% annualized. Are some of those other numbers also supposed to be annualized?
Have you read them all?
History isn't going to be kind to Trump.
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Not wrapping should be the default for every editor. AFAICT, it is not the default for any editor.

I don't think nano is unique in this respect.
Shouldnt this be the top comment?
A flaw regarding the chance of “out-earning” your parents (2016)
Spot on, having lived there for so many years this is exactly what I saw. People pushing for these things dont realize that there are countries where these policies are implemented for decades. Look and them and study. Most of these people have never lived anywhere else

It leads to more nationalism and youll be wishing for the good ol days of today when you go down the path others have gone down.
RDF* or Edge Properties fixes this definitively and it's spread to most RDF systems. See http://stardog.com/docs/ for example.
It's definitely isolating but it's also a solvable problem.

Now that all my friends are working from home, we have more of a desire to meet on a weekly basis. We've been going on short after work hikes together regularly.

We also hold weekly zoom calls to play online board games or chat about what's going on in our lives.

Lastly, for people who have hobbies that still allow social distancing, you can still go to some meetups and have fun. My friend is still playing tennis / badminton and having her normal after match meal.
That’s a good thing. A stock market crash wouldn’t improve the economic situation... Many Americans have retirement and pensions tied to stocks.
Registration/Login required(I'll take the installation over that
in many cases)

No properly working (or even implemented) keyboard shortcuts; I
just tried, Google Sheets tells me to use Ctrl+C etc. but it
doesn't do anything, and what's even worse is that the menu item
for "insert" doesn't do anything either because Google wants to
force me to use the dysfunctional keybinding...thanks I guess

Usually no right click + context menu

Input lag

No offline use possible(remember all the MS/Cloudflare/AWS
etc. outages?)

Less control over data, privacy issues
Another Canadian here... We have a seldom understood issue in Canada about representation. I'm hopeful that this will change. https://nationalcitizensassembly.ca/
Ask HN: Where to Open a Holding Company?
Hi HN readers, Hongkong trends in being part of China makes it less interesting, singapore seems to not accept online game foreign held companies. Delaware means having assets in the US. We still have malta, cyprus and Andora. Do you guys have any experience with low corporate taxes for companies ? Preferably in eu or asia as Im in asia and want to be able to visit the country where to bill people. Also needs a stripe compliance which the country I live does not offer.
For those that don't know... Wisconsinite's refer to folks from Illinois as FIBs (@!#$ing Illinois B@$t@rd$) partly because FIBs own a lot of [lake] cabins in [northern] Wisconsin.

Add: And they irritate Wisconsinite's by driving like Chicagoans and clogging our interstates and roads.

Add: To drive like a Chicagoan is to drive like a Californian: fast (tail gators) and erratic (weaving). At least that's the stereotype.
If you expect tech companies to keep paying SV salaries after they shift to remote-first, you’re in for a rude surprise.

This isn't really a problem though. The people who really benefit from SV salaries are SV landlords and realtors. If SV companies can pay a remote person 75% of the SV salary instead the company saves some money, shareholders get a bigger dividend, someone gets a tech job where they want to live (maybe on more than the local median), and that's good for everyone.

It's probably an absolutely devastating problem for SV landlords, but they've had it pretty good for a long time so they must have been able to see it coming eventually.
Examples like the last one about Python are why I think it’s approximately meaningless as a descriptor. I don’t see why dynamic languages should have any implicit conversions at all.
It's not really an elite group since I'm in it :-P You can flag after you get enough points. I can't say I've ever seen flagged things disappear. They may be marked "[flagged][dead]" but the content is still there.
These numbers are not useful. We need to know if the economy will spring back when we reopen, not if it closed when we closed it. Picking this number because it's the closest thing we have to a useful number doesn't make it useful.
> You lose the one huge opportunity in adult life for making new relationships - and that's at work, in the office.

I don't really understand this. While I like my colleagues, they're just that - co-workers. I'm never really been interested in socialising with them outside of the workplace.

I've moved to a new country and the way I've found friends (without even putting much effort into it) was through activities and shared interests outside of work.
> We are impatient and have a shorter attention span than a goldfish. To be properly absorbed, information needs to be organized in a way that accommodates that.

Common myth, but actually not true. Joe Rogan has 3 hour long talks with people and is one of the most popular media figures.

The real truth is, most information sucks (it's both useless and boring), so people tune out. Improve information, get more attention.
The default nullability of RDBMS types is implementation-specific. Protobufs requires a lot of ugly workarounds for languages such as Java to handle the language's nullable types. You can't eliminate the complexity; only move it, and protobufs moved it in a way that punishes languages with nullable types. XML at least works via omission, but that doesn't handle the case of explicitly signalling "no data", which is a valid signal in many languages.

Concise Encoding does support IEEE754.
The fair value of a stock is the discounted net present value of future profits of an enterprise, plus assets, minus liabilities. There are a lot of companies that continue to make a lot of money and the market is confident in the long term prospects for corporate profits. Corporate profits are increasingly detached from the overall economy.
Swap nano and vim and that's how exactly I feel. :-)
The stock market is largely (as a %) owned by the wealthy (top 5%).
> I'm writing this from South Korea, a country that developed "miraculously" under completely top down control of a military dictator working from centralised 5-year plans.

South Korea's prosperity is almost entirely attributable to its economic liberalization.
> No need to backup

You trust Google etc. to never ban your account for any reason,
or to stay available 100% of the time without outages?
> I really don't think this would stand up in court.

Why not? Under what legal doctrine?
As always the issue is force, and the solution is freedom.
Why don't founders validate properly? Or, why didn't *you* validate properly
I'm interested in what stops people skipping this vital step, especially when "no market need" is often cited as the top reason for startup failure. Surely validation mitigates a huge amount of this risk, so why do startups avoid it so often?
If you can write this comment[0] and think it is in "the spirit of open discussion," we have different ideas of what that means.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23986995
“Ask for your appliance to work. If they don't get your appliance to work, ask for toasted bread. If they do not get your appliance to work or toast your bread, then take their toasted bread.”
Please add "Annualized Rate" to the title.
I agree. And if you only occasionally need text editor on a linux server, like when you change some config file or update cronjob and nothing more, nano is perfectly adequate, without needing to learn all the vim shortcuts.
That way you don’t have to point your fingers around to cancel that show.
> except if you're doing very basic edits (even in that case...)

Most edits I do if I'm not on my daily driver is basic edits. Making adjustments to config files, etc. Doesn't require all the magic of Vim. Still prefer Vim though. Not having my Vim keybindings in an editor is like using a keyboard with a different layout.
Turns out coffee pods are pretty good for the environment (2019)
I came to Mac relatively late and only after years of using Windows and Linux, but I really wish everyone else would copy Mac’s default English keyboard layout & shortcuts. Super+x/c/v for cut, copy, and paste, their relatively ergonomic combos for typing m-dash and various “special” characters using option/alt, and their screenshot shortcuts, especially.
And if anyone doesn't believe this, there is currently an elected official in the highest position of government of a major nation for whom this is modus operandi.
All bank stocks are down right now. When comparing Goldman, it would be better to use a bank index ETF fund like XLF rather than the overall market.