skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The major issue is the thinking that we need to open the economy in spite of the virus. The virus and the economy are inextricably linked. The smart thing to do would have been to subsidize household incomes in a much more meaningful way than just the table scraps that were provided to truly incentivize people to stay home. That coupled with federal mandates and bi-partisan support for public safety measures would have us in a totally different place than we are today. Ironically, it would have helped Trump's reelection campaign--as he would have been the hero of the day for getting the pandemic under control. Instead--we find ourselves in this debacle with politicians pointing fingers and a bunch of woulda, coulda, shoulda conversations happening. Seems bleak.
I can't find a recent figure however I did find "In 2011, U.S. pensions directed an average of 44 percent of overall capital to the stock market".

https://finance.zacks.com/effects-stock-market-pension-funds...
I also never saw this "hard firm soft" connection. Thanks!
I do hear them (here in lower nine) use the lift sometimes.
And then there's Vim which, depending on how it was built for
the respective distro, doesn't seem to accept any way to copy or
paste text.

As a daily Vim user I find this to be a huge mistake in terms of
user friendliness; Vim provides ways to set the clipboard as
default register and other quality of life improvements, but
until then a beginner has to figure out some of the weirdest
keybindings to make it work, or even recompile the program
because that specific distro didn't include xclip support for
some reason. It is infuriating.
So what I find interesting--even scary--is the disconnect between the economy and the stock market. Back in April near the bottom the advice I gave was that this was pretty serious and it's going to knock the economy off its feet so don't treat this like a short-term buying opportunity.

Here we are a few months later and the market has gone gangbusters. This is probably a consequence of zero-interest rates as there's really nowhere else for money to go. You have amateurs jumping into the market based largely on the market can only go up and you can't lose.

Once the market is disconnected from the economy like this it's just a question of when not if you have a reversion to mean and the market will typically get oversold when that happens. But how long will that take? I honestly have no idea. It could be months. Hell, it could even be years.

But a drop in GDP this large is shocking, probably even more shocking than people suspected. And before this I think a lot of people expected things would just get back to normal at some point. But a certain number of businesses and jobs are simply gone. That'll affect demand and probably take years to recover.

I've got a bad feeling about this.
The fed has made it clear that they’re going to do whatever it takes to keep stock prices from falling. At least until November.

If they try to do this indefinitely, and just keep printing money to inflate asset prices no matter the consequences, then eventually they will cause the value of the dollar to fall, which will cause international organizations to reduce their dependence on the dollar, which will cause the value of the dollar to fall more, and so on until we lose our position as the reserve currency. There is no free lunch. All this short term thinking eventually has a cost.
yes, sorry almost all of those numbers are annualized as that's how I think about them and more importantly that's how our factor models use them.
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But you can categorically state that it's against the aims and culture of the company, and there are formal processes in place to deal with transgressions, and that you'll be happy to go through those processes in detail, with examples of why and how they were followed.

That's a rather different category of response to "Well I just can't guarantee this doesn't happen."
Thank you for calling me a fanboy :-D
Maybe a tag in the original title could also help? Something like: "[FAKENEWS] When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple doesn’t refund the 30% cut"

People not reading the comments will then have a way of knowing this is false information.
Not sure why the parent was modded down, they're exactly right. This is not normal times, all bets are off. Current economic numbers have no relevance to the past nor the future.

edit: It will be interesting if Biden is elected and then a vaccine comes out, the economy rebounds, will he take credit? I would expect him to as would any other politician would but, man, Trump's twitter rage will be epic.
From Berners-Lee's FAQ: https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html

Q: What is the history of the //?

A: I wanted the syntax of the URI to separate the bit which the web browser has to know about (www.example.com) from the rest (the opaque string which is blindly requested by the client from the server). Within the rest of the URI, slashes (/) were the clear choice to separate parts of a hierarchical system, and I wanted to be able to make a link without having to know the name of the service (www.example.com) which was publishing the data. The relative URI syntax is just unix pathname syntax reused without apology. Anyone who had used unix would find it quite obvious. Then I needed an extension to add the service name (hostname). In fact this was similar to the problem the Apollo domain system had had when they created a network file system. They had extended the filename syntax to allow //computername/file/path/as/usual. So I just copied Apollo. Apollo was a brand of unix workstation. (The Apollo folks, who invented domain and Apollo's Remote procedure call system later I think went largely to Microsoft, and rumor has it that much of Microsoft's RPC system was).

I have to say that now I regret that the syntax is so clumsy. I would like http://www.example.com/foo/bar/baz to be just written http:com/example/foo/bar/baz where the client would figure out that www.example.com existed and was the server to contact. But it is too late now. It turned out the shorthand "//www.example.com/foo/bar/baz" is rarely used and so we could dispense with the "//".
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And, wore them properly.
"You'll find people arguing HN is biased both ways."

This is not contradicting what I have said.
That's more of a "it's a popular thing now so we'll just follow the trend" than it being real change.
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No, we're certainly more politicized though.
This is an overly simplistic view in my opinion. #1 assumes a strong relationship between the stock market and the overall economy which hasn't been true in recent years (corporate profits are growing way faster than the economy). #2 assumes that the Fed printing money will decrease the value of the dollar, which it might, but in the last 10 years, the Fed has greatly increased the money supply and the dollar has strengthened a lot.

It's best to use terms like the Fed, the US government and US corporations rather than "the US". They're all different.

The possible scenarios investors see are much more varied and nuanced than the two options you've outlined.
The U in UBI is for Universal, so I assume that every adult, at minimum, would get it. Or did I miss something?
That this comment is downvoted (and its parent not) might be peak HN. Just imagine if someone would have criticized Rudy Giuliani for excessive cleanup costs in 2001.
i think the views from a stalwart are actually kind of helpful.

imho "experts" on this probably arent going to be saying much unique or helpful for others in the industry who previously have been so resistent to remote work.
I don't think the lockdowns in europe for second wave flareups will be anywhere near as wide ranging as the initial lockdowns.

It is mostly under control in europe, people understand and accept that if and when there are flareups local lockdowns will happen.

A "new normal" if you will.
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Yeah I agree with this. They were in top form and the crowd obviously helped. Anfield is massive for the team with supporters around.
But after having such a long break due to the lockdown can change the dynamics. Its hard to produce that kind of form after a hiatus. And yes, maybe there even was something about already having won the league mathematically. It can calm the players and lower the intensity slightly.
What are the attributes of a great open-source maintainer?
Where else would people put their money ?
Downvotes are already rate limited. I know because I run out of them within 10 minutes of browsing the site nowadays.

I couldn’t disagree with you more, by the way. The amount of throwaway comments, puns, etc. are out of control. We need stronger downvoting, or weakened upvoting for new users.
[this is terribly wrong: “It did contract by 32.9% in the second quarter (not in the four quarters ending in June 2020)”]

Edit: I assumed it was compared to the second quarter 2019, not sequentially to the first quarter 2020, I didn’t stop to think that 33% was just too much. 9% is bad enough: from $21.34 trillion to $19.41 trillion (Q2 2019 to Q2 2020).
Give me just a little more time, and our love will surely grow. Election delay!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-us-canada-53597975
Thanks, I check that flag. Anyway, I never encountered the problem you are mentioning...
If you take a flat percentage small enough that poor people can afford it it's not even going to be close to enough for UBI. Sure poor people will profit more (if you assume they have a smaller CO2 footprint), but only at a scale of like a couple bucks.
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Ask HN: Why Do You Downvote?
I have been curious about how other people parse their way through HN. I think new accounts can't even downvote. It is common to see people ask about the downvotes even though the second last rule on the guideline [0] says not to question it.

I try to not downvote to disagree. I downvote misinformation, statements that are egressive towards a person and not the point they are making, responses that say "This.".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's an open source tool that you can self host, having none of the problems, or add to your application and when you're doing that, all of what you said already applies.

But yeah, I get why you prefer native programs - I do as well. But the web ones have their place too.

Btw context menu is in google sheets for a long time - I wanted to say a decade, but it might be a little less.
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Was the US lockdown so hard? I thought Europe locked down much more and the contractions there were in the 6-13% range.
I believe it's "Rust" or "rust" when referring to the language. "RUST" implies the video game in my head.
> Current welfare wastes a lot of money on admin/staff/fraud investigations and none of that would be needed with UBI

Not to mention a lot of other social programs that would be folded into UBI and eliminated overnight. Social security, food stamps, rent assistance.... That's not enough savings to pay for UBI, but it's an appreciable chunk.

And the existence of UBI would imply the existence of a national registry, which would drastically change the equations regarding illegal immigration. Border enforcement becomes a lot less important to some anti-immigrant demographics, if those immigrants cannot receive any welfare. Police for fraud, sure, but maybe you don't need as many fences and armed guards patrolling the border?

I'm just saying the knock-on effects of such a drastic shift in society would be huge, so expecting a simple comparison of current costs and revenues is so simplistic that it's guaranteed to be off by a lot.
Thanks for the links. I found that this link might be a good entry point into the field:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_system

But I don't like the word "reputation" as it goes against the idea that people who are new might have good input too. Using reputation as a discriminator is very much like committing an ad-hominem fallacy. But perhaps that's the best we can do.
It's all correct in theory. Yet we're approving new coal mines and expansions to existing ones. It doesn't make sense, but it happens.

As long as a politician brings a lump of coal to the Parliament with a straight face to argue we should not be afraid of it, it definitely will be a concern. The decisions being made are just not rational.
People know that cloth face masks don't work, right? That it's about as effective as airport security? Google Scholar would be the best place to start.
sorry if that came across as blaming you...
what I mean is that it's actually a pretty good thing in a way that corporations operate that way. If a sizeable proportion of workers/customers make it clear they will not accept something, it will be gone in a heartbeat.

Of course, there are (huge) exceptions for monopoly situations where there's simply nowhere else to take your work/money.
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Same in Finland. I believe under 15 Posti-operated dedicated post offices remain - just yesterday they closed their former HQ post office in the Post Building: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/end_of_an_era_as_posti_ex...

There are 900 post offices and approx. 2000 parcel lockers (population 5.5M).

They have also taken steps due to the dramatically decreased amount of mail in the last decade (over 50% down since 2010 - this year yearly decrease has been 15-20% so far):

- Yearly price increases of letter mail (50g letter stamp is now at 1.75€).

- Slowed down the basic letter services (first class stamped letter went from 1 day to 4 days).

- Reduced delivery frequency (no mail delivery on Tuesdays if possible).

- Mail may now be delivered later during the day.

And of course large layoffs, which have probably resulted in a reduction of service quality - public complaints seem to have increased.
The present isn't too kind to him either.
Yup. The chroma virus did it. The big bad chroma virus will turn you a different color.

Anyway I'm liking the lockdown because I don't want to go anywhere and I have plenty of opportunity to write code that nobody will ever use. Zero users and loving it!

The day job has been slow though. I’m not quite working full-time anymore since there's simply less work to do right now. $CUSTOMERS are slightly less interested in $COMPANY $PRODUCTS when they're more concerned about essentials like where they can buy food.
I think this approach is flawed.

Most long-term high impact findings come from foundational research, not applied science.

Also scientists would then just tune their research to sound good to investors.

Tuning economic knobs in an area that should be as free from outside pressure as possible seems counterproductive.

No, being stricter in rewarding rigor over perceived usefulness is the way to go.
As a developer I'm a fan of checking the documentation into the same source code repo alongside the code.

If the code branches the documentation branches, if it merges the documentation merges. Documentation can then made to be part of "code complete" for developers. Think README.md

However, there's always resistance to this wacky idea. Chief being the lack of tools and management fear of editing text files. This article also adds searchability to the negatives.
This is exactly what I wanted to build for my last project. So glad someone else did! Looks nice.

Can you add some info to the README on how to integrate in some simple steps? or are you not ready for this yet?
Some of the lighter distros designed for SBCs for example. Don't recall the exact one where I ran into this issue...openwrt I think

Not a disaster, but I don't personally have those arcane vi keyboard shortcuts memorized so even a small tweak to the config is unnecessarily painful
RubyJard – Just another Ruby debugger
Interesting how they invert the qualifications for the disciplines versus US universities. It makes a lot of sense for a centrally-planned education system to force higher admission requirements for disciplines with less rigor and lower job demands. I have a suspicion that the US college system would implode for lack of willing customers and greatly reduce rigor to pablum. It’s basically a babysitting service here. It also makes it clear that pursuit of some measures of prestige reduce effectiveness of a system.
I programmed for a refurbishing company for some time, where I learned about toner cartridge refill kits. Once you've bought an expensive copier for your company you're vendor locked into proprietary toner cartridges, and they charge outrageous prices. "Pirates" started selling bags of toner and syringes on eBay with instructional videos on how to refill the cartridge yourself. The toner company started putting small chips on the cartridge that would count the number of prints, and deactivate the cartridge after a certain amount. "Out of toner" was a lie, it was unauthorized printing. Reading this story is making me sick to my stomach.
Noting that "I’m a huge fan of capitalism and free trade" in the modern world seems questionable. If it was capitalism that lifted the world out of poverty, what is it that is pulling the US (and others) back into poverty through massive inequality?
I was in southern France recently. Nearly 100% of people there are wearing masks inside shops, public transport, and other confined spaces. And still, even there we now see the clear increase in daily cases (it is much slower than before, but still happening)
No. “The U.S. economy contracted at a record 32.9% annual rate last quarter.”
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We have millions more cases than them
Anecdotally, my mortgage went up every year due to some combination of assessment values, property taxes, or whatever black magic Wells Fargo and the government had in their pocket.
The title of the article says "U.S. Economy Contracts at Record 32.9% Annual Rate". A HN mod should change the title here on this site cause it's misleading.
Unfortunately, that's had a really poor track record this past century or so.

I don't have a good answer either... I just agree that UBI seems like a net positive.
“Pumping up the economy” Was kind of pointless when nothing is open.
In most of the US, I believe there are no laws. California recently passed some legislation limiting rental increases per year, but it's still something like 7-8%, which is ludicrous.

The first world country I'm from has, effectively, nation-wide rent control (varies by region) and rent increases are limited to something around 1%, set each year (tracking inflation somewhat).

In the US, this will work very poorly: a landlord can just bump your rent by exactly the UBI amount and get away with it. Otherwise, they would have to wait for a vacancy to set the rent. But eventually, I agree that the rent would just absorb the UBI in many cases.
Yet another model that has probably been never used on high scale: letting people sponsor tickets (GitHub issues). The donation would go to the contributor who closes the ticket to the satisfaction of the main contributors. The amount, of course, will be decided by how a ticket is perceived as important.
> non-excludable

I think the term you're looking for is "public goods", which combines non-rivalrous and the author chooses not to exclude people through legal means.

Running out of time to comment before I need to get to work so I'll just link our economics page here: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/economics
Wrong, you just hold down Ctrl and then randomly mash 'O', 'X' , and Enter until it kicks you back into the shell like a screaming infant
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>54% of Americans own stocks, either directly or indirectly.

But its negligible ownership stake, during the pandemic we have seen the multiple single day market swings that more than erase the collective holdings of 80% of investors. Moreover, 1% of investors own more than 33% of the market and the top 10% own >80% of the US stock market, that type of top heavy system is always bound to topple.
Zoning also needs fixes
maybe i'm an idiot, but i really don't get the whole UBI argument... we already have it, it's called welfare and you see and how that has been taken advantage of and what a sh*t storm it is.

we don't a UBI, we need the government to stop dipping their hands in everyone's pockets and free up money.

1) stop taxing social security checks. these people have worked their entire lives and now you're taxing them on money THEY put in.
2) stop taxing disability checks. these people DEPEND on that money cause they can't work.
3) speaking of SS. we need to end it at some point. a good way of doing it would be to automatically put 25% of their SS contribution into a ROTH IRA.
4) you should be allowed to contribute an additional 20% of your salary to a ROTH IRA instead of the 6K it is now.
5) stop taxing people who make less than 40K per year.

these are just some of the ways i can think of to put more money into people's pocket without killing the economy, but that's just me talking out loud. maybe i'm wrong.
We already know it has sprung back. Retail sales are at pre-coronavirus levels as is housing sales. The only question is how sustainable it is, given the large unemployment numbers and massive government stimulus.

But to say they aren’t useful is wrong. We need to know the numbers to understand the damage done to the economy.
SC-IM – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal
Freakonomics covered this in one of their podcasts. Their finding was that home-field advantage had more to do with the crowd influencing the calls of the officials. They would typically favor the home team. I wonder if this will change further with the use of VAR.

https://freakonomics.com/2011/12/18/football-freakonomics-ho...
Why not go for the original idea, and go straight for Communism instead?
When you say 'has the functionality of a spreadsheet but looks nothing like current spreadsheets', what do you mean?

I am working on Mesh Spreadsheet. It gives you a spreadsheet UI that writes code as text. It will likely use k9 as the formula language once it matures, but:

- you can try the JavaScript prototype at this link: http://mesh-spreadsheet.com

- you can see a proof of concept video using k here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEG9pFNYBCI
> A: (It's a fish, and also a brown fish with a tail and no legs.) It's a fish.

It actually got a valid answer!
A lot of the problems in academia, I believe, come from incompetence, a lack of questioning or at least of doubting others' competence and your own competence, and reliance on unsound ideas about scientific methodology. Andrew Gelman has some good thoughts here that I feel are related:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/07/29/the-crooks...

Some people will have the best of intentions, they will really be doing "science" out of the goodness of their hearts and out of their desire to help mankind, but they'll end up publishing trash that gets acceptance and sometimes even praise.

What are the incentives that need to be instilled to fix the problems we currently have? I'd say we need to incentivize competence and humility. How? I don't know exactly, but values like these seem to be able to be instilled through cultural practices and traditions.

Also, especially humility seems to be lacking from many cases of bad science. If people accepted criticism and accepted that they don't really understand all that much, I believe scientific quality would improve. You do have a lot of reasons to not be humble in academia though, as this comic lays out.
Actually, a lot of people read, most of the time there were no brown M&Ms and the stage was set up correctly.
Startup time: 1ms, vs 3000ms