skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, new outbreaks and lockdowns are being reported throughout China. Anecdotal reports are not especially meaningful in the context you suggest.

>Not to mention the statistical measures and statements from technocrats are all inline and consistent.

Wear a mask, don't wear a mask. Cloth face coverings are sufficient. Cloth face coverings are not sufficient.

A paper debunking the use of hydroxychloroquine was retracted, as many studies are. Without a doubt, the issue has become politicized.

Human knowledge is imperfect. Science is a system of rational inquiry practiced by fallible humans, not a system of belief. Scientism would be the misuse of science as a system of belief. Typical of the theme, those who criticize scientism (and the annointed technocrats) are castigated as heretics and unbelievers.

Attempting to conflate my doubts about the effectiveness of technocratic management and central planning with flat eartherism is plain hyperbole. This kind of retort speaks to your inability to address the issue.

What would fact-checkers have said to Copernicus?
That's pretty cool! I also backed Flipper Zero so hopefully will have the device in feb 2021 :D
Speaking of points 2 and 3 (and I apologize for being a bit tangential), how are they not teaching home economics in school. I'm solidly GenX, and they didn't teach me Home Econ (luckily my parents took up that role). This is a point of education that has been sorely lacking in school for decades and it is truly confusing.

Young men and women are coming out of school without the basic knowledge of how to set basic budgets and balance checkbooks. How to understand interest and how that will effect their payments in the future. Understanding that principal comes out last unless you make extra payments, so that it behooves a person to spend a little less on amenities and pay down the principal now .... things like this don't seem to be offered in basic education. Not to mention basic life skill classes, as well (again, these also weren't offered when I was in school either). School seems to be ONLY college prep but, even then, not very well suited for the skills one needs to transition to living a life there.

Anyway, like I said... Tangential conversation. But, basic home econ would seem to address to a degree, points 2 and 3 if UBI were offered. Though, I will admit, I am a major proponent of "education will set you free".
If you use HN pseudonymously, then downvotes aren't as impactful.

But if you use HN as a funnel for brand building, talent acquisition, or as an authoritative voice for your company, then they can be costly.
And time and time again, things that by conventional wisdom would increase inflation somehow don't. Macroeconomics isn't that simple, and posting a wikipedia article isn't an argument.
Bee Facts: Honeybees have a radius of collection of around 3 miles, which means one hive collects pollen and nectar from around 28 square miles of land.
Slumlords require a limited supply of local housing to gain leverage. If people on UBI are free to move then slumlords are competing with each other, so the same market forces that keeps prices low everywhere else are in effect.

Some people on UBI would happily trade worse living conditions for more spending cash. But that freedom of choice is what enables efficient resource allocation.
In the country I live, rent is indexed and adjusted to inflation on an yearly basis. When the contract expires, parties have the chance to negotiate rent value at contract renewal to either increase it or decrease it.
Stuart Ritchie's book Science Fictions was not illustrated by Zach Weinersmith, only the article was.
worked out so great for him so far!
Doesn’t Patreon already solve this problem?

I might have selection bias because I support an OSS dev there but isn’t that a pretty efficient way of directly supporting specific projects?
Has that always been the case, or was that added in recent years? I've seen more than 4 downvotes on a comment in approx 2015 era. It was noticeable because it wasn't about the comment content, but all my comments on one story were being downvoted. By the time it stopped an hour or two later, total karma was down more than 40 points. Good to see there is now a floor on downvotes.
I use a statement of work template.
more than I'm willing to spend considering the number of news sources I'm already paying for.
Yes, it's something we've planned to add in the second release!
Note: The parent was significantly edited while I was writing.

>for posting well-written, thought-out responses which other people disagreed with

I could write a well-written, thought-out argument in favor of segregating blacks. I'm not suspicious of you - I'm just saying, maybe you're making too much assumption about how valuable your writing is, since you've only used "well written" and "thought out" as evidence.

>just for playing Devil's Advocate

Do you announce that that's what you're doing? Do you think there is such thing as a comment that deserves downvotes, but that wouldn't if it was written the same word for word with the exception of being announced as a thought exercise? (Not rhetorical - I suspect my personal answer is yes).

>within a minute

A minute is a long time.

> They are coddled and react negatively to things they disagree with

This is a broad and specific accusation to level at people just because they downvoted you. It's also a very convenient way to convince oneself that one is "the better person".
I think you misread the parent, you're in agreement over UBI being beneficial:

> UBI covers a way larger group of people and gives them opportunities and flexibility, I only see that as win.
The craziest is how obvious we can be about it. It just happened and yet the whole conversation right now is not about how to verify it, but just to trust that new one as fact too.

It's nice that we acknowledge that we were wrong... but we are doing the same exact mistake right now.
They're talking about physical address, as that's what the parent suggested.
I'm not really sure where the impression that HN is particularly well educated and informed comes from. My experience here is that people don't read what's linked, they just opine on the title (which may be clickbait) or other people's comments (which are also opining on the title or other people's comments--it's uninformed opinions all the way down). There are a few posters who are knowledgeable in their fields, but overall, I get the impression that HN users are remarkably uninformed on the topics they choose to opine on.

HN specifically prohibits remarking on this when it happens; the guidelines say: 'Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."' I understand that the intent of this is to create a polite environment, but the end result is one where uninformed opinions are welcomed.

It's even to the point that some people will proudly proclaim that they didn't read the thing they're responding to, often paired with a complaint that the linked content is too long, or that it didn't account for some gotcha (which it accounts for, just not in the first few paragraphs).

To be clear: you may be informed on a topic, but if you don't read what you're responding to, you aren't informed on what you're responding to. And over time, people whose only source of "information" is uninformed comments are going to be uninformed on topics as well, while believing that they are informed.

> It's kind of fascinating on many levels, I guess many of us put more trust on the community rather than our gut feeling. We are in the post-truth era indeed.

But neither community consensus nor gut feeling have anything to do with truth. Primary sources, scientific observation, and to a lesser degree, logic and expert opinion--those are what we should be trusting.
I think if the increase in income is concentrated enough, you may find concentrated rent increase, i.e. silicon valley incomes and housing.
Respectfully I don't think it's as easy as you think. Consider, for a non-tech person:

1. I have to be told or take the time to discover the non-Amazon option exists. And (though I haven't tested it) my guess is these days it takes a while to use Google (the default search tool for folks) to find an alternative.

2. I have to assess if I trust this new alternative.

3. I have to figure out how this new alternative works. For non-technical folks, depending on their background and how good or bad the UX for a site is, this could be a blocker.

4. I have to search on the new site for what I want.

5. I have to check how long the new site will take to deliver the item.

6. I have to enter payment information which again raises the question of trust.

All of these small (or not so small) frictions add up, IMHO, and it's not anyone's fault. It's just human behavior.

Amazon has a great customer experience when it comes to the items I listed. The problem as we know isn't that - it's how they stifle competition and help create the conditions in which they are the only company with this level of customer service. Oh yeah, and Amazon's abusive labor practices when it comes to the people it hires to work in it's warehouses.
There are allocations from the International Telecommunication Union for deep space communications in the S, X, K and Ka bands. This bandwidth (and parameters like transmit power of the relay spacecraft) effectively bounds how many bits per second you can get back from Mars. You can do better with optical communications and maybe some clever MIMO-like tricks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_space_bands
Hm, if I got a comment like this in reply to mine, I would double-check my facts before rushing to the downvote button.
The true comment "This is not contradicting what I have said." making an argument to a comment about discussions is voted down. What more do I need to say?
I agree and I think this hits deeply into the heart of the matter. Science is precisely resolving conflict in your observations by removing as much bias as possible.

Engaging in that conflict with each other is how we expose new ideas for further analysis.
I downvote primarily bad faith arguments. If I disagree, think you’re wrong, etc I tend to respond (or upvote quality responses).

For instance, I downvoted a comment yesterday that said something along the lines of “you can get a cs degree and spend your life optimizing a companies ad revenue, or you can go into physics and work on problems like this” referring to an alternative gravity model passing some early tests for feasibility.

Obviously not all cs degree holders work on ad revenue, some work on important, impactful things. And I personally know physics majors who work on designing plumbing systems for a small company renovating houses in my area. It’s a bad argument, and it detracts from the quality of the conversation.
To each their own, based on my experiences being a part-time caretaker for my mom for 10 years as she slowly lost her mind and various organs to cancer/cancer treatments (narcotic painkillers and crazy liver enzymes from dying liver), I'd like to know I have a degenerative disease as soon as possible so as to make preparations to minimize the financial and psychological impact on my family. You try every available treatment, maybe hold out for some experimental treatment, but there may come a time where you've tried everything there is and you're just dragging people you love down with no hope of recovery, and exchange all productivity/ability for meaningless pain and torture with no end in sight. At that point I'd like enough saved up to make one last visit to Hawaii, among a few other potential states.
> So if someone from the backstage team messed up the M&Ms, it will bring absolutely no information about how the situation was handled by the guys in charge of the stage...

Sounds like there was little to no organization then.

I showed this to my co-worker who managed the technical aspects of a large college theater that also served the town. They hosted multiple large events including bands who had fleets of semi trailers to haul their gear. They had a single contract review person who read everything carefully and then coordinated the teams doling out requirements. As each team satisfied the requirements they would report back.
Dirt poor people being slightly less dirt poor and not having to worry about where their next meal is going to come from will not inflate basic goods that much.

We've seen this with higher minimum wages. The amount of inflation is much lower than than the wage increase, and poor people end up with more buying power.
I should have included the following characters "Edit:"...I was downvoted multiple times before I even mentioned brigading. That was a post-hoc edit after I'd been downvoted multiple times, I think I was at -2 within 1-2 minutes.

HN commenters simply downvote things they disagree with, even if it pushes the narrative further and promotes more thought. IMO, downvotes should be reserved for low-effort wastes of space comments, not dissenting viewpoints.
It doesn't work to talk about an "elephant in the room" and then not name names. The whole point of the idiom is that you're criticizing other people for not concretely naming things.
Pt 2: I don't get how UBI is supposed to be different from any other cash. It's all green.
Well you can of course but interviewers often discount candidates that slag off their old employers on the grounds that they’ll be difficult to manage.
If police unions aren't "unions," why are some of them part of the AFL-CIO, the largest collection of unions in the nation?

Police unions are unions--according to other unions.

I think it would be more intellectually honest of Cory to admit that unions are not automatically or inherently contributors to social progress, but rather are forms of organization that must be available in order to create the potential for social progress.

Put another way, objecting to what police unions do is not proof of a flaw with unionization in general. It's just disagreement with what those specific union leaders choose to do with the power afforded to them by the union form.

Progressives are plenty comfortable making this kind of argument about nonprofit organizations. It's perfectly consistent to like the ACLU and dislike the NRA, for example, even though they're both nonprofits.
I knew Stephen Diehl rang a bell! He is the author of this very useful primer on tools & basics of the Haskell dev environment: "What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell"(http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/). I recommend it as a practical overview, though of course it doesn't replace actually learning Haskell.
OT: In that same comment thread is also a banned user (first time I saw this) where I'm surprised they still have a positive karma count, given the absolute toxic comments this user (troll really) has been giving for months.

Edit: Maybe shadow-banned for the most part of 3 months.
Many years ago,when I was a teenager with no money to buy all the nice magazines I wanted, I came with an idea. I thought how nice it'd be to buy up all the issues of all the magazines, upload online and then charge a small few to read them. Then I started thinking of the logistics of such thing, including how would the publishers react.I came to a conclusion that any attempt of this sort would be crushed by the publishers...
You are used to see the most significant digit on the left, but really we have to right align a column of number in order for them to be readable, whereas everything else we read is left aligned. And you don't know what this significant number corresponds to (thousands, millions, billions?) until you have read all the other numbers (if you read left to right).

As for SQL, you write

SELECT TOP 10 ColName FROM TableName WHERE X = 10 ORDER BY ColName

and the server reads

FROM TableName WHERE X = 10 SELECT ColName ORDER BY ColName TOP 10

It is not "mostly" the right order.

And right to left assignment for mathematics or programming.
I simply went by the official definition [0].

> : a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not : behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel

> especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion

Seems to me that this is exactly the point of what we're talking about here. It started from the "cognitive dissonance" which applies less effectively to a "hive mind" like a company than the above given definition for hypocrisy.

That feigning is exactly the difference between feigned and real values or behavior. And no matter which feigned/real pair you choose from this story (real values, claimed values, values and behavior towards themselves, or towards users, etc.) you will find evidence of hypocrisy.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocrisy
Sure, let's assume we can (and in fact should) grow endlessly on a finite planet. I'm sure that'll work out.
The irony of the ad box blurb for the book itself fits in:

"...currently available in paperback and Kindle formats."

It's also available in several other ebook formats not authorized for use with the affiliate link. The local library offers Adobe EPUB, Open EPUB, and OverDrive Read as well. All the better for reading on my unauthorized jailbroken ereader.
+1

I loved using Nano for a long time before I picked up Vim. I don’t get the elitism either, Nano is a great editor.
A bit of a shameless plug, but a few years ago I Googled for scientific and statistical analyses of home field advantage and didn't find anything, so I ended up crunching the numbers for myself.

With the caveat that this is for baseball and not football, home field advantage has shrunk tremendously over the years. Just look at the curve of "field kindness" over the history of the MLB, it is insane how much of a difference the field you were visiting used to make!

https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/homefield-advantage/

(my favorite bit is the curve ball when it comes to fields that confer a statistical advantage to the visiting team!)
I disagree strongly with your position, but I will upvote your comment after I submit mine because you stated it in a way that I felt deserved a reply. I vote toward the goal of surfacing good HN discussion.

If you vote according to your own views on a topic, then you're saying that you want everyone to see only views that agree with yours, and you want contrasting views to be hidden from everyone. This must be true because voting affects the presentation of comments on the site; it is not at all just an inert database column.

I would like to see well-expressed opinions regardless of how echoey or reprehensible they might be. I visit HN in the hopes of having my mind changed, and those kinds of comments are the very comments that might change my mind.

That's why I especially try to vote for any comment I reply to (because it was literally thought-provoking); comments that restated another jumbled comment well (they improve site readability); and comments that explain extreme viewpoints in rational if not reasonable terms (they promote further logical or at least empathetic discussion). None of these have anything to do with my personal opinion on the subject.

You're going to downvote my comment because I think voting serves to curate the site to make it a better place to visit, and you think voting is a popularity contest for your own world view. I want your viewpoint to be seen and discussed. You want mine to be hidden.
Not only do we attempt to extend life by any means irregardless of quality of life, we are encouraged by high costs of education, real estate, child-rearing to toil away the best/healthiest years of our lives. It's definitely a good opportunity to rethink our priorities.
It's possible that you were downvoted for irrelevancy? Dunno, I almost never downvote.
To be clear, in finance, we _always_ quote annualized numbers. It would be super unconventional and misleading to everyone in finance to list an absolute number as you suggest.

This is more like the general populace not understanding how finance works rather than the finance press exaggerating the number.
I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted here - you have given concrete examples of comments that are bad. Whether one agrees with you or not, this is exactly the kind of answer that OP was looking for.
>>>1. society will be easily divided into two groups: those >>>who depend on the UBI to live and those who don't. The >>>former will be absolutely at the mercy of the latter.

I feel the opposite is more likely to be true.

An scenario of populist leaders capturing UBI individuals and controlling centralized UBI distribution, promising them benefits and at same time menacing them of cuts, and in the meantime dividing the non-UBI crowd with single issues like abortion.

Non-UBI people at the mercy of UBI people is the real danger.

3. I could see part of this as a good outcome. Charity is too many times a fraud. And people would not have any excuse to have their children begging on the streets.
Once, as a little personal challenge, I've used solely nano + fzf as my IDE and programming editor. I went pretty far with it :)
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this thread is about UBI, which is currently impossible without new laws, so why not look at what could be possible with new laws regarding land?
I wasn't even aware that nano could be used as a "real" editor before I read these comments. I always thought it was like notepad.exe, meant for quick edits but not for any serious work.

I just discovered that it supports syntax highlighting, multiple buffer support, macros, a file browser and auto-indentation. It's only a matter of time before it gets Python scripting support. I'm sure its great if you like the editor but for something that's called "nano" it definitely reeks of feature creep, actually I just checked that the nano binary on my system is actually bigger than vi.

That being said when the most popular code editor these days is an Electron app, I suppose that "nano" is not technically false advertising.
Not sure if I'm convinced, assuming pricing is based on supply and demand. UBI might increase demand a little bit (as the homeless can now afford housing), but probably not by much.
Needs rows with active and passive weapons systems plus technical specs for communications hardware.
Doesn't /. have this?
If Google had one engineer more, they would beat YouTube (2005)
Sweden Unveils 'Promising' Covid-19 Data as New Cases Plunge
I actually explored all those in my research a few years ago, but stateside and with baseball as the subject: https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/homefield-advantage/
A.I. Helped Uncover Chinese Boats Hiding in North Korean Waters
Was in severe mental decline for a few years.
Doctors had no clue.

Was put on alzheimer meds. They did help, but not nearly enough.

I Went on blood thinners. All cognitive problems resolved in a couple of days.

Turned out it was a clotting disorder. Two actually.

Neurological symptoms were resolved by a hematologist.

Turned out the alzheimer med was acting as a mild blood thinner for cerebral fluid. So it was the right idea.

I imagine lots of alzheimer patients are on blood thinners, so unrelated.
But outside the box thinking is still vital.
The problem is that the Internet Archive demonstrated that controlled digital lending can allow a library to become indistinguishable from Pirate Bay overnight.

They blew up an uneasy peace and cannot exactly be trusted to adhere to the practice without changing it as they decide.
Since there's no number in the title (as of 10:30am ET), adding the word "annualized" means nothing.
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Wait, you guys can downvote?
Men can be stuck in abusive relationships as well. Xanthippe is a thing since the dawn of time.

But I agree, abolish alimony and let UBI take care of that, so both spouses can freely go their own way if desired.
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