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Am I the only one who hates both the term, the idea and frequent discussions of "Universal Basic Income"?

-The term feels like just a rebranding of slightly-modified concepts that have been around forever

-The term also says "income" when it's really just "Forced Redistribution (FR)". ... why does the term focus on the money people receive and not the money people pay?

-The discussions in favor of UBI/FR generally revolve around new inventions which could lead to mass unemployment. These are such old arguments that have been debunked with every new mass-unemployment causing invention, from the rake to the tractor to the sewing machine. UBI/FR supporters have the same arguments as those who burned down sewing machine factories in the 1800s.

-What would the world look like if we implemented UBI/FR after the sewing machine or tractor? And would year 2500 look better with or without UBI/FR?

-Why do people support a government policy that they wouldn't support for their own children? Most of us have known of or heard of rich families where the kids got all the money and resources they need into adulthood vs those who were forced to earn their own way... it's obvious which parenting strategy turns out better.
I agree "US casualties in WWII vs US deaths from covid" is far more appropriate. OP forgot to say US and you were right to point this out.

Past that, at some point it's hard for me to take this sort of thing too seriously. OP probably doesn't have a copy editor for the online comments he's writing from the shitter/waiting for the coffee brewer.

It's a reasonable comparison because, sans COVID context, literally every American would answer "yes" to the question "did lots of Americans die in WWII?"
I've seen "my kid needs a summer job" way more at medium size $100m/yr revenue companies where that can be hidden in the budget easier, and you can get a kickback for internships if you play your cards right as one of those companies.

And it is relevant, because there's a lot of data that there is no negative effect on employment elasticity, but there is significant publication bias in the field. And what always gets brought out is the argument that "businesses will start letting extra people go". They already do that even without minimum wage increases.
> The danger is not in banning products with added sugar, but in the government having the power to regulate what one may do with one's body.

But... that's not what Mexico's proposal is. It's also not the goal of any of these public health bans.

The goal of the bans is to prevent people from selling and profiting from unhealthy products. It doesn't stop individuals from producing and consuming whatever they want.
I thought it was a pretty even handed piece covering the debate in the field.

Here are personally penned unedited opinions from econ nobelists etc if you prefer :)

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/17/opinion/paul-krugman-libe...

https://www.epi.org/publication/raise-minimum-wage/
Marx never said anything about the state setting prices. Wasn't part of his analysis. He was only concerned with analyzing how prices came to be what they are under capitalism, and what the consequences of that are

He did feel that some other model of ownership & management could lead to some other form of remuneration, but he definitely left it unclear.

Read the other discussions on this thread, there's far more nuance here than I think you're understanding.
"Flee" _where_ this time? All economies are fucked, if not now then a month from now when it gets colder and all of this starts anew where they managed to subdue the first wave. I think these insane valuations are just pricing in the upcoming global wave of inflation at this point. FWIW, I'm betting on it. I'm taking on a ton of debt by buying another house.
> What new wars have been started under the current administration?

Many an internet flame-war, that's for sure.

But then - how do you define war. The stage of official declaration all to arms type wars seem to be less clear-cut. Economics has and always will be the biggest weapon of wars these days.
How much actual buying and selling have they done? How does that compare to a year ago? How does that compare to the market as a whole? Those are actually relevant, while the government just having some stock is not, so those are what we should be looking at.
After working on a project that had code commit linters like this, that block you from committing if there's a violation, it's absolutely awful. You cannot work incrementally at all since "inject logger" is not a feature. Since most people aren't comfortable with rebasing (i don't know why), you end up with a ton of nonsense like a whole chain of refactors or feats that aren't actual refactors or features, they're just there to appease the tool since you can't commit (even locally!) without them.

Just stick to squash-before-merge-to-master, thanks.
> minimum wage will lower employment from small business significantly

Can you show some data that demonstrates this? Because, despite all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth (and flawed economic theory), in my country this has never been shown to be an actual effect after minimum wages go up.
Sadly 3% is the right number to use for that comparison between observed fatality in the US and earlier estimates https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

The estimated IFR is quite different and can’t be just swapped.
If it's anything like ships/yachts then the lighter weight doesn't come anywhere close to making up for the loss of energy.

Could still be very useful for flights between nearby cities e.g. LAX to SF.
"I honestly couldn't get past the" is an internet trope. "The author has issues" is true of everybody. "Neurotic" is calling names in this context [1]. It seems like a shallow dismissal to me. There's another guideline which applies here too:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Posts about parenting may be the most emotionally triggering of all categories that come up on HN. As readers, we're all responsible for containing the reflexive reactions that come up in us when encountering something intense, and instead of rushing to the comments to dismiss or attack it, waiting awhile until something more reflective emerges, in which case an interesting comment may result.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[1] So is "crazy" for that matter. That's an extreme thing to say, and I'm sure you don't really mean it.
Issuing debt to buy yourself, what could go wrong?!?!

Seriously thought, this is a landmine. If the company faces cashflow issues and they can't pay their bond payments, then the company can be sent into a negative feedback loop where their stock price continues to fall, making it harder to borrow, which eventually leads to bankruptcy.

This is the situation that happens a lot with companies who are otherwise profitable. They just have too much debt as the result of a leveraged buyback. So they are operating on the edge, and one bad quarter throws them into a tailspin.
I deployed a couple of thousand NCD xterms at a Very Large airline backed by a cluster of very large Sun machines running a customer service application. Would have been late 90s. Very successful once the network performance issues were wrung out. Good times.
The security benefits of Rust outweigh those concerns. Almost all C++ code in Chromium is security sensitive. Even if it is sandboxed it can be part of an exploit chain to get to a sandbox escape. Adopting more secure languages should be a long term goal of the project.
That's a highly controversial statement.
I’m honestly not sure. There is iCloud, News, Arcade, but those three combined shouldn’t even get to $5B, let alone $22B.
Is the freedom to accept a contract for poverty wages to avoid starvation a desirable feature in our society?
Easy, have your boss's boss tell them.
And at one time, the 1st amendment didn't even exist. Then, the argument was, "You don't even have freedom of speech, so don't bother". Just wait and see, eventually a case will reach the Supreme Court which will make us finally face facts that you can only blur the lines so much when dealing with private companies operating large-scale and general social platforms. After a certain point, it's a public forum and your rights should be equally protected if Facebook is to operate in your jurisdiction.
What country is this? Iran?
You can't fix much of that stuff after he is 7 years old. Educate the child so you don't have to jail the adult. At least that's the common wisdom grandmothers say in my country.

Some study I found that also mentions the seven-year milestone: https://news.softpedia.com/news/Our-Personality-Is-Fully-Dev...
How does this compare to Tailscale? It's nice that Twingate has a Docker image available, which is something that Talescale is missing
by this logic a reverse stock split would increase the market cap. No need to even waste money buying back any shares... free market cap rise, bonuses for ceo, cfo, existing shareholders rejoice :)
duplicate, please check before submitting, especially for such obvious submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198172
I'm not sure people in Iran will agree... The economical crisis caused by trump's government and the impossibility of any other country to invest in the country anymore is a big shift.
What you wrote is why I asked not only about programmers but also entrepreneurs -- people to handle relationships and beyond the tech.

Speaking about the right time, Uber and Lyft proposing to leave the market seems like a great time to practice, especially while drivers are hurting from a lockdown.
The problem is not so much that kids can’t handle virtual education as much as we not being able to care for our kids because we have a jobs.
Think about it... Do you think it’s normal for a human child to be institutionalized just because his/her parents are working?
Where is their hunter-gatherer band when your kids need it? Nothing about 2020 nuclear family society is normal for a human child. Nothing at all.
We don't know how many more did not write or share their writings
If you're having a rational conversation with reasonable people, sure. But there are plenty of people who will insist that anything making a market less free is harmful, a bad idea and bad public policy. If you try to reconcile that, you may infer that they seem to be working with an unusually constrained definition of "free market", but that's usually not the most straightforward explanation.
Me too! We're jugging 3 kids and working from home, and I thought the article was on point. My guess is that most of the dismissive comments are from people without kids!
Cool! I didn't know that.
Thanks, that seems to be the most rational approach and can be tied to a specific formula.

I wonder why states/municipalities don't just leave it at that - a specific consumption basket whose cost is recalculated annually, vs having recurrent loud debates about it with some arbitrary round numbers.
That is the problem with default narratives, they dont adapt well to every case.

Chromium codebase is a massive codebase. It works, its efficient and fast, its sophisticated and complex, its well tested, had all sort of bugs that was taken out of them. Its really well written C++ code with modern ownership semantics. So a lot of mistakes that are used as boogeyman to convince people to use Rust are barely problems you really face.

And no matter what wonders Rust promisses, a lot of bugs would get back there in case of rewriting things.

Rust can make a very good point when the thing to be rewritten is in C (if is not a billion dollar codebase like Linux). But with big codebases, well written and modern C++ it doesnt make sense at all.

I get it why someone would start a new project in Rust though.. but the things dont add up when we talk about big codebases already coded with good C++ practices.
it amazes me that people still seem to think that the app store was some reactionary response to jail breaking and not a calculated move. the iPhone was launched in June 2007, the app store in July 2008. Apple did not build an entire developer SDK and software marketplace within 1 year as some afterthought. those wheels had been in motion before we knew what the iPhone was.

if Apple had launched the app store with the iPhone, it would have had no where near as big of an impact as it did by waiting just a year. they created the demand first.

and no, Cydia was launched 5 months before the app store.
All of these comments make me think HN has never interacted with a 5 year old. Adults are barely able to make it through a day of Zoom meetings without feeling drained, how do you expect an almost toddler to react when forced to sit in front of a screen?

The only reasons adults can do it is years and years of learning impulse controls and suppression of bad emotions for everyone's good. A 5 year old does not have these skills, and will obviously act out as they have no other mechanism of dealing with it.

Also, who said that this article has to have a point? The writer never claims to propose a solution, she is simply writing out her emotions for others to hear. Assuming she has been largely isolating, is it all that weird that she would talk about her experiences online?
It is basically impossible to produce real empirical evidence in economics. You can look at data/correlations, and try to reason about cause and effect. But real empirical evidence requires you use the scientific method to test hypotheses (ideally done in a double-blind way), which is impossible for economists to do even if we had a national desire to do it, because the test itself would impact reality for its participants too much. It's similar to the "observer effect" in physics, but on a massive scale.

At best, I think you can create mathematical simulations built on certain assumptions about reality. Those simulations depend on how well the assumptions model reality, and very easy to miss an important detail.
The important things that kids are learning at these ages are the psychosocial things - how to wait your turn, how to resolve conflicts, how to share, etc. None of this, I'm guessing, can be replicated in online learning, anyway. And my understanding is that that stuff is best learned at specific developmental periods. We just have to do our best to make sure our kids are getting it outside of school.

I'm not nearly as worried about the 3 R's. I just don't expect that we'll find there's much long term difference between kids who are taught to read in 1st and second grade, and kids who are taught to read in kindergarten and 1st grade.
Open source developers are living in the future without the monthly paycheck. It is delayed because some people on HN have hijacked it.
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well let us not focus just on them, European colonialism as a whole did not end until the 1960s and by then the damage was done. The Arabian peninsula and surrounding areas were pretty much divided up with borders created to respect European influence and not consider much of the existing structure, hence the strife that goes on to this day. The US and USSR meddling while extensive came at a much later date and involved states created prior to their involvement with very little changes to borders.

Remember, France wasn't thrown out of Vietnam until the 1954 and had to be thrown out of Algeria a decade later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_colonialism
It’s multilayered advice with a healthy component and a controversial component.

It is good to de-escalate and keep discussions alive, which is the heart of the idea. But timing is key and the human condition needs to be factored in; We do get hungry, we do get tired, and these things affect our processing and how we approach problems.

There’s a dangerous implication in the “never go to bed angry” idea — You’re controlling whether your partner gets to sleep. I suppose some relationships don’t mind that aspect if it is mutual — But if you are truly tired, that is miserable, and it will affect how you approach that problem in the moment.

Anecdotally: I’ve seen this advice stem from a fear where the problem won’t be discussed the next day. Rather, actively avoided. That’s a different problem that isn’t about short-term de-escalation, but instead commitment and long-term resolution.
Show HN: Why update [all of] your investors regularly
I think most of the times. when we have an argument, it is because we think about something differently or do something in a way which the other side would do differently.

Arguing helps uncovering those differences and leads to understanding your partner. If you do it frequently, it helps you be more aware of such things.

The goal is to minimize those times where you need to argue. The positive side effect of talking it through in the evening is that you can go to bed and wake up without holding a grudge. But as I said, it's not that easy and it requires both sides to be able to find a solution in a civilized way.
The summary statistic leaves out the effect of age. Most of the non-overweight people who died were old. The main reason you'd die of covid if you are young is being overweight or obese:

> Patients with BMIs greater than 40 kg/m2 had higher death rates overall, and those with BMIs greater than 45 kg/m2 had a risk ratio of 4.18. Most strikingly, however, those younger than 60 years had increased risk ratios of 12 to 17 versus 1 to 3 if they were older; high BMI increased risk in men more than in women.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5677
>I would call the "proper authorities"

What would you tell the authorities? That there are people in a gym and that they need to be arrested? What outcome would you hope to achieve by tattling on them?
The people who argue hardest against minimum wages are those who would never expect to be paid a minimum wage for their services. Our "essential workers" are usually some of our lowest paid workers. If a UBI is ever implemented, I would suggest that these people get those funds first
I don't think you'll get kids, particularly young kids to wear those for more than a few minutes at a time.
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One thing different about a UBI is you get it whether or not you are employed, so at least it removes the perverse incentive to stay unemployed or lose your 550 euros a month.
Agreed.
I wasn't saying the 'ability' to update without interaction was something some people like and some people hate. I said they 'do' update without user interaction, etc etc.

I think we're on the same page. Thanks for articulating that bit of nuance.
This deserves more attention that it is getting in this thread
And use --C++ to get exactly C (this is a bad prefix/postfix joke.)
> The direct effect of the minimum wage is to make certain low-productivity jobs illegal. Consider that for a moment: a person with limited skills and/or needs is simply prohibited from doing low-productivity work regardless of desire.

Has this ever been shown to be the case? Use real data or case studies.
Think that comes down to the different smoke points of various oils. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Smoke_point_of_cookin...

You generally want to avoid smoke, so safflower oil and avocado oil are the best choices choices. But probably even better to not cook in oil at all, and just add olive oil (or your favorite source of fat) at the end
It is a very tough problem. Trying to do it all locally also pits town against each other. I think the thing is that this kind of minimum wage isn't a living wage so having it as a floor is not awful. I also think we have better tools to help the poor than minimum wage.

I've also tried to think a little about this from the spend > consume > work > spend cycle. Minimum wage isn't a factor in SV tech jobs. The places that employ people at the minimum also tend to service those same people. Rich people don't shop at Wal-Mart (largely) so we are only adding costs to goods that poor people want. So wages go up but if prices go up the same or more, the poor have lost buying power. I think EITC is a much more targeted and effectively way to help the poor but it needs expanded.
> I'd again have to make sure to use constant-time comparisons of the different output

Why? What would this mean? You have a flow like this:

1. User sends "password".

2. Time-hard hash processes "password" into some hex value, HASHT. No comparison is done.

3. SHA2 processes HASHT into some other hex value, SHAHASH. You compare SHAHASH to the user's stored hashed password.

But even in step 3, you don't need constant-time comparisons. What purpose would they serve?

Assume the attacker knows your full hashing algorithm -- they can compute SHAHASH for any input password. (Maybe your salt is equal to the username, say.) That's enough to use a standard timing attack against early-abort comparison to learn the first byte (or other comparison unit) of SHAHASH.

But to learn the second byte, you need to provide a large number of hashes which all have the correct first byte. This can't be done. (It can, but you'll have to generate around 256 times as many hashes as you can use.) To learn the third byte, you need to provide a large number of hashes which all have the correct first two bytes. This is even more impossible. (In fact, you may recognize this problem as being the proof-of-work that Bitcoin requires.) The whole point of using a cryptographic hash in the first place is that we can't predict the outcome of a hash! Constant-time comparisons are something you need when you're comparing an attacker-controlled value to a secret value, but that never occurs here.
This is how my class is structured and the activities we do.
https://www.modulo.app/manishamodule

Feel free to share with other teachers if it could benefit them. I"d also be happy to talk to your teacher or anyone else's teacher if they need support on making zoom more engaging. Also, if other teachers have ideas of activities that worked well for them, I'd love to hear!

I'll just add that one thing that's been helpful in my group is to try to focus the zoom on social-emotional learning and then do an "independent study" together period where kids work on mastery-based learning apps independently, but with their friends and a teacher there if they get stuck (Math tango is our favorite!). I find kids learn a lot better with the apps then when I teach them a lesson verbally and give them a worksheet.

Zoom represents a really interesting challenge for teachers, but there is a lot of gold to be found if you look!
Money can't buy happiness, but you can park your yacht right next to it.
The text of the law makes it more explicit: "[...] a major life activity also includes the operation of a major bodily function, including but not limited to, functions of the immune system [...]"

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/12102
Ask HN: What are some promising tech I should look into?
Hi HN, for the last couple of years I've been away from the whole tech startup scene, but now thinking about getting back to building something.

But I'm kind of lost on what tech fields are promising nowadays, and worth working on.

Basically I want to work in a space that has potential to grow significantly in the next couple of years, and trying to do some market research. What would you recommend? (AI? Mobile? The more specific the better)

Any suggestion will be appreciated.