skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would you say that every country on the planet is either "capitalism with some social features built in" or is currently failing hard?

Yes, if by the overcomplicated first description you mean modern mixed economies (which are more accurately descended from capitalism than actual capitalism), and those groups overlap, too.

> And if all those systems are capitalistic, what specifically pushes UBI over the edge into being something that isn't capitalism?

Nothing, it's well-within the broad outline of the modern mixed economy.

> From an implementation perspective, UBI is simply an adjustment of the income tax rate including allowing that rate to be negative. It has nothing to do with ownership, markets, or many of the other mainstays of capitalism.

I think it's debatable whether downward redistributive taxation/spending does or does not conflict with mainstays of capitalism (I think it doesz in a good way), but in any case that's a feature of modern mixed economies generally, and UBI isn't really a difference in kind. Where UBI perhaps is more at odds with capitalism than traditional mixed economy welfare programs is in weakening the divide between the chronically excluded and the working class (the lumpenproletariat and the proletariat, to use the Marxist terms), which I think is arguably an important feature of capitalism that is underappreciated specifically because Marxist-inspired socialists don't usually directly address it, especially in a transitional rather than revolutionary concept, because they viee empowering the lumpenproletariat as dangerous because they view that class as prone to recruitment as paid agents, though not actual class allies, of the bourgeoisie while not being effectively organizable against the bourgeoisie.
If you aren't happy, you aren't successful. Far too many (like the author of this article) equate economic wealth with "success". How can someone who is miserable be described as a "success" no matter how many baubles they collect or how many accolades they receive from their fellow bauble collectors?

To me being successful means being content and leading a happy and rich life. Economic well-being often helps facilitate contentment and happiness through the security it allows, but it is, at best, a piece of the pie. Unfortunately all too many (especially Americans) have been conditioned to believe that life is a game of Monopoly and the goal is to accrue as much material wealth as possible. This leads to the oft-referred to, "mid-life crisis" when people start coming to terms with their mortality and realize they've wasted the best decades of their life pushing pencils and sitting in traffic. Perhaps if we start changing the way we view "success" we can help some poor souls avoid this awful day of reckoning in the future.
That's probably about as accurate as someone from Iran claiming that all they ever see from the US is Fox talking heads arguing for nuking the Middle East.
Very interesting. Looks a lot like zeebe [0], which uses BPMN for the workflow definition. This makes it easier to communicate the processes with the rest of the company. I never used it in production, just played around with it for a demo.

[0] https://zeebe.io/
Quite a few of my friends started learning a language since the beginning of the lockdown.

Here I share experiencing learning 9 languages using different methods over the years.

Hope it would be helpful for anyone out there considering picking up a new language.
It's not what teachers are used to or desire, and the educational system is primarily designed for teachers.
From watching friends and family in the last ten years, I would like to add economical class and education level (maybe what we would call cultural capital) as one factor to this.

It might sound a bit fascist, but factors that is commonly questioned and scorned nowadays such as screen time, sugar intake, lack of outdoors activity and not wearing bike helmets are more common among families with generally lower status. The more upper middle class a family gets, the more important it seems to be to avoid doing harm to our children. Maybe mostly to save face among our peers?

My point is that kids with more screen time may overlap with not being read to as much, not given as much attention to tell their family about their thoughts, not challenged to exercise their ability to focus, and so on. In a very general sense.
In addition to what other commenters are saying just like vaccines masks only really work on a population level and even there they don't work as well as vaccines. The figures I've seen claim something in the range of a 20 to 40 percent reduction in risk of catching from an infectious person. That isn't anything like what I'd call protection
The thing is, that some people are not able to rest without resolving an issue. It's worse if one side is hyper-sensitive. If you're in such a situation, putting something aside is not an option.

And I also know from first-hand experience that not talking about things is very dangerous in the long run. Solving problems is a skill which needs to be learned and practiced.

But well, I agree that every relationship is different. Do something which works for you and act with common sense. And if you're both tired, go to bed and hug :)
As a society we should increase the standard of living for everyone. In order to do that, people need to be motivated to contribute.
> This world is full of can't can't can't.

The world is filled with plenty of that, and it always has been. But plenty of people are absolutely tackling this mess with a can-do attitude. You're just not seeing it, for whatever reason.

> But I'm out of hope.

And that may be the reason ;-).

Turning off the news is the best choice I've ever made. Can't be too depressed when I don't get bombarded constantly with BS, we're too busy living our life to the best of our ability.
You concluded your comment with:

> but I hope it's not controversial that driving drunk is still extremely dangerous.

Which _implies_ that you perceive "haircut with a mask on" to be similarly dangerous.

If my understanding is wrong, please correct me!
> ad they been really “essential” we would have kept/invented those trades well before we actually did

Unless things change over time, as such requiring new facilities. We didn't have nuclear power station inspectors (or regulations) thousands of years ago, so are they also non-essential?

> It still isn’t in many parts of the world

There are "many" places in the world were death is not feared and people are happy to see their stuff burn? Barring nomadic jungle tribes with no persistent possessions or home locations in the first place, which societies are you describing?

The fact that our ancestors commonly died of tuberculosis doesn't mean they where happy to do so.
How is Filecoin different from Sia coin?

I remember a while ago hearing about both trying to decentralize storage but never kept up with it enough to really suss out the difference
We don't wear masks for the cold and flu season because the threshold of dying from them is very high. In an ideal world where everyone were fit with strong immune systems, the threshold of dying from covid would be more similar to that of the flu--you wouldn't need to wear a mask for the same reason you wouldn't need to wear one for the cold and flu season.

(That said I'm not against masks. We should have been wearing them for cold and flu seasons this whole time.)

It's causation, not just correlation. If you want an explanation, here's what physicians say:

> Then, there is Newton's second law: force = mass × acceleration. It requires more muscle force to displace the diaphragm downward when a substantial fat mass lies below it. Abdominal obesity also makes it more difficult to breathe in a prone position that is favored to improve ventilation in patients with COVID-19. Among more specific mechanisms is expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 protein in adipose tissue. This is the docking protein for SARS-CoV-2 to enter a cell, and fat has higher levels than the lungs and so may serve as a viral refuge and replication site, prolonging virus shedding.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5677
Unfortunately that is incompatible with 30 children in a classroom being managed but a single underpaid teacher.
My SUV is 4500 lbs and has a 17 gallon tank. Gasoline weighs ~6lbs/gallon, so it only factors for about 2% of total mass between a full and empty tank. Seems safe to mostly ignore it.
For sure, I think everyone who's had kids understands, and a lot of people who haven't also understand. But I've read plenty of comments like the one above that refer to the disruption rather than the placation, and I think people have different definitions of egregious, as well.
Musk has laid out some pretty big visions he hasn’t yet achieved (see Mars, colonization) and doesn’t always meet his aggressive deadlines, but he’s actually accomplishing a great deal. An rocket with 80 commercial launches, landing and reusing hypersonic first stages (and now fairings), the worlds first full flow staged combustion engine, the most powerful rocket in the world (Falcon Heavy), StarLink with already 655 satellites, and that’s just SpaceX accomplishments.

What has BO done other than land a suborbital rocket that doesn’t achieve more than tiny fraction of orbital velocity? They haven’t even had a person ride it yet, let alone a paying customer on board.
The author also owns enough money to buy himself a Lamborghini for his 30th birthday. It's easier to say that money is not the point when you have lots of it. Money may not buy you happiness but it sure does make a lot of things easier.
There are some things that make this better, such as returning pointer types and not returning raw pointers. Returning raw pointers usually means that another function will delete them. I very rarely see pointers handed back from functions being freed caller side
Forced redistribution already happens. It's called taxes.

The salient difference between the current system and UBI is on the receiving end: some of the taxes are paid back out directly as a basic income.

That's why FR isn't a useful name. "Universal basic income" describes what the real change would be.
I think that the consequences of automation should be separated into short and long term.

Definitely, I agree that "automation jumps" do create a short-term problem, if it's not handled by the government. And I think it's a hard problem.

What I disagree with, and think it's a fallacy, it's that it constitutes a long term problem. I stress that long term is beyond the work life of an individual, so the argument "what does person X if they lose their job" doesn't apply, rather, what's the size of the workforce (= employed people).

People who think that the work pool is fixed, typically don't realize that automation (the robots are coming!) is not a modern phenomenon. Automation in a modern sense started centuries ago, so the arguments shouldn't take today as starting point - they should take the 18th century instead; if the argument was true, we would all be unemployed right now.

Nobody can say what what will be the new jobs in the future, as much as 20 years ago, nobody could imagine, say, the position of the SEO expert.
> on reading further on this, there seems to have been more outrage at the BBC reporting what was said, as they were asked to do, than at the near murder of the guy in an unprovoked racists attack.

That's modern society in a nutshell for ya. It seems like the priority is more about virtue signaling than it is about seeking truth and justice in all things.
Sanitation workers may be low-skill but they are high-value. I don't think this is a good example.

In contrast, a friend of mine recently hired the teenager next door with cash (for less than the local minimums) to do some manual yard labor. This job simply wasn't worth paying for at a higher cost; my friend would have left the work un-done. But in this case the value proposition at a lower price was acceptable and the neighbor was glad for the extra cash.
Wisdom is not for everyone.
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Not a greater need or desire, but a fundamental need. It's an important distinction. In a perfect market, if the only offers to buy a product are too low, you will stop production and close the company because you can't make a profit. In the labor market, if the salaries are too low, people will still take the jobs because low income is better than zero income.
That's an excellent point. But IIUC it can be solved with a local clock of sufficient accuracy by making sure you got the message for the right time, at the right moment.

This is now even feasible for handheld equipment, as "chip scale" atomic clocks are now commercially available, with dimensions on the order of a few cm on each side. This one is based on Rubidium: https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/embedded-clocks-..., and here's another based on cesium: http://www.jackson-labs.com/index.php/products/csac

At one point Digikey was even stocking them as an off-the-shelf item! Relatively cheap too, "just" thousands of dollars per unit.
We don't have extensive contact tracing. I've never once engaged with a contact tracing application, nor anybody that I know.

You failed to answer my previous question: is it impossible to extrapolate knowledge of how the virus spreads, to judge risk of various scenarios?

Do you require evidence from every permutation of possible activity?
McDonalds locations now have replaced most of their cashiers with touchscreens.
The CDC link he posted for lightning data [1] said that your odds of being struck by lightning are 1 in 500,000. Also according to the CDC [2], a total of 1,201 out of a population of ~40 million US people aged 25-34 [3] have died in a “COVID related death” in the US between February 1 and August 19. This represents 3.2% of deaths from all causes during this time period in this age range.

Assuming you believe these numbers to not be somewhat inflated despite widespread reporting of such incidents, the odds of dying from COVID as a 25-34 year old in the US are 1 in ~33,000. This is ~15x times the odds of being struck by lightning. However, I would imagine those odds go down significantly further among 25-34 year olds with no risk factors, and it is largely the people with no risk factors that are going to speakeasy gyms.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata.html

[2] https://data.cdc.gov/widgets/9bhg-hcku

[3] https://www.infoplease.com/us/census/demographic-statistics
As a parent of a 5-year old myself, it strikes me the lack of empathy in the HN community. The pandemic is a challenging situation for all parents as there is not enough information to decide on the best course of action.

IMO, the OP article intention was only to share the pain, so that other parents know they are not alone in this challenge.
I suspect that a large part of the current ridership of these services would be less than thrilled about grabbing a ride from a random stranger without the level of oversight provided by Uber/Lift in terms of payments, safety, and service levels.
But then you have to ask, how can they do that? And the answer is, of course, the network effect of their social network. The value derives predominantly from that and not what the employees are doing -- if they did the same work for someone else who doesn't control a popular social network, it wouldn't create the same returns.
Consumption is the income and wealth that you end up using. Measuring wellbeing by consumption is the standard economic perspective, since it describes how much of society's goods and services one ends up using.

More simply, if you save then spend, wealth-based measures will rate you as better off than a person with higher income who just spends. That doesn't make sense.
Ah, excuse me, I didn't mean to slight the real educators. I meant the phony ones who think this is a reasonable plan.

I agree with you completely. We love the teachers at our kids' school and saying goodbye to them was the hardest part of leaving. They are just as frustrated. But the people who think that this solution is a reasonable one are insane.
Squash merge and commit linter only on master seems like the way to go here.

Then you can do whatever you want in your feature branch, and then when the feature is ready, create the squashed commit with the proper commit formatting.
Oracle is a fun choice. How about Circle-k corporation? Maybe Monsanto/Bayer or Halliburton?
Absolutely. One of my favorite teachers in high school used to always say "the harder you work now, the easier it will be later." There is always a later, though.
The wisest realize there are no others.
Fastai is awesome. I had no experience with deep learning a couple weeks ago, but using their resources, I made cryptocurrency prediction software that I am testing now.

I'm definitely not a quant, but I could build this quickly. Because of this, I think deep learning will truly be commoditized in a short time.
How can I be sure it won't hook itself to the Internet? For instance, using a nearby Xfinity or AT&T hotspot? Or simply coming with an LTE radio built in?
Countries were "created" based on geographical criteria, leading to various tribes being in both new countries.
Cypress is an E2E testing solution with batteries included. Playwright is just the browser automation part.
Every society has this, it’s not really a valuable comment.

This seems like simply a dodge or dismissal of the legitimate criticism that breaking most of society’s rules should not cause an armed opponent to suddenly appear. It’s unreasonable and uncivilized and frequently results in the small-rule-breaker being physically abused or even murdered, especially if they aren’t white.

Your casual dismissal of these consequences suggests that you are never targeted by these people. For that I am glad. I hope everyone can be as callous about the consequences for minor rule breaking one day.
Our hardware has valid EDIDs. Just nothing that Samsung would know about.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24211833.
yeah, me too , but the 'Apple Police' aspect of that marketing stunt left me with a negative impression -- so I guess it wasn't an all-around net good advertising wise.
There was a documentary about the coup shown on Channel 4 in the UK in 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhCgJElpQEQ

Just before it was shown, the role of Norman Darbyshire, the MI6 officer involved in the coup, was leaked to the Observer: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/02/mi6-the-coup-i...

The Observer received a D-notice which prevented its publication.

The makers of Coup 53 made use of the unpublished Observer material.

Briefly, the UK Government wanted Mosaddegh overthrown because he wanted to nationalize a British oil company (Anglo-Iranian). It tried to get the CIA involved but Truman opposed American involvement. This changed when Eisenhower was elected president.
You seem extremely mad
Ah, so the original comment is predicated on the assumption that all adults are capable of doing that for their kids.

Some are. Some aren't.

Same goes for the kids.
the firms in the market are competing against each other and that's what drives up the wages. it's not so much about the relative power between the employee and the employer
New Glenn is a paper rocket built around unproven engines.
Most countries give so many tax rebates to low-income individuals it's essentially UBI. Welfare, food stamps, unemployment insurance, lowest taxable income level.

The $1,400US/month Germany is proposing is less than their minimum wage of $11US.
> That said, there are many types of training you can't do without the right equipment, so it's at least a bit more than just wanting to be with others. Strength training/powerlifting/olympic lifting all come to mind. It's often really difficult to keep a rack, barbell and hundreds of kilos of weight at home, and obviously not something people had just lying around in case of an emergency.

Yeah, this is pretty important. I used to lift and there's simply no way that I would make the investment to have all that equipment in my house. In normal times it's incredibly wasteful for each individual to stockpile their own redundant junk, rather than share a common pool with others. [0]

I switched to a more equipment-light calisthenics routine years ago with a few items I have around the house, so the current pandemic does not impact my own fitness routine - but for people looking to get really strong this is no substitute for lifting heavy.

[0] As an aside: this shouldn't only apply to gym equipment, communal resources should be way more common for economic and sustainability reasons. There's no reason at all every homeowner should have a lawnmower, for example.
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Are the people "enforcing" the policy going to actually look at the code? Probably not. Just tell them what they want to hear so they can check their box. If it comes up again, just tell them it was a mistake. Sorry, I thought we were using SHA2... we're really using more-secure-thing.
> To "live" at what standard of living?

Decent.

Roosevelt:

"""
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.

By business I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.

"""

> A smartphone?

Yes

> A recent one?

Define "recent". One that has internet connectivity, allows you to install apps that are increasingly required today (banks, school, mail, auth etc.)

> What standard of medical care?

All of it except cosmetic. A.k.a. universal healthcare.

> What about entertainment?

What about it? Define entertainment. Let's do this way more broadly: how about vacations, sick leaves and parental leave?

> What if someone wants only to eat organic, fair trade food?

Yes. The poor cannot escape bad eating habits because (especially in the US) more often than not they have no access to healthy food, and healthy food is much more expensive than current government assistance can cover.
Agreed, although the iOS Shortcuts app did not even bother to tell me the server's response; it simply failed, so even if the server had returned a coherent error message, I think I
still would have had to contact support to find out what it said.

I love Shortcuts—it's a great automation tool with some good ideas—but, as is the case with many Apple things, it prioritizes minimalism over functionality. Seems like an odd tradeoff to me, since I think the only people who even know Shortcuts is on their device are people like me who would vastly prefer full-featured complexity—and better documentation—to the smooth, almost toy-like UX.
Having purpose and fulfillment is self-serving. Most people would find it depressing to sit around and do nothing.
Honestly, not that I'd be in the market for one anyway, but the extreme bonkers-ness of the CEO is one thing that would put me off if I was.