skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a reason why Bloomberg didn't retract the story.

The idea that senior execs know everything that happens at their respective company is borderline nonsense.
Yeah, I'm really missing the message here.
I mean the USA shot down an Iranian passenger plane killing all the civilians inside it. The USA sanctioned medical supplies from a country battling a pandemic. The USA armed Saddam Hussein to invade and fight a decade long war with Iran.

The US has been consistently trying to destroy the nation of Iran. Iran holds demonstrations calling for the destruction of America but they never fought the US in any kind of war. When 9/11 happened, they were one of the only countries in the Middle East to have nationwide moments of silence and prayers for victims in America.

Iran also has been one of the biggest fighters of ISIS in Iraq. They are able to mobilize civilian volunteers in Iraq in a way any other organization would envy.

It's really crazy how much reality you have to ignore to believe there is any justification for US sanctions on Iran or to justify why you think Iranians should not be angry at the US
> The issue is that nobody is entitled to anything.

That's an ideological statement. You may subscribe to it, but not everyone has to. Society is fundamentally based on the notion of shared rights and duties, what these rights and duties entail can be up for debate, but if you don't want to owe anyone, you will have to live a pretty lonely, primitive existance in Siberia or Alaska.
I just have my bookmark for the front page set to r/all, bypasses their dumb location sorting and provides a bit more variety of content.
Some minor/major issues with your line of thought: The US isn’t the world. Having the FDA essentially own and also pick winners and losers on the R&D market enormously misses their role, and messes up incentives, your essentially asking for all the money in The pharma industry to be funneled through the gatekeeper who’s traditional role has been to say “no way in hell we’ll let you put this hugely profitable drug on the market because it’s highly addictive, causes liver failure and you haven’t evne finished clinical trials on it...” imagine if the public will trust the guys who’s not only saying “yes this drug is definitely safe” but in the same breath is also ensuring 3 new lambos for his personal fleet.

As for the idea of splitting research and productions, that is an absolutely incredible idea, so great in fact that it’s already standard practice to see biotechs spin up only doing R&D with a plan to get bought up once they go to production.

But honestly, it feels like a scary totalitarian government like reality if we move to a state where the FDA starts getting heavily involved in the financials and starts picking winners and losers. Next thing you know Trump will be declaring through executive orders that hydrochloroquine is safe and effective and that production must go ahead With a company he happens to be invested in, but unlike current reality there won’t be any actual scientific checks of those bogus claims.
I can't see our modern society lasting without this. Not much longer. Not after covid, and whatever 2020's throw at us, and global warming. Food riots, and real civil discord are only months away, if not weeks.
> It's the same thing as saying "the n word" to me

The difference IMO is that one is a reminder to anyone listening that they should never use that word, whereas the other is a normalisation or hearing it.

I'm certainly not an expert on this subject though, and being white myself I take my lead in this area, and on this story, from non-white people who I know or who I follow in politics/media/etc. I can't speak to how the majority of black people on the UK feel, but definitely plenty of them understood the context and were still very outspoken against it.

Here's one high profile example (the one that arguably made BBC back down) https://news.sky.com/story/sideman-quits-bbc-over-use-of-rac...
"I even think Raffi might be able to improve his digital etiquette—to get better at waiting his turn to speak without slamming the computer shut because he’s bored, to sit through a lesson without whining or screaming.

But is digital etiquette something I want Raffi to learn at age 5? He’ll have the rest of his life to figure out the niceties of interacting with people through a screen. I can’t accept that he should get acclimated to this form of school."

The author is almost onto something with this comment. I'm not an expert in this area, but virtual "education" for pre-K seems to miss the point of going to school for a 4 year old child. I would venture a guess that the impact is more about socialization and acclimating to the routine of school than learning things.
Experian has experienced an alleged data breach affecting millions
Amazon adding 2k jobs at NYC’s Lord and Taylor building
Thanks for those links. It got me reading more to deepen my understanding.

I should say that my intent is not to invalidate your living experience, but rather to learn more.

Here’s what I’ve found so far:

Saudi Arabia

- dependence on foreign labor (since you claimed UBI is the cause): “ In answer to the question of why the Saudi economy is so dependent on foreign labor, the UN Arab Human Development Report blamed stunted social and economic development inhibited by lack of personal freedom, poor education and government hiring based on factors other than merit, and exclusion of women.” See “Challenges” section in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Saudi_Arabia

- Reminded myself again that Saudi Arabia was a subsistence economy until the early 1930s, before their oil-based economy started.

- learned about the difficulties and the strategies (incl. the Citizens Account Program you linked to) to reduce dependency on oil reserves.

- Learned that the Citizens Account Program was introduced in 2017, so claims to its effect prior to that seems incorrect, unless there was some prior form of it.

Kuwait

The article you linked to describes a temporary program that ended 7 years ago.

I did find other articles that talk about work incentives (e.g. https://www.wellesley.edu/albright/about/blog/3926-downsides...) but haven’t digested and critically evaluated to draw a confident conclusion.

Overall observation

Your opening assertion (“ countries like Saudi, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar have done it for decades.”) doesn’t appear to be a fair appraisal.
I'm genuinely curious if we stuck VR headsets on kids, and had the proper software, if their would be any better results. I'm one of the people who think there won't be a VR/AR revolution any time soon, but I do think there are narrow sets of applications and games the benefit A LOT from it. I don't know if education is one of those, but I'm am very interested in finding out.
By that argument, and given the rigorousness of economics as a field, pretty much no policy should ever be implemented.
This is incredibly simplistic and reductionist thinking with regards to the development of society. It comes from a brutal, cold and careless place. The goal of societies should be to evolve beyond the brutality of nature, not regress backwards to a place where we're eating our young.
ec101 often assumes perfect competition. google defines that as.

>the situation prevailing in a market in which buyers and sellers are so numerous and well informed that all elements of monopoly are absent and the market price of a commodity is beyond the control of individual buyers and sellers.

so everyone has equal leverage (zero).
I agree in spirit, but not in execution. What you suggest implies the necessity of discrimination between different workers in the same job, which I don't agree with.

I think the better solution is to set a reasonable rate, fix it to inflation, and use corporate taxes to fund social safety nets.
> Part of it was the same-ness of all the featureless grey.

Possibly the work of Jason Jigs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV0zn8YVTAM
> Fairness is not about everyone getting the same amount just for existing, for that in itself is not fair.

Can you explain why? And if your answer amounts to "because people provide different amounts of [effort|value] to society" how would you reply to "so what?".
> How that happens is the heart of the film, which paints a fascinatingly detailed picture of how, in practical terms, you go about toppling a popular foreign leader. It all starts with spreading around money and maybe arranging a couple of assassinations.

"The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins delves into how the CIA adapted and shifted course to address some of the weaknesses of its in-plain-sight coup approach in Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s. The ideal is always to preserve as much as possible the impression that the change in regimes is driven by local, endogenous political forces. The recent coup in Bolivia is a good demonstration of how this can be pulled off while almost entirely avoiding accusations of U.S. involvement.
It's not a cover for a 3 letter agency, Energy IS a three letter agency.

Most people don't actually know what DOE is. For starters, it's officially one of the 17 USG intelligence agencies.

It houses the national nuclear security administration which is responsible for military reactors, nuclear weapons, and nonproliferation.

It operates the DOE Science and NNSA Weapons national lab and site complexes via M&O contracts (of which Bechtel is one of the longest contract holders).

NNSA is congressionally funded via energy and water, but it's authorization is via the armed service committee National Defense Authorization Act (same as the military).

None of this is a nefarious secret, and all of this and quite a bit more can be found via the agencies website.

Folks completely misunderstanding what government does. Forget about DOE, how many folks actually understand what HHS does, or HUD, or any of the dozens of other agencies other than Defense and State.

The USG is full of these enormous and powerful bureaucratic orgs. Not surprised that most folks (including me!) Are unaware of what our tax dollars fund, but boy is it a lesson in complex systems.
It basically was...

>The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) was a British company founded in 1908 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Iran. The British government purchased 51% of the company in 1914,[1] gaining a controlling number of shares, effectively nationalizing the company. It was the first company to extract petroleum from Iran. In 1935 APOC was renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) when Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asked foreign countries to refer to Persia by its endonym Iran.
Minimum wage, applied universally, absolutely validates worth of a worker.

If the minimum wage is set too high to plant grapes for example, grapes will not be grown.

$15/h too high to flip burgers? Ok, I guess we don’t need fast food. Oh wait. Except it somehow doesn’t put the corps out of business.
To anyone interested in this, I'd highly recommend Stephen Kinzer's Overthrow.[1]

It covers not just this incident, but many others throughout history when the US has overthrown foreign governments.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Overthrow-Americas-Century-Regime-Cha...
If you raise the price of cigarettes through taxes, less people buy cigs. Same for gambling, driving, flying, etc.

If you raise the price of labor through minimum wage, you fix poverty. Opposed to literally everything else plus evidence.
Only because refusing would have bankrupted them.

The idea that Apple doesn't protect user privacy is absolute nonsense.
I've not sure I've ever really argued with my wife, even though we've had difference of opinion on things. I haven't really seen my parents argue, or her parents argue.

I don't really get why people seek out conflict and blame. It just seems unhealthy all around. Some people thrive on conflict, though. They like to argue. They like to blame, to engage. Or at least, they NEED to, even if they don't like it. Or maybe one partner seeks out conflict, and the other one hates it.

But, ultimately, I think arguing is a choice.

One could argue that partnering young leads to more issues because it doesn't allow you to form an individual identity. On the other hand, it could strengthen your bond because your identities were built together. Partnering late in life, when you don't "need" each other leads to less dependency; but it could also lead to the partners finding it just as easy to get rid of each other.
There's a part of me that's looking forward to the day that Reddit gets rid of old.reddit.com, i.reddit.com, and third-party app support, because then it will be easy for me quit Reddit.
Why should a concession made by a monarch pre-constitutional revolution be expected to be upheld by a democratically elected leader operating after significant changes in the form and nature of government?

I have noticed all such principled defenses of "property rights" and "capitalism" are built upon a very specific and convenient view of what exactly counts as "legitimate property". Was the oil even the Shah's to give away in the first place?
I failed 7th grade because my parents were divorcing in the middle of it and literally everybody including my family acted like it was the end of my school career and I'd never recover and get a real job and would be SOO behind my peers.

I'm 100% on the "yeah you can take a year off, it'll be ok or better in the end" side of things. I can't imagine myself at 13 having to deal with that + quarantine/2020.
Is that gross or net income?
Whatever their goal is, the execution obviously benefits owners of capital disproportionately more than sellers of labor.

If economic growth is more than the interest rate, the owners pocket the difference. If economic growth is less than the interest rate, the owners get bailed out. But in all cases, growth for the sellers of labor always lag the growth for the owners of capital.
I don't know what the ripple effect is. Might be very close (after all, less than half the americans do work).

And you don't need that many people to isolate for the house of cards to crumble. Plenty shops need to close because 30% fewer customers isn't enough to sustain them
> Maybe it'll all be over and done with next spring post vaccine. We'll be back to 4% unemployment and it'll be like it never happened from an economic perspective.

I don't bet on this happening, but it is certainly a possible outcome.

A lot of the issues we are facing are the result of supply shortages due to people not being able to operate in close proximity to one another. If not for Covid, then it's likely that the economy would have continued to grow.

If you think about it, the US economy continued to grow over the past decade even while the collapse of the retail, energy, and agricultural sectors during that time frame. Once people are able to return to being in large groups, it's not unreasonable to expect growth to continue.
I think you might have a different understanding of the phrase "prime mover" than the author. Aristotle used the term[1] to refer to the source of all motion, the idea being that motion had to begin with some entity moving without having been moved from something else, and then all other motion flowed from it. According to the history you give, Derbyshire would fit the definition of the prime mover here; he had the idea without it having come from another source, and so the CIA's action only came about as a result of that initial idea.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover
Just cash (so base + bonus).
This is a very important topic given how mainstream AI and ML solutions are getting. Also that a lot of Bootcamps are just churning out high potent Data Scientists, This is an essential area of discussion and everyone working in Tech should be aware of! I'm glad and thankful to Jeremy and Rachel for their work on this and fastai in general.
Reddit is hardly the only one. Way too many sites that work perfectly fine on a mobile browser (or could have worked perfectly fine there hadn't they crippled the experience) keep bugging me to install apps I don't need.

I really don't want to have to install a separate app for every website that I visit. These sites should just cut it out. You can ask me once, or maybe once a year or something, but don't keep bugging me every day.
>A free market means that the supply and demand of goods rely on price signals rather than a centralized planner.

That's one definition but it's not one of the more common ones.

It also begs the question what counts as a centralized planner. Does Boeing count if it sets the price of jet planes that only it and Airbus sell? What about when Singapore fixes the price of medical care even though anybody who wants can cross the border to have it done? Or Venezuela that fixes the price of its own money - at a rate literally nobody pays?
Went to the gym 3 times a week, cycled 25k every weekday, ran on the weekends.

Now I can only walk, after covid, which I got in early March. I'm hoping to try jogging again at some stage, after CT scans on my lungs, but I think it's a bit of a pipe dream. After 5 months the daily nausea has stopped.

No prior conditions. Early 40s.

edit: can't think of another site on the internet you'd get downvoted for the above, HN is really something
The UDHR is a joke. It considers it your human right for someone to kidnap you and (re)educate you. In addition it considers marriage a human right.

> There is no third way

You can give them a piece of fertile land.
Sorry but that seems to be an opinion article by a non economist? Or am I mistaken?
Indeed we should - demand the repeal of Taft–Hartley Act and other laws which have nerfed collective bargaining power far from any "natural" point.

Jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns are all part of the freedom to negotiate the terms of our employment, which we are currently disallowed from doing.
My 2 cents is that Kubernetes introduced a very powerful lifecycle for operating workloads that has enabled the automation of a wide variety of tasks.

But the abstractions are still relatively low level. The Ingress API in particular is a known issue and currently being simplified.
It's one thing to be unfair when the government is footing the bill, like basic income or tax brackets. It's a good incentive to balance out rising cost of living.

It's another when it's small businesses footing the bill. There's a very painful lag time between being required to pay employees more and when employees have more spending power. Typically all that happens is local business don't have the finances to cover that lag, but national businesses do, and the latter survives and dominates.
Can't blame the UK for playing the game against yet another colonialist player Iran (or Persian Empire.)

This naive view of the world has been pushed by Marxists in the West for decades, and the only real goal was always to weaken the Western Empire so that a Marxist Empire could take over and do everything they accused the West of.
Well, my own view is that NAIRU is a complete crock. shrug
While energy density as an important measure when talking about a fuel source, we can not forget about the other part of the equation. Energy efficiency, of those units of energy in jet fuel, how much of it can we effectively utilize? In other words, what is the distance travelled for a given weight of jet fuel vs the distance travelled for a given weight of batteries.
This is not spreading COVID in your opinion?

https://disrn.com/news/image-shows-packed-new-york-city-subw...

Don't be a smooth brain.
While I 100% agree with the intent of the HN guideline, there are times when calling out crazy as crazy is fully warranted. I believe this is one of those cases.

I don’t believe parent comment was a “shallow dismissal”, it was an accurate and “deep” dismissal.
Rather than funding programs like this, people would be far better served by being educated on how to better use the money they have.

Just look at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on how people spend their money.
https://www.bls.gov/cex/2018/CrossTabs/sizbyinc/xtwo.PDF

For example, a couple making less than 15K a year is spending 2K on restaurants! A couple with that income shouldn't know what the inside of a restaurant looks like. But I don't blame people for that. I think we've let people like this down by not educating them.

Nobody teaches you how to use money to improve your life.

And this isn't just for lower income folks. I can't tell you how many high income people I know that foolishly spend their money (buying boats, new cars, etc) and hardly have anything left for retirement.
Have you asked an optometrist about it?
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For clarity, all of the above is Federal.

There are provincial taxes, budgets, etc. SO when I say '25% of people's income is taxed', that's federal tax.
If you want a upper limit it's around 20000 calories. That's what eat people who go to the artic / antartic.

Honestly i think its WAY LESS oversimplified that people say it is. True you never know what you really ate, but if you note your average calories for a month, and then do +20% or -20% calories with the same type of food and same lifestyle you will get the exact weight loss / gain predicted from regressing on the first month.
How about Cydia, which predated AppStore by 2 years?
I see the claims that this won't produce inflation with extreme scepticism.

And I say this, living in a country that has had something similar to a basic income for years, although not fully universal (universal for kids, and people below certain income line), the vast majority of people get it and ended up resulting in that around half the public budget goes to social expenses. Every year that bag gets bigger, deficit gets bigger and having more currency flowing, inflation gets bigger and bigger.

So, this income is increased and salaries get adjusted, and it ends up in a never-ending cycle of income trying to catch up with inflation.

It's very hard to get out of that situation once you are in it, because now people depend on this money, and the political cost to cut it is so enormous that nobody dares trying to do it. It would mean the end of their political careers.

Maybe Germany can show us that it can be done, it will be very interesting to see the results. But from what I've experienced, this is not as simple as many people think it is.
Just chiming in to echo this sentiment. My own experiences from losing a bunch of weight and becoming a vegetarian agree.

Spend a few weeks not eating anything with refined sugar and suddenly things you used to like are cloyingly sweet. Eat a diet free from all fried foods and you'll find french fries are now too greasy. Etc.
>Meanwhile, gasoline / petrol / benzin (wherever your are in the world) has an energy density of 12200 Wh/kg.

Electric motors are 90% efficient, ICE are less than 20%. So in reality gasoline is 2-3x as energy dense, when you look at how much of the fuel's energy can be used to do useful work.
Many countries effectively do this and it doesn't make inflation get out of habd.
The most interesting things about Conventional Commits are that they can be deterministically digested by a process to decide how to bump a SemVer and similarly to create a formatted CHANGELOG file.
>I imagine many of these people would be the first adopters of the technology.

Why do you think so? I can’t quite think of a great reason why they would or wouldn’t be the first. My inclination would be that they wouldn’t because 1) self-driving tech would be expensive (more expensive than not having it, certainly), and 2) individuals might not be willing to risk it vs. companies that can afford it to fail and bear the cost.
Get ahead on placement exams. Schools have only so many teachers for Algebra. Also not all kids are doing remote education.