skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am not exactly sure how paying everyone money helps people who need it more than a system that just gives money to people who need it

I mean one obvious benefit is the monumental amount of savings in government services caused by getting rid of all of the bureaucracy involved in making sure only people who "need" the payment get it.

You can get rid of all the job centres, all the review boards, all the DWP departments that have to constantly check people's eligibility etc

You also free up time for people that are currently on UC who need to constantly go and confirm that yes, they still can't work. Now they just get the money and can go do whatever without having to justify selling knitting on etsy or whatever
What does `impl dyn` mean, exactly? That this only works for trait objects?
Calling a lot of these things carcinogens is a little odd. It's not synonymous with harmful, and even harm isn't obvious for all of these. Food additives and processing in general? Gluten for people who tolerate it?
It's probably a little jarring to see this many Rust articles to most people, but it's a very exciting time in the Rust community. Not only has the Rust Foundation recently been established, but the crate ecosystem is now starting to finally include higher-level software like game engines and SDKs. Rust has actually entered production, a mere 7 years after it was conceptualized and prototyped. Now that it's starting to mature, Rust is starting to look like a great choice for a high-performance native development stack.
> when this is precisely what would lift people out of poverty long term and reduce the costs on society.

How, if you disallow stopping the payment?

It seems like what you want to happen is exactly what did happen: she saved, had money, and then the cost on society was reduced.
Yea so your react native is dead argument is bs. You clarified it later saying you meant for complex projects but in another comment you claim that they're just a crypto dashboard. So which is it? Do they have a complex project (not a dashboard) and need something more than react native or they're a dashboard app and react native is fine? The things you say don't line up.\

> But for some reason it is so much easier to justify rewrite in X, because if it was written in Y, than of course Y is to blame for our shitty practices and lack of developer culture. They neglected best practices, piled crap upon crap and somehow it is native toolkit that is to blame.

Is it really incomprehensible that there's a valid reason to rewrite in X? Now you claim they have shitty practices and no developer culture? What did coinbase do to you? Have you worked there? Did you see their "crap" code? If you don't have anything to back it up, I'll add it to your bs list.
I find it fascinating that this community can both have this stance and find nothing wrong with the FIRE movement.

What is a $1000/month UBI? Using the 4% rule, it's equivalent to having investments worth $300000.

I have a feeling that a lot of people on HN have a portfolio worth $300000. Are you still working?
No, the welfare state doesn't receive "the largest fraction" of your taxes. Thinking this is a bit of a meme in the UK. The largest category of spending is actually the state pension (which is partly funded by direct revenue), this isn't welfare. The actual amounts that go towards helping people who actually need help in the UK is relatively small.

Unemployment benefits vanishingly small. Even when unemployment was high, the total spending barely surpassed a few billion (in real terms, they haven't increased since the 70s or something ludicrous). Disability is a large category, although some of this in-work people, but a big issue over the past ten years has been implementation of UC...this cost £12bn (the implementation of UC i.e. the amount handed out to contractors was 25%+ of what was actually given to claimant...Duncan-Smith had a neuralgia about "scroungers"). Tax credits are a large category but these are semi-universal and made to people in work. How they can be distinguished from a subsidy to companies is unclear.

So the actual net effect isn't that clear. The UK has a relatively small welfare state (this is apparent if you actually talk to anyone on benefits...in the pandemic some people realised for the first time that welfare state wasn't actually that generous...and then we got a massive in-work subsidy program, I am guessing that if you had been on UC subject to regular inquiries by the DWP to get a grand total of £80/week or whatever, the state lavishing subsidies on someone making £200/day was...odd).

The NHS has pretty poor outcomes for a developed country. It is provided at low-cost (interestingly, about half the size of the public health system in the US) but the results are very poor (politically, doctor's unions have had very strong lobbying, so when spending increases it has typically gone into the back pocket of doctors with output unchanged). Private healthcare is better.

Btw, if you are seeing a trend here: the UK's problem is that there is a massive political demand for subsidies, regardless of whether you are in need or not, but 40% of adults pay no income tax. There is a massive disconnect.
In Spain it's similar, we already have de facto basic income, just much more complicated than it should be. When you lose your job you have unemployment payments, when it expires there is a "long-term unemployment aid" that in theory was a temporary measure for the 2008 crisis, but every government has kept extending and no one has dared to remove, even when the right had an absolute majority. And then there are regional aids for "social reinsertion". So basically everyone is covered by a safety net and can obtain some income except for people who actively refuse to do so.

Still, actual UBI here is an unpopular idea with most of the population, who say that people need to work for a living, that it's a "handout" for lazy people, it will make people stop working, etc. Funny when the two largest problems of our society are probably unemployment (lack of work for people who do want one) and lack of children. And both are problems that ask for less total hours worked, not more.

To me, it's a purely moralistic issue (and based on quite outdated morals). If we are already putting in the money to ensure that people have some basic needs covered, from a rational point of view I don't see the problem with turning it into an automatic right instead of something that people need to apply for and that we pretend is "temporary" (but not even the political right will remove it, no one wants the streets full of people with nothing to lose). And as a side effect, we could get rid of a lot of bureaucratic overhead in the process, plus no longer needing minimum wage and making the job market more dynamic.

I guess logic will triumph in the end, although it's difficult because there is a lot of purely irrational thinking. For example, most of the people who furiously oppose an UBI because in theory everyone should have to make an effort and earn a living for themselves are also the people who furiously oppose taxing large inheritances...
You should read your own link.

We do put the £ where Americans put #, but we don't remove it from the keyboard.

2 differences? Read your link.

Back tick is in the wrong place, hash as already discussed is in the wrong place, forward slash is in the wrong place, double quote is in the wrong place, @ is in the wrong place.

This isn't about Super being switched with Alt.
I don't quite understand. The land reduces in price because of LVT, requiring a smaller mortgage. But wouldn't we expect the smaller mortgage + LVT to be equal to the old higher priced mortgage? After all the intrinsic value associated with owning the property hasn't changed.

My point is how is a buyer better off under this scenario if they would have to pay the same amount per year in order to have a home? In fact they'd be worse off because a mortgage can be paid off but a LVT cannot. And wouldn't the LVT collapsing housing prices massively reduce the net worth of homeowners? Usually a home is the largest store of net worth that people have.
I think you’d be surprised that HN is not representative for the general population, and that talking with people from another continent over WhatsApp is, in fact, an exception and not the rule.
Ordered. Thank you!
There is no alternative, that's why tactical voting[1] exists.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_voting
Thank you new account praising TikTok and saying HN is a waste of time and proving my point.

I didn't ask "what's there to hate" but rather almost NO posts on HN get critical praise for an invasive social media app.

Wow.
Thanks - if you get a response to your query in the other thread and investigate I hope you'll write it up and submit it!
If you can't think of any, do you think that means that those who can't work (disability, illness, dependents) deserve to be poor forever?
I imagine this is an uncomfortable thought for many people on HN. How many folks are essentially creating CRUD apps of dubious value all day long and lying to themselves that what they provide is of great value to society simply because it is compensated well?

IMO modern society can easily support the needs (and wants, for that matter) of ourselves with just a fraction of the workers we have. So we create busywork for the rest so they feel useful and can participate in the economy. Maybe welfare should be reorganized like today's big corporations and the gov't can become the employer of last resort. It's not like we haven't basically done that in the past.
That's not quite right. If the airflows are in opposite directions then you can transfer more heat. Since as the hot air cools it encounters progressively colder air ensuring there is always a temperature gradient to transfer heat. These systems are about 60%-90% efficient at transfering heat.
From my least effective colleagues: you always need to think about _shipping_ to a _real customer_. Projects that go on for months and years chasing technical perfection without going to prod will get a bad reputation, and cancelled. The people associated with leading the project might carry a bad smell. Big rewrites definitely fall into this categories...

From outright jerks: learn to let go. You can’t control everything, you don’t know everything, and you need to take a break from work to get some perspective.

From my favorite colleagues: put humility and service to the customer first. Be selfless with junior people. “We step out ... seeking only peace and friendship – to teach, if we are called upon; to be taught, if we are fortunate.”[1]

1 - https://www.unf.edu/~n00006757/astronomylectures/Voyager%20M...
Hot take: Very similar to the 2008 recession. People stopped spending because they were worried about the recession, not the other way around. (Yes: more complicated than that, I’m only talking about the psychological effects to those people who were affected)
I have hEDS hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (so does possibly 2% of the population.) The vast majority don’t who have it don’t know it. My stomach issues and headaches are caused by joint problems with a likely vagus nerve link. It’s entirely possible that the kind of people the go to chiropractors could benefit in this way.

They may be on to something without knowing exactly what.
DIY Covid19 cardboard air filtration kit from Ford (made for underserved school) [pdf]
> If anything I think it's a shame that the quacks and the Good Guys can share the same title. But it's the same in any profession, isn't it?

I actually agree with most of your post, but want to comment on this: yes, it's the same in any profession, but the profession itself also matters. Some are grounded in science, some aren't, and this matters. People are going to be people, but the foundations of their jobs matter.
I appreciate this. I think one of the more valuable advice I was given re:conditionals is to make sure the positive path is the non-branching path. Branch your exception, let your expected path fall through.

if ( unexpected = true )
branch;
do_expected_stuff

Caveat: ways to do things age. Maybe this is no longer true or even slightly advantageous, but so far it has served me.

I also prefer 20 lines of simple pedestrian code to 2 lines of clever code. I remind myself that I write for the maintainers, who do not have the benefit of my resident knowledge when they encounter the code.
I just compared their salaries on glassdoor. There seems to be quite a few data points. Their salary seems to be higher than Microsoft but lower than FB. Overall, comparable. Where are you getting this Coinbase is paying everyone "shitty" pay? I hope you have something...but I'm not holding my breadth
I would love to have a practitioner look at my entire musculoskeletal system in order identify the specific areas that need work ...

What you are looking for is a Physiatrist ( https://www.spine-health.com/treatment/spine-specialists/wha... ). I learnt about them when I asked a doctor to refer me to a good neurosurgeon for my back pain (which I suspected was because of a nerve being pinched). He told me that if I went to a surgeon the treatment plan offered would be surgery and instead referred me to a Physiatrist who diagnosed my issues correctly and suggested Physiotherapy to treat it. That worked out great for me.
The tech audit was 3-4 years ago and colonial may or may not have heeded all the advice from the audit. They are claiming that they have followed at least some of the recommendations and that the pipeline control system was air gapped and not affected by the ransomware.
Have to ask, are you weirdly flexible?
A native app would also allow you to access different market segments. E.g., I work with a fair amount of DOD-controlled information, and storing it in a cloud is not an option. I'd be all over an app like this that allowed us to use local storage.
Is that on 2:40?

Isn't that just a strike on kid's lower vertebra, where he holds his fingers beforehand?
Not sharing every fleeting thought will work unless not having enough of a track record of righteousness fleeting thoughts becomes a point of suspicion.
Parts of India might get uninhabitable in the summer in some of the worse case scenarios. Given the population there and the fact they're a nuclear armed state that's a geopolitical powder keg.
Very useful as a supply for a large number of differently named placebos.
Rust could have inheritance - perhaps limit it to single parent
QUnitX: Easily run the oldest JavaScript test framework in CLI or browser
Fwiw I have no dog in this fight, but I am personally very skeptical of chiropractors. Nevertheless my doctor said he might actually prescribe me to see one for a long term (decade+) back and neck issue. His exact words were "normally I would never send anyone to a chiropractor, but one thing they are great at is getting dislocated things back into place." Which sounds like the kind of thing you were dealing with.
A fair point, but lots of market situations are "artificial", it's not like a natural disaster caused any of the recent recessions.
I would like to see research that connects age of death or death itself with social factors. AFAIK it's connected to offspring survival, which is not a social factor.
Oh gee, you're right. URLs don't work across national boundaries.</snark>

Seriously?
An ostracon (Greek: ὄστρακον ostrakon, plural ὄστρακα ostraka) is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracon
violence only enforces contracts, which are formal promises. Violence doesn't enforce market rates for wages, demand and supply and other market forces.
I don’t have TikTok, but when I am sent a link to it, and watch the linked video in Safari with Wipr content blocker, after the linked video is finished, it immediately auto plays a video of a very young blonde girl/woman who claims she recently found pictures of her pre breast reduction pre meeting her husband and is going to show them to her husband or something. This happens after any linked video I am sent, all non sexual.

Only reason I remember is because I thought that was a pretty transparent attempt at the type of audience they were aiming to attract.
"PipeWire provides compatibility with ALSA, PulseAudio and JACK applications with an ALSA plugin, a replacement PulseAudio server and a JACK replacement client library respectively. Theoretically this should provide a way to run all existing applications without modifications."

Why are you complaining? This is awesome.
In some countries like France they will have to comply with the local laws that restrict strongly non-anonymous listing of persons and basically bans some criterion like race or religion (bad memories from WWII). I suspect their algorithms can't offer the guarantees asked by the law for personal data.
Well, if you're willing to look for it, there does exist research within political science that shows that "the elites" are systematically favoured in representational democracies, as far as policy implementation goes. In short, these analysis show that policies that has the favour of the elites gets voted in far more often than policies that only has the favour of the regular population.

Two great outliers here are of course the vote for Brexit, and the election of Trump. The elite hated both of those. An interesting paper would thus be to compare the contentedness of these "factions" with their political system between countries that have representative democracy, vs. countries that have a more direct style of democracy such as Switzerland.

Speaking purely from logic, neither the political nor the monetary elite would rationally want regular people to get a possible advantage over them. Moreover, they want people that are dependent on them, because that makes them far easier to control. You do that by making sure they only ever get enough money for their daily bread, without getting so much as to cut into what keeps the elites rich, which is a combination of real estate, banking and industry ownership.

This means both some right leaning, but also left leaning parties, might want to ensure that regular people are never given more than exactly enough for mere survival, but not a penny more. This also goes for education, btw. You don't want to over-educate these guys, lest they become a competitor to the job you're looking for. If you give them any less, you'll have riots on your hand. If you give them any more, you lose control over them.
That's nice that you have trained yourself, but it's crappy enough that MacWorld had to write an article explaining how to use the keyboard.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/hashtag-mac-3688542/
And I have quite literally watched PhD's ignore science and go based on their feelings- making [incorrect] diagnosis without even standing within 5 feet of the patient. If that isn't pseudo-scientific, then I don't know what is.

So yes, it is remotely the same.
That, and also we would be reflecting less heat from the sun without the ice, as ice reflects back 90% of the sunlight that hits it, so no ice would lead to even more warming.
I'd argue it has always been known that masks would protect both patients and wearers even from first principles and also how past pandemics with a less infectious virus were handled in Asia and from how common cold and flu dropped as a side effect.

The virus spreads via droplets exhaled or emitted from nose and mouth. What happens when something obstructs that flow - the % of droplets going in & out & velocity decreases and likelihood of transmission reduces. Why do you think surgeons wear masks - it's both to protect the patient and the surgeon from droplet borne infections.

What was unknown was whether it was economical to wear masks widely and whether there were supplies, not that it would work.
You're probably joking sarcastically, but in case you aren't, you can click both sides of the track pad or three finger tap (if supported) to preform a middle click.
> Interesting how political parties are for or against this pilot project before the results are known. What happened to gathering evidence first and then making up one's mind?

Would you run a pilot of every idea? At the level of a country?

Paying everyone in Wales £ 1 is a big endeavor, let alone a value that's meaningful and on a monthly basis, so it's not as if a pilot comes at no cost. You could certainly form an opinion from experiments in other places, or economic thought expirements or from wherever it is politicians pull most of their thoughts.
For me, it's the overall experience. Ie: auto-generated docs for libraries, nice package manager, built-in linter and formatter, easy-to-install toolchain[s], high-level coding patterns etc.
Also https://verylegit.link
Perhaps of some interest is the book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer:

> The book weaves together Mukherjee's experiences as a hematology/oncology fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital as well as the history of cancer treatment and research.[3][5] Mukherjee gives the history of cancer from its first identification 4,600 years ago by the Egyptian physician Imhotep. The Greeks had no understanding of cells, but they were familiar with hydraulics. Hippocrates thus considered illness to be an imbalance of four cardinal fluids: blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm. Galen applied this idea to cancer, believing it to be an imbalance of black bile. In 440 BCE, the Greek historian Herodotus recorded the first breast tumor excision of Atossa, the queen of Persia and the daughter of Cyrus, by a Greek slave named Democedes. The procedure was believed to have been successful temporarily. Galen's theory was later challenged by the work of Andreas Vaselius and Matthew Baille, whose dissections of human bodies failed to reveal black bile.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_of_All_Maladies

PBS made it into a documentary:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_(film)

* https://www.pbs.org/show/story-cancer-emperor-all-maladies/
Kind of crazy what you can get away with when the world's sole superpower gives you a blank check. What's next? Hospitals, places of worship, UN buildings? That's a rhetorical question, they've targeted all of those in the past as well.
I don't follow. What's stunning about it? Doesn't it just mean that there is little evolutionary pressure or selection on the olfactory receptor genes? Not sure what the discovery is, or its significance.
https://twitter.com/biancoresearch/status/138937682791591936...

Can’t find a link to an article but here is a writer for Bloomberg with reference to his graphs from Bloomberg.
I am not an advocate for UBI, I am an advocate for a fairer society. (And the intra-US wealth disparities are as nothing to globally)

I should not have assumed dividends were of total stock - that's nonsense. But even so stock market is not total wealth - far more wealth is in real estate for example.

First there is no destroying of society, I am assuming a different distribution of the dividends - assume something like the Norway Sovereign fund(s).

And while this is very back of the envelope I am assuming money goes to children (broad assumption that every household is two adults and two kids).

But let's look at say GDP distribution - that's 5.5 trn - which divided by 300 m people is 18k each.

I am just arguing against the idea that there is not enough wealth or money around, so we cannot share it.

There is enough. How we share it is politics.

And it's always worth nothing that history shows if you don't share for long enough, people take it away from you.
This is probably the wrong way to look at it or at least an incomplete way. It's not just how much but how quickly the change happens. Everyday that goes by there's more money which gives everyone greater room to act - both in terms of adaptation and mitigation.