skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, can we determine from small scale tests like this whether the data we get from them is scale independent?
Should I give the backdoor to Xi? Is it really that great?
The 'universal' aspect of UBI is critical, and many of the attempts to test UBI seem to miss this completely. Call it something else in that case.
I'm going to assume it won't be "for life", but will instead be for some fixed period, such as 1 or 2 years. Scotland has been proposing doing a similar experiment too.

But I'm not sure what these very small scale experiments are meant to tell us, especially since several such experiments have already been done. I can't help but be cynical and think this is governments offering platitudes to those in favour of UBI, running experiments designed to produce the outcomes the government wants.

Realistically, the behaviour of someone receiving monthly payments for a known fixed term is going to be radically different than that of someone who knows they are going to receive that payment for life, and that it will increase online with inflation or the CPI (Consumer Price Index).
Bear Grylls (I know) - showed that you can "drink" unsafe water by using funnel and a friend.

Not sure if this is accurate, it's a show after all, but it doesn't seem too crazy.
You can’t. But UBI-supporters don’t let that get in the way.
So much vitriol only to spend the remainder of his life travelling across Siberia in Putin's carnival wagon.
I do think this is important data, but you've gotta steel-man the UBI argument better: the increased unemployment benefits is not really UBI in that the benefit totally disappears if these people take jobs. UBI is a floor: not an eligibility benefit.
Best: “be an egoless programmer”. My boss taught me not to get defensive about my mistakes. It’s just code, and mistakes are normal.

Worst: a programmer with a huge ego. He was extraordinarily defensive about his work and this made the whole team unproductive.
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> Look at the difficulty the service industry has now hiring people

It's easy to hire people, you just have to offer better wages. The issue is that they can't find anybody willing to work for the wage they are offering, which is very different from not being able to find people to hire.

> it’s not like they are using this time to pursue productive hobbies

Any studies on this?
I agree. That’s the idea behind https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/ibm-cloud-code-engine-enjoy-y... . (Full disclosure, I work for IBM.)
Agree. To add, 450 individuals dying separately from different causes in different places is not as newsworthy as 450 people dying in one event in one place in spectacular fashion.
I agree: here are some good examples of fast interactive dynamic languages

- Strongtalk from the 1990s

- Pharo Smalltalk (Cog VM)

Also worth looking at

- Chez Scheme

And

- JavaScript in every popular modern browser.

And

- Luajit
> for instance, Python now uses a weird mixture of ASCII and UCS2 internally.

Really? Last I heard (PEP 393), the rule was: "8 bits if all codepoints are less than 256 (i.e. Latin-1); 16 bits if all codepoints are less than 2^16 (i.e. BMP); otherwise 32 bits". This means that text with all Latin-1 characters (which are approximately the first 256 codepoints of Unicode) will be stored internally as, well, Latin-1. This implies that ASCII strings are stored as ASCII.
Is Play Framework still used/developed? Haven't seen any progress from performance in the last years. Happy to get corrected, though.
In a Java Virtual Machine, it is a 32-bit signed value: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/jvms-2.ht...
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This has always been my problem. If we're going to test UBI, then we really need to run a test over a reasonable time-frame (20 years) or so and commit into it.

So we move some people off the existing schemes we have, onto UBI and let that study run. I suspect the ideal candidate group would be older, poorer people (say, in there 40s) who we would otherwise expect to coast onto a pension later. It timeframes it nicely, and if it works starts making the case for trying it with younger cohorts.
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The employer, yes. Some low-level manager? Not at all. It is not in the employer's interest to take the side of a toxic manager who may cause several of their reports to quit.
Doge uses hashcash with scrypt instead of double SHA256 as PoW. So you need scrypt ASICs to mine Doge (and Litecoin at the same time, as they can be merge mined).
It seems like many politicians have a very emotional reaction to these kinds to experiments, seemingly afraid that the results will contradict their beliefs or that they'll somehow be at a loss.

And it's not just one or the other side either, since it looks like UBI could address a lot of issues (ie overall govt waste) the entrenched bureaucracy is by default resistant to it.
If we throw enough carrots in the xerox eventually the easter bunny will build us a rocket and a rc car.
Economic hitmen make regular hitman numbers look pathetic, both in lives and money.
I started doing "inbox zero" ten years a go and somehow ended up in a bit of an OCD situation.

Now I have to close/archive anything I'm not currently using.

Emails, apps, tabs, background processes, messenger contacts.

If I dealt with it and isn't something that is used on a regular basis, like the WhatsApp conversations of my partners, it has to go.
Is it actually going to be universal? Because if it's not, don't call it "universal". I see a lot of articles stating that "universal basic income was tested with massive success" when there was nothing universal about it.

There's a big difference.
This is what is wrong with desktop linux. Why do they have to reinvent the wheel all the time ? OSS, Esound, ALSA, pulse audio and now PipeWire. The same thing happened in Gnome and KDE. Every release changes everithing radically but they expect users to just close their eyes and go on.
It's a good point. But delivery mechanism should probably be considered too. The virus has to go through the respiratory system, which is a first line of defense. Then it takes time to infect you, multiply, and get around. It also can only dock at ACE2 I think. The shot seems to be instant full body intracellular delivery.

Maybe it does not matter much, but the immune reaction can indeed be very strong. Just don't be completely naive when in comes to regular booster shots, there might be a fine line between benefits and negatives. Also other types of vaccines are on the way I heard, so we'll see, maybe that will open up alternative ways to combat the virus.
So it's like torrents when they have no seeders?
It’s a known strategy.

One guy infested himself with various worms to give his immune system something productive to do.

I myself didn’t really eat for a month once. That ended a multi month long flare. Idea is it kills off immune system for awhile.
Note that you can do Swift's protocol oriented programming / portocol extensions in Rust, too:

trait Test {
fn value(&self) -> i32;
}

impl dyn Test {
fn multiplied(&self) -> i32 {
self.value() * 2
}
}
I know a bunch of people who founded their own companies and started a regular engineering employment after that.
I cannot stand this functionality and it's the first thing I disable on new installations. For me, Ctrl+tab is right and Ctrl+shift+tab is left.

I much prefer Firefox's awesome bar navigation when jumping around. % app will show all tabs with a title or URL containing app, * yo does the same for bookmarks containing yo, and ^ for history.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-keyboard-sh...

Edit: unfortunately, the % shortcut does not work with containers.
I think these experiments should use a better name if that's the case, ie limited basic income.
Vampire Vacuum?
Input isn’t self-referential in your example, because both of its fields are referencing the same data owned by the main function.

For it to be self-referential, Input needs to take ownership of the string in phrase, and words needs to then be referencing phrase.

You can do this with Pin, but it’s not simple.
This is one of the reasons I have such a low opinion of Google and people who work on adtech. Google has served me adverts for misinformation, scams, malware, exploitative mobile games, gambling, religious crap, porn and incest porn games. Google and Youtube ads are absolute garbage and so is Google for serving them.
Of course verification in its full generality is a dead end. However expressing an algorithm in a sound logical system, and proving properties of the algorithm is quite fruitful. That's the approach taken by Coq and probably others. Most of the time the prover still needs some guidance from the user though.
Perhaps "Listening to music before you sleep" might pique your interest, because it requires very little investment with proven increase in sleep quality. We spend 1/3 of our lifetime sleeping so even a few percent increase in sleep quality is significant.
Part of the reason for this lack of interest in the actual outcome is that state benefits are one of the main battlegrounds in the UK's culture war. A lot of the Tories' base comes from the ideological position that poorer people don't deserve to receive aid at the expense (via taxes) of richer people. Whether or not UBI achieves any of its stated aims is
totally irrelevant once you see things that way.

All the arguments about disincentivising work are, IMO just convenient filler. If you categorically disproved them, their proponents would surely just find another macro-economic rationalisation for their beliefs, which are in truth fundamentally moral.
Especially when the OS includes an app that performs the same function just fine. With no tracking, no permissions, no ads.

You do need to differentiate, why is your app better than the alternatives?

edit ah, apparently iPad does not have the calculator app.
And the intros. I spent more than me watching the intro sequences and listening to the music than playing the game. Got a bunch of remixes of it.
Hi everyone, I'm the creator of telescope :)

Happy to answer some questions / give my thoughts about telescope here.

Thanks!
Clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoG4FUXVPuE
Why would you do something like that if you don't need to?

The fact that someone is willing to build these machines for you is a good thing.
It's a good practice to make the base class abstract.

With that in mind, this pattern cleanly maps onto a trait with default implementations for methods plus several structs that implement the trait.
Every future dystopian story has some version of UBI....
I understood the “inference” comment as “the Rust compiler is more helpful now”. Which it is. @ekuber and gang have put a lot of effort into better error messages over the years and continue to do so.
Check the slides/talk from my comment here elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27163455

We did use DTrace to diagnose what was the root cause of a hanging insert (it was the same pending list cleanup as on this blog post). The whole talk we did was about DTracing PostgreSQL :)
This. So far we've repeatedly tested that if you give people in an area a small sum of money paid for from central government funds for a couple of years, they won't change their habits much but will be a little better off financially, which should be of absolutely no surprise to anyone. A real pilot would - as a minimum - be making the local tax rises and welfare cuts necessary to make the scheme revenue neutral, which might actually challenge UBI advocates' certainty that it works...
I think that for most people most of the time, economics falls in the category of things that they evaluate using their moral sense, rather than their practical sense. The important question for them is not whether the UBI works to achieve a specific goal, but whether it is moral or immoral.
Anybody did take part in similar test here ?

I'm somehow in a false UBI situation, monthly jobless benefits, and while waiting for answers I volunteer (mentioned it a few times). I found the freedom very .. freeing and motivating (actually the system was slowing me down, politics as you know). So I really wonder how it is to live officially in this condition.
I'd rather work 4 10's for 100% salary.
That is exactly what we thought about C++. We, too, believed that C++ fixed all those problems with both low-level programming in C, and the "messy" programming of the "application generators" of the time; it lets you clearly express intent and yet helps you avoid shooting yourself in the foot as happens in C. Anyone who truly believes that Rust is a great language for the average applications developer, clearly has not met one.
The reason for the contention is because it is not simply one side wearing masks and the other side not. It is one side wearing masks and demanding the other side do as well.
Dialectical materialism but for tech.
That is a fantastic article. I have tried submitting it here unfortunately it didn't catch much interest.

Very sad at the level of discussion here at hn when it comes to the US-China tech war. It is quite fascinating what is happening in China where the country is forced to rebuild a full semiconductor industry. Every established player here in the west has a Chinese counterpart being forstered.

It is really a Chinese Sputnik moment and a whole of society effort. Must be a great time to be Chinese semiconductor engineer.

As for TSMC, it has with the current Taiwanese goverment, placed itself firmly in the US camp where they will let go of any Chinese customer at the US government's command. However a considerable minority (maybe even a majority in business circles) in Taiwan see themselves as Chinese and are not at all sympathetic to US containment policies on China.
> If you were to use a pointer to a field, you'd need to correct that pointer during copies and moves.

The "transfer" crate allows for this, though not in a way that's directly compatible with C++ move. (The latter has been discussed somewhat in https://mcyoung.xyz/2021/04/26/move-ctors/ but that's only a first look at the problem area, not aiming for 100% accuracy just yet.)
Looking good vs. Feeling good: My true story about success
> Unfortunately most of our customers use Windows :(

Maybe you can run your application in WSL2 with `fork()` on Windows.
The service industry in America is having difficulty hiring because they aren't paying enough. That's all their is to it.
Yeah, I contributed to Denite and have talked to shougo about Denite as an inspiration for telescope.

It's a great project. I just added a note (which is the least I can do for the projects) here: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/commit/d466...
Haven't we spent the last decade bemoaning the lack of moderate inflation? Plus the primary issue with inflation is that it hurts people at the bottom, so UBI offsets that inherently.

As for the money, I am brit so I only know the British numbers. We spend about 300bn a year on benefits (in non covid times). That's £5000 per citizen (including kids) and doesn't count a whole bunch of other subsidies (free houses, local government spending etc). So we wouldn't need to raise much additional spending.

Of course, people would be more likely to take service jobs if they could keep their unemployment benefit (as they would a UBI). That's one of the big upsides of a UBI: no benefit trap like we're currently seeing (rightly or not).

And all this is without any uptick in any economic area (people accepting lower wages, getting educated/trained, increased consumption, lower crime etc).
this is a great summary: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/politics-industry/
Upperstage engine shut down immediately after ignition, peak vehicle velocity about 8.2km/s. Upperstage is seen changing attitude around an axis tangential to its length in official onboard video[1]

1: https://twitter.com/terminalcount/status/1393529189748334592
> It provides distribution and discovery as well. A more valid comparison would be with Amazon.

Comparing the distribution of megabytes of packages vs physical packages with all the associated real world logistics? Really? One is drastically easier and cheaper.
> for or against this pilot project before the results are known

> all with “positive” results.

Call this lack of self awareness. Do you have any study that looks into the long term effect of this scheme with data. AFAIK, there had been multiple programs of UBI going all the way to 1960s[1] and each time government cancelled it for some reason, so calling it one word positive if got cancelled is bit of overreach.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots
Agreed, this thread looks astroturfed. I can't believe the readers of usual HN articles would be so all over Tiktok.

All I see on Tiktok is brain damage. Pretty people doing "slipping in banana peels" level humor, weird childish stuff like how to use scissors, "mindblow" recipes that make no sense. Various junk "lifehacks" etc. Its all garbage after scrolling for like 30 minutes.

But I'm also not the target demographic, as a programmer in my 30s with still a bit of attention span left. I really don't envy the kids who grow up with this garbage.
Cycloid
I followed the author’s IDE trajectory but only because I stopped working with C#
"Software should be developed by small elite groups" is pretty much the opposite of the Rust developers' goal. I do agree with you that it's a bad goal to have, which is why I'm optimistic about Rust's success.
That is a more philosophical definition of build time than what I am referring to.
One factor complicating landing is the thin atmosphere. Too thin to make parachutes useful but thin enough that you have to worry about the heat from high speeds.
"We need to make an early start on designing the pilot to make sure that we have the best chance of operating a pilot that allows us to draw the conclusions from it that we would all want to see."

Not a very scientific attitude
(I think this is a great idea btw, just that quote is quite cringe)
In general it's true that being on a ventilator for two weeks carries a high mortality, but that's largely due to being sick enough to require ventilation for that duration. Presumably without effective oxygenation or airway protection, these people would have died before the two week mark. COVID pneumonia presents a special case. Early on the thinking was that noninvasive ventilation with bipap etc would promote spread of the virus, so the recommendation was to proceed earlier to intubation. In retrospect this did appear to lead to higher mortality, likely related to ventilator associated pneumonia and sedation and paralytic drugs. So we've returned to a more ordinary stance where intubation is a last resort. So, intubation is bad, but for most circumstances, it beats a trip to the morgue.
BMC itself uses slow bytewise hashing and a slow old-school hash table. With keys of sizes 200-1000!

> In userspace, Memcached consists of well-optimized data structures to handle key-value pairs, with an LRU algorithm to evict “stale” data.

Memchached itself has also no well-optimized hashing nor a modern swiss-table like hashtable. It can be easily made at least 2x faster on modern CPU's.

Doing it upfront in the kernel is if course a better idea, but I would have expected at least proper modern core hashtables, not 90ies tech.
I used to use tab groups and have hundreds of tabs in Firefox some years back. Now, like you, I close things as soon as I don't need them.

Anything unpinned is temporary, and I only pin a few tabs. I also heavily bookmark and quickmark (qutebrowser) things and can usually get back to them easily.

I don't remember what changed my behavior, but I had incidents in the past with running out of RAM and swap and my whole PC hanging despite having 16GB of RAM, so I probably just scared myself straight.

Things feel cleaner when I have fewer tabs, which I think contributes to my mood being better. If I'm ever partway through a deep-dive or project that involves a lot of open tabs, I find I feel stressed. Sometimes I even decide enough is enough and close them all, feeling near-instant relief.
Yeah, not at all easy though. Spent two days at work and didn't managed to get it done.
I don't like python either; it would still be good for the environment if running it generated less heat.
That is why I started to use ed. Much better than vi because you THINK in a buffer :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)
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> Aww shucks, my app is a game for kids though and 90% of the youth are on an iPhone

Really? I would have thought people would be hesitant to buy expensive devices for everyday use for kids. Do you have a source showing the distribution of that particular market? Not saying you're wrong, just that it sounds weird.
Shortest "killer feature" is probably the re-use of native vim buffers inside of telescope. So one cool thing is when it does a preview, it will show you the literal buffer (so it will have exactly the same colors, syntax highlighting, etc.) wherever possible.

Longer answer is I think it's quite cool to be able to not have to serialize/deserialize everything within telescope, so you can pass around objects (a.k.a. lua tables) that have function references, etc. that allow for very fun extension of the general API.

Another part I guess is that every part (that I have been able to think of thus far) is customizable. So you can change (per-search) the sorting algorithm, the display, the highlighting, the preview, the search text, etc. So you can fine-tune each aspect of it for the particular search or just your general preferences.

Also, I made it just because I was having lots of fun with it. I think fzf is a super awesome application (and plugin), so if it's working well for you I don't think I would switch!
>I’ve got to the point where the design for the tool im building to replace this, must have a query language or just raw SQL power search box to get to whatever underlying dB stores it all (probably going to be Sqlite)

I'm not sure you know this, but nowadays browsers have low-level sql-like api called indexeddb[0] which may fit your needs without using sqlite.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_A...
People usually don't particularly care for the truth, they care for what they think is the truth, and what support their opinions.

As for suggestions : It's pretty vague, but how about doing projects in things that you're interested in ? Like maybe creating a prototype for an energy drink, buy a lot of different ingredients to find new recipes, or buy tools for drawing and create a comic...

Or read up on a problem your city has, and work on it.
Universal Credit heh
Blueprint 3 calls their widget[0] for building this kind of experience “omnibar”.

[0] https://blueprintjs.com/docs/#select/omnibar
A lot of it's situational.

I know there are a lot of folks who think (or, to be fair, maybe know) that they can have their choice of highly paid jobs in a week. That's not true for a lot of people in a lot of roles (or a lot of ages).

Sometimes people who are not in a great situation currently get an offer that looks pretty darned good. It may make sense to take the position that trying to wring out a bit more is really not worth the risk as opposed to making it happen now.
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Buran made an orbital flight. I think the reason of the project's failure was lack of funding, not technology in that case.