skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where would new money even go in a system with both fiat currency and wealth caps? Do you have to constantly increase the wealth caps with inflation? How do you perfectly manage that rate? As we can see governments are not capable of doing that now. Do you cap the profits of businesses as well and if so why do they continue to innovate or expand once they've reached the same level as all of their competitors? You're really just proposing a centrally planned economy where all wages and prices will be set by the government, that never works and never will work since no small group of people will ever be able to plan the lives of a much larger group without producing a lot of misery. Not to mention all the usual human failings and corruption that creep into every system over time.
Under the conspiracy theory there would be a secret cabal of people (insert Illuminati, lizard people, etc.) that are (in some unspecified manner) influencing the people that surround Putin to convince him to go to war, despite it not being in his best interest.
Go talk to a doctor they see this stuff everyday.

Seriously, there's lots of treatments. Lots of different side-effects. Between you, you'll experiment until you find something that works, and you may manage to be in a much better place than you were.

Right now, you really have no idea if you have depression or severe anxiety.

This isn't like cancer. You won't be dead in 5 years. Go get treatment, and keep your life and your job.
Right seems like people are confusing very different points of view: they can do it and they should do it. It’s like reviewing a murder case and seeing arguments talking past each other, one side saying “He was allowed to shoot his gun” and the other saying “He shouldn’t have shot his gun.” The arguments aren’t even on the same level and aren’t mutually exclusive. Both could be true, and the responses just ignore the others point completely.
Always interesting to see some of the rules imposed by a company that started by using unlicensed MP3s from The Pirate Bay. Guess you gotta keep the record companies happy.. after you make your first couple million, that is.
To be more precise, this is one of the thing we call "tacos", usually sold by small shops that will also do doner kebabs. But we also have "regular" tacos, sold by shops that are focused on mexican/tex-mex cuisine. The french tacos are usually called just tacos, "tacos Français" (French tacos), or "tacos Lyonnais". There are debats on the origin, with people saying it comes from Lyon and other that it comes from Grenoble.
The problem is with taxes not all prices are equal. if the price of wheat doubles but the price of all the sports teams go down in prices by an equal amount. I wouldn't count as inflation but it sure would suck.
Your comment makes me want to make up some new nonsense and try to spread it in here. I'll restrain myself though :)
I strongly disagree, I loved it
> if you file by the volcano method

Is this an organizational methodology?
Almost nobody cares about the size, that's why its big - not so much a purposeful game - there's no extra money to be paid to bloat your own software, you'll do that fine on your own.
Using Telegram is making this app way better than the others! Just like communicating with myself.
Is there a way to try the app outside of the UK? Maybe in "basic" mode where you only guesstimate the wheelbases?
I've been a regular Monde diplo reader for years, even if I'm a consubtantial right-winger (and it's well known for being very left-wing), for the only reason that it's the best written paper in France.
> There is no argument here -- why would everything cost $1000 extra?

Because you can't print food, houses, energy etc. Give everyone $1000 and you won't magically create any more food or any more houses or any more energy out of thin air. So the market will adjust the price to account for the increased demand. It's basic supply and demand.

> If everyone gets $1000 as UBI, then those 500 lollipops will cost ... $1001 each and $501000 in total?

> Isn't that absurd?

Yes it is, but you misunderstand. It's not that every individual item would cost $1000 extra, it's that the total cost of living would be $1000 extra.
Unfortunately I doubt that Darwin saying more would have prevented that. Perhaps they would call it something else, but more likely they would just ignore it. There are plenty of things that Adam Smith said against modern capitalism, but that doesn’t stop people from holding him up as an icon. (And the same is true for basically every ideology and religion!)
You say this as if the goal of building a business (and measure of success) was to raise money?
From what I can see, Front has 360+ employees and generates $64M in revenue, which works out to $177K revenue per headcount. Missive generates $2M with a headcount of 4, which comes out to $500k revenue per employee.
Imo, generating almost 3x more revenue per headcount, and not having to deal with the headaches of managing a 360+ employee team (while maintaining complete ownership of your company) is the type of success that more founders should aspire to.
English is the lingua franca, just because something is published in english does not mean it's necessarily targeted towards only Americans.
The announcement of the iPhone was big because it really defined what a smartphone is. Also with the phones we have it’s easy to think that it was a small announcement which is a testament to the influence it has.
The competition focused on prioritizing phone features and then adding apps that worked on a small screen. The purpose of a screen on a phone wasn’t emphasized at all.

Also having a camera with a large screen eventually made the iPhone take the most pictures of any device.

But the iPhone did have its price slashed by around $200. Also it took til the iPhone 5 to have a great deal of people to adopt the iPhone.

So the announcement and the iPhone itself made it influential and then a few revisions later the iPhone really became dominant.
The question is fine and it makes sense. The issue is that it’s a mistake to ignore reality around it. For example, death penalty proponents tend to ignore the financial cost, which is being increased due to litigation from opponents of the death penalty. They can’t wish away anti-death penalty lawyers doing pro-bono work, or pretend that they don’t exist. In a similar fashion, UBI proponents will ignore the likelihood that the government will likely fund the program by printing more money. The other reality being ignored is that the supply and availability of goods doesn’t change. What happens with more demand for those goods? Prices rise.
Modern file systems address all of that and more - without the added complexity of a whole freaking RDBMS system! If you are going to change an application it makes far more sense to just update it to leverage the features of a modern file system.
Money creation and inflation are the same, according to an economic view that's like 100 years out of date. Money has to be spent to create inflation. Money that goes nowhere does nothing. What happens in the economy matters.Supply AND demand make inflation.

Also, what is 'excess money'? How do you know what is 'necessary' and what is 'excess'?
Kinda; chemtrails are far fetched conspiracy theories, the real ignorance and mind control or whatever is happening right under their noses.
I've been playing with VM/370 and MVS 3,8j on Hercules for some time, but I haven't figured that out yet. The concepts are so alien for a Unix person I may have gone over the instructions a couple times, without recognizing them as such.
Le Monde Diplo is still great. And hey - there’s an absolutely superb French literary canon to explore. imo that’s reason enough to learn - assuming you’re interested.
I definitely didn't mean to imply that you needed an SRE/Devops for starting off. The OP just came across as sounding like you don't need SRE/Devops in general if you use Serverless, which from my experience at multiple orgs just seems idealist.

I'd argue that the need for someone focused on SRE/Devops comes from factors that are mostly unrelated to whether or not you go serverless.
> if the project is dying because it hinges on people working on a promotion that gives them a /bigger paycheck increase than my yearly income/ - well, good riddance. I'm staying on my side of the fence and continue to not buy a new Tesla every year.

An understandable position but this is simply how competitive environments work.

It’s a lot like the college application mania. There’s tons of gifted high school students who clearly can succeed without needing to volunteer in a foreign country every summer while playing oboe and competing in lacrosse at the state level.

But seats at Harvard are competitive, and those same talented and well-to-do high school seniors often only have college admissions as their ruler to measure their growth and self-worth. So they compete on every angle to try and get into Harvard rather than merely Dartmouth or heaven forbid BU.

It’s reasonable to think working adults should have measures of personal growth that don’t rely on climbing the corporate ladder, but conversely all those who *do* obsess with climbing the ladder will naturally be clustered around places of wealth/prestige, because that’s what they are optimizing for. Much like the Harvard application pool, you’ll find these types doing what it takes to stand out and land that 700k/yr L7 position at Google.

So I guess the answer is that the most stable and secure position for an open source project to be in, is one that does not rely on development being coupled to big tech. I imagine most open source folks could have told you that anyways :)
I personally didn’t enjoy the witness. I do enjoy puzzle game’s and I enjoy exploration for the sake of exploration, but the witness felt very samey and after a few hours it just felt dull and boring to me. I did enjoy the aesthetics at least and exploring was fun for a little while.

Of course everyone is different, but it felt very overhyped to me, definitely wasn’t for me, I guess. Incidentally I also didn’t really enjoy Braid, so I’m not really excited about Jon’s future games although I suppose he could surprise me.

It’s weird because on paper his games are the exact things I should love, but so far they didn’t resonante with me.
Pas Le Monde Diplomatique though.
FoundationDB Client API for Tokio and Rust
I've discovered aggressive-indent recently and I got immediately addicted. Now I wish it worked reliably with lsp-format-region and clangd (lack of reliability doesn't stop me from using it, even if explicitly unsupported).
but if everything the worker was going to buy goes up in price to offset the wages then what's the point? so they can feel richer?

That's why this question of inflation is important. But I would argue it's consumer goods inflation not the price of high end real estate or priceless art etc.
> Those transactions that appear to go through "immediately", are not settled for many days or weeks.

The thing about that is that end users don't care, not even a little bit. It's about as interesting as whether the banks runs Linux, BSD, or OS/400.

The service provided is immediate. I don't care if the two banks need to ship physical checks around on the backend.

> the same could be offered by third parties working on top of the Bitcoin blockchain.

But that defeats the whole point of the bitcoin blockchain.

It does not defeat the point of traditional banking.
> This does not seem to be supported by real world. In real world, poor people marry less in the first place. And when family income goes down, people divorce more.

A household with two earners sharing expenses, or dividing the load of work and childcare, is more financially stable than two separate households. This is basic arithmetic. The poverty rate of children living with two married parents is 7%. The poverty rate for children living with one parent is 33.6%. https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/population/qa01203.asp?qaDate....

> This is not true. The ability to divorce and leave partner makes it lower. The inability to divorce and social pressure to marry makes it higher. It is primary ability to be single when you want/need to that makes it go lower.

Countries with legal systems that punish domestic violence make it lower. It's certainly true that is an advantage the U.S. has over the developing world. But within the U.S., your theory does not pan out. In New York City, for example, Asians, who have by far the highest marriage rates, are less than 1/4 as likely to be involved in a domestic violence assault as Black people, who have by far the lowest marriage rates: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/ocdv/downloads/pdf/ENDGBV-Inters.... And you can't chalk that up to economics because Asians also have the highest poverty rates of any ethnic group in NYC: http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/?forum-post=resear.... Nationwide, Black women are 2.5 times more likely to be the victims of domestic violence than white women, but half as likely to be married. (This is one of the many ways in which white social liberalism has hurt Black women and children.) In another example, Appalachia has always had higher rates of family instability than other parts of the country. But it also has higher rates of domestic violence.

In fact, I suspect the causality actually runs in the other direction, all else being equal. Unfortunately, men aren't less violent merely because they're a boyfriend rather than a husband. But in a traditional marriage, there is a union of families, which means that the wife's family can scrutinize and police the husband's behavior. That social framework tends to absent entirely in casual relationships.
I always edit the genre so that the tracks work correctly with my various different smart playlists. In rare instances I'll also need to tweak the artist name to fit with the existing tracks in my library.

Sometimes the album or track names have extra info that I don't care about and will delete.

And TV show metadata is usually a mess and needs quite a bit of editing.
You can just feed the French version through Google Translate.
I would add The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham to this list as well.

The problem with 'living up to your expectations' is that too often it's about material goods that are unbelievably fleeting and temporary. This book, followed through to the end, really helps focus in on that.

It was given to me by my dissertation chair during post-grad work. He was attempting to point me to the fact that life doesn't have to be hustle and bustle and break-neck for money. I took it to mean that he thought I should quit school and go back to the farm. There's a lesson in there about clear communication, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Razor%27s_Edge
DigitalOcean -> Hetzner Cloud.
Simply realized it's much cheaper for my use case (single instance running everything), even doubled my ram from 2GB to 4GB and it was still cheaper.
It's also a European company which helps (more trustworthy IMO).
Also took the time to simplify my deployment, which was nice.
Wolfram is by any measure a successful academic. One general issue though is that particle physics basically hit a dead end. The future was in simulation (hence Mathematica) and then the idea that the universe is computational and if it is how could it be and how might it work.

This multi computational idea seems to draw from the double slit experiment where observation collapses the wave function and the multi-probability path history based on the observer.
This is saying that computations can be modeled similarly. And this type of model handles non-determinism in general and "threads of time" apparently. Interesting. Ambitious but very interesting.
I love my portfolio site: https://yagmurcetintas.com/

It started as a portfolio to get a job as a web developer, but it became more and more fun to work with over the past 2 years and I started to feel genuine love to it. It kept me motivated to move on and learn more when I was feeling empty and useless.

Here's the source code if you want to check: https://github.com/cakebatterandsprinkles/portfolio-gatsby
Mencken did his fair share of crusading, and commenting brashly about things he didn't know much about.
We don't need everybody working.

75% of jobs are bullshit jobs. Just 2% of people work in agriculture.

We slave 30-40 years for a priviledge to live in a house.

(Almost) all money in circulation is owned/issued by banks, and the inflation/interest is a way to keep us all in the rat race, all the time consuming, amassing things, never thinking.

Our civilization is a construct, a glass cage, and we're all afraid to break through.

We don't need (more) stuff. We need to become adults.
I stumbled onto this by chance. It was a great positive surprise (the only positive vomit surprise ever).
Just for one example, Seattle has a lake right in the middle of town in a bowl with tens of thousands of people working and living right around it, and that lake is used as a seaplane airfield with aircraft landing and taking off every few minutes throughout the day.
> I don't feel I should pursue anything.

Then don’t. I also think it is all meaningless, a blip of order in a system of chaos that “we” exist and “we” are able to think about it.

Play the game, do not play the game, it does not make a difference unless you want to think it makes a difference. I have little kids, and I am not in any pain, so I like playing the game and seeing what I can do to provide for their future security.

Maybe I would not if I was in much worse circumstances, such as super sick or economically disadvantaged.
Ask HN: Closest thing to Django in Java world?
Our team maintains a lot of internal apps in Java (some Spring, some older frameworks). I miss the productivity of Django. What is the closest equivalent in the Java world?
This is what happens when you teach developers 'storage/hardware/compute is cheap' if you ask me. That plus the lack of interest in Apple Music development in general. (I cannot imagine that shitty music player received much love over the pas years. Still better then spotify though.)

Funny side note: I recently made it's frontend crash. Turns out it _is_ a JS frontend after all. I suspected as much because of how slow & slugish it is, but I got an actual JS error & it fell back to the old table interface
I think it would be extremely cool to be able to transpile other languages into this language's diagrams and then watch the execution.
I think you're reading too much into that. All that means is that they can use other services to process your data, e.g. putting your data in an AWS managed database.
In Canada during covid we deployed non-universal basic income. It was basic income but not everyone got it. This was not that unlike what the democrats did in the USA.

During a pandemic I would hope the government would help people through it. Was it the right call? I have the benefit of hindsight. https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/central-bank-balance-she...

We must now deal with the consequences.

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/money-supply-m0

Paper money was increased 400%.

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/government-debt

The government, who had already promised to balance the budget and reduce debt, increased it by historic record breaking amounts. The current prime minister increased debt by more than all previous PM combined. After spending that much money to buy votes. He called a snap election spending even more money expecting to get a majority government and he received weakest minority government in history. Technically even lost the election by popular vote.

So where's that inflation at? 5.7% and still climbing. It rose by over 10% in march.

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/inflation-cpi

The government is tabling a budget today. I will literally die of laughter if universal basic income is included. I don't expect it will be, but there is a live bill to make it happen.

The budget today I eagerly await the opportunity to read. What do I expect? There's no doubt going to be some crypto regulation. If the budget is as bad as I expect... people will fly to crypto with their savings. They need to hinder that.
>With all these advantages in the US's favor, why is it that Europe is held as a standard of food done right?

Because filter bubbles and liking Europe[1] is very fashionable in filter bubbles that are demographically similar to HN and most of HN has a social circle full of similar demographics that they get their food opinions from.

There are plenty of people who hold middle America in high culinary regard. The rest of the things those people tend to have to say are generally not welcome around here so those people don't hang out here and don't hang out with the kind of people who hang out here so there's little discussion going on between these groups of people.

[1] For a very specific definition of "Europe" that is a far smaller than the actual continent.
This answer seems to treat inflation as "the cost of everything". If, rather, we focus only on the items that are needed to survive (food, shelter, etc), I think the answer changes.

The taxes to pay for the UBI will generally come from the middle and higher income households; who are already spending the money they need to on those items. Losing some of their money to taxes won't do much to reduce the amount they spend on those.

However, the lower income segment, where UBI will have a much higher impact, will start spending a lot more on these items. Because, in theory, they were not spending as much as they would want to on them previously (bad housing, cheap food, etc.. could be improved).

As such, the demand for those "survival" items could increase a fair amount, causing the prices for them to increase. If you consider this inflation (which I would, since it's a rise in prices for things that matter), then there would likely be inflation.
But its not the position of zero, its the derivative.

The car analogy would be something like

"If you raise the speed limit by 1 mph, you've just moved everyone's houses exactly one mile."
The country was literally founded on the principle of being independent so for sure my own country's security services are themselves a threat if they don't have oversight. You mention that there is a chain of responsibility - but responsibility doesn't equal oversight, does it?

Let's take a simple point: in this post I asked "Are there any benefits to having an intelligence community, and if so what?"

In your first point "internal threats" you mention "sedition". What keeps a member of the IC from looking at my post and saying, "You know what this smells pretty seditious to me, I think I'll just look up this woman's file and see what I can snoop into about her" and then targeting that person based on their thoughts?

By contrast, if I wrote a question "Are there any benefits to having a senate?" and a senator looked at my post, they could at most Google me or something - I would be "secure in my person, house, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" based on someone's mood at that moment in time.
Gyms and telcos in the US certainly do this type of thing, though usually not with paper forms specifically. At gyms, they often won’t let you get out of the contract no matter what you say, or they’ll say you’re free and then keep on charging you for years if you don’t notice on your credit cars bill. For telcos, they’ll make you wait on the phone through hours of waiting “for the next available representative”.