skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or maybe a some folks in Oakland?

I don't think a city in the US is a good sample, since people are more likely to move in and out of the city during a generational (or multi-generational) test case. In addition, city lines/boundaries are "fuzzy" a lot of the time, often with one side of a street being incorporated and the other side not, etc. City boundary lines may also shift over time, etc.

In addition, if it's known anyone with an Oakland address gets BI, some (or many) people will attempt to move there, which will cause other unintended economic consequences for the city, skewing the test results.

A [small] nation is a better sample, since it tends to have fewer of these issues over a long time span.
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> In my very limited experience of these matters, there is rarely a clear line between 'bad but acceptable parenting' and 'culpable neglect'.

With a mature UBI, there's still certainly room for cases where there is ambiguity over whether culpability of the form represented by a criminal prosecution for abuse/neglect exists, but a lot less room for ambiguity (at least, compared to now) over whether there is a sufficient failure of basic parental duty to justify intervention to ensure the material adequacy of care for children.

> In the UK, a recent report suggested that child services spend so much of their time chasing the former, that the latter cases (which are much more serious) don't get the attention they need.

That's definitely true in the US as well. I don't disagree that these services need to be reformed and reprioritized, independently of the nature of the public benefit system.

But the problem with beneficiaries (parents or otherwise) blowing or trading their benefits without meeting their and/or dependents material needs exists independently of the nature of the public benefit system -- its quite clearly a feature of the status quo system -- so its not really an argument for or against any particular public benefit structure.
Exactly.

An unintended result of the advent of reliable/portable touch devices was the reduction in physical hardware input.

Instead of clamping down a joystick to a desk and moving it around with your face... or looking away from content to type on a keyboard with your nose... you can buy an off-the-shelf product and use it on just about any solid surface. The iPad was huge for people with limited limb control.
They never remove pro-Hamas terrorist content. Never ever. I have no idea why.
I'm prepared to pay whatever is necessary, while also contributing to whatever tech is needed to drive costs down to reduce the monthly government-wide nut needed to pay for entitlements.

Food too expensive? Robotics farming. More energy needed? Scale up solar, wind, and utility scale battery storage installations. Moar cheap transportation? Scale up bicycle and electric self-driving car manufacturing.

It _can_ be done. We simply need the will to do so. Work backwards, first principles style. We have lots of atoms and electrons, lets organize them efficiently for everyone's benefit.
And, on the other extreme: why make people work when there's already enough for everyone?
Yes. And then the BI payments will be CPI adjusted, engineering an inflationary spiral, or price controls will be introduced, engineering chronic commodity shortages.
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However that is a small community geographically so I wonder how that would work on a larger more anonymous basis without the social pressures that certainly in Lakewood.
Why not just give them money? If someone is "too lazy" to work, they're not going to be productive in any job anyways. We already give these people substantial subsidies in the form of food stamps, housing assistance, etc.

If someone wants to not work and live in a bad part of town. No offense, by why do you care? You'll live a much nicer life than them, working, and having more.
Agreed, definitely don't put a session token in the URL. I'd recommend using a custom HTTP header to transmit it - this way you aren't forced to use POST for everything.
Thanks for the heads up on Orion. I bought a Leap Motion at it's initial release, and like some others here was disappointed in it's ability to accurately track my fingers/hands. I just might pull it off the shelf and give it another shot now.
> People in prison likely wouldn't get money.

Well, people in prison are the ones who need money the most, given that they're currently working for a fraction of minimum wage just to buy basic toiletries.

> I'm sure there would be other reasons to decline some people. Such as mentally disabled. (maybe parents or care giver would receive more?)

And then you get right back to the whole question of determining who is eligible, or isn't eligible, and having some means of enforcing that... and we're right back where we started, with a means-testing system.
AKA "tick-tock-tweak".
Good to see steps like this being made!

As a slight aside, there are strong proponents who argue, based on Ricardo's law of rent [0], that any excess income above the basic subsistence level will inevitably be swallowed up by landlords in the form of rents.

I'd be very interested to hear from the folks involved in this study if they have an opinion on such an assertion, and if you have any ideas on addressing that effect when it comes to instituting a basic income. Since, if you agreed with those arguments, it seems that a BI's long-term impact on disposable incomes would trend towards 0.

I am still studying the topic, but find the arguments compelling that say a basic income would need to also be paired with something along the lines of either a land-value tax or a community land contribution [1] (which, as the argument is often used, would have a dual bonus by obviating the need for property and income taxes) in order to have meaningful effect.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent

[1] https://www.unitism.com/land/en/9-keep-what-you-earn-pay-for...
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> This is also a strong argument for not releasing code and advertising it on HN if it's not mature.

I'm not totally convinced about that, cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often
Meta:

>Just type the title into google and click on it to read the article.

This is exactly the function of the "web" link below the title.
Interesting. Snapchat sounds a lot more complex than I had envisioned from hearing about it.
Then what about a whitelist? You can limit to hearing just from those you've followed.
For the short-term pilot, we don't expect to see many behavioral changes--we'll just test the mechanics and refine our research design and outcome measures. We'll begin examining our research questions in earnest with the full 5-year study.
Then you get into a whole mess of determining what's actually a company and what's a job and lose one of the (hopeful) benefits of BI which is allowing people to explore creative endeavors like the arts which aren't totally job based or allowing people to study for a better job without having to compromise and basic living standards.
I quite agree with you that the Saudis' approach here is much less horrible!

>Here, if you are ever once a criminal, you're a criminal for life

OTOH, recidivism for sorcery must be pretty low over in the Kingdom, since the punishment for this crime (?) is beheading (!).
Google can see what we call "the future", based on virtually infinite data points.

If Google can manage them usefully, those points are clearly not virtually infinite. (Otherwise, you're diluting the meaning of the word.)
> Realistically a Basic Income wouldn't be guaranteed forever either, as it'd rely on a government, which tend to be replaced every 4 - 8 years. The main difference is perhaps that they know how long it will last.

That's like saying our existing welfare programs won't be around forever. But guess what -- they will. Handing out free money is an easy way to win votes and an even easier way to lose them if you take it away.
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Since Alan Kay has shown interest (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11806853) in saying something on the topic of OO and functional programming I opened this thread.

I purposefully left out the word "versus" because I do not believe there is such a strong dichotomy and to avoid flamewars.
With every sentence you type here, the cost of the bureaucracy rises. Also the profits of the payday loan industry...
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Couldn't bear to see you left hanging like that!
> The most important question, in my mind, is what is the extent of inflationary pressure applied by BI?

Agreed that this might well be the most important question. A study by the NY Federal Reserve Bank concluded that college tuitions skyrocketed when easy money became available from the feds. [0] The abstract says:

<quote>

The causes of the rapid growth in the price of college education have been the source of much debate in recent years, and the similarly quick growth in student borrowing, funded largely
through federal student loan programs, has also been of substantial concern. This paper studies the relationship between these twin increases, and in particular, the extent to which increased access to student credit has contributed to rising tuition. To disentangle the simultaneity of the education cost and credit, we exploit detailed student-level financial data and changes in federal student aid programs to identify the impact of credit on tuition.

We find that institutions more exposed to changes in these programs increased their tuition disproportionately around these
policy changes, with a pass-through effect on tuition from changes in subsidized loan maximums per qualifying student of about 60 percent, and smaller but still positive pass-through effects of Pell Grant aid and the unsubsidized federal loan program.

The subsidized loan effect is most pronounced for more expensive degrees, for those offered by private institutions, and for two-year
degrees or vocational programs.

</quote>

(Emphasis and extra paragraphing added.)

[0] https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...
Worth looking into the the cost of living in the Toronto (or any) area. What you make matters much more in context of what you spending power will be.
It seems to work well only on chrome (issues with Safari, partially working on iPhone though). Similar issues with [1].

There's also some minor horizontal scroll which makes the experience slightly weird, but this can easily be fixed with overflow-x: hidden;

[1] http://vallandingham.me/scroller.html
I'm sure this won't be abused at all...
Where do you put the tents? How do you prevent disease in a tent city without plumbing? How do they prepare food?

Basic Income wouldn't even be possible if it were not for modern society. Why try to divorce the standards of society from the implementation of basic income?
No, it's the reason the bad decisions get made. Same as alcoholism, drug addiction, and other "vices". Some may stem from initial poor decisions in the past, but they're all good contexts for why continued, daily bad decisions are made that serve to keep the person in poverty.
I have long been following this topic. Here are the most promising explanations I have found so far. Why do Procrastinators Procrastinate?

- perfectionism: when the person is not satisfied with anything she makes

- fear of success: because success can bring about unpleasant attention and undesired comparisons

- temporal discounting: gaining 200 in one year is worth less than spending the 100 right now

- impulsivity: I feel an urge to run away from work and I allow it to rule me every time

- bad odds for success: sometimes it's smarter to give up, when the probability of success becomes too small

- overwhelmed: trying to do too much, having too many balls in the air is stressful

- seeking more creativity: sometimes procrastination is in fact thinking time and searching for inspiration
Have you read the comments? Who is the author of that "3-rd party" plugin? No connections with Microsoft?
> It would also stop the amazingly timed police checkpoint on the first day of the month.

I've never heard of this. Do you have a link or something? I assume it's like a checkpoint they set up in poor areas so they can get money from the welfare checks or something?
Posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11808551 with a comment of mine soon to follow.
Hopefully there will be a matching change in the server edition OSes and .NET framework soon.
No. Communism requires abolition of private ownership. However, the hyperinflationary spiral resulting from BI could assist a transition to communism.
It makes sense for this be opt-in, but I'd like to know how they want to achieve compatibility with apps that didn't adapt and are given such a file.
I use FreeBSD for hosting personal web sites. I've used it on and off since version 1.1.5.1. I like BSD in general and have hosted small web sites using NetBSD and OpenBSD. I came back to FreeBSD, mostly because of the broader ports support and binary updates. The packages do most of the work for setting things up. With NetBSD and OpenBSD, there is more integration work to do at setup time. I'll add the caveat that this is for small all-in-one web sites.
What happens when those harassers report posts in the masses and get people silenced? It's a mess when you try to define whatever you think is not right. I had a friend tell me he tried to post a dream he had on Facebook and Facebook didn't let him post it, something about his dream was deemed hate speech somehow. A dream of all things. Lots of issues with this.
You would need to outlaw "BI payday loans" for this to not be circumvented almost immediately.
> Imagine my surprise when I later learned how cookie storage worked! There was a brief moment of "oh, I guess not having to manually append this to my requests would be nice," only to read about CSRFs and other horrors cookies enabled.

Cookies do not require javascript, unlike whatever solution using web apis.
This is an unfortunate truth. It's just so frustrating that the network effect means that moving off of Facebook means loosing a whole bunch of connections that won't go elsewhere.
Please be sure to post what Alan says. Would be VERY interesting.
It becomes a mental health problem rather than a poverty problem.
Yes they are. A formal language is a code. Any formal language. What is the difference between code and pseudocode in your opinion?

And given that on a whiteboard interview you're writing a pseudocode, it is not any different from a typical day at work where you also write pseudocode on a whiteboard, blackboard, sheet of paper or whatever. And if this is not your typical day at work, you're doing it wrong.
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Well, enabling nomadism in a modern society very well may have positives for individuals and local economies alike for all the same sorts of reasons why nomadism is a successful and very efficient strategy of survival.

The ecological era "farmer" gene required a disposition in humans to feel compelled (or at least comfortable) staying put. And that gene just so happens to be common today in developed nations. But it's not for everyone, and the economics right now are very much against the nomadic personality type.

That could be mitigate to a good degree by such a small guaranteed income.
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Well, it's a study... I can totally see giving someone $1200 once will not going to food and shelter. But just maybe, over time, it'll relieve what may be a sense of hopelessness, or other complex social factors that leads people to poor decisions. And it may not help for 100% of people in that socieconomic bracket, but optimistically I think it could help a large number of people get out of a bad cycle.
Noob question: how does one assemble such a molecule?
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"Showing another page" is not a manipulation? So the redirects of yore when you would change the link-text to a URL that does not match the link-URL is not a manipulation? That is effectively what imgur does.
By the same logic, owning capital is immoral.
I wanted to cite the original poster who found and assembled those links as a secondary source.
A bit, perhaps. But it's not unreasonable to me. How would you define mental illness? Where do you draw the line?
People can decide what they need. It is a lot less bureaucracy to say "Here's a check that should be able to get you shelter, clothing, and food -- go find it." rather than trying to place everyone somewhere.
>So the "cost of UBI" is clearly not $10k times (number of humans in the USA), but more like $10k times (number of eligible people making under $10k).

It is "$10k times (number of humans in the USA)," because the "number of eligible people" IS the number of humans in the USA.
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References are all about verifiability otherwise it's just a random person saying something about another person; without context a reference is useless. You need to find a way to verify them which I'll admit is hard but without that they're completely useless.

Open source is usually the best indicator here as they can literally point you to code they worked on.

> Everyone has references, that is not something that is hard to acquire or meaningful in any way.

A literal reference without context isn't useful. That's why, in my original text I caveated it with verifiable code running in a production environment.

> Wordpress is running in production all over, I sure as hell wouldn't want to hire any of the people involved in it.

Ouch. It's not the greatest code but they made something, it worked and it's been scaled all over the place. Seems like they could have some solid people involved in it in my opinion.
I wouldn't call myself an expert in remote consulting, but being the author of a thousands-of-github-stars open source web application framework helped me a lot.

Be prepared to convince people that you can do everything. The Github portfolio / streed cred thing above helps a lot in giving weight to your words.

Look for companies in tech hub cities that do consulting themselves. Even in Toronto, those types of companies have the best offers salary-wise, in my experience. SF is the stupidly obvious choice for tech hub cities and consequently, it's extremely crowded and harder to get into. There are many other US cities that have lively startup scenes.

Startups == funding == people w/ money looking for someone to build their stuff == profit
Yeah, that doesn't sound right, if you are already using git, try to use branches, and tags.

Also the fact that the whole API uses the version number as some kind of namespace is weird.
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None of the things in that list were themselves decisions. They were causes of poor decisions. Do you dispute that mental illness can be a cause of poor decision making?
> Children under the age of 18 wouldn't get money.

But their parents will get some sort of bump in their BI, surely.

> So it would probably be around 200,000,000 - 250,000,000.

A floor of $2.4 trillion now. Downright affordable!
6 of one, half dozen of another. It really depends on how you see things. For security reasons we've disabled logging. And users don't access servers at the shell anyway so no need for it there. We log app usage in app.

I find screen logging a bit more useful than shell logging. Shell only records the commands sent and not the result. Screen records everything including interactive like nano.
The irony here is that it's well-documented that the poorest are also generally the least equipped to take advantage of the best deals (online or otherwise). Lack of a credit card, inability to purchase in bulk ("bulk" to someone with meager financial resources might not appear to be "bulk" to you), no Internet at home, unreliable transportation, are all reasons people are not able to shop online or at places like Costco.
Won't happen. Even as a Senator, Obama was signaling his support of the NSA in his vote in 2008 FISA amendments bill which granted retroactive immunity to telecoms when complying with illegal and unconstitutional search requests from the government. If Obama is secretly on the side of whistleblowers, it's one of the best kept secrets in the world.
> Do you tell them "tough shit, you've exhausted all your social safety nets"

Yes it's the same thing on the current welfare. You can blow your bridge card (food stamps) on bad food and be out of it and you don't get more. It would be the same thing, you can blow your money and then you're gonna have to find something else.

I would think any basic income program would come along with available education on budgeting and counseling for how to get out of debt, etc. I think besides lack of opportunity, another big problem with social mobility in our country is lack of financial education. People just don't realize how many sharks there are out there trying to take advantage of them, and just how deep of trouble they can easily get into.

You can present all kinds of edge cases how basic income can fail in individual, specific cases, but those are the exceptions. And you shouldn't kill a great idea because of the exceptions.
Michigander here. AFAIK, you can't just turn your Bridge card into cash. How does one purchase lottery tickets and drugs with welfare payments? The one way I can think of is hanging out with the high-school kids outside the liquor store and saying "I'll go buy you X if you go buy me lottery tickets and alcohol/go to your dealer and get me an O"
Of course I intended to do so but his idea of opening an HN thread (see above) is much better :)
> Theoretically, it will increase wages and employment since there will be a lot more money spent, increasing economic activity.

At a macroeconomic level, that money comes from somewhere (generally taxes), which means that it's also decreasing consumption and/or investment by an equivalent amount. You can make the argument that collecting the taxes to fund a program is still desirable in the end, but it's mathematically incorrect to say that it would have a net increase in economic activity.

To put it another way: what would the money be spent on if it weren't collected as tax revenue? Some portion of it would be spent on consumable goods, and the rest would be saved (invested). Money saved is very important to the economy, because that's how society gets access to capital for long-term investments (whether public works projects or private investments).
Eventually, one presumes they'll have a flag in the Compatibility tab for applications, "does not believe in long paths", rather than an opt-in/opt-out.

It'll be great - like the 8.3 transition all over again!
I think the company in the article would argue that they provide value as well.
I'd say if you blow through your money consistently to the point of having to eat ramen all the time, that is a problem. And it's caused by bad decisions your mind makes. So while it might seem like a bit of a stretch, it could be considered a mental illness.
Honest question: no matter how much confidence you have in your own predictions, why would you oppose privately funded research into it?
Barely afford groceries after all non-discretionary spending is a lot different than "can't afford groceries or non-discretionary spending." I've been in the former category, for quite a long time - I would not call that poverty. If that was the worst of what people experience in the US, I would also call poverty solved.

(It's not the worst of what people experience, and I would not personally call poverty solved.)
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