skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my main concern with this is that the working class will lose social status compared to those who don't work. In fact it could give those who don't work more status than the working class (my broad definition of working class would include anyone who does not have enough to stop working) because they have much more time. i don't think this is something we want to see. Although its arguably better than the current welfare system it still hurts hard-working people with little wealth. i would argue for a basic income in terms of food, shelter and some facilities, but not money. this will keep a clear class difference between the working class and dependent people. which means unemployment still means misery and work still means happiness. it would keep the incentive intact without being cruel.
Right now you can blow all of your food stamps money on bottles of ketchup if you want. Nothing is stopping you. And there is no fall-back. And food stamps don't fix your car, section 8 housing doesn't fix your car, even if you have SSI, it's not really enough money to fix your car.

So all of this is a straw man and completely irrelevant to anything related to BI. Once you expend your welfare, you don't get more just because you asked.
What about a BI based on resources rather than the dollar? There already exists a renewable surplus of food, water, and shelter.

There are around 4-6 empty houses in the US for every homeless person and around 40% of food goes to waste.

So providing for the most basic physiological needs of the ~45 million impoverished people in the US is not a problem of production, it's a problem of distribution and waste management.
I disagree. Banning threats like that would not have any negative consequences. If anything, it would encourage people to post more, as they no longer have to worry about dealing with that huge mountain of shit, which is incredibly demoralizing and discourages people from posting.
Someone else pointed out googling "tide as currency", and that opened my eyes. It made me realize that people doing this are working with pointers, not values.
Candidly, I thought the piece was going to be a broader look at VC alternatives. I was as surprised as anyone to see that Indie.vc WAS the story.
This was sarcasm right? In all seriousness though, I think titles like "passwords stolen" are a little misleading. Article titles should either be "hashed passwords stolen" or "plaintext passwords stolen" IMO.
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This is the first that I've heard of ChaCha for encryption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa20#ChaCha_variant).

Apparently it's a standard that Google is pushing to replace RC4 and already is using for HTTPS between google.com and Android.

If arc catches on I'm curious if it could support inline operations. E.g. on a 100gb+ archive can I read the tar index without decrypting the entire archive first, can I extract a single file? The ChaCha algorithm is a streaming cipher, which as I understand suggests that I cannot do operations like that.

Even worse now that I'm thinking about this, if my archive has a bit error early in the file does that mean the entire archive cannot be decrypted. Maybe for long term storage I'm better off physically securing my archives than encrypting them to avoid bit rot ruining everything.
I do not really know where I stand on BI yet, but my concern is that if the BI is coming from taxes, why not tax income less and tax consumption more? This will encourage people to still be productive members of society rather than trying to find ways to live off the BI forever.
I find it so aggravating that nearly every last ML framework documents their CNN libraries in terms of canned MNIST datasets imported from the library in a preprocessed form.

It's always left as a useless exercise for the reader to divine how to generate such a dataset from his/her own data.

Examples should be way more general. The starting point shouldn't be:

from tensorflow.examples.tutorials.mnist import input_data
mnist = input_data.read_data_sets("/tmp/data/", one_hot=True)

, it should start with "here is a directory of images and their classes" and end with a CNN model.

EDIT: Should anyone have any insight as to where I might get such a tutorial (or have the desire to write one), I know a herd of ML pre-initiates that would be grateful.
Implementing a per-user configurable whitelist is much different than making value judgements about someone's post berift of context and history and virtue-signalling with a swing of the almighty banhammer. It puts control in the hands of the user, who is trusted to make their own judgement.
I keep seeing this repeated in discussions about BI, but I honestly have no idea how it would be possible. I get that everyone receives the same size check, no matter what their income, but who pays for the BI program?

I assume it is funded through taxes and that people that earn more income will pay higher taxes. So once you take BI received - taxes paid, people that earn more outside income get less from the BI program than those that don't. And we are back in the same situation where a welfare program creates disincentives for work.
"Hey, I will lend you money for that new car if you give me X% of your weekly checks for Y amount of time".
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This was not a moral judgement, I simply questioned the claim, that Saudi Arabia is the only influential US-ally in the middle east.
The only difference between the two is what causes the data stored within to flush.
Lombroso¹ and the neonazis.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso
Cooperative education.

In my opinion a CS program is totally incomplete without a co-op requirement. My program requirements 12 full months co-op to graduate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_education

"Cooperative education (or co-operative education) is a structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. A cooperative education experience, commonly known as a "co-op", provides academic credit for structured job experience."

Practically co-ops are usually 6 months long and you apply to them like a regular job, just a temp position. Co-op positions are available all over the country. As long as you do full time work related to your degree program it counts. Your boss has to evaluate you and submit the short evaluation to your school. If you do very badly you don't get credit but it's a pass/fail, no grades.
Until you need to debug the toolchain, or change something other than the app source code, then you're digging through a chain of:

Make > Yotta > Cmake > Ninja > GCC

I've been through this fun, and it's just not worth the fun.

On a related note, The micropython stack for the microbit is currently:

Bare metal > mBed HAL > microbit-dal > micropython_hal > micropython

so three hardware abstraction layers! and this is on a device with only 16k RAM. Now Damien did a great job on getting micropython ported so quickly, but there /must/ be a better long-term solution to the mBed/yotta approach.
There are places in Europe [0] also experimenting with government-sponsored BI but the Netherlands is not one of those from what I understand, and what you describe is not at all what BI is.

[0] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/finland-to-co...
It does allow people to do work that pays nothing or very little. However, I would see that as boosting overall economic productivity

That's a contradiction. Productivity is defined as output divided by hours worked. Output is defined roughly as "sales of things that people want".

Putting aside market failures for a moment, work that pays nothing is very often work that nobody wants done. There are lots of people who will happily churn out poems about their personal angst all day if they had the opportunity to do so and call it 'work' but if nobody wants to buy their poems then it's not considered economic productivity. And it must be this way as otherwise you could get idiotic situations like someone who just goes running every day and says they were "productive" because they did "work", ignoring that it was income free because it didn't help anyone else. At some level the notion of productive work must be tied to an exchange of goods or services or else the phrase becomes kind of meaningless.
Welfare in the USA has been scaled back considerably over the past 20 years, and it has been done with enough popular support that the people working to reduce welfare continue to win elections.

So no, welfare will not necessarily be around forever. And the systems that exist rarely last long on an individual basis.
Whiley downloads: http://whiley.org/downloads/

A past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649842
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Im exactly in the same situation: 27, bachelor in CS/distributed systems, years of deep fullstack experience, multiple languages and many frameworks fluently and ... I'm bored.

I plan to start a masters degree on "information Technology" (technical CS, contains electrical stuff, robotics and AI if you choose), besides my remote job this year. Maybe I do stay in academics afterwards, dunno.

Honestly, I already can see how the bubble of webdev pops in a few years. We can already scaffold whole CRUD apps easily or stick together legoblocks of components, once a computer can translate business usual requirements into standard apps for no costs ... coding gruntwork is easier to automate than other professions.

Since Im living in germany, industrial robotics looks like a good option, alternatively I'll specialize further into AI. I hope this will let me survive comfortably until the UBI finally arrives.
Yes, of course. Universal health care coverage (read: insurance) can't be used to buy groceries or pay rent. Basic income will never be enough to pay for somebody's cancer treatments.

Neither one is a substitute for the other; both are extremely beneficial.
I'm afraid that I'm going to have to disagree with you on Libertarian philosophy.

Anarcho-Capitalists are not in the business of advocating that we take money, in the form of taxes, from one group to give it to another.
FYI, if you want your bash history to go dark temporarily run:

export HISTFILE=

The rest of your session will not be logged.
Yes, just like a job.
Another option is that people deal with their own garbage and maybe learn to reduce and re-use and demand less packaging.
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I hope so.

I applied to the GCC compiler farm late last year, but received a reply only after so long a time that I'd deleted the key pair I'd submitted because I thought nothing was going to happen - and my efforts to get back in have yet been unanswered.

The GCC compile farm isn't for intensive testing or benchmarking, though (which is what you need for lock-free, to try to catch race conditions) - that test lab sounds more interesting.

I have to say though having your own dev boards which are yours and only yours and which you can hammer endlessly is very convenient. It's actually just occurred to me I can leave all the devs boards permanently running the test suite...

OTOH, I don't think I can get small, portable dev boards for all the platforms I care about, so at least for some architectures, a third-party farm is probably the only way.

Probably the most pressing requirement though is access to a Mac. Right now there are no build files for that platform.
Traditionally yes, but there are options. If the individual is too poor to have any Internet-capable device (can use free WiFi to buy things, though I recognise this is a security risk unless you're tech savvy) then there are ways to save money through community action (pooling resources to buy in bulk, etc...). It's more a question of organisation and discipline rather than opportunity, though it's certainly harder than only having to rely on your own initiative.
Well then why do you bring up happiness in the first place?

Alright, fine, happiness doesn't matter it's these other things that matter, like preventing starvation.

UBI seems like it would do a great job of solving starvation, and is certainly not zero sum.
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It is lacking in nuance, information, and clarity. (Surely a significantly strong password wouldn't be immediately cracked when hashed & salted, right? I don’t know for sure, and that comment isn't helping.)
I am worried that this study will just confirm the local benefits of BI (which have already been pretty well documented, e.g. Mincome) without addressing the unanswered questions regarding BI.

The real unanswered questions mostly revolve around large scale changes to the economy, not localized improvements. Some questions I really want to see answered are:

- Will UBI create large price inflation for basic goods (which is what traditionally happens when you give everyone free money)?

- If so, do we think that this will still be net beneficial
for alleviating poverty? Often price inflation is regressive since it hits commodities harder than something scarcity priced.

- I would also like to ask this question slightly differently: What happens if we were to give everyone the equivalent of 6 months of unskilled labor each year? That's more or less what traditional UBI proposes, and phrased that way who is going to provide the labor (or goods/services)?

Money can be thought of (roughly) as debt owed to you by society. When you think about it that way, doing localized BI seems like an easy win. Doing universal BI seems like a potential catastrophe. Does this study address the latter?

(Edit: my awful spelling)
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No, it doesn't. No one is required to listen to your drivel, or give you a forum to post it.
Somebody else suggested that payments should be divided into smaller amounts and disbursed more frequently. So instead of getting $1200 one a month (or whatever the amount is), you would get $20 every morning and $20 every evening. How do you think that would work in the neighborhood you grew up in?
I'm afraid this is wrong.

Yes, all programming languages are equivalent in the sense of the Church-Turing thesis. From the point of view of PL research that
means equivalency with TMs is an uninteresting criterion for comparing
PLs. Consequently, PL researchers have developed finer tools for comparing
languages, typically centring around compositionality. An encoding
enc from language L1 to language L2 is compositional whenever P =
f(P1, ..., Pn) is a program, then enc(P) is of the form
enc(f)(enc(P1), ..., enc(Pn)). This idea, that I present here in a
very simplified form, has been studied quite deeply, and in this sense
it has been difficult to reduce OO to FP, unlike the other way around.

And yes, lambda-calculus is the essence of FP. Indeed there is no PL paradigm that is so closely connected with a single formalism as FP.

a method on an object is simply ...

This view is too simplistic, and doesn't scale up to include OO features such as method overriding.

In summary: OO is substantially more expressive than FP.
Health care is a fundamentally different kind of expense. Housing, food, clothing, basic necessities are pretty stable expenses in the short run. An income of a particular size could be judged to be more or less sufficient for the needs of that expense or not.

Healthcare is a lottery. If you're 30 years old, your healthcare needs for the year might be $0 or $1,000,000. Trying to make basic income cover that doesn't make sense.
I'm really, really happy you're going forward with this!

That said, I have just one question to this experiment - how it's going to handle media exposure?

What I worry about is that the interaction with the greater world through mass media will blow the entire thing up and make it useless. I expect at least:

- prices going up for rent and some stuff in areas where owners know population is on BI

- people getting increasingly targeted by scams

- deliberate attempts to mess up with the experiment

Come to think of it, the first two could be solved by random enough sampling of candidates over a large enough population. But I'm sure others here could come up with several other potential failure modes that the huge attention and "uncommonness" of the situation could bring.

Part of me thinks that such experiments should be done in secrecy and revealed only after they're finished, but that's not how science is usually done, for obvious reasons.
Considering most of this is talking about rape/death threats, I don't think we'll have a problem with echo chambers quite yet.
I do remember Tandem and/or Wang talking about green (transportable) threads who were okay to suspend/resume across processor units .. I wish I could find more info, but I really do recall the term being applicable way back when ..
>If they aren't giving an education and people can still get jobs "for years" what exactly is the point of $200k education again?

Its purpose is more symbolic than realistic. Symbols are easily faked. An example of this is how Frank Abagnale was able to fake having gone to medical, law, and flight school, among many other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
A universal basic income could solve poverty
The vast majority of welfare systems in the UK are already just some form of giving people money directly but for various different reasons and with an enormous list of complicated rules about who is eligible.

Just giving the people one bit of cash rather than several, and without the strings, wouldn't add the problem you're describing.

Are there particular programs in the US that are different and you think would be broken if they were changed to just cash?
Now is a great time to add two-factor authentication to your account after you change your password.
> Maybe for long term storage I'm better off physically securing my archives than encrypting them to avoid bit rot ruining everything.

Just have more copies on more/diverse media. Encrypted backups (with authenticated encryption) have the pleasant side effect of validating the backup on restore.
True, the very liberal Dutch unemployment insurance which I was talking about was not BI. It had some similarities, but also some differences. The liberal unemployment insurance became too expensive. So the question is: where is BI different so that it becomes sustainable for the tax payer?

> Unemployment insurance reduces the incentive to work because it pays people to not work. It similarly incentivizes black market labor.

I'd say that BI also reduces the incentive to work, but I agree that it does this less than unemployment benefits. Same for black market labor. So a win for BI here.

But there is one other difference where BI is far and far more expensive than unemployment benefit: BI is also paid to people who work. Maybe some BI advocate should try to convince me but to me it looks like this will far outset the advantage above.
I'd say you absolutely say 'tough shit'. Learning to manage a scarce resource effectively should be one of the goals of the program. It should not be the job of the state to take care of people who, of their own volition, regularly and repeatedly screw themselves over. That isn't to say that nobody should care for them, but I think that should fall to private charities, family, or other institutions.

If a person's issue is drug addiction for instance (probably the most common type of person who would blow all their money and not have enough for food), i'd like to see free treatment offered to those people. I would not, however, like to see more resources given to them other than that. They can keep getting their BI check and blowing it on drugs until they decide they're ready to stop, or they die. They will have their habit financed which will probably net to a far lower social cost than them stealing to pay for it or whatever else they may be doing.

The other major potential financial stress is healthcare. Healthcare is essentially a random high variance cost. For this reason, I think it makes sense for society/government to socialize high-cost healthcare problems for people. I think this is a true public good in the sense that it allows people to be untethered from their jobs and to pursue more risky enterprises without fear of harming theirs or their families health in so doing. This is ultimately a net good for society far above and beyond the health benefits that it gives to the actual end-recipients of the funds. Smoothing ultra-high variance, random inelastic expenses is critical to promoting innovation and keeping an economy running effectively.
Of course it doesn't, and it shouldn't. If it did, everyone would move to the high-cost locations because they'd get paid more, and then the BI would have to spiral upwards endlessly to pay for that. If someone demands to live in the most posh district of SanFran, for instance, why should society pay for that (esp. when it won't be just them, it'll be hordes of people wanting to move there)?

If someone wants to live in an expensive area, they need to earn their own money to pay for it. The whole point of BI is to make sure people aren't starving or homeless or in danger of that. If you can live comfortably on the BI in bumfuck, PA or KS, then that's enough for you: society has done its part in making sure you're provided for. Maybe it's not exactly where you want to live, but society has no obligation to provide for your whims. If you don't like it, get a job and make more money.
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What happens in that situation now?
I think that a delayed implementation is one of the most reasonable things that I've heard regarding UBI! Thanks for the input, some food for thought.
Haha. Good point. Of course, integration requires a continuous function. I expect it would be very difficult to validate that assumption over the field of hypothesis probabilities.

An integral is the function of doing that. Whether or not you can get a valid answer depends on the domain.
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Sounds like Adknowledge?
i'm surprised the article never explicitly spelt out the main point - for most people, accepting a job offer is a major sunk cost, so it's a lot harder to quit a job even after a few months than it is to reject an offer from the outset. i'm pretty sure 50onred were counting on that.
> This will encourage people to still be productive members of society rather than trying to find ways to live off the BI forever.

It sounds like you have a fairly narrow definition of productive member of society. A lot of volunteer work has little or no monetary value (things like dog walkers at your city's animal shelter) yet still are good for society.
Try googling things like "food stamps black market"...

It happens, but it's only about 1%. How much time and effort should we spend trying to eradicate that last 1% of fraud?

[1] http://www.ktnv.com/news/busted-black-market-food-stamps

[2] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/19/food-stamp-b...

[3] http://thoughtfulwomen.org/2012/10/16/black-market-for-food-...

[4] http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/02/16/investigation-unco...

[5] http://articles.philly.com/1994-06-02/news/25833443_1_food-s...
True or not, it doesn't matter for the purpose. If somebody is mentally ill, it doesn't matter what the cause is or who we can blame it on, it's still the case that cutting them 4 figure checks monthly is not going to magically get them out of their situation.
Co-operative ownership of automated means of production could work.
Why not offer both, HTTP (default) and HTTPS. Many websites work like that just fine.