skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxing property means that owner must have cash to pay for it or is forced to sell it (with all the consequences of forced selling probably).

It may sound interesting and promising but is most likely the most unjust way of taxing as it will force people are retired or about to retire out of their homes (that they are not paid for using funds from the basic income).
Obviously I didn't. Quotes provided.
I think you're pretty mistaken in thinking any proof would be available or required. All these maids are typically paid in cash.

Unless the person has bruises, or complains that they're not being allowed to leave---the police would ignore the situation.

Compounding this effect is that most 'maids' are distant relatives in the western sense---being 3rd cousins or nieces through marriage to the hosting family. When push comes to shove, the host family just claims truthfully that they are all a single family, and the sleeping conditions of an adult who isn't being forced to do anything is really no ones business.

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As an edit. What I'm describing is the traditional lifestyle of West African maidservants. All maids are relatives, since no one trusts anyone who isn't related to them to live in their house.

The world is a big place though. I wouldn't be surprised if maidservant lifestyles in Asian countries or Middle Eastern countries was much different.

Middle Eastern countries even use foreign-born servants, something that'd be seen as the height of insanity in someplace like Ghana.
This story highlights just how blurry and complex things can get.

Maybe to a lesser extent we are all slaves of the system because we have to work increasingly long hours for an ever decreasing wage.

I think that the most kind-hearted and generous people tend to slowly slip into slavery over time because the system tends to reward greedy, selfish people.

The sudden, massive collapse of the system will come when there won't be enough altruistic, productive people left to support all the greedy, non-productive ones which are currently winning the game of natural selection.
Yeah, just about. It also has some "Craigslist discount". Sadly, there is much too large a gap between hobby and professional revenue to ever do this full time in the bay. Commercial rent and restrictions make it such that even as a sole proprietorship, you'd have trouble breaking even on 50k/year in recurring revenue, which is tough as a one man wood/metal shop with limited tools. Custom/spec work is better, but very irregular.
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A shame this had priority over firefox support over a year.
This looks cool, but I'm wondering who the target market is for this.

To properly use it, you need:

1) An Android phone (easy to satisfy) that you're comfortable enough installing another OS on (so... a more technical user)

2) An HDMI monitor (which could actually be a TV)

3) A SlimPort USB-to-HDMI cable

4) A bluetooth mouse and bluetooth keyboard

5) No desktop (since using it and this seem to be mutually exclusive for most casual setups)

Most people don't have a bluetooth keyboard/mouse lying around, so the time/cost investment to set this up is not only just installing a new OS on your phone, but also buying hardware (keyboard, mouse, and potentially monitor if you don't already have a computer) [and potentially also waiting for it to arrive if you buy online]. And, after this investment, the target market seems to be people that'd be comfortable doing the above while _not_ also buying a desktop to go with it. So... either technical hobbyists/tinkerers and/or people that want a $50-100 machine (and are savvy enough to set it up).

I would _love_ to use something like this, but I move enough that it doesn't make sense to have a desktop (and, therefore, the same mostly applies to monitor+keyboard), and if I were to live in one place long enough to have a desktop, I'd just buy a desktop (because I likely wouldn't use it _and_ this). Am I just not the target market for something like this (even though it legitimately excites me)?
TIL about the "International Pink Lady Alliance"!
Any details on that last point? Pretty curious what they're doing with the meta key!
It's a borrower's market because that saved money is in _businesses_ instead of _personal accounts_, no?
Last time I tried GitLab I wasn't able to add my Ed25519 ssh keys to it. Hope that they fixed it now.
If people are thrifty, so need less money and work less, the economy will be smaller. That's a choice though, not a problem.
Bireli Lagrene, Scott Hamilton and George Benson have all said they don't really read music.

It's definitely true that most jazz musicians can read passably, but my original point was that it's an aural tradition. no one learns to play jazz reading notes off a page. Whereas in western classical music, it's an essential skill.
What percent of pi users don't connect a keyboard and monitor? I don't mind having a default password since when ever I've used a pi I ran it headless and configured it on first boot with SSH. It would make sense to force the pi user to change there password on first login, can't remember if this is the case.
So, obviously my citizenship or my country's history has no bearing on the merits of my criticism. It seems you want to have a completely different argument.

I think it's fair to criticize someone for being aware that a person is being enslaved and not doing anything meaningful about it for the same reason that it's fair to criticize onlookers who fail to call 911 on a crime in progress.
On the other hand, I've had a couple of experiences where I've grudgingly spent money on something, and then felt, "Oh my god, why didn't I do this sooner? It would have helped my quality of life." Not just as luxuries, but in ways that freed me up to feel more productive or healthy.

For instance (all of this assumes you have the money to do so), a bookkeeper for your small business. A CPA for your taxes. A lawn service. A financial planner. A bidet.

It makes me wonder what else like that is out there. Stuff that isn't purely materialistic, but is "worth it" for whatever value if "it" matches your net worth. For perpetual savers, being counseled on how they can spend their money (on worthwhile endeavors) might actually be useful.
Which eminent economists? You get two of them in a room and you get three different opinions.

Here's one economics PHd wielding economist refuting the paradox of thrift.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2009/Murphythrift.ht...

Here's an eminent one refuting it, in case the Nobel prize counts:
https://mises.org/library/hayek-paradox-saving

Here's my issue with Keynesians and neo-Keynesians. They have zero concept of capital, it's all about cash flow - spending, saving, debt. They stimulate by printing, temper by taxing, etc.

They ignore the effects of such behavior on capital, and end up amplifying the cycles they try to prevent. This ties into monetary policy and deficit spending as well, but that's way too much of a tirade for Hacker News.
You get fine healthcare for free when you are old in the US. You just gotta be broke first. So it's a fine line to work....
A liquidity glut is caused by savings exceeding desired investment. A shortage in desired investment is caused by an undersupply of investment opportunities. An increase in the supply of real investment opportunities can be incentivized by subsidizing public inducement prize competitions. The 'stabilizers' you propose subsidize the income of individuals but do not necessarily change individuals preference for savings vs consumption.
Sci-Fi Short about telerobots controlled by gamers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXX0TRtg5Vk
I'm really sorry to hear about the crappy experience you've had with GitLab. If you'd like to detail some more complaints, I'd love to hear them and open some issues about these things. Feel free to shoot me an email (located in my profile) or reply here. Either way, thanks for the feedback you've provided here.

As far as the frequent upgrades go, we've been using .com as a way of dogfooding GitLab at scale. Sometimes this goes well and other times it doesn't. We're actively working to improve this process so that downtime and breaking changes are less frequent. The end goal is to eradicate both issues so that upgrades are seamless.
I sincerely hope that when I'm that old, I'll be above such pettiness.
I hope that wasn't a critique of my behavior, I never claimed to support a free exchange of ideas.

I'm having difficulty determining who (if at all?) you have an issue with?
Multiple tabs in a web browser flat out sucks for multi-tasking. macOS, Windows and many flavors of window managers for Linux provide many ways for switching between windows, seeing what's open, hiding things, etc. In a browser they're just straight tabs.

Have you ever need to switch between multiple tabs semi regularly while keeping other tabs open? Have you ever wanted two tabs to be side-by-side? It's a usability horror show.

Wrapping Slack in its own app let's me use the windowing manager my operating system came with.
Sure, if the only good thing you ever give them is money, this may true. But if you are actually good to people, not so much.
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Your list of things you appreciate is great! However, point in time data has little relevance to the argument I put forward.

Unless you are implying that average Americans care more about the FEELING of prosperity than ACTUAL prosperity, so that reductions in their actual prosperity do not go against their will. Lotteries exhibit wealth concentrating behavior, so there is some evidence for this argument as people(particularly the poor and less educated) voluntarily participate.

However, I'm pretty sure if we polled people they would disagree. I suspect even you may disagree.

Also:
>I can run, bike, drive, or fly anywhere within this vast, beautiful land without encumbrance

I suspect making that claim requires either willful ignorance or a lack of exposure to minorities - or both. Oppression of minorities does not imply a breakdown of democracy though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I usually never read something this long. But this is well worth it. A very touching story as well.
The amount of cash is determined by central banks. If one person decides to spend their hoard, somebody else will end up with it so the amount doesn't change. Money in bank accounts is lent to somebody else (with a multiplier).
i don't have my copy of Peopleware handy but here are some quotes on studies it references:

"Workplace Quality and Product Quality - Companies that provide small and noisy workplaces explain away complaints as workers campaigning for the added status of bigger, more private space. To determine whether noise level had any correlation to work, we divided our sample into those who found the workplace acceptably quiet and those who didn't. Then, looking at workers within each group who completed the entire exercise without a single defect:
> Workers who reported that their workplace was acceptably quiet before
the exercise were 1/3 more likely to deliver zero-defect work.
As the noise level gets worse, this trend gets stronger:

Zero-defect workers: => 66% reported noise level OK
1-or-more-defect workers: => 8% reported noise level OK
A Discovery of Nobel Prize Significance - On February 3, 1984, in a study of 32,346 companies worldwide, the authors confirmed a virtually perfect inverse relationship between people density and dedicated floor space per person. If you're having trouble seeing why this matters, you're not thinking about noise. Noise is directly proportional to density, so halving the allotment of space per person can be expected to double the noise. Even if you managed to prove conclusively that a programmer could work in 30 sq. ft. without being hopelessly space-bound, you still wouldn't be able to conclude that 30 sq. ft. is adequate space. The noise in a 30 sq. ft matrix is more than triple the noise in a 100 sq. ft. matrix, which could make the difference between a plague of product defects and none at all."

So everyone should just put on headphones, right? Peopleware says no.

"experiment done at Cornell -- they gave two groups a complicated task involving a long string of calculations. One group listened to music while performing the task, and one group had silence.

What they didn't tell either group is that the complicated string of calculations always returned the original number.

It turned out that not everyone figured this out, but of the people who did, a large majority came from the group that did not listen to music.

The theory apparently being is that listening to music is somehow engaging the part of the brain involved in creative thought, keeping it "busy" enough not to be able to look at the big picture of the task being performed."

All developers should consider their surroundings and how they affect their thought process. I actually stopped listening to popular music while developing, after I read this and some other studies about it's effect at keeping part of your brain (the language processing parts) occupied. I still listen to music part time, and try to listen to instrumentals only.
Do you need to license Thunderbolt to use it? I thought you just had to buy their transceiver chips (which just hang off a PCIe3 x4 interconnect).
It's perplexing that it's not built using cross-platform web technology. If you're not going to leverage that, why saddle users with the signicant resource and latency impact of an Electron app?
This program is discussed amongst a whirlwind of beautiful insight in Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher Bach". I doubt I'm in the first 1,000 people to recommend that book on HN but I think it would be remiss to have a thread about SHRDLU without it being mentioned!
I don't want to get all righteous, especially considering some excellent projects I've seen from Microsoft such as VSCode, but it feels like you may not understand the culture of the community you're trying to reach.

First, let me say that there's nothing wrong with closed-source software. If Microsoft wants to create the best node.js dev and/or production environment ever, and if it does so without violating any OSS licenses (which are mostly MIT, so it's possible), more power to them (/you).

However, if you call it an "open source [...] platform", and you host the source code on Github, and you're soliciting and accepting PRs from the public, then you may be creating all sorts of headaches for yourself and others. Yes, people should check the licenses for software they use. But as it is right now, many people will take the project's tagline at face value, and may be reminded of a very different Microsoft if, at some point, some other division at MS decides to crack down on the illegal use of this source code, or when you turn people's contributions into a closed-source project.

Edit: the projects also reference Microsoft's "Open Source Code of Conduct", and they are listed at https://opensource.microsoft.com/?keyword=glimpse. I've filed an issue at https://github.com/Glimpse/Home/issues/109
I spent a while casting around for something close enough to my point that I could recommend it - rather than, for example, a Marxist critique of privilege theory which decried it for being not antinomian enough. Just as I was beginning to despair of the time I'd have to spend writing a long piece of my own on the subject, I ran across this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2017/03/23...

I can't really claim with confidence that the book makes a point I'd be entirely happy with, because I'm only just about to start reading it myself. But this review, and what I'm seeing on its Amazon page, suggest that it's quite close at least to the point I'm trying to make, and so I recommend it sight unseen.

If you don't feel like making the purchase directly, email me at the address in my profile, and I'll gift you a copy in whichever format you prefer. In any case, I'll be interested to hear what you think of it.
A hobbyist who isn't building a "product" at all, but rather scratching their own itch, and wants something that just "exists" on the Internet somewhere where they can forget about it (and hopefully not pay much, either.)
More like a mess of overbaked solutions.
If everyone does that, then it no longer works.
I agree, there's a balance. But I'd advise being skeptical when someone proposes, from a "policy level", that we need to train people to spend more. It's highly likely that -- like Edward -- they don't have your best interests at heart (but not guaranteed).
That's not necessarily the only option. Long-term care insurance claims to address this problem. (Whether it actually does or not, I'm not qualified to answer.)
Nobody can predict far ahead so there is no correct amount to save. I thought I was saving at a good rate but recently came with a chronic healthy issue that may make it difficult to work for a long time. In hindsight I should have saved more aggressively.
I read that as Gnome not using GH because it's closed software is a good thing.
> Do you foresee medicare failing?

I see a non-zero chance that it won't be there when I reach retirement age in ~20 years.

These days, the US political climate is looking far friendlier to those who want to destroy wealth transfers that benefit the non-rich.

Also, the US political establishment in general is looking substantially less stable than it did 20 years ago. That's not to say it is going to break down in a year or five. But I do think making bets on it should only be done with money you don't need.
Most countries with decent healthcare are reluctant to accept retirees. They'll likely have to fund their own health insurance, at least. If you can gain citizenship of such a country, well in advance of retirement, it could be well worth it though.
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Its the younger generations that will adopt car sharing. People that are buying fewer cars and use Uber etc anyway. Once they have children they will adjust to a car free lifestyle as they are used to it. Where as people that have kids currently won't have any kids as kids do grow up so might forgo owning cars as well in the future. Another thing is that car shapes and sizes will change dramatically as you don't need a sedan for 1 person commuting to work every day because of that the size of the car the size of battery and motor required will come down with the price.
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But the same idea applies there; why would I grow marijuana indoors?

I genuinely don't understand the benefit; to my knowledge, outside of them being higher CO2 output, higher real estate cost, and substantially higher energy usage, none of these indoor facilities even reach the calorie density of a modern hydroponic greenhouse like Houwelings; http://www.houwelings.com/

I guess I should say: Hats off to the people that think they can compete with a modern ag operation like Houwelings in growing weed, if they can do that while paying both urban real estate rates and the electricity bill for replacing the sun they know something I don't.
>We're very much measuring and optimizing for money and the kinds of goods and services money can be exchanged for.

"Money" is just a metric of economic value, and basically everything has an economic value, including leisure. The emotional and educational value of raising your own children instead of putting them in a daycare has a real economic value that can be measured in dollars. Just like housework has an economic value. Every family I know has weighed these values when they have children.
this indicates something else

http://www.cultofmac.com/462777/new-macbook-pro-intel-kaby-l...
First hit on Google[1] shows one study about it being 94% of jobs created from 2005 to 2015. So doesn't seem like a stretch so long as you agree with the "the actual way the us defines a job was changed under Bush and kept under Obama" part of the premise.

Edit: More reading of other articles suggests that this is true for the 2009 to present timespan. Quote[2]:

> The bottom line is: Almost all of the job gains under President Obama have been in so-called service jobs, such as those in Silicon Valley and consulting. Others are the low-end jobs, toiling in stores and restaurants.

Every job described in that sentence sounds like a temp job.

[1] https://qz.com/851066/almost-all-the-10-million-jobs-created...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/04/news/economy/jobs-under-obam...
Did you create the resume templates yourself?

How do you download the resume as html once you have entered the data into the app?
Would a modern Prolog (those things + automatic backtracking) or Erlang (those things + cheap actors) have been seen as even better for such purposes, if they had had it at the time?
I was thinking that you do not necessarily need a mouse if you know your keyboard-fu well, but then realized that you could use the phone screen as a trackpad in place of a mouse.
I think it was more about the way the lambda calculus encodes ideas from category theory and so on. GOFAI was all about using logic to achieve AI so languages like LISP (and, of course, logic programming languages like Prolog) were a natural choice for that sort of thing.
I think there might be some conflation between this story and the article posted. We and the OP don't actually know if the person was enslaved by forced labour.

All they know is that they slept on a matt in the kitchen.

If they were being paid adequately, I would not call it slavery. Poor labour practice, certainly, and distasteful in the extreme but not the same thing as forced labour and bondage.
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You can engineer wiring to be the right size for the 99% use case. You can't do that with savings.
Retirees do have Medicare though, but with any socialized medical system you won't be covered for everything
To me it seems that getting a decent return was a lot easier prior to 2007. Banks would pay interest rates of 6% or so and inflation was low. The stock market only gradually became overvalued.
> Maybe people 60 should not be so fast to go spend their cash. He was 72 when he got sick and 84 this year when he finally passed away.

Also have a living will that specifies no heroic measures so you won't languish in a hospital bed for years while squandering all your life savings
Level 5 autonomous driving means driving better than most humans so it automatically means safer.
Sure, life expectancy is the average age at death for all people, and longevity is the average age at which people die of old age.

Death by car crash, for example, affects life expectancy heavily, but doesn't contribute to longevity at all.

All accidental deaths & infant mortality lower life expectancy but not longevity.
There's more to it than that. The self driving car promises advantages beyond a smaller total cost of transportation.

From an individual perspective though, few people will need to make a big tradeoff decision all at once. It'll start by just trying out the service, using it when convenient. A few years later, when the question of fixing or replacing a car comes up, then people will ask themselves whether they really need a car.