skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're still free to seek out other sources of income under these models and the amount recieved from the government effectively decreases as income is raised due to taxes you pay into the system.

>Wouldn't any politician campaigning on this automatically get elected?

No, lay people would be quick to confuse this with communism. The irony of it is that this sort of a system was one of the few things Keynes and Friedman agreed should be part of public policy.
Full disclaimer: I recently started working for Urbit, but have been involved in its community for about a year and a half now.

It pains me to see people paint the project and its people in this light. I don't know if I'm taking the bait here or playing into your cards or whatever, but I want to try and clear some things up.

> He is "The Master", and you are just too stupid to understand his pure clear thought.

Not really. He's actually been really helpful in explaining some of the decisions that were made in the past to me, and it never felt like my say in discussions regarding ongoing work didn't matter.

> Anyone questioning anything with Urbit is either attacked, derided, ignored, or pushed aside
> You're just stupid, I guess.

I don't know what communities you've been in that people just go "you're stupid" when you don't understand something. In my experience with Urbit's chat rooms (and the forums, subreddit, etc.), people are generally friendly and understanding of the struggles that come with jumping into an entirely new stack like this. We know things can be confusing, we know it's hard when you're just starting out. We're also very much ready to help, and do care about discussing concerns and criticism.

I'd be willing to go so far as to say that, right now, Urbit's community is one of the nicest on the internet, but of course that's a tough comparison.

Aside, maybe interesting: the arcane naming of the Hoon stdlib is getting rewritten to be much more sensical and easily understandable. Why? Some community members were displeased, and someone took it upon themselves to make the rewrite happen. We're happily merging that in once it's done.

> By definition, they all use Urbit to communicate.

And you can reach us without even installing Urbit on your machine. Take a look at http://urbit.org/stream/

> any higher class user can disable sub-users' accounts

"Disable" isn't the right word here. A higher class can choose to stop helping a sub-user with peer discovery and to stop providing software updates to them. But if a sub-user is not content with the service their parent is providing, and/or they feel like they were unjustly blocked, they are free to find a parent that wants to adopt them.

Using that mechanism, communities that oppose each other can cleanly separate and continue doing their own thing without any bloodshed on either side.

> not wanting to cut losses because there "could" be something.

Doesn't this apply to pretty much anything happening in the decentralization and crypto spaces right now?

> I need say no more.

Well, I've never experienced "disapproval concerning jokes about the group". We're not above joking about the weirdness of our own system, it's something we're very much aware of.
2012 wasn't that long ago, and it's not clear if any ground breaking products have really captured the imagination of the public in the last 5 years.
Hey ! I am one of the AI guy of the team.
I agree that if the solution gets implemented on the lines, they will probably make more net money out of it than what was spent for the challenge (which is more than 8.5k€ and some pizzas as said in other comments BTW, the challenge was probably more expensive to organize).
However, let's be realistic, they will have to put a lot more money into this before they get a viable product to insert in their production lines. The solution we have built is way too simple regarding actual operational constraints (e.g.: operator safety).
I meant the split between $1,000 or $50.

It's not clear (to me at least...) if the randomness applies to choosing the original 3000 people selected to take part in the study, the bucketizing of them afterwards into 1000/2000 groups, or both.
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You know this might be speculative, but I feel like a basic income applied to a national allows that population to act more like an ant hive. In the sense that only 3% of the population is actually doing the real hard work, but this is a healthy paradigm, and is much better than forcing individuals who shouldn't be doing the work they currently are to pursue things they actually care about, such as taking care of loved ones, or some creative pursuit. Jobs such as these don't pay much, but are equally valuable to society.
> But at a level above law, what is the authority that determines that killing people is absolutely wrong and not just personally repugnant to the majority of the world's population?

I believe that you can strongly believe that witches should be killed and also know that you shouldn't do it, without having to subscribe to some universalising authority that tells you what to believe.

Generally speaking, people should act on their strong beliefs, but they need to do so aware of the fact that any one of their strong beliefs could be wrong. When it comes to something as serious and permanent as killing, then you should know that even a small chance of your strong belief being wrong is unacceptable and strong belief is therefore not a sufficient reason to do such a thing.
YC probably has the contacts to find $66m of philanthropic cash. Though if you wanted to find out whether UBI is a functional improvement on current systems as opposed to whether people like receiving free money from the SV elite, you'd need to test the funding system by raising taxes by much more than $1k per month on all the higher income recipients and eliminating most govt benefits for the lower income recipients. Of course, you might find fewer people willing to participate in the study then.
Looks like I wasted $10. My only hope is that with 143m affected people, they just skip to the next one if they encounter a Credit Freeze.
The landing page is our first iteration. We built it, wrote a few blog posts and put our product on a few sites like Product Hunt and Beta List. And from the few dozen folks who signed up, we found a developer who is going to build our next iteration.
So we were our own first client. We'll listen to the market and adjust as we go.
While I'm a sucker for beautiful terminal emulators, functionally, I can't use it yet. Vim with scrolling using the fn keys doesn't work, seems to get frozen. Tmux doesn't work on it either. In theory, I'd be a user in the future if I can customize it to my liking the way I can with iTerm2, but for now, I won't be adopting it. Starred the repo, so I'll be on the lookout for future updates :)
Very nice! The "env" control didn't have any audible effect for me. What's it supposed to do?
I agree - I recommend Seveneves to anyone, but I say stop as soon as Act 1 ends. I think Act 2 spoils the ending of Act 1 by undermining the high stakes that made it impactful.

I can tell Stephenson enjoyed writing Act 2 as an act of fun semi-hard sci-fi, but I think it should have been in its own setting, not tacked on to a dark hard sci-fi survival novel.
>Trip length simply has minimal safety impact.

Yes, and trip length is pretty much the only metric that matters as airplanes are faster than everything else. Since planes are so fast, the only thing I "value" when flying is how far I get.

>However, while ISS space station also has a great safety record per mile that does not make it safe.

For the ISS we don't care about distance though. We care about duration. People aboard the ISS are not travelers.
I would speculate that any end date on this scenario will invalidate results. What a person does if it is guaranteed a job for life vs 5 years is wildly different, as you'll need to make sure when those 5 years are up, you'll be ready to enter the job market again, etc. I believe the same will happen with basic income. If we want to study where people gravitate to more fulfilling jobs, feel happier and so on, you need to guarantee them that stability forever. Otherwise people will just rationalize that they got some free money for a while and will not behave in the same way.
They already can. They could convert the tokens they steal into zCash or Monero (or zCoin, Dash, Particl, PIVX, etc) and transfer anonymously. Adding this feature to Ethereum just means one less step.
Yes. Conceded. That is different than consenting to the credit bureaus storing those data points in perpetuity.

It is an agreement with my bank. That lets my bank off the hook, not the negligent credit reporting agency Equifax. I must still have some kind of rights when any kind of agency is legally allowed to store my SSN and personal information. If this was Europe, with their data privacy protections, I would be sure about that. The reality in this country is, I have no idea if "I must have" is a statement of fact or not.

It should be my right to revoke this privilege that they have gained, however they came about it.
NB, but the "invisible hand" rhetoric is a gross misrepresentation of Smith's intent.

Economic historian Gavin Kennedy has made something of a career debunking this fallacy. Among his many writings:

The sorry invisible hand myth owes more to imagination and hope than it does to economics from Adam Smith. Its modern form really began its take off with Paul Samuelson’s successful textbook, “Economics: an analytical introduction”, McGraw-Hill 1948, and continued through to edition 20 in 2010. It had an earlier oral presence at Chicago (where Samuelson was an undergraduate) and Cambridge, England (A. C. Pigou). Even Oscar Lange postulated (1938 and 1947) a rival and “better” invisible-hand role by socialist planners. The Soviet planned economy challenged capitalism from the 1930s and in Cold War rivalry, with large communist parties and social-democratic in Western Europe, the myth asserted the innate superiority of capitalism with its “invisible hand”. Since the current recession, increasing questions appeared about its existence. Warren Samuel’s last book, “Erasing the Invisible Hand, essays on a elusive and misused concept in economics”, 2011 (Cambridge) exposes the modern history of the mythical “invisible hand” since its heyday from the 1960s through to the late 1990s

http://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.com/2012/04/political-s...
Rudy Giuliani has had virtually no input on U.S. cybersecurity policy
It's not a spoiler by any meaningful definition of the word.
Yes, you can go and read about communism and how 100s of millions died while it was being implemented
The Beaglebones, including this one, use the AM335X chip, which includes two PRU units on die. These are microcontrollers that have access to the same memory as the main ARM cores, and an API to share data.

This allows for real-time-ish use cases that the Raspberry PI can't handle well. Low latency audio, driving large LED matrix boards, high speed input sampling, etc.

So it's not quite the same market. $25 in this space is rock bottom pricing.
What the heck is that supposed to mean? "Persona?" Fine, Curtis Yarvin has said that he only reads old books.
It seems to me there is a dollar amount above which any software project must surely fail. In other words if it costs more than X, then the complexity implied is too high and the likelihood of success is too low.
I think the RPi CPU's are significantly less costly, and of course have higher volume production runs. Traditionally, the chips used in RPi have difficult-to-obtain low level documentation and therefore binary blobs for drivers. RPi foundation is willing to make that trade-off in favor of cost. The Beagle ecosystem has from the beginning been more of a traditional reference design "please buy our chips for your personalized version" sort of board.
I'm curious, wouldn't states like Alaska, that have a portion of oil revenues paid out to the population, be a good study of basic income? I'm not entirely informed on how it's setup there, but it certainly seems like a good observation point...
There's a strain of anti-intellectualism here. It's actually not true that any algorithm might be backdoored. Algorithms aren't unknowable.

Furthermore, people act like there's a track record of super-sneaky NSA backdoors, and that Dual EC shows we can't trust anything NSA produces. I don't trust the NSA at all. But Dual EC wasn't sneaky. There were only two surprising things about Dual EC:

(1) That they actually managed to get anyone to use it, despite how clunky and slow and unreasonable the design was.

(2) That having produced a design that stuck out like a sore thumb for clunkiness, slowness, and unreasonableness, that design would be their backdoor; we gave them a lot more credit for tradecraft than that.

People knew there was something shady about Dual EC almost from the jump. It is a random number generator that works by encrypting random state with a public key for which the private key is undisclosed. It's obviously weird.

That's not the case with SPECK and SIMON. They're mainstream designs, and, more importantly, if you can hide a backdoor in a simple ARX Feistel block cipher that can be implemented in 100 lines of code, we probably have bigger concerns than these algorithms.

Should you use SIMON and SPECK? Of course not. You shouldn't go anywhere near lightweight ciphers unless you know exactly what you're doing, and if you know exactly what you're doing, there are less politically controversial lightweight ciphers to use. The problem here isn't that the world is being deprived of SIMON and SPECK; it's that we're getting too practiced at turning our brains off.
They should have bought some property instead of renting it out then.

Augmented social bounds with economic ones.
One factor that would be lost in a controlled, basic income test is the inflation effect. Implemented on a national scale, cost inflation of basic consumer needs is a near certainty. On a controlled test of 1000 people inflation would be nearly impossible to achieve without localizing the test to an absurd degree.

I could see this test could serving as a dataset for calculating anticipated inflation rates on a national scale. If money is sent out via a trackable card instead of raw cash, you could begin to extrapolate where this basic income spends would be going, be it consumer products, bills, etc.
In that case this is the best moment to link to https://archive.lainchan.jp/sec/res/4386.html#4391
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If you're in-process, though, you can just lock when you need exclusive access to the datastore.
Not only bitcoin, China is try to clamp down different capital flights. Recently had also limited or banned foreign investment by Chiense companies.
Just a bit of quick math[0]:

~323,000,000 total US population

77.2% over the age of 18

~250,000,000 total over the age of 18

$12,000 per year per adult = $3,000,000,000,000 per year

[0] - https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045216
No built-in indexing, but no one forbids you from indexing text files if you need it.
Monero has something similar. Private keys to send your coins and private keys to see transaction details. When looking at the transactions, you can see 'something was transferred', but the addresses and amounts are encrypted. You can only see the details (of your half of the transaction) by using your private key to view it.
There is the LimeSDR Mini that is currently being croudfunded[1]. For $140 USD you would be hard pressed to find anything like it that would give you full duplex across that frequency range. I own the full size LimeSDR device and it has been a great piece of hardware for playing around with.

1. https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr-mini
> I never consented to have my information in their database

Why yes, you did through your agreement with any vendor (e.g. bank, credit union, credit card company, rental) that you have dealt with. This is a standard clause, although some places don't actually do it (my landlord for instance as I found out when I went for a car loan).

I hate this, but claiming you didn't consent is just not a credible answer without some additional legislation to force contracts to be explicit in whom a vendor may share information.
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Thanks! I was a bit dissapointed that only the older video link was working.
Right but surely a public credit registry would have the same risk of being hacked, no? At least in the US, we have government run data get hacked on a routine basis. That seemed to be G(G?)P's concern.

At the end of the day, whether it's a private or public credit agency, they're still collecting all your data whether you want them to or not (modulo going full Thoreau and removing yourself from the economy), and still could get hacked and have all that stolen.
For what I know, basic income is not about allowing people to not work, but instead, push people to work by allowing them to take risks by trying to work in a field they actually want to work.

Starting this wood-carving artisanat shop that you're insanely good at looks a lot more promising when you know you'll have a bit of money to eat at the end of the month :D

A huge hope of defensors of basic income is that it may pay itself by the economy boost it gives, and won't just add $1000 to every rent bill in the area !
I really like this generator and the original tutorial.

In fact, I implemented a version of this in C++/OpenGL a few years back for a school project: https://github.com/Heightened/2IV06-map-generator

We also built a 3D viewer that could then display the generated maps: https://github.com/Heightened/2IV06-map-viewer

It was a fun project, we got some really nice results: https://imgur.com/a/VlkYk
Homoiconicity is irrelevant - comment text has no meaning to the computer but can do for the human. Computers have a hard time with "why".
All I'm trying to get you to understand is that as far as this topic is concerned, it doesn't matter how you want people to behave.

What matters is how people actually behave.
Shouldn't the cities be suing individuals who use the fuels? The oil companies are merely manufacturing a product that can be used, it's the responsibility of end-users for the destruction they cause.

The equivalent would be states suing gun companies for manufacturing handguns that are used in crimes, even though those same guns are used by police officers to uphold the law.

Don't energy companies produce energy resources that help impoverished people obtain clean drinking water and protect against environmental threats?
The content shows as offline for me, but you can copy-paste the URL in google and view the cache (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1J0XO4...)

Two key quotes from the article:

* "The legal complaints also cite an internal Exxon document from 1982. Its authors predicted that global temperatures will rise 3 degrees Celsius before the century ends."

* "The defendants “promoted fossil fuels and fossil fuel products for unlimited use in massive quantities with knowledge of the hazard that such use would create,” the San Francisco suit says."

Can't wait for gaz stations to be like cigarette packaging/advertising (in most of the western world except the US): un-branded and with large warnings about the health/environmental consequences.
If they're liable, they can also mitigate risk and /or exit lines of business with excessive risk.
> It depends so much on what you're building. If you're doing _groundbreaking_ research in, say, AI or facial recognition or whatever, you may need people who are technical superstars.

I think this is true for high risk, cutting edge tech, the problem is that A LOT of companies think what they're doing meets that definition when it really doesn't. They think their NoSQL datastore with 10 million records and a single page frontend is the like putting someone on the moon.

And really maybe the point of the article is more that we should reconsider what makes one a superstar. Raw technical ability is one component, but communication, and teamwork are other very important components. It's like in basketball, someone may be an elite 1v1 player, but someone who is a great passer, defender, and leader is probably more valuable to a team.
What could be a possible solution to the PIN reset? Security practices say that we can authenticate across 3 ways; something you are, something you have, and something you know. Its obvious to me that the something you know is also known by hackers, and I don't think biometrics are going to be overly popular after this. Does Experian send out a hardware token to all users that request a security freeze?
Except that's exactly how it works. The parallel between how users spend money on apps reflects how they spend elsewhere is very real and similar.
I have expectation not to be judged for something I might or might not do.

It is really that simple. You are assuming I might be a criminal for not having my plumbing in order. But I'm innocent until guity, so please get lost with all your inspectors together.
> Does it have anything to do with the fact that Russian, China and other BRICS are banding together to have Oil sold in Chinese currency?

No. If there's an industry S&P has a conflict of interest with, it's bankers. Derivatives, how Wall Street mostly trades commodities, don't care what their underlying asset is denominated in.

I believe your question arises from what I refer to as the petrodollar fallacy. The U.S. dollar is used, globally, because Americans buy lots of stuff. Exporters who sell to Americans naturally end up with U.S. dollars. They could sell those dollars for their own currency, or they could invest them in U.S. dollar denominated assets. (Or they could hold them to further buy stuff from other people.) Our deep, liquid and largely politically indifferent financial markets, huge base of consumers and lack of capital controls underwrite the U.S. dollar's global popularity [1].

Given the United States is, again, a major oil producer, what other people trade their oil in is largely irrelevant to American financial interests. Would certain 3-letter agencies prefer Iran have to sell for dollars? Sure. Is that of even the most vanishing concern to Wall Street? No.

[1] Historically, the U.S. dollar supplanted the pound sterling after World War II. The U.S. Treasury, through Harry Dexter White, hard coded the dollar into the Bretton Woods system [a]. He could do this because the United States was the only industrialized power untouched by the war. (We also had a nuclear monopoly.) Either way, nothing to do with oil.

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
I once asked a guy who worked on control systems for missiles what he thought about the ethics of it. He looked confused and said 'I've never really thought about it until now'. We left it at that, but I consider it a win.
Does it have an HDMI connector? The description is extremely poor.
Basic income is not the same as forced equality. I do fear that basic income will only result in hyperinflation, but it's hard to effectively estimate the impact without actually doing some trial run.
> you are getting influenced by advertising, do not make the mistake of thinking you're not

Obviously, but that doesn't mean I want to make it easier for them to influence me by letting them track me and target ads specifically towards me.
As for why I think we can't come to an agreement, it's not because we are already in disagreement but because I believe (from this tiny conversation) that our views on things are so far apart that it's hard to bridge that gap in this medium and in a short period of time.

As for the last part, I'd like you to consider why people react differently to those wordings.

I've also observed that the wording doesn't matter if only the wording has changed but the attitude hasn't.