skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll be really interesting to see how this basic income thing plays out over the next few decades. Basic income is most easily testable in small, high income, relatively homogeneous societies that agree on a more communal way of governing. So, the Nordic countries, see Finland.

What is most interesting is how many optimistic and as yet untested claims that basic income advocates make. See this article. Paragraph after paragraph about how this program will work, what the advantages will be, but we don't really have any hard numbers, and even once we get them in a limited setting in Finland, or with random people across the US, we have studies that aren't generalizable, and we have very few. If n=29 means anything in this context, we've got like 2.5 (not a rigorously considered statement, don't hurt me).

The really cynical part of me notices how basic income is like the ideal political promise. "Hey, we're gonna give you money so you don't have to work, and when we do, society is gonna transform into utopia". We'll all be living in Truman Burbank's world, apparently. Because of course people won't squander their basic income (maybe on Bitcoin?) and if they do, so much for a social safety net.

The general populace (not those at the top) are seeing a bad economic situation, so of course their response is yes, meanwhile the people who are the biggest proponents of this as of currently are people like Altman, Zuckerberg, and Musk. The first two have political ambitions, the last is a utopian.

Of course when you break down the numbers, it doesn't work. How do you make up the 3 trillion a year it would take to give everyone $12k when you almost had healthcare repealed? What programs do you decide to cut and how do you expect the two parties to have a fruitful discussion about it (lol)? These guys will never talk about any rigorous plans because they don't have any that would make it through legislation. They also won't talk about how crushing and depressing and difficult it is to live on 12k (they have no clue).

It sounds like a future where the super rich throw pennies to the peasants and at that point it'll be a great excuse. We give you money, why can't you pull yourself up by your bootstraps?

Will someone lay out a realistic plan detailing how you'd implement BI in the US?
hey, nice seeing some of the usual suspects of the french internet here (aka the real french tech ;)
Almost dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15372048 (377 points, 11 hours ago, 150 comments, currently #29 in the front page) The HN submission has also replies from the author.
> yours may have had unorthodox views

We read Greg Mankiw's Principles of Economics [1]. It's the Harvard undergraduate text--orthodox as they come.

Saying barter plays a limited role in virtually all economies, modern and historic, is different from saying it was money's progenitor, as Adam Smith wrongly speculated. The former is true. The latter is not.

TL; DR Money and banking isn't always taught in introductory economics. The "bartering noble savage" myth is not something economists cling to.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-7th-Mankiws/dp/1...
They could've written a rendering engine from scratch, or (in 2001-2002) acquired Netscape or Opera for a song.
i hope not, i actually have the opposite goal: to render intellectual property laws, not only obsolete, but impossible to enforce.
Thanks for the feedback. Ive updated my bio and included a link to my most recent resume.

I have no issues with relocating within the US (as long as its not Alaska).

I live near San Juan (about 3o mins out and things sure are better than in other areas. But people are still currently in a state of shock and havent realized the implications of the catastrophe. My dad lives where the eye entered and it looks lime a set for the walking dead tv show.
It seems you never had to deal with such users, they talk about that orange thing or the traffic cone. Which should be more than enough to explain why they would not migrate.
It was intended to be disparaging: one of my major beefs with this community is the massive culture of groupthink and aggressive self reinforcement/adulation.
4a: You can't be sure of that. The court can always decide (and I've seen many analogous situations in which it did) that your debt is not valid, it was oppressive, it abused the customer needs etc. and so you lose.

4b: Of which incentives are you talking about? The other points you've mentioned are trivial, this is the only point that has problems. If you solve 4b somehow someday you'll be making a huge benefit to the world, a revolution greater than Bitcoin.
>"Arrest quotas" is a bit like voter fraud. It's talked about a lot, there's heavy speculation, but there's little evidence showing it exists in any systemic form.

No it isn't! In New York City, of course there are arrest quotas.

As a matter of fact, NYPD officers will arrest innocent people, on entirely trumped-up charges, just to make quota.
At my -10 diopter in both eyes there's no winning with multi-monitor setups. It's a trade-off between chromatic abberation, internal reflection, and edge distortion.

All the high refractive index lens materials I have tried have terrible abbe number and so their chromatic abberation is so bad I can't even LCD text out of the corner of my eye; or read a license plate on a car to the front left of me. I don't even bother with high index anymore.

But moderate refractive index (and decent abbe number) means my lenses are more than a centimeter thick at the edges. In addition to being heavy they are so thick that the nose pad arms don't fit. So the edges of the lenses have to be carved off. This leads to very bad internal reflections.

I've tried exaggerated spherical curvature in order to minimize thickness while keeping a good lens material (high abbe) but that tends to distort (compressing) the image out of the sides the lenses and that leads to nausea.

I wish there were companies out there that would make custom achromatic lens for eye glasses. Their internal reflections can't be worse than what I have now.
If you looking for a way to develop apps for linux ( elementary os) with nodejs and vala,here is an example https://github.com/harisvsulaiman/Pushy
"I would add, despite very negative people like you."

Have fun when you run into the same lesson left unlearned from the 70s - distributed permission-less databases like blockchains cannot scale without becoming centralized. The more people that wish to participate, the growth rate starts jumping from exponential to exponential * log with the bandwidth and storage requirements to ensure every other node on the network is properly updated.

"People didn't create bitcoin to replace cash. Years ago, the community tried to create an alternative to all existing money systems. That's all."

Cash is a money system. You contradict yourself.
When you talk about DNS propagation you have to take cache into account. You could set TTL that low (even if you do, some will ignore it) but normally it's a lot longer so you often get times like 24-48 hours for complete propagation.
Have you tried the Amiga version? Back in the days. It had the same mechanics but it was a lot more polished with graphics and sound. Plus loading was a lot faster!
Good post, but nothing to do with the article.

Excerpt:
"The state will have difficulties in replacing the huge reductions in income tax returns with other forms of taxation. But there are also other things that the nation state can continue to tax in the future. For example, property consumption and different steering taxes aimed at changing people’s behaviour, are possible new avenues of income. There are considerable opportunities in steering taxes, as the data available and ideological resistance against absolute bans increase their importance. The heightened discussion in recent years about the expansion of tax co-operation between nations could also lead to actions that strengthens the tax base in the future global and digitalised economy."

I think we've all been duped into upvoting a completely AI-generated article based on a catchy title and a bunch of positive fluff thrown in.
But no matter how much you hate it, you always come back
The state does not defend us; rather, the state aggresses against us and it uses our confiscated property to defend itself. The standard definition of the state is this: The state is an agency characterized by two unique, logically connected features. First, the state is an agency that exercises a territorial monopoly of ultimate decision making. That is, the state is the ultimate arbiter and judge in every case of conflict, including conflicts involving itself and its agents. There is no appeal above and beyond the state. Second, the state is an agency that exercises a territorial monopoly of taxation. That is, it is an agency that can unilaterally fix the price that its subjects must pay for the state's service as ultimate judge.

Based on this institutional setup you can safely predict the consequences: First, instead of preventing and resolving conflict, a monopolist of ultimate decision making will cause and provoke conflict in order to settle it to its own advantage. That is, the state does not recognize and protect existing law, but it perverts law through legislation. Contradiction number one: the state is a lawbreaking law protector. Second, instead of defending and protecting anyone or anything, a monopolist of taxation will invariably strive to maximize his expenditureson protection and at the same time minimize the actual production of protection. The more money the state can spend and the less it must work for this money, the better off it is. Contradiction number two: the state is an expropriating property protector

~ HH Hoppe
"Yet another monoid tutorial." This time in Hacker News comments. And lots of them. :-)
My biggest issue, as a web developer, is my inability to handle PSDs. There is a Paint.NET plugin that does a semi-okay job, but it's not good _enough_.

Do you have a good plugin for working with PSDs, or are they not in your personal scope of necessity?
Perhaps some kind of education or support along with the free money could be beneficial?
1. Government spending on public works and services.
2. Loans to private sector businesses who are positioned to use that new money productively.

As far as I understand, these are the primary ways new money is issued into the economy (money created). In general, these two methods work fairly well. The first enables worthwhile works and services to be provided that the private sector is unwilling to provide, while the second helps ensure efficient usage of new dollars to create goods and services.

However, there are situations where these two methods are insufficient. For example, after the 2008 meltdown, cheaper loans to businesses hardly increased growth..like pushing a wet noodle. The problem was a lack of dollars in the pockets of consumers. The businesses were chasing too few dollars. Fiscal spending on infrastructurr is often proposed, and certainly can help, but is often inefficient, and diverted away from consumers into corporate coffers.

I believe that a variable basic income where newly created money can be put directly in consumer's pockets could give policy makers a third tool to ensure optimal economic growth.
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Scientists from fields that rely on data, like physics, often do well as data scientists.

I myself like Information Science more than Data Science, but I do not care that much for semantics. There was a need to specify a role of someone who makes sense out of data, gathers insights, using the tools from mathematics, computer science, statistics, and information theory. It's also a different type of science, data-driven science, as opposed to theoretical/metaphysical, empirical, or computational science.

There was an old joke that AI stood for Advanced Informatics. I think the commercialization of the term "AI" is a bit harmful and obfuscating. Companies tumble over one another to market their professionals as Applied AI or their products as AI. AI is the automation of human thought. It includes philosophy and cognitive science, both fields seem completely missing for applied AI.

I know many AI researchers already switched to calling themselves ML researchers a few years back. This, because the field of AI became muddied with futurist adherents of the Singularity. Did not help that the public perception of AI is somewhere between "Skynet is coming!" and "AI will take my job". Nowadays, ML is also heavily saturated and hyped beyond repair. Meanwhile the field of AI has not even solved the common sense problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonsense_knowledge_(artific...
Pomerantz LLP files a class action lawsuit against Equifax Inc
Anyone who at this point in time writes about the Sagrada Familia CATHEDRAL should be banned from reporting or intervieweing.

Sorry but this only proves sloppiness.

Really.
Yeah, this is Hacker News.
The startup I work for is all about Ruby, we use it for all sorts of things from microservices, CLIs, Docker scheduling and everything in between. As a newer Rubyist (and long time C++ and C# dev) I get the feeling the Ruby community is a bit stagnant. Most Gems I use seem to have peaked on GitHub activity a few years ago and are now just sort of chilling. Of course this doesn't mean the language is dying or anything, but it does feel like I'm joining a party after everyone went home.
I guess you can't do this at an office, but as a student I just project onto the wall whenever I work at home.
4b: big men with clubs? that was the traditional incentive to pay
Turkey inaugurates military academy in Somalia
Why Housing Is Unaffordable in California
http://proceedings.mlr.press/v67/li17a.html is pretty good.
Turkey opens military base in Mogadishu to train Somali soldiers
NW.JS is "Node-Webkit" which came before Electron but it's similar enough. This is just a UI on top of an OS.
Renewable energy investors see opportunity in Puerto Rico's demolished grid
No terminal means massive fail
Legally they might have done the minimal amount necessary to not violate the license, but morally they've been a huge dick. "We have to open source our modifications to the code base, so here you get exactly one tarball of uncommented stuff."
Wow, im really sorry to hear what you have to go through. Im sure you have thought of all kinds of scenarios to work around this, but I am curious about what conclusions you came to:

Combining contacts and glasses?

Surgery, even to just reduce the correction?
The problem is that's very light on specifics. It's a bunch of hand wavvy suggestions about how we'll figure it out. The entire article had that kind of fluffiness to it, as do most discussions of basic income. These substanceless articles get posted over and over again and heavily upvoted and discussed in various places. I'm honestly hoping for something with more content, which is why I posted that.

I'm guess if I'm making obvious errors in logic, someone will point them out.
What isn't??
IBM now has more employees in India than in the US
Who the fuck cares if they're cash only? The lack basic modern necessities like fresh water, sewage, and power in a lot of places.

If they're without power, how long will generators hold out to keep temperature sensitive medicines good, or blood transfusion supplies? How many people are going to die because of this? When will cholera set in?

This is fucking insane. I feel like the US has lost it's mind that anyone thinks is acceptable to do anything else except shaming and protesting so this administration does something: https://twitter.com/aynrandpaulryan/status/91342690928271360...
When they have computer/network problems, Chipotle breaks out their "crash kits" which include an imprinter. I've seen this at two separate restaurants. It never fails to make me laugh, and either because they don't do it much or the process takes longer (probably both), it is very slow. But it impressed me that they have a backup plan.
As PR,basic income proposals may fare better if branded as the "national inheritance".
Sure, all these points are true. Notmuch is a bit unfinished I think. What email setup do you have?
More citizen participation in democracy is a great thing, but not as simple as it sounds. Legislating is a complex, time-intensive job. Most bills are long, nuanced and require real study to understand and vet. Armchair voting based on sound-bytes by casually engaged citizens can't work. We need paid people that are dedicated to the activity.

Additionally, legal deal making is a necessary evil. If two parties are at odds with which direction to go, and simply cannot come to an agreement, one way we deal with that is by offering exchanges of laws. One side reluctantly agrees to go forward on one thing, in exchange for the other side compromising on an unrelated thing that they feel more strongly about. That's why many bills contain a cornucopia of seemingly unrelated mandates - it's how we are able to move forward at an impasse. How would independent citizens negotiate with each other?
Indeed, the more closely I try to read the article, the less comprehensible it is. Notice a lot of HN commentators using the article title to jump on their soapbox, and nobody trying to engage the substance of the article, which is utterly lacking.

Here's the article's conclusion:
"The emissions targets of cities and the C-40 climate leadership network promoting it — as well as YIMBYcon, an international group of grassroots city developers that operates through groups in Facebook and organises events — provide good examples of such inter-city policies and discussions. The YIMBYcon network shares international examples of city development and prepares concrete shadow plans."

My takeaway is that AI is getting better at writing gibberish.
I didn’t say independent country. I said it’s an autonomous region.

Regarding the second point, I’m only echoing my friends commentary who is from Barcelona and flew home from San Francisco to vote. I can’t speak for him, but he talked at length about these laws. And I’m talking about language class here — not what language most classes are taught in.
That's the spirit!

In all seriousness, what else is there to do? Take whatever relief you can get while you can get it.
It's too bad you're downvoted. Paint.NET's developer has been willing to infect people's computers with malware for years, and now he wants people to pay him. There are so many better options for image editing, like GIMP, Krita and so on. Why support these scummy practices?
They're (badly) superimposing screen captures onto plagiarised Apple and Microsoft ads, and not particularly attractive screencaps; that text editor with the dropshadow and frosted glass behind the text looks… painful.

It can't be a parody because it's too earnest in its poor imitation of 2010s design language.
Ok, not sure how that contradicts what I said which was about becoming successful not about how you deal with the law.
What's stopping you? I'm in UK, I have cards, but I try to use cash as much as possible.

Having said that, almost every time I pay more than 20 in cash, the seller gives me the eye, puts the money under a UV light, and I feel like some sort of a criminal.
> This whole article boils down to "new hires require training".

There were also the parts about needless bickering in the PHP community, the responsibility of senior developers to guide junior developers, and the importance of keeping an open mind.
Why only the US?
I'll just leave this here... https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com
Bitcoin is the digital equivalent to paper cash money.

It's pretty hard for me to teleport a $100 bill to someone a continent away, so Bitcoin works as analogous to cash as so far been invented.

I agree that Bitcoin does in no way replace paper cash, simply complements it by extending many of it's features to the digital space. It also can be improved on drastically.
So it's like chromeos but worse
I do have eye floaters since last year, which are quite annoying. Anyone has any experience on preventing further problems?

My OCT scans are fine, so it's a bit puzzling. Floaters came at the same time as tinnitus.
My wife is from PR and most of her family lives theoughout the island. It's not actually "better" in San Juan, because people are desperate for water/gas in many neighborhoods. I can only tell you that there are some pretty horrible things going on in parts of San Juan.

In the mountain towns they still dont have any comms and no water or gas.

In the north west the lines for gas/water are miles long.

Lots of people are leaving. It will be really interesting to see how the long term effects play out, even if only 25% of the population moves to NY, Chicago, DC, Orlando, Philly, etc.
Do you mean "avoid loitering at train stations" or "avoid using trains"?
It's absolutely clear, given the plan is to make OMG the staking token used for securing the OmiseGo sub-chain. It's right there in the abstract of the white paper:

>>It uses the mechanism of a protocol token
to create a proof-of-stake blockchain to enable enforcement of market activity amongst
participants.

It's no crime to be ignorant of a subject. It's intellectually dishonest to criticize projects while in such a state.
I wouldn't call it a computer science book. It's certainly one of the most impressive programming books, though. These days I do most of my program in languages like Lisp and Python and I am a bit sad that I don't get to apply the bit fiddling type hacks found in that book.
3D crosswalk in Iceland helps slow down speeding motorists
I was testing point and shoot cameras the other day and one of the things that impressed me is just how quickly and smoothly they can auto-focus. I found myself looking around at the world through the viewfinder screen and it occurred to me that with 400+ ppi LCD displays why have we not yet created a 'visor' which is simply a reproduction of the scene outside but in constant focus for our eyes (I wear progressive lenses which, with a prism, have issues). Curve an iphone X screen to make a wrap around screen I think there is certainly something there.
It's much easier? Puerto Ricans are US citizens so as long as they know English (a lot more do than people assume) then it's relatively easy.
(case...) has no fall-through, the hallmark of the switch statement. Hence the sanity of the former.
Or perhaps the 'national dividend' where the stock certificate is citizenship given at birth.
I understand your point and it would make sense about a general hypothetical case, but it start to unravel quickly when you get into the real world, for example would you still consider a drunk human being as having full decision making capabilities ? Would you consider fucking a drunk girl to be some kind of abuse or that she used her full decision making capabilities and the responsibility lies with her exclusively ?

I'm pretty sure you're talking about something you don't even know the beginning of. I won't get into details, let's just say I know what happened and how it happened and that I know what I'm saying when I say what I say.
Well, you're wrong. Developer is taking the place of aurora/alpha as the below quote from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Developer_Editio... shows,

>Firefox Developer Edition replaces the Aurora channel in the Firefox Release Process. Like Aurora, features will land in the Developer Edition every six weeks, after they have stabilized in Nightly builds.
Common Excuses Why Developers Don’t Test Their Software
What design skills? It uses lots of frosted glass and nature graphics, but if anything that just shows an ability to follow popular trends. It reminds me of Longhorn concept videos, especially the focus on æsthetics rather than utility.
Why? I think if you said the Sagrada Familia minor basilica [0] people who don't already know about it might not know what that means. I certainly wouldn't. According to Wikipedia [0], it's only not a cathedral because it's not the seat of a bishop.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Família