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Do people buy Model S vehicles to haul stuff. More to the point, how many Pilots are on the road fully loaded?

My guess? Most people buy both cars to haul 1 person a very few miles almost every day.

Again, presenting data to make a point that lacks context only detracts from your argument.
As a publishing scientist, let me tell you, science publishing is not a free market. We can't just "build up the alternatives" because that is not conducive to anyone's scientific career. If it's some no name journal where you will publish along side free energy and cold fusion articles, no one will do it.

The mistake is giving journals a profit incentive in the first place in a system that inherently doesn't work well in a market system. You can't have "competition" between journals, it just doesn't work that way. A handful of journals have high impact factors and so get most of the submissions, that's how it is, and they then can crank up their publishing fees because they can.

Perhaps you shouldn't "blame the publishers" given they are "acting according to their self interest." I did say "If you want to blame anyone[...]," implying I don't really care to blame anyone. I admit I am more inclined to blame the publishers, but the whole system is fundamentally broken.
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Ah, the "I'll give you more free stuff than my political opponent" political model.

This is a legitimate concern, but it's at minimum partially addressed by the "as a share of the gdp" part.

We should also probably forbid Congress from increasing this share without a massively overwhelming vote.
The markup on the grocery items they "sell" via their service.
Sorry, it's a message board, tone is sometimes hard to tell! I apologize for jumping to the wrong conclusion.
A magazine in the process of failing that hasn't paid it's writers and editors isn't really news. It is a very difficult business.

I think the only surprise is that it's still going. Didn't problems start almost immediately?
Also yesterday's instruction sets were a bit more limited.
Obviously the UBI would be a redistribution of money and not "everyone gets X more". Imagine the average guy getting 20k/yr in UBI while also paying 20k/yr more in taxes. As taxes are in % and UBI is fix, generally rich people would end up with less and poor people and families with more money.
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and open with a text editor?
I run a Mastodon instance. This is what I have on the front page to explain what the hell Mastodon is and why you’d want to use it, in place of the standard text about that.

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What's Mastodon? Mastodon is basically Twitter, except with less trolls and Nazis. And longer tweets.

It’s also Twitter without a whole bunch of VC investment that it needs to try and pay back by monetizing your eyeballs and keeping you on the site for as long as possible, regardless of whether that's by making you happy or enraging you.

And finally, the last big difference is that instead of living on a bunch of computers run by people working for Twitter, Mastodon lives on a bunch of computers run by whoever feels like running an “instance”.

Each instance can set its own policies. If you really want to be a jerk to people, you can find or start an instance that’ll let you! But people on other instances can very easily filter out not just you, but your entire instance. The hope is that this will keep things more civil than what Twitter has turned into. The reality is that there are probably exciting new failure modes somewhere in the future.

The policies of this particular instance can be found here. The TL;DR version of them is "Imagine you have a cool queer aunt. Don't do anything that'd probably piss her off."
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osascript is a desktop automation technology. It can do pretty much anything the current user can do, and the current user can inject things in to the DOM. It’s a very useful thing to be able to do when automating workflows.

I just wish Apple invested more in automation.
Anyway someone will need to pay for the electric infrastructure, all these megawatt-scale charging stations, power lines to supply them and 2-3 times more power plants than we need now. But hopefully reality check will come before that
Is this Sam Altman's version of UBI?

Because I've heard everything from what you're saying, to negative income tax, and to flat, unweighted income for everyone.
Because its pretty much guaranteed to already be on their target machine.
> We are talking about sexual harassment here. How could nudity not be the problem?

It was in large part retaliation for Hayek not acceding to Weinstein's demands for sexual favors offscreen. If nudity were categorically prohibited or simply commercially unviable in film, and instead of a “do this scene or no movie” threat Weinstein had simply canned the film in retaliation, or demanded some distasteful (whether or not itself sexual) offscreen favor to avoid such cancellation in retaliation, it would have been just as much of an act of sexual harassment.

The problem here has nothing to.do with nudity.
Instituting UBI is about as practical as simply ending all taxes.
If the benefit requires other subsidies for recipients to survive, does it actually fit the definition of UBI?
Isn't the whole point of UBI that it isn't progressive, but rather universal? Otherwise, it's essentially just another form of progressive income tax, where the bottom of the scale is a negative income tax. Right?
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OK, let's get into the grays then. Did you read the article? She didn't put up with Weinstein to get to the point she was at before making Frida. She wasn't looking for fame with this particular film. She wanted to tell an important story. It was something beyond herself. "I did not care about the money," she says.

That aside, you do have a point. If people like Hayek would "just say no," and give up on their crazy ambitions this wouldn't ever happen. It's really that simple. That's what you are saying, right?
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Instead of accomplishing a collective objective, a few bad actors accomplished personal objectives. It points to an idea that we should remove counter party risk in these situations. One very popular attempt to mitigate counter party risk exists in crypto currencies.

Here is a subreddit discussing UBI + crypto combinations https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoUBI/

Personally, I believe that collective human interests can be accurately modeled with crypto currencies. Things like UBI, health insurance, other new unrealized collaborative goals likely will be modeled in this way. For example, if I could help end homelessness by accepting a certain coin for my goods and services, I likely would.
OK, so how do I see if I am infected?
When are you going to support end-to-end encryption for consumer apps? We use Syncdocs https://syncdocs.com to encrypt Google Drive, but it would be better to use an entirely Google soultion.
> Just because it doesn't fit into your contrarian view on consensus it doesn't mean it doesn't provide consensus.

You do realize that this "my contrarian view" is what computer science calls
"the consensus problem", right? And that "my contrarian view" comes from
a highly regarded publication that's thirty years old?

> Nakamoto consensus solves the Byzantine problem quite well.

Explain to me how. Byzantine generals problem comes with a rigorous proof
that network cannot agree on a single value if the cooperating nodes don't
outnumber the adversarial ones by more than 2:1. The blockchain guarantees its
functions with merely 50% + 1 of cooperating nodes. Something doesn't add up
if blockchain was intended to solve consensus problem.

> I get that it's cool to be contrarian and it makes people feel smart to badmouth blockchain.

Oh, but I don't badmouth blockchain. I think it's quite ingenious
cryptosystem. I only badmouth blockchain enthusiasts, and the undereducated
ones at that.

Blockchain was never intended to be a consensus protocol, it was always
a timestamping protocol. We had a number of those before, but blockchain is
the first one that doesn't use trusted third party. This is the ingenuity of
blockchain, not consensus that blockchain doesn't solve.

And then the idea behing Bitcoin, that a digital cash protocol (of which we
had some number before, too) can be built on top of published and timestamped
transactions, which together form a ledger. This is smart as well. But it's
still not a consensus protocol.

> But Nakamoto consensus does reach a consensus on value that is accepted by the network.

Despite that nobody can tell what value exactly was agreed upon? And despite
that you can't designate any specific point in time that the agreement is
reached? I fail to see how is this "consensus".
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I just cashed out about 1500 bucks, took less than 48 hours. Paid a lawyer with it. That's just from the free money coin base gave me for using a uni email address to setup the account.
Asking for salary information upfront in California -- where most YC companies are -- will be illegal on Jan 1st. Many companies seem to be complying with this requirement already. In fact even asking a price floor might be illegal, as salary information can only be used in determining the salary if it was provided "voluntarily and without prompting." [0]

0: http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/New-law-bans...
He probably learned to stay involved longer :)
One possible mechanism is a social wealth fund that would gradually come to own (and distribute the proceeds from) a nontrivial portion of the national capital. Matt Bruenig wrote a NYTimes oped about this idea:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/opinion/inequality-social...
with some suggestions for populating the fund:

> Wouldn’t the enormous wealth that our increasingly productive society is generating, which now flows into just a few pockets, be a fair source? Some of the concrete ways this could happen are through the transfer of existing federal assets like land, buildings and portions of the wireless spectrum into the new fund. Other measures could include increases in taxes on capital that affect mostly the wealthy such as estate, dividend and financial transaction taxes and the creation of a new type of corporate tax that requires companies to directly issue new shares to the social wealth fund on an annual basis and during certain corporate moves such as initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions.

> Another way to bring assets into the fund would be to modify the way the Federal Reserve pumps money into the economy. Currently, the central bank does that by buying up Treasury bonds. If instead we used newly created money to buy up stocks that are then deposited into the social wealth fund, it would gradually socialize wealth ownership without the need to raise taxes on anyone. As Roger Farmer and Miles Kimball have argued, these kinds of asset purchases could also be ramped up during recessions, allowing the federal government to acquire significant portions of the national wealth relatively cheaply while also stabilizing financial markets and stimulating the economy."

Noah Smith makes the additional economic case that a social wealth fund is a buffer against decreasing labor share of income driven by technological change:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-05/robot-tak...
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You seem to be saying that Apple’s claims are not only wrong, but ObjC is somehow faster despite having to do more work. Swift has no runtime method table lookups, no extra objc_msgSend calls, better ability to analyze and inline code, no retain/release dance for code with value semantics, etc. Every benchmark I’ve seen shows Swift faster for these reasons.
however for many people they start with a 7500 dollar offset just from the Federal government. throw in state rebates and the revenue lost to EVs gets really exaggerated.

my state, Georgia, is damn obnoxious with a two hundred dollar fee per year to declare as an EV; my car which is a Volt can declare either way; which when I ran the numbers put me beyond my normal driving on gasoline alone. Meaning I decided to not list as an EV because it punishing, not rewarding.
lmao the nation is more than ready for universal healthcare as proved by polls over and over again-- its the politicians and their corporate interests that are not ready. please get more informed. im doubting you are even american based on how uninformed you are.
I support some form of UBI. My concern is that UBI is a classic redistributive strategy, and redistributive strategies have done poorly in America's long and ongoing class war. The most recent tax plan is a good example the haves winning another battle in that war. So the basic question for anyone who believes in UBI and economic justice is: How do you convince the wealthy and powerful to give up some of their wealth and power? Almost by definition, they can't be forced to do it, because wealth and power are their own defense against redistribution.
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You are spot on. They only provide excuses, no explanations as to how something like this could pass (ie. pure greed from a business standpoint).

This sort of thing should have been preceded by trying to get creators and patreons on board long before actually implementing it.

My trust in Patreon has expired, and I look forward to creators shifting to another platform.
>One of the things that people forget is that if the robots really do come, yes, they will eliminate or change a lot of jobs, but the cost of goods and services will just go down and down and down.

So maybe $7000 can get you everything you need, including healthcare. People pay extra money for their house to be close to work. With no work, maybe that will open up places people will want to live.
I'd like to do what the GOP did for the tax break and claim that the increase to the GDP by this additional influx of money will vastly increase our growth by an unrealistic amount!
Why should American corporations pay both foreign and US corporate tax on income made overseas? Almost no other country requires this of their companies and it's a major competitive disadvantage for American businesses.

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Edit: I'm rate-limited, but in response to below I'll reproduce what I've posted in prior discussions about this:

We’re really better off eliminating the corporate tax altogether. It’s a pretty small portion of tax revenue and the only reason it exists is to be a plank for politicians who want to tax the "greedy corporations." All corporate income is either paid as dividends, paid as salaries, or reinvested. When it is paid as dividends, it is taxed as capital gains. When it is paid as salaries, it is taxed as income. When it is reinvested, it is either lost, or eventually becomes income and capital gains. There is no need to have another layer of taxation that just makes a giant accounting mess and creates all sorts of ridiculous incentives to use tax shelters.
It depends on the field, but you're forgetting that arXiv does not do peer-review. Just because publishing is broken and yes peer-review has issues doesn't mean peer-review isn't needed.
Ah, good to know, thanks. I knew it supported it, but Wikipedia made it sound like it was more secondary.
Chip & signature sounds awful (and pointless!) Why would they not use PIN?

We now have contactless payments for under £30 in the UK, similar to Apple pay but you just place your card on the reader.
completely wrong and frankly im shocked you have the gaul to think so
I don't buy your insinuation that he was just a brilliant mind who was immature enough to inconvenience others. I'm reading through https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-m... and Jha's actions sound like a real criminal. Yes criminal: he was using his technical prowess to bring down minecraft servers and steal customers, effectively running an online protection racket.

I know this sounds harsh but: I'm glad he has been charged with this law and I really really want this guy to be behind bars and think for a long time about what he did. Hopefully it will seriously discourage others from doing the same stuff he did.

On a slightly related note: I can't help but think how this dude could have had a highly successful career in computer security. But he chose to be a criminal. Why?
The math has never been the problem; it's always been taxing the wealthy that causes the conversation to die.

The problem with taxing the wealthy, is that they generally have an outsized share of the political power. I think that a better solution, from a political and psychological standpoint, would involve a voluntary system. If just rent could be covered, this would be the equivalent of $12k per year in many parts of the US:

http://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/news/a7635/german-vill...
Sam makes an interesting analogy with Y Combinator as providing a form of "basic income" to people trying to start startups. However, this analogy ignores a huge difference in the two cases: the people who are trying to start startups with Y Combinator's help are a highly self-selected group. Giving them "basic income" often turns out to be highly productive, yes. But that does not imply that giving basic income to everybody would turn out to be highly productive.

To be fair, he does describe what he's attempting as an "experiment" and acknowledges that it might not work out the way he thinks.
This?

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> Not all cities are building their own internet so that means we don't need to do anything is logic that I just don't follow.

If you're citing municipal broadband laws as something suppressing the development of competition, it's fair to point out that most people live in states that don't have such laws, yet we don't see municipal broadband emerging as a source of competition in those states.

The U.S. is a big place, and you can probably name anything and find it happening somewhere in the U.S. The question is, what are the things that are actually creating impediments. If states without municipal broadband laws aren't actually building municipal networks, then getting rid of such laws might be a moral victory, but wouldn't actually change anything.

> My city didn't build their own. Last time it came up the news reported that it was because Comcast bribed the city council to charge unreasonable fees for adding cables to the existing poles and ensure that only Comcast could do the work on their own schedules.

Do you have a link to the story? It seems suspect, because pole attachment rates are governed by formulas set by either the FCC, or by the state (if the state certifies that it regulates such rates). Also, most poles are owned by power companies, and they set the rates, not city councils.
That would be correct! However we getting values from raw camera video buffer before any compression takes place.
Isn't the question whether he is obliged to change license? It's not pushing ideology to sit on the license you are using.
It said he got fined $250k for damages his hack caused...Ive always been curious how these fines work. Will he be paying that back after he’s out of jail and employed? Does he have a monthly payment depending on his income? Or can the equivalent be worked out in some type of community service or more jail time?

I ask because the guy is only 21 and now a felon...
...less full truck...

Every time we've gotten a truck-shipped freight delivery in the last decade, the trailer has been mostly empty. Our business is not at the end of the road, either.
I might take Sam Altman seriously when I discover exactly how much of his own wealth he is willing to dilute to accomplish this dream.
There can be a few pitfalls here. Assuming that the dark field image of the Apple camera is actually random noise and not some property of the sensor that can vary between images.

Getting the distribution of the randomness can be hard.
The most disappointing thing I saw is the resumé. It makes me very sad for the software development profession that actively subverting the privacy of users and controls of their operating system is something seen as a positive.
No and by design. Global trade is global, man.
Congress and Senate voting on a tax scheme is exactly not "taxation without representation"...
> Edit: GitHub has similar functionality, but it doesn't know how to diff force pushes, so you would end up having to review the full diff again to ensure integrity.

I realize this is a religious war I'm stepping into, but I fall on the side of "if you are doing a force push of a branch already in code review you are doing something wrong". Once commits are out in the open and in review between multiple developers, that is shared code history that encodes important information about the code review process itself. (I make obvious exceptions for things like accidental PII disclosure or similar bone-headed mistakes, but the longer a branch has been in code review, the less willing I am to allow it to be force pushed.)

Of course, to each their own and your mileage may vary, but that comment about diffing force pushes in a merge/pull request sent a shiver down my spine, regardless of whether or not the tool supports it.
I'd have to think of it, but I think reviewers would have a conflict-of-interest if they were paid based on the result of their reviews. If they are compensated to just review a paper either way I don't see the issue.
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I think you're misplacing the blame here. Researchers need to publish in high impact journals, or they lose their funding.

Some funding already comes with the requirement to publish open access.

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Screw human productivity, how about human happiness.
It seems to me that the American tax system should, if it is to encourage anything, encourage investment in America.
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> Isn't the main benefit of UBI to make it so everything is streamlined into a single program and administrative overhead is reduced?

No, the main benefit is that eliminating means testing eliminates perverse effects which reduce the benefit of outside income when in means-tested benefit programs.

Reduced total program overhead is a peripheral benefit of a mature UBI vs. existing means-tested benefit programs.
Not much different than what the left in America is doing today, back then Roman politicians passed laws to keep the votes of poorer citizens, giving out cheap food and entertainment, "bread and circuses", was the most effective way to rise to power. Today free stuff is still the most effective way to power.
This is my fear: the UBI would be instituted and then the "Universal" part slowly erode into a sticks-and-carrots regime like how taxes and transfer payments are used today.

We need to make damn sure that adequate opportunities to generate wealth ourselves remain so that UBI doesn't become the only income for large swaths of the population. That'd just put producers and UBI-only recipients at odds. Not to mention inflation pressures.
The "share of GDP" thing has already been discussed on HN (in response to Sam's own blog post on the subject):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15789108

My comment on a basic flaw in the underlying analogy (that nothing like "shares in the US" corresponds to a share of GDP) is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15791054
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