skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My issue with UBI is that it does not in itself advance productivity. My vision for a future where there is enough for everyone and all of that abundance is sufficiently evenly distributed that no one is wanting for basic needs is a future where most of the productive work done in the world is done by machines and those machines are open source. The second part, where most of the machines are open source, is the critical component in my opinion that differentiates my vision from the world I think we will have if we don’t act to change course. (That world being one where proprietary machines are licensed with fees that ensure wealth is concentrated rather than distributed.) With open source productive machines being the basis of economic productivity, all engineering effort would go towards the common good of making those machines more productive. Companies would compete to manufacture the machines better than others, and would have first mover advantage on the new developments they produce. They would overall have a somewhat lower incentive to innovate, but this is offset by the larger incentive to innovate new players would have. More broadly I see intellectual property as a violation of the natural rules, and I see that we could voluntarily stop using intellectual property any time we want.

It is my belief that legislative solutions will always be eventually undermined whereas solutions that bring us productivity cannot later be taken away by legislative bargaining. I also believe than any UBI implemented would always be half hearted in implementation just as minimum wage isn’t actually enough for many people to thrive on.

What do you all think about the way I pose this? Where I claim that open source productive machinery is a viable alternative to UBI as a means of more broadly distributing the wealth of increased productivity?
Out of the two entrepreneur, i wish I’d woken up sooner but didn’t even realize it was an option
It wouldn't.

Health care is a good litmus test for UBI in the US. There's reasonably broad support for access/universal coverage but no will to pay for it (people in office are probably more opposed to it than voters).
No, and I believe you're taking things way too far. And we've all seen pretty mean SO rejection messages. It doesn't take much to be polite in doing so. If you're going to come back with, "What if I'm polite and they still think I'm mean," well, then I don't know what to tell you. I do know that the answer is not to add actual hostility to the site just because you feel that a few people might take expectations of politeness too far.
Was it really a redraw of the Plan 9 bunny? According to the Go website it says the gopher was created for a radio station fund raiser.

About 15 years ago—long before the Go project—the gopher first appeared as a promotion for the WFMU radio station in New Jersey. Renee French was commissioned to design a T-shirt for an annual fundraiser and out came the gopher.
UBI has to always be talked about with the way you are going to fund it via tax.

This article says higher income would be better off. But no, they would be worse off as over some magical amount you'd be paying out more than you'd get via the UBI.

However paying for UBI can also be done via a wealth tax. This would be ( theoretically ) the nicest way to evenly tax the wealth distribution of a nation then smooth it over the the entire population until you pull everyone up over a certain poverty line.

But a wealth tax would not be popular, and could be hard to implement effectively.
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> That said I have never felt that because I was not white I was treated differently, how would anyone even know that? I guess they could go look for a profile picture before they answer?

> If you have people doing that then there is a much bigger issue then what has been described by the EVP.

Probably why the comments are disabled on that blog post. Doesn't want anyone pointing out the disconnects from reality.
One from 1997, lifted off my resume:

Developed an application assisting State Revenue Office customers to produce correct Pay-roll Annual Adjustment forms and thereby reducing the high rate of errors that SRO customers experienced in filling out these forms. I was responsible for the technical design and development of an MS-Windows (3.1x, Win95, WinNT) application with a "wizard-like" interface. The application was developed in Delphi to ensure reliability on thousands of different computers around the state and nationally. Diskettes were distributed to 16,000 SRO customers and 3,000 CPAs. The SRO received numerous letters of praise for providing a service that greatly simplified a complex process.
You haven't seen third world countries' roads, have you?
The linked app is just a video player. It plays videos shot with the spectacles. It does not seem to record.
Feds reportedly investigating Wells Fargo's 401k unit
How does any class of goods keep from growing in price relative to the purchase power of the buyer vs the cost of goods sold?

Competition typically keeps pricing in check, and as long as there isn't a monopoly or constrained supply/demand, prices are not able to rise too high.

I don't really see how/why this would be magically different.

For example, while rents in SV are sky high, that's a reflection of constrained supply. An apple in SV costs roughly the same as an apple in Bakersfield, despite avg income being multiples higher.

I don't really see how rentals in low income areas would become a constrained supply after the availability of UBI. And the groceries point is just crazy sauce.

I'm aware of very few goods outside of monopolies where the price is determined by the spending power of the purchaser and not the cost of the goods.
Respect isn’t necessary. You paid for it, had your way with it, and moved on. This isn’t charity, it’s business. If the owner has a problem with how the scooters are used they should be using docks.
You can only do it this way if realistically, only the bottom 25% came out net positive from UBI.
FBI investigating Wayback Machine history tampering claims
This in effect makes my DNA a matter of public record based on the decisions of my relatives (behind some hoops, but in practice it doesn’t seem hard). That seems like a breach of privacy.
Following your graph to the point where we give all people money but its not a replacement or above poverty i get the "your ubi is dumb". (basically UBI is icing on the cake for poor people)

UBI is a wealth/income transfer. Is that really what your objecting to ?
Django is great for building Django apps. That is, if you're starting a greenfield project and don't have to integration with an existing database schema, and you like the Django ORM, and you like Django templates, and your data model maps cleanly onto a relational DB, and you can use the admin site more or less as-is without having to customize much, then it's lovely! I'm not being sarcastic: it really is. We've successfully rolled out several CRUD apps so that our internal employees can tweak settings and update stuff without waiting for engineering to get around to it.

That said, I'd rather gnaw off my own ankle than develop a production, customer-facing website that breaks any of the preconditions I listed above. Every time I've needed to deviate from the Django Way of doing things, it's felt like I'm swimming upstream against a rapids. For those kinds of projects, I love Flask very, very much.
> Since then, I'm a happy Linux Mint user.

Mint defaulted DNS server to OpenDNS.
Just looked up the wages for IBEW Local 6, $70/hr for a journeyman electrician sounds incredible even compared to SWE salaries.

How long would it take to get to that level from zero trade experience, and how hard is it to get into the union?
Thanks for taking the time to post all those informative links. Usually these kinds of discussions end up being people expressing what they like or dislike about the re-brand.

I'd suggest that a re-brand that didn't provoke a strong reaction was a waste of time.
Stack Overflow needs to be broken up into smaller, baby SO mini-sites (Bell telecom style) focused on separate lagnuages or stacks, like one for Node, one for .NET/C#, one for databases, etc. It seems they are headed this way for some disciplines like game dev and Unix/Linux, but they need to take it further and shut down the main SO site and migrate questions to these smaller sites. The site as it exists today is just one big monolithic mess with too many busybodies making it awkward for everyone else.
I don't see this anywhere: This is most likely not statistically significant. A DNA match might be 99.99% accurate, but when you try to match based on a database of a million people, you're going to get a few false positives. I really hope the police have some more evidence to go on, because otherwise it sounds like they just arrested an innocent person.
Do Hollywood and the music industry really still have any problem with Youtube et al?

There are some snippets of popular shows that go beyond "fair use". But those are usually of low quality because they are trying to evade the filters.

Everything of actual value seems to be rather well protected.

And hasn't the music industry made their peace with the internet these days? Seriously: it seemed in the early 2000s, there was far more action by the MPAA and RIAA to shut down the internet as it is (was). Reading slashdot in that era, those two organisations showed up in headlines as often as Facebook has on HN in the last month, or Uber in 2017.

File sharing these days is but a fraction of its peak, what with Spotify and Netflix. Maybe they are still angling for better terms and other marginal concessions, but they are no longer the Dark Army fighting for life.
> A UBI that pays every American $10,000 a year would cost about $3 trillion, Smetters says.

That's assuming you provide UBI on top of Social Security. You can reduce the real cost to about $2.1 trillion by making people pick one or the other. And you can raise $2.1 trillion by raising U.S. taxes as percentage of GDP to roughly the level of the Netherlands. Even if you assume GDP will contract somewhat, you can probably do it without raising taxes above that of France.
Yes sounds a lot easier than the resistor thing (though even that sounds doable).
The only time I use Stack Overflow these days is when Google takes me directly to a single question and answer.

Way back when SO was new, I actually had quite a few karma points from my answers. I stopped going there/using it/answering questions when I was being denigrated for doing so by some elitist dickheads. I continue to deliberately stay away.
It's not about easy or hard, the point is that it is under your control.

If your emotions are subconscious and you yourself aren't fully in control then how could you possible blame someone else for them? If it's that simple to be affected then you could just as easily affect yourself back to the state you want to be in, hence it is a circular argument without basis.

The world happens. You react. Equip and train yourself to react differently if you don't like the outcomes.

Predictability does not mean causation, especially when it is not accurate 100% of the time and therefore subjective. Sure, when you yell at someone, they might become upset. But another person might not care at all. So are you now causing both anger and apathy in these individuals with the same statement? Or is it that they react as individuals instead and it's really under none of your control?
More affordable education would be nice. Certainly not free for everyone, like Bernie proposed. Not everyone needs college and there are definitely some degrees that the state shouldn't pay for.

The arts are valuable and I'd love to have a country which could patronize the arts and artists. But we don't have that kind of money. Even if we did, there are other priorities for things we should be paying people to do.

In any case, the one argument for UBI I found somewhat convincing was that it could be cheaper than social security, unemployment, etc all combined, because there'd be less administrative cost.

I appreciate that some governments were willing to experiment.

Change can be good, but tests ought to be tried before large , even well-intentioned changes to massive systems.
there were plenty of people telling them it was a bad idea right from the start, but they didn't listen

Perhaps, but it seems to me that (most of?) these people were actually saying the "real names" policy was a bad idea.
This is a very interesting issue with sending your DNA to sites like 23andme. This means that a police officer can get a warrant to submit a DNA sample to the site, and get back anyone who matches. (Or in this case, their relatives.)

The reason I think it's particularly interesting is that it passes one of the basic tests I have for whether something should be searchable by law enforcement: Do they have a target in mind and a warrant to search for that target? For PRISM and the other things that Snowden warned us about, the answer was no: the government was doing dragnet surveillance of all sorts of data warehouses to find people who fit a profile, without knowing who they're looking for ahead of time. With this, they have to have a DNA sample found at a crime scene, and they're using that combined with a warrant to do a targeted search for people with matching DNA. It just happens to be a website that people send their DNA to, rather than a police database.

So I'm actually inclined to say I think this is ok? But I'm not 100% sure how I feel yet.

EDIT: ok it looks like this was done not necessarily with a warrant, but with the officer just submitting the DNA as if they're a customer of the site. But actually my point still stands if they changed their technique to instead use a warrant and ask the site directly, not hiding that they were police officers... it's just that in this case they didn't even need to because it's so easy to just send others' DNA samples to these sites? It really seems like the lack of a warrant was a technicality here and could have easily gone the other way and still got to the same result.
Posting those two links is interesting, because as far as I can tell, they're essentially contradictory.

The first says UBI is not necessarily that great, because it might not free people from working, whereas the second says it's not great, because people will no longer work!

These two passages are particularly striking:

Jacobin: "The kind of freedom from work (...) that an LBI envisions is, in all likelihood, not compatible with capitalism’s requirements of profitability."

DSA-LSC: "With UBI (...) one's status (...) as a worker is tentative and subject to elimination."
the problem is people talk about paying for it through income tax and not a wealth tax.

If you look at wealth distribution, you look at how to slice enough off the top end to cover the bottom end.
Depends on money velocity. Increased money velocity generally encourages inflation, and vice versa https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2014/september/wha...

Easy, right? Give people more money and money velocity will skyrocket.

Nope - in modern American society the acts of earning money and spending money are no longer coupled. (Which is partially why we didn't see massive consumer spending increases when the price of oil fell precipitously a few years back.)

Through credit cards and HELOCs American consumers can accumulate debt on their own schedule (and they frequently do https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/13/total-us-household-debt-soar...) and wind it down when new cash shows up on the horizon.

Which makes money velocity unpredictable, subject to consumers' general sentiment about the economy.
> Another way to predict which startups will succeed is to look at where your peers are going. Have several of the smartest people in your graduating class ended up at the same startup? That's probably a company worth investigating.

So which is the hot company these days where all the smart folks are going? Asking for a friend.
I've worked out the numbers and it is not impossibly expensive. First, you have to understand UBI is not intended to give someone a "comfortable lifestyle" without working. Rather, it's to give someone a "comfortable survival" without working. In other words food, roof and odd necessities.

In my figures I simply pegged the UBI to a part-time (20hrs) minimum wage job. When you subtract all the welfare programs that will be made unnecessary, the remaining cost is well within reach of relatively minor tax increases. (I am particularly partial to a usury tax).

One of the big problems that economists are overlooking with relation to automation of the job market is that excessive government regulation, along with antitrust-worthy corporate practice, has created a huge administrative/bureaucratic burden, and it is from this that most new jobs are being created. In other words, BS work.

Just look at how many administrative employees a doctors' office now has -- and we have to go to more and more specialists too. Meanwhile our actual quality of care has gone down, not up.

Another good example, which I recently learned about, it is against the law for a computer program to generate a medical diagnosis. Heaven forbid that we might not need as many doctors one day.

And the best example of all. The IRS is about to make it mandatory that you get your taxes done by a service provider (personal or by software). So what motivation does the government have tp simplify tax laws after that? None. Just keep making them more complex (so big companies can loophole) and in so doing create more BS jobs.
Still based on cost.

The housing itself costs more in the Bay area.

Rentals/housing in the Bay area (or other desirable locales) are supply constrained.

The only class of goods I can think of that are not based on underlying costs are monopolies.

And yes - it's unlikely that low income rentals will suddenly become supply constrained after UBI.
The new logo actually has its roots in the original logo designed by Renee French.

https://blog.golang.org/gopher/logo.png

Rene French also suggested they use the Gopher, he originally designed for a radio station promotion, as the mascot for the language.
I think they want to discourage people begging for answers, along the lines of ‘please help or I’ll get fired and my wife will leave me and my kids will starve.’

And to some people, saying ‘thanks’ before anyone has agreed to help sounds passive-aggressive. Like those notes in the workplace kitchen that feign gratitude for ordering you to do something.
From your trainwreck description of existence, I think you'd like the life of a yogi (and the required ability to stomach a bunch of pain while in mayurasana).

Checkout 'inner engineering' on audible.com,

also try a grounding mat
Not really. It learned to spew some plausibly-useful skeleton code out from a neural net. That may give you some idea of how to frame your app. It also may fail to compile. (It's trained on a corpus of Android apps. That's fine, but I don't have 100% confidence in a neural net's ability to produce 100% valid Java, even if it was trained on 100% valid Java.)
This is situation is often presented as a mutually exclusive choice which is shortsighted. Many people might want to do both and plan for that from the beginning.

So person A might want to take an electrician's ticket first so they then have a decent paying sideline while at university. Person B might want to study at University first for their own interests like art history for example, and then plan to take a trade's ticket later because the work environment of a trade is often better paid and much superior to the back biting office environment of many 'management' positions.
What makes Michelle special compared to all these amateur sleuths that thought they were going to solve the case but didn't?
One sells products to consumers and has a massive cloud platform.

One is a social networking application that makes its money selling ads.

They both employ a lot of software engineers and have big datacenters but it becomes increasingly less meaningful to bucket them together.
Huh? Machine learning and infrastructure Engineers, yes. Compiler and Hardware engineers? No. What gives you reason to believe they have a lead in either of those departments other than they have a lot of money? They're forced to use the same foundry as Nvidia, and their Hardware team is likely significantly smaller.
Everything is about impression and perception. For example, I have observed that people treat me more seriously when I dress better than with the typical "jeans+tshirt" combo.

Now, we can say this is superficial bullshit, but at the end of the day, the way you dress influence people's perception of you.

So in my opinion, Go's new branding give it a more "serious" image and perhaps people unfamiliar with the language will be more inclined to consider it.

Again, it's superficial bullshit, but it is what it is.
You wind up paying a lot more than $120 if you're getting 2-day shipping with all that.
Ben Thompson would probably call this integration by an aggregator (or of an aggregator).

he wrote this about Zillow going into buying real estate recently:

https://stratechery.com/2018/zillow-aggregation-and-integrat...

i’m not smart enough to look into Jack’s mind but I’d draw the value chain chart out for Square/Weebly and see if I can find some bigger trend.
What is this site? Have they any reputation? I ask because they say - somewhat illiterately:-

“While those factors may caution the public, many wonder if anyone reads what is often viewed as nothing but legalize”.

I assume they mean “legalese”.
`dnf install mysql` gives you MariaDB by default.
I often come across questions that are closed as being duplicates but are different in some important way that whoever closed it obviously doesn't understand.
Gnome is a cpu and memory hog even without any extensions. A simple opening of applications panel via the dock takes around 2-3 seconds on my XPS

Lxde/ Lubuntu is much more snappy and usable in my opinion