skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have yet to see any studies of UBI that focus on the Universal part. It should be going to rich and poor alike across a sufficient region to see how it works when people on UBI commingle. This is important because "fairness" in the system is often just about people being treated "the same". If the rich are receiving the same checks as everyone else its hard for them to complain about it.
I always wondered: if UBI was reality for everybody, wouldn’t then simply all prices go up by the UBI level and nothing changes after all?
Stop letting the data decide
My job takes me to Frankfurt and Brussels once or twice per year for four weeks at a time.

Every time I am inundated by queries from the local engineers and developers about how to get work either directly with for my employer or any other US company.

For the same level of skill and experience I'm paid more than double the typical EU engineer and the cost of living (including health care and retirement planning!!!) is much lower where I live.

On top of all of that, I'm 49.5% moron. Most of the guys I work with here in the US and in the EU are much better than I am. The only reason I go on these trips is because nobody else wants to be away from home for a month.

So I just shrug, say "I don't know man", take their business cards and resumes and forward them to HR where I assume nothing happens.

edit: and my understanding is that Frankfurt is a relatively high-wage area.
not my monitor! having an adjustable arm nets a little extra real estate in addition to being able to position it however u want.

and sticky notes. lots of sticky notes.
Thank you for that link. Gaia's README assumes readers are familiar with what they mean by 'pipeline' but, because I'd never seen the word used in this way, I was scratching my head wondering whether they were talking about stages of data processing or similar.
Please. They knowingly sold harmful products and paid tons of money to miseducated the public about the harms. They are 100% liable.
Logging. You forgot to mention good logging practices. It is like predicting what information will be needed if you ever need to troubleshoot a piece of code.
Giving away cash won't make people lazy; rather, it will motivate them to maximize their take of the action, while minimizing someone else's. Scores of people claiming to be poor will suddenly appear out of nowhere, with outstretched empty hands.
fair enough, i'll update the copy now.
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Where are you studying? I have seen many schools use AWS as part of the curriculum. Also you should have classes in distributed systems, chances for independent study, etc.

The scary thing is that the industry will change significantly in the next two years, so the CS department wants to teach you something that is as timeless as possible.
I've always looked at UBI from that angle.

In order to fund it you essentially take the first $X from ALL of the other equivalent services.

IMO this would gut programs like Social Security enough that they could actually be reformed. Right now if you talk about reforming any of them, scare politics are used because it's a singular threat to a person's livelyhood. If you look at your monthly check and see $800 from UBI and $200 from Social Security, all of a sudden that gets a lot less scary.
No, more like a social security system separate for the artist "class". If you manage to declare yourself as an artist, they pay a substantial part of your health insurance, social security, etc... All funded by us, poor feeble minded workers with no creative bone in our bodies, to support 20-somethings and eternal Peter Pans who can't keep a job.
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> 100% agree. It's all about the money.

Is it really worth to invest so much money into "marketing" and "lobbying" the skill shortage instead of simply increasing the salaries to make the job more attractive? Just wondering...
We could also review prior experiments.

1970s MINCOME experiment. Dauphin, Manitoba Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome

Briefly: Adults continued to work, excepting mothers with newborns. Public health improved. Higher graduation rates. Welfare related stigma reduced.

TL;DR: Many benefits, positive ROI, no discernible downside.

Adopting UBI really is a no brainer.
ARM did an incredible job in that puff piece legitimizing RISC-V.
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Prices for what? How would anybody coordinate this?
Oh, hey, wait, let's not forget the daily standup rituals of agile scrum behavior modification.

Every day, justify your existence. Every day, beat that same dead horse. Every day, grab your coffee, sound off, and then listen to 20 other people bark at the empty air under their nose to show their devotion to a product that has the slimmest utility, and is coated in slippery, greasy dark patterns intended to screw the users that UX/UI supposedly cares so much about.
I’m curious how you got to your examples. Will upvote an honest answer. The ii is used for y, long i, and short i, and I don’t understand any of the vs, or why they would be obvious in these combinations, doesn’t v only make one sound in English?
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Can you recommend any good books on the subject?
Calling it a myth implies that there is adequate evidence to refute it.

By your reasoning we could also be talking about the Giving-Free-Cash-To-The-Poor-Will-Make-Them-Productive myth.
The alternative from the US perspective:

- About $20k/y to provide health for a family, regardless of income. Median wage is barely double that amount. So most people in that situation forego health coverage (or pick the cheapest catastrophic-only coverage they can afford, and then are on the hook financially for any health issue).

- Still have 33% income tax

- Retirement: it's entirely up to you to save. Good luck! (rule of thumb is 15-20% of income)

- Child care: $12-24k/year/infant should your spouse have to work.

- College education: similar figures, maybe less with some assistance programs, maybe more if children go to prestigious schools. Or you can punt the bill to them and have them be on the hook for a loan.

- Oh, and nursing home for the elderly is about $30k/year so better get that retirement fund full of money. Though it's an undue burden to place on someone else, the traditional view is that having children can help reduce that cost.

In short, the US' system is not optimized for the median citizen ($59k in 2016), it's optimized for those who are in the 75th percentile or above.
Most health insurances will give you benefits for staying healthy (e.g. visiting the gym or a nutritionist). Visiting the dentist at least once a year will also give you a benefit. There might be other stuff I can't think of right now.

So income isn't the sole metric which determines the pay.
This seems like it's begging for a test case to strike this down on humanitarian grounds. I can't imagine any western judge of any serious level (possibly some county judge in West Texas or something) would take seriously the claim that this wasn't a violation of basic human rights (in US terms, the 14th amendment, though I assume similar principles apply elsewhere), and that such contracts were unenforceable. IANAL and I'm certainly not a limey lawyer, but our notions of justice on both sides of the pond share a lot of DNA.
I have tests which verify DNA analysis. The test data vectors are large -- a few hundred MB here, a couple GB there. The hundreds of tests that use these test vectors still run in a few seconds.

If you're using a tape drive or SD cards, sure. But even a 10 year old 5400RPM on an IDE connection should be able to satisfy your tests' requirements in a few seconds or less.

I suspect your tests are just as monolithic as you think microservices shouldn't be. Break them down into smaller pieces. If it's hard to do that, then redesign your software to be more easily testable. Learn when and how to provide static data with abstractions that don't let your software know that the data is static. Or, if you're too busy, then hire a dedicated test engineer. No, not the manual testing kind of engineer. The kind of engineer who actually writes tests all day, has written thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of individual tests during their career. And listen to them about any sort of design decisions.
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That is incorrect. Here you can see that the US CPI-U includes shelter which is running at 3.5% inflation https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.htm
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Not only does it not make me a hypocrite, being a hypocrite has no bearing on the substance of the argument. Questioning motives is perfectly valid, especially when there is a preponderance of evidence to substantiate that question. Appeal to motive is a fallacy because it has no effect on any statements made, so you're definitely confused on that front.

But when you present contrived scenarios to make a point (i.e., lying), your motive can and certainly should be questioned. Unless you're going to argue with most western court systems about the validity of doing that.

What were you honestly hoping to achieve with such a pathetic and ill-thought-out response?
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> Consumers need to be educated from an early age on how to identify legitimate sources of information. That is becoming more apparent every single day.

Absolutely right. And a huge part of that involves rooting out those who publish misinformation and pay money to get that misinformation published in what is otherwise a reliable outlet for information. Like in the case of tobacco.
So dark energy is just a myth?
How is it possible to be a third generation welfare recipient? Doesn't unemployment run out after 2-3 years?
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Does the Alaska dividend count? As far as I know, everyone domiciled in the state gets the same check.
We've already asked you to please not post generic inflammatory comments here. If you keep going we'll ban the account, so please stop?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Small business guy here. When abusive employment practices give you a competitive advantage and nothing stops you from doing them, you can indeed go and be virtuous and make less money for yourself and your business and lose all day long.

At the scale of publically held companies, your bossy evilness is virtue signalling that tells the market that you are viable in the era of Uber and Amazon. Right now, as things stand, wrecking things and your own employees is expected and you will get no support and no investment from breaking ranks. That's just how it is.

In my field, I ended up just flipping the table and switching to Patreon so I could dump free competitive product and better serve my own userbase. My income got literally decimated by this decision but has rebounded to about a third or half of what it would have been, but I'm totally exempt from having to behave like a vulture: it suits my market positioning quite well, though if I was a really serious threat to the market leaders in my sector, I'm pretty sure they would come up with a way to sabotage me. That's also why I MIT license: I can funnel good stuff to poor musicians if I also let already-rich people steal it in exchange for only publicity. The alternate is they steal it anyway but with no publicity, or simply try to wreck my operation so there's less competition.

The narrative of the evil capitalist overlord persists for good reason: in the absence of a working society it's down to power and power alone, and only winning and getting the most capital allows you to continue to win and get more capital. It's a feedback loop and there's no reason 'salaries would improve' barring outside interference, which is less likely by the year.

Go ahead and do your thought experiment, but it doesn't map to the real world of 2018. To survive you've got to think more disruptively: your axioms here are pretty naive. For instance, what is actually important: your clients being happy, or your clients paying more money?
Saving never really makes you happy, it makes you feel secure. Seeing a number in an account rise over the years is great, but also a constant reminder of money you’ll never get to touch until you are old and gray, if you even make it that far. And even if you do, what if the world of the future is no longer worth exploring or even living in?

Is it more important for people to feel happy, or secure?
Would you pay $100 for one time advice for your startup?
It’s helpful to get feedback and advice for your startup to help bypass blind-spots, open up the mind etc. Which is why mentor hours are also popular.

Quora and other discussion forums are fine for generic advice, but less helpful for advice specific to your scenario.

So would you pay $100 for a one-time (somewhat detailed) answer to your problem/ question? Assuming it came from experienced entrepreneurs (10+ years exp).
If someone's taxes go up $1000 and they get a $250 UBI check for it, that person could definitely complain.
I'm pretty sure that GM have been doing their own battery pack testing, R&D and integration for quite some time now, even partnering with a local university to train people on this. The main component they outsource which Tesla develop in-house is the motor and its controller, and that's obviously pretty vehicle-specific.
Agreed, though I think it's even more a disincentive to pay yourself more than 100K, even if you're mostly on dividends, once you've already seen ~20% come off for corporation tax.

For third parties unfamiliar with the setup, to pay yourself those dividends that take you from £100k to £110k, you need to take £12500 of biz profit, then £2500 goes to corporation tax, then £6000 to the taxman in personal taxes, leaving you with £4000 from that initial £12500 profit(!) which "feels" like a 68% tax to, say, a contractor in that situation (note: I am not a contractor).
which would appear to be a violation of their terms:

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* you own the rights to,

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* constitutes fair use, or

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I agree with the author that a debugger is a poor fit for many systems. However, debugging is essential, and I think debugging by checking logs works very well in many cases (provided that the logging is good). Some of the advantages (over debuggers):

- Anybody can look at the logs, not just developers.

- The logs show the sequence of events, not just a snapshot.

- Feasible to do in a live system.

https://henrikwarne.com/2014/01/01/finding-bugs-debugger-ver...
Anyone earning over €60k in Germany can opt for private health insurance.
What kind of dimensions do you get from the tiled downloads? I grabbed a few of the 'large' JPGs the site offers and wonder how much of a difference there is.
You mean the properties they now own for a decade? Those that are fully developed and barely require maintenance? The same properties that are fully insured even against natural disasters that obliterate them to their foundations?

Yeah, let's compensate them for being insured and at the worst case scenario lose 500 euros a month every now and then when a shadier employee comes around and leaves quickly. Poor them. Whatever will they do, 1 million euros a year can barely get your ends meet!
That's what markets are for.

The joke at Google is that if we get a company-wide raise, Mountain View landlords are the ones who celebrate.
R&D from EU, China, Japan and India are not going to result open source microarchitectures. Government supports basic R&D but the end product will be commercial closed source IP and patented.
> I feel like I'm forced to pay into a black hole with no accountability.

Why exactly is it a black hole? Doctors need to be paid, too.
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Price is (primarily) a monetary phenomenon. If you print money to pay for UBI (or anything else), prices go up. If you raise taxes to pay for UBI, prices don't go up. That's in aggregate; there will be a little bit of movement on the margin -- the price of caviar might go down. But rent & food shouldn't move much -- 99.9% of people in the US already have a place to live and enough to eat.
I am quite interested in UBI and look forward to seeing more empirical data on the various experiments being conducted.

Having said that, the "danger" of UBI is that it's a big, fat slogan that can mean damned-near anything -- and there are a ton of people who both support and oppose it because of the way the idea makes them feel. That makes for a terrible environment for productive public discourse.

The only half-ass real world data I know about is the independently wealthy. They get money every month and don't have to work. In general, people who become that way suddenly ruin their lives. And the numbers probably aren't so good for those who earn it and then stop to enjoy it.

This example sucks, however, as the goal of UBI (as far as I know) isn't to replace all income. It's to cover the basic needs of people so they can be free to study, improve their lives, and not have to spend all of their energy in the day-to-day struggle of existence. I have no idea how it will play out in that scenario, and I suspect that the long-term effects will be much more pronounced than the short-term ones. This will be, after all, a major culture shift.

I like the idea. I just don't know enough about it -- and it doesn't have enough definition -- for me to support the idea.
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Does this work seamless with other web extensions ? As a webextension developer i do not know how those tabs will be handled. I do not see any benefits using this.
Even if you don't abolish these, you could at least cap the total contribution (and even lift the annual contribution limit). A cap of $1.0 million per individual would allow for a safe withdrawal rate of approx. $40k / year (social security income would provide a further boost to that). You could move the cap higher or lower as you see fit.

There are over 150,000 individuals w/ a 401k balance over $1.0 million; there is little social benefit in providing millionaires with even more in a tax advantaged savings.

https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/retirement/retireme...
Makes sense. Thanks for clarifying the difference.
Without hesitation, yes.
Agreed. Classic case of cargo-cult.
The problem is often people who work, work hard and importantly pay taxes, don't have the time for this recreation.

So you can say that " All of us deserve to have fun once in a while, regardless of socioeconomic status." But for someone who is working too hard to take the time to have fun, this rings kinda hollow. And I can bet it stings a bit to have your taxes going towards paying for someone to do the things you don't have time to do yourself.

I went through a stint of working in cafe's recently, and one always had a group of people who would turn up after leaving the job centre (you have to go here to qualify for benefit money) in the early afternoon, and would just basically hang out. Frankly I had to fight the jealousy, I wish I could spend every afternoon hanging out with my friends. I had to remind myself how much it sucks to be unemployed, and how nice I have it. I can imagine this could seem unfair to someone in a more stressful position.
Packets are data. Not explosives. Not dangerous chemicals.

Packets may even be encrypted. And increasingly, they are.
That particular check amount depends on how long you've lived there.
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Said with less vitriol:

It's not just code coverage that matters. It's the code path selection that matters. If you have a ton of branches and you've evaluated all of them once then yeah you sure might have 100% "coverage". But you have 0% path selection coverage since a single invokation of your API might choose true branch on one statement, false branch on another statement, and a second invokation might choose false branch on the first and true on the second.

While the code was 100% tested, the scenarios were not. What happens if you have true/true or false/false? That's not tested.

There's a term for this but I forgot what it is and don't care to go spelunking to find it.
Met a Indian in Sweden who was exploited in exactly that way. He made 27k while the market rate for a native with his skills would have been 40k at least. He got fed up with the bullshit and is now working on his PhD at a top university.
Please tell me how I can reduce my TK payment by showing them my gym membership, and I will be very grateful. No sarcasm here.

Also, as far as I know there is no benefit in going to the dentist, except as "We pay one dental check-up and one clean-up for year, more than that comes out of your pocket". That is at least what I was told when I went to the dentist.
I think that, while this might work, the approach to managing state and writing the tests is not ideal.
For one, your tests should be fast (ie you should be able to rerun them with almost 0 time penalty and see the results instantly).
Second, if it’s easier to stop the flow and look at the state / modify the state than looking at what the state should be via the test setup it’s possible that the abstractions you’re using are not quite right and/or the code is tightly coupled.
Well, I guess, this may be good. If a lot of dollars seek few resources, and resources pool does not increase much, you get unbounded price increase.

Which is not good. Developer have to do something productive for economy. Their wages should be bound to value they produce. If they are consistently paid more then they are producing, whole sector is heading into collapse.

In healthy job market, job ads are going to attract employee with salary based on value that employee is going to produce. Failure to attract her does not mean someone is irrational or wages are low. It just means there is a lot of low-value work for developers in this world. Someone will notice that and maybe innovate those jobs away or something.
Well, you repeatedly assert that he was acting in good faith, but on what grounds? I think the article Gizmodo put out on the subject is good. https://gizmodo.com/is-elon-musk-serious-1827456578
Can you let me know what part is not working for you? Does the entire site not load?
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A debugger that doesn't support those three things is just a lousy debugger.
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From the article:

However, some have argued these drops may be artificially low because participants knew the guaranteed income was temporary.[6] This represents an important limitation to the knowledge of the impact of a guaranteed annual income; little is known about the long term effects on willingness to work.
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Sure. I'd venture to say that integration tests should be fewer than unit tests, see hexagonal etc. Hopefully those external interfaces are also more stable, so they don't need to be run as often.

I tend to use my integration tests also as characterization tests that verify the simulator/test-double I use for any external systems within my unit tests.

See also: the testing pyramid[1] and "integrated tests are a scam"[2], which is a tad click-bait, but actually quite good.

[1] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDfX44fZoMc