skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an employed person making 100k, if given UBI I would quit and not do anything productive-to-society for most of the rest of my life. So yes, that is a legitimate argument. The counter-argument is that the benefit coming from more people pursuing entrepreneurial/risk-taking/passion-driven endeavors will OUTWEIGH the lazy fucks like me.
I thought that for a good writer, that was actually terribly written. An author intoxicated by the ebullience of his own verbosity.
It'll help with re-sale (still 22 years to go!) - one likely outcome before you kick it.
> all the interesting keywords are already very popular method names for other forms of pattern matching

When I first read that, I thought he meant run-time lookups of overloaded method names, which is a form of pattern matching on parameter lists.
Some of my most productive moments have been when I'm following my own whimsy, instead of responding to economic pressure. I can only imagine this effect, scaled up, would be a net benefit for society.
Everyone has thought that automation would eliminate the jobs for a hundred years. In a way it has come true as some jobs that existed before no longer exist, but so far other jobs have been created to take their place. Nobody really knows when or if that will stop.
This is seemingly exactly what Finland is doing according to the article. Finland is trialling this approach with on a small subset of eligible people (n = ~ 2000) to assess the effects and allow feedback, etc.
The FAA did ground the 737 Max.
This. From what I understand, raising taxes goes over better most places than in America. It's also worth pointing out that Norway, a country with an incredibly generous entitlement program, funds a huge amount of it via oil production.
And will that network include undersea cabling, satellites, or some equivalent means of global connection? I doubt it: these are all extraordinarily expensive. Even the cheapest approach imaginable - say, a series of network repeaters on rafts - is still quite expensive, not to mention incredibly brittle.

I'm all for distributed networks, local meshes, and other initiatives to reduce network hardware centralization. That said, these are not perfect substitutes for a global network. For instance: I'm based in Canada, and my work currently deals with digital service deployment in government. As part of that work, I occasionally need to refer to the UK's Government Digital Service (GDS) website. No amount of local network infrastructure can help me do that: I rely on the trans-Atlantic cables to access this.

Now, you could imagine mirroring the GDS website across a number of these local distributed networks, forming what is in essence a CDN under distributed ownership. That might help me right now, but: in a network monopoly world, how would you mirror content on an ongoing basis in the first place? Who would maintain such a mirror? How would you pay for the immense storage requirements? (Or, failing that, how would you decide which corner of the Internet to mirror?)
In the end it all comes down to reviewing code you have to trust. It's just that it's too much for most code, so there has to be something that makes potentially insecure code explicit and dealt with on use and the rest of the code usable without having to trust it.
Are you doing "download" vs "send to PC"? These result in different formats.
The fact that the proponents of UBI pretend to be content with "free money made people happier" is probably a sign that the experiment did not go as expected. Regardless, i think the bigger question here is how would UBI prevented the negative effects of the allegedly impeding large-scale unemployment. How did recipients use their time apart from seeking work. How were their relationships to the rest of society and vice versa? Does UBI result in 2 classes of people instead of a spectrum? What were their spending habits and are they conductive to a functioning economy?
What, exactly, are these risks you talk about? How do those risks compare to the risks of loose moderation on social networks (bullying, radicalisation, etc)?
DRM always restricts the paying customer. With DVDs they got the unskippable piracy warnings, while people who downloaded the ripped version wouldn't see it ...

The hope publishers have is that it slows distribution a bit and they use it as attempt to manipulate people to allow stronger punishment of infringers.
> Then what is there left to work for?

Mamy people find work fulfilling, or enjoy being challenged. There is charity work too, where you can work towards the benefit of others less fortunate than yourself.

Also, keep in mind that UBI is meant to be just that - a basic income; nobody is going to be living the life of Riley on UBI. People are human, and inevitably want better, or more - and working, or starting a business (which I expect we'd see more of) is a means to that end.
A huge amount of effort in society is wasted in pointless competition simply because people need income. Imagine 2 farmers selling melons, each with 50% market share. One discovers if she hires a social media marketer she can get to 70% market share. The other farmer now must respond by hiring their own marketing people. These two marketers are both very happy to be employed, but overall we would have been better just giving them free melons and letting them work on something they are truly passionate about.
I don't necessarily agree with this.

> most just watch TV and wait to die
This may be true of older people who feel they may have already lived a full life, and it might be too late to start anything new. What about people who reach financial safety very early, and can afford to experiment and experience a lot more?

There's still perks to a job. It's Universal Basic Income, aka (IMO), basic compassion. You shouldn't be able to starve to death, but if you want a Mercedes and a nice house in the city, you're going to have to work for it, one way or another.
I like this comment and the two replies. It shows the two sides of the coin. When I came up with this idea initially in 2003, I was the kind of person who would use this service. Nowadays I'm more in line with your thinking. But I don't see myself as "more mature" nowadays, just different. Especially since I flip flop on so many things throughout life, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point I turn back into the kind of person who would use the service. Neither kind of person is "wrong" or immature IMO, just different.
alright, then why it is not voluntary? the people who would want to share with others are free to do so.

why use violence? why put in jail people who refuse to be robbed?
But aren't all electronics just converting 99% of electricity to heat?
Electronics don't just consume electricity by themselves -- they convert it to heat/light or noise.
That's not what the articled alleged but yes, certainly it could be a reason. I can't recall was the extra income on top of the already existing one but certainly getting free extra money must feel better than without. The conclusion that the article made, that the simplification of the process and reduction of the extra bureaucracy makes you more content, doesn't seem highly implausible either. I certainly would enjoy it and I think it's more humane. If it would cost the government the same amount I think basic income would be better than the current system. But it's never that easy to estimate.
I didn't claim it's an enthusiastic one. My claim is that all the sudden "privacy-is-not-enough" arguments make it seem like some breach happened without our agreement. To use your words, it's almost as if they're complaining about airport security/searches because we were never very explicitly warned about it.

If we don't do security checks or don't agree to some ToS, we'll be left out (of flights or online services). How many people would do that in exchange for 'ownership'?

Also, if you go to a bakery for couple months buying the same bread. Would you sue the bakery if the seller automatically knew what you're going to get, after two months of transactions, and wrapped your favorite bread for you with a smile (not the Amazon smile)? Is that also data you should own and encrypt?

Does your physician need your consent on every visit to unlock your health information in his brain and be able to follow up?

Imagine that this comment I'm writing here is locked into my very own encrypted vault and HN needs my consent every time someone wants to read it (although I used HN to write it!). I cannot imagine how would the discourse evolve this way.

So justifying 'ownership' as the future solution using invalid argumentation by analogy isn't solid. A more solid approach is to actually build products with well-enforced privacy and transparency rather than just theorize about it. Or even build and experiment with the 'ownership' proposition and see how would that play out.
No-no, I mean if generating code is in a separate Python file, then I can debug it with pdb, I can profile it with cProfile, I can run Pylint on it, - all the standard tools.

I like the idea of everything sharing the same file, too, but it does make working with Python part a bit more difficult.

Also, with keeping it separate, the "every language" part comes up. It doesn't have to by Python if it's a separate code generator. Whatever suits you will work. You can generate code for C in C++. Or assembly in Common Lisp. Everything in anything.
People already could just be unemployed and live on state aid in Finland. Not all of them do. In a way the nordic wellfare state itself can be held as a prototype for a nation wide UBI since people are not forced to work out of fear of starvation (in the general context - I know people can live still in poverty and misery in these systems).
Not necessarily. I view the advertising industry as a net loss to society, yet the amount of revenue is immense and the salaries of the people working there are equally large.
Why?

If Australians are legally obliged to implement back-doors on behalf of the Australian government and not mention it to their employer, why would any of these tech companies want you?

You'd be a massive security liability to them.
I live in Seattle. There’s a sizable portion of society here who would love to stay home, smoke weed and play XBox. I’m not inclined to pay more taxes for them to do so.
there's a difference between "non-economically viable" and "not useful". i have no problems with people losing interest in doing stuff that current market values because current market values turning people into zombies that occasionally are happy to go murder each other.

art, volunteering, social programs and plenty other activities are way more useful for civilization as a whole than almost any random job on the market. as soon as businesses start losing workers as they realize they don't need to do shitty unimportant stuff just to put bread on a table - market will finally put the right price on lots of these jobs and start paying for it adequately.
> That's not what the articled alleged

It's literally the headline of the article.
I am one of those people. If in fact the stab trim cutout switches were set to cutout early in the incident sequence, as required by the memory items on the checklist, I will absolutely retract my criticism of the crew and the blame falls much more squarely/exclusively on Boeing.

I’ll make it a point to retract and apologize on all three forums where I made those comments (two tech and one aviation).

I don’t read the minister’s comments today as unequivocally stating that.
Beto O'Rourke was a teenage member of hacking group Cult of the Dead CoW
The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a Runner
It did in past, it doesn't mean it still works. Sometimes, networks can bring more damage than help because of individual instabilities (e.g. snowflakes). For all the reasons, it looks harder to have a healthy network as people used to have 20 years ago, imho.
I have no idea where you got that figure. GSO birds do can ~1Tbps already (EDIT: Viasat’s birds, for instance: https://corpblog.viasat.com/viasats-global-satellite-constel...). LEO is a factor of 50-100 closer. Inverse square law and all that means for the same aperture and power, you can get far better bandwidth.
I believe there is a psychological aspect as well. Work is socially useful, gives a sense of purpose, of accomplishment. Sure, some won't mind being paid minimum salary staying at home doing nothing (and even feel entitled). But I expect many to become depressed and feel resentful.
I like this definition of who is in your network that I came across years ago. Someone is in your network if they can recognize you if they see you in person (name tags do not count), know what you were last working on, and you had some contact with them in the last three months.

We may argue that having someone recognize you in person is not a hard requirement in this age.
Thank god, else we wouldn't have Python but another ML or Lisp variant that nobody (statistically speaking) uses...
There’s a lot of mixed reviews of New Mexico in this thread. I would encourage people to go. If you are a fan of the outdoors of Utah and Colorado, archaeology, and can appreciate the food, I’d highly recommend a road trip. The Gila Wilderness, White Sands, Lincoln National forest, Albuquerque, the various Pueblos, Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, Valles Caldera, Abiquiu, Taos, Santa Fe, Santa Fe National Forest (east part, north of Pecos) are all wonderful places to visit for a day, or more in the case of the forests if you want to camp and hike. I personally haven’t been to Carlsbad Caverns, but it’s probably worth it too, though out of the way.

Even better is to do a giant road trip circuit between the northern parts of New Mexico abd Arizona, and southern parts of Utah and Colorado. You can also easily hit San Juan National
Forest/Mesa Verde and Durango, Moab and Arches/Canyonlands/Capitol Reef, Escalante, Zion, and the Grand Canyon without too much driving between them all.
Nabokov wrote and read English before Russian.
My skills are now very bounded to building interfaces for consumption, not critical thought. In fact, the choices I make for developing interfaces usually revolve around the user being some level of drunk.

My senior thesis was a receipt printer that wireshark'd instant messenger messages on our school's unsecured wifi and dumped those messages into a pile.
The problem is whole I'd like to think they would, I think people will gradually get lazier as they get used to it. Most people do the minimum required now; what makes everyone think they will keep that same level of productivity arbitrarily when it's not the minimum liveable?
I'm extremely critical with Boeing's responses in general and the smearing and throwing pilots and airlines under the bus.

But in that case they had a point.

Seniority is super important in Asian culture. You just! don't! criticize! your! superiors! period.

That's extremely diametral for resources management and crew communication in a cockpit.

The first officer may tend to say nothing, even if he believes the plane should pull up in order not to offend the senior person.

That said, Asian airlines learned from this and put a lot of effort to rectify this issue.

That's absolutely no excuse for Boeing's despicable behavior on those last two crashes.
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What a vacuous statement.
Mental illness is a tragic thing, but taking away Facebook won't solve it. Mentally ill people are distressed by many kinds of social interaction; would you suggest banning them all?

The person in question doesn't have many friends, and spends hours going down rabbit holes on FB and YouTube. He expresses some extreme views for someone at the stage of life he's in, that mirror the opinions he sees on Facebook, and he repeatedly makes borderline violent threats. He lacks the nous to understand the difference between trolling and genuine comment. He isn't distressed by Facebook as much as he is emboldened by what he sees as a like-minded community. If Facebook didn't exist, he wouldn't seek such information out, since he isn't a particularly active consumer of information. It seems to encourage craziness, as someone else here pointed out, by allowing people who would otherwise be isolated from each other to congregate and reinforce extreme views.

What other issues exactly? Trump being elected? Not everybody considers than an issue, e.g. the people who voted for him, and it's certainly not settled science that he wouldn't have been elected without it. Obama also made heavy use of social media in his election campaign; maybe he wouldn't have been elected without it.

No, I was referring to the links between social media and depression. But you can add to the list FB leaking personal information to political campaigns.
Thanks for the clarification.

I'm having a hard time understanding why the person filming it makes a difference, if the goal is to gain attention and spread a message of hate / fear. This legislation, and the recent media focus on the video rather than the actual act itself, makes me uneasy.
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Avionics software that has direct impact on the handling of a passenger flight should be globally mandated to be guaranteed faultless. There should be direct liability to the software engineering team. I know Boeing's software wasn't written in the USA, and was outsourced to the lowest bidder that met some on-paper requirements.

If you think this is outlandish, read "They Write The Right Stuff" https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

It can be done, but it is simply expensive. Boeing should hang for this.
It may not be obvious, but you could use Thoughter for this right now! The UI/UX isn't totally there yet, but you could simply send off let's say 10 thoughts to your SO about something really intimate like sexual preferences, and see what your SO matches. Search for `#wellLetsLeaveItAtThat` on the page.

When I say UI/UX isn't there, I mean this needs an app, or at least sign in sessions, so you don't have to confirm your email every time and such.
Since the economic crises of 2008, central banks have been desperate to induce some positive inflation. "Helicopter Ben" even said he would drive around in a helicopter and drop pallets of cash out of it, before he allowed deflation to take hold (the only way out of their debt crises, is to inflate it away).

Its no wonder that the PTB are now pushing for helicopter money across the debt-laden west, its the last tool they have. Sad its the poor who must suffer.
I had no idea. Cool!
Are you measuring a persons worth based on their income?
You can't have a UBI without massive taxation. Massive taxation increases the risk of doing business. The higher the risks, the less entrepreneurship a country will see.
Word. I very much miss a serious ethical discussion in the tech crowd that I see myself as part of, being a developer. I think we should admit that we are part of a technocracy. If you know the tech you may pull any stunt off, even when you're a big company. The people that need question our actions are not likely to understand the problem.

To cut short to my conclusion: We should be more humble about our less tech educated users and act accordingly.
Probably not. One of the most fundamental and vexing problems of macro-economics is that individial effects often don't aggregate to the larger system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregation_problem

Just consider the simplest thought experiment: levy a one-off extra tax of $0.01 on every tax payer and credit some random poor person. This is almost certainly a strict Pareto improvement, but it clearly doesn't scale.
I very much like your analogy. Competition has its advantages, but it can oftentimes be a destructive force. The entire marketing/advertising industry is enormous and yet nothing of value is being produced. Instead, apps and platforms feel the need to become ever more addictive and receive ever more of our attention share, just because then they can place more ads in front of our eyeballs. Ads that contribute nothing to society except distract and annoy.
I've seen people with substantial IT skills who simply have destructive instincts. This one guy I know was hyperactive and made clearings in forested areas to hang out in with his spare time.
If your watermarked version appears online it is an indication that you might have uploaded (or not properly protected) it. This might not be enough to prove this in a court, but enough for the publisher's lawyers to annoy you.

But hardly any uploader would keep watermarks in, which makes them more of a way for faithful users to not give the book I.e. to friends since there is a visible reminder about being your personal copy.
When this eBook store closes, your books disappear too
Yes, but currently you must be unemployed to get most aids. These aids may be as much as your monthly pay at work. If you end up unemployed, it makes sense to stay so for a while. With basic income it would get continuous and unconditional, albeit less in amount. Finland has quite complex welfare system and basic income would make it simpler and avoid people gaming the system to optimize aids instead of focusing on getting employed.
I'm assuming you'd also downgrade your lifestyle from a 100k/yr to the median individual income or less? (Not being snarky, genuinely curious as to your thought process regarding quitting 100k/yr income because you can survive off 25-30k/yr or something)
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Yeah, it's not literally really about everything (e.g. taking a shit) being political, it's about how all kinds of stances are political (even a stance like "I don't care about politics, I focus on my own personal stuff" has political implications).
From the AD issued after the Lion Air accident:

Additionally, pilots are reminded that an erroneous AoA can cause some or all of the following indications and effects:

- Continuous or intermittent stick shaker on the affected side only.

- Minimum speed bar (red and black) on the affected side only.

- Inability to engage autopilot.

- Automatic disengagement of autopilot
- IAS DISAGREE alert.

- ALT DISAGREE alter.

- AOA DISAGREE alert (if the AOA indication option is installed)

- FEEL DIFF PRESS light
>I’m sorry, but “getting free money makes people happy” isn’t exactly a shocking result is it?

It's kind of significant, yeah. As a general rule, people on income support in Australia and the UK tend to be harassed, stressed and moderately unhappy people despite the free money.

There's a lot of evidence from looking at lottery winners and people with significant disabilities that suggests that people have some base level of happiness they trend towards.

Happy fun people who have catastrophic accidents and end up paraplegics are really unhappy for about 6 months and then start rolling with it and end up being happy fun people who make light of their situation and enjoy life despite the wheelchair.

Debbie downers who win the lottery are super-happy for about 6 months and then become rich unhappy people.

A persistent long term increase in net happiness is a notable result. Maybe not earth-shattering, but certainly not necessarily to be expected either.
Zuck should just pull out of Australia and cease all operations there. Not like it's a big market anyway
The bad AoA probe can cause IAS disagree, according to the FAA Emergency Airworthyness Directive:

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf/...

Take a look at the graphs from the LionAir crash:

http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/lionair.png

You can see that both airspeed and altitude misread, in addition to AoA. If I understand correctly, the AoA is used by the ADIRU to correct misreading of the static pressure measured by the pitot-static tubes at high angles of attack. Thus one bad AoA probe can cause lots of symptoms simultaneously.