skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We seem to be failing to cooperate at scale to phase out carbon intensive energy sources and curtail the problem. The next test will be whether we will cooperate at scale to adapt to the change or descend into war and genocide.

If a disastrous climate change scenario does unfold it could be true that large farming regions will be devastated, etc., but those people will not just sit and die. They will try to migrate. They may also engage in aggressive warfare themselves, "raiding" as we call it among our closest genetic relatives. Most deaths will be from war and genocide, not starvation.

If this coincides with a true abandonment of liberal humanistic attitudes in advanced nations I could definitely see the top ~10% of humanity dispatching the other 90% in an organized fashion. Any members of the elite who voiced opposition would join the condemned.

Smaller more isolated versions of that have happened before. Never before have humans had the power to scale it.

BTW I think that's why people are so spooked by the Nazi holocaust vs what Stalin and Mao and many others did. The Nazi body count was not the highest, but the chilling thing is how they applied modern industrial and management practices to deliberate murder at scale. I suspect it's so chilling because of it hints at dark possible future scenarios. Imagine Hitler and the SS with China's surveillance state and CRISPR-CAS9.
I have to reset approximately one money related password every two years. Usually it takes a trip to a bank and might cost five euros. I think that's not unreasonable, but I'd love a system I could trust with everything I own.
It’d be pretty bad if omnicidal supervillains decided to kill everyone, yeah. It’d be especially bad if all the powerful people in the world simultaneously decided to become supervillains. But I mean... why would they?
Except the UI stuff they push out is utter crap. It's slowly improving, but I if I understand the industry correctly the efforts that are leading to that started many years ago.

Meanwhile when Tesla releases a bug they can ship a fix within days.

Why arbitrarily limit your development like that? To make some money off your customer being forced to go to the dealer to get an update? That's just terrible UX.
Article says:

> They can’t organize labor strikes if they have no labor.

The idea of UBI isn’t to make it so that the masses never work again. The idea is so they don’t starve and die when between jobs. It’s to give people a real chance to live their lives while training or retooling. Money gives people choices and options. Today’s lack of choices for people at the lowest levels of income amounts to slavery.

Low income people can and will still work under a UBI system. So I’m not sure the article’s central thesis makes sense.
The article uses three different apps to determine if it's OK to fly a drone in a particular area. When all three said he was good he then did extensive google searches to find things as random as press releases where someone is quoted as saying no drones allowed.

If you used this level of due diligence on whether it's permissible to do anything, you'd find you're allowed to do nothing.
How do those two accomplish the same ends? UBI gives money, a tax takes money.

Even if the wealth tax could go negative at low income levels, it doesn't seem obvious that this would _augment_ UBI.
Online is better than not having a backup, so for your hypothetical mom it is probably a good idea (unless you manage their backups).

I would generally trust them to want to do the right thing, but software vulnerabilities or crypto bugs (weak IV initialization or so) are reasons to not do this. Unlikely, but the impact is large. But the chance (and impact) of losing all your passwords is even larger.
> if you don't know, why does one assumes it was innocent

This is the same standard the US legal system uses, for one. "Innocent until proven guilty."

In the case of my comment I thought that it is easy to point out misdeeds but we cannot be overconfident in our own ability to prevent them under exceptional circumstances. If you were given money by a Weinstein or an Epstein, we all hope we could have the good sense to do the right thing. But how much is that actually the case? None of us are actually in that situation; few of us have been tested in this way. We could also be conned by these types. It is instructive to take a step back and understand that part. Perhaps this would help us be more vigilant should the situation actually arise.

The final point I would make. It breaks down a bit for supervillains like an Epstein. But for lesser transgressions, such as those I have seen in my own life, I can say that I used to spend a lot more time questioning people's motives, and indeed labelling people as psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists at a distance. Eventually I came to a realization that mentally maintaining these labels and reacting to them was a big stress on me and source of anxiety. It may sound radical, I would argue that thinking better of people by default will lead you to better mental health. But I have not figured out how this policy may apply to an Epstein, Ito, Weinstein, Hitler, etc. Thankfully I think such supervillains are a minority.
One of the most potent kinds of coop that I've ever encountered is exemplified by DATEV. It is a cooperative founded by the tax advisory profession in Germany in 1966 to create accounting software which is, to this day, the market leader in Germany for all accounting not having to do with corporations that are big enough for SAP.

In 1966, the potential for computers to be used in accounting had just become apparent, and by thinking about companies and markets the way we now do, you would have thought that the situation should have been a slam dunk for IBM. That's not how it played out in Germany. Instead of individual tax advisors entering into individual deals with IBM, the tax advisory profession set up a coop to buy and operate central mainframe infrastructure (don't know if it was IBM or not), to be used by all the coop's members and, while they were at it, instead of buying software from anywhere (like from IBM), they hired some engineers to write their own software. Personally, I find this an absolutely baffling turn of events. The profession realized what a giant disruption the introduction of computers would be. They realized the strategic importance of maintaining control over software and computer operations. They realized that, by sticking together and acting in a coordinated fashion, they had the power take on a corporate behemoth like IBM at their own game and tell them to go stick it. Absolutely inspiring, if you ask me.
Then again, write that blog post and submit it to encourage that discussion. What you've written above does not guide conversation constructively in that direction.
The problem probably wasn't that you didn't have enough features.

The problem was that your minimalist feature set didn't solve any real problems for anyone.

You must've been aiming at people with complex problems, which required complex solutions, so it's unsurprising that that you had to have a feature set to match to be actually useful.
There is a huge overlap between organic farming and sustainable farming. Its starts from soil depletion. Then, oil-derived fertilizers. Next, aggressive pesticides that harm useful insects and bees. The list goes on.
Thanks for mentioning this.

As I look at things like Uber and YouTube and Twitch, it reminds me of a friend's definition of Web 2.0: "You do all the work, we take all the money." Given the history of business, there's no reason to think VC-funded platforms will do anything other than extract maximum cash. Great for VCs and execs, not so great for the people doing the work.

I've been thinking about what those companies might look like if they were truly centered on workers and creators from the get go. Sounds like the platform coops are thinking along the same lines.
But if the rich people need people to have money to buy their goods, and you’re saying UBI would be this money, where is the UBI money coming from? Why couldn’t the rich people just get that money directly?
This is a really interesting read. If we’re willing to live afloat, we can begin with Ocean Cities of Earth and expand to Cloud Cities of Venus as necessary.

Mars might still be easier to terraform than Venus, if we develop the technology, so maybe that’s part of why it became the focus. But if we could terraform Mars, perhaps we could just reterraform Earth.
Without an UBI they would be starving and start street protests.

Much like what happened during French revolution.

UBI removes that risk.

I'm in favour of an UBI, but one that's really universal (rich and poor get the same amount of money, forever) and one that goes together with a real public system including public universal healthcare, public schools, public infrastructures - roads, railroads - and trasnportation, similar to the ones we have in many European countries, but improved.
The author does argue the principles. Power balance between the elites and everyone else has always kept things from getting too bad. Historically there has been violent revolution; more recently developed societies have empowered people through capitalism (despite its many flaws, it serves this crucial purpose). So labor movements have replaced violence in many cases. As the author says, economic contribution is the only real leverage regular people have. Without that we'd be reliant on the continued goodwill of the ultra-powerful. How has that played out historically?
There's lots of things that are technology that are not all that complicated.

Like a shovel or whatever. If you assume an order of magnitude drop in population, there would be plenty of refined metals just sitting around to maintain quite a base of simpler technology.

I also wonder if we will see cultures/groups emerge that keep on reproducing at high growth even in the face of economic security.
I'm not sure if I believe that, but I'd never trust anyone with bitcoin seeds. I'm not sure what the risk is for passwords I'd type in my browser anyway and that I could reset with my Gmail account.
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I said that it wouldn't if they left it, since parent seemed to imply that this region would reforest itself.
Yes, if people are causing them so they can clear land. The problem with forest fires is not the fires themselves but the fact that if you go out and cause a fire without knowing how to set up a controlled burn you are almost certainly doing something bad. Not sure why this article even tries to argue otherwise.
Why not colonize currently uninhabitable areas of earth first? I don't get the emphasis on colonizing space when there are much more tractable places to colonize.
"Help" isn't always helpful.

Healthcare- ~50k per year means mandatory $300/month for the "benefit" of an $8,000 deductible plan, or for many people you pay $300 per month for the "benefit" of paying all your own medical expenses. If the income drops to $40,000 per year then you only have to pay $150 per month for the coverage. Unless your medical bills are more than $12,000 (monthly + deductible) paying the fine/tax/penalty is cheaper. Come April, writing a $1000 check to the IRS isn't helpful. You almost have to hope to be really poor or really sick to get an actual benefit. The worst off 5% may benefit. The top 5% may benefit (well-off techies that want to leave an employer and create a startup app but still have benefits) but the middle 90% who are somewhat healthy and make average (40-50k) incomes pay more for "help" they hopefully never need.

Many people don't view "help a man when he's down" as working that way. The success of food stamps is based on how many people are on the program, not how many people are helped off the program. Subsidizing overpriced tuition doesn't lower tuition, it raises tuition while moving and hiding the true cost. Medicare and medicaid are the probably the biggest reasons why healthcare is so expensive. Does spending millions on tent cities really solve a homeless problem? Public schools already cost $10,000+ per student per year- is more money really what is needed?

These aren't questions looking for answers but when "help" is viewed through this lens it may explain why many people prefer the "leave me and my money alone" approach instead of the "tax me more for these great solutions" approach.
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We’re going to have to stop using up energy driving to jobs the world doesn’t need to produce crap you have to propagandize people into believing they want so they’ll spend money on it and then throw it in the landfill. That’s obviously an insane way for an increasingly technologically advanced species to continue to function, and one way or another we are going to have to start doing a lot more nothing quite soon.

And we won't stop, because people would rather kill each other over their creature comforts than come to the realization that all people are inherently equal and we need to share a limited pool of resources.

There is no solution and this will all end in tears.
> built in windows calculator

Alt-2 (for Scientific mode), Inv, Tan
There is a beautiful and deep irony in that sibling comments here all read as closed to the possibility that their view on people's ability to change--whatever it may be--might be wrong.
Watched the video genuinely interested thinking he was somehow going to put 1.5 TB RAM into Mac Mini.. until he said 32GB at 3:11.
I can see what their though process is.

1. All resources are distributed for labor in an open market.
2. All resources are held, some are distributed for labor in an open market, some are distributed for UBI.
3. All resources are held, there is little to no open market left, the rest is distributed via UBI.
4. UBI now require certain conditions to be claimed, such as participation in various labor programs, or, perhaps, whatever program you are assigned to. The open market has collapsed or is too small to offer a meaningful alternative to, effectively, economically enforced labor.

Think of an economy like in Player Piano: only the engineers have jobs. The rest 'work' for their pay, but have no agency.
The machines often can't come in quantities of only one or two stations, so this actually would have the immediate effect of banning most stations, and requiring retrofitting. So keep in mind that we're actually slapping the businesses in question a bit harder than you might think.

And yeah, cry me a river for Walmart. In Oregon, we're capable of prioritizing the good of the community over business interests. Several of the findings orient around the fact that senior citizens have trouble using the machines to purchase groceries. Heck, I have trouble using the machines to purchase groceries; I can empathize and sympathize.
It doesn't appear to be using LEDs intended for outdoor brightness. I suspect it won't be very readable during the day, especially given most cars have tinted rear windows.
I have first hand experience with this as well. Trying to figure out where to fly a drone is nearly impossible and just makes you want to fly anyway.
I see - you have the complexity relation the wrong way round.
> The patch however sneakily removes the chance ...

If they haven't tested on other processors, should they leave code in because it has a "chance" to work on something else? I think both sides of this question could be legitimately argued so I wouldn't jump to calling it "evil".
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Summary: The FAA's B4UFLY app only tells you whether you can _fly_ a drone somewhere. It doesn't tell you whether you can _take off, operate, and land_ from there because that is up to the property owner (whether private or government owned).
That really sounds like they haven't been backing up their server, and that they think of source control as the backup. Both of these things are pretty bad.
Yeah, it's not like 12k a year is enough to live on. People on UBI will still need jobs.
Eventually to the negative? We aren't FORCED to create things. Even once the marginal cost is effectively zero, things still have a cost. Just make less of it.
Very underrated comment. Very good point to give food for thought although I think it is clear that it was meant to be on the usual textual representation using the simplest re language (without extensions).
I don't really understand the argument here, and the writer didn't look into the rest of Yang's platform that addresses the plutocracy part of this equation.

Is our current system captured by the wealthy and special interests? Absolutely, and his Democracy Dollars and Ranked Choice Voting policies directly address those, and as a supporter I'm more excited about those two positions then the UBI as I think it is even more of a structural change.

I highly recommend his talk with Lawrence Lessig, who has been fighting the good fight against corruption for years.

https://youtu.be/kjiHwx6bpkg
The idea of charging companies for the environmental and health damage that they cause is so outside the Overton window that it's consider radical and even extreme.

If I rear your car I have to pay the damage. If I pollute air, land and oceans... it's free.

People even dismiss the idea with "pollution is inevitable".
That's just not true. One habituates to it and they need more to achieve the same feeling that they had before. They need more, and the dynamic changes from trying to stay high to trying to avoid withdrawal. They reach a crisis, and then either die or go clean for a while. It changes the function of your brain, and you remain at a high risk for relapse the rest of your life (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5046044/ and countless others). There is a reason the disease model works and health system vs criminal system has better outcomes.

It eats you from the inside because everything else in life fall away in importance of being high, and if manage to get clean you are essential on a tightrope the rest of your life and the temptation haunts you all the time. It ruins your ability to feel truly happy or fulfilled by anything besides heroin. You are a day or two away from the morgue the rest of your life.

The addiction cycle usually ends in a place where Hep, sepsis, and HIV are comorbidities. But the long term health effect is the addiction and brain structural changes. Just because it's mental health doesn't mean it's any less real than lung cancer or cirrhosis.
Something I’ve learned from working in reliability: there is not one cause. There is also not n causes. There is more like trees of different kinds of causes where each node has some weight contributing to the incident. So yes, it is a failure in management for sure, but it isn’t also not other things.
Took a while to realize it was about graphics and not docker, maybe that's my bad.
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There's no mention of diversity of tree species, or efforts to match species with local conditions.

Mass tree planting efforts can be relatively unsuccessful, see China's Great Green Wall Project [1] which has resulted in large monocultures where nothing else can grow and greatly lowered groundwater levels.

Also the history of the equivalent in Africa, which this planting is a part of [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-North_Shelter_Forest_P...

[2] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/great-green-wa...
The point is that if standard QM has a problem to make predictions, then the MWI would face the same problem to make the same predictions starting from a universal wavefunction.

If standard QM has no problem to make predictions then I agree than in principle the MWI could make the same predictions (but it seems to me that in practice it can only make predictions by using standard QM and saying that those are the same predictions that could in principle be derived).
I always thought these were projects to get people to spend money for the ability to just live on earth in the future. We cant say "hey we're breaking shit need to figure out how to survive with a broken climate". I know this is Elons take, everything he does for space is almost always applicable to living on hostile environment locally from energy production/storage to tunnels.
A few of the things are sort of illegal in EU, esp. recording without notice.

Holding hiring databases is problematic too due to GDPR.
I come from Europe, so I might be biased, but we have unemployment benefits and training is often covered by contracts, most of the time it is mandatory, for example at my current job I had to take mandatory courses (mandatory means you can get penalties for not completing them) on GDPR and privacy policies and two full courses on Coursera chosen by me, but paid and approved by the company, in order to get access to the yearly bonus.
Is this just proof of work crypto as a captcha?
After getting my masters in ag science and spending a decade working in hydroponics and field agriculture I am glad to see someone else identifying the hubris here.

Multiple times a month I have to endure a pitch or presentation from some upstart tech company assuming that all farmers are toothless hicks who just need to be shown the light. I've had hundreds of conversations with growers about every single one of the topics he thinks he's going to fix. The only people swayed by his arguments are those who know even less than he does.
> Please. It's not ignoring patents.

Yes it is. And the pharma industry is pretty butthurt about it.

https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/03/19/inside-india-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2013/04/08/indias...
Besides, if this becomes big enough spammers will just get GPU/FPGA/ASICs to get around this. The imposed cost of 3s of CPU is far from prohibitive.
a "proper" clear cut leaves nothing. They take everything and kill all they can. When they are done they turn the land over leaving a thoroughly savage landscape behind. It is soul crushing to see such brutality. I truly hope we will make such crime against life a punishable offence comparable to mass murder.

Google the images or go look at some sites of such carnage.
Extended summary: Except over national parks. Over national parks you are allowed to fly, but not take off, operate, or land, and the FAA's app chooses to say you can't fly.
Not only is that an enlightened policy, I love the way it's presented. If all candidates were forced to clearly define their policies in that form, in writing, instead of the current spoken debate theatre we use, perhaps we could get out of this negative feedback loop we're in.
Are you sure you aren't mistaken? :-)
it's sad that today the stack overflow majority shares your mindset and an answer like that would drown in downvotes or killed by moderation.

some people like to act super serious all the time like they're playing a sitcom version of what they think adulthood is in a quest to be the most boring person on earth like if that's the goal of human interaction
I question the assertion that this is expensive for spammers. The whole premise is that a spammer would not consider this worth the cost, and do something else with the computing power instead. Why? It completely depends on what the captcha is being used for.
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This is mob justice, I agree, but will do some good in the long run. It will serve as a reminder to self regulate in the future. If another Epstein comes along there will be visible distancing from him.
Stopping UBI won't stop automation, and you will still have to deal with the potentially massive rise of unemployment that could be caused by automation. You still will have dystopia with just automation and plutocracy, but somehow you will need to solve the implied unemployment, or the dystopia will be far worse.
You'd be surprised how bad communication can be in a big company the size of intel. I'm sure they have plenty of samples of AMD stuff, but I could believe they're being used mostly by some cpu-testing division, rather than the open-source one.