skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument severely underestimates the alternatives available to the current corporate tech hegemony. Put yourself in the position of Internet persona non grata and let’s look at your alternatives.

Twitter doesn’t like you(or whoever “Big Tech“TM goes after next)? Yet you can still say whatever they want on their own website.

YouTube doesn’t like you? You can self-host your videos.

Facebook doesn’t like you? No access to FB products then. Nobody will look for the persona non grata there anyway.

Google doesn’t like you? You can log your own traffic and use an alternative email provider, or self-host.

Unranked in SRP? Advertise in the real world or via word of mouth.

Microsoft doesn’t like you? Run Linux.

Azure/AWS doesn’t like you? Use an alternative IaaS or buy your own hardware.

Hardware vendors don’t like you? Secondhand market.

Apple doesn’t like you? Flip phone!

Linus Torvalds himself doesn’t like you!?!? OpenBSD!

The weak point that I can see in living in a world in which the Internet itself doesn’t want you is your connection itself. While there will always be free speech-focused ISPs willing to connect anyone (within the law) the backbones might decide to drop traffic headed for their website. Not much you can do about that I guess.

The internet was around before Larry Page and Sergei Brin, and Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs. These companies provide convenient tools which make it easy to do a few things but they are highly unnecessary for life itself, even online life. We have let them get too big. But we have not let them get too necessary.
As far as I understand — without private insurance in Canada, somebody with few resources in Canada is at risk of financial ruin from any of the health conditions you mentioned. For older Canadians, a pre-existing condition may not be covered, which means a serious condition could rack up significant medical bills.

Edit: I should have specifically said that I'm talking about expensive prescription drugs and required ancillary care that is not paid for by the province. Also, each province is different. Ex: cancertaintyforall.ca
I tend to think work gives some sense of purpose to a person’s life. That’s incalculably valuable.
This also explains why most PhD theses are only a tiny advance towards the problem. At the frontier you have no idea which details matter and, worse, details arise where you didn’t know even mattered.

The good scientists have an intuition for problems where the hairy details and solvable and they are good at solving. Part of research is to develop this intuition.
Aren't all of these metrics that try to capture the bottom end inherently flawed because we don't know what an acceptable "minimum standard" for a long term job is?

For me, anything that doesn't pay enough to own property and eventually retire with some dignity is a "non-job"; which would put a country like the UK at >30% or so.

It's not clear to me that there is a standard basis. Someone might think affording rent on a small room and food is OK. Someone might think raising a family should be possible.
Heh I just had a chance to mention this in another thread but I think the biggest thing holding the BSDs back is they repackage all the solver.

Who said 1 distro, 1 kernel?! I fully believe NixOS/Nixpkgs should be able to support non-linux kernels, and the philosophies of their communities. We are always trying to bake in future assumptions, this is a great opportunity to do that.

Coalition without compromise. Truely.
The typical low wage job is meant to (using your term) build wealth for the employer.
> (I lasted about two months before I found a better job) because the job was so menial- and the managers so demeaning- that all joy in working was lost fairly regularly.

That sounds like a good outcome though. If the job weren't so bad you might have stuck with it. You could say that you (and others 'talented') were lucky it sucked so much.
If someone is interested, please do reach out. I'm really serious about seeing this happen. We got cross compilation done distro wide, now we need more things to drive us forward.
If your AGI is below ~$27K you have medicaid. As i understand it, CHIP covers kids higher the he income scale this too.
Very tenuously tied to not starving. There are plenty of working-class people who have to avail themselves of community food pantries and at least in my large city the homeless have access to three meals a day.

And honestly, not starving is not a great metric for a wealthy and developed country like the USA. We should demand and strive for more than that terribly low standard.
David Foster Wallace's harrowing story "The Depressed Person" is supposedly based on Wurzel. (I learned this from a HN comment! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12746364)
I don't know about Chinese law, but the US concept is "work made for hire". This is satisfied by one of two alternatives, the first being "a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment." If you believe that an AI has sufficient personhood to be capable of authorship, then it is not unreasonable to presume that it is being employed by whomever is running it.

In the US, there are three factors that govern whether or not someone is an employee. These are:

> Control by the employer over the work. For example, the employer determines how the work is done, has the work done at the employer’s location, and provides equipment or other means to create the work.

> Control by employer over the employee. For example, the employer controls the employee’s schedule in creating the work, has the right to have the employee perform other assignments, determines the method of payment, or has the right to hire the employee’s assistants.

> Status and conduct of employer. For example, the employer is in business to produce such works, provides the employee with benefits, or withholds tax from the employee’s payment.

Looking at those factors, it is really hard to argue that an AI is not an employee, as far as US law is concerned.
You care completely mis-citing / mis-reading that study. It specifically is an attempt to measure the non-material effects of unemployment on persona well-being and happiness.

"Emotionally tolerable" is a very different thing from "financially risky". Indeed, people should be willing to tolerate temporary dissatisfaction to achieve a better long term outcome in ways that they are not willing to tolerate complete financial ruin and the potential loss of major assets that will decrease their long term outcomes.
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From Crispr Multiplexing to Pleistocene Park
Yes, I am talking about veganism. (I'm probably just incidentally arguing in favor of veganism by arriving at the same ethical reasoning; I don't follow the principles and views of this movement to any significant degree).

It is obviously less convenient to be a vegan than to be omnivorous because, at the very least, you actually have to think about what you eat. Both from a purely pragmatic perspective ("does this product contain any animal products?") and wrt. healthy nutrition.

It is practical to do this, but it's not convenient. And that makes a big difference in a society where time and attention is at a premium. Pragmatically, there needs to be a big shift in attitudes, probably prompted by the trivial availability of ingredients equivalent to the main classes of animal products, before the moral view that exploitation of animals is immoral will become mainstream.
Those billions of books probably violate the copyright of other books themselves.
> Perhaps the answer is to start treating "incel-ism" as a disease.

There is already! Although the specific incel issue is not classified in psychology (AFAIK), a person with such severe symptoms can be classified as suffering from relationship and/or social anxiety disorders.

I think that the incel problem has a very specific issue in the fact that it's culturally ostracized; people who suffer from it are labeled as shy and lazy.

I'm not sure from which angle the social problem (I refer to the ostracization) should be attacked.

Research on this subject started in the 80s, but there has never been a (significant) following. The rational wiki has a good introduction: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Love-shy.com#Love-shyness_as_a....

If the condition was officially recognized, I think it would be a very good start, as probably people suffering from it would have a clear reference; right now, since there isn't any, it's very easy to fall into toxic subcultures.
I thought it might be the band Hot Chip, I was glad to see artists involved in science!
Heath insurance is a benefit offered by some US employers as an alternative form of compensation. Employers get discounted rates because of how many customers they bring to the insurer and they pocket some of those savings while passing the rest on to the employees.

You can get health insurance without having a job. It's expensive, but it's not like it's cheap through employers. Just cheaper.

Health care - at least, treatment for life-threatening emergencies - is a right protected by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act in the US.
The minimum wage is zero, and always will be.
That XKCD comic makes a good point: grammar ability is a poor measure of intelligence. Perhaps I was wrong to think of it as "bringing humans down".
I think employers will move toward automation regardless, so in a way UBI has an advantage there. I also think preventing automation just so humans have something to do isn't reasonable. Let's progress technology, and think of ways to give more dignity to humans at the same time!

Lastly, the benefits point you made does make sense, except a "retirement" benefit shouldn't be needed (it only exists because eventually you can't do work but need money - basically what UBI already is)
free market IS all-powerful. times change, technological progress moves forward, financial powers rise and fall, it's natural, it's evolution, a chaos controlled by the market (and not by the billionaires, it's not Russia). If you interfere, you are making things worse, delaying the inevitable, promoting dependence, killing individuality (or even progress).
20 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21862073
I recommend taking a problem you or someone on your team recently solved and distill out any internal-specific parts of the problem. Expect a candidate to take 3x the time it takes you to complete the assignment. If you want an assignment that should take them around 2 hours, give yourself 40 minutes to complete it. If you can't complete it in time, you need to cut the scope of the problem.

This works really well for in-person technical questions (live coding or design). I've vetted this over hundreds of candidates at this point.

It has been years since I've given a take-home assignment, but the same basic rules apply.
If people are supposed to look after their own health, why do they need doctors?
Look at the occupations predicted to grow: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/occupations-most-job-growth.h...

Nursing and home aides, fast food, janitors, warehousing and trucking - these are all unproductive and low-skill occupations. It wouldn't look that sorry if the country implemented better industrial policies.
> Market failures abound: Education and health care are out of reach for many, child care is often prohibitively expensive (even as child care workers are woefully underpaid), and decent, affordable housing is scarce in many regions.

It’s utterly ridiculous to call these things “market failures.” Every single one of those areas is not a market but is heavily regulated in a way that limits supply. Education mostly a government service, even at the tertiary level. Fully 50% of college students attend a public school.
That doesn’t ring true but I’d be to learn otherwise. What data are you referring to?
That is often the case. The function of the low wage job is for the benefit of the employer, not the employee. The function of UBI is neither to build wealth for the individual nor the economy as a whole. Wealth still becomes concentrated with the smaller pool of individuals in control of resources and means of production.
The idea of a 'robot tax' is gaining steam
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Which firm?
Uber and Hyundai collaborate to develop flying taxis
Does anyone have an estimate of the difference between research output from calico versus institutions in academia? It would be interesting to see where they rank.
I don't think most politicians are ignorant enough to believe this.

It's part of the marketing used that also seeds self-doubt into many citizens and saves politician's faces:

"How can something so complex (at scale) and studied as unemployment be wrong? I must be the problem finding gainful employment, everyone else is doing great based on these numbers, I guess I need to work even harder to pickup my slack. My representatives even tell me everyone is doing great, look at the GDP and DOW soaring! What am I doing wrong?? Why cant I find a job, I guess I'll have to take whatever I can get." etc.
Thanks so much and congrats on your new career trajectory! We'd love to integrate with some job boards in the future. In the meantime I can point you to a blog post with some great advice on this topic:

https://medium.com/@leventov/how-to-find-a-job-in-a-tech-com...
Yes, Social Security and Pension benefits are indeed a form of UBI, earned through employment contributions.

Also to add to your points above, in the scenario where all possible low wage jobs are eliminated through automation, this would require a dramatic restructuring of the labor pool and economic environment. This is further evidence of the role low wage plays in current economy.

In the situation where low wage jobs are fully eliminated, all that remains are concentrations of high wage / self-employed pools and a very large amount of automation systems that would require management.

Perhaps one alternative to UBI is the creation of patronage systems that can support human endeavors where no productivity output is required, but human creativity output is desired. Something to think about.
This HAS to be a troll post. The cost of cleanup should not exceed the benefit of cleanup, or it is definitionally not cleanup. The societal benefit of cruise ships is not measured in improvements to the environment, so it's harder to make a direct comparison and say if they're worth it overall.

In any case, these are totally orthogonal operations. Both should be optimized.
The "goal" of a low wage job is for an employer to make a profit from someone else's labor, and to only allow them to subsist.

UBI promotes subsistence but crucially allows someone enough time to find more substantial opportunities.

And UBI won't necessarily kill low-wage work – in some ways, it makes space for it. I'm an EMT, and I make minimum wage, and I work 48-72 hours a week on the ambulance. UBI would make it so that I don't need another job to support a family, and could live healthily and with dignity on just those 48-72 hours a week.
The minimum wage merely sets the welfare level.
The rule of 3 usually is in reference to small scoped abstractions, not whole modules or subsystems. We're talking about extracting a short function, not significant and potentially thorny chunks of code.

I would say it’s for entire features sometimes. For instance, we are a B2B company. We have features on the roadmap or a feature might be suggested by a client. Either way, you hit the jackpot if you can get one client to pay for a feature that doesn’t exist in your product that you can then sell to other clients.

The problem is that you don’t know whether the feature is generally useful to the market. But you think it might be, in that case, you build the feature in a way that is useful to the paying client and try not to do obvious things that are client specific. But until you have other clients you don’t know.
> America has a weird sense of superiority about its lower unemployment numbers vs Canada

I don't think that's actually true, I think it's a political talking point that we are all hit over the head with repeatedly. A key progressive talking point is that the issue of so-called "prosperity" is not as simple as "everyone has a job". This is where the issue of people having multiple jobs, minimum wage, benefits, unions, etc. all come into play but that all requires more cognitive overhead, something that is in scarce supply with a nation steeped in distraction.
Cleanup is good, but are there efforts in identifying and cutting off the major inputs? That should be step 1 to have the biggest impact.

As long as there are are literal dump trucks of trash being emptied straight into rivers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeDY3I841q0

...it feels like we're spinning our wheels in almost comical fashion.
It is possible, but it is also quite rare, and usually happens for higly paid, white collar jobs. I'm yet to meet, say, trash pickup guy that enjoys his job.

EDIT: to clarify - it's not that I look down on any jobs. Trash pickup is very much needed profession. What I'm saying is: Let's say person wins a lottery and suddenly has all the money they need for the rest of their lives. I can imagine that many software developers will still continue to program, writers or musicians would continue writing novels or songs, but I'm pretty sure noone would voluntarily continue their trash pickup work.
> I noticed that Alexander had to grind his axe on his rejected bikeshed project.Re:Sensors.

"Bikeshed" project? Who exactly is bikeshedding when functionality is lacking on FreeBSD 10+ years later because we don't like the configuration mechanism chosen for the previous work?

> PHK is one of the developers who have made FreeBSD great.

That doesn't mean there hasn't been dubious moments like this, or that they don't cause harm.

> The more you grind your axe the more you get discounted.

Menacing responses to criticism are not exactly indicative of good culture.
I thought “underemployment” referred to people working less than full-time (or less than they want) and/or working at a job far below their skill level, e.g. a skilled machinist or college graduate working as a cashier.

But yes, the standard unemployment rate that’s talked about does not account for a lower participation rate, people who could be working or looking for a job but aren’t.
If "food desserts" really exist, and the market isn't solving the problem, then the Government, working for the Citizens, should attempt to open a grocery story in an afflicted neighborhood, to meet the perceived need. Think of it as a jobs program.
Just that earning that little and not being able to just quit and being highly dependend is exactly what a ubi is trying to fix.

My position pays well and I'm an expert. I can choose my job to a certain degree and people are looking for me to keep me.

This is luxury. You are at the grace of your shift manager.

Our society needs a way to ubi to find a new more fulfilling future with tons of automatization. Like in Star trek.
Shift your perspective. YouTube is a video distribution service provider and one of many ways to publish a video. You can choose to publish on YouTube, but you don’t have the right to compel YouTube to do business with you anymore than a coffee shop has a right to compel their current coffee roaster to do business with them.

If YouTube cancels their contract with you, they’ve taken away your ability to make a living on YouTube. What they haven’t taken away is your ability to make a living. You can even make a living in video production, if you can find the means to do so.

YouTube certainly enabled many more people to viably live as video producers, but that doesn’t entitle people to make a living in that profession anymore than it entitles them to make a living roasting coffee or serving in a public office or performing heart surgery.
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The large scale fish farms also pollute heavily.
Perhaps larger pieces of plastic contain trapped air that increases their bouyancy.
It would still make these things more affordable. And, save perhaps childcare, increasing the cost of low waged labor would not have an outsized inflationary effect on them.

Certainly not on housing. The cost of housing/rent is predicated on a shortage of hoarded, largely untaxed land.
> then productivity would be higher in other jobs, which would increase pay for their example jobs due to the Baumol effect.

Laughing hard here. You just invented “trickle-down pay raises”!

If everybody has a degree, the degree doesn’t matter anymore, does it? Being a bachelor of economics will not make you a better burger deliverer. Plus the effect only hold due to a few sectors like IT paying disproportionately - overall, productivity increases over the last 70 years have not been reflected in purchasing power or work hours. The gains disappear into the upper deck.

We need to stop this bullshit mentality that people need to ‘educate themselves more’ to earn a decent living. The shit jobs will always exist, and they should pay well just for being shit jobs, which is what happens in northern Europe where minimum wages are more than enough to live comfortably as a bartender. There should be absolutely no shame in working for McDonalds (except about the food itself).
I guess the question is what age should a person retire? For those of us born after 1960, retirement with full benefits, is age 67. Technically, you can retire at age 62... and draw a percentage. (Bonus, if you can wait till you are 70, you get an even higher multiplier).

Most people don't have savings like they should. There are older folks who are gobbling up jobs tat were historically what younger kids would work. Those benefits are not large sums, so one could imagine someone working into the late 60's to maximize the actual retirement cash flow.

For those who did save... likely don't need to start pulling benefits early.

Over all... wages rise if there is competition for talent. Even if it is on the low end of entry level jobs. If there should be so many low end jobs, without 'normal' benefits... is another really good question.
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This is flatly incorrect.

The Canadian healthcare system doesn’t even have the concept of “pre-existing condition”. That term is deeply flawed and was constructed by the healthcare insurance system in the USA.

The term used in Canada is “medical history”.

I’m at an age where I’m watching my friends in Canada deal with family suffering from long term illnesses and ultimately, death.

They all deal with anguish, grief, heartbreak, and in some cases depression.

But none of them are dealing with medical bills.
There are jobs that you don't enjoy but that will help you achieve a better future. Then there are jobs that do nothing but provide a temporary stop gap from financial ruin.

The idea isn't that you don't need a job, the idea is that you are less dependent on finding a job right away so that you can find a good fit between your skills and your goals and your job. This not only will lead to a better life for you, but more overall economic productivity.
Having a low paying job and being on food stamps is a necessity for a lot of people
No. Slavery isnt voluntary by definition, and that is it's most essential feature.
I absolutely love the blueprint editor in UE4. It enables me to rapidly hammer out ideas and test new things. Not only that, but it helped me learn a lot about how to go about doing things in UE4 so when I started writing CPP I already had an understanding for where to put what and how to do it.
Until another computer system denies him service for not spelling his name exactly as it is on his ID.
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If you cross that barrier switching between unemployed and employed, there is mounds of paperwork. I wish I could cite a study, but I'm pretty sure people procrastinate / preventative health measures are less prevalent because of this red type.