skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do get paychecks issued regularly every two weeks (or whatever), it's just that the amount per paycheck is variable based on hours worked over the preceding 2 week period. This is common for much more than just Uber drivers (e.g. retail workers), and it still works out. The paid vacation amount is the average amount that employee earns.
I would give up some of my income to finance UBI without thinking twice. I probably would work a bit less, but I am planning that nevertheless with or without UBI.

What I am skeptical about is work that is real hard, not some silly office stuff. Care and nursing for example. There might be few people who would do that under current working conditions with UBI in sight. Not that I think the current situation is in any way sustainable. It is already completely broken before the large demographic bombs hit some countries.

On the other hand, maybe family members had more time to offer care themselves.
>Where can I read some of these articulated positions for myself?

Imagine if you were to come up with a policy where you increase senior pension rates by $3000/mo but you get rid of Medicare - do you think Bernie Sanders would go for that deal? I'll tell you right now: ZERO chance he would support it. And that doesn't even take into account that there are hundreds of thousands (millions?) of jobs that support the current entitlement programs. Do you think those employees will just let you lay them off without a fight?

I don't have any links, but I have gone out of my way to find out what different groups think of UBI when I was excited about UBI a few years ago. My excitement has since deflated and I now think UBI isn't a solution to any actual issues with automation. Specially it doesn't solve the following:

- It doesn't get rid of existing entitlement programs.

- It doesn't solve automation issues for the developing world which can't afford to pay its citizens and will be hit especially hit hard by automation.

- It doesn't solve automation issues for the developed world since people derive meaning and self-worth from work (there's a difference between working and supporting yourself and being supported by government handouts). To reinforce this point: communities that are supported by government welfare programs tend to have issues with drug and alcohol abuse and crime. Furthermore, the social welfare programs in the developed world are already extensive enough that healthcare, food, and shelter will always be available regardless of the state of automation.
It was prematurely cancelled too. If the program risks being shut down at any time, of course people won't want to quit their jobs.
I think you need to think of the bigger picture.

If there were no outlet to purchase books, very few people would want to write books because libraries couldn't replace the revenue stream from booksellers.

Libraries benefit from booksellers and vice versa.

background: I'm the partner of a librarian who's also a writer.
That would only be true in a world where supply of necessities is immutable. In practice when there is more demand for stuff we can generally make more stuff. It is possible to build additional housing rather than forcing everyone into a zero-sum auction over the existing supply.
Am I Entitled to Have an Opinion?
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."

Or adapting to productivity gains, the productivity required is increasing to meet the needs of increasingly productive people.

So taking into account human nature might mean that productivity gains enable us to do more advanced work, not to work less. But like you said, we're all just speculating.
Sounds like UBI gave them the negotiating power to decline jobs that did not meet their needs, were too exploitive, were not in alignment with their goals, and so on. That's part of the point: to increase labor power.
For secure isolation, we learned it's not sufficient.
It's good for resource isolation though.

PTAL at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rMGRvcjvKc
You can drive

A mile a minute

But there is no

Future in it

Burma-Shave
It'll take less than 0.0001% of any State Actor's military budget to perform a 51% attack on public blockchain and I'm not even talking about simply taking over the Miners with a stroke of Pen or a Phone Call

Delusional to call it Unstoppable
Two things. Yes he does, but despite his management style, not because of it. And no, he doesn't have the bandwidth people think he has. That is part of his narrative, and that narrative, more than anything else, keeps his companies afloat.

Not to forget that he misses a ton of deadlines and constantly moves the goal posts. Helps in beating expectations.
People should fear being destitute its the natural human condition. Learning skills is the only way to make wealth.
>I'm not in that area, but I struggle to find an analogue of a large pressurized tank on Earth where mass is the dominant cost factor.

If you stretch the definition of "tank" and "on Earth" then modern pressurized airliner cabins definitely qualify.
This sort of thing is the #2 reason why I don't buy machines that require an internet connection to servers I don't approve. The #1 reason is security/privacy concerns.
Ask HN: Is a bugs slack channel a good thing?
We have a #bugs slack channel. It is a dumping ground for issues, or potential issues, and doesn’t always (or often really) lead to action like opening a bug ticket in our tracker. Often the context gets tangled up in other conversations in the same channel.

Do you have a channel like this? How do you manage it’s use? Does it make more sense to remove it and force all bug-related conversation to occur via the ticketing system?
Prohibit as in "(of a fact or situation) prevent (something); make impossible." rather than "formally forbid (something) by law, rule, or other authority". It's not the most common usage of the word but it's still a pretty common one.
It seems to be. When you start implementing something, you'll soon find that most of that complexity is inherent, not accidental. Been there, done that, didn't even get the T-Shirt.

Today it's much easier to package nicer API on top of the rather generic k8s one. There are ways to deploy it easier (in fact, I'd wager that a lot of complexity in deploying k8s is accidental due to deploy tools themselves, not k8s itself. Just look at OpenShift deploy scripts...)
Take Your Data Back
> I'm also enjoying the frantic handwaving away of power usage concerns

Because headlines focus on the amount of power used and not the source of power used, which is overwhelmingly renewable and wasted energy that had no prior economic use which undermines the whole reductive argument about power used, and is an outcome resolved purely by market forces.

Let me know if you would like examples for your independent corroboration.
Cars are becoming more like apps in the future. It makes sense to me. I like the new logo.
I wonder how long before they change it back or modify it because all the negative press.
Thanks for sharing! I agree that certain anxieties are "rational." As I mentioned at the end of this piece, my second essay in this series will be about why people get anxious about different things. Look forward to hearing your thoughts on how my model for that compares to your research.
I don't get it - is normal soap ineffective?
That's what tcmalloc does, at least if you set TCMALLOC_RELEASE_RATE.
> Three year. Would you quit your job, and move somewhere cheaper if you knew the money will run out after three years, and you'll have a three year gap in your CV?

This might be news to you, but there are huge swaths of people on this planet with no CV, no career, and are just scraping by, for whom 3 years of money would be a literal gift from the gods.
My only complaint is that it’s made of plastic. French presses are usually just metal and glass, which I much prefer to pour hot liquids into.
Ok, so you set a price cap and it all sells out in 10 minutes. What then?
"If you consider multi-generational entrenchments of poverty as its own problem, worth serious merit, then the work disincentive could be a disaster."

Multi-generational entrenchments of poverty are already a disaster, and not because of fuzzy ideas like "instilling a work ethic", but because many millions of people lack the basic material resources needed to fulfill anything close to their potential.

A kid watching their parents break their backs as minimum-wage slaves living paycheck to paycheck doesn't prepare them to do anything other than the same thing with their lives.
3) government intervenes
Most English speaking people everywhere speak with some variation on "formal" English. Even the received pronunciation in South england and london is relatively modern.

If anything, some American accents are closer to the English of the late 18th century than many British ones are, and the "official" received pronunciation is not without its fair share of critics.
I find it difficult to do anything intellectual while exercising at a relatively high intensity. What intensity are your workout sessions? But perhaps review is different than trying to absorb a new concept?
I was referring to legislative changes that are currently either in the works or being discussed in Germany as a response to the upload filter proposals based on EU requirements.

Only have a German link at hand but it's definitely not helping the little folks, e.g. this breakdown was cited with the remark "bloggers don't even make the cut to appear in the statistics". https://www.golem.de/news/leistungsschutzrecht-so-viel-geld-...

I'm by no means arguing that legislation wouldn't help, I'm honestly of the opposite opinion. I just see content/upload filters as a bad idea and broken by design, apologies if I didn't get that across in the previous comment.
its only recently become 'stable' but google offers it now in GKE baked into their clusters, if you want.
> For which the market should correct by increasing their compensation, thus incentivising people to return to working, no?

Partially, but some of those increased compensation costs will translate to increased prices for everyone. That reduces the real value of a fixed UBI amount.

It's a given that a significant amount of UBI will be absorbed by inflation, particularly in housing prices in competitive cities. If everyone in a city is already competing for a limited housing supply and suddenly everyone has an extra $1000 per month, I wouldn't be surprised if the cheapest housing costs suddenly increased by nearly $1000 per month.
I believe it's fine, I think hand sanitizer is just better because it's "on-the-go" for a lot of people. You don't need water to use, like with soap.
As a side point - whatever happened to the YC research basic income study? After great fanfare 4 years ago, it's been very quiet the past year.
Public interventions in the banking sector: Follow the taxpayers’ money
It’s interesting that this critique of kubernetes is on a blog called “python speed” because my most recent project with kubernetes was deploying a large dask cluster. For this use case k8s was really valuable. It made the devops part so much easier than it otherwise would have been, so we could put most of our time into application logic. In other words, when we wanted to achieve substantial “python speed” kubernetes was very helpful. For data engineering projects, even with a small number of data engineers, it can be a big productivity booster.

Personally, I like kubernetes and find it easier to use than other devops tool sets, so it’s become my go-to tool. Probably wouldn’t recommend it to someone who doesn’t know it and has a simple app architecture.
It is but people don't know/believe that.
Why would they replace their logo after more than one hundred years? It was iconic.
I don't think it's abusing workers if it's perfectly clear to everyone before they get on board what they're signing up for. I think most people applying for those jobs are dying (figuratively) to get in on it because it's such a unique opportunity to work on something big, hightech and exciting.
Depends on how you measure "behind". If you measure it by "times been to the moon" SpaceX sure is behind.

Less money? Less motivation? Less talent? The number of factors that contribute to success are unmeasurable, what a silly question.
Replace "your" with "the" - the hyp can be run by your provider (Linode, DO, Vulture, AWS, GKE, whoever). Most cloud providers have virtual/shared/managed load balancers to rent time on as well, such that you don't have to maintain N+1 of those (let them do it). You could even use basic round-robin DNS, it's a possible choice just not generally suggested.
> For which the market should correct by increasing their compensation, thus incentivising people to return to working, no?

Which drives up the cost of goods, resulting in an inflation that counteracts the UBI and gets us right back where we started.
Please consider that this stuff is very nuanced, and that while you clearly care about these issues a lot (as do I!), your analysis betrays a lack of understanding.

Any way you want to cut it, these results are not to be trusted. You cannot even be sure the conclusions are true. The effect sizes are within measurement error.
Not necessarily. Impacts have ejected material that ended up on the other of Mars and Earth. Life might have travelled on it and thereby life on both planets could have a common ancestor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite
e.g. "prohibitively expensive"
Soap is generally superior and more versatile.

https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/show-me-the-science-hand-san...
About Boehm GC, somebody told me a story about using it at his job for a highly technical simulation program that they sell... it worked unless the customer had data that fooled the GC into thinking it was seeing pointers in data that wasn't pointers, so it never freed memory. I guess it was in 32 bits with much smaller address space. They ended up switching to manual memory management, which wasn't significantly more complicated (in C++).

Such are the tradeoffs with a conservative garbage collector.

I would avoid Boehm GC (and other conservative GCs) in almost all situations.
It doesn't have to be people "hoarding". It just has to be people buying faster than the just-in-time system has enough supply buffer to buffer for. If a very large demand spike drains the system of supply, then you're going to get at least one of high prices or shortages, and no rule against both.

If high demand persisted, the system would start producing more, but since we are fairly confident it won't, it becomes difficult for the producers to justify any additional capital outlay, limiting the rate at which they can spin up new supply.
> non-productive for society

Assuming if you made more money, you would then spend that money, there would be someone who would create opportunities for people like you to spend your money. And that just sounds like business to me.
You are using very charged and slanted language.

Likely, their lives will be greatly enriched by an extra day off of work per week.

Bank accounts, the GDP, and other similar metrics fail to capture enormous amounts of value and meaning in our lives. Even the progress of scientific understanding
is poorly measured in this way.
> Those less restrictive areas are not always where people want to live.

Then remove the restrictions in the places people do want to live.

> I think it's more likely we'll see UBI proponents want to factor in a cost of living adjustment based on the place one lives, which will be a nightmare of political administration and unintended consequences.

Terrible idea, do not want.
Why Do Such Ancient People Run America?
> The more people who opt out of working, the harder everyone else must work to compensate.

Historical counterpoint: Shorter hours like 40/week were introduced to increase productivity.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day

So it may very well be that the exact opposite of what you think is true and that you currently have to compensate for people working badly with long hours.

> In fact, giving people free income might increase the demands for goods and services as those people would have extra disposable income.

Thus far UBI tended to be about the same amount of income just from different sources.
Hypothetical landlord: “All my tenants are now earning an additional $1k per month and nothing prevents me from raising prices. But I won’t raise rents because... reasons.”
It might very well be that they quit low pay jobs they took only because they had no alternative. It's obvious that the job market would need to adjust with an UBI in place. Most wage-slavery level jobs would have no justification to exist anymore.
That's a common argument to justify inequality.
If learning is the key, then why is there such a huge income disparity between men and women? Are women lazy and don't learn?
What will you use for service discovery?
If I remember correctly you couldn't do this by just re-linking with another manual memory manager though because the application could hold pointers to things in ways you don't understand and then you can't move them, so there has to be some additional indirection on every pointer access that resolves the real location of data in memory.

So I would think this requires some compiler support or some sort of runtime.

If you know more about this or know any cool implementations of it please elaborate!
If you raise the bar by $x across the board then doesn't $x gradually becomes the new bottom? If we give everyone $50k / year tax-free, would that just make $50k the new $0 relative to cost of living? The effect being the same as a progressive tax (those who make far more are far less impacted).

If it is basically the same as a progressive tax, then it does strike me as a much simpler way to implement it (instead of complicated varying brackets). However adding it on top of an existing progressive tax scheme is adding another point of complexity right?

Maybe replacing progressive taxes with a flat tax and then adding UBI would be a better / simpler approach.
limit quantity per customer?
You have the same issue if you pass multiple callbacks to a given function, except as previously mentioned, you're more likely to pass the wrong set of callbacks than to pass the wrong interface implementation (because interface methods are named must be bound to the same data).
I’m in a similar boat. It was tough convincing my wife (who has an extreme aversion to waste) that we needed everything. I figure it’s best for everyone to prep early, since it has the least effect on the supply chain.

The worst case scenario is we end up donating some non-perishable food to a food bank in 9 months or a year.
Feels like we've jumped some sort of chasm or shark here:

"The AeroPress is the coffee version of Linux, the geeks’ preferred computer operating system. It is not pretty, not especially easy, but it is effective and almost cool."
Does anybody know how to get the LaTeX stuff working on MacOS? I've been wanting to memorize a number of mathematical formulae, but I haven't been able to find clear step-by-step instructions for building LaTeX cards.
My favorite observation on the changing of corporate logos: https://flowingdata.com/2009/08/13/pepsi-and-coca-cola-logo-...
What do you mean, what then? Then it's gone. That's all. There's no moral component to this.
Why Mars, specifically?
Why not "settle" Antarctica or Marianna's trench? Aren't these orders of magnitude easier?
Shift work also correlates with elevated levels of various diseases and cancers.
It's actually more effective. The virus is essentially protected by fat, which is easily broken down by soap. In fact it's what soap is best at. Anti-bacterial hand sanitizer isn't the best approach for.. well, a virus.
If they're effective, you ration them like with any other emergency.
Keeping global warming under control is important for the economic wellbeing and personal welfare of the people in those countries.
I don't want to stop Daylight Saving Time. I want it year round.

The quirk, due to the Uniform Time Act, is that States have a choice -- either never use DST or only use DST during Spring/Summer dates stipulated by Congress.
Yes, the people in China, Hong Kong & Singapore could because SARS is still within living memory and it left a deep cultural imprint. The US hasn't had a pandemic in living memory and so it feels so abstract. I'll bet the reaction to the next pandemic isn't so muted.
I taught her
What are the available solutions to the problem of locating other copies of webpages or documents online? (Let's assume that the page of interest is not on the Internet Archive.) This article mentions a few:

> I was able to find these pages through Google, which has functionally made page titles the URN of today.

> Given the power of search engines, it’s possible the best URN format today would be a simple way for files to point to their former URLs.

Daniel Bernstein proposes a document ID that can be found in search engines: https://cr.yp.to/bib/documentid.html

I actually started using this before, but found it to be clumsy and stopped using it.

Someone else has suggested a UUID instead: https://lobste.rs/s/xltmol/this_page_is_designed_last#c_nis6...

But that's still clumsy. I'd prefer something shorter.

Perhaps the title of the page is the best option, as people are more likely to have that saved than the UUID: https://lobste.rs/s/xltmol/this_page_is_designed_last#c_0snr...

> I imagine it’d be uncommon for someone has the UUID but not the website saved.
Yup, gotta clean all those bacteria off your hands to avoid a virus, right? Just use hand soap. It's more effective. (yes I know alcohol still kills the virus, but buying hand sani isn't necessary when we already have a more effective tool at pretty much every sink)
"Available" for a price people can't pay is still a reduction in availability.
What happens if you sign it with your name, or modify a single pixel manually?
Now the commodity is neither available nor affordable!
Like I said elsewhere in the thread, you can have the same problem with callbacks:

func receiver(next func() bool, getItem func() Foo) {}

vs

type FooIter interface { Next() bool; Item() Foo }

func receiver(iter FooIter) {}

You're more likely to pass the wrong set of callbacks than to pass the wrong FooIter implementation since the type system doesn't require the callbacks to be related to the same data nor named any certain way.
Is Deutsche Bank technically bankrupt?
Feel free to elaborate.

I suspect any reasons you'll come up with are all still less urgent than the needs of our Earth.

I've heard the argument about learning to control the climate through taraforming (or whatever you want to call it), but I'm completely unconvinced that is an efficient method.

I'd be willing to be convinced otherwise, but I'm very skeptical.
Startup aims to eliminate “skill barrier” by using AI to automate data science
Billboards next to highways are illegal in many countries.
The benefit is you can place hand sanitizer in a lot more locations. Near doors, desks, entrances/exits, conference rooms, etc.

A thorough wash with soap and water is better, but harder to distribute around an office building, hotel, conference center, etc.
People have some flexibility, though, in the price they are willing to pay. So it is not as bad as an empty shelf.
Is starvation really less of an incentive to work than being beaten?
Competition still exerts a downward force on prices, and as the cost of labor increases the cost of developing automation will become more and more attractive to replace it.