skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One argument I often make for UBI over other systems is that it never incentivises not working over working while changing the cost benefit equation such that people are more willing to explore creative and entrepreneurial pursuits.

Obviously there will be some level of misuse of UBI funds but imagine how many more people would be willing to pursue their "dreams" or interests as more than just a hobby.

As for a counter to the WPA style approach, employment in low income jobs can trap individuals in a wealth band more than liberate them from it. Being employed is great but when the choice is work or starve and be homeless, people will choose whatever work is available regardless of the conditions. People may want to move away from a poverty stricken area however are stuck there as they can't afford to move away on top of working all day. With UBI instead, there is much greater social and geographical mobility. You can quit your job and move away from the city into a much more rural region with a lower cost of living. You don't have to fear that your lack of savings will result in starving or being homeless if you can't find a job right away as the UBI should cover the basics to keep you off the street.

Another counter to WPA styled approaches is based on how the jobs are distributed. How easy would it be to get retrained if you are already trained in another field and are dissatisfied with it for one reason or another? Additionally, while not inherent to the system there is a risk that corruption could result in certain groups of people getting better selections from the job pool and other forms of preferential treatment. With UBI instead you can accept a temporary loss of productivity as an individual stops working to retool into a different profession depending on the cost of the training. UBI also largely sidesteps the issue of prejudice or other forms of inequality by largely leaving the labour distribution to the market.

Note: These are ramblings of a man about to pass out for the night so take my comment with as many grains of salt and sugar as you can spare.
Care to enlighten me?
Judging from the chart at p. 11 age is really the dominant factor. Moving the "hazard ratio" from 0.25 (<50) to 10+ (>80). Completely dwarfing other factors such as sex, obesity, and various health problems (that the study has categorised).
Thanks, seems this is the (also outdated) repo: https://github.com/moxie0/knockknock

Yes I suppose one of the forks is better nowadays
> Apple also isn't dogfooding much with Swift.

That's because it didn't have a stable ABI until Swift 5, released last year. Now that it does, a lot of their iOS/iPadOS apps have been rewritten, at least partially but sometimes fully, in Swift; this includes some of their Catalyst apps on Mojave and Catalina.

The only app I know for sure to be fully written in Swift, thus far, is the Apple Developer app (previously called WWDC), but I know there are others (they were mentioned in last year's WWDC sessions).

> Swift UI has been in development for 4 years

I must have missed this. Where did you hear this? I'd love to see more info about that.
But construction jobs are inherently temporary. Sure, they may pay more, but they surely aren't as stable. There's only so many roads and bridges to be fixed in your local area.
There are a ton of studies that show side effects in non-human animals are not a good predictor of side effects in humans; and this becomes more true with rarer side effects.

There is not good correlation of side effects between different animals and failures in phase 1 studies often show that safety data in animals did not predict side effects in humans that became apparent in very small human populations.

So, widespread use in animals can actually harm humans by bubbling up side effects that are not relevant to humans.

Among some safety people, there is even a question of whether there are drugs shelved for animal side effects that would be 100% safe in humans. But if a drug killed half your rats, you cannot ethically start dosing humans with it.
> Also, to any VC's reading this, this guy will spend $1 better, leaner and farther than any team you can name, and he's already demonstrated he has the chops w/this project.

That's the issue... noone's gonna fund a guy who will spend that $1 better... because who wants to read the news about a guy who's startup can raise $150,000 and have that be a six year runway.
Pretty fascinating how much is involved in making a perfect 1kHz wave. The paper mentions metrology. What are these used to measure?
If you think of stocks as a form of currency, given that the dollar and euro are being so heavily inflated, perhaps it makes sense to stay in the markets than convert to cash at a definite loss?
Unfortunately, that video contained some flawed conclusions. I had left a comment back then. Alpha particles from natural sources like an uranium stone penetrate 50 micrometers of solid hard material at most. Let's give it maybe 100 micrometers of soft paper, but that's about it. What was most likely observed in that video is radon, which is a radioactive gas, slowly diffusing out of uranium or thorium stones. Since it's gaseous, it can circumvent the paper and then do its alpha decay just behind it. I wrote a few lines on those aspects in this article https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/19/4264
I've always had this question when UBI comes up, maybe now will have a chance to have an answer.

Total US budget income for 2019: $3.422 trillion.
US population: 328 million.

Assuming that we simply divide the entire budget amongst everyone, we get:

>>> 3.422e12 / 328e6 / 12 = $870 per month

Minumum wage in US is $7.25, so assuming usual 40-hour work week minimum income is about $1300 per month.

So even if US just drops all other concerns - healthcare, military, infrastructure - and just distributes money among the population, then it's still less than 70% than minimum wage. If we assume that only 50% of the budget is spent on UBI (still unsustainable in my opinion) then the number will get even lower.

And that's US, arguably the richest and most powerful country. For other countries this calculation is even worse.

Maybe there's an error in my calculations? How is UBI even supposed to work, where the money should come from?
Reminds me of the weekly clapping for the NHS here in the UK when what they really need is a pay rise and PPE supplies. Sometimes thank you is not enough.

In the case of Amazon this seems much more sinister and cult like. I struggle to believe that any of the warehouse workers buy into it.
I have this same gripe with libzip in C.
>Time to start anti-trust breaking up the 'too big to fail' banks, they are a national security issue and ultimately a bad actor in fair markets.

More like time to stop propping them up. If the government hadn't stepped in to save them during the last crisis, a bunch of those banks would have gone the way of Lehman Brothers.
> I feel ashamed owning shares
Well yes, if you want to distribute binaries to people and keep the source private (like in 90's), copyleft unikernels isn't the way to do that.

Unikernels are viable even if they don't allow you to do that, for many reasons - performance, workload isolation, ease of installation.
Then do not overdose. Tell people to take 1000IE per day, not more. This will have no negative impact on the health or economy, but if we are lucky, it will help reduce the impact of COVID-19.
Shutting down the economy is clearly dangerous, yet enough people do not seem to have a problem with that.
Dismissive responses like this are frowned upon by the HN community guidelines. Give your reasonings, not a snide remark.
Except it isn't human nature, it is culture. Those things are different. You will find that those in scarcity are much more concerned about what is "fair" than those who are well off. This is the scarcity mindset.
If you statically link your software with the kernel, presumably an optimizing compiler will be able to remove most of the kernel from the resulting binary.
Netflix limits video quality on Firefox although you can trick it with an extension. Then there is the fact that hardware accelerated decoding for Linux/X11 hasn't hit yet.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619523

Anyway one valid solution is to add one or more app shortcuts that effectively run chrome/chromium --app=url and collectively treat these chrome specific apps as such. Instead of opening a new tab just click the icon on your bar.

This doesn't quite handle for example links however one could use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-in-chrom... to click on links and send them to chrome for known problematic sites.

This is still way better than in the early firefox/IE days.
In order to finish all of these jobs, it would quite literally take centuries. Again, I have a hard time believing that "things we can pay people to do to improve civilization" is a short list. Green energy, affordable housing, or drinkable water, for example, aren't things that can be solved in five years.
> So if an area needs a power generation station they won't have less money post UBI.

Just less people willing to do the work.

Once you get people on the dole, they will continually ask for more while still doing nothing. And because we live in a democracy, they'll vote in whoever will give them more and more money for free.

How's that for a bombshell that will totally destroy our GDP, happiness, sense of self worth and ultimately our society?
REI garage sales are great too. Picked up some hiking boots for my kid for $30. Even as a scout he grew too fast to wear boots out. And a 2-person summer tent for $45 — someone had broken a pole linkage and returned it. I just drilled it out and threaded a piece of stock and now it works fine, though doesn’t fold up quite the same — so what.
Drop Bears are endemic Australian carnivorous koalas
> but not everyone is in the position where they can release all of their code all the time.

you lost your repository credentials? What prevent you from releasing code "all the time"?
> Don't know where you live but in Europe nobody is forced to clean streets

That really depends on your definition of "forced".

Wage slavery is a thing, even in Europe. Society as a whole is divided into classes where one of them is characterized by how their livelihood is tied to their ability to hold their current job, regardless of how degrading or life-sucking it might be.

UBI would contribute greatly to turn that around, and enable more people to have a shot at a fulfilling life.
> 1) Do we all absolutely get it? That would be fine, unless it starts like that and then it is decided that only some people should get it. I see this as a strong possibility: the rich already have enough, why give them more? This then falls under the usual debate about whether the rich should pay for everyone else.

The whole point is to avoid all the problems of means-testing, application and so on, and just give every citizen the money.

> 2) I would be more open to it if it was run as a one year experiment. A problem with a policy like this is that once approved, it is very hard to take it back if it does not work at scale or unforeseen problems arise. What politician in his right mind would tell the population that they are cancelling the $500 check everyone gets once a month?

Well, if you believe in democracy then democracy should be able to solve difficult problems. If UBI were disastrous, surely a democratic majority could be found to vote against it; to the extent that it remains popular, it can't be going that badly.

> 3) It takes away the need for work. I don't but the "flipping burgers at McDonalds is no better" argument. If UBI solves this problem, then there won't be any more people flipping burgers at McDonalds? That is bad because a lot of businesses will go under. For fast food restaurants to work, someone has to be willing to do that work. The idea that now everyone will be "free to explore more meaningful work" seems far-fetched to me. If everyone gets money, then prices will increase accordingly.

Businesses that rely on a supply of people doing really crappy jobs for very low money will go under, yes. If no-one is forced to flip burgers in order to eat, then if you want a burger you'll have to pay enough to make it worth someone's while to make it for you, or figure out a way to automate it, or do it yourself. The end result would probably be fewer atomised person-as-robot jobs and more people doing their own cooking / cleaning / repairs / childcare / etc.. Would that be so bad?
Other people have offered practical reasons why they aren't really the same programs with the same goals, but in case you're up for getting utopian, some people see UBI as a necessary step as we enter a later stage of capitalism. UBI + reduction of working hours together are two feasible steps to reevaluate life under capitalism. Rather than sticking people in a 40hr/week job in order to survive, these steps give people more agency over their lives and probably improved treatment as workers. Basically you're paying people to live their best lives and breaking down as many barriers as possible for them to do that.
theres a function somebody wrote (acc.ahk) that can detect elements and text in a lot of windows programs. it can click things like the "add to library" button in spotify even when the window is minimised

there is the COM object that detect the same sort of things but in web browsers, but it only works in IE only. for firefox or chrome you would need to use selenium.

maybe these things can detect certain things being clicked as well? i dont know
For all the negativity out there, there is a lot more clarity in challenging bad interpretations. I havent learnt as much online recently as I have in 15 yrs on the net.
I can't tell if you are saying that in support or opposition, but yes - the imbalance in buyers and sellers is what causes the price to move until everything matches again.
One time I bought an AGP riser ribbon cable for a retro build in an SFF case and it was a bad time (it was meant for pci-e). Drivers would fail to start or crash randomly using it.
When I make a system where a unikernel could do the job, I usually want a full OS for program setup and initialization, and then an isolated core for the main loop, sharing (single-writer) memory pages with other, less performance-critical processes for logging, stats reporting, and any needed file system activities.

The makers of top-performing NICs have been quite good at providing direct user-space access to their hardware, typically by exposing a ring buffer in shared memory, and maybe mapping device registers too, so that the process on the isolated core never does another system call until shutdown weeks later.

It is some hassle to get customers to add boot flags (isolcpus=, nohz_full, rcu_nocbs=, rcu_nocb_poll, hugepages=, etc.), and to put any mapped files in /dev/shm or /dev/hugepages so the kernel won't invent excuses to block the procees, and to direct irqs to other cores; but unikernel setup is probably not simpler.

So, I'm not sure what a unikernel would get me. Portability, or independence from proprietary drivers?
They also prefer tourists [1].

[1] https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2013/04/drop-be...
Sure, and I think that's a noble goal, but it sort of ignores the fact that we have a lot of serious problems which would benefit from more workers and resources. Climate change isn't just going to solve itself and certainly a WPA-style program to build mass transit systems across the country would go a long way toward fighting it.
> Only Congress can direct the Treasury to issue payments directly to citizens.

Doesnt the Senate have to approve the deal?
Oh, I wasn't complaining about this particular article — I was describing how I avoid running into the problem the article complains about (i.e. someone else interpreting the results of the study for me, thus influencing my opinion and behaviour) by going directly into the study (when available) myself :)
It's like the author doesn't know you can bet on the stock market falling.

They certainly don't explain what people are actually betting on.

It makes total sense to bet now. The incumbants are fish out of water. Their algorithms isn't built for this.

Does it make more sense to compete in a normal decade long stable market against billion dollar companies? That's stupid.
I may not understand what you mean by dithering. The 2nd picture https://www.lexaloffle.com/media/1/44_m7kenji_2019.jpg has plenty of dithering to give shading effects, so it seems to me. There's lots of 'chessboarding'. Look at the tulips for example, isn't that dithering? Also it's done to soften some edges using white/light grey, though there's less of that that I can see.
Would you switch your current job to work as a street cleaner? Or a garbage collector? Or a McDonald's server?
Is there someone that's more credible about Tesla? He does run the company... The company is the only one who would have that data.
It may also explain why every year Corona Virus related infections appear in November and end in May.[1]

Also, SARS 1 ended at the beginning of June 2002. There is clearly a correlation that needs to be looked into.[2]

[1] https://www.medscape.com/answers/302460-86798/what-are-the-s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
I’ve said it before and I won’t tire of saying it:

»Gut, das ist der Pfennig! Und wo ist die Mark?«

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ihb2XqEsa4g

The same bullshit is happening everywhere. In the German Bundestag MPs gave standing ovations for care workers. Meanwhile those continue to slave away for pennies, now more precariously than ever, while the next items on the MPs agenda are bailouts for airlines and fucking car manufacturers.

We can’t live without the care people and we don’t want to live without the fulfillment slaves. »Sie schulden euch Glück und Leben.« They should have huge leverage, especially in these times, why will they not organize?
All built by the government by workers who couldn't get any other job!

Why not have the government plan everything? We won't even need money anymore! Everyone works to the extent of their ability, for the common good, comrade!
In the meantime in France, unions are holding Amazon accountable.
don't forget to create an electron app for it
No European country has implemented any form of UBI, nor do they intend to.
Sadly few browsers support extensions on mobile, which is possibly where dark mode is most useful.
I’m genuinely interested in what people who think of amazon as an evil company think it should do.

It hardly ever makes a profit. Any profit it makes is from AWS usually.

It is popular because it’s so cheap, which is why people buy there. So really the solutions can only be:

1. Raise prices and consumers suffer
2. Keep wages low and workers suffer
3. Stop existing.

I wonder how many people who complain about amazons working conditions don’t shop there and buy the same product for a higher price elsewhere. I’d guess not many.
Full disclosure: I have only briefly fiddled with unikernels. And in all honesty, I think there could be a good real life application for them. But the biggest problems I see is that even though they have been around for a while, building them is still incredibly complex and time consuming and there isn't a core community behind them and looking at it, it seems like they are starting to suffer from the javascript syndrome - hundreds of single maintainer or micro-communities doing their own thing and putting a sticker("unikernel" in this case) on top. As I said I haven't paid a whole lot of attention to them and I'm hoping someone is addressing these issues.
Agreed. Where could we get the tax money to make those pay rises from? hmmm
I've been using FF preview for the last month or two. I'm not in love with the UI, just like desktop Firefox, it's a bit tacky. But the reason I switched was because it's the only browser that allows mobile extensions and syncs bookmarks with my desktop. I'm waiting eagerly for the "I don't care about cookies" extension, since browsing the internet from my phone has become a chore since GDPR. But even with only a few available extensions, mobile extensions in Firefox are the one thing that has me hanging on to using it as my primary mobile and desktop browser.
Another issue with dithering is keeping it stable when things are moving - cf Lucas Pope's struggles with Obra Dinn[1]

[1] https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374...
We shouldn't be telling people to overdose on Vitamin D, obviously. I dread the day that Donald Trump mentions "Vitamin D", but then again even a massive overdose of Vitamin D isn't going to be life-threatening.

The generally safe amount is 4000 IU daily, which should get almost everybody to healthy levels. However, if your doctor finds that you have low levels, he may prescribe far higher amounts for a while.
Which creates a moral hazard, why should the honest person pay back the loan next time during a similar crisis?
Which European countries have a basic income?
"... which can't be said about most modern websites."

While I understand and agree with your point, I have personally found this quoted portion to be a false assumption.

To me, "works" means I can retrieve the content of the page without using JS. If the websites we are discussing are ones where the primary purpose is reading, like HN, most will "work" for me without JS, so long as I do not rely on try using a "modern browser" to retrieve the content. In fact, I cannot even think of a single website meant for reading that I cannot read without a Javascript-enabled browser.
The crucial part of the paper is that they:

• Added a new kernel configuration option to allow theuser to select if he/she wants to compile the Linux kernel as UKL.

• Added a call to an undefined symbol (protected by an #ifdef) that can be used to invoke application code rather than creating the first userspace process.

• Created a small UKL library which has stubs for syscalls. These stubs hide the details of invoking the required kernel functionality now that the regular interface (i.e.,the syscall instruction) is no longer used.

• Changed glibc so that instead of making syscalls into the kernel, it makes function calls into UKL library.

• Changed the kernel linker script to define new segments such as thread local storage (TLS) segments which are present in application ELF binaries.

• Added a small amount of initialization code before invoking the application to replace initialization normally done by user level code, e.g., for network inter-face initialization.

• Modified the kernel linking stage to include the application code, glibc and UKL library to create a single binary.

Basically, I think the idea is you get all the linux syscalls (+ filesystems... + network stack... + hardware support... + everything) for 'free'. Sure you'll have a pretty large binary, but you won't have to write anything.
it makes no profit yet Bezos is the richest man in the world by some margin?

How can you buy into that narrative.

The no profit book keeping is just a way to avoid paying tax.

As a shareholder I would rather see them pay fairer wages, be taxed appropriately and have a slower rate of growth.

If the cost of scaling at the speed they scale comes from unethical business practices then the answer is to scale slower, not exploit the worlds poorest and most vulnerable so that Jeff, myself and a load of other privileged capitalists can get even wealthier.
If you are a lawyer and can’t write you probably wouldn’t be able to sell yourself as a lawyer. However being able to write doesn’t make you a lawyer.

Same with the guestbook. It may even work. But on the inside it’s a pile of unmaintainable crap.
I don't know. Sometimes a job is just things like cleaning the portable toilets at job sites. I'm not sure there is much pride in that. I'm not even sure there are lots of useful skills there.

Sometimes work is just work, and not everyone gets pride from "A job well done".