skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem with UBI is that why would giving out "free money" change the world?

Say I'm your landlord and you pay me $100/mo for rent. Now you start getting UBI thats $500/mo. Why wouldn't I increase my rent to $200/mo, $300/mo, or even $400/mo? I know that now you can afford the increase. So you'd still have to earn income if you wanted to stay in that place. All I see is prices going up for anything and everything in population centers.

Only option for people who want the benefit of UBI (i.e. freedom to do whatever they want and not worry about working for a living) would be to move in smaller cities/towns where the demand for the housing is already low enough that price hiking wouldn't make sense.

I also feel like UBI would divide the world even more wealth wise. People on UBI wouldn't be able to afford luxury goods or events since thous would be still aimed at the working people and for people to still work they would have to earn significantly more than what they would get on UBI. Putting this in other words: UBI would be the literal bare minimum to keep a roof over your head and food in your fridge. Forget streaming services. Forget eating out. Forget going to movies/concerts/theater.

Easier way is to think UBI as "free meal" tickets and free housing. Which doesn't sound all that appealing.
Gandi – Why we retired the security question
Gateway to Apshai was also early in 1983, though I think it didn't have a level up mechanism. Same pathfinding tricks were required to survive harder monsters.
OT: This website is on a new (to me) level in the cookie wars. After I "change my preferences", which is already hidden behind purposely confusing wording, it has to "save my changed preferences", with a progress counter, that seems to get stuck on 90-something percent for a long time, with a big, handy "cancel" button visible.

It's hard to interpret this as anything other than maliciousness.
Hence why international coordinated action (all countries pricing carbon) is the best option.

Alternatively, carbon tariffs:
https://www.niskanencenter.org/border-adjusting-imported-pro...
I think the number of people that tweet these specific things is vastly exaggerated, a mob tries to attach these opinions to certain groups to have an excuse to hate them, completely neglecting the reality that there isn't a group that justifies a prosecution complex that dictates that certain people should be removed from the public sphere by association. This is why we have this article.

That TV is loosing its audience is no accident and tangentially related.
> If any brown M&Ms were found backstage, the band could cancel the entire concert at the full expense of the promoter.

I really don't think this would stand up in court. Does anyone know of any concerts cancelled due to minor issues with the rider?
A UBI seems to me like an overly complicated way to just give everybody a free food, cloths, shelter, electricity, internet, and medicine. Why don't we just make that stuff free.

Every person can just go to a special Costco like store and spend x credits a month taking whatever they want. That way we can just make that stuff as efficiently as possible, rather than messing with the whole economy.
Many on hn are very similar in interests and behavior, because of shared experiences (same industry, engineer-think). So yes, to some degree it's possible to generalize.
He still does "The Random Show" with Tim Ferriss every now and then: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+random+show
Weren't Andrsessen-Horowitz sponsoring a bunch of research on the topic. Any results?
RISC-V Instruction Set Simulator Built for Education
I hear this argument a lot but it makes no sense to me. Suppose UBI is $12k/year. Then as long as it costs less than $12k to identify a rich person, it’s cheaper to not pay the rich people than to pay everyone.

In fact, we already have any agency that does this for most Americans called the IRS. The budget of the IRS is $12 billion, which comes out to about $100 per taxpayer. The cost of the IRS administering the tax system is less than 1% of the value of the money it raises. The IRS does things like check if people are eligible for credits and deductions they claim, and if they are due a refund. Clearly it’s much cheaper to employ an agency like the IRS to check the numbers than it is to just pay everyone. Increases to the budget of the IRS raise tax revenues, yielding a positive return. And since we already have the IRS, we don’t even need to fund a new agency to do this work for UBI. Compared to the overall cost of the UBI program (trillions of dollars) it would be trivial to fund the IRS to do means-testing. This would make UBI a much cheaper program, so it would be easier to fit into the budget.

I don’t doubt that local welfare agencies are a shitty bureaucracy, and I wouldn’t advocate putting them in charge of UBI.
this is quite impressive. formulas, charts supported out of the box. does it support importing xlsx and exporting to xlsx or pdf?
Learning that surprisingly complex behaviours can emerge from simple rules was a bit of a lightbulb moment for me. The Game of Life is the premier but Schelling's segregation model is one of my favourites.

There are a bunch of these models available in the standard library that ships with NetLogo.

https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
Unfortunately Genode support for RPi 3 seems to be not yet in a working state, and even then I don't know how much it would translate to RPi 4; see:

https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%...

Both seL4 and Fiasco are microkernel names, not full OSes built on those 'kernels, I was asking about OSes. IOW, AFAIU neither seL4 nor Fiasco provide clock or Ethernet drivers for RPi4. Or do they?

As to FreeRTOS, people seem to mention it's not really microkernel-based at all? I am interested in proper isolation, so that a crashed filesystem driver can be restarted without taking down other independent drivers, or unloaded completely on the fly. I will take look on it, from wikipedia alone it's not yet clear to me if it has this feature. Thanks for the mention!
Amdahl's law: formula which gives the theoretical speedup in latency of a task
Tbh, I would be very much in favor of this. I know it's not a popular opinion, but things that pollute this much should not be the easiest/cheapest solution.
Where do you get the unquestionably knowledge, that the poor will suffer the most from a carbon tax?
Capitalism is destroying the planet; no amount of basic income will stop that.
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thanks for this! I never knew something like Ether Calc existed!
Hopefully more shared use becomes a thing. Stick the panels a bit higher, space them out a bit more. No reason why you can't have a mix of livestock and solar panels on one piece of land. Raises the price a bit for now, but everyone wins I guess?
They can do that with other taxes. I don't see the point here.

If we take a flat percentage of the spending and give everyone the same fixed amount, poorer people will profit more than rich people.
Shift Power Reduction Methods and Effectiveness for Testability in ASIC
Not unlike a westerner who visits an exotic foreign country for the first time and looks for a McDonalds for lunch.
Chinese scientist at the center of Covid-19 origin theories speaks out
AmazonBasics won't sell if there is no counterfeiting to force you to buy it.
The Spotify model is similar.

The key difference is that while users pay into the pool, they don’t determine determine how the pool, or their portion of the pool, is distributed. Plays determine distribution, but not a single users plays, all plays.

If all github users donations entered a single pool, and that pool was distributed to projects based on the number of clones each repo received, that would be similar to the spotify model.

But I don’t believe that’s being proposed.

Rather, a user sets up a donation amount, which is then distributed to the projects they include in their “sponsor pool”.
As a contractor, I've experienced a lot of contracts where they explicitly state that any code written on behalf of the client belongs to the client. It's not your code, so you cannot take it with you (legally).
Producers are taxed, however the tax is passed on the customers in the form of increased price. Because the companies costs increased (due to tax) and it wants to maximalize its profit.
I swear there was a real-time game I played over a tty long ago. An ascii shooter, maybe star trek or similar?

At first I thought snake did it, but now I think that might have been move-countermove.
If I have to read about Scratch in a forum specialized in software development then I would have never found it on my own.
I guess I mixed PBH with a regular black hole.
US did fund the Taliban that's true. US has done plenty of meddling in external politics.
I wouldn't compare Hong Kong citizens to the Taliban though. They are not an insurgency group. Hong Kong, as I understand, and I'm no expert, by any standard culturally and historically separate from China. Anybody aiding Hong Kong is effectively not aiding an insurgency group inside China but an independent state being overtaken by a neighboring and a culturally loosely-related country.
What’s with the sadism?
That's true. My point was that if there were a solar mass object beyond Pluto, it would have significant effect on orbits of all planets. But apparently PBHs can be lighter
I don’t think it would matter whether it held up in court, because superstars probably had much more power and leverage than concert venues so the venues wanted to keep them happy.

I also don’t really buy the explanation that brown candy would indicate that the facilities weren’t structurally/electrically safe. I think it’s more likely that the band were just a bunch of spoiled jerks.
Equador did

A superpower creates a block of aligned countries
I miss good `man` pages.
Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism – VPRO Documentary
> the profession of software development is a victim of a hostile takeover from product managers, while pushing engineers out of control of their domain.

This is a good observation, it summarizes very well my feeling on what is wrong with the industry today.

In the 90s in many (most?) companies where the product was tech, engineering was in charge of engineering decisions. This meant that feature requests had to pass a sanity filter which would discard or transform ideas which would compromise the soundness of the security, stability, maintainability and other core architectural considerations.

Today, engineering is reduced to fungible user story jira ticket implementors with no decision making power so the more abstract (to PMs) work such as security will get no attention except as a crisis when it generates bad PR.

(source: working as a security-focused eng/architect since the 90s, on both product engineering and infosec sides.)
Good software engineering doesn't rely on [please pay to access app].
The Things of Everyday Design
Question though: would companies just move to Brazil, which doesn’t have UBI, and save all of the money from the now-even-more-expensive American workers? Maybe not immediately, if there are more skilled workers in the US than Brazil, but over time I’d worry about high value companies just leaving.

So you’d need to prevent that, but in order to prevent it you’d have to become somewhat isolationist, right? Sounds bad.

Though I’m curious if anyone has thought about how to prevent all of the expensive skilled jobs from leaving.
Because the logistics of government bodies trying to guarantee essentials while somehow getting them as efficiently as markets in optimal conditions can is anything but simple.

The IRS sent me a $1200 months ago via direct deposit in the bank account it already had on record for me. Setting up public bank accounts at post offices so every citizen has access and having the tax apparatus that already collects all your financial information reverse the process for 12-24k a year is extremely easy to implement compared to establishing entirely new branches of government.

There might be an argument that the food stamps program can be made universal for a fixed amount for everyone as a compromise position. IE you get 800 instead of 1k a month in UBI but get $200 on an EBT card to buy food with. But a UBI lets you simply abolish the bureaucracy of food stamps altogether.
Somewhat. Like a hash function, it projects some large state space (the hash input/you) onto a different state space (hash digest/2d-surface of a BH). But a hash digest actually has lost information, i.e. it's guaranteed by pigeonhole principle that some two inputs have the same digest, which means you lose the information about which one it was. Whereas a black hole scrambles you, but none of the "bits" are actually erased, just smeared out and projected onto the surface.
The brown M&M's were supposedly a canary that prompted a line-by-line check of the technical specifications of the production for errors, which would then be the grounds to cancel the show. Snopes has a good article[0] on the Van Halen rider.

[0]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
They already do. We don't have to touch a single assembly statement in our entire lives if we don't want to.
That's a good explanation. However, since the particles are in superposition, the act of observation must be conveyed to the other particle, right?
tl;dr

In modern capitalism, a humans worth to society is determined by their ability to consume, not create.

I fully agree with the idea that currently our economy is constrained by demand, because people do not earn enough. I don't believe we can fix this by using an UBI, which would create an even worse power dynamic between rich and poor as well as working and non-working people, but by increasing labours share in generated profit.

See wage share: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wage_share

We need to put more money in peoples hands, instead of shareholders and stock markets. And we need to use money to lift people from poverty, instead of using it generate real estate bubbles.

Send me a message if you have an idea how to do that ;)
I did not suggest to update ruby syntax
Sleep Tech Allows Scientists to Influence Dreams
It is year 2061. I live at the Universal Housing City 14 (or UHC14). Due to rises in housing prices and rent over the years we UBI receivers had to be relocated to these new cities. I was born here as my parents decided to abandon their jobs in favor of pursuing meaning in their lives. Now I can not leave this place. There is no way to earn an income, since everyone here is provided by the UBI and thus no way to pay for education. All of the unskilled labor was automated when UBI laws came to be and first people left factories empty. I am not qualified to do anything in the outside world.
So carbon tax + redistribution towards the poorest (e.g. with the income of said carbon tax). This is not a problem that is technically complicated to solve.
If you went and bought a new car for $50,000 and then needed to return it and get a refund you wouldn't be very happy if the dealer gave you $45,000 back and said "Sorry, the salesperson gets to keep their commission. They earned that money." The dealer wouldn't be very happy if the salesperson said "No, I'm keeping my $5,000. I did my part and I earned that money." If there's a refund then everyone gives their part of the money back.

Apple were part of the transaction, so if there's a refund they should return the money they earned. They can't just ignore the customer's wishes to get the money back, and they can't just pass the loss on to the developer. Neither would be fair.
I like the simple argument made here about UBI enabling efficient consumption.

I worry about three things with UBI though and they're more social than economic.

1. Power Divide - society will be easily divided into two groups: those who depend on the UBI to live and those who don't. The former will be absolutely at the mercy of the latter. We can see this a little bit with the coronavirus relief packages.

2. Predators - individuals and companies will find a way to take your UBI check from you as fast as possible. We can see this in housing where some governments give poor people vouchers for rent. Those vouchers are targeted by slumlords who find a way to give you as little as possible for them. There will be rampant scams and bad behavior in areas where the UBI makes up a larger portion of total income.

3. Charity - let's say we actually give every person enough money for food, housing, and utilities. Some people will mess up. They could spend it all on an addiction or just make a bad investment. Even with UBI they could still end up hungry or homeless. Will we help them? Or will we say "you had your UBI, the rest is on you". This changes the morals of how we treat people in the worst times.

I wish all of the above wasn't true. But I just don't think America can handle UBI and I'm not sure how that's going to change.
In the UK the NCSC[1] also no longer advocate security questions such as these and recommends using MFA to recover lost passwords. Additionally they also advocate non-expiring passwords, as ironically, having to change a password every 30 days actually causes users to use less secure passwords (i.e. Monday1, Monday2, Monday3 etc.).

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[1] https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/
Congress held this hearing as part of their looking at what changes to make to the law / changes to force the companies to make, so maybe they'll look at legislation that would change the situation (for example, some way of forcing Amazon to split "platform provider" and "product creator" into separate companies).

I've no idea if anything at all will come of it, or whether anything that does will be good or bad, but this hearing wasn't just about getting verbal commitments of being good from the CEOs (despite there being several questions did ask for verbal commitments in various areas).
Censorship and Genre Fiction–Let’s Broaden Our Broader Reality
Wages would probably go up under a UBI because workers don’t need to work as badly, giving them more negotiating power.

Your example only applies if there is no market for jobs.
Fair point, updated my comment to give an idea what this is to someone like me who doesn't get right away what this.
I've been wondering - if the black hole was very small (I've read elsewhere that it would be grapefruit sized), would it be possible to build some kind of box around it so you couldn't accidentally go into the event horizon?
Actually, I should point out that my login wallpaper is, in fact, a close-up of a stormtrooper taking fire (a headshot from Rogue One, if I’m not mistaken).

Back when I did customer presentations on site, it was the first thing up on screen when I hooked my laptop to a projector, and it did cut down on the disparaging anti-MS commentary I got from some people (had a grand moment when that kicked in in an auditorium, everyone went quiet for a few seconds).

That and seldom leaving the terminal (except for opening some things in Firefox) were the two main drivers for zealots to stop sneering at what I presented.
I see. That's lighter that Jupiter. Do PBHs have singularity like regular black holes?
1. It feels like you are at risk of some survivorship bias here. Yes, the software that currently exist were apparently made anyway, and is popular enough to be replaced if it went missing. But you have no way to quantify how many possibly useful or innovative OSS projects were never made because of the lack of financial opportunities.

2. I feel the whole idea of this kind of open source patronage / funding is to decouple the market value of the software (which is $0) from the compensation to the contributors for their time and effort (which I think should be above $0 in an ideal world)
Why would they? If they export their goods they get the tax back and if they wanted to import after moving to a different country they'd have to pay at the border.
I've only seen the movie [0] (Blade Runner) so I'm not sure if it was in the book as well, but the Voight-Kampff test is meant to provoke an emotional response in the interviewee. These questions are from the movie (at least partially).

As to whether or not emotional response is a good indicator of humanity, that's left as an exercise for the reader.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Umc9ezAyJv0
Thanks for the tip, we’ll try it out. Yeah no doctor managed to find the cause of the inflammation yet, even after years of tests. Every doctor is like “yeah you should be fine” its kind of infuriating.
It is not:

> ISO gives this explanation of the name: "Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek isos, meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, the short form of our name is always ISO."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for...
How the National Education Policy 2020 Will Change India's Future?
That was also the first artist that came to mind for me when reading "stutterer's song".
So all we need is more and more growth? Screw the climate right? Just give everyone cash and they can buy buy buy!

I think universal income would be a positive thing but based on this explanation of why we need it I’m now not so sure
Netherlands already moved post offices into a small corner shops.

Portugal has been adding more services like telecom and banking.
I'm in a small city of ~40k.

The same sort of shenanigans are happening here.

Amazon is reporting packages as handed over to carrier very early in the morning, but all packages are getting ingress scanned either right before delivery one day later, or about an hour after all the trucks depart with their delivers for that day.

I haven't had a single package of about 8 be undelayed by the USPS in the last two months, and the delay had been two days on some.

It's gotten bad enough that Amazon is shipping to me with UPS a lot more than they used to
You can try sharex. It is a very good and open source screen recording software that allows voice input from external sources like mics.
I was tech lead for an RDF/Linked Data base Library Discovery Interface called Prism.

The dominant Libary Interchange Format is MARC which predates the relational database by a few years, and is a hierarchical document structure. It's possible, but not particularly helpful, to store it normalised in a relational database.

I gave a presentation almost a decade ago about our work. [1]

The takeaway is that Linked Data is just a more natural fit for modelling Library Data, especially when you use external sources like VIAF[2] to help anchor your identifier URI's.

Sadly, whilst RDF has seen some uptake in the library world (e.g. BIBFRAME[3]), the full potential was never tapped whilst I was working in the space. Quad Stores are very fun to tinker with though, and features such as inference and property paths in SPARQL 1.1[4] allow you to do some interesting things that are difficult, or non-idiomatic, in a relational system.

[1] - here: https://www.slideshare.net/philjohn/linked-library-data-in-t...
[2] - http://viaf.org/
[3] - https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/
[4] - https://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-sparql11-query-20130321/#prop...
Without actually writing 'TL;DR' though. A well written email, letter or anything really, usually starts with the gist of the message. "Don't waste people's time" by fluffing up your texts.

(Unless it's a novel, but then the goal is to build up a story to an apotheosis)
Doesn't matter too much for hobby projects though, even if they go EOL there's still plenty on eBay.
The goal is not for it to stand in court.

It's only to act as a canary, kind of a checksum (and I suspect it's not the only one, only the most obvious/curious).

When the band arrives into the venue, they check for canaries: if they see something wrong, it's a good enough reason to trigger a full inspection for serious issues.