skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean, why advertise what the price is? Or give it away too cheaply? I don't understand the idea of not advertising the price... is it basically to charge each customer a custom price?
Why does his choice for how to spend his time offend you so much that you need to directly, overtly insult him for it?

Do you feel a need to control him because his values apparently differ from your own? Fortunately there is no one right way to live, no singular correct set of values.
You'd rather that CEOs perjure themselves?
Land and resource taxes replacing all taxation would solve a lot of problems in general in my opinion.

We'd punish wasteful consumption and resource speculation and reward productivity (by not taxing it!)
Now the TI calculators have banned user code, I wish there was some alternative device available that uses the ez80 processor.
But for the inferences you've made (e.g. the # of distinct cab types is relatively small) you need knowledge of the whole data. What if someone uses the wrong column name? Getting the correct summary of data quickly is easy -- if you already know the answer.

Something like `count(*)` needs to work well where you have no idea at all about the data.
While I have a vague intuition from an economic point of view you are correct,(I am not a finance guy) I take issue with the name of the product.

Savings. Generally advertised as helping your money grow. It isn't advertised as a "Slow draining of value" account.
> This is happening because we’re reaching the end of the current stage of capitalism and need a new paradigm for the 21st century.

Can anyone explain how to find the end of capitalism? Is there a finishing line or is there just a theme which suggest I am getting close?
"Work" means we know we're doing something valuable to society because someone in society is willing to pay for it. If we're doing something nobody values enough to pay for then we may well be contributing nothing of value to society.
Something about this topic...Can someone, you know, do the math.

So what, say everyone over 18 gets 2k month * 12 = 24k per year. There’s roughly 250 million such people in the US.

Who do we tax to make that happen? Or do we just add it to the debt.
This is why ActiveSupport (Rails) has Hash#with_indifferent_access and people use it all over the place.
The credit card tests had unique network patterns we could block.

We lowered our online donation limit. Above a certain amount it really is more ideal for a check or some other type of transaction. Though we've had a few people offer to just pay the 3% transaction fee on top of the multiple thousand dollar donation. For those we do a bit more manual process.

For a cost, Stripe also lets you put some additional rules on what type of payments you'll allow & how much info the person has to verify for the payment to be accepted.
I am opposed to UBI. I want smart people to have more money. I want less smart people to have less money, provided they have enough to live on. A smart person might invest in books, study and self improvement. Then those industries that create these will be stimulated. That is what you want. Less smart people might spend their money on lottery tickets, junk food, booze etc. Those industries would be stimulated by UBI and that is what you do NOT want.
I came to this conclusion when my state had its first statewide lottery drawing. They interviewed all the final contestants. And when they interviewed the biggest idiot of the bunch, I told the person next to me that he would be sure to win. And that person did. And I had visions of him running out with the winnings and buying expensive sports cars, drinks etc. I was sure the money would be gone in a month. And the net effect was that a lot of poor people lost money on their lottery tickets and the money went up in smoke.
This is the economy of Star Trek.

The people on space ships all have a form of UBI and choose a profession so that they can accomplish something of meaning. Space exploration is one of those.

But others turn to art, literature, etc.
> Your assumption is that Amazon, the middleman, must exist.

You don't think stores should exist? How do you justify that?

>If Best Buy, a brick and mortar, were anything like Amazon, they would be under investigation as well.

I don't see how they are so different. Both are stores that sell third and first party items. BB even does significant online business. Care to explain?
Radioactive leaks/accidents -- they will be orders of magnitude less of a problem than fission, in the worst case, but people are innumerate, so they'll still object.
If working for what I have is privileged, then that privilege is available to anyone.

I didn’t graduate high school, my dad waited on tables to raise me. Get out of here with your privilege crap.
Trillions? It's a tiny planet and people would have less than 20 square meters to live on. Do you have a plan for how to feed these people?
I think it could mostly be automated. Your tax filing from the previous year is put in a system and can figure out if you get money. They could even do an equation based on cost of living and other factors like number of dependents. They could either send out a check or direct deposit it.

If something changes (like a job loss) you submit a form and they send you the money. They can figure out if you owe them the money back on your next tax filing.

This does work for children since they would be counted as a dependent. This would probably change your tax filing which could change the calculation.

This would also work for elderly since they would still be filing taxes.

It would be easier to do it universally but it would likely cause other issues like more inflation.
My money is on GTP-3 and it’s descendants eroding the ability to discern fact and even deliberately written fiction, from machine generated junk.

As these models get used to drive summaries and other text processes their pseudo-meaning will creep out from a kind of textual uncanny as everyone gets used to it... eventually it becomes dangerously difficult to glean actually useful knowledge from repeatedly reprocessing the now polluted corpus of “real world text” and we get some real world consequences, much like the failure of engineering at NASA to convey the risk of launching Challenger in the cold, when forced to summarise it to a single slide it conveyed the opposite meaning to management. When we stop doing the summary ourselves were in for trouble eventually.
Everyone thinks they deserve a dollar and can never imagine that the relative value of their code is effectively zero no matter how much it solves a particular problem.

>Big projects — operating systems, frameworks, CMSs, or fully self-hostable applications — are in a privileged position to extract more value from their users, especially corporate ones

Big projects aren't privileged to extract more value. They're privileged to solve enough of a problem for enough people that the scraps thrown their way amount to a meaningful warchest. Corporate big projects are privileged to extract wealth. That's the part that pays crazy SWE salaries.
I've worked across a wide range of industries over several years, and it's always been pretty similar. You should be building the business constraints into your types so that errors in the business logic become errors in the types - in my experience if you actually work with the type system then most errors become type errors. If you've got examples of the kind of errors you're talking about then I could try to be more specific.
https://play.aidungeon.io/

The paid model of Dragon in the settings uses GPT3. You don't have access to playing around with the parameters, but by using the custom prompt is still really amazing.
How does this deal with the border-adjustment problem? I used to be a strong supporter of carbon taxation, but ultimately concluded that a good policy (that doesn't have perverse incentive consequences for imports/exports) would be an extremely difficult policy to implement, and beyond the current scope of support for climate policies.
CCPA Opt Out Tool
Wish they had released their lawn mowing robot this year. Another covid death.
I’ve beaten zelda without picking up the sword on the first screen.

There are definitely more “normal” choices to be made. Should you level up with heart containers, or get better at not dying, for example?
I think the timescale matters. I agree when out of work for a few weeks or months most people will take time to relax and do nothing. But when you don't have to work for a longer period of time (say 6+ months) many people will get bored of just consuming and start making more productive use of their life.

I don't have evidence to back this up though, I would be interested in seeing this studied.
> With the sole exception of one bootable tool vendor who added custom code to perform a signature verification of the grub.cfg config file in addition to the signature verification performed on the GRUB2 executable, all versions of GRUB2 that load commands from an external grub.cfg configuration file are vulnerable.

Perhaps the ability to sign grub.cfg should be added to GRUB2, and this feature should be enabled by default.

Though this would mean rather than allowing users to enter arbitrary kernel boot options (and being able to leverage buffer overflow exploits), a bunch of preset menu items would have to be present. Alternatively, this signed grub.cfg can have its boot menu password-protected. (If I recall correctly individual menu items cannot be password protected.)

Lowering the GRUB2 attack surface area is a good idea, so hopefully these suggestions get deeply considered.
> “provided they have enough to live on”

That is the entire point of a UBI.
I've been playing around in https://play.aidungeon.io/
If you select the paid Dragon model in the settings, that uses GPT3.

The interface is more limited, cause you can't play around with the parameters that appearently people that have access to the api can.
> Today our debt is sold to savers in China, and to other hard working individuals across the world.

No it isn't. The overwhelming majority of our debt is sold to other Americans. US debt is $26 trillion. Foreigners only hold $6 trillion of that.
I agree with all of your points, including the fact that I do not have supporting data.

Just keep in mind that the people who are really good at skirting prescription drug laws do everything to make their operations look innocuous. They use regular family practices and they dont fill any more controlled substances than any other family practice by percentage of perscriptions. You're never going to see these people showing up in any reports, there won't be any supporting data.
Isn't a government bond basically equivalent to inflation? That would mean you have a risk-free way to get "inflation" returns, with the caveat that you can't access the money for a period of time. Although I guess you can argue that "tying up" the money is a form a risk, and almost certainly a luxury some poor people cannot afford.
A few other tips:

1) A reminder that when you have a foreign key, such as Order table has a UserId column, and UserId has a FK to User -> Id table, there is an implicit lookup that will happen on the Order table if you attempt to delete a User, to validate its deletion wont violate the Order UserId FK.

For example:
DELETE FROM User WHERE Id = 1

This will require the database to first check that won't violate a FK on Order.UserId:

-- Implicitly (something like this) is done to validate UserId = 1 is not in use on Order.UserId that has a FK to User.
SELECT Count(*) FROM Order WHERE UserId = 1

This can lead to poor update/delete performance on the User table (if the row was deleted or the User.Id was ever changed-- a convoluted example), unless you remember to place an index on Order.UserId column to help with FK enforcement.

2) If you use SQL Server, and you have a large table, and a few times a month for some reason queries that were working fine yesterday suddenly timeout, but then start to run quickly again for a while, its probably because of SQL Server suddenly deciding to recalculate statistics for its optimizer, and the query that is timing out, is the lucky query chosen to require the recalculation to happen first.

The recalculation usually involves SQL Server scanning the table before proceeding ahead with your query, and if the query times out, its re-computation of stats is rolled back (so it keeps failing, until it eventually gets to complete the query).

A workaround that has worked for us is to enable asynchronous statistics, so that the re-computation won't block the query that happened to trigger the re-computation in the first place:

https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2904/sql-servers-auto...
For online processing, 3% is by no means above market.

For example, the default price on Stripe (and many others) is 2.9% plus $0.30. For a business with an average order value of $30, that $0.30 adds a full percent, bringing your fees to nearly 4%.

If you do high enough volume, yes, you can negotiate lower prices.
According to their 'memoirs' they made a dialup connection to Finland in 1989: second link from 'History' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOS_(ISP)
T-cells work kinda like that, but as is typical in biology, the devil is in the details.

https://askabiologist.asu.edu/t-cell
Sponsor pools sounds a bit like snowdrift:

https://snowdrift.coop/
I agree there would be inflation, but how much and where it would present aren't clear.

The highest paid jobs (eg. CEO) inflate very little and the lowest page jobs inflate quite a lot. There is currently an anti-inflation effect in the lowest paid jobs when inflation would help these workers have a better living.

Jobs thought of as "minimum wage jobs" in the USA (eg. hourly workers at McDonalds) pay a decent living in Denmark. They don't have runaway inflation. We should examine why there is a such stark difference in expectation between the USA and these other countries.

That said, I don't think UBI is the only way to solve the issues I care about. I might be satisfied simply by easier and fairer access to existing welfare programs (which are already subsidizing those low-wage employers).
Not enough. What are the penalties for entities misusing my information provided to them by Google?
I was wrong about this. Each of the 4 got hit pretty hard at times.
I wonder how hard it would be to automate the garbage man job?
GDP isn't just physical goods produced it includes services which make up a large portion of the GDP of most advanced countries. These don't inherently require resources beyond energy and people's time so GDP can continue to grow.
Yeah, it's crazy, I feel like it's been some kind of pre-programmed talking point. Say with a 10% VAT, even if you eat all of that in sales tax (which you won't, companies will eat it too), you'd have to spend 120K+ a year to offset, say, $1K/month UBI.
Consumption based taxes are regressive, not progressive, though, even if the rich consume more in absolute terms. The key is they consume less in relative terms.
> which is a big source of emissions

Slight tangent: 2% globally[1], 3% domestically[2] is big?

[1] https://www.iata.org/en/programs/environment/climate-change/

[2] https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-the-growth-in-gr...
My point on trusts is that very few people consider them and wind up in the default arrangements. Which are less than ideal.

But setting up an explicit trust arrangement needs to be done with great care as well, especially since trust laws vary from place to place.
Also it's a donation not a contract.
By that definition, if you want to be realistic about it, every OS vendor with regular software updates has the ability to do anything they like on any device they like.
Actually, no. People need jobs to occupy their time with something "good" and productive. Otherwise they will fuck around and do stupid shit. This is severely exacerbated by the existence of social networking, as well.

I will agree that people do not need to work as much as they currently do, but they do need to be useful to society. Idle hands are devil's workshop. That much should be clear as a day by now, even to the skeptics.
Most estimates on a carbon tax raise at best $200B a year in the US. For the ~150M adults, that would be a UBI of about $100 a month. Not much of a UBI. It’s also paid by the same people as explained elsewhere in this thread.

Tell me again how this works?
All the same, why would American savers want the dollar debased?
It's a blurry thing, like how Europe slowly moved from Feudalism to Capitalism over a period of time.
Separate files make sense if you consider typing a form of coupling. I pitched the idea for something like RBS in Ruby back in 2006.

The reasoning is here: https://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=1559...
Honestly I was moreso relating it to my meal plan in college. I didn't have to jump through any hoops to get food, but yes I was limited as to what I could buy. It was far from steak and lobster everyday, but I also didn't starve :)
>One could read as many books as they like. Learn to play an assortment of musical instruments. Learn woodworking. Sailing. Write novels. Compose songs. Complete their magnum opuses. Master languages. Study art. Create art. Improve their athleticism. And so on.

Those would all be very fun things to do, but very self-focused. I'd love to spend my life writing a novel, except it'd probably be a pretty shitty novel, and it'd be hard for me to find satisfaction in having spent my life on something that contributed very little value to anybody else in society. At least with work I know somebody values what I'm doing.
While I kind of get what you're saying, mortgage/rent, clothes, cars, and food are necessities. :)

This sounds a bit like the Mr. Money Mustache philosophy -- live very cheaply, save like crazy, retire early -- which is all great advice, but elides the level of fortune involved, e.g., getting and keeping a high-paying job straight out of college, having no college debt, quickly marrying someone else who also has a high-paying job and is down with both combining incomes and practicing Extreme Thriftiness with you. IIRC, he made the rather bold claim that he could both live and retire on $25K a year -- which is something a lot of people would, well, prefer not to do. With all respect to Picasso, I'd at least prefer to live as a middle class man with a rich man's money.
There are a lot of people here dissenting on the idea of UBI on the premise that they find meaning in work, and to take the incentive to work away will lead others (themselves included) not to have meaning in life.

I’ve taken a year off of work to start a business that failed and spent the past few months hanging out with my kids. At first, my stress levels were high because daycares were shut down and I was panicking about my business. When I accepted the fate of my business, I chilled out and just hung out with my kids. These past few months were amazing. I loathe finding a new job now. Instead, I’ve built a mechanical keyboard, explored streaming, learned how to cook, read useless books, and learned how to be present.

I see the choice of UBI as: “do I toil away for the wealthy class? Or do I took away for myself?” No way will I toil for someone else if I had a choice.
For my engineering college tests I wasn’t allowed to use my TI84, I had to use a non programmable model.
We're gonna need computers there so we will ship some 10th gen Intels to use as heaters.
Have you checked out flossbank, it feels like an automated version of what you’re describing
> provided they have enough to live on.

That's what UBI does.

> running out with the winnings and buying expensive sports cars, drinks etc.

I'm not entirely sure if you know what UBI is. It is not giving everybody enough money to buy a sports car. By a long shot.

> Less smart people might spend their money on lottery tickets, junk food, booze etc.

That's an incredibly narrow minded view. It is also irrelevant, unless your intent is that your 'less smart people' have so little money, they are homeless. The general idea behind UBI is that 'subsistence level' workforce at its base isn't going to change a whole lot in buying power. They can elect to stop working entirely and still live decently enough (but certainly not if they spend it all on lottery tickets. Junk food tends to be cheap; if anything, UBI will help there) – this is good, as it pressures business that can automate, to do so, vs. making someone spend their life doing an easily automated job.
My intuition is that a carbon tax should fund energy research. That way we can stop using carbon emitting energy sources.
Rather than UBI, why not add supplemental salary to important industries? Instead of handing out a ton of money for free, we could ask citizens to work in the industries with the best long-term pay-off for the economy, things like education, research, maintenance, infrastructure, healthcare, environmental restoration, energy improvements, etc.

If these jobs were more highly paid, our brightest minds might be pulled there instead of to companies whose goal is to capture our attention and display ads. And an influx of talent and more workers to these areas would surely improve quality of life, resiliency to future epidemics, literacy, belief in science, etc.
How would that work? If the public key is baked into the signed grub, the only person who can sign the config is whoever built grub. If the keypair is generated locally and the public half put on the ESP, an attacker can just replace it. Signed config works if you never need to modify the config, but for a general purpose OS you need to be able to modify the config.
The entire point of the UBI is to provide enough to live on.

Assertion: capitalism 1.0 as implemented in the US today, rewards sociopathy more than intelligence or work ethic ( or any other sort of ethic for that matter).

Sociopathy I use loosely in both its narrow technical, and lay, uses.

Lemma: many of the current "unicorns" lionize sociopathy under the pithy cover of "breaking things," such as laws, not least through exploitation of societal and legal zero-days. Their fully disclosed business model has been to exploit the slow response time of legal and societal remedies long enough to burn VC buying customers and building a defensible monopoly.

The point of the UBI is to provide a defense of last resort for citizens of one of the wealthiest, and rapidly stratifying and polarizing, cultures on the planet.

We are likely agreed that it shouldn't be the only and first source of income,

but it should absolutely be the last.

That it would also help prevent the absolute devastation looming from this pandemic, not least by allowing businesses to remain solvent during black swan events,

makes it more pressing, and obviously beneficial, than ever before.

For my next rant, I'll address why single-payer healthcare is in the same situation.
Also, it sounds close to a limit where a buyer would need to get the purchase approved. I don't know what common approval limits for team spending are, but sales will be easier if people don't need to go through a long process to get it approved.
We pay more per pupil in our urban districts than any other western nation. If the money isn’t going to teachers, it’s going to the horrible and inefficient bureaucracy surrounding them. I suggest taking the $15 to $22k we pay per student (depending on the city) and giving it to parents to choose how to spend it instead. I guess I’m the crazy one?
You seem to be reacting against the term "privileged" in a way I didn't intend. I don't mean to say that they have some unfair advantage. They just have a more foundational role in the tech stack of the products built on top of them, so companies have a bigger incentive to keep the wheels turning.
I'm not sure what you're advocating here.

That the threat of being homeless forces people to work, against their will? - and that this is better than the alternative for a significant chunk of the populace?

Maybe. That seems quite narrowminded. It certainly is [citation needed].
get power strips, plug all the things into them, and just unplug those at night?