skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually we switch from Github URLs to the project's home page. But in this case there doesn't see to be any information, just a screenshot and links to download/install. HN readers tend to want more information than that.
Two issues here:

Models like these existed. Flattr and Liberapay. The latter had to switch away from the pooling model because turns out when you do the pooling you essentially become a bank and that’s difficult to do legally.

Those models only work if users actually visit your website or your Github. I’m developing an app targeted at end users and I bet 90% of them have never been on Github or even know what that is.
Sure we need to, this is not anything goes land.
How much tax? What if they also have a pollution tax?

What if they don't, are all exports going to be more expensive now in comparison with countries without this tax?

What if they claim to have a pollution tax but are lying at the state level?

It gets really complicated really fast.

If pollution is taxed at the source how do you calculate how much of a refund to give when exporting? Probably no one can even calculate that for you.

And not giving a refund would destroy exports which is an obvious problem.
Hehe I guess this is subjective, but I tend to write mostly in American English, and I tend to use the "modernized" forms of words like monologue, hence monolog. As far as I know most dictionaries recognize it as a valid version of the word, anyway.
dbt (data build tool) is awesome for managing this.
Not outside the realm of possible, but why do that if you can achieve the same goal in subtler ways? 2000 was a “close call” because 10s of thousands of people in primarily-black communities in florida had their voting infra degraded to the point of uselessness. Voting infra is a proven strategy to tip the scales towards the kleptocrats
The basic problem with funding a universal income with a carbon tax is that the graphs are pointing in the opposite directions.

Population is going up, and inflation is carefully managed to be persistently slightly positive, so you'll need to grow the nominal size of the UBI fund every year. But taxing carbon emissions will result in decreasing carbon emissions; in fact, this is the entire purpose of taxing it! So your revenue from taxes will go down as your outlays go up.

Philosophically, a universal basic income is intended to be a "forever" government program, like Social Security or Medicare. In contrast, we hope to bring our carbon emissions down dramatically and keep them down. Funding a forever program with a revenue source we hope goes away does not seem like good long-term planning to me.
as another datapoint, I don’t think those riddles particularly good; their answers seem nonsensical, or in the case of the first two, even to posses qualities entirely opposite those the riddles require.

E: referring to the three in your edit.
And is a toasty -230 degrees C on the surface. Just think - all those trillions of people could sunbathe without even breaking a sweat.
And he will get the same UBI as any other american, so proportionally to his wealth he's much less affected by the UBI stimulus
Doesn't the state already provide the basic living necessities for anyone who demands it? And somehow it's possible to pay for it already?
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I like this idea! I had a similar one a while back https://giuseppegurgone.com/github-sponsors-oss-sustainabili...
I've had this happen too, but I think it just changed something in the efivars, grub itself was still there and still operational, even though it didn't show up in the available boot options.

The workaround for me was the "boot from file" boot option, where I would be able to walk the directories in the efi partition and start grub. Once this was done, it was back in the boot option list.
Amazon's third party seller fees aren't trivial even for their FBM service. Amazon labels don't incur this cost just like B&M retailers don't have to pay slotting fees to to get their products on their own shelves. However other retailers charge this fee because shelf space is a scarce resource. Amazon doesn't lose this revenue when adding their items to the product listing.

Amazon also has 50% of e-commerce marketshare and nearly double Walmart's share of all retail sales.
This is trivial to solve: the testing centers can purchase and maintain whatever model of calculator they wish to.
For those who have trouble with the link:

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The opening statements by the chair during the hearing made me guffaw. The basis of his accusations was that big tech conducted surveillance and that they had too much power.

How ironic that it's the federal government accusing them, the same government which persistently conducts (illegal) surveillance and wields far too much power
Why would it be easier to abuse? If anything, the “universal” part is even clearer since it’s right there in the name.
Yeah, sorry. I should be clear: I didn't in any way mean to imply that a carbon dividend would come close to being a UBI, just that it works the same way: a fixed chunk of money for everyone, every month/quarter/year. A nano-UBI, really. We'll still need a real UBI.

I also don't want to imply that the bill in question is primarily concerned with wealth redistribution or UBI. Its main objective is to allow the free market to find the most cost-effective solutions to emissions reductions.

We've had such a carbon fee and dividend program in Canada for 1.5 years now and yes, by and large poor people benefit more than rich people for the reasons outlined by Thorrez.
This is plainly untrue.

Hold a finger up in front of a torch, and look at the size of the shadow cast. Move the finger closer to the torch, and watch the shadow area increase.

A shadow is always larger than the light-facing area of the object blocking the light. This is true even of your own shadow in sunlight, even though your distance from the light source means the change is so tiny you don't even notice it.
I'd say support in distros. With grub you can throw pretty much any distro onto your machine and it will show up (except Solus) . Also I don't think you can just choose which bootloader you want in most distros except Arch and Debian if I remember correctly. You can do that manually of course, but grub is easy and it works.
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NYC schools spend more than $20k per student and get lower standardized test results and GPAs than Idaho which spends $5k per student. Lack of money is not the problem. The spending model is.

I don't think people appreciate how much is spent on public schooling in the US. According to data collected by the Federal Government, it's an average of nearly $15,500 PER student PER year. That's an enormous amount of money and the results don't show. I don't think throwing more and more money at it is the solution to government bureaucracy and waste.
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what if we knew how old black holes were. we don't. not directly. we cannot 'age test' black holes.
hawking radiation is mostly bullshit.
blackholes may be like diamonds. they are forever. but when were they born?

we've only seen a neutron start or black hole born last year for the first time. and we really don't even know which one it was.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/birth-of-a-black-hole-witn...

there is a LOT of good experimental observation science left to do . let alone all the 'simulations' we have to run.

the fact is, we know precious little about our own outer solar system let alone black holes, the closest of which we know is 3300 light years away, ---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A0620-00----

this is not even anywhere close to our local area of the galaxy, which is 50-100 light years radius from our sun.

the truth is , while all this science is awesome, we have a proclivity to believe we have more certainty in our knowledge than we do. and no where is this procilivity more often seen as exaggerated , than in astronomy, where the physics of space time and distance work against our understanding reality more than in any other area of study.
Why does the mob burn down restaurants? To send a message. They know they’re above the law. And if they pull this off, they’re invincible.
No, it isn't. There is no secret magical end-run around Say's Law.
Same way we legislate privacy ? Our shopping data should be just as anonymous as browsing and PII perhaps more so . This is not much different from GDPR type regulation ?.

How do we make companies follow it is different issue altogether . First step is the make liability exposure high for violating (like COPA ?) and provide consumes right to access what they have on you.

There is no technical way privacy of this or any other kind can be guaranteed, companies internal controls are always going to be opaque and data collection looking from the interfaces we can audit may not visible .

We can only make it higher risk legally and give consumers frameworks to make it easier to expose violations
Also absolutely wrong. The fact that it stops scaling at millionaires would only be worthwhile discussing if a large share of the population were billionaires.
"This tax works great for 99% of the population, but there are some billionaires that should be taxed higher" is more of an endorsement than a counterargument.
*WTO, not WHO
"With respect to UBI, the amount of revenue needed to sustain anything other than a token payment is ... orders of magnitude more than could ever be raised by any realistic tax, actually, but that’s rather beside the point."

I disagree strongly that the cost for UBI would be untenable in the general context.

For example nordic countries already have UBI in all but name due to all the support the society gives to those in need. We just don't call it UBI because it's split to several parts. And there is political opposition of course based on the strawman that UBI "would make people lazy". Maybe in some "other" cultures it would (I have no idea where, though), but not in the nordics. So no those in need are forced to go humbly from government desk to the next.

"It’s fine to like UBI .. but acting as though either of them would have a significant positive economic impact is completely unsupported by either theory or evidence"

Disagree again. Poverty reduces peoples life outcomes. Having a scheme that reduces generational poverty will improve educational results, thus increasing life time wages, thus increasing consumption and taxes.

" there’s certainly no reason to link them as part of a single policy."

Strongly agreed! UBI and carbon tax should have nothing to do with each other.

(Sorry, I cropped a bit your comment.)
Approach things slowly. With your every PR send small improvements, make sure people do review your code.
Also brief it during stand-ups
It was a great choice for XML... I've used XSLT to transform schemas into code many times.... (related: XSLT is more readable than JSON equivalent 'jq')
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no it wouldn't because the other planets affect our orbit and the collapse of the sun would affect mercury and venus very directly in their orbits.

also the black hole polar jets would be beautiful, imagine a dark sun with two long well lit streamers cutting both ways across the sky. we'd all be dead, but it would be beautiful
> Carbon taxes unquestionably fall hardest on the poor

the central point of your argument is flawed: the rich use orders of magnitude more carbon than the poor do.

further: even if it were true, the goal of a carbon tax is not to be progressive, but to disincentivize fossil fuel production, and to drive behavior toward less harmful alternatives.
I was really hoping there were questions for Tim Cook about allowing side-loading on iOS and iPadOS, as Android allows. If I missed it, please let me know.
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I think what he means is if you give some one $1000 for free, they will only do a job that pays say $2000.

Because people want more salaries, it costs more to produce/service a thing. Therefore you have to sell your products/services at a higher prices. Now the $1000 you gave for free is less valuable.

Now come to think of this if your $1000 is less valuable. How much is $26 trillion worth debt valuable now? The people to whom the debt is owed are screwed.

Also once you do this you will have a hard time raising money next time when you need it.

Basically. Things like UBI aim to be the 'perpetual motion' equivalent of economics. The fundamental problem seems to be you can't pull anything out of nothingness.
In France the standard notice for engineers is three months, and goes both way. It's not unheard of for a corporation to pay the three months notice when firing someone, without the employee actually coming in anymore, precisely to avoid theft, or the moral hazard towards other employees.

But what's the rational the other way around? When an employee resigns, they obviously know that they are resigning before actually handling in their resignation. If they wanted to leave with something, surely they would have already stolen it? Or it's just an expectation of lazyness, in case nothing has been stolen yet?
Building a massive Trantor-like vertical city over the entire surface area would presumably exhaust / deplete the non-renewable resources that is the driver for this concept. What do the trillion people do then?
And at 5M⊕ would have a diameter of about 9cm (or at 10M⊕ about the size of a bowling ball).
Automation only reduces cost if wages are already sufficiently high so that the cost of initial investment and maintenance is economically justified in the mid/long term.

The reason you see trash pickets riding robotic trash collectors in rich western countries is simple: it's far cheaper to buy and maintain a robot than it is to pay the salaries of enough people to achieve the same goal.

You don't get robotic trash collectors in southeast Asia and Africa and South America because for the price of a single robotic trash collectors you can pay the salary of a bunch of people for a few years. Hence, you get people carting wheelie bins.
In addition to hacking via the DIN port in Roombas, iRobot did some iRobot Create models, which were strictly educational robots. Creates were mostly Roomba hardware without dirty vacuum cleaner parts, and with some additional features. They also did an optional microcontroller at one point, which plugged into the Create, to supplement the built-in.

Some info about these is in the docs for the interfacing library I wrote: https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/roomba/

This round Root with the pen at first glance looks like an old Logo turtle robot, but has more features. And the optional Lego support is interesting.

(Lego has long had its own Lego Mindstorms microcontroller product series. And starting before that, MIT and some other universities used Legos in introductory robotics courses.)

It's nice to see iRobot still interested in education, and the Root looks promising. One encouraging sign would be if a child could design and build their own effectors and sensors, such as a gripper, out of Lego, and interface them pretty easily with the Root (preferably not only with the pen up/down mechanics).
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I've seen this conspiracy theory many times, but no one has yet explained how a day or two delay will stop mailin voting.

People also somehow think that the post office won't be able to deliver so much mail. Which also doesn't make sense, it's a single envelope per house, they deliver more junk mail than that.

Edit: I should add I'm 100% in favor of mailin votes always, not just now. I simply do not believe that this postal slowdown is in any way connected to those who oppose it. And that's for the simple reason that it can't accomplish that.
This is a nasty false dichotomy and you should be ashamed of it!
In disbelief at this thread. People work because they WANT TO. Work is a natural human desire. It's easy to say we'd all just sit around playing games, but after a while you'd go insane. Work is never going to stop under UBI, or any sort of social welfare program.
Yep. The C compiler is fascinating. You get sizeof(int)==3 and sizeof(void*)==3 with that compiler. Alignment and padding do not exist.
> "Carbon taxes unquestionably fall hardest on the poor, as do consumption taxes generally."

I would question that very much and guess that overall the opposite is true.
I don't however have any data, except national aggregates showing that there's a correlation between GDP and carbon emissions (even before accounting for the fact that arguably quite a lot of the emissions of less wealthy nations come from production of stuff for more wealthy nations).
Do you have data?
That’s a super hot idea.
> Wealth redistribution does the opposite, take from those that are providing value and give it to those that aren’t.

Yeah, that's capitalism. The goal of UBI is to return some of that extracted wealth to the working class.
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So, what happens if this carbon tax works like I suspect we want it to?

Doesn't that mean there will be less carbon tax revenue, because we've compelled companies to be more green?

Who pays for the UBI then?
Why is it impossible to commit? Restricting access to select people and firewall groups from these data , putting that in your contract with sellers are reasonable things he can do . It will not be perfect , people can still talk etc

Just because your safeguards will not be perfect doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have any. It is akin to saying as there are many zero days out there so I won’t secure my infrastructure at all .
Few pointers

https://www.tableau.com/

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/

https://redash.io/

https://popsql.com/
This sounds great!

That being said, I wonder how well this would work out for smaller projects. Spotify uses a very similar model, and from what I hear, lesser known artists make very little money on their platform.
From a purely economic point of view: if the end user doesn't care about security, then why bother having security?

Regarding users caring about security, there's three possibilities:

- Users should care about security but they don't because they're dumb/ignorant.

- Users don't care about security because it's not worth the cost/it doesn't affect them, so they're right in not caring (they have 'nothing to hide').

- Some combination of them.
> I have never understood this obsession with 100% employment.

Employment means income and tax revenue and social security funding. 100% employment means more people have personal income, the nation's social security system is not exhausted, and the state has more revenue to invest in public policies.
> There's nothing about being poor that forces you to emit more carbon when compared to other people, as far as I know.

Being poor means having less or no choices. Low income, no or negative capital. You practically have to go with the cheapest at the moment, even if it is more expensive in the long run.

So, a low upfront cost gasoline car Vs a more expensive electric car with potential lower TCO.

And that doesn't account for the fact that they have no discretionary spending. If everything becomes more expensive, the rich person can simply buy less.

I still think it's a sensible idea, simply because the currently socialised costs (co2 emissions & poverty related ones) become explicit.
I am not a fan of using a Tax of something bad to fund something we want to have. The Tax should be directly related to cleanup efforts of the Bad thing™, otherwise you get a dependency where the Bad Thing™ is required to keep up funding.
The young South Koreans who are opting out
At this point UPS/Fedex should step in and offer free shipping for ballots. Voters can drop off in their stores or their delivery people/trucks can act as pick up spots too. If nothing else it might buy them some goodwill. Or conscience.
Don't give them any ideas. Modern pacemakers are Bluetooth enabled...
Ah good to know. Will email the mods here to see if they can delete/amend this post.
Well since the mass of the Earth is ~ 5x10e24 seems we're still in the realm of possibility
It is a psychological reinforcement process of feeling that their decisions were the right ones by adopting products/lifestyle options promoted by brand X.
The voters are sent ballots weeks in advance. A day or two delay makes no difference.
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I've always wondered if UBI would not simply lead to inflation.
I cannot imagine that prices would not increase if suddenly everyone had additional funds and could "pay extra".
I think to add to the travel/comfort one - there's possibly also some advantage to doing all your matchday prep in a familiar environment where you spend a lot of time. I know from playing hockey as a student I felt much more calm and loose getting ready, warming up etc at our "home" facilities (where we'd train every week and play every other week) than doing the same at some other location (which we might only visit once a year). Something about the foreign surroundings can put you a little on edge or distract you.

Maybe the difference is minimal and melts away after the first ~15 minutes when you get into the game, but you can yourself into quite a big hole in the first 15 minutes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRx3KrQ83mc)
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Isn't that pay models already exists? And they all failed.
Up until very recently, the rates that the USPS could charge for delivery of mail from China (and other foreign countries) was set by the Universal Postal Union which is an agency of the UN. The USPS had no control over this pricing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union
Which CUDA libraries are you referring to? NVIDIA libraries like cuBLAS? There are ROCm libraries for a subset of those, but it's definitely a work-in-progress.