skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the garbage job would start paying $66k a year.
People will always compare themselves to their peers, it’s true.

But there’s a pretty big objective difference between the poorest person having $0 and the poorest person having, say, $20,000 a year.
That was why they bought Softimage (the then leading 3D animation tool) back in the 90's. Today Microsoft has ample presence in high end graphics.
The US would benefit greatly if the people serving as teachers, daycare workers, healthcare technicians, retail service providers, and similar roles had a UBI.
A UBI paid for with a carbon tax would both save us from the worst consequences of global warming and stimulate the economy. It's hard to find a rational excuse for not doing it.

Planet Money did a great episode on this idea over 7 years ago:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/07/12/201502003/epis...

They did a followup 5 years later:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/07/18/630267782/epis...

It seems like there are too many entrenched players to make this a reality unfortunately.
I read much of the article (which assumed that "FireWire" failed because of issues with suppliers failing to work together instead of waning demand (due in part to corporate customers' knowledge of the security risks of most implementations)).

Thanks for the info on USB-4, DMA, IOMMU.

IOMMU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_memory_ma...

Looks like there are a number of iommu Linux kernel parameters: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-pa...

Wonder what the defaults are and what the comparable parameters are for common consumer OSes.

Looks like NX bit support is optional in IOMMUs.

Can I configure the amount of RAM allocated to this?
How successful have you been in pushing database vendors to use arrow on the wire? We've started using turbodbc (to connect to SQL Server), but as I understand it the data on the wire is still in odbc's row-oriented wire format, and turbodbc is responsible for packing into arrow column oriented buffers.

As you mention in your second paragraph, arrow is perfect for getting typed query results from a database server directly to a web frontend with minimal overhead. With the Transferable interface, it's even possible to zero-copy transfer the arrow data from the network buffer to a webworker.
It's an invite only OpenAI API beta: https://beta.openai.com/. Currently (and probably for the foreseeable future) the model isn't feasible to run on commodity hardware anyway, so the API is the only way to go).

The API is currently invite only, though.
It certainly feels that way if your opinion was mostly from the comments section of HN. In the real world? Not so much.
Now a garbage man says “I’m not gonna be a garbage man anymore, I can do something I love now, like a music teacher that pays $30k”

"wait it's gone to $25K... to $15K.. aand it's gone". Other people might have the same idea and if more people want to become music teachers, music teacher salaries go down and garbageman keeps picking garbage.
I think 1 is strictly turn based and in 2 and 3 a turn happens automatically if you do nothing for a few seconds.
Being intelligent certainly sounds helpful. I think that falls under my first point if intelligence is primarily situation (as the life you're born into is a situation and thus so is your genetics).

It certainly does make sense that intelligence has an effect on social-economic status, since intelligence is valuable.

How do you suppose we confront "the IQ problem"?
I need money. Money gives me the freedom to seek after my choice of housing, food, and medical care.

One common refrain I've heard is that the US already has a UBI, but it is $0.
If a person doesn't have money, helping him is not a job.

If a person has money, helping him is a job.

UBI creates jobs by "un-freezing" demand that was previously frozen out of the system due to poverty.
> This eventually negates the UBI benefits

Perhaps partially. But you have no evidence to support your implicit assertion that it happens totally, or that your argument defeats UBI on the merits
That means I'll get paid more when I do work. Thanks!
Feels a lot like no fly lists, or holywood blocklist during rhe red scare
The most likely implementation in the existing US federal government is a negative income tax.

> I definitely would choose not to work or work less if that money came free from government.

You aren't alone, so your $1200 would not go as far in that future as it does now. There would be some inflation (perhaps only localized increased costs to some industries), but I'd suspect that people working less would be a feature, not a bug.

UBI doesn't make people not want to work at all. Work provides income, meaning, and dignity. Some people would move from industries which have lots of crappy manual jobs (like janitorial services) to industries which are currently only hobbies, but with UBI subsidies could be sustainable as a career. I imagine lots more Etsy shops.
The site used to make some of the diagrams on this article is pretty cool: https://excalidraw.com/
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So, to be clear, non-universal foodstamps (what exists now) are ok, but if there were universal foodstamps that then became non-universal, then those non-universal foodstamps would not be ok and also proof that universal foodstamps are bad and scary?
Web browsers are a lot to bet against. I'd be more likely to bet that web browsers become the operating system.
Having nearly unlimited free garbage removal is probably more than a problem than people realize.

UBI means you can actually evaluate the system you live in and determine what's necessary (and then pay more for it). At the moment it's all "jobs jobs jobs" - we have entire federal agencies that are essentially jobs programs (Homeland Security is a great example... they've done almost literally nothing).
Serious question: How will UBI allow this?

Over time I would imagine that due to inflation and the increased cashflow that everyone will have the prices of basic necessities will increase to the point that UBI just covers them, or worse that simply living will require UBI + a job?

I don't mean that in a snarky tone, it's something I'm trying to wrap my head around as far as UBI discussion goes.
>The top tax rate in the US isn't nearly as high as many European countries.

And the bottom tax rate is much much lower than in other countries. The top 3% of earners pay 50% of income taxes in the US. Nowhere in Europe will you find this.

Remember, in addition to their flatter income tax rates, Europe also has 20% VATs which is extremely regressive.
Automate everything? Who builds and repairs the robots?

And who gets stuck with that job when everyone else doesn’t have to work?
I don't know, I kind of love the idea of basic sustenance being a hassle-free given and "money for food" being limited the realm of pleasure or entertainment.

Not to make any argument for the feasibility of the idea, of course.
No one wants to give their intimate financial details to a "passion project."
In fact, this may be the most likely scenario. The China scientists have the advantage of the origination. Hopefully all research, not necessarily products, will be shared after the products hit the market, so that every country rich or poor will manufacture themselves. The pie is so large there will be enough money to be made by all companies involved, so they should not hesitate in sharing.
well, there are small start ups and engineering firms, back when things were considered "open" and the taxes were fairly low...a lot were doing under the radar type stuff and using the HK-Shenzhen connection to get rapid prototyping done and so forth. I know of a few companies doing LCD panels for stadiums, a few fabless chip design firms going for embedded markets, etc. But no "unicorns" in the American sense.
I recommend taking a look at Gitcoin [0] and quadratic funding [1].

[0] https://gitcoin.co/

[1] https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/12/07/quadratic.html
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If those jobs are so critical those people should be paid more. If UBI is how it's done, then so be it.
See my Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008...
Income tax requires income.

UBI doesn't.

Policing benefits hurts the poor, not the rich.

Where people would otherwise have no income UBI will increase spending. Where they don't it has other benefits. But if you want to save that cash then that's also good.
I don't disagree with anything you said there! In fact I agree with your measured take. I only wanted to push back against this part from your original comment:

> At that point Tesla may become no more than Dachia or Kia.

The future is already here, and it requires these old car companies (Ford, GM, etc) to not only become electric car companies, but also become computer hardware and software companies. Many many manufacturers will fold in the coming years or be absorbed by larger conglomerates because they simply won't be able to compete on these vectors.

The advantages/efficiencies these old car companies have spent decades building are being rendered irrelevant. And that's the real problem for them. The risk isn't that they can't compete, the risk is that whatever they put out is irrelevant. Think iPhone v. Blackberry.

It's not just about making a new type of car. It's about building a new kind of company entirely.

The worst case scenario is Tesla gets acquired for a godly sum of money - not that it goes under or becomes the next Kia. Tesla's battery production capacity very well makes the company one of national strategic interest.
The AGPL is designed to guarantee that end users can stand up their own cloud services.

Maybe after enough nerds get bitten by IoT, some will band together and build compelling AGPL infrastructure to support future products.

Most of these things are just a standard dumb device with a standard SoC wired in. I imagine there are plenty of smaller product integrators that just want to sell a widget and don’t care about software differentiation.

This is what happened in the 80’s and 90’s with PC clones. It only takes a slip up (like the PC BIOS and DOS) from one incumbent player, and then the consumers will win.
C is so old I wouldn't be surprised if harping on it was considered passé by the time Visual Basic was released. Language "elitists" don't comment on C often because everyone knows that it's a terribly designed language. And anyone who actually says C is elegant, or downplays its flaws, is often too deluded or spiteful to be convinced otherwise.

The problem with C is that after so many years of use, many of developers don't have a choice. C is essentially COBOL but with orders of magnitude more code in use. So you can complain about how legitimately horrendous the language is, but it doesn't change anything.
How will those jobs be created without becoming "Bullshit Jobs" and workfare?
Late replying to this, but even if negative space was a solution to "showing the whole image in the thumbnail", it probably just reintroduces the problem, which is frivolous lawsuits about image attribution not being visible - because of the thumbnail is too small for anyone to be able to see the attribution, they'll sue over that. I'm not sure there's any way around the problem that allowing people to sue over attribution in a thumbnail that clicks-through to the full version is bloody idiotic.
It also leaves a big question-mark over how this fits into the REPL, and how we might create type definitions dynamically, since many classes in a running Ruby application are conjured by frameworks.
The paid "dragon" model of https://play.aidungeon.io/ is a great way to tinker with a modified version of the model. I believe there is still a trial.

I suggest making a custom prompt. Have the prompt be something to the extent of "you are a programmer with a computer that answers your questions" and things like "this room has no doors and nobody comes in or out.

Input: What is the command to list hidden files in a directory?

Output: ls -a

Input:"

It's a great way to get an idea of how it works until the API access goes through.

Edit: Turn the "Randomness" slider down and adjust the amount of words to output for results to your liking!
Under a UBI you would not have to fake anything since the only qualification is having a low or no taxable income.

Again, this is how it works in most developed countries under welfare systems without issue. The majority still seek real jobs because they want to live above the base level of income required to live. A UBI won't be paying for your overseas holiday and fancy car.
“Really weird beliefs” — attacking an entire country now?
Looks like he was a person who had a constant flood of good ideas coming to mind, and well aware of it. Sketches are then 'this would be great to do someday' notes. 'If only I could live long enough to do one-tenth of these things.' Lives were probably not so long in the 15th-century.

And he also had to find time to accomplish all the daily chores that we must do to keep us alive and well (in his case, for 67 years).

The works of millions of 'great accomplishers' have been forgotten since his death. Clearly he accomplished more than enough.

Reading the current symptoms list, I don't think ADHD applies. Mozart may have had a similar mind. In his case, music can be much easier to realize (on paper at least) than physical objects like sculptures, paintings, helicopters.
Good point. Because as we all know need based food stamps are never subject to political meddling!
Why does someone's purpose in life defined by their job? What if someone wants to make music or art? Or pursue some kind of other field that doesn't pay particularly well. Why do all Americans think that the point of your life is to work at a job for a majority of it?
Not only that, it's an argument against all forms of taxation. What if the government starts setting your tax rate based on your "social credit score"?

It's purely speculative FUD. It would be terrible if they did that, so make sure they don't. But it's a completely independent problem.
> So you're saying that companies who have to compete charge less whereas companies with a dominant market position can extract monopoly rents because they lack competition?

Not GP, but I didn’t read it that way. I read it as Microsoft loss leadering their store to get growth.
Top 5%? There aren’t enough of them. And the top 5% start at ~$150k per household. Not exactly “rich”.

To fund it, you’d probably have to tax the top 50% at a much higher rate.

Total US income is about 9,200T. Top 5% represent about 30% of all income or 3,000T.

Pay every household $24,000 per year is about 3,000T total.

So yeah, you could tax the top 5% at 100% and just barely pay for it.
What has been the response to this?
The more you tax them, the less they work and save, and the more they make, find, and exploit loopholes and shelters. Top tax rates have been as high as 90% (during the Eisenhower administration) and revenue has never significantly changed as a function of GDP.
Alaska UBI is a cautionary tale:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/5/20849020/alaska-...
That’s literally the “universal” part of it. If you don’t have that, you don’t have UBI. The fact that the government has the physical power to withhold a hypothetical UBI might be an issue, of course, but every government has the physical power to do pretty much anything to any citizen, so there’s nothing unique there.
I wish someone would challenge the premise that a "basic income," a basic standard of life is something that can even be identified. I challenge the idea that people can point to some standard of living and say, "that is the basic standard of living that people, and we should provide people with that standard of living."

The problem is that Americans, and most societies in the West in general, have totally lost touch with basic human existence. For example, in New York right now, people are delivering pre-cooked, packaged food in single-use containers to poor people[0]. If you can't provide food for yourself, are we to assume that this is the standard level of living that you are entitled to? I wouldn't be surprised if many people say: "Yes, this is what people who can't provide for themselves need."

My opinion, however, is that sustaining people in this way is completely unsustainable, a form of terrorism on the environment. You can't just give people free endless takeout and say that that is the basic standard of living they need to advance in life. But that is how this is being done right now, because the people who think UBI makes sense, I find, are by and large the same people who consume prepared, plastic-packaged foods all the time. These people, largely, live unsustainable, intensely capitalism-based lifestyles, and think for some reason that it makes sense to bring the rest of the world into their divorced for nature-reality existence.

Giving people a "universal basic income" so they can live the destructive Western capitalist lifestyle is a plague on our species, human culture, and worst of all, on the environment.

[0] https://nypost.com/2020/07/29/free-city-meals-meant-for-need...
Pluto is probably a better place for habitation than Mars.

Most of Pluto's mass is volatiles such as water, carbon monoxide and nitrogen: things you can use to make plastics and pharmaceuticals, breathing air, trees, and human bodies. Instead of supporting millions of people on Mars Pluto has the resources to support trillions of people.
It depends on the university. It is taught in undergrad in some places, not others.
As I understand it, UBI isn't about making people feel better, it's about providing a floor for income. It would be intended to assist those who struggle to pay their bills and afford basic necessities. There are homes today that don't have internet because of financial reasons. Additionally, it could enable those who'd want to pursue entrepreneurial ventures but can't afford to go 2-3 months without a paycheck to do just that. All UBI would be doing is establishing a floor. Right now, that floor is zero and results in many very unfortunate situations.
Or, even more obviously, prison.
I actually liked his critiques at the time and I think capitalism should be constantly kept in check through government. (such that they balance each other out)

My unsubstantiated opinion would be that Marx probably would of changed his mind at some point about making it some sort of collectivist movement.
> I do think people radically underestimate the unforeseen consequences of a free guaranteed income

My irony alarm just exploded.
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/03/18/understandin...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/20/16256240/m...

https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-...

https://basicincometoday.com/how-and-why-a-fed-financed-ubi-...
Also, the accident scenarios are not as bad -- there's less total radioactivity in the device, and there's no meltdown risk.
It’s highly country dependent. Card present transactions are still several percent in many countries.
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I've noticed myself falling into a daily motivation slump, sometimes two or three. I never felt this way pre-COVID. Guess I'm one of those crazy extroverts who gets energy from being around other people.

Curious if anyone has discovered apps or hacks for social accountability. Everything I've seen boils down to "always on" video, which feels draining and awkward.

If you haven't found anything, lmk. Might motivate me to spin up a simple app this weekend :)
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Sure, give someone 500k and they might try to buy some luxury goods and inflate prices of various things. Give someone enough to not be destitute on a monthly basis and you’ll have a huge boon to the economy - because they’ll buy the essentials. People will always want more than just the basics and thus work.
On the margin, some people will retire earlier or work less. Financial independence becomes feasible for more people at a younger age. These are the same choices you might make if you have money. That doesn't seem like a bad thing, and it would be pretty hypocritical for those of us who can do it to deny it to others.

But it seems like there is some risk that young people who have never worked might not get in the habit of working? The ambitious will want more than just to barely get by, but I don't think we can entirely rule out a slacker lifestyle becoming popular. I think we should still try it and see, but the plan might need to be adjusted.
Is there a meaningful difference between a government withholding basic income in a UBI world and a government fining away some traditional income in normal capitalism?
We decided neutrinos almost certainly existed long before we could detect them.
Why give free school to everyone, libraries? Clearly a rich person doesn't need those either?

Public services should be public. There's extreme social value in equal access and you reduce an extreme amount of bureaucracy and debate in the process.

>If I got free money I wouldn’t increase spending, I would reduce work.

WE SHOULD ALL REDUCE WORK.

Sorry for the caps but we need to collectively get into this mindset. We're more productive than ever with very little to show for it. We've been having labor outright stolen from us for decades.
There is if we have robots
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This is the whole point of a UBI actually.

The garbage companies would have to pay more, but the result would be that instead of no garbage man, the garbage man now just works 20 hours a week and takes more vacations. And because this vital job is no longer as "sucky", other people have joined the profession too and also put in 10-20 hours a week thereby distributing this type of hard physical labor across a larger pool of people.
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He was being courteous trying to follow an update to the bounty program and Zoom ghosted him,

> 16th April – Heard they were working on updated bug bounty program.

> 15th June – Requested update on BB program. No reply

> 8th July – Asked again if I could submit this for bounty. No reply. (Point of clarity here – the bug is fixed, and they have new issues to deal with so this isn’t exactly a priority for them. I could have chosen to file the bug for a bounty at the time, but didn’t, and wasn’t promised anything if I waited).

If Zoom were serious about their BB program they would have encouraged him to submit it for a bug bounty.
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I'm not a finance guy but I suspect it's axiomatic that you can't keep up with inflation without taking any risk. Like a law of economics.
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I would argue that jobs that give meaning to life are the exception not the norm. There is a not insignificant portion of society that would quit their job today if they had any other option.

Hobbies and unpaid creative pursuits are more likely to bring meaning than employment in my opinion.
> Why give free money to everyone? Clearly a rich person doesn’t need a monthly check from government...

The answer is that it's much simpler to send everyone a check. The rich person will pay more in taxes than the amount of their check, so it doesn't matter. Indeed, the arguments that we should do otherwise are to the benefit of the rich, because the proposed cutoff invariably comes somewhere in the middle income range, resulting in higher marginal rates on middle income people rather than higher income people.

In other words, a cutoff allows the rich to pay lower taxes in the amount of the money that had been going to people in the middle.
Also, getting rid of gigantic perverse incentives induced by welfare thresholds helps people find their way back into the working world. UBI isn't about making poverty more desirable, it's about making poverty less sticky.