skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You absolutely do. Companies who sold you something do not have the right to steal it back in exchange for a refund. Its your device, the transaction has been made, they are out of luck. They can offer you 10000x the price you originally bought it for and you are still free to decline.

You absolutely do not. Legal damages are measured in monetary terms, and your putative damages are the amount you paid for the good. If the company refunds that in full, you have no legal cause of action; moreover, you are likely to end up owing the company for the legal fees they incur in defending themselves.

They can offer you 10000x the price you originally bought it for and you are still free to decline.

You can certainly do so. And the court will almost immediately toss out any case you may file against the company.

And of course... if you have a contract with North (now Google) guaranteeing that they will provide the service indefinitely, and that contract doesn't include a term allowing Google to stop providing the service, you could still sue for injunctive relief requiring them to continue running the service.

I don't know where you learned law, but this is absolutely false. The primary remedy provided by the court system is monetary not equitable. Courts will rarely if ever grant an injunction requiring a company to keep operating a service. They don't even do that in discrimination cases. Courts generally award monetary damages to users that suffered economic harm as a result of the service being discontinued.

Moreover, under centuries of US and British law, any contract that has an "indefinite" length is merely deemed to have a "reasonable" length. Courts have invalidated contracts that attempted to bind one or both parties for infinite terms.
To double life expectancy so we can retire?
The developer pays Apple, not the end user.
Could a carbon tax also be assessed against capital gains that benefit from carbon emission? That might address the inherent inequality you mention.
What does that sentence even mean?
It's up to the free market to make jobs attractive to labor. UBI means employers won't be able to press-gang workers into anything just because a job needs to be done or because people need to eat.
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UBI is not about "not working". It's about "here's some basic money so you don't have to worry every day about starving to death". Want to wear clean clothes everyday and drive a car? You're gonna have to 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.

Speak for yourself. Not everybody's comfortable spending most of their time lounging around doing nothing that anybody else even values enough to pay for.
Hopefully you would agree that even if we are working just as hard as we were 1000 years ago, that our lives are still improved from that time.
Anytime the government wants to void the deal all they have to do is to accuse the person of ranting. It is an ephemeral offer.
You also have to remember that supply and demand still works. If the UBI causes several of your janitors to quit because they now have better options, you can still get them back by paying them more. All it does is give more negotiating leverage to labor because they no longer starve if they walk away.
> Hsu's research doesn't hold up under review.

I don't know what that statement means, but in good faith, I'll assume you can substantiate it. Instead, consider "Upward Intergenerational Mobility in the United States"(Mazumder, Pew Trust, 2012) https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_a...

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Individuals, both black and white, with higher academic test scores are more
likely to move up and out of the bottom quintile. Both black and white children born in the bottom quintile with median academic test scores are twice as likely to move up and out of the bottom quintile than if they had scores in the lowest percentile of the test score distribution.
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> It's pretty clear where you're at and what argument you actually wanna make [...]

I'm glad I was clear that we need a complete picture of the source of differential outcomes (that is, one that takes into account the tremendous amount that we know about human genetic evolution). A social welfare or wealth transfer system might have poor results depending on the correspondence between expectations and reality. It would be terrible, for instance, if wealth was transferred, yet recipients ended up eventually impoverished anyway.

fwiw My preference would be if more human effort was expended in developing therapies, protocols, medications that enhance general human intelligence. But as long as we can't discuss it openly, perhaps no progress will be made and wealth gaps will be exacerbated.
Mini vMac is excellent, but I'm not sure it's the best for OS 7, because it can't emulate a color display.
Maybe we just work on different kinds of problems.

70%+ of bugs I deal with are business logic issues that no type system could solve.

Sure, as I code I run into an occasional nil object or NoMethod error, but those last as long in Ruby as they do in Swift (about 2-5 minutes while working on that specific part of the code).
Why would it be given and not taken?

"Power concedes nothing without a demand" -Frederick Douglas
I am seriously struggling to see why I need to feel better or worse about this situation in the first place.

How is this different than every other brick and mortar store that offers store brand items? This is a practice society has been completely happy with for decades.
For instance, rising wages potentially implies services will cost more. At what point does the income received stagnate relative to cost of living ?
There’s no tracing in either JägerMonkey or IonMonkey. That’s just a confusing statement about the similarity of speculation guards and OSR exits to trace guards and side exits. For a while TraceMonkey was used as a higher tier above JägerMonkey which might be what you’re thinking of?

I don’t work for Mozilla but spent a ton of time studying TraceMonkey for building my own tracing JIT.
The same way all government spending doesn't lead to rampant inflation: by scraping money out of circulation largely with taxes.

Money is created by central banks, circulated by the government (including with 'entitlement programs' like UBI would count as, but also through things like spending billions on fancy jet fighters) and other banks (and there multiplied by fractional reserve banking).

It's then 'destroyed' by taxes and encouraging people to buy into government bonds and other things that slow down the flow of money.

These are all policy instruments that control how much money is flowing through the economy, and inflation is a product of that flow.

So the answer is, because they would raise taxes on it. A large portion of the money given out would just go straight into taxes from high income earners also getting UBI.

But also they could do things like lower the reserve ratio banks are required to hold to reduce the flow of money into the economy, instead choosing to create money through people instead of banks.
Is it really unprecedented when we've had a civil war? Regardless, I agree it's catastrophic
From some of the comments here, and from talking to people in the past month, it occurs to me that 2020 seems to be causing people to remove their rose-colored glasses. It's hard to believe that the web page for the link below may, in some ways, have actually underestimated just how bad things would get in 2020:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/615163630343397490/

Of course, only some of the disasters of 2020 have been beyond our control. However, in the face of so much calamity, it's soul-crushing that so much of the suffering in the USA in 2020 is self-inflicted. Think I'm overreacting?

https://medium.com/@mtracey/two-months-since-the-riots-and-s...
As is often the case in economics, the scarcity is not an absolute lack of resources, but a result of inefficient allocation.

The world's mean income is about $18000 adjusted for purchasing power parity so it's not a complete stretch to get to $2000 per month for the whole world https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17512040

The USA has a mean income of about $72,000 so in theory UBI could be $6000/mo without bankrupting the country.

It would be very interesting to see what kind of crazy spending-led boom you could achieve by redistributing wealth exactly evenly across every American citizen.
Compasses used in vehicles need to be calibrated to null the magnetic mass of the vehicle. This is true for airplanes and ships but also cars, although cheap car compasses often settle for poor accuracy to avoid this hassle. This whole issue is why the compass in airplanes is usually mounted in an odd place like above the glare shield or below the roof, so that it's farther from the other instruments to make the magnetic field situation simpler.

One of the earliest methods to do this has the amusing nickname of "Nelson's Balls," the binnacle (compass holder) on ships often has two large metal spheres mounted on its sides that serve to compensate for the fore-aft magnetic mass of the all the hardware in the ship.

The magnetic compass in an airplane is subject to a certain amount of variance due to installation (essentially calibration error), but that error should be quite small. More problematically, airplanes move fast enough that the magnetic compass shows errors due to the math of magnetic flux when you're moving relative to a magnetic field. The theory is somewhat complicated but pilots often remember it with acronyms like "ANDS" for accelerate north/decelerate south - basically, if there's any appreciable east-west component of your flight path, when you accelerate your compass will turn towards the north, and when you decelerate it will turn towards the south.

This is why airplanes are equipped with a heading indicator, also called a directional gyro, which uses a gyroscope to simulate a compass. The heading indicator isn't subject to the weird moving errors that the magnetic compass shows so it's more useful for maneuvering. On the other hand, the gyro does slowly drift over time, so every once in a while it needs to be reset against the magnetic compass - during straight and level flight to avoid moving errors.
Quick google and Pluto has something like a surface temp of 47 kelvin. That’s cold enough that I think the material on the surface would turn explosively energetic if ever exposed to something like the temperatures we humans live. It also wouldn’t have soil. That far out, you really need good sources of energy like fusion and fission as solar wouldn’t provide enough.

On the other hand, I’m sure there’s some incredible science to be done out there. Like making gigantic structures (particle accelerators, telescopes, etc) out of what ever can be scraped from nearby asteroids and such. I wish we could park a satellite around it.
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Who repairs the self-repair robots when they need repair?
Actually retailers are far more sophisticated than you think. Plenty of data brokers work with them to help piece together a larger puzzle. Plenty of startups willing to help them get to the sophistication of Amazon as well. Still early days for knowing consumer shopping behaviour in store but they pretty much know who you are if you signed up for loyalty cards or paid by card.
>Some people would move from industries which have lots of crappy manual jobs (like janitorial services)

That work still has to get done though. Somebody has to be the janitor. If you then increase the pay of a janitor then lots of people that would otherwise increase their skills to do with that requires more skills would end up as a janitor instead. This triggers a pay increase in those jobs too.

I don't see how you don't end up with just a lot of inflation. The money a job pays doesn't matter on a societal level. What matters is the products/service doing the job provides. No amount of money shuffling is going to make 2 apples turn into 3.
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Until we are in a time where I can't find a disturbing number of people who are willing to deny someone UBI for saying the wrong things--and willing to vote for someone who will do that--then UBI should never be seriously considered.
We're more productive than ever with very little to show for it.

Agreed. "Indeed, in 2006, the top twenty per cent of earners were twice as likely to work more than fifty hours a week than the bottom twenty per cent, a reversal of historic conditions." [1]

1 - https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/you-really-dont...
An interesting result in an area where there are many obvious things you think would help but don't.
So I don't think a UBI should be anywhere near $1,200 a month.

But one of the features of a UBI is it causes people to drop out of the labor market. Especially for shitty low end unskilled labor jobs. And this is great because the reduction in supply will drive up labor rates and help inequality in a far more natural way than a minimum wage.
Pluto is planet 9.
Sure, and I get compile time errors in Swift. Each last about 2-5 minutes.

The actual bugs I have to fix are nearly always business logic issues. Edge cases around 3rd party integrations, incomplete implementations, unintended side effects, etc.
but think of all the child labor we took out of the workforce when we made education free and mandatory.
> It's hard to find a rational excuse for not doing it.

Well the numbers being off by an order of magnitude is a good reason. The US tax revenue would have to double just to pay for anything that resembles UBI.

The carbon tax would have to be obscene to gather that amount of money (another $25k in taxes on a middle class US family). Even if people survive the initial shock, the rapid drop in demand for anything with a carbon tax now means that UBI has a budget shortfall and has to be cut.

It’s horrendously stupid to tie something we want to be dependable (UBI) to revenue from taxation on things we want to stop.
You don’t need to work like crazy if you do skilled work and spend your money wisely. When I was a software engineer I took months off between jobs. I worked less than 40 hours when freelancing. However, most of my colleagues used their income to buy trappings like a mortgage, clothes, eating out, video games, drugs, new gadgets and toys, cars, their own apartment, etc.

Most people choose to spend their money increasing their standard of living instead of buying time at a low standard of living.

As Picasso said, “I’d like to live as a poor man with a rich man’s money.”
The market is also distorted by us humans' inelastic demand for food and housing, which means sometimes sellers can charge higher prices for things such as these that people cannot go without if they don't like the price.

I'm not sure if UBI would help reduce that distortion or not, but ideally it would be nice to have a consequence be that participation in markets and in transactions (such as housing) is more voluntary.

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>I do think people radically underestimate the unforeseen consequences of a free guaranteed income, even if it was low.

But for every you, there's a me. I get satisfaction out of working. I had a job in college where I completed all of my work in the first week and did absolutely nothing for the next 6 months and I was MISERABLE. I needed a task to complete, a job to finish, to feel productive.

Furthermore I like having things - whether that be a boat, or a nice car or insert whatever. And that's not some "you've just succumbed to the capitalist monsters" - I buy things that I get enjoyment out of, I don't get enjoyment out of buying things. Quite frankly I feel disgusting anytime I buy something, so if it isn't something I enjoy I have borderline permanent remorse. The car I bought at 16 still hits a nerve because it was a pile of garbage I paid too much for.

I completely understand and respect and quite frankly envy people that don't want things, don't need to work to feel "complete" and can get by doing nothing all day. And with all of that said, the fact there's a you, and a me, tells me there's a very good chance UBI can work. People that don't care about having nice things can do fuck-all and get enough to survive, and people who want more can work until they have it.
I pay about $25 a month for my garbage pickup. How much of that is to compensate the garbage man who spends about 30 seconds at my house? If he makes $20 an hour, then it's about 17 cents or so. Let's double his wage to account for benefits, employer-paid payroll taxes, workers' comp, etc. Hell, let's say the all-in labor cost for each garbage truck driver is $50/hour. That's still $0.42 I'm paying as my share of his time. Roughly $2 a month. Let's triple-ish that to account for the other personnel at the landfill and transfer stations.

If my garbage bill goes up by another $5 each month, I'm way ahead with the UBI check.

Unless you can find 399 other things in daily life where wage increases will wipe out the UBI.

Of course a universal income will alter markets. Jobs that suck will have to pay more. That's a feature, not a bug. The alternative is that we enjoy low prices on ditches dug, because those doing the digging are desperate for the work. I'd rather live in a society that doesn't fight to preserve that dynamic.
Thanks for volunteering! Gonna need you to come in for a 12 hour day since no once else is available. It’s your spouses birthday? That sucks. Maybe next year!

Sounds like a gun to your head.
Cash is required to purchase basic essentials.
That's right. It would make sense to space the launches out a bit to be able to correct defects on the second.
Can you elaborate on the HashMap? I have used java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap for caches on machines with up to 16 cores. I am actually very impressed by the implementation every time I use it. Easy to use, and the performance is excellent. I've never had a chance to use it on 128 core machine, and may be my experience is limited, but I think that for the majority of use cases using ConcurrentHashMap for caches is a solid choice.
the only wealth that isn't "household wealth" is public assets. I guess there might technically be enough to give everyone $500k (or $2000/month), but do you want the government to provide any services?
> A UBI paid for with a carbon tax

This can’t work for one very obvious reason:

The incentive is supposed to be to reduce carbon emissions, but a UBI funded by carbon emissions has the opposite incentive.
Amazing idea, Tim! Just one minor, downright trivial question: how much money should you take away from your fellow citizens to accomplish this plan, and do we also preserve the existing entitlements?
I said there is one advantage MOND has in terms of parsimony. It may not be a decisive advantage, but it is an advantage.
Schools are so underfunded that teachers are commonly expected to buy their own classroom supplies with their own money, I don't know what money you expect to be diverted to parents to hire their own teachers outside of the richest of school districts
Yes, via AI Dungeon. The results are often quite good and I have no trouble believing those were actual results. But they aren't always good and I also know how easy it is to undo a bad result and try again, with a single mouse click. The transcript doesn't save the mistakes.
It's been a few months since we tried it -- so not fresh in my memory any more -- but as I recall, the biggest issue was with audio not working as expected. e.g. you could see people talking in the video feed, but not everyone could hear the audio. I don't think it was just a muted microphone on the other side; my recollection is that some people could hear the audio and some couldn't, but it wasn't clear why not. I remember having to call our group leader by cellphone because he wasn't seeing/responding to the issue in chat and was just continuing on... We did eventually get it working for almost everyone (I don't remember how though, unfortunately) -- but there were two or three people who just couldn't seem to get it to work no matter what they tried, and we ended up going back to Zoom for the next meeting.
The thing is... you can have the choice. Sometimes you need the choice, things can go south for any of us. The choice can also free you to take risks... it makes it easier to start a business, it makes it easier to fail.

I've been literally working without an unemployment gap since I've been 14. I worked 60+ hours a week through most of my 20s. I didn't have a choice. It took me half of my life to reach financial stability and normalcy. I still get stressed about healthcare costs despite being healthy. It doesn't have to be this way for anyone.

Even if you want to work all the time, most people aren't being paid appropriately for the time they put in. None of us are really experiencing the benefits of society's dramatically increased productivity.
Garbage men are working one of society's most important jobs. They're deserving of respect for the hard work they do. If UBI results in underpaid people leaving, employers will have to raise wages to match the true value of the job or they'll invest in automation. Either way would be good.
But if there is no active development why would these projects need additional funding?

Is it just a thank you gift?
I was an elected 2008 Hillary Clinton DNC delegate and have ran numerous campaigns for the Democrats. I also work in tech.

Twitter supports Democrats.

If you study the trending tweets, those that tend to easily trend favor Democrat issues, ideas and movements. Comments on object news articles promote Democratic comments over conservative commenters.

Looking deeper, if you study campaign contributions by the staff of Twitter, its at North Korean levels (95% Democratic Party vs 5% All others) of popular support.
How is this level of political support different than TikTok's support for the CCP?

How are the design patterns and motivations of TikTok worse than twitter?
Also women are less likely to prefer employed men and will be more free to be with artists, poets and musicians.
Nice. Makes sense! Thank you!
Include carbon production as well. Look at the UBI that Alaska has in place.
- The cost of deciding who qualifies (and enforcement) is relevant. Particularly as you're spending money on every citizen, but only making savings from a small minority.

- You can "claw back" the money other, cheaper, ways (e.g. income tax increases).

- Negative income tax don't work for children, disabled, or the elderly like UBI does. If they don't work, it doesn't work. Therefore, you wind up with two schemes.

People keep on tacking on complexity, which breeds costs, which makes the whole scheme disproportionately expensive. It is universal because universal is cheap to run.
> But I don't understand why people don't believe the UBI will just become the new definition of poverty. People will still be miserable and feel like they have nothing when comparing themselves to those who get UBI and have a job.

We don't know that people will 'still be miserable', let alone the ratio of misery in the current versus the proposed economy. My expectation is that fewer people will be in poverty / misery, but that's just as speculative as your opinion.

In any case, it's not cause to avoid considering a UBI. We should not be constraining our goals to a perfect first attempt [1] - merely to obtain some improvement over the current arrangement.

[1] https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
The UBI Center has a lot of good information about how tax revenue could be raised to pay for UBI:
https://www.ubicenter.org/

It's interesting to see more and more rigorous analysis of UBI enter the discussion.
Scheme fees generally don't apply to US credit card transactions...

That is primarily an issue for cross-border credit or debit card transactions.