skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Will landlords increase rent" is a real economics problem.

Maybe UBI is financed through massive deficit spending, leading to inflation, and rents increase.

Maybe UBI is financed through broad-based tax increases that offset the increased income, leading to nothing in particular.

Maybe UBI is financed through increased taxes on rich hedge fund managers, who all quit their high-paying finance jobs to pursue their low-paying art passions, and rents decrease.

Any of these are plausible. UBI is a political topic, and how it is financed is crucial to understanding its impact.
I suspect I know what my society will do to people who repeatable demonstrate the inability to take care of themselves and manage basic living aspects of food and rent. They loose the right to do it themselves and get appointed a guardian.
UBI doesn't actually create money. It redistributes it. I would expect the effect you describe in the short-term, but in the longer term supply of basic goods should increase to match increased demand.
I have a very nice pet project with a user base in the single digits and I'd like to keep it that way. I know all my users personally and I am even using it for several hours per week myself. I couldn't care less about recognition or vanity.

People create opensource software because they have an itch they need to scratch, not because they want to get attention. Attention is expensive and involves scratching other people's itches, not yours. It means nagging users who demand things from you and drain your sanity all while making money off of your work. It's only natural that you want something in return.

>If the kind of open source you mention were actually valuable, there would be a market for it.

This argument makes no sense. If the software isn't valuable (as in worth a lot) then nobody would use it. Opensource software cannot become popular without providing value. Open source software is not valuable in the sense that it cannot be valued. You can't put a price tag on a non exclusive good if you're not selling it in the first place. Another flaw in your argument is that you are assuming that because there is no market for something there will never be one. Github sponorships, liberapay, patreon and lots of other platforms are clearly in the process of creating a market for these things. People are clearly willing to fund opensource software if it is possible. Just take a look at neovim! [0]

[0] https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/neovim
I just asked the parent if they thought it was really impossible.

But personally, yes. I think controlling your own device is more important, so there should be a way to sideload apps.
Muds work over tty don’t they? I played a MUD for many years that was just as fast paced as Diablo
One thing I never really figured out with Sorbet is how it would work if I wanted to distribute a gem with type checked code. A typed gem would necessarily have to depend on the sorbet gem. Wouldn't this mean library users have no choice but to opt into type checks always being run in this library? (Is this why sorbet-runtime exists?)
Point 1 already applies to existing welfare programmes. It seems to me that if anything, the divide will be reduced by switching to the UBI model, as everyone gets it, not just those who fulfil certain criteria.

Point 2: I'm not convinced that UBI worsens the opportunity for predators, compared to how things stand today. Why would it?

Point 3: I'm not convinced this is likely to be a real problem. Today, different countries have different levels of welfare. I doubt people are less charitable in high-welfare countries (although this is just a guess), and overall, you're certainly better off being down-and-out in a high-welfare country.
But that is because it lacks type information. With type information added via RBS (or whatever other mechanism), they'd be able to parse that.
For research, I created experimental RDF storage on top of Parquet and Apache Spark for querying big graphs[1].
It converts the RDF graph in a sort of property graph, where we have a row for each entity and where the columns are the all possible properties.
The trick is to use a columnar format with the proper encoding (in our case Parquet), to solve the problem of having a lot of columns and a huge NULLs space. With this representation we can eliminate costly joins for most of the common queries, but also reduce the size of the necessary ones.

[1] PRoST
https://github.com/tf-dbis-uni-freiburg/PRoST
I wouldn't be worried about prices of food. Money from UBI should end up in the hands of people that provide poor people with what they need. It's societally useful thing.

Rent however...
I owned a turtlebot at one point, love this company and what they are trying to do for education.
If PBHs are real, then they should be identical to "regular" black holes, just smaller.

Wikipedia says "Physicists are undecided whether the prediction of singularities means that they actually exist, or that current knowledge is insufficient to describe what happens at such extreme densities."
Housing is the largest issue here, and probably needs gov correction.

OTOH, basic goods becoming more expensive means producing them becomes more attractive which leads to lower prices or better wages (because less people will be willing to work shit jobs with crap pay like in the meat industry today).
I read through all those studies and didn't think they shed any light on the subject, as this is something very hard to get numbers on:

"The summary of the summary is that most studies find very small effects, if any. However, the studies probably don't cover contexts you're actually interested in."
They would not really depend on "the government" as UBI would be codified in law and universally available, so government could not take UBI away from an individual or a group.

Also, we already depend on "the government" to make available (or protect) some pretty important stuff we depend on: rule of law, public safety, healthcare (in most developed countries), etc..
Getting From 5 To 0: VPN Security Flaws
Great level-headed article.

What I still haven't seen any balanced writing on, is the difference between airborne transmission and _aerosol_ transmission.

If we have aerosol transmission then flushing a toilet could create a plume of GI corona virus for several minutes. If we have Aerosol transmission sneezing in a closed space would create lingering aerosolized particles in the region for several minutes long after that person leaves the room. Also with aerosol particles normal non-filter face masks are pretty useless.

So far I've just read a lot of conflicting communication on how likely Aerosol transmission is? I am not trying to create unnecessary fear, but I genuinely would like to know my odds when I am circulating through public spaces?
Exactly. And you prefer that? All I see is generic teen pop culture vlog drivel, nothing interesting to me at all.

I get trying to be private and disclosing as little information to Google as possible. However, I've found YouTube unearths interesting content pretty well if you create an account and let it track your preferences a little bit. Especially don't turn off the viewing history, otherwise you'll get the same recommendations over and over and YouTube is kind of useless.
>All of the unskilled labor was automated when UBI laws came to be and first people left factories empty.

Now, imagine the world in which that is true and we don't pay people basic income. Millions starving on the streets sounds so much better.
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Ah yes, and people are famously satisfied with e.g. US federal elections.

Companies are accountable to customers in the continuous rolling election of the market. You can vote them out of your life at any time. It is the ultimate form of accountability. This is especially good because bankruptcy as a form of accountability can ultimately affect everyone in the company, whereas in reality almost all decisions made by governments are handled by unelected officials who persist across party elections and for which there's no systematic removal mechanism. They can't go bankrupt. In some countries they can't even be removed, as the civil service isn't directly controlled by the elected politicians. Mostly they fly under the radar, screwing things up for their entire lives.

At least with companies there's some sort of limit to how dysfunctional they can get before they lose influence and power.
Spotify uses a global pool which is completely different.
There is a genre of nonsense stream of speech radio that helps some tune out and people sleep.
https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/
https://wfmu.org/playlists/HA

Personally I find TTRPG actual play podcasts can make me drift off.

ACT cognitive therapy has some good advice about intrusive thoughts, and acceptance de-fusion of thoughts. That can help break the cycle of worrying about worrying.

No caffeine after midday, make sure to get some exercise during the day, keep lights dim, and try a pair of 3m peltors
>Great. At 12MHz and 1M RAM that's still above an Atari ST or Amiga 500.

If CPU clock and base ram is all you care about, sure.

The Amiga and the ST(E, the ST was pretty sad actually) chipsets did far more than some cpu paired with some ram.
What about AVX512?
What I am saying is that expecting UBI to transfer power to the employees while these problems still exist might not go too well. I don't expect UBI to be perfect from the get go, and I don't expect these other problems to be solved within the next decade - so what now? Do we condone poor people (that have absolutely no way to fight back) to the whims of a corrupt government for a decade or more because it might get better sometimes in the future?
Back in the 1.8.x era, the Ruby parser was already 6k lines, even using a parser generator.

The grammar is notoriously complex in ways that most users of the language thankfully do not have to worry about. But it does make extending the syntax quite hard.
Even if average inflation doesn't go up, when you look at specifics it doesn't look very good for the poor, the very people it's supposed to help. Take your example.

- Low income housing costs will probably inflate because all poor people will have an extra $1000 to spend.
- Avocado costs probably won't rise, as middle classes will have the same spending power
- Bentley and yacht prices might decrease as the rich have less spending power.

So you haven't helped the poor. You've created the usual issue with socialism/communism that in the end all it does is pull everyone down, rather than lift anyone up.

If that's your goal, fine, admit that you hate the rich. But the marketing promises of UBI are not that, they are about helping the poor.
If you’re looking for a cheap platform for learning to code I’d recommend looking into the BBC micro:bit.

As a person whose job it is to help teachers teach kids computer science, it’s a really versatile tool. We’ve taught kids from year 3 with MakeCode all the way to the end of high school with micro python using the micro:bit.
The teachers themselves (who often have less experience than the kids) even really get into it!
A Quick Switcher for Chrome
In the US, just not having to depend on your employer for your and your family’s healthcare would be a big step in that direction.
Nano 5.0
Yes, this idea is so simple but sometime is so hard to grasp.
Also, people should not kill each other.
Not everybody will get an extra $1000. For people on welfare, social security, etc. UBI will mostly just replace that. The big advantage is that people who start to work from a position of unemployment don't lose that money and won't get punished for working. The other big advantage is that you save a lot on bureaucracy figuring out who is entitled to what according to which rule, because everybody gets the same.

It will help the working poor a lot, but any market where there's real competition, that competition will continue to keep prices low. If prices go up anywhere, that's a sign that in that market, there's no real competition.

Or it could be that wages go up due to basic income, in which case costs and prices will indeed go up, but then there will be a good reason for it.
> This is why wealth inequality soared when capitalism went global in the 20th century... This led to massive accumulations of wealth and the biggest wealth gap in history.

Is he saying that wealth was better distributed in prior centuries ? Is he discarding the huge social progress in the 20th ?

> The third solution is a Universal Basic Income, where countries distribute some wealth to all residents equally.

Who's paying ? "The countries" ? Charming way to say "the middle class".
But they factually don’t have these real assets and can’t gain them. This is why poverty can trap people.
what are you talking about? how is gcp even relevant here? Apple acquired a weather app (DarkSky) and promptly killed their Android app. Do you, based on your logic, think someone who was planning to buy an ipad is now going to think twice?
They're both definitely making them. If you got to a retail store in Japan, they'll have a HUGE section filled with BD-Rs and if you search Amazon JP you can see that tons of them are in stock.

You can always import them yourself. Tenso and Buyee both work great.

I think it's just that the western market doesn't care for them much, so you don't see anybody bothering to import them for you.
"that's basic "social welfare". it's not really universal, it's more for those who qualify."

In Finland everybody below certain threshold of financial means qualifies. Addict or criminal, no matter what.

"in certain countries you can even opt out of this safety net."

Of course you can opt out. Enforcing a safety net against an individuals choosing would be against basic human rights.

From economic resourcing point of view it's more or less universal and everyone is included unless they really wish to get away from the system. Drug addict or not, criminal or not. Nobody is forced to take the dole, but from resourcing point of view there is no biological poverty (hunger or lack of housing). Nobody can force you to take this aid. And mental illnesses and addiction always create additional problem no high level scheme can likely address.

So it's not a 100% solution to everyone's woes but close to 90% I would say.

"you mentioned "nordic countries", in reality only Finland tried a small UBI experiment that failed."

You are looking this from a too narrow perspective. What I meant was that the social welfare system in Finalnd (my home country and other nordics) effectively already encompasses a UBI scheme. A defacto UBI scheme, in Finland for example, should replace most of existing social welfare schemes except for medical treatment and child allowances.

The basic thesis is this: the society already uses quite a lot of tax funds for social welfare schemes, some of which are administratively complex and expensive. People can have housing and food. Yet they mostly choose to work when they can.

So the typical counterpoints to UBI - it's too expensive and would make people lazy - don't really apply.

The only thing missing in the Finnish model left is to merge the various wellfare schemes into one UBI scheme.

The experiment you commment was not really. It was "the current social system plus some UBI cash". And I would claim it was a success. People said they felt better. This is a tremendous thing! Mental illness problems are becoming a huge issue. Making peope feel better actually helps to combat this, and may even support people enough that they can heal and be able to work again.

Healing from long depression can take years. The UBI experiment was far too short to actively track these individuals.
I'm really surprised we don't hear more about teams using tools like VR to play in the 'opponents turf'. One thing I noticed playing sports was how terrible we could feel just from not knowing where locker rooms are when one gets off a bus. I would love to see a study do something along the lines of, make players travel to opponents facilities a few times and check results.

This above result could easily take place in VR for the opponents facilities and arena. Model their locker rooms, field/court/etc, model screaming fans of the wrong color, model boos, etc etc. Essentially try and eliminate some home field advantage by making it feel more like home.
> the ONLY way this ever takes off is if Github does it.

Yes, let's encourage another walled-garden controlled by a dominant player which would be benefiting from FOSS donations (keeping % of it) while doing nothing to make GitHub a FOSS platform at the same time.
Housing cannot and will not be efficiently handled by the free market. It is a basic need. Noone will wait for a year before prices go down because landlord are now trying to outprice eachother. The response to overpriced housing is not "Eh, I'll guess I'll be homeless for a while", its "have no choice but to pay". Especially for something controlled by such a small portion of the population
There was a hearing?
If everyone has 1000 Euro more, for some people that’s 200% more than before, for others it’s 1% more.

This means that the amount of money overall does not increase as much as the amount of money poor people have.

Therefore, even if there will be a bit of inflation, it won’t cancel the effect of UBI.

Those who earn a lot will have less than before (Because of inflation), but those who earn little or nothing will have more.
The entire world is stuck in a liquidity trap and we have negative real interest rates. No advanced economy has had north of the 2% target for a meaningful amount of time prior to the pandemic. Inflation is something to watch out for. IMO, deflation is the bigger concern.

Source: former deficit hawk convinced hyper-inflation was just around the corner for half a decade.
Thought provoking futurism for an idea of the future that may or may not come alive but kinda feels like we'll be gravitating towards.
The argument was not convincing at all.
He focuses on how UBI will let poor people to consume more. But will it help them produce more? I believe it will, but that needs explaining.

> If we can give companies overwhelming demand so they have to scale up production instead of spending all their money on advertising, we can have both happy companies making profit hand over fist, and happy consumers who get everything they desire.

lol... Consumers won't be able to buy "everything they desire" with UBI. And the UBI will be funded with the taxes payed by the companies, so not all of them will actually make more profit.

> The second solution is some sort of socialism, ...

And UBI is not "some sort of socialism"? O_o
That is not the case.
If under UBI, which is reallocation of capital, luxury housing frees up it will not mean the uber rich move away and now the rest of us enjoy more selection without any other repercussions (though that will happen at first to an extent), it will mean they'll relocate to less expensive properties, thus chocking the market from both sides.
It's so nice for me to read this and be able to relate. I probably wouldn't be working as a software developer today if I hadn't spent those countless hours as a kid hacking the game, setting up (d2jsp) bots, fiddling to run multiple instances on the same computer, scripting together bot detection evasion patterns etc etc.

Recently installed it again during lockdown after not playing for a good 10 years. Still has some 20k+ people online at times. Really solid game.
"Evaporate", meaning "vaporize everything for miles around", right?

And for the 10^5 kg one, "vaporize the entire planet" if one is nearby?
> The Go approach of “Do not communicate by sharing memory”

Calling it an approach is hardly true given Go programs are generally full of shared mutable memory, even more so when performance are of any concern because channels are rather slow (multiple locks are involved) but not only: any time you're sending a pointer through a channel (including sending pointer-like structures e.g. a map), you're sharing memory.
Seems snappy enough on mobile, but translation of functions seems to be missing, so the formula editor is all in chinese to me. Not sure if that is plugable in runtime. One needs to at least translate src/function/functionlist.js maybe more..

This would all be easier if this was not a Vue app, but rather HTML5 but all in all not that different from how desktop apps are made.
Shipping Two Apps in One on Android
This discussion revolves around the USA. Do you expect the USA to solve the problems I listed within the next decade? I don't, definitely not if Trump wins again.

> It's perfectly possible to build in security mechanisms.

Sure it is, but there would have to be someone with the power to do so and more importantly the interest to do so. That's something I simply don't see happening in the USA - check their health insurance system for a concrete example. If they're unable to copy the similarly capitalistic but freer system of Switzerland or other countries with mixed private/public health insurance, then what hope is there with the issues I listed and the UBI?
Free market won't work. It doesn't work because you can't build enough houses. For the free market to work you'd have to build way more houses than people need because owning house without tenants is extremely cheap and you don't have to lower the rent (or sell it at lower price). You can just let it be unrented for quite a long time and still come ahead when tenant or buyer finally arrives.

I think you should just raise cost of owning additional houses so keeping them empty really hurts.

Rent control seems like government micromanagement that we want to avoid with BI.
Say you can be a chef, cab driver, plumber, electrician, carpenter, welder or whatever for 1000 riyals a month. And the government is already paying its citizens 1000 riyals a month. No citizen really wants to be a chef, cab driver, plumber etc anymore. No one wants to do a job, the pay equivalent of which you already get for free.

Now some one has to do those jobs, there are two options now. You either pay people more, and therefore now products/services cost more[Inflation]. Or you get people from outside to work at same price you would pay.

This has led to the situation where Middle east is full of South East Asians. Pretty much any skill based job you see is being done by Indians/Pakistanis/Bangladeshis. On the very long run you turn your whole populace into freeloaders. Or worst the laziest kind of freeloaders, who just won't work no matter what. It will eventually precipitate to everything. Given you don't plan to do a job, why would you want an education anyway? Eventually you will arrive at where UAE or Saudi Arabia is today.

Saudi Arabia even worked to fix this problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudization

But apparently cheating is common, and it mostly doesn't work.

Long story short, when something is given for free this way, its border line impossible to undo it until a total collapse comes to pass.
Van Halen anecdote predating tool also shoots that point down though, but I guess the deeper point about Van Halen is at any rate people got to make money, so I guess I should forgive Nuclino the rhetorical bombast.
Drifting like crazy might not be such an issue if one is looking for an AC signal, such as could be produced by 130m x 13m metal objects moving against the stationary background.

Huge and impractical sounds like SQuIDs might still be preferable. LN2 is a byproduct, so it's cheap.