skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It needs to be called for what it is in a capitalist framework: a _dividend_, not merely an income.

It is a share of the nation's wealth, which you receive as a legitimate co-owner of that nation. The only difference with a company stock is that you cannot sell it, citizenship is unalterable. This safeguard prevents a lot of extortion schemes.

And when discussing the amount of dividend to grant (a political discussion which must be repeated regularly), the tradeoffs are the same as for a company: you want as much dividend as possible, as long as it's not detrimental to the nation's future wealth.

Many opponents to such schemes wrongly perceive it as communist, it's important to present it in a way that debunks that misconception.
Where does the money currently come from? Take $1000 of each monthly salary and put a "UBI" sticker on it. Everybody currently employed now gets $1000 UBI for the total price of nothing.

For a person earning $3000+ per month nothing changes, except that their salary now reads $2000+ (same money to spend etc.). For a person currently earning $1500, negotiations with their employer will be different because the salary reads only $500 and losing out on just 1/3 of your income while looking for a new job is doable (if still painful).

But what about a person currently working a job but earning less than $1000? This person doesn't exist because of the "B".
But what about a person earning $1100, won't they simply stop working? No, again "B" and never happened in any of the trials done thus far.
Would help in stuff that doesn't require physical measurements - e.g. computer science, neural network results; would not help in medicine, psychology, biology or chemistry, where reactions are reported by (often indirect) observation, and it is often the data that is fudged (or just made up) in retracted papers.
Isn't this what visualisation is used for? To the point that swimmers can visualise their race within a second or less?
I see a lot of reflections from a business point of view.

I guess if your sole purpose is to conjure money out of thinware then yes, AGPL is going to be poison to your wallet. Capitalism and AGPL simply does not mix well.

But we tend to forget, that the end of the day we're all users and have to consume what we've cooked.

As a user I tend to lean towards AGPL alternatives, It's comfty and let's me relax my legal muscle after the hard workout of summarizing this thread.
Common Lisp symbols and naming convention takes reading aloud into account well.
I don't think it's been common for most people to need to directly type or read URLs aloud for a long time.
> The difference is that UBI would be something like a right, as opposed to jobs where you can be cutoff from your livelihood at a moment's notice.

A right can be withdrawn, especially as we a working towards outcompeting lots of people using machines. Then keeping a large population would be merely a hobby of the powerful.

> For example, see the endless posts on this site about 'culture fits' and ritualistic hazings posing as interviews.

Right, it is not perfectly efficient, but better than alternatives that are determined top down by rigid rules enforced by a powerful apparatus.
Universal Basic Income does not address ANY of the underlying reasons for wealth inequality - it is license for the economic abusers (exploitative capitalists) to continue business as usual, but with every mark they play now having more disposable income for them to fraudulently take.
My latest obsession is to decipher any Japanese text I encounter, so for anyone curious フリッパー reads as "Furippā" - Flipper.
Apart from whether Amazon are paying the two weeks notice that they morally owe, one obvious difference would be if your next employer asks have you ever been terminated from a previous position.

Who would want to be placed in the position of saying yes I was fired because I was suspected of being a security risk?
I think downvoting should remain available but more strongly dis-incentivized, maybe for instance by rationing the number of downvotes that one user can issue in a day.

But in the end I don't know if it'll make much of a difference, a bad community will always manage to push bad content to the top, a good one will manage to reward insightful content. Technical solutions can only go so far to fix what is essentially a social problem.
You might be happy to know that Fedora recently changed Nano to the default editor, which means it will likely land in RHEL as the default eventually.
Hey, let me know if anything unclear from automatic translation, I'll try to explain. (I'm not the founder just really like this concept)
The main creator of this has been posting about his progress for months, personally I've been following its development ever since I first saw it. It's such a neat project that I can totally believe this being entirely organic growth.
Wikidata has a great SPARQL editor with plenty of examples and built in visualizations:

https://query.wikidata.org/
In this case the server app had multiple DLLs imported from other projects and they had been compiled against a specific version of the Oracle .net driver.

My docs clearly stated that you should not update the driver unless you were willing to rebuild all the other projects as well. I could only deploy one copy of the driver file, so it had to be the version all the different parts of the application were expecting. It was an old app, whoever started development on it didn't know about repositories and DB singletons - there were DB connections all over the place.

The annoying thing is that the .net error message they were getting actually stated what the problem was in fairly clear terms, yet they still called me.
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> The marginal cost — both psychological and financial — of supporting additional projects would drop to zero

Great idea for redistributing existing funds and preventing winner take all, but the bigger hurdle is increasing the overall funds (eg, getting more people to give a shit in the first place)

I have a lot of experience with non profits and independent projects, and funding success is partly based on merit, but more frequently on how clear, consistent and obvious calls to action for funding are.

At some point it stops being a problem you can fix with software. It's not like there's a mountain of funding that just needs to be unlocked. It's more about growing the funding in the first place, which when successfully done (in my experience) starts to look a lot like aggressive marketing, advertising, and tweaking of missions to appeal to whatever is hot/fundable at the time, similar to the VC industry. True story, and kind of an anecdote that money turns everything to shit eventually.
Working remotely has a very high cost, but it only gets visible in the long term.

Working from home isolates you. There is no way around this. You lose the one huge opportunity in adult life for making new relationships - and that's at work, in the office.

For the company, people that work remote start drifting away from the company vision and spirit - you get an army of people working individually most of the time, not socializing, not establishing strong bonds. If personal contact wasn't important, we could raise our kids remotely.

I have some friend who have been working at a company who went remote-first and after 5 years they do not feel identified with the company anymore. It's just a job. You could work for someone else and you wouldn't even notice.

Also, working from home is only as convenient as your life situation allows it. Have kids? Bad luck. Live in the city because you enjoy city life? Sorry you have to convert you bedroom into your office during the day because you can't afford to have an additional room. You are a people's person and feel more energetic and productive when working with others face to face? Well, sorry, your team is mostly remote.

Please, let us just top playing down the importance of the office. It is important and it has tons of benefits for the team, as opposed to the benefits for the individuals.
I understand what you are saying however... logical analysis only gets you so far.

What was logical to a medieval mind is not logical today with no difference in intelligence in the thinker the only difference being a far superior knowledge base.

And my main point is we have the internet we have access, we have access to economists who have the baseline of information to provide a considered argument I can trust.
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Are we sure this is not a babylonic mistake?

Original take was 'customer refund', which I interpreted as a 'chargeback'.

A refund and a chargeback are very distinctive things.
> it's not some distopian nightmare

How do you possibly enforce that while things become ever more centralized and automatized. We are already losing to those in power and we are not even a tenth of the way there. E.g. there has been a massive decline of applications of anti-trust laws.
Lots of speculation on Twitter. This one sums it up:

I'm glad to see more people raising skepticism about whether or not there actually was a ddos attack or whether it was just @ExamSoft 's servers failing to handle the stress of all the applicants. I wonder how they're preparing to handle the load nationwide in October.
> I have zero stars, zero downloads, and zero users.
> I should deserve to get paid.

Why?

I drew a picture of a giraffe. I should deserve to get paid because art.
Good point. Basic income plus free, well situated and high quality housing would be a much more effective enabling factor for the less privileged.
It's very likely that the original story spread to more people than the retraction. So sadly, yes, for a significant number of people the falsehood is now a "fact". One they might drop as a curiosity in conversation long after the retraction has faded from view, further spreading the "fact".
Absolutely. In the development process of our product DataGridXL we've also experimented a lot with "scrollwheel" events and such, for months really. It's just not possible to get it to feel natural. You might be able to get it working nicely on one specific OS+browser combo, but that's about it.

Always listen to the native "scroll" event: https://www.datagridxl.com/demos/one-million-cells
Can't copy/paste from my desktop to my mobile, or the other way around. Can't copy/paste to the video conference system of a meeting room either.
Thanks for the link to the tool, which compares (effective) salary between different world cities.
I’m all in on Apple phone-wise due to having too many Androids die on me in one year but the point about 3rd parties supporting some old hardware is very true. I have an ancient Barnes & Noble Nook tablet that I flashed with a custom rom and the thing is really snappy and responsive. The battery holds a charge and everything it’s really surprising.
As a Canadian, I find this disgraceful. This data breach poses a significant and life-long financial risk to all those impacted. For example, insurance companies could obtain this data and use it to increase premiums for individuals they deem to have higher risk due to the data from their blood tests.

LifeLabs needs to be held accountable and the courts should make an example out of them, and send a clear message to other companies that hoard personal data.

Corporations need to consider personal data as a liability, not an asset.
That's not UBI though, that's a negative income tax.
The article is more than a decade old.
I did my share of event management and I disagree. It shows how well the teams are managed and attention to detail.

Of course, you should probably have more canaries.
> most likely

... means maybe.

Apple reserves the right to keep its commission and doesn't attach it to payment processing issues. It can do whatever it wants, and we can only guess.
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A more radical solution: Basic income for all researchers and provide efficient digital way to see how funds are being spent like open collective for open source. Most problems arise at an individual level where people don't get paid unless they are putting research papers on the new hype thing and the other is expenditure on middlemen and bureaucracy which isn't easily visible. Eliminate the use of research grants for funding people's living.

Bit pedantic but you should use they instead of he/she. People can have other pronouns.
The pro UBI arguments completely miss the 2nd level effects - the predators will come out in droves and the less intelligent will be conned into long term contracts that consume their entire UBI. UBI is a gift to the wealthy - it gives them a huge pool to steal from.
Although I appreciate where your comment is coming from, namely her tenure at yahoo and probably tongue in cheek, people can change their views for genuine reasons and should, mostly, be admired when they do so. It takes courage to publicly admit that you are wrong
I beleive Fedora 33 is defaulting to nano, so based on that so is RHEL
Children's literacy levels fall as social media hits reading (2018)
No; people would no doubt pay no or far fewer taxes if it was entirely an optional affair.

There's plenty of research out there that shows that people as a rule want to work, even if they don't _need_ to do so for subsistence. It helps, rather a lot, that it gets you access to more scarce goods that you want, but that does not change in UBI.
I really don't think the semantic web was a "mistake" at all. And as much as Sir Tim would hate me for saying this, it was (is) still AI - more correctly Symbolic AI - to collaborate at web-scale.

Mind you, back then AI was a dirty word, even at MIT, and we had to couch it as "cognitive computing","distributed intelligence" etc.

It is a laudable effort and I still love me some semweb technologies.
Quibbles with your final paragraph: that's not what strongly typed means. It refers to when a language has strict rules restricting implicit type conversions. [0] Also, C++ has RTTI.

[0] https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/stro...
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> If you add the UBI to their income they'll be hugely better off and they might even be able to choose

Maybe, maybe not.

For clarity, I am a fan of UBI. But I'd like to run through a hypothesis about an adverse effect.

If you add the UBI and costs go up accordingly, the real, marginal benefit they can obtain by working for $3.25 an hour will actually decrease.

This means someone who is in circumstances where they can currently earn a meagre income to tip the balance to being able to make ends meet in that circumstance, will find their ability to work the same amount in a UBI world will not tip the balance to being able to make ends meet.

In other words they will be pushed to change circumstance, towards more work and/or lower cost. E.g. move somewhere cheaper, work more hours.

This does not sound like a net benefit for the already impoverished. It sounds like a trap, because low-wage working will provide less marginal benefit to change what people can afford when they are stuck.
Why do you include Social Security in the list of things that won't be eliminated? I'm not American but in my understanding UBI would almost completely eliminate Social Security, along with putting a big dent in the need for Medicare and Medicaid.
Hi, founder here. I'm glad you liked it.
Do distros still come with original vi? My understanding is that when you type 'vi' you get a minimal version of vim on most (all?) distros theses days.
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I would hesitate to take anything from the article at face value, they just align with whatever is trending, there is nothing more to it really. Do you expect them to say I would force every single one of my peons back into the salt mines if I could, but alas I can't for the time being?
As long as I can remember, Gentoo manuals always assume you to use nano by default (although you can of course choose another). It's a distro that asks you to edit dozens of files in the installation process, and nano is definitely up to the job.

I guess they are being accommodative to people who don't know any editor to use, since those who have their favorite editor don't need to be told.
Wait, why would every single adult be on basic income?
Congrats on hitting your goal! What's it like watching the number go up?
Remote is the new cool word for off-shoring. Companies don’t decide to radically change their work structure just because it seems like a nice idea. If you expect tech companies to keep paying SV salaries after they shift to remote-first, you’re in for a rude surprise.
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I'm working on an ANN plugin for Elasticsearch. All data is stored on disk, you automatically get horizontal/distributed scaling handled by ES, and you can combine ANN queries with Elasticsearch queries. http://elastiknn.klibisz.com/

It's currently not as fast as the in-memory alternatives. Though it's not a perfect apples/apples comparison. Data is stored on disk, it's a JVM implementation rather than C/C++, and it's optimized for single queries rather than bulk.
It is trivial to track that an app has never been opened on a device and automatically uninstall it in that case. Seems weird to fall all over the notion that 'oh no! apple can delete my apps remotely!' - but you're fine with 'apple can install apps remotely'.

Uninstalling an automatically installed, never-opened app is not a breach of the personality of your device.
Great, so we live in a voxel game engine.
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Let's predict two things: Firstly, how long until they silently announce unemployment of a large proportion of their employees, and secondly what proportion of the staff will they lay off?
One could e.g. read lines at a loudness proportional to their indentation.

I imagine it would help to make code less indented should the author be required to read their work aloud.
If a person consistently chooses to buy TVs instead of food, I think that strongly speaks for mental problems. I don't think it is really expedient to micromanage people, so if they spend their money unwisely and don't see a problem, that's tough luck. At the same time, having infrastructure to help them get back on their feet is important.

Again, I'm not sure about the situation in the US, but here we have public services that can help people go through debt restructuring or private insolvency in the worst cases, as well as offering classes for money management and centres for addictive behavior. This isn't done purely out of humanitarian concerns either, addiction and lack of education are problems that keep people from being productive citizens - and this is expensive for society at large.
No installation

Multiple tabs/windows

Don't leave the browser

Works-at-all on multiple platforms incl mobile

Deep linking / sharing / bookmarking

App freezes are less common (on network access) and easier to manage when they happen - obviously this is anecdotal and not universal.
That is a fair concern to have which is why UBI isn't a cure all. There certainly can be a lot more effort put into ending poverty.
I think the comment is about vi scoring better on “lack of features” than vim, not about preferring vi over vim.

Of course, ed beats that, and the combination of cat and echo with redirection beats that (for a very limited definition of ‘editor’)
Those numbers, wow
Which, depending on how you see it, is okay. I personally don't expect corporations to really have a consciousness. I expect them to react to outside stimulus, that's all. So if "we" make in unacceptable to say "come to the office or get lost" then they will accept that, no more, no less. That's okay with me.
In case anyone read this comment and wanted the real answer: empirically derived scaling laws from a series of machines increasing in size. The last/largest is JET.

http://fusionwiki.ciemat.es/wiki/Scaling_law
Congratulations, you just learned how to install Gentoo.
Oh, you mean tenure? UBI is a general thing for the whole population, and not something just for scientists. Tenure is in general a good, as long as scientists keep working, and there are some controls keeping them producing at least "something". And let's face it, most of them do. This is great, because it releaves scientists of pressure, which means more of them can be creative in their research, which actually speeds up discoveries. This is also a valid approach within tech and IT btw. But it should be said that it has a very poor track record outside of these knowledge-heavy professions.

On the other hand, if you really think UBI is a good solution, then I'm afraid you don't know how an economy really works.
I don't uninstall it but I don't really get the love, mostly because of the keybindings. Maybe I'm too young and don't know its legacy but they seem super esoteric to me and I've never seen them anywhere else. Emacs navigation bindings are similar to terminal bindings, and well vi is its own world but at least fairly widespread today.
I'm not comfortable offering some kind of deep interpretation of my own, but it's been mentioned jokingly by James Mickens and jokingly but seriously by Alan Kay, whose speeches are all worth watching. I thought it was interesting, based on Hertzfeld's notes, that Kay has been quoting Barton on this for such a long time.
Lobby their local government to prevent new apartments from being constructed unless they meet 47 conditions and are truly affordable.
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On an unrelated note, just use theirs instead if his/her. It makes the text easier to read and is the grammatically correct way.
If Planet 9 were indeed a black hole its significance would surely be that prevalence of lower mass black holes is orders of magnitude more common than currently known.

This particular one may not be practical for energy generation, but it would be obviously worth looking for others of more useable mass.
9/10 times they would really mess it up and just go "whatever if says on the screen, go there" or something similar :)
Google Search -> Tools -> date -> click today's date twice -> go back, set top date to 1900, set the second date to 2000.

Get nothing

Go back set second date to 2005 ->

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

Win?
You think that half of governments have more control over their economy than China? You keep bringing up China not being a command economy today. I never said they were, just that they exercise relatively more control over their economy than other states.

In case you don't know, in addition to the portions of the Chinese economy directly owned by state-owned enterprises, the Chinese government exercises a large amount of control over the private enterprises in the country. You might find this article helpful: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business...

All of this is distracting from my point earlier which is what exactly do you see as the difference between hunger experienced by people in communist countries in the past and the 37 million people in the US who experience food insecurity each year today? You mentioned that people don't have to "line up" for food in the US, but thousands of people do, every day.
Ah, very interesting.

But does it matter? The SO I know still aggressively hints at the 'I dont know what we actually are' problem; if you answer very obvious questions, you get downvoted with notes to 'VTC and move on', for example. I also get no option to vote to promote an answer into the wiki.

The community wiki feature as implemented does not fulfill what I'm proposing, I'd say. Or at least, the current policies do not mesh with the existence of the wiki in a way to solve the dilemma.